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High-rising: asset value of Montecito billionaires Oprah Winfrey, Larry Ellison, and George Lucas escalates, p. 6

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 10 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 50 • OPEN HOUSES, P. 53

WELL, OKAY, RECYCLE, RE-USE, THEN DESAL! Manning Makeover

Upper and lower areas get much-needed facelift with new washroom facilities, bridge, signage, and more, p. 12

Copper Whopper

It’s Fun With The Force at Pat Nesbitt’s Summerland redoubt, including food, drink, music and K-9 capers, p. 29

Hillary Hauser of Heal The Ocean pours into the volume of Montecito’s H20 plight, plumbs the depths for viable solutions, and flushes out the “elephant” in the room (see page 5)

Two Tired

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Building

Peace of

On The Water Front

Montecito Miscellany

Letters to the Editor

Hillary Hauser gauges the volume of Montecito’s water plight, flushes out the “elephant” in the room, and questions MWD’s plan

Mind

Montecito’s rich getting richer; Rob Lowe and DirecTV; Josh Elliott get engaged; Celebrate Recovery luncheon; State Street Ballet gala at Biltmore; San Marcos High’s Royal Gala; Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation lunch; Tony Bennett cancels show; Rescue Mission honors Betty Rosness; and bijou soirée for Westmont Marilyn Bachman on Measure Q; Gloria Hebert and Archbishop Sheen; kudos to Bob Hazard; Clint Orr’s best friends; John Beauchamp on Village Grocery; Larry Larsson questions the climate; Danel Trevor likes Measure P; Matt McLaughlin and Sweden; Ernie Salomon sounds off; Deborah Fuss supports Measure Q; Gwyn Lurie supports MUS; and Luci Janssen’s cautionary tale

10 This Week

MUS food drive; Measure Q; MERRAG meeting; knitting and crocheting; lecture on ancient studies; Silverhorn display; SB Harbor & Seafood gala; dockside tours and sail; dinner auction; Cancer Center Walk/Run; Sukkah at La Casa; community workshop; Cocktails and Conservatives; Cold Spring School Board; and Montecito Association meeting

Tide Guide

Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach

11 My Take

The rubber hits the road when Bob Hazard looks down the horizon toward Highway 101

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12 Village Beat

Manning Park funded for renovations; MA Land Use Committee discusses water wells and Measure Q; MBAR to review new Verizon Wireless project at Westmont; Vhernier jewels at Silverhorn; Montecito firefighters teach fire safety to 1,000 students; and a regretful omission at Village Automotive Repair

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner sees the light with SEE International; celebrates with SB Center for the Performing Arts; and starts anew with New Beginnings Counseling Center

29 Coming & Going

The force is with Thedim Fiste and the Fun With The Force crusade slated for Sunday at Pat Nesbitt’s ranch

30 Ernie’s World

From the top: when it comes to buildings around France, Ernie Witham prefers to be hands-on while getting an eyeful of the Eiffel Tower

Coup de Grace

With life’s challenges, Grace Rachow doesn’t just grin and bear it, especially when telling the tale of Emily Miles fighting off a black bear in an avocado orchard

31 The Way It Was

Hattie Beresford is over the hill and dale, pedaling her way through Québec with other cyclists while brushing up on French in the process

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32 On Entertainment

Steve Libowitz catches up with Neil Sedaka; Mary Chapin Carpenter at the Lobero; Amadeus and Ensemble Theater Company; Emma Lou Diemer and Phil Ficsor at Faulkner Gallery; fiddling around in Goleta; classical music; and film focus

35 Real Estate View

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35 Movie Guide 40 Montecito Sportsman

John Burk unfolds his map of the Pacific Northwest and strikes out to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where boating and fishing are the order of the day

44 Legal Advertisements 50 Calendar of Events

CAMA’s “Season of the Piano”; Dreamscape takes Center Stage; Lorde in the Bowl; Bridget Kibbey and Camerata Pacifica; comics at Arlington; Ojai artists; Ian Bernard among performers at SOhO; Schoolhouse rocks UCSB; Charlie Albright tickles ivory at Miraflores; Pasquier Trio jump-starts SB Museum of Art season

53 93108 Open House Directory 54 Classified Advertising

Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales

55 Local Business Directory

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ON THE WATER FRONT

by Hillary Hauser Ms Hauser is executive director of Heal the Ocean

The Elephant in the Water Room

Regarding “Desalination Really is the Answer” (cover story MJ #20/37) and Bob Hazard’s follow-up piece “Making Water in Montecito”, Heal the Ocean must respond with a bit of incredulity as to why everyone is dancing around a major source of water sitting in the middle of Montecito, that no one is seriously talking about. Drive south on 101, and just about at the Hot Springs turnoff, look to your right, and you’ll see an industrial pipe-structure, and on the other side of the wall of that structure, the Music Academy parking lot. The “industrial pipe-structure” is the Montecito Sanitary District, which sits smack between the Santa Barbara Cemetery and the Music Academy. The Cemetery is Montecito’s biggest water user (139 AF, or acre feet, per year); the Music Academy needs water for irrigation, too, as does the Biltmore. These properties are the low-hanging fruit of recycled water in Montecito – and running recycled water through “purple pipes” to these three sites would be relatively inexpensive due to their proximity to Montecito’s wastewater treatment plant. And while purple pipes become more expensive as you begin to target potential recycled water customers farther away from the treatment plant, let us consider: as Heal the Ocean did with the Rincon sewer project, we offer some simple, basic, preliminary math, based on reliable engineering cost estimates. The numbers are not exact, but they are close – and we offer these numbers just so people can begin to think about a solution.

Cost Feasibility for Tertiary Upgrade

What’s the Holdup?

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Why is Montecito Water District (MWD) not moving forward with recycled water? The Montecito Sanitary District is disposing 640,000 gallons per day of water into the ocean, 1,500 feet from shore, into 35 feet of water off Butterfly Beach. That is useable, but waste(d) water being thrown away, right in the middle of Montecito, which is looking everywhere for water! Heal the Ocean has spoken with Diane Gabriel, manager of Montecito Sanitary District, about this issue at length. She’s willing to move forward with tertiary treatment upgrade, as long as Montecito Water comes on board. The two agencies must coordinate on such a project because sanitary districts can’t sell water, they can only produce it (with the water district’s financial help, and the water district sells the water). However, the Montecito Water District seems hell-bent on putting all their eggs in one basket, desalination, while refusing to seriously entertain moving forward with other options as well. The duty of the Montecito Water District is to ensure water for Montecito, and good management is like a game of chess: you move your pawns forward, a Castle, a Knight, another pawn – you don’t just take your Queen and ram your way across the board. Not putting recycled water on the table is ramming Queen Desal around with no strategy, and this kind of action is not in the best interests of Montecito citizens.

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The Los Angeles firm RMC Water led a one-year study for Santa Barbara County called the South Coast Recycled Water Development Plan. Heal the Ocean participated in this one-year process, and some of that study was based on our 2001 cost feasibility study for tertiary upgrade for all five South Coast wastewater treatment plants, done by the reputable sewer engineering firm of Metcalf & Eddy. In this study, the number of EDU (Estimated Dwelling Units) in Montecito and Summerland, which would share the cost of upgrade was 4,485. We know Montecito has grown since 2001, but let’s use that old number, just to be ultra-conservative. The South Coast Recycled Water Development plan estimates the current cost of tertiary (recycled water) upgrade to the Montecito Sanitary District to serve the Cemetery (Montecito’s biggest water user at 138 AF per Year), as well as Manning Park, Westmont College, Montecito Union School, Cold Spring Elementary School, and a lot of agricultural land in between to be $14.6 million. Even if Montecito residents paid the whole price tag, and even if the State of California didn’t contribute to this project (which it will), each home would pay a total of $3,255. Would Montecito residents pay this tab to free up a huge chunk of the wasted water now going into the ocean through Montecito Sanitary District’s outfall off Butterfly Beach?

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The Rich Get Richer

s the economy becomes more buoyant, our Eden by the Beach’s richest residents continue to increase their wealth, according to the latest rich list in Forbes magazine. The bi-weekly glossy has just published its eagerly awaited annual list of the 400 richest people in the U.S. Microsoft magnate Bill Gates remains on top for the 21st consecutive year with $81.2 billion, up $10 billion from last year, while Berkshire Hathaway tycoon Warren Buffett – who has been number two since 2001 LINGERIE • LOUNGEWEAR • SLIPPERS – is valued at $67 billion, $9 billion up 1470 EAST VALLEY ROAD | MONTECITO UPPER VILLAGE | 805.969.5285 on 2013. glamourhouselingerie.com Oracle co-founder and Santa LINGERIE •• LOUNGEWEAR LOUNGEWEAR •• SLIPPERS LINGERIE SLIPPERS Barbara resident Larry Ellison, stayed 1470 EAST VALLEY ROAD | MONTECITO UPPER VILLAGE | 805.969.5285 1470 EAST VALLEY ROAD | MONTECITO UPPER VILLAGE | 805.969.5285 third with a net worth of $50 billion, a $9 billion increase on last year. glamourhouselingerie.com glamourhouselingerie.com Facebook co-founder and CEO

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TO THE EDITOR

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In Support of Measure Q

ontecito Union School is a corner post of our community, drawing families who stay to enjoy and support our community. Expectations from our community are high and residents have historically been strong supporters of quality, state of the art education in academics as well as the arts. Because of community support, Montecito Union draws highly qualified teachers and maintains low classes sizes. Donations to Montecito Education Foundations from families and the community have allowed all of our teachers to be trained at Harvard in the Thinking Curriculum, and at Columbia University in the Reading and Writing Workshop. In addition, students in grades 3-6 have personal laptops, and students in K-2 have iPads. I am a recently retired 6th grade teacher at MUS, and a resident of the Montecito community for 27 years. I’ve had a 43-year career in education in six districts, 27 of those years in Montecito. I am in complete support of the bond issue proposed by MUS, and I would like to share my reasons why. I hope you will consider these reasons and join me in a yes vote for Measure Q. Renovation of Buildings When you drive by MUS on San Ysidro Road, you see an old historic building that was built in 1914 and looks beautiful from the outside. It is

important to know that 71 percent of the bond funds will be used update infrastructure at MUS to bring our school into the 21st century! What you may not realize is that the infrastructure of this building, as well as the kindergarten and first-grade wing are in desperate need of renovation to meet current code standards. The building has severely outdated plumbing, electrical and lighting systems. It cannot support current technology. In addition, the district needs to address environmental concerns, including water and energy. While the building is structurally strong, the windows need to be replaced with shatterproof glass to meet earthquake standards. Building a Cafeteria Not a Choice! Offering food services in schools is not an option! Schools are legally required to provide meals for needy students without identifying or singling out those students. In the past, MUS has wiggled around this issue by bringing in lunches from Santa Barbara School District, pizzas, and even McDonald’s meals! Parents in our community expect healthy lunches for our students, and our students have learned what healthy means. We can no longer depend on help from other school districts and MUS would like to provide truly nutritious lunches, which include fresh fruits and vegetables, some grown on campus in the

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newly designed gardens. Voters must understand that this building is much more than a Cafeteria; it is designed to double as a multi-purpose room where there will be much-needed space for meetings, afterschool activities, and a myriad of other student, parent, and community gatherings. Currently, we do have the auditorium for meetings, but with 26-27 sections of students, we need another location as the auditorium is booked almost every day. In the last five years that I taught at MUS, there was not a room large enough, and also available, to meet with a team of 60+ fifth or sixth graders and/or their parents. It is not uncommon to have to squeeze 60+ students into a classroom built for 20 for special meetings. New Classrooms In my opinion, low class sizes are the lynchpin of the excellent education we offer at MUS. Measure Q will provide five new classrooms at MUS that will allow the district to maintain low class sizes. In the space to the south of campus that was exchanged with the YMCA, the original historic adobe will be preserved and used as the administration building. In the anonymous letter to the Journal in last week’s issue, the author mentioned that it had not been fully disclosed that there would be a new two-story administration built on the property and that this information was not disclosed in a public forum. I attended the September 25 public forum at MUS regarding the building plan. It was clearly stated by Mrs. [Tammy] Murphy and the architect that the administration would be housed in the current adobe on the property, and that the new two-story building would be classroom space. At the forum, there was a detailed plan of the entire construction for public view. I was surprised there were so few people in attendance at the public forum. The lack of attendance signaled to me that there was as only a small vocal minority in our community who were concerned about this plan. I was pleased to hear that the adobe and classrooms will be screened off from San Ysidro Road by trees to maintain the visual appearance of a small community that supports education. School Safety in today’s world When our family moved to Montecito in 1985, safety was not an issue we considered. However, after the tragedy of the Sandy Hook shootings, we must plan for our children’s safety at MUS. The administration has already begun this work by installing shades in all classrooms and a coded lock system. Teachers and staff have been trained to deal with a safety situation, but critical work still needs to be done to provide a safe learning environment for stu-

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dents and staff. There are currently five locations on campus where anyone can enter the campus without checking into the main office at school. A perfect Sandy Hook situation! The new design will remedy this issue by installing gates at entrances into the campus so that after drop-off and pick-up times, anyone entering campus after these times will need to enter through the front office. Traffic on San Ysidro Road Traffic on San Ysidro Road is a challenge for residents and the fire department during drop-off and pickup times at MUS. It is also a safety issue for children. With the new plan, parents dropping off students will be diverted off San Ysidro Road, relieving traffic, and providing a safer situation for families and children, as well as residents of the community. The number of new parking spots on campus will also be increased significantly to ease the parking situation on School House Road. This is certainly a win-win for our community and MUS. Measure Q is not about packing homemade lunches and eating outside. It’s about bringing MUS into the 21st century, and educating the future leaders of our country. Let’s show our traditional strong community support for education and vote yes on Measure Q. Marilyn Bachman Retired 6th grade teacher Montecito Union School District (Editor’s Note: Thank you, Ms Bachman, for your detailed letter. We’ll let everything you’ve stated stand, but would like to point out that a sub-head over one paragraph of your letter proclaims “Building a Cafeteria Not a Choice!” and then is almost immediately followed up by stating that “Offering food services in schools is not an option!” MUS already offers food services. We are having a difficult time believing that “building a cafeteria is not a choice.” We believe it is a choice. MUS can continue to offer “food services” or build a cafeteria with all the concomitant paraphernalia that comes with such an operation. That is what much, if not most, of the resistance to this plan is focused upon. Just saying. – J.B.)

Bring Back Archbishop Sheen

Your editorial comments (“Just the Facts” MJ 20/34) about Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen are deeply appreciated. In our youth, your great aunt and I both recognized the importance of the brilliant spoken messages of Archbishop Sheen. They have been a part of my entire life. Couldn’t they be brought back and re-televised today? The book from 1954 sits, eye-to-eye level, fact out, on my bookshelf, to be seen many times a day.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 On Display at Silverhorn Milan-based jeweler Vhernier has storefronts on several continents and its jewelry is sold at high-end department stores around the world. The one place in the Santa Barbara area that Vhernier’s products are available is at Silverhorn. In her first visit to Santa Barbara (and Montecito), Vhernier business development director Toreh Bahrami will be in town with one-of-a-kind pieces that have never been seen in this part of the world. When: today and October 11, from 10 am to 5 pm Info: www.vhernier.it/en-us/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9 Food Drive at MUS To benefit Santa Barbara Foodbank, donations can be left in the school’s parking lot in the morning during drop off. Items needed include baby food, cereal, pasta, peanut butter, rice, soup, and canned goods. Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Measure Q Meeting Come see Montecito Union’s remodel plans and find out about Measure Q, the local school improvement measure on the November ballot. When: 9 to 10 am Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249 MERRAG Meeting and Training Network of trained volunteers that work and/or live in the Montecito area prepare to respond to community disaster during critical first 72 hours following an event. The mutual “self-help” organization serves Montecito’s residents with the guidance and support of the Montecito Fire, Water, and Sanitary districts. This month, learn about the psychological impact of a disaster on both rescuers and victims. When: 10 am Where: Montecito Fire Station, 595 San Ysidro Road Info: Geri, 969-2537

Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting. When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Ancient Studies Lecture Professor Thomas H. Carpenter presents: “Greek Tragedy Among the ‘Barbarians’ in 4th century BCE Italy.” Ancient Athens was the scene of a flourishing theatrical culture, which found its way to the city-state’s colonies and allies. While it is known that Attic tragedies were performed as far as Greek colonies along the coast of Southern Italy (Magna Graecia), the Italic, non-Greek settlements have not until now been considered as venues for these theatrical productions. In his lecture, Professor Carpenter will consider the possibility that troupes of Athenian actors actually performed at Ruvo and other Italic sites, extending the known influence of Greek culture during this period. The lecture is sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America. When: 6 pm Where: Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 W. Anapamu Street Cost: free and open to the public Info: 962-5322

Cancer Center Walk/Run The Cancer Center of Santa Barbara and the Biltmore present the 22th Annual Cancer Center Walk/Run, a 5K run or walk, or a 10K run (and Kids Fun Run). Participants will be raising money based upon the support each receives from friends, neighbors, family members, local businesses, and others. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the Walk/Run benefit Cancer Center of Santa Barbara’s Clinical Research Program. The course begins at Montecito Union School before heading down Santa Rosa Lane, turning on Miramar Lane, down San Leandro, up San Ysidro, down Wyant Road to the trail that leads to Hot Springs Road, down School House Road, and back to MUS. Each loop is 5K, and each participant will do two loops. When: 10K run begins at 8 am; 5K walk/run begins at 8:30 am; Kids Fun Run at 10 am Where: Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro Road Info and registration: www.ccsb.org

