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SERVING MONTECITO AND SUMMERLAND

Montecito’s J.J. Kandel keeps the stage alive by putting it on screen, p. 16

LOCAL ELECTIONS POINT THE LOCAL DIRECTION The Cassandria Effect Renowned artist Cassandria Blackmore brings eye-catching reverse paintings to Coast Village Road gallery, p. 12

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GUEST EDITORIAL BY SARA MILLER MCCU E 5) VOTING IS A RESPONSIBILITY (STORY ON PAG

(Alan Kozlowski: photo by Dewey Nicks)

In Passing Remembering Alan Kozlowski, a renowned photographer, filmmaker, accomplished musician, and spiritual seeker, p.8

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Inside This Issue

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Guest Editorial

Sara Miller McCune on why voting matters

Letters to the Editor

Transmission lines need to go; praise for MJ Magazine and Coffee With a Black Guy; and much more

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In Passing

Alan Kozlowski, a renowned photographer, filmmaker, flamenco guitarist, and aficionado

10 Dear Montecito

Musician Matthew Rollins describes his relationship with the world around him as a key influence on his art

11 People of Montecito

Erin Wagner of Richie’s Barber Shop

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14 Seen Around Town

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16 Our Town

Interview with actor and director J.J. Kandel and how he kept Stage to Screen NYC alive during lockdown

18 On Entertainment

UCSB Arts & Lectures’ House Calls; The Thanksgiving Play at PCPA; Santa Barbara Symphony’s Sundays with The Symphony; Rubicon Theatre Company’s September Blitz; much, much more

20 Carte Blanche

Megan Waldrep on resources available to addicts and families seeking help during quarantine

24 Your Westmont

Bonita Beach Bohemian Lifestyle

Masked-up Warriors begin returning to the college; Friday’s concert spotlights an alumna from Bulgaria; an art show of Old Masters leaves an impression; and a multi-layered talk examines the history of pandemics

26 Who’s Running

MJ’s guide to Montecito’s local Election Day candidates

33 Ernie’s World

Ernie’s family takes birthdays seriously, so much so they spend more time planning than some people spend reading presidential briefs

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35 Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant was excited about the idea of being a teacher, until he realized it meant going back to school

40 Montecito on the Move

Sharon Byrne wades through the weedy, multi-jurisdictional problem that is Hammond’s Trail, and winds up in homeless encampments

42 Far Flung Travel

Chuck Graham gets lost in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of our planet’s most pristine places, for now

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44 Nosh Town

Where to go and what to eat when you can’t gather at restaurants; Tasting Notes with Liz Harrison of Little Dom’s Seafood

46 Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

What’s the ‘Big Deal’ with the Post Office? Exploring the glue that holds our nation together – Part 1

The Optimist Daily

One billionaire gives away his entire fortune before he dies; two teenagers create habitat to save bumblebees

48 In Passing

Remembering Craig Steven Palonen, Peter Winn, and Leanna D’Andrea Merritt

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

55 Local Business Directory

Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Guest Editorial

by Sara Miller McCune, Publishing Executive and Philanthropist

Voting Matters

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ost of us take voting as a right, which we may (or may not) choose to exercise. To me, voting is a privilege that I cherish and use in every primary and election. How else can we put leaders in place with the authority to govern us wisely and fairly, and to be responsible for what is done with our tax dollars, to determine and enforce our laws, and to protect us from harm, as well as to serve as the guardians of our rights as citizens in a democracy?

100 years ago, American women were not allowed to vote in presidential elections. The Constitutional Amendment which guaranteed women that right only became law on August 18, 1920, just in time for a presidential election. While slaves were freed in 1865 (under the Lincoln administration) the Amendment that guaranteed “citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by any State on account of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude” became law on February 3, 1870. And most of us will admit that in some parts of the USA, 130 years later, there are some citizens still being denied their voting rights unjustly. In fact, just a few days ago, an article in the L.A. Times pointed out that “Getting the right to vote is one thing, keeping that right is quite another. Poll closures, voter intimidation purges, restrictive voter ID requirements, and gerrymandering are all tools that have been used to suppress the vote” – and I have seen some of these tools used on me during the many years I have lived and voted even here in California.

But those of us who live here should remember that voting is not just a right and a privilege… it is also a responsibility. Use it wisely and use it well. In this November’s election, it is important to vote early, if you can do so, and to ensure that your vote will be counted by making sure that it reaches the County Elections Office, or your polling station as early as possible. The Post Office currently takes 7 to 10 days for mail to travel from Montecito to Santa Barbara. Take that into account. If you are voting in person, wear a mask to protect yourself, your fellow voters, and the staff at polling stations.

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Use it wisely and use it well.

This election, like this year, is unusual. There is MORE AT STAKE this year than ever before. We will be voting for a President who needs to finally (after 200,000 deaths) make a real effort to use medical and scientific knowledge to get a grip on how we will deal with COVID-19 and its consequences in a way that reduces the death toll going forward. One who will help us move steadily into real economic recovery on the ground (not just in the stock market). A President who will be a true leader and join with governors of both parties in all 50 states to grapple with this mess and bring it into a solution that brings us all to better health options for the greatest number of people in our country, regardless of age, race, gender, wealth, or status. A leader who understands economics and how to use every tax

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Letters to the Editor

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

Transmission Lines Need to Go

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n article by Rinaldo S. Brutoco in the 10-17 September issue of the paper addresses an alternative to P.G.&E’s destructive high voltage transmission lines. His solution is called an “interconnected microgrid network” and it does not need the dangerous transmission lines to operate.

There is no question that these lines have been responsible for devastating fire after fire. I live on Santa Rosa Lane between Sinaloa and San Leandro.

After all this time, all the tragedies and all of P.G.&E’s empty promises the wires in this location are still tangled in the trees and one pole is tilting toward the street – it might take but one crazy squirrel to tip it over.

I don’t begin to understand how this interconnected microgrid network works, but it sounds like an answer.

Continuing to ignore the danger of the transmission lines currently in place is to invite more disastrous fires and more tragedy for our believed Santa Barbara.

Daphne Moore

Couldn’t Put it Down

Just a note to say I picked up Fall/ Winter edition of Montecito Journal Magazine... and it is just stunningly good! Layout and photos (particularly Alan Kozlowski’s) are top-drawer!

This is the kind of quality publication I love getting lost in. Too bad the magazine is only put out twice a year; it would be so great to see it on a more frequent basis. But I’m sure you have sound reasons.

Kudos to you, Tim and entire staff!

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Thank you for last week’s eye-opening feature on Coffee With A Black Guy. Ouch! The comment on living in a Pollyanna ziploc bag is truly à propos. We live in a village where the African Americans are a Duchess married to a Prince, and a four-times Billionairess. And the vast majority of people of color in Montecito are working here, serving us, the one-percenter whites. It would be great to have a coffee event at the Library with James once things reopen.

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“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

ter from one James T. McClintock Jr. about the Summerland Citizens Association’s survey of the views of Summerlanders toward a cannabis store in our little town. He’s unfair because without evidence he disputes the validity of a survey that shows overwhelming (92.8 pct) opposition to a cannabis store in Summerland, suggesting there was “undue influence.”

That’s a serious charge and he should state the basis for it, but it was published without any contrary comment.

When I write a column or a story, I usually cite the source of my information. Did Mr. McClintock make this up? Does he have a connection with the cannabis industry? Does he even live in Summerland? How are we to know? I can tell you that the person who surveyed us – Bruce Campbell – was a model of professionalism. He did not express his views on the issue.

The letter is ignorant in that it questions the validity of a survey to which more than 25 percent of Summerlanders responded. That’s a huge sample, particularly in a town with many homeowners who don’t live here during the week, as any pollster or math teacher could tell Mr. McClintock. The statistical probability of it not being representative is remote.

Has there ever been a sample of this size in Santa Barbara or Montecito?

I don’t know of one. The survey of Summerland businesses was equally overwhelming and much more than a sample, but I’m confining my remarks to the residential views.

As is well known, I did not support Supervisor Das Williams for re-election, but I take him at his word that he will respect community views when it comes to siting cannabis stores. I have no objection to anyone smoking cannabis; it’s their right under the law. But we don’t even have a real grocery store in Summerland, and most of us go to Carpinteria to buy groceries. Cannabis users can also do that. We don’t need a cannabis store in Summerland.

Lou Cannon

Out-Trumping Trump

There is a lot of hand-wringing these days about Washington’s lack of ethics, integrity, and transparency.

All true.

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In Passing

by Rand Rosenberg

lan Kozlowski passed away peacefully the morning of September 17 with loved ones by his side.

Alan lived a most extraordinary life. Born in Hayward, California in 1948, Alan grew up in the Bay Area spending many of his early days on the streets of Haight-Ashbury. Although he eventually created a multi-million-dollar Hollywood post-production company responsible for winning multiple Academy Awards in film animation, these were the least of Alan’s gifts. He was always a man of the heart and spirit, bringing them to his craft whether it be photography, cinematography, or music production. A renowned photographer, filmmaker, flamenco guitarist and aficionado, Alan’s heart was most purely expressed through his many talents. However, talent alone is not how Alan distinguished himself. That lay in his unique ability to bring people together in a way that inspired others to realize the promise of their own potential. Leadership can be defined in different ways. Alan’s came from the recognition that he was not in charge – the creative process was his master, and if one listened and paid attention, it would ultimately lead them to success. Alan’s gift was in facilitating that.

In the late ‘70s Alan met Ravi Shankar, a master Indian musician and composer who would become Alan’s critical muse, teacher, father, and guide for the rest of his life. Whether Ravi was performing at Carnegie Hall or the Royal Palace for Prince Charles, Alan was on stage by his side. His devotion to Buddhism also informed Alan’s life direction and contributions, taking him to places like Spain, India, Tibet, and Bhutan. In these environments Alan’s artistic creativity flourished. He was the director of photography on award-winning films such as Travelers and Musicians and For Us the Living, the Medgar Evers Story. Alan’s artistic ability also led to magnificent architectural creations including Samudra, an ocean healing resort on the island of ko Samui in Thailand.

Alan’s late-night parties in his downtown loft after Lobero concerts were legendary. Anyone from Jeff Bridges to Kenny Loggins to Jackson Browne might show up to jam all night with Alan and a host of his talented friends. It was the magic of Alan that created these musical feasts. The loft he built was filled with music and love. He inspired new generations of artists with his generosity of spirit. Alan aspired to always leave a situation with more than was there when he arrived. And so he did.

One of Alan’s most iconic photos entitled On the Path illustrates a single monk walking along a Himalayan mountain path. Upon such a path is surely where Alan walks today.

Alan passed away after a short bout with cancer. He is survived by his loving daughter Lily, devoted loving son Stephen, daughter-in-law Elizabeth, his sister Linda Kozlowski, and two grandsons, Elliott and Theodore. •MJ Montecito JOURNAL

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Dear Montecito

by Stella Pierce

Montecito Alumni Write Letters from Life’s Front

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s a biology student, I spend much of my time learning about the effect an environment has on its organisms. As a psychology student, I focus on the interaction between an individual and their surroundings. To appreciate growth and change, these are the principles you must understand.

But these ideas are not exclusive to the world of science – as I was reminded by this week’s letter from Emerson College alum, Matthew Rollins.

Twenty-year-old musician Matthew describes his relationship with the world around him as a key influence on his art. From Massachusetts to Montecito, back again, then Montecito to Vermont, Matthew’s musical odyssey features the flavor of each new locale. Please enjoy his account of the environments that inspired him and how they influenced him growing up.

Dear Montecito,

My name is Matthew Rollins. I was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but Montecito is where I spent my childhood. Being not too far from Los Angeles, I found myself attracted to music and film from a very young age.

Montecito’s local rock stars, actors, and artists convinced me that it was possible to pursue a career in the arts.

Before I reached the age of 10, I was performing in venues around Santa Barbara without a doubt that music was my passion. From the early days in elementary school with my first band White Moon, the “pay-it-forward” culture of Santa Barbara artists has provided guidance and hope to our band and to all young, aspiring musicians in the area. The youth-oriented programs enabled us to gain valuable exposure, confidence, and

Twenty-year-old musician Matthew Rollins produces experimental music, including his latest, Sepulchre

encouragement through live shows and recording opportunities.

In high school, I became interested in the way sounds interact, both in music and in everyday life. I found myself inspired by my surroundings: the ocean, seagulls, and even the cars driving by. Incorporating routine sounds in a musical arrangement became my next creative pursuit. While I became more focused on producing my own experimental electronic music, I started to realize that what I create is simply a response to my surroundings.

The first project I released under my birth name, Violent Meditation, is my artistic representation of life in Santa Barbara. Recorded not long after the tragic mudslides in Montecito, I used an array of synthesizers, drum machines, and vocal samples to express my complex relationship with my city. Montecito, an idyllic place with beautiful oceans

and mountains, meets chaos and destruction; something that felt completely unfathomable. This juxtaposition was the foundation for this release as I attempted to translate the idea of utopia meeting tragedy.

My second project, Alt-Metall, is an homage to Boston – a city I reconnected with during my time at Emerson College – and its suburbs, where I spent the first four years of my life.

With a much darker, more industrial sound, I tried to capture the feelings of urban life from a corner in my dorm room, limited to a small selection of instruments that I had access to. Hidden in the mixes, you’ll find sounds of metal clanking, the hum of vents on the side of the street, and the clamor of public transportation contrasting the quaint ambience of outside the city.

My latest release, Sepulchre, was recorded in a rural town in Vermont after my first year in college. Recorded in a barn built in the early 20th century, I did my best to capture the sounds of agricultural life using only analog synthesizers, locally-sourced

organs, and sounds I had recorded around the area – agricultural tools, rain, birds chirping, etc. Inspired by Vermont folklore and mythology, I explore themes of faith and moral ambiguity through the sounds of the environment.

During this time of quarantine, I reflect on my upbringing in Montecito, the place where I discovered my passion and began taking note of the sounds that surround me. And as I continue to build upon that passion with every musical project, short film score, or sound design opportunity I take on, I’m forever grateful for the influences I have gained in the Santa Barbara community. Moving forward, I see myself using sounds to immerse myself in places that aren’t necessarily geographic – sound design and music composition for film, television, video games, and more. As I continue producing music, I hope to engage with other artists across various mediums to reimagine and create entirely new sonic environments.

Yours, Matthew •MJ

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What’s Your Montecito Migration Story?

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’ve worked here five years. Richie’s Barber Shop actually found me while I was living in Oregon. I wasn’t going to pass up this barber shop because they have a great reputation. One of my friends who owns a winery in Solvang was pouring wine for their Christmas party and invited me along. At the party, I picked one of the barber’s brains for a little bit, and two months later they asked my friend for my number. I love working here. Especially for how expensive Santa Barbara is in general, it helps me to have a comfortable living.

Clients are very nice, too.

I’ve never had a bad client.

Erin Wagner •MJ

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Village Beat

Cassandria’s unique work is reverse painted on glass, then shattered

by Kelly Mahan Herrick Kelly has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond. She is also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, and is a member of Montecito and Santa Barbara’s top real estate team, Calcagno & Hamilton.

Cassandria Blackmore Opens Gallery on Coast Village Road

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rtist Cassandria Blackmore, along with her husband, Jon, have opened a new gallery on Coast Village Road, in the space once occupied by Viva Oliva, which moved to downtown Santa Barbara earlier this year.

Blackmore, with her eye-catching reverse paintings on glass, is world-renowned for her unique work, which has been exhibited and collected internationally. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Crocker Art Museum, The Fitchburg Museum, The Oakland Art Museum, The Portland Art Museum, The Imagine Museum as well as numerous large scale public art installations and notable private collections around the world.

Blackmore’s recent commissions include a large scale permanent installation for the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria. In addition to museum collec-

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Renowned artist Cassandria Blackmore at her new gallery on Coast Village Road (photo credit Leona Blackmore)

tions her work is in the public collections of Bill & Melinda Gates, the Kevin Costner Collection, The Bronfman Collection, Neiman Marcus permanent collection, Boeing Collection, Lexus Corp., Four Seasons, University of Washington, MGM Center, Aria Las Vegas, Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse, Pacific Central Bank, The Cosmopolitan, The Hilton Collection, The Peninsula Hotel, City of Seattle, Washington State Arts Commission, The Yellowstone Private Collection, Deloitte Consulting, and more.

Blackmore’s work is reverse painting on glass, then shattered and put back together. The natural light bounces off the shimmering surface, creating an interactive viewing experience. “It’s the essence of breaking down an image and restoring it to another version of itself that interests me,” she told us recently during a visit to the light and bright gallery, located at 1275 Coast Village Road.

The Blackmores have owned galleries along the West Coast for the last 20 years, including spaces in San Francisco, Carmel, and Seattle, which is still open today. The couple lives in downtown Santa Barbara with their two kids, Orion and Leona, in a live/ work space on West Beach, in an historic building first built by artists in 1907. The building was once the studio of Diego Rivera, where he painted his most famous self-portrait that is now on the 500 peso note in Mexico with Frida Kahlo’s portrait on the other side. The building was built by the Gledhills in 1907 as their art studio, and it was also the former studio of Francis Rich, Albert Herter, and others. The Blackmores have lovingly restored the building to reflect its true artistic heritage. “I just love the history behind it, and that I’m getting to create there,” Cassandria said.

Always rooted in creativity, Cassandria was born in California and spent part of her childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area with her English father and her American mother. She grew up on a self-sustaining farm in Oregon and learned at a very early age that everything has a process. “We didn’t have popular culture

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to shape our thoughts and actions,” she said. “We had each other, and our animals.” She eventually went on to study at Lewis & Clark College, and completed independent studies in Yorkshire, England, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pacific Northwest College of Art where her thesis was on Eastern and Western perspectives in art. She is a recipient of the prestigious Hauberg Fellowship for painting on glass, and sits on the Board of Trustees at The Pilchuck Glass School. “Being an artist isn’t what I do, it’s who I am,” Blackmore said.

Cassandria says she began utilizing glass as an artistic medium in Seattle in the 1990s, during a dark and gloomy winter. “I was dealing with personal heartache and to top it off, I had been laid off from my job waiting tables. I had no money for art supplies,” she said. “I recall listening to Etta James while drinking a glass of wine in my Seattle loft when a family photograph caught my eye. It was a portrait of me with my bohemian parents in Berkeley in the late ‘sixties. I really missed them.

As I studied the photograph, I noticed the glass in the frame. The red light from the bookstore across the street had illuminated the glass, causing the black and white photograph to appear red. That was a defining moment.”

She began reverse painting a self-portrait on the glass, and in frustration, threw it to the ground, spilling her glass of wine in the process. “As I cleaned up the wine, I began looking at my broken face. I moved all the pieces of my face back together. It was an allegory for my shattered life at the time. It was the perfect marriage of painting, image making, tactile qualities, reflection, and resurrection. The fusion of painting and surface became my medium.”

Cassandria Blackmore’s new gallery at 1275 Coast Village Road is open limited hours on the weekend and by appointment; she is also available for commissions. Blackmore plans on hosting various events in the future.

Please text for an appointment 805895-2447 or email info@cassandriab lackmore.com. Visit www.cassan driablackmore.com to learn more. •MJ 24 September – 1 October 2020

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Seen Around Town Santa Barbara’s State Park, Located Downtown

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Anne Petersen, executive director of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, at the Visitor Center of El Presidio

El Presidio and Chapel on Canon Perdido

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hen I think of a state park I think of mountains and trees, not downtown Santa Barbara. Wrong! We have one in the middle of town. El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park sits between Anacapa and Garden streets on East Canon Perdido Street.

