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Casa Del Sol manager Alfredo Arroyo says “Time wasn’t on our side” as eatery closes its doors, p. 6

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 11 • MOVIE GUIDE, P. 33 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 34

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Magnus, Anthony, Maddy, Isa, and Kevin – ages 2 to 21 – are the living faces of Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation efforts (story on p.30) Seeing Double

Duo of luxury condominiums with elevators and rooftop decks close to being listed on Coast Village Road, p. 26

Up For Grabs

Palmer Jackson’s historic Rancho San Carlos and its 237 acres on market for unparalleled $125 million, p. 20

Music Makers

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On the Water Front

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Montecito Miscellany

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Letters to the Editor

Drought doubt: Bob Hazard has been wading for rain while mapping out additional rationing strategies for the ongoing water famine Café Del Sol shutting down; Rancho San Carlos for sale; author Ann Louis Bardach; Judi and Shari Zucker write cookbook; Hillary Hauser celebrates birthday and website; Avocado Festival; lots of love for Yachts of Love; Taste of the Town and Connoisseurs’ Circle; Dee Elias and The Beatles; Catherine Gee on fashion; RIP, Joan Rivers Carolee Krieger on water; goodbye, Casa Del Sol; James Garcia’s true stories; Beverley Jackson’s memories; Edwin C. Martin, Jr. sounds off again; Lorraine Morey has no love for President Obama; Stephen Careaga and Hugh Gunter take stock of Measure P; and Jane Dyruff on SBCC Bond S

10 Village Beat

Montecito Association discusses MUS remodel and Miramar; MWD moves forward with desal plant; luxury condos to be listed on Coast Village Road; Friendship Center news

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14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner stands outside “Under the Harvest Sun,” goes deep into the Heart of Hospice, enjoys “Soirée at Los Suenos” and wishes Frank Umanzio happy birthday

19 Ernie’s World

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22 On Entertainment

Steve Libowitz takes a look at Camerata Pacifica’s 25 years through the eyes of Adrian Spence; best of “The Met” at Hahn Hall; Ernie & the Emperors; the Santa Barbara LOL fest; SB Symposium on Human Development; and ArtWalk in the Funk Zone

30 Coming & Going

James Buckley embraces the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation, now in its 12th year as a non-profit support system thanks to the likes of Nikki Katz and Carol Burnett

31 Movie Showtimes 32 Legal Advertisements 34 Calendar of Events

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ON THE WATER FRONT

by Bob Hazard

Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club

Go Local for Water Security

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s we inch our way through September, we are fast approaching the start of the new Montecito Water District (MWD) year with barely enough water in the bank to satisfy current rationing allotments for another 12 months. Beginning October 1, all MWD water customers will see a 7.4 percent increase in both meter charges and rates for water consumed. This is Phase II of a five-year mandated rate increase of 55 percent, which included a 16.3 percent rate increase last year, followed by four consecutive years of 7.4 percent increases.

According to MWD Water News Summer 2013, the five-year MWD rate increase was needed “to continue to provide safe, reliable water service to its customers, fund replacement of 23 miles of aging pipes (which has been delayed), and purchase and transport state water from a state water project that keeps rising in cost, consuming 62 percent of MWD’s operational expenses.” Six months after launching the five-year rate increase, MWD announced the most severe mandatory rationing plan in the state, citing that without such a plan, water taps in Montecito would go dry by the third week in July 2015.

Evaluating the Performance of MWD

The stated mission of MWD is short and succinct: “Provide an adequate and reliable supply of high-quality water to the residents of Montecito and Summerland at the most reasonable cost.” Whom do we hold accountable for ensuring that Montecito has an adequate supply of reasonably priced water?

MWD identifies three culprits: the unprecedented record drought, the lack of local aquifers, and the disastrous inability of the state to meet its promises to deliver water in a drought emergency.

Montecito suffers from an inadequate supply of groundwater compared to other California communities. Without an ability to bank adequate water reserves in periods of heavy rainfall, only MWD, among the 14 districts in Santa Barbara County, has had to impose mandatory rationing allocations and punitive fines to bring supply and demand into better balance.

Critics point to Montecito’s excessive use of landscaping. When Governor Brown called for a statewide cut of 20 percent through conservation efforts, Montecito residents responded with a remarkable 42 percent cut in water usage.

The price we have paid is burnt-out lawns, millions of dollars in damaged landscaping, and now, an uptick in distressed and dying trees. The irony is that while Montecito is tinder-dry and relying on imported water trucks to save its fabled foliage, nearby lawns, and golf courses in Brentwood, Bel Air and Beverly Hills – as well as the Bay Area and Orange County – remain lush and green.

Montecito’s groundwater is being depleted at an alarming rate. Well diggers are working overtime to stick more straws deeper into our dwindling aquifer.

Currently, there are 55 pending permit applications for new wells in Montecito.

Drilling more and deeper private wells at a cost of $300,000 per pop will only deplete Montecito’s diminishing supply of groundwater at a faster rate.

Competition for the shrinking supply of California water is ferocious and getting worse. Agricultural interests with multiple sources of water, or other districts selling water at inflated prices, face local lawsuits for transferring water out of their local areas. This puts added pressure on MWD to define and develop new sources of water. The reality is that Montecito cannot conserve or buy its way out of a prolonged drought.

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To its credit, MWD recognizes that this community must wean itself away from the unreliable promise of state water. The best option is to go local, seeking a new, reliable supply of potable water. Darlene Bierig, president of the MWD Board, said it well last month: “Negotiations will continue with the City of Santa Barbara for joint desalination use, but at this point, it is imperative that MWD take the initial steps to explore building its own plant.”

Last month, MWD allocated up to $50,000 to fund a three-month consulting study by RBF Consulting. Two RBF consulting engineers, Kevin Thomas, project manager, and Paul Findley, permit advisor, will visit MWD to: research available documents on desal; determine future water needs and supply; evaluate potential desalination sites in Montecito; estimate costs, timeframes, and regulatory hurdles; and prepare and present a Conceptual Feasibility Report to MWD and the community next month (October).

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by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail before moving to New York to write for Rupert Murdoch’s newly launched Star magazine in 1978; Richard later wrote for New York magazine’s “Intelligencer”. He continues to make regular appearances on CBS, ABC, and CNN, and moved to Montecito seven years ago.

Losing Our Sol

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ne of our rarefied enclave’s iconic watering holes, Café Del Sol, closed its doors at the weekend after nearly half a century in business.

The popular Mexican eatery, started by 79-year-old Jack Sears, was launched in the upper village in the premises of Pierre Lafond’s Wine Bistro before moving to its longtime location just a tiara’s toss away from the Andree Clark Bird Refuge.

“We couldn’t work out a long-term lease agreement with the new property owner, Rick Sanders, and the business needed a lot of financial investment to make it all worthwhile,” says manager and Jack’s heir apparent, Alfredo Arroyo, 51, who took over running the bustling spot in December.

“I think Rick wants to go in a different direction.”

Alfredo Arroyo, Manny Tellez, with Café Del Sol patrons Patricia Hines and Margarita Lande (photo by Priscllla)

Sanders, a former owner of the Hotel Andalucia downtown – now renamed the Canary – bought the

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Why Montecito is in a Water Crisis

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ontecito is one of the most beautiful residential communities on the planet. So how did we end up with the worst water crisis in the state? We need to look back on past mistakes and consider our possible responses to the current situation. To paraphrase Santayana’s axiom, we don’t want to repeat our errors simply because we forgot our history.

Some background: In 1960, Jerry Brown’s father, Pat Brown, pushed hard to build the State Water Project (SWP). Enthusiasm for the project was by no means unanimous. Former California governor Earl Warren told Congress in 1951 that the SWP should never be built because there wasn’t enough available water to make it worthwhile. But Brown persuaded voters to support the project by the narrowest of margins, maintaining it would cost a fraction of its ultimate price tag. Such extreme cost underestimation is typical for state projects, as we shall see.

Santa Barbara voters first considered hooking up to the SWP in 1979.

By that time, the truth about the project’s unreliability and its cost to the county’s ratepayers was well known, and the measure failed by 70 percent.

Fast forward to 1987 and the start of another strong drought. By 1991, a group known as “YES on State Water” got the Santa Barbara SWP hook-up back on the ballot. At the same time, environmentalists offered a desalination plant measure. Both measures passed.

Montecito joined with Santa Barbara to build the desal plant, which cost $34 million and had an annual production capacity of 10,000 acre feet (AF) of drinking water. The water produced from the plant would be shared by the City of Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Montecito. After assurances from the state Department of Water Resources (DWR) that state water was reliable, Montecito voters also passed bonds to a take 3,000 AF of water from the State Water Project.

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DWR’s “guarantees,” however, were never realized. Since the SWP hook-up came online in 1998, it has delivered only 36 percent of the water promised. And this year, when we need it the most, it has delivered only five percent. The SWP hook-up, including the 144 miles of pipeline from Kettleman City in Kern County to Lake Cachuma, ended up costing Santa Barbara County ratepayers almost $60 million a year. We will remain on the hook for this until 2038, with only a small reduction in 2022.

By the time Montecito’s SWP bonds are paid off, Montecito ratepayers will have forked out millions of dollars, while not receiving the water they were promised.

When former 3rd District supervisor Bill Wallace heard about the cost comparison between desal and state water, he weighed in with a very salient point: the ratepayers of Santa Barbara could build almost two desal plants every year for what we are paying for state water. Now obviously, we don’t need two desal plants every year; but Mr. Wallace’s trenchant observation underscores the folly of relying on the State Water Project.

Some relevant facts will clarify just why Montecito is worse off than most other communities in California.

First, we do not have access to a significant ground water basin. Second, we have allowed ourselves to be yoked to the highly unreliable SWP. In addition, the financial burden imposed by our SWP hook-up has hobbled the ability of the Montecito Water District to meet its bond obligations. In plain language, we contracted for way too much SWP water. That is why our state water bill is so high. Montecito, with 3,500 meters, took the same state water allocation as the City of Santa Barbara with 25,000 meters.

In 1991, at the time of the state water ballot, Montecito had water sales revenues of about $1 million.

Today, annual revenue to our water district is approximately $11.7 million – and each and every year, almost $6 million of that amount must be devoted to paying Montecito’s share of the revenue bonds.

But what about the future? First and foremost, we must take care not to make a bad situation worse. The latest quick fix proposed by the state is a boondoggle known as the Twin Tunnels. This project consists of two, 35-mile long tunnels, each 40-feet wide (big enough to accommodate a flying piper cub), buried 150 feet in seismically active soil. Cost estimates, inclusive of interest and overruns, range up to $67 billion. This situation smacks of the state’s original SWP low-ball cost estimates in 1960, and its disingenuous reprise of low estimates for our hook-up to the SWP in the 1990s. DWR assured us our hook-

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up would cost Santa Barbara County “only” $270 million. But when cost overruns and interest are folded in, we are actually paying $1.76 billion.

Fool us once, shame on the state. Fool us twice, shame on us. So let’s not let DWR fool us a third time!

Further, there simply isn’t enough water in California to justify the Twin Tunnels.

The state already has water rights claims for 5½ times more water than actually exists. That figure has been provided by analysts at the California Water Impact Network, following three years of Public Records Act and Freedom of Information Act requests.

Recent studies by UC Davis confirm this.

Here is the bottom line: There are approximately 29 million AF of consumptive water available in the watersheds of the Sacramento River, the San Joaquin River, and the Trinity River. Water rights claims are 153.7 million acres. The difference between these two figures is known as “paper water” – water that exists only in state documents, not in the real world.

To compound the issue, water law gives priority to certain water rights.

SWP water rights are among the most “junior” of water rights, so when needed surface water adjudication ultimately occurs, the SWP may find itself with no water rights at all. We must remember the warning of Governor Earl Warren way back in 1951.

What is the takeaway from all this for Montecito?

We must rely only on locally available water, because we can’t count on the state. We must stop Santa Barbara from extending State Water Project contracts another 50 years. Doing so would allow the state to proceed with questionable projects like the Twin Tunnels, without voter approval. Our board of supervisors has the power to stop this extension. They should do it now.

Desal is by no means a universal solution, but it may be essential to Montecito’s literal survival. We must vigorously pursue conservation and recycling programs, including the use of reclaimed water for our golf courses and parks. We must also continue a tiered pricing structure.

Our future, in short, lies in our own hands. We can no longer entrust it to the state.

