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Belle of the Ball: philanthropist Leslie RidleyTree celebrates birthday with friends at Biltmore, p. 6

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 11 • MOVIE GUIDE, P. 41 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42

MUS DREAM SCHEME TAKES SHAPE $27-million plan includes new cafeteria, parking lot, turn-off lanes, and more... much more (story on page 12)

Classic Cars

This 1946 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500S among the most beautiful cars at 2014 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, p. 22

Don’t Mess With Texas

Recent winners of Bombardier Pacific Coast Open at SB Polo Club have Lone Star State connections, p. 27

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Mark Hunt recommends spacious, oceanfront guard-gated Bonnymede home to the tune of $4.75 million, p. 34

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Letters to the Editor

Leslie Ridley-Tree birthday bash; Dania Maxwell becomes photojournalist; Oprah returns to silver screen; Jimmy Connors on the links; Jeff Bridges relieves tension; Scott Cordle promotion; Shaun Tomson on a mission; Foodbank and drought; Under the Harvest Sun celebration; ERG wins without Scott Wood; looking back at Princess Diana; godspeed to Joan Rivers Bill Korchinski’s sound check; CO2 by the numbers; fracking fan; Steve Bonser points out hoax; Montenegro mistake; Robin Williams tribute; a nod to Billy Graham; a professor on Burger King; MWD’s Mike Clark says thank you very mulch; and Montecito Village Grocery

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Samuel Smith exhibit; Marilee Zdenek and Dee Elias book signings; Sandcastle Music Together at library; Centering Prayer retreat; Hawaiian jaunt with Joanie Collins; tea dance; community workshop at Sansum; MBAR meets; Cocktails and Conservatives; Montecito Association; MUS food drive; F. Diane Pickett at Granada; Adventuresome Aging; Cava entertainment; brain fitness; story time; Italian conversation; Farmers Market

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Montecito Union updates Land Use Committee on remodel plans; and Beth Amine develops dance program for seniors; a clarification about last week’s edition

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner makes her way around Spy-Fari, Anchors and Ales at SB Maritime Museum, the SB Studio Artists tour, and SEE International

21 State Street Spin

Erin Graffy gives a nod to Lutah Maria Riggs before SB Historical Society’s upcoming exhibit; the William Sansum Diabetes Center; and Wesla Whitfield at SOhO

22 Coming & Going

Barbara Briggs-Anderson puts pen to paper and pedal to the metal for the annual Concours d’Elegance, where vintage Rolls-Royces and Ferraris roll

26 Your Westmont

Twenty students offer their summer research September 11; a professor’s research aims to boost sports performance; and a Sept. 9 talk explores how Christians should react to Holy Land unrest

27 On Polo

As Steve Libowitz reports, the SB Polo Club has a Texas feel to it – specifically when it comes to winners of the Bombardier Pacific Coast Open

28 On Entertainment

Steve Libowitz gets a kick out of the LOL Comedy Festival, yuks it up with Jay Mohr, observes Carey Crim’s Conviction; and has the musical blues

29 Coup de Grace

Grace Rachow considers her high school reunion in Nebraska and the summer, when she focused on shaping up instead of shipping out

34 Real Estate

Mark Hunt looks inside Montecito properties and gets bullish about condos, PUDs, and Townhomes – spotlighting four in particular

40 Legal Advertisements 41 Movie Showtimes 42 Calendar of Events

All that jazz; Cambridge Drive Concert Series; new exhibit at Architectural Foundation Gallery; Museum of Contemporary Art and the library; The Last Internationale; Taste of the Town at Riviera Park; baseball in tune; Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill at SOhO; going Hawaiian with Jim “Kimo” West; Tales from the Tavern with Beth Orton

44 The Way It Was

Hattie Beresford fourth and final installment about Meridian Studios focuses on artists whose surnames begin with K-V

45 93108 Open House Directory 46 Classified Advertising

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Editorial

by James Buckley

The Political Season Begins

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hey’re off! And this year, officeholders seeking reelection have more or less honored the tradition of waiting until summer’s end before engaging in the art of political persuasion. I write “more or less,” because both the majority leader and the minority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives descended upon Santa Barbara and Montecito a week or so before Labor Day in search of campaign support.

Democrat House leader Nancy Pelosi joined U.S. Representative Lois Capps in the private dining room at Mollie’s Trattoria on Coast Village Road for an August 24 tête-à-tête, along with a small group of supporters to enjoy a late Sunday brunch. Republican candidate Ryan Zinke, running for the one Congressional seat (from left) Pat Nesbitt greets Congressional candidate in Montana, joined Republican Ryan Zinke and U.S. House of Representatives Majority U.S. House of Representatives Leader Kevin McCarthy (photo by Priscilla) Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (he’s from Bakersfield) outside Pat Nesbitt’s plush Summerland stables for a barbecue, along with 50 or so friends and supporters a couple days later.

Ms Capps, whose well-financed campaign probably doesn’t really need the money, must be just a little concerned that she could lose to pugnacious challenger Chris Mitchum, who is by no means “well-financed,” but in what may turn out to be a pretty good Republican year, could squeeze a victory out of this face-off. Certainly, Ms Pelosi is concerned; otherwise, she would not have been in Santa Barbara a week before Labor Day. The people accompanying Ms Pelosi and Ms Capps turned down my request to take their photo together inside (or outside) Mollie’s, so we have none.

Neither Mr. McCarthy nor Mr. Zinke had a problem with photos, however, and both men, and their respective wives (Lola Zinke and Judy McCarthy), mingled freely among the small band of Republican stalwarts.

Mr. Zinke’s theme was energy independence, suggesting that the Eagle Ford Shale Formation that runs from the Mexican border near Laredo in South Texas to a couple hundred miles north may contain more oil than in all of Saudi Arabia. Zinke, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, spoke briefly but forcefully on the subjects of oil and security.

Mr. McCarthy was a revelation. He is in his late 40s and is probably the most refreshing and articulate politician I’ve heard speak since – well, there you go again – Ronald Reagan. The Republican Party could do itself a real favor if it decided to make McCarthy its spokesman, rather than, say, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell or Ohio’s John Boehner.

In a relatively short speech, McCarthy compared the Reagan era to what is going on internationally today. “The last time a U.S. Ambassador was killed on foreign soil, Jimmy Carter was president,” he recounted. “The last time Egypt went to the Soviet Union [and now Russia] to buy weapons was in the late 1970s; the last time you heard the word malaise was when Jimmy Carter was president.” He concluded his talk with the suggestion that this was a unique and opportune moment in the country’s history.

He articulated five things he said would be his party’s priorities: 1) Tax reform 2) National energy policy 3) Immigration reform 4) Education 5) Restructure and reform government agencies.

ObamaCare came up and tort reform was mentioned, but other than to say he was in favor of a system that empowered patients to have a greater relationship with their doctors, he seems to understand that there would be little reward in trying to kill ObamaCare while Obama was president.

•MJ This could prove to be a very interesting election season.

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

Booming Business

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e’ve been hearing intermittent muffled booms coming from the hills north of our house (we live near MUS) for the last couple of weeks. I just called a neighbor and he’s been hearing them for months, apparently. This morning I timed them (I’m an engineer), and the sounds happen between every 30 seconds and every 10 minutes.

Has anyone else written in to you regarding these sounds?

Bill Korchinski Montecito (Editor’s note: We await an investigation by editor-at-large Kelly Mahan!

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All Bottled up

Somebody has lost his marbles, and it ain’t me! While wandering through the aisles of what used to be the Montecito Village Grocery store, I saw before me rows and rows of liquor bottles. Yes, bottles and bottles.

Pardon me... the Leading Lady Syndrome quite overcame me. I chanted aloud, “When all at once I saw... a host... a host of golden... daf...I mean bottles... rows and rows of bottles met me wherever I turned. Geez, and all I wanted was some frozen veggies and some cookies.

My senses reeled. I asked if I had wandered into the Montecito liquor store by mistake. “No... they were all stacked up, stored in the back... we have to move them.”

Well, sirs, you have misjudged us. You are not going to move them through the denizens of these aisles.

We are not tipplers. Much as we rejoice in a fine glass of wine or a vodka martini (no olives), we want food... veggies... meat and potatoes.

Just food, thank you very much.

Just give us the Montecito grocery store... the meeting place of the neat and elite. Well, maybe not so neat and not sooo elite, but thank “yew” anyway.

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The bottles will be out of the way soon, promises Montecito Village Grocery general manager Denis Lacey as he displays some of his latest Castor & Pollux natural and organic cat food offerings in a newly cleared aisle

Christina Allison Montecito (Editor’s note: New general manager Denis Lacey has already transformed Montecito Village Grocery by adding new picture windows and clearing the aisles of redundant items. He has been extremely proactive in trying to find out what Montecito residents want and is eager to satisfy those desires. We spoke with him about your complaint and he admits there are probably too many bottles of wine and other alcoholic beverages for sale throughout the store, but as he cleans out the back to make room in the meat department, he needs to sell off that inventory. As he does, you’ll no doubt applaud the changes he has made and will continue to make every time you go there. Next time, introduce yourself to Denis, or his wife, Lupita; you’ll find them very responsive to your complaints and/or needs. – J.B.)

Doing the Math

I read with interest the excellent, comprehensive letters, on both sides of the CO2 issue, in your past several issues, and would like to approach the carbon dioxide debate differently, by simple math. While all of us surely agree that manmade air, land and water pollution should be deterred, and punished where flagrant, it’s quite a different question whether man-made climate variations have occurred or will occur in the future based on human activities. Local pollution can be handled fairly feasibly as to cost and economic interference, but mandating extreme economic sacrifices in a theoretical attempt to modify planetary climate would take tilting at windmills to a new level. So when the two issues, local pollution and climate modification, are obfuscated, as they so often are, we must be circumspect about what we are addressing.

We are told that carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, is the big climate-emissions culprit. Indeed, your prior writers uniformly cite the present atmospheric level of carbon diox-

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ide at 400 parts per million and agree that science has claimed that it was in the thousands of parts per million in the past, just not during humans’ relatively short run in Earth chronology. Without such experience, then, we are left to ponder how 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide now in our atmosphere can adversely affect world climate and us. No scientist am I, but I contend it cannot affect us any more than a drop of ink falling into a pond can alter the color of the water.

It’s a matter of scale.

Carbon dioxide is called a pollutant by our government, and we are being encouraged, if not excoriated, to reduce it from its present level of 400 parts per million (notwithstanding the cost to business, jobs, and the economy). Yet all plant life on Earth needs and thrives on carbon dioxide. So do we, or we’d be locked in an eternal Ice Age. So one must conclude that it is just the excess that plants and animals don’t need that is the concern. Who’s monitoring this amount of “excess” carbon dioxide in our atmosphere that continuously changing plant and animal life do not utilize, and what evidence do they present that this “excess” amount (with a 50-year half-life, by the way) is measurably adverse to animal life?

Here’s the real math on carbon dioxide you may never have heard or read about: We start with the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Simple middle-school science informs us that more than 99 percent of our atmosphere is nitrogen, oxygen, and argon, i.e., something other than carbon dioxide, and everyone now agrees that of that last one percent, carbon dioxide is just 4/100ths of it (ergo, 400 parts per million). That’s why science has always called it a “trace” gas; yes, despite what we’re being told, there just isn’t much of it around.

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reduce these 400 parts per million nonetheless. Can we cut 50 percent of it, or at least 25 percent? Well, no, because more than 95 percent of the 400 parts per million is out of human hands entirely. That 95 percent is emitted solely by Mother Nature in the form of water vapor from the seas and wetlands, volcanic eruptions, wildfires from lightning strikes, and decaying plant, animal, and sea life.

Humans have nothing to do with any of that. Human activities across the entire world produce less than 5 percent of the feared 400 parts per million.

With such scientific facts before us, the question of scale should be looming large in our minds right about now.

Scale gets even more dramatic.

Of the 5 percent that all human activities produce, 85 percent of that 5 percent comes from outside the United States. So the United States itself produces only 15 percent of the human world’s 5 percent. In other words, no matter how many coal mines we scrub and oil wells we shut down in our own backyard, the United States alone can address only a scant 15 percent of five percent of 4/100ths of one percent of carbon dioxide! Talk about de minimis. And China, India, Russia, Japan, Indonesia and the rest of the world, which produce 85 percent of all of humankind’s 5 percent, are not about to slow their emerging economies one Kyoto just because we ask them to.

Of course, we all want to be good stewards of our planet and enjoy clean air, land, and water; and we should be willing to make reasonable financial sacrifices for that goal. No one wants to breathe through masks as they often do in Beijing. But dealing sensibly with local pollution in our living and working environments is a far cry from humanity trying to change the naturally occurring climate variations of the entire planet. Any money we spend outside reasonable local pollution efforts will be money wasted.

All seven billion people in the world, divided into families of four living in 1,500 square-foot houses within Texas’ 268,820 square miles of area, wouldn’t fill that state to its borders (I did the math). Human activities are simply infinitesimal in comparison to our almost limitless atmosphere and the omnipotent climatic forces it exerts all on its own.

If there’s a climate apocalypse on nigh, it’s not from anything we here on Earth have done or are doing. The whopper we’re being told by climate Chicken Littles is either from some over-exuberant climate patriotism or, worse, to advance a social agenda off a disingenuous narrative; but that’s another discussion. My purpose here is simply to demonstrate how, mathematically, human activities just cannot be significant to the overall climatic cycling of our world. All it takes to 4 – 11 September 2014

understand this tale of scale is a little irrefutable math... and a little common sense.

