The Long Way Home

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Herds of tule elk can be seen wandering through the fog at Point Reyes National Seashore, p. 42

THE LONG WAY HOME

MONTECITAN AND LEGENDARY AUTO RACING MECHANIC PAUL MADSEN LOST HIS HOUSE IN THE JANUARY 9, 2018 DEBRIS FLOW. TWO YEARS LATER, HE’S STILL WAITING FOR A BUILDING PERMIT. (STORY BEGINS ON PAGE 6)

Round & Round

Planning Commissioners from SB City and Montecito debate roundabout details during contentious 9-hour hearing, p. 12

Roundup Update

How much Roundup is being sprayed in local debris basins? Nick Schou seeks answers from County official Maureen Spencer, p. 11

Summer Shopping at the Mart

California-centric Studio C and chic handbag shop Clare V. open at Montecito Country Mart, p. 16

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5 Editor’s Letter How long do you have to live somewhere until you’re no longer considered an “outsider”?

6 On the Record Paul Madsen is still waiting for permits to rebuild his home after losing it in the debris flow. What’s taking so long?

8 Letters to the Editor A collection of communications from readers about dying oak trees, last week’s cover, mail-in voting, and more 10 Dear Montecito Stella Pierce on style over substance, glowing in the black light, and avoiding trouble in a fire drill

Tide Guide 11 Roundup Update Nick Schou speaks to County official Maureen Spencer about pesticide use in local debris basins 12 Village Beat City Planning Commission and Montecito Planning Commission discuss and debate Olive Mill roundabout; two new shops popup at Montecito Country Mart; San Ysidro Ranch’s Stonehouse mentioned as top outdoor dining venue 14 On Entertainment

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, possibly the hit of the summer; a discussion about Lotusland; Polo Pacific Coast Open; more 18 Knowing Your Circle of Control Julie McMurry wrote the COVID manifesto that became flattenthecurve.com. Today she is an authority on the virus.

22 Perspectives by Rinaldo S Brutoco No Wasted Crises: The triple threat we face could make our country stronger than ever 23 The Optimist Daily New York transforms world’s biggest trash dump into a park; UK takes on e-waste

Brilliant Thoughts Reminiscing on a time when Russia was the Soviet Union, Mumbai was Bombay, and when Ashleigh Brilliant was Junior 34 Nosh Town A food activist’s mission to solve Summerland’s “food desert” problem 40 Our Town Joanne Calitri talks with astrophysicist and sci-fi film reviewer Andy Howell 42 Far Flung Travel Chuck Graham heads up to Point Reyes to spot herds of tule elk reestablishing old California habitat 43 In Passing Remembering Barbara Benon, who took a leap of faith and opened the hair salon Benon For Clothes on Coast Village Road.

Remembering Sylvia Brickley Weller, real estate maven, writer, and world traveler who was active in several community organizations 46 Classified Advertising Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 47 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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Editor’s Letter

by Gwyn Lurie CEO and Executive Editor of the Montecito Journal Media Group

Whose Montecito?

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s scores of people flee various pandemic-claustro places for the sunny hills and shores of Montecito, it is time to ask ourselves the inescapable question, “Whose Montecito is it?”

This point was underscored by local reaction to last week’s issue of this newspaper which gently poked fun at tabloid culture and expressed our belief that our new royal neighbors, like all Montecitans, have a right to a normal abnormal life here. The villains in the piece were tabloid culture, the paparazzi, and the invasive nature of both.

We received many appreciative responses to our treatment of this story. But we also received a wee bit of hate mail – two pieces to be exact, from members of a self-professed “multi-generational Montecito family.”

I mention this because even angry letters can facilitate an important conversation about where we are headed, both locally and nationally, and in this case, who gets to curate our culture. There’s a reason this question is especially timely right now.

We normally print all letters we receive (including the negative ones) unless they are: anonymous or contain hate speech or are intended as personal attacks – thank you, but I have my kids for that. Both of these letters fit squarely in that final category and so we are not printing them.

But reading between the ad hominem remarks (“you come across as an ‘outsider looking in,’” “move back to L.A.,” “this village has deteriorated to the lowest common denominator of transplants who now call Montecito home,” etc.) the gist of their umbrage seems to be that as a non-multi-generational Montecitan or “transplant,” I don’t “know” or “can’t understand” the nuances of proper Montecito mores and manners. Manners that, in their opinion, should have included not mentioning whatsoever the royals’ arrival as if we are part of some royal coterie.

If I understand their position, it’s that this is a place where celebrities should be able to live in peace without neck craning by locals, especially of the interloper variety, who should not be so crass as to notice. Even if those people happen to wear a figurative crown.

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What is Montecito going to “be” going forward?

And for whom will it be? Who will it include?

And who controls the velvet rope?

I’ve never been a big royal-watcher, but the royals moving here is not only news, it’s important news. Why? Because a Duke and Duchess from England, the most enduring royal line on the planet, chose to leave their home and royal duties. They instead chose, of all of the places on earth, to come here.

That is both global news and local news. We believe that to not acknowledge this story would be a dereliction of duty as the local paper of record, and a disservice to the local business community and everyone for whom local commerce is their lifeblood. And let’s not forget that an important part of the story is that what the royal couple fled was a tabloid culture of snobbery and exclusion, citing what was described as “unbearable … racist attitudes from the British media.”

But these arbitrary, unofficial rules of community etiquette can be slippery. If longevity (read bloodline) is the yardstick by which one measures the right to define the unwritten “rules” of behavior for this, or any, region, then perhaps we should consult the Chumash, who have lived here for 13 thousand years.

That’s 400 generations. Talk about multi-generational.

The reason custodianship or perceived custodianship of Montecito’s mores matters right now is not because royals moved here. It’s because, like it or not, we are at an inflection point; not only here, but across the country as well. The unavoidable conversation is: what is Montecito going to “be” going forward?

And for whom will it be? And who controls the velvet rope?

Since the beginning of the pandemic, approximately 153 homes and condos have sold in Montecito. From what we’ve been told, more than 75% of the

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o get on the 101 Freeway heading south at San Ysidro Road, you must first turn left on South Jameson Lane and then drive past the Rosewood Miramar Beach until you come to a stop sign at the corner of Posilipo Lane, just north of the train tracks. In front of you is an unforgivingly abbreviated onramp leading to the curving highway full of traffic on your left. To your right, at least during daylight hours, a white SUV might be backed up in front of a wooden fence with the cabin facing the freeway and the mountains.

Between early morning and mid-afternoon you’ll also likely see a giant Santa Claus of a man with glasses and a white beard sitting in the truck. He appears simply to be watching the traffic go by. “Being watched getting on the 101,” began one recent message posted on Nextdoor, asking if anybody else had noticed the man in the white truck. “I’ve been baffled by this for a long time,” the writer added.

“Especially as he doesn’t appear to be any kind of law enforcement.”

The man in the truck is 67-year-old Paul Madsen. He used to live in the house that, until recently, stood behind the wooden fence where he now parks his SUV. Madsen lost his home in the January 9, 2018 debris flow that killed 23 people in Montecito. The disaster completely destroyed the house he’d lived in since he was a child growing up in the 1950s. The only structure remaining on Madsen’s property is a cramped mechanic’s workspace that is decorated with racing posters. The

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space is lit up with electricity provided by a generator sitting nearby in the dirt next to a pile of concrete debris in what used to be his front yard. Inside the wooden structure, a mud line is still visible about four feet high on the wall.

“It’s three and a half feet, roughly,” Madsen says, quickly correcting his visitor. We are talking in his workshop and a rolled up copy of his building plans sit on a shelf behind him. “I had to dig it out,” he adds, laughing.

Although Madsen submitted his plans to rebuild two years ago, he still hasn’t received a building permit. “I started the process in about August of 2018 and well, it’s 2020 now. Supposedly, I am close but I just don’t know… It’s taken forever.”

The House

Awaking after three a.m. on the morning of January 9, 2018, Madsen at first assumed that it was already daylight. “I was in the house and the power went out,” he recalls, now standing in approximately the same location as his former bedroom.

Stepping outside that night, Madsen realized that the light was from a massive fire on Park Lane. “It just lit up the sky,” he says. “I was standing up at the top of the driveway, looking over the fence, and that’s when I saw the mudflow coming.”

At first Madsen wasn’t sure what he was seeing was real. “It wasn’t raining

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alking along upper San Leandro Sunday, just west of the bridge, I noticed that many oak trees that line the road are dying. These are the beautiful trees whose canopy stretched over the road and made for a spectacular tree tunnel. But they won’t be there for long.

It looks as if these are the trees that were hit by the mudflow in January of 2018 and are now showing the effects.

It is probably too late to save them but if anyone knows if Santa Barbara County has an arborist, could they reach out and contact them.

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There are times these days, when I struggle to muster up a good guffaw, but last week’s cover was just what the doctor ordered. MoJo made me laugh aloud. And other than my funny little mutt, Cozmo, (grrrr), I was all alone!

Thank you so much for reminding us of our humor during these dark days.

We need as many smiles, giggles, and acts of kindness as we can get, and last week, MoJo served up a full platter.

The content of the MJ’s editorial moved me. It was a reminder of what Montecito is, and what it was to my late husband, Thom Steinbeck. Thom was a writer, but because he so favored his father, he was considered, and became a minor celebrity. It was particularly difficult for him, in that he too was an accomplished writer. Yet often, outside of Santa Barbara County, few could see past the “Steinbeck thing.” That is, until we moved to Montecito. Thom was often featured in both the local, California, national and international press, but he was granted respite here.

To this warm and embracing community, Thom was just Thom, Uncle Thom, Steinbeck and according to the late, great Jonathan Winters, “Hemingway.”

Here, he had friendships with fishermen, carpenters, artists, bankers, entrepreneurs, actors, musicians, waiters, other writers, and of course, many bartenders, especially those at Pierre’s Wine Bistro. How fortunate we all are to have such good luck.

Montecito and our friends here were as big a part of our love story as our partnership was. Thank you for that Montecito. Thom loved all of you and this place more than anything.

And to you, Montecito Journal, thank you for your grace and consideration in welcoming our new neighbors. The new and improved Montecito Journal

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” – Oscar Wilde

is a superb representation of our community. I only hope that Meghan and Harry find as much peace, joy, and happiness in this sweet slice of heaven, as Thom and I did. Neither of us ever loved another place or community as much as Montecito.

With appreciation, Gail Knight Steinbeck

‘Private Life Means Privacy’

The Montecito Journal’s editorial about the tabloid culture and recent arrival of hovering helicopters and invasive cameras was spot on. I’ve lived here for over 50 years, raising kids and thriving on the quiet support of a conscious community. Your cover was a perfect blend of art, humor, and alarm. Your words were a reminder that, no matter how public the persona, private life means privacy. Creating space for people to live just as neighbors, parents, human beings means that nobody needs to feel uncomfortable. It has always been a lovely, unspoken agreement here that we don’t go “gaga” over celebs. Thank you for your personal words reminding us of our manners. I hope all will listen.

Ann Brode

Way to Go

Dear MJ, I think you’ve done the nearly impossible with today’s editorial: creating a modicum of British tabloid-type humor and showing our new neighbors a welcoming attitude.

Wayne Siemens

Rights as Old as Man

I was surprised by Mr. Robert Bernstein’s opinion piece in the MJ August 13-20 issue, “Property vs.

Humanity,” in which he advocates a radical change in property rights. He does so because he was evicted from the rental house he had occupied for 30 years. He thinks that is unfair. He explains that his landlord sold the property and the new owner evicted him. He says, ”What would you call it if someone disrupted every aspect of your life and cost you large sums of money?” I assume he thinks that he should have been allowed to stay until he decided to move out even though he took no risks with his own capital to buy it.

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Tales from the Kingdom of Fife

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ello, it’s Stella, your friendly, neighborhood column manager. This week I am sharing snippets from my academic (and not-so-academic life) in St Andrews.

I’ve never participated in New Year’s resolutions. Indeed, true to my inner nerd, my annual clock has always been set to the academic calendar. As such, my year begins in September, and so does my annual reflection on the year I’m leaving behind. I bring to you: Tales from the Kingdom of Fife.

I wish to start with a short but powerful – as far as my ego is concerned – anecdote about how I received a mediocre grade on a psychology essay. I must concede that I agree with the marker, it was not a particularly impressive essay; it was made during the transition to online-learning, and I wrote the majority of the piece on an international flight. (Thank you for considering my side, I will make no further excuses.) The kicker is not the grade itself, which I am not particularly unsatisfied with, but instead the rationale the marker gave. To quote my professor: “Your argument fell apart, but you appear to write well.”

Story of my life!

Listen up kids, this is an important lesson. Life is less about substance than appearance. Look like you belong, and you will find no questioning gazes. At least that is what I told myself as I took a small, unauthorized tour of the university chemistry labs, using my biology lab coat to handicap any suspicious onlookers. I would gladly relive that adventure, but I fear a public forum such as this journal is not an ideal place to admit one’s transgressions, academically impassioned though they may be. So instead, I shall regale you with a story of one of my less insightful academic blunders.

First semester, second year saw a bold attempt on my part to distance

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myself from my past as an English major and fully embrace my new role as a scholar of neuroscience. Aptly, a close friend and I got lost en route to our inaugural lab for the course “molecular biology” and arrived just in time to miss the introduction to the day’s experiment. No worries! I was certain we could figure it out as we went. After all, we were working with an exciting chemical today: fluorescein.

It took my lab partner, Anne, and I very little time to catch up to the rest of the class, deftly preparing our assays as if we hadn’t missed anything at all. It took Anne even less time to graze the substance vial with her elbow, knocking it over and spilling it across our workspace in the process. Once again, not a problem! We were practiced problem solvers – this was no obstacle. We knew fluorescein wasn’t toxic because we didn’t have to sign any legal paperwork upon entrance to the lab, so we made our covert cleanup efforts and continued our pipette work. A few minutes later, the lab demonstrators turned off the overhead lights and began to walk

around our laboratory holding black light sticks.

Had we been present for the introduction to today’s experiment (or, indeed, said the word fluorescein out loud) we might have realized that fluorescein glows neon yellow under black light. Meaning Anne and my workbench were decorated like a coital crime scene under the glaring judgment of the demonstrator’s black light wand.

