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Revealing the answers to our new monthly music-themed meta crossword puzzle, p. 30

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COLD SPRING SCHOOL

BOND. COLD SPRING SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES $7.8M BOND MEASURE – DOWN FROM $9.8M – FOR NOVEMBER BALLOT; FUNDS TO PAY FOR NEW CLASSROOM AND ADMIN BUILDING AND MUCH NEEDED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS (STORY BEGINS ON PAGE 5)

On the Move

Montecito segment of long-awaited Highway 101 expansion to break ground in November, p. 10

On Entertainment

Westmont’s virtual Friday Concert Series portends a potent season of music, p. 22

Calla’s Corner

The buzz over a bee movie and the secret life of beekeepers in Montecito, p. 32

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Carte Blanche

Update on Cold Spring School bond measure; how Montecito Library could be managed differently in future Q&A with our favorite society columnist Richard Mineards – juicy tidbits, colloquialisms within each plot, and his incomparable English accent

10 Montecito on the Move

Eat. Sip. Shop. Connect.

Sharon Byrne hits the pavement on all road-related news in our fair village, from Highway 101 widening to new trails and bridges 11 Letters to the Editor A collection of communications from readers James T. McClintock Jr., Frank McGinity, Jane Walker Wood Orfalea, Laura Wilson, John Phillipes, Nancy Freeman, Jean von Wittenburg, Denice Spangler Adams, and Dale Lowdermilk

12 Brilliant Thoughts

The sound of silence, once so prevalent, has become a precious rarity in our era, says Ashleigh Brilliant

14 Seen Around Town

The mission of the California Missions Foundation is to preserve all 21 missions across our state. Santa Barbara is among them.

16 Dear Montecito

Raleigh Clemens brings Web of the Week to the US with a simple goal: help the older generation develop their skills and confidence navigating the web

18 Body Wise

Even in the darkest of times, a good laugh can turn everything around, says Ann Brode, and it’s proven to help your health

20 Far Flung Travel

Chuck Graham ascends the Montañon Ridge Loop Trail on Santa Cruz Island and finds rare flora and fauna

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Tide Chart 31 People of Montecito

Larry Nobles of Lucky’s Steakhouse on that magical night Katy Perry serenaded 40 Japanese girls in the restaurant

32 Calla’s Corner

Beelievers, the documentary that has Santa Barbara buzzing, and the secret life of beekeepers

34 Nosh Town

Convivo serves Italian fare married to exotic, rustic world cuisine; Tasting Notes with Daniel Fish, wine director at Rosewood Miramar

39 Our Town

Joanne Calitri continues her Arts in Lockdown Series with actor/writer Michael DeVorzon

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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.

Cold Spring School Bond Measure Moves Forward

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The bond will be used to replace the portables currently located at the entrance to campus with a new 6,000-sq.-ft. classroom and administration building, as well as fix aging infrastructure in the existing classroom buildings

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arlier this summer, the Cold Spring School Board of Trustees approved a school bond measure on the upcoming November ballot, the first of its kind in 12 years.

Measure L2020 is a $7.8M bond that will be used to fund much-needed infrastructure improvements and to fund a new classroom building to replace the dilapidated portables currently on campus.

The bond measure has been in the works for years, as the board has been focused on replacing the two remaining portable buildings, which are over 25 years old and well past their useful life. A third portable building, which housed art classes, was removed last year after it was in disrepair. Recent growth in the enrollment on campus has highlighted the issue of the dilapidated portables even more, as the two remaining portable classrooms, which, in pre-COVID days, housed the afterschool program and special education, are beginning to rust and deteriorate rapidly.

In 2016 the board voted to move forward with a new building to house classrooms and administrative offices; this new plan builds on those ideas, with plans for a 6,000 sq. ft. building to house three classrooms as well as the front office staff, and offices for school specialists. The classrooms, which will be outfitted with the newest technology including collapsible 10 – 17 September 2020

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The proposed building will be the new gateway to the school, giving a place for visitors to check in before coming onto campus. When the school was first built in 1889, the entrance to campus was along Sycamore Canyon Road, before it became a busy state highway. For safety purposes, a wall was erected at some point in the ‘70s or ‘80s, to protect the campus from the traffic; the entrance to the school was moved east to the parking lot on Cold Spring Road. However, the office and administration building remained in the center of campus, causing visitors to have to enter the campus before checking in with campus officials, which many have considered a security issue.

The new building, which will fit in architecturally and aesthetically with the current buildings, will improve campus security, and the parking lot will be reconfigured, allowing for better traffic circulation. The current office space will be used to expand the library, converting the library from a traditional book library to a media center. Improvements to existing infrastructure on the 100-year-old existing buildings include repairing

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Visiting with President Fidel Castro in the Marina Hemingway, Havana, Cuba, in 1992 while sailing in the Caribbean on the 160-foot schooner Aiglon with HSH Prince Johannes von Thurn und Taxis and his family. El Comandante, as he was known, then invited the German royal, the country’s richest man, to stay on his private island, Cayo Piedra, transported on his 120-foot yacht, the Aquarama. Richard stayed in former Russian president Nikita Kruschev’s bedroom.

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here in the World is Richard Mineards?

Our favorite society columnist, Richard Mineards, is missing.

Well, his column “Montecito Miscellany” has been missing from our pages, which in itself feels like a big loss. After several months of wondering, Where’s Richard?, I connected with Mr. Mineards via telephone to see what’s shakin’.

Right off the bat, he dove into stories with his incomparable accent, adding juicy tidbits and colloquialisms within each plot. So instead of writing a feature on his current state of affairs, I figured what better way to hear it than from the man himself? Without further ado, here’s a Q&A with Richard Mineards.

Author’s note: for optimum enjoyment, read in his “very” English accent.

lunches, and dinners, galas, the opera, ballet, and the symphony. And now it’s just basically dead stop. I mean, I, how many books can you read?

Luckily, I have most of the premium TV channels and I can watch movies, but many of them I’ve watched before because I covered them over the years.

I really miss the social interaction of meeting people. I’m quite a gregarious type, you know. And now the big moment in my day is getting coffee and a jalapeño bagel from Pierre Lafond in the Upper Village. So, this is really a nightmare. And what really upset me last month was my sixty-seventh birthday. I was supposed to fly to a friend’s house near Marrakesh in Morocco, but the EU banned all US flights. So, that scuppered that plan.

Q. Hey, Richard, it’s Megan from the So sorry to hear about your birthday.

Montecito Journal. How the heck are you? Happy belated, by the way.

Well, thank you for that. The nice A. I find it a miserable, nightmarish time. To go from full throttle to full thing about it was, Priscilla, my phostop is not a very pleasant experience.

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Montecito On The Move

by Sharon Byrne

Congestion, Road Repairs, and Parking Issues?

We handle it all at the Montecito Association Transportation Committee

Members of the Montecito Association Transportation Committee discuss Highway 101 widening with Santa Barbara County Association of Governments

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o matter what your transportation concern is, chances are good that someone from the Montecito Association Transportation Committee is already working on it.

We’ve put together an all-star lineup that meets over Zoom to work on the most pressing issues in this area: Chad Chase: Chair, also serves on Coral Casino, and our Montecito Association Land Use Committee Thorn Robertson: Coast Village Association Geoff Slaff: Our trails and biking advocate Doug Black: Quickly becoming our first Legislative Analyst, serving on the Montecito Association Board Bob Short and Jack Overall: Forces to be reckoned with on road issues in Montecito Diane Dostalek: Caltrans, District 5, San Luis Obispo Chris Sneddon: Santa Barbara County Public Works Transportation Division Director Lt. “Butch’ Arnoldi: Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office, and the best local neighborhood police ever Captain Cindy Pontes: California Highway Patrol A representative of First District Supervisor Das Williams also attends.

Meetings are virtual and open to the public.

Update on the Highway 101 Widening

From Lauren Bianchi Klemann, Dave Emerson, Fred Luna, and Sarkes Khachek with the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) The project is broken into five segments – Carpinteria, Summerland, Padaro, Montecito, and Santa Barbara.

About $400 million in state funding

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is already allocated for the first three segments: Carpinteria thru Sheffield Drive. Sheffield starts construction November, and we’ve already seen staging equipment. Padaro will start construction in the fall of 2021.

A Few Highlights

Bridges will be replaced over San Ysidro and Romero creeks.

Sound walls will also be included.

Construction starts in 2023.

The key segment for us is Montecitoto-Santa Barbara: Romero Creek to Sycamore Creek and the Cabrillo Boulevard interchange. SBCAG applied this summer, with our endorsement, for funding from the California Transportation Commission for a total of $230 million for our area. We will find out whether we have been recommended for funding on November 12, with a final determination made in December. A traffic management plan would be filed as part of the permitting process. Night work construction will be part of the schedule. You can sign up for weekly updates at www. sbroads.com.

What happens in the event of a COVID-induced budget shortfall?

Transportation funding can’t be diverted, as it’s based on vehicle registration fees. What about evacuations during construction? CHP has predetermined evacuations included in their Emergency Action Plan.

Mill, has already received an appeal on the Olive Mill roundabout after their Planning Commission gave its approval. The San Ysidro roundabout was appealed to the Board of Supervisors, to be heard in November, after approval by the Montecito Planning Commission. The appeals are based on CEQA and vehicle miles traveled process at a time when CEQA is transitioning to looking at whether projects generate more traffic trips.

Public Works recently trimmed foliage on Fernald Point Lane to make the signs more visible. 45-50 citations are issued per week on Fernald.

County Road Repair Updates

Beach and Trail Parking Ordinance to Reduce Overcrowding

Lieutenant Arnoldi is proposing this, with the support of Supervisor Williams and Second District Supervisor Gregg Hart. We have set a precedent throughout the county in mitigating pandemic-created overcrowding by focusing on parking.

Recently, the County has implemented no parking sunset-to-sunrise at Santa Claus and Padaro lanes to cut back on illegal camping and fire hazards. This gives enforcement probable cause to make contact with people parked during off-hours. A normal fine is $37.50 for parking in a no-parking zone. The Board of Supervisors should set enhanced fines during emergencies and super emergencies.

Montecito Fire recently enacted parking restrictions on Humphrey Road and Miramar Lane to make sure fire lanes were preserved in neighborhoods being overrun with beach parkers. The recently posted signs have been moved, unfortunately, and stacked along the railroad tracks.

Constant vigilance is needed.

A number of road repavings in Montecito are set to begin this fall

Ongoing regular maintenance is gearing up to start in September. The repaving of Channel Drive, Olive Mill Road, and Hill Road will start late September. San Ysidro Road will begin late September or October.

New Trail

The Bucket Brigade and Montecito Trails Foundation are partnering with the County to create improved walking paths, including a new trail going up from Vons on Hot Springs Road.

Romero Creek-Bella Vista?

That road is still closed. The County will repair the crossing before rainy season. There are culverts under that crossing that are being replaced.

Hot Springs Triangle

Roundabouts

We’ve attended 30-plus hours of hearings on these. The Montecito Planning Commission will host a continued session on the Olive Mill roundabout on September 16. The City, with joint jurisdiction on Olive

It’s Illegal to Park at Fernald Point

Montecito has set a county precedent by using parking restrictions, as seen here on Hot Springs Trail, as a way to mitigate pandemic-created overcrowding

“In the ‘looks of disappointment’ department, my cat has picked up where my father left off.” - Tom Papa

The larger project includes fixing the barrier rails on the bridge above this intersection, and repaving Hot Springs Road to Mount Carmel. A hiking path is going in from Casa Dorinda to Highway 192, scheduled for fall. The County will be putting a berm around the Hot Springs Triangle so it can withstand future flooding. Casa Dorinda and community members will be landscaping it, with the Public Works Division as the lead.

Caltrans will be upgrading curve-warning signs throughout our area. So if you’re driving Highway 192 and something doesn’t seem right, let us know.

The Transportation Committee will meet again in early November. Watch montecitoassociation.org for details.

Members receive advance updates, so we encourage you to become a member today.

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Letters to the Editor

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

Has Summerland ‘Spoken’?

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he front-page “hook” for the Summerland cannabis dispensary article repeats a statement from a Summerland Citizens Association email regarding the survey results (which I reject outright).

While eye catching, it is not a fair presentation of the facts and could lead a reader to infer that Summerland has “spoken” (another exaggerated claim by those who conducted the survey).

There are several problems with their claims.

The first is the statement that 97 percent of the business owners in Summerland don’t support a cannabis dispensary in Summerland.

How do we know how the survey was conducted and by who? Was there undue influence? I suspect that business owners would prefer to avoid taking any controversial stances and remain in good favor with all Summerland residents particularly those residents who are influential and active in Summerland affairs.

Frankly, I don’t care much about what Summerland business owners think about a cannabis dispensary.

Were they surveyed for the Rusty’s Pizza location or the Summerland Winery tasting room? What about Red Kettle? If a future wine tasting room were to be proposed, would all the businesses be surveyed as to allow it or not? I am a strong

supporter of reasonable government regulation but to conduct business development in this manner is absurd.

Secondly, with only 25 percent of the residents responding, I don’t think (without further statistical analysis) that entire community has “spoken.”

There could be many contributing factors that affected who chose or was willing or available to respond to the survey. In my mind those who conducted the survey had an agenda and were looking for a way to bolster their position at the expense of a true community response.

While I am not a customer of cannabis shops nor do I smoke it, I have visited several. If done properly and responsibly, they are very innocuous and low key. In fact, two I visited in Aspen and Telluride had a very exclusive air about them and the interiors were more akin to a fine jewelry or clothing store than a seedy “drug outlet.” The implication that a cannabis outlet will have an outsize influence on the commercial areas of Summerland is patently false if strict guidelines and regulations are in place. Parking and traffic will not suddenly become a nightmare because of one (hopefully successful) new business in town. We need more businesses in Summerland! And, additional commercial activity will

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help everyone, despite the dire statements made in the survey. And fear not, the moral integrity and spiritual purity of Summerland will not be the least affected by a single responsibly run cannabis store.

Regards to you, James T. McClintock Jr.

More Blackouts

We seem to be able to land men on the moon but are unable to deliver electricity consistently. Our neighborhood in Montecito experienced a blackout on Sunday for about ten hours, compliments of Southern California Edison. If we dig deeper as to why these blackouts are occurring all over Southern California, we may find a probable cause. The emphasis on very expensive windmills and solar systems, prompted by our Governor and legislators, may be the reason.

And what will be next to make our life miserable?

Frank McGinity

All Candidates Welcome

The Coalition for Neighborhood Schools will host a forum for Santa Barbara Board of Education candidates on Thursday, September 17, from 7 pm to 8:30 pm via Zoom. All candidates have been invited. The forum will be moderated by former School Board Member Lanny Ebenstein.

The Coalition for Neighborhood Schools has been active for 20 years and focuses on creating broad-based support for neighborhood elementary and secondary school improvement.

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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.

