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N.Y. Philharmonic may unite with Academy Festival Orchestra for Miraflores’s 70th anniversary, p.6

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SPIRITUALITY MATTERS, P.24 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT & MOVIE GUIDE, P.41 • OPEN HOUSES, P.45

POLLUTION SOLUTION Just 20% of Montecito’s water is used for household needs (the rest goes towards landscaping); the task is to figure out how to recycle and re-use a good portion of the 600,000 gallons a day that goes into the ocean from our sewer system. It apparently can be done, and quickly. (story begins on page 5)

Village Beat

British Invasion

For the first time in many years, Montecitans will be able to vote for Montecito Water Department directors as Tom Mosby, Floyd Wicks, Charles Newman, and Tobe Plough face off in November, p.12

Joanne Calitri traverses Liverpool, where The Tearaways rock Beatles Week Festival, p.20

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 On The Water Front Bob Hazard takes a dip into the world of recycled water, detailing the need for commitment to a plan and pointing out MWD’s rejection in 2005 6 Montecito Miscellany Music for Miraflores’s 70th; Scott Wallace on Cooks vs Cons; Catherine Gee victorious; Nina Terzian; Gigi Hadid gets pranked; SB Museum of Art’s 75th; El Encanto gala; An Evening in Bloom; Breast Cancer Resource Center; Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s property; Oprah visits Washington, D.C.; Dallas Cowboys; and Bob Burton, RIP 8 Letters to the Editor Lidia Zinchenko on Halloween; Robert Coronado expresses concern; Daniel Seibert’s photo op; Ernie Salomon sounds off about school; David McCalmont on the Clintons; Dale Lowdermilk on Chicago; Sam Leno, by the numbers; Carol Doré Hawkins and Laurence Pearson on the board 10 This Week Knitting and crocheting; Mosaic Art Show; Kirtan at library; prayer practice retreat; Alan Cumming at Chaucer’s; tea dance; MA Land Use; Robert Eringer at Tecolote; tech classes; pompoms at library; poetry club; 10 West Gallery reception; Robert Eringer at BoHenry’s; golf tourney; Avocado Festival; Cynthia Waring; The Met at MAW; Happiness Hour; Table of Life Gala; art classes; Cava entertainment; brain fitness; Story Time; Pilates; Italian talk; artisans and farmers markets Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 12 Village Beat Miramar hotel project update; Montecito Water District candidates; vegetation fire; and farewell to Paul Clark Newell, Jr. 14 Seen Around Town Lynda Millner makes an appearance at the Legends Gala at Granada; SB Museum of Art anniversary; and Montecito Trails Foundation 20 On Charity Foodbank of SB County’s annual Table of Life gala to honor Maryan Schall and Deckers Brands is on the table Thursday, October 8

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Our Town London and Liverpool calling: Joanne Calitri pays a visit to England, where Cavern City Tours pave the way for International Beatles Week Festival 22 Ernie’s World What’s in a name? Ernie Witham can’t be certain in the revamped Funk Zone, where times have changed as much as the businesses.

23 In Passing Dana Newquist pays tribute to Randolph Siple, also known as Rooster Bradford 24 Spirituality Matters Steven Libowitz chronicles a Buddhist movie at SB BodhiPath Center; Agatha Carbubia’s workshop; Kelly Carlin at Pacifica Graduate Institute; workshop with Ronit Corry and Roberto Rodriguez; and Sunburst Fellowship 30 On Entertainment Steven Libowitz makes note of the SB Acoustic Instrument Celebration; Macbeth director Jonathan Fox; Elements Theatre Collective; Chumash InterTribal Pow Wow; Wags ‘n’ Whiskers; Topa Topa Mountain fest; film focus 37 Legal Advertising 41 Brilliant Thoughts Lust for life: Ashleigh Brilliant ponders the notion of manhood, prowess, and “animal” instincts while questioning whether Hitler really had a (singular) ball Movie Guide 42 Calendar of Events Time Jumpers and Vince Gill at UCSB; Gary Clark Jr. in the Bowl; Thievery Corporation and Café Tecyba; Merrily We Roll Along at Rubicon; Wesley Ching takes Center Stage; Benise and Spanish Nights at Granada; Ken Burns’s documentary; all that jazz; Jackson Browne benefit concert; Blink-182 fills the Bowl; and folk music at SOhO 45 Open House Directory 46 Classified Advertising 47 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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ON THE WATER FRONT

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

Recycled Water Takes Teamwork Plus Commitment

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his community currently uses about 3,500 acre feet (AF) of water per year, thanks to conservation, mandatory rationing, and the most severe rationing penalty system in all of California. Eight years ago, we used 6,520 AF of water for the same number of households. Since then, residents have cut water usage by 46 percent, the best record in California. Still, some 80 percent of this usage is for landscaping, while the remainder is used for interior household use.

Meanwhile, Montecito Sanitary District still discharges its 750 AF of treated wastewater each year into the Pacific Ocean, 1,600 feet off Butterfly Beach, just west of the Four Seasons Biltmore Resort. That’s 600,000 gallons a day of discarded water that could and should be reclaimed or reused.

Does California Have a Recycled Water Plan?

Water recycling, also known as reclamation or reuse, is an environmentally responsible and economically feasible local solution to drought. California has the potential to recover 4,500,000 AF of treated wastewater that could replace the use of potable drinking water for residential landscaping, golf courses, cemeteries, decorative fountains, resort landscaping, food crops, parks, schools, freeway landscaping, orchards, and fighting wildfires.

Montecito Water District Rejects Recycled Water

In its last Urban Water Management Plan filed with the State Department of Water Resources (DWR) back in 2005, MWD dismissed the use of recycled wastewater in one short paragraph: “A 1990 study of the potential for using recycled wastewater within MWD’s service area concluded that use of recycled wastewater was not economically feasible. The study determined that sites capable of using recycled water were

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Scott Reed, president of Montecito’s Music Academy of the West, is in talks with new college president Anthony Beebe to bring the esteemed New York Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Alan Gilbert to play together with the Academy Festival Orchestra in the 10,000-seat venue next year to commemorate the Miraflores institution’s 70th anniversary, I can exclusively reveal.

“I think it is a great idea, and I can’t think of a nicer locale for such a cultural colossus,” says Beebe, who became head of the college two months ago.

“We are now in talks with Scott about pulling this all together and making it happen.”

The Manhattan-based orchestra last played in our Eden by the Beach in August, 2015, at a sell-out show at the 4,562-seat Santa Barbara Bowl, part of a four year partnership between the academy and the philharmonic, which started in 2014.

But La Playa, which hosts the college’s Vaqueros sports teams and recently underwent multi-million-dollar renovations replacing the old running track and constructing a new press box to replace the 65-year-old rickety old structure, would seem to be a more ideal locale given its much bigger capacity.

Stay tuned.

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Cons Artist Montecito real estate developer Scott Wallace knows what’s cooking!

Scott, owner of Montecito Custom Homes, as well as the event planning and dining company SB Wine Dine Build, was one of four contestants chosen from thousands around the U.S. to compete in the new Food Network show Cooks vs Cons!

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

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

“Hit and Run” Halloween

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always look forward to the new issue of Montecito Journal, in particular because it’s mighty interesting to read J.B.’s clever debates with the locals. September is here and a few important events are around the corner. And I’m not talking about the election, even though I’d love to discuss that and support your points of view there. I’d only mention that in the blind pursuit of the “life at the expense of the rich,” they’ll elect the first woman president and dear J.B. will receive my letter full of sorrow.

However, the subject matter of this letter is the upcoming Trick or Treat Halloween kids’ “parade” on Coast Village Road. I’m a mother of five little boys and, funny as it may sound, that parade is a bigger deal in our family than even the election (just kidding!).

I believe this local parade needs some extra attention and improvement, and there are several reasons why.

First of all, the total absence of any security, namely: why would they close down Coast Village Road for a car show but leave it open for the event with hundreds of little kids running around sugared-up and excited?

Second of all, the excess of alcohol, as the result of which most of the parents are either straight drunk or quite a bit buzzed; what’s up with that?

As a responsible mother, I believe both the former and the latter are unacceptable for the biggest street children’s event of the year. If you have ever been at that Coast Village Road Trick or Treat, you must have seen crowds of people that merely can’t fit on the narrow sidewalks, with groups of folks crossing the street in the hectic and blind manner chasing kids who are mostly (and legitimately) out of control. When you consider the proximity of the freeway with hundreds of cars detouring the afternoon traffic bottleneck via the same Coast Village Road, all the above makes it even more dangerous.

We’ve all heard about “hit-and-run” accidents and the totality of the circumstances of the Trick or Treat Coast Village Road. scenario makes the odds of such accidents extremely high. I firmly believe that for those three to four hours when the parade typically takes place, the roadway must be closed to traffic so that folks could enjoy the festivities without fearing for the lives of their children.

Speaking of enjoyment, I’d like to add the following. Last year, a great number of parents at the event were

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drunk, were consuming alcohol in the street, were walking into liquor stores and bars with their kids in tow to buy alcohol, et cetera. This didn’t look like a right thing to do in Montecito where we, the parents, teach our kids about safety, security and dignity.

Lidia Zinchenko Montecito (Editor’s note: Well, first of all, thank you for the kind thoughts about the comments made at the end of some letters to the editors. Secondly, your observations about the Ghost Village Road Halloween event are also on target. The only thing I could add is that because of the ongoing traffic mess on 101, cars barely crawl along Coast Village Road between the hours of, say, 4 to 6 pm. Which, fortunately, is when most of the little Ghost Village Roaders will be out trick-or-treating. But, you are correct: vigilance should be the order of the day, despite the slow pace of traffic. – J.B.)

Not Another L.A., Please The residents of Montecito do not want their beloved community turned into another traffic-choked L.A. The fastest way to turn Montecito and Santa Barbara into another L.A. is to mindlessly widen Highway 101.

By making it easier to commute on Highway 101, more motorists will naturally do so, and within a very short time there will again be quick-fix discussions about the urgent need to remedy our traffic problems by again widening Highway 101.

Many traffic studies, including UC Davis’s Institute of Transportation Studies’ 2015 traffic report that states, “transportation experts have repeatedly found that building new roads encourages more people to drive, which in turn negates any congestion savings (from adding highway lanes) – a phenomenon known as ‘induced demand.’” Ask anyone who regularly commutes on L.A.’s traffic-snarled, 12-lane Interstate 5, if adding additional lanes in 2010 eased traffic congestion and they will unanimously tell you it has not.

The answer to easing traffic congestion is not by adding more freeway lanes but by improving public transportation services, designating car pool lanes, and adding bike and pedestrian lanes. The region’s environmental community for decades has pressed for slow, planned growth to

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Mosaic Art Show Three local mosaic artists, Betsy Gallery, Christine Brallier, and Wendy Brewer will present their work at Menelli Trading Company in Montecito. The evening will include cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and an opportunity to meet the artists and observe the ancient method of mosaic making with traditional tools and materials.

When: 5 to 7:30 pm Where: 1080 Coast Village Road Info: MenelliTradingCo@gmail.com

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 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 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 Mantra Lounge An evening of Kirtan at Montecito Library.

When: 7 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Cost: $7, includes vegan refreshments Info: 969-5063

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 Centering Prayer Practice Retreat A mini-retreat day for Centering Prayer practice. There will be meditation walks, journaling, reflection, and prayer practice.

Let by Suzanne Dunn, Jeannette Love, and Annette Colbert. Beginners welcome.

When: 9:30 am to 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031 Book Signing at Chaucer’s Stage, TV, and film star Alan Cumming will sign his newest book, You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams.

When: 3 pm Where: Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State Street Info: 682-6787

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2 Tea Dance The City of Santa Barbara donates use of the ballroom and volunteers provide music and refreshments for this ongoing, free

dance event.

Ballroom dance music including the Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Slow Fox Trot, Quick Step, and rhythm dances such as the Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing, Mambo, and Bolero are played, among other dance music. Participants can hone their dancing skills or learn new dance techniques.

The Santa Barbara Ballroom Tea Dance is held on the first Sunday of every month at the Carrillo Rec Center. No partner necessary, but if you can find one bring him or her along!

When: 2 to 5 pm Where: 100 E. Carrillo Street Info: 897-2519 Cost: free

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4 Montecito Association Land Use Committee The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito; today the Land Use Committee meets to discuss upcoming projects.

When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Book Signing at Tecolote Book Shop Novelist Robert Eringer will debut his new road novel, Motional Blur, launched this day by Skyhorse Publishing.

When: 5 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 East Valley Road Info: 969-4977

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5 Free Tech Classes at Montecito Library iPads and iPhones are versatile devices capable of countless useful functions, but many of these remain a mystery to their owners. The Montecito branch

of the Santa Barbara Public Library System will be offering free workshops demonstrating various tips and tricks to help users get more from their Apple mobile devices. Everyone is invited to bring along his or her iPad and iPhone along with any questions. Users of all levels are welcome.

When: 1 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: (805) 969-5063

Laurie MacMillan, Madeline Garrett, Pat McGinnis, Beth Schmohr, Pat Calonne, Stephen Robeck, and Sophie Cooper. Featuring a variety of media including: metal sculpture; oil and cold wax on canvas and panel; photography; acrylic, and mixed media on canvas and panel.

When: 5 to 8 pm Where: 10 W. Anapamu Street Info: 770-7711

Creative Spark Learn three different ways to make pompoms at the Montecito Library.

When: 3:30 to 4:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: (805) 969-5063

Book Signing at BoHenry’s Cocktail Lounge Hosted by Chaucer’s Book Store, novelist Robert Eringer will sign and read from his new road novel, Motional Blur. All drinks half-price, free pizza. Age 21 and up.

When: 5:30 pm Where: BoHenry’s Cocktail Lounge, 1431 San Andres Street

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 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 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. This month: Marianne Moore (1887-1972) When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Opening Reception 10 West Gallery hosts opening reception for new show, which includes art from Iben G. Vestergaard, Marlene Struss,

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 Teacher’s Fund Golf Tournament The Teacher’s Fund was created by Village Properties co-owners Renee Grubb and Ed Edick in 2002 as a way to deepen their commitment and give back to the community they serve.

The purpose of the nonprofit is to raise money for Santa Barbara area teachers so they may enrich the classroom experience with added supplies, materials, and equipment in addition to outside classroom activities not covered by school funds. To date, more than $1.5 million has been donated to Santa Barbara County elementary, middle, and high school teachers in both public and private schools.

Today is the annual Golf Tournament and Party Extravaganza.

When: 10 am to 8 pm Where: Glen Annie Golf Course, 405 Glen Annie Road Info: Leanne Wood 284-7177 California Avocado Festival Carpinteria welcomes the avocado-inspired festivities that come every October. This year, expect 75 free music acts on four stages, plus countless food vendors and retail vendors.

Don’t miss this fun community event. Three days of peace, love, and guacamole.

When: today, 2 to 10 pm; tomorrow 10 am to 10 pm; and Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm Where: downtown Carpinteria Info: avofest.com

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One-Woman Show Cynthia Waring presents Bodies Unbound, her one-woman theater piece memoir about her career as a massage therapist for 37 years after leaving a newage convent to avoid being on the streets.

It has been to New York, Los Angeles, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

When: today, 8 pm; tomorrow, 2 pm and 8 pm Where: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo Info: 963-0408

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 The Met: Live in HD Tristan und Isolde / Richard Wagner The Met season opens in a new production

by Mariusz Treliski (the director responsible for the 2014-15 double bill of Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle) and will be well-served by a cast of outstanding Wagnerians: Nina Stemme as Isolde, Stuart Skelton as Tristan, Ekaterina Gubanova as Brangäne, and René Pape as King Marke, with Sir Simon Rattle conducting.

When: 9 am Where: Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Road Cost: $28 Info: musicacademy.org Happiness & Meditation Hour Led by Manas Lele from the Art of Living Foundation, the Happiness Hour will offer numerous tools that facilitate the elimination of stress and foster deep and profound inner peace, happiness, and well-being. It is an interactive and experiential stress-buster session where participants will have the opportunity to experience energizing breathing technique and relaxing meditation; experience alertness and relaxation at the same time. No experience in breathing exercises or meditation is required.

When: 10 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Table of Life Gala The Foodbank hosts the 5th Annual Table of Life Gala, which brings together chefs, winemakers, and foodies to celebrate Santa Barbara County’s finest. Guests will enjoy a seasonal farm to table dinner prepared by local top chefs Michael Hutchings and Christine Dahl, wine, cocktails, and a silent auction. Plus live music by the popular Doublewide Kings and guest speaker, Fred Kass, M.D., Cancer Center of Santa Barbara. Proceeds support the nutritional health of our community through the Foodbank’s Feed the Future programs.

