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Admission to Huguette Clark’s ex-estate Bellosguardo at sunset soirée October 13, p. 6

LETTERS, P. 8 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 23 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42

MONTECITO LAND GRAB? ANONYMOUS GROUP NOMINATES PALMER JACKSON’S 237-ACRE RANCHO SAN CARLOS AS “HISTORIC LANDMARK.” THE SPRAWLING EAST VALLEY ROAD ESTATE HAS BEEN OWNED BY THE JACKSON FAMILY FOR NEARLY 100 YEARS AND IS CURRENTLY FOR SALE. (STORY BEGINS ON P. 12)

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Hairdresser to the stars Katharine Kremp plies her trade at Dadiana Salon Montecito, p. 20

Mark Hunt spotlights quartet of houses with price tags less than $3 million, p. 44

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On the Water Front

Bob Hazard dives into the concept of storing and conserving water, and provides updates about supply, demand, Cachuma reservoir, groundwater and more

6 Miscellany

Bellosguardo estate; Rebecca Brand; Chris Fossek; MAW festival; Sip and Shop; Fiesta Finale; Gwyneth’s Goop; Gigi Hadid; Kirk Douglas’s granddaughter; John Cleese; and Katy Perry

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Letters to the Editor

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This Week

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Tide Guide Village Beat

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Seen Around Town

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Brilliant Thoughts

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On Entertainment

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In Business

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Spirituality Matters

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Your Westmont

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93108 Open House Directory Our Town

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Legal Advertising Movie Guide Calendar of Events

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Real Estate

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Classified Advertising

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Local Business Directory

A hodge-podge of posts from Journal readers comprising Diana Thorn, Guy Strickland, Katherine Morrow, Jean von Wittenburg, Thomas Tarleton, Jay Fender, Grace Burford, Judith Ishkanian, Diane Meehan, and many more MBAR; Robin Goldstein; Spanish; MUS prep; fishermen’s market; Trails ‘n’ Tails; school starts; MUS meeting; healthy living; knitting; wine dinner; The New Yorker; treasure; Celebrate Recovery; Zoofari; yoga; family fun; brain; art; story time; and Carp arts HLAC rejects Historic Landmark designation for Rancho San Carlos; Montecito Association welcomes board members; Antoinette moves to smaller space

Lynda Millner reports on La Presidenta Reception; Fiesta celebration hosted by Keith Mautino Moore and Jeannie De la Guerra Davis; plus La Merienda lunch

Wait for it: Ashleigh Brilliant delves deep into the concept of waiting, which – in the case of love, Godot, and the Second Coming – doesn’t always pay off

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Steven Libowitz interviews musician and MAW’s Patrick Posey; UCSB music fest; singer Rodriguez; more musicians and authors, including poet Daniel Thomas Jon Vreeland gets down to business with Indigo Interiors and its coowners, designer Genny and Tom Cummings Steven Libowitz chronicles DiviniTree’s new owers and workshop; Salt Cave Santa Barbara; and Soundbath Meditation at Yoga Soup College launches Center for American Democracy; family donates to golf teams and women’s swimming; and reading An Unhurried Life Joanne Calitri talks with artists George Small and Douglas DaFoe as part of the Multi-Dimensional exhibit at Santa Barbara Tennis Club

Molly Ringwald Project; UCSB films; Mike Lunsford; SBMA; house concert; writers; wine alliance; fork fest; Troy Fernandez; dance; Debra Ehrhardt; art Mark Hunt surveys the scene for a quartet of available properties whose reduced price tags are less than $3 million Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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ON THE WATER FRONT

by Bob Hazard

Between now and Tuesday, November 6 [election day], members of the water and sanitary district communities, and other interested parties, will present various opinions on the subject of water and waste management. The views expressed under the imprimatur of this column – whether they are by candidates for the water or sanitary boards of directors or not – do not necessarily reflect the views of the Montecito Journal editorial staff.

Keeping and Storing Montecito Water

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ith our community on pace for the driest seven-year period ever recorded, it is more important than ever to look closely at every possible source of local water. The five biggest local water opportunities are (1) expanded desalination opportunities; (2) intelligent recycling of wastewater; (3) sustainable groundwater management; (4) greater water conservation; and (5) a mixture of possible new sources, such as partnering between districts; tapping into new local groundwater sources; graywater; and recapture of storm water.

What Happens without Water?

Humans can go without food for about three weeks, but without water, the human body begins to shut down after three days. Water lubricates our joints, regulates our temperature, and without it, you and your neighbors will be in big trouble.

Plants and trees do a little better. A few species can live without water for more than a year, but like humans, all will eventually die without water. Prolonged drought leads to scorched leaves, stem dieback, and greater susceptibility to pests and pathogens. The U.S. Forest Service notes that 102 million trees have died in California since 2010. I have lost five mature coast live oak trees on my own property since the start of this latest drought.

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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 11 years ago.

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ellosguardo, the 27-room former home of the late copper heiress Huguette Clark who died in 2011, aged 104, is ready for its closeup!

But access to the 9-bedroom, 10-bathroom, 22,000-sq.-ft. 1933 home on 24 acres with 1,000 feet of ocean frontage overlooking East Beach will cost you.

The Bellosguardo Foundation is hosting the first celebration on the impressive property in more than 60 years with a Great Gatsby-themed blast, which showcases the estate’s history and potential, with the hope it becomes a focal point for art and culture in generations to come.

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

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

California Burning

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verywhere you look in California, there are larger, more explosive fires. Why? As the left once again blames climate change, could there be another reason why we are seeing so many huge fires? What role have environmental activists, eco lobbyists, green NGOs, lawyers, and politicians played?

What about forest management?

Forests need thinning to promote strong, disease-free growth; they need accumulated dry brush to be cleared to avoid the risk of wildfires; they need firebreaks to stop fires getting out of control; they need management burns in order to stave off the savage incendiary fury of the kind of wildfires that burn so hot they turn the entire area into a barren wasteland.

In the past, the forest industry has carried out this vital work and management. Not today. It seems “logging” became a dirty word used by environmentalists, and this crucial management came to a halt. The result, more out-of-control fires, loss of lives, loss of wildlife, and a declining logging industry.

Going forward, the Trump Administration, unlike California, seems aware of this problem and wants to deal with it. Let’s hope they find solutions.

Diana Thorn Carpinteria (Editor’s note: It’s about time we California residents (along with our counterparts in Oregon and Washington) begin to rethink environmental policies.

There is no way to deny the fact that detrimental, dangerous, and ultimately harmful policies – drawn up and promulgated with the best of intentions – have set the West on fire. Judicious logging, brush clearing (what did anyone think was going to happen to 65 years of dry dead chaparral piling up in the mountains behind Montecito?), creek clearing, debris removal, Swiss net placements, and other fully implemented fire-suppression and prevention techniques will forestall a repeat of the Thomas Fire and debris flow. We have probably 20 years of worry-free winters and rainy seasons ahead of us, but without proper planning, we’ll be in a similar position in 2039 that we found ourselves in during 2017/18.

– J.B.)

Pleading the Fifth

When we think of the Fifth Amendment, we think of guilty parties refusing to testify and admit to their crimes. The Fifth Amendment was never designed to protect the guilty. A fair justice system starts with the awareness of a crime, and then the identification of the guilty.

But our Founding Fathers observed that the British colonial government too often would identify a “guilty” party that had offended them. They would interrogate him about his finances, activities, and relationships until they could find or fabricate some crime to charge him with, and thereby silence him. The purpose of the Fifth Amendment was to say to an over-powerful government, “If you are going to fabricate a case against me, you will have to do it without my help.”

Today, we have the Mueller investigation, where the government has identified the “guilty” party (Trump), and now they are searching, searching for some crime to charge him with. It may be time for an appropriate use of that Fifth Amendment.

Guy Strickland Montecito

effulgence of your boundless generosity supported me through a mystical trip deep into the heart of humility.

There, sovereign joy reigns.

My gratitude wishes to cast a wide net. If I miss any of you, please accept my apologies. Fortunately, good energy reaches everyone.

In recognition: Hope 805, FEMA, Salvation Army, Red Cross, UMCOR, Direct Relief, the Jewish Federation, Wendy Foster, Precision Auto Body, United Way, Realtors’ Disaster Relief Fund, Glamour House, the Pop-Up shops, Flavor of India, Ace Home Improvement, the Vietnamese Buddhist Group, YMCA, Sheng Zhen Self-Healing Centre, and so many others. Thank you all.

Katherine L. Morrow Montecito

The Olive Mill Mess

I don’t mean to drown you with emails, but Victoria Hines (“It’s Gone on Too Long,” MJ #24/31) took the words right out of my mouth. The bottom of the road from Coast Village Road on Olive Mill where construction is still going on is a disgrace, and our cars are suffering from potholes, and trenches. How long will this mess go on?

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I read and enjoyed the story Richard Mineards wrote about the From the Fire book (“Out of the Ashes,” MJ #24/32). It’s a wonderful book and 100 percent of profits are going to a worthy cause.

Unfortunately, Mr. Mineards didn’t mention their website: www.from thefirebook.com/.

If you can, please put their website address in your paper somewhere, so we can help promote them further.

Thanks for your consideration.

Thomas Tarleton Montecito

Wayward Weather Forecasts

At 3 pm on Sunday, August 3, I saw these weather forecasts for high temperatures in the next four days (Mon-Thurs) in Montecito: National Weather Service: 88, 92, 94, 87; KEYT: 90, 93, 96, 89; Weather Channel: 79,

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Montecito Salute

To my beloved communities of Montecito and Santa Barbara: a salute to your supreme goodness. Since the January 9 debris flow destroyed my home, I’ve been whipped through an illusion-shattering tornado that left me homeless to crawl over the unpredictable ground of my karma.

In the eye of dawning wisdom, the

(Editor’s note: As we pointed out two weeks ago, it’s almost done and we’re sure that Mr. Price, Caltrans, and the City of Santa Barbara will do the right thing and fix the roadway as soon as construction is completed. – J.B.)

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This Week in and around Montecito

FRIDAY, AUGUST 17 Montecito Union Preps for New School Year Montecito Union welcomes new families; class lists are posted; picnic to reconnect and get ready for school to start.

When: 4 pm orientation; 4:45 pm class lists; 5 to 7 pm family picnic Where: 385 San Ysidro Road

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, AUGUST 16

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MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. Today’s agenda includes a demo and new garage on Nicholas Lane, exterior alterations on Glenview, an ADU on Sierra Vista, additions on East Mountain Drive, an addition and remodel on Olive Mill, plus other items.

When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu

Fishermen’s Market Every Saturday, get fresh fish and shellfish at unbeatable prices straight from local fishermen on the city pier next to Brophy’s restaurant. Buy fish whole or have it cleaned and filleted to order. Rockfish, lingcod, black cod, live rock crab, abalone, sea urchin (uni), and more are available weekly, rain or shine.

When: 6 am Where: Harbor Way Info: www.cfsb.info/sat

Learn, Taste, Shop Join chef and cookbook author Robin Goldstein as she shares some of her favorite recipes, entertaining ideas, and interesting tidbits from her recent travels to Greece. Enjoy summer-inspired cocktails, nibbles, and after-hour shopping at Bonita Beach, Folly, and Porch on Santa Claus Lane.

When: 5 to 8 pm Where: 3823 Santa Claus Lane Cost: $35 person Reservations: (805) 684-0300 FRIDAY, AUGUST 17 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish.

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

Trails ‘n’ Tails at Botanic Garden Trails ‘n’ Tails is a dog-friendly event that benefits the garden’s core programs for education, conservation, and horticulture and keeps the garden friendly. Admission, which is free with a dog on leash, includes a costume parade and photo booth, access to canine experts and community resources, and demonstrations on pet safety, training, hiking, and more!

When: 9 am to 3 pm Where: 1212 Mission Canyon Road Info: www.sbbg.org TUESDAY, AUGUST 21 First Day of School Cold Spring School students head back to class.

Where: 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road Montecito Union School Board Meeting When: 6 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22 First Day of School Montecito Union Mustangs start a new

school year with a shortened day of classes.

Where: 385 San Ysidro Road THURSDAY, AUGUST 23 Healthy Living Course To help people age well, the Alzheimer’s Association is offering the Healthy Living for Your Brain and Body: Tips from the Latest Research program. This workshop covers four areas of lifestyle habits that are associated with healthy aging: cognitive activity, physical health and exercise, diet and nutrition, and social engagement. Healthy Living for Your Brain and Body: Tips from the Latest Research is designed for individuals of any age who are looking for information on ways to age as well as possible.

When: 1 to 2 pm Where: Vista del Monte Retirement, 3375 Modoc Road Registration: (800) 272-3900 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Santa Barbara Wine Dinner Series Savor the summertime with an evening of exquisite wines from local Santa Barbara vineyards paired with a tasting menu of regionally inspired

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Each dinner begins with a reception at 6:30 pm, followed by dinner in the dining room. Tonight: Au Bon Climat.

When: 6:30 pm Where: Belmond El Encanto, 800 Alvarado Place Cost: $120 per person Reservations: (805) 770-3530 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker.

When: 7:30 to 8:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Celebrate Recover Luncheon Casa Serena’s 10th annual Celebrate Recovery luncheon will be held at the Hilton Santa Barbara BeachFront Hotel with more than 170 guests expected.

Casa Serena has been in the community since 1959 and is the only licensed Women’s Residential Treatment Program for addiction in Santa Barbara. This event is the primary fundraiser for Casa Serena and features lunch, a silent auction, and a live pledge drive where guests have the opportunity to donate services to women who cannot afford the program. In honor of Casa Serena’s founder, Mildred Pinheiro, and in keeping with the 10-year tradition, Casa Serena will present two “Pillar of Strength” awards to honor two individuals who exude support, inspiration, service and commitment to the organization; this year’s honorees are Steve Olsen and Niecie Cox. When: 11:30 am Where: 633 East Cabrillo Blvd Info: www.casaserena.org Zoofari Ball: Summer of Love When the moon is in the Seventh House, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, it is time for this year’s Zoofari Ball.