John Lanzetta Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Thanks for doing the math, Mr. Lanzetta. While I can’t vouch for all your results (see next letter), they seem to go a long way in deflating the “climate change” bubble. The U.S. is actually heading in the right direction in reducing carbon output and most of that improvement can be directly traced to fracking and its ability to produce natural gas from massive shale deposits of oil-saturated shale. The government’s role in all this should simply be to encourage research in alternative sources of energy and stay out of the way of commerce. – J.B.)

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Lately, we have been inundated by the false scare tactics of the misinformed, unscientific environmentalists who lament the ill effects of fracking.

Scientific evidence demonstrates otherwise. Fracking not only produces oil and energy, its products are also used in thousands of household items and medicine.

In my former homeland, Estonia, a tiny (1.5 million population) country bordering the Finnish Bay, fracking has been successfully practiced since the early 1920s. Almost 100 years.

After many years of absence, I returned for a visit and found prosperous and healthy people rebuilding their Soviet-demolished economy. Yes, fracking was going on at full speed.

Estonia is an agricultural country; the fields, not poisoned by fracking, were yielding abundant crops, the fish in lakes and rivers were plentiful, the birds were happily chirping, and the wild pigs were oinking their way through the forests. Life in general was in full swing, and so was fracking.

The time has come that We the People disregard the imaginary destructive tactics of the extremist environmentalists, examine the facts, and look forward to a successful and independent energy future.

Yes on fracking!

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This Week in and around Montecito

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Centering Prayer Practice Retreat A mini-retreat day for Centering Prayer practice. There will be meditation walks, journaling, reflection, and prayer. Let by Sr. Suzanne Dunn, Jeannette Love, and Annette Colbert. Beginners are welcome.

When: 9:30 am to 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 Book Signing - Hospice of Santa Barbara welcomes board member and author Marilee Zdenek for a book signing of her seventh book, Between Fires. Zdenek has lost two husbands in her life, and she has learned to deal with her grieving process. Between Fires goes beyond surviving tragedies and touches on creating an abundant life. As a volunteer at Hospice of Santa Barbara, she uses guided imagery with those who want to learn how to release their pain through healing. When: 5 to 7 pmWhere: Hospice of Santa Barbara, 2050 Alameda Padre Serra, Suite 100 Cost: suggested donation of $20 per book; proceeds go to Hospice of Santa Barbara Info: www.marileezdenek.com

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Art Exhibit Divine Inspiration Gallery presents an eclectic representation of the oil paintings of local artist Samuel Smith, covering an array of subjects from delightful stilllifes, to favorite locales in Santa Barbara, to powerfully rendered seascapes, to the sweeping majestic wonders of the Southwestern landscape. The show will run September 4 through November 22, with an opening artist’s reception tonight.

When: 5 to 8 pm Where: 1528 State Street

Hawaiian Excursion Joanie Collins returns from Hawaii with special guests including Eric Rozet for an almost full-moon night of magical Hawaiian music aboard the Condor Express.

Collins, of Mango fame, lives in Kailua Kona, Hawaii, and is known for her energetic stream on the guitar, electric violin, and ukulele. Hailing from Waianae, Hawaii, Rozet has been singing and playing ever since he was a child. To enhance the Hawaiian style, all guests are encouraged to dress accordingly.

Special Hawaiian-style appetizers will be compliments of the Marmalade Café.

No-host bar.

When: 6 to 8:30 pm Cost: $30 in advance, $35 day of Reservations: 963-3564 Info: www.condorexpress.com

Book Signing at Granada Dee Elias debuts her book, Confessions of a Beatlemaniac!, which was written 45 years ago. This true story documents a real sense of Beatlemania from a hard-core fan. She reveals info from her diary kept from 1964-66, including how she and her friend finagled their way into the Beatles’s hotel room before the 1966 Cleveland concert and shook their hands.

When: 6 to 7:30 pm Where: 1224 State Street

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 Sandcastle Music Together Join Sandcastle Music Together for a morning of engaging songs, rhythmic rhymes, movement, and instrument play.

When: 10:30 to 11:15 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 Community Workshop Alliance for Living and Dying Well invites the community to come fulfill their Five Wishes and complete their advance healthcare directives. Professional facilitators and trained volunteers will be present at this event to facilitate the process of completing advance healthcare directives.

When: 10 am to noon Where: Sansum Clinic, 215 Pesetas Lane (third-floor Conference Room) Register online: at www.sansumclinic. org or call 681-7500

MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito.

When: 2 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Cocktails & Conservatives Congressional candidate Chris Mitchum will host the monthly “Cocktails and Conservatives,” which is being held this month at his campaign headquarters in The Galleria Shopping Plaza.

Complimentary appetizers and Happy Hour priced drinks will be available at the event which features lively discussions with conservatives who are Republicans, Democrats, and Independents.

When: 4 to 6 pm Where: 3891 State Street, #107 (cross street La Cumbre Road) RSVP: 259-7191

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Montecito Association Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Food Drive at MUS To benefit Santa Barbara Foodbank, donations can be left in the school’s parking lot in the morning during drop off.

Items needed include baby food, cereal, pasta, peanut butter, rice, soup, and canned goods.

When: 8:15 to 8:30 am Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Book Signing at Granada F. Diane Pickett reads and signs Never Isn’t Long Enough.

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When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50, includes lunch Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 TUESDAYS Adventuresome Aging Program Community outings, socialization, and lunch for dependent adults When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $75, includes lunch, plus one-time fee of $35 Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 THURSDAYS Story Time at the Library A wonderful way to introduce children to the library, and for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills; each week, children ages 3 to 5 enjoy stories, songs, puppets, and fun at Story Time.

When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 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, too!

When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAYS Farmers Market When: 8 to 11:15 am Where: South side of Coast Village Road

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n the heels of the opening of the new school year, the Montecito Association Land Use Committee invited representatives from Montecito Union School (MUS) to present an update on the proposed Facilities Plan for the campus.

Superintendent Tammy Murphy, chief business official Virginia Alvarez, and architect Tyson Cline presented colored renderings of the plan, with several neighbors and members of the community attending the meeting to discuss the project.

“Our strategic plan goal is to look at the use of the current property, and look at what’s best for the children but also sensitive to the neighbors,” Murphy said. The renovation strategies have changed significantly in the last year since the Montecito Association saw preliminary plans for the remodel. At that time, the main part of the proposed project was being called “The Commons,” a two-story cafeteria facility which included an upstairs staff lounge with outdoor deck, and an outdoor stage with amphitheater seating to support entire-campus gatherings.

The building, now simply being called the school’s Cafeteria, has since been downsized, in part due to neighbor concern. The building will be located on the south side of the campus, where a play structure currently sits. Former custodian Scottie Morrison’s shop will be torn down to accommodate the new building, which features a terraced lawn large enough for the entire student body to gather.

“It’s been a domino effect,” Cline explained, saying that losing the second floor of the Commons building created a need to rearrange other aspects of campus. A teacher workspace will be moved to the second

floor of the main building (where current administrative offices are located), and the admin offices, along with facilities and IT offices, will be moved to the school-owned adobe on the neighboring property, which will be remodeled from a residential home to office space. The adobe sits on a 2.5-acre parcel next to the school that was used as a land-swap deal with the YMCA in 2006. A new five-classroom building will also be built on that parcel, as well as expansion of the parking lot.

Use of the land-swap parcel, as well as overall renovation plans, have been in the works for years; in 2009 a committee was formed to begin creating the school’s first-ever strategic plan. Two years ago, the MUS board hired an architecture firm to perform a thorough assessment of the campus, which is 88 years old. The school was partially upgraded in the 1970s but contains outdated infrastructure that is not compatible with today’s learning environment. The newest buildings on campus were built 19 years ago, and many of the structures are original from 1926.

The assessment of the campus showed significant deficiencies in the school’s infrastructure, and there is a list of legally required work that needs to be tended to, Murphy said.

“These are life and safety issues,” she said. This includes asbestos, lead, and mold removal, replacing the windows with shatterproof versions, upgrading the school’s fire alarm system, and complying with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) by adding ramps, accessible bathrooms, sinks, counters, doors, and more. Additional bathrooms are needed, as well as student dining facilities. (A food truck from Santa Barbara County School

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James Bonds abounded along with Pink Panthers, Inspector Clouseau, Sherlock Holmes, the Avengers, and Columbo. Of course there were also Octopussy and Goldfinger gals. A nearly life-size scrim of Casino Royale was outside the dining area. The invitation even had a spy decoder, which told us to leave our weapons at home. The only weapon I saw was Sherlock’s magnifying glass.

Co-chairs Leigh Cashman and Mindy Denson, along with their sizeable committee, were responsible for turning the zoo into a spy thriller for the evening. Andrew Firestone led the live auction, encouraging the audience to bid in order to feed more than 500 animals. Fifty dollars will give five days’ worth of delicious food

for the giraffes, lions, penguins, or enough food to feed one elephant for one day. The Robertson International Travel trip of an 8-day Rhine River Cruise went for $9,000. A good start!

Some of those “spies” attending were the gang from Union Bank, which was the premier sponsor.

Another major sponsor was Leslie Ridley-Tree, along with the Dreier family, Arlene and Milt Larsen, past board president Terry Schwartz with Sue, Felix Cohen and family, and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians.

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A small group of volunteers established our zoo 51 years ago, and it is still funded by many donations.

As they say, “You’ve come a long way, baby.” Or should it be “babies” that have since been born there? It was a different place when I first went in 1976. CEO Rich Block and McToldridge can be proud to be heading up the “wildest place in town.”

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The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) became a sea of suds for its latest event – a beer-tasting experience. What does beer have to do with a maritime museum? Turns out,

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In the olden days, ships frequently didn’t have water or it wasn’t good, so the crew drank beer. Even the Mayflower was influenced to stay at Plymouth Rock because the stock of beer was running low.

The Black Death plague in Europe is still disputed, but likely it was spread through rats and fleas aboard merchant ships before infecting a town’s water supply. Beer helped the population to survive as a safe source of water. The beer stein, a covered mug, was invented during this time to help keep fleas out of the beer.

Zach Rosen is a certified cicerone (like a sommelier is to wine) and beer educator. He hosts beer events, consults, teaches, and writes. He curated this event and was there to answer all our questions. We learned that water is a very important ingredient of beer.

This boutique beer festival offered guests a chance to taste nautically inspired beers from a dozen different craft breweries. Some beers actually use the ocean as an ingredient.

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Opera legend Marilyn Horne, who runs voice classes at the Music Academy of the West, flew in from Hawaii, Lisa Wolf from New York, and a number of other close friends from Virginia for the boffo bash.

After dining on Dungeness crab and Scottish salmon salad, the bounteous

birthday belle cut the giant coconut chiffon birthday cake with coconut custard filling and meringue icing with coconut flakes.

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“We rehearsed four times,” says Rod, a theater director and producer.

“As well as ‘Mame’, I sang ‘Someone to Watch Over Me’, and together we sang ‘One’ from A Chorus Line.

Thomas sang ‘I Get a Kick Out of You’, Bobby sang ‘You’re The Top’, Dan ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’ and Rob ‘On The Road Again’, all favorite pieces of Leslie.”

Leslie, elegant as ever in an ivory two-piece ensemble, was in her element.

One of our rarefied enclave’s great dames, without a doubt!

Journalism Gem Dania Maxwell, who was educated at Montecito Union and Santa Barbara High, has morphed into an accomplished photojournalist in Florida.

Dania, 30, is the daughter of Montecito developer and realtor Jack Maxwell and a highly respected shutterbug for the Naples Daily News, specializing in what she terms “documentary stories.”

One of her recent projects was the story of a 10-year-old boy, who died last month from a deadly form of brain cancer.

“The doctors didn’t give him long to live, but between the chemotherapy and radiation sessions, the boy and his mother set about helping him

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complete as many items for his bucket list as possible,” says Jack. “He took a cross-country trip to California and back, got his first kiss and became an honorary marine. Dania and her colleague, writer Jessica Lipscomb, chronicled it all as the family reached milestone after milestone.

“Their write-up, about a life on deadline, ran as a three-part series last month. It was joyous but bittersweet.”

“It all started with a six-day climb up Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania with my father and my brother, Alexander, in 2001,” explains Dania, who also attended City College and New York’s Sarah Lawrence College, majoring in anthropology.

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lions of people, firing them up with a totally fabricated story.

To avoid disseminating such time wasters in the future, readers of MJ and its fearless editors might want to take the five seconds it takes to look up tall tales like this using an Internet search engine.

Steve Bonser Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: We almost always research letters that may contain bogus facts. This was the first time I’d seen this, however, and it was sent – and signed – by someone who regularly contributes to these pages, so I trusted the source. I did, however, edit the piece and remove all the names of the alleged victims and the accused, just in case the story was not accurate. Thank you for pointing this out.

I’ll be more vigilant. – J.B.)

Poor Little Montenegro

I am sure that more than 600,000 citizens of the independent country of Montenegro will be surprised that Mr. Mineards has moved them to the neighboring country of Croatia (“Splendor at Sea” MJ # 20/32). While they were both part of Yugoslavia, neither has been part of the other. Each is a member of the United Nations.

Frank Williams Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: This was a simple error; Richard rarely makes them and we didn’t catch it, but thank you for paying attention! – J.B.)