The main part of the site is across the street from the city Post Office and about two blocks from City Hall, de la Guerra Plaza and two museums, the Santa Barbara Historical Museum and Casa de la Guerra, including a reconstructed quadrangle with soldiers’ quarters and a chapel. Only two portions of the original presidio (fort) survive. A remnant of the Canedo Adobe serves as the visitor’s center for the state park.

The site administrator is the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, which has reconstruct-

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ed the rest of the site. The Presidio Chapel and courtyard were also completed during the construction of the quadrangle. Although it is not a canonical Roman Catholic oratory, Catholic weddings are sometimes performed with permission of the local Roman Catholic Santa Barbara Pastoral Regional bishop.

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Felipe de Neve, the fourth governor of Las Californias. He felt the coast at Santa Barbara was vulnerable to attack so he found a spot near the harbor that was sheltered from severe storms with an ample supply of building materials and water. Construction began in 1782 with Padre Junipero Sierra blessing the site.

The Presidio was made of adobe – mud and brush – around a quadrangle 330 feet on a side housing 61 officers and men. The first commandant, Jose Ortega, planned fortifications and irrigation works. He obtained livestock and planted orchards. The town grew up around the Presidio but was destroyed by an earthquake in 1857. The mission was located a mile and a half inland and was mainly intended for use by the native Chumash neophytes after their conversion to Catholicism.

The Presidio was never attacked by a major force in its 60 years of operation but nature had its way with several devastating earthquakes in the 19th century. The Presidio Chapel turned into Our Lady of Sorrows Church at the corner of Figueroa and

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State and then Anacapa and Sola streets in 1929. The Presidio has the honor of being the last military outpost built by Spain in the New World and in 1973 was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

In 1963 the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation was founded

by Dr. Pearl Chase and other community leaders with a plan to restore the Presidio. In 1966 the Presidio land became a State Historic Park. In 2006

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Our Town

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J.J. Kandel, Stage to Screen, NYC to L.A.

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ulti-talented millennial J.J. Kandel was born in Long Island, New York, and grew up on East Valley Road in Montecito, attended Montecito Union, and decided on acting, film, TV, and theatre for his life’s work.

He attended a summer drama program at Yale University prior to his senior year at Santa Barbara High School, briefly moved to Los Angeles and went to New York at the age of 19. He interned at live theatre companies and got handson experience working with top professionals in the field, leading to where he is now, an acting member of Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City, the co-founder and producing artistic director of the Summer Shorts at 59E59 Theaters, and the owner of his own company, Stage to Screen NYC. His theater directing credits include the plays Lucky, by Sharr White; In This, Our Time, by Academy Award-winner Alexander Dinelaris; and the upcoming short film Sparring Partner, by Neil LaBute with Cecily Strong.

As an actor, Kandel’s film and television credits include 10 K (2017 Santa Barbara International Film Festival) and The Mulberry Bush, written and directed by Neil LaBute (2016 Tribeca Film Festival); Chuck with Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts; Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker (Best Picture 2010), both directed by Kathryn Bigelow; We Need To Talk About Kevin; Billie & Billy; and Law & Order.

He was living the dream in New York until COVID-19 shut down theatres.

Now he shares openly about the reality of theater and film, how he is keeping creative and provides advice to live by, in our recent interview: Q. What really is going down in theater in NYC? A. I’m involved in theater and film, and for the past 13 summers I’m typically

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doing my Summer Shorts Festival at 59E59 Theaters in NYC. That did not happen this year and the theatre is still closed; in NYC all public gathering places are essentially shut, this includes theaters. I’ve been in touch with 59E59 and everyone is trying to figure out how to keep their audiences engaged in some way. It’s tough. Everyone is having meetings and conversations about, “Can we do Zoom play readings, record it, and then send that out?” The fact is, live theatre on a Zoom screen is not the same, and it’s not ideal.

When the Theatre contacted me for input, I said, I’m in a unique position because I have a film production company, and I’ve turned a lot of the plays from the Summer Shorts festival into films, with my company Stage to Screen.

And your audiences will know these stories because they have seen the oneact plays at your theatre. My company will donate the films to the theatre, pick the ones you want to use, sell tickets as a fundraiser for the theatre company and we’ll add a Zoom question and answer event with the filmmakers and the actors. Everyone can buy a ticket to the event and watch the films online when they want to. The audience is watching content that is meant to be seen on the screen and then they get to participate in a live interactive zoom Q&A for a behind-the-scenes experience with the artists.

Describe Stage to Screen NYC. I started Stage to Screen NYC in 2014, and have currently developed and produced five films. Stage to Screen uses the rehearsal process that films today usually don’t have, which ultimately limits the time you need on set. From the original play, I try to have the same writer adapt the script for the screen, it mostly involves cutting down the script, since film is a visual medium where a play relies more heavily on the words. As a direct result of this process, the piece has been honed over a full rehearsal process and public performance period as a play prior, so when you go to film it, everyone involved has an intimate understanding of the story, so you get a different quality to the film. I select the plays that I think can be effective on film, get everyone on board, fundraise a modest budget, and work very efficiently to shoot it one or two days.

I just finished the film, Sparring Partner, which we shot in one day, in Brooklyn, outdoors in the rain with lots of planes overhead! We got it done because we knew the piece so well. I had directed it as a play. I worked through all the storyboards with my editor, and hired a great cinematographer. The actors, Cecily Strong from Saturday Night Live and KeiLyn Durrel Jones, who was in the stage version, showed up knowing the piece really well, so all I had to do was capture it. I stuck to my shot list, and we were able to improvise creative solutions in the moment. We filmed everything and got Cecily back to 30 Rock by 6 pm.

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On Entertainment

by Steven Libowitz

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.

UCSB Arts & Lectures’ House Calls: Just What the Doctor Ordered

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CSB Arts & Lectures is by far the area’s busiest arts organization, presenting in the pre-pandemic era upwards of 100 public events every academic year, not to mention add-ons in the summer. So, naturally A&L is stepping to the front of the line again as the COVID-19 crisis passes the six-month mark. After transferring its popular Summer Cinema series from blankets at chairs at the Courthouse Sunken Gardens to socially-distanced arrangements of autos at the Westwind Drive-In, A&L this week launches House Calls, an ambitious slate of virtual events featuring 15 online concerts, conversations and other presentations that represent the sort of top-notch programming we expects from the campus crusaders.

The shows feature a bevy of artists and speakers either already familiar to the area through A&L or other venues or at the forefront of their fields in either entertainment or current events. Highlights include popular music by Billy Strings, Jason Isbell, Nathaniel Rateliff, Jake Shimabukuro, Rhiannon Giddens and Pink Martini’s China Forbes, and Thomas Lauderdale; classical music from the Danish String Quartet and 21-year-old cellist Sheku KannehMason, who was seen by 35 million people worldwide at the wedding of new Montecito residents Prince Harry and Meghan Markle; lectures by 19th U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Financial Times U.S. editor Gillian Tett, New York Times Crossword Editor Will Shortz and bestselling authors Anne Lamott, Cheryl Strayed, and Barbara Kingsolver; and the return of actor-comedian Mike Birbiglia.

Besides the big names what sets the series apart is that all have been put together specifically for Santa Barbara, many feature live performances/talks and all of them, even those that have pre-recorded segments, include a live interactive segment featuring Q&A sessions with the artists.

It’s all part of fulfilling UCSB A&L’s mission to serve both the university students, who are learning remotely this quarter, and the greater Santa Barbara community, explained Meghan Bush, A&L’s Deputy Director.

“It was important to us to continue to do what we do, but also to keep artists doing what they do,” she said. “So we put a lot of time and energy into finding people who were willing to

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step up and play or talk digitally just for us. That’s why you’ll find many who were not originally slated to be part of the fall season but now they’re doing a program that is designed specifically for Santa Barbara. We’re really trying to turn the challenge into an opportunity to innovate and continue to present important events but in new and different ways that work for right now.”

So with the new approach, A&L was able to land high-demand artists such as Jason Isbell and Billy Strings, whom Bush said would normally be playing at the Santa Barbara Bowl, a large venue far beyond the organization’s biggest capacity.

Though even more exciting, perhaps, is the ability to interact in real time. The events will screen live on a Vimeo stream embedded on A&L’s website, with the Q&A portion being conducted unobtrusively over Zoom, moderated by A&L staff or invited community guests. Viewers will have the chance to chat and ask questions.

The events will largely be limited to approximately 60 minutes, Bush said, with a 45-minute presentation/ performance followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. “With what’s going on, we’re all spending our day online on our computers, on Zoom and other platforms,” she explained. “The last thing that we want is for this to feel like another meeting, because it’s supposed to be entertainment. And online attention span is not as long as it would be in a theater, our market research has shown. You want to log in, enjoy your performance, and move on with your evening. We don’t want to tire people out.”

While the events are specifically geared toward the Santa Barbara and UCSB community – providing a level of locally related intimacy not available on most major streaming events – anyone is welcome to tune in across the globe. Students will be logging in wherever they are, and anyone who learns of the series can buy a ticket and view the concerts.

“If you have friends or relatives or colleagues who don’t live here that you want to enjoy the events with virtually, by all means invite them to join in,” Bush said. “It’s actually a perfect opportunity for people to bond across geography.”

That’s even truer because of the

pricing structure: tickets start at just $10 per event, or $150 for the full season. The price includes unlimited viewing for 48 hours after the live presentation, in some cases longer. “But you won’t ever see these on YouTube,” Bush said.

Here’s the complete schedule for the House Calls series (all at 5 pm unless otherwise indicated). For tickets, or more information, visit https:// artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.

Billy Strings (September 24): Billy Strings (Photo credit: Jesse Faatz)

Rateliff returned to his unguarded, revealing solo work with his first solo effort in seven years, And It’s Still Alright, praised as “a subdued, sparely produced set of ambling-throughthe-graveyard ballads.” His focus on finding hope through dark times and staying strong through struggle all speak to our times.

Barbara Kingsolver in Conversation with Pico Iyer (October 16): Kingsolver, the recipient of the National Humanities Medal and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the author of The Poisonwood Bible, The Bean Trees, and more than a dozen other books now offers poems of transcendence with her new collection How to Fly, published just this month.

Vivek H. Murthy, MD (October 23): Vivek H. Murthy, MD

The high-velocity bluegrass phenom exhibits the flat-picking guitar technique and intense, confessional songwriting combining elements of punk, country, folk rock, and psychedelic, all of which earned him the 2019 International Bluegrass Music Association Guitar Player of the Year.

Jason Isbell (October 1): The four-time Grammy Awardwinning Americana artist who formerly fronted Drive-By Truckers, specializes in songs that have been called masterclasses in narrative, with timeless and elegant songs that drift between rock, country and roots.

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The Financial Times columnist boasts an enviable track record at predicting important trends, including the 2008 financial crisis and the rise of populism that resulted in the electoral success of President Trump. She’ll address some of the most pressing economic issues we face today.

Nathaniel Rateliff (October 14): After much acclaim with his band The Night Sweats, singer-songwriter

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As Surgeon General of the U.S. from 2014-17, Murthy created initiatives to tackle our country’s most urgent public health issues, including focusing on chronic stress and isolation as problems that have profound implications for health, productivity, and happiness. His book Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, published last April, could hardly be more timely.

Mike Birbiglia (October 29): The stand-up comic, bestselling author, writer, director, actor, radio show contributor, and podcast host will read from his new memoir, The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad, based on his hit Broadway show that explores his love affair with pizza, managing work and family, and unexpectedly coming to terms with fatherhood, followed by Q&A. Danish String Quartet (November 12): Musical America’s 2020 Ensemble of the Year, who have appeared for UCSB A&L several times in the past couple of years, play an elegant program featuring Shostakovich String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat Major and a short selection of folk tunes from their homeland.

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Editorial (Continued from page 5) dollar until it does the work of two – because neither the federal government, nor states and local governments will have enough money to solve all our problems at once. We need a leader who can and will help us all prioritize, while doing what we can to deal with our two major problems (COVID-19 and the economy) and keeping our nation’s executive branch as functional as possible.

For me the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underlines the importance of this year’s election. If we have any hope for our nation and its communities to recover and grow, as well as a desire to live in a democracy, then we must work harder than ever to create the “more perfect union” that America’s founders described in the first sentence of the Constitution. At her Supreme Court Justice confirmation hearings in July 1993, she said: “I think the Framers were intending to create a more perfect union that would become ever more perfect over time.” During the three days of those hearings, she also pointed out: “The richness of the diversity of this country is a treasure, and it is a constant challenge, too, a challenge to remain tolerant and respectful of one another.” Justice Ginsburg was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 96-3.

We are also voting in our community for important state legislative representatives, for school board members who will oversee the educators shaping the future of children now in our schools and those who will follow them in the next few years (in many cases for another decade). How well are we educating the next generation? We are voting for judges, too. Local elections directly affect our lives and our families, as well as the community we live in. How good are our streets, our police, our sheriffs, our judges, our local law officials? We place great trust in them, and we count on their service. What message do we send to them if high percentages of us ignore the opportunity to vote? A good friend recently reminded me we vote not just to put our representatives in power. It is vital for people we elect to consult with us about what decisions they consider are in our best interests.

I am often concerned by the gap between those who are eligible to vote, but do not register… also by those who are registered, yet do not vote. This year let’s increase our voting numbers. Every vote cast shows that we value our right (and our privilege) as citizens to vote. It matters because we want to make our country a much more perfect union. Rising numbers of voters show that we care about who represents us and will strive along with us to build that ever more perfect union.

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But now we’re in a pandemic, where social gatherings are frowned upon. So, how are those struggling behind closed doors able to seek help?

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Elizabeth M. Grossman, MDM. Grossman, Aegean MD Chan, MDAegean Chan, MD Elizabeth “NA is about not using and the still-suffering addict,” Gilbert said.

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to make our community aware that SBANA exists. He said that SBANA reflects the demographics of the community with “a lot of professional people showing up to meetings, but you won’t know because that’s the spirit of anonymity.” To newcomers who are nervous and scared of being judged, know that every addict has been there, “and it sucks,” Gilbert emphasized.

“But you have to put the work in for it to work for you.”

Private Zoom meetings are available for anyone interested, and links to meetings are obtained by calling the helpline, which is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. An answering service responds to questions and directs callers to the appropriate group.

Or, if you’re somewhat computer literate, find a virtual meeting by visiting the NA website and clicking the bright yellow icon in the middle of the landing page titled “Online Meeting List.”

You’ll be sent to a Google Document spreadsheet that lists each meeting’s day, time, and the Zoom meeting ID and password.

To join a meeting, simply go to Zoom.com and click on the blue icon at the top right of the screen that says, “Join a Meeting.” Enter the meeting ID for the particular group, then the password to log in. (Side note: you can choose not to show yourself on the screen if you don’t want to.) There is also a way to call into a Zoom meeting and listen and participate over the phone. Just reach out to the hotline to assist you further.

I asked Gilbert whether virtual meetings had been a little light compared to in-person meetings, but he said it was quite the opposite.

“The benefits of virtual meetings are that people from other regions can join, and you can join other meetings around the world,” he said. For example, a private Facebook group called “Quarantined NA” with more than 45,000 members who meet virtually at 7 pm daily via Zoom with bonus 4 pm meetings on the weekends.

Al-Anon and Alateen of Santa Barbara

Or, maybe Al-Anon is more for you.

With 28 English-speaking and eight Spanish-speaking meetings available, head to www.alanonsantabarbara.info to see whether this is a good fit by answering questions like: • Do you worry about how much someone else drinks?

• Do you tell lies to cover up for someone else’s drinking?

• Are plans frequently upset or canceled or meals delayed because of the drinker?

On a phone interview with Larry B., the district representative of

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Al-Anon and Alateen of Santa Barbara (not a spokesperson, he emphasizes), Larry explained that meetings were listed on the website. Or, call the 24-hour hotline at (805) 899-8302 and leave a message for a coordinator to call you back.

Messages are checked daily.

Larry stressed that Al-Anon was about attracting, not promoting, though some members have fallen off since COVID, about a quarter to a third, due to less public outreach.

“It’s harder for a newcomer to find us because of anonymity,” Larry said.

“But people (seem to) feel safer with Zoom meetings, even when given the chance to meet socially distant with masks.” Larry said that Al-Anon was separate from AA, but the programs work together and Alateen focuses on teenagers who are affected by a loved one’s alcohol abuse.

Let me take a moment to walk you through the website to make sure you find what you’re looking for.

Sometimes, it can be a little tricky.

To find a meeting on www.alanon santabarbara.info, choose the second icon in the menu titled “Meetings,”

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then use the drop down feature to select either “All Local Meetings,” “Beginners Meetings,” “Out of Area Meetings,” “Alateen Meetings” for teenagers, or “Las Reuniones de Al-Anon en Español” for meetings in Spanish.

On Tuesdays at 6 pm, hop on the “Beginners Meetings” page to join the Zoom directly, without a password.

(That’s actually what the icon says: “Use this button to join a meeting without a password.”) Newcomers or “anyone wishing to have a more open meeting format to ask questions about Al-Anon” is welcome.

When it comes to getting help for you, a family member, or friend, please don’t be shy. Join others whom can relate to your situation without judgment. Help is waiting.

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Take it outside: Tents are being installed throughout the 110-acre campus to hold outdoor classes

by Scott Craig (photography by Brad Elliott) Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

Students Return for Outdoor Classes

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estmont students begin arriving on campus September 23-27 for the fall semester’s first outdoor courses on September 28.

Current pandemic restrictions prohibit indoor classes, although state and county guidelines permit some indoor labs and studio courses that adhere to strict safety protocols.

“We’ve spent extensive time and resources to get ready to welcome students back to campus,” said President Gayle D. Beebe. “Each of us wants to do our best. We’ve been extremely #MaskUpWarriors: Westmont President Gayle D. disciplined. We all need to be vigilant, Beebe leads by example but the reward of being together is gaining the energy and discipline to follow the guidelines.”

Students have signed up for two-hour shifts to move into their residence halls with just two helpers, minimizing contact with other students. Students and family members will be required to wear face coverings at all times, and students must get tested for COVID-19 within an hour of arriving, something Westmont makes available through a third-party provider. All faculty and staff will be tested before students return. The campus will be closed to guests without a prior appointment or a pass granting access to campus. Everyone arriving will get a health assessment from campus safety officers. New security measures at the entrances will help monitor access to campus access.

“We want to be just as hospitable as we’ve always been to our neighbors and to the extended community, who value the privacy and beauty Westmont’s campus provides,” said Irene Neller, vice president for enrollment, marketing, and communications. “We’ll exercise more precaution at entry points until we’re gotten through these high-risk fall months.”

Students, staff, and faculty who will need to be on campus will all sign a Covenant During Covid, agreeing to random testing on campus, physical distancing, taking daily health assessments with a thermometer, participating in contract tracing if a confirmed case occurs, sanitizing shared spaces, keeping the community safe through good behavior on and off campus, and exhibiting grace to each other. “This is what it’s going to take to be able to live together and learn in community,” says Jason Tavarez, Westmont’s director of institutional resilience.

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The Dining Commons will serve food in disposable containers, and students will eat in several nearby outdoor areas or in their rooms under large tents acquired for fall’s semester.

Alumna Provides Music from Bulgaria

The Westmont Music Department continues its popular Friday Concert Series with its first Alumni Spotlight recital, featuring alumna Sarah Shasberger Pfister ’12 and the Carnevale String Quartet from Bulgaria on Friday, September 25, at 7 pm. Listen to the free recital at vimeo.com/showcase/westmontmusic.