This annual fundraiser for the Santa Barbara Zoo is known for its inventive themes, and this year’s is a flashback to the 1960s. More than 625 revelers are expected to attend. Guests are encouraged to dress in hippie or safari attire. They will make the scene on the zoo’s scenic hilltop, while bidding on far-out silent auction items. The food

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and drink include signature cocktails, fine wines, and outta sight cuisine from Rincon Events. The Replicas fuel the flower power on the dance floor.

All event proceeds benefit the animals at the zoo.

When: 5:30 to 11 pm Where: 500 Niños Drive Cost: $350 per ticket Info: www.sbzoo.org/zoofari ONGOING Family Fun Weekends at Montecito Country Mart Saturday includes pony rides and face painting 10 am to 1 pm; a petting zoo from 1 to 4 pm; ice cream at Rori’s from 1 to 4 pm. Sunday includes kids arts and crafts from noon to 3 pm; ice cream at Rori’s from 1 to 4 pm.

MONDAYS Connections Brain Fitness Group Brain program for adults who wish to improve memory and cognitive skills. Fun and challenging games, puzzles, and memory-strengthening exercises are offered in a friendly and stimulating environment.

When: Mondays, 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50 (includes lunch) Info: 969-0859

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

Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850 TUESDAYS Story Time at the Library When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 THURSDAYS Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative.

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

When: every Thursday from 3 to 6:30 pm in conjunction with the Carpinteria farmers market.

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t a hearing on August 13, the Historic Landmarks Advisory Commission (HLAC) heard from both sides of a contentious third party nomination for historic land marking in Montecito. Rancho San Carlos, the 237-acre property on East Valley Road, long owned by the Jackson family, was being considered for nomination as a Santa Barbara County Historic Landmark at the request of a third party: the East Valley Preservation Association (EVPA).

The EVPA, which comprises an anonymous group of neighbors and Montecito residents who say they are concerned about preserving the semi-rural character of Eastern Montecito, hired Mary Rose to consult on the nomination, which was submitted to the County back in July 2017.

The property, located in the 2500 block of East Valley Road, was purchased by the Jackson family in the 1920s. Original owners Ann and Pete Jackson commissioned master architect Reginald Johnson to build a

29,000-sq-ft main house in a Monterey Revival style, along with other accessory structures. According to the nomination, the estate is a self-contained agricultural and equestrian community, with an office, gate house, shop, greenhouse, kennel, stables, barn, covered riding area, practice polo track, paddock, and staff housing, some of which was also designed by Johnson.

The famous architect was well known in Santa Barbara County, designing many buildings in the era, including the Biltmore Hotel.

Rose, in her presentation to HLAC, said the estate satisfies at least six criteria for designation as a Historic Landmark. These include the estate’s reflection of estate development and architectural expression of the time, the fact that the estate was the primary residence as well as horse- and dog-breeding facilities of persons significant in local, state, and national history, and as a reflection of the lifestyle, tastes, and interests of the

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Seen Around Town

by Lynda Millner

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ne of the Old Spanish Days traditions is the president’s reception, and this year was no exception. It’s usually held in the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort, which always brings to mind what the rotunda used to be in the old days – the train turntable and roundhouse. The great earthquake in 1925 destroyed the original.

Southern Pacific’s new design wouldn’t pass under the tough new building codes until they made the exterior wall look similar to the famous “Plaza de Toros” bullring in Seville, Spain. I’ve been there many times. Fess Parker’s Red Lion Resort incorporated the rotunda on the skeleton of the old round house and opened in 1986.

Instead of bulls, there was a delightful Spanish evening complete with a complement of flower girls to greet all the guests as they entered.

Then a receiving line for all the dignitaries, especially La Presidenta Denise Sanford and executive committee: first vice president Barbara

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time period. Other reasons for nomination include the work of Reginald Johnson and master landscape architect Lockwood de Forest, as well as the fact that the estate, which is a combination of citrus orchards, mature habitats, and naturalistic landscaping, has remained almost unchanged for more than 85 years. “It is the last of the great estates; it is well known and very visible,” Rose said, adding that the Jackson family has been great stewards of the property. “Now is the time to act,” she said, noting the estate is currently for sale.

In the 1990s, the property was subdivided into 30 legal parcels, and Rose suggested that incompatible development on the parcels is highly probable after the property sells to a new owner. “The existing buildings could be remodeled or demolished,” she said. “The EVPA is not trying to prevent development or open the property to the public. They are trying to ensure that future development is done in a way that is sensitive to the historic resources that currently create a distinct historic district,” she said.

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special conditions that would prevent development on any portion of the estate until a specific plan for future development of the entire 237 acres has been approved by the County, including HLAC review. The specific plan would be required to preserve the historic character of the estate, including the relationship between residential structures and agricultural and equestrian uses. Public views of the historic structures and orchards would require protection, as well as the character of East Valley Road as a scenic and historic resource. Several other provisions are outlined in the proposal.

Jim Jackson, a descendant of the Jackson family and general manager of the Petan Company, which owns the property, argued against the nomination and questioned the intentions of the EVPA. “Would a group legitimately interested in preservation nominate a property without even talking to the property owner, or without ever having been on the property, or having asked to be on the property during the

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Montecito event planner extraordinaire Merryl Brown is designing the super sunset soirée, which takes place on October 13 under co-chairs Sandi Nicholson and Josh Conviser, with tickets at a number of levels, including $50,000 for 20 guests, $25,000 for 14 and VIP tickets for two guests at $1,500. Individual tickets will also be on sale “pending availability.”

Former mayor Helene Schneider, who put together the foundation’s board which is chaired by mega TV producer Dick Wolf, describes it as “the beginning of a new adventure to create a community resource for all to enjoy.”

“The Huguette Clark story is a strange, sad, and peculiar one, filled with mystery... Now, finally, our community can celebrate this amazing space as a place to foster and promote the arts. This is a new chapter in this fascinating story.”

Author Josh adds: “Guests will have the opportunity to see many of the gorgeous rooms and experience the magic of the grounds overlooking the Pacific.

“Beyond food, drinks, and danc-

ing under the stars, the event will also include a highly curated auction of unique experiences to be held at Bellosguardo in the future.”

Sponsors already lined up include Leslie Ridley-Tree, Michael Hammer, Kim and Andy Busch, Sharon Bradford, Richard and Lucille Janssen, Gary and Susanne Tobey, and Bill and Sandi Nicholson.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, who wrote the 1925 novel on the Roaring Twenties on which the bash is based, will be mortified he’s missing it, particularly because the event is now sold out after a ticket feeding frenzy at the weekend.

Grand Brand Social gridlock reigned at Arnoldi’s when Santa Barbara TV game-show host Rebecca Brand marked the 17th anniversary of her 40th.

Rebecca, who turned a small business hosting dinner parties and teaching French impressionist oil painting at her home into a culinary and travel TV show empire, says: “I just wanted all my friends to be gathered to mark this moment.”

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Celebrating Rebecca’s birthday at Arnoldi’s (1st row) Mary Minoore, Jan Dethro, Richard Auhll, Martha Smilgis, Theresa Kuskey Novak, Jen Dethro, Alexis Guerrer, Misty Fetko, Ryan Perry, Aidan Goodman; (top row) Arvind Shah, Danette Estrella, Mindy Denson, Mary Stark, Elle Bentley, Rebecca Brand, Mary Stark, Veronica Novoa, Maranee Landau, Elana Cantrell (Salon Montecito), Mel Mobley, and Dave Pintard (photo by Priscilla)

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Broadcasting’s first-ever game show – a remake of the 1950s show Dialing for Dollars that is airing out of the Cartoon Network’s Burbank studios, which is Channel 54 locally on Cox. Next year Rebecca, a UCLA graduate who lives at Hendry’s Beach, will be hosting yet another new show – Travel With Me! French Impressions!

– where she invites 40 friends on an 11-day tour of France with a VIP trip to Paris, Provence, Cannes, and Monte Carlo.

Among the tony torrent helping the birthday girl celebrate were John Palminteri, Mindy Denson, Charles Ward, Lisa Amador, Cindy Travis, Mary Minore, Elle Bentley, Mary Stark, Cory Bream, Heidi Stilwell, Tamara Peace, and Mark Golden.

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87, 86, 83; Yahoo Weather: 78, 86, 84, 79.

I suppose weather forecasting is not an exact science, but differences as much as 12 degrees for the same day seem beyond reasonable.

Each of these forecasts was labeled for Montecito, not vaguely for Santa Barbara. I thought weather forecasting in Santa Barbara had to be an easy job. I guess not.

Can one of your informed readers, or one of our local weathercasters, explain such discrepancies?

Jay Fender Montecito (Editor’s note: Perhaps an informed reader can. We’ll see. – J.B.)

Getting MAD Works

It was late December and the Thomas Fire evacuations were in full swing. The amount of small businesses that were closing due to the length of the evacuations was causing me considerable concern as to what I what I was going to do for a summer job. In addition, I was frustrated with the lack of jobs in Santa Barbara that would allow me to apply what I’ve learned in my major: screenwriting. And, that’s when it hit me. I quickly got to work designing MAD’s first ever summer

program: Through The Lens (TTL).

As a graduate of Santa Barbara High School’s Multimedia Arts and Design Academy, I’ve always been extremely passionate about the media industry, film in particular.

My goal was to get middle school students interested and engaged with film before they enter high school and potentially the MAD Academy.

Piecing together what I have learned through the MAD Academy and Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television (my current school), I created a twoweek curriculum that teaches middle school students (ages 11-15) the ins and outs of film production. The curriculum, taught by current MAD teacher Dean DePhillipo, begins by showing students the almost infinite amount of jobs available in the film industry. Many of my students didn’t know much existed past “director” and “cameraman”. We then introduced our first project, a scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The students learned how to storyboard the scene and create a shot list.

Over the course of the next two days of camp, the students shot their scene. Every student had the opportunity to use each piece of equipment and try out each job.

What is meditation? Can I meditate; do I look like a meditator you may ask yourself? How do I sit still for that long? Good news meditation is for everyone, and the benefits are so good it’s worth trying.

What we found was that students often became interested in a job that they didn’t think they would like in the beginning or a job they had never heard of. Some of our quieter students even found their voice as directors.

After we wrapped our shoot, the students retreated to our state-ofthe-art editing labs. Dean and I were extremely surprised by the enthusiasm the students had toward editing and the pace at which they picked it up was astonishing. I was so impressed. Once they finished their first project, the students repeated the process with a scene from School of Rock. The catch was this time they worked with much less instruction from Dean and myself.

On the last day of camp, the students presented their work to their parents. It was gratifying to see how proud the kids were of themselves.

One student told me, “I had never tried anything different before. This camp taught me how much work goes into the films I watch, and I had never thought about that. It gave me the opportunity to try things I had never thought to try, and I’m so grateful.” Another student told me that his least favorite part of camp was leaving.

In addition to providing these kids with creative opportunity and an inside view on the MAD Academy, I was also providing them with an educational one. About two-thirds of our campers were given full scholarships from the MAD Academy. With the help of the academy, I was able to bring something to the community that changed and inspired their kids, and I hope that we can do this for many years to come.

Grace Burford Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Thank you, Ms Burford... and congratulations on a job well done. – J.B.)

Saline Circumstances

I am responding to comments made in the letter to the editor by Ken Coates, July 26-August 2 edition, responding to a previous letter

by Dr. Edo McGowan. Mr. Coates writes that the alternative to his proposals about recycling is to “continue to treat it [wastewater] to a lesser level and dump hundreds of thousands of gallons every day into the Pacific Ocean.” First, Secondary Treatment is not inferior to Tertiary treatment, it is different, and with a purpose.

Secondary Treatment can adjust the saline level of treated water to match the saline content of the ocean. This is what we want for our ocean outfall: compatibility with our ocean environment. Second, the Montecito Sanitary District does not “dump” its effluent into the ocean. The 1,500foot outfall pipe has diffusers that gradually release the treated wastewater into the ocean. Tertiary treated water removes all saline content as it is meant for land use, such as irrigation. Summary: different use, different treatment.

Judith Ishkanian Montecito (Editor’s note: Ms Ishkanian is president of the Board of Directors of the Montecito Sanitary District.)

A New Village “Star”

I would like to announce a new hair stylist to Dadiana Salon Montecito.

Her name is Katharine Kremp and we are lucky to have her on our team of stylists.

Dadiana Salon Montecito, located on East Valley Road (Upper Montecito Village) welcomes master hair stylist and color consultant Katharine Kremp (known as the “Hollywood Image-

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Katharine Kremp (left) worked on many stars and celebrities in Beverly Hills, one of them being Jane Seymour

Social media is a huge struggle for my generation. Even having Instagram is stressful. – Justine Skye

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maker”). She is a hair-extension expert as well.

Once Katharine decided to pursue her calling as a hair designer, she found work at “Umberto,” in Beverly Hills, where her career snowballed into both film and television, working with celebrities, as well as her original clientele, whom she considers to be equally important.

Designing hair for the TV show Friends, with fashion icons such as Raquel Welch and with top celebrities, such as Tom Cruise, Jane Seymour, Genie Francis, Vince Vaughan, John Cusack, and Brad Garrett, among many others, Katharine’s experience is impressive. Having received five Emmy nominations, she is a professional “image-maker.” She knows how to communicate with her clients, and deliver extraordinary results. To Katharine, everyone who sits in her chair is a star.

So, let me introduce her in her own words: “I am passionate about elevating others and helping them create a self-image that is consistent with their highest aspirations,” she says. “It’s never about just ‘working on another head of hair,’ it’s about seeing what’s fashionable and what is appropriate for the client. I establish solid and secure relationships with every person I work with. I am reliable, trustworthy, and professional. I have worked over the years to expand my knowledge and to educate myself on new techniques and methods of classic hairstyling, and I have excellent communication skills.

To me, working is play, and the result is the prize.”

