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On The Water Front

by Brian Goebel Brian Goebel is an attorney and environmental entrepreneur.

Between now and Tuesday, November 6 [election day], members of the water and sanitary district communities, and other interested parties, will present various opinions on the subject of water and waste management. The views expressed under the imprimatur of this column – whether they are by candidates for the water or sanitary boards of directors or not – do not necessarily reflect the views of the Montecito Journal editorial staff.

Why I am Running for the Montecito Water District Board

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am running for the Board of Directors of the Montecito Water District because I believe that sound governance can deliver a more resilient and secure water future for our community. After years of inaction, we must shift to a more reliable, local, and sustainable water supply that will maintain our quality of life and ensure a vibrant future for our children, even in prolonged periods of drought. I promise the residents of Montecito and Summerland that I will do everything I can to prevent another water crisis and to avoid another round of self-inflicted quotas and penalties.

I am running as one of five members of a Water Security Team, a highly capable group of community leaders with diverse political and professional backgrounds, who have come together out of a shared concern for the future of our community. We believe that our Water and Sanitary Boards should lead, rather than fall farther behind, on resiliency, environmental stewardship, and sound financial management. It is time for new leadership to prioritize strategic planning over penalties and quotas, problem-solving over devil’s advocacy, and collaboration over acrimony.

What can voters expect from me? I graduated with high honors in government from the College of William and Mary before earning my law degree at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, finishing first in my class. After clerking for judge Fortunato P. Benavides on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, I practiced law with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, LLC in both Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Immediately after September 11, 2001, I left the private practice of law for public service in both the Treasury Department and Department of Homeland Security. I wanted to do everything I could to help our country prevent the next attack. While in government service, I designed and implemented many of our most important border security policies and programs, including overhauling data collection and analysis on shipments entering and exiting the United States. I also negotiated with other agencies and foreign governments to forge agreements to improve our national security and facilitate safer travel and trade.

Throughout my three years of public service, I was recognized as a problem solver, innovator, successful negotiator, and thoughtful regulator – precisely the skills and experience that we need on the water board.

After departing government service, I founded and built my first business – a boutique management consulting firm that I eventually sold, and for which I am now a strategic advisor. I later founded and built a data analytics firm that I sold to a company that was later acquired by the Carlyle Group. My latest venture is dedicated to helping drivers save money, lives, and the planet every time they get behind the wheel, reflecting my strong interest in building business cases for conservation goals.

I have been actively involved in the community for years through Parents for Summerland, the Food Bank, and Santa Barbara PONY Baseball, where I have coached and mentored kids from all walks of life. Given the challenges we face, I believe I can make an even greater contribution to community service on the water board by completing negotiations for desalination with Santa Barbara; implementing a cost-effective wastewater recycling program; adopting a data-driven and collaborative approach to sustainable groundwater management; and making a more effective use of the rain we do receive.

If elected, I promise to use my government experience, business and negotiating skills, and data analytics acumen to implement a water security platform and accelerate our shift to a sustainable future. I would be grateful for your vote.

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Ford, 76, globally known as Hans Solo in Star Wars and the title character of the Indiana Jones film series, flew in on his Cessna, one of his several private aircraft, from Santa Monica the 100 miles to our Eden by the Beach to be the main guest at a brunch for 36 VIP donors, those who’ve given $5,000 or more to the nonprofit, which served 2,174 people across five programs last year, including 694 under its Safe Parking Program.

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

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

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hat is Steve King getting at (“Paying Your Way,” MJ #24/38)? No human pulls himself up by her own bootstraps. We start out as helpless infants. We die unless an older human feeds, shelters, and cleans us.

To become a productive adult, one needs a certain degree of intelligence, creativity, physical and mental health, and education. Without education, every human would have to invent how to survive until he and she procreated and “learned” to care for the next generation and then “taught” him or her how to survive. For some, “self-sufficiency” is never possible.

They will be dependent or die. Is that what Mr. King is getting at? If you are unable to care for yourself, you should die and decrease the surplus population a la Scrooge in A Christmas Carol?

The world’s earliest humans created social order. Certain people took the responsibility of providing for those

who could not provide adequately for themselves. This is called civilization.

What is the purpose of insurance in our society? It provides funds that the human buying the insurance cannot or does not want to spend on repairs of whatever is broken, be it a car, a home, or one’s own or a family member’s health. How are those funds acquired? Many people buy the insurance that creates a pool of money, a “risk” pool. The unlucky person who has something broken dips into this pool of mostly other people’s money to pay to fix their break. You are permitted access to the “risk pool” funds as long as you pay a bit of your own money into it on a steady basis.

These are called “premiums.” If too many people in the “risk pool” need this “free” money, then the pool goes broke or everyone has to pay more in premiums the next year to keep the pool flush with funds.

Many private health insurance plans require that the person buying

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and using the plan first pay a certain amount extra of her own money every year, the “deductible,” before the “risk pool” money gets used. Sometimes, the insurance plan does not pay for what the person buying the insurance thought was covered. Both can bankrupt the patient.

What happens with health insurance if you do not pay the premiums because you become ill, injured, cannot work, et cetera? The private company throws you out. You no longer have insurance. You have lost the money you have already put into the “risk pool.” Somebody else gets to use your money. You die if the philosophy is that each of us takes care of ourself and no one else.

When it comes to health care, in a humane society that believes we are our brother’s keeper, that everyone is created equal, and where our Constitution stipulates government to provide for the general welfare, then everyone needs access to equal health care for the good of the whole (spreadable disease epidemics, natural disasters, et cetera) as well as the individual (remain a productive person in society).

A financially sustainable health system provides all needed care, is simple to understand, has low administrative cost, is paid for by all, accessible and affordable to all, is planned and bud-

geted, prevents disease and injury, educates, manages chronic diseases, and pays care providers fairly.

The “risk pool” needed has to be very large because health care is very expensive. The “benefits,” what insurance will pay to keep a person as healthy as possible, has to be large and varied because nobody knows what kind of health care they might need. Care must be there when you cannot pay the premium. It has to be prepaid.

In a society that values freedom of choice and equality as much as ours does, the cheapest, most sustainable, best, and fairest way to pay for health care that provides the most stable income for private doctors, hospitals, and other health care professionals, the most freedom of choice of care and doctor for patients is to have a single, large “risk pool” into which everyone must pay. That way, we all pay for the health care we need and nobody can call us a “free-loader.” Some will use “your” money for their care. You are likely to use “their “ money for your care too.

“Free market” health care financing does not work and is morally wrong.

1) Patients do not know up-front costs, so health care, by definition, is not “free market.” 2) “Free markets” are

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

(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 27 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. On today’s agenda: an addition on Olive Mill; a new single-family home on Oak Grove; additions on East Valley Road; a second-story addition on East Mountain Drive; and a new home and garage on Romero Canyon.

When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker.

When: 7:30 to 8:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Post Disaster Presentation for Parents & Community Members Hope 805, an organization that is administered by the Mental Wellness Center of Santa Barbara in collaboration with the County Department of Behavioral Wellness, will be giving a presentation to address the post-disaster needs of individuals and communities through outreach, education, resource referrals, and crisis counseling at Cold

Spring School. Hope 805 will provide information about the reactions to the phases of disaster, how to normalize those reactions, and provide tools to cope with the lengthy process of recovery. As we approach the holiday season, the rainy season, and the anniversary dates of the disasters, many families become triggered and could benefit from information about using coping strategies and building resiliency within the family system.

When: 8:30 am Where: Cold Spring School, 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road Info: www.coldspringschool.net Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish group for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 MUS Dads Annual Pancake Breakfast The entire family is invited to enjoy pancakes, eggs, and sausage made by dads at Montecito Union School.

When: 7:30 to 10 am Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Cost: donation Treasure Hunt in Carpinteria Seventy-five vendor stalls will overflow with treasures and merchandise at the Museum Marketplace on the grounds of the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History. This popular monthly fundraiser features antiques, collectibles, hand-crafted gifts,

Lutah Maria Riggs Comes Alive The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara, in collaboration with DramaDogs, a theater company, is pleased to present Lutah Maria Riggs, a monologue performance. The event will feature a staging of Terre Ouwehand’s monologue, which can be found in her book Voices from the Well: Dramatic Portraits of Extraordinary Historical Woman, performed by E. Bonnie Lewis. The event will be followed by a reception and talk with Terre and the DramaDogs.

When: 5 to 7 pm Where: Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara, Acheson House; corner of Garden and East Victoria streets downtown Cost: free to the public Info: 965-6307 plants, and great bargains on gently used and vintage goods of every description, including jewelry, furniture, housewares, clothing, books, toys, and much more.

When: 8 am Where: 965 Maple Avenue in Carpinteria Info: 684-3112 Book Signing at Tecolote Shannon Hogan Cohen will sign her new book, S.H.E. Share Heal Empower. The book unveils the stories of women across all ages and cultures who courageously reached within to overcome extraordinary obstacles.

When: 3 to 4 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 East Valley Road Info: 969-4977 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 Montecito Trails Foundation Barbecue Join to celebrate how far the trails have come since the Thomas Fire and debris flow. Everyone at MTF has been hard at work and thanks to donations, membership, and support, the trails are really taking shape! In lieu of the usual silent auction and fundraising event, the barbecue will be a community celebration.

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When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Book Signing at Chaucer’s Chaucer’s Books is delighted to welcome Dick and Mickey Flacks as they sign copies of their new book, Making History/Making Blintzes: How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America.

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When: 7 pm Where: Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State Street Info: 682-6787 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 Piñata Making Make a piñata out of newspapers to riff on Frankenstein’s themes of creation and destruction. All ages

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When: 3 to 4:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 Gold Ribbon Luncheon Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation’s 6th Annual Gold Ribbon Luncheon will feature silent and live auctions and a raffle; all showcasing sought-after vacations, fun evenings out, and other products and services from generous donors, with all proceeds going to families who have children with cancer in our community. An elegant lunch will be served along with local wines, live entertainment, and an inspirational program.

When: 11 am to 2 pm Where: Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara, 1260 Channel Drive Cost: $150 Info: www. teddybearcancerfoundation.org 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: Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library,

1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Opening Reception Fall Forward, a nine-person group show features guest artist Taj Vaccarella, who has select paintings from his “Fierce and Tranquil Deities” series, which seem somehow appropriate for the Halloween/Day of the Dead season. Guest artist Patrick Hall has modern and Asian-inspired ceramic vessels and wall sculptures.

The guest artists join 10 West artists Rick Doehring, Madeline Garrett, Stuart Ochiltree, Lisa Pedersen, Mary Dee Thompson, Stephen Robeck, and Iben G Vestergaard.

When: 5 to 8 pm Where: 10 West Anapamu Street Info: www.10westgallery.com FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation group for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish.

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When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 •MJ

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The short program before the unveiling featured All Saints-by-theSea reverend Aimée Eyer-Delevett, who spoke about her experience on the morning of January 9. “Even in the darkest hour, there was tremendous light shining,” she said, describing how the church turned into a makeshift triage center, with parishioners providing evacuees with clothing, food, and conversation. Eyer-Delevett was overcome with emotion at one

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point, recognizing people from that morning who she hadn’t seen since then. MA president Charlene Nagel also spoke about the strength of the community moving forward, and the bond that is now shared.

After the unveiling, the crowd was invited to mingle and enjoy refreshments. Many members of the audience lived through the mudslide themselves, or lost loved ones to the debris flow. Bucket Brigade volunteers were in attendance, as well as members of the Montecito Fire Protection District.

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Montecito Water District’s (MWD) Strategic Planning Committee met September 20 to review the highly anticipated draft Recycled Water Feasibility Study and discuss feasible projects. The issue of recycled water in Montecito has been in the news of late, due to the ongoing drought as well as an election in November wherein there are multiple seats up for grabs at MWD and Montecito Sanitary District (MSD).

Woodard & Curran was hired to conduct the study, half of which was funded by a grant awarded to the District by the State Water Resources Control Board. Rob Morrow of Woodard & Curran gave a presentation to directors Dick Shaikewitz and Floyd Wicks, plus district staff including general manager Nick Turner and engineering manager Adam Kanold. Representing the Montecito Sanitary District at the meeting were

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Of course, the Granada Theatre is not too shabby either. The architect responsible for the interior restoration, Roger Phillips, and wife Diana were there. It must be gratifying to see the culmination of such a grand project being appreciated by so many. Board president Palmer Jackson, Jr. remembered going to the theater as a young teen to see movies when it wasn’t so pretty, to put it politely.

The co-chairs Joan Rutkowski and Stephanie Sokolove welcomed all and reminded us “that the honorees’ vision, artistry, and generosity have indeed elevated the performing arts in this community and in the world. The Granada has delighted and thrilled audiences since 1924.”

The wine reception was held in the Founders Room and dinner was served on stage. There were stunning floral bouquets all about in shades of pink to burgundy. Duo Catering had a huge staff to serve our every whim.

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he Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office has lost its first and only female K-9 to work for our agency. Retired K-9 Betti passed away September 14 at age 14 due to health complications from old age.

Betti, whose full name is Betti Blue Van Haus Pe-ja, worked for the Sheriff’s Office for eight years before retiring in 2014. She continued living with her handler Deputy McNeil, who remains a K-9 handler with partner Magnum, and his family. Betti had been thoroughly enjoying her retirement life.

Deputy Mike McNeil said she was a special pup and is already greatly missed. He said, “She was the best Betti Blue Van Haus Pe-ja (2004-2018) served partner and fur baby my family has the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department for eight had. She was fierce, strong, and driv- years before retiring in 2014 en. She was always willing to give 100 percent to me, our department, and our community. She made me proud to call her my partner.”

Betti retired at age 10 from the Sheriff’s Office. During her eight years of crime fighting, she helped save many lives in Santa Barbara County. In fact, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors gave Betti a “Resolution of Commendation” upon her retirement for outstanding performance and dedicated service to Santa Barbara County. Here is a video we put together when she retired: https://youtu.be/hq1-4KeBeVs During her career, Betti helped locate more than 30 suspects including violent felons, arsonists, burglars, child molesters, and drug-related offenders. One of Betti’s most memorable achievements was in 2009, when she located several types of illegal narcotics including more than 300 tablets of ecstasy in Orcutt. On another occasion in June 2007, she was responsible for tracking down a Goleta man who had sexually assaulted an eight-year-old girl at Girsh Park.