Now that I am comfortable in the knowledge that I have shaken your confidence in my competence as a university student, I offer up one final anecdote. A keynote point for my hypothetical defense attorney, I am sure.

I am a fervent believer in learning outside of the classroom – do you find this shocking? And a robust distaste for hypocrisy has made sure I follow my own credence. Welcome to the Baby Bee Lab. My university has a well-respected developmental psychology department – the study of “womb to tomb” as we say in the biz. I decided it would be advantageous to spend time volunteering in that lab and, hopefully, gain some research experience along the way. As an entry-level research assistant, my time was spent occupying young children and dispensing stickers as often as analyzing statistics. One of my favorite assignments was the one that taught me why I’ll never go into education: teaching elementary students complex theories about human evolution. It was rewarding, but children are sticky, and my maternal instinct caps at 11 months of age. I did, however, meet my current research partner and close friend on one such assignment. Let me introduce you to one of Denmark’s finest exports, Kaja.

The Fire Drill

As winter break came to an end in our sophomore year, Kaja and I decided to take a mini vacation with our remaining days of academic freedom. The destination: the University of Cambridge. The plan: sneak into as many psychology lectures as possible.

I know it wouldn’t be everyone’s first pick for their time off, but Kaja and I were in absolute heaven. Staying with a mutual friend at a nearby dormitory, we attended lectures on the evolution of social cues, criminal psychology, how humans encode language, and – my favorite –diagnostics in autism.

Save for one lecture we missed after getting lost in a dinosaur museum, the entire trip went without a hitch! That was until the fire alarm went off.

Universities in the UK take fire drills very seriously. In most places, it is mandatory that dorms perform a fire drill at least twice a term. So most co-eds were at least somewhat accustomed to the shrieking buzz that woke an entire building at 5:35 am on January 20. Kaja and I were in that building, rubbing the sleep from our eyes, preparing to file out into the courtyard as we were used to doing during our own university’s fire drills.

There was only one problem: Kaja and I were, technically, contraband. Rules stated we were not allowed to stay as a visitor in the dorms for more than three days – this was our fourth day.

Our brains slowly faded out of their sleepy autopilot as we laced up our boots and realized we would have to wait behind the courtyard until the fire drill was finished and roll call had been completed.

So that’s how Kaja and I found ourselves strolling the back lawns of King’s College at sunrise. Amidst the morning air and the dew collecting on our trouser cuffs, we chose our vacation spot for next term: University of Oxford.

So there you have it. We are better acquainted than we were at the beginning of this piece, and I hope that we both learned that embarrassments and burdens of the past and present do not set the precedent for the future. The editor sitting on my shoulder like a cartoon angel is begging me to find a way to connect this to the pandemic.

Let’s see... Our world looks ever more fatalistic, but there is always light at the end of the tunnel. Just, for Pete’s sake, don’t walk towards it.

Yours, Stella •MJ

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n August 6, acting on a tip from a reader, the Montecito Journal’s Kelly Mahan Herrick reported that Santa Barbara County Flood Control employees had been spraying Roundup brand weed killer in the San Ysidro Creek debris basin. Since that article appeared, concerned readers have bombarded the paper with questions about the county’s use of the controversial pesticide. Among the questions they’ve raised: •H ow can the County justify spraying a pesticide that has already led to a $10 billion settlement over cancer claims and has been banned by many cities and school districts in California, including both the City of Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Unified School District?

• Exactly how much Roundup is being sprayed in the debris basins and how long has this been going on?

• How much Roundup does it take to kill a single plant?

• Why aren’t County workers simply pulling up the weeds by hand?

• Has the County ever informed the public of this policy?

Hoping to get more clarity on these and other questions, the Journal went back to Maureen Spencer, operations and environmental manager for County Flood Control District, for additional answers. Despite public concerns, Spencer continued to defend the County’s use of the herbicide. She said the type of Roundup spray had been specifically approved for aquatic use. But County workers were still trained never to spray the product into the water, but only

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by Kelly Mahan Herrick Kelly has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond. She is also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, and is a member of Montecito and Santa Barbara’s top real estate team, Calcagno & Hamilton.

Olive Mill Roundabout Update

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t an over nine-hour joint hearing on Thursday, August 20, the Santa Barbara City Planning Commission and the Montecito Planning Commission went over the proposed roundabout project at Coast Village Road and Olive Mill Road with a fine-tooth comb, digging into design details, functionality, aesthetics, and conditions of approval of the project, which is in both the City and

County jurisdictions.

The project consists of reconfiguring the currently clunky six-legged intersection at Olive Mill Road, Coast Village Road, North Jameson Lane, Highway 101 northbound offramp, and Highway 101 southbound on-ramp to a single lane roundabout.

According to staff, the approaches to the intersection at each of the legs of the roundabout would be modified to

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include new road curvature to slow traffic, and there would be pedestrian refuge islands, sidewalks, street lighting, signage, crosswalks, landscaping, and drainage facilities. Pedestrian access would continue to be provided on the west and north legs of the intersection and discouraged on the eastern legs near the highway on-ramps and off-ramps, which is consistent with the recently-repaired Olive Mill Road highway overcrossing, which intentionally eliminated a sidewalk on the east side of Olive Mill Road to concentrate pedestrian movement along the westside of Olive Mill Road.

Those pedestrian crossings would be improved with the addition of a crosswalk along the northern leg (Olive Mill Road North), shortened crossing lengths, refuge islands, and lighting. The existing bike lanes along Coast Village Road, Olive Mill Road (North), and North Jameson Lane would be maintained up to the roundabout approaches, and the roundabout approaches would be narrowed to slow traffic and merge the vehicle lane and bike lane into a shared roadway.

Cyclists wishing to not ride through the roundabout could dismount their bikes and cross the west and north legs of the roundabout as pedestrians. The 87,392-square-foot project footprint would extend beyond the existing road improvements, and all improvements would be accommodated within existing Caltrans, City, and County right-of-way.

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On Entertainment

by Steven Libowitz Good Grief, That Could be the Summer Winner

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or Brian McDonald, selecting You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown as the production for Ensemble Theatre Company Young Actors Conservatory this summer was a no-brainer once it became clear that COVID-19 had made his original choice – Hello, My Baby, by Montecito’s

Cheri Steinkellner – impractical.

Not only had ETC’s Education Director played the title character in the musical based on the Peanuts comic strip as a budding actor back in high school, he’d also previously directed young actors in the chestnut during his 16-year tenure as Education

Director at Rubicon Theatre, the professional company 30 miles south.

The revue of songs and vignettes based on the beloved Charles Schulz comic strip premiered in the 1960s and has become a staple at schools across the land ever since. With the restrictions on gatherings caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, McDonald turned the much-believed piece into a fun, upbeat, and decidedly innovative virtual production that will have its premiere for just two shows this weekend after being rescheduled from August 22.

The musical comedy features the Screenings of Ensemble Theatre Company Young Actors Conservatory’s production of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown take place August 29

legacy characters from the original comic strip, including Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Schroeder, Sally and Linus, who make their way through the challenges of young life in a series of vignettes that are bolstered by a bevy of simply but winning songs, including “Happiness,” “My Blanket and Me,” “The Kite,” “The Baseball Game,” and “Suppertime.”

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basis. Other landscaping includes low water use native and Mediterranean plant species. Relocation of some utility infrastructure would also be required to accommodate the project improvements.

During the hearing, which was at times contentious between the City PC and MPC, staff explained the intersection has long been problematic, as recognized in 1992 when the Montecito Community Plan was written. The project has been in the works for over seven years, when Public Works identified a roundabout as the preferred improvement for the area, which was confirmed during the environmental review of the upcoming widening of Highway 101. Since last year, there have been numerous public hearings and community meetings to discuss the project, and for project designers to gain input from the community and nearby residents. The small size of the project site causes many constraints, including existing right-ofway, design standards required for the freeway off-ramp, truck turning movements, and more. The project also requires the protection of public views, lighting to maintain semi-rural character, “old Santa Barbara” signage style, and must be compatible with the surrounding area.

Only a small handful of speakers

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spoke during the public comment period, including Doug Fell, a representative of developer John Price, who owns the new building at 1298 Coast Village Road which will be impacted by the project. Fell’s concerns include access to the building’s underground garage, which would be impacted by a proposed MTD bus stop on Olive Mill Road, where buses may momentarily block ingress and egress into the garage when picking up or dropping off bus patrons. “No project should have a bus stop that blocks ingress and egress to the property for any period of time,” Fell said.

Several members of the City Planning Commission agreed, and language was written into the Conditions of Approval that prevent MTD from blocking the driveway. Other concerns from the building owner include the impact of the commercial tenants in the building during the construction period, which is expected to take one year.

Montecito resident Bob Hazard voiced concern over the loss of a right-hand turning lane from Coast Village Road to Olive Mill Road, saying that the current right-hand lane allows for better traffic flow at the intersection. MPC commissioner Ron Pulice agreed, and asked for more clarification from project designers.

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“A roundabout is much more efficient than a stop sign. A separate right turn lane is not warranted,” said project engineer Ron Boyle.

Other concerns about the project include the impact on the neighboring property at 110 Olive Mill. Property owner Roger Rittner has been very vocal about the negative impact the project will have on his property’s privacy and livability. City and County staff maintain that they are working together with Rittner to soften the impacts as much as possible with tree and plant screening, as well as adding a fence between Rittner’s property and the project. “The City is very supportive of working with the property owner,” said planner Laura Yanez.

“We want him to feel shielded from the proposed project.”

The two commissions disagreed on the process of the meeting, with City Commissioners deliberating and voting to approve the project with modified conditions, while the MPC voted to continue deliberations until their next regular hearing on September 16. MPC chair Donna Senauer said, “This is an extraordinarily important project for our community, and we need to be diligent, and efficient,” implying that the City PC was rushing their comments and decision due to a self-imposed 6 pm deadline, when one or more of the City commissioners needed to leave.

Senaur said the point of meeting jointly was to hash out differences in standards between the two jurisdictions, and reconcile those differences.

“We are not going to remain online for hours here, or together in Go-ToWebinar, trying to perfectly align differences in standards or recommendations between our two jurisdictions,” countered City PC chair Deborah Schwartz. “We are going to leave it to the joint staff and the applicant

to work through any misalignment.

I don’t think this format allows for all of the back and forth negotiations among all of the commissioners that are on both sides of this.”

Later, there was a moment when a live microphone picked up what sounded to be the beginning of disparaging words about Schwartz; planning analyst Ellen Kokinda stepped in and muted everyone, asking to take a five-minute break to regroup and diffuse the situation. It was unclear whose microphone was live, and who made the remarks.

The City PC voted unanimously to approve the project with modified conditions of approval before signing off of the virtual meeting. The MPC voted to continue discussing the project until September 16.

“This is going to handle the traffic so much better than it does now,” said City PC commissioner Sheila Lodge.

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Knowing Your Circle of Control

by Mitchell Kriegman

J

ulie McMurry starts her new Online COVID Family Update with a joke.

“An epidemiologist, an ICU doctor, and a scientist all walk into a bar (or cafe or family gathering or get on a plane). I’m just kidding, they know better.” That joke may not get her on the Jimmy Kimmel show as a hot new standup, although it has a certain undeniable Andy Kaufman charm, but it’s Ms McMurry’s way of acknowledging how hard it is to see people having fun at cafes, seeing friends gathering without the proper precautions. Like it or not, inadvertently or otherwise, she adds, those people we see in these gatherings are proving what is safe and what is not safe to do, frequently at their own peril.

Julie McMurry’s COVID Family Update is a plea to Her COVID Family Update is a plea her family to be vigilant and not let their guard to her family to be vigilant and not let down their guard down as we see some people doing and to have a long view of the pandemic and only take calculated risks where they bring joy.

In coronavirus time every week, every day, can feel like a year. Looking back to March seems like a lifetime ago. In those beginning days of awareness, Julie McMurry was one of the earliest sources of reliable information on the coronavirus. From her home in Santa Barbara she wrote the manifesto, which became flattenthecurve.com. It was the Google Doc that broke Google Drive. It remains an invaluable source of information on the virus, which despite all of our wishes otherwise, continues to evolve and develop around us and throughout the world.

Beyond the Curve

Meanwhile Julie has moved on from “flattened,” continuing her work at TISLab – the Translational and Integrative Sciences Laboratory, a part of the Oregon State University College of Public Health, where “an interdisciplinary team focuses on data interoperability to expedite translational research.” You got that? Actually, it’s simply a lab designed to develop techniques for scientists in every discipline to effectively share information and comb through vast qualities of data to enable new discoveries, which of course is not so simple. In her job she reviews an enormous amount of diverse data and is always processing new information.

In a sense we’ve all moved on from flattening the curve whether we like it or not to what is practical and possible as the virus, the economy, the heat wave, and now massive wildfires have engulfed us. Clusterapocalypse is a term that comes to mind, a term that encapsulates how unimaginable it is to have so many crises all happening at once. Navigating what is practical and what remains in our “Circle of Control” is crucial for everyone, even a public health advocate and activist, like Julie McMurry.

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As the pandemic has taken over the headlines in new ways, anxiety can become overwhelming. It’s crucial to learn how to take a step back to relieve our anxiety over what we cannot control. This is especially true as children and parents begin dealing with schools reopening. Nothing could be a bigger hot button issue for parents than putting their children at risk in schools insufficiently prepared for COVID. It’s one thing do something momentarily risky for yourself, but risks for your children are a bright red line issue for most people.

“The outcome has been disappointing to be sure, but on balance I am glad I acted in the way that I did and that so many others acted in the way that they did. It could have been so much worse. It could have been that nobody listened.” – Julie McMurry Julie touts teaching support expert Brandy Thompson’s version of the “Circle of Control” for teachers and kids. Brandy Thompson creates teaching aids for students and teachers featuring Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for students and self-care for teachers and counselors. Her website, TheCounselingTeacher.com, offers a wealth of ancillary support in these days of Zoom-fatigue and doom-scrolling for the Coronial Generation.