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 Tall Ship Dockside Tours & Public Sail The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum will take part in the Harbor and Seafood Festival with tall ship dockside tours and a public sail, as well as children’s activities, entertainment, a UCSB reef Touch Tank, and more When: 11 am to 3 pm Where: 113 Harbor Way Info: www.sbmm.org Harvest Gala Our Lady Mount Carmel School hosts the 31st annual dinner and auction at The Bacara. Guests will enjoy a silent and live auction, cocktail reception, dinner, and dancing. This year’s honoree: Maribel Jarchow. When: 5 to 9 pm Where: 8301 Hollister Avenue Info: www.mountcarmelschool.net

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12 A Sukkah for Peace Join La Casa de Maria for a free, interfaith community gathering to remember the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which teaches us that our security and peace lie in the journey together with our neighbors and friends. Join in the music, storytelling and dialogue, celebrated in La Casa’s new Shalom Garden. Please bring food to

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 13 Community Workshop Alliance for Living and Dying Well invites the community to come fulfill their Five Wishes and complete their advance healthcare directives. Professional facilitators and trained volunteers will be present at this event to facilitate the process of completing advance healthcare directives. When: 10 am to noon Where: Sansum Clinic, 215 Pesetas Lane (third-floor Conference Room) Register online: at www.sansumclinic. org or call 681-7500 Cocktails & Conservatives Congressional candidate Chris Mitchum will host the monthly “Cocktails and Conservatives,” which is being held this month at his campaign headquarters in The Galleria Shopping Plaza. A donation of $10 is requested for refreshments. When: 4 to 6 pm Where: 3891 State Street, #107 (cross street La Cumbre Road) RSVP: 259-7191 Cold Spring School Board Meeting When: 6 pm Where: 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road Info: 969-2678

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My Take

by Bob Hazard

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

Mayor Schneider and the Widening of 101

any Montecito residents were both astonished and dismayed by the curious editorial written by the mayor of Santa Barbara and printed in last Sunday’s Santa Barbara News-Press, titled, “Why City Opposes Caltrans.” The normally media-savvy and canny Helene Schneider is pictured as the author, implying that she is speaking on behalf of the City of Santa Barbara. In case you missed the mayor’s op-ed, she properly notes that the last nine months regarding the 101-widening project have been relatively quiet, but then adds, “That is about to change.” A lawsuit by an unnamed party has challenged the adequacy of the massive Environmental Impact Report (EIR) certified by Caltrans after four years of preparation. Astonishingly, the mayor drops the bombshell that “We will fully encourage and will be publicly supporting private parties who have filed lawsuits.” By the use of “we,” the mayor implies that she has the full support of the City of Santa Barbara. Some of the mayor’s colleagues have raised the point that once a public official prejudices themselves on a land use matter, they cannot continue to participate in the decision-making process, which is why the mayor’s op-ed is most interesting. The mayor never mentions the most recent 11-2 Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) vote to move forward with the 101 widening, nor does she note that she was the only South County official to vote no on SBCAG’s motion to hire an independent contractor to study improvement options at the Olive Mill, San Ysidro, and Sheffield interchanges. The mayor is well aware that her efforts to fully encourage and publicly support private party lawsuits that further delay the widening of the 101 will have enormous negative consequences, in terms of adding millions of dollars to taxpayer costs. A legal challenge to the certified EIR, including the recirculation option, could delay the $450-million 101 widening project by several years, and add an estimated $20 to $50 million to the taxpayer cost. Even worse, a lawsuit against Caltrans could convince Caltrans to shift its scarce and competitive state and federal transportation funding away from widening the 101 to fund other more cooperative state highway projects.

Will 101 be Widened Within Our Lifetime?

Most in Montecito are exhausted by the three-year, well-meaning but unsuccessful effort by Common Sense 101 to retain high-speed, left-lane on-off ramps at the Cabrillo and Sheffield interchanges, rather than the lower-speed, right-lane on-off ramps proposed by Caltrans. After more than a year of study, Caltrans engineers and the California Highway Patrol, rejected left-lane ramps on the basis of highway safety, a decision fully supported by Governor Brown. Since this rejection, enthusiasm for initiating a legal challenge has waned from lukewarm to non-existent, once the Montecito Association Board of Directors voted to refrain from initiating a lawsuit. Mayor Schneider’s editorial fails to mention or address the positive promises made to voters by the 101 in Motion coalition and every political leader in the county. The unambiguous pledge was and is that timely completion of a widened 101 will shorten commute times, relieve everyday and growing gridlock, and is crucial for emergency responders. Firefighters, police, medical providers, schoolteachers, and retail workers who can’t afford to live in Santa Barbara/Montecito but commute here to serve our community want the 101 widened now. North County agricultural interests need a widened 101 to reduce “farm to market” costs from added drive-time delay. Can the communities of Santa Barbara, Montecito, Summerland, and Carpinteria endure another 20 years of perpetual daily 4 to 6 pm southbound 101 traffic gridlock without further diminishing our quality of life? The majority of citizens say let’s stop this endless bickering and move on to get the widening done with the least amount of local traffic disruption, in the safest possible way, at an affordable cost.

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Who will pay for widening the roadway under the Cabrillo Boulevard-Union Pacific railroad bridge? Mayor Schneider’s concern appears to be not so much about the adequacy of the certified EIR, as it is about the unrelated issue of who funds a possible widening of the Union Pacific Railroad underpass on Cabrillo from two to four lanes. The mayor obviously wants state and federal highway funding from Caltrans; it wants funding for ancillary improvements like traffic circles or railroad bridges to come from gasoline and sales tax sources

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oth upper and lower portions of Manning Park in Montecito have received some much-needed updating over the last few months, and now, thanks to one-time funding approved by the Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors during the summer, the Parks division will perform even more deferred maintenance. “The entire area needs a major refresh,” said Santa Barbara County Park Operations manager Jeff Lindgren. The Manning family deeded the 12-acre park to the county back in 1935. At that time there were four full-time employees overseeing and maintaining the park; now longtime park ranger Doug Norton is the only employee on the premises, and he splits his time between Manning and other South County parks, according to Lindgren. “We are playing catchup on the level of care here, and this funding has been a tremendous help,” Lindgren said. The board of supervisors approved a $700,000 budget to help maintain Manning and three additional county

Area 6 of Upper Manning Park gets a much-needed overhaul thanks to funding approved by the SB Board of Supervisors

parks: Goleta Beach Park and two others in the North County. “We are spending the money in a way that is noticeable,” says Deputy Parks director Paddy Langlands. The bulk of the money earmarked for Manning Park will be spent renovating the outdated bathrooms at Lower Manning, including replacing the flooring and fixtures, replacing the roofs, adding hand dryers, and adding skylights for natural lighting. “We are using the latest and great-

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A walking bridge in Lower Manning Park has recently been replaced in addition to new asphalt on the ramp leading from San Ysidro Road to the park

est in energy-efficient and water-conserving fixtures,” Lindgren said. In Upper Manning, construction on Area 6 is already underway: a crew has removed the picnic tables to have them renovated, demolished the dilapidated concrete, poured new sandstone-colored concrete, and created a new clear path of travel for wheelchair access. A new water fountain is set to be installed, as well as new pavers, new trees, reconfigured hand railing, and up-to-code stairways. Other improvements throughout the park include refreshed landscaping, pruning of trees, revamped and consolidated signage, replacement of the wisteria vines on the trellis across from Area 6, and an overall cleanup of the grounds. The improvements come on the heels of other upgrades performed over the summer: the walking bridge in Lower Manning was replaced, and the ramp to the park was repaved. In addition, in Upper Manning, the steps to the scout house were replaced, all paid for by a budget surplus. “Everything needs attention here, so when we have extra funds, we have to pick and choose,” Lindgren said. Lindgren oversees more than a dozen county parks, as well as 27 “pocket parks,” preserves, and open spaces in Goleta. The Parks Department plans to show the board of supervisors before and after photos of the renovations, to show what extra funding can do for the beauty of the community, Langlands told us. “The idea is to concentrate on making improvements that park visitors will notice and appreciate,” Langlands said. The work is expected to take three months to complete.

Measure Q and Water Wells Explored

Next week, two important community topics will be discussed: Montecito Association will take a position on Montecito Union School’s bond Measure Q, and Montecito Planning Commission will look at three proposed water well projects in the coastal zone. Both topics were discussed at Tuesday’s MA Land Use Committee meeting. Several Montecito Union School parents and neighbors attended the 9 – 16 October 2014

Land Use meeting in hopes of hearing a discussion about the school’s bond measure and proposed remodel project. Last month, the MA board sent a letter to superintendent Tammy Murphy, outlining several issues with the project. In response, Murphy will present at next week’s board meeting to address the issues. A neighbor who lives on School House Road brought up the issue that the bond measure language in the ballot does not adequately address the scope of the project, mainly the new construction that is proposed. “It was a glaring omission that the ballot language only refers to repairing safety issues and renovating outdated infrastructure,” she said. Montecito Association president Ted Urschel told the audience that the board would take a position at next week’s meeting. The project is estimated to cost $27,150,000, with the cost to taxpayers being $12 per $100,000 of assessed valuation per year. The project, which includes upgrading infrastructure, increasing parking and modifying traffic flow, and building a new cafeteria and new classrooms, is expected to take five years to complete. For more information, visit www. montecitou.org. Also discussed at Land Use: three private water wells that are proposed to be built in the coastal zone, which will be heard by the Montecito Planning Commission next Wednesday, October 15. The projects, which the applicants say would be used to provide supplemental water for landscaping, all require approval of a coastal development permit. Attorney Susan Petrovich, who represents one of the homeowners applying for the permit to build a well, explained to the committee why the permit should be approved. “The pumping of groundwater will not interfere with the domestic water supply,” she said, adding that, it is the right of a property owner to use the water that flows below their land. “The water is owned by the property owner. Not Montecito Water District, not the public, and not the county,” she said. She added that the homeowner has been working with Montecito Water District personnel, and has agreed to cap the pumping of water to five gallons per minute. All three projects, located on Hill Road, Fernald Point Lane, and Channel Drive, will be in front of the MPC on Wednesday, October 15.

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venues from the Los Angeles Ballet, to corporate offices of Pepsi, NBC, Reebok, and Adidas. In 1984, he was the official artist of the United States Olympic swim team. Those being honored with SEE Lifetime Achievement Awards were Dr. Brown, John I. Crowder, M.D., and George B. Primbs, M.D., F.A.C.S. Besides a distinguished career, Dr. Crowder was a founding board member of SEE International and still serves as medical director. In the early 1980s, Dr. Primbs was responsible for setting up the Santa Barbara Vision Care Program that has provided free eye examinations for low-income, uninsured, and underserved community members. More than 52,000 people have been seen locally. The Humanitarian of the Year Award went to Rick Feldman, who moved here in 1994 and opened the Santa Barbara Eyeglass Factory with his son, Gregg. He soon heard from educators and school nurses about all the local kids who couldn’t afford eye care. Rick and Dr. Primbs got together. Since its founding, the Eyeglass Factory has provided glasses to more than 10,000 individuals. It helps more than 1,000 folks per year. The Baroness Leni Fe Bland was

named honorary chair with an honorary committee of Jeannie Cavender, Caryl Crahan, and Jeanne Martin, Ph.D. Event chair was Keith Mautino and his committee: Gail Arnold, Judy Hill, and Pam and Wright Watling. Auctioneer John Palminteri once again volunteered his time. As director of operations Luis Perez says, “We have doctors who have been with us for decades. We’ve been to 35 different countries and performed 420,000 surgeries giving those the right to sight.” They have screened 3.2 million individuals. Nearly 90 percent of blind people live in developing countries. SEE certainly has a record to be proud of. You can help by calling 963-3303.

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The Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts (SBCPA) board of directors invited a select group of friends and supporters on stage at The Granada Theatre to kick off the 201415 performance season. The stage looked stunning, with the backdrop of a replica of the original curtain on the stage before the restoration – a painting of the Alhambra looking down on the town of Granada (pomegranate in English), Spain. Cocktail tables graced the stage and the chic ambience was set off with a chamber orchestra of four playing during cocktail hour. Besides celebrating the theatre district’s new season (the Granada, Lobero, and the New Vic are collab-

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orating) the evening honored Sara Miller McCune. She was one of the two bookends for the Granada’s $60,000-million renovation campaign when she donated $1 million in 1998. The other was Michael Towbes. As board vice chair Marla McNally Phillips said, “She gives of her time, treasure and talent.” And Michael reminded us, “Sara doesn’t just give checks. She is an engaged philanthropist.” Sara launched SAGE Publications in New York in 1965 with little more than her love of publishing, $500 cash, and a used air-conditioner. Today she has a global empire with 1,700 employees on four continents. SAGE is also one of the last academic publishing houses to remain privately owned. SAGE has more than 4,500 titles in print and publishes nearly 800 new titles per year worldwide.

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Granada executive director Craig Springer, board member Joan Rutkowski, board vice chair Dan Burnham, honoree Sara Miller McCune, and director Michael Towbes at the Light Up event

Barbara.” Among the movers and shakers are Granada founding board co-chairs Susan Gulbransen and Joan Rutkowski, Hal Conklin, Frank Goss, Meg and Dan Burnham (who live in the penthouse), board chair Sarah Chrisman, Roger and Diana Phillips, Steven Sharpe, Jonathan Fox, Mehgan Tanner, David Grossman, Pamela Perkins-Dywer, Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp, and the list goes on. As Sara said, “Restoring and sustaining Santa Barbara’s historic center for the performing arts is an extraordinary gift to future generations.”

New Beginnings

“Changing Lives… one person at a time” is the motto of New Beginnings Counseling Center (NBCC). Its board of directors, advisory board, and management invited supporters to a gala at the El Encanto. It began with a VIP reception on the terrace. The wine and hors d’oeuvres were accompanied by David Grossman at the piano and Michael Holland on the guitar. After dinner was served, there was

quite an array of speakers and film. New Beginnings president Diane Pannkuk led off by welcoming all the guests. Glenn Bacheller, who is Homelessness Affinity Group chair of Social Venture Partners, spoke on video, as did John Palminteri for KEYT. New Beginnings executive director Kristine Schwarz told of various programs, especially Safe Parking, which allows 115 of those living in their cars to park overnight in various lots around town. Then came Michael Nash, who is an award-winning filmmaker recently receiving the Social Change Global Institute filmmaker of the Year Award. He is currently working on a military documentary and another about elderly homelessness. U.S. Army SGT (Ret) Sami Samir Ibrahim told us of his experiences. He served seven tours in hostile combat zones in support of several Iraqi operations. Executive director of The Fund for Santa Barbara, Geoff Green, joked with the audience, “This is where we lock the doors!” It was time for donations. NBCC is a mental health center

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Another Reason to Vote NO on Measure P Oil produced in California is subject to the most rigorous, strict environmental regulations in the world. Unfortunately, to meet the rest of our needs, California must also import in tankers oil from Russia, Iraq, Angola and other countries with weak or no environmental safeguards at all. Under Measure P, many conventional production techniques, used safely for decades, would be banned.2 In fact, Measure P is so broadly written, even many routine maintenance methods would also be forbidden.3 As a result, one of the consequences of Measure P would be to shut down nearly all oil production in the County within the next five years and ban all future production, increasing our reliance on foreign oil. 1. Source: Energy Almanac, California Energy Commission 2. Measure P, Section Two 3. Routine well maintenance and well servicing activities including substances commonly used to clean water wells and prevent algae in swimming pools are banned.

MEASURE P WOULD ONLY INCREASE OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL “As long as people in Santa Barbara County drive cars that use gas and need oil to meet our energy needs, we should make the most of the resources we have here in California. It just doesn’t make sense to bring in costly foreign oil by rail and tanker.” RICCARDO MAGNI Teacher of the Year Recipient of the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators “We rely too much on imported foreign oil from countries with little or no environmental regulations. We need a balanced approach to our energy policy – not Measure P, which will only make us more dependent on foreign oil imports.” DR. STACEY ZECK-BOLES UCSB Graduate Ph.D. Degree in Geology* “Measure P would result in closing nearly all oil and gas production in Santa Barbara County in the next few years. That means we will need to import even more oil from foreign countries that don’t have the same strict environmental protections in place here in California.” KEN McCALIP Environmentalist Retired Principal and Superintendent *Title and affiliation are for identification purposes only.

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Thank you for your terrific weekly Journal. I always look forward to late afternoon Wednesday! Best wishes to you and yours. Gloria Hebert Montecito (Editor’s note: Thank you for dropping by your precious copy of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s 1954 bestseller, “Life Is Worth Living.” I spent a week thumbing through it, and it stirred many poignant and pleasant memories. As for whether the good bishop’s telecasts can be “brought back,” I don’t see why not. He was as dynamic a speaker as I’ve ever heard, and belongs right up there with the likes of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Ronald Reagan as a man of extraordinary persuasive abilities. – J.B.)