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Thanks to James Malia for his beautiful tribute to Robin Williams (“Rest in Peace, Robin” MJ # 20/32).

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Robin’s apparent suicide: In 1994, my belated partner of 10 years, Timmothy, expressed his wish to see two movies, one being Mrs. Doubtfire with Robin Williams. Robin’s work always made Timm laugh, and after a horrifically brutal battle from Timm’s illness, we all yearned to hear him laugh again.

When Timm was denied access to the movie theater for securely holding on to his personal distilled water bottle, I desperately reached out to the movie studio, and thanks to a caring studio assistant who received my desperate call, Timm was able to view a private screening in our home from his bed. Thanks to Robin’s talent, Timm’s family and I got to hear his beautifully infectious laughter fill our home one more time.

Thanks to a generous friend, I got to personally thank Mr. Williams in the years after Timm’s passing, surely being one of countless encounters this brilliant and humble man experienced, or perhaps tolerated, from strangers recounting their stories of appreciation for him.

In his passing, we are reminded that things are not how they always appear, and being human can universally be a challenge for everyone.

His talent will be remembered by the entire world, and I will remember the smile he brought to Timm’s face whenever I see his work or hear his name.

Rest in peace, brilliant being.

Thomas Rollerson Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Mr. Rollerson is founder of Santa Barbara-based Dream Foundation)

Kudos to MUS

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restrictions. All large private properties with large ornamental lawns, responsible for high water demand can do the same conversions and reduce their water use while increasing long-term sustainable property values.

In place of only mulch one can do decorative hardscape, use natives or other drought-tolerant plants, fruit trees, or a combination of these and still dramatically reduce water demand. At MUS, you will also see lots of mulch being applied to all the existing shrub zones, which further saves soil moisture and reduces weed growth. Remember as the mulch breaks down over time, it becomes a natural fertilizer source for the soil and plants.

Also in a respectful response to the last section of Bob Hazard’s “On The Water Front” editorial (MJ # 20/32), titled “Resident Reaction,” my experience to date does not show that most mature hedges, shrubs, and trees are “tinder dry.” Most large established shrubs and trees are standing up well to this drought if they are well mulched and infrequently watered; some even without any supplemental water at all. An established Eugenia hedge here at MWD (Montecito Water District) Headquarters receives no extra water and it still needs trimming now and then. Just remember to mulch; watering about two times a month should keep them healthy!

And to everyone I’ve visited so far and who is meeting his allocations by following my steps and tips, keep up the good work!

Mike Clark MWD Conservation Specialist Montecito

Just the Facts

Recently, a group of elder locals discussed the fact that on TV primetime there are no longer speakers who emotionally, intellectually, and/or spiritually give their excellent analysis of the important aspects of current events.

Reverend Billy Graham was recalled. Worried we are that our beloved “ocean to ocean” U.S. of A is deeply troubled.

One hundred million Americans are out of work. The communication of an experienced, successful, and charismatic speaker’s ideas to the broad public is truly vital now.

We need our hearts and minds focused on the multiple problems and their solutions now. Perhaps letters to the broadcasting companies are the solution. Better yet, perhaps public officials could just give us the facts!

G. Hebert Montecito (Editor’s note: My great aunt didn’t watch Reverend Billy Graham, at least

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I don’t recall that she did, but she did save time every day to watch Reverend (and later Archbishop) Fulton J. Sheen on a very black-and-white television set back in the early to mid 1950s as he discussed problems of what he would call the everlasting soul on his Life Is Worth Living show. Long before Karl Rove and his whiteboard, Sheen regularly used his chalkboard to great effect. The Catholic archbishop was not only a handsome and fit presence wearing his immaculately (if you’ll excuse the expression) pressed priestly garments, but he also had a way of speaking that won him two Emmys as Most Outstanding Television Personality.

Even though it was more than 50 years ago, I can recall his persuasive manner and voice as if it were yesterday. – J.B.)

Boycott This

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) can call on consumers to boycott Burger King for taking steps to keep its shareholders’ taxes as low as possible by moving its headquarters to Canada – that is, for responding predictably to incentives that he himself, as a legislator, helped to create.

First, he errs in asserting that Burger King will “abandon” its American customers. A company headquartered in Canada is no more likely to “abandon” paying customers in America than is a company headquartered in Kansas likely to abandon paying customers in Arkansas. Indeed, with fewer of its profits siphoned off to fund the boondoggles that Senator Brown and other members of the political class are fond of supporting, Burger King’s attention to, and ability to serve, its American customers will only improve.

More fundamentally, because he believes that people have a duty to operate businesses in ways that generate tax revenue for government regardless of the effects that such operations have on their owners’ net wealth, can we conclude, because he hasn’t resigned from the Senate to launch and operate full-time his own maximal tax-paying business, that he is derelict in his duty? In fact, it’s fair to ask how many businesses he has founded that earn profits for the government to tax? Because he’s been in politics his entire adult life, I’m pretty sure the answer is none, which means he has created far less wealth for the government to confiscate than have the professional investors and business executives who he publicly and so pompously smears.

Sincerely Donald J. Boudreaux Fairfax, Virginia (Editor’s note: Mr. Boudreaux is professor of economics and Martha and Nelson Getchell chair for the Study of Free Market Capitalism at the Mercatus Center George •MJ Mason University in Fairfax) 4 – 11 September 2014

State Street Spin

by Erin Graffy de Garcia

A Dithyramb for the Drought Oh fare thee well my long-gone lawn, you always wore green through dusk and dawn.

A forest for spawn of sprite Oberon, your blades of emerald grew on and on like limitless energy in long marathon.

How lovely you’d grow!

– until I would mow to cut up and compost your vigor and brawn.

But now it’s a yawn... blond tufts of chiffon; your remnant a pawn for water not drawn nor yet seen anon.

So fare thee well .....my long-gone lawn.

Ms Graffy is author of Society Lady’s Guide on How to Santa Barbara, a longtime Santa Barbara resident and a regular attendee at many society affairs and events; she can be reached at 687-6733

now has a specific emphasis in education and clinical care, particularly in regard to pediatrics and diabetes in pregnancy.

I worked at the foundation after college, and was amazed to learn that here in Santa Barbara, Dr. William David Sansum was the first to develop insulin in the U.S., and our locale became a haven for diabetics across the nation. Up until this miraculous point in time, diabetes was a death sentence.

One of his patients was a nine-yearold girl, Margaret Hoffman, whose desperate parents had moved to Santa An exhibit about Lutah Maria Riggs, known for nodding off, is on the October horizon (photo courtesy Beverley Jackson)

Lutah on the Loose

Beverley Jackson and I had lunch, and she was sharing stories and shots of Lutah Maria Riggs. Beverley had captured a typical pose of Lutah in her big overcoat, dozing off as usual in the annual Scorpio (birthdays) meeting luncheon awaiting the champagne and cake. “Everyone assumed Lutah was sleeping through the meeting,” Beverley recalled.

“Lutah would always nod off... especially when Pearl was speaking.

But Lutah knew exactly what was all going on... I think she was pretending to sleep,” Beverley chuckled. “If the champagne cork would pop, she’d perk right up. When Pearl Chase was pontificating, Lutah would open her eyes and say, ‘Oh, that’s not true at all.’ Then she would go back to close her eyes.”

Lutah’s own story and other stories about this legendary local architect will be wonderfully told in an exhibit opening in late October at the Santa Barbara Historical Society. The exhibit follows the successful documentary about Lutah released earlier this year to much acclaim at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

It was Montecito’s irrepressible Gretchen Lieff who literally put Lutah on the map. After researching the background of her George Washington Smith home El Sueno during a remodel, Gretchen discovered the talent of his protégée and draftsman Lutah Maria Riggs, who ultimately forged her own successful career. Gretchen formed the Lutah Maria Riggs Society with others who shared a curiosity and interest in knowing more and sharing more about this extraordinary talent. Out came historians, architects, 4 – 11 September 2014

friends, and homeowners of her handiwork, as well as Lutah’s own protégé.

Some of these will be involved in contributing to the upcoming exhibit on Lutah.

Now, my special readers, If you have any photos, memorabilia, or artifacts of Lutah, they would be fabulous to include in the upcoming exhibit. Call Historical Society curator Dan Calderon at 9661601 and tell him Erin sent ya.

Barbara from the East Coast to have her treated. While here, her father, Bernard Hoffman, became the catalyst for Santa Barbara’s appearance, as he worked with Pearl Chase to capitalize on its

Spanish roots as an architectural standard.

So, you never know what medical advances will lead to!

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How in the world did we get this kind of talent to come to Santa Barbara? I sense the fine hand of Ian Bernard pulling strings.... piano strings perhaps?

Bernard, the über musical talent who is “sort of” retired and now lives in Santa Ynez, is currently president of the Santa Barbara Jazz Society (SBJS).

He is up on everything musical in jazz and was telling me about the SBJS’s upcoming concert with jazz vocalist Wesla Whitfield.

Wesla, who as been lauded, awarded, and recorded (20 albums!) to critical acclaim, performs with her husband, pianist/arranger Mike Greensill.

They have performed in Carnegie Hall Tributes to Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and Nat King Cole, and have opened for folks from Michael Feinstein to Frankie Laine.

Now for the fun trivia and Santa Barbara County connection: our worldwide Wesla actually grew up in Santa Maria! Anyhow... the concert is 1 pm Sunday, September 7, at SOhO. •MJ

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The Sansum Medical Research Foundation, which then became the Sansum Diabetes Research Institute, is now the William Sansum Diabetes Center. The name will be accompanied by a new logo, all “symptomatic” of both the legacy of the founder, and the 70th anniversary of the institution.

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t was a glorious week for Ferraris culminating in a grand finale on Sunday, August 17, of the annual 64th Concours d’Elegance on the 18th fairway of the Pebble Beach Golf Links overlooking Stillwater Cove.

There were 216 historic automobiles – 35 from outside the United States – entered for the plum prize of Best of Show.

The top award was presented to a unique1954 Ferrari 375MM Scaglietti Coupe, designed by Sergio Scaglietti and originally built for Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, lover and then husband of Ingrid Bergman and father of actress Isabella Rossellini.

The Ferrari was a wedding present from Roberto to Ingrid, and Roberto had the convertible altered to be a coupe in 1955. This Ferrari was the first post-WWII car to win the top spot at the Pebble Beach Concours in 46 years and the first Ferrari to win in the history of the event. The current owner of the classic prize-winning Ferrari is Jon Shirley of Medina, Washington, past CFO for Microsoft, who spent two years restoring the car to its former glory. Shirley said that he has driven the dazzling car to the speed of 140 miles per hour.

Earlier in the week, the highest price ever paid at auction was transacted at Bonham’s Quail Lodge auction for a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, which sold for $38 million to an anonymous buyer.

Actor Steve McQueen’s restored 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4, which he ordered from Italy and had delivered to the Bullitt set in San Francisco, chassis number 10621, engine number 10621 –

“Preservation” vehicles have become popular entries at even the most prestigious car shows, as this 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Scaglietti Spyder brought in from Derbyshire, England, with its chipped and cracked body paint and displayed at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance attests

known as “4-cam” – was auctioned for $9.3 million. Approximately $430 million, a record-breaking amount, was spent at Car Week auctions on exotic classic cars at the various auction houses on the Monterey Peninsula.

One of this year’s featured marques was Maserati, which celebrated its 100th anniversary. In 1914, the Maserati brothers first constructed single-seaters for races and did win in the Tripoli Grand Prix and the Targa Florio. In the 1940s, the emphasis changed from racing to luxury road cars focusing on power, performance and style. The slogan was “Luxury, sports and style, cast in exclusive cars” and later changed to “Excellence through Passion.”

Phantoms and Ruxtons

Highlighting the British Motor Industry, the Concours d’Elegance honored the Rolls-Royce Phantoms.

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Another big draw at this year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance was this 1936 Tatra T77 “Aerodynamic” Limousine, brought in by Pavel Kasik from Prague, Czech Republic. The Czechoslovakian design was “copied”

by German engineers, who then created the Volkswagen. The fin on the rear of the car was meant to stabilize the rear-engine vehicle, but it was not effective; it was also the inspiration for “fins” on many post-World-War-II car designs.

A Ruxton being judged with Jim Fasnacht behind the wheel

Best of Show 1954 Ferrari 375 MM Scaglietti Coupe

Phantoms displayed on the show field on Sunday. New orders for the elegant Rolls-Royce Phantoms were dwindling after WWII, until Princess Elizabeth ordered one for her use for state occasions in 1949. The royal family in the past had used Daimlers and this order changed the course of

history, extending the model line for decades and leading to the creation for the Phantoms IV, V, and VI. Today, vintage collectors have a great interest in Rolls-Royce Phantoms because of their colorful history and, of course, their rarity.

Honored this year for the first time

was the low sleek Art Deco-styled Ruxton, the first front-wheel-drive American-made car. The Ruxton acknowledgment as a classic car is largely due to one man’s efforts and dedication: Jim Fasnacht. Originally, 96 Ruxton cars were produced beginning in June 1930 – and just four months later, the company was closed.

Of the 96 cars produced, there are 19 known still in existence. Jim Fasnacht and his wife, Evelyn, from Houston, Texas, own seven of those surviving.

Jim has researched the history of the Ruxton and has written and published a book chronicling every detail of the car. Jim and Evelyn won 1st and 2nd place in the Class D Ruxton and were honored for Jim’s contributions to conserving this spectacular American car.