Julie has applied the Circle of Control concept to evaluate her own efforts to warn about the unfolding dangers of the pandemic.

“There was such a need in those early times for solid information. It’s a lot easier to find now, but at the time we whipped that thing together,” she remarks referring to the flattenthecurve.com website. “The outcome has been disappointing to be sure, but on balance I am glad I acted in the way that I did and that so many others acted in the way that they did. It could have been so much worse. It could have been that nobody listened.”

As she focuses on new messages and other ways to deliver them, her Twitter @figgyjam has become a hub for information, spinning out articles and new developments. It’s actually quite entertaining, and the quickest way to get a clear sense what she is finding on the horizon, featuring posts and stories about COVID sniffing dogs, the best face masks on the market from the UK, a scientist’s geeked-out version of John Lennon’s “Imagine” about “no proliferating identifiers and data sharing,” and the latest from TISLabs.

Catching up with Julie in her house on Zoom included frequent interruptions from her son, Marcus, who was in Zoom Video Camp, and her husband, who was on another video conference in the next room. Such is life these days.

“I was thinking about dogs; eight dogs were trained for one week in this well-designed study and the dogs achieved an overall average COVID detection rate of 94 percent, which is impressive,” she says. Her interest in testing developments has spread to fast home testing, the testing of sewage systems and other “prevalence” testing which would create faster, better, more practical markers for calibrating community viral risk.

“Unless you need to be hospitalized right now, test results are almost worthless,” she explains. “The next big thing that will be a game changer is rapid home tests. If they can scale up, it would provide a reasonable way for people to move on with their lives, without relying on the presence of a vaccine. If you’re having a wedding for a hundred people and it’s outdoors, you could get a hundred rapid tests and test people before they come in the door and be able to at least have something resembling normal. Is it going to get every single person that’s positive? No, but it’s nevertheless a way to reestablish some normal routine.”

The goal of prevalence testing is to understand what the presence of the disease is in a particular place at any given time, then once it reaches a certain threshold, action can be taken.

“Sewage testing is important. We need to have low cost, minimally invasive ways to monitor community transmission,” she says. “So testing is high on my list, including pooled testing as well.”

She has been less than pleased with what the City of Santa Barbara has provided online and regularly contacts them and calls out their lack of meaningful information.

“Even now the City’s homepage has a carousel of six prevention tips,” she says. “All of which focus on washing and cleaning, and none mentioned any

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possibility of aerosol or airborne transmission. It’s a bit of denialism. Oh, and by the way, I got a jury summons yesterday.”

What Was Correct, What Was Less So

She doesn’t hesitate to evaluate the effectiveness of her own work on flatten thecurve.com with the same critical eye.

“Here are the things that were correct: the infection fatality rate was within the range originally predicted,” she says. “It looks to be closer to 0.5 to 1.0, which varies a lot depending on the circumstances. It was correct that the virus is highly transmissible person to person and can be spread asymptomatically or symptomatically. It was correct that it has a very wide range of manifestations involving all kinds of body systems. The complexities are going to take years to untangle. And lastly, infection control really makes a big difference.”

Flattenthecurve.com advocated masks, staying outdoors, and distancing early on, but she readily admits fomite transmission concerns were misleading.

“Knowing what I know now, I would have done more to deemphasize the surface-based concerns,” she admits.

What comes up again and again in her thinking are the practical straightforward remedies. Those seem, at least from Julie’s perspective, the effective strategies at this point: the unfailing ritual of sanitizers, mask-wearing, distancing, and understanding the circle of your control.

Being Practical Within Your Circle of Control

“We have to acknowledge, accept where we are. We could bitch and moan all day about how our government failed us, and they did, but it’s better to just be clear-eyed about where we are now,” Julie says, describing what she considers our landscape at this moment.

“What we need to do is have a laser focus on our Circle of Control, our Circle of Influence. We need to do what we can right now to mitigate the spread. It boils down to – don’t take dumb risks, take the risks that bring you joy and nothing else. So, don’t go to that party you didn’t want to go to in the first place, don’t invite someone in your home that you don’t even like, because how awful would you feel if you either infected someone else or got infected over an interaction that was just perfunctory, right?”

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ROUNDUP (Continued from p. 11) on plants being targeted for removal.

The County does not use the product when it rains. “The crews do not spray during the wet season,” Spencer confirmed.

Spencer declined to state exactly how much Roundup is needed to kill an individual plant. The amount of herbicide required to kill a plant, she explained, is dependent upon a lot of factors, such as the size and species of the plant and even the weather. Hotter weather allows the plants to draw in the pesticide more swiftly. “Crews only apply the amount needed on any given plant, thus being aware not to over-spray or over-apply,” she said.

One reader wanted to know how many gallons of Roundup were used in the San Ysidro Creek debris basin.

According to Spencer, in July of this year, exactly 12 ounces of the herbicide was sprayed. How long will that The County says no more debris basin spraying is needed for a few more years spraying remain effective? “The debris basins below the Thomas Fire [area] remains an important tool for the District, even though it is used sparingly.” will remain vegetation free until the watershed recovers,” she said, in approxResponding to concerns about lack of public notification, Spencer said, imately three to five years. And exactly how long has this spraying been going “notices are posted in public areas.” The lack of signage near the debris basins is on? “The debris basins have been maintained under the current maintenance because, she said, “Most creeks, with the exception of creeks within County or program since 1996,” Spencer said.

City Parks, as an example, and all debris basins are not public areas but are rathSo why aren’t County workers simply pulling out the weeds by hand? “The er private property.” So what about our kids and pets potentially being exposed hand-pulling of sprouts is not cost-effective,” Spencer said. “Labor costs would to the chemical? “Accessing creeks outside of public parks (and allowing your sky-rocket, given the number of areas that need to be maintained throughout dog to enter these areas) is technically trespassing onto private property,” she the county. The controlled and highly regulated use of herbicide is a cost-effec- said. tive, safe way to control vegetation. The District has spent hundreds of thouDespite bans on the use of Roundup in the Santa Barbara area, the County sands of dollars in the past 10-plus years purchasing equipment and using it to Flood Control District does not currently have any rules governing the use of control vegetation in many areas. Limited use of herbicides within debris basins pesticides. “Many years ago there was quite the discussion on reduction of herbicide countywide,” Spencer said. “The County did a lot of work and the Flood Control District did a lot of work reducing the use of herbicide, buying a mower and doing a lot more mowing in areas where they can. But for us, when we’re talking about creek maintenance, while we have greatly reduced herbicide use, it remains an important tool for us.”

Spencer said there was no alternative to using Roundup, at least not within the County’s weed killing toolshed. “We use a mixture that is approved for aquatic use,” she said. “We have to get permitted by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife to work in the creeks. We use it in a way we think is important and reduces how often we go in the creeks and debris basins, and it’s an important tool. Some people are just going to be against the use of herbicide and nothing will make them think it’s okay, and that’s okay.”

•MJ

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Perspectives

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

Rinaldo S. Brutoco is the Founding President and CEO of the Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy and a co-founder of JUST Capital.

He’s a serial entrepreneur, executive, author, radio host, and futurist who’s published on the role of business in relation to pressing moral, environmental, and social concerns for over 35 years

No Wasted Crises

The triple threat we face could make our country stronger than ever

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ou’ve heard the old saying “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” No question, we are ensnared in a crisis, within a crisis, within a crisis. We have the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic with 180,000 dead in the United States as you read this. We have an economic crisis (another 1.1 million people filed for unemployment just this past week) perhaps larger than the Great Depression.

And, as more than 350 wildfires ravage California, it is clear that the climate change crisis is here and accelerating!

No other industrialized democracy has faced anything like the incompetent mismanagement this country has witnessed at the national level.

We still don’t have national testing standards, a national procurement of testing materials, national testing protocols, or a “program” for getting the virus under control. We know what to do; we just need to copy what all the other successful countries in Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific (e.g. New Zealand) have done. Or better yet, copy New York, which under Governor Andrew Cuomo’s incredible leadership not only reversed its role as the leading epicenter in the world, but also developed the protocols to keep the virus contained to this day.

Yes, we do know what to do: wear face masks, observe social distancing, maintain good personal hygiene, keep schools closed until the virus is under control, and most importantly: no boisterous crowds! Then background “social spread” will slow down enough to permit effective contact tracing and isolation as required.

Until we do, this will remain a crisis.

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Similarly, the pandemic-triggered economic crisis also doesn’t need to persist. While the Republican Senate blocks aid to the unemployed for yet another week, those who were living paycheck to paycheck are beginning to be evicted by the millions, and landlords, unsupported by reliable rental income, are falling behind on their mortgages. Families are spending untold hours in lines at food banks.

Millions are having serious problems feeding their families. Yes, this is a crisis!

What to do? Remember, we don’t want any crisis to go to waste. What can we do to transform these? With such a massive set of interlocking crises it would seem that the “benefit” we could obtain should be equal to the challenge of the crises themselves. So what is the solution?

Let’s assume that the election goes the right way and we’re provided with a different administration and a different Senate. Well, within one week we would trigger the National Procurement Act to make the personal protection gear we need to protect all of our healthcare workers so we’ll never again be dependent on other countries for it and we will retain those jobs in the U.S.

By February 1, 2021, we could have a new stimulus bill that would put food back on the table for the working poor who are currently unemployed.

Within 30 days we could restore the Environmental Protection Agency’s rules created in the Nixon-CarterBush-Clinton-Bush II-Obama era protecting our air, water, and land.

Also within 30 days we’d restore the Post Office to its old reliable standards,

and within 180 days a complete reformation of the Post Office to permit it to stop carrying mail on Saturdays (except Priority mail) thereby saving enormous amounts of money, and an expansion of postal authority to permit it to offer bank accounts as Japan has successfully done since World War II. We’d eliminate the unfair rules passed to give an advantage to competitors like UPS and FedEx. And, we could obtain a declaration that the Post Office is a vital service that is not supposed to make a profit – it’s supposed to be a public service for our society like every other major branch of government.

By the end of February 2021 we would introduce legislation to prohibit any future president from politicizing the Justice Department with another Attorney General William Barr.

By the end of March we could enjoy a rapid expansion of Obamacare so that an additional 20 million people will be covered together with a “Medicare for all” type public option.

Best of all, by April we could at last get the coronavirus under control when the new administration develops a national plan that is so sorely lacking now.

By May we could have passed the first of several infrastructure bills allocating $1 trillion to spend on bridges, roads, highways, renewable energy construction, modern high-speed rail, and the creation of millions of great middle class jobs just like FDR did in the Great Depression.

At the same time we could see the dramatic reduction or total elimination of student debt. We could also ban the possession of assault rifles and other battlefield weapons, while launching national background checks/a registry to properly regulate the sale of all firearms.

By June we could see the passage of the “Green New Deal” to launch our country into the forefront of renewable technology industries as the newest American R&D profit generator creating millions of permanent jobs.

By July we could receive back a report from a Blue Ribbon Presidential Panel with a blueprint for how to intelligently reform policing to reduce

structural racism, provide public protection, and develop other departments at the City, County, and State levels to take over some of the traditional roles police have handled when those roles don’t require a “man with a gun,” like enforcing traffic, providing social services to deal with repetitive domestic abuse cases, and other non-lethal citizen encounters.

Somewhere in that same time frame we would see the permanent protection of all DACA kids, and within the first year we would finally see comprehensive immigration reform including some program for guest workers who would find it easy to come to the U.S. for three to nine months at a time to pick crops and other essential work we require as our populations ages, with no hassle crossing the border, and a guarantee of fair wages so they can live with dignity back in their countries of origin.

Finally, we would see the beginning of the restoration of American influence on the international stage leading to peaceful resolutions for the Middle East, a re-engagement with the World Bank, a re-affirmation of our commitment to the World Health Organization and the International Monetary Fund, a re-positioning of America’s influence within the United Nations, and so much more to restore Pax Americana that is so badly missed.

Well that is a whole lot of really “good stuff” that could get done really quickly with a progressive administration backed up by a “can do” Senate and a vigorously charged House. With a team like that these crises will have given us the opportunity to totally re-launch the “American Experiment” into its next chapter as we strive for yet “a more perfect Union.” Best of all, every single thing I’ve listed is supported by at least 65 percent of the American public. Most of it is supported by 75 percent or more. So, in a democracy, why can’t “we the people” create the country we want to live in, and that we’d feel good, oh so good, passing along to our children?

That would be a triple threat “crisis” we didn’t waste, and worth what we’ve been forced to pay to get through it. •MJ

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Brilliant Thoughts

by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara since 1973. No children.

Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000.

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Back to Beauty

Twenty years on, the world’s biggest trash dump is now a green oasis

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n its heyday, the Fresh Kills trash dump on Staten Island was one of the world’s great eyesores. Imagine New York’s Central Park with trash mounds 20 stories high. Now imagine that times three. That’s how bad it was.

By the late 1970s, an estimated 28,000 tons of trash arrived at Fresh Kills every day. But where there once was a giant dump just 20 years ago, a massive green park now sits where flora and fauna do as they please.

The core problem was adapting the site to address the trash, no less than 150 million tons of garbage had been dumped at Fresh Kills. The trash was capped with plastic, then slowly covered with millions of tons of clean soils, and planted with native grasses. The four garbage mountains were transformed into four soft green hills straddling the convergence of creeks.

Over the course of 20 years, the parks and sanitation departments worked together with Field Operations to restore tidal wetlands, generate forests, and grow scrublands and wide-open fields of grasses.

Previously, it was considered unimaginable that New York City could evolve a giant trash dump into a natural park the size of Lower Manhattan south of 23rd Street, but that’s exactly what has happened. For all of us, it is once more a testament to the resilience of nature.

UK will start using bacteria to extract precious metals from e-waste

According to a recent report by the United Nations, the world dumps at least $10 billion worth of gold, platinum, and other precious metals in a growing mountain of e-waste each year. The problem is further exacerbated by the release of toxic compounds into the atmosphere associated with inappropriate and unsafe recycling practices of this type of waste.

To prevent unnecessary economic losses as well as reduce the impact of e-waste on the environment, the UK is planning to get its first commercial refinery for extracting precious metals from electronic waste, which will be the world’s first to use bacteria rather than highly-toxic cyanide-based processes.