Betti also assisted on numerous searches for evidence and lost or missing people. She was involved in a large number of building searches, alarm calls, and deputy protection during major disturbances. In addition to all of her crime-fighting accomplishments, Betti participated in a wide range of exhibitions for thousands of people including civic groups and clubs, private organizations, youth groups, and more than 50 schools.

Betti was born in Germany, came to the United States in 2005, and attended training at the Inglis Police Dog Academy in Ventura County. She was purchased by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office through generous public donations and grant funding from the National Police Dog Foundation (NPDF).

We want to thank the NPDF for handling Betti’s remains complete with an American flag cover for her final transport. The NPDF helps support K-9 units throughout the United States. The group helps purchase and train dogs, as well as provides a network of veterinarians to assist them with providing medical care as needs arise for both active and retired police dogs. Betti benefited from this medical care. A special thanks to Dr. Ron Dalzell of Ventura County for taking care of Betti and many other Central Coast police dogs.

The NPDF is a not-for-profit charitable organization. For information on how to support this group, go to www.nationalpolicedogfoundation.org.

Our K-9 Units are an important crime-fighting tool. If you are interested in helping the Sheriff’s Office fund our K-9 units, contact the Sheriff’s Benevolent Posse, which is raising money for this cause through its Project Deputy Dog campaign. The group recently raised funds to purchase K-9 Kyrpto, a narcotics dog assigned to the Santa Barbara County Jail.

Ongoing funding for our K-9 Unit is critical. In addition to the cost to purchase a dog, there are ongoing training expenses, supplies, equipment, and funds that go toward replacing dogs who are near their service retirement. If you would like to support Project Deputy Dog or to find out more about this important program, go to www.sbsheriffsposse.org.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Posse is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation with all contributions tax-deductible under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Sheriff’s Posse Board comprises local non-law enforcement volunteers who donate their time and efforts to assist the Sheriff’s Office in filling needs not funded by the constrained County budget.

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WHY IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT WATER?

Ziad Elkurjie, New Beginnings treasurer, with interviewer Cheri Steinkellner and Arthur Gross-Schafer (photo by Priscilla)

Harrison Ford, pilot and environmental activist, with Julianna Friedman and Tom Dain (photo by Priscilla)

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which replaced the charity’s annual gala.

Montecito’s Cheri Steinkellner, who wrote and produced the long-running TV show Cheers, emceed an entertaining 15-minute question-and-answer session with Ford, a friend of a charity board member, who also starred in Witness, Patriot Games, and The Fugitive.

Five of his films are in the top 30 top-grossing movies at the U.S. box office and, as of 2016, Ford’s films have grossed more than $4.7 billion in U.S. box-office domestic gross.

Two Ford-signed posters from Air Force One and Six Days, Seven Nights were sold in a silent auction.

The airline company, Signature, also gave their services free for the occasion.

Among the high flyers, all of whom got a keepsake photo with Ford, were Dan and Emily Engel, Julianna Friedman and Tom Dain, Kathryn LePage, Diane Pannkuk,

Sasha Ablitts, Kristine Schwarz, Bill Steinkellner, and David Jackson.

Dream Weavers A record 450 guests turned out for the Dream Foundation’s 4th annual Endless Summer Dream party at Bella Vista, the sprawling Summerland estate of polo-playing hotel magnate Pat Nesbitt and his wife, Ursula, raising around $300,000 for the popular charity that just celebrated its 30,000th dream.

The fun fashion fete, co-chaired by Ursula and Arlene Montesano, and emceed by KEYT-TV chief meteorologist Alan Rose, kicked off with a poolside runway show by Los Angelesbased fashion label Wildfox, which also included fashions from the Coast Village Road emporium K. Frank, as well as an aerialist performance from the SB Airdanse Collective, and musical contributions from Dominick Cole, Josh Killacky, and Cody Lovaas.

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board directors Robert Williams and Warner Owens and engineering manager Carrie Poytress. Members of the public also attended the meeting, including candidates running for seats at MWD and MSD. Morrow explained that since wastewater is the source of recycled water, collaboration with a wastewater entity (Montecito Sanitary District) is essential to any recycled water program.

Turner commented that relations with the MSD are positive, adding, “We are all working together in support of this. The Sanitary District recently passed a resolution regarding their commitment to recycled water; I have attended their last two board meetings, and you can see their presence here today. It’s happening.”

The District’s Urban Water Management Plan identifies recycled water as a long-term local reliable supply and commits the District to add 1,000 acre-feet of this source to its annual water portfolio by 2025.

Contracting the study was a vital step in moving from discussions about recycled water to creating an actionable plan, according to MWD staff.

The study evaluated nearly 30 possibilities, identifying quantity, source, and project type. The three project types include Non-Potable Reuse (NPR), which is recycled water produced for end uses such as irrigation; Indirect Potable Reuse (IPR), which involves injecting recycled water into the groundwater aquifer and later extracting that water from a separate location; and Direct Potable Reuse (DPR), which includes treating wastewater for direct delivery through pipes and treatment plants. There are multiple considerations for prioritizing specific projects, including cost, customer commitment, public acceptance, regulatory risk, potable water source to be offset, implementation flexibility and timeline, and integration with other future District water plans.

The committee asked for several items in the study to be clarified or further addressed. The draft report is expected to go before the board at its November 20 meeting. The calendar, agendas, and packets for all board meetings can be found on the District website: www.montecitowa ter.com.

nance amendments pertaining to the prohibition of STRs; the ban on STRs was approved locally in October of last year, after more than two years of multiple hearings, as well as community controversy over the issue. The STR ban passed at the County level included the prohibition of STRs in residential zones, agricultural zones, and mixed-use zones, while allowing “homestays” in residential and AG-1 zones, with restrictions. (A homestay is a short-term tenancy in which an owner or long term tenant of at least six months is on the property at the same time as the short-term tenants.)

The BOS proposed that STRs would also be allowed in commercial zones as well as a new overlay (dubbed the Coastal Zone Historic Overlay Zone), located in Montecito. That overlay spanned from South Jameson Lane to the beach, between part of Danielson Road and Posilipo Lane. Roads including Edgecliff Lane, Miramar Beach, Humphrey Road, and Eucalyptus Lane were included in the small overlay district. The Coastal Commission denied the ban, citing too few overnight accommodations for coastal visitors, and extremely high demand for the County’s campground units.

In response to the Coastal Commission hearing, the BOS has directed staff to formulate ordinance amendment language that will allow the grandfathering in of STRs anywhere in the Coastal Zone; owners must show they’ve been paying Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) for the last five years. If an STR owner sells their home, the right to continue to shortterm rent would be extinguished with the sale. First District supervisor Das Williams said the idea would be to create a “no net loss of STRs,” but prevent more from operating in the future. Owners would also have to renew their business license every year and be subject to regulations.

The supervisors voted 3-2 on the issue; supervisors Williams, Hartman, and Wolf voted in favor, while Peter Adam and Steve Lavagnino dissented. The proposed ordinance amendment language will be back in front of the BOS at a future hearing.

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On Friday, September 21, 85 years to the day since opening its doors, Laguna’s faculty, staff, and students gathered to celebrate the school and its accomplishments over the years.

The All-School 85th Birthday Bash kicked-off with a pep rally in Merovick Gymnasium and a drone shot of the entire school formed in a giant 85.

The extended lunchtime celebration included a taco lunch, birthday cake donated by Lilac Patisserie, and a hand-painted photo booth created

In August, Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors (BOS) received a briefing on Short-Term Vacation Rentals (STRs) in the Coastal Zone of the County and directed staff to return to the board with recommendations for how STRs should be allowed to operate in the Coastal Zone.

In May, the California Coastal Commission denied the BOS’s ordi-

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by Laguna Blanca Lower School art teacher Courtney Guay and grades EK-4 students.

The highlight of the day included remarks from distinguished Laguna alumnus Arthur “Bam” Spaulding (class of 1943), nephew of the school’s founder, Edward Selden Spaulding, and one of the first 40 boys who was there on Laguna’s opening day on September 21, 1933. A veteran who fought under General Patton in the Battle of the Bulge, Spaulding was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds in combat and a Bronze Star for gallantry in action. After serving his country in the U.S. Army, he graduated from Cal Tech and spent his career in oil and natural gas.

At the pep rally, he also reflected about what it was like to be a Laguna student in the early years – how some boys rode their horses to school in the 30s, how happy he was when girls joined the school in 1942, and how attentive his teachers and coaches were – always encouraging him to succeed. He closed his remarks by encouraging the students to get involved in music or to learn an instrument, as it brings much joy to the retirement years. Currently a saxophonist in several swing bands, Bam still plays shows around Ventura County as a member of The Swing Shift Big Band.

Over the past 85 years, Laguna has evolved from a boys’ academy into a dynamic early kindergarten through 12th grade learning environment, rooted in experiential learning. According to director of communications Tara Broucqsault, Laguna students are spending less time listening to lectures and more time working together to produce tangible outcomes in the school’s signature programs such as TEDx, Science Research, Robotics and Engineering, Entrepreneurship, IoT, Humanities, and Global Urban Studies. “Faculty use novel teaching methods to give students an experience they will never forget,” she said.

“This approach captures the 21st-century students’ interest and provokes serious thought in team-oriented, problem-solving contexts, which is more reflective of the skills needed for today’s innovation economy.”

The school welcomes a population of about 360 students each day, located at the Lower School campus in Montecito and Middle School and Upper School campus in Hope Ranch.

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Earlier this month, Santa Barbara County launched a PR campaign to remind residents that plastic bags and “film” plastic should not be placed in blue recycling cans, as they are not recyclable. In all jurisdictions across

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Santa Barbara County, plastic bags and film plastics, such as plastic wrapping, saran wrap, or small plastic pouches, are not recyclable, and are the biggest cause of contaminants in our commingled recycling.

For five-plus years, there have been no markets for plastic bags mixed in with commingled recyclables.

Although some large supermarkets can take back reusable plastic bags they give out, they are also limited by what they can recycle by a lack of a market for other types of film plastic.

Plastic bags in the blue residential recycling containers are also problematic because they tangle up with other materials.

The County and all of the cities within the county encourage the public to bring reusable bags to the store and utilize durable containers when possible to reduce the amount of waste we produce as a community.

For more information on reducing, re-using, and recycling your waste, visit www.LessIsMore.org.

Bank Promotes Kaufman

American Riviera Bank has announced that Jason Kaufman has been promoted to the position of service manager at the bank’s Montecito branch.

Kaufman has been with American Riviera Bank since October 2016.

He previously served as the Client Relationship manager and as a Financial Services representative for the bank at the downtown Santa Barbara office. This new position will allow him to continue to expand on his six years of management experience.

Kaufman started his career in banking in Santa Barbara 10 years ago. He has experience with loans, lines of credit, and other unique bank products. A fourth-generation native of Santa Barbara, Kaufman graduated from San Marcos High School in 2005 and is the married father of two young daughters.

American Riviera Bank is a full-service community bank located at 525 San Ysidro Road in Montecito. For more information, visit www.ameri canrivierabank.com.

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On Entertainment

by Steven Libowitz

Action Adventures at Art House

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he Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) already has a crowded calendar, what with its annual 11-day eponymous extravaganza of celluloid, stars, and scene-makers that takes place in mid-winter, one or more Next Wave festivals devoted to a single country or region in the summer, and monthly preview screenings with filmmakers as part of the Cinema Society, not to mention showing first-run arthouse movies every day at its headquarters at the renovated Riviera Theatre. Given the exponential rise of Netflix and other streaming services, it would seem to be a strange or at least surprising moment to be expanding.

Yet today’s challenging times was enough of a clarion call to create a whole new series of screenings: the Call-To-Action Film Festival, which has its inaugural entry from Friday, September 28, through Thursday, October 4. The purpose of the new weeklong journey into the dark is to perhaps use the art of film to shed light on some difficult topics, and possibly bring communities together to spark dialogue on pressing issues.

Seven documentaries are making their local debuts, with the slate comprising Robin Hauser’s Bias, discussing the nature of implicit bias; Robert Greene’s Bisbee ‘17, addressing immigration issues; Stephen Maing’s Crime + Punishment, which delves into police quotas and other forms overreaching; Stephanie Soechtig’s The Devil We Know, which examines environmental issues; Sally Rubin and Ashley York’s hillbilly, which takes a look at media representation; Dawn Valadez and Katie Galloway’s The Pushouts, which investigates prison and education; and Nancy Schwartzman’s Roll Red Roll, taking a look at the particularly timely topic of “rape culture.”

The films serve as empowering examples of people standing up against injustice and discrimination over a variety of issues. If it seems as if some hot-button topics aren’t being addressed – race relations, income inequity, health care, Native Americans, or the political divide among them – it’s only because of the limited screen time available.

“I had to come to terms with the fact that we couldn’t cover every social justice issue with only seven films,” said Michael Albright, the part-time SBIFF staffer who was brought in to help program the Call-To-Action festival. “We started by casting a wide net similar to how we approach the 27 September – 4 October 2018

Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than 10 years.

film festival each year, and from there we focused on the films that were not only the strongest in terms of quality, but also most aligned with the goals of this series, which is to bring the community together to discuss some of the issues that are raised in these films.”

Talking about the topics isn’t just an abstraction. Four of the films will be followed by panel discussions with the films’ directors and specialist on the films’ issues, moderated

by Geoff Green, CEO of the SBCC Foundation who is the former director of The Fund for Santa Barbara, which sponsored the annual Social Justice Award at SBIFF for years.

“The Nature of Implicit Bias” features Cyndi Silverman (Regional Director ADL) and Ted Scheinman (senior editor Pacific Standard Magazine), while “Rape Culture” will be a talk with director Schwartzman. “Media Representation” includes UCSB film professor Charles Wolfe, and “Prison and Education” features the film’s subject, Dr. Victor Rios, plus Noel Gomez, the Student Program advisor for the Santa Barbara City College EOPS Transitions Program. The panels should allow for ample time to take deep dives into the subjects, with attention on potential action steps for filmgoers.