The performance will include pieces by Bulgarian composer Marin Goleminov, Ennio Morricone, Gabriel Fauré, Rossini, Beethoven Sarah Shasberger Pfister will perform from Bulgaria and Mozart. in the Friday Concert Series with Westmont’s first Pfister, founder and teacher of Alumni Spotlight recital Joyful Sounds in Bulgaria, started the program in 2018 to introduce children to the world of classical music at an early age. After earning a master’s degree in viola performance (focusing on violin Suzuki pedagogy) from the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford, she spent three years teaching at the Greenwich Suzuki Academy, where she met her husband, bassoonist Kevin Pfister. She and Kevin live in Ruse, where they perform extensively with the Rousse (Ruse) State Opera Orchestra.

The Friday Concert Series continues October 2 when the talented Westmont music faculty present a recital.

Prints of Old Masters Leave an Impression

The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art offers a unique history lesson, blending prints from 16th to 18th century Old Masters with a few modern and contemporary works in its latest online exhibition available through November 7. “Making a Fine Impression: Prints from the Faith and Dewayne Perry Collection” includes more than a dozen videos of Westmont experts describing a particular piece in the exhibition, which can be viewed at westmont.edu/ museum/fine-impression.

“Dewayne and Faith Perry have been long-time supporters and friends of the museum,” said Judy Larson, R. Anthony Askew professor of art history and museum director. “The breadth and quality of their collection makes it the perfect tool to educate students on history, Old and New Testament stories, and printmaking. We’re grateful to the Perrys for sharing these prints with us and for sponsoring the catalog, which accompanies the exhibition.”

The virtual show includes works by more than 50 artists, including Rembrandt van Rijn, Albrecht Dürer, Hendrick Goltzius, Peter Paul Rubens, Sir Anthony van Dyck, and Lucas Vorsterman.

Talk Offers Four Historic Pandemic Views

Four Westmont professors from different disciplines examine how the new coronavirus has forced us to adapt our daily lives in unexpected ways in a talk, “Plagues, Pandemics, and Perseverance,” on Tuesday, September 29, at 10 am. The pre-recorded presentation, sponsored by Westmont’s Voskuyl Library, features Marilyn McEntyre (humanities), Paul Willis (English), Helen Rhee (religious studies), and Lisa DeBoer (art) and will be available online at west mont.edu/library.

Although the pandemic has disrupted nearly every aspect of our lives, as a species, we’ve been through such upheaval multiple times. The talk will help contextualize our pandemic experience through brief recorded presentations spanning thousands of years of history within their respective fields.

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WHO’S RUNNING? MJ’S GUIDE TO MONTECITO’S LOCAL ELECTION DAY CANDIDATES

by Nicholas Schou

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ard to believe there are only 40-plus days until the November election – which will (God-willing) be decided before 2020 happily rides off into the sunset.

Judges like to say that ignorance of the law is not a defense. We believe the same goes for elections. The following is meant to provide you with relevant information on the races on which local residents will be asked to weigh in.

Besides the choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden (more on the presidential race in a few weeks), Montecito voters will vote on more than a dozen candidates running for local offices, municipal districts, and agencies. While the presidential election has sucked most of the air out of the room, the outcome of our local races, in some ways, will affect our daily lives just as much. Over the next few issues, we’ll introduce you to the candidates in competitive races who have the greatest bearing on residents and the crucial state ballot and school district initiatives whose outcomes will directly impact our town and our lives. We hope this guide helps you navigate the important choices ahead.

CALIFORNIA’S 24TH U.S. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT SALUD CARBAJAL VS. ANDY CALDWELL

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he Fighting 24th stretches from Santa Maria to Santa Barbara. In one corner is Salud Carbajal, 55, the reliable Democratic incumbent who was born in Guanajuato, Mexico and immigrated to the U.S. as a child to work in the fields with his farm-worker father before graduating from UC Santa Barbara. After he served for 12 years as a Santa Barbara County Supervisor, Carbajal was elected to the U.S. Congress, where he’s established himself as a hardworking member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the House Committee on Armed Services.

Known as a proponent and practitioner of bipartisan governance, Carbajal is a member of the Bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, dedicated to, Salud Carbajal you guessed it, solving problems.

Challenging him from the Republican Party is Andy Caldwell, 62, who was born on a military base in Arkansas and grew up in Lompoc, where he began as a seasonal laborer and worked his way up to becoming head of the Coalition of Labor, Agriculture and Business, which boasts 1,000 members in Santa Barbara County. A small-government conservative, radio talk-show host and noted government watchdog, Caldwell said he hoped to “restore the American dream,” that’s suffering under the heel of radical “socialists” who are pushing their elite agenda on the American public.

While it may lack the bombshell revelations and dirty name-calling, this particular political Andy Caldwell mashup is as blue-and-red of an ideological contest as the one currently grinding on between our top-of-the-ballot presidential rivals.

CALIFORNIA’S STATE SENATE DISTRICT 19 MONIQUE LIMÓN VS. GARY MICHAELS

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or the past four years, Monique Limón has represented the 37th Assembly District of Santa Barbara, where she was born and raised. Prior she served two terms on the Santa Barbara Unified School Board and was Assistant

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Director of the McNair Scholars Program at UC Santa Barbara. Her track record of supporting women’s issues and public education funding in Sacramento helps explain why she’s the official nominee of the Democratic Party to replace Hannah BethJackson, who terms out of office in January 2021.

Facing off against Monique Limón Gary Michaels Limón is Gary Michaels, the “business oriented” Republican candidate. His rather alarmist campaign video features the hammer and sickle flag as well as hot babes toting assault rifles, and describes Limón as “socialist oriented,” while boldly claiming that she’s used her position in office to push through a legislative agenda plucked straight out of the Communist Manifesto.

CALIFORNIA’S 37TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT STEVE BENNETT VS. CHARLES COLE

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hese two candidates picked up the most votes in this March’s primary election, beating out the likes of Santa Barbara Mayor Cathy Murillo and Elsa Granados, the longtime director of the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center.

Steve Bennett, the Democratic party nominee, is a former public school teacher and Charles Cole Ventura County supervi- Steve Bennett sor. He’s made a name for himself fighting suburban sprawl and protecting the environment. In Ventura, he’s also shown nonpartisan leadership by standing

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up to an influential public employee union that tried to push through an expensive pension package. If elected, he promises to bring the same sense of political moderation and work ethic to Sacramento.

The youngest Republican Party candidate on the ballot this November, the 22-year-old Charles Cole has no experience in politics but says that his uncomfortable stint as a student at Santa Barbara High School motivated him to run for office so he could fight against the left-wing social-justice-warrior mores he was exposed to there. His Republican Party-backed candidacy was aided by a crowded Democratic Party field.

Along with the Carbajal-Caldwell and Limón-Michaels battles, this race is yet another classic ideological contest plucked straight out of the Cold War.

COLD SPRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES

GABRIELLE HAAS, TREVOR PATTISON, AND JORDAN QUIVEY

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his is a busy year for Cold Spring Elementary School.

Along with Measure L, a bond proposal to raise cash for new classrooms (more on that next week) three candidates are applying for two open seats on the one-school district’s board being vacated in January by Leslie Kneafsey and Gregg Peterson.

Not surprisingly, all Gabrielle Haas Trevor Pattison three candidates are parents of children who attend the school, and all of them are running for office because they want to be as involved as possible in their kids’ education.

It almost seems unfair that only two of them will get to do that!

“I’ve been involved in the board since day one and try to stay informed,” says Gabrielle Haas, who counts herself as a supporter of Measure L. “I’ve always believed this is the best school. It provides the most solid foundation our children could ever have in an elementary setting to prepare them for life, and this is the way I can best contribute.”

Trevor Pattison also supports Measure L. “As a board member during these unprecedented times, I will support policies and culture that reinforce the Jordan Quivey development of well-rounded, healthy, and safe students,” he says. “I will continue the legacy of retiring board members by encouraging transparency and financial responsibility and emphasizing the value of collaboration with school community stakeholders.”

“I’m 100 percent in favor of Measure L,” says the last of our candidates, Jordan Quivey. “What I want to get accomplished is to make sure I do everything I can possibly do as a parent and community member to ensure our school has proper guidance.”

SANTA BARBARA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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his five-member body is elected every four years to set policy for the city’s public schools, which are responsible for educating 14,000 students at 21 elementary, junior and senior high schools. While Montecito has its own elementary school district, Santa Barbara Unified is the public district to which our students feed for junior and senior High. So, while we don’t vote for other city races, this race is of direct importance to many of our families.

In 2016, a trio of Democratic Party-backed current incumbents, Laura Capps, Jackie Reid, and Wendy Sims-Moten, were appointed to the board after running unopposed for their seats. (Two other board members, Rose Munoz and Kate Ford, are not up for reelection this year). Unlike that non-election, the stakes are high this year, because those three board members are competing for

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their seats with four new candidates: Virginia Alvarez and Monie de Wit (both Democrats) as well as conservative challengers Brian Campbell and Elrawd MacLearn.

The past four years have been rife with controversy, with some parents protesting the district’s move to bring anti-bias training to staff and faculty as well as its inclusion of ethnic studies and Teen Talk, a sex education program. Next week, we’ll unveil our endorsements for this important race. What follows are profiles of each candidate, in alphabetical order. In each case, we asked candidates to tell us about their superpower – the special and unique skill they’d bring to the office.

VIRGINIA ALVAREZ

Currently the Montecito Union School’s Chief Business Officer, Virginia Alvarez, 54, has been working in the local public school system for three decades, including a 10-year stretch on staff at SB Unified followed by 20 years at Montecito Union School, where she currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer for the district.

As a child growing up in Santa Barbara who spoke Spanish when she first entered a classroom and who had to enroll one grade behind her peers, Alvarez not only embodies the cultural challenges that continue to face the school district today, but also personifies Virginia Alvarez the potential for success that it offers.

“I was the non-English speaker sitting in the back of the classroom,” Alvarez recalls. “And eventually I went up to the accelerator programs, what they call ‘high achieving’ programs, so I also have that perspective. So, when I hear that 65 percent of English learners are still scoring below grade level, it’s alarming to me. It just breaks my heart.”

Alvarez hopes to bring her unique experience to the board as a bilingual person who has a proven track record of working with school boards on fiscal management, public school finance and public employee contracts, something that would come in handy given that the district has a brand new superintendent. “I believe I will be an asset, that I would add value to the board,” she says.

“I’ve been in Santa Barbara for so long, there’s no training needed for me. I can hit the ground running.”

Along with the three incumbents running for re-election, Alvarez also supports Teen Talk. “It’s a compliance issue,” she says. “The board has to comply with that mandate.”

She also believes that parents should have a say. “Luckily, the parents do have the option of reviewing the curriculum and also deciding if this is something that is not in line with what they would want their child to learn, and they can opt out. As a board member, I would want to personally investigate every single option and see if there is an alternative.”

Alvarez does see why certain parents felt left out of the dialogue over programs like Teen Talk and ethnic studies. “My feeling is that it could have been done better,” she says. “We need have a better process. And in the classroom, we need to make sure that teachers aren’t presenting a subject in an emotional way, like it’s their personal opinion.” Her chief goal as a board member would be to help foster a better sense of community. “There needs to be more unity, more of a culture of inclusiveness,” she explains. “There has been such distrust these past few years that I think it’s time for our community to start healing.”

Her superpower is experience. “I pretty much know all the functions of a district. I mean, I’ve done them, I’ve lived them.”

BRIAN CAMPBELL

An attorney and realtor by trade, Brian Campbell, 49, comes from a family steeped in public education, with two public school teacher sisters who followed in the footsteps of their father, who taught elementary school for nearly half a century. A father of two, Campbell says, “We’re teaching our children to take over for us and to run the world and solve the world’s problems, climate change, famine, health issues, and everything else.”

Campbell believes the biggest challenge facing SB Unified is English literacy, a deficiency he says he’s noticed when taking sixth-grade kids out to lunch and noticing that they still can’t read the Brian Campbell

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children’s menu at a restaurant. “For whatever reason, children are not understanding the English language,” he said. “And when they don’t understand the English language, if they can’t read and write, they’re also not able to do math problems or learn social studies or ethnic studies or anything else about the world around them.”

Campbell believes that for too long, SB Unified has been passing non-proficient students from grade to grade without addressing this problem. He says he’s raised this issue with three principals so far, without success. “They just kept passing children along to the next grade and making it somebody else’s problem. That’s not the right way to do it; that’s failing our children.”

While he believes in sexual education, Campbell’s not a fan of Teen Talk.

“From listening to all parents and from reviewing the materials myself, I feel it crosses over some lines and creates discomfort amongst many families,” he says. “Children need to know about the birds and the bees and how things work and how to be safe, but Teen Talk doesn’t go into the emotional stability of children engaging in adult activity or talk about the consequences of teen pregnancy. The transparency from the district has been very poor.”

Although he identifies as a Christian, Campbell believes religion should not influence public school curriculum in Santa Barbara. “I believe if you cross over that line, that you’re going to violate people’s religious rights,” he argues. As for what role schools should play in combatting systematic racism? “Racism is bullying,” he argues, “and bullying is intolerable. We need to educate our children that it is not acceptable, no matter who it comes from.”

However, Campbell feels that the district’s approach to ethnic studies has muddied the waters. “No children should have any bad experience such as other kids picking on them because of their race or religion. Campbell says he hopes to bring a sense of moderation to SB Unified’s educational board. “I’ve always been a mediator,” he says. “You can’t make 100 percent of the people happy 100 percent of the time. It’s about finding the right common ground that benefits everybody in the end.”

His superpower is mediation: “I’ve been taught to always listen to all sides of an argument or issue, and then turn around and try and bring people together to find a common solution.”

LAURA CAPPS

You might remember Laura Capps, 48, from her recent bid to unseat First District Supervisor Das Williams. A scion of a progressive Santa Barbara political dynasty (both her father Walter Capps and her mother Lois Capps represented the 24th District in the U.S. Congress) Capps served as a speechwriter in the Bill Clinton White House and as communications director on John Kerry’s presidential campaign.

Capps was first elected to the School Board in 2016. As a member, she directed the search for SB Unified’s new Superintendent, Hilda Maldonado.

Capps is the current board president. In addition to her service with the Santa Barbara Unified Board Laura Capps of Education, Capps manages her own public relations practice collaborating with nonprofit organizations on issues of climate, poverty, immigration, and childhood hunger.

Asked what she has brought to the School Board in the past four years, Capps says she’s strived to provide better accountability by asking tough questions.

“That’s what I’ve done,” she says. “I kick the tires, look under the hood, and make sure that everybody else can look under the hood, too.”

Although her former Congressman father was a professor of religious studies at UC Santa Barbara, Capps says her policy decisions are firmly rooted in science, not politics or religion. “As much as I am a progressive and a person of faith, that has to stop when I’m making a decision,” she says. “We have to be really careful that our decisions are not pushed by ideology, but are based on science and research.”

Capps voted for the controversial Teen Talk curriculum, as did the rest of the board in what turned out to be a 5-0 vote, She’s also “1,000 percent” in favor of anti-bias training. The same goes for the district’s decision to implement ethnic studies and teach about issues of racial injustice. “We have to do a better job of not playing a role in the systemic racism that pervades not just Santa Barbara, but our entire society,” Capps adds. “The truth is most of our teachers are white and our classes are still taught from a white perspective, by and large. As always the young people are leading the way and those of us who aren’t young

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anymore need to learn by their example.”

Her superpower: “I ask the tough questions of people in charge.”

MONIE DE WIT

Monie de Wit, a professional photographer who grew up in a Dutch-speaking household on the East Coast, is another prospective board member who began her education as a non-English speaker. Like her son, she also suffers from dyslexia, a fact that she says inspired her to dedicate her life to advocating for greater awareness of this and other learning disabilities in children.

“I’m in a unique position to help close the achievement gap because of my background,” she says. “I have lived this, and I have something of value that many people might not be ready to hear but I want them to consider carefully.”

As a board member, De Wit says her priority Monie de Wit would be focusing on literacy in early education and investing more resources in training teachers about the science of reading. “My son is now a straight A student, but for students who fall behind, it can lead to the school-to-prison pipeline, because kids who get behind feel bad and don’t show up.”

Although she’s a Democrat, De Wit is running independent of the party, and says she hopes to bridge the gap between both ends of the ideological spectrum within the district when it comes to cultural awareness. “We need to come together and the board needs to be unified around a vision,” she argues.

“I think we have had the Eurocentric lens on for a long, long time. We can’t be in denial and need to have open discussion.”

As a board member, De Wit says she would advocate for children with learning disabilities and ensure better communication with their parents. “There’s nobody on the board with learning differences,” she points out. “I think our board needs more variety, and they need to be happy with hearing something different.”

Her superpower is optimism: “I bring a unique experience, having raised a son with learning differences, which is the school board’s most vulnerable area, and their blind spot. I think I could bring the board hope.”

ELRAWD MACLEARN

By far the youngest of the candidates running for the school board, MacLearn, 27, hopes to end what he sees as the district’s failure to service its most vulnerable students. “I’m running for a refocus on the district’s population,” he says, “because they have some of the worst literacy and mathematics scores. I see an abandonment of the Hispanic community.”

Programs such as Teen Talk do little or nothing to address this core mission, he argues. “We have to get back to the bottom line, which is that children are best represented by their parents on what’s best, and I want to represent them.”

Like Campbell, MacLearn believes the school district hasn’t done a good job of including parents in its policy decisions. “It appears to me that Elrawd MacLearn the partisan aspect of politics has really crept into the school board,” he says.

“We’ve gone away from truly focusing on academics. Politics have crept into the schools and taken over our discussion of curriculum.”

MacLearn believes SB Unified’s emphasis on ethnic studies, with its themes of social oppression, sends the wrong message to young minority students. “I come from a very low income family,” he says. “My parents were divorced and my dad was gone, which is very typical in low-income families. But I was told that I could achieve and have success if I studied and worked hard enough. I took it to heart and now I’m here in Santa Barbara, living a reasonably comfortable life. So I would say that we have to teach these young students that they have the ability to rise.”

As a UCLA graduate with a degree in biology, MacLearn says he firmly believes in a scientific approach to setting priorities in education. If elected, he hopes to bring that spirit to the School Board. “I truly do care about education and whether or not a child is receiving that education and whether it’s equitable, because if we don’t educate someone properly, we are the ones who are

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stripping away their opportunity for success.”

MacLearn says his superpower is logic and reason: “I always look and listen and I’m willing to be swayed a certain way if it is shown to be better.”

JACKIE REID

Jackie Reid, 59, has a long history as an educator and scholar. As a former elementary school teacher with a doctorate in education, and former associate regional director for the Anti-Defamation League, she’s also a firm proponent of anti-bias training and anti-bullying programs in schools.

“We need to set realistic timelines and provide necessary resources so that administrators and school staff are likely to develop confidence that they will receive the resources they need,” Reid says. “One of the things I am proud of as a board member is that I’ve devised processes that are implemented in a fair way.”

Like Capps, Reid supports Teen Talk, ethnic studies, and a curriculum that explores issues such Jackie Reid as systematic racism in society. “When I was president of the board, we were ahead of the curve in bringing ethnic studies forward,” she adds. “It’s everything I believe in and everything I’ve worked for.”

Given that the district is in the midst of a global pandemic, Reid argues that this is no time for amateur hour. “We have an opportunity here to transform education, and make strides forward in an equitable way.”

She says her superpower is experience: “There are so many systems and layers and processes, and I bring that experience to the board. I don’t have to take years to figure that out and know what to do on day one.”

WENDY SIMS-MOTEN

With 23 years of experience working for the County, Wendy Sims-Moten, also 59, the executive director of First 5 Santa Barbara County, is familiar with the challenges facing our children’s education. Her desire to help overcome those issues is what led to her joining the School Board back in 2016. She is currently the Executive Director for First 5 Santa Barbara.