Some of the parties, exhibitions, driving tours, and displays for Car Week leading up to Sunday afternoon included the Pebble Beach Motoring

Classic, the Carmel-by-the-Sea Concours on the Avenue, Automobilia Monterey, Carmel Mission Classic, McCall’s Motorwork Revival at the Monterey Jet Center, The Little Car Show, Pebble Beach Retro Auto, Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance, Pebble Beach Classic Car Forum, Pebble Beach Classic Car Expo, Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, AutoMoto Film and Arts Festival, The Quail, Annual Pacific Grove Concours Auto Rally, Legends of the Autobahn, Concorso Italiano, The Barnyard Ferrari Event, and the zenith event of the week was the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on Sunday afternoon.

In essence, the Concours d’Elegance is a storied parade of the history of the automobile with all its bizarre designs, mechanisms, and stunning beauty. The event is recognized as the finest show of vintage, classic cars, and motorcycles in the world – and it is in our backyard at Pebble Beach.

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Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation

A Message from Carol Burnett

Gold Ribbon Campaign

“Last year, TBCF served more than 650 individuals with the collaborative efforts of local businesses, hospital professionals, and donors like you and me.

This is your opportunity to make a difference by becoming involved today.

We can use your time, your treasure, and your support.”

Carol Burnett, 2014 TBCF Gold Ribbon Campaign Spokesperson

Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation (TBCF) announces its 2nd Annual awareness and fundraising effort Gold Ribbon Campaign in recognition of National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month during September.

Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation seeks to raise funds from a minimum of 1,000 individuals and get our message out to 250,000 people in the Tri-County area.

Thank you for your support!

Childhood cancer affects OUR COMMUNITY This is your GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY Be a CHAMPION for families in the Tri-Counties

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$10 ~ A hospital cafeteria meal $25 ~ A gasoline card for families traveling long distances $50 ~ A one-night hotel accommodation for families when their child requires an emergency hospital stay $100 ~ A sponsorship of a child in treatment for Project Holiday $250 ~ Expenses for a support group - for a translator, licensed therapist, and social worker $500 ~ Private tutoring by a state credentialed teacher to help youth keep up with their academics $1,000 ~ Neuropsychological testing to address learning problems that can be common side effects of chemotherapy $4,000 ~ Funeral arrangements and memorial service expenses $5,000 ~ Direct Financial Assistance to aid qualified low-to-moderate income families cover critical expenses

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Jayson’s Story “On May 29, 2014, my son, Jayson, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of four.

The day of his diagnosis will never fade away. It was the day I felt like I was living in a nightmare.

Our son had to stay a whole month in the hospital to figure out the exact type of cancer he had. As a result we not only had to worry about our son’s treatment, but also about not being able to work. We did not have money coming in and bills started piling up. Days went by and our financial and emotional struggles kept adding up. I did not know how we were going to overcome all of this. Thankfully, Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation was there to support our family, making my little Jayson smile when they gave him toys, helping us with financial assistance and emotional support, and even providing my daughter the opportunity to volunteer while her brother was receiving care at Cottage Children’s Hospital. All those sleepless nights and long difficult days have slowly started to fade away. It will take some time to recover from this, but it makes me feel better knowing that someone does care and is willing to help. My family and I consider Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation our family. Thanks for making my son always smile!” - The Fuentes Family

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In the late ‘90s, a group of parents discussed the creation of a universal awareness ribbon for children with cancer. Many colors were considered, but after much thought, it was decided that the color gold was the perfect choice for our cause. Gold is a precious metal, and our children are precious.

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faster in the final quarter when either carbohydrate or sodium bicarbonate had been ingested before exercise, though neither directly resulted in any increased skill from players.

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

Talk Examines Holy Land Unrest

Students Offer Summer Research

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wenty student researchers, who have worked over the summer with their professors in the fields of art, biology, chemistry, physics, and psychology, will present their findings on Thursday, September 11, from 3:305 p.m. in the Winter Hall Rotunda and Darling Lecture Hall. The Summer Research Celebration, co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts, is free and open to the public.

The celebration begins with a reception and poster display. Students will explain their research, which features a range of topics, including Rembrandt and the Jews in 17th-century Amsterdam, the effect of drought on blood glucose levels in garter snakes, anxiety, and the effect of education on older adults’ cognitive abilities and generating a DNA vaccination against herpes simplex virus 1.

A panel discussion, which begins at 4:15 p.m. in the Darling Foundation Lecture Hall, will feature professors Michael Everest (chemistry), Frank Percival (biology), Steve Contakes (chemistry), alumnus Luke Patterson (2014), and students Jacob Warren ‘15 and Elizabeth Simoneit ‘15.

Westmont has a long tradition of providing opportunities for students to partner with their professors on cutting-edge research.

“Just as internships in fields like business or medicine give students real-world experience that prepares them for future study or careers, research with faculty gives them a

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Anneka Rienstra, class of ‘15, explains summer research she conducted with Dr. Steve Contakes

taste of collaborating with peers to solve real problems that matter to their disciplinary communities,” says Patti Hunter, vice provost and chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department. “The skills they develop equip them to work in teams, talk with others about their ideas, and tackle unsolved problems.”

Researchers Lay Up Diet Tips for Cagers

An international collaboration of sports scientists, including researchers from Westmont, have developed new nutritional practices that could help NBA players prepare for the upcoming season.

Gregg Afman, Westmont professor of kinesiology, joined researchers at the University of Bath in England to study how sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda, and carbohydrate supplements could be useful in countering the physical challenges that face competitive basketball players.

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dunks, basketball requires frequent bursts of intense physical exertion, interspersed with active recovery. It’s thought that better nutritional guidance could improve their performance and offset fatigue over the course of a game.

Afman, the lead author of the study, says they looked at how carbohydrate and sodium bicarbonate may enhance basketball skill during a simulated game.

“We also validated the testing protocol to be a valid measure of the metabolic costs of a basketball game,” he says. “Our results show that within the context of this design, ingestion of carbohydrate and/or sodium bicarbonate shortly before basketball has the potential to offset fatigue and thus improve aspects of performance late in exercise, although both supplements require balanced consideration of individual tolerance prior to competition to minimize acute negative side-effects.”

Their study enlisted 27 well-trained male basketball players and monitored their vital stats and performance throughout a game, and in high-intensity shuttle runs.

Their results showed how consuming carbohydrate shortly before exercise caused hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, during the first quarter and resulted in poorer sprinting ability and lay-up shooting performance.

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Azar Ajaj, president of Nazareth Evangelical Theological Seminary, explores how Christians should react to the unrest in the Middle East in a lecture, “Beauty for Ashes: The Mission of the Church in Israel/ Palestine”, Tuesday, September 9, from 7-8:30 p.m. at Hieronymus Lounge in Westmont’s Kerrwood Hall.

The World Christianity Lecture, co-sponsored by the Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Caryn Reeder, associate professor of religious studies, at (805) 565-7047.

Ajaj, who contributed to a book, “Christian Perspectives on the IsraeliPalestinian Conflict,” will examine what Christians in the Holy Land are experiencing and what the church can do in response to the prevailing violence.

Born and raised in Nazareth, Israel, Ajaj is an ordained Baptist minister who has been tending to his ArabIsraeli community for more than 20 years. He has served at the Nazareth Evangelical Theological Seminary since it was founded by the Association of Baptist Churches in Israel in 2007.

He began as a financial administrator and teacher, and has been president since 2013.

Ajaj, a graduate of Bethlehem Bible College, earned a Master of Theology degree from the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague and is a doctoral candidate at Spurgeon’s •MJ College in London.

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Texas Two-step at SB Polo Club ERG wins!

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ardon us if we’re beginning to think the Santa Barbara Polo Club is starting to look a bit like Texas.

No, the tropical temperatures and cool ocean breezes haven’t been replaced with the Lone Star State’s stifling heat and humidity. But for the past five years, a team from Texas has taken home the top prize in the Bombardier Pacific Coast Open (PCO).

In fact, it’s been two Texas sponsors who have claimed the coveted cup since 2010, battling each other four times in the finals.

Aided by superstar Argentine import Adolfo Cambiaso, John Muse’s Lucchese scored an unprecedented three-peat from 2010-12, but for the second year in a row a reconfigured team came up also-rans in the PCO finals on Sunday, giving Scott Wood’s ERG the chance to repeat the feat if he returns next year.

Wood himself wasn’t on hand for the ultimate victory, felled it was said by a spider bite that had him in the hospital Sunday afternoon when hired-hand siblings Sebastian (Sebi) and Augustine (Tincho) Merlos – who each have a nine-goal rating – scored all of his team’s goals and held Lucchese’s own nine-goaler Sapo Caset sufficiently in check to claim the 12-10 victory.

It wasn’t easy.

In fact, despite claiming a lopsided victory over Lucchese in a preliminary round match two weeks ago, and jumping out to a 3-0 lead via goals from the Merlos brothers (two by Sebi) to open Sunday’s match, ERG fell behind its rival 5-3 by the end of the second chukker. Caset scored three unanswered goals (two via penalty shots) and followed one by 7-goal teammate Jeff Hall with another from the field. But that was the last chukker Lucchese enjoyed a lead, as ERG rode three penalties and a field goal from Tincho, plus two on-target shots by Sebi, to outscore them 6-1 in the third and never look back.

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close within one at the start of the second half and by all rights should’ve had the tying goal Caset blocked an open-goal 40-yarder by Tincho and brought it back the other way, receiving a pass from Hall (who was raised in Montecito) and putting a shot through.

But a penalty whistle had blown. It eventually was decided there was no penalty, resulting in a throw-in, but Caset missed barely wide with just a few seconds left in the chukker.

ERG re-established the two-goal lead, going end-to-end with the ensuing knock-in at the start of the fifth, scoring easily as nobody even closed within 30 yards of his charging pony.

After Caset’s penalty 60 went in, Lucchese’s Hall almost tied it again on a breakaway, shooting just wide as a defender hooked his mallet at the last moment. Tincho then scored in traffic for an 11-9 lead, and Caset closed within one via another penalty shot on his eighth goal of the day, before Sebi closed out the scoring after Caset lost the ball on a final charge.

The consensus was not only some bad luck for Lucchese in calls and hitting horses with passes, and the possibility that Sapo might have run out of rested horses right when it mattered most, but also that the Merlos brothers had executed a good game plan to contain Lucchese’s attack. It was a fitting payback for a come-frombehind victory by Lucchese over ERG in the previous tournament.

“Last final, we lost it. They saw the chance and took it,” Tincho confirmed. “Today we weren’t going to let that happen. We knew how to play them. We knew what to do. We got more concentrated at the match went on and stopped making mistakes. We played the game we wanted to play.”

If Wood does return for a chance at his own three-peat, it may well be with an entirely different team, as last Sunday – though the sponsors remained the same – the only returning player among the eight was Lucchese patron John Muse.

As Hall said after the match, “That’s •MJ polo.”

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On Entertainment LOL Festival is A-OK

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he final four days of the inaugural Santa Barbara LOL Comedy Festival features a plethora of acts, more name-brand jokesters than the town has ever seen in such a short stretch. The big show on Thursday (September 4-7) is the first date of Russell Peters’s “Almost Famous”, a new world tour from the Canadian comic who has appeared on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, his own Netflix special and a bit part in the current hit movie Chef.

Expect his latest take on jobs, mobile phones, relationships, and his signature improv at the 8 pm show at the Granada. Also on Thursday: Monique Marvez and Nadine Rajabi host Hot Funny Femmes also starring Amy Anderson, Grace Fraga, Jen Murphy, Rachel Bradley, and Jill Michele Melean, with two shows (7:30 and 9:30 pm) at the New Vic. The action shifts to the Lobero on Friday for both Jay Mohr at 8 pm (see the Q&A below), and a 10 pm show with Brad Williams, who gets a leg up (sorry) on most comics as a dwarf.

His TV appearances include Legit, Live at Gotham, the Tonight Show, and Jimmy Kimmel Live, where he’s riffed on relationships, sex, and his and other’s disabilities. Both shows are being filmed for later airing.

All three shows at the Lobero on Saturday are also one-hour specials being recorded live for later broadcast, starting with Kirk Fox, whose stand-up appearances include Comedy Central Presents, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Last Comic Standing, plus the movies Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Reno 911! (6 pm) and a recurring role as Joe from Sewage on Parks and Recreation. At 8 pm it’s Ben Gleib, the host of Idiotest, the new comedy brain-teaser game show on the Game Show Network, and a longtime star of Chelsea Lately. The evening concludes with a late-night program featuring famously foul-mouthed stand-up Andrew Dice Clay hosting The Blue Show, featuring Eleanor Kerrigan, Jason Rouse, Michael Wheels Paris, and Colin Kane.

The festival ends where it began last Tuesday, at the Arlington Theatre, with the local debut of Jim Jefferies, the popular comic who is the creator and star of Legit on FX, and scored cable hits with the specials I Swear to God on HBO and Alchoholocaust on Showtime.

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She writes half of my stand-up act.

The special up in Santa Barbara, too.

It’s called “Happy. And a Lot.” Every day when I pick my son up from preschool, they hand you a report card for the day. The two lines are right next to each other, and the teacher always writes: “Mood? Happy. What they ate for lunch: A lot.” And that’s me in a nutshell. I’m happy. And I’m a lot. Unless you’re my wife, I don’t think you want to drive across the country with me. Halfway through Ohio, you’d want to take my head off.