Wants More of Hazard

Nice to see Mr. [Bob] Hazard’s investigative article and specific references to desal (“A Dry Run for Montecito” MJ #20/38). But, I loved most of all his support for water in the landscape, and would enjoy another investigative article on “recycled” water in Montecito, which could be used in the landscape. Thanks, Rich Untermann Montecito (Editor’s note: We believe Mr. Hazard will respond to your request over the next couple issues. – J.B.)

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of you including us and including the contractor in your article. Often the design and construction teams are not mentioned, but you took the time to include us both and the attention to detail to list the full company names. It is appreciated. We all look forward to improving the grocery and giving it a fresh, new energy. I learned of the article late, and I am further delayed in getting this message out to you, but I have not forgotten and I wanted to share this with you. Thank you again. John Beauchamp Architect, Eleven MODERN Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: We thank you for taking the time to thank us. Few people exhibit such courtesy; your thoughtfulness is a positive indicator of your character, and probably the quality of your work. Montecito Grocery, by the way, is already looking way better than it has for years! – J.B.)

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Thirteen Questions on “Climate Change”

I have no horses or dogs or cats. I do, however, have my best friends. The scrub jays eat peanuts from my hands. My albino crow visits me daily. Actually, I suppose I visit him/ her/it each morning; the crow with white-splattered wings loves me. (And by the railroad tracks and my fried chicken scraps.). The blue-bellied fence lizards do push-ups to find termites or impress their mates, as ants crawl across this manuscript. I am off to visit my dolphins, pelicans, the occasional whale, seals, and rats at Butterfly Beach. My pet cruise liner and another sunset wedding await. Others’ dogs on the sand recognize me and are my best friends of all. My monarch just missed getting hit by a southbound Amtrak. Mahalo. Clint Orr Montecito

I would like to say thank you regarding a nice, informative article you wrote recently (“Montecito Mainstay Changes Hands” MJ #20/32) about the Montecito Grocery and featuring [its] new manager, Denis Lacey. I am the architect working with the grocery and am writing in appreciation

1) Is our planet’s climate almost always experiencing global warming or global cooling? 2) Is global warming bad? 3) Is global cooling good? 4) Which comes first: global warming or the increase in CO2 in the atmo-

sphere? 5) Which type of climate would you prefer to be living in: global warming or global cooling? 6) Do global warming and global cooling have natural cycles? 7) Is CO2 a pollutant? 8) Are computer models accurate in the prediction of future climate change? What makes the computer so knowledgeable? 9) Is it easier to predict future climate or future weather? 10) Which climate was probably more pleasant to live: during the Little Ice Age or during the Medieval Warming Period? 11) During the Little Ice Age, what were the causes of global cooling? 12) During the Medieval Warming Period, what were the causes of global warming? 13) Has our planet been in global warming since approximately 1800 to 1850? Respectfully submitted, Larry Larsson Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: We’ll ponder those questions, but I’ll bet residents of northern China, Mongolia, Russia, Canada, and maybe even Patagonia, are probably looking forward to a little global warming. – J.B.)

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It’s Time to Bring Back The Miramar. Contact Supervisor Salud Carbajal and the Montecito Planning Commission and Tell Them You Agree.

“[We] are happy with the revisions, and believe the [Miramar] project will fit right into the community. We are very much in favor of it being built.” – Mike and Laura Lodato, Miramar Beach AUG. 28 - SEPT. 4 ISSUE, 2014

“THE [MIRAMAR] PROJECT IS OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORTED BY THE MONTECITO COMMUNITY.” – Dick Nordlund, former Montecito Association president* *For identification purposes only

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Dear Neighbor, As a proud member of the Montecito community, you’ve always had a committed interest in The Miramar and what it will bring to our community’s unique character. We wanted you to be the first to know that the plans for the Miramar Beach Resort and Bungalows have been updated and improved on by renowned local architect Marc Appleton. This new design is even better suited to the local community – we stayed true to the things you supported, and made changes to the things you told us were a concern. That’s why we made the project smaller, smarter, and even more environmentally sensitive and less impactful. We feel strongly that this is the best possible design for the property, the future of our community, and for our neighbors who call Montecito home. We received unanimous conceptual approval from the Montecito Board of Architectural Review, and we’re confident that now is the right time to build The Miramar and it’s our goal to be open by summer 2017. We can meet that goal with your support and a timely approval of the project. Won’t you please email the Montecito Planning Commission at dvillalo@co.santa-barbara.ca.us and let them know you support building The Miramar now? We’re proud to share with you some of the new and exciting aspects of the revised design. Comfortable, Intimate Settings. We’ve reduced the number of rooms, enhanced further those that will be available to guests, and consolidated our many amenities into the main building for a more community feel. We’ve also added a stunning new beachfront restaurant, where the dining environment and panoramic views create a truly unique experience that sets it apart from other California hotels and will be a memorable place to host friends, events, and family gatherings. A Firm Eye on the Environment. We’ve worked hard to limit our footprint at The Miramar. We’ve reduced our impacts at the hotel, including water usage, and made our facilities greener and smarter. Fewer rooms and smaller events mean less traffic and cleaner air, and we’ve widened our setbacks from South Jameson Lane, adding landscaping and trees. Listening to You and Following Through. We’ve made it this far because of your support for the project, your helpful insights, constant input, and your love and commitment to the future of Montecito and it’s unique way of life. We’ve listened to your concerns – big and small – and we’re following through to make The Miramar as special as this community. Thank you for your support through the years, and this plan is the best possible design because of you. However, we need your continued support in order to complete this once-in-a-lifetime project. Rick J. Caruso, Founder & CEO, Caruso Affiliated S H O W

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Come out and support us at a variety of public forums. We’ll keep you posted about when these meetings will occur and we hope to see you soon.

Please do not hesitate to contact the project development manager, Evan Krenzien, at ekrenzien@carusoaffiliated.com or (323) 900-8196. He will answer any questions you may have and will share with you more ways you can be supportive of our efforts to get this new plan entitled as quickly as possible. 9 – 16 October 2014

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I, along with those of you able to afford to live here, have just received the latest six-page full-color brochure, which is bought and paid for by all the individuals and entities that will make a ton of money from the advertising, sale, advice, and construction funding that Measure S will provide to them for decades to come. On the back cover is the phrase: “Yes on S for Affordable Local Higher Education.” Under this phrase is a smiling photo of our local supervisor Salud Carbajal. He also refers to how Measure S will provide “affordable education,” and that “SBCC is the main path forward in life for many of our local residents.” The SBCTA also is on the back cover in support of Measure S. Not to keep you too long... The affordable education promoted by Carbajal and the brochure is free! There is not one word in the brochure that Measure S will cost anyone, anywhere, anything. The one-half-billiondollar four-part bond issue, with interest, that Measure S represents will not have to be paid back! It doesn’t exist! Now that’s affordable! This is probably why Joe Armendariz and the SBCTA [Santa Barbara County Tax Payers Association] support Measure S, even though their mission statement is “lower taxes.” In Joe’s eyes, Measure S is free! Carbajal and the brochure keep

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pounding away how Measure S will benefit local students. Presumably, the more than 12,000 outside-the-district students now at SBCC are all going to leave if Measure S passes and no more will come. Local students might even not have to wait for needed classes, as they do now. This exodus will also free up the thousands of rental units taken up by outside SBCC students and allow the working people who have been forced to leave Santa Barbara and Isle Vista to come home. Right. The brochure states there will be an Independent Citizens’ Oversight Committee. Oh yeah! Committee applications are sent to Lori Gaskin, SBCC President. (Why?) The committee members for Measure V and those to be appointed for Measure S’s “Oversight Committee” are picked by the SBCC Board of Trustees. Gaskin & Co. and the SBCC Board of Trustees are the very people who the committees are supposed to oversee. Now this is what I call independent oversight! Stay tuned! Regards, Ernie Salomon Santa Barbara

Another Vote for Measure Q

As an MUS board member and board representative on the Facilities Design Committee (FDC), and an eighth-year MUS parent, I feel uniquely qualified to respond to last week’s “Anonymous” Letters to the Editor. As a school board, we have a policy not to acknowledge anonymous letters because the writer, like a cyber bully, can say anything without impunity, responsibility, or accountability. At home, we have a rule: “Do not say anything about a person that you wouldn’t say to them.” As a community, how can we have an informed discussion, based on facts and an understanding that there are multiple viewpoints, when adults are unwilling to own what they say? Specifically, I would like to provide facts that address some of the misinformation in the “Anonymous” letters: There have been more than 36 public meetings held on this project. My records show that since October 18, 2011, when district architects, Roesling, Nakamura & Terada (RNT) were hired, there have been between one to four public meetings a month on this topic. These include community, staff, and parent input sessions publicized in the Montecito Journal, public board meetings with published and emailed agendas, FDC meetings that are open to the public, presentations to the Montecito Association, and last week’s Information and Outreach meeting. 9 – 16 October 2014

There have also been articles published in this newspaper. The “Commons” Becomes the Cafeteria The FDC, formed in September 2012, is comprised of 18 members— representing the administration, the school board, teachers, staff, neighbors, MUS’s “Green Team,” The Montecito Association, and the YMCA. It’s an inclusive group and each member has brought its unique perspective. All voices were heard and though each individual’s ideas may not be exactly incorporated as they envisioned, the project is better for the open discussions and dialogue we had along the way. The Cafeteria-Multipurpose Building: “It is not broken, so we should leave it alone.” On our annual parent survey, the lowest level of satisfaction was the school lunch. As others have noted, we are obligated to have a food-serving facility that is compliant with local and state regulations. Some are arguing over semantics on what this building is called. Originally it was “The Commons,” a central meeting place on campus, not just for meals, but also for class level gatherings, staff meetings, and a resource for our broader community. “The Commons” name was dropped because some [thought] we were hiding the cafeteria functions, hence “The Cafeteria.” Call it what

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you want, but it is legally required and desperately needed by the MUS community, not just for providing healthy meals, or for providing respite from the hot sun, but as a place to meet, to learn, and to play. New District Office Building This building was added late in the process, not to sneak it by anyone, but because we listened, and responded, to neighbor’s concerns about the size and scale of the cafeteria-multipurpose building. At the request of neighbors, a representative sits on the FDC, the second-floor teacher’s lounge and meeting room was removed. This created a domino effect. Teachers needed their space to be at the heart of campus, and the only space available was the main building’s district offices. There was no place left for the district staff so a new 1,500-square-foot building was designed. (An average classroom is 1,000 square feet). All “School” staff, the chief academic officer, dean of students, front office staff and school nurse will continue to reside in the main building. On the claim that “so many possibilities exist for the Adobe property that could enhance the children and community.” Unfortunately, The Division of State Architect (DSA), which oversees school projects, deemed that the Adobe isn’t a “structure” but rather a

roof without walls. Teachers, staff, and children would not be allowed in the building. Even with these restrictions, the Adobe will be retained and renovated to house staff that doesn’t need these group to visit them, therefore complying with DSA regulations. The modest district offices will be tastefully integrated with the historic Adobe. The personal attacks on superintendent [Tammy] Murphy are unkind, unjust, and inaccurate. Her tenure at Montecito Union is not a “resumé builder,” and this statement is reprehensible to those of us who work closely with her. Ms Murphy is passionate about her profession and she brings an unwavering commitment to improving MUS. Her ability to create a positive culture while transforming the school’s educational program, so students are prepared for the demands of the 21st century, has been inspirational. The vast majority of parents and teachers are excited about the progress that has been made against the school’s visionary Strategic Plan. “Anonymous” also refer to Ms Murphy’s capital campaign at Ross Elementary. The voters there were clear that their school was an essential part of their community and both bonds, and a parcel tax increase, passed with 75 percent+ of the vote. Simply stated, she doesn’t need to build her resumé at MUS; she is here because of her resumé.

What Montecito is Buying When you look beyond the rhetoric and consider the facts, I hope you will remember what Measure Q is really about: Renovating deteriorating and aging plumbing, electrical, and sewer systems. Making energy efficiency, water conservation, and security improvements. Reducing traffic safety and congestion on San Ysidro Road by increasing parking spaces and improving pick-up and drop-off areas. Making health, safety, and handicapped accessibility improvements. Creating a cafeteria-multipurpose building for children to eat healthy lunches. It will also serve as an essential educational space for students and teachers. Retrofitting the current district offices for a lounge and meeting space for teachers to collaborate and share their work. Build a modest administrative building to house the superintendent and district staff. On a personal note, our first child graduated last year after seven years at MUS, and our second child is currently in fifth grade. Our family will not benefit from the work undertaken with the help of this bond, but I believe

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 13) Westmont’s Voskuyl Library is the site of a proposed Verizon Wireless facility, to help cellular coverage in Montecito

ing for conceptual review of a new telecommunications facility on the Westmont College campus. The project was scheduled to be heard earlier this week at MBAR, but was pushed to a later agenda, according to planner Melissa Mooney. The project consists of 16 new antennae, as well as the necessary accessory equipment, to be installed on the roof of Voskuyl Library, behind an existing parapet wall. The parapet wall would be extended to screen the antennae, which stand seven feet tall. “There are also several trees around the library that help to screen the equipment that already exists on the top of the building, protecting the views from neighbors above the college on Mountain Drive,” says Westmont’s manager of media relations Scott Craig. Craig says the college frequently fields complaints from students and parents about a lack of Verizon cell coverage in Montecito. “It’s a way to help meet that demand in the community,” Craig said. The project is scheduled to be heard on Monday, October 20.

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cial trunk show from Vhernier Italian Jewelry; it will be the first time the jewelry has been shown in Santa Barbara. Toreh Bahrami, business development director for Vhernier, will be at Silverhorn on Friday, October 10, and Saturday, October 11, for the show. “Silverhorn is one of our oldest supporters and partners, and we’ve had a long friendship and business relationship,” said Bahrami

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of Silverhorn owners Michael and Carole Ridding, who opened the shop in 1986. Silverhorn is the exclusive representative of the Vhernier line in Santa Barbara, and Bahrami, who has never been to our area, will bring both classic pieces as well as one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces, made with the quality craftsmanship for which the company is known. The line includes classic pavé pieces, colored stones, white and rose gold pieces, and much more. Launched in 1984, Vhernier has achieved a worldwide presence and a fashionable following, including many celebrities. The jewelry collection is influenced by trends in contemporary art, and according to Bahrami, the company’s superiorly trained Italian craftsmen have an in-depth knowledge of materials, stones, cuts, and traditional manufacturing techniques. Headquartered in Milan, the company has storefronts on several continents and a presence in high-end department stores throughout the world. The show is from 10 am to 5 pm Saturday and Sunday. For more information, visit www.vhernier.it/ en-us/. Silverhorn is located at 1155 Coast Village Road.

citofire.com. Also next week, MERRAG volunteers will practice earthquake preparedness as part of the Great California Shakeout campaign. Thursday, October 16, at 10:16 am, a functional, community-wide disaster drill will take place with Montecito schools, organizations, and agencies to simulate and evaluate responses to a large earthquake. The purpose of the Shake Out is to practice earthquakes preparedness at work, school, and home. It can be as simple as practicing “Drop Cover and Hold On” during the drill – or it can be more extensive – by creating your family or business emergency plan and practicing it, according to MFPD. MERRAG Response Team members should respond to Montecito Fire Headquarters prior to the drill to participate in “Drop Cover and Hold On,” then activate the DOC (District Operations Center) and prepare to receive incoming reports from the field. For more information, visit www. merrag.org or www.shakeout.org/ california.