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Hear and Now

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he 1964 Simon & Garfunkel song “The Sound of Silence” must seem redolent of an ancient era to many of my younger readers – but the haunting melody, combined with its poetically poignant words, resonates as powerfully today as when the song was born. To me, the part which has always been most meaningful proclaims that “the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls.” This has had personal significance in my life, because, not more than three years later, it was my own words (usually on colorful cards) which had begun to appear on walls and halls – at first in San Francisco, but then spreading to many parts of the world.

When asked to explain the intellectual origins of the type of very short writing on which I eventually built a whole career, I’ve always cited three major influences: First, my parents. My mother, Amelia Brilliant, seeing utility in my verbal talent, encouraged me, from an

early age, to make greeting cards for our family. And I was also influenced by my father Victor Brilliant, and his great love of jokes and wordplay.

Secondly, I offer credit to the masterly wordsmiths of the advertising industry, by whose creations we are constantly surrounded. I have much in common with them, e.g. in trying to pack power into a limited number of words. But the main difference between us is that, unlike me, they are always trying to sell something – while I have nothing to sell but myself.

Thirdly, as recognized by Simon & Garfunkel, I have derived uplifting inspiration from the anonymous but industrious perpetrators of graffiti, those “prophets” to whose sometimes very imaginative works most of us have been exposed, often on the walls of very small rooms which provide considerable privacy both to the original inscriber and to the subsequent reader and student.

But what most people probably

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remember most inescapably from that anthem of the 1960s was its enduring title and theme: “The Sound of Silence.” And indeed that sound that once so prevalent, has become a precious rarity in our era. Scientists with sensitive instruments have traveled the world in search of truly quiet places, with disappointing results. For the sake of practical needs such as recording or broadcasting, it has been necessary to construct special spaces which are “sound-proof,” in the sense that sounds from outside cannot be heard within. Individuals who want to sound-proof themselves are now confronted with an array of merchandise, ranging from little plugs, of wax or rubber, made for insertion into the ears, to various kinds of apparatuses, like radio headsets, to be worn over the ears. Unfortunately, one drawback of all such devices is that, while providing a certain degree of protection from noise (as measured in decibels, and usually printed on the package) they have no way of distinguishing between unwanted sounds and others, which may be wanted.

Problems with hearing are among the most common accompaniments of aging, and, because governments do not always recognize such ailments as deserving of treatment under any state or national health-care system, a huge, and no doubt highly profitable, hearing aid industry has developed.

The fitting, wearing, and maintaining of these devices themselves, however, present such formidable complications that many people who suffer some degree of “hearing loss” prefer to continue hearing imperfectly, rather than going through that whole technological process.

Unfortunately, the ears, unlike the eyes, are not yet as easily operable upon to improve their functioning.

And another area in which technology is still surprisingly lagging is noise-suppression. Those of us with hearing loss can still be bothered by noise; in fact, to many such people, the noises become more bothersome.

Ironically, there are also situations in which diminishing customary noise has itself become a problem – as in the case of the newer electric cars, which are so quiet that pedestrians who are accustomed to hearing a car coming now face a new danger. In consequence, those cars may be required to make an audible sound – just as the otherwise odorless but poisonous gas we use for cooking has to be given an artificial warning smell.

But the ultimate irony lies in the fact that great songs like “The Sound of Silence” are brought to us through the sonic medium of music. Beethoven, living in silence, was able to write music he could not hear. But he could feel it. Indeed, he was the perfect exponent of the silence of sound. •MJ

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ccording to the California Missions Foundation press brochure, “Nothing defines California and our nation’s heritage as significantly or emotionally as do the 21 missions that were founded along the coast from San Diego to Sonoma. Their beauty, stature, and character underlie the formation of California. Over time, many mission enclaves have developed into some of California’s most significant cities: San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Jose, San Francisco, and Sonoma. All 21 missions are California Historical Landmarks. Many have been designated National Historic Landmarks.” Make note that Santa Barbara is one of those.

I’m sure history is more exciting when our fourth graders study the mission era and can actually see one.

And of course they are a number one tourist attraction to millions.

To protect and preserve them the foundation was established in 1998 and is the only organization dedicated to the mission’s long-term preservation. We all need to share in the vision of saving these treasures. Without them an important piece of our history would be lost.

Foundation Executive Director David Bolton tells me that Mission San Miguel Arcangel was structurally damaged in a 2003 earthquake and needed to be restored and stabilized.

San Francisco’s Mission “Dolores” was losing its Indian painted murals to decay. Mission Santa Barbara’s façade was crumbling with each passing day. These have all been repaired.

Grants from Save America’s Treasures and donations from individuals, corporations, and foundations continually needed, aid the foundation.

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Another challenge is missing treasures such as baroque statues, Indian basketry and stonework, candlesticks, textiles, historican photographs, and mission era tools. These have disappeared from unguarded missions. The Foundation has worked to upgrade security with state-of-the-art equipment.

Many mission collections need to be fully catalogued and costly archeological examinations need to be made.

Nature challenges the primitive construction of our missions. Most buildings are adobe (dried mud) and are susceptible to water damage.

An historical timeline began in 1769 when a Spanish expedition from Mexico led by Father Junipero Serra founded Alto California’s first mission in San Diego. The Spanish king sent military troops and Franciscan missionaries to the new land to colonize the territory and convert its Indian inhabitants to Christianity. Father Serra died at age 70 after founding nine missions in 15 years. Father Fermín de Lasuén founded the tenth mission in Santa Barbara. He founded nine more in the next 12 years. Over 54 years, four forts or presidios were also founded along the California coast.

The founding of the California missions began seven years before

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MONTECITO HAS A BRIGHTER WATER FUTURE THANKS TO YOU!

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quiet revolution has been taking place in Montecito. It started in 2016, with the election of Tobe Plough and Floyd Wicks as directors of a previously dysfunctional Board of the Montecito Water District. In 2018, the revolution continued with the election of Ken Coates, Brian Goebel and Cori Hayman to the Water District Board; and Woody Barrett and Dana Newquist to the Board of the Sanitary District. Thank you, Montecito and Summerland residents for the key role you have played in this revolution. What has the Water Board Done for the Montecito Community? · Made Montecito and Summerland virtually drought proof by completing a 50-year water supply agreement with the City of Santa Barbara which will provide 40% of our water needs starting January 1, 2022. The supporting increase in customer rates was modest, and some customers saw reductions in their monthly bills. Held the line on conservation, while terminating mandatory water rationing, draconian rationing penalty fees and drought surcharges. Ended Montecito’s dependence on unreliable State Water allocations. Submitted a state-mandated Urban Water Management Plan for the first time in 10 years. Included were plans for massive water conservation (40%); local water supplies, 100% recycling of wastewater; underground storage of water and; groundwater management to protect and preserve local aquifers from overdrafts.

WHAT IS STILL NEEDED? MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS AT THE SANITARY DISTRICT

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n November, we have a chance to elect Dorinne Lee Johnson, Ed Martin, and Don Eversoll to the Montecito Sanitary District Board. They are highly qualified candidates committed to providing the best services for Montecito. Together with the elected directors Woody Barrett and Dana Newquist, they will: • Protect our environment.

- Recycle 100% of treated wastewater now being discharged off of Butterfly Beach by implementing sustainable, scalable solutions in advance of state directives to end ocean discharge.

- Convert septic systems to sewer service • Increase fiscal responsiveness to you, the ratepayer.

- Reduce our rates – the highest charged on the South Coast for sanitary services - End wasteful overspending, such as funding a new, $6 million vanity office building for 4 people and shelling out $50-100k a year on a high-powered political PR firm.

• Explore regional partnerships to gain capacity and reduce inefficiencies.

• Provide open, transparent, first-class governance that engages our community in the decisions that affect us all. With your support and involvement, we can have the top-notch sanitary district Montecito deserves, and become an even more resilient community.

With your support and involvement, we can have the top-notch sanitary district Montecito deserves, and become an even more resilient community.

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Dear Montecito

by Stella Pierce

Montecito Alumni Write Letters from Life’s Front

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y generation needs to be taken down a peg. Those born after 1995 are known as “internet natives” and navigate the digital world with appropriate instinct. It is this same instinct that causes us to giggle when a professor has a hard time working their PowerPoint presentation or, more often these days, struggles to use the camera during a Zoom call. Pretty rich from a group of people who don’t know how to write an address on snail mail.

We don’t do it to be cruel – I know because I giggle sometimes too – but rather because these digital faux pas are so out of touch with our experience. My tall Danish friend, Kaja, likes to say: “One day, we’ll be giving a lecture on two decades worth of research. We’ll be delivering our talk to a whole theatre full of little punks, and one of them will snicker, telling us that our hologram isn’t buffering.” Today we’re addressing the digital divide. Thirty-three-year-old Montecito native Raleigh Clemens is

part of an initiative to make navigating the internet more accessible to all people and ease the isolation of the elderly population during COVID-19.

In her letter, you will hear about Web of the Week (WoW), a project aiming to make the digital world seem less complicated to those who are “internet foreigners” and bridge a connection between generations.

Dear Montecito,

My name is Raleigh Clemens. I was born and raised in Montecito and was most recently living up in San Francisco but find myself lucky to be back in my hometown thanks to COVID. I think we can all agree that COVID has been the strangest time.

Unprecedented they say. It has been a time of new normals and no plans. As an event planner myself, I think the “no plans” has been one of the hardest parts for me. I remember clearly in mid-March when I went onto my

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Raleigh Clemens has brought UK-based Web of the Week to the US with a simple goal: help the older generation develop their skills and confidence navigating the web

Google Calendar and week-by-week deleted all the things I had planned for the foreseeable future. As I mourned the loss of my trips, parties, visits to see friends and essentially my job and entire industry, I celebrated the gift of time. Time to be with my family, time to reflect, time to slow down and re-discover old friendships and serve my community safely. One of the ways is being extra intentional about my communication with those I love. My granny for instance is 93, going on 94 next month, and currently lives in a retirement home. In order to keep the staff and residents safe in times of COVID, her retirement community has completely isolated all the residents by shutting down the dining hall, canceling activities, closing the salon, and disallowing visits.

On Easter Sunday, my extended family (28 of us) arranged to do a talent show via Zoom with my granny. Her assistant logged her in and explained as best she could how everything worked and for the next 60 minutes we each performed a talent. My granny said this was her highlight of the last few months (along with going to get her mail, the one activity she is allowed to do). This fueled me to think there has to be something more we can do to engage with our elderly population.

My dear friend and fellow Montecito resident Jacquie McMahon, whose brother Iain Vellacott and nephew Guy Vellacott started the UK-based

site Web of the Week in May 2020, asked whether I would help spearhead the US launch of the new website. We have a simple goal: help the older generation develop their skills and confidence navigating the web.

Jacquie McMahon, born in the UK, has been a Montecito resident and integral part of the community here for the last seven years. She has been working on this labor of love along with her brother and nephew since the very beginning and is overjoyed seeing it come to life. When Jacquie reached out to me, I was thrilled to join the project, and now I am doubly excited to introduce our work to the United States.

Prompted by COVID-19 stay-athome orders, this idea came about as we began to see the heightened importance of engagement and connectivity amongst people. Web of the Week webpage offers a safe and easy way to access free and uplifting content on the internet as an additional resource for our deeply loved senior citizens who may be struggling at this time. Every week, 10 interesting new stories and video links with a focus on arts, music, history, gardening, sports, travel and health are published. My friend, Guy Vellacott, is doing an incredible job portraying a “virtual grandson” with his weekly introduction videos that provide easy to understand tips on navigating the internet. Web of the Week is also highlighting uplifting work being done by both charities and corporations supporting their communities, so really what is not to love?

There has been an overwhelmingly positive response in the UK, and we are beyond thrilled to now have our US version ready to go. I’ve been so proud to see this project grow into something that will help our older generation navigate the web in a positive and user-friendly way that hopefully brings joy and smiles.

All the best, Raleigh Clemens The link to the new US Web of the Week is www.weboftheweek.com/ us. Please share with your grandparents, parents, friends, and neighbors.

We are fully grassroots, with only the best of intentions. Help spread the word and keep our senior citizens engaged!

•MJ

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Body Wise

by Ann Brode Ann Todhunter Brode has been an Aston Patterning practitioner and body-oriented therapist in Santa Barbara for over forty years. A recognized master in her field, Brode writes down-to-earth, compassionate articles on the challenges & rewards of living consciously in the body. She is author of Body Wise: What Your Mind Needs to Know About Your Body. Visit www.bodywisdomforlife.com for more information.

Play

“Play is the meaningless moment that makes the day memorable and worthwhile.”

– Stuart Brown, MD, author and founder of the National Institute of Play

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n the first three months of the pandemic there was a lot of COVIDhumor in our inbox. We laughed online at ourselves as we coveted toilet paper, binged on everything nearby, and showed up for work in pajamas. We chuckled as clever new words entered our vocabulary offering a “quarantini” with an olive at the end of a monotonous “blursday.” By July, however, the entertaining emails had dwindled to zero. Did we lose our sense of play?

The endless stress of seemingly endless problems makes it hard to find humor in anything. But, as counterintuitive as it may seem, cultivating our innate sense of playfulness might be just the ticket for making it through these tough times in one piece. You see, there is a link between our ability to play and our ability to adapt, survive and get along. Conversely, as we’ve all experi-

enced, too much work, responsibility, and seriousness results in a negative outlook, short temper, and grumpiness.

Or, as my son admitted to my grandson recently, “I’m tightly wound and easily provoked.”

Even though we have the ability to seek and benefit from play all through our lives, when circumstances feel threatening, oppressive, or upsetting, the first thing to disappear is our sense of playfulness. Of course, there are situations that require serious attention, but getting stuck in serious mode is both exhausting and depressing. As any emergency room nurse knows, even in the darkest times, finding a bit of levity is a good way to rekindle energy and refuel optimism. You experience a bit of this every time you smile, even if you’re faking it. Research has shown that simply pulling the muscles of the face into

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a smile triggers a release of mood-boosting neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin. And, when a humorous moment is shared, it not only gets you out of the funk but it increases trust and decreases anxiety all around. So, when you bring your sense of playfulness to the gym, supermarket, or dinner table, it’s not just fun, it’s therapeutic.

In order to invite a little play therapy into your life, just remember what makes you laugh. Everyone doesn’t laugh at the same thing. My husband thinks slapstick is hilarious; human foibles make me smile. What’s your preference? The humor of John Cleese, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, or Hasan Minhaj? Do riddles or practical jokes or dirty limericks tickle your funny bone? Are you amused by the writing of David Sedaris, Dave Barry, or P.G. Wodehouse? Do you crack up over The Simpsons or Schitt’s Creek? Whatever makes you smile, trust your playful instincts and make it happen!

Play has a wide range of possibilities.

From storytelling to sports to doing a crossword puzzle. Just ask your smart speaker to play an old rock and roll favorite, boogie a bit to the beat, and notice how your mood changes. Go ahead and browse The New Yorker cartoons or listen to a fun podcast like Comedy Bang! Bang!, My Dad Wrote a Porno, or WTF with Marc Maron. Or, stay closer to home and check out the clever videos embedded in this paper’s Morning MoJo. You can pull up an animal-friends video on YouTube or, even better, go outside and throw a ball for your own dog. Singing “She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain” with hand gestures never fails. Water fight in the backyard, anyone?