Carolee Krieger Montecito (Ms Krieger is president and executive director of the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN), online at www.c-win. org.)

Based on True Stories

The recent letter from Mr. Bonser (“It Didn’t Happen,” MJ # 20/34) quite correctly exposes an Urban 11 – 18 September 2014

Myth circulated by the Internet in which a girl kills two home invaders with a shotgun. However, the story itself may be a compilation of several true incidents.

In 1988, in Switzer, South Carolina, an 11-year-old boy, who was home alone, killed two intruders with a .22-caliber rifle. The story was reported in the local newspaper, The Chronicle Telegram, and picked up by the Associated Press. In December 2006, in Harris County, Texas, a 17-year-old alone in the house killed two intruders with a shotgun. The story was covered by KHOU-TV Houston. In 2012, in Oklahoma, a 12-year-old girl shot and wounded a burglar. The girl was home alone when the intruder broke into her home. The girl got her mother ’s .40-caliber Glock and hid in a closet.

When the burglar began to open the closet, the girl shot the intruder, who then fled the house. This story was reported on October 20, 2012, by ABC News.

I do not know the intent of the writer of the original letter. However, firearms are one useful self-defense tool, and, as these incidents show, even children who have been trained can properly use these tools to defend themselves and their homes.

James Garcia Santa Barbara

Adios, Café Del Sol

On Sunday afternoon, September 7, my wife and I attended a birthday celebration for one of the “regulars” at Café Del Sol. It was also a wake for the cafe.

I occasionally went to the café in the upper village starting in about 1970 but did not become a regular until it was moved across from the bird refuge in about 1990 (briefly and ridiculously called Quackers). My wife, Gray, threw a 50th birthday party for me at the time, and we have had dinner there with friends every Friday since then.

We also used the bar as a stop for a cocktail, usually martini for me and margarita for Gray, on the way home from work during the week. We got to know the waitresses, waiters, busboys, and bartenders on a first-name basis.

Alfredo, who started as a busboy more than 30 years ago, was the perfect host. The restaurant/bar was always a busy, friendly place with good food and drinks. Now it is gone and all the wonderful employees have to find work elsewhere after so many years of service. I hope something good can come of this but, right now, to say we feel sad is a gross understatement.

Marvin A. Bauer Summerland 11 – 18 September 2014

Saving Glass

I enjoyed reading Hattie Beresford’s recent article (“The Way It Was” MJ # 20/32). I remember as a child dining with my parents at El Mirasol and liking “the pretty pictures all over the wall.” I didn’t know murals at that age.

I was especially interested in the DuPont house that was owned by two couples who were great friends of mine – Dorothy and Burl Ives, and before them Sylvia and Lincoln Dellar. Sylvia invited me over for lunch one day to see the house before she remodeled it. We were eating tuna sandwiches in the divine dining room where I was enchanted with the cacti painted silver and gold wall coverings when Sylvia announced, “I’m going to paint this room a champagne color.”

I nearly chocked to death on the tuna before I started shouting, “You can’t! You can’t!” And when I calmed down, I did convince her logically to leave them alone. So I take a bit of pride in the wall painting’s survival.

Another bit about the house: superrich Amy DuPont found out there was a mosaic artist in town who paid for pieces of broken glass. So Miss DuPont had every drop of glass saved and after dinner the staff had to break them into small pieces. The butler insisted she buy them goggles to wear during this work to protect their eyes from flying shards. Well the artist never bought any, but the process continued. Sylvia and Linc had to have over five tons of broken glass removed from their basement after they moved in!

Thanks for bringing back these memories.

Beverley Jackson Montecito

Ten-Year Drought?

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by Kelly Mahan

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Montecito Association Hears from Miramar & MUS

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t this month’s Montecito Association (MA) board meeting, Miramar manager of development Evan Krenzien reported that the county has deemed the project’s permit application, which was submitted last month, incomplete. Issues included the need for more information about retaining walls, grading quantities, landscaping, and screening, all items the Miramar team is working to address, Krenzien said.

The revised application will be resubmitted later this week, and following acceptance of the application, the environmental review process will begin.

The Miramar was conceptually heard by the Montecito Board of

Architectural Review last month; it is expected to be heard by the Montecito Planning Commission early next year. The hotel and resort project (the third rendition from owner Rick Caruso) has a “can and will serve” letter from Montecito Water District (MWD), and MWD board president Darlene Bierig said the hotel is an active customer of the district. “They will be treated as all other commercial customers,” she said.

Also at the MA meeting, a discussion of the Montecito Union School remodel took place, with MUS superintendent Tammy Murphy explaining to the board the immediate need to bring the campus up to code. “The school is in dire needs of upgrades,” she said. “I’ve been an educator for

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thirty years, and I’ve never been in a school that doesn’t have a cafeteria,” she added. The plans call for modernization of current buildings, ADA compliance, redesign of the parking lots and traffic pattern, a new five-classroom building, a new cafeteria building and outdoor amphitheater space, and new district and facilities offices. For an extensive look at the project, check out last week’s cover story (MJ # 20/34).

“We value this community, and we want everyone to feel good about what we are doing,” Murphy said before architect Tyson Cline presented the plans to a full audience. Cline said 71 percent of the project is to fix critical deficiencies and deferred maintenance on campus. This includes outdated fire alarms, electrical and plumbing issues, asbestos, lead, and mold removal, replacement of the windows with shatterproof versions, and complying with ADA guidelines by adding ramps, accessible bathrooms, sinks, counters, doors, and more. This also includes parking and traffic issues, water conservation and energy efficiency, addressing the

need for more bathrooms and an on-site cafeteria, and modernization of the existing classrooms.

The original price tag on the project was $42 million, but the newer, scaled-back version is expected to cost $27,150,000, paid for by bond Measure Q, which will be on the ballot in November. “We really whittled it down to the bare minimum of infrastructure needs,” Cline said.

Members of the audience had many questions including Kellam de Forest, who asked Murphy about the need for a cafeteria. She responded that federal guidelines have changed, and the nutritional and health standards required at public elementary schools are what prompted the addition of the cafeteria building. “We need an appropriate facility to prepare meals,” she said, adding that the health department has strict guidelines on how food can be prepared and served.

Some neighbors are upset with the proposed remodel, including Judy Blankenship, who has lived on

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ity, or a shared desalination facility with the City of Santa Barbara, or a regional desalination facility, perhaps at Vandenberg, providing desal water to that strategic military base and to all participating Santa Barbara County communities.

All options need to be explored from a cost and long-term security standpoint.

affair with his father’s multi-billion dollar Twin Tunnels project, combined with environmental concerns, leads local politicians like Das Williams to pursue the same failed state water policies, rather than exploring a new and endless supply of drinking water, drawn from the largest reservoir in the world: the Pacific Ocean.

Recycled Water

Evaluation of the City of Santa Barbara

Environmentalists prefer the use of recycled water to irrigate Montecito’s cemeteries, resorts, golf courses, schoolyards, public parks, and major estates. This would require adding a third level of tertiary treatment to the Montecito Sanitary District (MSD) facility, so that the 600,000 gallons a day of treated wastewater, which is now being discharged into the ocean 1,600 feet off Butterfly Beach, could be properly treated and conveyed by truck or “purple pipe” as recycled wastewater for landscaping. Some state funding for recycled water treatment may be available if voters approve a new $7.5 billion state water bond in November, possibly making the cost of recycled water more competitive.

Evaluation of the County of Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara County does not produce or deliver any water. Instead, its 14 special water districts, plus CCWA (Central Coast Water Authority) and COMB (Cachuma Operations and Maintenance Board), serve the county’s 431,000 residents. Contrast that to Los Angeles’ single Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which provides water service to 18 million people. Which system do you think has a more broadly based rate structure, a more efficient billing system, and economies of scale? Which system enjoys more leverage in buying water or promoting its interests in Sacramento?

Politically, consolidation of the 14 special water fiefdoms, plus CCWA and COMB, is never going to happen in Santa Barbara County. Instead each district with its own elected board members will continue to hoard its own groundwater supply, refusing to act collaboratively, or to buy and trade water at the lowest price for all to share.

Santa Barbara County supervisors have again authorized an extension of the county’s annual $550,000 consulting study with RMC Water & Environment to update its Integrated Regional Water Management Plan, as required by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR).

Evaluation of the State of California

Notwithstanding the state’s broken promise to deliver state water during a drought emergency, there is no enthusiasm or interest in Sacramento for funding a desalination alternative for Montecito, or any other coastal community, despite the success of similar programs in Israel, Australia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Singapore. Governor Jerry Brown’s love

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The Santa Barbara City Council has approved a $1.8 million contract with Carollo Engineers Inc. for preliminary design services for re-opening its mothballed desalination plant, and for legal and permitting costs. A report is expected by the middle of next year.

The city is seeking validation of the existing permits from a skeptical California Coastal Commission for a scaled-down plant that can produce 3,500 acre-feet of desalinated water per year, with a possible opening by Summer 2016. That is the same date that city water officials predict that in the event of limited or no rainfall, the City of Santa Barbara will need the entire 3,500 acrefeet of water for itself.

Heavy rainfall will terminate the city’s efforts to reactivate its desalination facility. Moderate rainfall presents the option of reopening the desal plant on a standby basis, incurring capital costs, but saving an estimated $5 million in annual operating costs by not producing one drop of water. Neither option provides a reliable supply of water for a thirsty Montecito. The city does note that after opening the plant, capacity could be expanded to 10,000 acre-feet of water per year, possibly providing emergency water to Montecito in 2017-18, but with no promise to do so.

Capital costs for the re-opened desalination facility are now estimated at $32.4 million. Annual operating costs are estimated at $5 million to run the plant at full capacity.

Bottom Line

If California started from scratch, it could not design a more irrational and dysfunctional water system than the one that exists today. The state has more than 600 special water and irrigation districts, a regulatory morass of overlapping and conflicting water agencies, and water rights for agricultural growers, urban users, and fisheries that far exceed supplies. The bitter lesson has been that when in drought, state water is in doubt. We are all in this together, not only to provide water security for health and safety, but also to preserve our community character and real estate values.

The responsible answer for Montecito is for informed residents and appointed and elected government officials to work collaboratively with our special districts to find and fund a new source of drought-proof water. Doing business the old dry way is no longer an option.

•MJ

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This Week in and around Montecito

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

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

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 MERRAG Meeting and Training Montecito Emergency Response & Recovery Action Group is a network of trained volunteers who work and/or live in the Montecito area and prepare to respond to community disaster during critical first 72 hours following an event. The mutual “self-help” organization serves Montecito’s residents with the guidance and support of the Montecito Fire, Water, and Sanitary districts. This month: fire extinguisher training.

When: 10 am Where: Montecito Fire Station, 595 San Ysidro Road Info: Geri, 969-2537

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.

When: 5 to 7 pm Where: 1224 State Street

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Computer Coaching One-to-one coaching to improve your computer skills. Reserve a half-hour or onehour session with a volunteer computer coach to assist you in basic computer or Internet tasks. Learn to search the Internet, set up free email, apply for jobs online, and other skills.

When: 3 to 5 pm Where: Carpinteria Library, 5141 Carpinteria Avenue Info and appointments: 684-4314

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 Lecture & Demonstration Dale Murnane presents a lecture on healing. Presented by The Open Minded School of Wisdom.

When: noon Where: Montecito Community Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5683 Cost: free

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Singles Mixer Santa Barbara Matchmaking hosts “Meet Your Match” at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club. During the singles event, teams will compete for the U.S. Polo Association Wickenden Cup as singles watch and receive one complimentary beverage and enjoy appetizers and raffles.

When: 3 pm Where: 3300 Via Real Cost: $40 Registration: meetyourmatch.nightout.com/

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 Lecture & Luncheon Channel City Club presents James C. Clad, International Energy consultant and former U.S. deputy.

Clad consults for energy and investment firms, and is senior adviser at the Center for Naval Analyses and at Jane’s Defense and Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA). Trained as a New Zealand lawyer, his career has focused on Asian commercial and security affairs broadening after 2002 to include the Middle East. He has written for the Far Eastern Economic Review, and had fellowships from St. Antony’s College, Oxford, from the Carnegie Endowment,

MTF Annual Barbecue Montecito Trails Foundation holds its annual barbecue at Hal & Mary Coffin’s Montecito Valley Ranch in Montecito.

Bikers, hikers, and equestrians are welcome. Hikes and rides begin at 9 am, followed by barbecue lunch with drinks included, entertainment, dancing, and silent and live auctions from 1 to 3 pm. Members $50 in advance and $60 at the door. Non-members $70. Children 12 and under free.