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people via his roles in Hollywood films such as Jerry Maguire and Picture Perfect, to name just two, and is heard by thousands of listeners each week via his sports radio program and home-garage-based podcast. But stand-up comedy remains his professional passion, as he even refers to those other vehicles as ways to pay the bills or promote his shows, which still number close to 200 a year.

His one-hour gig at the Lobero on Friday is being filmed as his second special to run on Showtime. He happily dished on his early start, wrestling, and working with his wife, actress Nikki Cox. Q. I understand you were always the class clown and a big talker. Is comedy or talk radio the only career path for people like you?

A. Yeah, I think so. Comedy is the tricky one; I think you are born a comic – you can’t learn it. Maybe the timing or the spacing, but that offthe-cuff work ethic of driving eight hours to get $50 when you’re first starting out, you can’t teach that.

But parents, if you have kids who can’t stop talking and get thrown out of class, don’t get too frightened because maybe there’s a career out there for them.

What would you be doing if you couldn’t talk for a living?

Coaching high school wrestling would be my dream job. If I could make sitcom money doing that, it would be a no-brainer. It’s such an important sport, with lots of life lessons. You practice with a bunch of guys, learn moves, push through barriers of stamina and endurance, and spend a huge amount of time in trainings. And then it all comes down to six minutes on a mat with another guy who’s been doing the same thing as you. Just you and him. It’s a monastic life. But there’s so much you can coach. It’s such a mental game. You can get in kids’ heads and get them on the right path.

You’re making me think about Robin Williams.

Yeah, Robin was a great wrestler. I was an average wrestler who turned

Mohr for your money: Jay Mohr performs Friday at the Lobero

out to be an average person. But I can take my averageness and make champions.

So while we’re on that subject, how did his death affect you?

Hopefully, this puts more of a light on mental illness awareness. There seems to be such a stigma. I suffer from panic disorder. And I have had depression in my life. [The problem is] as a guy, machismo gets in the way of asking for help. We go through the same routines of self-medicating, exercising maniacally, to try to outrun the cloud that we wake up with in the morning. With Robin, think of how happy he made you and realize when he looked in the mirror, he didn’t experience any of it. That’s the disease.

You got your start in New Jersey way back when, and then worked your way up to the Saturday Night Live stint, a few big movie roles, some TV shows and lots more. What stands out the most for you?

I get asked all the time what was my big break. If there’s only one, you haven’t done life the right way. I’ve had about 40. Obviously SNL: when Don Pardo says “Jaayyy Mohrrrr”, the first time you hear that you get goose bumps. Then Jerry Maguire, with Tom Cruise, the biggest movie star in the world at the time. My sitcom was great, because it means the network trusts you. And now with Mohr Sports, every day for three hours I’m heard all over the country. That definitely helps sell tickets to my stand-up shows.

But my guest appearance on Las Vegas was the single biggest break of my life. That’s where I met my wife.

When you marry the right person, you become a better person. That’s why they call it the better half. I was a maniac – unhappy, uncomfortable with quiet, never ever to be still. When I met her, everything calmed down on my insides just because of how our energy mixes.

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So why sports? How does it relate to comedy?

What makes it work for me is that I noticed that nobody is having fun on sports radio. It’s just numbers and data and lots of yelling. There was a big space to operate in positivity, and to let listeners know that they matter.

Then there’s your podcast.

Yeah, I sit in my garage at a card table and interview celebrities. I’ve talked to David Lee Roth, Charlie Sheen, the drummer from the Black Crowes. Nobody ever asked Sheen about acting. He was in Platoon and Wall Street. It’s kind of important. But mostly it’s comedians. My wife is on this current episode. I got her in the car, and took out the voice recorder while we were stuck in traffic. It’s really funny.

Nikki really wrote your new routine?

Yeah, literally. She’s a horrible insomniac. I wake up and ask her how she slept and she hands me a spiral notebook that’s filled. And I just do what she wrote. It turns into a lot of material. It’s good to sleep with a writer.

So what’s it about? It can’t be all about your son and pre-school?

The show about how to keep marriage together. Some impressions. I talk about those murder shows on TV. There’s no real thread. I have ADD – I have to jump off a cliff and build my wings on the way down. So I don’t have a point of view. It’s just that there’s 1,500 people in front of me, and I want to make them laugh a lot and often.

Crim Conviction

Carey Crim’s daughter isn’t yet at the age where she has to worry about what might happen when she’s left in the care of teachers or other adults.

But she couldn’t help but notice the huge increase in new stories of teachers having affairs with their students, especially the one where the victim waited for the abuser to get out of prison to resume the relationship.

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Rubicon Theatre Company presents world premiere of Conviction by Carey Crim and directed

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you know. Possibly your friends and neighbors, and they go through something you can’t imagine,” said Crim, who has fashioned her new play, Conviction, around the subject.

At the outset of the play – which has its combined world premiere at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura beginning (September 3-28) – a beloved high school teacher, who likes to bend the rules to reach his students, has been accused of inappropriate contact with the female student star of a production of Romeo & Juliet he just finished directing. His family and best friends are celebrating when the call comes in.

But the bulk of the action doesn’t center on the trial, instead taking place after he gets out of prison several years later still protesting his innocence, as the same people gather again.

“I wanted to focus on the family, the friendships, the relationship – the aftermath and the fallout,” Crim explained. “How do they put their lives back together, how do they figure it out? Can you rebuild a relationship once trust has been eroded?

Should you? Can you go back to the same life, or do you have to find some new way of living when all of your convictions – the title has more than one meaning – have been tested? It’s about how each (of the characters) figure it out.”

Although the playwright knew at the outset whether the teacher is guilty, Conviction doesn’t answer the question.

“His wife and son and his friends are never able to truly know one way or the other, so I wanted the audience to be in the same position as they are,” Crim explained.

Conviction is also about “shifting moral boundaries,” Crim said, in that the lines of demarcation can’t help but change much in the way our whole society has adjusted to modern times. “What was once black and white becomes a little bit more grey.

Everything you thought you knew, you are suddenly less clear about.”

And it’s also an examination of how fear has changed our method of interaction.

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“Everyone’s had to adapt in some way,” she said. “We’ve become a more hyper-vigilant society around these issues. It’s a different era for safety.

Before I wrote the play, I was volunteering at a summer camp for kids.

During orientation, there was a lot of information about not being behind closed doors with the campers, never hugging one camper unless you hug them all, never taking one to the bathroom unless there was another adult present. And never climb into a bunk with them. You understand why those rules are in place now. But I thought back to my summer camp days where we’d all climb into the counselor’s bunk for ghost stories. And I wanted to know how we got from there to here and what we’ve lost along the way.”

Singing the Blues

As they’re always so proud to proclaim, the Santa Barbara Blues Society (SBBS) is the oldest still-existing such organization in the United States, which is where the blues genre was born. But surviving since March 1977 hasn’t always come easy.

The SBBS is once again facing some challenges, as despite upping of the ante on the quality of acts booked and stabilizing its venue with a move to the ballroom at the Carrillo Recreation Center, audiences haven’t turned out in large enough numbers to comfortably balance the books. So the SBBS turning to some old friends in the region for help in the manner of an all-star concert to serve as a benefit.

Some of the biggest names in blues in the region are gathering together Saturday night for the concert, which features the Ventura-based ensemble Hot Roux as the house band.

Harmonica player/singer-songwriter Kim Wilson, who was known as Goleta Slim when he grew up among the then-orange groves before finding fame with The Fabulous Thunderbirds and his own bands, is just one of the blues stars who will pay back repeated bookings with the Blues Society at the show. Also performing are the boogie-woogie pianist Carl Sonny Leyland, current double Blues Foundation Blues Music Award-winner James Harman (harmonica, vocals), and Roach & Byl, the husband-and-wife co-founders and songwriters/singers (Byl is also lead guitarist) of Café R&B, the gritty up-from-the-bars band now based in Santa Barbara. Expect a few surprise guests to also make an appearance – and as always with SBBS shows, there will be free barbecue snacks and plenty of room for dancing. Despite the heavy-hitting lineup, admission is the same as for regular concerts: $10-$40.

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Coup De Grace

by Grace Rachow Ms. Rachow says kids love skateboards, men daydream about the latest gadgets, and women fantasize about fitting into their high school prom dresses.

My Sisyphus Summer

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he summer began with me realizing a big high school reunion loomed in my future. I’ve missed seeing my old classmates for many years because I haven’t wanted to drive all the way to Nebraska for the yearly alumni banquets in the gymnasium. And, like many people do, I always thought I needed to lose a few pounds before I could go.

However, this year I got the crazy notion of starting early to get in shape for the next class reunion. I’m too chicken and too cheap to take advantage of major plastic surgery, but I could be more careful eating and hit the gym a little harder.

I’ll never see 17 again, but I’ll take whatever improvement I can get. I had all summer to work on a new figure to impress old high school chums.

I could do this.

The official launch of the summer season was the neighborhood Memorial Day potluck and barbecue. A party is not the best place to improve dietary habits, but somehow I managed to fill my plate only once, and not that full, and if I hadn’t stood right beside a big bowl of yummy potato chips, I could have called myself 100-percent virtuous.

I decided to double down on my weight loss vows. I’d get even fitter by working all summer on finishing up more big landscaping projects. By summer’s end, our entire backyard would be one drought-friendly rock garden, and I’d be able to slip right into my prom dress again.

Meanwhile, nearly everyone I knew chose this summer to go on dream vacations to Europe or Africa. Others took a few weeks and drove up the coast. One went to LEGOLAND. Many hung out at the beach. They went to zoos and art museums and national parks. One of our neighbors didn’t go on a trip, but the family worked the fun angle together by building a wooden skateboard ramp for the kids.

All summer long, I hauled wheelbarrows of dusty dirt and rolled heavy rocks onto a hand truck to move them to just the right spots. I planted thousands of succulents. I poured sweat and re-enacted the whole myth of Sisyphus right in my own back yard.

I also listened to the neighbor kids skateboarding. The rumble on the ramp and then the click-clack when the wheels hit the pavement was a constant reminder that there are many ways to have fun.

When people asked me what I was

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up to this summer, I practiced ways of explaining that I was enjoying moving rocks and dirt around. It’s challenging to make that sound as exciting as visiting Versailles.

I’m not complaining. Even with this major drought, we still live in paradise here. The weather was lovely every single day, and even though I didn’t actually go to the beach, I knew it was still there.

My friends had dream vacations, but I avoided summer traffic jams. I missed vegetating in airports when flights were canceled. I didn’t have to wait in any lines anywhere.

Instead, I pushed rocks up the hill and down again. I could feel myself

My friends had dream vacations, but I avoided summer traffic jams.

I missed vegetating in airports when flights were canceled.

getting fitter by the day.

I realized the summer was ending when my husband mentioned the iPhone 6 that would be introduced very soon. I don’t pay much attention to tech news, but even I know that as surely as the liquid amber trees will lose their leaves, every fall there is a new iPhone.

Then one morning, I didn’t hear the sound of the neighbor kids skateboarding on their driveway. I realized it had to be the first day of school.

My goal at the beginning of the summer had been to get fit and lose a few pounds to impress old high school classmates in case I decided to attend the next reunion. Now summer was over, and it was time to face reality.

I’m happy to report that over the summer, I knocked off 11 pounds… not quite enough to fit into my prom dress, but if I go to the reunion, I will fit into something.

My husband and I said goodbye to the summer at a Labor Day dinner party. Guests talked about all the exciting things they’d done the past few months. I listened to tales of fun and smiled my best Mona Lisa smile.

Building rock gardens may a strange way to spend the summer, but I got a little bit fitter, and I definitely had a lot •MJ of fun.

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Having reached her peak, Dania took a teaching position at a private international school in Shanghai, China.

“I thought I’d stay for another year, but I wanted to pursue photography and it would have delayed my goal. I moved to San Francisco in 2007, working as a waiter at night and taking journalism courses during the day.”

Dania’s first story, working at the Missouri Photo Workshop a year later, was on a young girl coming of age in a very racist environment.

“Her father hung a KKK flag in his home, her brother had white supremacy tattoos on his arms, and her nextdoor neighbor was a member of the KKK and the Third Reich. The experience of covering this was pivotal for me. I discovered how a photo story that documents something really happening in our world can initiate conversations and springboard changes.”

At the workshop, National Geographic photographer Randy Olsen was Dania’s editor and suggested she consider a graduate school for photography. An interview at Ohio University was duly arranged, and she was accepted in September 2009.

“I met a great group of students, which encouraged me to be a better photo-journalist in all the right ways.”

The biggest story Dania worked on before her move to Florida two years ago was about a family separated because the mother had been deported.

“She had been living in Bend, Oregon, for 21 years and her identity was discovered after she applied for political asylum. I followed the mom after she was deported to Mexico and the kids, too. The story was printed in USA Today.”

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Oprah’s Pryor-ity Former TV talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey, having got commendable notices acting in Lee Daniels’ The Butler last year, will play a violent brothel-running grandmother of leg-

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endary comedian Richard Pryor in an upcoming biopic.

The 60-year-old Oscar nominated actress will take on the role of Marie Carter, who was known to beat her grandson while raising him at her brothel in Peoria, Illinois.

The comedian’s widow, Jennifer Pryor, says longtime Montecito resident Oprah was eager for the role after getting hold of the script.