Lately, I’ve been pondering the playful antics of my friends. Like Dan Frank

and Tim Schultz tossing hilarious puns back and forth. Or, Otto Laula and Tom Moore creating a poster to spoof New Agers, titled “How to Manifest a Refrigerator.” Or, Linda Mason with her social commentary cartoons. It still cracks me up thinking of Thom Steinbeck biting Cosmo’s foot at a picnic saying, “I think I’ll just have a hot dog.” And, I can’t help but chortle remembering the holiday party that Sally Chiu, Laurie Zalk, and I hosted in matching pajamas. There’s a bit of magic in all these memories that makes my heart smile.

Give play a chance in your life and let it do its magic. For no reason except being playful, meander a bit on your bike ride, play a video game with your kids, and doodle on your appointment book. Do something unexpected like make a fart noise or a goofy face. Why not share a humorous anecdote with a buddy or wink at your sweetheart across the room? Break into a little twostep singing a few chords of “Sunny Side of the Street” on your next beach walk. As you swing along, your spontaneous exuberance will lift everyone’s mood. And, be ready to respond to the possibility of playfulness wherever and however it shows up. For instance, when asked how the day went, after a slight pause, my son-in-law responded, “Swell.” We both got a laugh from his perfectly timed wry delivery. In these serious times, a good laugh can turn everything around.

“Grab your coat and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street”

– Billie Holliday, “On the Sunny Side of the Street”

Laughing Matters

•MJ

Bad as Hell

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man dies and goes to heaven. When he reaches the pearly gates, Saint Peter is there waiting for him.

“Would you like to go to heaven or hell?” he asks the man.

“Well I assume I’d like to go to heaven,” says the man.

Saint Peter tells the man that they have produced two videos for the newly dead to watch. One is of heaven. The other is of hell.

“Watch these,” says Saint Peter. “It should help you decide.”

First the man watches the tape of heaven. And, predictably, it shows a place with blue skies, fluffy white clouds, pleasant music. A peaceful and calm place.

Then the man watches the tape of hell. To his great surprise it shows a place filled with beautiful women, great wine, debauchery, chocolate chip cookies.

“Wow,” says the man. “I’d like to go to hell.”

“Okay,” says Saint Peter. “Off you go!”

Saint Peter pushes the down button in the afterlife elevator and down the man goes.

When the doors open the man is horrified. It’s fire and brimstone and everything he had feared about hell.

“This looks nothing like the video you showed me,” the man says to Saint Peter.

“Oh,” Saint Peter said. “That was the pilot!”

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Far Flung Travel

Nameless No More

by Chuck Graham

The rugged 10-mile Montanon Ridge Loop Trail is well trampled by curious island foxes, the largest land mammal on the island

The view atop Montañon Ridge on Santa Cruz Island, the largest isle in the Channel Islands National Park

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he barks and bellows from raucous California sea lions wafted skyward from their seaside rookery just beyond wave-battered Potato Harbor. Ascending the newly named Montañon Ridge Loop Trail, I loped across a craggy, rolling marine terrace, that cacophonous marine mammal serenade gradually drifting away, aided by wispy northwest winds above Coche Point on Santa Cruz Island, the largest isle in the Channel Islands National Park.

For decades, this trail was without a name, just a lonely track with minimal traffic, mostly endemic island foxes bounding along, but that all changed in November 2018. Over the last several years, it has easily been my favorite trail for running and hiking. The solitude and knowing I’d share it only

with island foxes was all I needed to motivate me.

Unmaintained routes become known only as “social trails” or “renegade trails,” among other monikers.

In the case of the Montañon Ridge Loop Trail, perhaps it may have been an old sheep trail when ranching occurred on the most biodiverse islet off the California Coast between the early 1800s and late 1900s. Today, the rugged 10-mile loop is well trampled by curious island foxes, the largest land mammal on the island and by the occasional island visitor boating over from the mainland.

After ascending above the honeycombed sea caves of Coche Point, Chinese Harbor, and the rest of the idyllic north side of Santa Cruz Island came into view. The narrow trail

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ascended sharply to the southeast as I tried to concentrate on its shifting contours, yet, catching myself peering over my right shoulder gazing at all the scenic coves hundreds of feet below.

Eventually I topped out on a serpentine-like ridge of red, undulating rock, straddling the spine that leads to Montañon Ridge. From here the views grew more incredible. The precarious ridge itself was a virtual island botanical garden cloaked with bushels of Santa Cruz Island buckwheat, sporadic Santa Cruz Island silver lotus (my favorite), hardy Dudleya, vibrant sticky monkey flower, scattered, windwhipped and dwarfed island oak trees and dormant giant coreopsis.

This unique island flora was a real draw for the endemic island scrub jay, one of the rarest birds in the world.

This larger, distant cousin of the mainland western scrub jay has the smallest range of any bird in North America.

Santa Cruz Island is the only place in the world where it can be found.

Roughly 2,400 jays inhabit windswept Santa Cruz, and a handful of them greeted me from their many roosting spots, shek-shek-shek, before a final, harsher shreeenk as I loped on by.

As the route continued sea serpenting its way toward Montañon Ridge, the ragged, open book-shaped

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side canyons draining into Scorpion Canyon drew my attention. As my pace quickened over smooth, weathered sandstone, another set of epic views captivated me sweeping downward toward the gnarled finger of San Pedro Point. Just south of San Pedro Point, Mordor-like Hungryman Gulch opposed its southerly neighbor, the perpetually tranquil Smugglers Cove.

It was an exceptionally clear day, a hike/run to remember with the turbulent three-mile-wide Anacapa Passage shimmering all the way to the sheer, 200-foot-tall cliffs of Anacapa Island, itself enthralling in many ways. It was so clear even tiny Santa Barbara Island and US Navy-owned San Nicholas Island revealed themselves amongst cobalt blue seas and distant cresting whitecaps.

The descent back to Scorpion Anchorage was a rocky one, and at some point, it felt as if I was hiking on ball bearings. Once at the old oil drill site, I vied for the steep Scorpion Canyon Loop Trail instead of transitioning to the old ranch road. It was an excellent choice as I shared the trail with a playful island fox, keeping pace with its silvery, cinnamon frame on the most mountainous isle off the California Coast. www.nps. gov/chis.

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a great opportunity to feature some alumni. They were able to prepare those programs over the summer and record them here in late August and early September. The Di Maggios’ concert has been ready to go for a long time because it had been scheduled to happen in April before COVID caused it to be canceled. So we put that on first.

I watched it a little while ago today and I was surprised how good it was. The music and performances, of course, but the sound was terrific and the video is sharp and interesting. What is it you guys are doing that nobody else seems to have?

Thanks. We knew this was coming and we wanted to be prepared, so put in a little extra effort and bought some new equipment and were able to use multiple microphones and good video cameras. This is all we have right now, so making it good was important in the moment.

Westmont Music Department husband-and-wife faculty members Andrea (flute) and Neil Di Maggio (piano) helped launch the college’s virtual Friday Concert Series (Photo credit: Elizabeth Mae)

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ike everybody else, the Westmont Music Department has had to pivot during the pandemic from in-person events to online performances and instruction. Last weekend, the department launched its new virtual Friday Concert Series with a video on Vimeo featuring husband-and-wife faculty members Andrea (flute) and Neil Di Maggio (piano) that portends a potent season of music.

The entire semester has already been scheduled, with faculty concerts taking up the first six events followed by nine performances featuring students, either virtually, or, as is the current plan, with matriculants at the Christian college back on the Montecito campus. Among the latter are such annual favorites as the Fall Choral Celebration (October 30) and the 16th annual Christmas Concert (December 4-6). Each of the new performances, which have or will be filmed live on location, can be watched for free online at www. vimeo.com/showcase/westmontmu-

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sic, where they will be archived for viewing at any time throughout the semester. Visit www.westmont.edu/ music/concerts for the schedule and details.

Michael Shasberger, Westmont’s Adams professor of music and worship, who will sing baritone in the second event this Friday at 7 pm, talked about the project over the phone last weekend.

Q. This is a new series, something new in weekly programming rather than just transferring what would have taken place in person online. Is that right?

A. Yes, we probably had anywhere between 20 and 24 programs scheduled for the fall, but they wouldn’t have been spaced out weekly. So we decided to organize this and spread it out evenly, and also start with the faculty to get them prepared in advance for doing these kinds of recordings, and then bring the student performers later this fall.

Let’s talk about the programming for the first few concerts, and how you made those choices.

We wanted to start with our faculty and realized because there’s no physical requirement that it would be

You are one of the singers in the concert that will stream this Friday along with your Westmont colleagues in pianist Neil Di Maggio and soprano Nichole Dechaine. What can you tell us about the program?

It’s a group of new songs by a DC-based composer, Gary Barnett, who had approached us last winter asking if we would collaborate with him in presenting the world premiere and developing them with him.

We’ve been working all spring and summer so it seemed like a natural fit to make those one of our featured performances. That video production is really nice too because we brought in a very safe studio to film that as a special operation and it’s a bump up in technology.

What’s your connection to the composer? Why did he approach you to do this?

It was just fortunately this outreach on the internet where Gary had written a post on a web form that I participated in looking for a collaborator.

And I wrote back to him and said, this project sounds interesting with scripturally based songs for soprano, baritone, and piano. Nichole and I like to work together and it sounded interesting what he was describing. When he sent us demo materials, we decided to take it on.

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What can you say about the songs, the approach and themes?

Gary’s style is contemporary. It’s a bit of a mix because it’s very, very melodic and rather lovely throughout, although it can be a little bit challenging in terms of the tonal reach.

Sometimes it has some contemporary, even theatrical effects, and also he reaches back to older music, especially some cantorial tradition. His background is in the Jewish tentorial traditions, and some of that comes into the mix as well. There are four songs, and the first two are song cycles, actually.

“Garden Lost” is a recounting of the fall and our separation from God, the effects of loneliness and the impacts of that. The second song cycle is a restoration and it’s about coming back and about restoring those bridges and building back to the Kingdom of God. Then there are two short songs: “Walk on the Water,” which is a bit more about restoration, and about trusting and taking leaps of faith, while the last one is a very lovely piece entitled “Prayer,” which invites people to consider the goodness of God. So altogether it’s a wonderful rise and fall pairing of songs, and the whole program is about a half-hour long.

As I hear you talk about this, I’m thinking that most of us have COVID on our minds a great deal of the time. It sounds like these songs could be addressing the pandemic in a way, at least in the idea of rising again. I’m wondering with you being a professor of religion and music, do you see the scriptures, as these songs by extension, applying in today’s times?

Oh, absolutely. There is a timelessness about that message that really does ring true right now. Our pianist Neil Di Maggio actually commented that he was really appreciative of the project this summer because he found it extremely restorative and redeeming in this time to work on something that had that arc to it and that sense of ultimate reconciliation and redemption.

How much were you able to collaborate in the creation of these songs? Were you in contact, basically making sure you were getting his intent, or were you offering feedback as well?

These are brand new songs and this was kind of like the out-of-town trial for a Broadway show. So we worked very closely with Gary. It was like we did the test for him to see if he’s really getting what he hopes for with his intent. We were able to give feedback and he was very appreciative of our comments. Sometimes I’d say, I know what you want here, but can we try this? And he would always say, yeah, just try it, let’s see if we like it. And oftentimes he said, I liked (what you did) better. Let’s go with that approach. Or let’s make a modification. So we had a really wonderful 10 – 17 September 2020

dialogue back and forth on multiple platforms over the summer, and we rehearsed with him a couple of times on Zoom. Of course he was with us virtually during the recording session – which we made at Deane Chapel on campus with lots of social distancing and negative air flow – so he could hear and he could comment and he could make final suggestions.

Moving on, the next concert actually takes place in a church, I believe, with the organist Tom Joyce, right?

He’s the organist at Trinity Episcopal. Of course the church has been closed for six months, and they have been very careful and cautious.

But as the organist, Tom has been allowed to practice. All summer long, he’s been preparing special videos for their worship services and just for sharing with people who wanted to get a sense of being in the space again since the church is quiet and empty.

Tom’s a brilliant, brilliant organist, it’s a wonderful instrument there and the church has a great acoustic. So he’s been preparing this all summer and we’re compiling his work as a recital for the next performance.

What’s the story with the Carnevale String Quartet that is scheduled for the last Friday in September?

It features one of our distinguished alumni, Sarah Pfister (viola, 2012), whose maiden name happens to be Shasberger. So, yes, she’s my daughter, and she is now the principal violist with the Ruse State Philharmonic Opera Orchestra in Bulgaria. Her husband, Kevin, is the principal bassoonist as well, and they put on this concert just as COVID was coming into play.

They wanted to stage something they could broadcast. This was the first performance of the string quartet, which is named after the principal violinist, whose last name is Carnevale, which they thought would be celebrative and fun. They’re playing with friends in the orchestra, including a flutist, oboist, and clarinetist, on a variety of pieces. There are some contemporary popular things such as “Gabriel’s Oboe,” from the movie The Mission, and two wonderful classics of Mozart and Fauré. It’s a very mixed and delightful program.

The Zany Zoom Schedule: 5Qs with Ed Giron

Actor-director-playwright Ed Giron has been a very busy thespian despite the limitations of the pandemic. Although in-person appearances have been curtailed due to COVID, of course, the well-known Santa Barbara actor has found, or mostly fashioned, frequent opportunities to perform and/or direct theater events online.

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Ed Giron has stayed hyper busy throughout confinement, writing, directing, and acting in a number of plays that will be broadcast starting this month

Stories” of tales from Edgar Allen Poe, including “The Masque of the Red Death,” a 180-year-old story about a prince who locks people up in his castle thinking that he’s impervious to the plague, and “The Cask of Amontillado,” which Giron said is “very appropriate for people who were quarantined at this particular moment.” More recently, Giron has acted and directed readings and other online productions for companies in Los Angeles, where he’s also booked for supporting roles in live-streamed Zoom productions of Frankenstein and Uncle Vanya with Topanga Actor’s Theater in the fall.

In the meantime, though, there are two evenings featuring run-throughs of new works he’s written since the shutdown began. Readings with Friends will premiere Giron’s Reservations as the centerpiece of a sandwich of three one-act comedies that also features David Ives’ Groundhog Day-esque Variations on the Death of Trotsky and Mystery at Twicknam Vicarage, a sendup of classic British suspense plays.

The cast for the 7 pm Zoom show on Wednesday, September 16, includes Giron along with actors Paul Canter, Deborah Helm, Carol Metcalf, Jerry Oshinsky, Felicia Hall, Geren Piltz, Mindy Turano, and E Bonnie Lewis.

The following Wednesday brings the debut of Parting Ways, a two-character drama which Giron will direct over Zoom.