Make an appointment today to see Katharine at Dadiana Salon in Montecito. Her artistry and skills have been secret weapons on fashion pages, movie sets, and TV productions, and now you can have the same star treatment in the upper Montecito village.

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We are so grateful for Lynda Millner’s columns and that she always keeps us in mind. Looking forward to working with her on another great season of events!

Caitlin O’Hara Arts & Lectures, UCSB

The Joke’s On Us

President Trump is not given enough credit for his sense of humor. After his visit with Queen Elizabeth, he said it was the first time in 70 years that she had reviewed her honor guard, and everybody in the U.K. laughed.

After Putin said he was glad Trump won, Trump said that Russia was very unhappy that he had won.

How funny is that?

Trump recently said that you needed an I.D. to buy groceries. All grocery shoppers laughed. At a recent rally, he said he drew bigger crowds than Beyoncé and Bruce Springsteen. All concert-goers laughed.

My favorite Trump joke is “And Mexico will pay for it.” It always makes me and the Mexican president laugh. And, who can forget his first joke as president, when he declared that his inauguration crowd was the largest in history, after the side-byside pictures compared Obama’s and Trump’s crowds. This must be why Trump says, “Don’t believe what you’re seeing or reading.” Trump fact-checkers have catalogued over 4,000 false or misleading statements so far. White House stenographer Beck Dorey-Stein, privy to Oval Office conversations, recently resigned because “Trump was lying to the American people.”

And that is no joke.

John Vertas Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Okay, okay, we get it; you are no fan of this president. But, really, if you are going to mention, for example Beck Dorey-Stein, you should have included the information that she was one of President Obama’s stenographers and is, like the infamous Omarosa, out to sell her book (From A Corner of the Oval: A Memoir); as for the Beyoncé reference, he was referring to Hillary’s campaign event in Cleveland, Ohio, four days before the 2016 election in which she enlisted the four-letter-word star power of Beyoncé and Jay Z to attract people to her rally.

All candidate Trump had was himself and he drew the bigger crowd. The rest of it is, well, I don’t know – if one buys groceries and wishes to pay via credit card, many stores do, in fact, want to see I.D. As for Mexico “paying for” the wall, that could still happen via border-crossing charges, but we’ll see. The best and biggest lie that many of us have heard over the past 10 years is the one about keeping your doctor and saving $2,500 on health insurance.

We’re still laughing over that one, but hey, anyone who can tell a good joke should be credited for the effort. – J.B.)

Trump’s Difficult World

President Trump, following biblical advice to love your enemy and turn the other cheek during his visit with the Russian leader, came under attack. After 2,000 years when someone finally tries to replace hate with forgiveness, he is met with animosity. But wait. It isn’t just the Russian policy. He faces opposition on practically everything.

Why? Here are a few possible reasons: Our president is not the first person to try to peacefully reform an entrenched government’s power and, yes, make life better for those who make the sacrifices to keep that government in power. Being a reformer is not without risk.

For example, the immigration laws in place long before Donald Trump took office are suddenly his creation.

A photo of a child in a cage, taken during his predecessor ’s term, is blamed on President Trump. The motivation behind this deception is troubling.

Now, as he tries to remediate illegal immigration problems, the economy, and trade imbalances, he, his family, and supporters are subjected to disrespect and often vulgarity by his detractors.

Donald Trump entered the political arena in an attempt to save our country from decline. His opposition is legion. Members of the Democrat party and their minions in the courts and Justice Department have obstructed the president’s efforts at every opportunity.

And yes, some Republicans, fearing the risks of real change or afraid to take a stand on principle, will cozy up to the opposition. Nothing new there. Newspapers and television, both national international, with rare exception, daily chant the “attack Trump” mantras bereft of original thought.

This is the world Donald Trump faces while the economy, employment, and fair trade policies improve because of his leadership.

Les Conrad Goleta (Editor’s note: Love him or hate him, President Trump has made the greatest effort of any politician in my lifetime to fulfill his campaign promises, and that’s no lie. – J.B.)

Same Old, Same Old

The GNP (Gross National Product) is the total value of all finished goods and services produced in one year.

The U.S. GNP is $19 trillion. President Trump said in an interview with the

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Sun newspaper that “the GDP has doubled and tripled since I took over.”

It was embarrassingly clear that the president was ignorant of what GNP measured, and became a laughingstock around the world.

This was just one instance in a long list of stupid statements.

In the recent NATO meeting, President Trump said Germany is getting 60-70% of its natural gas energy from Russia, when, in fact, gas makes up less than 20% of Germany’s total energy mix. This misstatement of facts is true to form.

President Trump boasted in a fundraising speech in Missouri that he made up facts about trade in a meeting with prime minister Justin Trudeau. Trump had insisted falsely to Trudeau that the United States runs a trade deficit with Canada, admitting with a smile, “I didn’t even know... I had no idea.”

In regard to Trump’s tariff policy, does anyone believe Trump knows that happened with the SmootHawley Tariff Act? In a meeting with Bill Gates, he asked Gates what was the difference between HIV and HPV. For someone who doesn’t read and gets his information from watching Fox News and Twitter, no one should be surprised when people who have worked closely with Trump describe him as a moron and compulsive liar.

Albert Cumins Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Sigh. We must note that when President Trump points out that Germany gets or will get “60-70% of its natural gas energy from Russia,” this was and is accurate. That natural gas only supplies “20% of Germany’s total energy mix” has no bearing on that. Don’t you guys ever get tired of reciting this crap?

Just curious. – J.B.)

Coming Winter Blues

Montecito residents are in a little bit of a quandary: if you get rain, you risk more mudslides; if not, you (we) still have a drought. I read Montecito Journal on a weekly basis and have not read anything substantial that you’re preparing yourselves for another disaster. Maybe prayer may help. You reap what you sow.

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An “El Presidenté” Gracias

Many, many thanks to you all for your past and continued support given to “Old Spanish Days Fiesta.”

You provide a wonderful insight to the values, customs, and all the things we hold dear.

Herb Barthels Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Mr. Barthels was 1991’s Old Spanish Days El Presidente.)

•MJ 16 – 23 August 2018

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Waiting

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t has been said (by me, in one of my Pot-Shots epigrams) that “Sometimes it seems all of life is a waiting room.”

One of the “Beat” poets of the 1950s wrote a poem which consisted of nothing but the word “wait,” repeated hundreds of times, covering an entire page – except for the very last word, which was “NOW.” That’s how it is, isn’t it? You wait and wait, almost endlessly, as it sometimes seems, until whatever you are waiting for finally happens.

That is, of course, if it ever does…

Devout Jews are still waiting for the coming of the Messiah. Devout Christians are still waiting for his Second Coming. Thomas Beckett’s Vladimir and Estragon are still waiting for Godot.

Prisoners wait to be released.

Children wait to get out of class, or out of school. Farmers are waiting for crops to ripen – just as expectant parents wait for their own “planting” to bear fruit. Nearly all of us are waiting for something nearly all the time – except when we’re asleep. That is one of the many wonderful things about sleeping. It’s almost proverbial that many of the things we’re waiting for do happen – but only in our dreams.

There are, of course, special places dedicated to waiting. They are even called “Waiting rooms,” except some of the fancier ones, which may be dignified as “lounges,” “vestibules,” or “foyers.” And what are we to do there while we wait? The assumption used to be that wait-ers were fond of old magazines – though it can now be safely assumed that most of those waiting will have brought their own personal electronic devices, which can indeed provide great comfort and diversion.

My own favorite waiting-occupation is doing crossword puzzles. If they’re not too easy or too hard, if they’re fair and free of trickery, I find nothing so absorbing. Among their delights are that (1) you need not know all the answers in order to reach the solution, (2) you often find out how much you know, that you didn’t know you knew, (3) there is scope for enlightened guessing, (4) you can put aside a puzzle at which you feel hopelessly stuck – and, more often than not, the next time you come back to it, you will see answers that you didn’t see before, and (5) there is tremendous satisfaction in solving a difficult puzzle. (And all of this I discovered only late in life. Somehow in 16 – 23 August 2018

my earlier years, these puzzles had no attraction for me.)

But none of such “pass-times” occupy the body very much, only the mind – unlike once-popular waiting-activities such as knitting or whittling. They are, however, at least relatively unobjectionable, compared with that other, fortunately now rarely tolerated, activity of smoking.

Smoking tobacco was a good way of occupying the hands and the mouth, and it no doubt provided certain satisfactions to habitués while they were waiting. Unfortunately, various aspects of the activity were obnoxious to many others not engaged in it. But, with freedom so highly valued in our culture, it was not until smoking could be proven to be of great potential harm to the health of those engaged in it, as well as to those involuntarily exposed to it, that society could begin to come to grips with this problem – which is still rampant in many parts of the world.

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But we have yet to consider the romantic aspect of waiting. Lovers traditionally are pledged to wait for each other, in the sense of not becoming involved with anyone else until their love can be consummated – or they can be reunited (especially in wartime).

There are innumerable songs and stories on this theme. But the most poignant example I know is at least based on a true historical episode, which began in San Francisco, at a time when Spain and Russia were contending for control of the North American West Coast. California was still governed

by Spain when, in 1806, a visiting Russian official, Nikolai Rezanov, and Concepcion Arguello – the 15-yearold daughter of the Spanish governor – met and fell in love. Rezanov had to sail away but promised to return and marry Concepcion, after he had secured the Tsar’s permission to do so. She waited for him her whole life (so one version of the story goes) and ended her days in a convent in 1857, never knowing that Rezanov had died in 1807 while making his way across Siberia to reach the Tsar in St. Petersburg.

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It is the evening when all former presidentes are introduced and recognized; this time, more than a dozen as far back as Rudy Castillo in 1976. There were about 300 people to applaud their service to the community.

Denise introduced us to a new tradition. There were cascarones on each table, but not with paper inside.

Instead, there was perfume which she said, “This goes back to an earlier tradition from Asia in the 1800s, where single women would mark the man they liked best with her perfumed egg.”

Linda Vega brought part of her troupe to back up the Spirit of Fiesta Jesalyn Contreras-McCollum in a dance, and Junior Spirit Georgey Taupin did a solo. It wouldn’t be Old Spanish Days without all the wonderful dancing throughout.

In between the show, guests ate a Mexican buffet and drank margaritas.

It may be Old Spanish Days, but they never heard of a tortilla in Spain. A tortilla to them is a potato omelet. Oh, well, never mind if we mix up a few cultures. Dancing under the stars to Elements ended the evening. Viva la Fiesta! Here’s to traditions.

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Moore and De La Guerra Fiesta

Emma’s patio garden at the Santa Barbara Club came alive when Keith Mautino Moore and Jeannie De la Guerra Davis threw a Fiesta bash with all the trimmings. Keith is a fifth-generation Santa Barbaran, and Jeannie is a direct descendant of the De la Guerra family from the 18th century, when it was Las Californias in the Province of New Spain.

Keith and Jeannie learned how to party from their ancestors. Bill and Vivia Whiting Moore participated in one of the first Fiesta celebrations in 1924. They used to come to town from their ranch in Lompoc and stay in the luxurious Potter Hotel for a couple of weeks, until it burned down in 1921.

Phyllis Moore was Saint Barbara in 1949 and was the last Saint Barbara to appear in the tower window at the courthouse. Rumor has it that she was last because trees grew up and covered the tower window.

The De la Guerras hosted other ranchers in the 19th century following cattle brandings and crop harvests.

That meant barbecues, drinking, and dancing. Parties were held at their San Julian Ranch in Lompoc. Also in that

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On Entertainment

by Steven Libowitz

Sax Man Segues to the Stage

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ast weekend marked not only the conclusion of the 2018 Summer Festival at the Music Academy of the West (MAW), but also the close of a chapter in the career of Patrick Posey, the institute’s vice president of artistic planning and educational programs for the last six years.

Posey came to the Academy following five years at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City, where he last served as director of orchestral planning, taking care of the logistics of the institute’s five orchestras.

That work – and the contacts he made while stationed in Manhattan – served him well in his important position here in Montecito. Over his half-dozen years at Mirafloras campus, Posey has helped to transform the MAW program via the groundbreaking partnerships with the New York Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra, and through attracting luminous musicians to serve as faculty artists, including Carter Brey, Jeremy Denk, Conor Hanick, Frank Huang, Eugene Izotov, Joseph Pereira, Barbara Butler, Charles Geyer, Glenn Dicterow, Jorja

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Fleezanis, and many others. He also contributed to the uptick in the star quality of conductors and guest artists attracted during his tenure, including, this year alone, Gustavo Dudamel, Michael Tilson Thomas, Stéphane Denève, Emmanuel Pahud, Caroline Shaw, and James Darrah.

But now Posey is departing from his administrative post at the end of the month to continue his career serving on stage as a professional performing saxophonist. Posey, who has appeared regularly as a guest artist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Santa Barbara Symphony, has also booked recent gigs with the Philadelphia Orchestra and other ensembles, and has decided to focus on following that path as a full-time endeavor, necessitating leaving his position at MAW. He talked about his MAW legacy and his future plans earlier this month.

Q. As you leave the MAW at the end of the summer, do you also feel like you have completed the mission you came here to do?

A. When I came here, (MAW president) Scott (Reed) and I discussed some very specific goals for MAW and the programming: building an orchestral partnership, professionalizing the operation, and recruiting top-tier faculty and world-class guest conductors and artists. When we took a look at the list we created back then, we had ticked off all of the items. MAW is at a place that we saw back then as where we wanted to get to. So at this point, it feels like we’ve brought it home.

There is certainly room for more growth, but I’ve also been looking at what’s been going on for me outside of MAW, which is that I’ve been playing a lot more often. I performed in 34 concerts last season, and was in and out of town for 16 weeks. I’ve never had such wonderful opportunities as a saxophonist before, and there’s a lot of momentum. So, it seemed a good time for both of us for me to step away and into something new.

It seems that might have been easier to do in New York, which is more of a Mecca

for classical music. Why not then?