The project will be led by New Zealand startup Mint Innovation.

The UK refinery will initially be able to process 20 tonnes of e-waste per day and, if the demand is there, this can be scaled up.

•MJ

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Attention to detail and organization skills a must! Candidate must be able to follow a series of well-defined steps necessary to assist someone going through a complex healing process and be willing to prepare simple meals and do some shopping.

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Proof of driving record and insurance will be required upon hire. Please submit a cover letter explaining why you would be a good fit for this job, along with your resume, 3 current references, salary requirements, and availability. Applicant MUST be positive, upbeat and calm.

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Name Dropping

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he first question I am usually asked: “Is Ashleigh Brilliant your real name?” Yes, it is.

My father was Victor Brilliant, and he came from a whole family of Brilliants. The origins are Russian and Jewish. Around the time of Napoleon, Jews were allowed to choose their own surnames. Many chose pleasant-sounding names, such as Bloom (Flower). Others took names associated with their trades, and some dealt in jewels. There is actually a kind of diamond called a “brilliant.”

I didn’t mind that part of my name, because it was both complimentary and memorable. But I hated the name Ashleigh, and even more so, my middle name – Ellwood – simply because, throughout my childhood, nobody (except my father, in anger) ever called me by those names. What was I called? For some quirky reason, my mother thought it was cute to call her firstborn “Junior” – even though, as already stated, my father’s name was Victor.

So that’s what I was called – Junior Brilliant – by my parents, and by everybody else. Fortunately, at the school I attended in England, although it was “co-ed” (unusual at that time), girls were called by their first names, but boys by their surnames. And when I had to sign anything, I signed as “J. Brilliant.”

But, as time went on, it became more and more embarrassing, when I was asked what the “J” stood for, to have to come out with “Junior.” So, at some point in my teens, I started telling people that it stood for John.

I wasn’t really comfortable with that name either, but for some years, that was how I was known – even up into my first year at the University of London.

As my 21st birthday approached, however, I became obsessed with the notion that the question of my name was a problem which I must now settle once and for all. Either I must accept my real name (which I had kept a close secret, and which still seemed most unpleasant) or I must choose a totally new one, and stick with it.

While struggling with this terrifying choice, I happened to see a poster in the Student Lounge, proclaiming in big letters the forthcoming appearance of a speaker I had never heard of before, whose name was Ash Brown.

This was close enough to my own

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real name to give me courage to make my Great Decision. And the next day I put up on a college bulletin board the following notice: HE PERSON HITHERTO T KNOWN AS JOHN BRILLIANT WISHES IT TO BE KNOWN THAT HIS REAL NAME IS ASHLEIGH ELLWOOD BRILLIANT – AND IN FUTURE HE WISHES TO BE KNOWN AS SUCH. Thus, the die was cast, and I felt great relief, and a certain exaltation.

But when I came back the following day, to look proudly again at my notice, I found that some diabolical wit had put quotation marks around the word “such.”

An even greater shock was in store for me when I happened to look again, more closely, at the Ash Brown poster. For the first time, I saw some small dots which, somehow, I hadn’t noticed before. The name was not “Ash” at all – those were just his initials: A.S.H. Brown! But it was too late by then to re-think my position. My friends were already calling me Ashleigh. (Fortunately “Such Brilliant” never caught on.) And, after a bit of getting used to, it wasn’t really so bad.

Of course, little did I dream then that, after I had developed a medium of expression actually brilliant enough to go with it, I would find the name Ashleigh Brilliant one of my greatest social and economic assets. And it was one which didn’t even have to be copyrighted or trademarked!

Nowadays, of course, we are used to persons, companies, cities, and even whole countries, changing their names. Some of us can still remember when Russia was the Soviet Union, Mumbai was Bombay, Muhammad Ali was Cassius Clay, and even when IHOP was the International House of Pancakes.

But, if you’re naming your own offspring, let me beg you, for their sakes, to give them names that are distinctive, but easy to spell. And above all, don’t give them a name and then not use it! Also, let it fit nicely with their surname, assuming that won’t be changed upon marriage. Remember the parents named Rose who romantically named their daughter Wild. But then she grew up and married a man named Bull!

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Studio C is a new pop-up at Montecito Country Mart, featuring a curated collection of California-made goods (photo credit: Arna Bajraktarevi)

boards adorn the walls. Other artists include Ojai photographer Dewey Nicks, who has art and coffee table books available for purchase at the store.

This past weekend, a grand opening of the store included a Trunk Show with Nick Fouquet, a Venicebased milliner, and Brock Collection, an L.A.-based luxury ready-to-wear brand.

Also in the Mart, Clare V. has opened in the space formerly occupied by Mate Men and Kendall Conrad. After noticing a lack of functional yet stylish laptop cases while working as a jour-

The shop was also a pop-up in Summerland before moving to the Mart (photo credit: Arna Bajraktarević)

Clare V. retail field manager Danielle Felmlee at the newlyopened shop in Montecito Country Mart

nalist for French TV, designer Clare Vivier decided to create her own line of handbags and accessories, which feature a beautiful play on classic shapes, modern detail, and Parisian charm. Clare V. continues to evolve with each new collection, and Clare has collaborated with brands and partners including Anthropologie, Adam Scott, artist Donald Robertson, Mike D., TOMS, Garrett Leight, and InStyle, and gives back through ongoing partnerships with Every Mother Counts, When We All Vote, Everytown for Gun Safety, and Planned Parenthood.

Since opening the very first Clare

“We’re in this together.”

DAY IN AND DAY OUT: Customers can use and drink tap water as usual.

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Please note these temporary changes for COVID-19 “Montecito Water District is Water that enters a building and remains stagnant may decline in water quality.* prevention and response: providing water that meets » Flush pipes to replace all water inside the building withCustomer fresh water, and clear • Our office counterpiping is closed. service is any the highest quality water sediment or stagnant water from pipes. available by phone at 805.969.2271 during regular standards, and has plans (Monday – Friday, 5pm.)

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Thenbusiness flush cold water for the same continue. Customers can use email: customerservice@montecitowater.com or » Depending on facility size and water pressure, flushing may need to occur in segments and(e.g., drinkbytap water as usual.rooms).online: www.montecitowater.com floors or individual As» aRecommended community our focus is • Teleconferencing information is now available actions include: Run at least one empty load in dishwashers, let drinking on meeting agendas for remote public participation. on staying healthy.” fountains run, and replace ice in ice makers. After flushing, replace any filters.

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V. flagship in Silver Lake in 2012, additional locations have opened in Nolita, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Brooklyn, Newport Beach, San Francisco, Chicago, and now, Montecito.

Customers can customize their bags with hand-painted monogramming and mix-and-match hand and body straps, which is a signature of Clare V.’s style. The shop recently held a painting party for customers to brand their newly-purchased handbags.

For store hours, as well as more information on all the Mart has to offer, visit www.montecitocoun trymart.com.

Stonehouse Honored for Outdoor Dining Last week, the Stonehouse at San Ysidro Ranch was honored in an article by the Michelin Guide, marking it as one of 11 “Must-See” outdoor dining venues in the United States.

With restaurants across the country forced to make the most of outdoor dining venues given the ongoing pandemic, the article makes note of nearly a dozen notable Michelin-star restaurants who are stepping up to the plate, offering a beautiful venue

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ORDINANCE NO. 5964

Notice Inviting Bids El Camino De La Luz Bridge Trestle Repairs Project Bid No. 5742 1.

2.

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA

Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its El Camino De La Luz Bridge Trestle Repairs Project (“Project”), by or before September 23, 2020 at 3:00 PM, through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly. The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

BARBARA

AGREEMENT

WITH

OF

CALIFORNIA

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

18, 2020.

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on August

Project Information.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

(Seal) /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 9:00 AM., at the following location: The westerly end of the bridge to acquaint all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is MANDATORY. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference will be disqualified from bidding. NOTE: Park in the La Mesa Parking lot and walk westerly to the bridge. Bidders are responsible for bringing and wearing a face mask and following social distancing guidelines while on site.

ORDINANCE NO. 5964 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

License and Registration Requirements.

3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

7.

STATE

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

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A or Class B or C-29 or C-33

6.

THE

CHARLES E. MEYER DESALINATION PLANT PROJECT

2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is $60,000.

5.

CITY

OF $10 MILLION FOR THE REACTIVATION OF THE

2.2 Time for Completion. The Project must be completed within 30 calendar days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about October 5, 2020, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.

4.

THE

DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES IN THE AMOUNT

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at the east end of Camino de la Luz, just west of La Mesa Park and is described as follows: • Concrete spall removals and crack cleaning, apply primer and patch material, followed by placement of an overall sealant, followed by placing an anti-graffiti coating.

3.

AUTHORIZING

ADMINISTRATOR TO EXECUTE A GRANT FUNDING

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on August 4, 2020 and adopted by

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

the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on August 18, 2020, by the following roll call vote:

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of 10 percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that within ten days after City issues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other submittals required by the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

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

AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on August 19, 2020.

6.2 Rates. These prevailing rates are on file with the City and are available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project.

The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

By: ___________________________________ Bill Hornung, CPM General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) August 19, 2020

Date: ________________

2) August 26, 2020 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

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I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on August 19, 2020.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published August 26, 2020 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Finnigan’s Wild, 7127 Hollister Ave, Suite 25A-259, Goleta, CA 93117. Finnigan N. Jones, 7127 Hollister Ave, Suite 25A-259, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” – Oscar Wilde

of Santa Barbara County on August 20, 2020. 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. 2020-0002102.

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Notice Inviting Bids HSIP DOWNTOWN PERIMETER LIGHTING PROJECT Bid No. 3870 1.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its HSIP Downtown Perimeter Lighting Project (“Project”), by or before September 17, 2020, at 3:00 p.m., through its PlanetBids portal.

Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly. The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, paper and facsimile bids will not be accepted. Bids that fail to upload to Planet Bids prior to deadline will not be accepted. Bidders are encouraged to upload bids by 2:30 pm to Planet Bids.

Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids. Bids will be called out on Zoom at 4:00 pm on September 17, 2020 Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89597961601?pwd=TzRCNjZWOGNxOHhjbGJUeW1EVHJVZz09 Meeting ID: 895 9796 1601 Passcode: HSIP40223

2.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located along De La Vina Street and Sola Street as well as other locations in the City of Santa Barbara. Lighting and pedestrian crossing enhancement work is primarily located on Sola Street from Garden Street to Bath Street, as well as on De La Vina Street from Micheltorena Street to Haley Street. Other intersections improvements at the intersection of Garden Street and Figueroa Street as well as along Anacapa Street from North of Haley Street to Gutierrez Street. Striping improvements along Chapala Street from Constance Avenue to Victoria Street and De La Vina Street from Constance Avenue to Haley Street.

The Project consists of constructing 10 ADA access ramps, signing & striping, lighting infrastructure (including but not limited to poles, foundations, approx. 8,500 feet of conduit, meter installation, pull boxes), complete and in place.

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is 130 working days from the effective date of the Notice to Proceed.

2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $1,615,000.

3.

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A & C10. This requirement can be met with either a prime that has both licenses OR a combination of a prime and their subcontractors that meet this requirement.

4.

3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

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

5.

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

6.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

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

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

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Disadvantage Business Enterprise. Bidders are advised that, as required by federal law, the State has established a statewide overall Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal. This Agency federal-aid contract is considered to be part of the statewide overall DBE goal. The Agency is required to report to Caltrans on DBE participation for all federal aid contracts each year so that attainment efforts may be evaluated. This Agency federal aid contract has a goal of 11% DBE participation.

11.

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

12.

Bidders’ Conference. An optional bidders’ conference will be held September 10, 2020 at 10 AM, at the following location: De La Vina Street & Sola Street intersection, for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is not mandatory.

13.

Bidders are advised that this project is a Federal-Aid Construction project and the Contractor shall agree to all requirements, conditions, and provisions set forth in the specification book issued for bidding purposes entitled “Proposal and Contract.” Attention is directed to Appendix B of the “Proposal and Contract” specification book for federal requirements and conditions, as well as documents required to be submitted with this proposal request. This project is subject to the “Buy America” provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 as amended by Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. 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 the 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.

Pursuant to Section 1773 of the Labor Code, the general prevailing wage rates in the county in which the work is to be done have been determined by the director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. These wages are set forth in the General Prevailing Wage Rates for this Project, available at the City of Santa Barbara, General Service Manager, Purchase Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California and available from the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Internet website at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. The Federal minimum wage rates for this project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the specifications and in copies of these specifications that may be examined at the offices described above where project plans, special provisions, and bid forms may be seen. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holder of these specifications. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates. Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage requirements in the specification book entitled "Proposal and Contract." Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of the "Proposal and Contract" specification books. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates.

If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes "helper" (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage determination otherwise available for use by the Contractor and Subcontractors, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the Federal Minimum wage rate which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question.

By: ___________________________________ Date: ________________ William Hornung, C.P.M., General Services Manager Publication dates: August 26, 2020 and September 2, 2020 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

Published August 26, September 2, 9, 16, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bakersfield Container Sales &

Storage, 1027 E. De La Guerra, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. PM and JM LLC, 1027 E. De La Guerra, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 31,

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2020. 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. 2020-0001906.

Published August 26, September 2, 9, 16, 2020.

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

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season. Unlike a typical Zoom-created show where the creativity ends at mixing up the little boxes, McDonald has come up with a live action-animated amalgam appropriate to the material’s comic strip source, with plenty of stitched-together interactions and scenes.

McDonald talked about the work over the phone earlier this week.

Q. Why did you pick this piece for the summer production?

A. Back in March, when so much was unpredictable as far as what we were going to be able to produce, we still had plans to do a full summer production of Hello, My Baby. But once we realized we’d have to go online on Zoom, I immediately knew there was no way we could do something that big, which has a cast of 24 and a lot of big numbers. So I started to think about shows that I knew that would translate well to an online presentation and be enjoyable for people to watch but yet also something that we could successfully pull off.