Last week she shared an Instagram showing herself with director Daniels and actor Mike Epps, 43, who will portray Pryor, at a first reading.

Epps beat out Nick Cannon, Marlon Wayans, and Michael B. Jordan to play the comedian in the highly anticipated biopic.

There has been no word yet on who will portray Pryor’s widow, who is also producing the film, according to TMZ. Casting rumors have mentioned Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway as frontrunners for the role.

Pryor’s mother, Gertrude, was a prostitute in his grandmother’s brothel and she abandoned him when he was just 10 years of age.

He was raised primarily by his grandmother, Marie Carter, who was known for being a violent woman who would beat him as a child.

Pryor was a comedy legend known for his profanity-laced stand-up routines, his Grammy-winning comedy albums and also for his 1970s movies, including Silver Streak and Car Wash.

The Blazing Saddles co-writer infamously set himself on fire in 1980 while freebasing cocaine. He suffered a heart attack and died in December 2005....

Two-sport Titleholder It has obviously been a very good year on the golf course for former tennis ace Jimmy Connors.

Earlier this year, as I exclusively revealed here, the 61-year-old, who won eight Grand Slam singles titles, hit two holes-in-one in consecutive weeks in April, a unique occurrence according to longtime members of the Montecito Country Club.

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says, ’Hey, you’ve got a lot of stuff you want to do, man. Now’s the time because you’re going to kick the bucket pretty soon. The other says, ‘Oh, Jeff, you want to make the rest of your life a giant homework assignment?

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“Jimmy is one of the hardest-working golfers at the club,” says pro Scott Johnson. “He’s willing to put in a lot of time and effort to do what it takes to win. It is no wonder he plays off a single handicap.”

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Just Breathe Oscar winner Jeff Bridges says he and his wife of nearly four decades, Susan, have a wonderful technique for defusing family tension.

The actor, who turns 65 in December, says the twosome, who have three daughters, sit face to face with one of them talking, while the other listens, with no interruption.

Then they switch.

Zen Buddhism is another outlet that offers Jeff balance, he tells the new issue of AARP magazine.

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“He was taken from us because of poor choice,” says Shaun. “I wrote my latest book The Power of I Will as a way to express my love and gratitude for this wonderful life and propel myself forward with a mission of helping young people make positive choices.”

To that end, Montecito-based Shaun is supporting the Boys to Men Foundation, a southern California organization which helps fatherless boys with mentoring to prepare for adulthood, and is participating in the 100 Wave Challenge at Mission Beach in San Diego on Wednesday, September 20.

“I will be catching a hundred waves in twelve hours and raising $10,000 because I believe in this program.

“It’s a lot to catch,” he tells me from London, where he is making a keynote speech for a large bank and, he sadly notes, missing some of the best swells in decades.

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All on the Table The current drought is having a major impact on the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County.

The non-profit, which throws its third annual Table of Life gala at the Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Summerland campus on October 5, faces much-increased costs.

“It is going to add around $140,000 to our budget, which feeds 120,000 individuals through 320 charities annually,” Matthew Neal, director of strategic giving, told me at a pre-event soirée at the Lark in the Funk Zone, hosted by owner Sherry Villanueva.

“We spend about $800,000 annually, but the drought is going to cause a huge impact for us.”

Last year’s Table of Life event raised around $200,000.

“This year we’re hoping for $250,000, given the increased costs to our budget because of the water shortage,” adds Matthew.

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The gala, with Marybeth Carty and Arlene Montesano as co-chairs, honors Chuck and Missy Sheldon, and Driscoll’s, the largest multi-berry producers in the world...

Summerland Sun Hotel magnate Pat Nesbitt threw open the gates of his sprawling estate, Bella Vista, to host the Summerland Winery’s 10th annual “Under the Harvest Sun” wine club party which has raised more than $200,000 over the past decade since its launch by Turkish owner Nebil “Bilo” Zarif.

More than 300 guests watched a round-robin featuring players from the Santa Barbara Polo Club just a short gallop down the road, including theatrical producer Jonathan

Burrows, entertainment attorney Leigh Brecheen and Pat, before digging into the ample barbecue and quaffing the many varieties of wine.

“The support is really exceptional, and the event has gone from strength to strength,” says Bilo, chatting with Spin City and Melrose Place actress Heather Locklear.

Ubiquitous KEYT-TV senior reporter John Palminteri shared live auction duties with actor Billy Baldwin, with a week’s Caribbean escape in Anguilla and St. Martin, a stay at the RitzCarlton in Bachelor Gulch, Colorado, a yacht cruise in Turkey, a safari in South Africa, and a vacation in Punta Burros, Mexico, among the luxury lots.

The event is expected to have raised around $100,000 for Summerland School and the six-year-old Los Angeles-based charity, Just Imagine It – which decorates hospital rooms for long-term child patients...

Wood-less Winners It was a week of mixed emotions for Texas energy tycoon Scott Wood.

Nursing a painful rib injury, he was unable to play in the final of the Bombardier Pacific Coast Open at the Santa Barbara Polo Club, but his team, ERG, carried off the century-old trophy for the second consecutive year after beating Dallas dynamo, John Muse’s Lucchese team, a three-time winner of the coveted title, 12-10.

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by Mark Hunt 1375 Plaza De Sonadores: $1,750,000

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hether one is searching for a low-maintenance lifestyle near the beach or a townhouse on a hilltop with big ocean views, a place to live fulltime or to just visit on the weekends and holidays, owning a condo or townhome can provide an alternative to owning a private property, and often at a fraction of the cost.

For instance, the goal of living within a block or two from the beach in Montecito is no small vision. There are few homes on the beach side of the 101 freeway, rarely more than just a few on the market at any given time, and they are usually priced (and sell) at a premium.

With a condo, one can live in an ocean-adjacent complex with additional amenities such as a pool, tennis, guard-gated lifestyle, for a fraction of the cost in some cases as full single-family residence ownership. To be truly oceanfront, however, the cost between a condo is comparable to owning a home in terms of price per square foot... there are currently zero homes officially on the market at Miramar or Fernald Point (on the sand), and there is only one oceanfront home on the market at this moment in the Bonnymede complex, and it is featured below. Properties in the Bonnymede complex are in the Montecito Union School District.

In addition to beachside condo-townhouse options, sometimes one can find a place in the foothills with ocean views, as is the case with the Via Alicia property featured here. This home is not too far from the restaurants and shopping of Montecito or Santa Barbara, and offers panoramic views over most all of Montecito to the mountains and ocean beyond. It is located in the Cold Spring School District.

So take a look, take your pick, (foothills or ocean), and move in for the holidays.

1386 Plaza Pacifica: $1,300,000

Escape to the beach in this seaside condo. Stylishly renovated, this 1,040+/- square-foot, 1-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom condo offers floor-toceiling windows, a fireplace, and chic finishings, all within the guard-gated community of Bonnymede. This is an interesting (price point) opportunity to buy a “done” unit and move right in and enjoy. Spacious enough for full-time living for a single or a couple, while offering weekend and holiday getaway options as well. The Bonnymede complex is just a couple of short blocks away from the restaurants and shopping on Coast Village Road, and is literally across the street from the Biltmore.

This recently upgraded two-story townhouse boasts vistas across the complex toward the ocean. The central location is close to the pool, tennis courts, and just a short stroll to the beach. This is an end unit, which provides additional sun time in the afternoons. The recent remodel includes a new kitchen, heating and A/C, painting, and carpeting. There is a two-car underground garage with elevator. This unit is also in the Bonnymede complex.

122 Via Alicia: $1,795,000

This home on Via Alicia has been featured in past columns, and I am surprised to find it still on the market. For a buyer who wants views, a turn-key lifestyle and even Cold Spring School attendance area, this townhouse is an attractive option. The home offers ocean and mountain views from the living room, dining room, kitchen and master bedroom. There are two bedrooms, two baths upstairs, and an office/den (possible third bedroom) and full bath on the main level. Further filling out the nearly 3,000 square feet of living space is the family room, breakfast area, plus formal dining room, three fireplaces, central A/C, central vacuum and two-car garage. This is a hilltop gated complex of only 11 units featuring a pool and spa with ocean and city views.

1367 Plaza Pacifica: $4,750,000

Incredible oceanfront opportunity within the guard-gated Bonnymede complex. This is a corner unit with lots of light, and a spacious oceanfront patio.

The unit is situated on the ground floor, with unobstructed ocean and island views; from Ventura to the Santa Barbara Harbor. The home was recently renovated, with attention to detail, and includes a stunning new kitchen with custom cabinetry and top-of-the-line appliances.

Ocean views impress, from the master, guest bedroom, and living areas. There are fireplaces in the living room and master bedroom. Additionally, the master suite has direct access to the oceanfront patio. This is a rare opportunity to purchase and enjoy a turn-key oceanfront unit. Tennis court and swimming pool on the complex grounds, not to mention the close-to-town location, make this an enticing option for the fortunate few who can afford an oceanfront home.

For more information on these listings, contact your Santa Barbara area realtor, or if you are not working with anyone, I’d be happy to answer questions or arrange a showing: Mark@Villagesite.com or call/text 805-698-2174 and see my website www.MontecitoBestBuys.com.

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Joan, who was a near neighbor on Manhattan’s Upper Eastside, invited me to her magnificent pad off Fifth Avenue a number of times.

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Looking Back at Lady Di It is hard to believe it is 17 years since Princess Diana left us for a more heavenly destination after her tragic car accident in Paris.

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I had last seen the former HRH two months earlier at a socially gridlocked reception at Christie’s, the New York auction house, just 24 hours before a selection of her evening gowns was sold off for charity, which I was covering for ABC and CNN. In the ensuing six weeks, I appeared on more than 80 TV talk and news shows in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

It was a time I will never forget...

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The new cafeteria building proposed for Montecito Union School. The school’s Measure Q will be on November’s ballot, asking taxpayers to help fund the $27-million remodel and expansion project.

District is brought on campus each day to provide a satellite menu.) “We estimate at least 250 students will use the cafeteria to buy a hot lunch every day,” Murphy said.

The proposed plan will include a complete overhaul of the school’s infrastructure, such as modern plumbing, electrical lines, and gas lines, as well as water-saving measures and energy-efficient aspects. The roofs and doors on the current buildings will also be replaced. Other project components include new storage and shed buildings, realignment of the ball fields, an expanded media center, and an area for interior physical education.

One of the most significant pieces of the plan is the reconfiguration of the parking lots, in an attempt to get pick-up and drop-off traffic off San Ysidro Road. “Frankly I’m embarrassed about the congestion we cause the nearby streets,” Murphy said. “It’s not a good situation.” The plan calls for adding 38 parking spaces, some

of which are ADA accessible, in the two lots accessed from San Ysidro, as well as removing the current parking lot on School House Road. The expanded lots will also include room for cars to queue for drop-off and pick-up. “We’ve increased the queuing potential significantly,” Cline said, explaining that 71 cars will be able to line up in the lots, removing congestion from San Ysidro. Part of the plan includes adding left turn-out lanes on San Ysidro, so drivers not going to the school can bypass the traffic.

As part of the strategic plan, the campus will be more secure, with fewer entry points. “We want the kids to get used to entering the school through the historic main doors on the main building,” Cline said, adding that kindergartners will have their own drop-off location.

Neighbors on School House Road voiced concern over the proximity of the cafeteria to their properties, and the potential noise of trash and delivery trucks. One neighbor said

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“Our biggest concern is the impact to the community,” said Land Use chair Tom Bollay. Cline said many decisions were based on conversations with neighbors, and that screening would be added around the new building.

The project, which Murphy estimates will cost $27,150,000, will be paid for by bond Measure Q, which will be on the ballot in November.

“The school has not had a bond measure on the ballot for seventeen years,” Murphy said. The cost to taxpayers: $12 per $100,000 of assessed valuation per year.

If the bond passes, a full Environmental Impact Report of the project would be required, as well as a Historic Resource Report on the adobe on the campus. Work could begin as early as June 2016, with the most impactful construction scheduled first, including the parking lots, new buildings, ADA compliance, and other immediate issues. The project is expected to take five years to complete.

Murphy says enrollment at the school is at a 12-year high, with roughly 500 kids enrolling this year. “We really have outgrown our campus,” she said.

The project is exempt from the county planning process, but Murphy says the school board is committed to working with the community and neighbors to ease concern. The board has scheduled two upcoming meetings for members of the community to see renderings and get details about Measure Q. They are scheduled for September 25 and October 10, with the time to be announced.

Beth Amine’s Joyous Movement

In other Friendship Center news, dance instructor Beth Amine has started a funding campaign to fur-

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ther develop her senior dance and fitness program that she teaches at the facility and elsewhere around Santa Barbara.

Amine has been teaching the program, called Joyous Movement, for decades; it was developed for seniors with early memory loss, Alzheimer’s and dementia. “I’ve seen amazing and gratifying results in the individuals I work with,” she says. “With Joyous Movement, I’ve had amazing results in the improvement of the physical, mental, and spiritual well being of this growing population.”

The program also gets seniors moving, both while sitting and standing.

Because Amine is only able to work with about 100 seniors per week using Joyous Movement techniques, she is seeking funding to film her work, in order to be able to offer video versions of the classes to nursing and retirement communities across the country. Once the videos are produced, they’ll be available online.

Amine has started a crowd-funding page at www.startsomegood.com/ joyousmovement. The page is full of more information about her program, including a video showing her at work at Friendship Center.