When: 4 to 7 pm Where: 1569 East Valley Road Info: donate.foodbanksbc.org

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ONGOING MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call.

Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850 WEDNESDAYS THRU SATURDAYS Live Entertainment Where: Cava, 1212 Coast Village Road When: 7 to 10 pm Info: 969-8500 MONDAYS Connections Brain Fitness Program Challenging games, puzzles, and memoryenhancement exercises in a friendly environment.

When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50, includes lunch Info: 969-0859

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TUESDAYS Story Time at the Library A wonderful way to introduce children to the library, and for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills; each week, children ages three to five enjoy stories, songs, puppets, and fun at Story Time.

When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 WEDNESDAYS Simpatico Pilates Join studio owner Mindy Horwitz to develop core strength, flexibility, balance, and stamina. Learn breathing patterns and spinal alignment while engaging the deep muscles of the core. Exercise on the mat with use of other props for additional challenge.

All levels Welcome. First Class Free.

When: 8:30 to 9:30 am Where: 1235 Coast Village Road, suite I (upstairs) Info & Reservations: 805-565-7591 THURSDAYS Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative, too.

When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAYS Farmers Market When: 8 to 11:15 am Where: South side of Coast Village Road Local Artisans Market When: 3 to 7 pm Where: La Cumbre Plaza, 121 South Hope Avenue Info: www.localartisansmarket.com

Breaking All the Rules: Making Sense of the 2016 Presidential Election Thomas Knecht, Associate Professor of Political Science, Westmont

5:30 p.m., Thursday, October 13, 2016 University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara Street Free and open to the public. For information, call 565-6051.

The 2016 race for the White House has been unprecedented with one surprise after another. Join Professor Knecht as we try to make sense of the nominations of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and predict what might happen come November.

We’ll look at how candidates use various campaign strategies to make their way to the White House, and why those strategies usually don’t matter that much.

Indeed, Professor Knecht will argue that the things people tend to focus on—campaign ads, debates, media coverage, issue positions, gaffs, hair—usually have little effect on who becomes the next president.

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VOTE FLOYD WICKS TOBE PLOUGH No Plan... No Vision...

No Water “B ack in 2007--five years before the start of the current drought--Montecito Water District’s own consultant, Steven Bachman, PhD, warned the MWD Board that ‘Montecito is near a crossroads in terms of meeting future water demand. Demand will soon overtake supply during dry years and District customers will suffer a shortfall of supply during those dry years.’ That stern warning went unheeded by the 5-member Montecito Water Board.”

Elect Floyd Wicks and Tobe Plough, and you can be assured that we will not outsource planning or decisionmaking to high-paid consultants and then ignore their advice for the next ten years.

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Village Beat

by Kelly Mahan

has been Editor at Large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito Kelly and beyond. She is also a licensed Realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and the Calcagno & Hamilton team. She can be reached at Kelly@montecitojournal.net.

Montecito Water District Candidates

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ast Wednesday, September 21, well over 100 Montecito residents packed the conference room at Birnam Wood to hear a presentation by MJ associate editor Bob Hazard, who has immersed himself in the growing water crisis facing Montecito. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the basics of where Montecito acquires its water, and what is being done to secure access to water in the future.

Montecito Water District (MWD) primarily utilizes three water sources: Jameson Lake, Cachuma Lake, and the State Water Project, a conveyance system that, in part, brings water from northern California to southern California. This year, Montecito received no water from Lake Cachuma and was over-promised State Water that was never received, according to Hazard, who said State Water is unreliable and expensive. The lack of water has prompted a spike in private groundwater well permits, with hundreds of residents asking the County to drill a well into the already-fragile groundwater basin.

“We still don’t have a long-term water plan,” Hazard said, detailing recent moves by the Montecito Water District board to increase water rates, charge surcharges, and issue water allocations with steep penalties.

Hazard, who has been vocal about his endorsements of candidates running for the MWD board of directors, encourages all Montecito residents to get involved with the issue, and to vote in the November election.

On October 20, the Montecito Association will host a candidate forum at Montecito Union School at 6 pm. The forum will be a chance for the community to meet the four candidates running for the two vacancies on the board. Here is a brief bio from each candidate, running for the two seats currently held by Jan Abel, who is retiring after 25 years of service on the board, and Charles Newman, who was appointed to the board last year and is now up for re-election. The three other long-time directors, Dick Shaikewitz, Sam Frye, and Doug Morgan, are up for re-election in 2018.

Candidate Floyd Wicks has been a resident of Montecito for 25 years and serves as a management consultant and advisor to water companies and districts in southern California and throughout the world. He served for 16 years as the president, CEO, and board member of American States

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Water Company, which provides water service to a million California residents living in 75 separate communities throughout 10 counties in northern, coastal, and southern California. Wicks has served as president of the National Association of Water Companies; co chair of the Southern California Leadership Council and its Water Task Force; as a board trustee of the American Water Works Research Foundation; and nationally, as a member of President Clinton’s Advisory Commission on Critical Infrastructure.

Candidate Tom Mosby was both an engineering manager and general manager at MWD for 25 years before his retirement last year. Now, he’s been hired on as a consultant for the District and has decided to run for election to the board. “My time at MWD provides a unique and qualified experience level to know its customers, understand water supply and the delivery of water, and implement the term feasibility in the decision-making process. As the District moves forward, I am observing a void in the understanding of the District’s historical record and its responsibility to the community, and that worries me,” Mosby says. “There are many talented and well-educated individuals that are well-intentioned, but in so many cases there is a lack of fundamental knowledge regarding water on the south coast. Decisions and actions are taken without fully understanding the ensuing consequences.”

Candidate and current board member Charles Newman says he has spent the last year on the board seeking transparency and expanding public outreach, two things which

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Legends of the Granada Neil Levinson and wife Jill Jurkowitz Levinson, executive director Craig Springer, and honorees Irma and Morrie Jurkowitz at the Granada Legends event

Thursday, October 6th 4pm - 8pm

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he Legends Gala at the Granada Theatre honored and celebrated individuals and organizations for illuminating and advancing the performing arts in a significant way.” The honorees were Irma and Morrie Jurkowitz as philanthropists, UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) with Celesta Billeci as director, and actor Christopher Lloyd. Two hundred and fifty of Santa Barbara’s movers and shakers were there to applaud and honor these deserving folks – all looking très chic in long gowns and tuxes.

The evening began with a noisy and exciting reception, as everyone met and mingled. Then it was on stage for dinner and ceremonies. The tables were stunning in magenta and gold with elegant floral arrangements in all hues of purple and lavender.

Many of the eight resident groups entertained including State Street Ballet, the Santa Barbara Choral Society, and members of Opera Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Symphony.

One of our favorite masters of ceremonies, Andrew Firestone (a former bachelor on The Bachelor), led the evening. He told us how his daughter wanted to be a ballerina and his son a pianist because they had gotten to enjoy those events live, as do many of our local children. Board chair Dan Burnham welcomed the group.

Dan joked, “Sometimes they mistake me for the Bachelor.” And seriously, “We may be a mid-sized city, but we believe we deserve the best.” Dan and his wife, Meg, live in a “cool” place, the Granada penthouse.

Peter MacDougall presented the award to the Jurkowitzes, who owned the Granada for several years. Their daughter, Debra, had her first job at the Granada. In 2003, she passed away in a car accident along with her 13-year-old son, Michael. That’s why her parents donated so much to the theater. Morrie said, “We wanted to honor her.” They were instrumental in

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Major Granada donor Michael Towbes with honoree Christopher Lloyd

establishing the Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts (SBCPA). As Peter noted, “We thrive because of people.”

Sara Miller McCune presented the award to Arts & Lectures with director Billici accepting. Yo-Yo Ma praised the organization, telling the Independent, “What a treasure Celesta is to this community.” A&L presents dozens of events each year that educate, entertain, and inspire. It is one of the nation’s premier university-based arts and cultural presenting programs.

Roger Durling presented the award to Lloyd, who began his career at age 14. By age 19, he was taking acting classes in New York with Sanford Meisner and soon made his stage debut. He worked in more than 200 stage productions before trying film.

His debut was in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. We all remember the

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Secure additional long-term sources of water, including desalinated water from Santa Barbara.

Charles, while considered the “outsider on the inside”, builds consensus on the Board for needed reforms. Charles strongly supports long-range, strategic planning with community input so that the District’s customers never again find themselves threatened by a drought.

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SEEN (Continued from page 14) Board chair for SBCPA Dan Burnham and wife Meg with honoree Celesta Billeci and husband John Hajda

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Back to the Future films and the list goes on. As a local resident, he has given of his time as a guest teacher through SBCPA. Putting this fabulous evening together were co-chairs Anne Towbes and Gretchen Lieff and their committee: Meg Burnham, Annette Caleel, Jane Dailey, Mary Dorra, Brooks and Kate Firestone. Audrey Hillman Fisher, Melissa Gough, Patricia Gregory, Susan Gulbransen, Pamela Dillman Haskell, Jill Levinson, Maria McNally Phillips, Nina Phillips, Joan Rutkowski, Leslie Schneiderman, Stephanie Sokolove, Kirsten Springer, and Carol Wilburn.

The “G” within the shield that appeared on the awards and is an accent piece on top of the box seats and other places is an original design by our good friend architect Roger Phillips. He was also in charge of all the Granada interior restorations.

As Kirsten and Craig Springer said in their congratulations to the honorees, “Thanks for the memories…” As it was stated in the invitation: “These are the moments that are not just unforgettable, but truly legendary.

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We are so lucky to have a structure like our courthouse, which is more like a castle than a civic building. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) took advantage of this exquisite venue to celebrate their 75th anniversary with a gala and auction.

The valets whisked my car away in front of the courthouse. As I walked toward the great arch, there was the Santa Barbara Strings Honors Quartet • The Voice of the Village •

playing chamber music. There were butler-passed drinks and canapés. The view of the mountains always seems more grand when looking through the arch. The coup de grace was the “dining room,” which was a wide corridor last week when I left jury duty.

This evening it had been transformed in only two and one half hours into an exquisite long room with arches and Spanish chandeliers in place. The round tables for 250 were decorated in cinnamon and moss-green patina cloths and amazing floral centerpieces three feet tall in complimentary warm colors. It felt like Hearst Castle to me. Dinner was by The Four Seasons Biltmore, serving up beef Wellington or diver scallops. Down the other corridor was an art video installation reflected on the walls.

Board chair John C. Bishop, Jr. addressed the crowd as did Larry Feinberg, Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation, director and CEO. “This is our 75th year in a very sophisticated community. The much-needed renovation in the museum is underway. It will be shored up structurally, but more importantly there will be room for more collections for the public. This year, 25,000 children will be involved in programs and exposed to excellence.” Then we had a champagne toast in celebration of SBMA’s 75 years.

There were online, live, and silent auctions. The auctioneer was Nicholas MacLean, partner, New York and London Gallery Eykyn MacLean.

Many prestigious artists were represented with all of the works donated.

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prevent this predictable traffic nightmare from occurring. However, with every new strip mall, subdivision, and apartment complex built under the banner of “creating jobs and growing the economy,” in the area comes the very predictable outcome of traffic congestion. I hope the citizens of Montecito will see through the “adda-lane” ploys and keep Montecito the rare gem that it is.

Robert P. Coronado Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Right you are, but what the heck do we do about the daily mess [see above editor’s note] on Coast Village Road, created by Santa Barbara-based politicians who pressured Caltrans to remove the southbound Cabrillo Boulevard entry to 101? The only way to bring back at least a semblance of normality to our village’s southern shopping strip is to expand Highway 101 and to add a southbound entry point at Cabrillo. – J.B.)

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Looking back at Butterfly Beach from his briny perch, Dan Seibert rhapsodizes over this lucky fisherman

Looking back at Butterfly beach from the swim buoys, a beautiful Saturday morning for fishing.

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Time To LEARN...

English

Prop. #58 (LEARN: Language Education, Acquisition and Readiness Now) is another liberal educational disaster for our Spanish-speaking kids. It must be defeated. It is a bi-lingual wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Several of our local schools are almost 100-percent Spanish-speaking kids and immersion is failing them as well because there are no predominately English-speaking kids in their schools, so they speak Spanish to each other. Most of the parents cannot help at home, either.

The other “Spanish-speaking predominant” schools are not succeeding in teaching these kids English and math. The only school above a fourout-of-10 is Franklin, which scores a five. Most of the schools are failing.

I met at Franklin recently with the 29 September – 6 October 2016

new superintendent, Cary Matsuoka, a great guy who is committed, and with the principal, Casey Killgore, also a devoted woman. We visited several classes. The teachers are also committed, but they face terrible obstacles with an English/math failure rate of about 60 percent. If a kid fails English or math by grade 6, there is a 75-percent chance that child will drop out of high school. A kid who does not understand English cannot do well in any other subject.

I did not speak English until I was six year old, but there were only two foreign kids in my grade school classes; my across-the-street neighbor and me. It was English or sink.

Additionally, Franklin School was like an oven, and it was not even a severely hot day. Even the teachers agreed. Huge glass windows that are solid panes and cannot open. Not conducive to learning... or... teaching.

A disgrace.

I suggest all our elected officials close their windows on a hot day and leave the A/C off. Governor Brown and some of the rest of them will die at their desks. Visit Franklin on a hot day and attend class. See if you can make it through the day.

Mr. Matsuoka is a new kid on the block and has yet to get grounded here, but he cares.

The illegal immigration issue is serious, and hopefully presidential candidate Donald Trump will get the nod and start to address it because Hillary and the Democrats will only make it worse. In the meantime, these kids, illegal and legal, are here and here they will stay. For the sake of them, our country, and our society, they must be educated.

I repeat: the entire system, from our elected officials to the California education system, the teachers’ unions, and last but not least, the media, have all failed these children for far too many years. The parents of many of these kids have also failed them and made their child’s education everyone’s job but their own. Every parent should be brought to a meeting at school and shown what they need to do. Most of these kids get free lunches, and it’s time for many of the parents to stop getting their “free lunches’” and get involved.

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fter a year of ‘secret negotiations’ with the City of Santa Barbara, the two Board designated class-action trial lawyers, have failed to negotiate a business agreement for 2,500 acre feet of City of Santa Barbara desalinated water for use by Montecito.

Is it time to share with the residents of Montecito and Summerland and with the three remaining Board members what went wrong? Why has the City of Santa Barbara asked the Montecito Water District for a nonrefundable check for over $500,000 just to sit down and reopen talks?

Elect Floyd Wicks and you can be assured that I will secure a reliable, long-term source of water for the residents of Montecito and Summerland.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 6)

VOTE FLOYD WICKS TOBE PLOUGH

Scott Wallace, left, wows in Food Network TV contest

tion was about pros as in cooks, and the cons were amateur chefs. The premise and the setting was brilliant, and I was able to go toe to toe with some of the most prestigious chefs in our country.”

The program, now in its second season after garnering 10 million viewers when it debuted, is filmed in Jersey City, New Jersey, at the Cake Bosses warehouse.

“It was such a great opportunity and an incredible pleasure to meet a few of the Food Network’s biggest stars and talent,” gushes Scott. “It was also an incredible pleasure to promote Santa Barbara, as they filmed me working on one of my home remodels in town.”

There were two different rounds of competition with the first calling for the contestants to create a parmigiana dish using pizza ingredients, so Scott created a chicken and waffle bruschetta.

Round two let the cooks create whatever they wanted using deli items, so Scott, 44, used his culinary wizardry to make a Rocking Reuben with Sassy Slaw, allowing him through to the final round, where he was voted runner-up.

Food for thought, indeed.

Clothes Encounter Santa Barbara fashion designer Catherine Gee, whose work has been featured in Vogue, is going from strength to strength.

Catherine, former head of the Arts Fund, has just won the WWD – Galeries Lafayette Creme de la Creme contest.

Next month, the willowy beauty flies to Paris to meet with top executives from the top French department store to present her colorful collection and promote her Catherine Gee SS17 line, which has also been sold at New York Market Week.

Catherine, whose showroom is at The Mill downtown, says she thinks her designs have a “very European feel.”

“I design for the climate in which I live and with a European woman in mind. I’ve always loved the insouciance and ease of Parisian women in particular, so to win this prize, being chosen by an esteemed jury of fashion insiders from Paris and New York, is 29 September – 6 October 2016

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validation for what I’m designing. It is a great honor, and I’m deeply humbled and flattered.

“Galeries Lafayette is beyond a dream for me at this early point in the venture. It’s flattering and gives me more reason to keep growing my brand’s story and aesthetic in a responsible, measured way.

“I hope I am lucky enough to keep building the brand and deliver a quality product women really desire. I definitely want my label to be recognized, identifiable, and successful.”

As it no doubt will be.

Trash Talk

No Plan... No Vision...