There’s really not much to do as a classical saxophonist. When I was in New York, I’d get a concert every other month, which wasn’t too hard to keep up with while having an administrative job. But when I moved out here, I started getting work first at the Santa Barbara Symphony, then Los Angeles and San Francisco, and other orchestras in Los Angeles started calling. Over the course of a few years, I’ve been invited to more places, and there are a lot of orchestras just in California alone. In the last year, it got maxed out, all of my free time outside MAW was spent either preparing for or traveling to and playing the concerts. In September to October of last year, I played five different instruments (soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxes, and clarinet) for five different orchestras, performing 10 pieces of music. That was challenging.

ebrate making music in all of its forms, from chamber music at the Lobero, to composers coaching in master classes, the Opera Takeover on campus this year with James Darrah, and community concerts in big venues. We’ve really found a way to have music-making of the highest order intersect with audience appreciation and engagement.

It’s really for everyone in Santa Barbara – not just limited to a select few, but opened to all. Just last night, Conor Hanick’s piano recital was all music composed in the late 20th century. I looked around at the full house and the appreciative audience and thought about the fact that this program 10 years ago would have been a real oddity, but now it’s normal. That makes me proud too.

This was always your dream, to have a performing career?

When I took the job as assistant orchestra librarian at Juilliard, I came there as a good way to put food on the table while I got my name out around town. I thought it would take a couple of years before I could step out and become a full-time freelance musician. It took a bit longer, and for a while I didn’t think it would happen at all after years as a full-time administrator. It snuck up on me over last few years while I was working full time, but it’s finally happening so I’m very excited to explore this side of my career, one that’s always been there as a desire.

As one summer music festival with young classical artists comes to a close, another local offering gets underway this weekend. The UCSB Department of Music’s third annual festival takes place on Friday and Saturday, August 17-18, and feature many Santa Barbara-based musicians performing free concerts out at the college campus near Isla Vista.

UCSB graduate composition student Rodney DuPlessis serves as artistic director for the 2018 festival, which continues as a student-curated and managed event. He’s booked events to display a spirit of inclusivity, with programs covering a variety of genres from traditional to new, East to West, and analog to digital.

Friday’s offerings include original contemporary works for viola and electronics performed by UCSB Music alumnus Jonathan Morgan; rancheras, boleros, corridos, sones, and gustos from Mexico with Mariachi Las Olas de Santa Barbara; original works for quarter-tone piano by UCSB graduate composition students Matt Owensby and Scott Perry; and an ambient guitar, electronics, and video experience presented by UCSB graduate composer Nick Norton. Saturday’s lineup features two carillon concerts performed

by UCSB carillonist Margo Halsted; a Children’s Concert performed by various festival artists; a cappella and choral works ranging from Renaissance motets to contemporary works with Adelfos Ensemble; and music and dance from Indonesia and Malaysia with Gamelan Sinar Surya.

The festival concludes on Saturday night with a special performance

by Los Angeles Percussion Quartet when the Grammy Award-nominated ensemble will perform original pieces

by UCSB graduate students DuPlessis, Mason Hock, and Marc Evans in addition to favorites from the new music repertoire.

You are moving to L.A. in the fall. Will we see you again in town?

MAW is commissioning a piece of chamber music for me to return next summer to perform in the world premiere, so I’ll be back then for sure.

We’ll be announcing the composer in the fall. I’m excited to come back and perform with my (former) colleagues here on the faculty. It’s a great nod to the composer residency program which is one of the major programs that I brought to MAW that we are very proud of, and also to the works I’m going on to do as a professional saxophonist. Playing chamber music with mixed ensemble is one of my favorite things to do. It’s a great treat and tribute. I also will keep my relationships with the Santa Barbara Symphony and the other musicians/ friends I have in town. My friendships with members of the community are not going to go away. It’s easy to come up for a weekend.

Looking back at your tenure here, what are you most proud of?

The opportunities we created for performers, composers, and our audience to come together and cel-

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Sugar’s ray: Rodriguez performs Tuesday, August 21, at Granada Theatre

Rodriguez Returns

Like just about every other community across the nation and around the world, Santa Barbara had to wait 40 years to see the singer-songwriter Rodriguez perform in concert in town – something they didn’t even realize they were missing until the movie Searching for Sugar Man appeared five years ago – when he performed at the Granada last spring. The documentary dramatically detailed the incredible true story of Rodriguez, who was discovered in a Detroit bar in the late 1960s by two celebrated producers who thought he could become a rock icon. But after getting Rodriguez’s soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics committed to vinyl, the records fell flat, selling unbelievably few copies, and the singer-songwriter slipped into obscurity. Somehow, a bootleg recording made its way into apartheid South Africa, where he turned into a mysterious phenomenon unbeknownst outside of the continent. After securing an Academy Award, the film finally propelled Rodriguez to the fame he’d never known.

Rodriguez – who still lives in the same home in Detroit that he was in when he made the records – held the audience spellbound with his half-century old songs and a few new ones at his show last year, and on Tuesday, August 21, he’s back to play the Granada again. As others have found, his interviews are even more nonlinear than his songs, but a few gems came out in a phone conversation earlier this month.

Q. What did the film Searching for Sugar Man get wrong about you? What did they miss?

A. There wasn’t anything missing, nothing I would add. But it wasn’t my film. It was the director. I was only in it for eight minutes. But that’s okay. I didn’t expect any of it.

What’s your perspective on the whole situation, the unexpected fame, the worldwide success, five years later? How do you think it’s changed you if at all?

It’s changed a lot since those 10 days at the Sundance Film Festival, and after Sony Pictures Classics picked it up. When it hit home video, that’s when it went global. It sure is unusual. From rags to riches. But it’s all true.

I’ve been touring now for five years. I like it that people can hear me. That’s what musicians are for. I want people to be able to hear me.

People sure do seem to love hearing you play live. At your show here last year, it felt like a two-way thing. Are you aware 16 – 23 August 2018

what happens when wild animals go to school, just like kids do. Lavis, a writer and producer who has worked in digital, video, print, and radio, joins Munn, a freelance writer, film historian, and former editor at Architectural Digest and fellow Los Angeles resident, for a book reading and signing session at Chaucer’s at 2 pm on Sunday, August 19.

Stanzas of Sojourns

of the effect you have on your fans, more than just an entertainer, something bigger?

I hope to reach the audience, but I’m just a musician playing my compositions. And much of it is audience-generated. They love my songs, and I can tell that. I’m verbal and vocal wherever I appear. I appeal to the collective consciousness of the audience. They know what’s going on and what’s going down. I care about realness.

That’s what I’m looking for.

Does that sense of shared vision, an almost spiritual sense, resonate for you?

It’s poetry for me, and political.

I encourage people to get involved, especially now in the times we’re living in. But what I mostly think about is the performance. Whether it’s spiritual it’s not really for me to say. It’s self-expression. I’ve been doing these songs for almost 50 years. I consider the compositions have a life of their own. Music is a living art to me.

Is there ever going to be a third album of new material?

Well, I’m hoping it gets to that point. I am writing, but the compositions take a long time. And there are some legal issues. But I’ve been touring, playing in front of thousands of people, visiting a lot of countries.

That’s where most of my time goes now. We’re going in late September to Royal Albert Hall in London, and the tickets are pretty much sold-out for two shows, so that’s a real highlight.

It’s special because it’s so late in my career. Also going to be in Australia in February. Travel is amazing. Young people should all get a passport. When you do that, you open up everything.

Bowled Over

Elsewhere in pop music, the countrified singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile heads into the Arlington Theatre on Saturday, August 18, and the venue also hosts Erasure on Tuesday, August 21. White Stripes leader Jack White shows up at the Santa Barbara Bowl

on Sunday, August 19.

The Tribe, comprising LA-based session and touring musicians and singers, returns to SOhO for another “Classic Album” show. After performing Elton John’s double-album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, The Tribe has worked up a new show featuring two classic Eagles LPs: Desperado and On the Border, with each album being recreated start to finish in order at SOhO on Wednesday, August 22.

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Borgen launches the second volume of his new series, Dead Serious and Lighthearted, at Chaucer’s Books on Thursday, August 16. The series aims to present history in an entirely new way, without the tired stories, heavy words and a litany of “isms” – instead focusing on “Memorable Words,” both the dead serious and the lighthearted. Subjects range from fascinating to frivolous, from tragic to momentous, from eloquent to bumbling, including from Ike to Obama, and from Lucy to Lady Gaga. This second volume covers 1977-93, touching on such phrases as Star Wars’s “May the force be with you” and A Few Good Men’s “You can’t handle the truth”, and words from the efforts of Carter to the rise of Reagan, from the Go-Go financial markets of the 1980s to the fall of Communism; from the emergence of modern conservatism to the impacts of globalism and technology. Brogan – who is a historian and lawyer – has authored the award-winning books The Relevance of Reason: The Hard Facts and Real Data about the State of Current America, Volumes I and II. The 7 pm launch includes a reading and refreshments.

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Poet knows it: Daniel Thomas will read from Deep Pockets at Chaucer’s

Santa Barbara poet Daniel Thomas celebrates the recent publication of his first collection of poems, Deep Pockets, with a second reading of works from the book at 7 pm next Thursday, August 23, at Chaucer’s.

The book traverses Thomas’s path from snowy Minnesota to lush Southern California, where he moved in 2015 to work at Westmont College before assuming his current position as chief development officer at the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County, serves as a collection of lyric and narrative poems that evoke the passing years and “the soul’s mystery in the material world.” The poems span more than two decades of his life and encompass his reactions to children being born, parents growing old, a son going off to war, plus the changing nature of love and a long marriage. Deep Pockets has a broad range but may particularly appeal to those who wish to think deeply about how spiritual awareness infuses the ordinary moments of our daily life, as current Santa Barbara poet laureate Enid Osborn noted: “Thomas’s poems carry the wisdom and grace of the Old World, exploring matters of faith and conscience in an age where tenets have lost their purchase.”

Chaucer’s Books is located at 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center. Call (805) 682-6787 or visit www.chaucersbooks.com.

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SEEN (Continued from page 25) Debra Papageorge, Katherine Murray-Morse, and Diane Waterhouse at Keith and Jeannie’s fête

David Bolton, hostess Jeannie Davis, Francisco Javier Vallaure de Acha, counsel general of Spain in Los Angeles, and host Keith Mautino Moore at the Santa Barbara Club

Former El Presadente Herb Barthels with wife Mareva and Missy Chandler

More Fiesta folks: Suzi Schomer, Hiroko Benko, and Linda Rosso at the Club

era, the De la Guerra families enjoyed early parties at Casa de la Guerra.

Fiesta is really a celebration of Santa Barbara’s Rancho Period. Its golden days of that era were the years 1833 to 1846. Tourists were not always attracted to Santa Barbara, hence the creation of Fiesta and also to celebrate the reopening of the Lobero Theater.

Fiesta is a blending of Spanish and Mexican traditions. It’s music, dance, parades, rodeo, food, and drink!

Keith told me, “During the 1960s and ‘70s, many local families, including Castro and Ortega, threw block parties during Fiesta. One took place at the parking lot across from the current Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

It lasted well into the night.” It is said that in the olden days, Hollywood stopped producing westerns during Fiesta because all the cowboys and horse handlers were in the Fiesta parade.

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Keith and Jennie had the works at their party – mariachis, costumes, and cocktails. Keith displayed the dress that his mother wore in the 1940s and he wore a vest made by her for his father. Among the honored guests was Francisco Javier Vallaure de Acha, the consul general of Spain in Los Angeles. As he says, “Santa Barbara is my home.” He loves to come here. The executive director of the California Missions Foundation David Bolton presented him with an award. Also attending was La Presidenta Denise Sanford along with the Spirits of Fiesta and Eduardo Villa, who sang Granada. There were Native Daughters of the Golden West Leanne Figueroa, Susie Parent, and Betty Dominguez, plus Michel Nellis, historian of the City of Santa Barbara.

There too was former El Presidente Herb Barthels and his wife, Mareva, Gil and Susan Rosas, Marie Profant

from the Profant Foundation, judge Thomas Anderle, Missy de Young, Santa Barbara Club president John Doordan and his wife, Tracy, Wes St. Clair, Nancy and Bob Knight, Katherine Murray-Morse, and Linda Rosso.

Fêtes like this don’t just happen, so thanks to Keith and Jeannie for all their Fiesta spirit.

La Merienda Luncheon

The Santa Barbara Women’s Club (SBWC) began a tradition, which is now 90 years old – the La Merienda Luncheon. The Clubhouse at Rockwood is open to the public.

Along with lunch, there is a program of Spanish dancers and musicians that ends with Mexican cookies served on the patio. Folks join the fun by wearing colorful Fiesta costumes. The event must be one of the oldest traditions in Santa Barbara.

The SBWC grew out of the Fortnightly Club in 1892. It was founded to advance the civic and cultural enlightenment of its members. The club didn’t want to meet in homes and instead found a clubhouse upstairs at 1235 State. By the end of the first year, there were 97 members.

One of their main problems was lack of hitching posts for their carriages on Equestrian Avenue. A complaint was issued to the city fathers (probably the city husbands) and posts were promptly made available.

Needing larger quarters, they moved two blocks west to the former home of Dr. Harriet Belcher. The previous tenant of the house, Arlington Jockey Club, left because they felt the house was haunted.

In 1896, the Club moved again to 6 Arlington Avenue. Now they

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Mayor Cathy Murillo and SBWC La Merienda chair Sue Ziliotto.

had an auditorium for 150 people.

Membership was limited to 100 permanent members, 25 temporary, and 25 half-members who lived here only for the season. Dues were $6 per year.

In 1910, they bought a vacant lot at 1400 Anacapa Street to build on.

WW1 had a big impact on the club, as noted by the president’s address.

“The demands upon women are growing greater each day… She must take the man’s place as he is called out, and more and more there is need of the volunteer worker. There can be no leisure women, and it is the duty of the trained worker to inspire the slacker amongst us to do her share.”

Several members had a hand in the bond measures that led to the publicly owned beachfront and harbor we enjoy today.