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Montecito Firefighters Visit Schools

Montecito Fire Protection District has a new resource to deliver an interactive fire safety educational experience to students attending preschools and elementary schools in the Montecito community. This week is Fire Prevention Week, and local students are learning the importance of fire safety while they are given a tour through the district’s new inflatable fire safety house. The inflatable house is specifically designed as an educational tool (no bounce pad). It has built-in teaching tools throughout, including the stay low in smoke element, a three-dimensional kitchen, and fire safety messages posted all through the house. This new tool provides a fun learning environment for the children while fire personnel point out age-appropriate fire safety information. This year’s Fire Prevention Week Campaign focuses on the importance of working smoke alarms. According the National Fire Protection Association, up to 60 percent of reported home fire deaths from 2007 to 2011 resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms. This week and next, firefighters will visit 1,000 students in Montecito at Mount Carmel, Laguna Blanca, Cold Spring, Crane, ELMO, All Saints, MUS, and the YMCA preschool. For more information, visit www.monte

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Auto technician Jim White, who has worked at Montecito’s Village Automotive Repair for 34 years

In a recent edition (MJ #20/37), we featured a story about Village Automotive Repair in the upper village. It was an oversight that we left out mention of the shop’s longest employee, Jim White, who has worked at the repair shop for 34 years! After the story was published, we heard from several readers who wondered if Mr. White is still an employee, and the repair shop also fielded inquiries from longtime customers who were dismayed that he had not been mentioned in the article. Mr. White was on a test drive when we snapped the photo of his fellow employees and shop owner Jon McConnel. So here is Jim, pictured in his element: the shop where he has worked on cars for the last 34 years. •MJ 9 – 16 October 2014

LETTERS (Continued from page 25)

it is important as a member of our community to look beyond “what’s in it for me” but at what can we do to have MUS continue to be the school people move from all over the world to attend. We all know that MUS is a special place, and Measure Q will ensure that it remains just that. If you have any questions, I encourage you to contact Pamela Dillman Haskell, committee chair of “Supporting Measure Q: Preserving the Quality of Montecito Union” at pdhinsb@gmail.com. After you gather the facts, I hope you will join me in supporting this important school bond. Sincerely, Deborah Fuss Montecito Union School Board Member, Member of the Montecito Union Facilities Design Committee, and parent

MUS an Important Community Asset

For our community, change and growth have always been controlled and conscious. It is with a deep understanding and respect for this ethos that for the past three years the Montecito Union School District has worked hand-in-hand with the greater Montecito community (including teachers, staff, parents, community members, neighbors, architects, the Montecito Association, and the YMCA to conduct a school-wide assessment and develop a master facilities plan that is respectful of MUS’s deep roots in this community. Measure Q, the bond initiative that is before you, reflects the thoughtful hard work of this multi-year community effort to respect Montecito’s values, while doing essential work to maintain and preserve one of this community’s most important gems and assets – Montecito Union School. As a parent of two MUS students and the current president of the MUS Board of Trustees, I’d like to share with you my absolute belief in the MUS improvement plan, as well as my strong support for Measure Q, with the hope that you will join with me in voting yes on this critical ballot initiative. Spending the first 71 percent... First, let’s take a quick look at how the proceeds of the bond measure will be spent. Altogether, the bond measure will raise $27.15 million. It’s important to note that 71 percent of the proceeds ($19 million) are to be used for fixing essential life and safety issues and completing deferred maintenance projects, some of which the district is mandated by law to address. The remaining 29 percent ($8.15 million) will be dedicated to critical programmatic improvements and other district priorities. 9 – 16 October 2014

Second, let’s take a closer look at the $19 million expenditure that is intended to bring our facilities up to today’s functional standards. This work is not flashy, fancy, or aspirational, but rather is critical for the long-term sustainability of our campus and of our children’s 21st-century educational program. For years, we have been putting Band-Aids on MUS’s facilities, some of which are nearing a hundred years old. But like any aging building that faces regular use, at a certain point you simply must do the work. For example, piping in the bathrooms and drinking faucets can no longer be repaired because replacement parts and equipment are incompatible with our antiquated system. In addition, outmoded electrical systems are overloaded and present daily operational challenges. Finally, the potential horror associated with placing 450 active young children in an environment without shatterproof glass in the windows is unthinkable, and yet that is a risk we face today. The additional list of other life and safety must-dos is a long one. And the Final 29 percent Failing infrastructure aside, the remaining 29 percent of the bond proceeds will be applied to a number of critical projects, including construction of a new $3.6 million cafeteria/multipurpose room (which is required in order to meet state and federal mandates for delivery of food service); the creation of outdoor gathering/meeting space, which doubles as additional space for planned children’s activities; renovation of music rooms; the addition of a special-education room; creation of space for reading and speech programs; expansion of on-site parking and re-engineering of student drop-off and pick-up functions, moving these potentially dangerous and frustrating activities off of the public roadways and into safer locations on campus property; and the addition of much-needed administrative space. Another critical piece of the district’s proposed plan is improved school safety. In today’s world, we cannot simply close our eyes and pray that Montecito continues to be a safe and peaceful place for children, and hope that MUS never becomes one of the horrifying national headlines that have plagued other schools throughout our country. Our administration has already been proactive in beginning this important work by installing a sophisticated lock system on all doors, with the ability to lock down the rooms from central locations. They have also installed shades in every classroom, and trained all teachers and staff to deal with any potential crisis. But the fact remains that the MUS campus is porous, with many points of entry. This means that anyone can enter our campus for any reason, at any time, without having to

gain clearance through the front office. This is simply not acceptable for an elementary school today. The proposed security plan for MUS will maintain the beautiful, soft exterior of the campus, while closing up the multiple potential points of entry and diverting all incoming foot traffic to one central location where it can be monitored. Just $12 Per $100,000 Over the past three years of planning, transparency has been a guiding principle. Throughout the process of developing a master facilities plan, there have been numerous community meetings, public school board meetings and opportunities to deliver information to community members and receive their critical input. In addition to our public forums, the entire board and the superintendent are always available to answer questions and hear community concerns. We are proud that the master facilities plan to be addressed through Measure Q is truly a product of our entire community’s thoughtful work. Montecito Union is one of the great gems of this community. Our student population has generally trended upward in past years because families have moved here for the superior public educational opportunity MUS offers. Today at MUS, we are standing on the shoulders of those who did much work to improve our school almost two decades ago. And they were standing on the shoulders of those who did work to protect and improve this school 40 years before them. And we all owe a debt of gratitude to those who first built this gem in 1926. But much of what we still live with at MUS – including substandard plumbing, electric, and non-tempered glass that still exists from that time. It is now our turn to show this school the same love it has been shown in decades past, and upgrade our school to modern standards so that our children and grandchildren can continue to benefit from this great educational institution. Please help the district do this work by voting yes on Measure Q. While a yes vote will commit our community to a bond issue of $27.15 million, that figure equates to an annual cost of only $12 per $100,000 of assessed property value. When compared with the tax rates assessed by school districts in nearby communities, the MUS district’s tax rate will be the second lowest in all of Santa Barbara County… well worth the improvements that will be brought to Montecito Union School. Gwyn Lurie Montecito

A Cautionary Tale

Even when you’re careful, sometimes it’s not enough. After living here in Montecito for 14 years in harmony with nature in the Sycamore Canyon

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Bailey (left) was spared, but Holly (right) was taken by a wandering coyote from Luci Janssen’s backyard on Sycamore Canyon Road in Montecito at 3 o’clock in the afternoon

area above East Valley Road, we lost our beloved cockapoo Holly to the jaws of a coyote. My two dogs were under human supervision, playing Frisbee in our backyard and little Holly was snatched and killed when she ran into the bushes. We were able to grab our other dog, Bailey, and save her from the same fate. I’d like to thank our housekeeper, Margaret, who was watching over them and gallantly, in the face of personal danger, kept the coyote from dragging Holly’s body off after it had snapped Holly’s back. It was a brutal attack, given there was a human present. So the coyotes are getting bolder, I fear, with the continued drought. I fear for my grandchildren’s safety with the roaming coyotes as some of these youngsters are three years old and younger. I don’t think coyotes discriminate between toddler, tyke, and rabbit. I’ve been advised that wolf or lion urine in a powder form can be put around the property as a deterrent... but is this enough to keep them at bay as coyotes can easily jump five- to sixfoot fences? I wish that those agencies in Santa Barbara that deal with wildlife issues would seriously step forward to give guidelines for protecting our families, pets included, especially when the coyotes are getting bolder and can be seen trotting down Sycamore Canyon at all hours of the day. There doesn’t seem to be any wildlife management programs for a problematic coyote population, other than to say they are very active in the late summer months. Our government can easily hire assassins in helicopters (sounds expensive) to eradicate, not cull, but eradicate an entire deer/elk population on Santa Rosa Island, but seems to be unable or unwilling to address a current public safety issue caused by overly aggressive coyotes roaming residential streets and backyards. I don’t have the answers/solutions for future protection of my family and pets, so I’d like to think that the agencies that deal with these issues have a positive plan that they can reveal to us. Luci Janssen Montecito (Editor’s note: We feel your pain, especially since Holly could just as well have been a toddler who ran off a little too fast and a little too far from his guardian. We are saddened by your loss and thank you •MJ for your words of caution. – J.B.) MONTECITO JOURNAL

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Fun with the Force

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IMPACT-RESISTANT HAT WITH REMOVABLE PROTECTIVE INSERTS For people who should wear a helmet, but don’t. (from left) Sergeant Mike McGrew, It’s Fun With The Force co-chairs James Nigro, SB Police Foundation secretary Pamela Geremia, Eric Phillips, Arlene Montesano, and Lisa Loiacono, along with Santa Barbara Police officer Greg Hons

f “police force” and “fun” aren’t words you would ordinarily think of in the same sentence, the upcoming It’s Fun With The Force fundraiser, scheduled for Sunday, October 12, at Pat Nesbitt’s Bella Vista Ranch (from 4 to 7 pm) may have you reconsidering. Event co-chairs James Nigro, Pamela Geremia, Eric Phillips, Arlene Montesano, Lisa Loiacono, and Jim Stretchberry promise attendees a late afternoon of fun, food, festivities, libations, and a deejay playing dance music intended to shake your nerves and rattle your brain. The event will also feature a SWAT demonstration and a K-9 unit demonstration, both of which are meant to inform and delight. Event co-chair Nigro explains that the money raised via It’s Fun With The Force will enhance the ability of the Santa Barbara Police Foundation “to help any police officer who has been hurt on duty and may be unable to work, along with their families and other good causes.” There’ll be plenty of food to choose from, as restaurants dishing out irresistible comestibles include Lucky’s,

Olio e Limone, Tre Lune, Mollie’s, Pan e Vino, the Lark, Los Arroyos, Los Agaves, The Pasta Shop, Opal, Ca Dario, Bucatini, and Empty Bowl. Three wineries will be pouring: Summerland, Foley, and JCR Vineyard; tequilas will be poured from George Clooney’s Casa Amigos and Partida; vodka lovers will be happy to sample the clear liquor from American-made Zing, and – for those whose libations lean toward the non-alcoholic – Juice Well will be there, too. Offered in a live auction will be lunch with actor Christopher (“Doc” Brown) Lloyd and Back To The Future screenwriter Bob Gale, who will be there accompanied by a DeLorean. Other items up for auction include a House in the Hamptons, a House in Cabo, and a walk-on part in a movie currently being shot. Donations are $200 per ticket (“Misdemeanor”); VIP (“Crime Scene”) tables are available at $5,000, and a table for 10 (“Felony”) is $2,000. This is not a fancy affair, and flat shoes and casual clothing are recommended. To learn more, visit SBPoliceFoundation@gmail.com or call (805) 881-3745. •MJ

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Ernie’s World

by Grace Rachow

Ms. Rachow spends her days trying to decide if the secret to a long, happy life is coffee, goji berries, mindfulness, coconut oil, stubbornness, organic veggies, or plain good luck.

Fighting the Bear

’m glad my wild and crazy youth was over before the Internet, smart phones, and Facebook. Now I can relax with my reputation intact and turn myself into a wise middle-aged woman dispensing sage advice on how to live life. I’m thinking about this wisdom on what would’ve been my mother’s 92nd birthday. And if it hadn’t been for that pesky stage-four cancer, she probably would’ve made it to 92. When she received her dire diagnosis in the summer of 1998, she accepted the news as just a bit of rotten luck. She made the unwavering decision to go with the flow and enjoy whatever she could in the time she had left. Doctors predicted she’d live a month, but she stretched it to three, time enough to put her affairs in order and say goodbye.

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successful life was that she always accepted what it was she had to do… and then she did it, even when she didn’t want to. Although I am not as much like my mother as I wish I were, I do take inspiration in the way she lived. I admire how she calmly accepted her diagnosis and measured each remaining day with a full dose of dignity. Nevertheless, I suspect when my time comes I’ll be kicking and screaming all the way to the mortuary. I’m stubborn and impractical, and I don’t like it when life surprises me with an impossible challenge. So I tend to get cranky and resist the inevitable. That brings me around to a role model for fighting back. I’m talking about Carpinteria resident Emily Miles. Recently she fended off a 300-pound black bear in an avocado

“You just don’t let that rocking chair take over. Get up and go, even if you don’t want to.” – Connie Reeves, 101-year-old cowgirl My mother’s story would’ve been more inspirational if she’d had the much better luck of Stamatis Moraitis, who was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer at age 65. He also accepted his fate and went back to Greece to die. He had such a great time growing vegetables, drinking wine, and playing dominoes with old friends that he survived to be 102. I surely would’ve wished that kind of turnaround for my mother, but she had her own style. She lived a tidy, well-balanced life with a career in education and was a model homemaker as well. She worked full-time, raised kids, stayed happily married to her college sweetheart, and her laundry didn’t pile up. The house was always ready for company. She was an excellent cook and faced the challenge of putting family meals on the table every single day. And she never broke a sweat. I did not inherit my mother’s ability to do it all. My laundry is notorious for gathering in great heaps, and I’m still shocked every single evening that dinner doesn’t magically appear on the table. My personal meal-planning solution was to marry a guy who likes to cook, but that falls under the category of great luck rather than sound advice on how to live. I think the secret to my mother’s

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orchard near her home, and she lived to tell the tale. On normal days, Emily speaks in feather-soft tones. Her hair is white, and she moves through life with the wisdom that comes from years of experience. Perhaps that is how she found the moxie to face that bear and win. She was on the ground on her back, the bear standing over her. She kicked and screamed for all she was worth. That bear must’ve realized it wasn’t such a great plan to have Emily for lunch and decided there and then to go vegan. Avocados don’t fight back. Maybe it was pure luck the bear backed down, but I think it had a lot to do with the fact that Emily didn’t accept her fate. She resisted the bear like crazy and escaped with nasty scratches, a bite to her backside and one cracked rib. Local lore will likely embroider this encounter with colorful details, but the simple fact remains that a whitehaired lady in our midst faced a bear and won the fight. Life throws all kinds of bears at us. How we face those challenges affects those around us. My husband says he hopes the hardest decision he has to face is which new iPhone to get. I say that if you meet a 300-pound bear in the orchard, it’s good to be •MJ ready with your decision.

Getting High on Paris

hen I was a kid, one of my favorite toys was an erector set. Screws, nuts, wrenches, sharp edges, bloody fingers, and the opportunity to use colorful new words learned on the elementary school playground. What more could a boy want? Yet no matter how many times I built a structure, carefully refining my techniques each go around, it always fell apart. These thoughts crossed my mind as I stood in line at the base of the Eiffel Tower – the ultimate erector set. How many skinned knuckles had this thing taken? “You’re going to get a kink in your neck again,” my wife said. “Like that time you tried bird watching.” I put my hand on the back of my head and forced it back down into a level position, causing a few people to grimace at the popping and snapping sounds of my vertebrae. “You know this was built in 1889? By a guy named Eiffel? How’s that for a coincidence?” I asked. My wife was about to comment when I spotted something on the ground. A washer! “Oh-oh!” I said, quickly looking up again. Dozens of others looked up expecting to see someone plummeting to their death. My wife looked at the item. “That’s not a washer, it’s a euro.” “Oh, wow, you’re right.” I held it up. “No need to worry, folks.” There were a number of French comments, which sounded vaguely like the words I learned on the playground. It was a misty morning in Paris, and even though I get vertigo when I wear shoes with actual heels, I was determined that I was going up La Tour d’Eiffel. I’d already been up the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State building, the Sears Tower, and the ski lift on Bunny Run, so this was just one more conquest. Unfortunately, today there was a sign above the ticket booth indicating the top was closed. Was it was closed for repairs? I checked the “euro” I found again. Turns out, they close the top when it gets too crowded, so they don’t have to use copious amounts of butter on people – like they do everything else in France – in order for them to move about. But we could still get to the second floor, which is about a third of the way up the 1,063-foot structure. My wife, who hadn’t been all that excited to go up the thing in the first place – especially since I had wondered aloud

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An eyeful of the Eiffel

about the effects of rust on a 115-yearold metal structure – seemed relieved. And I have to admit I was okay with it myself. Probably wouldn’t have to worry so much about nosebleeds on the second level. When we finally made it to the ticket counter, the guy in front of us said: “Oh look, the sign just changed.” “Deux billets,” my wife said. “Sommet?” the kiosk lady asked. “We want to go up the tower,” I said, wondering what she thought we were in line for. Crêpes? “You realize we are now going all the way to the ‘summit,’ right?” “Ahh...” I wobbled. “Great.” I’m not sure what the record is for the most tourists you can fit in an elevator, but we must have been close to breaking it. Fortunately, the first elevator only goes to the second level. Then you get on a smaller one for the top. It has windows all around, so that you can see every girder, bolt, and nut whiz by as you climb and climb and climb. “This is great, huh?” I squeaked out. “Swell,” my wife said. Her eyes were closed. It was a bit crowded at the top. I think they were having a two-for-one foreign tourist special. But the views were so amazing, we quickly forgot the ants below were actually people. We took photos from all four sides, then headed back down. This time we stopped on the first level, where they had an added feature – a glass floor. It’s like you are standing on nothing. Or so I imagine. I tired to do it, but my feet wouldn’t let me. “What’s next?” I asked my wife. “Some place on the ground,” she said, “that serves alcoholic beverages.” •MJ “Très bien!” 9 – 16 October 2014

The Way It Was

by Hattie Beresford

Cycling the Route of Navigateurs

This does not reveal the steepness of the hill nor the complaints of the rider

he dirt road stretched before us, rising ever upward along the amber wheat fields toward the woodlands and the rocky hilltops. Our thin tires barely grabbed the packed dirt, and our gears had maxed out at 1-1. It became a game of how slow could we go before falling over. No one in our little bicycle tour group wanted to be the first to dismount. Armand, our intrepid guide, had said he was going on a ride in Cuba, and one of our number was teaching him a little Spanish. I had a Spanish word for him, mentiroso – liar! Rolling hills, indeed! This was a relentless ascent. Groaning, we reached the top and pavement. The view back down to Fleuve Saint-Laurent (St. Lawrence Seaway to us Anglophones) was incredible, and I must admit, well compensated the effort. We cycled on, over hill and dale, racing past grain fields and dairies with the St. Lawrence ever in sight. Our week-long bicycle tour in the French-speaking province of Québec had started in Montmagny, a little town on the south shore of the St. Lawrence Seaway. One week later, we bid au revoir to our traveling companions at Métis-sur-Mer, some 233 kilometers east. Along the way, we strangers had become friends as we