“During the film festival, we usually only have fifteen minutes for questions,” noted Albright, who booked in films in collaboration with SBIFF programming head Mickey Duzdevich.

“The extended panel discussions, in partnership with other organizations in Santa Barbara who are aligned with some of the issues that are raised in these films, will go into much greater depth and allow us to include more perspectives.”

All of the screenings and panels take place at SBIFF’s Riviera Theatre, while the Passholder Reception takes place at Belmond El Encanto across the street. Film information, schedules, festival passes, and tickets are available at sbiff.org, by calling (805) 963-0023, and at the Riviera Theatre.

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unstable. To make money, a private insurance company will want only healthy people in its “risk pool.” If the “risk pool” has insufficient funds for whatever reasons, the company will not pay the insured person’s medical bills, the health care providers are left without payment, and the company goes out of business. 3) Premiums for only sick and injured people in a health insurance “risk pool” will be unaffordable. What “free market” model would take the risk? These “clients” would be given to government or would die. 4) “Free market” does not want regulations such as making them take both healthy and not-sohealthy people, making them have a large emergency fund, prohibiting

shareholder dividends, et cetera. 5) “Free market” health insurance does not protect the patient against catastrophic financial loss. It protects itself.

Voluntary health care does not work because funding is unequal and unstable.

Viewing history from earliest times, mankind has created societies with rules and regulations. When the good of the whole is at stake, a democratically elected, transparent government is likely the best and cheapest health insurance provider. Clean water, sanitation, policing, education, fire fighting, and health care for all are government-style insurance plans paid by all of us in the form of progressive or other taxes instead of premiums.

I wish I understood Steve King.

To be a libertarian seems to be to live alone and be a non-cooperator.

Freedom comes with responsibility, empathy, and a willingness to help pay for a sustainable society for all.

Paulina Conn Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: No need to get into the weeds on this, but it should be noted that many people who oppose “single payer” and other forms of healthcare welfare simply object to paying for either birth control or erection dysfunction pills and much more of the “coverage” required by giant government programs. Such mandates are not “insurance” as most know it, but are simply “welfare,” just as paying for checking tire pressure or an oil change would hardly be auto “insurance.” If both sides could stick to the issue of actual insurance, i.e., medical care when warranted, a serious argument pro and con on the healthcare issue is sorely needed. – J.B.)

Already Paid For

In the last edition of MJ, Woody Barrett proposed that the Montecito Sanitary District prioritize recycled water over a planned office building. Because he is a candidate for the Sanitary Board of Directors, he should know that the Montecito Water District (MWD) has the responsibility to pay for any recycle water project.

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The kind discussed by the water district consultants will cost them (us) millions and millions of dollars. The office building, well in the works, is a paid-for project that will complete the master plan. Everything that concerns Woody seems to fall within the MWD sphere. Perhaps he should have run for director of the water board.

Judith Ishkanian President, Montecito Sanitary District

J. Abe’s the Man

It’s the political season and TV ads are showing up. I don’t like what I see from either candidate for Congress.

Justin Fareed has an ad that says Salud Carbajal is responsible for an 80-year-old woman being beaten to death with a hammer. Really? And as the ad says, “I am Justin Fareed and I approve this message.”

Well, that is nonsense.

But then watch one of Salud’s ads and he uses the Bucket Brigade as a background, featuring Abe Powell.

Salud is projecting an image as if he were the savior of Montecito.

So here’s my thought: forget both of them; write in J. Abe Powell for Congress. He has done more for the community than Justin or Salud.

Dan Seibert Santa Barbara

Cure it All

I am no Thomas Edison or Alexander Graham Bell or even Elon Musk. Even with my community college background, I have a sense of curiosity. Trillions of gallons of water just dropped onto the East Coast, thanks to Florence. We can be there in less than five hours. The New Horizons spacecraft went past the moon on its way to Pluto in less than nine hours.

With so many wonders, why can’t we take some of the water off the hands of the people of North Carolina who would be more than happy to part with it? And while we’re at, why not cure cancer?

Steven Marko Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: We like your thinking on this, Mr. Marko. Although it’s probably out of reach to draw water from the East Coast, whenever it rains on the West Coast, there should and could be plans and methods of capturing that water using current technology. – J.B.)

Impartiality Required

It is so very sad when a decent upstanding judge is almost destroyed on flimsy evidence just because today’s radical Left have nothing else with which to destroy him. The Democrat Party used to be a place that had much honor and integrity; it was always wonderful to have a party that But first, donuts

stood up for the underprivileged, but it’s not the same party today anymore.

What a world we now live in: you accuse someone and they are as such automatically disqualified.

The Bible says, “In the end times, what was good will be evil and what was evil will be good.” Stormy Daniels is looked upon with almost reverence, as if she were a Nobel Prize winner of much authority, and Judge Kavanaugh trying to be nominated to the Supreme Court today is looked upon as trash.

This without judge, jury, or any judgment.

Please finally ponder this: If indeed Judge Kavanaugh did sexually assault Professor Ford, should every great person on this earth who went through alcoholism, drug addiction, gambling, and so on, but then turned their lives around and did great things now permanently be disqualified because of that difficult past?

We are on really thin ice here, ladies and gentlemen...

A judge should interpret the law and never make the law. He or she should be neither Left nor Right, but above such considerations; the laws must be permanent.

Morten Wengler Montecito

Man of Integrity

As happens far too often in a political campaign, it is easy to lose sight of the core issues and values of a candidate amidst the political rhetoric. Thus we are writing to share our insights and support for our friend and Water District Board candidate, Ken Coates.

It is gratifying to find people of Ken’s caliber willing to commit their time and energy to managing the complex issues of our water and wastewater. Competition for the seats on these boards hopefully creates a healthy dialog, giving Montecito residents an informed choice and an opportunity to employ new ideas and approaches to solving critical and complicated issues.

In Ken, we have a man of integrity who will seek solutions that are in the best interest of the community, as he has done during years of volunteer service to other local organizations such as Direct Relief and Sansum Clinic. He will pursue paths of cooperation and invention, looking beyond the territorial approach that appears to have been employed in the past by both the Water and Sanitary District boards. Having attended many water board meetings, he is intimately aware of the issues, and his extensive experience as an executive in the auto industry gives him a unique ability to consider diverse views and seek

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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

Matters of Taste

N

o doubt you have heard the wise old saw which pontificates that “there is no accounting for taste.” Yet any number of psychologists and other professional explorers of the human psyche, to say nothing of all the people engaged in advertising, marketing, and other activities involving the purveying of products, are constantly trying to account for our tastes and preferences – largely so that they can be exploited, catered to, and manipulated for a variety of purposes from winning profits and winning hearts to winning wars.

Common sense tells us that there are indeed many ways of accounting for taste – the most obvious being nature and nurture, to which we can also add culture, custom, education, perhaps climate, and – who knows – even cosmic rays.

Nevertheless, we must acknowledge that there is still an element of mystery in such eternal questions as why I prefer chocolate and you choose vanilla. Yet life would be much simpler, and society infinitely more efficient, if we were confronted with fewer choices. It has, for example, always seemed slightly absurd to me, that, even within a single relatively small vehicle such as a passenger plane, there should be a division into “classes.” And Americans, who are so relatively free from genuine class-consciousness that the vast majority of us, almost without thinking, consider ourselves “middle-class,” still accept such chopping-up of airplane space as part of the natural order of things.

Of course, it is all basically a matter of money – which determines so many aspects of our lives – except that it does not determine taste – as we all know from the characterization of people who have “champagne tastes on a beer budget.”

But “taste” itself in physiological terms seems to resolve itself into a surprisingly small set of variables: sweet, sour, salt, and bitter. Apparently, it is just the various mixings of these four qualities that provide what we call “flavor.” No doubt I am simplifying things here, but even the range of choices between simplicity and complexity is a matter of taste. Incredible as it may seem to the simplicity-lovers among us, there are others who actually like things to be complicated. They must be the same folks who enjoy doing the kinds of puzzles that quickly turn the rest of us to other pursuits.

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Then there is the matter of “good taste” and “bad taste” – and there are social arbiters whose whole role in our lives is to help us distinguish between the two. This talent (if that’s what it is) functions particularly in the realms of art, design, fashion, and décor. These “authorities” appear in every generation, and their judgments can be so powerful as to make or ruin careers. Such a one, in his time, was John Ruskin, the leading art critic of the Victorian era in England. His enormous influence was satirized by Punch magazine in a verse supposedly uttered by one who had suffered from its effects: I paints and paints, hears no complaints, and sells before I’m dry, Till savage Ruskin sticks his tusk in – then nobody will buy!

Another victim of critics – and this one truly tragic – was John Keats, whose death at the age of 25 was said to have been hastened by a caustic attack on his poetry in the Edinburgh Review. This prompted a churlish comment by his rival Lord Byron: ‘Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff’d out by an article.

But matters of taste – or, if you like, of fashion, are notoriously time-sensitive. By modern standards, our ancestors in many ways had terrible taste.

There have been eras when highly elaborate ornamentation, whether on buildings or in furniture, was considered de rigueur. Think of the Medieval cathedral, or the Victorian living room.

Then along will come some contemporary equivalent of the Puritans, who want to get “back to basics,” and proceed to demolish once-revered idols. Of course, religion is inevitably astride this see-saw, and the historical record is bestrewn with such zealous dictators of taste as John Calvin and Savonarola.

But you and I know what we like and what we don’t like. And, being reasonable people and – for the most part, kind-hearted souls – we have no interest in burning at the stake those benighted individuals who may happen to disagree with our preferences.

In the long run, we believe that people should be allowed to have what they want – so long as what they want is what they really ought to have. •MJ

SHE’S BACK! T

rattoria Mollie has opened at 1218 State Street (next to the Granada Theatre) and the inimitable Mollie Ahlstrand will be there full time, where she and her longtime staff will cook up the same great dishes she became internationally famous for (Spaghetti with Turkey and Raisin Meatballs, the best Lasagna on planet Earth, unparalleled panna cotta, and a tira misu to die for, among others)!

The new Mollie’s, located at 1218 State Street, is open seven days a week and offers valet parking in front of the Granada Theatre every evening. Trattoria Mollie also serves brunch every Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 2:30 pm. For questions or reservations, please call 805-770-8300 or 805-452-2692.

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Spaces featuring Lil Buck and Jared Grimes Sat, Sep 29 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre Tickets start at $40 / $19 UCSB students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

“Heaps of elegance, dexterity and charm… their fleet, floor-skimming steps and the orchestra’s exuberant buzzing worked together like one great colony.” The New York Times Event Sponsors: Jody & John Arnhold Sara Miller McCune Aerial Dance Company From France

Songs of the Free in Honor of Nelson Mandela’s 100th Birthday Thu, Oct 4 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall Tickets start at $30 $15 all students (with valid ID)

“Sheer jubilation… The Rhythm of Life.” Herald Sun (Australia) Event Sponsor: Mary Becker in honor of Gary Becker

Borderline Sat, Oct 13 / 8 PM Granada Theatre Tickets start at $35 $19 UCSB students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

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Santa Barbara Premiere

Sun, Oct 14 / 7 PM / Granada Theatre Tickets start at $35 / $19 UCSB students and youth (18 & under) A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

“The greatest contribution to the American circus since Cirque du Soleil.” Spectacle Magazine This modern, family-friendly take on the traditional one-ring circus showcases a galloping metal horse, a rotating tent frame for strongmen, acrobats, aerialists and more. Leap into the ring and experience hair-raising acrobatics, mind-boggling mechanical wonders and a bit of clowning around.

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Big Ideas from Arts & Lectures An Atlantic Top 50 Political Commentator

Jonah Goldberg Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy Sun, Oct 7 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall $25 / $5 UCSB students Senior editor of National Review, fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Los Angeles Times-syndicated columnist and author of Liberal Fascism and The Tyranny of Clichés, Jonah Goldberg offers provocative critiques of the political landscape and current events.

Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York

Preet Bharara Ethics and the Law Tue, Oct 9 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall $40 / $20 / $10 UCSB students

“A shining example for other public servants. He monitored the powerful with a wary eye – and, when necessary, pursued wrongdoers with great skill, energy and integrity.” New York Daily New Presented in association with the UCSB Pre-Law Advising Program

Event Sponsors: Susan & Craig McCaw Presented in Association with the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind

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Kay Redfield Jamison An Unquiet Mind: Understanding Depression, Bipolar Illness and Suicide Thu, Oct 11 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall $20 / FREE for UCSB students

“It stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty.” –Oliver Sacks on An Unquiet Mind Co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center and author of Night Falls Fast and Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire, Jamison addresses the realities of depression and bipolar disorder, encouraging dialogue, empathy and hope.

Event Sponsors: Diana & Simon Raab

Steven Pinker

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress Thu, Oct 18 / 7:30 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $20 / $10 UCSB students

“Enlightenment Now is not only the best book Pinker’s ever written, it’s my new favorite book of all time.” – Bill Gates Event Sponsors: Susan & Craig McCaw

Zen Buddhist Visionary

Joan Halifax

in conversation with Pico Iyer Tue, Oct 23 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $20 / $10 UCSB students Joan Halifax is many things – activist, author, caregiver, teacher, Zen Buddhism priest – but in all her roles, she is consistently courageous and compassionate. In an intimate conversation with Pico Iyer, Halifax offers a unique opportunity to hear the stories behind her extraordinary life and to gain insight into her latest book, Standing at the Edge.

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creative solutions to complex issues.

Apart from all of that, on a personal level, he is a truly good guy: thoughtful, considerate, and loyal; a devoted husband and father; and a wonderful friend and neighbor.

Kaye Willette David Willette Montecito

Montecito Water Board Elections

I am calling for significant disclosure of who, what, and how, in view of the serious nature of current and upcoming issues that have great impact on residents of Montecito.

I’m writing this letter as a concerned citizen of Montecito and as a member of the Montecito Association.

In the interest of full disclosure, I should also mention that I am a longterm friend of Dick Shaikewitz, who hopes to be re-elected to his current seat after serving for the last 12 years in various capacities on the Montecito Water Board. I have been made aware of the formation of a “Committee for Montecito Water Security” herein called “the group” that has raised a lot of money (reported to be in excess of $70,000) to elect members of that organization to the Water Board and replace Dick Shaikewitz as a board member.