This only has six characters, and they’re so wonderful and flawed and just charming and they care for each other, despite their differences. There’s great philosophies behind Charles Schulz’s work and the Peanuts gang, things that are timeless. I think it really connects with us and brings us great joy. The whole thing is about happiness, and its message makes people happy, especially seeing kids in all these roles.

Your concept for the piece, at least based on what I saw, seems very ambitious, not to mention a lot of work.

I really wanted to do something that was a little bit different than what most people are doing online these days with these Zoom productions

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with students. I wanted to take it a little bit further, and I felt that the best way to do that was to treat it like a film instead of as a theater piece.

So while all of the music rehearsals were online while we were teaching the kids the songs, we also did outside rehearsals, with social distancing with masks on and face shields and whatever we needed to do to be able to choreograph in person with the kids. Because it’s only a cast of six, we were able to do that and stay within the boundaries of the government regulations. We were up at Marymount School, where they have a beautiful campus and we spread out and had this whole area to ourselves. Back inside, I built a big greenscreen studio in a large hall and then brought each of the kids in one at a time. We shot every clip of this, with the students one at a time. And we also took them to a recording studio to record their vocals individually too with a sound guy who was serving as recording engineer.

So the quality of the show is pretty fantastic. The last few weeks I’ve been putting it together and it looks great.

I think people are really going to have their expectations exceeded.

That’s definitely true for me. I just watched the one-minute promo and it’s pretty astounding compared to other things I’ve seen. It’s almost like you treated it as an animated film or rather one of those that combines live and animation and it looks great.

Yeah, it’s a bit like Blue’s Clues (the live-action/animated educational children’s television series). That’s the direction we wanted to go with.

That’s what makes it perfect for like the little ones, like your two-year-old, your three-year-old are going to find it really enjoyable. In fact, I think they’re going to be very disappointed when they can’t play it again.

kind of background or setting and then I would discover something else and realize, oh, that might work even better. Sometimes I could take that particular image or that video clip as it was or else put it into Photoshop and create something new, even though I’m no expert by any means. For example, the doghouse and doctor-psychiatric booth, I created those myself because you can’t just take from Charles Schulz’s work. So I am so grateful to be able to go on to Google and ask “How do I deal with title legacies in Premiere Pro?” And then I’d watch the tutorial and learn how to do it before moving on to the next thing. That’s how I’ve been functioning to get this made.

I’m beginning to see why you postponed it for another week…

Yeah, we’re venturing into very new territory for us, taking what we normally do and then having to edit it and create all of these videos to come up with a full musical production and convert it to online. It just takes time to do it right, and we didn’t want to rush it. We wanted to make it the best it could possibly be and felt as though an additional week would help.

I know once it’s finished, I’m going to look back and be very thrilled and happy to get it done, but I also know that there’s so many little things that I would have adjusted or changed if there were more time. But I really do think that most people’s expectations are just gonna get blown out of the water because I really haven’t seen anybody do this at a quality at this

level, even though I would say it’s beautifully imperfect.

(Screenings of Ensemble Theatre Company Young Actors Conservatory’s production of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown take place at 2 pm and 7 pm this Saturday, August 29. Tickets are $25 per household and are available online at www.etcsb.org or through the ETC Box Office at (805) 965-5400 ext. 115.

Ticket holders will receive a unique viewing link and viewing instructions prior to the performance.)

Back to the Garden

Santa Barbara International Film Festival Film Talk finds its way to the Montecito hills for a viewing and discussion of The Garden is Singing, Karen Kasaba’s 11-minute paean to Ganna Walska’s Lotusland that screened as part of the 2019 film festival. Singing does a credible job of capturing the beauty, diversity, history, and breadth of the garden in the context of calling attention to one of the purposes public botanic gardens serve, namely to heighten awareness of plant conservation and preservation. The garden of course is a fabulously functioning and stunningly beautiful example of an ecosystem set in a 37-acre corner of Montecito, and the short film takes a brief journey toward capturing the visual, emotional, and spiritual experience of Lotusland on screen.

Viewers are invited to watch the documentary on the garden’s website (www.lotusland.org/home2-2/the-

Those scenes like Schroeder playing the piano with Lucy lying on top, or flying the kite seem like they must have been hard to do. And to make it look like the kids are in the same space, I’m impressed.

Thanks. Everything you see, the kids are actually on green screen and then I’ve just incorporated them into this cartoon world. I’ve been very resourceful thanks to the internet and training myself on all of this editing stuff. I’ve been going online and obtaining royalty-free images and clips and green-screen things to pull it all together.

How did you make all these choices for the animations in the staging? Did you have those ideas from the get-go, or was it more of a matter of what you could find online?

It’s really a combination of both.

I would start to search for a certain

The Garden is Singing is an 11-minute paean to Ganna Walska’s Lotusland that screened as part of the 2019 Santa Barbara International Film Festival

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garden-is-singing), on YouTube or elsewhere and then join director Kasaba and SBIFF programmer Audrey Arn in a live Zoom conversation as they talk about the piece and the place at 6 pm on Thursday, August 27 over Zoom.

Register at https://sbiff.org/filmtalk.

In other SBIFF news, the festival has revived its online screening series of new films with the latest from documentary auteur Werner Herzog.

NOMAD: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin finds Herzog turning the camera on himself and his decadeslong friendship with the travel writer Bruce Chatwin, a kindred spirit whose own quest for truth carried him to all corners of the globe, much like the revered filmmaker. Herzog’s portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with archival discoveries, film clips, and a mound of “brontosaurus skin,” is a deeply personal effort, one that encompasses their shared interest in aboriginal cultures, ancient rituals, and “the mysteries stitching together life on Earth.” The film will be available to stream beginning on August 27, with a portion of the rental fee earmarked for SBIFF’s still-shuttered Riviera Theatre. Visit sbiffriviera. com.

Times, Rocky Mountain News, and the Press-Enterprise. He also served as the Chief Photographer at the Outdoor Channel TV network. The SBCC and Cal Poly journalism grad’s work has been published in such news magazines as Time, Life, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated among many others.

Chaucer’s Books hosts Kelsey for a special online event on Thursday, September 3 at 6 pm. Visit www.

Chaucersbooks.com for details.

Polo’s PCO, pandemic-style

As with just about everything else that might involve an audience, polo

tournaments have also been barred from permitting spectators at their matches. But rather than canceling the season, the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club has carried on sans the crowds, as only polo players, team associates and club staff are allowed to attend games and practices in person. But through the virtues of virtual, spectators are indeed invited to join in viewing the competitions via livestream for the Pacific Coast Open, the big season-closing tournament and the 16-goal-rated granddaddy of them all at the seaside fields in Carpinteria.

The matches got underway last week, with eight teams – Santa

Clara, Antelope, FMB, Bensoleimani. com, Dundas, Klentner Ranch, FMB Too! and Lucchese, the latter led by Montecito-raised Jeff Hall – vying for one of North America’s most prestigious trophies. The truncated schedule means the semifinals and final matches are slated for this weekend. Fortunately, the ponies don’t know anything about taking precautions for a pandemic, so the action promises to be fast and furious for Friday’s four matches (semis at 10 am and 4 pm) and Sunday’s 4 pm championship. Visit www.globalpolo.com to tune in, or www.sbpolo.com for details.

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Santa Barbara-raised photographer Thomas Kelsey will discuss his photo essay, “75 Years Later – Warbirds, Airman, & Veterans of World War II,” at Chaucer’s on September 3

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Mr. Bernstein doesn’t say what change he advocates other than we should favor “humanity” over “property.” I assume that means landlords should relinquish control over their property and let tenants such as Mr. Bernstein dictate how it should be run.

Mr. Bernstein, a physicist, may not be aware that poverty has been the norm for the human condition since we evolved into homo sapiens sapiens. It has only been in the last few hundred years that we have managed to crawl out of that hole. The ideas which got us here were the result of the Enlightenment which favored freedom from tyranny (rule of law), the ability to trade freely with your fellow mankind, the freedom to live your life as you wish, and, especially, the freedom to own property. Perhaps he should delve more into history, philosophy, or economics, which would explain why “property rights” are essential “human rights.”

Mr. Bernstein wishes to deprive us of our essential freedoms and substitute his desire to live off of the fruits of his landlord’s labors. History has shown that his thesis would result in a downhill slide into mass poverty.

Perhaps Mr. Bernstein should have planned his future with a little more foresight and not blame property owners for his bad judgement.

Jeff Harding

Good Laws Make Good Neighbors

Some comments about Robert Bernstein’s article, “Property vs.

Humanity” (13-20 August), the one with a senior lady holding a sign, “… evicted from my home of 36 years” after apparently a new owner bought the property she rented. This is a touchy subject; like many local mom and pop property owners I have a 3Bd/2Ba home in Santa Barbara County and have had the same tenant there for 33 years. If something came up and I had to sell it, I would feel awful as I know the house feels like her home, the rent is only $1,350 per

month, and she would have to leave.

I must not face that decision now but, what if I did? What if I needed to sell that investment house to help my son pay for his first house? What if I moved away and could no longer manage the house myself or just wanted to simplify my life? What if there was a family medical issue or I needed the cash that house represents to pay bills for an eldercare facility? (I hope I don’t need that any time soon, have you checked out those costs lately?)

If I did need to sell this rental house, Mr. Bernstein would call me “unjust” or worse. He would say my tenant’s interests should supersede mine, me, the owner, the person subsiding low cost housing and maintaining it all this time. (I just replaced another $1,450 water heater last week.) And I am sure I am not alone as there are many understanding and fair property owners out there.

Mr. B would say someone should pass a law to make me unable to sell my house when I want. He bemoans the fact that owners can deduct mortgage interest and says, “the U.S… gives no such assistance to renters.”

Did it ever occur to Mr. B that keeping costs down for owners helps owners keep costs down for their tenants? If laws, regulations, inspections, permits and new guidelines get passed, they increase costs for owners (which seem to happen constantly), and does he really think this will not end up raising the costs for renters? What would you do as an owner Mr. B? When your ownership costs get so high would you raise the rent? Or would you just sell? Or, have you been so careful and safe in your life not to get yourself into a risky real estate endeavor where you took on many liabilities?

Mr. B does make a good point that tenants can indeed make their own small repairs, take care of the place in which they live and act responsibly when things break down to save costs and aggravation for the responsible party – the owner. This would indeed bring goodwill to the situation. And most owners would respond reciprocally in a financially empathetic way

– any many do. I know this is not always, but being a good neighbor is what we all strive for.

Unfortunately, Mr. B’s scattered comments then descend into remarks about security deposit cheaters, property owners as assault criminals, the BLM movement, healthcare access, and the Civil War. He ends with the question: “Property or Humanity?” I think Mr. Rodgers summed it up better, “Can’t we just be good neighbors to one another?”

J. W. Burk

A Small World

It was interesting reading your comparison with JFK Jr. to Prince Harry in today’s illustrious organ.

A late friend of mine, socialite K.K. Auchincloss, used to own the penthouse above Jackie O’s at 1040 Fifth Avenue, opposite the Metropolitan Museum, and I would see him occasionally in the elevator and riding his bike in Central Park.

Another old acquaintance, Richard Weiss, who used to be the weathercaster for NY’s Channel 9, was his roommate at Brown.

A small world!

If Harry can be as deft at dealing with the press as JFK Jr. he will fit into our rarefied enclave well.

Sincerely, Richard Mineards

The Politics of Pandering

Joe Biden has gone for months without subjecting himself to a press conference or even an interview with a responsible journalist where he would have to answer tough questions about his change of positions and his current proposals for dealing with social and economic issues. Yet, he found the time to give an exclusive interview with Cardi B, which is in the September issue of Elle magazine.

I seriously question whether Joe Biden has the faintest idea who Cardi B is or what she does, other than his handlers probably told him she was a popular rap singer and could help

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his image. I decided to check out this woman so deserving of Biden’s selective media time and I encourage MJ readers to do the same.

I pulled up the lyrics of her latest number one song, WAP (https:// genius.com/Cardi-b-wap-lyrics), and couldn’t believe my eyes. There is scarcely one line in the song that could be published in the Montecito Journal or any newspaper. Obscene, disgusting, and degrading are the first adjectives that come to mind. To give MJ readers an idea of what the song is about, WAP are initials describing a part of the female anatomy.

I am a firm believer in the First Amendment and have no problem with a singer releasing or a customer buying a song with lurid and revolting images.

Each to his or her own. But I seriously question the wisdom of a candidate for President of the United States granting an exclusive public interview with this entertainer while ducking all others.

During the interview, Joe Biden reportedly said this to Cardi B: “One of the things that I admire about you is that you keep talking about what I call equity – decency, fairness, and treating people with respect.” Read the lyrics and see if you agree.

Lawrence Dam

Mail It In

Donald Trump’s shameful attempt to limit mail-in voting in the middle of a pandemic is unfortunately rubbing off on some of his supporters, as evidenced by some of the most outrageous statements. Completely quashing mail-in voting would substantially limit many people’s ability to vote because of transportation issues, work, medical issues, and senior citizens’ difficulties in getting around. Not to mention, we’re in the middle of a pandemic!

Completely quashing mail in voting would disenfranchise millions, but that’s what some desire, because polls show Democrats overwhelmingly plan to vote by mail over that of Republicans.

It’s un-American and shameful that a president would say the only way he’d lose is because of a “rigged” election, as a result of mail-in voting!

How safe is mail-in voting? The conservative – yes conservative – Heritage Foundation reports 1,200 allegations of voter fraud since 2000.

Of those there were only 204 allegations involving mail-in ballots, and of those, only 143 convictions. This is out of 250 million mail-in ballots cast over two decades. Do the math.

The shameful liar occupying the White House has shown himself to be completely unequipped to run our country, and will do anything to maintain power! The American people are not stupid. They know a con when they see one!

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inquiries and transactions regarding real estate are from outside Santa Barbara County. That’s a lot of “outsiders” joining our community. If each sale represents an average of two to four people, then certainly this will have a palpable impact on Montecito’s composition and culture.

But change is not new to Montecito. We have triple the number of restaurants we had just 10 years ago. We have a spiffy new hotel. We have 5G, we have more than 50 houseless people among our ranks. And doubtless there will be more interesting demographics revealed once the 2020 Census gets processed.