No Water “B ack in 2007--five years before the start of the current drought--Montecito Water District’s own consultant, Steven Bachman, PhD, warned the MWD Board that ‘Montecito is near a crossroads in terms of meeting future water demand. Demand will soon overtake supply during dry years and District customers will suffer a shortfall of supply during those dry years.’ That stern warning went unheeded by the 5-member Montecito Water Board.”

Elect Floyd Wicks and Tobe Plough, and you can be assured that we will not outsource planning or decisionmaking to high-paid consultants and then ignore their advice for the next ten years.

We Can Do Better...

Nina Terzian and friend Mike Edwards with garbage collected on Butterfly Beach

For Montecito socialite and environmental campaigner Nina Terzian, life’s a beach!

Nina, a former business entrepreneur in Chicago, has a beautiful oceanside pad on Miramar Beach and

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Our Town

On Charity

by Kelly Mahan

Dinner in the Garden

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he Foodbank of Santa Barbara County announces its 5th Annual Table of Life Gala, bringing together food and wine enthusiasts for an evening of indulgence, while supporting the Foodbank’s efforts to teach nutritional health to children. This year, the Foodbank is honoring Maryan Schall and Deckers Brands for their leadership and dedication to improving food security in Santa Barbara County. The Table of Life will be held on Thursday, October 8, from 4 to 7 pm, at Stephanie and Jim Sokolove’s Montecito estate.

The Foodbank’s goal is raise $250,000 to support Santa Barbara County kids; hungry children whose health is impacted by poor nutrition, childhood diabetes, obesity, and lack of food literacy. If the Foodbank meets this goal, they will help 1 in 5 children in Santa Barbara County learn the power of good nutrition for a better future through a network of 300 nonprofits and programs.

The Foodbank’s Feed the Future programs (Food Literacy in Preschool, Kid’s Farmers Market, Backpack, Grow Your Own Way, Picnic in the Park, Teens Love Cooking, and Healthy School Pantry) teach nutritional independence and health in children from infancy to young adulthood. Ticket helps ensure children in community receive local, fresh produce and nutrition education year round.

The Sokoloves are steadfast Foodbank supporters and once again opening their home and inviting the community to share an after-

The Tearaways at the Cavern Cavern Club owners Bill Heckle and Jon Keats at their offices in Liverpool

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noon together, while learning more about moving those at risk in Santa Barbara County from hunger into health. Their estate will be the backdrop for the garden party featuring hors d’oeuvres, wine, cocktails, and a seasonal farm to table dinner by chef Michael Hutchings and Christine Dahl. This year’s event will be emceed by Palmer Jackson Jr. and will also feature live music by the popular Doublewide Kings and guest speaker Fred Kass, M.D., Cancer Center of Santa Barbara, as well as silent auction.

The 2016 Table of Life gala is co-chaired by Ann Daniel and Nancy Sheldon, along with tremendous support from their host committee, including Michelle Apodaca, Marybeth Carty, Rebecca Goebel, Eva Haller, Palmer Jackson Jr., Jill Levinson, D.C. McGuire, Sarah Muzzy, Stephanie Sokolove, Nina Terzian, Judi Weisbart, and Diane Zipperstein.

To purchase tickets, visit donate. foodbanksbc.org/tableoflife. Please visit www.tableoflife.org for full event details.

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arrived in Liverpool to a deluge of rain and pro-bands from around the globe to celebrate four musicians who put the city on the map - John, Paul, George and Ringo – at the annual International Beatles Week Festival [BW], at the end of August.

Bill Heckle, Dave Jones, and Jon Keats, owners of the Cavern City Tours [CCT], spearhead the festival.

BW features 70 bands from more than 20 countries playing in every venue in town, with the top bands – as in our town’s The Tearaways, feature at the Cavern Club. Convention headquarters is at the 5-star Adelphi Hotel.

This 24/7 live music party draws 10,000 daily visitors.

Intrigued by how it all began, my first stop was interviewing Bill and Jon at their Castle Street offices, a stone’s throw from the Cavern Club.

Keats’s band Instant Karma made the BW in 1990 and he’s in the BW Hall of Fame. Currently, as a director of CCT, Keats performs five solo gigs a week at the Cavern. Heckle, a former schoolteacher and his friend Jones – a former taxi driver, bought and reopened The Cavern in 1991 after it closed in ‘89.

Their stalwart efforts paid off with a visit from Paul McCartney in ‘99, that Bill says “was the turning point for the club and we never looked back.

The Cavern is known for The Beatles, The Hollies, The Who, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, recently Oasis, Joe Bonamassa, and Adele. We are dedicated to live music, music history, discovering new bands, and keeping it all alive, it is listed in Britain’s top 10 historic landmarks.”

He debunked the urban myth that the real Cavern is across the street from theirs: “the original Cavern entrance is labeled as such along with its history on a plaque. It’s entrance shares the same wall as ours. Our club has 15,000 bricks from the original club for its authentic reconstruction and shares the same basement where the original stage once was.” Heckle and Jones are celebrating 25 years of owning the iconic Cavern Club, while the club itself will be 60 years old January 2017. Jon said, “The Cavern is a thriving, popular live music venue; it’s not a monument to look at what once was. Whether it’s young musicians cutting their chops or established musicians who want to check playing here off their bucket list, we are always welcome to them and the story keeps moving. The glory days are now, not just for the Cavern but for Liverpool as well, and the Cavern

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29 September – 6 October 2016

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Ernie’s World

by Ernie Witham

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Lost in Funkzonia

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e were looking for a tiki bar called the Test Pilot, which used to be a tapas bar called Reds, which took over from the Wine Bar, which at one time was a coffee house. Things change quickly in the Funk Zone.

“I think that was it.”

“There was no sign,” my wife said.

“Signs are passé.”

The Funk Zone is well, funky. It is situated between lower State Street and Santa Barbara Street, and Cabrillo Boulevard and the freeway, with the railroad tracks dissecting it diagonally. It used to be mainly warehouses and wholesale fish outlets, with a Harley-Davidson rental store and the old Diver’s Den thrown in for good measure.

“Weren’t you going to take up diving at one time?”

“I was, but I had trouble breathing… every time I thought about getting in the ocean with really large sea creatures.”

Now the Funk Zone is the “in” place and we, of course, are quite hip.

Although, most young people came at

night and on the weekends, and we were here at noon on a Wednesday.

Pat pulled into the parking lot beside a construction truck. Shoot, had we missed it? Was it now going to be a vegetarian sandwich shop?

“We don’t open until four pm,” a guy who was drilling told us.

“Is that when the senior specials start?”

He went back to drilling.

Pat cut across State Street to see what the heck the new building near the train station that looked like it was Moroccan was… there was no sign.

We exited the parking lot by the famous Morton Bay Fig Tree and immediately had to wait for the train to go by. Only it didn’t. It just stopped in the intersection.

“Back to the Funk Zone,” she said, pulling a U-turn. She took a right on Santa Barbara Street and parked in front of two converted cargo containers. “Oh, look, it’s Lama Dog!” “Didn’t this used to be a country and western bar?”

The Lama Dog allowed dogs, but apparently not llamas. Probably

something to do with spitting laws.

(Actually, there is a Tibetan Mastiff that hangs out there, and he is considered a Lama Dog; probably barks in Zen.) First thing I noticed is that they had 20 taps, but no names on them, just numbers. I was a little nervous that if I just pointed, I might end up with a

The Lama Dog allowed dogs, but apparently not llamas Coors Light or its close cousin: water.

The bartender pointed to a menu on the wall near the bar. It listed 20 beers with the corresponding numbers.

“We keep changing our beers, so it’s easier to just change the menu. We also have a walk-in cooler with a great selection of craft bottled beers.”

I walked into the cooler, looked at about three beers before all my extremities started freezing. Wonder how they would feel about me wearing Lama the Tibetan Mastiff in the cooler?

I decided to go with a draft and perused the options. “What’s the difference between a regular beer and a nitro?”

“It’s the gas.”

“Which one will give him less gas?”

Pat asked.

The bartender continued. “Beer carbonated with nitrogen instead of carbon dioxide is much creamier.” She poured a sample of a peanut butter porter nitro and it was all foam. I gulped it down quickly. Then I wondered if I were to belch, would it sound different?

Pat said: “Do not belch just to see if it sounds different.”

We have been married a long time.

I decided to go with Firestone Nitro. It sounded dangerous. Pat got a Figueroa Mountain Baltic Porter.

“If we share, we only have to buy ten beers each to try all twenty.” I’ve always been good at math.

“Maybe we should have lunch instead.”

One of the other cargo containers that jutted into Lama Dog was a restaurant called Nook. I ordered a simple Waterline seafood burger with salmon, shrimp, scallops, grilled tomato relish, tarragon mayo, and watercress. Pat got crab cakes with fennel orange slaw and sriracha mayo.

They were quite good, but no one offered us a senior discount.

“Where to next?” I asked.

“I heard there’s a new wine tasting room on East Yanonalli where that burger placed used to be.”

“We’d better hurry.”

•MJ

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29 September – 6 October 2016

In Passing

by Dana Newquist

Randolph Siple/Rooster Bradford

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n Monday, September 19, our community lost one of its “luminaries.”

Randolph Siple had many talents and hobbies. He was an attorney by training, veteran as a member of both the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy, author, musician, husband, father, grandfather, rancher, and community contributor.

I first met Randolph in 1991 searching for an antique fire engine. Combing through Hemmings Motor News, I discovered a 1940 Seagrave fire engine with an “805” area code. I called. Answering the phone was secretary Susan, later to become Mrs. Susan Siple. A ride to Santa Paula for the inspection came next. Meeting Randolph for the first time, I noticed his logo on the doors of the engine signifying the “D’Siples of Jass”.

This led to a lengthy conversation covering my friendship with Ward Kimball, originator of the Firehouse 5+2. Ward was a Disney animator and musician who performed with his band on an antique fire engine. Randolph had been a fan of Ward’s and went to many events where Ward performed. I asked, “Would you like to meet Ward Kimball?” He almost knocked me over with his response.

Using my “new” Seagrave fire engine, I celebrated many events and promoted my business, Montecito Video, with it.

Around the first of the year of 1996, Diane Pannkuk approached the Montecito Association with her idea of a “Home Town” old-fashioned Fourth of July Parade & Celebration. Perhaps due to my ownership of the Seagrave fire engine, she tapped me to organize the parade.

I agreed.

The “Village Fourth” was born! With “Old-fashioned” in mind, I called Randolph to see if he could play for Montecito with his “Dixieland”-style D’Siples of Jass band.

Yes! Randolph, with his antique (America LaFrance) fire engine, played every year and established exactly what had been envisioned by Diane as an “Oldfashioned” 4th of July celebration.

A visionary, he and wife Susan saw a need to establish a business to certify “Organic Growers”. With their team of inspectors and support staff, “Organic Certifiers” has been around the globe inspecting and certifying growers ensuring that product brought to market had been grown to exacting specifications.

As an author and commentator, he was an often contributor to the Montecito Journal.

Randolph’s talents could cover many pages of this paper. His generosity, deep conviction for his family, friends, and country, was always primary.

Randolph, being a bagpipe-playing Scot, gave me these parting words: “Keep a stiff upper lip.”

I’m trying.

•MJ

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Spirituality Matters

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anta Barbara BodhiPath Center hosts screenings of Compassion and Wisdom: A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, a groundbreaking Buddhist film which combines interviews with many of the world’s great Buddhist teachers and scholars with rare and often never-before-seen footage of Buddhist architecture, painting, and sculpture in India, Nepal, Japan, and the United States. The documentary examines the ideal of the Bodhisattva, which is central to the Buddhism of late India, China, Korea, Tibet and Japan, as well as their continuation in American Buddhism today. The first half of the film shows on Thursday, September 29, with the conclusion screening the following week, preceded by meditation sessions, beginning at 7 pm.

Details online at www.meetup. com/Bodhi-Path-Santa-BarbaraBuddhist-Spiritual-Community/ events/234407094/?rv=ea1.

Sober living for men since 1955 “On behalf of the current residents, past residents and residents yet to come, I would like to thank the community for the overwhelming support of Santa Barbara New House first annual Heart of New House Luncheon, held September 10th at Fess Parkers Red Lion Resort, and helping us to achieve our Mission and Goals.

The gift for me, as the Executive Director, is to watch how men, broken human beings, recover not only from addiction but a life of pain and misery self-inflicted and inflicted upon others.

The faces of many of the residents after the luncheon was truly a heartwarming miracle, to witness the realization that 200 plus members of this community believe that their lives and families are worth saving has given them new inspiration and motivation to become the father, son, husband, brother and the man that so many believe they can be.

So on behalf of the residents and those yet to walk through our doors, thank you for believing in a stranger and making a difference in so many lives.”

— Gordon Guy, Executive Director For more information please visit our web-site sbnewhouse.org or contact me directly director@sbnewhouse.org - 805-563-6050.

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Heart-Based Singing Montecito singer/vocal teacher Agatha Carubia’s Heart-Based Singing workshop is based on freeing the voice from the inside out. “What goes on in the body/mind as free vibrations from a free voice tune you from the inside out?,” Carubia wonders, explaining that she has been recently working with the elements and their energetic components in the chakras. The workshop is an invite to join her in the exploration as a group and is open to both experienced singers and non-singers alike.

Carubia earned a master’s in voice from Juilliard and has more than three decades of teaching experience. Her approach, which is also available in her new book Heart Based Singing, synthesizes the best of classical western technique with eastern meditative and embodiment practices. From her own deep commitment to living a path with heart, Carubia conveys the profound truth that the heart is indeed the hub of our authentic expression.

Students should expect to not only learn how to better use your voice so that it sounds strong, clear, and lovely, but also feel more grounded, whole, joyful, and free to experience the flow of love through your being.

The next workshop takes place 10 am to 12:30 pm on Saturday, October 1, and repeats on November 12, at Soul Nest Studio, Carpinteria. The fee is $40 per session. A similar workshop takes place ton 7 to 9 pm on Tuesday, October 11, and Wednesday, November 16, at Healing in America in Ojai. Admission is $30. Details online at www.heartbasedsinging.com.

Healing with Carlin

Pacifica Graduate Institute alum Kelly Carlin, daughter of legendary comedian George Carlin, discusses topics of memoir, personal mythology, and individuation, at the Montecito-Summerland institute’s next open house, from 11 am to 3 pm on Saturday, October 1, at 801 Ladera Lane. Carlin, a graduate of Pacifica’s M.A. Counseling Psychology Program, recently published her first book, A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George. The event, geared toward prospective students who are interested in learning more about Pacifica’s programs, is complimentary and includes lunch. Details and pre-registration online at www.eventbrite.com/e/ pacifica-open-house-oct-1st-registration-27159841818.

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Corry’s Connection

The initial installment of Ronit Corry and Roberto Rodriguez’s “From Lonely to Connected Bliss” workshops take place this weekend and is meant for “anyone whose life is mostly great” but misses having a sense of complete connection to others. The Level 1 “It’s About Connecting” workshop explores our needs and how we can fulfill them.

Participants will examine, release, and overcome unconscious beliefs and patterns that may no longer serve but instead be in the way of fully connecting with others.

By working with individuals where they currently are in their lives, facilitators Corry and Rodriguez lead a workshop of dynamic coaching that is alive, personal, and effective on a real-life level. The pair create a safe container and employ such methods as Alexander Technique, Authentic Movement, and Spiral Unlocking, Selfassessment Exercises, Transparency Practices, and many more. Best for those who want to take relationships to a deeper level and are ready to apply powerful techniques that can create more connections, the workshop takes place from 9 am to 6 pm on Saturday and Sunday (with a twohour lunch break), and it’s available on a sliding scale of $398 to $598. Register or find more information online at www.ConnectionWorkshops.com.

More Meditation

Sunburst Fellowship – a world community of practice dedicated to personal and planetary awakening, with headquarters at Sunburst Sanctuary north of Santa Barbara – has ongoing Meditation Gatherings that take place beginning at 10:30 am every Sunday throughout the year. Enjoy live, spirit-filled music, insightful talk, quiet meditation, inspiring company – and a delicious vegetarian brunch after the sitting. Upcoming topics include The Inner and Outer Path of Self-Realization on September 25, Equanimity: the Calm Eye of the Storm on October 2, and Forgiveness: A Healing Practice on October 9. There’s also a silent meditation every Saturday morning from 6 to 9 am wherein visitors are invited to come and go quietly on the hour to deepen their practice in the healing energy of Sunburst. Meanwhile, Sunburst’s calendar includes weekend retreats devoted to Kriya Yoga, Ayurveda, Sacred Geometry, and more before the end of the year – part of Sunburst’s mission to help one discover soul-awakening teachings and life practice grounded in the universal lineage of Paramahansa Yogananda and his direct disciple, founder Norman Paulsen. Details, directions, and reservations for the Lompoc-Buellton community at 736-6528 or www.sunburstonline.org.