In 1927, the Rockwood Inn in Mission Canyon burned down. The president Mrs. Max Schott drove past the ruins and thought it was an ideal location for a new clubhouse. She put $100 down and the architectural firm 16 – 23 August 2018

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of Edwards, Plunkett, and Howell who designed the Arlington began work. The clubhouse opened in 1928.

Parking was always a problem even for buggies, so a neighbor gave the group a good deal on the lot next door. By 1954, they needed more space and then came the Garden Room, the Flower Room, a storage room, and a kitchen remodel.

An array of celebs has been hosted over the years such as Helen Keller in 1914, Carl Sandburg, Huell Howser, Jon Morrow Lindberg, Steve Allen, Marilyn Monroe, Vincent Price, and more. Their names are in the guest book.

In 1923, attorney William Griffith spoke on good government: “Here is

your city – you can do one of three things with it. If you do not like it, you can leave; if you approve of it, remember it will not improve of itself; and if you love it, you can make it the city of which you have dreamed, a bigger and better Santa Barbara.” Sounds like good advice in 2018.

This year, Sue Ziliotto chaired the luncheon and emceed the program with dancers from the Linda Vega and Zermeno schools, including the senior and junior spirits. Gil Rosas, who has been entertaining folks for 65 years, played for us Spanish and Mexican songs.

Here’s a toast to the SBWC for carrying on their traditions for more than a century.

•MJ

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In Business

by Jon Vreeland

Jon Vreeland writes prose, poetry, plays, and journalism. His debut book, The Taste of Cigarettes: A Memoir of a Heroin Addict, is available at all major book outlets, as well as Chaucer’s Books on Upper State Street. He has two daughters and is married to Santa Barbara artist Alycia Vreeland.

Markdowns up at Indigo Interiors

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he 1925 earthquake of downtown Santa Barbara cost the city $8 million in damages, an equivalence of less than $114 million in 2018 (Dollar Times). But last January, the Montecito Mudslide nearly doubled the cost of the 20th-century catastrophe with $207 million needed to resurrect the heart of the American Riviera properly.

The Santa Barbara residents and business owners continue to support their neighbors and anyone who suffered the arbitrary shock of near or total loss at the inception of 2018. But geographically, the assistance doesn’t stop there.

With the help of the wholesale furniture manufacturer Lee Industries of North Carolina, Indigo Interiors, a middle- to high-end furniture store at 1321 State Street in Santa Barbara – and just to the right of the Arlington Theatre – will offer “deep discounts on certain furniture items” to those who lost their home and/or furnish-

ing, until June of 2019.

Santa Barbara business owner and designer Genny Cummings, who

opened Indigo Interiors with her husband, Tom Cummings in 1984 says, “Unfortunately, this is one way of the community coming together, and this is the one thing I can do to help.”

Not everything at Indigo Interiors sells at discount, Lee’s contract of 40 percent off the listed price. But reduced or not, Indigo Interiors carries modern, antique, and custom furniture: sectional sofas, armchairs, chais-

es, swivel chairs, accent armchairs, dining chairs, recliners, beds, sofa sleepers, benches, ottomans – many of which Genny and Lee Industries will sell for the sale offer.

Indigo Interiors also carries an array of home accessories: accent lamps, handmade jewelry, Indigo pillows, antique fixtures, etched and filigree glass, throws and blankets, tabletop dishes, glassware, vases, to name a fraction of the inventory. They also do a lot of work with window shades, have woodworkers, iron-workers, upholsterers, seamstresses, carry bedding and sell upholstery by the yard.

Also, Tom Cummings is a Santa Barbara artist, who, along with other local artists such as Karen Aggeler and Laurie MacMillan, whose art sells at Indigo’s Summer show, sell their art in the Indigo showroom, add-

ing more flavor to your customized haven of individuality.

However, the furniture, the home accessories, the skilled craftsman, and the miles of variegated upholstery are also prime ingredients to the interior design projects which Genny herself conducts. The highly experienced creator can cultivate or redesign the inside of a person’s home or place of business from ceiling to floor, using all the necessary appurtenances.

In Malibu, Genny altered a home directly on the beach: living room, kitchen, upstairs family room, and master bath using off-white colors on the walls, ceilings, furniture, down to the blonde finish on the hardwood floors.

In the living room and upstairs family room, Genny used dark grey as a solid contrast to the pallid rooms: the fireplace mantle in the family room and the bookshelves in the upstairs family room, for instance, are both painted the same neutral grey.

And, in the wake of the worst disaster in Santa Barbara history, the likes of Genny and Tom Cummings and Lee Industries, who established the business 1969 in Newton, North Carolina, and who over the years expanded their company to three more manufacturing plants, and loyal members of the community, zealously exist. And just like the residents did in 1925, people step up to help rebuild and lend what hand they can give to those who can use the love of their neighborhood and friends more than ever.

Indigo Interiors is open Monday thru Friday from 10 am to 5 pm, and Saturday 11 am to 5 pm. Sundays are only by appointment. Their phone number is (805) 962-6909 and website is indigointe riors.com.

•MJ

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Sound healer, yoga teacher, meditation, and breath work practitioner Damian Nur Das is the facilitator for the event, which will let guests learn new breath work techniques or to become more deeply acquainted with ones they might already know. Some of the breath exercises are heating and activating, while others can be cooling, balancing, and centering. Either way, the breathing that will be practiced will help oxygenate the blood and stimulate oxytocin supply to the brain, putting the body into a natural relaxation response.

Easing the process will be a sound bath featuring such traditional instruments as the didgeridoo, Native American flute, gongs, and 432Hz crystal singing bowls. Merging the two practices, along with group toning and visualizations – elements to bring participants into a meditative state of mind and act to release tension, stress, and fear – may result in any number of benefits, including deep relaxation, harmonizing the nervous system, enhancing Theta and Alpha brain waves, activating higher states of consciousness, releasing trauma, and clearing energetic blocks, enhancing clarity of mind, and even providing relief from physical pain. All practitioners, from beginner to experienced, are welcome.

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Sounding off at Salt

Various vibrations reverberate through the warm pink haze in the underground cave known as Salt on lower State Street twice during the upcoming week. On Friday, August 17, Brandon Kaysen leads a Sacred Sound Journey that combines Salt Therapy with Sound Healing as a powerful way to harmonize every cell in the body through breath, harmonic resonance, and connecting with the Earth’s natural energy. Guests will breathe pure air in the salt cave while journeying deep within to peacefully connect with Mother Earth at the event, geared to open your heart space and realign your presence to all that is “Now.” Visitors are invited to meditate and/or participate by bringing your energy to the circle of pure breath and sound, thereby becoming part of the “symphony.” Kaysen, who also uses Tibetan and crystal bowls, didgeridoo, chimes and more, began studying and playing the planetary gongs in 2012, bringing his modern healing practice to the ancient modality that helps raise the collective consciousness, nurture the soul, and heal the body by strengthening the nervous system. Tibetan and crystal bowls, didgeridoo, chimes, and more.

The 6 to 7 pm sessions costs $25.

Jenn Winzenried takes over the Salt Cave for a one-hour session at 5:45 pm on Tuesday, August 21, featuring a Sound Bath & Yoga Nidra. Teaming with her partner, Dominic, for an evening of bliss, meshing yoga, and sound healing, the pair invite all to let go and surrender to the practice of seamlessly flowing from one place in the body to another in a relaxing yin practice, softening into the salt earth underneath. Participants will explore just a few poses and utilize the breath to organically peel away layers of connective tissue that surrounds the muscles, stimulating and lengthening the tissues. Admission is $25.

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The Sound of Soup

Not to be outdone, Yoga Soup, home of the periodic sound bath featuring local gong and Tibetan bowl master Shane Thunder, is launching a new weekly Soundbath Meditation featuring Anahita Holden, the harpist/musician who has frequently accompanied meditations and workshops offered by Radhule Weininger. Holden will host a traditional Vipassana-style meditation with the sounds of harp, 432Hz crystal bowls, and other healing frequencies for a practice featuring gentle stretching, restorative postures, and aromatherapy to integrate the experience into the body. The idea behind the 8:15 to 9:15 pm sessions taking place every Thursday beginning August 16 is to engage your senses and relax your nervous system in preparation for a peaceful sleep. Admission is by donation.

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Your Westmont

The family celebrated the graduation of Megan Shagren in May

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

New Center Examines U.S. Democracy Political science professors Dr. Tom Knecht and Dr. Jesse Covington

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estmont’s new Center for American Democracy will help students understand the unique ideas, ideals, institutions, and practices of democracy in the United States. The center begins launching programs in fall 2018 thanks to a generous gift from an anonymous couple with new ties to the college.

“We often read about fledgling democracies where entrenched tyrants use the mechanisms of democracy to get elected, only to dismantle the practices of democracy to assert their tyrannical will,” says president Gayle D. Beebe. “A core element of American democracy is the importance of learning to live together with difference. That includes always welcoming immigrants into our country and respecting the rights and responsibilities of all citizens to live and work under the rule of law.”

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tutions, laws and practices that sustain a free and ordered society in the United States,” says Jesse Covington, associate professor of political science.

“I’m also excited for the great guest speakers that we anticipate bringing to campus.”

Students will read and discuss foundational documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers, and other classic and contemporary texts.

“The American political environment is increasingly contentious and polarized,” says Tom Knecht, professor of political science. “Thoughtful deliberation is key to a healthy democracy, but, unfortunately, seems to be in short supply today. The center will be a place that emphasizes thoughtful deliberation about politics.”

Internships with local, state, and federal government agencies, think tanks, and institutions committed to the common good will provide practical experiences for students. They will also pursue guided research projects with professors.

“One thing we are particularly excited about is expanding the research opportunities for our students,” Knecht says. “In the past, many of our students wanted to do a research project over the summer but didn’t have the resources to do so. The center now allows our best students to spend the summer working on their research projects or collaborating with their professors.”

Says Beebe: “The center seeks to develop thoughtful and effective citizens who will enter public service, lead effectively, and model moral and ethical conduct and decision-making.”

“Contemporary political discourse and participation continue to show a need for more careful and well-informed thinking, rather than emotive, entertaining, or polarizing alternatives,” Covington says. “This center

can help meet this need, drawing on the rich resources of politics, law, and theory in the United States, as well as the virtues of humility, curiosity, diligence, and care that characterize a Christian liberal arts education at Westmont.”

Political science professors Covington and Knecht will play key roles in leading and developing the new program.

Grants Launch New Sports

A philanthropic family from Tacoma, Washington, has given Westmont $575,000 as seed money to launch women’s swimming and men’s and women’s golf beginning in the 2019-2020 academic year. The Tom and Meg Names Family Foundation awarded a $500,000 grant to the swimming program, and the Names Family Foundation has donated $75,000 toward the creation of men’s and women’s golf.

Megan Shagren ’18, the daughter of Mark and Erin (Names) Shagren (a co-trustee of the Tom and Meg Names Family Foundation), graduated from Westmont in May with a degree in liberal studies.

“I’ve been most impressed with the way Westmont cares for its students and with its strong academics,” Erin Shagren says. “The professors are so friendly and have really cared about my daughter, which is important to me as a parent.”

Erin, executive director of the Names Family Foundation, says this personal attention became evident during Megan’s sophomore year when she battled a lengthy illness.

“Dr. (David) Hernandez was her advocate, and the professors were understanding,” Erin says. “Megan met some great friends and found her community.”

Erin and her sister, Monica Names King, established the Tom and Meg Names Family Foundation after their parents passed away in 2016. “We both agreed that funding the swimming program was a great opportunity and something my parents would be excited about,” Erin says. “My mom had come to Westmont Parents’ Weekend for Megan’s freshman year and really enjoyed seeing the campus.

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about. Athletics were a huge part of my family.

“We hope the gift to Westmont will attract high-quality swimmers and student athletes to the college who would normally not even look at Westmont as an option,” Erin says.

Swimmers will train at Westmont’s pool and at the Santa Barbara-owned Los Banos Del Mar Pool. Swim meets will be held at regulation pools in the Western Region and possibly Los Banos. Dave Odell, Westmont athletic director, continues to review coaches for women’s swimming and men’s and women’s golf. Those interested should contact him directly at dodell@westmont.edu. Those interested in applying to attend Westmont should visit westmont.admissions. edu. Applications for fall 2019 opened August 1.

College Studies An Unhurried Life

Westmont has chosen An Unhurried Life by Alan Fadling as a book to read this summer and throughout the upcoming school year. The author will speak in chapel Friday, September 28, and share major themes from the book with students. Recent studies at Penn State and Boston University document the growing mental health crisis on college campuses, with more than half of the students visiting campus health clinics listing anxiety as a concern. Westmont seeks to equip students with resources to deal with anxiety and isolation.

“In a culture flooded with demands, expectations, and stimulation, we become acclimated to anxiety, over-commitment, and restlessness,” says Edee Schulze, vice president for student life. “We reward busyness and striving and find it difficult to cultivate stillness and quiet with so many competing distractions and commitments.

Comfortable with over-commitment and over-stimulation, we may fear being left behind or left out if we slow down. Increasingly, we become disconnected from ourselves, others, and God. Reading An Unhurried Life will help us explore the implications of our anxious age and encourage us to reconnect. We seek to help each student cultivate mindful awareness and embrace our Christian values while learning the simple practices of presence and gratitude.”

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Conserving Water

Water conservation in Montecito has produced a 12-month running average of 38% reduction in water usage based on the state’s standard of water use in the baseline-year of 2013. This is one of the best conservation records in the state and should be a cause for celebration. However, the more water we conserve, the bigger the challenge for Montecito Water District (MWD) to achieve both financial and water security.

Sometimes, apparent reductions in water usage hide a bigger threat. For example, part of Montecito’s perceived 38% reduction in water sales can be explained by an increase in private well permits and drillings from residents fearful of drought, higher water prices, and loss of landscaping. Estimates now range from 500 to 1,000 private wells in Montecito, dwarfing the District’s 12 wells.

