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MINEARDS’ MISCELLANY
FREE 2 – 9 Oct 2014 Vol 20 Issue 38
The Voice of the Village
S SINCE 1995 S
Real drama: veteran stage actor Michael McCarty passes away before Amadeus returns at New Vic, p. 6
THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 11 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42 • OPEN HOUSES, P. 45
A TRIBUTE
TO JASMINE
After her daughter was killed by a falling Ponderosa pine in Yosemite National Park, Nancy Earle produced and dedicated a CD, created a foundation, and then launched a school in her daughter’s name: Jasmine’s Alternative Music School. Now, Nancy and a group of JAMS students get ready to play on Avocado Festival’s Seal Stage in Carpinteria this weekend, (story on page 30)
Drought Thought
Bob Hazard peers into Montecito’s water supply to unearth when it will go dry and how to take action, p. 5
What’s Cooking
Alberto Valner wraps up new unnamed eatery; Craig McCaw awaits building permits for Oliver’s, p. 12
On The Trail
A hundred years after World War I began, Lynn Kirst chronicles historical path of Schoenbrunn Palace, p. 22