“I’ve always been really involved in education, probably more so than my son wanted when he was in school,” Sims-Moten says. “I was in the PTA and served on many parent committees, so I know how important it is to have good parental involvement.” Over the past four years, she says she’s strived to make the Board a more inclusive Wendy Sims-Moten body. “I want to be here bringing up the perspective of students who may not be seen, heard, or respected, and to acknowledge the strong diversity that we have in the school district.”

Given all the turmoil over curriculum in recent years as well as the pandemic-driven dislocation of students, she views this mission as more vital than ever.

“In this day and time, I really want to make sure our policies, programs, and teachers make this not be a traumatic experience for our students,” she says.

“We need to make sure that students have the best educational experiences, so when they walk out that door, they know they’re ready to contribute and feel visible and take on that next role, whatever it is.”

Like her colleagues on the board, Sims-Moten is a strong advocate for science-based, data-driven curriculum choices and she defends the board’s unanimous support for Teen Talk, ethnic studies, and anti-bias training. Yet she’s not unwilling to consider the opposite point of view. “Everyone has their values that come from their own upbringings,” she allows. “But we’re looking at the whole entire district and the needs of our students. It’s important for parents to know they can opt out based on their values.”

For Sims-Moten, serving on the board has been a privilege that she takes personally. “As a school district, we can be the change we are seeking,” she says.

“We have kids who are ready to learn; our schools are ready.”

Her superpower is compassion: “I’m here to make sure I bring that voice of being a change agent, and to bring an expectation that our kids can do well, that when they leave, they’ve got that key to success.”

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MONTECITO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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he job of this five-member board is simple: work with Montecito’s Fire Department by choosing its Fire Chief, help set budget priorities and steer resources so that the agency can provide the best (and swiftest) fire and emergency services possible to all Montecito residents.

Both Judith Ishkanian, the Board’s current secretary, who is running unopposed for a two-year seat, and Peter Van Duinwyk, whose term ends in December 2022, are safe for now. But the remaining trio on the board, Sylvia Easton, Abe Powell, and Mike Lee, must compete for their seats against newcomer Robert Kemp. The following profiles of each candidate are based on recent interviews, with our endorsements to follow in next week’s issue.

SYLVIA EASTON

The wife of a well-known Montecito architect, Sylvia Easton first joined the board as an appointed director in 2015. The following year, she ran a successful campaign to keep her seat, and so far has served the board as secretary, vice president, and two terms as president. “It’s been incredibly rewarding,” Easton says. “It’s been wonderful that people had confidence in me and I really enjoy serving the community.”

One of Easton’s proudest accomplishments was hiring Fire Chief Kevin Taylor, who last year replaced the retiring Chip Hickman, a 29-year veteran of the fire department. “Everyone knows Kevin Sylvia Easton has been wonderful and very involved in the community,” she says. “And that goes for everyone on staff, all of whom couldn’t be more professional or kind, and who are just amazingly well-trained.”

Easton considers herself a firm proponent of the agency’s long-term effort to build a third fire station on the eastern edge of town near the border with Summerland, a task that has so far been stymied by threatened lawsuits or prospective neighbors of proposed sites. “I believe in having equal response times for fire and medical to get to people who are having a heart attack or stroke in time,” she explains, “or to stop a fire from spreading from a house into becoming a community event.”

She also believes the Board should continue to help the department provide community outreach so that residents are more aware of potential fire hazards.

“They have a new program where you can make an appointment with one of our wildland specialists who will come out and do a home survey for people to help them harden their homes. They give you a full report printed out. It’s great,” she adds. “They gave me one last year.”

Even before she became a director, Easton was sitting in on board meetings, so she’s seen quite a few changes and advancements over the years, not to mention catastrophic challenges like the 2017 Thomas Fire and subsequent debris flow.

She says her superpower is working well with others: “I can’t tell you how well our board works together. We spend a lot of time together and if somebody has a question or isn’t sure about something, we talk about it and there’s no drama.”

ROBERT KEMP

Like Powell, Robert Kemp, a realtor with Berkshire Hathaway, is on the board of the Mountain Drive Community Association. He’s also served on the board of the Montecito Association as well as the Council for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. “I like helping where I can,” he says, adding that his sole desire in running for the Fire District board is to be a part of what he considers a fantastic agency.

“To be honest, I can’t say there’s some area the board is not currently addressing,” he admits. “I haven’t really attended too many board meetings in the past 23 years, but since the debris flow, I’ve put both feet on the gas to pay more attention.

So the entire reason I want to be on the board is because I love the focus on leadership and what they did for us during the Thomas Fire.”

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Aside from advocating for a third fire station, Kemp says his goal on the board would be to make it a more “inclusive” agency. “I’d like to see more women involved at the Montecito Fire Protection District,” he says. If elected, Kemp says he’d use his skills in public outreach to solidify the agency’s involvement in the community.

Kemp says his superpower is listening. “Something I do particularly well is to go out in the community and ask people questions,” he explains. “It’s what I do every day in my business, and I would love to know more about what the community wants from Montecito Fire.”

MICHAEL LEE

Michael Lee has lived in the same house for 50 years and has served on Montecito Fire for five years. His son is a firefighter with a different municipality in the county. Lee’s chief concern is the lack of a third fire station in Montecito’s eastern stretches.

“Right now, the Montecito Fire Department, in conjunction with Summerland/Carp, is looking at that issue again, which I totally support,” he says. “I think it’s really important for the people that live on that end of Montecito to have the same quality service as somebody in the central part of Montecito has. In a fire or in an emergenMichael Lee cy, the faster you get there, the better.”

The good news, according to Lee, is that Montecito’s debris risk is currently low. “If you talk to the experts, the risk of debris flow is getting lower and lower,” he says. “The front country has recouped pretty well within the last three years. But that’s just a ticking clock. Eventually those fuels are going to build up to a point where you can have a pretty major fire and also a wind-driven fire, which is even worse.”

Lee envisions better cooperation between Montecito’s fire department and its eastern neighbor. “If there was some leeway there, I think it would be a benefit for everybody, including Santa Barbara City and Summerland/Carp.” He says he brings to the board a strong knowledge of fire prevention.

“I’m a builder, so I know about making houses more resilient,” Lee says.

“There are a lot of things you can do. The little things, like eliminating roof vents, where the screens get all this lint on them and it just takes an ember.”

Lee says his superpower is staying out of politics: “I’m apolitical. I’m not a politician. The fire department is an important aspect of our community. I kind of look at it in the big picture, I guess.”

ABE POWELL

The other incumbent hoping to keep his seat, Abe Powell is perhaps best known as co-founder and executive director of the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade. He first joined the board in 2012, when it had just three people. “At that time, I ran because I felt there was a need to reestablish community-oriented fire department governance,” he recalls.

As a volunteer firefighter and director of relief services for the Mountain Drive Community Association, Powell says he made it his priority to revamp the department’s communication with residents. “The first thing we did was make a new website with updated information on budgets and safety information,” he says. “In addition, we hired Abe Powell a consultant to help us with our mailers and reports that we do for the community.”

Given the fact that Powell is such a high-profile member of Montecito’s volunteer community, he also acts as an ambassador of the board. “Having grown up here and being involved in community resilience for 25 years, people communicate with me directly,” he explains. “I’m talking to people at least a couple of times a week.”

Powell’s chief goal is to build community outreach and ensure neighbors talk to each other about how to prepare for an emergency. “It’s really important that they know each other and discuss the idea of helping each other in a crisis.”

He also hopes to continue to push for a third fire station in east Montecito.

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a way to work with Summerland/Carpinteria Fire to address response times in that area.”

Powell certainly isn’t shy when it comes to making his case for reelection.

“There is nobody running for the fire board with more experience and credibility on the issue of community resilience than me,” he argues.

He says his superpower is tirelessness: “Nobody can touch my experience or my body of work for the past 25 years, whether it’s volunteer firefighting or helping people recover from the debris flow. There’s nobody that’s putting anywhere near the level of work and energy and time that I’ve put into this.”

MONTECITO SANITARY DISTRICT

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hile the political turmoil surrounding its sister agency, the Montecito Water District, and its recent contract to purchase half-a-century’s worth of desalinated water from Santa Barbara has grabbed headlines over the past year, it’s high time for Montecitans to focus in on what’s happening with our sewage.

The Sanitary District is responsible not only for maintaining the sewage system but for treating our collective waste, which is divided between solids, which are trucked off to become fertilizer, and treated liquid waste, almost all of which (except for a fraction that is recycled to water the lawn of a local cemetery) is dumped into the Pacific Ocean.

So it’s somewhat surprising to learn that the main bone of contention involves not waste recycling and whether or not the agency should work to recycle more water for Montecito’s sprawling golf courses and Spanish revival estates, but rather its costly effort to spruce up its working space.

Last year, the directors voted to approve a $4.6 million “Essential Services Building,” but the project has yet to move forward because of the political fallout. Woody Barrett and Dana Newquist will keep their seats until 2022, leaving three other slots wide open over which four candidates will compete. Don’t forget to pick up next week’s issue for our endorsements.

DON EVERSOLL

Although he’d be a newbie on the Montecito Sanitary District, Don Eversoll, who grew up in Los Angeles, knows a thing or two about sewage.

“Well, I built a number of sewage treatment plants back East,” he says in response to a question about his background. “I built a million-gallon plant, some 250,000 gallon-plants, another 400,00-gallon plant. I expanded a plant from 1.5 million to 2.3 million gallons…” You get the idea.

Eversoll shares that his primary motivation for joining the Board is to boost transparency. “My concern is we need to have a process and we need to have transparency,” Eversoll says. “And obviously Don Eversoll we don’t seem to have transparency.”

Eversoll’s chief complaint is that the district pushed forward on grading for its Essential Service Building without securing a permit, at a cost of nearly $175,000. “As they say in the business, that dog don’t hunt,” he argues. “My feeling is it’s unnecessary. It was sold to the community as an essential services building and unfortunately it just houses four people.”

Meanwhile, Eversoll isn’t happy about the fact that so little of Montecito’s water is being recycled. “My view is that it should be a very significant recycle, not just for the cemetery. We need to serve the Miramar Hotel, the Biltmore, the Valley Club, San Ysidro Ranch, Oprah Winfrey, all the big water users.”

Eversoll say his superpower is enthusiasm for sewers. “I know what a drop manhole is,” he says. “I know what a force main is. When I was in Paris visiting my son when he was in school there, I actually went on a tour of the sewers of Paris at the Musée des Égouts de Paris and they had a Plexiglass floor so you could see through. As I was walking on it, I was very fearful that it would collapse under my weight.”

GARY FULLER

A third generation, lifelong Montecito resident who lives in the home his parents built, Gary Fuller is a bar-certified, non-practicing attorney and plumber who specializes in plugging leaks on people’s properties via his company, Acme Detection. Alone among the folks running for the sanitary district, Fuller has absolutely no opinion about the district’s controversial office project, which he says he hadn’t even heard about until contacted for this story. “I’m pretty

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much uninformed on that,” he admits, “but I thank you for the information.”

Instead, Fuller says he threw his figurative hat in the ring because, as a homeowner who isn’t connected to the sewer system but rather has to rely on a septic tank, he feels like the Sanitary District needs to be extended to include more residents. “There are far too many people on septic,” he says. “They’ve been promising to put in a sewer connection since my parents built this place. I’m tired of sitting on Gary Fuller the sidelines.”

Aside from that very personal and pragmatic motivation to run for office, Fuller says his candidacy is also an attempt to thwart what he sees as an attempt to take over the district by the same folks who currently control Montecito’s water district and who supported the agency’s successful bid to purchase desalinated water from Santa Barbara. “They are trying to have complete control over the system,” argues Fuller, adding that he believes this includes the Birnam Wood Golf Club. “I’ve been watching what’s happening. Part of the deal is to get all the reclaim to water their golf course and have everybody pay for it. That’s why I want to run.”

Fuller says his superpower is determination. “I’m constantly moving forward at a steady pace, and I want to keep the sewer system moving forward and making it available to more people.”

DORINNE LEE JOHNSON

This isn’t the first time Dorinne Lee Johnson has run for the Montecito Sanitary District Board of Directors. “I applied for this position two years ago and someone else took it,” she says. “Then I was approached to consider being part of the Water Security Team. I decided to do that.” Her beef: “It was brought to my attention the lack of ADA [American With Disabilities] Act requirements on the plans and unpermitted buildings.”

As a member of the Montecito Association, Lee Johnson says she understands the importance of community outreach. “I really like to work with the homeowners and rate payers to understand the process,” she says. “I take the extra time to really work with people.” While Lee hopes to see an expan- Dorinne Lee Johnson sion of recycling, “that’s something that’s at a later date,” she says. “I think there’s some other things that need to be addressed now.”

To wit: that expensive building the district is trying to build. “The two existing lab and maintenance buildings were never permitted regardless of if they were internally approved... I find that the application of the site is an incomplete application. It does not meet ADA requirements.”

As for recycling water? “I’d like to see recycling be implemented so that it can be used for hotels or for the other users that use a lot of water,” she says. “You have the golf courses and things like that. I mean, we’d love to do the homeowners but I just don’t think that’s going to be as feasible right now.”

Lee Johnson’s superpower? “My secret power is to work with people. The mission is to make sure there is transparency, that we engage in the community with the rate payers, to protect, preserve, and enhance our community.”

EDWIN MARTIN

A retired trial lawyer who spent his career suing corporations over toxic waste, Edwin Martin had never considered seeking a directorship at the Montecito Sanitary District until a short time ago. “But I was asked several times to get involved in this and started looking into it,” he says, “and I started sensing that things were not as I thought they should be, because you have to be open, transparent.”

When Martin learned about the Sanitary District’s plan to build an expensive new headquarters, he says he soon realized that this was a “vanity” project. “I became convinced that’s exactly what it was,” he says. “There were mutterings of deterioration and asbestos. I’m somewhat of an authority on asbestos as a trial lawyer, but there was never any documentation of such findings.”

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tial, seemed adequate for its purpose. He accuses current directors of purposely allowing the current building to deteriorate. “I noticed right away as I walked up to the building, a big blue plastic tarp like you see at a homeless encampment,” he recalls.

“I asked why it was here and they said it was years ago and the Board before just decided to let it go.

They didn’t want to have that building, they wanted to tear it down.”

It won’t likely surprise you that Martin sees the wisdom in recycling more water and using it via cooperation with the water district to sprinkle Montecito’s major lawns as opposed to dumping it into the Pacific Ocean. “I walk past the Biltmore Edwin Martin and Butterfly Beach all the time,” he says, “and I look at the big pipe and think, ‘Ah, this is where the affluent bathe in the effluent.’ I know they treat the water, but I wouldn’t go swimming in that stuff.”

Pending state guidelines will eventually prohibit the regular dumping of treated wastewater into the ocean. “You can’t say the water’s clean,” Martin insists. “It’s treated, but it’s not clean. You’ve gotta tell the people the truth and explain it in factually correct ways and avoid the use of weasel words. That’s got to change and I’d like to be part of that change.”

Martin says his superpower is honesty. “I think what I would like to bring to the board is a sense of honest transparency, no fooling around. I have spent decades asking questions and I read things, unlike some of our leaders. I would not participate in anybody’s failure to tell the community the truth.”

UNCONTESTED BUT STILL IMPORTANT

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he following trio of races all feature candidates who are either running uncontested or who won’t be directly representing Montecito, so while we didn’t conduct new interviews with anyone running, we’re including the names of the relevant candidates so you can continue to track these public officials in the future.

SANTA BARBARA COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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his community college district is divided into several districts, and Montecito lies within District 1, which has no open seat this year. Our representative, Peter Haslund, is safe for two more years, as are Marsha Croninger (District 5), Jonathan Abboud (District 6), and Kate Parker (District 7). In District 2, incumbent Robert Miller is facing off against newcomer Ronald Liechti, the Fire Business Manager of Santa Barbara. In District 3, incumbent Veronica Gallardo is being challenged by Erin Julia Guerena, a kindergarten and first grade teacher who also owns a barber shop on De La Vina. Finally, in District 4, two newbies, Anna Everett and Celeste Barber are facing off. Everett is a retired Social Sciences and Media professor from UCSB and Barber is a retired adjunct English professor from SBCC.

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oard members Chad Chase, Susanna Osley, and Peter Van Duinwyk will remain in office this year, however Kathryn Murphy and Marilyn Bachman are leaving, to be replaced by Jessica Smith and Jacqueline Duran.

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his pair of candidates has the easiest job of anyone on the ballot, since they happen to be running unopposed for reelection. Both men first ran for office four years ago on the platform of bringing “water security” to Montecito by signing a 50-year deal with Santa Barbara to purchase desalinated water. Their successful campaigns reflected widespread consternation with water rationing measures enacted by the board at the height of California’s most recent drought.

While controversial among some environmentalists opposed to restarting the city’s desal plant, which went offline almost as soon as it was built in the late 1980s, the deal was approved unanimously this year. For his part, Wicks traces the lack of competing candidates to the fact that water rates haven’t skyrocketed as a result of the deal. “Guess when rates only went up by an average of 2.8 percent,” he says, “it scared off the competition.”

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Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens was one of the tenants of the Presidio neighborhood and now houses Three Pickles

the Trust renewed its ongoing agreement with the California State Parks Department to manage the Presidio.

Restoration is ongoing.

At the time of the MexicanAmerican War very little remained of the fort. And then on December 27, 1846 Major John C. Fremont came through San Marcos Pass in the rain and came upon the Presidio and the town. The Presidio surrendered with-

out a fight as the garrison was way south in the pueblo of Los Angeles.

Today El Presidio is a busy tourist attraction, museum, and an active archaeological site but is temporarily closed because of the pandemic.

The two bells above the chapel have traveled 11,000 miles since they were first cast in Zacatecas, Mexico. Then sent to San Blas, Mexico, to Santa Barbara, to Milton, Massachusetts, to

Los Altos, California and ultimately back to their home at the Presidio.

In their day they called the Presidio residents for mass, the rosary, rations and to sound quarters for the watch at night. They regulated work schedules, welcomed the arrival of prominent visitors, signaled alarms and celebrated festivities. During the pandemic they no longer ring, but when it’s over they will gong every noon.

Across the street from the Presidio is an adobe called El Cuartel, which is the second oldest surviving building in California. Only the chapel at Mission San Juan Capistrano is older and is called “Father Junipero Serra’s Church.”

The businesses that are in the State Park are tenants and pay rent such as Jimmy’s, Panino, Zaytoon, Playa Azul, and more. The Trust for Historic Preservation recently completed repairs on the façade of the 1928 commercial building at 131-137 East De La Guerra Street, now a City Structure of Merit.

“We also replaced the roof at 914 Santa Barbara Street, two conjoined early 20th century homes now occupied by beloved restaurant La Playa Azul,” said the trust’s executive director Anne Petersen and board president Debby Aceves in a statement. “Now they are asking for your help with a new and equally transformative project.”

That would be improvements to the intersection adjacent to the Moullet House at 834 Santa Barbara Street. It too is a Structure of Merit and was built by J. F. Moullet as a home for his family in 1896. It is one of the few 19th century brick buildings in Santa Barbara. In 1932 it housed the branch headquarters for the Chinese Nationalist Party as this part of the neighborhood became New Chinatown.

In the mid-20th century, new store windows were added to the home

and a succession of small businesses, a liquor store, and a printing company followed. The Trust for Historic Preservation plans to reduce the amount of asphalt and expand the brick patio to restore the appearance of a proper front entry to this Victorian home. Above-ground plants will become vehicle barriers to expand outdoor dining. The vintage planter and odd light fixture will be restored and rescued from the overgrown plants. The project can be completed for $10,000. If you would like to contribute, send a donation to Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, 123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101-2215.