These additional private-well straws (non-plastic), inserted into our water basin, raise the chances of overdraft of our aquifers. If our basin goes dry in drought, private well owners will have no option except to turn to MWD, putting a huge new load on the District’s system. That is why the MWD Board must implement a new Sustainable Groundwater Management Plan to mitigate this type of potential disaster. More private wells dug means less MWD water use, less MWD revenue, a better MWD conservation record, but a dangerous situation for the community.

Conservation efforts can be misleading in another way. In January 2018, water consumption was down 65% from the 2013 base-year conservation targets, apparently a positive thing. Unfortunately, the cause for low usage in January was “unplanned conservation.” Residents simply used less MWD water in that month because they were evacuated into downtown hotels for showers, meals, and laundry, and they could not return home until the water supply was declared safe and restored after the January 9 debris flow.

Water Demand Update

With continued conservation, all of Montecito can survive on the collective use of 4,000 acre-feet per year of water, or roughly one acre-foot per year per household. An acre-foot (AF) of water is equivalent to a football field covered in water to a depth of one foot. It is also 326,700 gallons of water.

Historically, annual metered water sales for the Montecito Water District have ranged from a high of 6,518 acre-feet (AF) in 2007-08 down to a low of 3,127 AF in 2016-17, followed by usage of 3,783 AF this year (2017-18).

Water Supply Update

State Water Project (SWP). Traditionally, Montecito has relied upon an increasingly unreliable State Water Project, designed and built to serve the state’s 25 million residents who lived here in 1983. Today, that same system is asked to provide reliable water to a population of 40 million residents. A staggering one-fourth of the state’s population, or 10.3 million people, live in Los Angeles County alone.

SWP transports uncertain snowpack from the High Sierras in Northern California to the water-shy farms and urban centers of Southern California, via a thousand miles of surface reservoirs, aqueducts, canals, pipelines, and energy-hogging pumps.

Montecito’s entitlement of SWP is 3,000 AF per year, plus a 300-AF-per-year drought buffer. MWD pays a fixed charge of some $5.5 million, regardless of the amount of water received, plus a variable charge based on the volume of water actually delivered.

In practice, SWP has only delivered about half the water promised to Montecito, and as little as 5% (165 AF in the 2014 drought year). This makes SWP water unreliable when it is needed and hideously expensive when fixed charges are allocated over lower volumes.

This is an open surface reservoir wholly owned by MWD. It currently stands at 62% of its full water storage capacity of 5,144 AF, or 3,168 AF. Despite silting and fire damage, water releases from Jameson Lake during the past 10 years have ranged from a high of 1,900 AF per year to a low of 350 AF in a drought year.

Purchase of Supplemental Water

Montecito has joined other water districts in Santa Barbara County to purchase supplemental water through the Central Coast Water Authority (CCWA) from other water districts with excess water. As one might suspect, supplemental water purchases are lower in price in years of heavy rainfall, but availability dwindles and prices soar during periods of extended drought.

In practice, imported supplemental water purchased above the SacramentoSan Joaquín Delta often carries a carriage loss penalty, typically 25% of the water purchased. Supplemental water purchased below the Delta often carries an exchange component payback that equals the amount of water purchased, in addition to the price.

Local Groundwater

The combined annual safe yield for MWD withdrawal from the four storage basins in Montecito is 1,650 AF per year, according to dated studies. As part of its Urban Water Management Plan, MWD plans to pump 250 to 400 AF of local groundwater on an annual basis. A larger amount may be pumped on a short-term basis, particularly if MWD is able to naturally recharge its basins in wet years, and technologically recharge its basins in dry years, using indirect potable use injections of highly treated wastewater, or excess state water, or excess imported supplemental water to be stored underground and removed when needed.

The Water Security Challenge

The challenge for MWD over the next five years will be to successfully transition its water supply portfolio away from drought-driven, non-local sources such as State Water, imported supplemental water, and surface reservoir water and to replace these drought-vulnerable portfolio sources with affordable and reliable local sources such as desalination, recycling of wastewater, groundwater management, regional cooperation, recapture of stormwater, graywater, and conservation. Each of these challenges, or more appropriately, opportunities, needs to be examined more fully by MWD, the Montecito Sanitary District (MSD), the Summerland Sanitary District (SSD), the residents of both communities, and their neighbors on the South Central Coast.

The second challenge for the board is to address the problem of those aging and corroded pipes in the MWD infrastructure, which are now nearing their 100th birthday. Aging infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to ruptures, leaks, and main breaks. The pace of replacement needs to be accelerated to move MWD into the 21st century. Funding long-term needed capital replacements is a fundamental responsibility of MWD management MontJournal_August15th'18:Layout 1 8/9/18 8:09 PM Page 1 and its Board of Directors.

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Cachuma Reservoir Project

The Cachuma surface reservoir is operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) to store water from the Santa Ynez River watershed behind Bradbury Dam. The reservoir now stands at 37% of its 184,121 AF capacity. In years of normal rainfall, MWD expects an allocation of 2,651 AF of water per year. In periods of extreme drought, that allocation has been reduced to zero.

Water from Cachuma is diverted through the 6.4-mile Tecolote Tunnel to the headwaters of the South Coast Conduit, where it is processed at the Santa Barbara Cater Water Treatment Plant. Outflow of treated water enters the South Coast Conduit, operated by the Cachuma Operation and Maintenance Board (COMB), before delivery to Goleta, Santa Barbara, Montecito-Summerland, and Carpinteria Valley.

Cachuma suffers substantial water losses from surface evaporation, silting, mandated downstream releases, fish releases, spills, inadequate input pipe capacity, and the need for emergency barge pumping.

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course of the collection of information for their nomination?” he said, reporting that the family received a copy of the nomination only after it had been submitted already to the County.

“This nomination is simply an attempt to use the HLAC to do land use planning, but pretending that the interest is in preservation. But it obviously isn’t,” he said. Jackson asserts that the designation will encumber the sale, costing his family potentially millions of dollars in property value.

Laura Bridley, a planning consultant speaking on behalf of the Jackson family, dismissed many of Rose’s assertions that the property’s historic resources would not be protected without the Landmark designation.

She reminded the HLAC of the stringent review rules placed upon structures more than 50 years old. “To accept the threat by EVPA that unless

you nominate the entire 237 acres, everything will be lost or at risk when a new owner buys it, is simply false.”

More than 10 speakers commented at the hearing, the majority asking HLAC to deny the nomination, including Brett Hodges, whose family’s 27-acre property in unincorporated Goleta Valley was up for an unsolicited third-party nomination in 2014; the nomination was denied. “Based on my experience, you can tell when the true motivations of a landmark designation are not to preserve history, but are aimed at preventing any possibility of future development. The clue is that the nomination overreaches and, instead of pinpointing what might be of legitimate historical value, tries to get an entire property labeled as historical. I think it’s pretty obvious this is happening here today with the Jackson property.”

HLAC ultimately denied the nomination unanimously with one abstention, instead voting to form a sub-committee to work with the Jacksons to consider a landmark designation of parts of Rancho San Carlos, including the barn and main house, and consider contributing factors such as the design of the landscape and auxiliary buildings.

“I cannot support the nomination in its present form, primarily because of the specific condition that it is attached to a development plan.

I can see the merit in designating the property. And I also respect the process,” said commissioner Howard Wittausch. Commissioner Randy Melcombe agreed: “Ethically, without the owner’s consent to landmark, I do not feel comfortable land-marking it,” he said, adding that if the Jacksons sell the property to a “destructive buyer,” then HLAC could consider

land-marking it at that time.

The decision is appealable to the Board of Supervisors for 10 days following the hearing.

Montecito Association Welcomes New Faces

At this month’s Montecito Association (MA) Board meeting, three new faces joined the organization, including new executive director Sharon Byrne. Outgoing executive director Allison Marcillac, hired in November, lost her home in the mudslide in January, and has decided to resign in order to focus her time and effort on rebuilding her home. “I have to personally thank her for staying on with us for the last six months, because it has not been an easy ride. She is in the midst of rebuilding her entire life,” said board president Charlene

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Sharon Byrne is the new executive director at the Montecito Association

Maeve Juarez from Montecito Fire Protection District announced four A-frame signs will be added to various locations in Montecito during Red Flag Events

were also voted in: Sandy Stahl and Robert Kemp, both longtime Montecito residents and local realtors who are heavily involved in the community.

During community reports, Dr. Anthony Ranii from MUS and Dr. Amy Alzina from Cold Spring School, reported to the board that both campuses are getting ready for the start of the school year. Diane Gabriel from Montecito Sanitary District reported that the sewer main project on South Jameson is finished, and the lift station is still in progress, expected to be done at the end of October. Miramar Resort developer Rick Caruso is funding the work, which will cost $4 million.

During the Conference Agenda,

Silvia Easton from the Montecito Fire Protection District Board of Directors reported that an ad hoc committee was formed to discuss additional signage during critical fire weather. Wildland Fire specialist Maeve Juarez showed the board an example of an A-frame sign that will be put up during red-flag warnings, in addition to the eight already existing locations at local trailheads. The new signs will be placed at Alston at Hot Springs; Manning Park at San Ysidro Road; the junction of N. Jameson, Ortega Ridge, and Sheffield; and Olive Mill near Casa Dorinda. Jaurez reported that the criteria to trigger a red-flag warning

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Byrne joins the Association after her most recent role as the executive director of the Coast Village Association. “You’ve done great things for the CVA, and I’m looking 16 – 23 August 2018

forward to seeing you do great things for the Montecito Association,” Nagel told Byrne, adding that she was instrumental at disseminating information to the community during the Thomas Fire and mudslide.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 19) Mashey Bernstein, Kerin Friden, Annette Caleel, and Brooks Firestone (photo by Priscilla)

Centered is Grant Gershon, artistic director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale; with members Katia Gruzglina, Steven Harms, Michael McDonough, Meredith Pyle, and Leslie Inman Sobol (photo by Priscilla)

Michael Hayes, Gretchen Lieff, Miles Hartfeld, and Erik Shinn (photo

by Priscilla)

summer pops program to the enchanting venue.

For Art’s Sake As is tradition, the John E. Profant Foundation hosted a colorful Fiesta Finale gala at the historic El Paseo restaurant, with a record 174 guests raising more than $50,000 for art

birthday bash five years ago, played a selection of keyboard classics, and classical guitarist Chris Fossek performed while his wife, Leila Drake, a former principal with the State Street Ballet, danced along with another SSB member, James Folsom.

Other performers included Heidi Gielisch, Ricardo Chavez, Lakshmi

when the Academy Festival Orchestra, under Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Gustavo Dudamel, in his academy debut, performed with the L.A. Master Chorale, under artistic director Grant Gershon, at a sold-out Santa Barbara Bowl.

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Music Academy of the West 2018 Summer Festival concert with Gustavo Dudamel, conductor, Mosher guest artist; Susanna Phillips, soprano; Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano with the Academy Festival Orchestra; Los Angeles Master Chorale; and Academy Voice Program Fellows (photo by Priscilla)

Basile, Eddy Luevanos, and Kambiz Pakan.

Costume contest winners, judged my Journal colleague Lynda Millner, were Gary Simpson and Jill Nida, and Erik and Angelique Davis.

Among the fans at the energized fiesta fest were Sigrid Toye, David Bolton, Erin Graffy, Peter and Gloria Clark, Craig Case, Dana Hansen, Bill Brown, Ana Papakhian, Toni Simon, and Madison Richardson, Gillian Launie, Larry Gosselin, Riley and Dacia Harwood, Jon and Bonnie Henricks, and Gregg Hart.

Domantas Karalius, Michael Sihich, Janey Cambell, Jon Bishop, Manuel Arellano, Scott Reed, Ana Papakhian, and Andre Sun (photo by Priscilla)

Soprano Susanna Phillips and mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung added their superb voices to Mahler’s rousing 1894 Resurrection Symphony No. 2 and the 200-plus performers on stage for the special “community concert,” with many tickets at a nominal $10.

It was an evening to remember, much like three years ago when the New York Philharmonic brought its

scholarships.

Brother Rhyan, 13, and Zeyn Shweyk, 14, played piano, while the Martinez Brothers, who’ve been entertaining at fiesta for three decades, provided the band.

Kristen and Serge Chmelnitzki performed the Paso Doble and the rumba, while veteran pianist Gil Rosas, who entertained at my 60th

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Sip-Top Condition Santa Barbara Polo Club hosted its first Sip and Shop event for 250 guests next to the hallowed Holden Field.

With seven vendors and a stall providing Moët & Chandon’s new champagne – with a slightly higher sugar content that can be served over ice – the fun fest was the brainchild of

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Our Town

Douglas DaFoe and the new direction for his art with Mostly High [left], and Labyrinth

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Artist Review: Small & DaFoe Exhibition Artist George Small next to his creation titled Abraham Lincoln

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he latest art exhibit in town, Multi-Dimensional, curated by artist Susan Tibbles, brings together two life-long friends, veteran artist George Small and newbie Douglas DaFoe. Tibbles selected works from both artists that are an excellent blend of design elements and complement.

George is showing six images from his Innocence Lost photography series, his Mona Lisa series, and a new combined-medium print series. Doug’s work is various carved wood patterns painted with patinas to acrylics with fluorescence. Do take a look.

At the opening on August 10, I met with the artists to talk about their work: Q. George, your favorite piece Susan curated for this show?

A. To be honest, they are all my favorites. The one piece that resonates with me and gives me an idea of what I will continue with is the Lincoln piece.

How did you make the Abraham Lincoln? [see photo] It was a photograph of Lincoln taken from an old history book. I collaged into it, a montage of superimposing images over each other, combining, cutting, and pasting. When I’m satisfied, I transfer-print the image onto specialty paper with chemicals, and add to it till I arrive at the desired effect. I deliberately aged the photo, made it look a little beat up, gave him a blue eye for black and blue because he represents to me someone who died for our country and represents our future; we have to fight for what he fought for.

Then laid red and yellow stripes for our flag and other interpretive effects – here everything is fragmented, but he still stands. A social statement.

How long have you been doing art?