Ms Beresford is a retired English and American history teacher of 30 years in the Santa Barbara School District. She is author of two Noticias, “El Mirasol: From Swan to Albatross” and “Santa Barbara Grocers,” for the Santa Barbara Historical Society.

shared the many adventures and festivities of the journey. Gastronomically, the experience was superb! Our picnic lunches always contained products from the region in which we travelling. We tasted ice cider (hard) from L’Ile d’Orleans and local apples and strawberries. The cheeses from Isle-aux-Grues, were made at the local cooperative owned by seven dairy owners. Their fromage sported names reflective of island history such as “Le Riopelle” and “Le Mi-Carême” named for a mid-Lent costumed festival indigenous to the Island. In fact, we spent the night before the bike ride on Isle-aux-Grues, taking our car across on the ferry whose schedule depended on the tides. It’s a charming place, the only one of an archipelago of 21 islands that is occupied all year. Four miles long by one mile wide, it is truly tiny. Today about 130 people live there year-round. This bicycle path is along the Route of the Navigators; luckily we weren’t in charge of the routing

The funky Auberge des Dunes and its dining room, Le Bateau Ivre

The company of cyclists prepares for takeoff from the quaint town of Montmagny

There are two hotels on the island. The Auberge des Dunes, in which we stayed, dates from 1952 when a small house was made into a hostelry. Over the years it grew wings, and the old tug, Le Bateau Ivre, was marooned across the way and put into service as a dining room and bar. Best described as “funky” (our suitcases rolled right into place on the slightly sloped floor of our room), it had the most magnificent views of the fleuve and the warmest reception. We borrowed bikes for a ride through one of the largest unspoiled wetlands in northeastern America and discovered the quaint architecture of the village and the magic of changing shoreline as the tide retreated from the salt marsh. The local border collie shepherded us along the way. Apparently, though the island was named after the cranes that once lived there in abundance, with the increase

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On Entertainment by Steven Libowitz

Neil Sedaka: You Can’t Hold Him Down

t’s no exaggeration to suggest that the world’s foremost expert on Neil Sedaka’s place in pop music history is... Neil Sedaka. Now 75, Sedaka’s career has spanned six decades-plus, and more than 700 songs, most of which he sung himself – though many others also had hits with his songs. Beatlemania and disco nearly killed his career but then “Laughter in the Rain” resurrected him in 1975, and there’s been no turning back. But Sedaka isn’t just fond of his hits – you can name just about any of his compositions and he’d be able to tell you when and where he wrote it, which albums it’s on, and then recite the lyrics word for word. “That’s close, very close,” Sedaka said with a laugh during our interview last week. “That side of my brain really works.” The side that creates the songs works pretty well, too, obviously. When Sedaka performs Thursday, October 9, at the Chumash Casino’s Samala Showroom, he’ll touch on songs from the late 1950s all the way up to last year’s latest new release, with a quick detour into snippets from a classical concert he’ll be performing with the Royal Philharmonic in London later this month. Here are excerpts from our conversation: Q. I was looking at your bio, and it hit me again just how crazy it was that you were writing songs when you were 13 years old. I mean, I was just trying to figure out how to read Hebrew without vow-

Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than ten years.

els so I could get through my bar mitzvah. A. I had a bar mitzvah, too. In fact, I’d just finished when a neighbor knocked on my door, a 16-yearold poet, Howard Greenfield, who asked me to write songs with him. We wrote more than 300 together over the years. I was already a concert pianist at Juilliard, and music came very naturally to me. Howie had a tape recorder and we wrote songs, and I’d sing them. I was fascinated to hear my voice back. And it was amazing that I could write a tune out of the air... But you can’t really study it. It’s a gift. So here it is 62 years later. What keeps you going? I love the performing. You get an immediate adrenalin rush and it’s very exciting. It’s also very lucrative financially. I like when people say I’ve affected their lives, that I was part of their growing up. The nostalgia is a big thing for me. And I still write new songs, which I think has helped me stay popular for so long. I know my motivations have changed over the years. Do you still have the same energy driving you? It’s the same joy. But it’s much more

A tip of the cap to singer Neil Sedaka

difficult, because you have to keep growing and developing. You have to reinvent the songs and raise the bar, take chances and try something out of the comfortable sphere. That blank piece of paper just stares at you. The piano is the magnet. It talks to me: “Neil, how good are you really? Can you top the last collection?” I have a love-hate relationship with writing. How much do you think starting out in the Brill Building influenced your career? I was there from 1958-63, every day from 10 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon. It’s how I learned my craft. I’d go into the office with two different tunes, and Howie would pick the one that struck him that day and write the lyrics. Some days you finished two songs, some days none. You had to work yourself out of those creative blocks. It was great competition. The walls were thin and everybody’s songs sounded a little bit the same. But I was the first songwriter to record my own songs. I had 10 hits and sold 25 million records in those five years. What was that process like? The tune would paint a picture for Howie. If I had (sings the melody to “Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen”) it had its own mood. I feel a phrase of music has only a couple of correct phrases of lyrics. I only put something in if he ran out of lyrics. I’d sing a doobie-doo or a trala-la. And we’d leave it in the record. It became a Neil Sedaka trademark. Many of my early records had that. Would you share the stories behind some of the songs, starting perhaps with “Calendar Girl”. We found that title in a TV Guide, the name of an old movie. Howie came up with the idea of writing a verse for each month of the year. The beat was the same as Lloyd Price’s “Personality”, that ba-bup-ba-bup

shuffle. You had to be able to dance to it then. “Breaking Up is Hard to Do”... once again, I couldn’t think of any lyrics, so I sang “Down, doobie doo dah doo, camma camma down....” I wrote the tune after I heard a record by The Showmen called “It Will Stand”, which inspired it; a couple of the notes were very interesting to me. Howie came up with the universal lyric of breaking up and making up. It’s my signature song. “Laughter in the Rain”? You can’t write that in one day. It took about 30 years of learning. It’s in a pentatonic scale, the black notes on the piano. It was a magic song and became a remarkable comeback for me after being off the charts for 13 years (after the British Invasion). I moved to England because I figured if The Beatles came to New York, I’d go over there where (audiences) still love me. Elton John was starting a record company and he helped promote it to number one in 1975. “Love Will Keep Us Together”? I listened to three different singing styles and put them together. I’m like a designer: I take different textures and fabrics and stitch them together. It was the Beach Boys’ beat, the sound of Diana Ross’s voice, and the augmented chords came from Al Green. I’ve read that you sometimes play your own records when you’re depressed. Does it work? Oh, yeah. They’re so happy and so carefree and naïve, and melodic and hooky and singable. So they bring me up. Some of your contemporaries seem embarrassed when they go back to the early hits, but it looks like you’re quite proud of your entire catalog. I’m very proud. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for them. And I’ve always been underrated as a singer. They weren’t bubblegum songs, and they definitely weren’t bubblegum performances. I wrote for my voice and it’s my singing that made me a star. I’m proud to be part of the history of rock ‘n’ roll. Dick Clark put me on American Bandstand when I was 19, and I’ve never stopped.

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An ancient woodsman near the wood-carving center of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli

in human population and agricultural activities, the cranes diminished. Now the human population has decreased as well. No longer are there enough children to warrant a school on the island. Crane-like, the remaining children fly away each weekday to school in Montmagny. At night, however, they fly home to roost. When snow storms leave them stranded across the channel and the planes are grounded, good Samaritans take them in.

The Ride

Back in Montmagny, our first day’s ride pretty much set the pattern for the week. Seats adjusted, brakes tested, gears tightened, we were finally ready for departure. Our destination; the wood-sculpting mecca of SaintJean-Port-Joli (27 miles). And off we went, stopping occasionally to admire

a particularly charming dairy or wheat field, marveling at the lushness of the corn, and taking in the regional architecture of small porched houses with old-fashioned, metal clad tile roofs. The more traditional of these roofs swoop up as they near the eaves like small ski jumps. We stopped at the Musée de la Mémoire Vivant, the replicated home of Phillippe Aubert de Gaspé, a native son of a noble family who is famous for writing Les Anciens Canadiens in 1863. He practiced law in Quebec City and later became sheriff. Ironically, he was incarcerated in the old Prison for four years for debt. After his release, he retired to his ancestral seigneur in St.-Jean-de-Port-Joli. (His book was translated into English in 1864.) Lunch that day was under a pergola in a sculpture garden. Besides artisan cheeses, it included local patés, rillettes, and compotes in addition to fresh baked breads and salads. While we waited for our guides to assemble the meal, we explored the garden, which gave information on the Bourgault brothers who put St.Jean-de-Port-Joli on the map as a woodcarving center. After lunch, we bicycled into the town past gallery and studios until we came to Madame Duval’s, whose studio on a hill amidst the trees is an open and welcoming place. Madame Duval stood in the center and never stopped carving a piece of wood that was taking the shape of a youngster at play. Our auberge for this evening was beautiful but its restaurant was closed, so we walked into town to the SAQ store for several bottles of wine and beer and gathered the clan for cocktails on the front patio. A few of us ventured into the Église de SaintJean-Port-Joli, which was founded in 1779 and is a masterpiece of woodwork. Gaspé is buried there under the

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seigniorial pew. Camille had found the perfect spot for sunset, so we wandered down to the quai for a glorious show and then found a small restaurant for dinner. The next day we assembled the bikes again, had a team meeting describing the route and the choices for the day before setting off for Kamouraska, where the St. Lawrence takes on the color and characteristics of the sea (41 miles). And so the days continued, as we explored each town and took in the views and sites along the way. Each day ended with a companionable dinner, flowing wine, and much laughter.

Reflections

As we rode along the south shore of the Seaway, several things struck me. For one, every village had at least one church with a soaring spire or two. While they exhibited a marked similarity in architectural style, the genius in the individual details was striking. Those churches became beacons for the ride. If we became separated, we always knew where to meet up. The land is divided differently than in the United States. Whereas the township system of square sections prevails in the U.S., on the south shore of the St. Lawrence Seaway, a long narrow strip of land starts at the shore in tideland marshes that rise to meadows that ascend to grain fields that swoop up to woods. It makes sense, really, for every farmer has access to the seaway for transportation and fishing, a portion of land for cows and beef cattle to graze, an area for corn, hay and wheat, and plenty of trees for building and firewood. Among the highlights of the tour was a visit to the marine histo-

ry center at Pointe-au-Pere, which was commemorating the centennial of a maritime disaster to rival the Titanic. On May 29, 1914, the ocean liner Empress of Ireland sank after a collision with a Norwegian coal ship. The transatlantic liner sank in just 14 minutes. Of the 1,477 people on board, 1,012 perished. The exhibit was fascinating, both in showing details about the luxury liner through hundreds of photographs and by revealing the events leading up to the tragedy in a very suspenseful way. Another highlight was a visit to the historic Reford Gardens/Jardins de Métis. Originally, Sir George Stephen, the founder of the Canadian Pacific Railway, built a single-story lodge on a large plot of land for use as a fishing camp. He deeded this property to his niece, Elsie Redford, in 1918. Elsie, an avid salmon fisherwoman, expanded the lodge and she and her family and friends made it a center for their social lives. In 1925, she had her appendix removed, and her doctor counseled her to give up fishing as it was too strenuous. Perhaps she could take up gardening, he suggested to the crestfallen woman. It is unlikely that he envisioned exactly how she would fulfill this prescription. Ten years later, she had planted 45 acres with approximately 3,000 plant varieties laid out in exquisite designs and sections. Today it is a Canadian National Historic Site. Although it was late in the day and late in the year, we found the gardens and house amazing, and we were especially grateful that the café was open for a glass of red wine and warm soup on this final day of the bike ride. Fall had descended, and it was time to bid adieu to our new friends. •MJ

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The national real estate market, which has a peculiar way of looking very little like ours, seems to be cooling after everyone announced the end of the downturn two years ago. The story here in Montecito is hardly cool. We are seeing strong demand and steady price increases in all sectors accompanied by a vanishing inventory. Since just last year, the $1-2M group, for example, has shrunk by 51 percent and no other sector has more inventory today than it had last year. Fewer homes for sale results necessarily in fewer sales, yet also higher sale prices. Buyers nearly bumping into each other wonder why they aren’t meeting more sellers. For whatever the reasons – and we can guess as to a few – the result is a robust seller’s market with a median sales price that has increased by 13 percent this year to $2,772,500. •MJ

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he sign clearly visible in the mist announced “Home Cooking” as we opened the door and received a warm greeting at Tomi’s Café before grabbing some hot chocolate and tea along with fresh muffins at 5:30 am, not my desired hour to be up and out. Kind words spoken softly to us strangers at that hour registers highly on my appreciation scale. It was a good road to get here, lined with tall spruce and cedars so characteristic of the Pacific Northwest. After traveling about two hours from Victoria, we pulled into the sleepy but active town of Port Renfrew on

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Botanical Beach with sun-bleached logs framing a nice cove with tide pools carved into the bedrock visible at lower tides

to set the down-riggers and lines to a depth zone thought to be where the king salmon were passing. He started the small trolling motor and we were fishing. I am lucky to have a wife with courage to brave the open ocean, even though I had tried to pick the time, place, and means to do it as comfortably as possible. But plans can go awry, fog can move in, winds can blow, seas can get choppy, and boats can be tossed in odd ways. Sue took her Dramamine and had a sleepy look on her face as the antihistamine’s side effect took hold (she reduced her double dose the following days), but no motion sickness occurred even though this first of three days was a bit rough. My usually active wife was lulled, by medication and a rocking boat, to nod off and on in her soft cabin seat. Fishing was slow and it soon became obvious that, what is referred to as “the bite,” was off. Several times in desperation I would admonish the salmon below to “Become a cause of

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y beautiful wife, Dallas, took her last breath on July 27 and there is one person above all others that I’d like to thank for caring for Dallas during the last two years of her life. That person is Rita Greyson, whose business card informs one and all that she is a professional care giver and not a care taker. There’s a happy spirit about Rita. She is so very capable in so many different ways, but her attitude is what really sets her apart. Dallas just loved her. After Rita’s first week with Dallas, though, I asked my wife what she thought and she said: “Get rid of her.” There is no question that Rita’s personality and approach was slightly unorthodox, but I suggested giving her a little more time. By the end of the second week, Dallas and Rita had become inseparable; they spent the next two years as best friends. She was with her all the time, every day, and quite a few nights. Rita’s not just a care giver, she’s a life giver. So, from the deepest recesses of my heart and soul, I thank you Rita. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I’d also like to thank Alicia St. John for helping Dallas put her cookbook and remembrances together in printed form. Thanks too to all the members of the Montecito Tennis Mafia who were both sensitive and supportive during that tough final year. And lastly I’d like to thank Montecito Journal and its founder, James Buckley, for his loyal support and friendship.

Yet Montecito is doing nothing, has no plan, and will not be in a position to receive any state help along these lines. That $3,255 per household price tag mentioned above could be considerably less, if only the Montecito Water District were to get moving. (In the Rincon septic-to-sewer project, the homeowners got 25 percent of their money back from the state when the project went through, via a $2 million state grant applied for by Carpinteria Sanitary District and supported by Heal the Ocean. Montecito Water should be moving forward with all available options, remembering that all potable water not used for irrigation is that much more potable water for human use. More than 75 percent of water use in the state of California is irrigation, and that includes Montecito. Recycled water is perfect for irrigation. Take a tour to Glen Annie Golf Course and see how lush and green it is! It is being watered with Goleta Sanitary District recycled water, supplemented by and blended with potable water... it’s worth a drive out there to look. There are ponds, lakes, marshes, and green grass everywhere. What on Earth is holding up the Montecito Water District? We at Heal the Ocean stand ready to help this community get its hands on state funding, as much as we can possibly get, but with such resistance there is nothing we can do. The citizens of Montecito need to get to a Montecito Water District Board meeting and register a protest about the hundreds of thousands of gallons of fresh water that is being flushed out into the ocean every single day while the board sits by and does nothing to recapture it. •MJ

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In the MJ “Desalination Really is the Answer” issue, Assemblyman Das Williams was dissed for suggesting that desalination is a “pipe dream.” What he was trying to get at is the desalination goes with a lot of permitting issues, including new regulations from the State Water Resources Control Board currently being finalized that will add requirements for intake technology (i.e., subsurface intakes) and brine disposal. You can’t just stick a straw in the ocean and start sucking up water, and you also can’t just dump brine back into the ocean any old way because it’s considered toxic waste. Montecito cannot afford to put all its eggs in the desal basket. MWD revenues are going down (as Mr. Hazard has been noticing) because citizens are buying their own water, and MWD is buying supplemental water without producing any. What happens when MWD not only runs out of water but also goes broke? Williams was trying to get across to Journal readers the point that in the $7 billion water bond on the November ballot, there is $725 million for water recycling and advanced water treatment technology projects. The state wants recycled water projects(!) and is already paying half the cost of facilities planning for wastewater plants to upgrade their wastewater to recycled water. Carpinteria Sanitary District (CSD) and Carpinteria Valley Water District (CVWD) have joined together to pay for a facilities planning grant (about $35,000 each after the state paid its half) for a plan for a CSD recycled water facility that produces recycled water with reverse osmosis. With reverse osmosis, there is much wider potential use of the recycled water, because of its higher quality. By the time the $725 million state funding pot rolls around, CSD/CVWD will have its plan in place and will be ready to apply for funding to build its new recycled water plant.