Stewarding the past and present of the Presidio Neighborhood is the mission of SBTHP. You can see more at their website www.sbthp.org/ moullethouse or by calling 805-9650093. The Presidio area will also be used for seventh grader field trips as part of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Pearl Chase, who played such a big role in our history, would have been happy to see how all her endeavors have made our town not only beautiful but historically meaningful.

One Month, Two Full Moons

Across from the Bird Refuge (30 Los Patos Way), we have a pop up during October just in time for Halloween.

Did you know there will be two full moons that month? Arlene and Milt Larsen from the Magic Castle Cabaret will be having a Halloween gift shop for the month of October, open Tuesday through Saturday 11:30 am to 4 pm.

Arlene will weave her magic selling fancy face masks and much more. “If we have to wear a mask, let’s have fun doing it,” she said. Come by and see the ghoulish deck complete with skeletons and all things scary.

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were more subdued, partially because of coronavirus distancing, and because no one wanted to perform CPR on me – again. Instead I

by Ernie Witham was given a carefully wrapped (with Read more exciting adventures in Ernie’s World the Book and A Year in the Life copious amounts of duct tape) packof a “Working” Writer. Both available at amazon.com or erniesworld.com. age that contained an envelope with a piece of paper that read: “This isn’t your gift but quit your hawin’ and hemmin’ you’ll find your real gift in ur family spends more time before racing to Stearns Wharf for the tree of a...” planning birthdays than some the finale. Somewhere Jessica has I’m really good at games and in people spend reading presi- an iPhone video of me in that tutu less than 15 minutes found another dential briefs... it’s been said... by that probably prevents me from ever envelope in a “lemon” tree. “Ahhh!” many, many, fine folks. running for political office. That and Thud.

We’ve had choreographed dance- I couldn’t stand watching Fox News “This also isn’t your gift so sorry to offs, whereas we all stand in a large for 12 hours a day. lie, You real gift is in a tree of...” circle and someone does a dance One year we rented a 50-foot-long Bonsai was the obvious answer, move. The next person has to dupli- inflatable obstacle course. At “Go” but Carl and Christy don’t have any. cate it or get eliminated. Out of pity you had to run and dive through a Turns out they had a large juniper I they let me go first once, but Ashley, porthole, shimmy up an air-filled had pruned which contained... anoththe next person, refused to spill her ramp, squeeze through inflated er envelope. drink all over herself while pulling pylons, and slide out the other end “Foiled again I’m so sorry. I will her calf muscle, falling forward, and onto the lawn. I lost badly to my owe you a drink, perhaps a tonic and dominoing the entire group. That then-eight-year-old granddaughter gin-nia, after you find your real presmove is now known as the Ernie.

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On his birthday, Charlie designed We had a Western theme one year Encouraging words like “still cold an Amazing Race contest, which with sawhorse roping and a game dude” and “it’s getting late” and started at our condo tennis court of tossing snakes into boots. Plastic “whose idea was this?” rang out as trying to hit balls over the net and snakes replaced real snakes at the last I scoured the yard looking for a hyeinto a small bucket on the other moment because Jon thought they’d nia. “It’s zinnia,” they yelled. side (much harder than it sounds). be easier to gather up for round two.

“What’s a zinnia?” I’m guessing Then we had to race to the Santa We also skipped the quick draw con- next year they’ll just give me beer.

Barbara Courthouse, put on tutus test because we were afraid excited More recently, it was Patrick’s and dance to the Nutcracker Suite in NRA members might show up. birthday. “What’s the plan?” I asked. the middle of the Sunken Gardens, This year for my birthday things “Ping-pong tournament, ladder

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toss game, plus we have written special lyrics to a popular song called ‘Cups’ that we all have lines for,” Pat said.

“You realize that I’m tone deaf right?”

“It’s easy, listen.” She played the song and sang the new lyrics.

“So. When I was a kid, my parents made me join the Congregational Church choir.”

“There you go.”

“I threw everyone off. They kept moving me from sopranos, to tenors to bass. Finally, they said I could only stay if I just mouthed the words.”

Charlie whooped me at ping-pong.

Patrick whooped me at ladder toss.

And after much practice I was able to squeak out my lines in the song to raucous applause. “Is he done?” “I hope so.”

Then a guy dressed in a plaid skirt walked into the backyard playing bagpipes. Four-year-old Jack covered his sensitive ears and ran into the house. Patrick, whose grandmother was of Scottish descent, loved it.

“Wow. That reset the bar,” I said.

“What should we do for your next birthday? Buxom German barmaid and an oom-pah band?”

“Hawaii,” Pat said. “No games, and definitely no barmaid. Just sunshine and Mai Tais.”

“You got my vote – twice.”

•MJ

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Our Town (Continued from page 16) J.J. Kandel with actors Cecily Strong and KeiLyn Durrel Jones filming Sparring Partner

I’ve never had the luxury of doing things any other way, I come out of the nonprofit theatre world, where you’re always challenged by a lack of finances.

You have to be extra creative in order to get things done with less.

How does Live Theatre influence the human condition?

Theater brings people together. Under the best of circumstances, I think it helps facilitate a better understanding of ourselves and those around us. It also presents alternate points of view and experiences that we may not otherwise be exposed to.

Is there a story you are inspired to write, or a character to be in a play?

Interesting question. I’ve always been interested in characters that are extremely disciplined, with very specific routines and methodologies. Routine and discipline have been very helpful tools to help preserve my sanity during the lockdown.

Do you feel you have been typecast as an actor?

I’ve had some amazing experiences as an actor so far, and I’m grateful anytime I get to work with people at the top of their game. I don’t necessarily feel like I’ve been typecast, but I certainly haven’t been given all the opportunities I would like. That’s why I started producing 15 years ago. It’s my way of staying proactive.

How are you dealing with the lockdown going forward?

I’ve produced 90 plays over the last 14 years. I think working in live theater is going to be challenging for the foreseeable future. This is why I’ve really focused my energy toward TV and film projects. I will be going back and forth from New York to Montecito where I grew up, and be in L.A. more to further my involvement in film and TV. I’m using my background and everything I have at my disposal to move forward through the lockdown.

Stage to Screen is my company and I would love to find a way to get it going in Los Angeles where the film industry seems more active than NYC right now.

I’ve always been a creative person, making things out of what appears to be nothing. I guess I create the thing that I want to be a part of. I was never one to wait around for the phone to ring to go to work. You have two choices, wait for the phone to ring or create it yourself, bringing people together around a project and making it happen.

All this isolation and free time, which can be dangerous for some people when they don’t have a schedule, is the normal for me. As creatives, we have a bit more experience at that way of life than others, due to the lockdown we’re living now.

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Is that different for film or music and art?

I think film will ultimately come back very strong. I think we’ve all thoroughly combed through our Netflix and Amazon libraries during lockdown, so there is definitely a need. I think music and art also faces a real challenge. The question is how comfortable people will be going in spaces (such as museums and concert venues) with a bunch of strangers.

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

The world feels like a scary place right now, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the world so fundamentally divided. I try to stay positive, but it’s difficult.

How did growing up in Montecito influence your direction in life, and is it still a grounding point for you?

I feel unbelievably lucky to have grown up in a place as beautiful as Montecito. It set the bar very high, and that keeps me reaching. There is nothing more grounding than coming back to those mountains, blue sky, and the ocean.

Giving back/pay it forward?

I’m big believer in that. I founded and produced a successful play festival in NYC for 13 years straight, with my nonprofit theater company. I’m proud to have given professional opportunities to so many artists, and will continue to do so as I write my next chapter.

What’s next for you?

I’m directing a world premiere play by Neil LaBute called True Love Will Find You In The End at the Denizen Theatre in New Paltz, New York, to premiere October 8. And I just finished post production on my directorial debut short film Sparring Partner with Cecily Strong. I hope to get that on the festival circuit next year when things start to open back up – fingers crossed.

Any advice for actors/directors/producers going forward, what is their role right now?

Obstacles and limitations provide opportunities for creativity. Embrace what is, and keep doing the work. Let the creative solutions surprise you and inspire others to do the same. There is always a way forward.

Your advice for everyone during lockdown?

Find a way to access your own creativity! Embrace the circumstances fully, try to find inspiration in the limitation, get the results you want with the things you have. What people do is their identity, as an artist what you do changes on a daily basis, so you have to define yourself. As a producer, I’m always challenged with finding a solution to move forward, saying “it doesn’t work” is not an option.

I simply can’t afford to look at what I don’t have! Deal with what is, you can’t change the past or predict the future. Look at the present and find the opportunities that are right in front of you. Live in the moment, be fully aware of your surroundings and the effect they have. This is not to be confused with making everything about you – it’s not a selfish thing. Don’t wait for the past to come back, better to figure out what your new normal is, accept that reality and move forward. Examine, reflect, and reinforce, this is a process I go thru on a daily basis. Listen and support internal dialogue that is useful. Find the yes, don’t waste time on the no.

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ou may find this hard to believe, but it wasn’t until after I had gone all the way through the British school and college system, and emigrated to the U.S., with a bachelor of arts degree in history, that I became aware of the fact that “education” is a subject which can itself be studied and taught. And I made this discovery only accidentally. I had come to California, after being told that there was a shortage of teachers here, and that, with a University of London BA, I should have no difficulty finding employment. Only upon arriving, did I learn that there was one little snag.

Sure enough, there was a big demand for teachers throughout the state – and school districts were competing with each other to attract applicants. (This was the boom era of the 1950s.) But, in order to teach in a California public school, it wasn’t good enough just to have a degree in your subject. Here, you also needed something called a

“credential” – a sort of license issued by the State certifying that you were qualified to teach.

On the face of it, this was not a bad idea. I had already had more than one teacher who could have used some supervised training. But getting a credential meant going back to college for months, or possibly years. And most of the required courses were in “education.” You could even get a degree in it! The courses had names like “Core Course in Secondary Education,” and “Psychological and Sociological Foundations of Education.” I enrolled at Los Angeles State College, and sat through whatever was required, meanwhile earning my way by doing a variety of “odd jobs.”

I soon understood what they meant by the old jibe that “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. And those who can’t teach, teach teachers.”

Much of the course content seemed of little value to me. But it was all

essential, compared with the gobbledygook which I find is being offered today. Here is just one example, from the current catalog of a local university, describing one course out of nearly 400 being offered by the Education Department. The course title is “Applied Causal Inference” and this is the description: “Introduces a set of quasi-experimental approaches for estimating causal inferences in educational research. Methods explored include: fixed effects, instrumental variables, difference-in-difference estimators, regression discontinuity, and propensity score matching. Students will apply these techniques using large-scale datasets.”

If you can make any sense of that, you’re a better man, or woman, than I am.

But there were a few things I learned in those courses that were of real practical value. One was always to make sure that your students were comfortable – to check things like the windows and the heating.

And one course, in “Audio Visual Education,” taught us, among other things, how to run a film projector.

But most useful of all were the weeks of “practice teaching” I did, under a “Master Teacher,” whose name was Miss Pleasant. By that time, I had transferred to Claremont Graduate School (where I was lucky enough to

get a year’s scholarship), from which I somehow emerged not only with that coveted credential, but also with a master’s degree in education!

But it soon turned out that all of this had for me been pretty much a waste of time. After a few weeks in my first actual teaching job, in the English Department at Hollywood High School, it was obvious to me that I was never cut out to be a high school teacher. If I was going to teach at all, it would have to be at a higher level. This eventually led me to seek the college equivalent of a teaching credential, which is called a PhD. (Admittedly, that makes no sense, because PhD. courses are entirely subject oriented, and you are not required to know anything about teaching at all.)

What ultimately saved me from a lifetime of misery in academia was the ironical fact that, virtually straight out of the starting-gate, I got the ideal teaching job – sailing around the world on board a “floating University.” It couldn’t last forever – but nothing could possibly be as good – so I had to invent a new profession, and became an epigrammatist, writing lines like: “I was educated once, and it took me years to get over it.” And: “Be kind to teachers. Those who don’t deserve your respect may at least deserve your pity.”

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Letters (Continued from page 6) Barbara’s own politicos.

Sadly, the Board of Supervisor’s response to the withering Grand Jury report on their Cannabis Ordinance is shamelessly inadequate and feeble.

Exhibit A was their use of an unprecedented two man-AdHoc Committee as an end run around land use regulations and the Brown Act – without any public participation, except cannabis lobbyists.

Then to brag about the tax dollars from an industry that they granted every known regulatory break, exception, and waiver known to man – not given to any other industry in the County – well, that’s rich. Add on the Sups’ recent vote to cut funding for enforcement of cannabis grower, despite request from law enforcement.

Hard to do, but on the weed issue, Santa Barbara’s Sups out-trumped Trump.

The Sups know it, the media knows it, the Grand Jury knows it, the pot growers know it, and the U.S. Attorney knows it.

It’s time for the Sups to stop the charade, own up to the mess they made, stop attacking the Grand Jurors, reporters, much less their own constituents. And stop wasting County funds on legal fees for litigation that promises to go on for years to come.

It’s time for the Sups to sit down with constituents, find common ground, and amend the Cannabis Ordinance.

Robert Lesser

Kill the Messenger

Thank you, Mr. Wolf for repeating so many of my wise and honest words, so that readers may enjoy them again. (You did good, even while misquoting me. To call a shallow man a shallow man is not name calling. It is descriptive, as one might say of a stool with three legs, “that’s a three-legged stool.”)

However, your letter neither addresses nor refutes the two wild and unbelievable Buckley assertions “Trump likes women” and “Trump is

not a racist” which is the core thread of my letters.

Neither did your cohort, Morey.

But I understand your dilemma: you have no valid refutation for the widely held and daily-proven facts that Trump is literally indeed a misogynist and a racist, and so, you prevaricate, ascribe emotions to me you may be afraid of (dear reader, there is an angry woman here, hide your children, she is frothing, “I can smell” her.

“Smell” her?), as though my emotions cause or are related to Trump’s abuse of women and his easily perceived fear of non-white people. There are now 25 women who allegedly have filed against him, for sexually abusing them.

Me thinks your howling, oh Big Bad One, does nothing more than ricochet off the walls of your empty Trumpian name-calling. Shame on you.

Calling me beautiful or intelligent or insightful or angry does not change Trump. I could easily call you stupid, uninformed, greedy for what Wall Street offers, illogical, blind, and dumb: did I? No. Calling me names in place of a genuine debate, or presenting evidence, does not change what Trump is/does.

He remains a racist and a misogynist, hands down. And that’s just the start of what he really is.

You also, I’m sure intentionally, only partially quote me, inferring I say what the full sentence reveals I do NOT. This is what I wrote: “Silence should not be an option for those mostly old frightened white men who make up today’s Republican Party, who can not bear to part with whatever money or glory they are privy to since being elected.” You accuse me of name calling in that sentence?

It is a fact that the elected Republican Congress is “mostly white men,” “mostly old men,” and judging from their utter silence in the reality of Trump’s hundreds of lies, it is an accurate assessment to refer to them as “frightened men“... frightened of losing their jobs, frightened of saying the truth about this man who was not the

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choice of the majority of Americans.

When one states a fact, it is per say, NOT name calling.

If you keep doing this... misquoting me, you nasty boy... you will be sent to bed without your supper.

Oh, look! You did it again: You quote me thusly, your full quote is: “Nancy Freeman goes on to say... ‘some evidence of Trump’s racism ... she uses the words white sycophant.’”

My full sentence reads: “Some evidence of Trump’s racism... as though we need any... exists in the gender and color of the people he has chosen to surround himself.”

I then go on to correctly give facts about the gender and color of the Republican Congress.

If there is a point you’re making, you don’t.

You are going to be one hungry little boy if you continue to misquote me.

If you did even a modicum of reading or listened to only a few of the people who know Trump intimately, you would have to conclude as they and I do. How can you deny the reality of what so many hear from Trump’s own mouth? There are, unquestionably, sycophants hanging around this Kool-Aid-Mixer-Upper in the W.H., (hundreds of the good guys have left; a big swampy bunch are in jail) but before you take another sip of his offer, be warned. We all remember what happened to the last bunch who drank the Kool-Aid. Now, “Kool-Aid-Mixer-Upper” IS name calling. I can’t resist such a lovely image.

Just in case you’re out of the loop, here are a few books by people who know Trump intimately: Rage (Woodward); Disloyal (Cohen); Compromised (Strzok); Mary Trump’s book; The Room Where It Happened (Bolton), the recent Atlantic Monthly; and on a slightly different slant, read Steve Coll, multiple Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, the New Yorker, Sept. 21, 2020 on the Electoral College in the 2020 election.

It may interest you to know that the Democratic Presidential candidate won the popular vote in each of the last seven elections, roughly the last 28 years. (One caveat: Bush younger won one election, against Kerry, by a .7 % margin, that is 7/10th of 1 percent.)

I think it is fair to conclude, Americans prefer a person with humanist values to lead us.

Nancy Freeman

Vote for Biden

This is the first letter such as this that I have ever written. The stakes are so high this November, however, that I felt it necessary even to impose on some of you whom I have not seen or talked with in far too long. Nothing less than the existence of our democ-

“When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

racy and the future of our world is at stake – not to mention the catastrophic challenge of COVID-19 and the horrendous and preventable deaths of so many Americans.

Many of us have worked together in a publishing venture that depended for its credibility on facts and science. Those are two touchstones that this nation desperately needs as pathways for our future. Of the candidates for President this time only one, Joe Biden, has the intelligence, the reasoning, the sensibility, the judgement, and the courage to lead us on that desirable path.

The last four years have demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that if another candidate is elected, this country and perhaps even the world might never recover from another four years of the continuing tragic “leadership” that we have seen demonstrated far too clearly. The courting and encouraging of violence in the streets, the praise of dictators, the despicable characterizations of those who have served this country in uniform would even individually disqualify this person from holding any office at any level of any U.S. position.

My 13 months on the DMZ in Korea pales in comparison to the ultimate sacrifice that so many have made for our freedom and our right to vote. Too many friends’ names are carved on a monument in Washington. My vote will be in honor of those whom the current occupant of the White House has demeaned.

I ask you please to do everything possible – but primarily VOTE for Biden/Harris and for other national and local candidates who will help them bring this country back from the edge of destruction. Vote early if you can and make sure that your vote gets to the right place even earlier than any established deadline. There is too much chance for having your precious vote interfered with and not counted by strategies underway to disenfranchise voters unless you do everything possible to make sure YOUR VOTE COUNTS. Thank you reading what I hope will be the only time in my life that I feel such a letter is necessary.

Bill Allen Former Editor-in-Chief of National Geographic

Get Out the Valium

Who says politics and medicine can’t be strange bedfellows bedpersons?

Dr. Sanjay Gupta provided a free “expert” on-air diagnosis of “coronavirus leakage” in Chris “Fredo” Cuomo’s healthy chest X-ray only to be corrected by hundreds of real radiologist. He then proclaimed, from the CNN mountain top, that 90% of COVID deaths could have been pre24 September – 1 October 2020

vented, and that (of course) it’s all Trump’s fault.

According to CNN, everything bad that has happened since the beginning of time, is Trump’s fault and everything GOOD that happens is because of closet-socialist demokrats.

On November 3rd, let’s see how well the constant “we hate Trump” haranguing, the support of BLM (the organization), and the anarchy festering in cities under the watchful eyes of liberals, pans out at the ballot box.

Suspending the freedom of assembly, based upon medical “consensus,” is quickly embraced by liberals and meant to be applied to conservative gatherings. Unmasked “peaceful protesters” who burn businesses, assault MAGA hats, kill those who disagree and attempt to subjugate the Constitution, are excused, by those same medical experts because “…issues are more important than getting Covid…”

The media adoration of a 78-yearold Trojan Horse with possible dementia, claiming, ironically, to be the “… voice of the future…of young America…” plays well in NYC, Portland, Chicago, and SFO. For the rest of America, Biden is a BROKEN “…make sure you have the record player on at night for your children”… PIECE OF…vinyl.