The “group” has suggested that the current board has not handled some key issues in a manner consistent with the needs of the community and has made specific suggestions as to how certain key issues should be handled. As such, I believe it is extremely important that all parties to these issues and specifically the candidates for these important seats on the water board be aired in some kind of public forum, and at the earliest possible opportunity. Also, in the interest of public transparency, it should be known that the “group” employs the services of the current executive director of the Montecito Association. I believe that is problematic and must be considered as the Association gets involved in the situation.

So the stage has been set for a vigorous debate over the qualifications of all the various named candidates and the important issues on the table. The problem is that at this moment, no date or format has been set for such “outreach,” and the clock is ticking.

As I understand the situation, there’s a lot of money at stake in terms of proposed programs such as desalinization, use of gray water, et cetera, and all of it could come out of the pockets of the folks who know the least about the issues: namely, Montecito residents.

Therefore, one would hope that the Montecito Association will move this idea forward in the most expedi-

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tious manner.

Rick Feldman Montecito

For Woody Too

Candidate Woody Barrett summed up in his article On Sanitation why he has earned the votes of those of us following for decades our local and regional water-sewer challenges.

Way too much time and money has been wasted by management staff comfortable with their status quo versus commitment to improving ours.

Past expenditures without adequate accountability trouble me. Plus, it’s time for improved communication and cooperation between special districts to be better prepared.

Woody has the professional qualifications as a geologist and proven leadership skills we need. Moreover, Woody is known for his personal integrity, commitment to results, pursuit of facts, likeability, responsiveness, and business expertise.

Vote Woody!

Denice S. Adams Montecito

In Response to Ken Coates

It is frightening how little the three candidates sponsored by the Committee for Montecito Water Security (Committee) know about the Montecito Water District (MWD); or how much bigger your water bills are going to be if I’m not a member of the MWD Board to try to point out to them the problems with what they are trying to do.

There are five members on the MWD Board. It takes only three votes to pass any measure. The Committee was successful in 2016 in placing two candidates they backed on the board.

They only need one more to pass anything. Why raise some $93,000 in campaign money to try to get me and two incumbents on the Montecito Sanitary District (MSD) off their boards?

Since 1972, the MWD has had outside consultants do 10 studies to determine if it made economic sense to use recycled wastewater. Many of these involved the MSD. The 10th was done three years ago. All these studies determined that it made no economic sense.

Last Thursday [September 20], the MWD Strategic Planning Committee (I am one of the two District members on it) held a meeting with the consultant engineer who is working on the 11th recycled wastewater $130,000 study. For the first time ever, all three Committee candidates came. The study looked at 30 different possibilities to use wastewater. As in the past none were good, but three might be looked at further. The one that might

work best involved treating the wastewater at the MSD facility with new equipment, and then running purple pipes to the cemetery and Birnam Wood golf course. During the rainy season, pumping the treated wastewater to the golf club and storing it underground for use in the summer.

Sounds just like what the Committee candidates would like to do. But the cost could run to $26 million. When asked how much the golf club members would pay, the past golf club president indicated only a small amount.

So this great scheme championed by the three candidates is for the MWD rate payers to pay a big chunk of the golf club’s water bill. Even worse, if in 10 years the state declares technology is to the point that wastewater can be used for potable drinking water, then the golf club may stop using this treated wastewater and pay nothing.

Guess who will get stuck with having to pay it off? Would it surprise you that many of the committee members who raised the big campaign war chest are golf club members?

In the early 1990s, the MWD had a similar study done. It showed there is very little room to store water under the golf course. In normal or rainy times, little water would percolate into the ground. It would run into creeks. The engineer said that maybe things had changed since then, but he will let us know how much more it will cost to find out.

The committee and its candidates frequently refer to how terrible it is that daily 500,000 gallons of treated waste water go into the ocean. One acre foot of water (AFW) is about the size of a football field with a foot of water on it. It’s 325,851 gallons. So, about 1.5 AFW go into the ocean daily.

Is that worth $26,000,000?

Even scarier, the committee candidates want to immediately close a deal with the City for desal. For four years we’ve been negotiating with them. Originally, if we were to get 1/3 of their desal water, they wanted us to pay 1/3 of all past, present, and future costs. But the contract would end in 20 years so that after we help them pay off their 20 years bonds, they can say, “Montecito, goodbye.”

Further, while only about 3/10 of the desal capacity would be used, if we wanted the ability to increase the amount of water, the City wanted us to pay thousands of dollars a year for an option. The City wants us to pay as though we’re a partner, but we have no ownership or control. Their last offer contains a 50-year contract. Our staff and theirs are still negotiating.

Over 50 years, this contract will cost the District about 1/4 of a billion dollars. These uniformed candidates criticize our board for not hurrying and signing a City contract. They claim they would.

The committee and its candidates

The glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly. – Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

criticize the MWD Board for rationing, raising rates, having penalties, and an appeal process during the worst drought in California’s history. We did what almost every other district in the state had to do. We were criticized for not having more water stored. The uninformed candidates have no idea as to the cost of storing water in lakes or underground. The law is that if water is stored in lakes, and a heavy rain causes the lake water to spill over its dam, as frequently happened at Cachuma and San Luis, the first water lost is the stored water. If it’s stored underground, we must first buy the water, pay to move it to storage, pay a yearly storage fee, leave a percentage of the stored water at the storage facility as an extra fee, and then pay to move it back. It isn’t cheap.

Please, when you vote, consider putting the incumbents back in office.

Someone needs to talk sense to the nice candidates who, unfortunately, have little knowledge about the complexities of what they are dealing with. If left to their own devices, they will cause your water bills to skyrocket.

Dick Shaikewitz Montecito (Editor’s note: Well, maybe Montecito residents are simply fed up with a board of directors that casually and arbitrarily levied “fines” against its customers for accidental spills on top of the heavy cost of that lost water. I, for one, saw my water bill “skyrocket” because of an accident while I was out of the country, thanks to your policies. The heavy fine was particularly irritating because I’d removed my lawn and – working with a MWD engineer – replaced it with native foliage at considerable cost. It probably really is time for a change at MWD, but we’ll see how the voters feel come November. – J.B.)

Socialism is the Way

Jeffrey Harding suggested in his letter to the editor (“Best of Both Won’t Work,” MJ #24/36), that he only believes in his own economics data and fake history. And all “Liberals and Progressives completely ignore the laws of economics and historical record.”

However, an analysis of economic performance since World War II under Democratic versus Republican presidents shows that claims that Republicans are better at managing the economy are simply not true. Data show that the economy has performed much better during Democratic administrations.

Economic growth, job creation, and industrial production have all been stronger.

In fact, a 2016 paper by economists Alan Blinder and Mark Watson states: “The superiority of economic performance under Democrats rather than Republicans is nearly ubiq27 September – 4 October 2018

uitous; it holds almost regardless of how you define success.” Factchecking groups have investigated similar statements and have found time and time again that they are true. Moreover, past research shows that stock market returns are also higher under Democrats.

The findings for private-sector job growth are even more striking: businesses have added jobs at a nearly 2.5 times faster rate under Democrats than under Republicans, on average. In fact, the private-sector job grown gap between Democrats and Republicans is even greater than the gap when including government jobs.

Economists generally tend to support policies at least as Liberals as the policies the Democratic Party supports.

Some examples: 71% of economists favor using government to redistribute wealth. In fact, the concept of the diminishing marginal utility of wealth is a very well-established and non-controversial economic principle. Even Adam Smith expressed the view that the government should redistribute wealth.

Only 12% of economists take the views that the costs of the stimulus outweighed the benefits, a view passionately held by nearly all Republicans.

75% of economists favor government tuning the economy with monetary policy, an idea often vehemently rejected by the Republican Party.

Zero percent – not a single economist in the entire sample – of economists agree with the central tenet of Republican fiscal policy that cutting tax rates would boost the economy enough to cause revenues to increase.

94% of economists support taking action to address climate change.

In terms of specific policies, economists consistently and overwhelmingly either support the Democrats’ policies or to be to the left of the Democrats. This stance on policy issues unsurprisingly translates into which party economists support.

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new global economic age isn’t one of relentless decline; it is one that acknowledges workers have been able to prosper and make gains, but that two recessions – one the second-worst in the past century – wiped out many of those gains. Or to put it another way, when the right policies and team were in place. Americans have been able to prosper in this new age. And the opposite has been true as well. Perhaps it isn’t globalization or bad trade deals that have caused the struggle of far too many of late, but policies and leaders not capable of navigating a vastly changed economic, demographic, technological, and geopolitical landscape.

The last two presidents who argued for aggressive military action abroad and regressive economic policies at home brought us recession, income losses, and larger annual deficits.

Those who argued for investment at home, an embrace of this new global age and its opportunities, and a restrained multilateralism abroad saw long, sustained periods of growth, lower annual deficits, and rising incomes.

No matter how one looks at the data – by relying on the findings of economists, by looking at states level, or looking at federal data – and no matter which economic measure one looks at, the answer is the same: Democratic policies are performing better. And not just better, drastically better.

We have real data to guide us going forward. Americans have prospered and succeeded in this new age, and can do so again, but only if we follow policies that look far more like the Democratic than the Republican Party policies.

So when it comes to talking about the American economy in this new age of globalization, less pessimism, please, and far more attention to learning from and doing more of what has worked. Facts are facts and history is history, Mr. Harding.

Leoncio Martins Santa Barbara (Jeff Harding responds: Hi, Leoncio.

It has been quite a while since I‘ve heard from you. You have been a long-time critic of my pro-free market articles. This time, you challenge my response to a letter from Robert Bernstein, who in turn was challenging my original article in the Santa Barbara Sentinel criticizing Bernie Sanders’s democratic socialism (“Bernienomics”). Robert thought we could blend socialism and capitalism, and I made the case of why that wouldn’t work (see MJ #24/36).

Your argument for why I am wrong is that the economy has done better under Democratic administrations than under the Republicans. You get this from a study done by Alan Blinder, a Princeton economist, former adviser to Bill Clinton, and a former Fed official.

You also cite data that “most economists” favor government intervention in the economy. Your information was obtained from the leftist-oriented Politics That Work website.

I will address Professor Blinder in a moment. But first, my answer to your “most economists” argument is: so what? I concede that “most economists” are neo-Keynesian econometricians who favor government intervention.

I say they are wrong. And, I believe they have been proven wrong on both theoretical and empirical (data) levels. I believe that government intervention has been the cause of most of our economic woes. I believe that capitalism has been a boon to mankind. And, it’s not just me: most free market economists agree.

Because “most experts” say something doesn’t make them right. A few years back, “most scientists” attacked Darwin on his ideas about evolution.

Most “experts” persecuted Galileo, Copernicus, and brethren. In Eastern Europe and much of Western Europe and Asia, “most intellectuals” thought Karl Marx, socialism, and communism were the inevitable waves of the future. We know how that turned out.

So, instead of making an argument that “most economists” think I’m wrong, it would be better if you argued specific facts, theories, and policies to support your belief that government intervention rather than capitalism has been the motivating force behind America’s prosperity.

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Then we could have a proper discussion.

Getting back to Professor Blinder and his study, “Presidents and the U.S. Economy: An Econometric Exploration” (an NBER Working Paper, July 2014) – I actually read it; you didn’t. If you had read it, you would have discovered that it doesn’t say what you think it says.

Yes, he found a statistical correlation that “better” economic outputs occurred during Democratic presidential administrations. He then looked at these data and tried to explain the outcomes by examining certain events that may or may not have caused the differences. He concluded that the causes of the differences between Republican and Democratic administrations are mostly a mystery (page 36). He admits that luck may have the most to do with the outcomes (page 17), and that while “Democrats would no doubt like to attribute the large D-R growth gap to macroeconomic policy choices, but the data do not support such a claim” (page 35). In other words, there is no correlation between Democratic economic policies and the “better” outcomes. Thus, you are misinterpreting this study.

Leoncio, I believe what you are really trying to say, using the Blinder study, is that Progressive policies are superior to free-market policies. You can’t prove that, as Blinder admits. So, it gets back to specific policies and economic theories.

I will stand by my statement to Mr. Bernstein that socialism doesn’t work and it would be a mistake to adopt such policies. For example, wealth redistribution through various welfare policies hasn’t reduced poverty in America.

Without arguing the definition of “poverty,” despite Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society “War on Poverty” welfarism, and the trillions spent on those programs, poverty levels have not changed since 1965. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the poverty rate has remained at 12% to 15% for more than 50 years.

Please don’t tell me that we need to spend more or have better programs.

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Ten-hut! Film Deadline Approaches

Students who might want to maybe make issue-oriented movies or actionpacked features, take note. Smack in the middle of the CTAFF is the deadline for applying to be part of SBIFF’s 10-10-10 Program for 2018-19.

Aspiring screenwriters and filmmakers who are in area high schools and colleges are eligible for the much-coveted program, which boasts an impressive panel of respected and successful film industry professionals actively mentoring the budding moviemakers. The mentors lead each of the 10 selected film crews from both age groups through all stages of planning and production, and provide feedback on a rough cut of the short films.

Then, a judging panel high school and college screenplay winners while another awards the directors for the finished product. Finally, all of the films are shown at a free screening at the Arlington Theatre on the final day of the festival.

The program got its name because each of the 10 crews had only 10 days to write, produce, direct, shoot, and edit a 10-minute short, but now the mentors work with the young filmmakers over a span of several months.

So, maybe the final 10 now refers to

the 10-page writing sample budding screenwriters must submit as part of the application process. Directors need to submit a 5-minute short. Deadline is this Monday, October 1. Details and form at www.sbiff.org.

First Night is Last Days

UCSB’s Pollock Theater gets back into action for the new academic year with a screening of Last Days of the City, Tamer El Said’s 2016 feature about a filmmaker from downtown Cairo who struggles to capture the soul of the city on edge while the world changes around him, from personal love and loss to the fall of the Mubarak regime.

El Said will join moderator UCSB film prof Laila Shereen Sakr for a discussion following the 7 pm screening on Wednesday, October 3.