I think this town has done an extraordinary job of preserving and protecting the semi-rural, understated, sand-between-the-toes elegance that has long defined Montecito. And the Montecito Association, the Planning Commission, and MBAR have done a superb job preserving our housing stock and curtailing overgrowth.

But what is our attitude going to be toward people “not from here”? That is, if

they don’t seamlessly and quietly fit into some predetermined version of what Montecito is supposed to include. And exclude.

Not unlike our country, it seems like there are two extreme positions. With a vocally silent or at least shouted-over center.

On one side there are those who would like to freeze Montecito in time – create a living diorama or snow globe of a bygone “better” time. Which is certainly something we hear in the national conversation as well. At the other extreme, there are those who see places like Montecito as monuments to wealth inequality and privilege and would like to see that abundance redistributed. It might sound like I’m being dramatic but we’re in a high combustion moment, and we live in a high fire zone, as everybody knows.

For me, as I suspect is true for many, I land somewhere in the middle. Yes, there were some great things about that “bygone era” – a simpler time when we weren’t so worried about the environment, when there was less traffic, when people looked each other in the eye to have a conversation, when we knew our neighbors. But the fact is, a lot of people were excluded from the joys of that special time, and many suffered from the very systems that others remember so fondly.

My own opinion resides in the Japanese concept of “kaizen” which means “always be improving.” I vote for taking the best of what was and mixing it with the best of what is and the best of what could be. Kaizen, say, mixed with a little kumbaya.

The Chumash and the Rainbow Bridge

Interestingly the Chumash, Santa Barbara residents who have been here since the last Ice Age, since the Pleistocene (an entirely different geological) era, have their own beliefs about noise and crowds and their impact on local culture.

The Rainbow Bridge is the Chumash origin story which explains how they got from the Channel Islands to Santa Barbara proper thousands of years ago.

Apparently, the Channel Islands (still one land mass when the Chumash first settled there) got so noisy and crowded, the gods gave them a rainbow bridge which would take them here (one reason today there’s rainbow iconography sprinkled throughout Santa Barbara).

But the rainbow bridge was really high and many Chumash feared walking on it. So the elders advised the tribesmen not to look down and not to look back but to only look forward. The story is seen as a parable about how a people can strategically move from their past and into the future.

It seems to me a culture that has been here since the last Ice Age has obviously picked up some wisdom along the way.

This Week…

2020. A year to which many of us will be very happy to wave goodbye. Adios.

Good riddance. With a world-wide pandemic, an economic disaster, and a national reckoning of systemic racism, I’ve stopped asking myself what else could possibly happen for fear that the answer will come.

Nick Schou writes about a local resident still living the fallout from another disaster that some of us have already happily put in our rear-view mirror. Paul Madsen spends his days in his car outside of the home for which he still awaits a building permit to repair, the home he’s lived in since growing up there in the ‘50s, and to which he intends to return. Nick’s piece is a sobering reminder that some Montecitans are still also suffering the fall-out from that other painful and disastrous time about which we’d like to forget.

•MJ

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Sweet Wheel Farm & Flowers offers in-season organic and pesticide-free produce, food less handled from farm to cart

by Claudia Schou

FRESH FOOD AND NO LONG LINES

of Oaxaca learning to grind spices for multiple things as well as a private cheese-making class with Susana Trilling. I stayed in a Spanish immersion school with a family that has become my Oaxacan family.

Local food activist and Sweet Wheel Farm & Flowers owner Leslie Person Ryan is on a mission to solve the “food desert” of Summerland

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ocal food activist and Sweet Wheel Farm & Flowers owner Leslie Person Ryan is on a mission to solve the “food desert” of Summerland. The think-outside-the-box purveyor offers fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, baked goods, wildflowers, and specialty foods made with ingredients from her garden. Person Ryan operates two stands locally – one on Coast Village Road in Montecito and one in the heart of Summerland on Lillie Avenue. What’s picked on her farm in the morning goes on the cart that day. Person Ryan promotes her colorful and nutritious edibles as a quick and healthy alternative to pandemic meal kits.

You just pack it in a box and go. It’s no surprise the Summerland resident has been a champion of local sustainable agriculture and a proponent of educating youth about sustainable food practices in school. Person Ryan recently partnered with Carpinteria School District to introduce a curriculum for elementary students. We caught up with her to discuss farming and her culinary inspirations.

Q. Why is it important for students to attend farm-apprenticeship programs?

A. The students that I have talked to that have gone through internships gain experience and perspective on farming. Farming may sound romantic, but it is hard work! Right now, because of interest, we are creating an internship program for our farms as well as volunteer hours that students can apply for at our farm through our nonprofit, Santa Barbara Agricultural and Educational Foundation. Our mission is to provide educational resources for sustainable agriculture, educate the public on the benefits of eating organically, support our local farmers, and foster a sense of community through food.

You’ve been a business owner for several decades. At what point did you decide that food was going to be your focus?

It was when a client told me her story of getting into a fight over the “last stale sandwich at the liquor store” in Summerland, after the 2018’s debris flow. As a community volunteer and lifetime activist, I knew that I would have to give it my all to create a solution to end the food desert in Summerland. Something that many people don’t know is that Summerland residents were unable to get food for more than a week because there was no way out after the debris flow.

You mentioned you studied cooking in Mexico. I envision you being seduced in the same way Diana Kennedy, a British woman with no professional culinary training who rose to prominence and became an authority in regional Mexican cuisine, and Susana Trilling, a Texas-born chef who became a champion of Oaxacan cuisine. Can you tell me briefly about your culinary journey there? How does it influence what you’re doing now?

Let me preface the response by saying that I have frequently gone on vacation to Mexico since I was 19 years old. I fell in love with the food immediately and started cooking American Mexican cuisine. Then I just decided to go full-on authentic Mexican. Over the last couple of years, I began attending cooking schools in Oaxaca as I have had a business there for about a decade. Most profoundly, every class and every day starts with a trip to the local mercado where the local merchants and farmers sell their foods: fruits, meats, fish, herbs, spices, and cheeses as well as every kind of cooking supply imaginable. I now believe farm-fresh food being cooked and eaten that day is a healthier lifestyle for all of us. In Oaxaca, probably most cooking schools start with moles, so I learned mole. I then took many classes from acclaimed chefs and even took a wondrous metate class outside

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What is your culinary approach with the Sweet Wheel Farm & Flowers cart?

In-season organic and pesticide-free produce, food less handled. That means that our cart forgoes many people touching it like stockers, cashiers, and trucking/shipping. All of the produce is literally picked at the farm and put on the cart.

Who’s your biggest culinary inspiration?

I was lucky to have parents who really enjoyed cooking and cooked from scratch. My father was a predecessor trawler to Huell Howser. He would seek out these tiny ethnic food purveyors from all over Southern California. I don’t know how he found them. He would pull off the freeway in some random place and say, “This is my favorite German delicatessen…”

We had no less than six kinds of mustards in our refrigerator at all times. My mother was a wonderful cook and was active writing cookbooks.

Your fruit and vegetables are grown at your home in Summerland and farm in Orcutt, respectively. Are there any that do particularly well in this climate and soil?

Summerland has milder temperatures that are great for planting. We are planting the farm now in diablo clay soil, which is dark grayish silty clay that has slow permeability and drains well. You will see me plowing and preparing to grow some pollinators and vegetables that are low water usage. We grow pineapple and mango at home, and have experimental raised beds. In Orcutt we grow micro black beans, corns of all colors and other staples including berries, cilantro, tomato, beans, cauliflower, melons, green beans and tomatoes. The soil there is sandy loam, which is made up of sand, silt and clay and perfect for secondary crops.

What are some novel agricultural techniques you’re using to be more environmentally friendly?

I am a believer in secondary crops where using your irrigation, you can grow under something taller and today we started planting field tomatillos under our corn. In San Diego I grew agave under oranges as a secondary crop. I also rely on what I learned in organic rose gardening to treat pests.

What do you consider affordable, high-quality foods?

Our black micro beans might be one forthcoming. If you are looking for quality, look for non-GMO seeds and foods. You may be surprised. If I could offer one bit of advice it would be to wonder why our food looks so perfect.

What’s your solution to healthy pandemic eating?

Visit our cart, of course!

What are some quick meal options on your cart?

For breakfast we offer a nice selection of berries and stone fruits as well as melons. For lunch today we had someone stop for BLT fixings with our organic red butter lettuce, avocados, and heirloom tomatoes. For dinner, try a golden and green zucchini scramble with roasted baby potatoes and onions with herbs like thyme and a bay leaf.

Sweet Wheel Farms is located at 1150 Coast Village Road. Hours are Monday through Friday 8 am to 5 pm; Saturday 9 am to 4 pm and Sunday 9 am to 4 pm; Summerland location is 2285 Lillie Avenue. Hours Monday through Friday 10 am to 9 pm; Saturday 11 am to 9 pm Sunday 11 am to 5 pm. For more information contact (805) 770-3677 or visit https://sweetwheelfarms.com.

•MJ

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ON THE RECORD (Continued from page 6) Madsen in one of his trademark Bonneville racing t-shirts

Paul Madsen’s excavated property is four feet below street level

here, really, but all of a sudden I just saw the mud coming across.”

With only 15 feet or so separating his property line from the freeway, Madsen knew he didn’t have much time to act. “The fence started to buckle and break, so I backed up my Suburban to hold that gate.”

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But his property was a path of least resistance for the mud and it wouldn’t stop flowing in. “The mud got higher and higher and just came in and kept filling and filling until it was probably four and a half feet high in the back of the house.”

The mudflow wasn’t powerful enough to knock down Madsen’s house, but because the structure was already four feet below street level when the disaster struck, it had to be condemned. Madsen, who now lives in a small apartment a few miles away, says he’s spent much of the past two and a half years demolishing the house and preparing the lot for a new building. For a man who’s seemingly lost everything, he’s pretty stoic about his circumstances.

“Well, when it was built, it was built in a so-called flood plain,” Madsen tells me in his measured, matter-offact tone.” And when all these other projects came through, it just kept raising the exterior around my property, which allowed it to be so low. They were trying to eliminate their flood problem, but it just left us in a hole.”

His family moved into the house in 1953, when he was just a year old. The original part of the house was built in the 1920s and sat atop a raised foundation, its exterior decorated with creek sand and rocks. Madsen’s parents had been renting another small house on Eucalyptus Lane, but they moved to make room for a new freeway offramp. Two years after moving into the property, Madsen’s parents purchased the house and added an office.

There were past floods, including one in 1995 that temporarily swamped the house, but Madsen’s family was always able to rebuild. Until an insurance settlement related to the disaster paid for him to move into the one-bed-

room apartment where he now lives, the house is the only place Madsen had ever called home.

“Montecito was a very nice, small community,” Madsen says, recalling his childhood. “It was a nice, easy place to grow up. You knew a lot of people and it wasn’t overbuilt.”

Back then, Madsen would take a bus up San Ysidro Road to attend Montecito Union School. He then went to Santa Barbara Junior High School and Santa Barbara High. “It was quaint,” he says. “You could get out and ride your bike without any traffic, and traffic on the freeway was minimal.

Montecito is all but unrecognizable to him nowadays.

“It’s like the Miramar,” he says, speaking of the recently refurbished beachside resort, which used to be a much (much, much) more modestly appointed motel for passing tourists.

“Miramar was a nice quaint place where people could stop overnight along the freeway,” says Madsen. “I grew up playing at the Miramar, but now with all the security, it ain’t the same.”

The Shop

In 1968, when Madsen was still in high school, he began working at J&S East Valley Garage, which at the time operated both a mechanic’s shop and a small gas station. Every day, he’d take the bus to the shop and a friend would drive him back down the hill to his home each evening. “It was still a gas station then,” says Madsen.

“There were two gas pumps.”

After the 1973 oil crisis, the shop stopped pumping gas for customers, although it continued to operate a single pump for personal use. That lasted until the county made the shop shut the pump down. “They didn’t want gas tanks in the ground,” explains Madsen. “So we removed the tanks and all that and complied with all their rules and regulations and it is what it is now.”

Anyone familiar with J&S knows

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde

that the people who work at the shop aren’t your typical auto mechanics.

J&S mechanics can service any car from classic to new, but they are also expert car builders who specialize in speed-seeking, high-power engines.

The shop also boasts a decades long tradition of sending teams to compete in various land-speed races, including the Mojave Valley’s El Mirage Lake, Muroc Dry Lake (now called Rogers Dry Lake) north of Lancaster, and the legendarily remote Bonneville Salt Flats race in northern Utah, which takes place every year in mid-August.

“I got into it with a bunch of friends,” Madsen recalls. “The first time I went up there was in 1985. Mostly, it was a lot of self-built vehicles going for time trials. You get the bug.”

Madsen and his crewmates ran a 1927 Model T Roadster, which they modified with an extended nose. “I helped them get into the 200-mile-anhour club and then I decided, ‘Well, I’ll try this.’”

He assembled a 1929 High Boy Roadster with an open cockpit, building the motor and transmission from scratch. “Well, it wasn’t quite successful,” he admits. “It just didn’t have enough horsepower to do what I wanted it to do.”

Instead, Madsen turned his attention to repairing engine blocks for top-fuel racers. He built a four cylinder, 255-cubic-inch engine that ran on nitro methane. “It did pretty good,” Madsen says. “We had a few records. At El Mirage, we went 268 mph and qualified for a record run at Muroc in 1998. And then I qualified at Bonneville in 2002 at 300 mph. But we had our issues with the motor and I stopped running it since.”

The Crew

Just before lunchtime on August 17, the crew at J&S East Valley Garage is just a few hours into their first shift since returning last week from Utah.

Shop manager Hunter Self and the rest of the crew spent the week racing a 35-foot-long land rocket (a sleek 27 August – 3 September 2020

Fred Dannenfelzer, Hunter Self, and Arley Langlo at J&S East Valley Garage

automobile that somewhat resembles a U2 aircraft without the wings) at the Bonneville Speedway, hoping for a speed record.

When I visit, the vehicle is parked inside a trailer in the shop’s parking lot. Madsen, who worked at the shop from 1968 until he retired five years ago, didn’t attend the race. But according to Self and other former crewmembers, Madsen nonetheless played a critical role in the team’s efforts in Utah.