Q. What is it that’s made you so productive during this timeframe?

A. One of the reasons is the desire to perform and to relate performances in some way to COVID, which is why I recorded the Poe stories. Some of the Zoom theater we’ve done has been comedic plays to try and get people out of a feeling of not having the ability to be entertained or the ability to laugh. The motivation is generated by finding creative avenues in a time when you’re denied some of the regular outlets for those pursuits.

I directed a very obscure Noël Coward play called The Better Half that was literally lost for more than 80 years, so chances are you haven’t seen it. It was a great challenge to direct on Zoom but it turned out quite well.

You’ve had an affinity for David Ives’s

plays ever since I can remember. Why? The draw is that they’re very funny, they’re eccentric, and they’re very real with real characters that are just in bizarre situations. David has a great gift for comedic timing and a great gift for words. He’s also actually one of Broadway’s most sought after script doctors, tweaking shows before they open. The reason these plays are good for Zoom is that even though they’re short they have a true beginning, middle, and end. So the characters develop well and the situation resolves in 15 or 20 minutes. That’s much more digestible on Zoom than a two-and-ahalf-hour play.

Based on reading your one-liner about Reservations, it sounds like it could have been another short comedy by Ives, two people having relationship issues in a restaurant.

It may be a little like Ives in that it’s a bit bizarre. The play bends the contours of time to show a relationship over a period of decades and some unexpected things that happen along the way. I’ll be directing Jerry Oshinsky, Felicia Hall, Geren Piltz, and Mindy Turano.

I’m doing the math: four actors and just two characters equals a lot of elapsed time.

How did you come up with the story?

From an ex-girlfriend who, when

she went to the restroom, used to take forever to come back. That’s a little clue to the passage of time.

What about Parting Ways?

It’s fiction based upon quite a number of people I’ve known in my life, including myself. It came from a revelation I had when I visited a gravesite of someone who was close to me, and how I’d neglected to visit for such a long time. And the grave itself was neglected. And I thought that when people die, we say, We’ll never forget you, I’ll always carry the memory, I’ll always come visit. And we don’t…

I created two characters – one very young lady and the other a guy who’s more middle-aged, played by Felicia Hall and Paul Canter – who meet at a cemetery where they’re expressing their grief and feelings in totally different ways. It’s a relationship that starts between two people who have such opposite feelings and thoughts about how to observe passages in life.

There are a few funny moments, but it’s more serious, which is why we decided to put it on its own night.

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I rent a condo at the polo fields in Carpinteria. I am sending this email in an effort to raise awareness and ask for help. The condos have always been a peaceful place to live until recently when a large unknown entity purchased the property directly across

the street for over $6 million. This was surprising as the asking price was around $3 million. The intention of this entity was and is to put in an 80,000-square-foot marijuana growing operation. As a California resident I voted to legalize marijuana but never thought in doing so that the regulations around growing it would become so loose and unchecked that a facility of this size could be approved across the street of a high-density residential neighborhood. There are families, small children, and elderly, some with health issues, forced to live within a few hundred feet of this operation. At first we received notices that county planning and building were considering an approval. In response I voiced my opposition. I attended a meeting at the polo fields by Das Williams our [First District County] representative. He spoke as though this was a good thing – that greenhouses today could contain the odor and that we had nothing to worry about. This is absolutely not true. Over the last few weeks the smell coming from across the street has been overwhelming. It is so strong that it makes you want to leave the area just so you can find clean air to breathe. He also said that it would not affect real estate prices.

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I am asking you as representatives, journalists, and law enforcement to please investigate this operation. This is not a local farmer trying to make a living. This is big cannabis with a lot of money and powerful friends.

I ask you please create regulations that protect our neighborhoods and oppose facilities like this that violate our rights as citizens. I should be able to breathe clean air, and be at peace knowing that our representatives are looking after our community.

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Trumpian

What a childish but typically Trumpian retort Lorraine Morey gave in her letter to me: name-calling. A poor thinker’s ploy for distracting, for disengaging.

In lieu of logic or intelligent debating, Ms. Morey does what The Don, The Man, The Hair (well, one name-calling deserves another) resorts to, when a press reporter asks a valid question he can’t answer: Trump calls him/her rude for asking, and he never answers the difficult question.

Copying Trump’s modus operandi does not make you believable or endearing, Ms. Morey.

You gratuitously reveal you are over 80 years old.

Unfortunately, wisdom does not

always come with age. Take heart: there are remedies.

Attacking my letter for its “rude news” without explaining why or what is rude about what my letter does – it states facts, after all – reveals your incapacity for a logical debate.

And your insistence on equating misogynists with Democrats is ridiculous. I never said Trump abused women because he was a Republican.

In fact, he did the same when he was a Democrat. If he becomes the dictator he wants to be, I have no doubt he will continue being misogynistic.

Do not attribute a political bias to me, Ma’am. Look to yourself.

It is you in your letter who insists that “...80 percent of the male movie industry have used women ...in a horrible degrading way “and you continue, “...most of Hollywood entertainment industry are Democrats.” Maybe those are facts. So what?

Why are you focusing on political parties? That is not what my letter is about.

Nowhere did I suggest Republicans are more prone towards abusing women than Democrats or independents. I have no idea what Jeffrey Epstein’s political views were.

It seems it is you who is reporting the “rude news.” But I don’t mind. I like facts, “rude news“ or not. I don’t think you read my letter, however.

I question you on that score, and let me tell you why: you claim, I quote, “Ms. Freeman was quick to blame Republican men for sexual bad behavior.” Really? I have my letter in front of me. My copy does not mention “Republican men.”

What it does do is refute two statements made by James (G-R) Buckley; namely: 1. Buckley claimed Trump is not a

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Rubicon’s ‘September Blitz’

Since the pandemic forced its doors to close in March, Rubicon Theatre rose to the challenge by quickly pivoting in creating digital content, including taking its summer youth programs online, but also launched the nation’s first theatrical drive-in concert series.

Now, as its Rubicon Goes Retro Drivein Concert Series comes to a close this week, the Ventura company’s strategy for coping with COVID has returned to the virtual world.

Over the 30 days of September, RTC is presenting more than 30 events, including live-streamed full productions of its award-winning plays, a brand new live-streamed one-act with music, re-streaming of its summer youth shows as both live streams and on demand, and a rebroadcast of its Independence Day Black Lives Matter-themed special Voices of America. The events are all part of “Rise to the Challenge,” a fundraising effort to help RTC continue through the pandemic. While the viewing window for some events have already elapsed, the Youth Theatre production of Annie, with a cast of more than two dozen, can be downloaded on demand through September 13 for $18, while free digital performances of Gulf View Drive, the final episode in the Arlene Hutton’s multi-awardwinning The Nibroc Trilogy that ran at RTC and premiered on its streaming platform from London in late spring,

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take place September 12-13.

On September 19-20, Rubicon will present the world premiere of A Song, a one-act play with music that serves as a conversation about race, responsibility, hope, and belonging in these new and uncertain times. Emerging young playwright Taylor Fagins takes the audience inside the life of Gill, an artist, a son, a lover, and a young Black man in America as he fights to find his footing in society and to create his own song in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and a world wracked with civil unrest, racial injustice, and a public health crisis. Admission is free but requires reservations.

After rebroadcasts of RTC’s Summer Youth Shakespeare program’s Macbeth on September 19 ($18), and Voices of America (September 16-19; free), Rubicon’s September Blitz winds up its month of online offerings with a blowout evening on Facebook Live, featuring guest appearances and giveaways every half-hour from 5 pm to after midnight. Visit www.rubicontheatre.org/allrise or call (805) 667-2900 for details and registration.

He’s Got Rhythm, He’s Got Music

For nearly 20 years, Hershey Felder has made a career out of creating oneman shows in which he portrays and plays famous artists from recent and centuries-old history, and the novel coronavirus hasn’t caused him to slow down much at all. Ensemble Theatre Company got in the mix when it presented his Hershey Felder: Beethoven in July, and now the star is back again, virtually, for George Gershwin Alone presented live from Florence.

The work tells the story of America’s great composer who bridged the divide between jazz, pop, and classical music with the groundbreaking “A Rhapsody in Blue.” The show incorporates Gershwin’s best-known songs such as “The Man I Love” and “Someone to Watch Over Me,” selections from his theatrical-opera productions of An American In Paris and Porgy and Bess, and a complete performance of “Rhapsody In Blue.”

Felder is the only actor-musician to create the role of George Gershwin on the stage, and the self-created solo production George Gershwin Alone has had more than 3,000 performances worldwide, including on Broadway and in London’s West End, Los Angeles, Chicago, and many more.

The upcoming show – slated to stream live at 5 pm on Sunday, September 13 – is being performed for the first time at Florence’s Teatro Della Pergola, one of Europe’s oldest and most famous theaters.

Felder relayed his enthusiasm in a letter to listeners that notes that the theater was constructed in 1657 and has

Hershey Felder has made a career out of incarnating famous artists in a one-man show. His latest act: George Gershwin.

run nearly continuously for more than 360 years. The Teatro saw the world premiere of Verdi’s Macbeth among many other historic performances and is considered one of the most visually and acoustically glorious theaters in the world. The live broadcast of the Gershwin show will be the first time the theater is operating again since the beginning of the COVID-induced Italian lockdown six months ago, although still without an audience. But those who purchase tickets around the world can view the live show virtually on computers, iPads, iPhones and smart TVs, and/or revisit the work for extended “on-demand” viewing access of the recording of the performance for a full week. Felder is also recording videos and posting blog entries leading up to the performance, covering such areas as the very first box seats created in the world of theater.

Both Ensemble and Rubicon Theatre companies are part of the network presenting the Gershwin broadcast, for which a portion of proceeds benefits the venues, so you can choose which you’d most like to support. Tickets are $55 per household and are available at www.etcsb.org or 805-965-5400 for ETC, or www.rubicontheatre.org/allrise or 805-667-2900 for Rubicon.

Lights Up!: Auditions are Due

Lights Up!, Santa Barbara’s newest teen theater company that serves

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as a professional, yet inclusive and creative home for the youngsters, is currently auditioning for its 202021 company membership. Interested actors, singers, and dancers aged 12-19 are invited to audition for admission and the opportunity to attend callbacks for specific shows with the rest of the company.

Company members also get access to Lights Up! workshops, special events, and learning/performance opportunities, and become part of our community. Once accepted, members choose between acting, musical, or combo programs based on age and experience.

To audition, take a video of yourself singing a song that is in a comfortable range and shows your abilities, and also record a short monologue, either dramatic or comedic of 30-60 seconds. (Ideas for monologues are available.) Submit the video to info@lightsupsb.com by September 13, and then respond to a short questionnaire that will be sent to you.

Lights Up! is aiming to produce two full-length musicals live, but also has the ability to pivot to a filmed format if necessary. Musical track rehearsals resume on Sunday afternoons beginning late September, either in an outdoor location or on Zoom, in keeping with county guidelines for safety. Email info@lightsupsb.com with questions, or visit www.lightsupsb. com.

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Perspectives

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

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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

Wind, Wires, and Fire

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he devastating Paradise Fire of 2018 was caused by sparking from Pacific Gas and Electric’s (PG&E’s) high-voltage transmission lines that run through all sorts of back country and forests in Northern California.

Unfortunately, that tragedy is but one of dozens of fires started from high-voltage transmission lines which, by definition, often run through forests and remote back country terrain. According to Cal Fire, in recent years electrical lines were responsible for 40 percent of all acreage destroyed. They also calculated that more than 2,000 electrically caused fires were started between 2015 and 2019. Every informed government official knows there is no way to stop these fires from emerging as long as we cling to a statewide grid as our means of providing electricity to California’s 40 million residents.

We can’t stop lightning strikes, although they would be less frequent and less severe if and when we get climate change reversed, but knowing that high-powered transmission lines crisscrossing the state will cause many more fires in the future is simply unacceptable. Fires occur when the wind blows and lines bang into each other, or when spontaneous combustion of line transformers and various other components occurs. Having high-voltage transmission lines means we will inevitably be plagued with continuing forest fires every year. That’s unacceptable.

On top of those incredible liabilities, California is now suffering through a series of rolling black outs called Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) which are unilaterally ordered by PG&E and Southern California Edison (Edison) whenever the temperature rises high enough, an increasingly frequent event in this climate change era. Governor Gavin Newsom says we can expect these PSPS events to continue for nine years or longer. Is that acceptable on any level? Are we willing to suffer all that social and economic disruption? Look also at the billions in damages we have to pay to all the unfortunate residents who sustain the loss of life and property from these constant fires.

Finally, we learned the hard way in 2003 that a single squirrel could bring the power down for 50 million people in the Northeast and Midwest by triggering a spontaneous circuit overload condition that “trips” circuit breakers up and down the line.

Enough is enough. We need a new system that: 1) won’t catch fire, 2) is not subject to terrorist acts, 3) can’t ever be hacked, 4) won’t require us to ever have a PSPS event, and 5) can’t fail even if a squirrel goes crazy again! This new system has an additional hidden benefit: the new system will cost less to create and maintain than merely maintaining the existing system! What is this miracle solution called?

It’s called an interconnected microgrid network. It requires no transmission lines to operate.

Looking back to the 1880s in Manhattan, Alexander Graham Bell famously made the world’s first telephone call over a single copper wire. Universally “accepted wisdom” was that you had to connect telephones by wire. In 1970 only 25 percent of the global population had telephone service. That jumped to 98 percent global telephone coverage today because we discovered a new system called cell phones. Cell phone technology has revolutionized communications and human civilization itself. We just had to realize that the copper wire that started it all had to be replaced by electromagnetic radiation passing through the air. You see, that original copper wire that was essential for the first phone call to occur became the enemy of widespread telephone service.

Also in the 1880s in the same city of Manhattan, there was a vigorous dispute between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla. Edison wanted to power the emerging electrical market using direct current with small power plants located close together within urban areas. Tesla wanted to build a massive power plant in Brooklyn where he assumed no one would ever see it and bring the power to Manhattan with high-voltage alternating transmission lines. Tesla won the battle and centralized power with high voltage lines was created. Just like Bell’s copper telephone wire, the wire Tesla created became the limiting factor in getting electrical energy widely disbursed around the globe. The Indian farmer still waiting to get an electrical wire to his village never will. It makes no practical, engineering, or economic sense to bring that wire to every place of human habitation. The transmission wire has become the limiting. The high-voltage transmission line is the enemy.

Particularly because continued reliance on distant massive power generating units is so uneconomical, and is the biggest single factor slowing our transition to a 100 percent “green” economy.

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neighbor comb. Think of each of those local combs as self-sufficient Direct Energy Resource (“DER”) generators and users of electricity. My home is a specially designed solar-driven, freestanding household microgrid which is able to indefinitely “island” itself off grid power. My monthly energy bill for a property with multiple structures and extensive gardens is only 39 cents per month. The World Business Academy also designed a microgrid that would span from Ventura to Goleta, a significant population area that requires up to 300 megawatts. The system it presented to the California Public Utilities Commission identified every solar cell we would use and the precise location of each of those cells to collectively create a microgrid of 350 megawatt capacity. More recently, we designed a smaller one that would connect the fire and water departments of Montecito, California, a local school, and as many homes as Edison would allow. Unfortunately, Edison is doing everything it can to stop that microgrid from being built even though it would have dramatically reduced the death and destruction of the infamous Montecito mudslide of 2018.