Also on tap for October at Pollock are two entries in the Frankenstein: Afterlives series: Haifaa Al-Mansour’s Mary Shelley, the 2017 doc that explores the life of the young author of book behind the eventually monster movie phenomenon, and James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein, the sequel to his 1931 original Frankenstein. The screenings are free but a reservation is recommended to guarantee a seat.

Call (805) 893-5903 or visit www. carseywolf.ucsb.edu/events.

Breaking All the Ruhls

The Producing Unit founder/director Peter Frisch has a simple reason why How to Transcend a Happy Marriage – the new play from Tony nominee, Pulitzer finalist, and MacArthur Fellowship award winner Sarah Ruhl – immediately appealed to him.

“There are two middle-aged couples, and unlike just about every other contemporary work around, there’s no fighting,” he said. “There’s no arguing. It’s refreshing.”

What was also bracing, of course, was Transcend’s titular inquiry: an examination of the apparent incompatibility of traditional marriage with our more primal, sexual, animal roots.

The theme is by explored via a sudden shift in the lives of the two happily married couples who are all also good friends when they encounter Pip, a woman who most assuredly takes life by the reins and lives it the way she wants to, without regard for convention or social mores. She shares her home and bed with two male lovers, only eats meat that she has killed herself, and treats taboos like a magnet.

“The play looks at the notion of what happens to our animal instincts when we get married and have children,” Frisch explained. “What do you have to cut off about who you are? There’s the whole notion of our

instincts atrophying when they’re not used.”

It’s a clever conceit, but so too is the approach, Frisch said. “The form is offbeat and funny, the characters are both funny and witty, the lines are witty and ironic and clever, and they have a lot to say.”

How to Transcend a Happy Marriage is by the author of Eurydice, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) and Dead Man’s Cell Phone, the latter two of which were recently produced at SBCC, and was previously produced in New York 18 months ago, but is still new enough that rights, which Frisch snapped up instantly for the area, were only being awarding for stage readings.

The Producing Unit’s offering, which stars several of its frequent company members including Ivy Vahanian, Bill Egan, and Nina Sallinen, takes place at 8 pm on September 28-29 at Center Stage Theater in Paseo Nuevo.

(Tickets at www.centerstagetheater. org or 805-963-0408). The black box venue is the perfect space to hold the rich tapestry of colors that arise via the work that has been called “subversive enchantment – part absurd domestic serio-comedy, part erotic magic realism.”

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The event was also a very in-tents occasion, given examples of the canvas dwellings provided by ShelterBox in countries such as Somaliland, Syria, Iraq, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria, were dotted around the property.

“We go to the furthest parts of the world to help people who are forgotten,” says president Kerri Murray.

“We give people the tools they need to get on with their lives after losing everything to disaster or conflict.”

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Among the guests wolfing down the tacos by Sharky’s Woodfired Mexican Grill and quaffing the tequila from Codigo 1530 and wine donated by the Summerland Winery, were rocker Martin and Kerrilee Gore, David Jackson, Chuck and Merryl Zegar, Earl Minnis, Brian Goebel, Patrick and Erin Spence, Carolyn Chandler and Wade Nomura.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 31) Santa Barbara Navy League’s Chili Cookoff judges tabulating votes for winners are chef Michael Hutchings, Craig Case, Richard Mineards, and Bill Pintard (photo by Priscilla)

New House president Jeff Daugherty with supporters and emcee John Palminteri; Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson; Gordon Guy, New House executive director; and mayor Cathy Murrillo (photo by Priscilla) Joseph Fior, and Maya Grace TrittVartabedian, provided the musical entertainment with her father, David Vartabedian (photo by Priscilla)

with a sold-out record 220 guests at the Hilton emceed by KEYT-TV reporter John Palminteri, raising around $45,000.

The charity’s three residences in our Eden by the Beach provide 98 beds for those needing help and Gordon Guy, executive director, estimates more than 30,000 people have been aided on the road to recovery, with more than 300 last year, with a budget of around $1 million annually.

The Heart of New House Awards went to house managers Scott Huenemeier and Gil Ramirez.

Among the supporters were Charlie Alva, Gil and Susan Rosas, Jeff Gitler, state senator Hannah Beth Jackson, mayor Cathy Murillo, Shayna Rockwell, Howard Rosenberg, and board president Jeff Daugherty.

Forecast: Chili Today, Hot Tamale I got a decidedly chili reception when I attended a fundraiser for the Santa Barbara Navy League at the Carriage and Western Art Museum.

But that was only to be expected given I was asked to be a judge along with TV host Craig Case, culinary wizard Michael Hutchings, and Bill Pintard, manager of the National Baseball Congress World Series champs, the Santa Barbara Foresters, for the organization’s third annual chili cook-off.

A record 226 guests turned out for the show, raising around $50,000 for general funds.

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Santa Maria bank executive Jim Glines conducted the auction at Gatling gun speed, with 18-karat white gold diamond dangle earrings, donated by Bryant and Sons, being snapped up for $800; a Scottsdale, Arizona, Four Seasons three-day hotel package going for $1,000; a barbecue event for 50 diners gobbled up for $2,400; and a VIP stay in San Diego, with a private tour of the World War Two aircraft carrier USS Midway, for $2,000.

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Susan, at actor Michael Douglas’s former estate on Hot Springs Road, which he was leasing from the Oscar winner’s ex-wife, Diandra.

I also knew the crooner from my frequent visits to San Francisco for TV appearances when I was introduced to him and his late ex-wife, Carmella, by the legendary Chronicle columnist Herb Caen in the late ‘70s.

It all came back during the singer-songwriter’s entertaining two-hour concert at the Granada when the 74-year-old guitarist, who also produces his own wine label in the Napa Valley, played his music from over the last five decades.

A reception was held in the Founders Room beforehand attracting a bustling bundle of fans including Robert and Robin Fell, Frank Caufield, Anne Towbes, Timothy and Louise Casey, Roger and Sarah Chrisman, Dennis Patrick and Hayley Firestone Jessup, Gretchen Lieff, Miles Hartfield, Michael and Zack Madden, Ron and Lauri Nestor, and Paul and Bobbi Didier.

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trative support to arts organizations from throughout the Santa Barbara region, including its Historic Theatre District partners (Lobero Theatre and the New Vic Theatre, as well as its eight resident companies: CAMA, Music Academy of the West, Opera Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Choral Society, Santa Barbara Symphony, State Street Ballet, Theater League, and UCSB Arts & Lectures).

The Big Heart awardees from Friendship Center Dana VanderMey and Carol MetcalfRoth

Wine Down Legends co-chairs Joan Rutkowski and Stephanie Sokolove

uated from Larry Crandell’s school of emcees, but Andrew was head of the class while he was not.

Celesta Billeci presented the Legends Award to Sara Miller McCune. Celesta is the Miller McCune executive director of UCSB Arts & Lectures, so she carries her name in her business. Sara is the founder and executive chairman of SAGE Publishing, which is spread throughout the U. S. and five continents. She not only supports locally but internationally, including Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. Sara’s credits go on for pages.

Joan presented the tribute to the symphony by giving it to conductor Nir, who joked, “There have been twelve presidents during the symphony history and only six conductors. So, it’s easier to become president than conductor.” The symphony reaches 10,000 students each year.

Anne Smith Towbes presented Mr. Loggins his tribute. He then delighted the audience by performing “Conviction of the Heart” with Teen Sing members Randy Tico, bass guitar; Dave Salinas, tom toms; and Rick Cowling, lead electric guitar. Kenny has sold more than 25 million albums worldwide and has won two Grammy awards. He was part of the Loggins & Messina duo, and his album Return to Pooh Corner remains the best-selling children’s album of the last 20 years.

The credits go on and on. Locally, we all know him for being the shining star for Unity Shoppe. His core belief is that “every child should experience the healing power of music.”

The SBCPA was established in 1983 and is dedicated to providing best in class production, sales, and adminis-

Friendship Center gave its 8th annual Wine Down and Big Heart Awards at its Montecito location. As executive director Heidi Holly said, “Thursday is the new Friday.” That’s because their event was on a Thursday and everyone was wining down.

Friendship Center in Montecito and Goleta “share the care” for ageing and dependent adults through innovative programs that value the dignity and worth of every person. They provide respite, support, and education, enabling families to continue to be engaged in the community, careers, and commitments.

Montecito Jazz Project kept the live music going while we ate yummy hors d’oeuvres by Spices N Rice and sipped wine from nine local wineries, plus brew from Captain Fatty’s.

There was a silent auction to view and a brief live auction led by emcee Stephen Meade. The donations went to LEAP—Life Enrichment Activity Program.

Board president Pat Forgey shared with the crowd, “Our board represents lots of hope and happiness.” She also thanked the committee in charge of all the festivities: Co-chairs Karolyn Hanna and Pamela Vander Heide, Sue Adams, David Harlow, Greta Liedke, Kathy Marden, Marianne Meeker, Andy Siegel, and Dana VanderMey. The highlight of the afternoon was the surprised ladies Carol MetcalfRoth and Dana VanderMey who received the Big Heart award. They have both given of their time and treasure over and over.

Friendship Adult Day Care Center, Inc. is located in a charming venue with a lovely courtyard at 89 Eucalyptus Lane (across from All Saints By-the-Sea) in Montecito. Their

Co-chairs Pamela Vander Heide and Karolyn Hanna on either side of Kathy Marden, committee member at the Wine Down

other facility is located at 820 North Fairview Avenue in Goleta. Call (805) 969-0859 for more information.

Lobero Theatre Associates

In 1938, the Lobero Theatre Foundation was incorporated to maintain, preserve, and present programming for the Lobero Theatre. In 1972, the Associates was founded as a women’s auxiliary to support the theater’s mission. One of those founding members is still with the group, Marilyn Schuermann. The Associates hold a seat on the Lobero Theatre Foundation Board and the Associates’ president, Annie Williams, attends meetings, making them a vital part of the organization. The Lobero is the oldest operating theater in California.

Board president Amy MacLeod expressed it this way: “I want to thank

Friendship Center executive director Heidi Holly with board president Pat Forgey wining down

the Lobero’s stellar board of directors for their leadership this past year.

Through ups and downs, these dedicated stewards have maintained their focus on the theatre’s mission: to be an accessible cultural asset to the community and a welcoming home for our local artists and audiences.”

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New members to the Lobero auxiliary Lori Ogden Hoffman, Lucia Davis, Lynn Barker, Victoria Hines, June Kjaempe, and Eileen Mielko

I’m a Dunkin’ Donuts guy. – Robert Kraft

27 September – 4 October 2018

Celebrating 70 Years of expertise & service in the community

Lobero director of development Brandon Mowery, director Jim Dougherty, president of Lobero Theatre associates Annie Williams, executive director of the Lobero David Asbell, and vice president of the auxiliary Mindy Denson

This day, it was time to welcome six new members to the group: Lori Ogden Hoffman, Lucia Davis, Lynn Barker, Victoria Hines, June Kjaempe, and Eileen Mielko. We were meeting for lunch at the Palace Grill and scarfing down those Cajun deep-fat-fried goodies. It brought back memories of when I lived in Louisiana and my daughter, Kim, was born where Tabasco sauce is made.

That would be New Iberia, Louisiana.

We had Cajun neighbors and loved to listen to their accents.

This year’s big money-raiser was called “Light up the Night” which brought in $40,000 for new energy efficient lighting in the theater. The ladies took over the El Paseo restaurant, turning it into a 1960s Doo-WahDiddy place with special guest Jeff Barry to entertain. He wrote such hits as “The Leader Of The Pack,” “Sugar Sugar,” and “Chapel of Love.”

If you would like more information about joining the Associates, contact Joan Crossland at Joan@blue palmgroup.com.

•MJ © Richard Schloss

Bartlett, Pringle & Wolf, LLP began in 1948 as a sole proprietorship. Now 70 years later, the firm has over 65 team members, including 6 partners and 14 managers, offering the most comprehensive tax and accounting solutions to both high net worth individuals and privately held businesses.

BPW is proud of our long-standing relationships with our clients as well as the community, and we are thankful for their continued support over the past 70 years.

Chelsea Chaves

Chris Hunter

Renee Hamaty

Broadway Musical Cruise Aboard The Condor Express

We look forward to serving future generations for years to come.

Our on deck performers Soprano Chelsea Chaves & Tenor Chris Hunter will be performing duets & solos while accompanied by pianist Renee Hamaty.

Broadway musical selections will include the best of West Side Story, Phantom of the Opera, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Carousel and many more! This classic cruise includes complimentary appetizers, with a no host bar - don’t miss it!

When: Saturday, October 6, 5:30 - 7:30 pm.

Where: Departs from the Sea Landing dock in Santa Barbara Harbor.

Cost: $60 boarding pass includes complimentary appetizers and a no host bar.

Reservations: Call (805)882-0088 / 1-888-779-4253 / condorexpress.com For more information on this and other specialty events, go to: condorexpress.com/broadway-musical-cruise

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Real Estate

by Mark Ashton Hunt

Mark and his wife, Sheela Hunt, are real estate agents. His family goes back nearly 100 years in the Santa Barbara area. Mark’s grandparents – Bill and Elsie Hunt – were Santa Barbara real estate brokers for 25 years.

Montecito under $2 Million

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t often surprises people when I tell them they can purchase a single-family home, on a good-sized lot, with amenities and upside potential, for under (and often well under) $2,000,000 in Montecito.

In this price range, one is not likely to find a home with big ocean views or a done home on a large lot. However, finding a comfortable home on a nice street with privacy and/or views, or a project property on a larger lot, is within the grasp of those who are looking.

This price range, under $2,000,000, accounted for more than 1/3 of all sales in Montecito over the past year. This may seem a surprising statistic in a town known for glamorous mansions, sprawling estates, and beach-front trophy properties.

As an update on sales in the area, so far just five homes have closed escrow in the first 23 days of September in Montecito, and two of them were “off market” sales. This number is well off the average of 20 properties selling per month.

The following properties include technically move-in ready homes, and project (adding value through improvement) properties in all areas of Montecito.