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at places that charge $750 and up for supper. They’ll simply send the bill back to the Clinton Foundation for payment (which you have so generously donated to) under the general category of “expenses”...

Incidentally, the Clintons admit the foundation pays out a mere 8-to-13 percent of donations for charitable grants (Editor’s note: that figure has recently been reduced to 6 percent). The rest is swallowed up by “expenses.”

This is how a “power couple” can leave the White House “broke” on January 20, 2001, and be worth well north of $200 million 16 years later, while building up a Rolodex of prime contacts who unceasingly scratch each other’s backs when necessary, as everybody climbs up the Ladder of Power.

They do this out of a sense of entitlement – an anointment by God – to lead the nation and the world because they are the smartest people on earth, with the greatest of good intentions, and an oath to be the most beneficent of benevolent authoritarian rulers. Restrictive and restraining Constitutions aren’t necessary for “good people” like the Clintons. These documents only get in the way of them doing what God has chosen and ordained them to do: rule over His people and right all the wrongs perpetrated against their people by the unenlightened rogues who’ve preceded them.

I’m not a lawyer or U.S. attorney; my hunch, however, is that this perversion of the “non-profit model” breaks laws somewhere along the way. Even so, I’m 100 percent certain that acquiring wealth in exchange for influence, jobs, access, without falling under the purview of the IRS is excessively immoral, and not the kind of finagling endorsed by a vast majority of voters in their nation’s highest office-seekers.

There are a number of reasons by themselves that could be chosen to unilaterally sink the Clintons’ Titanic, but this gross and flagrant use of a non-profit model, written into law to provide a vehicle to aid in serving the common good, and then misused

and abused by the Clintons with such audacious chutzpah – poking the public in the eye with unmitigated effrontery and impudence – puts them far, far beyond the pale.

The Clintons have taken the oldstyle, big-city machine politics of corruption away from the crude and vulgar smoke-filled parlors of aldermen’s inner-city brownstones and transplanted it into high-echelon social and supper clubs of the uber rich. The corruption goes unnoticed and unreported due to the unspoken alliance with like-minded conspirators in the mainstream media. What they don’t harp about, in their manner of thinking, doesn’t exist.

Forget all of Hillary’s other grave crimes and shortcomings; in fact, set aside even her obsession to lie. Sink the USS Hillary Clinton on her family’s criminal use of a charitable foundation.

David S. McCalmont Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: This “non-profit” business really has taken on a life of its own, to little effect upon the causes espoused and probably should be seriously reined in. For example, a few years ago, someone approached me with the suggestion of setting up a non-profit under the auspices of the Montecito Journal. That way, this person opined, I – and he – could take big salaries and the company could pocket profits with no tax penalty.

The “non-profit” would have to spend, I believe, just 5 percent on its “cause” and the rest could go into expenses and salaries. No doubt, the Clintons knew this too, as they and their business partners along the way have always played the system to their advantage. For example, Susan McDougal – a Whitewater partner with her husband, Jim McDougal, and Bill and Hillary Clinton – borrowed $300,000 from the Small Business Administration: the “loan” was never repaid. And, let’s not forget the $1,000 “investment” in Cattle Futures that magically turned into $100,000 after Hillary’s husband became attorney general of Arkansas. And, who can forget the selling of a night in the Lincoln Bedroom for $100,000 a pop?

People such as the Clintons learn early on how to game it all, and the “Clinton Foundation” is just another – though easily the biggest and most successful – of their “legal” scams. – J.B.)

Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho! Garbage Cans and Pressure Cookers Got to Go!

What with the epidemic of bombings (and occasional stabbings) in big liberal cities, mayors Bill de Blasio and Rahm Emanuel should get together and promote a national ban on the sale of pressure cookers, knives, and, of course, garbage cans.

These new “prohibition” policies, following the pattern of highly successful gun-control regulations in Chicago, could transform other cities such as NYC, Detroit, New Orleans, and Cleveland into “safe space” cities for graduating college snowflakes.

I feel much safer just thinking about the possibilities.

Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Chicago has a stellar record of achievement dealing with prohibition [see: Gangland Chicago, circa 1920-1932], so yes, along with the city’s successful prohibition on gun possession, your suggested ban on other dangerous implements of mayhem is appropriate and will surely meet with the same level of success. – J.B.)

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MWD (Montecito Water District) created surcharges and punitive penalties to manage mandated water restrictions, but they have gone too far.

Increased revenues are now being used to fund untethered increases in MWD operating expenses and to increase cash reserves to record levels.

FY 2015/16 proved to be a difficult year for homeowners. Besides managing a limited water supply, they were also forced to absorb stair-step increases in their monthly water bills resulting from the aggressive application of billing rates, surcharges, and penalties.

The effects of these needlessly high charges are summarized as follows: Surcharges last year brought in revenue of $4.5 million, representing an increase over budget of 58% and $1.7 million. Penalties last year brought in revenue of $3.5 million, representing a favorable increase over budget of 76% and $1.5 million. Consequently, the total operating surplus for FY 2015/16 was $3.2 million, all of which was the direct result of excessive surcharge and penalty rates to homeowners.

What happened to these overcharges?

The board kept them.

If the surcharge rate had been left at $1.87/HCF instead of increasing to $3.45, revenue would have been about $1.9 million less. If the penalty rate had been capped at $30/HCF instead of $45, Revenue would have been $1.2 million less. Reduced rates could have been in effect throughout all of FY 2015/16 and MWD would still have achieved its total budgeted operating surplus for the year. None of this favorable surplus was passed back to homeowners, and we are all being overcharged for water.

The current FY 2015/16 offers no relief. A detailed review of it raises a number of important issues and questions.

The revenue budget assumes that the volume of water sales for this year will remain the same as prior years. However, it includes a 7.4%

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rate increase, even though drought-related expenses are expected to be 5% lower than last year. This rate increase was estimated in September 2013 with Resolution #2107, at a time when forecasting three years into the future would have been impossible. It is clear, based on a review of FY 2015/16 actual results, as well as the FY 2016/17 budgets, no rate increase was necessary in FY 2016/17.

The WSE Surcharge and Penalty rates generated a $3.2 million favorable unplanned surplus for FY 2015/16, yet the FY 2016/17 budgeted rates are the same as last year. With these needlessly high rates in place, MWD has already generated $295,000 of favorable revenue in July alone. At the current rate, homeowners are on track to pay for another favorable operation surplus of over $3 million during this full FY. Revenue conclusions: We are all being overcharged for water; the penalty rate should be capped at $30/ HCF; the WSE surcharge should be reduced to $1.87; and the 7.4% rate increase should be rescinded. If all of these were to occur, homeowners would be able to get back some of what was overpaid in FY 2015/16 and avoid creating another large unplanned operating surplus this year.

Total operating expenses are budgeted to increase 9.9%, while revenue is expected to increase by only 3.5%.

This unbridled growth in operating expenses is not sustainable. The budget includes an inflationary increase of 2.0%, yet last year’s inflation rate was only .9%. Wage rates are budgeted to increase 3.28% and include an untimely and unsupportable 1% overall salary adjustment. Benefits are increasing by 6%, almost twice the rate of wages, with no plans to better manage these expenses.

MWD operating expenses constitute approximately 1/3 of all District Operating expenses and are budgeted to increase by 16.9%! This includes the addition of a new Public Information coordinator and backfilling an engineering manager position that the MWD has been able to do without for a year. Public and private companies, if faced with similar challenges, would be freezing wages and/or reducing staff. Until things get measurably better, now would be a good time for restraint in backfilling open positions

or adding new ones. It is also interesting to note that the MWD expenses exceeded budget by $275,000 last year with no accountability or explanation.

These higher levels of expenses have now been built into the new base level of expenses going forward. The board has turned a blind eye to expense management.

Drought related expenses are budgeted to go down by $62,000; however, they still include almost three times the amount to be spent on public outreach programs, from $59,000 last year to $150,000 this year. This includes the use of consultants, website redesign, and other non-critical expenditures that are being paid for by homeowners and other users. The best public outreach program the MWD can deliver is lower penalties, surcharges, and operating expenses, not more meetings and a better website.

Cash reserves at the end of FY 2014/15 were $8.5 million and increased by another $3.7 million last year. Cash reserves of $12.2 million are now at the highest level they have been in the past five years and are likely to increase by another $3+ million in FY 2016/17.

Increasing cash reserves significantly over historic levels last year and again this year, at a time when homeowners are paying more for water than ever before, is irresponsible.

In summary, the MWD has only one product: water, and a mandate to deliver it at a reasonable cost. The continuing lack of fiscal discipline is concerning and homeowners should be alarmed. There appears to be little consideration by the MWD Board that the District is in a state of crisis. It is needlessly overreaching by driving higher than necessary surcharges, penalties, and usage rates, while rapidly driving up expenses and passing them on to homeowners.

Critical “fiscal management” during troublesome times is always difficult, but necessary. Public and private companies do not have the luxury of passing on price increases to their customers when volume decreases dramatically. To survive the ebbs and flows of moody economies, they tightly manage expenses and capital expenditures until the difficult times pass. Homeowners continue to see their costs/HCF increase substantially in order for MWD to cover increas-

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ing expenses. Operating expenses have increased largely due to MWD managing as if it were “business as usual.”

The board needs to be less defensive and more aware that they are not delivering water at a reasonable price. Their approach to approving this year’s budget is unconscionable. Homeowners should insist that the current year budget be revised to include more consideration for those that are paying the bills: the homeowners and all users.

It should also be made available for public review and comment before it is reapproved. The board has demonstrated that it cannot be fiscally responsive to its customers.

So, it’s time for the community to elect a new board!

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Charles Newman for MWD Board

Montecito has been blessed over the decades with individuals who have been tireless and selfless in their efforts to make the Montecito and Santa Barbara community one of the most beautiful, cultural, and compassionate places in the world. That is why so many people have come here to live, work, raise and educate their children, and retire.

Yet, our stunning environment and

the very viability of our community itself is threatened by one of the worst droughts in California history.

That makes the upcoming election for the Montecito Water Board particularly critical. Fortunately, we have in our community Charles Newman, a visionary and deeply committed citizen in the best traditions of Montecito and Santa Barbara volunteerism.

Since his appointment to a vacancy on the board in 2015, he has spent hundreds of hours building a collegial relationship with residents, other community agencies, and government bodies in order to research, explore, and cooperate on short- and longrange water solutions. For example, he has taken the lead on the Montecito Board to develop an outreach program to inform and engage customers on key issues and to explore adding recycled water to our water supply.

Charles Newman is a bright, ethical, well-informed, and energetic leader, a person we can trust to act in the best interests of our community in the true tradition of our time-honored volunteers and leaders. He will implement wise and carefully researched water solutions. He will serve us well. We support him and believe he deserves your vote.

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SEEN (Continued from page 16) SBMA gala co-chairs Diane Sullivan and Susan Bowey

Long-time Montecito Trails bartenders Sheila and Kevin Snow flank Monty Amyx

Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation director and CEO Larry Feinberg and wife Starr Siegele with Jill and John Bishop, chair of the board of trustees of SBMA

Cristina and David Prichard, who is with Bank of America, a major sponsor of SBMA

The stellar committee for this grand fete was co-chairs Susan Bowey and Diane Sullivan followed by Gwen Baker, Patricia Blake, Elaine Gray, Betsy Hannaford, Clay Tedeschi, and Gregg Wilson. They’ll be happy to learn they grossed $605,152.

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Hike it, Bike it, or Hoof it I was sitting with the Chase bank guys (seven of them), who were one of many sponsors. They told me, “The bank has been responsible for the free public admission to the museum on Thursdays from 5 to 8 pm.”

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For those of us who use any trails in our area, we owe a debt of gratitude to the organization that maintains them – the Montecito Trails Foundation (MTF).

They have a membership of more than 500 individuals including hikers, trail runners, equestrians, and bikers.

They have been clearing and building trails in Montecito, Summerland and Carpinteria since 1964. They also obtain trail easements from landown-

ers. According to president Bobbi King, “The trails system has grown to cover several hundred miles.”

Once a year, Hal and Mary Coffin hosts the group at their Montecito Valley Ranch. The day began at 8:30 am with a long horse ride (you can rent a horse), short rides, and hikes including a new addition of a family hike.

We gathered at noon for margaritas, silent auction, and a tri-tip barbecue on the lawn. Always a delightful way to spend a day. Jane Murray was event chair while Gail Young was in charge of the auction. Kevin Snow is vice president, with Sheila Snow as secretary and Kyle Slattery as treasurer.

MTF is a nonprofit and needs your support. Every dollar goes directly to the care and maintenance of the trail system, and MTF publishes a great trails map. Call (805) 969-3514 for more information.

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Arts & Lectures’ 2016-2017 Opening Week!

The Time Jumpers featuring Vince Gill, Kenny Sears, Ranger Doug Green and Paul Franklin

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The National Parks: A Treasure House of Nature’s Superlatives

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“[Vince Gill & The Time Jumpers] represent the best of roots music… They dip into Western swing and pop standards and real, straight hard-core country. They can do anything.” – Rosanne Cash

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

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Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help

Tue, Oct 4 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre

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On Entertainment

by Steven Libowitz

One classroom at a time

Acoustic Instrument Celebration’s Debut

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ixteen months in the planning, the inaugural Santa Barbara Acoustic Instrument Celebration (SBIAC) finally arrives Thursday night for a four-day weekend extravaganza rife with concerts, master classes, instrument demonstrations, exhibitions, vendors, and much more. The Earl Warren Showgrounds serves as headquarters for the festival, but there are concerts at venues all over town.

It’s all in honor of handmade acoustic instruments, mainly guitars, but also including ukuleles, mandolins, and more – with a special focus not only on the artists but also the luthiers who create the instruments, and the suppliers who provide everything from the wood to the tools of the trade.

“The whole concept here was to get all these things together – a guitar show, trade show, and music festival – on an equal plane,” said SBAIC creator Kevin Gillies, a local woodworker who is also an architect and furniture maker. “Get a synergy going between suppliers, builders, and musicians. You get the whole spectrum here in one shot.”

And it’s quite a spectrum, indeed.

There are several dozen luthiers coming for the show, drawn from around the country to hobnob with each other, showcase their wares, and share in the experience of making instruments by hand. The vendor section boasts dozens more, offering strings, guitar parts, amplifiers, accessories, and more. On the instructional front, there are master classes all day long Friday-Sunday.

“These are some of the finest craftsmen in the world,” said Gillies, who moved to town from Hawaii in 2008 and immediately immersed himself in the local music scene via ushering at the Bowl, Lobero, Granada, and Campbell Hall. “It’s equivalent to going to a museum of art only for luthiers. There is no place else where you can see this quality and quantity of work. That alone could be entertaining enough for all three days.”

For those who aren’t hardcore musicians or in the market for a new handcrafted guitar or parts, there are still plenty of attractions at the main site daily, Gillies said.

“If you just want to listen to music, you’ll hear almost every genre of guitar work that’s out there, from classical, to popular, to jazz, and more on three different stages going all day long, every day. You can wander from stage to stage and just enjoy it.”

That sounds a bit like the acoustic version of the annual NAMM show, but Gillies said there’s a big difference which will be appreciated by anyone

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There’s a hands-on approach to the maiden Santa Barbara Acoustic Instrument Celebration

who’s ever attended the massive instrumental showcase event in Anaheim.

“We call it the ‘un-NAMM’ because that show is completely overwhelming.

There is so much noise and cacophony, you can’t wrap your brain around it.

We’re doing an almost upscale gallery feel with theater curtains around the perimeters, apportioned into bite-sized pieces, like going from room to room in a galleries of a museum. We’ve also asked everyone to be pretty quiet in what they’re doing.”

Of course, there are also a slew of performances, beginning Thursday night at SOhO with a Guitars-In-The-Round concert featuring a wide spectrum of today’s modern finger-style guitar, featuring Michael Chapdelaine, who is the only guitarist ever to win First Prize in the world’s top competitions in both the classical and finger-style genres; he’s also playing a more formal concert Friday night at Center Stage Theater. A special early evening show on Saturday at the Showgrounds focuses on the harp guitar, pre-saging Muriel Andersons’s opening set at the Lobero later that night that also boasts Annie & The Hot Club featuring Richard Smith, a showcase of top-drawer session musicians who rarely get to play together just for fun.

Other highlights include Celtic guitar player Tony McManus at the Showgrounds, Stevie Coyle and Walter Strauss at SOhO, and the classical guitar celebration with Andre Feriante, Giacomo Fiore, and Chapdelaine at Center Stage, all on Friday; roots music specialists Paul Asbell and Dorian Michael playing solos and duets at SOhO on Saturday; and Sunday’s closing concert at the Marjorie Luke with the “Acoustic Guitar Gods of 29 September – 6 October 2016

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.

the Future” featuring Antoine Dufour, Craig D’Andrea, Trevor Gordon Hall, and Claude LaFlamme.