Just like Bell’s copper telephone wire, the wire Tesla created became the limiting factor in getting electrical energy widely disbursed around the globe You often hear the question: “What do you do when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow?” The answer is you electrolyze cheap “green” energy into hydrogen, with on-site storage, and run it through fuel cells as needed to create supplemental power for the microgrids. And, in those rare instances where one microgrid goes down, neighbor microgrids would be able to “port” power from one microgrid to another. With rural microgrids where there are no contiguous microgrids to draw power from, plenty of hydrogen will be available from on-site storage and be supplemented by centrally stored hydrogen.

Microgrids are the answer to electrical resilience. They are the way to stop forest fires and free ourselves of the PG&E and Edison monopolies that keep our prices high and our forests on fire, and block the full deployment of green energy sources even as we mothball one fossil fuel plant after another..

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Robert’s Big Questions

by RobertBernstein

Degrees from Physics departments of MIT and UC Santa Barbara. Career in designing atomic-resolution microscopes. Childhood spent in Europe and the East of the US. Passion to understand the Big Questions of life and the universe. Duty to be a good citizen of the planet.

How to Bring People Together?

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t is a common perception today that our country is divided. Some even suggest we are on the verge of civil war. Is there a way that we can bring our country together?

One common suggestion is to have leaders who are “moderate” to be in line with the views of the widest range of citizens. In an earlier article, “What is Normal?” I explained the fallacy of this type of thinking.

What is “moderate” or “normal” can change very quickly and then can remain unquestioned for decades.

Another problem with this strategy is that it is not very inspiring.

Whether we are talking about a corporation, an individual, or a nation, it is important to have some sort of mission statement.

While my family heritage is Jewish, I was brought up without any actual belief in or reverence for a sky god

or other particulars of that religion or any other religion. Five years ago my wife and I were in the Holy Land and we enjoyed the immersion in a place with a long history. But each guide that we hired wisely told us the same thing: “In the Holy Land, stories are more important than facts.” Much of the “history” consists of good stories rather than historical truths.

However, I was brought up with a reverence for truth and understanding. My father was an English major who went on to be a pioneering research biologist. I understood the value of many varieties of truth and understanding. But science always had the strongest draw for me.

Although I loved biology and started out headed for that career, I realized I really wanted answers to the most fundamental questions of

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reality. And it seemed that physics was the path to that understanding.

Which led me to another quest for a Holy Land: The European Laboratory for Particle Physics, which in French is the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, or CERN. In 2010 I was traveling in Europe for a month and I was eager to visit the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. A Swiss physicist friend explained the logistics of going there to visit the largest machine ever built by human beings. This was the machine that was going to find the so-called “God Particle” or Higgs Boson. (The name God Particle was a joke. The story goes that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman referred to the Higgs as the “Goddamn Particle.”

The nickname was meant to poke fun at how difficult it was to detect the particle.)

While I waited for my tour of the Large Hadron Collider I was invited to visit the CERN museum and I was glad that I did so. I had always assumed that the primary purpose of CERN was to be an international research center for cutting edge particle physics. But that was actually its secondary purpose. I took a photo of the explanation and here is what it said: “Science and peace.”

In the aftermath of World War II, Europe was on its knees. International cooperation emerged as a major instrument of social reconstruction.

The United Nations Organization and UNESCO were both founded in 1945, their common aim being to foster peace between nations, in the latter case through the promotion of education, science, culture, and communication. Physics and fundamental research could contribute to this endeavor through their intrinsic neutrality, consistent need for objectivity, and their ability to stimulate thought and bring people together in a common purpose.

It was in this spirit of bringing peoples together in the pursuit of peace and human progress that CERN was founded. These visionary scientists realized that “peace” could not be maintained just through an absence

of war. To have a truly sustainable peace it was necessary to have a shared common purpose. Achieved through ongoing collaboration and cooperation.

If we want to bring people together in our country, perhaps this is what we need to do? To have a shared purpose that everyone can feel they are a part of?

For much of human history about the only way this was achieved was when a country went to war.

Everyone was unified around beating the “other side.” It is sometimes joked that we need to have space invaders from another planet to bring our entire world together.

But the Space Race of the 1950s-1970s showed how we could come together for something more positive. Much technology that we use today, including solar panels, came from that massive shared project.

What is your idea of a massive shared project that could bring people together today?

•MJ

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September 2020 Just Beyond the Surface by Pete Muller Pete Muller has enjoyed solving crosswords since he was a teenager. He started creating them in 2005 and published his first NY Times puzzle in 2006. While Pete is known for his innovative and tricky puzzles, he places primary importance on creating a fun experience for the solver.

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he September puzzle challenged solvers to find a hit song from the ’70s. The grid contains no obvious Across theme entries, but it does have six 10-letter Down answers: BEAT WRITER, BARTER AWAY, FIRE AT WILL (not a reference to WILL FERRELL!), ANDRE WATTS, GREAT WHITE, and STREETWEAR, all of which turn out to be the themers.

Each of these entries contains a five-letter permutation of the letters W, A, T, E, and R. Noticing this caused one solver to submit “Dirty Water,” a clever entry I would have considered accepting had that song been from the ’70s. But it turns out there’s one more step needed to get the meta, and the puzzle calls for a different cryptic anagram indicator – troubled instead of dirty.

Directly above each of the six theme entries, in left-to-right order, are the letters B-R-I-D-G-E, pointing to this month’s meta answer, the Simon & Garfunkel 1970 classic, “Bridge Over Troubled Water.”

Check out https://pmxwords.com/ sept20solution to see and hear Pete perform this challenging song… •MJ

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17 Alibaba's domain 18 Returned to a seat?

19 Genre for "La Dolce Vita" and "The Thin Red Line" 21 Middle two title words of a Joe Cocker hit 22 Location close to the stage 23 Tomé preceder 24 Summer on the French Riviera 25 Capital of Morocco 27 Figuratively 31 Ryan Leslie song about supermodel Shayk 33 It might give you a lift 35 Lao-___ 36 "Paint It, Black" instrument 37 "___ be awesome if ..."

38 Beginning part of a ski jump 40 "___ to Joy" (text for Beethoven's ninth symphony) 41 Mosaic maker 43 Levels 44 Comic actor who plays jazz flute in "Anchorman" and stars in the new movie "Eurovision Song Contest" 46 Punk rocker Cervenka who fronts X 48 Poetic palindrome 49 "Self-Reliance" author's monogram 50 When people might be leaving on a jet plane, for short 53 Nationwide adoption org.

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10 Surfer's "man in a gray suit" 11 Spiciness 12 Zac Brown song with the line "Concrete and cars are their own prison bars" 13 Fix by hitting 24-Down, perhaps 16 Loose rock also called talus 20 Former Snowden employer, briefly 24 See 13-Down 26 Trade for less than you might have gotten 27 Classical pianist who received a 1963 Grammy 28 Category for Stüssy clothing

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Calla’s Corner

Nick Wigle, the owner of Super Bee Rescue, is known as the Doctor Dolittle of Bees (Photo credit: Super Bee Rescue)

by Calla Jones

The Film About Local Beekeepers That is Causing a Buzz

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lthough there is still a dispute over whether it was Napoleon or Adam Smith who coined the phrase “The British are a nation of shopkeepers,” there is no dispute that beekeepers in Santa Barbara want to convince us that America is a “nation of beekeepers.” The Beelievers, a short documentary made by UCSB graduate filmmaker Leah Bleich and released at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, follows several Santa Barbara beekeepers who are doing just that.

Discussing the origins of the film during a SBIFF Film Talk on August 13, Bleich said the idea for making the film came while she was a junior at UCSB. She needed a subject for a green screen class. When she was home for spring break she stumbled on a bee swarm in a backyard tree.

“When a beekeeper arrived, all suited up with his gear and treated the swarm gently, I saw his passion and that sparked the idea to do a film about bee conservationists in Santa Barbara,” she said.

One of the beekeepers interviewed in the 15-minute film is Nick Wigle, the 38-year-old owner of Super Bee Rescue and Removal. Wigle, who is known around Santa Barbara and Montecito as the Doctor Dolittle of Bees because he talks to bees and is trying to save bees, one at a time if necessary. Wigle calls himself a “beevangelist” and doesn’t mind if he’s also called a “Bee Guru” or “Bee Whisperer.” “I just want to be called to save bees,” said the soft-spoken crusader. “Bees are cows with wings.

If you get to know them, you will see they are cuddly.”

Wigle said there was a worldwide threat to the bee population.

Leah Bleich got the idea for making Beelievers while she was a junior at UCSB

From pesticides, varroa mites, CCD (Colony Disorder Collapse), exterminating instead of rescuing, climate change, and general ignorance about how the earth needs bees to pollenate our food and how essential they are to conservation, the task he has with other beekeepers is a challenging one.

This spring did not see the exceptional blooming of flowers that bees gorged upon, following the 2019 winter torrential rains. Now with a statewide drought and fires engulfing so much of bee territory, the bees are very stressed and fighting for every last bit of pollen.

Wigle recently posted on Instagram a video of him up a ladder, clad in a Tyvek suit with gloves, rescuing thousands of angry bees. “It sure was hot,” he wrote, although he often does not wear protective gear. “Standing on a ladder in the sun, working with some

very pissy bees adds another layer.

Yep these bees made me put on a suit and gloves.”

Wigle said bees could know whether they were being helped, emitting a scent that told him whether they were angry or happy. He said Super Bee Rescue was the only company in Santa Barbara that would climb ladders or go into a forklift to rescue colonies that were high up in trees or roofs.

Recently, the giant Asian hornet, aka the “Murder Hornet,” made its way across the Canadian border into Seattle. “I’m not looking forward to getting rid of a nest of these buggers,” he said. The two-inch honeybee-eating insect can travel 20 miles an hour, devour a beehive in an hour, and carries a deadly stinger that can penetrate bee suits.

The ‘Bee-Too Movement’ Although Juanita Collins is not in the film, she is teaching a bee course for the Santa Barbara Bee Association with the help of Zoom. The charming Montecito beekeeper has a delightful way of describing how she got interested in beekeeping, often talking to the hives as she flits around her garden, asking how they’re doing, pointing out what certain bees are doing, how a bee becomes the Queen bee, how her worker bees keep her clean and feed her, how the Queen mates with a drone while flying, killing the drone. She chuckled, “You could call this a ‘Bee-Too’ movement.” Then she asked me whether I knew that the venom of Australian honeybees appeared to destroy a certain type of breast cancer cells.

The Bee Lady of Montecito, Juanita Collins teaches a course for the Santa Barbara Bee Association and she’s getting her master’s in beekeeping from the University of Montana (Photo credit: Calla Jones)

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Juanita and her eight siblings grew up on a farm in Iowa. Her grandfather was an avid beekeeper as well as a farmer. “I have three brothers and two sisters who are farmers, but I am the only beekeeper; my parents didn’t keep bees,” Collins said. “My interest started slowly when a friend, who was living in our house while we were in our summer house in New Hampshire, asked if I minded if she put a beehive in our garden. She didn’t know a thing about bees, so I was puzzled, but said ‘yes,’ anyway as I was intrigued. That was the start of my journey with bees.”

She enrolled in a beginner’s beekeeping course with the Santa Barbara Beekeepers Association and took the online Apprentice Beekeeping class at the University of Montana. “It was a real challenge as there is so much to know about bees,” she said. “There are more than two thousand different bee species. They are so intelligent. Honey was discovered in Egypt’s pyramids and is the only known food that can be preserved forever. It has antibiotic qualities, has been used for healing wounds and really helps with allergies. When my husband, Evan, and I moved here twenty-five years ago from Phoenix, Evan had terrible allergies and I’d read that honey could be an effective treatment. He puts a tablespoon in his breakfast oatmeal and in his tea as well.

He’s been free of allergies for years.

Before my trainer comes to the house, I take a tablespoon of honey before she arrives and I’m all set to go.”

As Juanita passed the pool, her four grandchildren were enjoying the last days of summer. They seemed unaware that their grandmother was known affectionately in the neighborhood as “The Bee Lady of Montecito.”

In her office, Juanita demonstrated her grandfather’s A.I. Root antique honey extractor. It dates from the mid1800s. Behind her are shelves filled with glass jars of last spring’s honey.

In mid-August, Juanita emptied her 10 hives. Every year since her first hive, the amount of honey has been increasing steadily. This year, she harvested 100 pounds. She designed a label and content sticker for the jars and is selling them online. “I’ve got to design a website,” said the petite Renaissance woman, who once managed her family’s dairy farm in Iowa, had a career in finance before moving to Montecito, and is an accomplished flautist. Her main challenge now is to finish the SBBA course for the 20 followers she instructs once a month for three hours.

She is also continuing with the online course at the University of Montana for her master’s in beekeeping. “I’m doing this, not only for myself, but to help further Santa Barbara’s interest in bees, even if it’s only planting more purple plants,” she said. “Here in Santa Barbara, even if the drought continues,

there are many purple plants that will thrive. Bees like pink and orange, too.

They see ultraviolet because of their omnipod eyes that enable them to see at a high spectrum of color.”

Bleich said beekeepers happened to be a bit eccentric and can be fun and silly when they talk about bees, even Hollywood celebrities. Scarlett Johansson, for instance, was given a hive by Samuel L. Jackson. “There’s a lot of merit to slowing down with beekeeping,” Bleich said.

I wonder whether Collins’s fellow Montecitoan, Oprah Winfrey, who lives on the other side of town and loves the color purple, is a beekeeper. Collins admitted that she didn’t know Oprah, but it would be nice to have a connection, if only with bees.

“Maybe my bees are making a beeline for Oprah’s purple flowers and hers are coming here to taste our nectar.

The bees can go five miles round-trip, but it would be tough on them as Oprah’s is about two miles from us!”

She agreed that perhaps the former Duke and Duchess of Sussex can start beekeeping on the estate they have just bought down the road from their good friend. Beekeeping would fit in with their environmental concerns.

“And the bees wouldn’t have so far to travel then,” she said added. “Their property probably has wild, purple sage – the bees love it – just like San Ysidro Ranch, almost next door.” •MJ

Bees “see ultraviolet because of their omnipod eyes that enable them to see at a high spectrum of color,” says Juanita Collins (Photo credit: Calla Jones)

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NOSH TOWN CONVIVO

by Claudia Schou

A WORLD OF FLAVOR IN EVERY BITE

Convivo is an Italian fusion restaurant nestled on the ocean side of the Santa Barbara Inn, with traditional Italian fare married to exotic, rustic world cuisine

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or those who want to venture outside their usual comfort zone, Convivo allows diners to expand their cuisine horizons far beyond the expected. The Italian fusion eatery nestled on the ocean side of Santa Barbara Inn offers traditional Italian fare married to exotic, rustic world cuisine.