Why hasn’t everyone who promised to leave the country when Trump was elected in 2016 kept their word? Will

those same celebrities and “thought leaders” have the courage to redeem themselves, enhance their credibility and fulfill their “promise” if Trump wins?

For those betting on a Nirvanamoment when the “Harris/Biden” team make their victory speech, please consider refurbishing that crying room, stock up on tissue and have a good supply of Valium next to your television... for the next four years.

Cautiously offering advice to those lost in socialist wilderness storm of flying unicorns and blinding magic stardust.

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Montecito is Not the Hamptons

Someone in July 2nd issue quoted Megan Orloff, president of Montecito association., who said “don’t try to recreate what you left. Montecito is not the Hamptons, Malibu, Palm Springs, or O.C”…., to which I agree.

Sincerely, Mr. Lee Juskalian

Coffee With...

A real unfortunate aspect of how history is being discussed is the absence of any reference to Protestantism and

its severity against Roman Catholics.

Catholic powers across Europe were waging war against England.

They united in a series of conspiracies to defeat England. In North America Jamestown was not meant to be a benign enterprise. Nor its walled sister-city Londonderry, the Protestant Jerusalem, constructed atop Ireland the same decade. These outposts, for example, were meant to be beachheads for an English empire that would serve as a bulwark against Catholicism. But really only African slavery is discussed today, this despite in dominant English imaginary the Irish were indeed seen as black. Let’s discuss all the bias of America rather than risk viewing African slavery in a vacuum which I feel is the case.

Ivy League university caps on Jewish enrollment seems forgotten.

Matt McLaughlin

Vote No on L2020

Residents of the Cold Spring School District will soon be voting on a proposed $7.8 million bond measure. I am writing to share with the community why I have decided to VOTE NO on L2020.

I have been a resident of the Cold Spring School District since 1981. Our

children attended Cold Spring School and my husband and I happily donated our time and money to enhance their experience. I have worked as an educator for 24 years and care deeply about the school and what it provides to our community.

I recently served on the District’s Governing Board. My priorities then and now are fiscal responsibility, transparency and accountability, and representing the 87% of the electorate who do not have children currently enrolled in the school – voices that have long been absent from the decision-making processes of the District.

I resigned my position after 2 ½ years because I could not, in good conscience, support and defend Board majority decisions that I believed were detrimental to the District’s fiscal health, in conflict with Board policies, and damaging to the morale of the teachers and the staff.

Here are the specific reasons I believe taxpayers should VOTE NO on L2020: Once again, the District has failed to engage all of its residents.

There have been no community forums and no solicitation of community input. We taxpayers are being asked to hand over $7.8 million to pay

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On Entertainment (Continued from page 18 18)) Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi (11 am on November 12):

Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi

The founding member of the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops and Grammynominated Our Native Daughters who became a MacArthur “Genius Award” winner in 2017 offers her spectacular banjo and fiddle playing, passionate vocals, and perceptive songwriting in a special matinee concert from her home in Ireland, joined by multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, her collaborator on her most recent album there is no Other, blending Arabic, European, and African American musical influences.

Sheku & Isata Kanneh-Mason (November 22): The brother and sister duo, playing cellos and piano respectively, play a recital from their home in Nottingham, England, showing off their tight-knit musical communication that brings exuberance and humility to chamber music at its most intimate.

Cheryl Strayed in Conversation with Pico Iyer (December 3): Through her bestselling memoir Wild, Strayed taught us how we bear the unbearable and how we keep walking even when it seems impossible to stand. In her popular (and unorthodox) advice column “Dear Sugar,” she encourages her audience to live large, love hard, and be brave enough to break their own hearts.

The topics seem even more resonant during the pandemic.

China Forbes & Thomas Lauderdale (December 10): The leaders of Pink Martini, which features retro arrangements of timeless classics and rarely heard gems that cross genres of classical, jazz, and old-fashioned pop, team up for a stripped down cabaret-style performance.

Anne Lamott (January 14): Lamott’s bestselling books, which include Bird By Bird, the rare writer’s guide that can be read like a memoir, are infused with her humorous

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and straightforward observations, faith, and bits of wisdom. In her newest book, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope, Lamott reminds us that even when we are, as she puts it, “doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over-caffeinated,” the seeds of rejuvenation are at hand, inspiring words for coping with COVID. Jake Shimabukuro (January 14): Ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro is in many ways responsible for the resurgence of the four-string, two-octave instrument. His upcoming UCSB A&L performance promises a jaw-dropping set of genre-bending blending rock, jazz, blues, bluegrass, classical and folk.

Puzzles & Ping Pong with Will Shortz (January 14): As the world’s only academically accredited puzzle master, Shortz has been the crossword editor of The New York Times since 1993, where he’s built a level of culture and solving skill unrivaled in the nation. But he’s also an avid table tennis player, and the owner and director of the largest table tennis facility in the USA. He’ll talk about the relationship between the two pursuits from the tables of his famed Westchester Table Tennis Center.

More Streaming Strings

In addition to the UCSB A&L show streaming on September 24, Billy Strings and his band will be performing live from the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre at 6 pm two days later, on Saturday, September 26. Strings and Co. will play three full sets of music to a crowdless venue via nugs. tv and Cinematics for their first-ever headlining performance at the outdoor Colorado concert space. The video production, which will utilize the latest Red Digital Cinema, Blackmagic Design & DJI Drone 6k cameras mixed with the 7C Cinema live style, will treat viewers to a one-of-a-kind 4K Ultra Cinematic live music experience. The concert takes place just one day short of the one-year anniversary of the release of Strings’ latest album HOME. Fans may purchase live video streams for the show for $19.99, which includes unlimited on-demand access for 48 hours, at https://nugs.tv/ live-webcasts/5,1125/Billy-Strings09-2020-Red-Rocks-AmphitheatreMorrison-CO.html.

Gobble It Up

PCPA previews America’s annual fall feast two month’s early with Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play, the second in its new series of staged reading previews of relatively new works of current inter-

PCPA’s InterPlay Reading Series presents Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play on Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26

est. The “bitingly funny satire” find good intentions colliding with absurd assumptions as a troupe of supposedly racially awakened white teaching artists are tasked with devising a school pageant about the first Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage month. FastHorse is a Native American playwright who specializes in Native American dramas involving issues with indigenous people in American society and the intersection with theater. Hailed as a “rambunctious and edgy satire of wokeness,” The Thanksgiving Play, which has been performed across the country, including at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, roasts America’s Turkey Day, political correctness, and casting and “hypocracy” in the theater itself. The live Zoom shows featuring PCPA resident artists and others stream at 7 pm Saturday and 1:30 pm Sunday, September 26-27, and tickets cost $5.

A talkback with the actors, directors, and FastHorse follows. Visit www. pcpa.org/InterPlay.html.

On deck in PCPA’s Talkback Thursdays portion of its Plays On! virtual events is a September 24 conversation with 2009 graduate William Hodgeson, who recently played Romeo in Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s production of Romeo and Juliet and starred in the original company of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

A chat with PCPA alumni and founders of the YHT Theatre Company Brandon Jones Mooney, Tré Scott, and Nansi Dwendi – whose Young Hot Thespians company carries the mission “To bring theatre to places where it isn’t usually common” – streams live on October 1. Both events premiere at 7 pm on PCPA’s Facebook Live page. (www.facebook. com/pacificconservatorytheatre). All of the previous Talkback Thursdays conversations are also archived there.

Museum Musings

Los Angeles-based artist Edgar Arceneaux, who investigates historical patterns through drawings, installations and multimedia events, largely eschews linear logic in favor of

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wordplay and visual associations to reveal how language, technology, and systems of ordering produce reality as much as describe them. Seemingly disparate elements, such as science fiction, civil rights era speeches, techno music, and the crumbling architecture of Detroit, find a new synchronicity in the artist’s hands, ultimately pointing to larger historical forces such as the rise of the surveillance state.

Arceneaux engages in a wide ranging and informal virtual conversation with the audience from 12-1 pm on Thursday, September 24, sharing his thoughts about his art, current and past projects and how we construct history and memory in a racially divided country in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s “Detroit Riots, Black Lives Matter, and The Collision of Art and Politics.”

Also from SBMA: “Your Good Pictures: Trends in Popular Photography,” with Kim Beil, whose new book Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography, traces 50 stylistic trends through 175 years of photographic practice. In the first half of her live Zoom conversation from 5 pm to 6 pm on Monday, September 28, the art history professor at Stanford University discusses elements of contemporary photos that seem inarguably good, such as angles for selfies, or the best lighting for portraits, showing that these judgments are actually recent developments that overturn decades of previous advice on how to make good pictures. Part two features Beil commenting on pictures submitted in advance by the audience, placing family photos (1880-1980) in the context of photo history.

Register for either of the free Zoom events at www.tickets.sbma.net.

Classical Corner: Symphony Soundings

The Santa Barbara Symphony’s September episode of its Sundays with The Symphony series – airing at 3:30 pm on September 27 – not only shines a spotlight on its own musicians with a 30-minute program of pop-up performances featuring alumnus and guest artists but also offers a special visit with Lisa Vroman, the Broadway star who will be featured in the opening night singing Gershwin, Berlin, Lloyd-Weber in the intimate style of cabaret to kick off the upcoming seven-concert subscription series.

Check this space for a preview of the full season of pandemic-pivoted performances featuring concerts streamed live over the Internet from the Granada on the originally scheduled weekends starting October 17.

Visit the symphony’s new website at www.thesymphony.org for all the livestream information, new digital content, and to sign up for “Notes from Nir: 7 Stories in 7 Days.”

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Also of note: the Santa Barbara Symphony and Westmont College have announced a strategic partnership to strengthen the organizations’ ability to bring music education to local school children while creating a pipeline to provide continuing musical opportunities in the community.

The collaboration includes newly developed, innovative virtual, and socially distanced curriculum. The model enables the college and orchestra to connect the different phases of music education, from elementary school students up to college students, with the professional symphony.

Meanwhile, Camerata Pacifica, perhaps the area’s earliest adopter of virtual programming in the path of the pandemic, marked a milestone last Sunday when the chamber music ensemble presented the 26th episode of its “Concerts @ Home” series, representing six months of sharing specially curated excerpts from its 25-plus years of programming. The one-hour events stream live at 10 am each Sunday on YouTube and Facebook and are immediately archived on Camerata Pacifica’s YouTube channel. Visit https://cameratapacifica.org/seehear/concerts-at-home.

tions are requested, with proceeds split between Boadella and the Clark Center. Visit https://clarkcenter. org/event/diana-diaz-pop-songs-ofww1, and watch the show on https:// www.youtube.com/user/clarkcenterperfarts or www.facebook.com/ ClarkCenter.

Rubicon Wrapping Up

Rubicon Theatre Company’s September Blitz comes to a close this week with a flurry of final virtual shows. The Ballad of Juan José is a wild satire in which the titular Mexican immigrant has a feverish dream while studying for his American citizen-

ship exam. A parade of characters ranging from Sacagawea to Teddy Roosevelt to Jackie Robinson take him on a mind-bending, hilarious, and poignant trip through American history in the play written by Richard Montoya that was developed by the famed Culture Clash company. Shana Cooper directed the L.A. Theatre Works production – recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater UCLA in 2014 – that streams for free through November 5. RTC’s own “Voices of America: Songs and Stories of Conflict, Crisis, Hope, and Healing,” a timely variety show of readings and performances that streamed

live on Independence Day 2020, will be available to view once again on September 26 & 27, or on demand through September 29. Journey of the Noble Gnarble, a touching story that teaches the importance of positivity and determination and featuring students aged 5 to 12 from Rubicon’s Stinky Feet Theatre Workshop, gets another airing at 2 pm on September 26, before the final event of the fundraising effort from 5 pm to 12 midnight on Wednesday, September 30 brings together more than a dozen company regular and special guests to close out the campaign. All of the events are free, save for Gnarble. Visit www.rubicontheatre.org/allrise. •MJ

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Re-visiting Pop Music from the Previous Pandemic

Coping with COVID is most certainly a challenge, but can you imagine what life was like 100 years ago when influenza swept the land? Even before the novel coronavirus arrived, local Lompoc singer-actor Diana Diaz Boadella had set her sights on taking a look backwards at singing some of the great popular songs and reading aloud a few secret love letters from the last pandemic and the World War I era. She performed a program for the Lompoc Museum for one of their annual banquets, at the Pasadena Library Tuesday Musicale, and for the Oneonta Club which celebrated the centennial Armistice Day, celebrating the end of World War 1.

Now Boadella, who recently played the leading roles of Rosalie in School of Rock with Santa Barbara School of Performing Arts, and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with SBCC’s Continuing Education’s Theater Eclectic, is putting together a similar century-old program for Arroyo Grande’s Clark Center that will run on its YouTube channel this weekend. Among the songs she’ll perform in the “Songs & Stories from the Last Pandemic & World War 1” concert at 6 pm on Saturday, September 26, are “Over There,” “For Me And My Gal,” “K-K-K-Katy,” “Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag And Smile Smile Smile,” and “Keep the Home Fires Burning.”

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Montecito on the Move

by Sharon Byrne, Executive Director, Montecito Association

The Multi-Jurisdictional Problem in Montecito – Hammond’s Trail

Hammond’s Trail is used as access to camp in the meadow, light bonfires, and people leave a lot of trash

To reach Hammond’s Trail, you go down the railroad tracks, and up a steep incline to the trail that runs along the backside of Montecito residences

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t the Montecito Association, we often work with neighbors on specific issues. Who is responsible for the tree dropping bowling ballsized pinecones in the street? Who handles the trash at Highway 101 and Hot Springs Road? What do I do if my neighbor’s hedge becomes infested with rats?

These types of questions often require calls to multiple entities to resolve, as there are multiple jurisdictions in operation in Montecito: federal, city, county, and state. Sometimes the answer isn’t one of those, but two or more, and other entities too, as

in the case of trail easements. While our good friends at Montecito Trails Foundation lovingly tend to a lot of our local trails, the property may actually belong to the U.S. Forest Service.

Parking could be a county easement.

It can take a long time to research and lock down just whose responsibility a problem, or portion of it, might be. Sometimes it’s an intersection of a Homeowner’s Association, the County, private foundations, the railroad, and other partners.

Let me introduce you to the Hammond’s Trail area problems. It started with homeless encampments

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along the trail perpendicular to the beach access trail. Residents at Montecito Shores, Bonnymede, and Sea Meadow were experiencing trespassing by homeless individuals living along the tracks. I used to do a lot of homeless outreach on Milpas, so I decided to try the same tactic here in Montecito. We hiked in from Eucalyptus Lane, and the neighbors were right – there was a crew back there. Here’s the trail area (notice the vacation rental nearby): To get there, you go down the railroad tracks, and up a steep incline to the trail that runs along the backside of the residences, parallel to the track. For the first trip, I took Marcos Olivarez, the first man I moved indoors from homelessness off Milpas back in 2015. He knew the area, having camped here, and who we might be likely to run into. Here’s some of what we found.

We met seven individuals living back there, and documented a lot of trash and fire hazards. Partnering with the Behavioral Wellness Department of Santa Barbara County, I went out to do more outreach, and we offered shelter and services. Some in the camps agreed to come indoors, which is great. The homeowners at the three complexes adjacent to the tracks were super partners in assisting with this issue. Sea Meadow fenced off Eucalyptus trees on their property that were a fire hazard, and indeed we found propane tanks and heaters under them on our first outreach trip.

Neighbors from Montecito Shores, Sea Meadow, and Bonnymede hiked there with us to see it and do outreach. We advised them to get more defensive about their properties. But we still had a problem with the trail that led from the track area to the open meadow at Hammond’s. People were using it to camp in the meadow, light bonfires, and they were leaving a lot of trash at the trailhead entrance to the meadow.

We had seen a presentation at the Montecito Association on a restoration project at Hammond’s Meadow by

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Pat Saley, a good friend to Montecito on many fronts. The meadow is in poor condition, and there is no signage that tells you what you’re looking at: a vacant field, someone’s yard, a County park, etc. An active restoration project could disrupt traffic in the area that’s not treating it with respect.

We also wondered who “owned” the trail and meadow? Who is responsible for maintaining it? There’s a ton of graffiti along the trail, and the brush needs some maintenance. That led us into research on a tangled web of court decisions granting easements for the Surfrider’s Foundation. But responsibility for maintenance is falling to homeowners, County Parks and Recreation, and the Montecito Fire Department, who worked to stop the beach bonfires, along with the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office. Thanks to some great neighbors, who took a lot of time and effort to research ownership, we know Sea Meadow empties the garbage cans, the County “owns” the trail and meadow, but the homeowners whose back fence abuts the trail are responsible for clearing graffiti.

We have a homeless outreach project starting up called Hands Across Montecito because we have a problem, and the only thing I’ve ever seen that works to get people indoors is outreach. It will take a lot of hands reaching across Montecito to be successful. Part of what’s created the staging ground for this problem is years of history of certain arrangements that worked fine at one time, but conditions have changed during the pandemic, so we now have to adapt. Tracking down all the responsible parties and just what they’re responsible for takes a lot of effort. I’m super appreciative of the neighbors adjacent to Hammond’s for stepping up so much to take on responsibility, become incredible neighborhood watchers, and even going out to do outreach with us along the tracks and trails. It truly takes a village.

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Far Flung Travel

by Chuck Graham

Keeping the Wild in the Wilderness

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had to admit it. I was lost and feeling a little meager, the grandeur of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the largest refuge in North America, was swallowing me whole.

Located in northeastern Alaska, the braiding Canning River was a maze of channels that separated me from the rest of my group.

I had opted for paddling a pack raft, leaving the four-man raft for the day to strike out on my own in the chilly 38-degree water, dodging dense gravel bars and spindly willow branches while bouncing through Class IV rapids on the winding, icy river.

At first, I followed my three companions on the second of the three rivers rafted, the Canning, and then I paddled river right. A week prior we began on the Upper Marsh Fork at the base of the north slope of the Brooks Range, trying not to choke

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on relentless swarms of mosquitoes.

Three weeks later we would finish along the breezy, frigid, and desolate shores of the Arctic Ocean.

We reveled in the expanse of Alaskan wilds that has remained protected over the last 67 years but has come under fire once again by politicians, hell-bent on exploiting its precious resources, that being potential oil reserves.

There are two ways to gain access to ANWR, either by backpacking in, or flying in and then paddling its many rivers that braid toward the Arctic Ocean. Wildlife abounds in ANWR from grizzly and polar bears to caribou, Dall sheep, wolves, moose, and musk oxen, the list goes on and on. Unfortunately, this pristine wilderness is being targeted again. In August 2020, the Trump Administration announced that it would open ANWR for oil exploration, creating a bidding war amongst companies seeking riches on ANWR’s sweeping and fragile coastal plain.

The proposed drilling site lies in the middle of the migration route of the 130,000 Porcupine Caribou Herd, denning polar bears, and within vital nesting grounds of thousands of migrating shore and seabirds.

After watching a cantankerous bull moose destroy a grove of willows with its impressively massive antlers on a large gravel bar in the middle of the Canning, I was able to work my way back to the main channel of the broad runnel. I had feared my companions and I would miss each other along the river, further complicating a reunion in the refuge amongst legions of mosquitoes and coastal horizons that appeared infinite.

Fortunately, I had my binoculars with me and even more importantly there was high ground to scan north and south. I sacrificed myself a little. Despite

being barefoot, I scrambled up that slick, muddy bluff with no issues, although squadrons of Alaska’s state bird ravaged my arms and legs. All I had on was a hat, a pair of paddling shorts and a short-sleeve sun shirt, balmy paddling conditions prevailed for several days in the great north. As I scanned, I literally wiped each of my arms off with my hands, hordes of mosquitoes transforming into a black gunk.