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controlled by SBCAG. The right compromise is that funding should probably come from both. Is the mayor supporting an EIR lawsuit as leverage to force [blackmail] Caltrans into fully funding her railroad bridge? The mayor and her predecessors have been trying unsuccessfully to negotiate an agreement with Union Pacific for almost 20 years. Union Pacific has been consistently un-cooperative and un-responsive. Caltrans and SBCAG have both indicated they will help the mayor negotiate with Union Pacific to find a way to fund her widened railroad bridge in parallel with the freeway widening. The design of the railroad bridge replacement is still unknown. There is no firm estimate of cost. The time schedule is equally blank. There is no final plan to maintain train service during any bridge replacement. Union Pacific has not responded formally to the mayor’s offers of serious negotiations. Is there logic in Caltrans’ position to not hold the freeway widening hostage to Union Pacific, but going ahead with the widening, while working with Union Pacific in parallel? The mayor also expressed serious concerns about projected massive backups after completion of the 101 widening all the way back to Patterson as a result of the Cabrillo interchange improvements. The data indicates the new ramps may add traffic backups at Cabrillo without a widened Union Pacific railroad bridge, but the widening of the 101 to three lanes increases traffic flow and shortens commute times. Isn’t it better for highway engineers, not lawyers, to debate and resolve all the issues of traffic flow?

Who is Behind the EIR Legal Challenge?

It was left to the media to identify the “11th hour and 59th minute” EIR court challenger as the “Transportation Futures Committee,” linked to attorney Marc Chytilo, who has a built his reputation on filing challenges to completed EIRs by calling them “inadequate.” Mr. Chytilo has so far refused to reveal the identities of the three members of the Transportations Futures Committee, his alleged clients. Chytilo was quoted as saying that “he put the organization together himself, linked to an existing legal entity known as the Committee for Land, Air, Water, and Species.” It has been reported that Chytilo claims that the lawsuit principals “all reside in the City of Santa Barbara and all had submitted letters of protest in response to the project EIR.” Who are these clients? What is their credibility? What are their grievances?

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There are many other puzzling aspects to the mayor’s editorial that make it an enigma wrapped in a conundrum for her most loyal supporters and political donors. Isn’t it reckless for the mayor to offer the city’s support for any litigant who sues Caltrans for an inadequate EIR without knowing who the litigants are, what they stand for, and what are their grievances? Was this editorial vetted by the City Attorney, or discussed prior to its publication with either the Santa Barbara City Council or the City of Santa Barbara Planning Commission, which has primary jurisdiction over matters related to the certified 101 EIR? The 101 HOV project will inevitably be heard by the City Planning Commission for the required Coastal Development permit. Isn’t it at least ill-advised for anyone who says they represent the city to speak publicly on matters that have not been presented in a public hearing with a full set of current, relative facts? The mayor needs to make her motives clearer about encouraging and supporting all who sue Caltrans for an inadequate EIR. At this point, her move seems to be bad politics and bad public policy because it appears to offend the 72 percent of county voters who overwhelmingly passed Measure A, the 101 commuters trapped in a daily gridlock marathon, her own City Planning Commission, and her 13 fellow members of the SBCAG Board. The whole position of the mayor has the stench of sour grapes, unworthy of a skilled politician of the caliber of Helene Schneider, who will soon be termedout and seeking opportunities for higher political office. •MJ

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Keeper of the Books, 165 Ellwood Station Road, Goleta, CA 93117. Rebekka Fortman, 165 Ellwood Station Road, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 30, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0002803. Published October 8, 15, 22, 29, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A Healthier Happier You, 429 E Main Street, Santa Maria, CA 93454. Danielle Chavez, 820 Louisa Terrace, Santa Maria, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 26, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Deborah Sanchez. FBN No. 2014-0002766. Published October 8, 15, 22, 29, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dog Groomer/ Fetch & Retrieve, 3433 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Suzanne Pena, 503 Verano Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 9, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN No. 2014-0002604. Published October 8, 15, 22, 29, 2014.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Bottle Shop, 1200 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Bassam Mechammill, 32 Saddlebow Road, Bell Canyon, CA 91307. Maryanne Mechammill, 32 Saddlebow Road, Bell Canyon, CA 91307. Morhaf Trad, 3657 Dry Creek Lane, Oxnard, CA 93036. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 29, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN No. 2014-0002788. Published October 8, 15, 22, 29, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mid State Appraisal Services, 700 Refugio Road, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. Sharon Steele, 700 Refugio Road, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 19, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2014-0002714. Published October 8, 15, 22, 29, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Online Natale Store, 219 West Arrellaga Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. T.J. Natale, 219 West Arrellaga Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 29, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this

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Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C53 Swimming Pool Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.

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is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2014-0002794. Published October 8, 15, 22, 29, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Spirit Walker Clothing, 106 Santa Felicia Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. Paige Kilbourne, 1523 Marquard Terrace, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 17, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0002688. Published October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pappalardo Productions; Renegade Technologies, 4423 Northoaks Dr, Lompoc, CA 93436. Sean M. Pappalardo, 4423 Northoaks Dr, Lompoc, CA 93436. This

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statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 24, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Carol Kraus. FBN No. 2014-0002753. Published October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: State of the Art Orthodontics and Imaging, 1525 State Street, #204, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Mark C. McDade, DMD, INC, 450 Rosewood Ave Ste 100, Camarillo, CA 93010. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 24, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2014-0002741. Published October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2014.

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A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on October 23, 2014 at 10:30 a.m., at the Westside Community Center, located at 423 W. Victoria St., Santa Barbara, CA, 93101 to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C-39 Roofing Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sweets For My Sweeties, 670 Ardmore Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. Vanessa Marie Craig, 670 Ardmore Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 18, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0002704. Published October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Key Class; The Key Class Fund, 1482 E. Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. The Key Class LLC, 1482 E. Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 26, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County

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Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2014-0002773. Published October 1, 8, 15, 22, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS The NAME STATEMENT: following person(s) is/are doing business as: All Things 1014 Westmont Recreated, Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Erica Huff, 1014 Westmont Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 4, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN No. 20140002563. Published September 24, October 1, 8, 15, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS The NAME STATEMENT: following person(s) is/are doing business as: La Cucina

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Road to Recovery It was sell-out crowd when Casa Serena threw its sixth annual Celebrate Recovery lunch at the Santa Barbara Club, marking 55 years of helping women recover from alcohol and drug addiction. The bash, co-chaired by Robbin Behrens and Dick Ellison, honored the Weingart Foundation and Craig Belknap for their services and featured a silent auction with stays in Baden, Austria, Cambria, and Miramar Beach. With an annual budget of $900,000,

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3754

ORDINANCE NO. 5668

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3754 for the Children’s Library Renovation at the Central Library Building will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 4, 2014 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “Children’s Library Renovation at the Central Library Building, Bid No. 3754". SUMMARY OF THE WORK The work of this contract consists of building and site improvements at the Central Library at 40 East Anapamu Street located in Santa Barbara, California. All work will follow the approved and permitted drawing set along with these specifications. The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Construction: • Renovate the lower level of the Library into a state of the art Children’s Library as per permitted design drawings. • Perform minor renovations to the Main Floor including but not limited to additional electrical outlets as well as some architectural features. • Construction of new restrooms in the Children’s Library area. • Reconfiguration and renovation of existing restrooms to improve functionality and meet ADA requirements. • Reconfiguration of the mechanical duct work and installation of a new roof mount exhaust fan as per design plans. • Construction of fire suppression system and water lines as per design plans. • Installation of a new water supply lateral trenched from the City main line on Anacapa St. Also includes the installation of backflow equipment and Fire Department Connections. • Construction pertaining to any ADA concerns identified in the design plans.

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE AIRPORT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT OF AGREEMENT NO. 19,528, DATED APRIL 15, 1999, BETWEEN MERCURY AIR CENTER – SANTA BARBARA, INC. DBA ATLANTIC AVIATION, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, AND THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA FOR OPERATION OF A FUEL STORAGE FACILTIY, AMENDING ARTICLE V, “RENT” (B)(1) AND (2) TO ALLOW FOR THE COLLECTION OF FUEL FLOWAGE FEES FOR FUEL DISPENSED TO THE COMMERCIAL AIR CARRIERS AT THE SANTA BARBARA AIRPORT. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. In accordance with the provisions of Section 521 of the Charter of the City of Santa Barbara, that certain amendment to Lease Agreement No. 19,528 between Mercury Air Center – Santa Barbara, Inc., dba Atlantic Aviation, and the City of Santa Barbara, establishing a fuel flowage fee for fuel dispensed to commercial air carriers at the Santa Barbara Airport, is hereby approved. ORDINANCE NO. 5668

The Engineer’s estimate is $1,000,000 - $1,750,000. Each bidder must have a Class A or B license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Thursday October 16, 2014 at 10:00 at 40 East Anapamu St, Santa Barbara, CA. The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained by contacting Mike Wiltshire, Project Engineer, at 805-564-5348 or mwiltshire@santabarbaraca.gov. The City’s contact for this project is Mike Wiltshire, Supervising Engineer, 805-564-5348 or mwiltshire@santabarbaraca.gov. In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through email and Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on September 23, 2014, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on September 30, 2014, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Dale Francisco; Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White, Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal. A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work. The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder. GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on October 1, 2014.

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

William Hornung, C.P.M.

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

PUBLISHED: October 1 & October 8, 2014 Montecito Journal

Marinello; Pemaboca Press, 1948 Jelinda Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Joan Bowman, 1948 Jelinda Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Linda Carman, 202 Las Quebradas, Alamo, CA 94507; Jeri Pederson, 107 Shoemaker, Grants Pass, OR 94527. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 16, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 20140002676. Published September 24, October 1, 8, 15, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cash America Payday Advance 1412-H N. H Street, Lompoc, CA 93436. Cash America Advance, Inc., 1800 West 7th Street, Fort Worth, TX, 76102. This statement was filed

with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 4, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 20140002550. Published September 24, October 1, 8, 15, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ascend Custom Wood Finishes, 5663 Camden Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93117. Jose Manuel Valladares, 5663 Camden Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 8, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

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by Miriam Lean. FBN No. 20140002594. Published September 24, October 1, 8, 15, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Wildlife By I Finsvik, 1781 Eucalyptus Hill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Ivanie Ann Finsvik, 1781 Eucalyptus Hill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 27, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Lean. FBN No. 20140002506. Published September 17, 24, October 1, 8, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Damian Francos Tree Surfers, 530 Pintura Drive,

Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Damian Nicolas Franco, 530 Pintura Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93111.This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 9, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 20140002599. Published September 17, 24, October 1, 8, 2014. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coyote Spring Water Company, 290 W. Mountain Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Keith Frick, 246 W. Mountain Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Claire Gottsdanker, 290 W. Mountain Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Jerry Gottsdanker, 276 W. Mountain Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Millie Sun Bear, 260 W. Mountain Drive, Santa Barbara,

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/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor Published October 8, 2014 Montecito Journal

CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 10, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 20140002626. Published September 17, 24, October 1, 8, 2014. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1468604. To all interested parties: Petitioner Susan Margaret Grant filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing

name to Suzanne Austin. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed September 23, 2014, by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: November

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ORDINANCE NO. 5670

ORDINANCE NO. 5669

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AUTHORIZING THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR TO EXECUTE A FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENT (CITY AGREEMENT NO. 23,630) BETWEEN THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AND CALIFORNIA POWER PARTNERS, INC., TO EXTEND THE TERM OF THE AGREEMENT TO JULY 1, 2024, AND FURTHER CLARIFY SECTION 8.4 OF THE AGREEMENT; AND AUTHORIZE THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR TO CONSENT TO THE ASSIGNMENT OF AGREEMENT NO. 23,630, AS AMENDED, FROM CALIFORNIA POWER PARTNERS, INC., TO CALIFORNIA POWER PARTNERS SANTA BARBARA, LLC

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE AIRPORT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT OF AGREEMENT NO. 18,538, DATED MARCH 14, 1997, BETWEEN SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORT CORPORATION, A DELAWARE CORPORATION, AND THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA FOR OPERATION OF A FUEL STORAGE FACILTIY, AMENDING ARTICLE IV, “RENT” (B)(1) AND (D) TO ALLOW FOR THE COLLECTION OF FUEL FLOWAGE FEES FOR FUEL DISPENSED TO THE COMMERCIAL AIR CARRIERS AT THE SANTA BARBARA AIRPORT.

THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:

THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1. The City Administrator of the City is hereby authorized to execute a first amendment to the Power Purchase Agreement (City Agreement No. 23,630) by and between the City of Santa Barbara and California Power Partners, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “CalPwr”), amending Sections 3.1 and 8.4 of the Agreement to extend the term of the contract from December 31, 2021 to July 1, 2024, and allow CalPwr, at the City’s discretion, to provide and invoice the City for backup supply of natural gas. SECTION 2. Upon the effective date of this Ordinance, the City Administrator is authorized to consent to the assignment of City Agreement No. 23,630 from CalPwr to California Power Partners Santa Barbara, LLC, a California Limited Liability Company. ORDINANCE NO. 5670 ) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

SECTION 1. In accordance with the provisions of Section 521 of the Charter of the City of Santa Barbara, that certain amendment to Lease Agreement No. 18,538 between Signature Flight Support Corporation and the City of Santa Barbara, establishing a fuel flowage fee for fuel dispensed to commercial air carriers at the Santa Barbara Airport, is hereby approved. ORDINANCE NO. 5669 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on September 23, 2014, and was adopted by

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on September 23, 2014, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on September 30, 2014, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Dale Francisco; Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White, Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on September 30, 2014, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Dale Francisco; Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White, Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on October 1, 2014.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on October 1, 2014.

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on /s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on October 1, 2014. /s/ Helene Schneider Mayor Published October 8, 2014 Montecito Journal

12, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 10/1, 10/8, 10/15, 10/22 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1468802. To all interested parties: Petitioner Hilal Omar El-Abed filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Hilal Omar Abed The Court orders that

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all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If

October 1, 2014. /s/ Helene Schneider Mayor Published October 8, 2014 Montecito Journal

no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed September 23, 2014, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: December 3, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 10/1, 10/8, 10/15, 10/22 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1468562. To all interested parties: Petitioner Leigh Ellen Ivanov filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Leigh Ellen Ehrlich The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing

indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed September 22, 2014, by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: November 12, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 10/1, 10/8, 10/15, 10/22

We forget that money gives its value: that someone exchanged work for it. – Neal O’Hara

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5363 DUE DATE & TIME: October 30, 2014 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Westside Community Center Kitchen Exhaust Hood & Condensing Units Install A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on October 23, 2014 at 10:00 a.m., at the Westside Community Center, located at 423 W. Victoria St., Santa Barbara, CA, 93101 to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C-20 Warm-Air Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning Contractor and C-36 Plumbing Contractor’s License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1468249. To all interested parties: Petitioner Rom Bo Thach filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Charlie Borom Thach. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed August 18, 2014, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: October 15, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8

Published: October 8, 2014 Montecito Journal

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1468152. To all interested parties: Petitioner German Lopez Olvera filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Anthony Lopez Olvera. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed August 19, 2014, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: October 15, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8

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Entertainer Embraces Orchestra

Hot on the heels of Mary Chapin Carpenter’s latest album, Songs from the Movie, which re-imagines 10 songs from her vast catalog against the backdrop of a full symphony orchestra, the veteran folk-country singer-songwriter spent most of the year performing with famous orchestras around the world, including the London Philharmonic just late last month. On Friday, however, Carpenter, comes to the Lobero Theater fronting only a simple acoustic trio. It might be schizophrenic, but flirting with new settings is just one skill of Carpenter’s, who won four consecutive Grammys for Best Female Country Vocal Performance (1992-95) before expanding far beyond the limiting genre. Here are her thoughts on a few related topics: On what she’s learned through the orchestral project: “It’s been life-altering and transformative. I just spent Monday night last week playing the Royal Albert Hall – one of the greatest experiences of my life. It’s so awesome to change into different clothes and use other muscles. It’s enervating.” On what happens next: “The orchestral lesson was a deeply heartfelt lesson, or reminder, to be vigilant not to let up on doing things you’re scared of or not sure you can do, or don’t even know how to do. I’ve been a traveling singer-songwriter for almost 30 years. I wake up and can say with confidence that I know how to do it. Then all of a suddenly to take on project like this, and start from zero and potentially fall on your face... well, let me tell you, standing on stage listening to a 78-piece orchestra playing “Come On, Come On” – which started out

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with me at my little desk playing my little guitar? – it’s like, ‘How did this happen?!’ It’s so awesome. So at this point, it makes me hungry to do more things that scare me. I just want to put together as many project as possible that I’m going to learn something from.” On how playing with the trio fits that ethic: “I love being able to strip things down and give them different colors. It’s a different kind of connection with my colleagues on stage and the audience. You have to play and sing and even think differently. It keeps me on my toes.” On whether the orchestra record has affected her songwriting process: “I’ve been writing for a couple of years already. We’ll play new un-recorded songs on these shows. But it’s still just me with my guitar at my desk. I don’t hear the arrangements in my head. I’m just trying to write the song and be satisfied. It’s part mystery to me, too.”