All my life. I just retired my art 16 – 23 August 2018

school and gallery in Santa Monica to move to Santa Barbara, which I had for 40 years called The Art Studio. It was actually Bob Dylan’s old recording studio. There is so much history in everything around us. My father was an artist. I was exposed to a lot of visual material and drew right off the bat at a young age. I loved art in process; I could have been a rich man but wanted to be an artist. My dad went to the original Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles [now CalArts], and I went with him to some workshops as a kid.

And what’s your favorite tool?

I used to work with large oil pastels and soft pastels for my figure drawings. Now I work more in the abstract, so my evolution brought me to colored pencils!

How did you meet Doug?

I had hired him to do some work for me about a year ago. He was a successful cabinet-maker, so he understood detail and precision in design. When he showed me his woodwork art, I mentioned to him it is like American artist Frank Stella’s abstract prints.

Doug never studied fine art, but after I showed him Stella’s, he got it and named one of his works here after him.

Doug added: Yes, I had no idea who he was talking about! These types of designs just came out of me. The first tessellation I did, I couldn’t stop thinking about the shape. Then eight months into it, I came across an architectural magazine that had the same pattern, which was a 3,000-year-old design from Cairo. First, I carve and design the piece from wood, then experiment with various types of paint. For example, [for] Labyrinth, I used a paint with atomized copper in it, treated it with acid, which corrodes it in a matter of minutes and creates a patina. I

At the opening of the MultiDimensional exhibit are [from left]: Ryan DaFoe, curator Susan Tibbles, and local musician Bryan Rexfors

embellish it with pastels. There is no way out of the labyrinth once you enter it. The design used to be on the Bazooka Bubble Gum wrapper – those illusions, the three tubes connected with a single line. The wood I use is composite sign material, so it’s very flat, easy on the tools, takes the paint really well.

different things; they all play with your mind. It is a departure from the purist designs. Many times, the work just evolves and I never know what I’m going to end up with. Each one I do is different. George has been a great influence and very supportive.

As I do more, the more I want to do, now art is all I want to do.

So, most of these here are from your geometric phase. What is most current?

The piece titled Mostly High is a departure from what I have been doing and where I am heading. I gave it that name because when I began to lay out the cut wood pieces, it looked like a group of airplanes. It reminded me of aircraft take offs and landings, smiles, and smirks. It looks like many

Seen at the opening: veteran Santa Barbara artist Mike Irwin; SB born artist and hairdresser at 19 Blue, Ryan DaFoe [Doug’s nephew]; and musician Bryan Rexfors.

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Notice Inviting Bids for the Off-Leash Dog Area at MacKenzie Park Bid No. 3938

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for:

1.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its Off-Leash Dog Area at MacKenzie Park Project (“Project”), by or before Thursday, September 13, 2018, at 3:00 p.m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted. Bids will be evaluated based on the lowest price on the base bid, without consideration of any alternates.

2.

Project Information.

BID NO. 5672 DUE DATE & TIME: August 29, 2018 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. Lumber for Stearns Wharf The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at Mackenzie Park, 3111 State Street, Santa Barbara, California and is described as follows: Construct a new chain-link fenced off-leash dog area, permeable concrete walkways, concrete benches, lighting, site furnishings, precast concrete wall, and new landscaping. The demolition includes removing existing concrete walkways, and chain-link fencing in the project area. A bid alternate item includes installation of two City-furnished electronic scoreboards.

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

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

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

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

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: October 22 to November 30, 2018.

2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $380,000.

3.

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

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

4.

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: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. 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.

5.

Bid Security.

The Bid Proposal Published: August 15, 2018must be accompanied by bid security of ten (10) percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submitMontecito the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation Journal required by the Contract Documents.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

Published August 15, 2018 Montecito Journal 6.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hollister Barber Shop, 5739 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117.

Alejandro Diaz, 124 Sumida Garden Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 26, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2018-0002147.

Published August 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) has (have) abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): Wild Jasmine, 234 Ocean View Ave., Carpinteria, CA 93013. Julie Loretta Hall, 234 Ocean View Ave., Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was originally filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 24, 2014. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy, filed July 2, 2018. Original FBN No. 2014-0000861. Published August 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) has (have) abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s):

Shinrin Yoku Walks, 234 Ocean View Ave., Carpinteria, CA 93013. Julie Loretta Hall, 234 Ocean View Ave., Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was originally filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 6, 2016. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy, filed July 2, 2018. Original FBN No. 2016-0001974. Published August 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: REBUILDSANTABARBARA.COM, 1423 Park Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Paz Josefina B Pelaez, 1423 Park Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 17, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2018-0002058.

Published August 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Jarrett Kolich Fitness, 2448 Lillie Avenue, Summerland, CA 93067.

Jarrett Thomas Kolich, 6251 Momouth Ave., Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 6, 2018. This statement expires

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License and Registration Requirements.

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

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

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Tuesday, August 28, 2018, at 10:00 a.m., at the following location: MacKenzie Park, 3111 State Street, at the intersection of State Street and Calle Palo Colorado, Santa Barbara, California for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference may be disqualified from bidding.

By: ___________________________________

Date: ________________

William Hornung, C.P.M, General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) 8/15/18

2) 8/22/18 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

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

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Rachel Hillman. FBN No. 2018-0001951. Published July 25, August 1, 8, 15, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Atwood Flooring; Atwood Flooring Studio, 675 Ramero Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA

93108. Atwood Designs, INC, 58 Atwood Ave #2, Sausalito, CA 94965. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 13, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Margarita Silva. FBN No. 2018-0002038.

Published July 25, August 1, 8, 15, 2018.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 18CV03494. To all interested parties: Petitioner Brian David Altarac filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Brian David Atlas.

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 24, 2018. Hearing date: October 3, 2018 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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occurred three times in 2017, and two times in 2016. “These signs will not be out often,” Jaurez said. “When they go up, they are to remind residents and visitors to avoid activities that can spark a fire.” Those activities including lawn mowing, weed whipping, and smoking. The MA Board gave their support for the additional signage.

The board members also voted unanimously to send a letter to the County’s Transportation Department, asking the County to open the temporary bridge on Ashley Road at Cold Spring Creek during high fire events. “With the recent explosive fire in Goleta, ignited from a downed power line in a neighborhood, similar in size and density to Montecito, it has come to our attention that there is no clear westerly evacuation route from the west side of Montecito,” reads the draft letter. The board is formally requesting that the County immediately take whatever actions are necessary to allow the temporary bridge to be open and available to the public during Red Flag Events.

Save the Date for a Governance Forum hosted by the MA on Monday, September 10. We’ll have more about the forum in next week’s edition.

The next Montecito Association Board meeting is on Tuesday, September 11, at 4 pm.

Antoinette Moves Location

After 43 years, Antoinette Boutique in Coast Village Walk has moved!

Still in the same shopping center, Antoinette is now located between Occhiali and Sakana, in the space formerly occupied by Dance Fever Studio, which closed last month. “We are thrilled, and it’s a really good move for us,” said longtime manager Marissa Fritz. “It’s a fresh start!”

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Marissa Fritz, the store manager of Antoinette, which moved locations in Coast Village Walk

locally. Antoinette offers a range of fashions, from evening wear and casual attire, to lingerie, accessories, shoes, and more.

The store is now owned by Carine’s husband, Rino.

Antoinette’s former location in Coast Village Walk, next to Vons Pharmacy, was a much larger space, and is currently up for lease despite rumors that a local restaurant was taking over the space. Antoinette’s new location has undergone a transformation with a higher ceiling, new lighting, and new merchandising. There is also a great sale happening to clear space for fall, with most items being discounted 30 to 70 percent, with the exception of jewelry.

Store hours are Monday thorough Saturday 10 am to 5:30 pm, with the exception of Friday, when the business stays open until 6:30 pm.

For more information, visit www.antoinetteboutique.com.

Antoinette at Coast Village Walk is located at 1046 Coast Village Road.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 36) SB Polo Club president John Muse, owner of Lucchese, with former supermodel Erin Wasson (photo by David Lominska)

Chris Fossek entertains (photo by Carlos Mascherin)

Kathryn Lenihan, owner of the club’s eclectic boutique.

Former Victoria’s Secret supermodel and Ojai-based Erin Wasson introduced her new shoe line for Texan manufacturer, Lucchese, whose owner, John Muse, is the club’s president.

“It’s Texan style with a street vibe,” says Mario Vega, a company marketing executive in El Paso.

Also showing off her wares was Bahamas-based India Hicks, granddaughter of the late Earl Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India, after which she was named, whose godfather is the Prince of Wales.

India, the daughter of the late London interior designer David Hicks and 678th in line to the British throne, has broadened her design base with jewelry, handbags, fragrance, and skincare.

Checking out the wares were Tara Gray, Amanda Masters, Mindy Denson, Dana Hansen, Mike and Claudia Uretz, Leigh Brecheen, Paige Beard, Lisa Wengler, Judy Foreman, Sandy Robertson, Gina Tolleson, and Dan Walker.

Goop Scoop Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop magazine has reached the end of the road with New York publishing giant Conde Nast.

The Oscar winner says her lifestyle brand’s collaboration with the company, which publishes Vogue and Vanity Fair, has fallen apart after just two issues.

She says the project has ended because of “old-school rules” on making sure all claims are scientifically verified.

“I think for us, it was really like we work where we are in an expansive space,” says Gwyneth, 45.

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“Somewhere like Conde, understandably, there are a lot of rules.”

After two $14.99 print editions of the quarterly magazine, which was first published in September 2017, Goop parted ways with Conde Nast and is now produced in house.

Shame Game Former Montecito Union School student Gigi Hadid says her wealthy and privileged background left her feeling “guilty.”

The Victoria’s Secret star, 23, who is one of the world’s highest-paid models, says she was determined not to rely on her family fortune to make it in life.

“I’ve always had the guilt of privilege,” she admits. “It started in high school, and I was determined not to be defined by it, or being pretty.”

Instead Gigi valued herself for her skills as a volleyball player and “great” grades.

Gigi, who dates former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, is the daughter of property developer Mohamed Hadid, whose worth is estimated at $400 million, and former model and reality TV star Yolanda Foster.

Gigi says she always saw her wealth “as my parents’ money” and started paying her own bills and living independently when she was 18.

Three of a Kind Celebrated guitarist and composer Chris Fossek was in fine form at the New Vic when he joined three other like-minded musicians on the Ensemble Theatre’s stage for a soldout show.

Chris’s wife, former State Street Ballet principal Leila Drake, performed a solo and duet with fellow dancer James Folsom, both choreographed to his original music.

With a unique blend of classical and Spanish and Macedonian folk music, with rock overtones, Chris, who normally performs in the Biltmore’s Ty Lounge, was in his element with Peter Slocombe on sax, Music Academy of the West Fellow Paul Merkelo on trumpet, and percussionist Nate Keezer, adding to the sparkle.

We’ll Always Have Carys Actor Kirk Douglas’s 15-year-old granddaughter, Carys Zeta-Jones, admits she hasn’t had the easiest of rides growing up.

Carys, the daughter of former Montecito resident Michael Douglas and Welsh actress Catherine ZetaJones, says fellow students at school bullied her over her father’s age.

Michael is 73 and Catherine 48.

“When I was younger, I didn’t like having this name attached to me, this kind of ‘Douglas dynasty’ stuff,” she tells Town & Country magazine.

“I think what bothers me the most is that people think I didn’t work hard for it, that I don’t need to work hard for it. That anything I do gets handed to me.

“When, honestly, I feel like it’s the opposite. I feel I need to constantly prove myself to people – that I am not just my parents’ daughter.”

London Falling Former Montecito funnyman John Cleese, as part of his forthcoming move to the island of Nevis in the Caribbean, has put his London home up for sale for $1.6 million.

The 78-year-old Monty Python star is selling his one-bedroom pad, just off Sloane Square in Chelsea, where he has lived with his fourth wife, jewelry designer Jennifer Wade, 32 years his junior.

By coincidence, the airy apartment

My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do it. – Lee Daniels

on Culford Gardens, parallel to the oh-so trendy Kings Road, is just yards from where I used to reside in Culford Mansions when I worked for the Daily Mirror and Daily Mail in the 1970s.

On the House Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry has shaved another $350,000 off the price of her extravagant Los Angeles compound in a bid to offload the property she originally put on the market in September.

The former Dos Pueblos High student is willing to accept $8.85 million for the Mediterranean-style property, which encompasses a 4-bedroom, 6-bathroom, house, a guest cottage, security buildings, separate fitness studio, and an enormous outdoor pool.

Katy, 33, originally listed the estate in the exclusive Outpost Estates area 10 months ago, but a lack of interest has resulted in the modest reduction from the original $9.285 million valuation.

She originally purchased the house from oil heiress Aileen Getty for $8.2 million.

Sightings: Actor Don Johnson enjoying the clambake at the Bluewater Grill...Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg noshing at Wildwood...News-Press co-publishers Wendy McCaw and Arthur von Wiesenberger at Loquita Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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

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

ENDING THIS WEEK Summer in the Goodland – The Molly Ringwald Project caps off seven weeks of celebrating the season with an ‘80s dance party out in the gardens of Stow House at Rancho La Patera in Goleta. Shake your boots to live music surrounded by the serene beauty of the spacious grounds that abuts Lake Los Carneros as the community to come together to enjoy a final performance by local musicians. Wine and beverages are available for purchase while local food trucks sell tasty bites at the entrance. Bring lawn chairs, blankets, and picnic baskets. WHEN: 5:30 to 7:30 pm Tuesday, August 21 WHERE: 304 N. Los Carneros Road, Goleta COST: free INFO: 681-7216 or www. goletahistory.org/music-at-the-ranch/ THURSDAY, AUGUST 16 Trail Talk – Mike Lunsford, a retired state park ranger who worked on the Gaviota Coast for more than 20 years, offers an illustrated presentation delving into delights of his former workplace. Exploring the Gaviota Coast will show visitors how to access some of the special places of the coast as he explains that hiking is all about exploring, not just walking through an area, but taking the time to really see and experience what’s there.