MTF has worked since 1964 to preserve and maintain trails in Summerland, Montecito, and Carpinteria. A private non-profit organization, MTF is supported by donations to keep 200-plus miles of trails open to the public.

When: 9 am Info: www.montecitotrailsfoundation.org and from Harvard’s Center for International Affairs. He also served in the New Zealand diplomatic service. Clad received the Secretary of Defense Exceptional Public Service Award in 2009, and in June 2011 became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, a royal honor.

When: 11:30 am check-in Where: Reagan Room at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort, 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard Cost: $35 for members, $40 for non-members Info: info@channelcityclub.org

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 Book Club Montecito Library hosts lively discussion for monthly book club; check with the library for current title. New members are always welcome.

When: 1 to 2:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Montecito Union School Board Meeting When: 6 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 Montecito Planning Commission Meeting MPC ensures that applicants adhere to certain ordinances and policies and that issues raised by interested parties are addressed; this month the commission will discuss three private water wells on various Montecito estates, a lot line adjustment on Arcady Road, and the county’s energy and climate action plan, among other items.

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When: 9 am Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Sudoku Workshop Learn new tips and tricks to help improve your Sudoku game. No prior experience with Sudoku puzzles is necessary. Puzzles and pencils will be provided. All ages and levels welcome.

When: 4 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 Lecture at Maritime Museum Peter Westwick lectures on An Unconventional History of Surfing When: 7 pm (members-only reception at 6:15 pm) Where: 113 Harbor Way Cost: free for members, $10 for non-members Registration: 962-8404, ext. 115

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Midnight Mynx An all-women band of Montecito moms play at Cold Spring Tavern.

When: 7 to 10 pm Where: 5995 Stagecoach Road Info: www.midnightmynx.com

SAVE THE DATE Docent Training at the Mission Old Mission Santa Barbara welcomes interested men and women of all faiths to join the seven-week docent training program that begins Monday, September 29, and ends November 10 at the Mission (2201 Laguna Street). Don’t miss this opportunity to learn the history and the living story of this historic landmark that has served Santa Barbara continuously since 1786.

The classes, held on Mondays from 9:30 am to noon, are designed to prepare docents to conduct public tours of the Mission grounds, museum, and church; to lead specialized tours on the colonial art and architecture of this Queen of the Missions; and to educate fourth graders on early California history, as well as the native plants utilized by the Chumash prior to the Colonial Period and those introduced by the Spaniards. Visit the Mission online at www.santabarbaramission.org/docents for further information, or call Laura Foss at (805) 682-4713 for more details. •MJ

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School House Road for more than 40 years. In a statement she read to the MA board, she voiced concern over the placement of the cafeteria, which backs up to the property line that she shares with the school. “There is no protection of our semi-rural environment,” she said. She added that odors from the cafeteria, as well as sound from the amphitheater and sound from delivery trucks, would be a burden on surrounding residences.

Murphy said that other placement alternatives, which proved to be non-viable, were discussed for the building, which stands 29 feet high at its apex. She also added that 17 trees have already been planted near the dry creek bed that separates the two properties, in an effort to help screen the new building. “There will also be more screening added,” she said, adding that other neighbor concerns, including where the trash bins will be located on the campus, have prompted tweaks to the project.

Two major priorities of the MUS remodel are easing congestion on San Ysidro Road and having a more secure campus. Both main parking lots are being elongated, allowing for 70 cars to queue on the property, getting traffic off San Ysidro. A turning lane will also be built. The parking lot on School House Road, as well as the lot that runs through campus,

will both be eliminated, allowing for fewer access points.

Other issues brought up at the MA meeting included water usage, historic sensitivity to the main building and the adobe on the campus’ south parcel (which is being converted to office space), noise pollution from the amphitheater onto the surrounding neighborhood, and delivery truck usage of School House Road.

If Measure Q passes, work on the project – beginning with the parking lots – is slated to begin the day after school ends in June 2015. The cafeteria is slated to open for the start of the 2016/17 school year, and the entire project will be finished by 2020.

Two community meetings are being held on Thursday, September 25, and October 10 to learn more about Measure Q and the project as a whole. Check out the ad on page 25 for details.

Diane Pannkuk Honored

In part for her 19 years heading up the Village Fourth Independence Day festivities, the Montecito Board of Directors recognized former MA president Diane Pannkuk with the title of Honorary Director. Pannkuk

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by Lynda Millner

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As Bilo said, “Just Imagine It is a non-profit dedicated to helping children with serious illnesses by decorating their hospital rooms in their favorite theme or wish. We live in one of the most beautiful places in the world. The extent of our good fortune is unparalleled. Some of our children are less fortunate than others, which cuts to the heart of why I gather us here this evening. We can make an impact in the lives of children from Summerland School and Just Imagine It.” This was the inaugural Santa Barbara campaign for the non-profit formerly known as Dec My Room.

Pat and Ursula Nesbitt once again offered their estate for the gala. The

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afternoon began with a round-robin polo match. Since no one could figure out who won, the prize was given to our host and polo player Pat. More grande bottles of wine were presented to celebrity emcees John Palminteri and actor Billy Baldwin. Meanwhile, guests could sip any one of the 14 varietals made by Summerland Winery.

Tables and umbrellas dotted the field near the stable—one so beautiful you could live in it. A humongous Mediterranean feast for the several hundred hungry guests was laid out

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Summerland School, which has just under 100 students, has always seemed like a special community supported place. I remember when The Bulldog Café (now Café Luna) used to give fundraisers in the school’s behalf.

Thanks, Bilo, for carrying on the good work in such a spectacular way.

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Heart of Hospice is a group of special folks who contribute $1,000 or more, renewable annually, to support Hospice of Santa Barbara, Inc. Hospice has been around for 40 years and its mission is to care for anyone experiencing the impact of a life-threatening illness or grieving the death of a loved one.

The guests were invited to The Dreier Collection high on a hill overlooking the entire city and coastline.

It’s a splendid private museum filled with minerals and gems owned by

Summerland Winery owner and CEO Bilo Zarif presenting actor Billy Baldwin a bottle of wine

Hosts Chad Dreier and son Doug at the Hospice party

Ginnie and Chad Dreier and managed by son Doug. As the invitation read, “You will find specimens from “A” (Amethyst) to “Z” (Zoisite)!”

Also one of the largest complete mammoth tusks in the world, measuring more than 13 feet. You wouldn’t want to run into him on a dark night! Or a sunny day.

As guests grabbed a glass of wine or a martini, they could also meander in the various rooms to find a collection of more than 600 first-edition books, with works by Dickens, Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Twain. There was a complete set of U.S. presidential signatures on various documents and even John Hancock’s John Hancock.

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requirements of “the masses,” true conflict will arise.

The only reasonable prospect for a longer-term answer, in addition to conservation of usage, which the majority of Montecito Water District (MWD) customers have done successfully, is desalination and reclamation. Desalination has the benefit of the product water being able to be put directly into the existing water distribution system. Reclamation, if done to the “tertiary” treatment level, while not cheap, can free up enormous amounts of water for agricultural and non-household purposes. There are those who maintain that reclaimed water is potentially unsafe, however if properly treated, these fears are not proven. Examples from other locales such as Las Vegas show that it can be done safely.

What is not happening?

Notwithstanding that this drought has been with us before, is now continuing, and is credibly predicted to worsen and endure, our MWD is still relying on the purchase of water from other water districts as a prop for dwindling supplies. Obviously, as demand chases the dwindling supply of water, the price goes ever higher.

Each month, our MWD mails out a newsletter. For September, the caption reads “Update on the drought and how we are responding to it.”

The body of the MWD report reads “The District is currently evaluating the feasibility of developing desalination and recycled water as part of the District’s water supply portfolio.” Presumptively, such evaluation should have started long ago and have already resulted in decisions and action. As an example of demand chasing supply and driving up the cost of water, the MWD’s letter goes on to say, “Because of intense compe-

tition, purchasing supplemental water around the state has cost almost $2 million in unbudgeted expenses as water sales and revenues have been slashed.”

Recall that in an earlier iteration of these droughts, Montecito partnered with Santa Barbara in the construction of a desalination plant. When the immediate need for the product of that plant abated, parts of it were sold leaving us again vulnerable. Since that time, the technology of desalination has advanced and the cost has gone down. But what exactly has MWD actually done to create new, sustained sources of fresh water? Are they still “thinking and discussing”? Have they taken some definitive action? Have they budgeted for corrective action?

For whatever reason, the customers are left in the dark.

I propose that MWD tell its customers exactly what they have done and are now doing. Tell us what they will do and when. By this I don’t mean, “We’re thinking about it, we’re talking about it, we may do this or that.” Let it be factual and actual. If you, too, want this information, let the MWD know.

Most Americans are quite passive and expect others to do something or take care of things. That may not work this time, since we keep falling into this same hole because nothing has been done. I don’t entirely blame agencies like MWD since they are ultimately responsive to their taxpayer customers and most Americans participate in the “Two Party System” belonging to either the “Something for Nothing Party” or the “Free Lunch Party.” But really, this is a problem that requires immediate attention and correction.

Some municipalities have already addressed this problem; why haven’t we? For example, General Electric’s SeaPRO desalination systems can

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be purchased or leased and come pre-packaged and ready to “plug in.” (www.gewater.com/products/seawater-packaged-desalination.html) (Disclosure: I do not own stock in GE or have any financial relationship to it.) GE’s water processing division can be contacted at 1 (866) 439-2837 (that’s for you, MWD general manager Thomas R. Mosby).

Since writing this letter, I have received communication from Mr. Mosby. In fairness, I would add this further comment: Mr. Mosby fills a very difficult job. The commodity sold by MWD is a must-have product that must be delivered without failure – every day, all year. That is the essence of a “public utility.”

He must deal with onion-like layers of redundant agency regulation while navigating through the thicket of self-appointed “stakeholders” who object to everything from the seven-day week to the coming of the Messiah. There are indications in Mr. Mosby’s communication that MWD is attempting to make some degree of progress (beyond merely buying others’ water) toward a longer-term solution. The point remains as earlier written that MWD customers need to be kept fully advised as to specific acts taken, as they happen.

It appears that MWD is, or perhaps now has, retained outside consultants to advise concerning desalination.

Though belated, it is a step in the right direction. An internal engineering report in July 2014 deals with MWD’s consideration of recycled water opportunities. In that report, one reads of the multiple layers of regulation, the various levels of processed purity and allowable uses of recycled water.

Presently, the Montecito Sanitary District is partially treating and dumping into the ocean about 633,000 gallons of effluent each day.

The level of such treatment does not make it suitable for irrigating the typical needs of Montecito properties. For that, a higher level of treatment would be required and, in fact, could be done. This engineering report identifies the substantial cost of putting in place an extensive distribution system for recycled water (i.e., pipelines). The report also questions whether there is sufficient

demand for recycled water usage.

There is no indication that anyone actually knows how many hundreds of thousands of gallons of fresh water are being delivered by tanker trucks seen in our community each day. The minimum delivered quantity is 4,000 gallons per truck and some tanker trucks are larger. It may be assumed that most of that water is being used for exterior purposes since the most abandoned toilet flushers and enthusiastic bathers could not use that much water for household domestic purposes above and beyond their existing MWD allotments. We know that the price of this tank truck-delivered water is far greater than the MWD potable water price. If properly treated, recycled water was made available to all MWD customers at or near cost, and limited allotments of currently provided fresh water were enforced, it is reasonable to believe that MWD customers desiring to engage in agriculture or to maintain their landscaping would be happy to save considerable amounts of money and utilize such recycled water – setting aside any concepts of civic responsibility.

Such recycled water could be trucked and would not deplete the already dwindling supply of ground water.

Finally, Mr. Mosby states that the monthly board meetings of the MWD are on the third Tuesday of each month at 2 pm at MWD offices.

The public may attend. Those who enjoy the occasional bath and a drink of water should consider attending.

Others, more passive, who assume that someone else will solve their problems (despite some evidence to the contrary) may ignore this opportunity.

Edwin C. Martin, Jr. Montecito

Obama Stands Alone

I don’t know why everyone is so upset about Mr. Obama playing golf after a beheading by ISIS. He has been on vacation for six years.

He only buckled down to work when he took time out to give us a flawed health care system that no one wanted. He then opened the border to thousands of illegals – and who

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nd this is the oldest section, the Saint-Forts Well that they threw the first Christian martyrs down,” the docent said.