Corrections & Omissions

In last week’s cover story (MJ # 20/33), we gave you an update on Bill Dalziel, who has been keeping trout alive in Montecito Creek for the past 15 years. Recently, he has had help from generous members of the Montecito community, who paid for a water tank to be installed on his driveway. The tank, its installation, and the water used to keep the pond full have all been paid for through donations, as well as the most laborious part of the project: trucking the water is being provided free of charge by A-1 Water, a fact that was unclear in last week’s story.

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Sigrid Toye with SBMM patron and board member Silvio di Loreto at the beer tasting

dark-brown ale). During the Revolution, brewing operations were established in the colonies. It had previously come from London. Eventually, Jefferson had a small brew house at Monticello.

One of the first beers to originate in the U.S. began during the gold rush in California. Since the weather was warmer and they had no ice, they had to ferment at warmer temperatures producing a hybrid beer that became known as steam beer. In 1965, the Maytag appliance heir Fritz Maytag bought a failing steam brewery, Anchor Brewing Co. It became one of the first great craft beers, revered in the whole world.

The term “Steam Beer” is now legally owned by Anchor. Others must call their beers in this style, California common.

And so we left with the maritime knowledge about how beer is forever linked in that history. So much for bottled water. Let’s drink beer!

The SBMM continually has temporary exhibits among the permanent and frequent lectures open to the public. To date, 81,000 school children from the area have participated along with countless adults at 113 Harbor Way, Suite 190. Check out sbmm.org.

Artists galore at the studio artists’ reception: Kathleen Elsey, Laurie MacMillan, Pat Calonne, and Diane Giles

of the fine art of the America Riviera with 36 artists participating. The weekend kicked off with a wine reception at Corridan Gallery on Milpas Street, where each artist had one painting displayed. Guests met and mingled with the artists, and bought tickets for Saturday and Sundays self-guided tours of their studios.

The studios range from Montecito, Santa Barbara, Goleta, and into Buellton. A distinguishing factor of SBSA is that membership is juried so participating artists are top professionals. Many have had works showcased in galleries, museums, and private and corporate collections from New York and Los Angeles to Paris and elsewhere. The art is as diverse as the artists ranging from landscape, contemporary, and figurative painting to sculpture, mosaics, and assemblage.

Since Santa Barbara has become a worldwide destination for fans of weather, wine, and weddings, its no wonder this tour draws regional, national, and international collectors, as well as interior designers and gallery owners. Why not a nice trip to

Santa Barbara? As SBSA board president Francis Scorzelli says, “The Open Studios Tour gives art collectors and enthusiasts a rare chance to experience art outside of a gallery or museum setting.”

The event proceeds will go to Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Healing Arts program. Research has shown patients recover more quickly and use less medication when exposed to various artistic elements.

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It’s by invitation only, so call 963-3303 for information. There will be a live auction and a paddle raise.

Leni Fe Bland is the honorary chair and Keith Mautino is event chair. Keith hosted a lovely al fresco luncheon for his committee at the Santa Barbara Club. When we toasted Harry, he modestly replied, “You never do anything alone. Someone always helps.” And then Keith passed around, what else, but SEE’s chocolates for dessert. SEE’s mantra is “Restoring Sight, Transforming Lives” – and our contributions all help. •MJ

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

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

BID NO. 5346

BID NO. 5351

DUE DATE & TIME: September 18, 2014 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

DUE DATE & TIME: September 24, 2014 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

Santa Barbara Police Department Perimeter Security Gates

Vegetation Clearance at Jimeno Garcia/Canyon

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on September 11, 2014 at 10:00 a.m., at the Santa Barbara Police Department, located at 215 E. Figueroa St., Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

NOTE: Mandatory pre-bid meeting is not required for those who attended the Mandatory pre-bid meeting on August 27, 2014.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California B (General Building), C13 (Fencing), OR C61/D28 (Door’s Gates and Activating Devices) Contractor’s License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

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

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

of Santa Barbara County on August 7, 2014. 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 Jan Morales.

FBN No. 2014-0002315.

Published August 27, September 3, 10, 17, 2014.

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

Published: September 3, 2014 Montecito Journal

543 Live Oaks Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Ruby Buddemeyer, 543 Live Oaks Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Zariana Hayes, 2206 Modoc Road #1, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 30, 2014. 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,

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An on-site Mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 11:00 a.m., at The Santa Barbara County Bowl (main parking lot), 1122 N Milpas St, Santa Barbara, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. There will be a short hike of approximately one mile to view the project area. Attendance at this meeting is required for bid to be considered.

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

by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages.

If there is a difference between the prevailing wage and living wage rates, bidder shall pay not less than the higher wage rate.

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C61 Limited Specialty License /D49 Tree Service or a C27 Landscaping Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess either of the above-mentioned licenses and be otherwise deemed to be qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

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

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

County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2014-0002221.

Published August 20, 27, September 3, 10, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Acquisotic; Bruce Gombrelli Music; Codewise Design, 315 Meigs Road STE

Published: September 3, 2014 Montecito Journal

A516, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Bruce Gombrelli, 5700 Via Real Unit 48, Carpinteria, CA 93103.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 18, 2014. 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

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PUBLIC NOTICES the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer.

FBN No. 2014-0002405.

Published August 20, 27, September 3, 10, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Exercise Fitness Step, 116 Nopal Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

Lonny Jon Fenske, 910 Blanca Place, Oxnard, CA 93036. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 5, 2014. 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 Jan Morales.

FBN No. 2014-0002290.

Published August 13, 20, 27, September 3, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Excellent Companion Home Care, 4517 Vieja Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Eric Gungon, 4517 Vieja Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 11, 2014. 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 Gabriel Cabello.

FBN No. 2014-0002344.

Published August 13, 20, 27, September 3, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Billy Burchett Scholarship Fund; Sergio Romero Scholarship Fund; The Star Jasmine Foundation, 631 1/2 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

The Star Jasmine Foundation, 126 Cooper Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk

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of Santa Barbara County on August 5, 2014. 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 Jan Morales.

FBN No. 2014-0002298.

Published August 13, 20, 27, September 3, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Wine Cask; Wine Cask, 813 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. SB Wine Cask Ventures, LLC, 813 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 1, 2014. 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 Melissa Mercer.

FBN No. 2014-0002250.

Published August 13, 20, 27, September 3, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Strategically Yours, Strategicallyurs, 3500 Hadley Way, Santa Maria, CA 93455. Ronald L Zell, 3500 Hadley Way, Santa Maria, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 5, 2014. 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 Eva Sanchez.

FBN No. 2014-0002289.

Published August 13, 20, 27, September 3, 2014.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1467635. To all interested parties: Petitioner Natalie Correa filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa

Barbara, for a decree changing name from Elias Jesus Gutierrez-Correa to Elias Jae Correa.

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 about must file a written objection that included 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 August 14, 2014, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: October 15, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 8/27, 9/3, 9/10, 9/17 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1468140. To all interested parties: Petitioner Laura Hernandez Santiago filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Laura Hernandez Santiago.

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 about must file a written objection that included 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 August 14, 2014, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: October 1, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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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)

ONGOING Jazz at the Plaza – A midtown shopping center during daylight doesn’t normally come to mind as a hotspot for jazz, but La Cumbre Plaza has done an admirable job in recent years presenting light concerts in the late afternoon during the waning days of summer. The events happen every Thursday evening in September, with complimentary music from mostly locals, along with optional wine and food tasting from 5-7 pm. Concerts take place in front of Macy’s, with limited seating available on a firstcome basis, but you’re welcome to bring your own chairs. The wine and food pairings ($15, cash only at the event) come from The Winehound and Marmalade Café, with proceeds earmarked for featured nonprofits.

This week (September 4): saxist John Crosse – a 30-year veteran music director and soloist with Paul Anka and a frequent contributor to film scores and TV soundtracks – brings his Jazz All-Stars to the Plaza to inaugurate the series tonight (Moms With Heart, beneficiary).

Next week (September 11): Teka and NewBossa, the veteran Santa Barbara songstress/guitarist/ singer and her fine supporting band play Brazilian jazz and more under

the setting sun (Angels Bearing Gifts, beneficiary). WHEN: 5-7 pm WHERE: 121 S. Hope Avenue COST: free INFO: 687-3500 or www.

ShopLaCumbre.com/Events/Jazz FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 Elemental, My Dear Saras – Sara Woodburn and Sara Norquay collaborate on the new exhibit at the Architectural Foundation Gallery, “Elemental: Color Woodcuts”, which was inspired by the four essential elements of air, water, earth, and fire. In addition to exploring the theme within the context of their own work, the artists made a set of collaborative prints using a call-andresponse process. While Woodburn’s compositions are site-specific and reality-based, Norquay’s work tends to be more imaginary and symbolic.

Compare and contrast the styles, and interact with both the art and the artists at tonight’s opening reception. WHEN: Reception 5-7 pm; exhibit on display through October 10 WHERE: 229 East Victoria Street COST: free INFO: 9656307 or www.afsb.org SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 “Requiem for the Bibliophile” – Museum of Contemporary Art Santa

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 Say Hay to New Series – After a hiatus for summer, the Cambridge Drive Concert Series returns with a Central Coast band boasting lots of local roots.

The Hay Dudes are mandolinist Kenny Blackwell, guitarist Mike Mullins and bassist Wally Barnick, who were friends and musical colleagues for more than three decades before coming together as an outfit for a backyard party five years ago. But it wasn’t until last October – following a recording session and tour with famed fiddler Byron Berline – that the group became official, even releasing a CD featuring their “Bluegrass and Americana fresh from the fields.” But we’ve seen them many times before, as Mullins (who lives in Carpinteria) and Barnick are two-thirds of the Cache Valley Drifters, the bluegrass band that held down a weekly gig at the Cold Springs Tavern in the mid-1990s, while Blackwell is a frequent visitor. Vancouver-born, Santa Barbara-based singer-songwriter Annie J. Dahlgren, who opens, has been making music since 1974, but has recently also branched beyond folk music. She co-wrote and co-produced the musical performed at the Center Stage Theater, co-wrote the screenplay for the locally created feature film, and is working on a series of mystery novels with local historian Neal Graffy that take place in Santa Barbara starting in 1908. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Cambridge Drive Community Church, 550 Cambridge Drive, Goleta COST: $10 in advance, $12 at the door INFO: 964-0436 or www. cambridgedrivechurch.org

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Last-ing Impression – The Last Internationale don’t sound anything like Bob Marley, Public Enemy, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, or even Rage Against the Machine – but those are the kinds of influential acts that have come up as comparisons for the new trio from New York City. It’s through Rage leader Tom Morello that Internationale’s former folkies Delila Paz and Edgey Pires (who met at a protest rally) found Rage drummer Brad Wilk to keep the beat, and hooked up with producer Brendan O’Brien (Rage, Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young) to oversee the recording of the band’s debut album, . Out only two weeks, the agit-rock ensemble’s disc – think Rage fronted by Patti Smith, as one critic put it – has solidified the group’s burgeoning cred among its antecedents, as they opened earlier this summer for Neil Young in Europe and have signed on to do the same for Robert Plant all fall. In between, however, there’s a headlining tour of clubs that includes a stop at Santa Barbara’s Velvet Jones tonight. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 423 State Street COST: $13 INFO: 965-8676 or www.velvet-jones.com Barbara presents a group exhibition that considers the library of the 21st century, acknowledging this ancient establishment’s cultural transformation and offering a diverse vision for the future. The library has held an important place in human history, serving not only as a “temple of books,” but as places for people to find peace and quiet, to read and think.