“So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In the end I rediscovered my rafting mates floating toward me from upriver. Utter euphoria followed as I slip-sided down the muddy bluff, diving into the frigid river and drowning all the bloodsuckers that clung to me.

One week later, the night before our bush plane rendezvoused with us on the coastal plain, I walked alone on the spongy tundra. It was

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just after midnight as an Arctic fox bounded unimpeded ahead of me. A young caribou calf played peekaboo with me from a knobby knoll, and a red-necked phalarope adorned in its breeding plumage waded in the shallows of a mirror-like pond. The silence was deafening, so much so that it became too quiet in the refuge. Suddenly, something out of the ordinary infiltrated the Alaskan sol-

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itude. And the realization became all too clear. It was the dull thud of oil drills pounding the Alaskan wilderness roughly 30 miles to the west at Prudhoe Bay. For a moment, my heart sank.

Could this be the fate of ANWR? One of the planet’s last great bastions of untouched wilderness rests in the crosshairs again and its future remains uncertain.

•MJ

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Simply a perfect beach for a picnic and a walk.

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by Claudia Schou

FORGING INTO FALL WITH PANDEMIC MEAL PLANNING AND A DOSE OF FRESH AIR

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rocery chains such as Bristol Farms, Lazy Acres, Whole Foods, Gelson’s, and the newly opened Sprouts (on Milpas) are perfecting the art of gourmet pandemic meals to-go. In addition to offering easy online shopping, you’ll find grocers are evolving their catering departments beyond social events to offer ready-to-heat and ready-to-eat pandemic meal options. No one understands this more than Texas native Richard Frame, who has spent nearly two months introducing grocery shoppers to gourmet culinary ideas that fit neatly into plastic containers. As catering director at the new Bristol Farms La Cumbre Plaza Kitchen, Frame creates the concept and menus for nutrient-rich meal combinations. Previously he spent the past two and a half decades as a private chef and restaurateur in Austin, San Antonio, New York, Atlanta, Spain, and Italy.

“Individually packaged meals offer safe, organic, and fresh options that are easy to prepare in a snap,” said Frame.

In these times, most of us aren’t hosting dinner parties or getting together with friends at our favorite restaurants. We’re meeting at the park or on the beach for socially distanced picnics. Montecito Journal recently invited Frame to recommend a few places he likes to escape outside, support local business, and take a break with some soul nourishing comfort food.

FRANCESCHI PARK

Located in The Riviera, this park has an incredible view for a lunch break, with an interesting backstory of the pioneering work undertaken by Italian horticulturalist Dr. Francesco Franceschi.

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SANTA BARBARA HARBOR & CASTILLO POINT

One of my first experiences in the area is still one of my favorites. I like to get a few food items in the harbor and walk out to the beach at Point Castillo with a few chairs. It’s a great spot to check out boats or watch the sun go down over the backdrop of the city.

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SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MISSION PARK

I enjoy spreading out a blanket on the lawn and sharing some brisket at this historic site.

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Bristol Farms house-smoked pulled pork, with coleslaw right on top for a Southern style sandwich

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ONE THOUSAND STEPS AND SHORELINE PARK

I bring chairs to sit above One Thousand Steps or grab a picnic table at Shoreline Park. Order to-go from the Boathouse and you’re done cooking for the evening.

• Crab Louie salad, add crab cakes from The Boathouse at Hendry’s Beach • Ahi club sandwich from the Boathouse at Hendry’s Beach

INSPIRATION POINT

This spot offers incredible views for the adventurous to pack up and take a hike.

• Super deluxe sandwich from Tino’s Italian Deli • Bristol Farms cucumber salad • Bristol Farms cranberry kale salad

TASTING NOTES WITH LIZ HARRISON, GENERAL MANAGER OF LITTLE DOM’S SEAFOOD

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anta Barbarans know late summer well. As the dusty heat ripens the last of the summer fruits, we savor each gushing peach and musky melon. The tangy ripeness of Broc Cellars White Zinfandel (75 percent Zinfandel, 25 percent Trousseau Gris) is a shout-out to the bright sun on your hot patio. The Zinfandel grapes are grown at the tip top of a hill in full sun. They’re picked early, stomped by foot and aged in-skins in stainless steel. The Trousseau Gris is fermented for six months in sandstone jars, basket pressed, then aged for an additional four months in sandstone jars. The unique process creates a truly special blend that knows summer in every cell. The color of the wine gives away the aroma: peachy red and dusty rose. The fruit palate is slightly underripe with notes of melon. The finish is deliciously tangy.

The tangy ripeness of Broc Cellars White Zinfandel is a Berkeley-based Broc Cellars shout-out to the bright sun on your hot patio, says Liz sources fruit from all over Northern Harrison, general manager of Little Dom’s Seafood California. In this blend, the Zinfandel grows at Arrowhead Mountain Vineyard in Sonoma County and the Trousseau Gris grows on the Fanucchi Wood Road Vineyard in the Russian River Valley. Broc Cellars uses spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts and bacteria that live on the grapes that are inherent to winemaking.

For a neat and tidy pairing try Little Dom’s Seafood smoked salmon with burrata, seeded flatbread and crispy capers. For a contrast, try it with our meatball burger with pickled green tomato and fried potatoes; the acidity in the wine will remind you that it is always about the pickles. The bramble-y earthiness of the wine is exposed by the wood-oven roasted carrots with fennel pollen yogurt and dukkah.

For a super easy, no fuss pairing at home, try this dry White Zinfandel with prosciutto, melon, and extra virgin California olive oil. The juicy fruit and pleasant pepper notes beg for spicy food. Bold flavors of homemade carne asada tacos or shrimp fajitas are a perfect complement with the rosé-y blend and the setting sun. Rosé loves the heat and spicy Szechuan noodles (see the Dan Dan Mian recipe in the September/October issue of Cook’s Illustrated) or pad Thai will have you falling for this modern rosé.

•MJ

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Perspectives

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

Rinaldo S. Brutoco is the Founding President and CEO of the Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy and a co-founder of JUST Capital.

He’s a serial entrepreneur, executive, author, radio host, and futurist who’s published on the role of business in relation to pressing moral, environmental, and social concerns for over 35 years

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Exploring the glue that holds our nation together – Part 1

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he Trump Administration is doing everything it can to make it harder for the Post Office to deliver and collect, in a timely manner, the ballots so we can avoid physically going to the polls in COVID times. OK, that sounds pretty ugly. Is there more going on? Is there something more important than that we should be noticing? What are the long-term challenges facing the Post Office? Where did the Post Office come from, and why was it created?

What is the most useful role for it in the future? Should it be required to make a profit (the State Department and the Pentagon do not, nor does any other major government entity)?

What would it take to make it profitable if that is what we require? How can it recreate itself? In an increasingly electronic world, is it a relic of the pre-Internet times or does it have a future we should be embracing and promoting?

These are some of the questions I’ll be exploring in the next several columns as we look at this historically vital and unique government agency.

In this age of instant communication, the internet, 24-hour cable news, and a dizzying array of print and electronic information, it is difficult to comprehend just how vital the creation of the Post Office was to the establishment of the colonies, the development of colonial government, and the nation itself. All they had in the 1600s and 1700s was the ability to send letters and newspapers between the various colonies. It is a little known fact that the “Committees of Correspondence” were created in each colony for the explicit purpose of coordinating colonial communication between the rising group of patriots. They relied totally on the Post Office.

Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first Postmaster General for the American Colonies by the Second Continental Congress on July 26, 1775.

That wasn’t a casual appointment.

Thirty-eight years earlier, Franklin, at the age of 31, was appointed the Postmaster of Philadelphia. From that date until the end of his life, no single American had such a significant impact on the creation and operation of the emerging postal service.

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opened in Massachusetts in 1639.

The initial purpose for the service was to provide a place to collect mail from the immediate area, bundle it for transport to the appropriate European capital, and then in some cases have it sent back to the colonies by the respective country to which it had been sent. Can you imagine the inefficiency of having to mail a letter from Massachusetts to London to, in turn, have it sent to Philadelphia?

Such was the state of mail delivery chaos inflicted on the Colonies which prompted the creation of the colonial postal system Franklin originally built for the crown, until he was fired for his “colonialist sympathies” in 1774.

Two weeks after the battles at Lexington and Concord, Franklin led an urgently convened special committee of the Continental Congress to create the colonies’ own postal system separate from prior crown operations for two reasons: 1) they needed a secure way to get messages between the colonies, particularly between the various branches of the Continental Army, and 2) they wanted to use postal revenues to build a “post roads” system that would efficiently tie the colonies together.

The Post Office was correctly seen as the essential glue that held the colonies together and provided the optimized communication delivery system of its time. It still is that “essential glue” and is still an optimized delivery system for a wide variety of physical mail delivered items.

If you want to learn more of the fascinating history of the Post Office you can grab a copy of the 144-page, delightfully illustrated The United States Postal Service: An American History. It is fascinating, informative, and a great way to better understand the challenges and opportunities our young nation faced in trying to bind together the original 13 colonies which were so distant from one another, and so very different in almost every way.

For this column, we need to focus on why both the Articles of Confederation in 1781 and the United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 8) as finally adopted in 1788 outlined only one government service that

The Billionaires and the Bees

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Meet Chuck Feeney, the billionaire who has given away all his money

f you’re aren’t familiar with Chuck Feeney, he’s an Irish-American who made billions from a duty-free shopping empire. He’s not your typical billionaire. In fact, he has lived a remarkably frugal lifestyle. He was also known for flying only in economy class, even when members of his family and colleagues would travel in business class on the same plane.

Around 38 years ago, Feeney made it his life goal to give away his entire $8 billion fortune while still alive. He has achieved his goal at the age of 89. The Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation he secretly set up in 1982 and to which he transferred almost all of his wealth, has finally run out of money.

After signing papers to dissolve the foundation from his small rented apartment in San Francisco, Feeney had a message for all the billionaires out there: “To those wondering about Giving While Living: try it, you’ll like it.”

Feeney gave away more than $3.7 billion to higher education institutions and $870 million to human rights groups. Apparently, Feeney’s generosity is also what spurred Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to establish the Giving Pledge, under which the world’s richest people commit to giving away at least half their wealth to charity.

Meet Luke and Joshua, the teens saving bees in Virginia With bee populations threatened by habitat loss, Luke Marston and Joshua Nichols, a pair of 14-year-olds in Virginia, decided to take matters into their own hands with their own project to save local bumblebees.

To kick off the project, the teenagers identified two existing public spaces in their town that could be used as a pollinator habitat and worked with the city to get permission to plant there. “Then we realized there are still some gaps between those public sites,” Marston said.

The sites needed to be no more than one-third of a mile apart to ensure that worker bees could bring food back to their queen. That’s what inspired the teens to identify more areas that could serve as pollinator habitats. All in all, they identified a string of 97 sites where flowers and shrubs can be grown to create a Bee Byway, which is what the teens call it.

According to HuffPost, the team has just a few more areas to plant before its 97-site project is complete. The duo’s next goal is to extend the Bee Byway by another 10 miles and create a nonprofit to lobby for more bee-friendly regulations. Nichols and Marston are both shining examples of how serious Generation Z is about fixing the environment.

•MJ the new Congress was instructed to create and maintain. Why was it that important? What can we learn from that history to better understand why the Post Office, all these years later, remains an essential government service?

Prior to the Revolutionary War, the Post Office was viewed as the essential way the colonists could learn what was going on from each other, what they were saying, as well as eavesdrop on local and distant gossip of the day. It was the only communication medium Revolutionary Patriots had.

Once the Revolutionary War began, almost all of the mail the Post Office carried was letters between General George Washington and his military assistants or between military units. The Post Office was the way military messages were transmitted.

Getting ready for that War was why

the Continental Congress took the rapid actions to insure that Franklin would immediately take what he learned from running the crown’s colonial postal service and turn it into the engine required to fire up and maintain the Revolution. That’s how important the Post Office was to the Founding Fathers.

If one of the original primary purposes for the Post Office was to provide an economic way to pay for and maintain a system of roads, is it still able to play that role today?

What useful societal purposes does the Post Office continue to serve? Are there additional critical services the Post Office can provide in the future?

How can it help hold a lid on the prices for expedited delivery otherwise private services like UPS and FedEx would charge? Stay tuned for this series over the next few weeks as we explore these topics.

•MJ 24 September – 1 October 2020

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In Passing

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Craig Steven Palonen

raig would have loved the word polymath, as it describes the Renaissance man that he was.

That was Craig. He was curious and interested in everything and never stopped learning. After graduating from UCSB in 1969 with a degree in biology, and while pursuing a master’s degree in business at Cal State, Long Beach, he discovered his love of construction. He worked in the trades while in college, gained his contractor’s license in 1973, and embarked on a long and successful career in real estate development.

Craig was a creator. He built numerous projects, single family homes, subdivisions, condominiums, office developments and other income-producing projects in Ventura, Carpinteria, Summerland, Montecito, Santa Barbara, Isla Vista, Lompoc, Buellton, Canyon Country, and Grants Pass, Oregon, completing 23 projects in 24 years. But he also tirelessly pursued other interests, continuously taking Spanish lessons, voraciously studying his monthly science magazines, playing his piano at least once a week; he always found time for tennis, racquetball, golf, or skiing, with his best buddies.

Dancing was a pursuit of Craig’s. He and his wife, Marjorie, met 45 years ago at the Yankee Clipper, dancing of course. A few years after they married it was Craig’s idea to take weekly dance lessons to learn how to dance all the smooth and Latin dances. They continued that weekly dinner and dance date night until just a few years ago. As the dance dates waned, he and Marjorie pivoted and started the Parkinson Association of SB weekly dance/exercise class for people dealing with the disease. It started with four couples and expanded to up to 25 participants twice weekly with two teachers. The class has continued on Zoom and a Hispanic class is in the works. Craig’s devotion to the organization led to two terms as president and membership on the board for many years. PASB was a place where he found comfort, support, and friendship in his battle with the disease. His ever-stoic attitude and warm smile inspired those around him.

Craig’s interest in plants and biology began where he was born in Los Angeles, spending his early years in his beloved Grandma Mumu’s garden.

He came back to his biology roots in the form of community involvement as a board member at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and as a docent at Lotusland. He created a magical garden at the family home in Montecito. A wooden bridge stretched over the creek to the garden and featured his whimsical rock cairns and wooden sculptures, carved by Marjorie’s father. He spent hours tending to the tropicals he propagated along the stone pathways, and his experimental coffee orchard. He loved creating room-like areas in the garden, patterned after Madame Ganna Walska’s Lotusland. His belief system seemed to rest in the wonders of biology.

Craig was a guiding light in the eyes of his two sons, Tye and Nicholas, never overtly describing right behavior but practicing it. They saw in him a man of honor, always patient, fair, and incredibly kind. They shared in the experience of mentoring a young boy through the Fighting Back Youth program, as well as hosting a student from Spain one summer. Craig, Tye and Nick were members of the YMCA father-son Indian Guides program where they all met lifelong friends. Nick remembers his dad making time to support every activity he participated in; “I love you to pieces,” Dad would say with a nightly kiss on the forehead. Craig created opportunities for his sons to experience the world of hard work and play by restoring an RV park in Oregon one summer, kayaking on the Rogue River, boating through the San Juan Islands, traveling to St. Petersburg, Russia, Mexico, Hawaii, and many countries in Europe. Craig instilled in his sons the benefits of physical exercise and the joy of sports. Tye and Craig played many rounds of golf together at home and on vacation. Nick took up karate and had a regular Saturday session and lunch at Stacky’s with his dad. The boys saw in Craig the value of true friendship, demonstrated through his solid cohort of friends from early school days, college, and the lifelong friends in the community he loved. He exemplified how to be a father and a husband and modeled the right behavior in the gentle and generous caring of Marjorie’s parents in their later years.

Marjorie’s mom, Terry, called Craig “that Greek God” the first time she met

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him. She was right. He came to dinner to meet the parents – he was tall, tan, and incredibly handsome, with tons of curly, blondish hair and a full beard. He was ambitious and hardworking, just what George and Terry Mullen thought was perfect for their daughter. He was also a gentleman, taking Marjorie to an elegant dinner at Pelicans (now Cava) on their first date. She loved that he said things like, “let’s rendezvous at 7:00.” She was smitten. They married in 1977. He was the real deal, the complete package, adventurous, fun-loving, intelligent, he knew something about everything, the stars, geography, building a house, business, and politics, the botanical names of all the plants in the garden, or how the human body functioned, and he loved to dance. She picked the right door and he said yes. He called her “Babe” the entire 45 years they were together, and she loved that. He was generous, compassionate and she passionately loved him with all her heart. She loved that he was loyal to his friends and family, that he was devoted to his mom and grandmother, and that he had unconditional love for his sons.

Craig Steven Palonen was born in Los Angeles, California on October 26, 1947 and passed away on July 24, 2020. He was preceded in death by his Grandma Mumu, and his parents Genevieve and Amo Palonen, and Marjorie’s parents George and Terry Mullen.

He is survived by his wife Marjorie, son Tye and wife Chanel, son Nicholas and wife Nikki and grandson Phoenix, sister-in-law Kitty Bell and husband Russell, brother-in-law Johnny Mullen and wife Kim, brother-in-law Michael Mullen and wife Pam; nieces Angela Chan and husband Bernard, children Peter and Mady, Nicole and husband Mack, children Bear, Kendry, August, nephews Connor Mullen and wife Ned, Preston Mullen, Landon Mullen, Corbin Mullen and wife Kylie, Tanner Mullen. Also the puppy, Sophie-girl.

The Parkinson Association of Santa Barbara always appreciates donations of any kind. Info: P.O. Box 6254, Santa Barbara, California 93160-6254 •MJ

Peter Winn

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eter James Hamilton Winn, who was born on January 26, 1961 in Dorset, England, passed away on Sunday, August 23, 2020 at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, where he was cared for by the angels in the 1-Compton Pavilion. Peter was diagnosed in early 2020 with multiple myeloma, and staged a courageous battle against this vicious blood cancer.

Having studied arboriculture at Merrist Wood College in Guildford, England, Peter was recruited by Griffin Tree and Landscape in 1983 to work in Santa Barbara. Falling in love with Santa Barbara and meeting his eventual wife, Jan, Peter decided to stay. For more than 30 years, Peter owned and managed Westree Arborist Services in Santa Barbara. In 1992 Peter and Jan welcomed their only daughter Allison into the world. Describing Peter as gregarious would be an understatement. Always a smile, always a laugh or witty joke, always there to lend a hand or loan a friend something from his sporting-goods garage. Peter was an avid motorcycle rider and kept fit through paddle boarding and kick-boxing. Since 2008, Peter participated in twelve different Friendship Paddle events to support an honoree experiencing a life-threatening disease. He is the honoree in September of this year.

The true loves of his life were his wife Jan and daughter Ally, and they called Carpinteria home. Peter lived a big life with his family, traveling often and never taking for granted any experience he was offered. Peter is preceded in death by his mother and father, Mary and Eric Winn, and brother, Michael Winn. He is survived by his wife Janice and daughter Allison, brothers David and Robin Winn (Angelika Pelzer).

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Ridley-Tree Cancer Center.

A Celebration of Life will be planned for spring, 2021.

•MJ

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Letters (Continued from page 37) for buildings and projects that we had no part in determining the need for.

This is the opposite of transparency and inclusion.

The District doesn’t want the residents involved in planning and decision-making – they only want us to donate money or vote to tax ourselves.

I’m not confident that the bond money will be spent appropriately or responsibly.

The District has been deficit spending for many years, relying on fundraising and grants to make up the difference. How is it that this well-funded (through taxes) District with only 177 students hasn’t figured out how to live within its means?