“Sweet Jesus!” I said, then quickly backed away from the near-bottomless hole.

We were in the ancient crypt beneath Our Lady of Chartres Cathedral, one of the most beautiful gothic cathedrals in the world, just a short drive from Sartrouville, France, where we were staying.

Short trip, that is, if I knew how to work a GPS. Michelle, which is what we named the GPS, asked if we wanted the faster toll route to Chartres. I said yes. When we got to our first toll, it refused my credit card. We called on the little box.

Two guys appeared. They told us we had to get into the cash lane. I stood behind the car and made back-up sounds so people would know what we were doing. “La beep beep beep.

Pardon. La beep beep beep. Pardon.”

Turns out, a lot of the highways around Paris are underground. In just a few seconds, we were going 110 km per hour in a four-lane tunnel for what seemed like forever! When we came out, Michelle instructed us to take our second right.

“Was that the one we just passed?”

“Apparently.”

Underground again, this time when we came up my wife, who was driving, had another question. “Is that the Arc de Triomphe ahead?”

“Well, it does look like all the photos.”

“Ahhhhh!”

Another tunnel. When we resurfaced, we were even closer to the looming Arc, which people had warned us never to drive around, as there are 11 boulevards emptying into it, but no traffic lanes. Tricky when traffic was light. It was heavy today.

I was about to give the “No sweat, you can drive in Paris, people do it every day” speech (and prayer) to my wide-eyed wife, when Michelle said: “Take your next right.” We just made it and the Arc was no longer in front of us.

“Wow, look, the Eiffel Tower,” I said.

“Ahhhhh,” my wife said again.

Finally, we got on a road that skirted Paris, turned onto a country road, and eventually spotted the spires of Chartres! Then we found parking – underground of course – and headed to the crypt tour.

We followed the docent deep into

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Our Lady of Chartres Cathedral in all its glory

Our Lady of the Crypt Chapel, which houses a fragment of the Virgin Mary’s veil, said to be worn during the birth of Jesus. “It was donated to the cathedral in 876 by Charles the Bald,” the docent said. “According to legend, Bishop Gantelme held the relic up to the invading Viking armies in 911 and they fled.”

I took a photo of it in case I ever had to fend off hoards of my fans in Santa Barbara, then we left the crypt to visit the cathedral above us.

According to the guidebook, the first cathedral was built in the 4th century.

It was burned down about 750 by the Visigoths, 850 by the Vikings, 962 in a war featuring the Theobald the Cheat, then again “accidentally” in 1020.

(Flowing robes and candles do not mix.)

Each time they built it bigger and better.

The English took it briefly in the 1400s, the Huguenots attacked it in 1568, and the Germans seized it in 1870. Today it’s occupied mainly by tourists.

Our Lady of Chartres Cathedral is highly recognizable from other ancient cathedrals by its huge mismatched towers, one a traditional gothic style, the other built by a far more flamboyant crew. The stained-glass windows of the cathedral date back to 1240, containing a cobalt blue that can’t be replicated today even with Photoshop.

The historic windows were removed during the two World Wars to protect them. I promised my wife not to get anywhere near them.

I took 200 photos of the incredible nave, one of the widest in France, the choir screen of several hundred statues that took 200 years to complete, the floor containing Chartres 856-foot labyrinth design, and a pear-wood carving of the Virgin that dates to 1540, and we headed back to the car.

“That was amazing,” my wife said.

“Now all we have to do is program Michelle to take us home.”

“Great, maybe we’ll drive by the Louvre!”

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but it was to no avail. Time wasn’t on our side.”

To mark the closure, Alfredo hosted a farewell party for longtime patrons on Saturday, including Pat Hines, author T.C. Boyle, Shawn Hivley, Moe Masson, John Douglas, Lois Rosen, Sigrid Toye, Marv and Gray Bauer, Bill and Trish Davis, Margarita Lande, Wendy Lewis, and Jim Clive, who traveled from Canada for the occasion.

Many of the longtime employees, including popular bartender Kyler Barbee, have found jobs elsewhere.

Stay tuned...

Last busy day at Cafe Del Sol (photo by Priscllla)

Joan Wagner, John Macker, and Salvador Silva (photo by Priscllla)

Jovan Nikolic served by Otto Laula and Kyler Barbee (photo by Priscllla)

3,400 square-foot restaurant in April 2013, paying $1,350,000 for the space that Jack and his wife, Emilie, had leased from nonagenarian twosome, Paul and Lilly Celdow, since 1989, as I exclusively revealed here.

He is now planning to keep the space as an eatery, I’m told.

“We really needed a long lease to make a substantial investment worthwhile,” says Alfredo, who started working as busboy at Café Del Sol at the age of 14. “There were just too many issues to resolve.

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Interim executive director Tina Fanucchi-Frontado introduced the guest speaker and volunteer, Nicole Romasanto, who as Tina said, “gives of her time, talent and treasure.”

Nicole related how hospice helped her family through the death of a stepson. “Hospice is an anchor in the community.”

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Soirée at Los Suenos

Free drinks for everyone dressed completely in white. Expensive for non-conformists. That’s what the invited said. In reality, the all-white “Soirée at Los Suenos” had wines from the host’s own winery – Gretchen and Robert Lieff.

The occasion was the West Coast celebration for the marriage of Kimberly (Phillips) and Michael Hayes, which took place in Christ’s Chapel of the Riverside Church in New York City on February 7. It was the very chapel where her grandparents married December 30, 1930. Kim, who has such style and panache, was wearing a retro dress that looked like the 1950s.

Michael had a New York career as a financial vice president with Time Warner and retired here about 12 years ago. Kim owns Maison K on Coast Village. They met at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art at one of the “Nights” events when they saw each other “across the crowded room.”

Some of the friends who gathered to sip, chat and “ooh and aah” were Winkie and Bob Wilson, Judy Foreman, Kendall Conrad, and David Cameron, Kathleen Laurain and daughter Mion, April Riessen, Dianne and Robert Grant, Dr. Bill Coulter and Mary Ann Froley, John Saladino, Jennifer Smith Hale, Anne Towbes, Teresa McWilliams, Carolyn Miller, Elizabeth, Kenny Slaught, Marie Christine, and Michael

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Roger Phillips, the bride’s father, led the toasts with Michael and Kim adding theirs, among a few tears.

The cake was cut, and the bride and groom had a car awaiting decorated with balloons, ribbons, and the usual “Just Married” sign. They made their getaway amid a flurry of French “rice” that was seeds of lavender. Memories are made of the good times and may you have many more.

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It was time to celebrate Frank Umanzio’s 80th birthday. His wife, Jean, gave him a party with all their immediate family who came from Palm Desert, Bakersfield, and Grass Valley plus a few friends. Also attending were three Shih Tzu dogs: Dante, Starr, and Bella. Is there such a thing as an Italian Shih Tzu? Since Frank represents all things Italian, the terrace was decorated with what else but red, green, and white garlands representing the flag. Jean was born in Italy and brought up in the village of Bardi, until her family came to the United States when she was 11.

The Italian dinner came from Via Maestra 43 and wine flowed freely.

Frank also makes his own good stuff, as well as “supporting” a few other wineries. The Umanzios have lived in Montecito for many years with Frank having a long career with Raytheon as vice president of Human Resources.

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On Entertainment

by Steven Libowitz

Camerata Pacifica: All about Music for 25 Years

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amerata Pacifica has two celebrations coinciding this week.

Not only is the Santa Barbaraborn and based chamber music ensemble set to launch its silver anniversary season, but the group’s first-ever recording came out this Tuesday on prestigious label Harmonia Mundi.

The new season revisits several favorites from over the years, including a few commissioned pieces and a big blowout with Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos to close it out in May. But there are plenty of works that are new to the group, too, in accordance with their tradition of always looking ahead and keeping things fresh and exciting, if not always pleasing to everyone’s palate.

Kicking things off are two audience favorites sandwiched around perhaps Cam Pac’s most weighty new work, with Mozart’s D Major flute quartet and Schubert’s E-Flat Major Piano Trio (with Warren Jones) surrounding the long-awaited world premiere of John Harbison’s String Trio, commissioned for the ensemble’s quarter-century mark by a consortium of Camerata audience members. The Santa Barbara concert takes place Friday night, September 12, at Hahn Hall. (Call 884-8410 or visit www.cameratapacifica.org.)

We caught up with Camerata’s founder and flutist, Adrian Spence, still impish and energetic though he’s fast approaching the big 5-0, to hear his thoughts on the milestone and what’s in store.

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Has the way things turned out matched your original vision?

A. No. When I started the group it was a chamber orchestra. There wasn’t a grand vision at all. It was just a 25-year-old guy’s reaction to what he saw around him that (he thought) was dreadful. With the idealism of youth, I didn’t see enough focus on the music, or dedication to the art. I was just finishing my studies and freelancing as a flute player. You start right at the bottom. What I was encountering didn’t match my impression of what this wonderful new country was capable of offering. And here in Santa Barbara.

I wanted to do something about it.

With the impunity of youth, I thought I could do a better job myself. So you might say Camerata Pacifica was born out of sheer ignorance and an inability to be told “no”...

How did it transition into today’s ensemble?

We took off like a rocket in the first couple of years, to the irritation of many and the amusement of a few.

We sold out in the first year. (But other financial problems meant) we lost half our budget. So I had to bring it down to a chamber music format just to sustain. That’s when I discovered that this is how to touch people. My eyes were opened – it’s the most intimate and personal form of classical music. So in 1994, we embarked on a pure chamber series and never looked back.

What do you mean by they weren’t focusing on the music?

A lot of organizations seemed to be have more of an emphasis on the social than a musical endeavor.

Idealism was coursing through my veins and I wanted something else.

But I’m happy to report that those ideals are still in place and that vision was realized. Our first responsibility is still to the art form, the music. Our audience is very knowing, very open, one of the best. But they’re not my first responsibility. It’s the music. And they know this. Our job isn’t to sell tickets. It’s to preserve this art. There’s a phrase I use in our new concert program: “We’re stewards for this art

Camerata Pacifica celebrates its silver anniversary (photo by Curtis O’Shock)

form.” That’s why we’re so dynamic in terms of programming.

It’s not common for a city as small as Santa Barbara to have a thriving, ongoing chamber ensemble.

Actually, it’s a very grass-roots organization, and they’re everywhere, if you’re thinking of duo, piano trios, and string quartets. But larger form ones like ours are much more unusual; 10 or 15 years ago, we were one of a very few. But now, far form what the naysayers spit out, classical music is on a great track. We are well into the beginning of a second Renaissance, led by chamber music and these multi-format groups, with mostly young musicians taking control of their own destiny and wresting the future of classical music back again. The emergence of these chamber music groups who are being innovative in delivering the music and interacting with the audiences, trying out new venues and interfacing via social media – they’re avoiding some of the significant issues facing larger orchestras, who will have to dramatically revise how they function. We were playing in bars in 1992 and 1993 with our coffeehouse series. We were experimenting a long time.

I want to jump to another area, your penchant for the Northern Irish connection, frequently hosting musicians who come from the Emerald Isle. This year brings your first collaboration with Belfast pianist Michael McHale later in the season, for example.

It’s simply because it’s where I’m from. You become more patriotic the farther and longer away you are from your country. It’s just a little small country, and Northern Ireland is even smaller. But the island has always punched above its weight creatively, particularly with writers and poets. So if I can give them a leg up, absolutely.

But they’ve got to be able to play. You get in the front door because you’re Irish, but you only get to stay if you produce. I am exceptionally proud of calling composer Ian Wilson a colleague, for example. His music is amazing. Michael McHale has got a great resumé, and I’ve heard him play and I was impressed. Let’s see what happens.

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Looking back, what are you most proud of? What might you have done differently?

I’m most proud of – and this wasn’t part of the original charter at all – our commissioning portfolio. There are 15 (works) now, which is amazing in that we’re decidedly not a new music group.

But it’s part of what we do, play them on stage next to these master works.

There really is a legacy. If Camerata Pacifica disappears tomorrow, there are significant pieces of music that now exist because of us. I’m really proud of that.

(On the other hand), you can always second guess. I don’t think there’s anything I would have substantially done differently. We’re unique. When you come to one of our concerts, you know it’s one of ours. We have immense personality in our musicians drawn from all over the world who are all worldclass players. It’s a remarkable group of amazing people. And then that expands to the audiences, who are very dynamic and interested.