They have been intricate parts of the fabric that pulls a community together, illuminating the human condition and indexing knowledge in different societies. Nowadays, of course, digital technology and electronic data preservation have overtaken the literary world, changing the present and future of recorded knowledge, documentation, and memory. In this new exhibit, seven artists (Jorge Méndez Blake, Carlos Garaicoa, Nancy Gifford, David Horvitz, Emily Jacir, Xaviera Simmons, and Mickey Smith) present works in response to the current condition, introducing multiple perspectives on the modern library’s ongoing evolution. Concurrently on display: with a video installation that challenges how the limits of language affect the interpretation of creative work. WHEN: Opening reception 6-8 tonight; exhibits tomorrow through December 14 WHERE: 653 Paseo Nuevo (upstairs across from Center Stage Theater) COST: free INFO: 966-5373 or www. mcasantabarbara.org SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Taste of the Town – We’re coming to the end of summer’s crowded calendar of food-and-wine events,

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but as the saying goes, sometimes they save the best for last. Taste of the Town, which takes place at Riviera Park with its remarkable view of the city and the ocean, is no newbie – the event is celebrating its 33rd year as a fundraiser for The Arthritis Foundation Central Coast. And the formula hasn’t changed much at all: pair 40 of Santa Barbara’s finest restaurants with 40 more fabulous wineries – with virtually all of the focus on the stuff you’ll eat and drink. Sure, there’s a silent auction with some enviable swag, and live music by local fave David Tovar – but the true jewel here is the huge swath of sumptuous offerings from some local joints who don’t participate in many of the other events, including Alchemy Arts Center, the El Encanto, Louie’s California Bistro, Pascucci, The Palace Grill, and the culinary students at SBCC. Among the wineries pouring their fine varietals are rarely seen Arthur Earl, Adelaida, Grassini, Jaffurs, Mosby, Presqu’ile, Rusack, and Tolosa. Opal Restaurant & Bar coowners Tina Takaya and Richard Yates are this year’s co-chairs, and KEYT news anchor CJ Ward and K-LITE’s morning show host Catherine Remak serve as emcees. WHEN: Noon – 3 pm WHERE: 2030 Alameda Padre Serra COST: $125 in advance, $140 at the door INFO: 563-4685 or www.tasteofthetownsantabarbara.org Batter up – Baseball may no longer be “America’s pastime” – though with the advent of a new commissioner in January, perhaps something will be done to address pace of play and other issues that have made the sport a relic for younger generations. But it still 4 – 11 September 2014

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Weird-ly Hawaiian – Jim “Kimo” West is one of the few true masters of ki ho alu, otherwise known as Hawaiian slack key guitar, which features loose tensions on the strings (hence the name) and a laid-back sound. West’s style has its roots in the style’s rich history though his CDs feature original compositions as well as unique arrangements of traditional Hawaiian folk music. West has won Na Hoku Hanohano’s (the Hawaiian “Grammy”) and lots of other accolades. But in another guise, he’s also the longtime guitarist for “Weird Al” Yankovic, the master parodist whose career just hit the 30-year mark with a resurgence in popularity. West played all the guitars and most of the keyboard and synth parts on Yankovic’s , which topped Billboard’s album chart upon its release. Don’t expect any of that zaniness when West returns to SOhO tonight, accompanied by hula dancer Nani Edgar, vocalist Diana Tanaka, and special guests. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.org holds its appeal for plenty of people, including the rockers who created The Baseball Project back in 2007: Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, The Minus 5, R.E.M.) and Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate, Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3, Gutterball), who later fleshed out the band with drummer Linda Pitmon (Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3, Zuzu’s Petals) and R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and Mike Mills. The sport isn’t just a hook for the outfit – each of the band’s three albums, including last March’s , feature song inspired by baseball, like “Monument Park”, “The Babe”, “An Extra Inning of Love” and even “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”. Now out on one of their infrequent tours, The Baseball Project makes its Santa Barbara debut tonight in a special addition to the Sings Like Hell series at the Lobero. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 E. Canon Perdido Street COST: $30 INFO: 963-0761 or www. lobero.com Give a Whit – Wesla Whitfield grew up in Santa Maria, and the

Central Coast up to the Bay Area still serves as her home base. So it’s a little surprising that it’s taken the Santa Barbara Jazz Society (SBJS) a while to arrange a local appearance with the singer, who with her husband/ pianist/arranger Mike Greensill has played across the country for decades.

Whitfield, who was trained in both church and classical music, maintains a deep love for The Great American Songbook, and is capable of cabaret, jazz, and Broadway-style singing.

She’s played with symphonies across the nation, appeared on dozens of TV news and profile shows, and performed at the JVC Jazz Festival at Avery Fisher Hall. Together with Greensill, she’s made more than 20 recordings. Expect a wide-ranging set or two when they play SOhO this afternoon in the SBJS’s monthly gathering. WHEN: 1-4 pm WHERE: 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $25 ($15 for SBJS members, $7 member professional musicians and students) INFO: 9627776 or www.sohosb.org •MJ

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Tales from the Tavern – The Santa Ynez singer-songwriter series – which unlike the monthly Sings Like Hell concerts produces shows weekly or so for a short duration twice each year – gets underway for autumn with one of the true innovators of the genre. Beth Orton created the “folktronica” sound, a melding of folk music and electronica, via collaborations with William Orbit and the Chemical Brothers back in the mid-1990s. Her two solo albums of the period – 1996’s and in 1999 – cemented her sound before she moved toward a more traditional acoustic if band-backed approach with 2006’s and 2012’s . Tales is all about the solo singer-songwriter, though, with lots of time for introduction and introspection. So we expect we’ll see the solo acoustic version tonight in one of the series’ rare nights devoted to a single artist. Also coming this season: Catie Curtis/Eliza Gilkyson, Dave & Phil Alvin with the Guilty Ones, Michael Reno Harrell/Peter Mulvey, Marcia Ball, and Michael on Fire. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto Street, Santa Ynez COST: $34.25 INFO: 688-0383 or www. talesfromthetavern.com 4 – 11 September 2014

THU, OCT 2 / 7 PM / Granada THeaTre Characterized by his husky, burnished voice and ebullient sense of swing, legendary crooner Tony Bennett is a master whose interpretations have shaped the great American songbook.

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The Way It Was

by Hattie Beresford

Artists of the Meridian Studios: K-V

The fourth and last in a series of articles about the artists who worked for a time at the Meridian Studios.

Channing Peake’s last mural, entitled “Fiesta,” was completed circa 1984. Today it is installed at the Santa Barbara Airport (Photo by Jesse Alexander; courtesy of the Channing Peake Estate and the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission)

Richmond Kelsey, circa 1936, in front of one of his murals depicting early California life (Courtesy Kathi Brewster)

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ichmond “Dick” Irwin Kelsey (1905-1987) was born in San Diego and studied at the Otis Art Institute and L.A. Center Art School, as well as the Santa Barbara School of the Arts. By 1929, Frank Morely Fletcher, director of the Santa Barbara School of the Arts and Kelsey’s former instructor, had recruited Kelsey to conduct a course in lino printing at the school. In December 1930, the Art League of Santa Barbara at 15 East de la Guerra exhibited a selection of Kelsey’s work in etching, print, and oils. Kelsey also taught the art of making posters, illustrated book plates and greeting cards at a number of private schools in the area.

Kelsey went on to a successful career as a printmaker, painter, and muralist.

He leased a studio at the Meridian in 1935-36. In 1936, he painted murals depicting early California life for the Rotary Club service room at El Paseo.

In 1937, the Art and Frame Shop on Carrillo Street exhibited his work in water color and prints which included scenes from his travels in Mexico as well as California marine scenes, featuring, especially, a painting of the Point Loma Lighthouse.

From 1938-1950, Kelsey was art director for Walt Disney Studios and also moved into the field of commercial art. Later in life, he returned to the world of fine arts with watercolor landscapes. In 1951, a first showing of his paintings of the South Pacific was held in the Garden Room of Morrey’s South Sea Shop at El Paseo. The local review, however, was lukewarm, citing the negative effects on his art from years of working in the commercial field. Nevertheless, many of his works are held by the Smithsonian museum, which had a greater apprecia-

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tion of his skill and artistic aesthetic.

(Sources: Research by Kathi Brewster in Name File at Gledhill Library and Noticias 40/3) Virgina M. de Seigeur Litchfield (1894-1933) was born in San Diego and became known for her watercolor landscapes. In 1927-28, she leased a studio at the Meridian and taught at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts.

She later taught design at Scripps College in Claremont. (Artists in California: 1786-1940; ancestry.com) Channing Peake (1910-1989) was born in Marshall, Colorado. When he was a young child, the family moved to Keeler, California, where his father was a hotelkeeper for a few years before moving the family again to San Fernando. Channing’s artistic talents were fostered at San Fernando High School by his teacher, noted artist Barbara Morgan. Through her efforts, he won a scholarship to the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.

When Channing’s family moved to Santa Barbara in 1928-29, he applied for a scholarship to the Santa Barbara School of the Arts. Here, Peake developed as a mural painter and traveled to Mexico to develop his style.

He also made extensive trips to the American Southwest and was drawn to the Native American culture as a

The 1990 exhibition catalog contains a short biography written by her son, Stowe Catlin Phelps

subject for his art.

In 1935, he left Mexico for New York, where he lived for a while with his friend Jack Hamilton and studied at the Art Students League with the Italian muralist, Frederico (Rico) Lebrun. While there, he participated in two-government sponsored mural projects.

In 1938, Peake married Catherine Schott, whom he had initially met in Santa Barbara, where her prominent family had a second home. The newlyweds returned to Santa Barbara and became involved in ranch life, purchasing 1,600 acres in the Santa Ynez Valley and establishing Rancho Jabali, which became a source of imagery and inspiration for Peake. He also leased a studio at the Meridian in 1939-40.

Through the influence of Howard Washaw, Peake’s style began to incorporate a loose form of Cubism, and his work began to garner critical acclaim.

A Los Angeles Times critic said that Peake was “doing painting which for sheer force of design and color has no parallel on the Coast, perhaps in the country.” Exhibits of his work proliferated.

In 1957, Peake and Howard Washaw created the Don Quixote mural for the Santa Barbara Public Library. In 1958,

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Photo of portrait of Mary Osborne Craig, daughter of renown Santa Barbara architects James Osborne and Mary McLaughlin Craig (Courtesy of Pamela Skewes-Cox)

his marriage to Catherine ended. The following year, he moved to Paris and found a new artistic expression through non-objective painting. He became increasingly dissatisfied with Paris and life in general, however, and moved for a while to Mexico, then Rome, then back to California. Along the way, he married four more times.

Channing Peake’s last mural was painted in 1984 for the El Paseo Restaurant in Santa Barbara. This mural is now installed at the new Santa Barbara Airport. The first-floor art gallery of the Santa Barbara County Building is named in his honor. A more thorough biography of Peake can be found at channingpeakgallery. com/biography/.

Edith Catlin Phelps (1875-1961) was born into a prominent New York merchant family. She and her siblings were encouraged to develop their artistic talents, so Edith, showing a proclivity for art, became the youngest student of the day to study at the Art Students League of New York.

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Extensive travels through Europe produced scenes like “Market Scene at Giverny” (Courtesy of Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts)

Meridian artist Arthur Merton Hazard was a master of the Boston School of portraiture as in 1903’s “The Letter” seen here (Courtesy Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery)

In addition to watercolors and oils, Edith Catlin Phelps created etchings such as “Tar Pots” (Courtesy of Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts)

her mother chaperoned her on trips to Europe that combined travel with the study of art.

In 1907, she married Stowe Phelps, one of the most prominent bachelors in Manhattan who worked as an architect with the renowned Grosvenor Atterbury. By that time, she had made more than 22 trips to Europe. She had studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the Académie Vitti. Her honeymoon was spent travelling around the world from San Francisco to Russia and to the Orient.

After the honeymoon, the couple established a permanent home on East

After Hazard came to California, he started painting sun-filled garden, desert, and coastal scenes as in “The Pergola” circa 1925 (Courtesy Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery)

74th Street in New York where Edith had a studio and raised three children. In 1911, with further European trips suspended, she began studying with Charles Hawthorne at his Cape Cod School of Art. The Phelps and Hawthorne families became good friends, and Edith’s work developed tremendously through his tutelage.

In 1927, Stowe Phelps retired from architecture and the family returned to Europe for the next six years. Her son remembers enjoying the beach at the Lido with his sisters and father while Edith took the ferry to Venice, where she would be met by a local gondolier who took her to picturesque bridges and along quiet waterways.

She would set up her easel and stool in the gondola and blissfully paint the day away. During their six years in Europe, the family lived in a variety of locales, all of which found expression on her canvases.

Weary of the expatriate life, the couple returned to the United States in 1933. Eschewing the dreary winter cold of the Eastern seaboard, they settled on Santa Barbara, where Edith rented a studio at the Meridian from 1934 until 1938. At that time, the couple moved to Montecito, where her husband designed and built a large studio.

During these years, she exhibited constantly throughout California and executed many commissions. Among those were two paintings of “Mrs. Heberton’s House,” or “El Hogar,” the Montecito home that George Washington Smith had designed for himself and his wife in 1916, and which had launched his career. She also painted portraits of notable locals, like Mrs. Charles Pelham Greenough, neighbor Pamela Ballard, Mrs. Edward Baring-Gould, Miss Cudahy, Mrs. Anne Stow Fithian, and Mary Osborne Craig, daughter of Santa Barbara architects Mary McLaughlin and James Osborne Craig.

She also found interesting characters and types as subjects for her brush.

One such subject was “The Professor,” renowned resident of Lillian Child’s Hobo Jungle. One day Edith called for him and, as the News-Press reported, “brought him to her Spanish-style studio in the garden of her Miramar Lane estate where she painted him with a sad look in his eyes under his signature big hat, as if he were dreaming of his boyhood in Prussia.” She paid him $18. She also painted young Spanish girls at first communion and singers of spirituals at one of the AfricanAmerican churches in Santa Barbara.

Edith had been active in war work during WWI and was decorated by the Red Cross and by the French government with the Medaille de la Reconnaissance. During WWII, she painted 16 triptychs in seven different designs for use by the armed services as altarpieces. During 1942 and ’43, she completed 438 sketches of servicemen who came to the AWVS snack bar in Santa Barbara.

During her lifetime, her etchings and oil and watercolor paintings were exhibited at more than 80 museums, galleries, and shows in the United States. These include the Art Institute of Chicago, a one-woman show at the Milch Galleries in New York, and the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Diego. Locally, the Faulkner Gallery at the Santa Barbara Public Library and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art have seen her work.

(News-Press 15 June 1940, 8 July 1961; Ancestry.com; “Edith Catlin Phelps: A Second Look at an Early Provincetown Painter” with Introduction by her son, Stowe Catlin Phelps) Ella Snowden Valk (1866-1945) was born in Virginia and studied art in Paris. Her work was mainly figurative, and she specialized in miniatures.

She exhibited at the Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915 in San Francisco.

In 1926-27, he had a studio at the Meridian in 1926-27 and lived on Golf Club Road in Santa Barbara for many years. (Art and Artists in California; California Artist)

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