Sesame flat breads, seven-hour veal Bolognese served on housemade pasta, charred prawns with shaved fennel, citrus and dukka (a mixture of herbs, nuts and spices from the Middle East), roasted Brussels sprouts seasoned with Aleppo pepper, lemon juice and agave and topped with crispy sweet and sour chicken skin are a few globally inspired dishes on the menu.

With a blend of cultures, the dishes and flavors are broad and give diners the opportunity to explore new concepts and have an adventur- Octopus, grilled and served with slabs of pork belly, watermelon radish, and frisée and topped with a poached egg ous restaurant experience.

“The concept is nomad Italian because it borrows from so many other cultures,” said Chef Peter McNee. “There’s Mediterranean, Moroccan, Middle Eastern, and Spanish influence, but there’s also Californian influence on everything we do here. We do that for a number of reasons, mainly because it’s more interesting from the chef’s perspective, the cook’s perspective, and the kitchen team’s perspective, to have different, interesting flavors on the menu and have new ingredients to work with. Nomad Italian allows us to go in any direction we want.”

Convivo opened four years ago, inspired by the trattorias Chef McNee had come to love during his time in Italy. McNee teamed up with Santa Barbara Inn owner Larry Mindel and director of operations Amy Svendberg to create this special concept with chef-driven sharable dishes. They named it Convivo, which means eat together, to feast.

These days that’s hard to do.

After the statewide shutdown, Chef McNee pivoted with a carryout menu called Provisional, but visually it didn’t hold up to his expectations. “It was just sad to see it go in a box and not presented on a plate as it should be,” he said.

When the restaurant was allowed to reopen Chef McNee went full force in the kitchen, churning out new global recipes (some vegan, some gluten free), each one exquisite and perfect in its intricacies.

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First came the kale salad with chickpeas, cherry tomatoes, cucumber and lemon tahini ($15) and then a seafood paella made with saffron risotto, uni butter, mussels, clams, and prawns ($28). For the seasonally inspired burrata salad, Chef McNee creates a kabocha squash purée with mascarpone and pomegranate molasses, plates it and finishes the dish with sweet red beets, apple, crispy fried Brussels, creamy burrata, and Ojai Mission figs.

Convivo’s shareable dishes combine perfectly with recipes from entirely different continents, offering the very best of diverse cultures.

An egg dish with sautéed tomatoes and Tunisian harissa is baked and served in a traditional cazuela ($15); a mixed seafood dish combines shrimp, clams, mussels, octo- A mixed seafood dish combines shrimp, clams, mussels, pus, seared ahi, and thick chunks octopus, seared ahi, and thick chunks of sea bass garnished of sea bass garnished with roasted with roasted peppers and is served with a side of lemon and shallot preserve peppers and is served with a side of lemon and shallot preserve ($48). The spit-roasted chicken with olives, almonds, and roasted cauliflower comes with chermoula for dipping ($26).

There is also a selection of wood-fired pizzas and flat breads ($10-$23) as well as savory and pungent sides including hummus, baba ghanoush, and halva.

Notably, the menu also dabbles in Asian culture with pickled side dishes such as kimchi and Japanese-style pickled cucumber with seaweed and daikon.

Most of the seafood, such as sea bass, ahi tuna, and vermilion, served at the restaurant come from local waters. Although the octopus – grilled and served with slabs of pork belly, watermelon radish, and frisée and topped with a poached egg – is from the Mediterranean.

Al fresco dining has always been a part of the restaurant’s format; the wooden trellis jutting out from the hotel’s Spanish style architecture and the neatly landscaped palm tree garden lends a Mediterranean feel to the dining experience. A tempting handful of boutique Italian and Spanish wine selections pair perfectly with the cuisine.

Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner 7 am to 9 pm daily. 901 East Cabrillo Boulevard. www. convivorestaurant.com.

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eekends are often highlighted by a great brunch outing.

Sitting down with family and friends and leisurely enjoying a bottle of bubbles or mimosas with a late breakfast really does make the days off feel like the weekend. Hugh Davies and the team at Schramsberg craft this Blanc de Blancs, which loosely translates to “white from whites,” made of 100 percent Chardonnay grapes sourced from vineyards perched along the Northern Coast of California. The Davies family has been crafting sparkling wines from this area for more than 50 years, and it is truly one of the great California sparkling wines. Schramsberg is a great case for California sparkling wines matching the classic wines of Champagne. The wine has bright aromas of green apple, zesty citrus, and orange blossom, which complement a variety of classic brunch dishes, from a savory crab benedict to a hearty, citrus-infused French toast. Or try it with one of my favorites, Chef Massimo Falsini’s Three Daniel Fish, wine director at Rosewood Miramar, recomOrganic Egg and Avocado Toast mends Schramsberg’s Blanc de Blancs. at Malibu Farms. The acidity of the bubbles will cut through the richness of the eggs and avocado, while the toasty brioche notes of the wine will complement the toast. Pop a bottle at your next brunch occasion and let the bubbles lift you away. Cheers!

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Carte Blanche (Continued from page 6) tographer. We’re sort of the Batman and Robin of the social column; you can’t have one without the other. Because my trip to Marrakesh is canceled, she organized a surprise party at Roger Chrisman’s home in Ennisbrook. He’s the former Commodore of the Yacht Club. He and his wife, Sarah, hosted a small lunch of eight guests. At least I had something to celebrate on the day, otherwise it would have been a total bust.

Lots of people ask about you and are missing your column. How’s writing going?

My column has been on hiatus since mid-May. For a couple of months after the mid-March pandemic closed everything, I tried to bring out a column, which was three pages rather than five because of what was happening, but it just dried up. We intended to bring the column back at the beginning of September, but, at the moment, I’m beginning to wonder, because things are not getting better, they’re getting worse. If I have nothing to cover, essentially, I have nothing to write. It’s a really depressing time.

I’m lucky I’m not ill. I know people have been dying, and I can only feel for those impacted by this. I can only feel for people who are in dire straits, who don’t have a job or lack of physical status. So whatever I’m suffering, they are suffering in spades!

Also, there is a lot of indecision going on about schools going back, and I don’t understand why everybody is crying about wearing a mask. Wearing a mask makes good sense to me. I see the pandemic continuing. I mean, I’m not a pessimist, I’m an optimist in all matters, but I don’t see this clearing up until after Christmas.

I love hearing your stories, and I know I’m not alone. How long have you been writing?

At the end of the year, I’m celebrating fifty years in journalism. I started as a junior reporter for The Falmouth

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Richard and President George W. Bush at dinner in Montecito Richard with South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and friend

Packet, a weekly paper, in 1970. Then I moved on to the Cambridge Evening News and the Daily Mirror, which was the biggest selling newspaper in Britain at the time in 1976. I started covering the Royal Family. I moved on to the Daily Mail. My last year in Britain was in 1977, which was the Queen’s Silver Jubilee year. And in betwixt ’76 and ’77, I came to America for the first time, and I was offered a job on New York’s new entertainment magazine, the Star. I said, I can’t do it soon because I have to go back to England for my commitment to cover the Silver Jubilee for the Daily Mail.

But I moved to America in New York in ’78 and became the gossip columnist for Rupert Murdoch’s Star. And then he bought New York magazine, and I became one of two editors on the gossip column, which was a more sophisticated gossip column for the intelligentsia. And that’s when I started doing television for my expertise

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on the Royal family. I started doing a TV show in Boston, and I was invited to do The Joan Rivers Show, where I became a regular. And that was my trajectory into television. Who would have thought I’d become an anchor with CBS and then a commentator on ABC News?

That’s quite a career! Would you say that you were a little gossip in school? Or how did you get to that part of journalism?

Well, I think so. When I was very young, about ten or eleven, I loved reading the gossip columns of the national newspapers. And, of course, there were many of them. The William Hickey column in the Daily Express I really enjoyed reading. Who would’ve known I’d be a regular correspondent for them when I moved to America? I did a show on the USA network called The Joan Rivers Show, every four weeks or so. Then the network found out it was the mostwatched show, so they put in gos-

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sip segments every day. I signed a contract, and that’s when I became a quote-unquote celebrity.

What was the first moment you realized you were a “celebrity?”

One day, I was with a friend of mine, and we came out of the dry cleaners on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. This young boy came up to me and said, “Aren’t you on The Joan Rivers Show?”

And I said, “Oh, yes, I am.” And he said, “My mother loves you. Can I please get your autograph?” (Richard laughs.) The little boy gave me his mother’s name and I wrote it down, then ended with “Pip! Pip! Richard Mineards.” I have always used “Pip! Pip!” For us Americans out here, what does “Pip! Pip!” mean anyway?

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the gossip show on E! Entertainment Television, which didn’t make me particularly rich. We have saying, “You can’t spell cheap without E!” That’s hilarious! And I used to watch your show years ago! On the subject of journalism, do you prefer writing or to be on TV? Well, I mean, I started in newspapers already. But I like the immediacy of television. And I certainly like the checks, because they send me a great deal more than, certainly, a newspaper would. When I started as a journalist back in 1970, I got the equivalent of about seven pounds a week, which was about ten dollars. My salary has gone up since then, I have to say.

Certainly, my TV contracts enabled me to invest wisely and save for my old age.

Yeah. That makes sense.

And I can’t thank Joan Rivers enough. She was the one who made me sort of a media celebrity. Joan became a dear friend. We lived near each other. I used to live on 66th and Madison, and she would be near 61st and 5th Avenue, I think. She always invited me to parties. In fact, Marlon Brando had the apartment below her, and she was always complaining.

“Thank God I’m so thin because he is so fat. Otherwise, I’d never fit into the elevator.” That was quite fun.

at Christmas. We’ll wait and see. It’s up in the air, really.

Would you rather be in England than America right now? Where would you feel more comfortable?

Let’s put it this way, I mean, I love Montecito. There are worse places to be in lockdown, as it were. But I would like the variety. So, you know, I like going back there. I always get back for Christmas for two or three weeks. I’m happy being down here.

What I am missing, as I said earlier, is the interaction of going out every day. I mean, my diary was absolutely chockablock with events and engagements. And, as I say, maybe now I go

out every day to get my latte and my jalapeno bagel, but that’s really about it. So, I just mean essentially watching a lot of old movies on television, reading endless books. Other than that, I can’t wait to be unleashed and to get back to writing again.

Side note, are you a dual citizen?

Yes, I am indeed a dual citizen of the UK and US, having become an American citizen in 2003.

I’m sure many people would love for you to write a memoir. Is that something you’re considering?

I’ve been very lucky in my life. I met a lot of princes, the Queen, and other

monarchs. So, there’s certainly a memoir. I had this idea that if I did write an autobiography, I’d call it, There is Life After Lunch. Because when I was at New York magazine, I would very often go out for lunch, and that would morph into a cocktail party. Then that would morph into a dinner, and that would morph into probably attending Studio 54, which was the most exclusive discotheque in the world in its heyday. Because of my position as a gossip columnist, I had no problems getting in. And I knew the owners very well. But, certainly, there are a lot of stories in there.

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Looking back on your long career, who was the most prominent celebrity you’ve met?

Well, the Queen. I mean, how big of a celebrity can you get?

Good point.

In 1977, she was 25 years on the throne. I was assigned to pretty much cover every single day for the Daily Mail. We were allowed to talk to the Queen, with the understanding that what was said could not be recorded.

I found her utterly charming. I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would ever talk to the Queen. And here I was, talking to her every other day or so.

So, have you got in touch with any old friends during the pandemic?

I’ve been making a lot of phone calls to England, catching up on what’s going on there. Because, for my 50th anniversary in journalism, I’m trying to get back into England. I’ve taken over a restaurant in Penzance for 28 people, and I’ve hired the harpist to the Prince of Wales to perform for three hours. You know, to hopefully play some baroque, medieval, and classical music. But what I am worried about now is the pandemic, as I said, it’s already scuppered my plans for my birthday in Marrakesh. I just hope it’s not going to impact my 50th-anniversary dinner in England 10 – 17 September 2020

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LETTERS (Continued from page 38)

misogynist, and cites as evidence that “Trump dated a number of beautiful women.” What a shamefully inadequate explanation for a widely accepted fact.

2. Buckley additionally claimed Trump is not a racist because he belongs to Abraham Lincoln’s Republican party, which freed the slaves during the Civil War. Ipso facto, that makes him not a racist? How about when Trump was a Democrat: was he a racist then?

What rubbish! It is ridiculous of you to try to make an equation between sexual behavior and political party affiliations.

Do not attribute to me what is non-critical thinking on your part.

You self proclaim you are “...cheerful, helping others...” It is not helpful to anyone to completely and willfully misconstrue my letter because, it seems, you want to announce that you are a “Conservative Republican” and “love God.” That sounds like a triple whammy to me.

It must be hard to deal with the inherent contradictions.

I don’t know who your god is, but my simple understanding of gods is that they do not indulge in name-calling, do not intentionally misunderstand good honest English statements as an excuse for blowing off political steam, do not brag about being loving, and gods definitely proclaim it is a sin to tell a lie.

How do Trump’s prevarications sit with you? Or are you going to point to the Democrats’ lies as vindication for Trump’s? I repeat, a poor tactic.

Regarding the remedy for acquiring critical thinking: there are more wise, educated men and women than ever before examining the deplorable state of our beloved democracy. Good books telling truths are everywhere.

Our universities are full of political and other academics willing, rightfully, to call out the dismal failings of this administration, with tangible evidence, including the voice of the master himself announcing his labels of “suckers and losers,” names he attributes to American soldiers who have died or lost limbs when fighting for this country.

What is wrong with you?

Facts are “rude news,” you say: Well, here are a few bits of rude news: the Earth is round; two and two are four; the sun is shining today; Trump is a misogynist and a racist.

I ask again: what is rude about stating those facts?

And regarding anger: why are you not angry about the state of our democracy, about all the Americans who have died of COVID? This president is not responsible for the virus’ arrival, but the general consensus is he did not act like the leader he brags he is, by not helping to stem the 185,000

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deaths.

Why aren’t you angry that children are being kept in cages, from their parents?

Why aren’t you angry about the swamp he created in the White House; seven or more of his swampees have been indicted. Unprecedented!

There is so much more to be angry about. Something is wrong if you aren’t.

Anger used well is good.

Anger is my least revenge, reaction, when someone has a knee on my neck.

Cheerful is good when you’re at a yard sale, or walking your dog.

Maybe you could stop being cheerful long enough to recite, “I love my democratic country and all it stands for, for liberty and justice for all,” and while you’re at it, “All men are created equal; no man is above the law.”

As to my having what you call a “political bias towards Republican men,” you’re wrong again. I admire honest Republicans, like Mr. Mitt Romney who was our Massachusetts governor, or Mr. John Kasich, for his bravery in speaking truth. John McCain.

There are too many good intelligent Republican men to name here, men who have spoken out, written books, told the truth about the reality of this administration.

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Oh Beautiful

Ann Wilder’s letter to the editor in the September 3/10 edition said it all! She took the words right out of my mouth and let’s all long-time Montecitans try to keep/restore ‘Montecito Beautiful’!