“We wanted the broadest collection of musicians, people who are pretty progressive in their outlook, those who bust through boundaries,” Gillies said, explaining his booking philosophy.

“There are classical, percussive style, jazz – all kinds of music from really great musicians.”

SBAIC’s vastly comprehensive website (www.sbaic.com) features descriptions and clips of each of the artists, backgrounds, and information on the vendors and luthiers, with details and a schedule of the master classes and more, including the range of ticket prices and festival passes.

Whatever path you choose, make sure to spend some time at the showgrounds connecting with the artists and other professionals who will almost all be on hand all weekend.

“The celebration has a very personal sense of meeting artists and getting to know them,” Gillies said. “It’s a very one-on-one style show. Almost everyone will be around all weekend, just hanging out and available to talk about everything.”

A Peek Behind Macbeth’s Curtain

Ensemble Theatre Company (ETC) opens its fourth season at the New Vic with the company’s first production of a William Shakespeare play in nearly 30 years. The Bard’s tightly wound tale of blind ambition, supernatural forces, and murder, Macbeth is set in a war-torn kingdom reeling from years of conflict, and will feature state-of-theart digital projections in an imaginative production that runs October 1-16.

ETC artistic director Jonathan Fox, who directs the play, discussed his motivation for programming the play and more in a recent interview via email.

Q. Aside from the 400th anniversary of his death, why did you decide to produce a Shakespeare play after so long?

A. We have been presenting mostly contemporary plays since we moved into the New Vic, and I wanted to start including strong classic plays into the season. Personally, too, it had been awhile (about 25 years) since I directed a Shakespeare play. I had been wanting to work on one for several years, but they’re difficult to pull off well, and for Equity companies such as ours they can be expensive. But I felt now was the time.

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How did you choose Macbeth? What resonates about this play for you now?

In some ways, Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s simplest, and shortest, plays, given that there are no subplots.

That made it an appealing choice for our first Shakespeare production in so many years. Also, I’m a fan of the television series House of Cards, which is in a sense an adaptation of Macbeth, so I thought it would be appropriate to do the play during an election season.

I found out fairly quickly, though, that the play’s mashup of the natural and supernatural worlds poses challenges and makes the play a real puzzle to stage effectively.

I’m sure you had to pick the season before we knew the election would be Trump versus Clinton, but there are some almost scary parallels in terms of ambition and a strong female. Your thoughts?

It is, indeed, great timing that we have our first female nominee for president. One of the two central figures in the play is a fiercely ambitious woman who takes charge when her husband is weak. Gender issues are raised throughout the play. Lady Macbeth calls on spirits to “unsex me here” – in other words, to take away her feminine attributes in order to achieve her ambition. The question of “manliness” is raised several times, not just for Macbeth but for other characters as well. Furthermore, I believe the play deals quite a lot with a subconscious fear of women in power, and that fear is projected onto the witches. It’s interesting to note that, during the 1992 presidential campaign, the conservative magazine American Spectator ran an article calling Hilary Clinton the “Lady Macbeth of Little Rock.”

Obviously, casting is essential in Shakespeare, especially these roles.

What went into those decisions of casting Jamison Jones in the title role, who were you familiar with, and new-to-ETC Kathryn Meisle, plus old ETC friend and Rubicon regular Joseph Fuqua as Banquo, and other locals including Leslie Gangl Howe and Rudolph Willrich?

Casting is, indeed, tricky. We looked for actors who exhibited an ease with Shakespeare’s language. In Jamison’s audition, he brought out a vulnerability in Macbeth that made him almost sympathetic.

How did Monday go in the initial event of the new partnership between Ensemble Theatre Company and Globe Education?

Can you talk about some of the upcoming events and why they matter?

ETC has been working toward developing an education outreach initiative in order to introduce young people to the excitement of theater. The partnership with the Globe Education… has

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have led to lack of trust from MWD customers. Newman has worked to build the relationship with the City of Santa Barbara regarding the desal plant and is chair of the Recycled Water Committee that is acting quickly to determine the feasibility of using recycled water, for irrigation only, from the Goleta Water and Montecito Sanitary Districts. “If implemented, recycled water use could lower demand on MWD’s precious potable water supply,” he said.

“MWD must, with community input, develop a long-range strategic plan to ensure that all customers have adequate, reliable, and reasonably priced water well into the future,” he told us.

Candidate Tobe Plough has been a Montecito resident for 37 years.

Plough co-founded the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation, transforming the Bowl into one of the premier performing arts facilities in the country.

He was the co-founder of an innovative company utilizing the technology resources of UCSB and the private sector to attract 450 new technology start-up companies to Santa Barbara.

He sits on the board of the Santa Barbara Taxpayers Association and on the Santa Barbara City College Bond Oversight Committee, and he says his time as chair of the Grand Jury led to the development of performance-based budgeting for Santa Barbara County.

For more about Montecito’s water situation, read Hazard’s editorial On the Waterfront, MJ #22/35.

Miramar Update

Despite continued delays in announcing an official groundbreaking on the site of the future Miramar hotel project, last week Caruso Affiliated announced that summer 2018 is still the targeted opening date of the much-anticipated Rosewood Miramar Beach Montecito resort.

Neighbors received an updated construction schedule from the selected general contractor, Tutor Perini Corporation, which stated that ground-fill activities will continue through next month, and grading is expected to begin in November.

“While the process can always be faster, as part of our normal diligence and attention to every detail, we spent the time we needed perfecting our plans and building our team to ensure we create the best development possible,” Caruso Affiliated founder and chief executive officer Rick Caruso told us over the weekend.

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Rick Caruso gives us an update on construction of the Miramar

The construction schedule includes grading from November to January 2017, followed by site and building construction through the summer 2018. “Miramar is going to be the great hotel that we always said it would be and that the community deserves,” Caruso said.

Vegetation Fire on Bella Vista its iconic blue-roofed cottages was a Montecito destination and community-gathering place for 100 years before its closure in the year 2000. In the nine years that Caruso has owned the property, his plans to build have undergone multiple iterations and dozens of community meetings and some controversies. The final project entails 200,000 square feet of development on the now vacant site, which is located on 500 linear feet of oceanfront property along Miramar beach.

The facilities will include a main building with a 6,000-sq-ft ballroom and conference facilities, a screening room, children’s center, back-ofhouse areas, meeting rooms, and a spa, as well as a beach club, two pools, two restaurants, and a beach bar. In addition, there will be an exclusive membership-only beach club.

The resort will be built as a great Montecito Estate Manor Home with 161 ultra-luxury guestrooms including one-story cottages and bungalows, and two-story lanai and oceanfront buildings. The property will also acquire new landscaping, a sound wall, and four employee dwellings.

The project includes abandonment of the north-south segment of Miramar Avenue and relocation of a private access easement.

“We are pleased to be under construction and to build a new hotel and start the next chapter in the Miramar’s history,” Caruso said. “The plans for Rosewood Miramar Beach Montecito reflect all the time Caruso Affiliated has spent with the local community, and we are so grateful for all of the support and input we received.”

“Our goal is to be the best neighbor possible and to ensure as few inconveniences as possible to the community during construction, and we will continue to keep the community updated,” Caruso said, adding that an official groundbreaking ceremony will be held this fall. The Miramar has recently undergone some personnel changes, with Evan Krenzien and Matt Middlebrook, both familiar faces throughout the approval process, moving on to other positions within the company. “We’ll be making an announcement soon regarding the new project manager for the Miramar,” said Public Relations senior vice president Liz Jaeger.

On Friday, September 23, at 8:32 pm, the Montecito Fire Protection District (MFPD) responded to a reported vegetation fire in the 2700 block of Bella Vista Drive, at the Montecito and Carpinteria/Summerland district border. Upon arrival, Montecito Fire personnel found the resident of the property working with hand tools to extinguish a 20-by-50-foot fire burning under a eucalyptus row, with a heavy ember cast into the Picay Creek drainage. The blaze was moving at a slow rate of speed, despite the winds gusting up to 40 miles per hour. The fire was controlled at 8:52 pm.

Responding agencies included Montecito Fire, CarpinteriaSummerland Fire, Santa Barbara City Fire, Santa Barbara County Fire, Los Padres Forest, California Highway Patrol, Santa Barbara County Sheriffs, and Edison. “The Montecito Fire Department would like to recognize the resident, who played a pivotal role in the rapid notification of the incident and attempts at fire suppression,” said MFPD’s Jackie Jenkins, who added that the cause of the fire was determined to be arcing power lines related to the trees.

In Passing: Paul Clark Newell, Jr.

Paul Clark Newell, Jr., co-author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling biography Empty Mansions, died on Wednesday, September 14, at a hospital in Escondido, California, with his siblings and daughter by his side.

Newell celebrated his 80th birthday in January with family and friends.

Newell’s book, Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune, written with journalist Bill Dedman, debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times bestsellers list in September 2013. It remained on the Times list for 13 weeks and The Los Angeles Times list for 37 weeks.

“Paul was a gracious, gentlemanly, and brilliant co-pilot. I had the great pleasure of working with Paul for the past few years on the story of his cousin Huguette Clark and her family.

When we began collaborating, my journalist friends warned, don’t write a book with a family member, as they presumed he would want to shape the story to protect the reputations

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Paul Clark Newell, Jr., author of Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune, passed away September 14

of his famous relatives. But Paul was focused on making sure that we told the story accurately and fairly. And that was the right approach. On the day Paul died, I received a copy of our book published in Mandarin, and I will pass that on to Paul’s family. He was a dear man,” said Bill Dedman.

Newell’s father had collected family history, particularly on his uncle, the late U.S. senator William Andrews Clark of Montana (1839-1925), the controversial copper millionaire, banker, and politician, who founded the city of Las Vegas as a stop on his railroad. After Paul Newell, Sr. died, his son took up the baton, working for 20 years on a biography of his great uncle. After the senator’s daughter, Huguette (1906-2011), became famous again in this century because of her reclusive ways and a battle over her fortune, Newell and Dedman began to work together on a biography of Huguette and her famous father. Newell’s conversations with his cousin Huguette, their correspondence, and his collection of family photographs and other research, were essential to the biography. Newell shared many conversations over nine years with Huguette about her life and family. Excerpts of those conversations, about 30 minutes of tape recordings, can be heard in the audio version of Empty Mansions.

Newell received on Huguette’s orders a rare private tour of Bellosguardo, her mysterious unused estate overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Montecito. Newell was not one of the relatives who sought to inherit the $300-million fortune of the reclusive Huguette; as a cousin, not a nephew, he was not in line for an inheritance if her last will and testament was overturned.

Paul Clark Newell, Jr., was a 1958 graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles. After several executive roles in corporations, including Mattel, Newell worked as a real estate agent in Warner Springs, California, in the mountains outside of San Diego. Survivors include his daughter, Leslie Newell Spangler, and her husband, Brad; their children, Eric and Jessalyn; his brother, Peter; his sister, Eve; his great-grandson, Edan; and grandnieces and grandnephews.

A memorial service will be planned.

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knows all too well about the garbage that can collect.

So, along with a host of friends, including Cars and Coffee supporter Mike Edwards, Nina turned up at Butterfly Beach volunteering for the Montecito Association for Coastal Cleanup Day, collecting 50 pounds of trash from a small stretch of sand.

More than 3,100 pounds of rubbish was collected county-wide along 93 miles of beaches with 850 volunteers.

Among the beach bodies doing their bit locally were David Breed, Chris and Susan Robles, Mary Sheldon, Kirk Murdock, Ted Urschel and son, Henry, Sybil Rosen, Victor Nava, and Denise Burrows.

Impractical Joke Fame has its price as former Montecito Union School student Gigi Hadid found out her cost in Italy.

The 21-year-old supermodel had just been on the runway in a Max Mara show in Milan when notorious serial prankster, Vitalii Sediuk, grabbed her by surprise, forcing her to fight him off as paparazzi snapped away.

Gigi, who was with her sister, Bella, took to Twitter to defend her action, saying Sediuk had no right to manhandle her.

“I am a human being and have every right to defend myself. How dare that idiot think he has a right to manhandle a complete stranger!”

Eventually security intervened and she was whisked away, demanding the guards find the offending miscreant.

For Art’s Sake Supporters of Santa Barbara Museum of Art were definitely in the frame when the State Street institution celebrated its 75th anniversary with a socially gridlocked bash at the historic County Courthouse.

More than 200 colorfully garbed guests helped gross a handsome $605,152 for the 60,000-sq-ft museum, which sits on the site of the former city post office, which closed in 1932.

As well as galleries, there is a 154seat auditorium and a 50,000-book library. A new $50-million project, Imagine More, will add new gallery space and a rooftop garden.

Construction costs, including major earthquake proofing, are estimated at $42 million, with $8 million for an endowment fund.

The work is being done in stages over the next five years.

As guests tucked into dinner catered by the Biltmore, a number of art works were available in online and live auctions, including pieces by Frank Gehry, David Hockney, Summerland resident Gerald Incandela, Bruce Nauman, and Joan Snyder.

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Hiroko Benko, Merryl Brown, Salud and Gina Carbajal, Diane Boss, Kevin Contreras, Orman and Ricky Gaspar, Stan and Betty Hatch, Hillary Hauser, Jean Schuyler, Archie McLaren, Robert Evans, Suzanne Chess, Fred Kass and Allan Ghitterman.

Archie McLaren, Sara Miller McCune, Geane DeLima, Judith Hopkinson, Allan Ghitterman, Susan Rose, Clive Parry, Emma Bridges, James Darnborough, and Lois Mitchell (photo by Priscilla)

Hillary Hauser of Heal the Ocean; honoree David Crosby, Community Empowerment Award; and Holly Lohuis of Jean Michel Cousteau Ocean Future’s Society (photo by Priscilla)

World Business Academy helmsmen: Geoff Green, Judi Weisbart, and Jerry B Brown (photo by Priscilla)

Board directors of World Business Academy Matt Renner, executive director; Jim Selman, chair; Rinaldo Brutuco, CEO; Diane Boss and Blaine Bartlett (photo

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New York – with a guided walk around the Metropolitan Museum of Art – a rare bottle of Courvoisier cognac, and a sailing trip on an America’s Cup yacht in San Francisco Bay, were also among the prizes up for grabs.

Among the glitterati showing their support were co-chairs Susan Bowey and Diane Sullivan, museum director Larry Feinberg and his wife, Starr Siegele, Bob and Marlene Veloz, Dan and Meg Burnham, Roger and Sarah Chrisman, Jim and Joan Davidson, Mary Dorra, Robert and Christine Emmons, Ron and Andrea Gallo, Janet Garufis, David and Anne Gersh, Penny Jenkins, John Saladino, Bob and Val Montgomery, Joan Tapper, and George Konstantinow.

Going Green A tony triumvirate of our city’s finest were honored at a bustling environmental gala at the El Encanto.

The World Business Academy inau-

gural event feted philanthropist Sara Miller McCune, rocker David Crosby, and oceanographer Jean Michel Cousteau, who were presented with their accolades by Jerry Brown and Judi Weisbart.

Cousteau, son of the legendary ocean diver Jacques, who was to have received his award from Business Academy honcho Matt Renner, was unable to make the bash because of medical issues. Longtime friend Charles Vinick accepted on his behalf.

City College Foundation executive, the ubiquitous Geoff Green emceed the dinner, as well as auctioning off a seven-night vacation in Puerta Vallarta, a week’s vacation in Hawaii, and a signed framed watercolor by local artist Tom Henderson.

Included in the 172 guests, who helped raise around $300,000 for the academy’s safe energy project and the Santa Barbara Reliable, Resilient and Renewable plan, were Laura Capps,

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Flower Power Guests at Girls Inc. of Carpinteria’s fourth annual gala had a blooming good time.

The fourth annual floral bash “An Evening in Bloom” at Westerlay Orchids, just a short gallop from the Santa Barbara Polo Club, honored 89-year-old Betty Brown, who spearheaded a critical capital campaign in the 1980s to raise funds for a new facility that tripled the popular organization’s programming capacity and was honorary co-chaired by Victor and Susan Schaff.

Sylvia Martinez, an alumna of Girls Inc. was featured speaker, while Larry Snyder from Seattle was emcee, who auctioned off a number of prizes, including a week’s vacation in Mexico.

Board president Stefanie Herrington and Donna Baird were co-chairs.

More than 250 guests, plus record sponsorship of $62,000, helped raise around $100,000 for the popular organization, whose programs serve more than 700 young amazons annually.

A floral fest of great expectations.