One wing in the home offers a 2-room suite with bathroom. Central A/C was also added to the home in recent years. Chiseled Versailles Travertine flooring was placed in the kitchen, hallway, two of the bathrooms, the office and laundry area. Tumbled limestone subway tile enhances the kitchen backsplash and Bianca Veneto Italian Carrera marble was used in the flooring, countertop, and around the tub in the master bathroom.

2251 Camino Del Rosario: $1,995,000

1850 Eucalyptus Hill Road: $1,495,000

Here is a 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom, single-level home on park-like grounds with lush gardens, fruit trees, footpaths, and a foot bridge over a small creek, all of which can be enjoyed from the redwood deck that traverses the back of the home.

The inviting, open floor plan with rich oak wood prefinished floors, is blessed with light throughout the home, through floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors and windows that overlook the gardens.

The home is enhanced by plantation shutters and air conditioning. This listing is located close to town and is in the Cleveland School District.

715 Circle Drive: $1,599,000

This 3-bedroom-plus-den, 3-bathroom home is located on a 19,000+ square foot lot within the Cold Spring School District and offers panoramic hillside, canyon, and mountain views. The west-facing walls of glass offer views from the open living room, dining area, kitchen, “reading nook,” and master bedroom (all with vaulted ceilings), looking beyond the backyard to the sunset views.

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The single-level home offers 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, and is still in its original 1974 condition for those lovers of the architectural style. The floorplan works well with living room, dining room, and kitchen on one side of the home, and the bedrooms and laundry room on the other.

The nearly one-acre lot boasts mountain views, some ocean/island views, and dozens of avocado and fruit trees on a quiet country lane within the Montecito Union School District. There is a 2-car garage and parking for guests on this quiet lane.

693 Toro Canyon Road: $1,995,000

This is a good opportunity to own a mid-century modern residence on a quiet, 1.15-acre lot with a private, gated entrance.

Living here, with floor-toceiling glass walls in almost every room, means nature lives with you inside an open interior of nearly 3,000 sq ft.

A d d i t i o n a l l y, there is a separate guest suite with full bathroom. Expansive patio areas and south-facing deck extend from many rooms and lead to gardens featuring an ornamental pool with fountain, rose garden, and fruit tree orchard. There is a garage and upper-level sundeck with ocean views.

This home is located on the west side of Toro Canyon, not far up from Highway 192, in the 93108 ZIP code and is within the Carpinteria School District.

••• Please feel free to contact me regarding any real estate needs or to set up a showing with the listing agents of any properties featured here – Mark@Villagesite.com or call/ text (805) 698-2174. Please view my website, www.MontecitoBestBuys.com, from which this article is based.

•MJ

Be sweet and honest, but for God’s sake don’t eat my doughnuts. – Emma Bunton

27 September – 4 October 2018

an evening of reflection, healing and entertainment

Oct. 6 |

7:30 at the Lobero

performances by local artists tickets: lobero.org Photo: John Lengsfelder

Opus Archives and Research Center has given more than a dozen grants to local artists to conceive and perform their creative expressions around the Thomas Fire and mudflows. These soulful performances will span multiple mediums including dance, music, photography, drama, poetry and video. This evening of reflection promises to be an eclectic and entertaining showcase of some of Santa Barbara and Ventura’s best artists.

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Notice Inviting Bids SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL CARPINTERIA AT VOLUNTARIO PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS Bid No. 3810 1.

Bid Acceptance. The .City of Santa Barbara ("City'') will accept sealed bids for its Safe Routes To School (SRTS) Carpinteria at Voluntario Pedestrian Improvements Project ("Project"), by or before October 18, 2018, at 3:00 p.m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 31O E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

2.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at the intersection of Carpinteria Street at Voluntario Street, with the lighting corridor along Voluntario Street extending from Cacique Street to Mason Street. The Project consists of constructing four curb extensions at the intersection corners and installing intersection and pedestrian scale lighting.

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 60 working days from the effective date of the Notice to Proceed. $440,000.

3.

2.3

Engineer's Estimate. The Engineer's estimate for construction of this Project is:

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1

License. This Project requires a valid California contractor's license for the following classification(s): Class A

3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations ("DIR") to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions. · 4.

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto ("Contract Documents") may be downloaded from City's website at: https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?Company1D=29959. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155. · 5.

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

6.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

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

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

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

7.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

By: _____________________________________ Date: ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M., General Services Manager Publication Dates:

1) September 26, 2018

2) October 3, 2018 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SpeedShop, 5865 Gaviota Street, Goleta, CA 93117.

Adam Reynoso, 7830 Day Road, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 6, 2018. 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. 2018-0002463.

Published September 26, October 3, 10, 17, 2018.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: P’s Container Sales and Storage; P’s Container Transport Service, 1309 State St. STE A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. PM &

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JM, LLC, 434 Valerie Ct., Incline Village, NV 89451. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 18, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 20180002439.

Published September 26, October 3, 10, 17, 2018.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Michael’s Catering; Santa Barbara Bakeshop; Waterside Catering; Waterside Enterprises, 22 W. Mission Street Suite G, Santa Barbara CA 93101. Michael Hutchings, 1035 Miramonte Drive 3, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September

Donuts: Is there anything they can’t do? – Matt Groening

5, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy.

FBN No. 2018-0002450.

Published September 19, 26, October 3, 10, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Geek Out-N-Go, 2989 Eucalyptus Hill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Brennan James Lucas, 2989 Eucalyptus Hill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 10, 2018. 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. 2018-0002492.

Published September 19, 26, October 3, 10, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rancho Siempre, 1066 Toro Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Philip H. Miller, 1066 Toro Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Anne M. Sweeney, 1066 Toro Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 27, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy.

FBN No. 2018-0002375.

Published September 12, 19, 26, October 3, 2018.

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

Ysidro Pharmacy, 1498 East Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. San Ysidro Pharmacy, 1498 East Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 13, 2018. 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. 2018-0002274.

Published September 12, 19, 26, October 3, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Allure Nail Salon, 623 W. Central Ave, Lompoc, CA 93436. Duyen Thi Lam, 605 South X Street, Lompoc, CA 93436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 30, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Deborah Sanchez. FBN No. 2018-0002417.

Published September 5, 12, 19, 26, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Koru Gallery, 1530 Marquard Terrace, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Jeremy Ian Wolfgang Miller, 1530 Marquard Terrace, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 28, 2018. 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. 2018-0002404.

Published September 5, 12, 19, 26, 2018.

27 September – 4 October 2018

Spirituality Matters

by Steven Libowitz

Healing with Hendricks

G

ay and Kathlyn Hendricks ran their publishing and self-help operation out of Montecito for years before relocating to the mountains of Ojai more than a decade ago. Since then, their empire has only expanded, with regular workshops both locally and around the globe, a bunch more books, and an expansion into online offerings.

All three are on the agenda right now, most notably the couple’s Creating Connection seminar, which takes place in their Ojai retreat center known as Healing in America.

The workshop delves deep into the concept that we need connection as much as food and water, that we crave affiliating, belonging, and feeling valued as much as most of the nutrients we put in our bodies.

While deep connection can replace addiction and the need for drama, if people don’t experience nourishing connection and bonding early in life, they may resort to survival adaptations that often crystallize into painful patterns that spill over into adult life. This experiential Creating Connection seminar offers methods to feed healthy connection and resources to clear the barriers to feeling whole and resourceful. Participants learn to welcome and include all of themselves in life, work, and relationships, and play with the power of recognizing context and employing contextual intelligence to shift to a felt experience of belonging, resonating with others, and re-opening to contact and collaboration. (The content of the weekend itself is about as up-todate as possible, examining posture and movement, dress code, standing in line, rooting for a team, and even ways we may participate in Facebook, Snapchat, and other social media.)

The workshop is designed for people who want to make the most powerful contributions in their families, communities, and the world.

Participants should expect to walk away with some skills to continue expanding the contexts in which they play and to generate new connections of collaboration and co-creativity. The September 28-30 workshop costs $695, but you must have completed the Hendricks’s Evolutionary Playground or Essentials: Making The Big Leap in Life and Love seminars as a prerequisite, which is how the Internet angle arrives, as the Essentials Online workshop, which cost $97, is available as an option to meet the requirement.

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To create the course, Kathlyn Hendricks consolidated the key processes from the three-day seminar so enrollees can dive right into the activities to improve well-being, relationships, and work. The Essentials is, of course, open to anyone whether you are interested in advanced work. Details online at https://hendricks.com or call (800) 688-0772, extension 1.

Less expensive still is Gay Hendricks’s new book, The Joy of Genius, the sequel to his popular The Big Leap, which, in turn, held the core concepts the couple discussed when they spoke at Unity of Santa Barbara last year as part of the Santa Barbara Consciousness Network gathering.

Hendricks’s post-age 50 look at how his time, attention, and energy were being directed away from a life on his “Genius Spiral,”which he describes as “that magical place where purpose and passion intersect – (where) everything clicks and automatically creates a domino effect where life is happening for my good and for the greater good of everyone around me.”

The book was published online this past Tuesday, and in paperback on Monday, October 8. Those who order a copy early will also receive free access to his live seminar on Wednesday, October 24, when he will go step-by-step through the tools, the specific action steps, and practices to conquer negative thinking and habitual patterns keeping you from living full-time in your genius. Visit www.joyofgenius.com for details.

Dream on

Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Dream Tending workshops are taught by Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., the chancellor and founding president of Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Dr. Aizenstat has explored the potential of dreams through depth psychology and his own research for more than 35 years, coming up with methodologies that extend traditional dreamwork to the vision of an animated world where the living images in dreams are experienced as embodied and originating in the psyche of nature, as well as that of persons. He even wrote a book, Dream Tending, that describes new applications of dreamwork in relation to health and healing, nightmares, the World’s Dream, relationships, and the creative process.

The workshops have been grow-

ing in popularity in recent times, selling out three-day weekends and other seminars. The next offering is a single-day one called “The Healing Power of Dreams: The Craft of Dream Tending.” Slated for 10 am to 4 pm this Saturday, September 29, at Pacifica’s Ladera Lane campus, the event will have participants working with tools and methods from Dream Tending to learn how to access the power and potential alive in dreams, and engage untapped creativity and deep intelligence within.

Specific approaches are offered to support psychological and physical well-being, including gaining the skills to remember and sustain our relationship with dreams, and perspectives to assist in attending to compulsions and addictions.

Among the highlights are learning how to remember dreams and examine recurring dream themes, animate dream images, and form relationships with figures in dreams, experiencing ways of transforming nightmare images to serve a more constructive purpose, and discovering how living images impact and inform our moods, behaviors, and perceptions.

Admission is $45, and includes lunch. Call (805) 969-3626 or visit www.retreat.pacifica.edu.

Pan in Politics?

Pacifica’s The Archetypal Pan in America offers a significant exploration into archetypal causes for the anxieties and ethical dilemmas currently facing the country. Examining the relationship of the increase in violent attacks perpetrated by homegrown shooters, radical Jihadists and rapists, and the rise in a type of hypermasculine leadership, the seminar also takes a look at the sharp increase in the reported serious mental disorders. Delving into the relationships between them is the theme for the 7 to 9 pm event on Friday, October 5, presented by Sukey Fontelieu, an LMT who has been on the faculty of Pacifica since 2000. Admission by donation.

Grounding and Growth through Grief

Alexis Slutzky is a wilderness guide, mentor, community builder, council trainer, and counselor (licensed but not currently practicing MFT) who has been supporting youth and adults, individually and in groups, to restore relationships with the self, one another, and the natural world. One of those methods is through the ancient tradition of a Community Grief Ritual, a practice common in indigenous cultures where people gather to

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honor and share grief through ritual, beauty, nature, song, and community.

Slutzky’s commitment to hosting formal quarterly gatherings made last September went on hiatus during the Thomas Fire and Montecito debris flow disasters, though Slutzky’s “pop-up” gatherings at Yoga Soup and elsewhere – including some held during the smoky days of December – aided in real-time healing amid the challenging times. She returned the circles to Arroyo Hondo Preserve a few months ago, and has slated the next one, “Opening to Grace”, for this Saturday, September 29, from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm.

As before, the concept is to deepen connection to our hearts and open to the grace of life, with all its inherent loss and change. While grief is a natural and poignant part of our human experience, the emotion has become both exaggerated at a time with so much crisis and polarization, and ignored, via our culture largely being disconnected from the earth and our hearts.

Slutzky says it’s important to learn to metabolize our grief so that our hearts stay open and supple, ready to respond to the needs and call of the times with compassion, wisdom, and presence.

Participants – there were about 35 at the last gathering – engage song, writing, movement, nature, sharing stories in small circles and together to bring our grief to the altar as a gift to the beyond. “[The circles] have been an incredibly rich experience,” Slutzky said in an email, “as those who have come consistently help to hold a strong field, and others have had tremendous courage and trust to try something new. All of this has made these rituals a very healing experience for many. I am grateful for the call.”

Next up is a longer retreat for women-identified folks only on December 8-9 titled “Grief and Gratitude: A Homecoming.” For more information, visit www.wild belonging.com or email Slutzky at alexisslutzky@gmail.com.

Slutzky will also be co-hosting “Council Training 2: Deepening the Practice of Council,” open to experienced council circle practitioners (preferably those who have completed Introduction to the Way of Council and have been facilitating Council for some time). The advanced training aims to deepen the practice of Council, addressing experiences with “the inspiring, and sometimes challenging, situations that arise.” Visit www.centerforcouncil.org/deepening-thepractice-of-council-10-6-18-aldersgate.html for information about the October 6-7 training.

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of Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter, Princess Eugenie to beau Jack Brooksbank, seems to be getting a tepid response, with the BBC – the U.K.’s main broadcaster – declining not to give full live coverage because they feel there is limited support for the bride’s father, Prince Andrew, and her mother, Fergie, the Duchess of York.

Despite all the senior members of the Royal Family being in attendance at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, on October 12, the same historic venue as the nuptials of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, the Beeb, as its fondly known, is concerned the cost of cov-

Habitat For Humanity community volunteering Montecito Mavericks heroes receive awards and standing ovations (photo by Priscilla)

Montecito Mavericks awards went to a dynamic dozen: Kelly Avina, Bob Burtness, Sam Carr, Bill Ferguson, Gary Korte, Karen Lyons, Jerome Marchand, Steve Congdon, Hobie Smith, Mary Jo Swallow, Eric Larsen, and Rebecca McCloud, while Doug Wood won the Get It Done trophy.