The goal from the beginning was to wake them up, and create and connect with the community... We don’t just throw people up on stage and let them play.... They’re walking on the razor edge. We’re not doing your job correctly if you don’t get the sense that they could fall off – both artistically and technically.

You’re starting off with another world premiere. Tell me about the Harbison, which is his first-ever string trio. Why was he the right guy?

It took me four years to persuade him to write a string trio. (The format) lacks a clear voice and it’s very hard to write for. The string players tell you that there’s always some sort of improvisation with three trying to emulate four. But I knew approaching the 25th season that I wanted Harbison to do this. I’ve always admired his music.

When we took CP back to the UK a few years ago, the American representation was his piano quintet. I find his command of form, structure, and counterpoint endlessly interesting. He was my first and only choice, so I kept going at him. I didn’t even get to

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knows how many are terrorists mingled in with these immigrants?

I have decided Mr. Obama hates the Republicans more than he hates ISIS. His goal is to destroy anyone who opposes his very dangerous views of what he thinks America should be. It is no wonder other free nations will not give him the time of day. They don’t trust him or the advisors around him. The UK proved that by going it alone and declaring a severe alert.

ISIS has been forming for three-plus years, the White House knew this yet did nothing.

I am confident that the military are giving him advice and the tools to rid ISIS. I think the biggest problem is that Mr. Obama does not listen to anyone.

His ego and his child-like traits of thinking he knows it all are blocking any and all reality.

Am I disgusted? You bet I am. Am I angry? You bet I am. Am I afraid for our America and all its citizens? You bet I am.

So, Mr. Obama, if you don’t have a plan to get rid of ISIS, get one and do it soon. I may already be too late or nearing the final blow. And, don’t call ISIS the “JV” team again. You are the JV team, you alone.

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Be Careful What You Vote for

At the Democrats’ barbecue at Oak Park recently, it was stated that “Measure P was discussed as an attempt to stop oil companies from exploiting the county’s natural resources.” Excuse me, the county’s natural resources? The onshore area where oil is found and produced, that property is mostly owned by private parties, not the county.

It is interesting that these people feel this way. I am sure most of them own property they believe belongs to them. The real issue behind Measure P is not about oil or saving the environment. The real issue of Measure P is about the tyranny of the majority in a democracy.

If Measure P passes there are state and federal constitutional rights that will be violated. This measure sets a precedent for the taking of any and all property rights. The mineral rights will in effect be transferred to the

majority of the voters and removes the guaranteed constitutional protection for the minority. Thank the powers that be that we live in a republic where the rights of the minority are protected and guaranteed, so far anyway.

For example look in the California Constitution; Article 1 Declaration of Rights, then look at Article 1, section 3 (b)(4), and finally take a look at Article 7. What is contained there is the stated guarantee of rights to property and how to constitutionally acquire those rights from the owners. Is it any wonder why the lawyers on both sides of the issue are gleefully rubbing their hands together hoping that measure P passes?

If Measure P is passed, it is guaranteed to bring about taking of property lawsuits against the county. At worst, these lawsuits will lose, establishing a precedent where all private property will be at risk of being taken by a simple vote of the majority. This is what is called the tyranny of the majority. Observe Venezuela as the current ongoing example of a tyranny of the majority.

If the county wants this law to work, constitutionally, they must purchase these property-mineral rights from the owners. The county may acquire these mineral rights for the small fee of the royalty owners’ “share” (1/6 to 1/10) of the estimated oil on the property.

This oil will never be produced with passage of Measure P, so pay for it now. The County of Santa Barbara cannot afford these property rights.

The simple fact is the County of Santa Barbara, without its oil-driven tax revenue, cannot even afford the court battles that will be coming with passage of Measure P. Stephen R. Careaga Sailing Vessel Tranquility Gulf of California

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From time immemorial, I have supported every bond measure that had anything to do with educating our future generations. This has always been one of the most important features of my adulthood. Some of my children have attended City College as have I; myself and I have donated many dollars to the college, mostly

for the support of whatever it thought was most needed.

Now I am faced with one of the most expensive bond issues I have ever encountered and, as many have done, it affects only those folks who own real estate. The cost of educating the students at SBCC will fall on the shoulders of and be added to the taxes imposed on anyone in that category.

No one else will be required to make such a payment and the administrators have not even said what the full cost of such a bond issue would be.

While it would be nice to have everything that has been listed, SBCC has not said what is actually needed for students to finish classes in a timely manner and receive degrees.

Never have I witnessed so many hands being held out to be filled with money from someone else! There are bond issues on this November ballot that have to do with SBCC, water, MUS, more schools and many other things, but there comes a limit to what can be afforded.

I will vote “no” on the SBCC Bond S. Jane S. Dyruff Montecito •MJ

No on Measure P

After reading and hearing about Measure P and having worked for 30 years in the oil industry, I will be voting no. As long as we live in an oil-dependent society, driving our cars and using the many products made from oil, we should support local oil and gas operations. By voting no, we won’t be increasing our dependence on foreign energy, and we won’t suffer the negative economic impact that

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extensive horse facilities, including an 11,250-square-foot covered riding arena.

Since Charles and Ann died, the family has maintained the property but hasn’t used the main house as a full-time residence.

They are now selling, according to The Wall Street Journal, because they are spread out across the country and the ranch has become too difficult to maintain...

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long oak bar. Below it is a badminton court.

The large master suite has wonderful ocean and mountain views and features a fireplace, period decor, an oversized bath tiled in a deco motif, and a large dressing room with numerous built-in closets.

Given the drought situation, one important feature is its uninterrupted access to water via seven agricultural water meters and three water-storage reservoirs. The property receives 50 percent of a water diversion system from adjacent Romero Creek that is piped directly into the reservoirs.

There is also a five-car garage and

Read All About It On the subject of our critical water shortage, local author Ann Louise Bardach has written a thought-provoking article in Politico Magazine on “Lifestyles of the Rich and Parched.”

Montecito, she observes, has the geologic misfortune to have been built on land with precious little water – indeed, less water than any other part of the Central Coast.

An aquifer runs nine miles under southern Santa Barbara County, but only a tiny sliver extends into our rarefied enclave.

For the most part, residents have embraced new restrictions, writes Bardach, allowing our exclusive community to cut its water usage by 48 percent “and leaving vast aprons of yellowed lawns as evidence.”

But in May, 827 defiant – or careless – residents coughed up $520,000

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in penalties, or a collective overage of about 13 million gallons of town water.

The Biltmore was levied a penalty of $48,000 for using about one million gallons over its allotment in April, while a nearby private home was fined $30,000 for a month of guzzling an extra 750,000 gallons.

Adds Bardach: “The district receives about 30 appeals a week. Those who do not pay their bills received shut-off notices, and about 400 were sent out last year.”

The Montecito Water District admits it will rake in close to $4 million in fines this year.

Beanie Babies tycoon and hotelier Ty Warner, who owns a six-acre estate overlooking the Pacific, is a perennial on the water district’s top-10 users list, while others are paying as much as $15,000 a month for trucked-in water, including TV talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey, according to neighbors.

Agriculture, adds Bardach, sucks up about 85 percent of California’s surface water from rain or snow pack, as well as the lion’s share of groundwater from wells, at discounted prices, though the industry generates less than three percent of the revenue in the state.

A fact to ponder...

What’s Cookin’?

Montecito’s Energy Twins, Judi and Shari Zucker, have just launched their latest tome, The Ultimate Allergy-Free Cookbook.

The enthusiastic follow-up to their best-selling previous book, The Ultimate Allergy-Free Snack Cookbook, the new title provides more than 150 vegetarian-vegan recipes made without eggs, cow’s milk, soy, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, fish or shellfish – the eight most common allergenic foods, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

“You can serve all these delectable dishes without fear of a reaction,” says Judi.

“The book was two years in the making. After the success of the original book, our publishers wanted a follow up that went beyond just snacks.

We’ve now included appetizers, main meals, sides, smoothies, and desserts.”

Because pre-orders for the new book have been so high, they intend to con-

The Energy Twins launch another successful allergy-free cookbook

tinue the series. They are launching the book at Chaucer’s on October 7.

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Hooray for Hillary It has been quite a week for Heal the Ocean founder Hillary Hauser.

She celebrated her 70th birthday and the launch of her new website, which has been in the making for the past 18 months, at the downtown headquarters of Oniracom, who specialize in web design, helping Hillary and loyal supporter, singer Jack Johnson, design their sites.

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allocations will remain the same until February 2015.

The district continues to look into other water-saving measures, including conservation, installation of smart meters, and purchasing supplemental water, though Bierig said the district is finding emergency supplemental water nearly impossible to come by.

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has been heavily involved in the Montecito community, and spent 13 years serving on the board, two of which she served as president.

“I can’t think of anybody more worthy of that honor,” said MA president Ted Urschel.

MWD Moves Forward with Desal Plan

Montecito Water District Board president Darlene Bierig reports that the district has recently hired an engineering company to preliminarily study building a desalinization plant in Montecito. “We felt like it was time to move forward with desal on our own,” Bierig said.

The company has been charged with looking into the technological options for a desal plant, as well as possible locations in which to build it.

“Permitting will be the most difficult part,” Bierig said, explaining that the vacant desal plant in Santa Barbara already has the infrastructure built.

Bierig, who said the district is still working with the city on reopening the Santa Barbara desalinization plant, noted that one major issue in joining forces with the city is that they hope to use the desal plant in emergency situations only. “If it rains significantly, the plug will be pulled on getting the plant back up and running,” she said. “We think a better plan is to have it operating at low levels at all times and increase usage during emergency situations.”

“This is very preliminary,” she added. As far as Montecito’s water usage, August showed a 50-percent reduction from August 2013. “We can’t get complacent,” Bierig said.

It is still likely, barring no significant weather changes, water allocations will change by the 2015/16 water year to be interior usage only. “The projections are still dire,” she said. For now,

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A private courtyard leads to the entrance to two Coast Village Road condos that will be listed for sale later this month

Two brand-new Coast Village Road condos are being prepped to be listed near the end of the month, located in the new development on the east end of Coast Village Road and Coast Village Circle. The condos, both roughly around 2,000 square feet, are part of a mixed-use building owned by developer Alberto Valner.

Set back behind the commercial portion of the former Turk Hessellund Nursery property, the condos are considered luxury residences, accessed through a private courtyard. They each feature two floors of interior living space, with third-floor access to private rooftop decks with ocean, island, and mountain views. “There is nothing else like this on Coast Village Road,” says Michael Calcagno, one of the listing agents.

The condos are both two-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath, with upscale finishes including Wolf ranges and Sub-zero appliances, granite countertops, wood floors, fireplaces, built-in sound systems, and more. The residences each have an elevator that is accessed at every level, in addition to private garages, multiple balconies, and double-paned windows. The exterior of the building is Spanishinfluenced, while the interior is a light contemporary take on a beach-type cottage, with white cabinetry, farm sinks, gray granite, subway tiles, and upscale fixtures. The homes feature large walk-in closets, as well as a full laundry room near the bedrooms.

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A rendering of the residential private rooftop decks, which feature fireplaces, wet bars, and barbecue areas

with a mini refrigerator, and a barbecue area.

The condos will be listed by Calcagno and Nancy Hamilton, in the mid-$2 million range. They will be ready for occupancy in October. For more information, call 805-896-0876.

The rest of the development is expected to be up and running in the next few months, according to Valner.

The building will house R+D Kitchen and yet-to-be-leased retail space on the ground floor. Office space is located on the second floor.

We’ll have more on the property in an upcoming edition.

Friendship Center News

Next Friday, September 19, Friendship Center will hold its 5th

annual Wine Down, an early-evening event to celebrate the end of summer and help support Montecito’s only non-profit, fully licensed adult day services program.

The casual-yet-festive event will feature 10 local vintners pouring their wines for tasting, along with beers from Surf Brewery. Asian-inspired hors d’oeuvres by Spices N Rice will be served, and live music by Montecito Jazz Project will round out the event.

Held al fresco in the Friendship Center courtyard, the gathering has gained a popular following the last five years, according to development coordinator Justine Sutton. An event committee has been busy gathering donations from local businesses for the small silent auction, which will feature themed gift baskets including high-quality wines and wine-related items.