Cancer Crusade Lofty platform shoes and polyester disco gear was de rigueur when the Breast Cancer Resource Center threw its 19th annual fundraiser with a Studio 54 theme at the Coral Casino.

As a former habitué of the world-famous Manhattan nightclub, when I first moved to New York from London in 1978, the disco wingding ticked all the right boxes and brought the memories flooding back of my nights with the late Steve Rubell and his business partner, Ian Schrager, now a successful hotelier and former owner of the Miramar.

A record 246 guests turned out for the boffo bash emceed by banker Ricardo Calderon, suitably attired in a wig, preposterously high plastic shoes, and a disco outfit guaranteed to cause terminal static cling, while raising around $175,000 for the popular nonprofit.

Santa Barbara dj Carla Bea in a gigantic white Afro hairpiece spun discs from the ‘70s, including Studio 54’s anthem, “I’ll Survive” by Gloria Gaynor, who I vividly remember dancing with on the set of the TV talk show, Geraldo, on which I was regular panelist each week, as she lip-synched away.

Female go-go dancers from Lucid Life Entertainment in L.A., attired

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been an extraordinary way for us to fulfill a lot of that mission. Representatives from the Globe worked with more than 700 students in one week on understanding Macbeth. The workshop for our adult patrons included exercises on acting the text and was a really fun way for them to get into the language and themes of the play. On [Saturday] October 15, the Globe will return for two “family” workshops, where parents and their children can learn about Shakespeare’s language through storytelling techniques. These events are free to the public. In addition, ETC and UCSB will join in a panel discussion on [Monday] October 3 at the New Vic on “Shakespeare in Performance”.

Finally looking forward to the rest of the season, there are a lot of classics from wellknown Broadway veterasn – Neil Simon, the Gershwins, and Tennessee Williams, as well as Syncopation by Allan Knee. Why such a focus for this season? And would you explain ETC’s approach to Porgy and Bess?

While several of the choices this season are familiar to audiences, we are endeavoring to present some of them in new ways. For example, we’re looking to re-conceive Porgy and Bess as a scaled-down jazz musical. Baby Doll may be familiar to people as a movie, but we’re presenting it in a new stage adaptation.

The Other ETC

Elements Theatre Collective closes out its fifth season, which has been centered around the theme of love and loss, with a production of Lauren Yee’s play in a word. Artistic director Michael Bernard directs Jenna Coleman, Jeffrey Doornbos, and Matthew Tavianini in the piece that examines a mother’s attempt to cope with the death of her young son two years earlier. The play employs elements of grief and comedy, as well as wordplay where ordinary turns of phrase take on dangerous new meanings. The presentations of no-cost, pop-up performances in alternative venues concludes with shows on Thursday at 7 pm at PATH, 816 Cacique St.; Friday at 8 pm at Java Station, 4447 Hollister Ave; Saturday at 7:30 pm at Stone Pine Hall, 210 S. H Street, Lompoc; and Sunday at 1 pm at Maravilla, 5486 Calle Real, Goleta. As with all Elements productions, there is no admission charge. For details and reservations, visit www.elementstc.org.

Festival R Us

The annual Chumash Inter-Tribal Pow Wow takes place this weekend up at Live Oak Camp, where Native Americans from all over the West will gather for celebrations and perfor-

mances open to the public. Dancing ranging from traditional to “fancy,” drumming circles and musical performances including chanting and singing are featured, with tribes coming from Oklahoma, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, and other states. Vendors offer plenty of arts and crafts, jewelry, pottery, baskets, and much more, including food and drink. While admission is free, there is a $5 charge for parking, and overnight camping is available for $25. Visitors are advised to bring their own lawn chairs and blankets.

Open 10 am to 10 pm on both Saturday and Sunday. Visit www.chumashcasino.com/entertainment/performance/ chumash-inter-tribal-pow-wow-0.

Wags ‘n’ Whiskers C.A.R.E.4Paws hosts its 8th annual Wags ‘n’ Whiskers Festival at a new location, and one that normally isn’t so friendly for dogs – Santa Barbara City College’s ocean-overlooking West Campus. The free festival, which is the largest such event on California’s Central Coast, features adoptable dogs, cats, and bunnies from more than 20 local shelters and rescue groups, training and activities for pets, plus a wide range of pet service providers and fun activities for the whole family. There are performances in dog agility, military working dogs, animal training, and the debut of the “Strut Your Mutt” Pet

Fashion Show with three costume categories (Superheroes to the Rescue; PetOwner Lookalike; and Hippie Hounds, Cool Cats & Bodacious Bunnies), with prizes for winners. Emcee for Strut Your Mutt is Dr. Courtney Campbell, head of the surgery department at VCA Care Specialty and Emergency Animal Hospital — which is the festival’s top sponsor – and the host of a brand-new show called Pet Talk on Nat Geo Wild. Visitors can meet Little Star, a therapy mini-horse, and majestic wolf hybrids from WHAR Wolf Sanctuary, while Project PetSafe provides low-cost vaccines, micro-chipping, and licensing for dogs. The event takes place Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm. Free admission. Info at 968-2273 or www.care4paws.org/wagsnwhiskers.

Topa Topa The First Annual Topa Topa Mountain Folk Fest, named after the mystical Topa Topa range located north of Ojai, Santa Paula, and Fillmore, is a one-day celebration of folk, Americana, roots, bluegrass, and country music featuring both local and nationally known performers. Held at the Libbey Bowl in Ojai, which just hosted the revival of the Ojai Blues Festival a couple of weeks ago, has a varied lineup headlined by The White Buffalo and Todd Hannigan & Sleeping Chief, with Grizfolk, Jaime

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Wyatt and the Bang Bangs, Shane Alexander & The Great Favorites, Dear Lemon Trees, Lee Koch Trio, The Brambles, and Bryan Titus Trio also on the bill. But the festival boasts more than music, with peripheral events including Rachel Penton of Brilliant Acqua Studios, who will be painting live during the festival, as well as selling some of her pieces of art; the finals of a mustache and beard contest featuring the top five contestants from online preliminaries; and a variety of food trucks and wines from Ojai’s Majestic Oak Vineyard. The fest is slated for 11:30 am to 10:30 pm on Saturday, October 1. Tickets cost $20 to $40 for reserved seating in the Bowl (lawn seating is sold-out), and net proceeds will benefit the Ventura County nonprofit Turning Point Foundation, which aids in recovery for people disabled by mental illness. Call 796-3674 or visit www.topatopafolkfest.com.

Focus on Film

With UCSB back in session, the Carsey-Wolff Center and Pollock Theater are gearing up again. Set in 1980s Tehran during the almost decade-long span of the Iran-Iraq War, Under the Shadow is a horror-thriller that follows a mother and daughter as they struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolutionary period, only to find that a mysterious evil haunts their home. UCSB alumnus Nate Bolotin (a partner at distributor XYZ Films) and Lucan Toh (the film’s producer) will participate in a discussion following the 7 pm screening on Thursday, September 29, focusing on contemporary global issues of financing and distribution. Free.

Underwater explorer filmmakers Céline and Jean-Michel Cousteau host a private screening of the inaugural The Céline Cousteau Film Fellowship short film titled Poverty of Perception at 3 pm Saturday, October 1, followed by a Q&A with the Cousteaus. Tickets cost $11.

Latino: The Changing Face of America, a new documentary directed by Los Angeles-born filmmaker and UCSB alumna Roxanne Frias, takes a look into the future of the world’s biggest economy in which Latinos will form the largest demographic group, reaching more than 100 million in the U.S. in the next 35 years. The film, which screens Wednesday, October 5, at 7 pm, offers a glimpse into the lives of communities that have been positively impacted by these demographic changes. Professors Mario Garcia (Chicano Studies & History) and Cristina Venegas (Film and Media Studies) moderate a post-screening discussion and Q&A with Frias. Free.

Famed make-up artist Michael Westmore, a UCSB alumnus whose designs and masks are showcased 29 September – 6 October 2016

in a just-opened special exhibition Lifeforms at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, will answer questions following a 20th anniversary screening of Star Trek: First Contact.

He’ll talk about his film work (Raging Bull, Rocky, and the Academy Awardwinning for Mask), his 18 years working on Star Trek, and his role as a mentor on the Syfy Channel’s show Face-Off. The 7 pm screening on Thursday, October 6, is be preceded by a meet-and-greet with Westmore from 5:30 to 6:30 pm at the AD&A Museum.

For reservations and more information, call 893-5903 or visit www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock.

Rock in the Red Zone Elsewhere, Rock in the Red Zone, Santa Barbara filmmaker Laura Bialis’s critically acclaimed documentary about the rocket-shelled town of Sderot, Israel, screens Thursday, September 29, at 6:30 pm at the Jewish Federation’s Bronfman Family Cent, 524 Chapala Street. Bialis moves to Sderot to make the film that delves deep into the psyche of a town famous for music that has found itself in the crossfire between Israel and Palestinians due to its location just one mile from Gaza. Bialis will conduct a Q&A following the screening of the film that debuted locally during the Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival earlier this year. Admission is $5.

When Generations Connect: LGBT Youth & Elders Unity of Santa Barbara presents a free screening of the locally produced documentary When Generations Connect: LGBT Youth & Elders at 7 pm Friday in the sanctuary at 227 E Arrellaga Street.

The film features nine Santa Barbara lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and elders interviewing one another, uncovering commonalities and differences in their experiences and ultimately coming to know one another as community and creating compassionate-filled connections. Directed

by Linda Croyle and produced by Heather Stevenson, the documentary was produced by local Boxtales Theater Company. A brief panel discussion featuring several of the participants follows the film. Call 966-2239 or visit www.santabarbaraunity.org/ movie-when-generations-connect.

11th Annual Kirk Douglas Award Meanwhile, Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) has announced that Warren Beatty will be the recipient of the 11th Annual Kirk Douglas Award, which coincides with the longtime Montecito-based Douglas’s 100th birthday. The Black Tie fundraiser for SBIFF’s educational programs takes place Thursday, December 1, at Bacara Resort & Spa. Tickets range from $500 for individuals to $20,000 for a VIP table for 10.

Book Signings and Literary Events

Actor Alan Cumming, whose played Eli Gold in the just-concluded CBS drama The Good Wife and won a Tony Award on Broadway as the Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret, is coming to Chaucer’s to sign copies of his latest book, You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams at 3 pm on Saturday. The book is a collection of true-life adventures and misadventures of some of the hysterical and sometimes embarrassing encounters that Cumming has experienced, from awkwardly entertaining Elizabeth Taylor at Carrie Fisher’s birthday party, to being on a movie set with Helen Mirren, and being mocked for wearing Croc sandals to making a friend’s day by chasing down Montecito’s own Oprah Winfrey at a glitzy gala for a prized photograph with her.

Imperfect Strangers On Tuesday, October 3, at 7 pm, it’s UCSB history professor Salim Yaqub’s to autograph copies of his latest tome, Imperfect Strangers, which argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of the imagination, evincing patterns that left a contradictory legacy of estrangement and accommodation that continued in later decades and remains with us today.

The Humane Society Morris Squire Foundation poet in residence Jodie Hollander signs copies of her debut collection, The Humane Society. The 2012 work has been praised as being “romantic, surreal, and tender” and “painting a family portrait that is a mixture of memoir, ghost story and artistic obsession, as well as being an

elegy for an older, more mannered, world.” Hollander, whose next collection, My Dark Horses, is due out next year, will also read selections from Humane Society earlier in the week, on Thursday, September 29, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the AD&A Museum at UCSB. Chaucer’s is located at 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center. Call 682-6787 or visit www.chaucersbooks. com.

Strangers Drowning Author and New Yorker staff writer Larissa MacFarquhar delivers a free lecture titled Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices and the Urge to Help, on Wednesday at 7:30 pm at UCSB Campbell Hall.

Farquhar’s pieces in The New Yorker have expanded the possibilities of the magazine profile, as she presents her subjects the way a fiction writer creates a character. The new book takes a similar approach to do-gooders whose dedication to altruism borders on the extreme. How far would you go to help a stranger? Would you adopt a child in distress? Would you donate a kidney?

Spend the majority of your income on saving others? MacFarquhar challenges us with fundamental questions about what it means to be human, what we value most and why.

Motional Blur Montecito novelist Robert Eringer debuts his new road novel, Motional Blur, on its publication date Tuesday, October 4, with a 5 pm book signing at Tecolote in the Upper Village.

He’ll also sign copies and read from the book next Thursday, October 6, at BoHenry’s Cocktail Lounge, 1431 San Andres Street, on Santa Barbara’s west side, at 5:30, when free pizza will be served along with half-price cocktails.

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Randy Weiss, Union Bank sponsor; “go-go dancer” Lauren Wertz; Dave Norman, Jacaranda Summerfield, Penny Sharrett, Union Bank sponsor; Michael Brinkenhoff, RevitaLash Cosmetics sponsor; Silvana Kelly, executive director BCRC; Summer Galarte and Heather Fallou of RevitaLash (photo by Priscilla)

Ricardo Calderon, BCRC honorary chair; enjoying the animated disco gestures of Thom Rollerson, Fred Kass, Darla Bea, and Michael Erickson (photo by Priscilla)

TV titan Oprah Winfrey, was in esteemed company in Washington, D.C., at the weekend when she joined president Barrack Obama and former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush at the opening of the $540-million Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture.

The 400,000-sq-ft, five-story building, which sits on five acres next to the National Monument, also includes the 350-seat Oprah Winfrey Theater, one of the largest spaces in the new complex, which has 3,000 objects on display in the opening exhibition, including parts of a slave ship.

Oprah, who has sat on the institution’s advisory committee since 2004, donated $13 million to the complex.

She was joined on stage by actor Will Smith in reciting poetry from her late friend Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes to celebrate AfricanAmerican literature.

Others joining Oprah, who now has her own eponymous TV network in Hollywood, included singers Stevie Wonder, Patti LaBelle, and Dionne Warwick, actors Robert De Niro, Angela Bassett, and David Oyelowo, former secretary of state Colin Powell, and chief Supreme Court justice John Roberts.

A most stellar crowd.

Keepin’ up with Jones Jerry Jones’s Dallas Cowboys, the world’s most valuable sports franchise

Liz Saghi, auctioneer and honorary chair Ricardo Calderon; Ann Richards, Fiona Stone, Rose Hodge, Nora Scheinberg, LaShon Kelley, Cynthia Walker Moreno, Maurice Moreno, and Debora Kahny (not pictured: Jessica Ashtiani, Andria Kahmann, Dana Mazetti) (photo by Priscilla)

in gold hot pants and white plastic disco boots, gyrated the night away as Ricardo auctioned off prizes, including stays at Palm Island in the Grenadines, just a tiara’s toss from Mustique – one of my favorite Caribbean retreats – the St. James’s Club in Antigua, and the Ritz Carlton in Maui.

Among the disco denizens supporting the worthy cause were Silvana Kelly, BCRC executive director, Bob and Patty Bryant, Dinah Calderon, Peter Hilf, Kim and Tammy Hughes, Todd and Sonia McGinley, Tom and Marcia Reed, mayor Helene Schneider, Debbie Kass, Ted Bauer and Susan St. John, Thomas Rollerson, Daryl Stegall, Bilo Zarif, Rose Hodge, Ann Richards, Randy Weiss, Fred Kass and Jean Schuyler.

two-year marriage and with a reported wealth of around $400 million up for grabs, the big question locally is what will happen to the $5 million, 11-acre home overlooking the Pacific near El Capitan Beach owned by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

The 41-year-old beauty and the 52-year-old Oscar winner, who have been together for 12 years, bought the property for $4 million in 2000 and use it mainly as a vacation home.

Other properties in the tony twosome’s burgeoning real estate portfolio include a $60-million, 1,000-acre home, Chateau Miraval, near Aix in Provence, a $6-million renovated 1830s home in New Orleans, as well as a multi-million-dollar, multi-property estate near Los Feliz in Los Angeles.

Watch this space.

Broken Home With the sudden sad demise of their

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Texan tycoon Jerry Jones, a frequent summer visitor to our rarefied enclave while his football team, the Dallas Cowboys, are training in Oxnard, not only has the most valuable team in the NFL, but the most valuable franchise in any sport.

Forbes magazine shows the Cowboy’s worth at $4.2 billion, a five-percent increase over last year from $4 billion, easily topping the league for the 10th straight year.

Next closest are the New England Patriots at $3.4 billion, while Buffalo, New York, has the lowest-ranked team worth at $1.5 billion.

Earlier this year, Jerry’s team unseated Spanish soccer giant Real Madrid for the top spot on Forbes’s list of the world’s most valuable sports teams, as I chronicled in this illustrious organ.

Dallas have missed the playoffs in each of the last two seasons and have not won the Super Bowl since 1996, but has $700 million in revenues and $300 million in operating income.