Jean von Wittenburg

Room for Improvement

Students from Cold Spring and Montecito Union join Santa Barbara Unified for grades 7th to 12th: alumni of Santa Barbara Unified’s under-performing elementary schools. Every Montecito voter decides who leads SB Unified and public school students stuck with the inferior results!

Our secondary schools and community are as good as every local elementary school.

Quality varies from the best with 98 percent student proficiency to the worst at 13 percent proficiency. Low performing schools costing taxpayers way too much in administrative costs have not improved during my 40 years here as an active citizen advocate for accessible, high quality instruction in every neighborhood public school. I live .7 miles between our community’s best – Cold Spring School – and our worst, Cleveland Elementary. In California, there are 5,887 elementary school facilities serv-

ing almost 3 million students.

What’s wrong? Bad leadership!

Taxpayer complacency. Absent parents. Neighborhood detachment.

Voter awareness of candidate forums is essential to meet the present and future needs of local students for accessible elementary school facilities providing quality instruction to prepare every child for high school, lifelong learning and civic participation.

The Coalition for Neighborhood Schools is hosting a Candidates’ Forum for the SBUSD on Thursday, September 17, at 7 pm on Zoom.

Please RSVP and submit your questions to candidates by email to cns4schools@aol.com to receive the Zoom link. In the subject line, kindly put “RSVP to Forum.”

Denice Spangler Adams 40-year resident, Parent

Is Skin Cancer a Bigger Threat Than Coronavirus?

The COVID-19 pandemic is a petty nuisance compared to the approaching skin cancer catastrophe.

According to February 2020 updates at IBISWorld.com, there are only 5,360 dermatologists in the US who share a combined annual caseload of 196,000 new cancer patients. (See https:// www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/number-of-businesses/dermatologists-united-states/) Every practicing dermatologist in the United States agrees that unprotected exposure to the sun increases your chances of both basal and squamous cell skin carcinomas. Although most cases are curable if caught early, the medical costs, both public and private, will, with global warming, be a disaster. (See https://www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer-information/ skin-cancer-facts) Farmers, fishermen and golfers are less inclined to apply sunscreen because it makes hands slippery and is often viewed as “unmasculine.”

Most men, and those who identify as male, consider slathering on skin protection a sign of weakness. These “cancer-deniers” need to be re-educated, surgically (or chemically) feminized and harshly regulated to correct their medical illiteracy.

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) the annual cost of treating skin cancers in the U.S. is estimated at $1.8 billion for nonmelanoma and $3.8 billion for melanoma skin cancers. Once diagnosed with a malignancy these “tough guys” could become a huge financial burden to the healthcare system, similar to the way motorcyclists and outlaw bikers (who refuse to wear helmets) end up on life-support, at taxpayer expense.

For societal and financial reasons, reckless millstone-individuals should not be allowed to engage in high-risk sports or sun exposure that will turn

“Having one child makes you a parent. Having two kids makes you a referee.” - David Frost

them into the fried albatross around the neck (or wallet) of taxpayers.

Helmet-less motorcycling and unprotected sun exposure (or sex) are dangerous undertakings.

Other activities worthy of sunscreen and helmets include; mountain climbing, daredevil stunts, tightrope walking, auto racing and especially the blood sports (boxing, rugby, bull fighting, divorce, street luge, hunting), skateboarding and, of course, surfing.

Parents should be charged with child endangerment for allowing their children to participate in foolhardy sun bathing, tanning salons, beach BBQs (disguised as piñata parties) that usually lead to drunken orgies – aka skin cancers and unplanned pregnancies.

Restaurateurs who serve meals “outside” must provide hats, sunscreen and eye protection against macular degeneration, photokeratitis, pinguecula, pterygium and cataracts.

Sporting event organizers are equally responsible for protecting the spectators and fans from eye and skin damage. (See https://www.caringvillage. com/2017/07/19/top-5-eye-problems-resulting-from-uv-exposure/) Failure to apply lotions, sunscreens, and ointments or provide a hijab, niqab, burkinis or burkas for their children or wives is criminal neglect.

Wearing Islamic clothing reduces the incidence of skin cancers. Vitamin D supplements are safer than cooking your epidermis.

(See https://gatesofvienna. net/2016/09/wearing-the-burkini-reduces-the-incidence-of-skin-cancer/) Despite the preoccupation with COVID-19, -20, or -25, our highest priority should always be child safety and cancer reduction. This can best be achieved through mandatory education, strict monitoring, and regulation of parents. Government tools to achieve this objective include social-shaming, fines, public service, counseling, unscheduled 2 am fullbody epidermal exams, surprise visits

by CPS assisted by law enforcement (with flash/bangs or teargas) and, if necessary, incarceration on felony charges for failing to abide by simple, common-sense “cancer-aversion” laws and expert medical guidelines.

As the frequency of deadly heat waves increase worldwide, it’s imperative that Federal Sunburn Laws (FSLs) be enacted requiring everyone to wear hats, sunglasses and sunscreens (SPF 50 or higher) when outdoors or near tanning salons.

Voluntary compliance and universal safety monitoring of FSLs will gradually “evolve” and become mandatory.

What could possibly go wrong?

If these actions save only one life, it’s worth it.

Dale Lowdermilk, Founder •MJ NOTSAFE(dot)ORG 10 – 17 September 2020

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by Joanne A. Calitri

Joanne is a professional international photographer and journalist.

Contact her at: artraks@yahoo.com

Arts in Lockdown Series Part 6:

Michael DeVorzon, Actor and Writer

Is that different for music and art?

The beauty of music and art is that they both bypass the conscious mind and speak directly to the subconscious mind, which is where our emotions live. This is why music and art communicate in such a powerful and meaningful way. Music does it primarily with audio but can often affect us more as an audio/visual experience. Art is a visual experience that gets to you almost immediately.

I can’t imagine life without either one of them.

During lockdown, is your work in films/ TV a plus or minus, for you?

I was lucky to complete two movies before the lockdown occurred and both films happen to come out during the pandemic. It’s a very unusual time, one none of us has ever experienced. So many businesses, including entertainment, completely shut down so I focused on what I could, writing, the release of both movies, writing a song, and doing some deep inner work. As Eckhart Tolle said, “Whatever is could not be otherwise” so I try not to label it as good or bad, rather, just the way it is.

Are you typecast as an actor?

I think when you walk in a room, people tend to make assumptions in regard to casting. I used to resent it

Joanne Calitri, reporting from Zoom Hollywood, with actor/writer Michael DeVorzon

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ichael DeVorzon grew up in Montecito, with a great family lineage in music, and carved his own way in film and TV. Still working actively during the lockdown, he is polished in defining the narrative of the hard work it takes to stay in the game, do it like a pro, and always with kindness.

Michael’s versatility is evidenced by the wide range of genres he worked in, films Fast and Fierce: Death Race (May 2020), Her Deadly Groom (July 2020 on Lifetime), Any Day (2015), Submerged (2016) and Producer Sam (2013); and TV shows Charmed, Beverly Hills 90210, Passions, Son of a Beach, and Melrose Place. He is the 10 – 17 September 2020

son of Barry DeVorzon, a Grammywinning composer, and Jelinda, an honored philanthropist in our town and a former model. On and off set, he is open, kind, thoughtful, productive, and generous to others. Here’s our interview: Q. How does film/TV influence/change the human condition?

A. Film and TV can entertain and inspire, but it also teaches us about life and allows us to connect to the human experience. It’s a great way to feel something through a character in a story. We also can experience different cultures and this big beautiful world that we all inhabit.

more when I was young but not so much now. I once had a meeting with a casting director and she looked at me and said, “You’re trouble!” and I laughed and said “Why do I have to be trouble?” I have been cast as some complicated characters and I’ve learned to embrace that. I also feel like I’ve grown as a person and that could influence the range of roles I can play.

In my two recent films, I was cast as the action hero in one and, in the other, a likeable romantic lead who’s really a psychopathic killer! My mom didn’t like the idea of me playing a killer. She kept saying “You are too kind and sensitive.” But I couldn’t resist the part, it was a challenging role to take on and get into the mind of a mad man. With that said, I guess the lesson is don’t judge a book by its cover.

Is there a healing way out of systemic racism for people?

Systemic racism is in the DNA of our country and it’s going to take some time to bring about the change that is needed. It’s going to take the majority of us coming together with a common purpose to overcome those who will never change. When it’s time to vote this November, we can elect leaders who will dismantle

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the American Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776 and ended 25 years before gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in 1848.

Mission expansion came to an end in 1823 with the one in Sonoma.

The Mexican War of Independence was fought from 1810 to 1821. In 1833 under the Mexican Secularization Act, missions were confiscated and sold which began their decline. The United States won the war with Mexico in 1846 and took control of California. It became the 31st state in 1850. Mission buildings and some land holdings were returned to the Catholic Church through presidential executive orders.

The Association for Preservation of the Missions began in 1888 followed by various others. Newspaperman Charles Fletcher Lummis founded the Landmarks Club to preserve missions in 1896. Then there was the California Historical Landmarks League founded by Sen. Joseph R. Knowland in 1902 with support from William Randolph Hearst. Hearst himself purchased Mission San Francisco Solano and deeded it to the State of California in 1926. In the “Good Old Days” Hearst used to take his guests from his “castle” over the mountain and through the canyon to show them Mission San Antonio de Padua. Before the pandemic, religious retreat groups could spend the night there in private rooms and have a simple catered dinner. How many folks get to sleep in a mission? Don and I had a grand time with our group imagining what life would have been like back then.

Today we have the California Missions Foundation working on the missions’ behalf. The foundation was founded by Chairman Emeritus Stephen T. Hearst, whose grandfather was William Randolph. He and his great grandmother Phoebe did a tremendous amount in the area of preservation of California’s historic buildings. The foundation has provided more than $14 million in grants to all of the California Missions, includ-

Cleaning one of the fire-damaged statues from Mission San Gabriel The foundation is currently spearheading a fundraising effort to raise $500,000 to cover the deductible for the July 11, 2020 fire that ravaged Mission San Gabriel

ing major projects at Old Mission Santa Barbara and the Presidio de Santa Barbara. The foundation is governed by a board of 12 from all over the state.

Board president Michael Imwalle has also been the archaeologist for the Santa Barbara Trust for Historical Preservation for 33 years.

The foundation is currently spearheading a fundraising effort to raise $500,000 to cover the deductible for the July 11, 2020 fire that ravaged Mission San Gabriel. It was the fourth built in the chain of 21 in 1771 and was the beginning of the city of Los Angeles.

The fire began at 4:26 am and quickly consumed the mission’s wooden roof spreading quickly toward the altar and reredo (altar backdrop). The artisan was renown sculpture Uriate. The reredo held six statues including the Mission’s patron Saint San Gabriel.

As the foundation’s board chair Michael Imwalle says, “The California missions give each of us the opportunity to walk through time. Like California’s great Redwoods, the missions are living history. They reflect the work and inspiration of our fore-

Stones crumble from the Santa Barbara Mission’s two towers after the 1925 earthquake

The Santa Barbara Courthouse docents just announced a self-guided walking tour of the courthouse exterior starting Labor Day weekend

fathers and the dedication and care of succeeding generations to keep these missions alive, relevant, and accessible.” Build it and they will come! And they do by the millions to witness echoes from the past.

For more info about California Missions, contact Director of Administration Dori Belmonte, PO Box 23035, Santa Barbara, CA 93121 or www.californiamissionsfoundation. org. The phone is 805-963-1633.

Self-Guided Tours

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The Santa Barbara Courthouse docents just announced a self-guided walking tour of the courthouse exterior starting Labor Day weekend using your cell phone or tablet or to view the tour on a computer anywhere with “A child, like your stomach, doesn’t need all you can afford to give it.” - Frank A. Clark

wifi. The courthouse interior remains closed except for official court business and docent-led tours are suspended due to COVID-19.

Docents have been doing their thing since the 1970s – free in-person tours. Work has already begun on a self-guided tour of the interior to supplement docent-led tours when the courthouse opens to the general public. Our courthouse is recognized by many as the best example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture anywhere and one of the most beautiful public buildings in the United States. Many of us drive by it every day. I encourage you to stop and take a walk. Don’t forget to keep your distance and wear a mask.

The web-based self-guided tour can be found using sbcourthouse.org. •MJ 10 – 17 September 2020

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Michael DeVorzon grew up in Montecito, with a great family lineage in music, and carved his own way in film and TV (Photo by Sergio Villalpando)

these broken systems and hopefully rebuild them with racial equality in mind.

Diversity in film?

The world is diverse as is life and film is a powerful medium to show this. I’m for inclusivity versus exclusivity and I’ve had friends from all walks of life and I’ve learned from all of them. The ability to connect to another human being, regardless of their cultural or religious background, is always there. It’s our minds, opinions, and judgments that create the separation and the idea that we are different. Deep down, we are all the same.

A story you’re inspired to write or a character a film, for the current times?

With everything going on in the world right now, I would love to do a comedy and bring some laughter to the world. I also would love to play a character who inspired and motivated people in some way.

For your generation, what is the world looking like now?

Today between technology and the fast pace of life, we are bombarded with sensory overload. There is less human connection because we can’t turn off our computers and put our phones down. Growing up, we didn’t have cell phones or computers, we played outside all the time and interacted with each other more. Back then, life seemed less complicated. Today, we are living in a more challenging society, but we live in a great country and the spirit of this nation will persevere.

Paying forward/giving back?

My life’s journey with all its ups and downs has made me much more aware of the suffering of others. I mentor and lend my support whenever I can to people who are facing challenges, dealing with pain and searching for inner peace in the storm.

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What’s next for you?

I just finished writing my third feature film screenplay, it’s a small town love story. The first script I wrote is a dark, edgy drama about a social issue that affects over thirty million people worldwide. The other screenplay I wrote is a comedy adventure set in Manila, Philippines. I also wrote a dark comedy for television. I really enjoy the writing process and, as far as acting, I’m staying open to see what comes along next, maybe a comedy or a western!

Advice for actors/writers going forward?

It’s a good time to grow as a human being and I believe that will impact your journey as an artist. For actors, keep working on your craft, study the masters, and never give up. For writers, if it’s your first script, sitting down and actually writing it will be your biggest challenge. If you can do it, it will be a great learning experience and very rewarding. If you are an experienced writer, just keep writing and exploring ideas, it’s the only way to get better at what you do.

Actor Michael DeVorzon played in two movies that were released this year, Fast and Fierce: Death Race and Her Deadly Groom (Photo courtesy Michael DeVorzon)

and celebrated with me during the best of times. People who have overcome great challenges and suffering and have risen to become better human beings. Spiritual leaders like Oprah Winfrey, Eckhart Tolle, and Pema Chödrön have been a great source of inspiration. Actors and film-

makers, there are too many to list whose work inspires me to keep going and the comedians of the world, thank you for the laughter, it truly is the best medicine.

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Thoughts about growing up in Montecito?