Vintners participating in the event include Andrew Murray Vineyards, Buttonwood Farm Winery, Consilience & Tre Anelli, Cottonwood Canyon Winery, Demetria Estate Winery, Fess Parker, Pali Wine Company, Palmina, Santa Barbara Winery, and Vinemark Cellars.

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speak to him directly for the longest time, but publisher wanted to see him write a string trio too. He finally acquiesced.

And he delivered exactly what I imaged we’d get. It’s got a very strong intellectual backbone. It’s so well written and crafted that each time you listen to it, you hear more. There is so much in there you can’t possibly get it on first hearing. I’m really pleased with it. The musicians have been playing it for about a year, because we did the unusual thing of recording it first before playing it live and they love it, too.

That was my next question: you finally recorded an album, which comes out this month. Why now?

We’ve had opportunities to record before, but I didn’t take them because I’m interested in live performance and engagement. Even the best recording doesn’t get close to what you hear in a concert. But when Harmonia Mundi approached us, they’re such a important label and it’s such an endorsement that I couldn’t say no... Harbison’s string trio has to be documented. It’s a major addition to the repertoire. So it all came together. And despite my being a recalcitrant recording artist, I’m really rather pleased. I’m tickled pink.

Classical Corner

Want to spend more time in Hahn Hall? The next Music Academy of the West season is still nine months away, but the venue this week is hosting the best of The Met: Live in HD, encore screenings of live simulcasts from the Metropolitan Opera. The shows all begin at 2 pm on consecutive days beginning Saturday.

Romeo and Juliet (which originally played in December 2007) stars Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna, and features Music Academy alumna Isabel Leonard (‘05) in her Met debut. Sunday’s Baroque-blessed The Enchanted Island (January 2012) features David Daniels. Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna portray Puccini’s star-crossed lovers in La Rondine (January 2009) on Monday, and Renée Fleming and Johan Botha star in Verdi’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Otello (October 2012), on Tuesday. Tickets cost $15 each, or $48 for the full series. Call 969-8787 or visit www.musicacademy.org.

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Saluting the Emperors

They were one of the first bands ever to play at Earl Warren Showgrounds back in the early 1960s and the last to perform at Peabody’s in Montecito before it closed in 2012. They worked with such major artists of the era as the Allman Brothers, Roy Orbison, Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore, Eddie Brigati (of the Young Rascals), Nick St. Nicholas (Steppenwolf), Kenny Cetera (Chicago), and Doug Ingle (Iron Butterfly) and later, locally, Toad the Wet Sprocket and Katy Perry in an earlier guise. For a while in the 1960s, they were the biggest band in the land, the 16-ton monster in the 805.

But unless you’re a musician or local music fan nearing retirement age, chances are you’ve never heard of them.

That’s because Ernie & the Emperors’ biggest original hit came nearly 50 years ago, when Ernie Orosco and his younger brothers Brian and Cory, and their friend, Randy Busby, who played bass, were still in high school.

“Meet Me at the Corner”, a catchy pop ditty heavily influenced by the British Invasion, hit number one on KIST, the big AM rock station in Santa Barbara in 1965, right after the band had signed to the Warner Brothersdistributed Reprise Records, and the song also got airplay in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

But the band formed even earlier than that, when Ernie and his brothers, who lived with their parents on lower State Street, were still in junior high and put together the group to compete in talent shows.

“We just wanted to play for the schools,” Ernie recalled. “We played at our graduations, and then entered battle of the bands. But we loved it.

Instead of sports it was all music for us. We rehearsed all the time and got really polished.”

The Emperors swept all of the competitions, which were pretty big deals back in those days. Then there was the slot opening for the Isley Brothers at the Showgrounds. It seemed like the future was limitless, but there was a snag.

“The record company wanted us to tour with all these major acts, but my dad wouldn’t allow it, because my brothers were still in high school,” Ernie recalled. “And when he refused, we got dropped.”

The Oroscos ended up in the military during the Vietnam War for a while, and when they re-grouped, things had changed. The name shifted a few times, to Giant Crab, Big Brother Ernie Joseph, and then the Brian Faith Band, which is still in use today. They toured for a while with Strawberry Alarm Clock’s vocalist Greg Munford, who sang the one-hit wonder “Incense and Peppermints”, and in another

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Cory Orosco and a young Katy Perry

guise made it down to the southeast in 1970 including a show with a estimated crowd of 250,000 people.

Back home, the music was morphing, too. The brothers eventually settled into a groove of touring playing mostly cover songs mixed with serving as recording studio session players, vocalists, engineers and record producers, almost always at their own shop, SRS Studios, which closed a few years ago, but not before helping to launch the careers of many local musicians including the Tearaways, Christian Love (Beach Boys), Toad the Wet Sprocket, Dishwalla, Ugly Kid Joe, and Jewel. Cory and Ernie also recorded Katy Perry when she was still known as Katy Hudson and singing gospel music.

This spring, Cory was diagnosed with Stage 4 lymphoma. The disease and the treatments not only stole his energy and focus, it also curtailed the Oroscos’ income, as they had to cancel summer bookings while Cory battled for his health, including a July 4 show at the Elks Club in Goleta.

When word got out about what had happened, Santa Barbara area musicians started coming together, offering their support and asking for the chance to perform in a benefit to defray some of the mounting expenses.

One of the preliminary benefits took place in Camarillo last weekend, and another was held at the Creekside Bar on Tuesday. The big fundraiser takes place Saturday, September 13, at the Elks Lodge #613, where Soul City Survivors, Night Train, and FOG will play, the latter with Ernie and Brian sitting in, following dinner and auctions. Tickets cost $35 & $70.

Another benefit show is slated for SOhO on Friday, September 26, featuring performances by the Tearaways, the Pranks, Norman Allen, and Rick and Patrick Miani. Admission is $15.

Other events are in the works.

“There were so many musicians wanting to come out and support us, we’ve just kept adding shows,” Ernie explained. “They wanted to help us because we had helped so many bands along the way with our studio.

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into the money and recognition back then, just connecting with the community. So this all feels very warm and profound now.”

Calling All Comics

The inaugural Santa Barbara LOL Comedy Festival concluded Sunday night and was by all accounts a successful first venture in town. Crowds packed several of the events, and even the lesser-attended ones got the assembled audiences roaring with laughter.

You can see clips and more from the week’s shows online at either Hulu or on LOL’s own website, and look for the Lobero events showing up soon as one-hour specials on Showtime. We’re sure they’ll be back.

In the meantime, another big name is already heading our way. George Lopez – one of the most successful Latino comedians in history with a career that covers TV, film, cable specials, and stand-up – steps up his act to the Santa Barbara Bowl after selling out the Arlington last time through. He co-created, wrote, produced, and starred in an eponymous sitcom that ran for six seasons on ABC, then hosted Lopez Tonight, a late-night television talk show on TBS, before debuting a new scripted show, Saint George, on FX last January. He’s had three solo stand-up specials on HBO, been nominated for several Grammys, voiced animated characters in such blockbusters as The Smurfs and Rio, and written two memoirs. Lopez returns to the live stage on Saturday at the Bowl.

Talking Heads, on Origins and Connections

The Santa Barbara Symposium on Human Development, hosted by the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum, welcomes 18 pre-eminent scientists from around the world to discuss and debate when and how modern humans left Africa to populate the world. The symposium, which addresses questions about the origin and evolution of the human species and the emergence of diverse societies and cultures, takes place over two days and two venues, beginning Friday at the museum and concluding Saturday at the Lobero Theater. Friday’s panel features keynote speaker Dr. Curtis Marean of the Institute of Origins at Arizona State University will present his research conducted at Pinnacle Point in South Africa. On Saturday, among the topics are advances in DNA research related to human relocation, and the settlement of North America from the Santa Barbara perspective. Tickets are $20 for each session and are available at www. sbnature.org/sbsoho.

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Meanwhile, the SBCC Center for Lifelong Learning – the new name for what used to be called Adult Ed – presents the 35th annual Mind & Supermind lecture this week. Gone are the days when cutting-edge speakers from all walks of psychology, spirituality, and other studies would be booked three or four per quarter for no admission charge in the long-running series. But at least it will only set you back $10 to hear Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., speak about his theory of “Morphic Resonance”.

His lecture, titled “Extended Minds: Recent Experimental Evidence”, posits that people can influence each other at a distance just by looking at them, even after eliminating all sensory clues, and that intentions can have effects and can be detected telepathically, and over time. The author of more than 80 papers in scientific journals and the book Science Set Free has created some controversy with his idea, as evidenced by the discussion surrounding his TEDx talk. Hear him live at the New Vic on Monday.

More info at www.sbcc.edu/cll.

Funk Zone ArtWalk

The monthly events in the city’s hottest arts area, which takes place every second Saturday, isn’t as wellknown or attended as 1st Thursday, its much more venerable cousin sponsored by the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization. But there are still plenty of jewels in this locale, including a much more concentrated area, and the appeal of West Beach and Stearns Wharf just steps away. The Arts Fund Gallery has works and performances as part of the Teen Arts Mentorship Group Exhibition and Creative Writing project, plus pop-up artists booths and refreshments in the parking lot.

Elsewhere, Skye Gwilliam shows mixed works at GONE Gallery, Lindsay Ross opens her La Chambre fine arts photography studio, Maxine Helfman exhibits at Wall Space Gallery, MichaelKate’s new show with 25-plus artists (see this week’s Calendar) begins its regular run, and Cabana Home hosts an exhibition in collaboration with Edward Cella Art + Architecture Los Angeles showcasing works by Maura Bendett and Paul Gillis exploring the intersection of painting with other media.

There’s both art and live music at Seven Bar & Kitchen and Reds Bar & Tapas, while Dos Pueblos High students lead tours of “The Vastness is Bearable”, the current show at Museum of Contemporary Art’s Hotel Indigo satellite, which also presents a science talk with Matteo Cantiello of UCSB’s Kavli Institute. The ArtWalk takes place 1 to 5 pm. Visit www.funk •MJ zone.net for details.

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by James Buckley (from left) Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation recipients Magnus Kalins, Anthony Espinoza, Maddy Gonzalez, Isa Mireles, and Kevin Krzyston (both Isa and SBCC student Kevin are now cancer free); the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation served over 650 families in 2013

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t’s hard to believe the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation is now 12 years old. I covered its founding when I met with Nikki Katz in 2002 and she described what she hoped her non-profit could accomplish. Nikki’s goal was to help families with utility bills, rent, transportation, help at home, bringing other children to school when a stricken child had a medical appointment, helping harried caregivers with mortgage payments and many other mundane things parents, who don’t have children facing a life-threatening illness, can often take for granted. In other words, the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation would bring support – monetary, moral, and personal – along with comfort and companionship to parents and caregivers whose lives had just been overturned by a diagnosis of cancer for their child.

Nikki’s vision became real and through her and her team’s efforts (she is no longer active in the organization’s day-to-day efforts), the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation has become not only an invaluable resource for panicked parents, but also an extreme-

Anthony Espinoza, 4, lives with his father, mother, and baby sister in Santa Barbara

Isa Mireles, 9, was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and is now cancer free; her passion is singing and modeling

Anna Kalins holds her irrepressible two-yearold son Magnus Kalins; he was diagnosed with Juvenile Myelomoncytic Leukemia (JMML) and is currently in need of a bone-marrow transplant

ly valuable and now indispensable part of a greater Santa Barbara cancer-care support system.

Longtime Montecito resident Carol Burnett, has offered her services as spokesman for the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation’s Gold Ribbon Campaign in connection with

SHARON GOLDBERG, MD

September’s National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Ms Burnett is fully aware that, in her words “the financial and emotional costs of caring for a sick child are tremendous. And oftentimes one or even both parents have to forfeit their work income to be by their child’s bedside during treatment.”

Montecito and Santa Barbara residents are regularly solicited to support a number of worthy causes. If you are one of those generous souls who does set aside a small portion of your yearly income to help one or two of those causes, the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation deserves to be near the top of your list. You can support Teddy Bear’s efforts by simply sending in a check (regularly!), or perhaps as a start, by attending its Gold Ribbon Luncheon (11 am to 2 pm) at the Four Seasons Biltmore on Thursday, October 2. Your attendance will go a long way toward Teddy Bear’s fundraising goal and will also

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give you a chance to learn more about the Foundation and to meet some of the beatific souls behind this heaven-sent organization.