Jerry has certainly made a nice

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return on his investment after purchasing the team for $150 million in 1989.

The average NFL team is worth $2.34 billion, a 19-percent increase over last year, according to Forbes.

Fond Farewell

Bob Burton, R.I.P.

On a personal note, I mark the passing of one of Santa Barbara’s greatest characters, bounty hunter Bob Burton, who has moved to more heavenly pastures aged 77.

Bob, who had more than 3,500 arrests to his credit and at one time was ranked America’s number-one bounty hunter, was a regular in the Pierre Lafond coffee klatch in the upper village, when I moved to Montecito in 2007 from L.A.’s Hancock Park, where I had been a commentator on KTLATV’s morning show.

A former resident of West Palm Beach, Florida, Bob wrote two best-selling books – Bounty Hunter and Bail Enforcer – and advised veteran actor Robert De Niro on his 1988 film Midnight Run, in which he played a bounty hunter.

Bob’s colorful career included working security for a company in El Salvador, being part of a special Marine unit in Vietnam, owning an insurance company in our tony town, and being a contributing editor on Soldier of Fortune, a magazine dealing with the military and weapons.

A great raconteur, he will be missed.

Sightings: Actress Meredith Baxter at Fess Parker’s...Former supermodel Kathy Ireland getting her Java jolt at Pierre Lafond...Singer Brad Paisley noshing at Ca ‘Dario Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and other amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3791

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3791 for the Railway-Highways Crossing Section 130 Program Lower State Street Railroad Crossing Improvements will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 12, 2016, 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, “Railway-Highways Crossing Section 130 Program Lower State Street Railroad Crossing Improvements.”

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to construct and deliver a railroad crossing improvement project including but not limited to mobilization, bonds, insurance, traffic control, saw cutting, concrete demolition, excavation, removal of hardscape, preparation of subgrade, bedding, base, asphalt concrete conforms, construction of curbs, gutters, spandrels, ADA compliant paver sidewalk and edge restraints, Portland cement concrete sidewalk, access ramps, installation of storm water infiltration system including catch basin, pvc pipes; relocation of curb drains, striping, installation of gates and railings, installation of pvc conduits, traffic signal modifications, clean up, public notices, and incidentals to complete the work as specified per the Project Plans and Specifications. The Engineer’s estimate falls within a range of $350,000 400,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155.

The City’s contact for this project is Alex Ubaldo, P.E., Project Engineer II, 805-897-2668.

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

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

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. 5486 DUE DATE & TIME: October 19, 2016 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Laboratory Testing Services for Water Samples of Creeks & Storm Drains Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages.

The City of Santa Barbara 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.

Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage requirements in the specification book entitled “Proposal and Contract.” Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of the “Proposal and Contract” specification books. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates.

The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will be conducting this bid and proposal solicitation online through the PlanetBid System™.

Vendors can start registering now at http://planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959.

The system uses the NIGP commodity codes and vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on. The City will have a transition period where it will accept both electronic and paper bids. The initial bidders’ list will be developed from registered vendors.

Federal Wage Determination #CA160023 dated 09/16/2016 is incorporated herein and is attached hereto as Appendix C.Federal Wage Determination #CA160023 dated 08/26/2016 is incorporated herein and is attached hereto as Appendix G. Federal Wage Determination #CA160023 dated 08/26/2016 is incorporated herein and is attached hereto as Appendix G.. Federal Wage Determination #CA160023 dated 08/26/2016 is incorporated herein and is attached hereto as Appendix G. Federal Wage Determination #CA160023 dated 08/26/2016 is incorporated herein and is attached hereto as Appendix G.

__________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: September 28, 2016 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

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

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.

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.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

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.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a toll-free “hotline” service to report bid rigging activities. Bid rigging activities can be reported Mondays through Fridays, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, Telephone No. 1-800-424-9071. Anyone with knowledge of possible bid rigging, bidder collusion, or other fraudulent activities should use the “hotline” to report these activities. The “hotline” is part of the DOT’s continuing effort to identify and investigate highway construction contract fraud and abuse and is operated under the direction of the DOT Inspector General. All information will be treated confidentially and caller anonymity will be respected.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: September 21 and 28, 2016 Montecito Journal

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I am a galley slave to pen and ink. ~Honoré de Balzac

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Corks; Corks N’ Crowns, 32 Anacapa St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Funk Zone Vines, LLC, 5330 Debbie Road #200, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 29, 2016. 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. 20160002487. Published September 28, October 5, 12, 19, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Bait Yard, 124-A Gray Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Channel Islands Seafood, 1317 Virginia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. John Colgate, 327 Cordova Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.

Anthony Vultaggio, 444 Amherst Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 9, 2016. 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 Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 20160002612. Published September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: La Casa Concierge, 2052 Mountain Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Jennie Strait, 2052 Mountain Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 19, 2016.

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 Adela Bustos.

FBN No. 2016-0002415.

Published September 14, 21, 28, October 5, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cole Design Montecito, 815 Alston Road, Montecito, CA 93108. Monty Cole, 815 Alston Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 7, 2016.

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ORDINANCE NO. 5768

ORDINANCE NO. 5767

ORDINANCE NO. 5766

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ADOPTING A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AND THE SANTA BARBARA POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERIOD OF JULY 1, 2016 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2019

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING THE MUNICIPAL CODE BY AMENDING SECTION 17.20.005 OF CHAPTER 17.20 OF TITLE 17 PERTAINING TO HARBOR SLIP ASSIGNMENTS.

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING CHAPTER 10.60 OF THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE BY REVISING SECTION 10.60.015 AND ESTABLISHING PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS ON CERTAIN PORTIONS OF ANACAPA STREET, DE LA VINA STREET, LA COLINA ROAD, LOMA ALTA DRIVE, VERANO DRIVE, AND YANONALI STREET

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on September 13, 2016.

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

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on September 13, 2016.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as

September 13, 2016.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

California.

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

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/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 5767

ORDINANCE NO. 5768 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on September 6, 2016, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on September 13, 2016, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Gregg Hart, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

Councilmember Hotchkiss

ABSTENTIONS:

None

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

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on September 13, 2016, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Gregg Hart, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

Councilmember Hotchkiss

ABSTENTIONS:

None

/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor Published September 28, 2016 Montecito Journal

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) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on September 6, 2016, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on September 13, 2016, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Gregg Hart, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

Councilmember Hotchkiss

ABSTENTIONS:

None

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

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on September 14, 2016.

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

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

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on September 14, 2016.

September 14, 2016.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

was introduced on September 6, 2016, and was adopted by the

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

ORDINANCE NO. 5766

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

September 14, 2016.

September 14, 2016.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on September 14, 2016.

/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor Published September 28, 2016 Montecito Journal

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/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor Published September 28, 2016 Montecito Journal

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ORDINANCE NO. 5765

ORDINANCE NO. 5764

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING THE GRANTING OF EASEMENTS ON CITY OWNED PROPERTIES TO THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA FLOOD CONTROL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT FOR FLOOD CONTROL AND ALL RELATED PURPOSES, AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR TO EXECUTE THE GRANT DEEDS IN A FORM APPROVED

BY THE CITY ATTORNEY

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING THE 2012-2016 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AND THE SANTA BARBARA CITY SUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES’ BARGAINING UNIT, ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE NO. 5587 AND PREVIOUSLY AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NOS. 5623 AND 5704, AND EXTENDING THE TERM THROUGH JUNE 30, 2017.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on

September 13, 2016.

September 13, 2016.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

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

California.

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 Noe Solis.

FBN No. 2016-0002572.

Published September 14, 21, 28, October 5, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: S.B. Parties; S.L.O. Parties; SoCal Parties; Ventura Parties,

5773 Encina Road, Apt. 201, Goleta, CA 93117. Samantha Marx, 5773 Encina Road, Apt. 201, Goleta, CA 93117.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 30, 2016. 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 Alejandro Torres. FBN No. 2016-0002504.

Published September 7, 14, 21, 28, 2016.

ORDINANCE NO. 5768 AN ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE AIRPORT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE A CONCESSION AGREEMENT WITH INTERSPACE SERVICES INC. DBA CLEAR CHANNEL AIRPORTS, EFFECTIVE UPON THE ADOPTION OF THE ENABLING ORDINANCE, TO MANAGE ADVERTISING SALES AT SANTA BARBARA AIRPORT. The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

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meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on September 20, 2016.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 5765

ORDINANCE NO. 5764

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

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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

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STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5768

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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

was introduced on September 6, 2016, and was adopted by the

was introduced on September 6, 2016, and was adopted by the

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

September 13, 2016, by the following roll call vote:

September 13, 2016, by the following roll call vote:

AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Gregg Hart, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Gregg Hart, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

introduced on September 6, 2016, and was adopted by the

NOES:

None

NOES:

None

September 20, 2016, by the following roll call vote:

ABSENT:

Councilmember Hotchkiss

ABSENT:

Councilmember Hotchkiss

AYES:

ABSTENTIONS:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, 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

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand

and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on

and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on

September 14, 2016.

September 14, 2016.

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand

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

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

I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was

and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on September 21, 2016.

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman City Clerk Services Manager

September 14, 2016.

September 14, 2016.

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I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

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September 21, 2016.

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OUR TOWN (Continued from page 20)

Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame drummer Clem Burke at the Cavern Club

The Tearaways with Clem Burke in their dressing room

reflects that.”

Julia Lennon Baird, John Lennon’s sister, is the Cavern Club director.

She is also a philanthropist, teacher, and author of Imagine This: Growing Up with My Brother John Lennon, her compellingly personal novel. We met at the CCT offices while I was doing some postproduction there and she asked if I had read her book.

Admitting to “not yet”, she promptly found a copy, signed it, and gave it to me with a hug!

The big news at BW is The Tearaways band are headliners 12 years straight.

Original band members Greg Brallier, John Finseth, Dave Hekhouse, and John Ferriter brought renowned Rock & Roll Hall of Fame drummer Clem Burke (Blondie, The Ramones) with them this year, and added Liverpool keyboardist Tony Cook of the Mersey Beatles for their nine-gig schedule.

It was a sensation to say the least.

Our boys donned their black leathers despite the sweat pouring down the walls of the packed underground club. Gig after gig, wall-to-wall fans danced, sang and hung by the dressing room door for an autograph and photo. The band was spot-on with their core set list.

At their Adelphi Hotel gig, they featured teen artist Millie Courtney with her rendition of “Eleanor Rigby”. She released her first album this month co-produced by Ferriter and Finseth.

Billy Butler of BBC Radio Merseyside interviewed “the boys” on his live radio show and they played their original song, “I Quit My Job”.

The band received endorsement from Höfner during BW: Nick Wass, Höfner of Germany: “When we saw The Tearaways live, playing in the famous Cavern Club in Liverpool, we had no doubt that this was a band we wanted to work with. Their raw energy, their stagecraft and above all their sound were very impressive, plus they were already using a Höfner Club bass guitar; this made the decision for us. We were talking

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with them minutes after the gig!” The Tearaways have been using Höfner basses since the band was formed in 1981 and their instruments are: Ferriter on his ‘69 Höfner Club Bass, ‘65 Höfner Violin Bass, ‘66 Höfner Violin Bass, 2016 D’Angelico EX-SD bass in gloss black, 2015 Gibson Hummingbird Ebony acoustic/electric and ‘55 Gretsch Round-Up; Dave on lead guitar with his Gibson ‘72 Sunburst Les Paul, ‘59 Fender Esquire and ‘67 Rickenbacker 6/12 Converter; Fin with his 2002 Gibson J-200, ‘66 cherry-red Epiphone Casino, and ‘56 Gretsch Jet Firebird; Greg with his classic 2005 Gibson Everly Brothers J-180, Gibson Les Paul, and Fender Telecaster; and Clem Burke, of course, uses DW Drums.

Back in California, The Tearaways and Clem have been non-stop performing from SB to LA. October 2016 is the launch of The Tearaways’s next CD co-produced with Earle Mankey and features Burke on six songs. Two upcoming VIP shows not to miss are: The Tearaways with Ron Dante, Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods with the Mersey Beatles on Tuesday, October 11, at the Crest Theater in Westwood; and The Tearaways with The Empty Hearts [Wally Palmar, Elliot Easton, Andy Babiuk, and Clem Burke], The Mersey Beatles and Julia Lennon Baird at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara on Friday, October 14.

Quotes and excerpts from the band: Ferriter: “I met Clem through my association with The Empty Hearts and at the Malibu Guitar Festival this spring, when both bands were asked to perform. When we realized we were going to need a drummer for our trip to Liverpool this year, we asked Clem if he would be interested in playing with us. Clem volunteered on the spot, learned the Tearaways repertoire and rehearsed with us about a dozen times for four local shows (two in Santa Barbara, two in Los Angeles) scheduled before we left for Liverpool.

John Ferriter on his classic Hofner bass

“Beatleweek is frenetic and non-stop, and Clem outpaced all of us like the Rock & Roll Hall of famer he is. Clem’s talent is only surpassed by his enthusiasm, professionalism, and desire to be the best. He has helped elevate and inspire us to be the best musicians and performers we can be. He responded so positively to the Tearaways’s original material and his enthusiasm for learning and playing the songs lifted us in ways that words just don’t suffice. I don’t think any of us realized how overwhelmingly positive the experience would be and how positive the reaction was to Clem joining the Tearaways for these shows. From the count in to the first song we played, to our final jam out as we opened two shows for Monkees’s front man Micky Dolenz at the Cavern, Clem never let up – and his driving beat was more reliable and pounding than a freight train. Everywhere we went, we met and gained new fans who came out to see Clem play.

“As a founding member of Blondie, former member of the Eurythmics, The Plimsouls, The Romantics, and the Ramones (to name a few), Clem has fans that are all ages, shapes, and sizes, so The Tearaways were exposed to a different fan base than we are usually used to in Liverpool. Because the experience was so good, we were also

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able to get Clem to play on six songs for the new Tearaways’s CD scheduled for release in October.”

Clem says, “Being in Liverpool & playing with The Tearaways at the Cavern Club was one of the most musically inspiring things I’ve ever done. I literally felt as though I was walking in The Beatles’s footprints.

Being on stage at the Cavern was a very special thrill, I highly recommend it to every Rock’n’Roll musician.”

Fin says, “Many years ago when we played weekly at the Grill [Lucky’s] and Peabody’s, I never imagined 25 years later I would be playing the Cavern in Liverpool for 11 years straight, to have Clem Burke playing drums, writing, recording and releasing records.. it’s amazing to think that if you believe with your heart, stick to it and find the right people, it really can happen. Playing at the Cavern Club and meeting the locals is one of the most awe-inspiring things I’ve ever done.

Brallier adds, “True! It’s been an amazing journey the Tearaways have been on for the last 25 years. I wouldn’t change a thing!” And Hekhouse sums it up, “Liverpool holds a special place in my heart, The Cavern Club in particular and all of our friends behind the scenes. It was in our band’s roots and felt like home from the start. The Tearaways love this town, and now having our photo on display in the Liverpool Museum, I guess the feeling is mutual.”

BW mentions go to California’s own Dolenz, who was honored with his name on a brick at the Cavern, the 50th anniversary of Revolver and talk by its artist Klaus Voormann: “The title was supposed to be Revolving; John Lennon wanted to say the world is revolving, he thought people are intelligent enough to get that from using the word revolver.” In addition: Jurgen Vollmer, Pattie Boyd, Terry Sylvester [The Hollies & Alan Parsons], Howie Casey [Band on the Run], and a 12-hour Beatlemania Flea Market.

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Brilliant Thoughts

by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara with wife Dorothy since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com

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don’t like to admit it, but I’m not the man I used to be. Come to think of it, I’m also not the boy, or the baby, I used to be. This is all part of some big process over which, in the long run, you and I have no control whatsoever.

In the short run, however, there are many things we can do to make it more tolerable. One of these involves taking various pills and other “medications,” some of which are widely advertised. And they include a surprising number offering, promising, or at least suggesting, restoration or enhancement of lost or diminished sexual capability, particularly for men.

This is a problem which matters more to some men than to others. As it happens, I am one of the others.

Even in this age of same-sex marriages, trans-genderizing, and all manner of non-marital and extra-marital couplings, many men still equate “virility” with essential worthiness. If you can’t beget offspring, or at least perform the sexual act, such people feel that all you deserve is pity and contempt.

In fact, one of the most time-honored methods of pouring scorn upon your enemies has been to question and ridicule their sexual prowess. I well remember a song of World War II, based on the rumor that Hitler had only a single testicle. (The tune was the “River Kwai March”, also known as “Colonel Bogey”.)