Several days into the event, the racecar’s engine broke down and the team’s only hope was a replacement part buried deep in an engine at the garage. Self immediately dialed Madsen on his cell phone and begged for help. “I called Paul, and he went over to the shop and pulled apart a whole motor to get the spare part out of it and then had it FedEx-ed to us that day,” Self tells me. “The gear box isn’t much bigger than a watermelon, but we couldn’t have done anything without it. He had to pull out the whole front assembly to get it out himself, which is a lot of work even for young guys, and then get it over to Montecito Executive Services in time so we could have it the next morning at the hotel.”

Self’s racing partner, Arley Langlo, was the driver of J&S team’s speed-record attempt at Bonneville. “I knew Paul when he first started here,” Langlo says. “He was always here, except for a few years in the 1970s when he was in the Navy. Back then, this place was, literally, hotrod world, and Paul got the bug when he came here. He used to go to the drag races with us, but never really got into drag racing on a personal level, but he got into building motors for the cars we raced at Bonneville.”

“He saved our butts,” confirms Tommy Delgado, reflecting on the Bonneville race. “He’s such an awesome person, if you need anything, he’s there. He’s the man you can call.”

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Langlo and Self with the back end of the racecar Madsen helped save. (The two rear cylinders contain a pair of parachutes.)

he says. “Paul put in his tenure here, for sure.”

The Wait

Salt deposits from Utah that fell off the trailer a day after its return to Montecito

While at Bonneville, Delgado bumped into some of Madsen’s old racing cronies. “They gave me free t-shirts to bring back to him. His legacy just kind of goes that far.”

Delgado started working at J&S Auto in 2018, three years after Madsen retired, but he still knew him well, since Madsen was one of several old-timers who used to stop by on late afternoons to drink a beer and reminisce about past races.

“He would be here at 4:30, on the clock, so we called it ‘Paul thirty,’” he says, laughing. “He’d come by, have two beers and we’d chit chat while putting stuff away. He’s the last of the mechanics who still comes around.”

Self, who has been with the shop for the past decade, remembers Madsen as a “gentle giant” and a man of few words who could be a little hard to approach at first. “He’s an intimidating dude to look at, but he would do anything for you, no questions asked,” Self says. “He was always level-headed and had a wealth of information and could help you figure out anything.”

According to Self, Madsen and the shop’s previous owner, James “Jay” Roach, who died in 2012, used to get into regular arguments over the best approach to fixing a mechanical problem. “From what I heard, Jay fired him multiple times, but Paul would just show up for work the next day and sure enough, they’d bury the hatchet,”

For Madsen, reconstructing his house has proved to be a far more challenging proposition than fixing and bringing up to speed one of the world’s fastest terrestrial vehicles.

First of all, he has to raise his property above street level, no easy task.

To rebuild his home according to the county’s latest flood control guidelines, Madsen hired an architect to draw up plans for a two-story house with the first floor acting as a garage.

A staircase would lead to the second story, which would contain the living quarters.

But according to Madsen, he still hasn’t received a building permit after submitting the plans two years ago.

“Ideally, I wish I’d started years ago,” he says. “I’m ready to go. Once I get the grading permit and building perMontJournal_August26th'20:Layout 1 mit, then we can start. Basically, I’m

just sitting here waiting.”

When the 2018 debris flow wiped out Madsen’s home, his former coworkers at J&S Auto helped him salvage as much as they could after CalTrans had cleared off the 101 Freeway and opened the area up to traffic. The crew was able to rescue a few of Madsen’s cherished racecar motors, record-setters that are still on the books in major speedways.

“He had such a cool collection of tools, probably $100,000 worth of rare equipment he accumulated over the years; things they don’t make anymore. We saved what we could, but a lot of it was just wrecked,” says Self.

“It’s a hell of a situation. I don’t know why it’s taken this long for him to be able to rebuild. He isn’t talking about building any higher than the other condos are around here, and there are a bunch of places that have already rebuilt that are now twice as tall as they used to be. He isn’t building a billion-dollar mansion, he just wants 8/20/20 1:18 PM Page 1 his house back.”

•MJ

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Notice Inviting Bids Bohnett Park Renovation and Stormwater Project Bid No. 4009 1.

Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its Bohnett Park Renovation and Stormwater Project (“Project”), by or before Wednesday, September 16, 2020, at 3:00 p.m., through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly. The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids.

Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

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

Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

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Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at 1251 San Pascual St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, and is described as follows: The park renovation includes the installation of stormwater infiltration system, pipes, and inlets; new turf field and irrigation, new accessible path, new picnic areas, retaining wall, site furnishings and additional plantings.

2.2 Time for Completion. The Project must be completed within 60 working days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about October 5, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.

2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is $567,848.00

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License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): A 3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

4.

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

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

6.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

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

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

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Pursuant to Section 1773 of the Labor Code, the general prevailing wage rates in the county in which the work is to be done have been determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. These wages are set forth in the General Prevailing Wage Rates for this Project, available at the City of Santa Barbara, General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and available from the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Internet web site at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. The Federal minimum wage rates for this Project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the specifications and in copies of these specifications that may be examined at the offices described above where project plans, special provisions, and bid forms may be seen. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of these specifications. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates.

Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage rate requirements in the specifications. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes "helper" (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage rate determination otherwise available for use by the Contractor and subcontractors, the Contractor and subcontractors shall pay not less than the Federal minimum wage rate, which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question.

This is a federally-assisted project and Davis-Bacon (DBRA) requirements will be strictly enforced. Federal Labor Standards provisions HUD-4010 will be incorporated into the successful bidder’s contract and is attached hereto as Attachment A. Contractors, including all subcontractors and apprentices, must be eligible to participate. Federal Wage Determination #CA20200014 dated 08/14/2020 is incorporated herein and is attached hereto in Appendix A. However, actual prevailing wage rates will be determined as of the bid opening date. If any modifications have been issued to the wage decision, the contractor must adhere to the modified wage decision. Additional CDBG requirements are described in Appendix A.

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

By: ___________________________________ Date: ________________ Bill Hornung, General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) August 26, 2020

2) September 2, 2020 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

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“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde

land, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2020-0002063.

Published August 26, September 2, 9, 16, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Route 66 Farms, 2011 Foothill Road, New Cuyama, CA 93294.

Cuyama Farms, LLC, 2350 W Shaw Ave Ste 140, Fresno, CA 93711. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 17, 2020. 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. 20200002065. Published August 26, September 2, 9, 16, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: All Systems Up and Running, 927 N Alisos St, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Rachel R Gately, 927 N Alisos St, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 12, 2020. 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. 20200002030. Published August 19, 26, September 2, 9, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Folio Press and Paperie, 301 Motor Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Marlene M Bucy, 215 La Jolla Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 22, 2020. 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. 20200001807. Published August 19, 26, September 2, 9, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Amador Consulting & Coaching, 1332 Santa Barbara Street, CA 93101. Santa Barbara Matchmaking, LLC, 1332 Santa Barbara Street, CA

93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 13, 2020. 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. 20200002045. Published August 19, 26, September 2, 9, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Deep Blue Bikini Co, 5695 Ekwill Street #101, Goleta, CA 93117.

Cassidy Drury-Pullen, 132 Las Ondas, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 5, 2020. 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. 20200001965. Published August 19, 26, September 2, 9, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Aquatic Jewels, 1470 East Valley Road, Suite K, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Dorothy L Allen, 1470 East Valley Road, Suite K, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 15, 2020. 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. 2020-0001717.

Published August 12, 19, 26, September 2, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bob’s Vacuum, 5276 Hollister Ave, 403, Goleta, CA 93111. Gilbert J Short, 520 Pine Ave Spc 29, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 15, 2020.

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. 2020-0001714.

Published August 5, 12, 19, 26, 2020.

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND PENDING ACTION BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO: (1) WAIVE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON A COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT THAT MAY BE APPEALED TO THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION AND (2) APPROVE, CONDITIONALLY APPROVE, OR DENY THE COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT This may affect your property. Please read.

Notice is hereby given that an application for the project described below has been submitted to the Santa Barbara County Planning and Development Department. This project requires the approval and issuance of a Coastal Development Permit by the Planning and Development Department.

The development requested by this application is subject to appeal to the California Coastal Commission following final action by Santa Barbara County and therefore a public hearing on the application is normally required prior to any action to approve, conditionally approve or deny the application. However, in compliance with California Coastal Act Section 30624.9, the Director has determined that this project qualifies as minor development and therefore intends to waive the public hearing requirement unless a written request for such hearing is submitted by an interested party to the Planning and Development Department within the 15 working days following the Date of Notice listed below. All requests for a hearing must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Request for Hearing Expiration Date listed below, to Willow Brown at Planning and Development, 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara 93101-2058, by email at wbrown@co.santa-barbara.ca.us, or by fax at (805) 568-2030. If a public hearing is requested, notice of such a hearing will be provided.

WARNING: Failure by a person to request a public hearing may result in the loss of the person’s ability to appeal any action taken by Santa Barbara County on this Coastal Development Permit to the Montecito Planning Commission or Board of Supervisors and ultimately the California Coastal Commission.

If a request for public hearing is not received by 5:00 p.m. on the Request for Hearing Expiration Date listed below, then the Planning and Development Department will act to approve, approve with conditions, or deny the request for a Coastal Development Permit. At this time it is not known when this action may occur; however, this may be the only notice you receive for this project. To receive additional information regarding this project, including the date the Coastal Development Permit is approved, and/or to view the application and plans, or to provide comments on the project, please contact Willow Brown at Planning and Development, 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara 93101-2058, or by email at wbrown@co.santa-barbara.ca.us, or by phone at (805) 568-2040.

PROPOSAL: HARRIS ADDITION PROJECT ADDRESS: 1803 FERNALD POINT LN, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108 1st SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICT THIS PROJECT IS LOCATED IN THE COASTAL ZONE DATE OF NOTICE: 8/21/2020 REQUEST FOR HEARING EXPIRATION DATE: 9/14/2020 PERMIT NUMBER: 20CDH-00000-00013 ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO.: 007-380-010 ZONING: 1-E-1 PROJECT AREA: 0.60

APPLICATION FILED: 6/8/2020

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: • Applicant: Jennifer Siemens • Proposed Project: The project is for a Coastal Development Permit with Hearing to allow for an interior and exterior remodel of the existing 6,122 square foot single family dwelling, an addition of 59 square feet, and demolition of 603 square feet (totaling a 5,578 square foot single family dwelling). Less than 50 cubic yards of grading is proposed. Four queen palm trees are proposed for removal. The parcel is served by the Montecito Water District, the Montecito Sanitary District, and the Montecito Fire Protection District. Access is provided off of Fernald Point Lane. The property is a 0.60-acre parcel zoned 1-E-1 and shown as Assessor’s Parcel Number 007-380-010, located at 1803 Fernald Point Lane in the Montecito Community Plan area, First Supervisorial District.

APPEALS: The decision of the Director of the Planning and Development Department to approve, conditionally approve, or deny this Coastal Development Permit 20CDH-00000-00013 may be appealed to the Montecito Planning Commission by the applicant or an aggrieved person. The written appeal must be filed within the 10 calendar days following the date that the Director takes action on this Coastal Development Permit. To qualify as an "aggrieved person" the appellant must have, in person or through a representative, informed the Planning and Development Department by appropriate means prior to the decision on the Coastal Development Permit of the nature of their concerns, or, for good cause, was unable to do so.

Written appeals must be filed with the Planning and Development Department at either 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, 93101, or 624 West Foster Road, Suite C, Santa Maria, 93455, by 5:00 p.m. within the timeframe identified above. In the event that the last day for filing an appeal falls on a non-business day of the County, the appeal may be timely filed on the next business day.

This Coastal Development Permit may be appealed to the California Coastal Commission after an appellant has exhausted all local appeals, therefore a fee is not required to file an appeal.

For additional information regarding the appeal process, contact Willow Brown. The application required to file an appeal may be viewed at or downloaded from:

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http://www.countyofsb.org/uploadedFiles/plndev/Content/Permitting/AppealSubReqAPP.pdf ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Information about this project review process may also be viewed at: http://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/permitting/planningprocess.sbc Board of Architectural Review agendas may be viewed online at: http://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/home.sbc

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Our Town

by Joanne A. Calitri

Joanne is a professional international photographer and journalist.

Contact her at: artraks@yahoo.com

Arts Lockdown Series Part 4: From Space with Astrophysicist Andy Howell, PhD

Andy Howell teaching astronomy in Saudi Arabia (photo courtesy of Andy Howell)

Here is our Zoom interview.

Q. What does astrophysics teach us during this lockdown?

A. Astrophysicists are often on the cutting edge of technology development. We perfected digital cameras before they went into cell phones or movie cameras, and robotic telescopes before anyone had self-driving cars.

We were early adopters of video-conferencing because we collaborate with people all over the world. As more people are learning during this pandemic, we’re all interconnected. And science transcends culture. You can believe what you want to believe, but there’s a right answer out there that anyone in the world can get to through science, and by working together we can get there faster. Science isn’t equations or nerds in lab coats; it is only a set of rules to make sure you are not BS-ing yourself. We all need more of that. The stakes are literally life and death.

Calling from the Star Wars Rebel Base Station, Joanne Calitri talks via Zoom to Andy Howell, live from the Millennium Falcon

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ransporting us from science to sci-fi films is astrophysicist Andy Howell, PhD. He is a staff scientist at Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO), where a global network of 23 telescopes operate 24/7. His team co-discovered the first “kiloanova” in 2017, two neutron stars that rotate around each other and release gravitational waves, merging to create a black hole and making waves in space time.

It’s a theory Einstein talked about but thought we’d never see. Andy leads

the Global Supernova Project, a team of more than 200 people from all over the world who use LCO telescopes to study supernovae. He is also an adjunct faculty in physics at UCSB. He received his undergrad at University of Florida, PhD at University of Texas, a postdoc in Saul Perlmutter’s group (Nobel Prize) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a second postdoc at the University of Toronto, where he was a founding member of the Supernova Legacy Survey.