During the luncheon, actor Billy Baldwin will be honored with the Heart of Gold Award. Additionally, Dr. Francisco Bracho and Dr. Christopher Landon will receive the Humanitarian Award, Jeff and Erika Zamora the Pay-It-Forward Award, and the National Charity League, Santa Barbara Chapter, will be celebrated with the Cancer Foundation’s Helping Hands Award. Guests will also have a chance to bid on: 1) a wedding or renewal of vows for 40 people, donated by Montecito Weddings, Weddings by the Sea, Kim Marie Photography, DV Moves, Sarah Fultz, and others; 2) an acoustic guitar made of East Indian Rosewood and Adirondack Spruce from custom guitar maker Robert Carbonaro of Carbonaro Guitars; 3) a private party on the Sunset Kidd hosted by the urbane and ubiquitous John Palminteri.

To participate or attend the luncheon, just call (805) 962-7466 or go online at teddybearcancerfoun dation.org.

Garden Party attire is suggested, and your RSVP is needed by September 22.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5354 DUE DATE & TIME: September 30, 2014 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Traffic Signal Cabinets Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or

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

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Momentum Entertainment Company, 25 Arlington Ave, Suite #7, Santa Barbara, 93101.

Momentum Entertainment Company, 25 Arlington Ave, Suite #7, Santa Barbara, 93101.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 3, 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. 2014-0002545.

Published September 10, 17, 24, October 1, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TYGR PR & Branding; TYGR Public Relations & Branding, 429 East Main Street, Santa Maria, CA 93454. Tyler Gross, 937 Camino Caballo, Nipomo, CA 93444. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 27, 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

Published: September 10, 2014 Montecito Journal

of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Marlene Ashcom.

FBN No. 2014-0002509.

Published September 10, 17, 24, October 1, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Salon Du Mont, 1470 E. Valley Road #C, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Yazmin Carrera, 4515 Chaparral Drive, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 15, 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. 2014-0002396.

Published September 10, 17, 24, October 1, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Solvang Chiropractic Center, 680 Alamo Pintado Road, Suite 106, Solvang, CA 93463. Noah Swanson, 69 Hollister Ranch Road, Gaviota, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 19, 2014. This statement

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

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

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

BID NO. 5352

BID NO. 5344A

DUE DATE & TIME: October 1, 2014 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

DUE DATE & TIME: October 8, 2014 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

Waterfront Department Pressure Washing, Steam Cleaning and Vacuum Recovery

Airport Landscape Maintenance

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on September 24, 2014 at 10:00 a.m., at the Waterfront Center, located at 113 Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

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 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.

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C61 Limited Specialty / D38 Sand and Water Blasting Contractors 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.

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

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. 2014-0002426.

Published September 3, 10, 17, 24, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Branded Innovation; Fitness Professional Online, 529 East Gutierrez, Suite C, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

Conditioning Specialists, 529 East Gutierrez, Suite C, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 27, 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

Published: September 10, 2014 Montecito Journal

copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales.

FBN No. 2014-0002502.

Published September 3, 10, 17, 24, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) have abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): Sherie’s Angel Readings and Music, 736 Cieneguitas Road, Unit E, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Sherie Esther Davis, 736 Cieneguitas Road, Unit E, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 21, 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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A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on September 30, 2014 at 1:00 p.m., at the Airport Maintenance Yard, located at 1699 Firestone Rd., Goleta, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

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.

In the event of a conflict between Santa Barbara Living Wage and the California Department of Industrial Relations Prevailing Wage Rates, Contractor/Subcontractor shall pay the higher of the two rates.

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C-27 Landscape Contractors 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.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids. 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

Published: September 10, 2014 Montecito Journal

County Clerk.

Original FBN No. 2014-0002092.

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are

doing business as: Alvin Apartments, 710 W. Alvin Avenue, Santa Maria, CA 93458. 710 W. Alvin LLC, 23622 Calabasas Road, Suite 337, Calabasas, CA 91302. This statement was filed with the County Clerk

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PUBLIC NOTICES of Santa Barbara County on August 13, 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. 2014-0002374.

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

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, 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: Mindful Business Works, 420 Northridge Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

Barbara Rose Sherman, 420 Northridge Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 19, 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. 2014-0002425.

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Acquisotic; Bruce Gombrelli Music; Codewise Design, 315 Meigs Road STE 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 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: American Riviera Pools, 1482 East Valley Road #999, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Janiel Therese Callahan, 553 Mills Way, Goleta, CA 93117.

Kenneth Richard Helling, 553 Mills Way, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk 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, 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

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1468496. To all interested parties: Petitioner Edward Eugene Myers filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Edward Eugene Tazer-Myers. 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 September 3, 2014, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: November 5, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara,

CA 93101.

Published 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/1 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. Published 8/27, 9/3, 9/10, 9/17

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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)

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

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 first-come 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 (Thursday, 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). Next week (September 18): The Idiomatiques, an original gypsy jazz quartet featuring jazz combo specialist/bassist/singer and Santa Barbara Vocal Jazz Foundation cofounder Kim Collins; rhythm guitarist Mike “Bones” Glick (who formerly played gypsy jazz with Nick Coventry); Brian Mann, who has recorded for major labels, earned platinum sales awards, and toured or recorded with a slew of rock and pop artists from Kenny Loggins, Michael MacDonald, and David Lee Roth to Olivia NewtonJohn and Larry Carlton, to name just a few; and guitarist/composer Craig Sharmat, a veteran of TV composing, tours with Ronnie Laws and several hits on Billboard’s jazz charts. (Santa Barbara Dance Institute, beneficiary).

WHEN: 5-7 pm WHERE: 121 S. Hope Avenue COST: free INFO: 687-3500 or www.ShopLaCumbre.com/Events/Jazz

“An Insider with an Outlook” – That’s the title for tonight’s presentation from former Sony Pictures Imageworks executive Don Levy at the monthly meeting of the Screenwriters Association of Santa Barbara. Levy started his 17-year stint at Sony as an awards campaign consultant, helping the studio grow in both size and reputation, beginning with its first Academy Award for the animated short The ChubbChubbs in 2003 and continuing with the 2005 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for Spider-Man 2.

As the senior vice president of marketing and communications for Sony Pictures, he directed corporate communications, marketing and public relations for several Sony Pictures affiliates. Levy left in 2012 to develop a new family entertainment venture and create Smith Brook Farm, a media, entertainment, and tech consultancy that helps individuals and companies grow their ideas. Levy is also member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, on its feature animation nominating committee. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Brooks Institute, 27 East Cota Street COST: free INFO: 617-4503 or www.screenwriterssb.org

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Two at the Chu – A couple of legendary pop entertainers from different genres headline at the Chumash Casino’s Samala Showroom this Thursday and next. Tonight, it’s popular Norteño artist and Grammy Award-winner Ramon Ayala, aka “The King of the Accordion.” Over his 40-year career, Ayhala has been at the helm of two of the most successful conjuntos in the history of the genre – Los Relampagos Del Norte and the current Ramon Ayala Y Sus Bravos Del Norte. The latter features Ayala’s brothers Fidencio on bass and Jose Luis on drums, as well as David Laure on percussion and lead singer Mario Marichalar.... Next Thursday (September 18), crooner Engelbert Humperdinck takes his turn at center stage in the gambling palace. A legend in the music industry, Humperdinck has compiled 63 gold and 24 platinum records, four Grammy nominations, a Golden Globe for “Entertainer of the Year” in 1988, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

We’re sure to hear such classic hits as “Release Me”, “After The Lovin”, “The Last Waltz”, “The Way It Used to Be”, “A Man Without Love”, and “Quando, Quando, Quando”. But Humperdinck isn’t only a nostalgia act, as the longtime Las Vegas icon has followed contemporaries like Tony Bennett and Burt Bacharach in reaching out to younger audiences, and has recorded his own duets CD, Engelbert Calling, due out at the end of the month. The album features tracks with Elton John, Willie Nelson, Shelby Lynne, Cliff Richard, Neil Sedaka, Dionne Warwick, Kenny Rogers, and Gene Simmons, among others. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Highway 246, Santa Ynez COST: Ayala: $55-$95; Humperdinck: $25$45 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www.chumashcasino.com

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Art in the Funk Zone – Now that’s a nobrainer, perhaps as big an understatement as saying there’s a couple of places to grab a glass of wine in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood only steps from Stearns Wharf. But the happy hour event planned for this evening at MichaelKate Interiors & Art Gallery – one of the early tenants in the area and an early adopter of the chic artsy approach that has become de rigueur in the region recently – hosts quite an impressive list of local painter, sculptors, photographers, and more. More than 30 artists in all are gathering together, including David J. Diamant, Pat Calonne, Jeremy Harper, William

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Music for Harmony – Santa Barbara Sister Cities Organizations presents their annual 9/11 Anniversary Concert commemorating the 13th anniversary of this historic terrorist attacks with a focus on bringing all communities together, reaffirming hope for world peace, and celebrating life and universal humanity. This year’s musical performances come from the Santa Barbara Koto Ensemble, who highlight the Japanese instrument; Mariachi Las Olas de Santa Bárbara, performing music from the Jalisco region of Mexico, and the Unitarian Society Chancel and Women’s Choirs. WHEN: 5:30 pm WHERE: Faulkner Gallery, Main Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. COST: free INFO: 964-7559

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O’Malley, Philip Koplin, Holly MacKay, Larry Iwerks, and James Lambert, for an event that also might be serving as the swan song for art curator Brad Nack, who helped inaugurate the gallery at the furniture store a few years ago. Nack, who will also have his abstracts up on the walls, is leaving to take a position across the street as the new executive director of the Arts Forum. WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: 132 Santa Barbara Street COST: free INFO: 963-1411 or www.michaelkate. com/gallery

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songwriters coming to the Maverick Saloon in Santa Ynez tonight as part of the Tales from the Tavern series are strangers to the area. Catie Curtis, Eliza Gilkyson and special guest Nina Gerber have all played frequently over the years at venues ranging from Sings Like Hell at the Lobero to headlining shows at SOhO. What makes this show so special, aside from the connective elements of collaboration, is that Gilkyson is touring in support of her new Red House Records album The Nocturne Diaries, the first new CD in three years from Grammy-nominated, Austin Music Hall of Fame member. It’s something of a family affair as the album was produced and recorded in Austin with her son, Cisco Ryder, and includes a haunting version of the folk classic “Fast Freight” written by her famous father, Terry Gilkyson. As the title implies, Eliza’s new songs are one that have come at night, when, she says, “the big themes crop up in the dark – thoughts of mortality, the state of the world, the plight of mankind, one’s failures, losses, and fears – the things we are all too distracted to notice during the day.” But the album is no bleak affair; Gilkyson also pays tribute to hope, humor, and the power of friendships that also arrive in the evening. Together with the brilliantly versatile guitarist Gerber and the underrated singer-songwriter Curtis, the new material should make for quite an evening of song. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 3687 Sagunto Street, Santa Ynez COST: $34.25 INFO: 688-0383 or www. talesfromthetavern.com

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Benefit of the Week – There are myriad fundraisers for worthy causes

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 It All Boyles Down to the Story – Speaking of Stories’ new official season doesn’t get underway until early next year.

But as in recent years, there are a handful of preliminary events to whet everyone’s appetite and raise a few dollars to keep humming the scintillating series of actors reading short stories live in the theater.

Tonight’s benefit celebrates the first 20 years of Speaking of Stories with a special performance by Montecito writer T.C. Boyle, a longtime supporter of SOS, who never fails to delight in relaying his own tales from the written page. The event also features food, wine, and other entertainment in the Santa Barbara home of Carolyn Butcher and Michael Perry. WHEN: 3-6 pm WHERE: call COST: $100 & up INFO: 966-3875 or www.speakingofstories.org

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Bibb is Back – No less an authority than Taj Mahal has raved about Eric Bibb, the veteran acoustic bluesman who somehow still seems to fly significantly beneath the pop music radar, though he has garnered a Grammy nomination and more than an handful of W.C. Handy Blues Music Awards over his four-decade career. Bibb blends a traditional-blues Americana approach with a contemporary attitude, resulting in gospel-inflected folkblues that’s at once rootsy and modern. The singer and versatile guitarist – he’s one of the finer finger-pickers in the genre – traverses styles as easily as he plumbs the depth of the American experience for his richly emotional songs, a combination that has earned him comparisons to Leadbelly, Ry Cooder, Woody Guthrie, and Odetta.