Ensemble Stages Amadeus

Jonathan Fox realized he was seeing a modern classic even before the curtain came down during the opening London run of Amadeus, Peter Shaffer’s astonishing play about the famed composer Mozart and his far lesser-known rival Salieri. Impressed by the almost operatic blend of comedy and tragedy mixed with political intrigue and a whole lot of music, Fox immediately put Amadeus on his to-do list as a producer. But it wasn’t until Ensemble Theater Company (ETC) moved into its new home at The New Vic last season that Fox, ETC’s executive/artistic director, could seriously entertain the idea. Now, he’s beyond thrilled to stage the work that has remained popular over the 35 years since it was written, and 30 years after the movie won a slew of Oscars. “I’m really pushing the theatricality,” Fox said over the phone recently. “It’s important to key on the connection between performer and audience. The

play has a lot going on, so I’m trying to sort that out and create the right balance. It has a very musical structure and feels operatic, so we want to achieve that as much as we can. We’re trying to see how far we can go that direction without going over the top.” Although a recording will provide the soundtrack for the musical sequences that are imbued in the story, ETC is also creating a special partnership with the Santa Barbara Symphony for a benefit performance on Tuesday, October 21. It’s the first serious effort by ETC to create synergy with another major arts organization but likely not the last at all. “We share some of the same audience,” Fox explained. “It’s a great opportunity to come together and collaborate.” Obviously, casting plays a big role in a show like Amadeus, and Fox said he believes he found a terrific duo to play the principal roles. Daniel Gerroll portrays Salieri, the composer whose envy for the far more gifted Mozart eats away so strongly that he conspires to destroy his rival. Gerroll, a six-year veteran of the British Repertory system, also has decades of experience on and off Broadway and has received Theatre World and Outer Critics’ Circle awards, as well as a Village Voice OBIE for Sustained Excellence in Theatre. His TV roles include Cheers, Seinfeld, Knots Landing, Ugly Betty, and The Good Wife. Playing Mozart – the absurdly ahead-of-histime genius whose musical talent is matched only by his emotional immaturity – is Randy Harrison, best known for portraying Justin Taylor on the Showtime series Queer as Folk, and who made his Broadway debut as Boq in Wicked. The stage version of Amadeus finds Salieri directly addressing the audience with his anger, jealousy, plans and plots – unlike the movie where the composer confesses to a priest. “You’re watching the main character conniving with everyone else on stage as he lets you in on what he intends to do,” Fox explained. “He’s an ambitious man with an agenda full of jealousy. And he tells the audience what his issues are, what his goals are, and then we watch him achieve them through very malicious means. And yet he ‘s charming, cunning, and smart – so you are conflicted.” Fox noted the similarities to TV’s House of Cards, the political drama starring Kevin Spacey that captivated many over the last year. “It made me so excited, I was disappointed that I had to wait at the end of each season for next one to come out,” he said. With any luck, we’ll feel the same way about ETC’s Amadeus. Some of us have already re-watched the movie just to get ready.

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(Amadeus performs October 9-26 at the New Vic. Call 965-5400 or visit www.etcsb.org.)

Ficsor and Diemer Team Up

If composer/pianist Emma Lou Diemer was inspired by initially partnering with former Westmont violin professor Phil Ficsor, she was even more moved by his departure. “I was really sad that he was leaving,” Diemer said recently. “It was sad for a lot of us, because we really enjoyed his playing, and him and his family.” But Diemer – a Santa Barbara resident since 1971 whose music has been published since 1957, ranging from choral works and hymns to solo, chamber music and orchestral music – had the means and opportunity to channel those emotions into music. The result was “Going Away”, which she wrote for Ficsor shortly before he decamped Montecito for Colorado and recorded with the violinist late last year. They’ll premiere the piece in performance at Faulkner Gallery at Saturday’s season-opening concert for the Santa Barbara Music Club. “I wanted to express the distress that he was leaving, so there’s a particular dissonant chord I use that has a lot of angst,” explained Diemer, who has composed on commission for the Santa Barbara Symphony among many other ensembles. “Then it gets really happy thinking about all the good times. The next section where the family is packing up and getting ready to go is a bit of a frenzy. Then the repeated dissonant chords come back loudly before fading away as we’re watching him and his family drive away, before it returns to a happy mood looking ahead to new adventures, and their new life in Colorado.” “Going Away” will be preceded in the concert by Diemer’s violin and piano sonata, comprised of four movements, the latter three of which were composed in 1949 when Diemer was a student at Yale – also Ficsor’s alma mater – with an introductory “Prelude” written earlier this year. “Most of my violin works were written for him, but this was the only one he hadn’t performed or recorded,” Diemer explained. “He wanted me to write an opening movement. I still use some of the same stylistic techniques I had back then. So there was no way not to say yes.” Indeed, the partnership grew organically after Diemer met Ficsor when the violinist was a guest soloist during her regular church organ gig at First Presbyterian. “We think alike in many ways,” she said. “He’s very thorough and very particular, but also has a lot of spirit and drive and understanding of rhythms, and I’ve always been very 9 – 16 October 2014

intrigued by rhythm.” Ficsor and Diemer will close the concert with her 2012 violin concerto composed for Ficsor but previously only heard in orchestral format. It’s full of changes, veering from parlor music to ragtime and early John Adams abstract music. “I do hope people stay to the end, because it’s his favorite,” Diemer said. “There’s a lot to do, and he’s playing constantly. It’s got a high energy level all the time.”

More Fiddling Around

If Ficsor’s violin pyrotechnics have you hungering for more fancy fiddle work, fret not. Sunday, October 12, brings the annual Fiddlers Festival back to Goleta, and there should be pickin’ and bowin’ aplenty. Fortythree years in, the festival has grown considerably since its days as a competition-centric event largely geared toward amateurs, with a rule that all songs had to be at least 75 years old. Heck, they even took Old Time out of the festival’s name not long ago. Now, while competitors still get some air time and impromptu jam sessions still pop up all day all around the Stow House grounds, professional performances are a priority, and this year’s lineup is a humdinger. The Dustbowl Revival – the L.A.area based roots music collective

Fiddling for the Goleta fest

that brings a virtuosic yet madcap approach to a quirky blend of mountain bluegrass, New Orleans swing, gospel, blues, and jug band music. The ensemble astounded the audience at this year’s Live Oak festival – keeping the crowd up and dancing past midnight in a late set. Also on the bill is Rocky Neck Bluegrass Band, a more traditional trio that got its start winning first place in the band contest at the Fiddle Festival’s So Cal counterpart, the 2009 Topanga Banjo and Fiddle Festival. Locally based The Honeysuckle Possums also get a healthy set. The 2014 festival also marks a new partnership with Goleta Valley Art Association, which will simultaneously host its 10th Annual Art Festival on the grounds. Local artists will be showing and selling their works in oil, watercolor, pastels, jewelry, ceramics,

and more. Get tickets, stage schedules, competition rules and info online at www. fiddlersconvention.org.

Classical Corner

Adrian Noble’s chilling production of Verdi’s take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth launches the 2014-15 season of Metropolitan Opera “Live in HD” simulcasts at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall (and the Arlington Theatre downtown) on Saturday morning. Soprano Anna Netrebko portrays Lady Macbeth, the mad and murderous mate of Željko Lučić’s doomed Macbeth, for the first time at the Met. The production also stars Joseph Calleja as the noble Macduff and René Pape as Banquo. Screentime is 9:55 am. Info and tickets at www.musicacademy.org.

Italian pianist Domenico Codispoti – a winner of the Ferrol International Piano Competition who has been called “a skilled storyteller, always imaginative and inventive” – makes his Santa Barbara debut in a recital at 7 pm on Sunday at the Lobero Theater, where he’ll perform works by Chopin, Rachmaninov, Liszt, and Federico Mompou.

Focus on Film

Santa Ynez screenwriter Gerald Di Pego – best known for Instinct (1999), Phenomenon (1996), and Message in a Bottle (2004) – talks about emotional reality in film at the Screenwriters Association of Santa Barbara’s free monthly meeting at 7 pm Thursday, October 9, at Brooks Institute, 27 East Cota Street. Di Pego’s latest film, Words and Pictures, which opened in May, stars Juliette Binoche and Clive Owen. Scott Neustadter, who most recently co-authored the scripts for The Spectacular Now and The Fault in Our Stars, participates in a Q&A following a screening of (500) Days of Summer, the 2009 sleeper hit that was adapted from his own experiences at struggling to find true love, at UCSB Pollock Theater’s first Scriptto-Screen event of the new season, Sunday at 2 pm. •MJ

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C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9 London Calling – CAMA kicks off its “Season of the Piano” with the first of two concerts featuring a renowned orchestra from England’s capitol. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – hailed by The New York Times for his “deft touch, fluid playing, and coloristic flair” – the guest soloist as the London Philharmonic Orchestra returns to Santa Barbara under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski for a program centered around Prokofiev’s “Piano Concerto No. 3” in C Major, Op.26. Dvoák’s ”The Noonday Witch”, Op.108, B.196, and Tchaikovsky’s popular “Symphony No. 6” in B minor, Op.74, “Pathétique”, are also on the bill. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1214 State Street COST: $33-$103 INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org Lorde It Over – Although Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor won’t turn 18 until next month, the New Zealand singer-songwriter who goes by Lorde has already hit it big. Her 2013 single “Royals” topped the charts internationally, including Billboard’s Hot 100 which made Lorde – who plies anxiety, romance and other teen issues via an arty electronica/club mix/ dreampop soundscape – the youngest solo artist to achieve a U.S. number-one single since Tiffany in 1987. “Royals”

also claimed Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance awards at the 2014 Grammys, following which Lorde played at Coachella and performed “All Apologies” with the surviving members of Nirvana for their induction at this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame awards. Her debut album, Pure Heroine, hit number three on Billboard and has sold more than a million copies, with the single “Team” reaching the top across five radio formats. Can she connect live on a big outdoor stage? Find out tonight at the Santa Barbara Bowl. Majical Cloudz opens. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas Stret COST: $45-$70 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12 Six Hands, Lots of Voices – Santa Ynez-based/Hollywood-approved pianist Ian Bernard returns to SOhO for the monthly Santa Barbara Jazz Society concert with his trio, but this time around there’s a whole lot more. Bernard – whose resumé includes stints with Chet Baker, Maynard Ferguson, and Barney Kessel and serving as music director for Vic Damone, Rosemary Clooney, and Michael Feinstein – will be joined not only by veteran drummer Paul Kreibich and bassist Richard Simon, but also two Jazz Society members who are also accomplished singers: Sandy

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9 4 x 4 Means More Dance – Nebula Dance Lab returns to Center Stage Theater for a fourth season with four performances of Dreamscape, the latest production from the completely collaborative company. Although Devyn Duex is Nebula’s founder/director, the entire company has been a participant in the creation of this work from the initial concept through the lighting, costumes, and music. The new twist this season is that the choreography has been also included in this collaborative process, as the dancers have stepped into choreography and directing, working cohesively as a team to create the full evening-length work. Dreamscape explores the various forms and concepts of dreaming, both literally and figuratively, with a goal to take the audience out of reality and explore the inner workings of the landscape of dreams. It’s a whimsical and often humorous journey that’s at once oddly familiar, transitory, and hopeful. The choreographer-dancers include Duex, Emily Tatomer, Meghan Morelli, Megan Butala, Megan Ragland, Shelby Joyce, and Meredith Cabaniss (who also did the lighting/visual arts design), featuring a guest performance by Kaita Mrazek. Set to an original score by William Pasley, Dreamscape employs sound throughout the entire work – and even before it begins as four musicians will play live starting 15 minutes prior to each performance, with a different musical guest at each show. WHEN: 8 pm today through Saturday, 2 pm Sunday WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $21 general, $16 students and children under 12 INFO: 963-0408 or www.CenterStageTheater.org

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 Harp on It – Camerata Pacifica’s October program celebrates Bridget Kibbey’s appointment as its new principal harpist, offering a program to introduce her wideranging musical personality. Kibbey, a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant as well as many other awards, made her Camerata debut just two years ago and is now joining the quarter-century old chamber music collection on a permanent basis. The nine short pieces on the bill of fare include the world premiere of Three Songs of Home, a new work by Ian Wilson written for the harpist, CamPac founder-flutist Adrian Spence, and principal violist Richard O’Neill in celebration of the ensemble’s 25th season; pieces she commissioned from Kati Agócs (“Northern Lights”), Paquito D’Rivera (“Bandoneon”), and David Bruce (“The Eye of Night”); and her own arrangement of Bach’s famous “Toccata and Fugue” in D Minor, BWV 565. The concert also features Benjamin Britten’s “Lachrymae” (with O’Neill), and an unusual arrangement of Jose Benito Barros’ “Benito El pescador”. WHEN: 1 pm (selected works only) & 7:30 pm WHERE: Hahn Hall, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $45 (1pm $22) INFO: 884-8410 or www.cameratapacifica.org

Cummings, who favors the standards songbook classics, and Teka, the Brazilian singer-songwriter who excels in samba and other sensuous beats. WHEN: 1-4 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $25 general, $10 regular SBJS members, $7 professional musicians/ students INFO: 962-7776/www. sohosb.com or www.sbjazz.org

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rear-view mirror, but classical music superstars are still appearing in Hahn Hall, albeit far less often and under the auspices of other organizations. Pianist Charlie Albright, the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, makes his Santa Barbara debut tonight in the intimate space at Miraflores that should serve as an excellent venue for his critically acclaimed nuanced and coloristic readings. Albright – who earned a bachelor’s in pre-med and economics at Harvard in 2011 and a master’s at the New England Conservatory just a year later – has already been praised by The New York Times for “Jaw-dropping technique… Virtuosity meshed with a distinctive musicality.” His program includes “Two Impromptus from op. 90” by Schubert; Janáček’s “Piano Sonata” (1. X. 1905); Strauss/Schulz-Evler’s Concert Arabesques on themes from “On the Beautiful Blue Danube”; Chopin’s “Etudes, op. 25”, and – in what has become a trademark for Albright – an improvisation segment in which he often riffs on passages based on musical notes audience members suggest on the spot. Also coming to Hahn through UCSB Arts & Lectures’ new Up Close & Musical series are wild Up (November 8), Danish String Quartet (November 18), Brooklyn Rider (January 22), and Jennifer Koh & Shai Wosner in Bridge to Beethoven (April 22). WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 1070 Fairway Road COST: $30 INFO: 893-3535 or www. ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

Everything’s Albright – The 2014 summer festival at the Music Academy of the West is two months in the

Even More Intimate – The Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Mary Craig Auditorium contains fewer than half the

School of Rock – Not to be confused with the Jack Black film, Schoolhouse Rock Live! is the kid-oriented pop culture phenomenon from Childsplay Theater Company that makes learning fun. The iconic cartoon series that was a staple of Saturday morning children’s programming from 1973 to 1985 and again in the 1990s has been transformed into a rollicking live show featuring beloved songs updated for a whole new generation. School subjects are never boring when cleverly taught through catchy mega-hits like “Conjunction Junction”, “Just a Bill”, “Interplanet Janet”, or “Three is a Magic Number”. The show kicks off UCSB A&L’s 2014-15 Family Fun series featuring world-class entertainment for the whole family. Come an hour early before each show for free craft making, balloon launching, face painting, and more. WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $16 adults, $12 children INFO: 893-3535 or www. ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 Love, Hate & Comics – Cartoon superstars Matt Groening and Lynda Barry met nearly 40 years ago while working on their college newspaper at Evergreen State College in Washington. Since then, you might say, they’ve been fairly productive. Groenig, whose highly influential comic strip Life in Hell (which ran in more than 250 weekly newspapers from 1977 to 2012) eventually led to the creation of The Simpsons, the Emmy-winning sitcom that brought animation back to prime time with a show that skewered Groenig’s own nuclear family, even using their same names. Celebrating its 25th season in 2014, it’s also the longestrunning scripted series in TV history. Barry is the creator of Ernie Pook’s Comeek, the indie comic strip peopled by quirky pre-teens that garnered a large cult following and ran for two decades in alternative weeklies. She has also worked as a painter, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher – she’s currently associate professor in interdisciplinary creativity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tonight, the two creative geniuses and old pals come together again in a conversation with multimedia to discuss love, hate, comics – and the perpetual joy of driving each other crazy – in the duo’s only joint West Coast appearance. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State Street COST: $20-$55 general, $18 students and youths 18 and under INFO: 893-3535/www. ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu or 963-4408/www.ticketmaster.com/venue/73731

seats available at Hahn, so audiences really do get an interactive experience when small chamber music ensembles come to visit. Kicking off the 201415 season tonight is The Pasquier Trio, the veteran French trio founded early in the 1940s by the renowned cellist Etienne Pasquier (who premiered Olivier Messiaen’s famed Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps in a concentration camp in 1942 with Messiaen himself on piano) along with his brothers Jean and Pierre. His sons Régis (violin) and Bruno (viola) and cellist Roland