A charter member of the Gaviota Coast Conservancy, Lunsford was responsible for the original building and maintenance of the trail system at

Gaviota State Park and served as a board member of the Santa Barbara Trails Council for many years, as well as the Area Coordinator for Coast Walk. WHEN: 6:30 to 8 pm WHERE: Santa Barbara Central Library Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu St. COST: free INFO: 564-5641 or www.

SBPLibrary.org Santa Barbara Art Scene in the Seventies – SBMA curator of Contemporary Art Julie Joyce and writer/musician Joseph Woodard host a talk with artists Dick Dunlap and Joan Tanner to discuss highlights of a historic decade for contemporary art in Santa Barbara.

Vintage video clips and images provide context for the anecdotal exchange, which is meant to provide insight into experimental art practices during the 1970s and how they played out in the Santa Barbara art scene. The event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Summer Nocturne: Works on Paper from the 1970s”.

WHEN: 5:30 pm WHERE: Mary Craig Auditorium at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street (entrance in the rear) COST: free INFO: 963-4364 or www.sbma.net Homey House Concert – Chris Beland and Erin Cole-Baker met 12 years ago when they both lived in Oregon and have been friends and fans of each other’s music ever since.

Beland – whose father is songwriter and session guitarist John Beland, who lists Kris Kristofferson, Glenn Frey, Ricky

THURSDAY, AUGUST 16 UCSB Films Finale – Animated Nights!, the free 2018 UCSB Summer Film Series at Campbell Hall and the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Garden, concludes at the Courthouse with two more Friday features. August 17 brings a screening of Persepolis, based on Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel about her life in pre- and post-revolutionary Iran and later in Europe, followed by the seasonending screening of Loving Vincent – the world’s first fully oil-painted feature film – on an inflatable screen on the lawn under the stars on August 24.

The Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated film stars Saoirse Ronan and Douglas Booth in the one-of-a-kind biopic that examines the life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh, told by his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them.

Bring blankets, low-to-the-ground beach chairs (seat must be no more than six inches above the ground), and a picnic dinner. Darla Bea plays a final live DJ set starting at 7 pm. WHEN: 8:30 pm WHERE: 100 E. Anapamu St. INFO: 893-3535 www.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 Fork Fest – We know what you’re thinking: Who needs another food-and-wine/beer event after a summer of big bashes on the beach and in the woods near the Mission? Then again, this festival has a unique spin in that the local eateries doling out their delectable dishes are actually competing in a friendly “fork-off” contest in hopes of winning the votes of the visitors in attendance.

The vendors prepare just a single offering, a sample of culinary excellence that they think will impress guests and win them the top prize, and the cuisine genre is entirely open-ended to inspire originality and quality without limitation. The people who attend are issued a snazzy, fully-compostable yellow fork and the ticket includes one tasting from each participating vendor, so you don’t have to worry about regrets about gorging yourself all afternoon. Visitors simply grab a fork and start tasting, roaming at your leisure while you savor each sample and interact with the chefs, or indulge in some of the games on site. Offerings from a few breweries and other spirits will be poured to accompany the dishes, while guests should feel free to jam out to music curated by We The Beat while the flavor of each forkful fills your palette. Once you’ve made the rounds, stop by the voting booth to give a nod to your favorite. The Sazerac Lounge, tucked inside the Pico Adobe House, features the Sazerac Midsummer Mardi Gras party wherein they will be serving up an array of cocktails from their premium brands. All is included in the $65 you have to fork over to get in to the event that has moved downtown and become not only a fork-off but also a parking lot party. The event serves a partial benefit for Autism Care and Treatment (ACT Today!). WHEN: 1 to 6 pm WHERE: Canon Perdido Parking Lot, 115 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $65 ($35 designated drivers) INFO: (805) 368-6882 or https://letsgetforked.com

Nelson, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Dolly Parton among his credits – falls into the folk genre playing what he calls “honest music.” He appears frequently at local wineries and at The Cliffs. Cole-Baker, who was born in Santa Barbara and raised in rural New Zealand, possesses a silvery voice and supple sense of melody. The pair will perform in a house concert produced by Beth and Eli Katz at their home, where guests are invited to bring along their own beverage and something to eat and perhaps share with others during the evening. WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: available upon ticket purchase COST: $10 INFO: https:// www.eventbrite.com Writing in the Galleries – Writers of all levels are invited to participate in an informal exploration of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art galleries as an impetus to writing. Each session is led by a visiting writer/facilitator who begins with a conversation and provides prompts partially inspired by works on view. Participants are free to write on their own and then reconvene as a group to share and comment on each other’s work. This series is organized by Sameer Pandya, who teaches literature and creative writing in the department of Asian American Studies at UCSB whose book, The Blind Writer, was on the long list for the PEN Open Book Award. WHEN: 5:30 to 7 pm WHERE: 1130 State Street

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(entrance in the rear) COST: free INFO: Call Luna Vallejo-Howard at (805) 8846457 or email lvallejo-howard@sbma. net FRIDAY, AUGUST 17 Wine and Fire Weekend – In this summer of spectacularly searing wildfires and soaring temperatures, the title of this annual celebration might seem a bit off-target, but it refers to the Santa Rita Hills Wine Alliance’s weekend of world-class wines and wood-grilled specialty foods. The big events in the special celebration begin with the Friday Night Barn Party at Fiddlestix Barn (5 to 8 pm) which will be sharing their library stash, large format bottles and small production wines exclusive to this event to get you warmed up for the weekend, while chef du jour Brett Stephen from High on the Hog Catering offers his creations alongside a cheese buffet spread by Central Coast Specialty Foods amid a performance by The Bryan Titus Trio. Saturday’s events begin with Speed Tasting with a Winemaker at Hilliard Bruce, from 10 am to 2 pm when visitors cannot only taste great wines but share a table with eight different winemakers in a format similar to speed dating as winemakers will take a turn to sit at your table, pour their wine, and share the experiences of their winemaking journey while engaging in 16 – 23 August 2018

SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 Jamaica Farewell – Jamaican-bred, Los Angelesbased writer-actress Debra Ehrhardt stars in her own one-woman show based on her true life story. Ehrhardt’s Jamaica Farewell chronicles her escape from revolutiontorn Jamaica in the 1970s to fulfill her lifelong dream of coming to America via a CIA-connected scheme that involved smuggling $1 million in cash to a mysterious contact somewhere in Miami. The piece offers the surprise and ingenuity of the best make-believe tales, but Ehrhardt’s dangerous journey is a true story that enthralls, charms, and ultimately uplifts. The production from Performances To Grow On – which produces the annual Ojai Storytelling Festival – will be directed by Joel Zwick, of My Big Fat Greek Wedding and TV’s Full House fame, who will offer a Q&A session following the performance. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Ojai Art Center, 113 S Montgomery St., Ojai COST: $15 in advance, $20 at the door INFO: (310) 890-1439 or www.ptgo.org

conversation with you and your table mates. Saturday night brings Wine and Fire Grand Tasting at La Purisima Mission from 5 to 8 pm. The wineries are also hosting their own events to coincide with the festival, including tasting room specials, food pairings, special offerings such as a leather tooling workshop, hayrides, handmade gift bazaar, and Lompoc’s Wine Ghetto Walk. Get details and tickets online at www.staritahills.com.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 Tropical Troy – Hawaii’s Troy Fernandez is a ukulele award winner whose lightning-fast picking and innovative style were instrumental in generating the ukulele renaissance of the early 1990s. Fernandez, who is also considered one of Hawaii’s most influential “voices” in contemporary Hawaiian music, will perform aboard the Condor Express along with his singing hula girls in a special sunset cruise around Santa Barbara. To enhance the Hawaiian style, all lady passengers will receive a complimentary lei upon boarding, and special complimentary Hawaiianstyle appetizers will be provided.

Other food, drinks, and a full bar are available on board. WHEN: 6

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to 8 pm WHERE: Sea Landing dock in Santa Barbara Harbor, 301 W. Cabrillo Blvd. COST: $40 in advance, $50 day of the cruise INFO: (805) 882-0088 or https://condorexpress. com/hawaiian-cruise/

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Dance Dimensions – Transform Though Arts Theater presents “Into the Heart of a New Dimension”, a dance-theater production that offers a message of empowerment, love, and creativity. The multimedia dance show is designed to take visitors on a magical journey of new dimensions of love and consciousness through dance, live music, and visual art in a show that is both inspirational and educational in nature. Employing Argentine Tango, Latin dance, aerials, theater arts, and live music, the production delves to takes audience on a journey of exploration of new frontiers of consciousness. The show also serves as a benefit for Art without Limits, the Santa Barbara nonprofit that mentors young artists. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Center Stage Theater, upstairs in the Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center, at the intersection of Chapala and De la Guerra streets COST: $35 general in advance, $40 at the door INFO: 963-0408 or www. centerstagetheater.org •MJ

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Cut & Print! Art at the JCC – The Jewish Federation’s Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center hosts the Santa Barbara Printmakers annual exhibition for the seventh consecutive year. The show displays works by artists who use hand and press printing techniques such as etching, dry point, monotype, mono print, woodblock, collagraph, linocut, clay, lithography, serigraphy (silkscreen), transfer, and digital programs to create unique, one of-a-kind prints as well as editions of identical images. The juror for the show is Stephanie Dotson, MFA, the Fine Art department chair and associate professor at SBCC. Today’s opening reception from 2 to 4:30 features a display rack of unframed prints for sale only this afternoon, plus a video loop on the genealogy of American Printmaking, live Jarocho music from Chucumite, and free appetizers and wine. The welcoming announcements and juror talk takes place at 3 pm. WHEN: Opens today, continues through October 24 WHERE: 524 Chapala St. COST: free INFO: (805) 957-1115 or www.jewishsantabarbara.org

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Real Estate

by Mark Ashton Hunt

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

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he Montecito Real Estate market has done well during the past six months, considering what it, and the residents of Montecito went through, what with the fires and the debris flow and the resulting damage and insurance questions, not to mention the countless personal tragedies that occurred during those few hours on January 9.

While sales are down from last year in general, some months may have slightly more volume but less total dollars in sales, which seems to be a trend, more smaller and less expensive homes selling overall.

July 2017 reported 16 Montecito sales in the MLS with half of them being more than $3,000,000, touting three sales in the $5 millions and two more than $7,000,000. This year, July 2018, we saw only 14 sales in Montecito, and less than half were more than $3,000,000 with a top sale of $5,900,000, and a total of about $25,000,000+/- less in sales this July over last.

One statistic that is way up this year is that Montecito has seen many recent sales above $9 million up to $35M since January, and a few properties over $10 million are in escrow right now that will help the overall numbers.

However, all positivity aside, the overall market has slowed down, and we are seeing this in some indicators, leaving many what I’d consider well-priced properties available.

When a property has been on the market for a while – as has much of the current inventory in Montecito – there are a few things one can do to create new attention. The one that can create the most attention is, of course, to reduce the price. As an example, buyers have been known to dislike the architectural style of a home at say, $4.2 million, but love it at $3.6.

So, while sales statistics may vary in the higher and mid Montecito price ranges month to month, one micro market that represents a significant percentage of home sales each year in Montecito is the $2- to $3-million price range.

Here, one steps up from a Montecito cottage or beach area condo, to an oceanview smaller home or a mini-estate fixer or a remodeled home with many alluring features.

In the $2 millions, one can find a “done” beach area condo with ocean views, or a home with 2,000 to 4,000 square feet of living space, perhaps a pool, parking for guests, a second structure, a view, a tasteful remodel, an ocean-area cottage, or view home in the foothills.

Here are a few homes that I thought were good opportunities even before their recent price reductions. Compare to other listings and recent sales to see the value.

740 Skyview Drive: $2,250,000

This remodeled, 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath ranch style home is available for the first time in more than 30 years.

Located up a private driveway in the Cold Spring School District, the home is set among gardens, offering a pool and patio area, inviting one to enjoy the verdant surroundings. Stone pathways lead through lavender gardens to a wisteria-covered arbor.

The property is located on a private lane and enjoys a quiet setting with small ocean views. The home offers a multi-room audio system, security system, air conditioning, water softener, and is fully fenced. There is an attached 2-car garage with additional room for storage.

657 Romero Canyon Road: $2,295,000

Mountain views in a park-like setting with many sliding glass doors that lead to the back yard, swimming pool, and spa. A gated entry opens to a grassy setting with oak trees and guest parking.

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The home has an open mid-century-style floor plan. The master bedroom suite has a fireplace, two sliding glass doors with easy access to the pool, along with a master bathroom and walk-in closet.

There is a formal dining room, which also works as a fourth bedroom, and the home is located within the Montecito Union School District.

2979 Eucalyptus Hill Road: $2,295,000

A private driveway leads to this 4200+/- square-foot, single-level home on nearly an acre, offering privacy throughout. This home offers 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, a formal living room, 2 family rooms, a formal dining room, and a remodeled cook’s kitchen complete with Wolf appliances.

Additionally, the home features multi-zone air conditioning, a walk-in safe in the master suite, in-home sound system, and a back-up power generator.

The front and back yards offer privacy, a newly redone entertainment deck, numerous fruit trees, rose garden, drought-tolerant plants, and mature landscaping.

2239 Featherhill Road: $2,995,000

This single-story Montecito home is located down a quiet, rural street and sits on just under an acre of landscaped grounds.

This is a home for indoor and outdoor entertainment, featuring a remodeled kitchen, living room with fireplace, formal dining room, and family room with fireplace and adjacent bar/wine room.

Outside, gravel walking paths lead through a variety of mature fruit trees and gardens. There is an extensive entertainment deck with outdoor barbecue, spa, and sauna, and a bocce ball court, all located within the Montecito Union School District.

••• You can contact me regarding your real estate needs, or to schedule a showing with the listing agent of any property mentioned here: Mark@Villagesite.com or call/text (805) 698-2174. Or, please visit my website, www.MontecitoBestBuys. com, from which this article is based.

•MJ

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