Bibb has played occasionally in Santa Barbara, but has found a more friendly home in Ojai, where Performances to Grow On’s Fresh Roasted concert series has booked him regularly. Opening is Michael Jerome Browne, two-time Canadian Folk Music Awards Solo Artist of the Year and three-time Juno Award Nominee (the Canadian Grammy). WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Matilija Auditorium, 703 El Paseo Road, Ojai COST: $35 general, $32 seniors (65+) and students; $40 preferred seats in the first seven rows INFO: 646-8907 or www.ptgo.org every weekend in sunny Santa Barbara, but Glow in the Park not only supports a truly necessary grassroots endeavor, it also might be the most fun you have all season. Early attendees will get to experience a tethered hot-air balloon ride produced by the experts of Citrus Classic Balloon Festival (held each July in Santa Paula), soaring above Elings Park for a rare late-afternoon view of the ocean and city. The VIP reception also features special hors d’oeuvres and cocktails. The main event begins at 6 pm, when a gourmet, custom-catered field dinner accompanied by signature drinks will be served in the great outdoors atop Elings Park where several glowing hot-air balloons will illuminate the celebration as the sun begins to set. Following the

meal is the AfterGlow dance party with a performance by Hollywood U2, the Los Angeles-based tribute to the Irish rock superstars. The proceeds are earmarked for Doctors Without Walls – Santa Barbara Street Medicine, which provides free, humanitarian medicine for the homeless and others who are the most vulnerable in the Santa Barbara community. So even if the idea of rising up off the ground in a contraption held up only by hot air seems a bit intimidating, at least there will be plenty of doctors around should anxiety or other issues arise! WHEN: 4:30-9:30 pm WHERE: Elings Park upper soccer field, 1298 Las Positas Road COST: $100 & up ($35 afterglow party reduced admission for students) INFO: 452-5466 or www. sbglowinthepark.org •MJ

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Furious Fusion – The Daniel Rosenboom Quintet, led by the trumpeter/composer, aim to create what they call “a new brand of American music, unbound by genre or stylistic idiom.” Fire Keeper, the band’s debut CD, bristles with electric energy, blending elements of jazz, progressive, and experimental rock, electronica, and even a hint of blues and grunge in a mix that’s at once heady, heavy, and heart-racing. Rosenboom has recorded six full-length albums under his own name, plus seven more with his “hardcore-Balkan-jazz-rock” group PLOTZ! and the “spontaneous composition” jazzrock group DR. MiNT. The quintet – which features L.A. jazz innovators Gavin Templeton (sax, flute, bass clarinet), Alexander Noice (guitar & FX), Kai Kurosawa (Bear Trax and FX) and Dan Schnelle (drums) – is making its Santa Barbara debut, though several of the players have been here before under their own names or with different outfits. Prepare to be impressed – and to rock out hard. As one critic said, “Strap in and enjoy the ride.”

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 25) Event Honorary co-chairs Richard Yates and Tina Takaya with Thekla and Richard Sanford of Sanford Winery (photo by Priscilla)

Rock and Write Dee Elias, who conducts wine tours in the Santa Ynez Valley, is a longtime Beatles fan.

Nearly 50 years ago, she had a burning desire to meet the Fab Four, as John, Paul, George, and Ringo were dubbed, and has now written an amusing book on her efforts, Confessions of a Beatlemaniac!

Mike Lazaro, Anthony Stall, Gregg Carty, Gary Dobbins, Eydie Kaufman, Leo Fortunato, Geri Carty, and Debra McCarty (photo by Priscilla)

55-foot cruiser of Jack and Karen Byers.

Among those enjoying a day on the waves in impeccable weather, ending with a bountiful barbecue, were Bill and Trish Davis, Roger Chrisman, Terry and Pam Valeski, Patricia Hinds, Steve and Caroline Thompson, Sam Tyler, Victoria Hines, Candy Logue, and Alan Porter...

Ellie and Alex Patterson of Here’s The Scoop (photo by Priscilla)

Angel City Brewery in Los Angeles, the bash had delicious avocado ice cream from Here’s the Scoop in Montecito, concocted by owner Ellie Patterson and daughter Alexandra.

“It’s one of the largest food festivals in California and just goes from strength to strength,” says Debra McCarty, executive officer...

Thanks a Yacht A tidal wave of generosity swept over the Santa Barbara Yacht Club for its 10th annual Yachts of Love regatta, which raised a record $175,000 for the 106-year-old Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care, a commendable increase on last year’s $156,000.

The nautical jolly, which since its inception a decade ago, has raised more than $1 million, was chaired by Robyn Parker.

“It’s fun, different, and very colorful,” says Robyn. “People get to go on some lovely boats and be part of the action.”

Before the first gun starting the races went off, harbor patrol boats did a ceremonial “Water Dance” complete with fire hoses, to send the 50-plus racers on their way, as I watched, for a second year, from Serengeti, the

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Great Taste There was a great deal of food for thought when, for the second year, the 33rd annual Taste of the Town held its Connoisseurs’ Circle separately at the El Encanto Hotel for 200 gourmand guests, 48 hours before the bustling sold-out Riviera Park Garden fest.

The tony hostelry’s chef, Leo Andres Ayala, joined Sylvain Desbois, executive chef at the St. Regis Punta Mita Resort, a 1,500-acre paradise near Santa Barbara’s sister city, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to prepare the three course menu of king crab ravioli, filet of beef with Pasilla chili sauce and spinach cannelloni, and brownie chocolate fingers, after cocktails and canapes around the Belmond hotel’s lily pond.

All were accompanied by vintages

Jacques Habra and Jennifer Jaqua Connoisseurs’ Circle co-chairs (photo by Priscilla)

from a number of local vineyards.

Among the guests at the dinner, co-chaired by Jacques Habra and Jennifer Jaqua, and emceed by former KEYT-TV anchor Debby Davison, were Mike Towbes – wife Anne was suffering cracked ribs after a camping accident – Hiroko Benko, Ralph and Diana MacFarlane, Asher Garfinkel, Janet Garufis, and David Starkey.

With both the dinner and the fest – co-chaired by Richard Yates and Tina Takaya of Opal – which boasted 80 wineries and restaurants, the Arthritis Foundation expected to raise around $140,000, a record...

Pam Viera, 2014 culinary host; executive chef Leo Andres Ayala of Belmond El Encanto; lead chef, executive chef Sylvain Desbois, St Regis Punta Mita Resort; Mike Viera with medical honoree, Timothy Spiegel, M.D.; and youth honoree, Kendall Viera (photo by Priscilla)

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Beatlemania author Dee Elias signing for Ken Sherman and Anne Rydfors at Blush (photo by Priscilla)

“I broke all the rules,” she told me at a book-launch bash at Tecolote, the bustling bibliophile bastion in the upper village, while a Beatles tribute band played outside.

“I wrote a diary on my escapades when I was growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of 13 in 1964. I fell in love with them. Life was simpler then. We were younger and full of dreams.”

Dee, who says she still loves the group and the music, eventually achieved her dream of meeting the mop-top lads from Liverpool.

“I was a nobody from a farm town in Ohio, but a friend and I pretended we were reporters from the Cleveland Press and sneaked into their hotel, meeting Paul first. Then I managed to snap a photo of George on the phone, which I cherish to this day.”

After the book signing at Tecolote, a release party was thrown at Blush, the downtown restaurant on State Street....

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Catherine Gee and her designs on fashion models (photo by Priscilla)

Designing Woman Catherine Gee, former head of the Arts Fund, has turned her creative abilities in another direction – fashion.

For the past few months, the willowy beauty has been studying at the De Marcos Fashion Academy and showed the fruits of her efforts at a fashion show at the Orfalea Foundation downtown center, joining other designers, including Wesly Johnson, Danille Rocha, Susan Tompkins, Bridget Mitchell, Kevin Valencia, Joanna Reyes, Saul Olivas, and Kat Zisser.

“I like modern silhouettes and use a lot of silk in my work,” says Catherine, who garnered rave reviews for her designs...

Remembering Rivers On a personal note, my late friend and colleague Joan Rivers, who was taken off life support at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York last week, had a star-studded funeral on Sunday.

The ceremony at Temple Emanu-El, the Westminster Abbey of Manhattan synagogues – just a short distance

Richard, dressed as a pilgrim, with Joan Rivers on her Thanksgiving Day TV special, with a gaggle of other gossips, including Bill Zwecker of the Chicago Sun-Times and Janet Charlton, former columnist on Star magazine

Designer Catherine Gee with Jodi De Marcos of De Marcos Fashion Academy and designer Bridget Mitchell (photo by Priscilla)

from her Upper Eastside home – was attended by veteran newswoman Barbara Walters, fashion designer Carolina Herrera, Donald Trump and his daughter, Ivanka, Whoopi Goldberg, Geraldo Rivera, Hugh Jackman, and Sarah Jessica Parker, among a tidal wave of bold-faced names.

Even Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, sent condolences, since Joan, 81, was a great favorite of the couple, even attending their wedding at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor in 2005.

Through her friend, Robert Higdon, who was the head of the Prince of Wales Foundation in Washington, D.C., for 14 years, Joan enjoyed charity dinners at Highgrove, HRH’s country estate in the Cotswolds, and Clarence House.

Three years ago, she recalled the time she was with the royal twosome and made a toast against all protocol, say-

ing: “I just want to say this is for all you b.....s in the room who married your husbands for money: I know who you are and Charles knows, too, because I pointed you out to him,” leaving the royal hosts in fits of laughter.

Joan Rivers, an absolute hoot, to the very end....

Sightings: Actor Don Johnson checking out the scene at Pierre Lafond...Ellen DeGeneres shopping at Lazy Acres...Christopher Lloyd enjoying a java jolt at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings, and other amusing items for Richard’s column should email at richardmineards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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Elizabeth Langtree 689-0461 or 733-1030.

WOODWORKING/CARPENTRY Finish Custom Carpentry.

Furniture, cabinets, restoration, doors, windows.. Ca Lic#911243.

(805)696-8507. Cristian.

ARTIST REQUEST Used Nespresso Pods Wanted For Local Artist Do you drink Nespresso Coffee? I want your used coffee pods.

I’m a local artist and I use these colorful pods in my creations. Save them for me and I will pick them up from Carp. to Goleta area. Creative purposeful recycling (up-cycling) at its best!

Thanks so much! Evelyn email me at pods.nespresso@gmail.com http:// pods-nespresso.com/ VOLUNTEERS WANTED Old Mission Santa Barbara is looking for interested and dedicated men and women of all faiths to join our docent program. Our training class will be held every Monday 9:3012:00 September 29 - November 10.

Applications at Mission website:www. santabarbaramission.org/docents.

For additional information, call Laura Foss at (805) 682-4713 or email at museumtours@sboldmission.org.

Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center employs the power of the horse to enhance the capabilities of children and adults with special

TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD $8 minimum

It’s Simple. Charge is $2 per line, and any portion of a line. Multiply the number of lines used (example 4 lines x 2 =$8) Add 10 cents per Bold and/or Upper case character and send your check to: Montecito Journal, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA 93108.

Deadline for inclusion in the next issue is Thursday prior to publication date. $8 minimum. Email: christine@montecitojournal.net Yes, run my ad __________ times. Enclosed is my check for $__________

CAREGIVING SERVICES Experienced caregiver, live-out, seeking position. Personal care, light housework. Exp w/Alz, Parks disease, Cancer. Excellent refs. 805 563-6354.

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LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY RainMan Voted

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Termite Inspection 24hr turn around upon request.

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two Locations: Montecito and Goleta Montecito: Lic# 4271701581 GoLeta: Lic# 425801731

Do you love Reagan history? The Reagan Ranch Center is seeking volunteers who would be interested in serving as docents for the Exhibit Galleries. Docents will have the opportunity share the history of President Reagan and his “Western White House.” For more information or to apply, please contact Danielle Fowler at 805-957-1980 or daniellef@reaganranch.org.

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“The 1st Memorial Honors Detail is seeking veterans to get back in uniform to participate in an on-call Honor Guard team to provide military honors at funeral or memorial services throughout Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. For more information visit www.usmilitaryhonors.org, email carlvwade@gmail.com, or call 805667-7909.”

Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter is located at the Santa Barbara County Animal Shelter, 5473 Overpass Rd, Santa Barbara, Ca. www.bunssb.org Adopt /Volunteer/Donate with us, and help give abandoned & stray rabbits & guinea pigs a better life.

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603 San Ysidro Rd $4,995,000 Daniel Encell 805.565.4896 Stunning 4BD/4BA Mediterranean estate on 1.44 private creekside acres (assr). www.DanEncell.com

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