Pidoux – who came together at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris – have comprised the current trio for more than 30 years; all are also accomplished soloists and educators. Their performance tonight includes Schubert’s “Trio No. 2” in B-flat Major, D. 581; Schnittke’s “String Trio,” Op. 191; Machuel’s String Trio, “Leçons Des Ténèbres”; and Beethoven’s “Trio No. 1” in E-flat Major, Op. 3. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 1130 State Street COST: $22 general, $18 museum members INFO: 963-4364 or www.sbma.net •MJ

Matt Groening

A special event with the creator of The Simpsons™ and Ernie Pook’s Comeek FRI, OCT 10 / 8 PM / ARLINGTON THEATRE Tickets start at $20 / $18 all students & youth (18 & under)

Santa Barbara Debut

Charlie Albright, piano WED, OCT 15 / 7 PM / HAHN HALL MusIC ACADEMy OF THE WEsT

“Among the most gifted musicians of his generation.” The Washington Post Up Close & Musical series in Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West sponsored by Dr. Bob Weinman

Author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Graphic Novel Maus

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11

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Ojai Studio Artists Tour – The 31st annual selfguided tour takes place Columbus Day weekend, perhaps aptly, as there are a few new adventures as the Ojai institution enters its fourth decade. Fifty artists are opening their studios located throughout the truly breathtaking Ojai Valley on Saturday and Sunday, but the tour actually begins with a special preview event on Friday. OSA artist Karen Lewis leads a program designed to help people plan their personal tour schedules with an introduction to the lives and work of each of the 50 participating artists. There are also six artists included on this year’s tour for the first time, including some with ties to Montecito. Also, full-on artist demonstrations will also be a feature at several studios, with the schedule posted in advance on the OSA website and distributed to participants on tour days to make it easier to catch creators at work. Saturday’s Dessert Reception remains a popular add-on, featuring live music and a raffle of art baskets filled with original art and local products including Ojai honey, olive oil, and lavender. Proceeds from the tour fund OSA’s artreach program, including the youth art scholarships OSA awards each spring, as well as community support such as art books for the library and capital improvements at the Ojai Center for the Arts. Among the artists on this year’s tour is Ted Gall, whose cast bronze sculptures are a reflection of human emotion designed to be psychologically intriguing (one features a metal head covered in multiple masks that once flipped back reveal a small television playing film clips of people’s faces from the silent film Metropolis and taking video of the person viewing). Complete details, artists’ info, and tickets and a map are available online at the tour’s website, www.ojaistudioartists.org. WHEN: Preview 7 pm Friday; tour 10 am to 5 pm today & tomorrow WHERE: Ojai Center for the Arts, 113 S. Montgomery COST: $25 general, $15 youth 16-18; free 15 and under ($30 after Friday)

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Books will be available for purchase and signing

Author of the No. 1 New York Times Best-seller Flash Boys

Michael Lewis

TuE, OCT 21 / 8 PM / GRANADA THEATRE Tickets start at $25 / 15 uCsb students

Community Partner:

Principal Sponsors: Susan & Craig McCaw

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 45) Cristina Ricci, Rhonda Henderson, and Michele PougetDrum (photo by Priscilla)

Clifford and Philip Wyatt, speaker Simon Winchester, and Geoffrey Wyatt (Credit: Kimberly Citro)

Mark Danielson, Karen Garcia, Billy Spencer, Ron Werft, Ed Behrens, and Katie Coy (photo by Priscilla)

with the Stars, a walk-on role in the company’s The Nutcracker, a week in Durango, Colorado, and a five-night stay in a condo at the Jumeirah Essex House in New York. Among the glittering green-garbed guests quaffing emerald martinis of Midori liqueur with vodka were Scott Reed, Stan and Betty Hatch, William Daniels, Maurice Singer, Mahri Kerley, Marylove Thralls, Barbara Burger, Paul Munch, Patricia Gregory, Rodney and Allison Gustafson, Jerome and Dinah Baumgartner, and Jonatha King, who emceed the gala. Company members performed three dance vignettes, while Chris Fossek played on classical guitar...

neurship academies, the Café Royale Culinary program, and landscaping and infrastructure improvements. The gala, co-chaired by Cristina Ricci, Rhonda Henderson, and Michele Pouget-Drum, and hosted by KEYT anchors, C.J. Ward and his wife, Beth Farnsworth, also honored Ron Werft, president of the Cottage Health System, Rich Ridgway, principal of Investec, and the Orfalea Foundation.. Matt Marquis, who attended the school, conducted the live auction, which included a stay at a home in Loreto Bay, Mexico, Los Angeles Clippers vs. Miami Heat tickets, and a catered event by the culinary arts program...

The Pride is Right San Marcos High School threw its first Royal Gala at Fess Parker’s Doubletree, with 360 guests attending the Royal Pride Foundation’s dinner event, which raised around $130,000. “I’m very excited about this inaugural event,” says Ed Behrens, principal of the 2,100-student school. “There have been so many changes and improvements to San Marcos during the past few years, and this is the perfect way to celebrate those accomplishments.” Over the past two years, the foundation has raised more than $600,000, helping fund the health and entrepre-

Good As Gold Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation’s Gold Ribbon lunch on the lawn at the Biltmore was literally a sizzler, with temperatures soaring into the 90s and the 309 guests darting into the welcome shade of the umbrellas at the dining tables. The event, co-chaired by Sheela Hunt and Donna Barranco Fisher, was expected to enable the Gold Ribbon campaign held last month to go over the $200,000 mark for the popular non-profit, which has helped more than 170 children in the past year. The bash also honored actor Billy

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Baldwin, doctors Francisco Bracho and Christopher Lando, Jeff and Erika Zamora, and the Santa Barbara chapter of the National Charity League. Comedienne Carol Burnett’s husband, Brian Miller, also accepted a bouquet of flowers for his wife for promoting the campaign, while Sean Kelly was emcee and auctioneer, selling off lots including a Corum wrist watch, VIP tickets to The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and a Seabourne European cruise. Among those trying to keep their cool were Annette Caleel, Doreen Ladin, Anne Towbes, Mara Abboud, Susan St. John, Irma and Morrie Jurkowitz, Carole Ridding, Perri Harcourt, Betty Stephens, Andrea Rifkin, and Jeff Barbakow. Students from Westmont College, under conductor Grey Brothers, sang a capella music to entertain the heated throng... Electric Slide Veteran crooner Tony Bennett was decidedly less electrifying than usual at the weekend. The 88-year-old singer, who currently has the country’s number-one album with Cheek to Cheek with Lady

Gaga, 28, was scheduled to kick off the latest UCSB Arts & Lectures series with a sold-out show at the Granada with a 7 pm concert, one hour earlier than the normal schedule. Southern California Edison gremlins produced extraordinary scenes as the theater’s lobby was illuminated by a backup generator, but the rest of State Street was in the dark, courtesy of a blown transformer nearby, which meant that 20,000 people had no electricity. As the minutes ticked by, bottles of iced water were handed out to the guests milling on the city’s main thoroughfare on an oppressively hot night, all hoping against hope the power would be turned back on. But it was not to be, as a Granada official announced Bennett’s show had been cancelled, though it is now scheduled for Sunday, October 12, at 7 pm. However, another Arts & Lectures event with The New York Times best-selling author Simon Winchester, who recently released the paperback version of The Men Who United the States, had the former Brit recounting riveting stories of America’s trailblazers from explorers like Lewis and Clark to

Crowds milling outside the Granada during the power outage (photo by Priscilla)

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John and Hazel Blankenship with members of the Westmont College Siloam Quartet: Han Soo Kim, Lalia Mangione, Alexandra Nieuwsma, and Rebecca Shasberger (photo by Priscilla)

Laura Shelburne with author Simon Winchester and his wife, Setsuko Sato, a former NPR producer (Credit: Kimberly Citro)

Hosts Gene Sinser and Patty DeDominic, Adams Professor of Music and Worship at Westmont College Michael Shasberger, with doctors Kathy and Assad Mora (photo by Priscilla)

Harvard geologist and mountaineer Clarence King. Certainly adding some light on the subject, sadly lacking elsewhere...

Bravo, Betty Spanish roots were most definitely to the fore when the Rescue Mission hosted its 13th annual fundrais-

er “Viva La Bayou” at Rancho Dos Pueblos honoring 90-year-old Betty Rosness, a former advertising and public relations specialist, with the Leni Fe Bland Award. The boffo bash, co-chaired by Susan Hughes and Suzi Ryan, welcomed 323 guests and raised around $400,000 for the charity, which celebrates its

50th anniversary next year. “It is a large part of our annual $2.3 million budget,” says president Rolf Geyling. “We get no government help, and we have an open-door policy 365 days a year, serving nearly 145,000 meals and providing around 64,000 safe overnight accommodations.” KEYT-TV anchor Victoria Sanchez emceed and former supermodel turned mega entrepreneur Kathy Ireland introduced Betty, who made her first parachute jump to celebrate her benchmark birthday earlier this year.. Among the supporters turning out for the cause were Andrea Gallo, Cliff Lambert, Joyce Dudley, Ed and Sue Birch, Silvio DiLoreto, Craig Case, Hal Conklin, Bill Curtis, Bill and Barbara Cirone, Tom and Marcia Reed, Tom Glass, Steve Fellows, Rob and Susan Miller, and Ken Wozniak. Sonorous Soirée Gene Sinser and Patty DeDominic opened the doors of their Montecito home to host a bijou musical soirée

for Westmont College with musical director Michael Shasberger. Featuring works by Schuman and Faure, among others, the quintet with Rebecca Shasberger on cello, harpist Alexandra Nieuwsma, Lalia Mangione on violin, violist Sandra Wilson, and pianist Aaron Wilk played an intimate entertaining show. Among those savoring the magical musical moment were John Blankenship, Diane Dodd, Carol Sherwood Luce, Joyce Lind Hutchinson, and Clifton Lundberg... Sightings: Reality TV star Kim Kardashian spotted at the Bacara... Houston Rockets hoopster Dwight Howard playing softball at Elings Park...Actor Christopher Lloyd grabbing a Java jolt at Pierre Lafond Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and other amusing items for Richard’s column should e-mail him at richardmineards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal •MJ

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SHORT/LONG TERM RENTAL CARMEL BY THE SEA vacation getaway. Charming, private studio. Beautiful garden patio. Walk to beach and town. $110/night. 831-624-6714 Two-story, 3 bdrm/3 ba home on Oriole Rd. 2 fireplaces, 2 walk-in closets, large decks, 2-car garage, large yard, use of pool. New upgrades to kitchen and baths. Montecito Union School. One-year lease. $7500/mo. (805) 8988820 or (805) 969-0510. HOUSE/PET SITTING SERVICES House & Pet Service. Responsible. Caring. References. 805-451-6200. sbhousesitting@gmail.com

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PARLEZ-VOUS FRANÇAIS? Learn the language with a native. Exam prep, conversation, translation, trip planning etc... Contact Bénédicte Wolfe 455 9786 or bebe1415@verizon.net POSITION WANTED Estate Caretaker and manager seeking position. 20 yrs Montecito resident. Excellent local refs. Resume available. Former television executive & chief financial officer. 805-708-9124. WOODWORKING/CARPENTRY

ESTATE/MOVING SALE THE CLEARING HOUSE, LLC   Recognized as the Area’s Leading  Estate Liquidators – Castles to Cottages  Experts in the Santa Barbara Market!  Professional, Personalized Services  for Moving, Downsizing, and Estate Sales . Complimentary Consultation (805) 708 6113  email: theclearinghouseSB@cox.net website: theclearinghouseSB.com Estate Moving Sale ServiceEfficient-30yrs experience. Elizabeth Langtree 689-0461 or 733-1030. COMPUTER/VIDEO SERVICES

Taking pride in growing strong client relationships Cimme Eordanidis, Realtors ®, GREEN Village Properties Lic:01745878 (805) 722-8480 cimme@villagesite.com

Music Academy of the West. Now offering lessons in your home for children and adults. Call us at 684-4626.

VIDEOS TO DVD TRANSFERS Hurry, before your tapes fade away. Now doing records & cassettes to CD. Only $10 each 969-6500 Scott. TUTORING SERVICES PIANO LESSONS Kary and Sheila Kramer are long standing members of the Music Teachers’ Assoc. of Calif. Studios conveniently located at the

Finish Custom Carpentry. Furniture, cabinets, restoration, doors, windows.. Ca Lic#911243. (805)696-8507. Cristian. CEMETERY PLOT FOR SALE Ocean View Cemetery plot in Montecito Can accommodate two cremated remains. Standard cost: $25,000.00 Offered at $ 10,000.00 (805) 684-9977 ARTIST REQUEST Used Nespresso Pods Wanted For Local Artist Do you drink Nespresso Coffee? I want your used coffee pods. I’m a local artist and I use these colorful pods in my creations. Save them for me and I will pick them up from Carp. to Goleta area. Creative purposeful recycling (up-cycling) at its best! Thanks so much! Evelyn email me at pods.nespresso@gmail.com http:// pods-nespresso.com/

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Loving Pet Care in my Home $25 for play day $40 for overnight Carole (805) 452-7400 carolebennett@cox.net

LAWRENCE RAMSTRUM CONSTRUCTION Since 1976

Lawrence Ramstrum Tel: 805.684.7566 Fax: 805.684.7565 Cell: 805.331.8100

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Let Us Share the care Professional, compassionate, and affordable adult day services since 1976.

We’ll take your pet to the vet, groomer, airport, or anywhere! www.chauffur.com Call Connie today! (805) 259-7309

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VOLUNTEERS WANTED Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center employs the power of the horse to enhance the capabilities of children and adults with special needs in Santa Barbara. Join our volunteer team and make a difference in someone’s life. To lean more, visit www.heartsriding.org 964-1519. Do you love Reagan history? The Reagan Ranch Center is seeking volunteers who would be interested in serving as docents for the Exhibit Galleries. Docents will have the opportunity share the history of President Reagan and his “Western White House.” For more information or to apply, please contact Danielle Fowler at

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805-957-1980 or daniellef@reaganranch.org. “The 1st Memorial Honors Detail is seeking veterans to get back in uniform to participate in an on-call Honor Guard team to provide military honors at funeral or memorial services throughout Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. For more information visit www.usmilitaryhonors. org, email carlvwade@gmail.com, or call 805-667-7909.” Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter is located at the Santa Barbara County Animal Shelter, 5473 Overpass Rd, Santa Barbara, Ca. www.bunssb.org Adopt /Volunteer/Donate with us, and help give abandoned & stray rabbits & guinea pigs a better life.

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4455 Via Bendita $15,750,000 Kogevinas/Schultheis 805.450.6233/805.729.2802 A Notable Hope Ranch Estate. 5BD/7BA, Gst Cttg, 2 Gst Apts. www. MontecitoProperties4455.com

4188 Foothill Rd $8,500,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 12-Acres in Carp w/Ocn & Mtn Vws. 5BD/7BA Main Hse + GH & Horse Facilities, barns & pastures

1015 Ladan Dr $3,750,000 Hurst/Anderson 805.680.8216 3622 Reeves Rd $6,750,000 1910 Carrisa Hwy $6,500,000 Priced Below Replacement Cost. Estate in Santa Barbara wine country, close to shopping, dining, amenities. Pano views, 6+ acs Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Ken Switzer 805.680.4622 50+ Acs (assr.) in Ojai w/ producing orchards. 5BD/7BA House. The Zapata Ranch. Spectacular 11BD/7BA; 2750± ac ranch compound, w/ room for horses & vineyard. 5BD/7BA residence + 1BD/1BA Casita. www.VillaDelSol-Flyover.com

1473 Bonnymede Dr $4,450,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Sea Meadow in Montecito, 3BD/3BA, SW sun exposure, gated. www.1473.MontecitoProperties.com

291 Cummings Rd $4,385,000 Bunny DeLorie 805.570.9181 ±40 ac (assr) Lemon/Avocado Ranch. 12K SF (owner) 7BD/6.5BA home. HomesAndLandSantaBarbara.com

3291 Beach Club Rd $3,495,000 Kathleen Winter 805.451.4663 Ocean view 4BD/3BA beach home off Padaro Lane w/beach access. www.3291BeachClubRoad.com.

2225 Sweeney Rd $2,900,000 Ken Switzer 805.680.4622 Prized ranchland, mainly Sta. Rita Hills AVA. 335 AC, 196 to plant, exist. 2 hms, new storage.

3938 Laguna Blanca Dr $2,795,000 Lori Ebner 805.729.4861 Architectural Gem in Hope Ranch. 3BD/3BA on 1.07 acres with grand views of Santa Barbara.

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very private near Paso Robles.

4689 Via Roblada $6,495,000 Team Scarborough 805.331.1465 Luminosa - 5BD/6.5BA Hope Ranch Estate on 1.5 acs (assr) w/ chefs kitchen, pool & beach access.

1475 Bonnymede Dr $4,950,000 Kathleen Winter 805.451.4663 Bright, remodeled 3BD/3.5BA Sea Meadow with a private yard. www.1475Bonnymede.com

3997 Laguna Blanca Dr Daniel Encell $1,995,000 805.895.6326 Single-family traditional home in Hope Ranch with pool! 4BD/4BA. www.DanEncell.com

11 Arroyo Quemada Kathy Strand Spieler Gorgeous Oceanfront 3BD/2BA + office w/ ocean views, beach access. www.11ArroyoQuemadaLane.com

$2,650,000 805.565.4896

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