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You advise on sci-fi films, write reviews on Ain’t It Cool News and your YouTube Channel, Science Vs Cinema. What got you into that?

When I was in grad school in Austin, Harry Knowles had started the Ain’t It Cool News website that was really the first site on the internet to do film reviews, get real insider information from film sets and preview screenings of movies. At that time, information was totally controlled by the studios, but Harry was saying, “Hey this new Batman movie is going to bomb.” The studio tried to lock it down, the head of the studio went on Good Morning America against Harry, looked like an idiot and got fired. Harry’s fame grew and grew. All the studios were reading the site to keep tabs on the rest of the industry. I had advance tickets to Contact, as an astronomer, and asked Harry to come see it with me. After that, I went to his backyard screenings, fell into the film community there and started writing film reviews.

When I got to LCO, Wayne Rosing, who founded the observatory, was

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” – Oscar Wilde

sent a casting call looking for someone to explain astronomy on TV, he sent it to me and said, “This is you!”

I sent in a one- to two-minute video explaining my science. They liked it, and asked me to come down to L.A. to audition. I said, “I can’t, I have a normal job doing science.”

So, they asked me to record myself reading a prepared script. I thought I could make the script much better, did some calculations, completely rewrote it, and filmed myself doing that instead. They hired me without ever meeting me in person as one of the co-hosts for the third season of the show Known Universe on the National Geographic channel, which led to more TV work. My reviews about the science in movies started to really get noticed. People like Kevin Feige, head of Marvel Studios, would get in touch, or I would talk to James Cameron about Avatar. For my YouTube Channel, I met James Darling, a UCSB in Media Arts and Technology student, in Toronto for the Morgan Spurlock documentary Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, which he was in. He said, “Hey we should film your reviews.” We were originally going to pitch Science Vs. Cinema as a TV show, but all the TV people wanted to turn it into something different. So we just said, “screw it,” we’re going to film our own vision and put it on YouTube.

Our first episode on The Martian received 1.6 million views.

What sci-fi films did you advise on?

For the books Ready Player One, and Armada, I just read pre-publication drafts by Ernie Cline because we were buddies. He didn’t need the science help, but I’d still put in my two cents about some little angle here or there.

When [Steven] Spielberg took over Ready Player One, I think even Ernie was only one voice among many. For Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Executive Producer John Knoll read one of my articles, and didn’t ask questions, but told me I had busted him on some cheats they had done. This was just 27 August – 3 September 2020

Andy Howell hanging out with Star Wars fans before a lecture on science in movies (photo Credit: James Darling)

in the teaser trailer, but he sent me some renderings to show that they were taking some of the things I had raised seriously. Later a writer asked me a question for a scene, but that ultimately got cut. I said, “While I have your attention, here are some cool ideas for planets I’ve never seen on screen.” One was that I’ve never seen a planet in a molecular cloud. If that’s where you lived, you wouldn’t see stars in the sky, only gas, and you might not even develop astronomy.

Then, in the movie the planet Wobani looks like it is Hollywood’s idea of that, but it doesn’t go quite as far as I would have.

Andy Weir (The Martian) has asked me a few things on other projects — he’s amazing. He’s already done all his research in detail that goes creatively way beyond what I could think of. What he wants out of me is just certain details you can’t look up – real out-of-the-box stuff.

Your top five sci-fi films: 1. Star Wars: Roger Ebert used to say that in 100 years, maybe only two movies from the 20th century will be remembered – Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz. They are just that groundbreaking, that mythic, that much larger than life. They both changed movies forever.

2. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan: It just transcends Star Trek, and is something like a cross between Moby Dick and a Cold War submarine movie, told alongside a story about good friends struggling to find meaning as they age. And it is Spock’s finest hour. He’s every scientist’s hero. How I miss Leonard Nimoy.

3. The Matrix: It really introduced this dualism between the online world and reality in a way that was ahead of its time, and has mind-bending reveals and groundbreaking cinematography. It has just iconic scene after iconic scene.

4. Blade Runner: Nothing sets a time and place, and just puts you right into that world like this. Noir in space with 27 August – 3 September 2020

Harrison Ford, from a story by Phillip K. Dick and a Vangelis score – what’s not to love? And the sequel by Denis Villeneuve is amazing.

5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Love is the most well-worn territory in narrative history, and somehow a science fiction angle can be so new and illuminating. Charlie Kaufman is one of the best writers in the business.

What’s next for you?

I continue to do science, make Science Vs. Cinema episodes, and I’m working on a new TV show for a major cable channel [sorry no spoiler here!]. And when there isn’t a pandemic, I host Astronomy on Tap at the M8RX in Santa Barbara.

Your advice to sci-fi filmmakers?

Talk to scientists. The universe is far more astounding than humans are creative. Most people only get their knowledge of science through movies.

So if you only copy what you saw in movies, you’ll always be derivative and you’re losing out on so much true awe and wonder.

And sci-fi film fans?

Let’s broaden the fan base, and broaden the voices we’re hearing from. Science fiction has been dominated by white dudes forever. But we’ve been missing extraordinary creativity. There were token Black characters in lots of films, but look at what happened when we got Black Panther.

It is extraordinary, and has inspired so many people. And for a long time in Hollywood, there was this ridiculous belief that you couldn’t have female leads or directors for these kinds of movies, but look at Wonder Woman beating out Batman and Superman.

And look at Guillermo del Toro with The Shape of Water. Just imagine if we’d had all these kinds of voices for the last 100 years.

•MJ

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Far Flung Travel

by Chuck Graham

Bugle Call

A regal, majestic, and dominant tule elk bull emerges atop the peninsula that was still cloaked in fog

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he pea soup fog hung over Tomales Point at Point Reyes National Seashore like a wet, cold blanket in Northern California.

We could hear the surf thundering below, but Holly Lohuis and I couldn’t determine how big the waves were, the fog concealing just about everything except the narrow, rolling route out to the wave-battered point.

The dewy overcast also hid from view the serenity of Tomales Bay, lonely Hog Island and the serpentine-like Pacific Coast Highway. Up close however, we followed the nine-mile outand-back, round-trip hike across a craggy, rolling spine, guesstimating we had about 200 feet of visibility on the exposed peninsula.

After we finished our first moderately steep hill some California natives emerged in the ghostly haze. At first, all we could make out were just a few tule elk cows browsing off a dewy, grassy hillside. To get a better vantage point, we crept over to a cluster of rocks, our eyes constantly adjusting to the wisps of shifting fog. Eventually we discovered many more ungulates still bedded down following what appeared to be a quiet, restful night along the northern reaches of coastal California.

The Tule Elk State Natural Reserve lies within the Point Reyes National Seashore and protects this species that once numbered well into the hundreds of thousands. Local cattleman Henry Miller witnessed their dramatic decline, and in 1874 began protecting them. The herd on Tomales Point has had permanent protection since 1932, so much so that elk from the reserve have been transplanted to other regions of the Golden State to replenish small, existing herds or where old habitat was void of any tule elk at all.

Today, there are roughly 4,000 tule elk

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reestablishing old California habitat where they roam and browse rolling foothills and sweeping grasslands.

As the fog continued to shift and swirl around us, the herd of approximately 25 tule elk cows with several calves in tow, gradually began strolling the broad spine of the peninsula.

The herd was in no big hurry to be anywhere. They were busy feeding and garnering moisture from the wet grasses. Tule elk are diversified browsers and can eat lots of different vegetation. The herd continuously vanished and then reappeared, the fog so dense, sweeping across the peninsula aided by a cool, light northwest wind.

One of the cows (we suspected the dominant female) repeatedly called out, but at first, we couldn’t determine to what. We initially thought a stray calf. Her series of chirps and even whispers wafted across the peninsula.

As the herd slowly crisscrossed the trail in front of us her calls continued to go unanswered. Holly and I kept a safe distance continuing to utilize convenient rock outcroppings for the best views, hiking quickly from one crag to the next.

The seemingly concerned cow called out one more time but on this occasion (and without any recognition) we finally got to see what she was so intent on. A regal, majestic, and dominant tule elk bull slowly sauntered up the ocean side of the bluff, briefly emerging on top of the peninsula that was still cloaked in fog. He brought up the rear, following his herd but never browsing himself.

He only seemed intent on his herd, watching over them as they browsed.

It was early August, and the tule elk bulls were in the midst of their annual rut. The dominant males fend off the competition, newcomers attempting to lay claim to an established bull’s

There are roughly 4,000 tule elk reestablishing old California habitat where they roam and browse rolling foothills and sweeping grasslands

hard-fought cows and territory. The bulls in waiting do keep the established bulls on their toes until early fall.

This solitary bull was stealthy, appearing for just a few moments, just enough time for me to fire off a few frames in the diffused light. Mostly he kept his distance, while keeping

his cows moving between himself and us as the herd continued their traverse northward. As the bull disappeared, the last thing we saw was his impressive antlers that were tall and broad and still visible just beyond a lichen-covered crag, the horizon vanishing with him as the fog once again swallowed up Tomales Point.

•MJ

In August tule elk bulls are in the midst of their annual rut, when dominant males lay claim their hardfought cows and territory

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.” – Oscar Wilde

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In Passing Barbara Benon (April 9, 1932 – July 11, 2020)

Sylvia Brickley Weller *Reprinted due to previous omissions (1925 – 2020)

orn in St. Louis, Missouri, Barbara was the daughter of Edward and Cecilia Moscowitz. She married Don Kaufman in 1950, and had two children, Kenny and Richelle (Ricky). After the tragic death of her husband in a plane crash, Barbara moved to Las Vegas in order to support her children, where she was a cocktail waitress, and make-up artist to the stars. After several years, she was able to move back to Los Angeles, where she met the love of her life, Leon Benon. They were married in 1969 and honeymooned in Europe, which began their lifelong love of travel. Barbara and Leon took a leap Barbara moved to Santa Barbara in 1978 and opened of faith, and moved to Santa a women’s clothing store and hair salon named Benon Barbara in 1978, where they For Clothes on Coast Village Road opened a women’s clothing store and hair salon named Benon For Clothes on Coast Village Road. One of Barbara’s favorite activities was putting on trunk shows at her store and home on Fernald Point, where she was able to combine her passions for fashion and fundraising. For each trunk show, Barbara took a portion of the proceeds and donated to various local Santa Barbara and Montecito charities including the Cancer Center at Cottage Hospital (now known as the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center), Santa Barbara Zoo, and more. Barbara’s generosity extended beyond her family, and she was always willing to lend a helping hand to those in the community and beyond.

Barbara was a renaissance woman – admired by all, and loved by many.

She was intelligent, sharp, and witty, in addition to being one of the most kind-hearted souls. She is survived by her daughters Richelle (Ricky), Gaspar and Roberta (Bobbi) Kaufman; son-in-law, Orman Gaspar; stepdaughter, Kathleen (Kathy) Benon; sister, Sharon Hasson and brother-in-law, Ronnie Hasson. She is also survived by her loving extended family and many friends. She was a daughter, a sister, a mother, an aunt, and finally became a “GG” to her “surrogate great grand-daughter” Isla Benon.

Barbara was predeceased by her loving husband of 38 years, Leon; her son, Kenny Kaufman; stepson Aron Lee Benon; brothers Robert Moscowitz and Raymond Moscowitz. Services were held at Hillside Memorial Park & Mortuary in Los Angeles on July 16, 2020. Hillside Memorial’s website is: www.hillsidememorial.org.

Barbara was a savvy businesswoman who maintained and grew the family empire in Santa Barbara and Montecito after Leon’s passing in 2007. We will miss her style, charm, vibrancy, and love. She was a friend, a confidante, a mentor, and full of life lessons and wisdom that transcended her own life experiences. Donations can be made in Barbara’s honor to the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center.

•MJ

ong-time Santa Barbara resident and mother of Mark Paul Brickley, Elizabeth (Betsy) Read Brickley-Adams, mother-in-law of Patrick T. Adams, and grandmother of Jackson Adams and Sturdy Adams, has died of natural causes.

Sylvia’s paternal grandparents were Elsa Meyer and Heinrich Volkmann, she a concert pianist and he a transportation chief for the German rail system, honored by Kaiser Wilhelm, the last king of Germany, for his achievements. Her maternal grandparents, Frederick Nash Read of Virginia and Louise Ludlow Bryant of Ludlow, Kentucky, were descended from early families of this country. Her parents were Dorothy Read and Erich Volkmann.

Her father was graduated from the Sylvia Brickley Weller University of Heidelberg and emigrated before the two World Wars.

Sylvia attended Katherine Gibbs and held positions at Brown University, The Ringling Hotel in Sarasota, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and J. Walter Thompson in New York City. She married Paul Brickley of Minnesota, and their children were born in Rochester, where Dr. Brickley was a member of the Mayo Clinic Staff. In 1954 the family moved to Santa Barbara, and Dr. Brickley affiliated with the Sansum Clinic in the practice of ophthalmology.

Following her husband’s death, Sylvia attended Santa Barbara City College and UCSB, graduating with honors in English in 1971. She joined Arthur Bromfield’s real estate office in Montecito (Sears) and combined real estate sales, travel and writing, and had a great life, by her own admission.

In 1990 she married LeRoy Weller and lived on the beach in Carpinteria until his death in 2000. Together they cruised the globe.

She was active in several community organizations including the Junior League and the Lobero Theatre and three local private clubs. She enjoyed bridge and three reading clubs, and the rich variety of arts this community offers. With a Pat McClure-led group at All Saints-by-the-Sea Church, she explored evolving trends in Christian theology as it responds to advances in neurology and physics.

If she were writing this herself (she is) she would say that among the many gifts of this life, her loving children Elizabeth (Betsy) and Mark, grandsons Jackson and Sturdy, son-in-law Patrick, and those friends who helped her laugh and who nurtured her spirit top the list. So long, all dear ones, “I wait at the Gate.”

In lieu of flowers, All Saints-by-the-Sea, Lobero Theatre, Sansum Clinic Research, and City College were part of her life. She was interested in a book fund for single mothers at City College, which the Foundation for SBCC’s CARE program supports.

A celebration of Sylvia’s life will be held when family and friends are able to gather.

•MJ

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