We thank them all.

Habitat hero Terra Taylor with presenter Rose Levy, Habitat for Humanity program manager (photo by Priscilla)

awards were given to Doug Mershon, Claude Dorais, and Robert Wilson, and ReStore accolades were presented to Arlei De Silva and Sourav Medya.

Mental Capacity Santa Barbara’s 71-year-old Mental Wellness Center, which normally throws its annual lunch at the Carrillo Recreation Center, moved to grander quarters in the Loggia Ballroom of the Biltmore for its 8th

Kathy Clenet’s table at the Mental Wellness Center luncheon: (back row) Annmarie Cameron, MWC CEO; Colette Eyears, Kirsten Moore, Trish Pop, Jodi Colt; (front row) Gerd Jordano, Bonnie Fearer, Kathy Clenet, table host; Grace Owens and Gail Shannon

Youth Wellness Connection Club students at the MWC luncheon with Rachael Steidl

annual fundraiser with 175 guests, raising around $150,000.

The organization, which has an annual budget of $3 million, started focusing on youth 10 years ago and helps 2,000 students annually, its presence being in 70 classrooms from Santa Barbara to Santa Ynez.

The ubiquitous Geoff Green was emcee at the bustling bash, co-chaired

by Janet Garufis, Renee Grub, and Zev Nathan, while Emili Silva, a 17-year-old Santa Barbara High student, and Mike Mowers, a teacher at La Cuesta High, were speakers talking about the pressures young people face.

Among the supporters were Annmarie Cameron, Gerd Jordano, George Leis, Catherine Remak, David Edelman, Nolan Nicholson, Merryl Brown, Beth Farnsworth, Kathy Clenet, and Bob and Liz Costello.

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Second Fiddle While Prince Harry’s wedding to Meghan Markle in May was a TV ratings grabber, next month’s nuptials You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy donuts

erage doesn’t guarantee boffo ratings.

Now Andrew, the monarch’s second-eldest son, according to the Daily Mail, my former employer, is pinning his hopes that rival ITV will cover the tying of the knot of Eugenie, 28, and Brooksbank, 32, an ambassador for actor George Clooney’s tequila brand.

Stay tuned.

Sightings: Ex-FBI chief James Comey at the Biltmore...Former Wimbledon ace Jimmy Connors stocking up on stamps at the upper village Post Office...Supermodel turned business tycoon Kathy Ireland sashaying on State Street Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301.

•MJ 27 September – 4 October 2018

Real Estate View The Montecito Heat Index

by Michael Phillips

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ow hot is today’s Montecito Real Estate market? The Heat Index measures buyer choices for single family homes in five price sectors. Rather than sales data, typically at least 30 days old, the Index measures signed contracts resulting in present demand and thus market strength and direction.

Since home purchases fluctuate seasonally, indeed monthly, today’s Heat is compared to this date a year ago. All data are from the Santa Barbara MLS and are uniformly deemed reliable.

Today’s total Heat score is 98, a significant increase over last year’s score of 58.

As the chart describes, the $1-2 million group is our demand leader with a score of 39, just above last year’s score of 35.

The $2-3M group just missed the leader position by 4% and easily outperformed last year’s score of 5, while the $3-4M sector’s demand is just half of last year’s score.

The $4-5M group is always interesting to watch. Demand in this group changes more than any other. Today it scored a respectable 13, nicely outperforming last year’s score of 5.

The $5M-and-above mega estates scored a 5, bettering last year by 66.6%. Since the past winter events, sellers have left the market in significant numbers. Today, the inventory of homes for sale in this group is down 24.3% from last year. All other sectors have nearly identical inventory levels as last year’s.

Looking at year over year comparisons, we are the only area in our MLS with a negative median price. Hope Ranch, with admittedly just a third of our sales, shows a median price 27 September – 4 October 2018

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Michael is a realtor at Coldwell Banker, and is a former Montecito Planning Commissioner.

He can be reached at 969-4569 and info@ MichaelPhillipsRealEstate. com

increase of 37% while Montecito’s median price decreased by 8%.

Sales show an equally dark picture.

Hope Ranch is up a huge 37% while Montecito is down by a stunning 42%.

Sellers are trying to hold on to their asking prices yet are growing increasingly impatient with the lack of offers they are receiving. Buyers, on the other hand, still have few homes to consider with concomitant high prices not helped by the Fed’s tightening monetary policy and President Trump’s property tax deduction cap.

As home sales continue to decline for the fifth consecutive month, buyers should be increasingly demanding price reductions before saying yes, and sellers might have to become more agreeable to close escrow. Given the strong Heat number today, our sales numbers should improve as these contracts proceed to closure.

Southern California is enjoying a 7.3% median price increase with sales numbers down 12%. Most economists are questioning the duration of the nearly 10-year sellers’ market, yet don’t see a 2006 collapse on the horizon but rather a slight shift toward buyers. Most important for Montecito is getting through this winter with both average rainfall and no fire or debris flow events.

Nothing will normalize our market more than that.

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

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

Book Sale’s Bookend – The bad news? The 44th Annual Mary Jane McCord Planned Parenthood Book Sale has been going on since last week at Earl Warren Showgrounds, where the largest used-book sale in the tri-counties has likely already unloaded thousands of carefully curated and cleaned titles in categories that range from American History to War and Military, Children’s, Self-Help, and Romance. The good news? The stock is refreshed daily, so whether you’ve missed the first week entirely or already brought home some literary treasures, there is still an impressive selection of books in all categories, from children and young adult to business, cookbooks, and literature.

Perhaps even better news: Most paperbacks are still priced at $1, Sunday brings a 50-percent discount for the full day, and as Sunday afternoon approaches the deals start getting bigger by the bagful. But be warned, you might wile away a weekend being titillated by titles and communing with copy as you browse the tables and bins full of books in the massive space. WHEN: noon to 8 pm Wednesday-Thursday, September 27-28; 10 am to 8 pm Saturday, September 29; 10 am to 6 pm Sunday, September 30 WHERE: Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real COST: free admission INFO: (805) 722-1517 / http://booksale. ppcentralcoast.org/

Belly Dance Extravaganza – Beth Amine hosts an evening of local residents and visitors doing their thing, shaking their midsections and more at one of downtown’s favorite watering holes, the aptly named Wildcat Lounge. Among the guests are Nilay Engin of Turkey, who claimed Miss Body of the Universe at the Belly Dance USA Competition. Also appearing are Alexandra King, Lizette, Daisy Dances, Denise Berdan, Krischana, Ashari, Faith Daniels, Amine, and others who will, among them, perform a wide variety of belly-dance stylings including Cabaret, Tribal, and Folkloric. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 15 W. Ortega St. COST: $7 INFO: (805) 962-7970 or www.wildcatlounge.com The Art of Shaping – While one could convincingly argue that the listing above about belly dancing could easily also carry this same headline, what we’re talking about here are surfboards. In conjunction with Barry McGee: SB Mid-Summer Intensive, currently on exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) – which features more than 150 boards created by a diverse group of shapers and reimagined by McGee as stacked sculptural objects – Channel Islands Surfboards is hosting shaper Britt Merrick, who will discuss the art form, demonstrate the process, and talk about the history of surfboards. MCASB’s exhibition. Dive

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Wild up the Clock – “TV Clock,” the video installation

by Korean-born American artist Nam June Paik, is one of Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s most important media art works, and is on view for the first time in nearly a decade. The show consists of 24 color televisions mounted upright on pedestals that are arranged in a gentle arc and displayed in a darkened space. Paik created each electronic image by manipulating the television to compress its red, green, and blue color into a single line against a black background, so that each TV does not involve a videotape, disc, or computer chip but an image the artist created by ingenious manipulation of electronic elements. Read in sequence, each static line tumbles into the next to form a dynamic yet elegantly spare rhythm that resembles a universally recognized way to measure time. The highly influential work – on display for the first time in a decade (and closing in mid-October) – serves as inspiration for a performance for wild Up, the L.A.-based modern music chamber orchestra collective that memorably performed Pulp at Hahn Hall for UCSB a few years back. Violinist Andrew McIntosh is bringing a program of music about space, light, and the passing of time to perform in front of Paik’s work, as the four wild Up violinists will play works by Anahita Abbasi, John Cage, Tashi Wada, and Steve Reich. McIntosh is a composer and performer who teaches at the California Institute of the Arts and a co-founder of the experimentally minded Formalist Quartet. Reservations are required, as seating is limited. WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: 1130 State Street COST: free INFO: 963-4364 or www.sbma.net

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by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Back to Bach – After opening its ambitious two-year “Beethoven Project” at Hahn Hall earlier this month with a beautiful beginning featuring the master composer’s first published piece, Camerata Pacifica reaches further back into history – its own and classical music’s – for its sophomore effort. Tonight’s concert features the great American guitarist Eliot Fisk in a program anchored by one of the famed cello suites by Johann Sebastian Bach, No. 4, BWV 1010, to be exact, recalling Cam Pac’s origin as the Bach Camerata. Of course, there’s no way ensemble founder/flutist Adrian Spence, who is also performing along with violist Richard O’Neill, would not put things in some sort of culture-crossing creative context juxtaposing historic and modern, so the musicians will also be playing Frescobaldi’s Partite sopra l’Aria detta, La Frescobalda; Rochberg’s Muse of Fire; Schubert’s Sonata in A Minor, D. 821, Arpeggione; Alard’s Estudio Brillante (arr. Tárrega); Ponce’s Estrellita; Albeniz’s Torre Bermeja and Sevilla; and Halffter’s Habanera. Fisk’s credits include serving as the last direct pupil of Andres Segovia, founding the guitar department at the Yale School of Music (his alma mater) and the Boston GuitarFest, performing as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, and many others, and maintaining a prolific recording and touring schedule, so this is quite a catch for Camerata. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West campus, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $56: INFO: 884-8410 or www.cameratapacifica.org

into the intersection of contemporary art and surfing while sipping wine by Channel Islands Surfboards neighbor Municipal Winemakers, as the party and conversation will continue into the night. McGee was in town last night for a talk, while the museum also hosts more talks and a pop-up art lab over the weekend. WHEN: 5:30 to 7:30 pm WHERE: 36 Anacapa St. COST: $15 to $20 INFO: (805) 966-7213 or www.cisurfboards.com Tabernacle in Town – Moses’s Exodus Tabernacle is coming to the Tri-Counties for the first time ever this weekend. More than 100,000 guests have previously participated in the life-size interactive display, a portable sanctuary installation that remains true to the precise size and layout of the original, which features seven interactive stations that lead visitors through an Old Testament journey.

Visitors take a 50-minute self-guided narrated tour, at each station learning more about the Tabernacle that is said to have housed the Ark of the Covenant about 3,500 years ago, as described in great detail in the book of Exodus.

There is an audio narration in English and Spanish, as well as a version in the Jewish tradition. The installation is sponsored by ChapelARIEL, a local ministry that offers learning experiences in Judeo/Christian traditions. When the Tabernacle visited Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times praised its realism, staying it “stirs the faith and emotions of many who visit it.” WHEN: Open 11 am to 8 pm Monday-Friday, 9 am to 8 pm weekends, today through

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October 7 WHERE: Good Shepherd Lutheran Church; 380 N. Fairview Ave, Goleta COST: Suggested donation of $6, with a family maximum of $20 INFO: (805) 682-6809 or www. tabernacleexperience.com / www. chapelariel.org SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Riggs Reading – DramaDogs cofounder E. Bonnie Lewis is the star of a staging of author/SBCC writing professor Terre Ouwehand’s Lutah Maria Riggs monologue, drawn from her 2015 book, Voices from the Well: Dramatic Portraits of Extraordinary Historical Women. Riggs was the first licensed female architect in Santa Barbara, and the first woman in California to be named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

A partner in noted architect George Washington Smith’s firm, she designed several famous Santa Barbara buildings, including Lobero Theatre, El Paseo, and Vedanta Temple as well as homes in Montecito. The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara (AFSB) – which has named one of its scholarships programs after Lutah, as she was commonly known – is sponsoring the evening event, will be followed by a reception and talk with Ouwehand and the DramaDogs team. The AFSB is also currently showing “Double Vision,” a new exhibition by plein air painters Libby Smith and Nina Warner featuring more than 30 oil paintings.

The artists will host a First Thursday reception from 5 to 8 pm on November 27 September – 4 October 2018

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Tiles to Tell History – The Santa Barbara Timeline Mosaic project began in February 2017, when Santa Barbara mosaic artist Betsy Gallery first saw images of the London Queenhithe Dock mosaic showing London’s history from Roman times to the present, and then came up with the idea to create one for Santa Barbara – approximately 5 x 50 feet – as an educational site for locals and visitors to illustrate important historical, environmental, and cultural events central to our local heritage. The project crystallized last December during a three-day workshop in Montecito with the London School of Mosaic. But then came the double disasters of the Thomas Fire and Montecito debris flow, and it’s only now that events are getting underway, with an official launch today, the first of many planned public workshops and a reception.

Gallery will be joined by Robin Elander, executive director of Santa Barbara Solstice Celebration for “Santa Barbara Firsts,” a hands-on workshop where the community can get involved and learn the ancient art of mosaic. The project aims to chronicle 150 million years of local history over the two-year process before the mosaic is installed. The workshop will be followed by a reception, where people can learn how to become a partner or sponsor or otherwise participate in the community public art piece. Light refreshments will be served. WHEN: Workshop 2:30 pm, reception 5:30 to 7:30 WHERE: 723 State Street in the Paseo Nuevo Mall (formerly Chipotle) COST: workshop free, reception by donation INFO: (805) 963-2878/ www.facebook.com/events/2216601341962381 or email sbtimelinemosaic@ gmail.com

1. WHEN: 5 to 7 pm WHERE: Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara, 229 East Victoria Street COST: free (reservations required) INFO: (805) 965-6307 or www.afsb.org SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 Crossing the Rubicon – Rubicon Theatre Co. launched its new season earlier this month with the 1960s-’70s musical concert sequel to its original Lonesome Traveler called I Dig Rock and Roll Music – and several principals including Trevor Wheetman and Brendan Willing James keep the party going with a house concert in Thousand Oaks on Saturday, October 6. Now it’s time for some of the theater’s special events to get underway. First up are Broadway belters Tami Tappan-Damiano and David Burnham, who have performed on and off Broadway and in a variety of national tours, and have won numerous awards and accolades. The Broadway Concert Series shows will feature showstopper

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after showstopper, including romantic duets from West Side Story, Phantom of the Opera, Children of Eden, Beautiful, and other shows, plus excerpts from the new Tina Turner in London, and a medley of hits from pop musicals…. Then it’s back to folk music for two more days, as Rubicon hosts The Folk Legends, a new touring trio made up of Lifetime Grammy Awardwinners George Grove and Rick Dougherty plus Jerry Siggins.