Hitler has got just one big ball, Goering has two, but they’re too small; Himmler has something sim’lar, But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all Nevertheless, we must face the fact that one dubious reward of longevity is a decreasing ability, where sex is concerned. In my own case, at the age of 82, let it be frankly stated that the change has come with very little regret. That gone-but-not-forgotten overridingly powerful force came upon me uninvited, as it does to most of us, and during the many years in which it was a dominant element in my life, it probably, overall, gave me more trouble than satisfaction. For example, rather than ever knowing (or even desiring) the joys of parenthood, I was often made miserable by fears of causing a pregnancy.

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even that) – but the relationship it led to was not a satisfactory one, and, after four years, it ended unhappily.

Besides being involved in other activities which might be called “he-ing and she-ing,” I also spent plenty of time and energy “me-ing and me-ing.” But I did have certain romantic ideals, and was therefore always appalled by the idea of resorting to prostitutes. For the same reason, I never even came close to the thought of forcing myself upon an unwilling partner – and even today I find it hard to understand what goes on in the mind of a rapist.

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Everything changed with me and settled down, when, in my mid-30s, I finally got married – but, after a long relatively smooth period of sexual stability, the rate of activity began to dwindle. Today, it is only a memory – yet in some ways, our relationship is better and closer than it ever was before.

Still, taking the long view, I can’t entirely lose the feeling that this whole sex thing is a mean evolutionary trick, having as its only real purpose the process of propagation (whose own ultimate purpose remains a baffling mystery.) The ephemeral nature of the sex drive is just one aspect of its chicanery. Another is the fact that, in ours and many other species, it chose to closely associate itself with the same organs also used for the non-romantic business of waste disposal.

But the waning of capacity and desire does not necessarily mean the loss of all interest. Pornography of the grossest sort never did appeal to me.

But I can still be moved by the sight of a really attractive woman. There is, for example, a TV news “anchor” whose program I tend to watch just because I like looking at her. (At the same time, I’d probably feel differently to see her in person, because I’ve always been repelled by make-up.)

Still, looking on the bright side, let us hope that the decline of one animal instinct may actually leave more room for some of the others – such as the sense of humor.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 Clark Attack – Austin-born singersongwriter-guitarist Gary Clark Jr. traverses rootsy musical styles as easily as a cross-country train navigates the hills and valleys. In less than half a dozen years, Clark has been compared to or evoked images of Smokey Robinson, Sly and the Family Stone, deep muddy waters blues, and psychedelic folk-blues. Last week, he released an original new song, “Take Me Down,” featured in Deepwater Horizon, the new film about the oil well accident that coincidentally opens in theaters today. The song’s beautifully melodic approach to roots music is a departure from his usual blistering blues, rock & soul compositions, perhaps heralding another direction for this truly gifted artist. Opening the show tonight at the Santa Barbara Bowl is Alejandro Rose-Garcia, a.k.a. Shakey Graves, a wrecking grew of a one-man band on guitar and hand-made kick drum. WHEN: 6:30 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $34.50-$54.50 INFO: 9627411 or www.sbbowl.com SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 Infectious Gumbo – The twodecade old DJ collective Thievery Corporation’s most recent album, Saudade, connects them back to their beginnings in Washington, D.C., rife with bossa nova and other Brazilian styles, though with the help of more

than a dozen guest musicians. The group’s extravagant live shows often boast dozens of musicians and vocalists, capable of stretching out over the style that also mixes elements of dub, acid jazz, reggae, Indian classical, Middle Eastern, hip hop, electronica and more, all to crowdpleasing yet sonorously satisfying effect. Opening the concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl is Café Tacvba, one of Mexico’s most important rock bands, one that blends its native norteño music with more American and European elements of ska, punk, and funk. Together they make an evening of truly adventurous, borderless music. WHEN: 6:30 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $34.50-$64.50 INFO: 9627411 or www.sbbowl.com Sondheim in Song – Rubicon Theatre Company’s Broadway Musical Concert Series concludes with a concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along. Winner of the Drama Desk Award and Olivier Award for Best Musical, the moving and eloquent story about friendship travels backward in time, offers snapshots of the relationships between three characters whose hopes and dreams have changed dramatically over 20 years. The story, told in reverse, traces the milestones in the career of an influential movie producer and former composer back through the costs of that success – mostly his idealism and

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Gill-ded Musicians – The Time Jumpers got together in Nashville in 1998, when an assortment of the highly talented and highly priced studio musicians that popular Music City decided to spend some of their spare time jamming with their similarly gifted pals rather than the big-name artists who often employ them. It was just for fun, but the group quickly built a rabidly devoted following along Nashville’s Music Row via weekly performances of a vast array of country, swing, jazz, and pop standards that soon drew crowds of people from all over the world, as well as drop-ins by the kind of folks they normally wouldn’t have backed, such as Bonnie Raitt, Robert Plant, The White Stripes, Kings of Leon, and Jimmy Buffet. Their 2013 self-titled release was nominated for two Grammy Awards and a new one, Kid Sister, just came out earlier this month featuring both original and classic tunes. Country music legend Vince Gill now lends his staggering guitar playing, emotional insight, and soulful voice to the band as it tours the country, including a stop tonight at UCSB just a few days after the students return to classes – and one day after Gill’s latest collaborator, pop-turned-country artist Cyndi Lauper, performed at the Arlington. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $30-$65 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 Not-ching a Dance Milestone – Wesley Ching, the local choreographer who was recently awarded the first Santa Barbara Independent award for emerging choreographer, is staging the first full-length evening of her work after having performed with a variety of artists/organizations including Karin Jensen, Benita Bike, Art Bark International, Nebula Dance Lab, Robin Bisio, and Opera Santa Barbara, just to name a few. Ching, who was a Regent’s Scholar and recipient of the Undergraduate Research Award for her departmental Honor’s Project at UCSB, is staging Semiosis, a show that explores the use of signs and portents as portals to meaning in multimedia contemporary dance.

Ching will premier “The Entirety Of Us”, a quintet inspired by the color and vibrancy of the prismatic spectrum in relationship to individuality and group dynamics. Her two other works, “We are Made of Stars” and “You (or Someone Like You)”, which evolved from Ching’s interest interest in the intersection of physical and metaphysical cosmologies, will also be performed. Jessica Kondrath, a Los Angeles-based choreographer who was Ching’s colleague at UCSB, and Santa Barbara dance filmmaker-choreographer Robin Bisio, share the program, and Ghost Tiger, the local indy pop phenomenon featuring Montecito musicians, will also perform.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $20 general, $15 students INFO: 963-0408 or www.CenterStageTheater.org

his relationship with friends back to when they met on a rooftop in New York City as three naïve, hopeful dreamers on the cusp of bright futures.

Merrily We Roll Along features an exquisite contemporary score that includes the songs “Our Time,” “Not a Day Goes By”, and “Good Thing Going.” Bonnie Hellman, who directed the acclaimed long-run Los Angeles premiere of the show, reprises that role in Ventura, with Dean Mora as musical director and accompanist.

The cast includes Broadway stars Jason Graae (Grand Night for Singing and Falsettos), Kate Reinders (Something’s Rotten and Wicked), Ventura native Andrew Samonsky (South Pacific and Drood), and Beverly Ward (Epic Proportions). WHEN: 2 & 8 pm today, 2 pm tomorrow WHERE: Rubicon Theatre Company, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura COST: $69.50 INFO: 6672900 or www.rubicontheatre.org SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2 Benise is Back – Spanish guitar hero Benise and his Emmy Awardwinning World Music & Dance Spectacular returns to town with his latest tour, Spanish Nights, the former street performer’s latest musical journey through salsa, flamenco, tango, waltz, samba, and more. The flamboyant guitarist, who several years ago recorded one of his DVDs at the Arlington Theater, now steps across the street to lend his own flavor to classic songs from Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, and The

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WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre,1214 State Street COST: $29$67.50 (VIP $95) INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org Park it Here – Few filmmakers, especially in documentary genre, have a gift for storytelling quite like Ken Burns does. His films on a wide variety of subjects, from the Civil War to baseball and anything in between, are all widely acclaimed in-depth portraits of Americana that have set ratings records and garnered dozens of accolades, including 13 Emmy Awards and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award. Last weekend, UCSB Arts & Lectures screened the entire 12-part National Park series as part of the celebration of the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary.

Now Burns himself is coming to town to revisit the stories of those who devoted themselves to saving the land they loved in his lecture “The National Parks: A Treasure House of Nature’s Superlatives”. WHEN: noon WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $29-$44 INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org 29 September – 6 October 2016

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4 Top-Shelf Jazz – The estimable Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) with Wynton Marsalis is celebrating a quarter-century as the resident band of the nation’s premier jazz venue by once again taking the show on the road for a date at the Granada, Santa Barbara’s jewel of a theater. Led by trumpet player-composer Marsalis, the first jazz musician ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, the concert features the JLCO flexing its remarkable versatile jazz muscles and the music will swing between tributes to many of the all-time great, including John Coltrane; Best of Blue Note (Horace Silver, Lee Morgan, Dexter Gordon, and others); Chick Corea; Duke Ellington; Kings of the Crescent City (Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, and King Oliver); and John Lewis & Gerry Mulligan. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1214 State Street COST: $33-$78 INFO: 899-2222/www.granadasb.org or 8933535/www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu (photo by Joe Martinez)

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4 Browne Benefit – The legendary singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, who just performed at one of his favorite venues of the Santa Barbara Bowl in late August, heads back to the area for a more intimate show that serves as another of his benefit concerts for local causes. Browne’s literate and moving songs evincing a deep sense of emotion and personal politics are perfect for such events, and the musician has been a tireless performer in advocacy on behalf of the environment, human rights, and arts education dating back to his days as a co-founder of the groups Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) and Nukefree.org all the way up through last weekend’s Concert Across America to End Gun Violence (Browne performed in New York City). Tonight’s show, part of his solo acoustic fall tour, is a fundraiser for Safety Harbor Kids, a nonprofit with the mission to enrich the lives of orphans, foster, and homeless children through education in the areas of college, career, music, and the arts that seeks to break the vicious cycle of homelessness, poverty, and prison that have ensnared more than 80,000 children within Los Angeles County alone. WHEN: 7:30

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Don’t Blink – It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than 20 years since Blink-182 emerged from a garage in San Diego garage to attract admirers from all around the world with its toilet-humor driven punk-pop debut, Cheshire Cat, and peaked in popularity with 1999’s Enema of the State and 2001’s Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, during the height of MTV and rock radio. A six-year hiatus following the eponymous release in 2003 ended when founding guitaristsinger Tom DeLonge returned to the band, but he quit again in 2005, so this new version of Blink-182, which released its seventh studio album, California, in July now features former Alkaline Trio guitarist and vocalist Matt Skiba. Supporting the show at the Santa Barbara Bowl are The All-American Rejects, whose own history of hit albums and singles dates back to 2003. WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $44.50-$84.50 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com •MJ

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5 Folk Music of the Future – Natalie Mering, the singer-songwriter who goes by the unfortunate name of Weyes Blood, is a ‘70s California folkie at heart who “embeds her songs in a harmonic gauze of arpeggiated piano, acoustic guitar, druggy horns, and outer space electronics,” as one writer put it. Pitchfork described her voice as “at once comforting and unique, dramatic but never overbearing (with) an elegant lilt to her delivery, evocative of a different era of popular music altogether. As Weyes Blood, she crafts emotional epics that masquerade as psych-folk ballads, subtly symphonic songs that are informed by yesterday but live and breathe right now.” That’s the kind of contrasts that draw attention and accolades if pulled off without pretentiousness, which Mering does. Hear for yourself when Weyes Blood makes its Santa Barbara debut sharing the stage at SOhO with Montreal “weirdo-pop” band TOPS tonight. WHEN: 9 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $12 INFO: 9627776 or www.sohosb.com (photo by Cayal Unger)

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not located within a reasonable distance from where the tertiary treated water would be produced. The costs associated with the development of pumping stations, reclaimed transmission, and distribution facilities were determined to be prohibitive. However, future drought conditions or substantial increases in the cost of potable water [emphasis added] may justify the expense of re-evaluating this potential source of water in cooperation with the Montecito Sanitary District.”

We are now five years into a drought and reeling from eight water rate increases in the last four years. The MWD Board is still debating whether recycled water should be part of our supply portfolio. Other communities up and down the coast, and in the interior, have long-since moved ahead with recycled water reuse programs. Most have taken advantage of available state funding.

All have said “yes” to the need to recycle wastewater.

In May 2016, a motion was made for MWD to form a Reclaimed Water Committee to meet with Montecito Sanitary. The board vote was 3-2 against, but the president, using his executive authority, told the two dissenting board members he would allow them to meet with Montecito Sanitary on an Ad Hoc Committee basis. Two meetings were held; no recommendations for joint action have been forthcoming, and no more meetings are scheduled. A plan was discussed to allow Goleta, which has an abundance of treated wastewater, to truck it into Montecito at more than 10 times the cost of desalinated seawater.

Who Can Sell and Distribute Water in Montecito?

While Montecito Sanitary District (MSD) is chartered to collect, treat, and dispose of wastewater in the most cost-effective way possible, MWD is the only public agency with the right to actually distribute water (both potable and recycled) in the Montecito community. Therefore, in order for another public agency to distribute recycled water here, MWD must formally grant that right.

In April 2015, MSD proposed to offer 20,000 gallons per day of recycled water for irrigation use at the Montecito Cemetery. That idea was rejected by the MWD president and never made it to a vote by the MWD Board. Large users, especially in the Coastal Zone, such as the Four Seasons Biltmore, the

Music Academy, or the Miramar when built, could use reclaimed water by adding “purple pipes” that would not have to cross the 101 freeway to convey reclaimed water. Every gallon of reclaimed wastewater used, frees up a gallon of potable water for use by the residents of Montecito and Summerland.

At every Montecito Sanitary District (MSD) Board meeting since October 2015, there has been an agenda item for possible action on recycled water, an open invitation for MWD to address the MSD Board with a “specific project” that the two agencies could carry out together, or an opportunity for MWD to relinquish its authority and allow MSD to begin recycled water production and distribution as it sees fit.

What else could be done? Since 1989, there has been the possibility of working with the City of Santa Barbara to extend its recycled water distribution system into Montecito. The City already serves the Montecito Country Club and the Andree Clark Bird Refuge with recycled water. Santa Barbara has excess recycled water to sell; Montecito needs recycled water for landscaping. How difficult would it be to extend the City pipes into Montecito?

The City of Santa Barbara and Goleta Valley Water District have more treated wastewater than their customers can use. It is well-known that much of the City of Santa Barbara and Goleta landscaping is already irrigated with recycled water.

Carpinteria Valley Water and Carpinteria Sanitary completed a Carpinteria Valley Recycled Water Facilities Plan in April 2016, partnering together to get state funding for recycled water. Their plan is to treat wastewater to indirect potable reuse standards and inject the recycled water into their vast groundwater basin for recharge. Board candidates Floyd Wicks and Tobe Plough have proposed that, if elected in November, they will immediately open negotiations to partner with Carpinteria Water and participate in their project to get potable ground water in exchange.

It is time to end Montecito’s dependency on the purchase of State Water and imported water that MWD can’t even get into Lake Cachuma because of pipe and pump restrictions.

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$4,450,000 | 1401 E Pepper Ln, Montecito | 3BD/2BA + Studio Luke Ebbin | 805.705.2152

$3,195,000 | 410 Via Dichosa, Hope Ranch | 4BD/3BA Team Scarborough | 805.331.1465

$5,995,000 | 376 Las Alturas Rd, Riviera | 4BD/5BA Laurel Abbott | 805.455.5409

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$4,450,000 | 3911 Via Laguna, Hope Ranch | 7½± View Acs (assr) Karen Spechler | 805.563.4074

$3,500,000 | 1250 Cliff Dr, Mesa | 8BD/7BA Ken Switzer | 805.680.4622

$3,450,000 | 129 W Mountain Dr, Riviera | 4BD/4BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233

$2,850,000 | 221 E Islay St, Upper East | 4BD/3BA Anderson/Hurst | 805.618.8747/805.680.8216

$2,795,000 | 401 E Pedregosa St, Upper East | 6BD/6BA Michele White | 805.452.7515

$2,499,000 | 965 Isleta Ave, Mesa | 4BD/4BA Scott Williams | 805.451.9300

$2,195,000 | 1767 Jelinda Dr, Montecito | 1± ac (assr) Marsha Kotlyar | 805.565.4014

$2,195,000 | 1913 Mission Ridge Rd, Riviera | 5BD/3BA The Jason Streatfeild Team | 805.969.1122

$2,100,000 | 335 Calle Hermoso, Montecito | 3BD/2½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896

$1,990,000 | 370 Las Alturas Rd, Riviera | 3BD/2½BA Kathy Strand Spieler | 805.895.6326

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