Montecito was such a small town at that time. At age six, I would drive our lawnmower down East Valley Road to pick up my best friend and drive him back home so we could play! Can you imagine doing that today! Those days have long past, but I still have so many great memories. I still think Montecito is about as perfect a place to live as any on earth.

Acting/music studies?

I did some plays as a young kid, briefly studied acting in college and started taking acting classes when I moved to L.A. I studied for many years but for the last decade, I’ve tried to learn by becoming a real student of films, studying them and observing other actors. I’ve also learned a lot with each new project that I’ve done.

Experience is the greatest teacher. I grew up playing piano and guitar. I had a small statue of Beethoven on the piano. Moonlight Sonata was my favorite, it spoke to the depths of my soul. Music is a big part of our family as my dad is a songwriter/composer. I stopped playing music at age 16 to go surfing and skateboarding but, after all these years, during the lockdown, I started waking up in the middle of the night recording melodies into my phone. Two of those melodies are in the works in my first song, which I’m writing with my brother Daniel. It’s a rock song.

Who inspires you?

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Like what?

Well, I used to go sailing with a fellow Johannes von Thurn Taxis, whom I met at a party for Princess Diana Spencer. I met Prince Johannes at Doubles, the oh-so chic club at the Sherry Netherland on Fifth Avenue.

We were chatting, he’s quite an imposing guy, and it turned out his family founded the German postal system.

He took my card, and out of the blue, I got a cable from his Lord Chamberlain (the most senior officer of a Royal Household) saying His Serene Highness would like me to join him on his yacht, the Aiglon, in the Caribbean. I went all about nine trips with him and his family on the 53-foot schooner.

One of the most memorable trips was when we were in the Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic and Cuba. We went into the marina, Marina Hemingway, in Havana.

And I didn’t know that he knew Fidel Castro. So Castro joined us on board the yacht for cocktails, and then he invited us for dinner at the Palace of the Revolution.

The cherry on the top of the cake was when Castro invited us to stay on his private Island, Cayo Piedra, which is two islands connected by a bridge. And we went there on a one hundred 20-foot cruiser with three gunboats on either side of us from a secret naval base. We went over to the island, and I was in (Nikita) Khrushchev’s bedroom. We stayed on his private island for three days.

Even I was impressed by that. I couldn’t wait to tell my father that his sperm had been dallying with Fidel Castro on his private island. I have a picture of myself with him.

That’s quite a story!

I’ve really been blessed in life with the eclecticism of the people I’ve met.

From the Royals to rock stars I remember one time in New York, a friend of mine knew Eric Clapton. We went to The Plaza Athenee, where Eric was staying, and we met Eric. We got

invited to go to a concert of his at Madison Square Garden. We went in his limousine, entered backstage, and then I got this prime seat to see Eric Clapton play. That was really, really quite amazing. Is this all rather overwhelming for you Megan, or…

Not at all. I enjoy your stories! Switching gears, can you walk me through a typical day for you, pre-pandemic?

Well, yes, absolutely! I get up at about six o’clock in the morning. I get on the internet, check my emails, and then organize my diary. Then I check all the newspapers in England, the Telegraph and the Mail and see what stories are happening. I’d go out to a charity lunch, probably at the Hilton, Miramar, or the Biltmore, for three hours, then come back to check my emails and the internet to see what was happening. In the evening, I would go off to a cocktail party, and then there would be a gala type thing.

Or, I’d be off to the Granada for the symphony or the opera or the ballet.

Now I look at my diary, which used to be overflowing with events and occasions, and it’s really quite bereft of anything. Now, when someone says they want to get in touch, I say, “Just call me anytime because I got the time.”

Is there a positive side to having more time to yourself?

Well, not really. I mean, I love reading books, and I’ve obviously got more time to do that. I’ve got quite a lot of books that I have stacked up for ages that I’m catching up on, which has been quite fun. I’ve been watching movies on television. Although, a lot of I’ve seen when I used to go to the screenings when I was at New York magazine. It’s pretty boring, frankly.

I’ve always led a sort of very busy, gregarious, animated life. And, as I said, going full throttle to full stop is no fun at all.

What books have you been reading?

I’m reading Andrew Morton, a

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A dapper young Mineards with friend at Le Club, New York in 1985

friend of mine who wrote, Diana, Her True Story. I’m reading his new book, Wallis in Love, which is about Wallis Simpson, the love of King Edward the XIII. I’m also reading this lovely book called Riviera Dreaming about how the Côte d’Azur started in the 1920. I also read this two-part piece by the late Kenneth Rose, who was the gossip columnist for The Sunday Telegraph in London.

He knew everybody terribly well, very well-connected to members of the Royal Family and the prime minister. It’s absolutely fascinating, giving behind the scenes of all the celebrities and government of the day.

And I’ve got endless Royal books that might be worth rereading if this continues for much longer, hopefully not. But how are you dealing with the pandemic?

How am I dealing? Well, I’m doing a lot of interviews and staying busy with my blog. My personal deadlines keep me busy every week. So, that consumes my time, but…

See, that’s what I miss! You know, I like deadlines. I mean, the more pressure I’m under, the better. With the Montecito Journal, I would always send

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Royal Ascot, U.K. June, 1999, with Ivana Trump

them my copy on Sunday, then go in on Monday to edit the column. I’d get in the office again on Tuesday to make sure the right captions were with the right pictures with the right headline, that kind of thing. That’s what I miss.

What would you like to tell readers right now?

I can’t wait to get back to covering events and organizations. In the twelve years I’ve been doing the column, I’ve always tried to shine the spotlight on good organizations and good people. Hopefully, we’ll get back to that again because I think a lot of the organizations need it. If they don’t get promoted through publicity, who else is around to do it? They’re all desperate; they’re not getting the funding now. And in a way, we desperately need them to cover. Hopefully, we’ll get back to some normality, but that will be for some time to come on.

Well, this has been such a treat. I’ve wanted to interview you for years. Thank you so much, Richard.

Any time. It’s been nice to spend time doing this. It’s a great pleasure because this is what I’m missing. Be safe. Bye-bye!

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 5) The Montecito Library could be managed differently in the future, as a new study shows that there may be a better model under which to operate, which would provide more local input and greater financial transparency than the current management and funding model

While Cold Spring School won’t likely be back on campus for in-person learning for a few more weeks, the board has approved a $7.8M bond measure for voters to consider in November, which would change the look of the entrance to the school

or replacing roofs and restrooms, as well as repairing or replacing aging water/sewer lines, fire alarms, and schoolwide communication systems, among several other maintenance items. The funds will also allow for ADA improvements.

Earlier this year, the plans called for a bond measure of $9.8M, a small portion of which was earmarked for unallocated reserves for future maintenance of the campus. After a recent survey of constituents, as well as taking into consideration the changed economic climate due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the board decided to lessen the ask, scaling back the bond measure to $7.8M over a 30-year period. “We are cognizant of the current climate, and want to be respectful of the community,” said Board President Jennifer Miller, who added that the school has significant deferred maintenance as well as the need for more classrooms, and the board agreed it was not prudent to wait another two years for the bond. “We need these repairs to happen,” she said.

Increased enrollment is also a factor, and as it stands, there are not enough classrooms to maintain the small class sizes for which Cold Spring is known.

“My child’s classroom is the library this year,” Miller said. The current enrollment is 178, up significantly over past years. By reducing the bond authorization, the District will be making adjustments to the bond program to reduce the project scope accordingly. “We believe that most of the projects will be completed, albeit in a more cost-effective or reduced scope manner,” Miller said. The District will also be soliciting State matching funds for modernization for older facilities allowing them to make up some of the shortfall.

The bond money will not be used to enhance outdoor learning areas, according to Miller, as there has been an internal fundraising campaign among parents in order to quickly be able to get kids back on campus.

According to Miller, COVID-19 has further illuminated the need for con-

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tinued small class sizes, in order to offer social distancing in classrooms.

The District has a fund that was established some years ago that was to be used in conjunction with a bond program. These funds were set aside from the District’s general fund reserve, and the current balance is $540K. “We would use these funds to augment the Bond Program budget,” she said. “We are considering using some of these funds towards improving outdoor learning environments, if needed.”

If passed, Measure L2020 will cost district residents $13-$14 per $100K of assessed value per year. The last measure to pass was Measure C ($2.4M) in 2008, which was approved after the failure of two previous ballot measures in November 2006 (Measure K for $14M) and February 2008 (Measure R for $8.75M). Measure C funds went to renovate the seven older classrooms and two student restrooms in the main school building, as well as improvements to the play areas with a new play structure, blacktop, and new landscaping on the corner of Cold Spring and Sycamore Canyon roads.

It’s expected that the earliest construction would commence is 2022-2023.

For more information, and to read the bond measure in its entirety, visit www.countyofsb.org.

The Future of Montecito Library

Next Monday, September 14, the City of Carpinteria’s Ad Hoc Library Committee and Working Group will make a presentation to the Carpinteria City Council, which could impact funding and management options for both Carpinteria and Montecito libraries.

In response to a Request for Qualifications for Library Consulting Services by the City of Carpinteria issued last November, consultant firm MJ Gómez Associates was selected to conduct an analysis of options for governance and operation of the Carpinteria and Montecito Libraries. Led by consultants Martin

Gomez and Susan Hildreth, in consultation with Carpinteria City Manager Dave Durflinger and members of the Carpinteria City Council Ad Hoc Library Committee and Working Group (aka LWG), the team set out to analyze library service in Unincorporated Santa Barbara County, including the Montecito Library.

Currently, both the Carpinteria and Montecito libraries are managed by the Santa Barbara Public Library system, following policy direction by the City of Santa Barbara.

In the last several years, the operating costs for the Carpinteria and Montecito libraries have increased significantly, primarily because of increases in administrative and materials acquisition costs. These increases have resulted in growing dependence on private funds to support library services. In November 2018, the City of Carpinteria passed a sales tax measure (Measure X) which allows them to contribute considerably more to the operating cost of the Carpinteria Library than was previously available, and that library also has a fundraising group, Friends of Carpinteria Library.

Montecito is subsidized by their own Friends of Montecito Library, which has been supporting the library since 1975, and currently contributes roughly 1/3 of the library’s operating fees.

The goal of the recent analysis of the libraries is to determine if there is a better model under which to operate, which would provide more local input and greater financial transparency than the current management and funding model. The consultants found that the current system contributes to inequities for both the Carpinteria and Montecito libraries, and that it is in the best interest of the City of Carpinteria and library supporters in Montecito to form a separate new library zone.

To implement this recommendation, the City of Carpinteria would need to take the necessary steps to form its own municipal library and assume responsibility for the administration of a new library zone. In Montecito, the suggestion would require library supporters to seek approval from the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors to establish a coun-

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ty service area (CSA) that includes Montecito and the surrounding unincorporated areas as part of the new zone. “The current reliance on private funds raised by the Friends of the Library groups is not sustainable and does not align with the primary purpose of private support for public agencies – to enhance and increase basic services,” the report reads.

The CSA would be funded through a parcel or sales tax, which would require 2/3 approval of a public vote.

The recommendation requires that the libraries would continue to be funded per capita as well as receive continued support from the Friends groups.

Gomez told us during a call last week that through his research, he found that although Carpinteria and Montecito are very different communities, the patrons utilizing the respective libraries are experiencing similar concerns, including lack of space and programming.

Pat Saley, head of the Friends of Montecito Library, as well as a member of the countywide Library Advisory Committee, tells us the increased budget needs have made it more challenging for the Friends to support the Montecito library. “Five years ago the budget was over $200K and the library was open six days a week.

This year it’s $400K and it’s only open five days a week,” she explained. The Friends give the library about $125K each year, money which comes from fundraising and bequests. “We would love to figure out a better way to fund the library,” she told us, saying that the group would like to change the current funding model of the library, in order to have more input on programming and management. She hopes the meeting next week will lead to further exploration of setting up a municipal library district.

“We have to figure out a sustainable way to keep the library open five days a week,” Saley said. “We have a lot of irons in the fire, and it’s a matter of which makes the most sense.”

The Carpinteria City Council will consider the consultants’ report at their meeting on Monday, September 14. For more information visit www. carpinteria.ca.us.

•MJ 10 – 17 September 2020

Make Your Voice Matter

These companies will give employees paid leave to work the polls

T

he election is fast approaching, but 58 percent of regular poll workers are over the age of 60, leading to rising concerns over who will fill in for these vulnerable employees during the pandemic. To help with the poll worker shortage, both Old Navy and Tory Burch will offer employees paid leave to work at voting places on election day.

In a statement, Tory Burch representatives said, “Democracy requires participation, and we each need to play a role. We each need to step up and exercise our civic duty. However, employers need to make it possible for us to do so.”

Of Old Navy’s 50,000 field employees, 64 percent are 18 to 29 years old. The company wants this key underrepresented age group not only to get out and exercise their civic duty but also to help others cast their ballot.

Regardless, NBC News reports that experts are increasingly worried about a poll worker shortage on November 3. A shortage means longer polling lines and a tougher time casting your ballot.

If you would like to become a poll worker this election, please visit the Work Elections website. We also encourage you to check out your state’s vote-in mailing laws to reduce pressure on polling places on election day.

To vote or not to vote? Some Facts on Why You Should If you’re on the fence about exercising your civil liberties or you are a passionate advocate for democratic participation, here are some facts that demonstrate why your vote matters!

1. A single vote can make a difference. It can feel like the actions of one person are insignificant in a sea of citizens, but over the past 20 years, more than a dozen races were decided by a single vote or ended in a tie.

2. More companies are giving employees flexibility to exercise their civic duty. In 2014, 35 percent of people didn’t vote because of a scheduling conflict, but companies in 22 states are required to provide paid time off to vote. If your state isn’t one of them, registering for a mail-in ballot is an effective and quick way to still make your voice heard.

3. Mail-in capabilities are expanding. Whether due to pandemic concerns or other mobility issues, it’s not always easy to go wait in line at your local polling station. Fortunately, more states are allowing citizens to vote by mail and five are even mandating it.

4. Online resources make registration all the more easy. With the ease of the internet, you can now register to vote in 39 states and easily check your voter registration online. In some states, you can even check to see when your ballot was counted if you mailed it in.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ninaya’s Healing Journeys, 604 Rockwood Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Nancy Strandberg, 604 Rockwood Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 2, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby

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certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2020-0002228.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Talks with Josh Molina, 6827 Silkberry Ln, Goleta, CA 93117-5546. Jagan Media, 6827 Silkberry Ln, Goleta, CA 93117-5546. 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. 2020-0002043. Published September 2, 9, 16, 23, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Finnigan’s Wild, 7127 Hollister Ave, Suite 25A259, Goleta, CA 93117. Finnigan N. Jones, 7127 Hollister

Ave, Suite 25A-259, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk 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. 20200002102. 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, 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. 20200001906. Published August 26, September 2, 9, 16, 2020.

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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. 2020-0002063. Published August 26, September 2, 9, 16, 2020.

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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. 2020-0002065. 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. 2020-0002030. Published August 19, 26, September 2, 9, 2020.

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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. 2020-0001807. 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.

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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.

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