The threesome will perform songs they helped make famous from their days in such groups as The Kingston Trio and The Limeliters, plus songs by friends including Peter, Paul & Mary, The Chad Mitchell Trio, the New Christy Minstrels, Jimmie Rodgers, Ian & Sylvia, John Denver, and Simon & Garfunkel. The pair of performances represent the trio’s debut. WHEN: Broadway stars 8 tonight, 2 pm tomorrow; Folk Legends 7 pm October 1-2 WHERE: Rubicon Theatre Company, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura COST: $35 and up INFO: 667-2900 or www.rubicontheatre.org •MJ

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 Raise Her Voice – Girls Rock Santa Barbara, the highly respected after-school program, accredited summer day camp, and accredited summer sleep-away camp that empowers girls and women through music education, creative expression, and performance, is stepping out onto the stage at the Lobero. L.A.-based hit songwriter Sophie Rose – who, having written more than 500 songs by age 18, embodies Girls Rock’s vision – is the headliner for the event, which also features live screen printing and a silent auction. Each general admission ticket purchased includes a ticket for one girl under 18 years of age (visit the Girls Rock website www.girlsrocksb. org to claim the free ticket). WHEN: 7 pm (outdoor activities begin at 6 pm) WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $30 general admission, $15 for ages 21 and under INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

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Our Town

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by Joanne A. Calitri

From the animal tracking lecture by Jim Lowery, a diagram of cougar tracks to study

Joanne is a professional international photographer and journalist.

Contact her at: artraks@yahoo.com

A Walk on the Wild Side (1)

Jim Lowery, holding his coyote dance-tracking diagram, is with (from left): wilderness expert James Wapotich, programming librarian Jen Lemberger M.Ph., and Mary E. Brooks

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he Wilderness Hiking Speaker Series, hosted by the SB Public Library on September 20, was presented with renowned wilderness animal tracker, interpreter, and teacher James Lowery, along with his wife, Mary E. Brooks, to more than 45 attendees. The presentation titled “Animal Tracking Secrets” is part of an ongoing series to teach all range of wilderness skills set up by our town’s wildlife expert, James Wapotich, in conjunction with programming librarian Jen Lemberger, M.Ph. Lowery has 30+ years experience in the field, authored two key field guide books, and operates his Earth Skills School in Frazier Park, California, where he teaches classes in animal tracking, wilderness survival skills, native plant uses, and traditional skills.

We walked in knowing little, and walked out well-equipped and in awe.

Lowery taught us using his personal on-location photographs and handwritten ledgers in a slide presentation, hands-on clay molds made from actual animal tracks, and actually performing the various dance-gaits of the coyotes he tracked.

The lecture began with Lowery sharing his main mission, to reconnect people with nature in an immediate and tangible way. He then explained that by knowing the animal tracks, one will learn more about the hiking and camping area as a whole: “Tracking opens a rich dimension into the lives of the animals around us. The tracks we find on the trails and in the wilderness can reveal what the animal is, its

gender and size, where it’s going and what it’s doing, and even its mood.”

He trained us to look at the animal tracks and ask, who are you, when were you here, what were you doing, why did you take this path, are you injured, looking for food, hiding, migrating, moving with more of your pack, and so forth. After studying animal tracks carefully that one comes across, he instructed us to draw a map of the tracking path, measure the size of the paws, step-distance and tracking length, and compare the sizes and shape of the paw to actual data on different animals commonly identified to get started.

Lowery re-assured us that after a short time studying tracks, we would be able to know the animals’ body language by the gait shown on the path, such as humans who exhibit what is going on through their body language and how their posture is when they walk. He gave examples using mountain lions and coyotes, comparing their tracks to that of a large dog. Dogs have a distinct sharp toenail and rearpaw center pad compared to a mountain lion; the toe alignment patterns are different as well. An adult male mountain lion’s back paw is equal to or greater than 50mm [1.9685 inches].

Alpha-male mountain lions will mark the trail at specific locations by making a mound with their back paws and spraying. He then gave two mountain lion tracking examples he and his students documented in 2014, one of which was exactly repeated in 2018 at the same location – Windy Springs,

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(3) One of Jim Lowery’s tracking guides shows five different dancing gaits of coyotes

California (see photo 2).

Next up was the coyote, to which he said is an animal of many dances and gaits, with at least 35 different styles (see photo 3): “They gallop, trot, sidetrot, overstep, side-step, prance, and so forth.” Lowery showed us many coyote tracks and one in particular he is holding in photo 1, which he demonstrated in class, dancing across the front of the room in the same pattern.

He taught us that the next level in studying animal tracking is to try to emulate the animal’s gait pattern, so one can get a feel for what may have been going on during the time the animal had walked in the area. He also corrected the myth that when coyotes howl in a pack they are getting ready to kill. “Not true!” Lowery says. “It’s more like a prep-rally to create an auditory fence around a territory, supplementing the physical scent marks left by the group, with a yip-yip-howl used by the family, like a hip, hip hooray!” He taught that coyotes are not like wolfpacks and do not hunt as a pack for one game food, but rather a family of four may go out on the same path, each taking what they want to eat and explore. The most interesting thing about them to Lowery is their ability to dance a variety of tracking paths, unlike other animals who may have only a few or one style.

Following a question-and-answer

period, everyone gathered around to check out the clay molds of the various animals Lowery tracked, his book, and to share information. The Earth Skills website has many free info downloads about tracking and gait videos to study. His books and classes are also listed to sign up.

411: www.earthskills.com Jim Lowery founded Earth Skills in 1987, as an extension of his longtime passion for wilderness adventure. After completing many specialized classes in tracking, wilderness survival, and related subjects from Tom Brown, Jr.’s Tracker School in New Jersey, he put thousands of hours applying the skills, while he taught hundreds of beginning and advanced workshops for 30 years. Among these have been special trainings for universities, naturalists, docents, teachers, and wildlife biologists. He has been an expert tracking consultant for field studies of mammals and has led annual trainings in mammal tracking for State of California DPR staff since 2008. Jim is the author of The Tracker’s Field Guide (Globe Pequot 2006 and 2013), based on 20 years of field research and photography as well as extensive study of mammal biology and behavior. Besides this field guide, Jim has written Walk with the Animal (2013), monographs about tracking, and 20 years’ worth of newsletters about outdoor skills, nature, tracking, and traditional skills. •MJ

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big part of the play, Transcend is much more than a Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice-style exercise in wife-swapping, Frisch said, who said the play reminded him more of a contemporary Oscar Wilde. And perhaps that was the most personal part of the work’s appeal.

“It’s really about how to be more of yourself in a marriage,” he said.

“Anyone who is or has been in marriage – or grown up in one – will start thinking a lot about what it means. I know I have. I got divorced just last year. So, it was very interesting to apply my own issues to the themes of the play.”

Pop Notes and Jazz Jottings

The calendar is crammed as the new arts season arrives in earnest, although the biggest place in the land is more

of a warm-weather venue. That would be the Santa Barbara Bowl, where it’s actually, unironically, unlikely to rain when Alanis Morissette takes the stage on Friday, September 27, followed two days later by the punk rockers Rise Against, then Banda MS, the 15-year veteran Mazatlán, Sinaloa group, on Sunday, September 30. Info at (805) 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com.

Moving down a notch in size, UCSB Arts & Lectures opens its 60th anniversary season on Saturday, September 29, at the Granada Theatre with Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz giant Wynton Marsalis, who will be performing his visionary program “Spaces” with the Jazz at Lincoln Center. The works, inspired by the variety of movements in the animal kingdom, is a 10-part suite with the street and tap dancers interpreting the creatures. Tickets and details at (805)

893-3535/www.ArtsAndLectures.

UCSB.edu or (805) 899-2222/www granadasb.org. Dropping another 60 percent in seating, the Lobero Theatre opens its new season of Lobero LIVE

concerts with Marc Broussard, who will be delivering his signature bayou soul – a blend of classic R&B, rock, pop, and soul with a contemporary feel – on Thursday, September 27, with roots band The Dales opening.

Graham Nash, I’m With Her (Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O’Donovan), and Eliza Gilkyson with Eric Brace are on tap in October.

Visit www.lobero.org or call (805) 9630761.

Cutting capacity by half winds us up at SOhO, where Sammy Miller & The Congregation play upbeat, feelgood jazz at an early dinner show on Friday, September 28, while local luminary Grateful Dead tribute band No Simple Highway hopes you shake it, sugaree, the following night before Daniel Rotem brings his jazz quintet to the club on Sunday, September 30.

Info at (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb. com.

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We Buy, Sell and Broker Important Estate Jewelry. Located in the upper village of Montecito. Graduate Gemologists with 30 years of experience. We do free evaluations and private consultation. 1470 East Valley Rd suite V. 805 969-0888 COMPUTER/VIDEO SERVICES Videos to DVD Transfer Hurry, before your tapes fade away. Now doing records & cassettes to CD. Only $10 each 805 969-6500 Scott SPECIAL/PERSONAL SERVICES BUSINESS ASSISTANT/ BOOKKEEPER, Pay Bills, Filing, Correspondence, Reservations, Scheduling, Confidential.

Semi-retired professional. Excellent references. Sandra (805) 636-3089

ESTATE/MOVING SALE SERVICES

THE CLEARING HOUSE, LLC Recognized as the Area’s Leading Estate Liquidators – Castles to Cottages Experts in the Santa Barbara Market! Professional, Personalized Services for Moving, Downsizing, and Estate Sales .

Complimentary Consultation

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At SB Bird Sanctuary, backyard

Customized workouts and nutritional guidance for any lifestyle. Individual/ group sessions. Specialized in CORRECTIVE EXERCISE – injury prevention and post surgery. House calls available.

Victoria Frost- CPT & CES 805-8959227 ITEMS FOR SALE POSTPONED ~ New Dates Oct. Fri. 5th, Sat. 6th, Sun. 7th THE CLEARING HOUSE SUMMERLAND ESTATE SALE Designers, Decorators, and Connoisseurs of Fine

$8 minimum

TELL YOUR STORY The story of a person’s life, told properly, is a terrific one. It can be preserved or it can fade away. I write biographies and autobiographies, producing a beautiful book that is professional, impressive, thorough and entertaining. Many of my projects are gifts to honor beloved parents or spouses. I also assist with memoirs or other books. Call David Wilk (805) 455-5980 wilkonian@ sbcglobal.net.

Excellent references.

House sitters: Responsible couple: one is a manager, the other a caregiver.

We take care of your property, elderly, pets, etc. Great local references.

(805) 679-1317

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Deadline for inclusion is Monday before 2 pm.

We accept Visa/MasterCard/Amex Most of my youth was spent in the parking lot of, or inside, a Dunkin’ Donuts. – Eli Roth

farmer’s bounty is our birds best bowl of food! The flock goes bananas for your apples, oranges & other homegrown fruits & veggies.

Volunteers Do you have a special talent or skill? Do you need community service hours? The flock at SB Bird Sanctuary could always use some extra love and socialization.

Call us and let’s talk about how you can help. (805) 969-1944

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Real Estate 1% Fee Patrick Maiani Dynasty Real Estate

805 886 0799 DRE.# 01440541

STEVEN BROOKS JEWELERS

Custom Design • Estate Jewelry Jewelry Appraisals • Watches

I will take in trade or purchase your gold and platinum jewelry, watches and silver items.

805-455-1070 • sbjewelers@gmail.com

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$6,566,000 | Riviera, Foothills | 5BD/4½BA McGowan Partners | 805.563.4000 | Lic # 00893030 / 02041055

$5,250,000 | 5368 Rincon Beach Park Dr, Ventura | 3BD/3(2)½BA MK Properties | 805.565.4014 | Lic # 01426886 / 01930309

$10,250,000 | 700 E Mountain Dr, Montecito | 6BD/6½BA + Pool House MK Properties | 805.565.4014 Lic # 01426886 / 01930309

$7,995,000 | Villa Raphael, Montecito Upper | 3BD/5BA Nancy Kogevinas/Robert Kemp | 805.450.6233 / 259.6318 Lic # 01209514 / 01246412

$6,995,000 | 4632 Via Roblada, Santa Barbara | 4BD/5½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896 Lic # 00976141

$6,950,000 | 501 Valley Club Rd, Montecito | 5BD/5½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896 Lic # 00976141

$6,785,000 | 150 La Vereda Rd, Montecito | 3BD/3½BA + GH McGowan Partners | 805.563.4000 Lic # 00893030 / 02041055

$5,950,000 | 540 McLean Ln, Montecito | 3BD/5½BA Cristal Clarke | 805.886.9378 Lic # 00968247

$5,550,000 | 1567 E Valley Rd, Santa Barbara | 6BD/7BA Lisa Scibird | 805.570.9177 Lic # 02027505

$4,950,000 | Ortega Ridge, Montecito | 3BD/3½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896 Lic # 00976141

$4,695,000 | 2029 Boundary Dr, Montecito | 3BD/5BA Cristal Clarke | 805.886.9378 Lic # 00968247

$4,500,000 | 2900 Sycamore Canyon Rd, Montecito | 3B/5BA Mary Whitney | 805.689.0915 Lic # 01144746

$4,389,000 | 6977 Shepard Mesa Rd, Carpinteria | 3BD/3BA Luke Ebbin | 805.705.2152 Lic # 01488213

$2,780,000 | 2320 Sycamore Canyon Rd, Santa Barbara | 4BD/2BA Jason Streatfeild | 805.280.9797 Lic # 01834496

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