A Board member recently stated that “they have compiled a list of projects that need to be completed, however, seeing as how the bond is yet to pass, there currently are not plans, bids, or proposals.” How in the world did the District come up with the $7.8 million figure?

A teacher on staff who teaches at most 12 hours per week (compared to about 24 hours per week for a regular classroom teacher) is paid a full-time salary plus overtime and benefits (for a total of over $136,000 in 2018).

The two top administrators are paid about 9% of the budget of $4.3 million (about $400,000 altogether), and the entire administrative team costs about 17% of the budget. The national aver-

Leanna D’Andrea Merritt

November 17, 1949 – September 11, 2020

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eanna (D’Andrea) Merritt passed away peacefully at Serenity House on September 11, 2020. Leanna was born in Santa Barbara on November 17, 1949 to parents Louise and Graciano D’Andrea.

She attended Franklin Elementary, Cold Spring School, Santa Barbara Junior High, and Santa Barbara High School, graduating the latter in the class of 1967. As a child and teenager she was surrounded by many close friends and cousins, most of whom still live in Santa Barbara today.

Leanna spent her younger days raising her three beloved children: Jim, Jason, and Lanette, and worked hard giving them a happy and healthy childhood in Santa Barbara. She began her long insurance career with Dean and Estabrook and continued her tenure with agencies that combined forces including MFC&V, Manchester, DWP and Brown & Brown Insurance. Leanna was admired as an empathetic and supportive leader, and she was highly regarded among her colleagues before her retirement in 2019. When she wasn’t working, she enjoyed time with her book club and taking Pilates classes. She was also a proud member of the Italian Boot Club in Santa Barbara, and was elected to the Board in 2019.

Leanna married Laurence Merritt on February 24, 1996 in Maui. They shared a joy of travel, taking many trips to Hawaii, Europe, and an unforgettable cruise to Alaska over the course of their marriage.

Leanna was an independent, strong, beautiful, intelligent, and vibrant person who was known for her caring nature and infectious laugh. What she loved most was spending time with her husband, children, and grandchildren, and she was looking forward to more family time, travel, and time at the beach in her retirement.

She is survived by her mother Louise D’Andrea, brother Gary D’Andrea (Theresa), aunt Catherine Romero, husband Larry Merritt, sons Jim Herrick and Jason Herrick (Kelly), daughter Lanette Oviedo (Rosendo), niece Nicole D’Andrea, and beloved grandchildren Christian Oviedo, and Jocelyn, Sophia, Spencer, and Tristan Herrick, as well as a granddaughter, Peyton Herrick, on the way. She had many cousins and members of her extended family whom she remained close to, and many friends that were in her life since childhood. Our family’s loss is immeasurable.

We will miss her incredible sense of humor, her infectious laugh, and her ability to see the silver lining in every situation.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Leanna’s name to Ridley Tree Cancer Center. A celebration of life is being planned at the Santa Barbara Mission in October.

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age for administrative costs is 4.5% of the budget.

The previous Business Manager was paid a base salary of $88,000 per year for a 100% position. The current CBO/General Counsel is paid a base salary of $144,000 for a 60% position. Assuming 2/3 of his time is for CBO duties means that the District is paying $95,040 per year for a 40% CBO position (or $237,000 per year if it were full-time). Let’s also talk about the conflict of interest inherent in having any individual serve as both the CBO and General Counsel.

The District has long exhibited a lack of transparency and accountability.

This is nothing new and has become engrained in the District’s culture.

My experience on the Board was that thoughtful discussions and public consensus-building during Board meetings are virtually non-existent.

Decisions about issues are being made outside of the public’s view and unanimous votes during Board meetings are expected. Asking questions is not only considered “disrespectful,” but actively discouraged and shut down.

For these reasons, I have no confidence in the success of a bond mea-

sure oversight committee.

Taxpayers and students deserve responsible school spending.

There is no doubt in my mind that poor planning, questionable financial decisions, and lack of attention on the part of previous Governing Boards and Administrations have allowed the facilities and the finances to reach their present state.

Existing bonds that were meant to address many of the projects on the current bond measure list will not be paid off until 2039. The proposed bond won’t be paid off until at least 2052.

It is astounding to me that a District with so much wealth and privilege is asking for even more – in the middle of a pandemic and economic catastrophe, no less.

Yes, of course I want the students and staff of Cold Spring School to have clean, safe, modern facilities in which to work and learn. I just do not trust the current Cold Spring School leadership with $7.8 million.

That’s why I will VOTE NO on L2020 and I recommend that the other residents of the district VOTE NO on L2020, too.

For more information, see www.

OurStudentsDeserveBetter.com.

Sincerely, Katherine Davidson •MJ

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PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara

NOTICE OF APPLICATION BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO: (1) (2)

WAIVE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON A COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT THAT MAY BE APPEALED TO THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION AND APPROVE, CONDITIONALLY APPROVE, OR DENY THE COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT This may affect your property. Please read.

Notice is hereby given that an application for the project described below has been submitted to the Santa Barbara County Planning and Development Department. This project requires the approval and issuance of a Coastal Development Permit by the Planning and Development Department.

The development requested by this application is subject to appeal to the California Coastal Commission following final action by Santa Barbara County and therefore a public hearing on the application is normally required prior to any action to approve, conditionally approve or deny the application. However, in compliance with California Coastal Act Section 30624.9, the Director has determined that this project qualifies as minor development and therefore intends to waive the public hearing requirement unless a written request for such hearing is submitted by an interested party to the Planning and Development Department within the 15 working days following the Date of Notice listed below. All requests for a hearing must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Request for Hearing Expiration Date listed below, to Delaney Roney at Planning and Development, 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara 93101-2058, by email at droney@co.santa-barbara.ca.us, or by fax at (805) 568-2030. If a public hearing is requested, notice of such a hearing will be provided.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, October 6, 2020, during the afternoon session of the meeting, which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The hearing is to consider the appeal filed by Ms. Blanca Benedict of the Parks and Recreation Commission’s decision to deny the removal of one Eucalyptus nicholii, Nichol’s Willowleafed Peppermint Tree, located in the parkway at 2514 Castillo Street.

If you challenge the Council's action on the appeal of the Parks and Recreation Commission’s decision in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the public hearing.

WARNING: Failure by a person to request a public hearing may result in the loss of the person’s ability to appeal any action taken by Santa Barbara County on this Coastal Development Permit to the Montecito Planning Commission or Board of Supervisors and ultimately the California Coastal Commission.

You are invited to attend this public hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office by sending them electronically to Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

In order to promote social distancing and prioritize the public’s health and well-being, the City Council currently holds all meetings electronically. As a public health and safety precaution, the Council Chambers will not be open to the general public. Councilmembers and the public may participate electronically.

If a request for public hearing is not received by 5:00 p.m. on the Request for Hearing Expiration Date listed below, then the Planning and Development Department will act to approve, approve with conditions, or deny the request for a Coastal Development Permit. At this time it is not known when this action may occur; however, this may be the only notice you receive for this project. To receive additional information regarding this project, including the date the Coastal Development Permit is approved, and/or to view the application and plans, or to provide comments on the project, please contact Delaney Roney at Planning and Development, 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara 93101-2058, or by email at droney@co.santa-barbara.ca.us, or by phone at (805) 568-2033.

On Thursday, October 1, 2020, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, October 6, 2020, including the public hearing to consider this appeal, will be available online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CAP. The Agenda includes instructions for participation in the meeting. If you wish to participate in the public hearing, please follow the instructions on the posted Agenda.

PROPOSAL: WOLF RESIDENTIAL ADDITIONS PROJECT ADDRESS: 57 HUMPHREY RD, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108 1st SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICT

(SEAL) /s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager September 17, 2020

THIS PROJECT IS LOCATED IN THE COASTAL ZONE DATE OF NOTICE: 9/23/2020 REQUEST FOR HEARING EXPIRATION DATE: 10/14/2020 PERMIT NUMBER: 20CDH-00000-00002 APPLICATION FILED: 12/20/2019 ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO.: 009-331-024 ZONING: 15-R-1 PROJECT AREA: 0.16 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Applicant: Jarrett Gorin/Sarah Bronstad Proposed Project: The project is for a Costal Development Permit (with Hearing) to legalize as-built additions to the existing single-family residence.

Changes to the single-family residence include: 93 square feet (gross) of additions (expansion of laundry room, new window seat, new utility closet, and new bedroom closet), and added skylights. Changes to the exterior of the residence include the following as-built features: 504 square feet of decking (under 30 inches in height), trellis, spa, and an air-conditioning unit. No grading is proposed and no trees are proposed for removal. The parcel will be served by the Montecito Water District, the Montecito Sanitary District, and the Montecito Fire Protection District. Access will continue to be provided off of Humphrey Road. The property is a 0.16-acre parcel zoned 15-R-1 and shown as Assessor’s Parcel Number 009-331-024m located at 57 Humphrey Road in the Montecito Community Plan Area, First Supervisorial District.

APPEALS: The decision of the Director of the Planning and Development Department to approve, conditionally approve, or deny this Coastal Development Permit 20CDH-00000-00002 may be appealed to the Montecito Planning Commission by the applicant or an aggrieved person. The written appeal must be filed within the 10 calendar days following the date that the Director takes action on this Coastal Development Permit. To qualify as an "aggrieved person" the appellant must have, in person or through a representative, informed the Planning and Development Department by appropriate means prior to the decision on the Coastal Development Permit of the nature of their concerns, or, for good cause, was unable to do so.

Written appeals must be filed with the Planning and Development Department at either 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, 93101, or 624 West Foster Road, Suite C, Santa Maria, 93455, by 5:00 p.m. within the timeframe identified above. In the event that the last day for filing an appeal falls on a non-business day of the County, the appeal may be timely filed on the next business day.

This Coastal Development Permit may be appealed to the California Coastal Commission after an appellant has exhausted all local appeals, therefore a fee is not required to file an appeal.

For additional information regarding the appeal process, contact Delaney Roney. The application required to file an appeal may be viewed at or downloaded from: http://www.countyofsb.org/uploadedFiles/plndev/Content/Permitting/AppealSubReqAPP.pdf ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Information about this project review process may also be viewed at: http://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/permitting/planningprocess.sbc Board of Architectural Review agendas may be viewed online at: http://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/home.sbc Published September 23, 2020 Montecito Journal

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Published September 23, 2020 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: South Coast Fine Arts Conservation Center, 1807 Cleveland Ave., Santa Barbara, CA, 93103. Patty West, 1807 Cleveland Ave., Santa Barbara, CA, 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 18, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2020-0002393.

Published September 23, 30, October 7, 14, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bree’Osh, 1150 Coast Village Road Suite

E, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Artisan Sourdough Bakers, 27 West Anapamu Street, Suite 101, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 16, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2020-0002374.

Published September 23, 30, October 7, 14, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mission Terrace Convalescent Hospital, 623 W. Junipero Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

Cliff View Terrace, INC., 1020 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.

This statement was filed

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO: WAIVE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON A COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT THAT MAY BE APPEALED TO THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION AND (2) APPROVE, CONDITIONALLY APPROVE, OR DENY THE COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT (1)

This may affect your property. Please read.

Notice is hereby given that an application for the project described below has been submitted to the Santa Barbara County Planning and Development Department. This project requires the approval and issuance of a Coastal Development Permit by the Planning and Development Department.

The development requested by this application is subject to appeal to the California Coastal Commission following final action by Santa Barbara County and therefore a public hearing on the application is normally required prior to any action to approve, conditionally approve or deny the application. However, in compliance with California Coastal Act Section 30624.9, the Director has determined that this project qualifies as minor development and therefore intends to waive the public hearing requirement unless a written request for such hearing is submitted by an interested party to the Planning and Development Department within the 15 working days following the Date of Notice listed below. All requests for a hearing must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Request for Hearing Expiration Date listed below, to Delaney Roney at Planning and Development, 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara 93101-2058, by email at droney@co.santa-barbara.ca.us, or by fax at (805) 568-2030. If a public hearing is requested, notice of such a hearing will be provided.

WARNING: Failure by a person to request a public hearing may result in the loss of the person’s ability to appeal any action taken by Santa Barbara County on this Coastal Development Permit to the Montecito Planning Commission or Board of Supervisors and ultimately the California Coastal Commission.

If a request for public hearing is not received by 5:00 p.m. on the Request for Hearing Expiration Date listed below, then the Planning and Development Department will act to approve, approve with conditions, or deny the request for a Coastal Development Permit. At this time it is not known when this action may occur; however, this may be the only notice you receive for this project. To receive additional information regarding this project, including the date the Coastal Development Permit is approved, and/or to view the application and plans, or to provide comments on the project, please contact Delaney Roney at Planning and Development, 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara 93101-2058, or by email at droney@co.santa-barbara.ca.us, or by phone at (805) 568-2033.

PROPOSAL: GRUNING RESIDENTIAL ADDITIONS PROJECT ADDRESS: 59 HUMPHREY RD, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108 1st SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICT THIS PROJECT IS LOCATED IN THE COASTAL ZONE DATE OF NOTICE: 9/23/2020 REQUEST FOR HEARING EXPIRATION DATE: 10/14/2020 PERMIT NUMBER: 20CDH-00000-00001 ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO.: 009-331-023 ZONING: 15-R-1 PROJECT AREA: 0.18 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Applicant: Jarrett Gorin/Sarah Bronstad Proposed Project:

APPLICATION FILED: 12/20/2019

The project is for a Coastal Development Permit (with Hearing) to legalize as-built additions to the existing duplex and to remove elements that cannot be permitted. Changes to the structure include: enclosure of an 80 square foot covered porch of Unit B, a kitchen expansion totaling 87 square feet at the east elevation of Unit A, a 13 square foot closet addition on the west elevation of Unit A, a 10 square foot water heater closet addition on the west elevation of Unit A, new skylights, and the replacement of windows and doors. On the exterior of the structure, a 19 square foot porch on the east elevation of Unit A, and washer and dryer covers on the rear of both units, are proposed to be permitted as-built. The following elements are proposed to be removed or demolished: an outdoor fireplace, 320 square feet of decking on the west elevation of Unit A, a wood handrail with non-native vine growing on it, and all but 60 square feet of an existing outdoor shed. Permeable material such as pea gravel or pavers on grade will be installed on the west side of Unit A, following removal of the deck. The non-native vine to be removed shall be replaced with a locally occurring native vine species. No grading is proposed and no trees are proposed for removal. The parcel will be served by the Montecito Water District, the Montecito Sanitary District, and the Montecito Fire Protection District. Access will continue to be provided off of Humphrey Road. The property is a 0.18-acre parcel zoned 15-R-1 and shown as Assessor’s Parcel Number 009-331-023, located at 59 Humphrey road in the Montecito Community Plan Area, First Supervisorial District.

APPEALS: The decision of the Director of the Planning and Development Department to approve, conditionally approve, or deny this Coastal Development Permit 20CDH-00000-00001 may be appealed to the Montecito Planning Commission by the applicant or an aggrieved person. The written appeal must be filed within the 10 calendar days following the date that the Director takes action on this Coastal Development Permit. To qualify as an "aggrieved person" the appellant must have, in person or through a representative, informed the Planning and Development Department by appropriate means prior to the decision on the Coastal Development Permit of the nature of their concerns, or, for good cause, was unable to do so.

Written appeals must be filed with the Planning and Development Department at either 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, 93101, or 624 West Foster Road, Suite C, Santa Maria, 93455, by 5:00 p.m. within the timeframe identified above. In the event that the last day for filing an appeal falls on a non-business day of the County, the appeal may be timely filed on the next business day.

This Coastal Development Permit may be appealed to the California Coastal Commission after an appellant has exhausted all local appeals, therefore a fee is not required to file an appeal.

For additional information regarding the appeal process, contact Delaney Roney. The application required to file an appeal may be viewed at or downloaded from: http://www.countyofsb.org/uploadedFiles/plndev/Content/Permitting/AppealSubReqAPP.pdf ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Information about this project review process may also be viewed at: http://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/permitting/planningprocess.sbc Board of Architectural Review agendas may be viewed online at: http://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/home.sbc Published September 23, 2020 Montecito Journal

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Published 9/23/2020 NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF THE DRAFT NEGATIVE DECLARATION FOR THE PROPOSED Montecito Emergency Debris Flow Mitigation Project and Case No.19DVP-00000-00036 Project Description:

The Partnership for Resilient Communities proposes continued monitoring and as needed maintenance of the previously installed six debris nets for an additional 3 years, for a cumulative total of 5 years of maintenance activities

Project Location: The project site is located in the Cold Spring, Buena Vista and San Ysidro Canyons, commonly known as 007-020-003, 151-180-019 (San Ysidro); 007-020-009 (Buena Vista) and 011-010-027, 011-010-028 (Cold Spring), in the Montecito area, 1st Supervisorial District.

Public Comment: The County of Santa Barbara Planning and Development Department (P&D) is soliciting comments on the adequacy and completeness of 20NGD-00000-00008. You may comment by submitting written or oral comments to the project planner identified below prior to the close of public comment on October 23 at 5:00 p.m. Due to the non-complex nature of the project, a separate environmental hearing will not be held.

Project Details: Six existing Geobrugg flexible debris nets were installed - under an Emergency Permit and subsequent Development Plan - in Cold Springs Canyon, Buena Vista Canyon, and San Ysidro Canyon following a major debris flow in early 2018. The Emergency Permit authorized installation, 1 year of monitoring and maintenance, as well as subsequent removal of the debris nets after 1 year.

The subsequent Development Plan authorized an additional year of monitoring and maintenance. The previously issued Emergency Permit and Development Plan set forth detailed monitoring and maintenance requirements for removal of accumulated debris necessary to maintain the low-flow stream channel, while protecting special-status species and sensitive habitats. In order to provide additional time for the recovery of the watershed affected by the Thomas Fire, the Applicant has submitted a new Development Plan application proposing continued monitoring and maintenance of the six debris nets, as needed, for an additional 3 years, for a cumulative total of 5 years of maintenance activities.

Environmental Review Findings: P&D has prepared a Draft Negative Declaration (ND) (20NGD-00000-00008) pursuant to Section 15073 of the State Guidelines for the Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the County of Santa Barbara Guidelines for the Implementation of CEQA. P&D’s issuance of a ND affirms our opinion that any significant adverse impacts associated with the proposed project may be reduced to a less than significant level with the adoption of mitigation measures and that the project does not require the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The ND prepared for the project identifies and discusses potential impacts, mitigation measures, residual impacts and monitoring requirements for identified subject areas. Significant but mitigable effects on the environment are anticipated in the following areas: Biological Resources Cultural Resources Fire Protection Recreation If the project description changes, P&D will require a reevaluation to consider the changes. This reevaluation will be subject to all regular fees and conditions. If you challenge this environmental document in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues raised by you or others in written correspondence or in hearings on the proposed project.

Document Availability: If a copy of the draft ND is not attached, the draft ND may be obtained and all documents incorporated by reference in the ND may be reviewed at P&D offices located at 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara and on the P&D website at [INSERT website address/link]. Draft documents are also available for review at the [IDENTIFY libraries and addresses].

How to Comment: Please provide comments to the project planner, Ciara Ristig, at cristig@countyofsb.org or 805-568-2077, prior to the close of public comment on October 23 at 5:00 p.m. Please limit comments to environmental issues such as traffic, biology, noise, etc. You will receive notice of the dates of future public hearings to consider project approval or denial. The project is scheduled to be heard at the Montecito Planning Commission on November 18, 2020.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in the hearing, please contact Hearing Support Staff (805) 568-2000. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements.

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Notice Inviting Bids BID NO. 5863 MACKENZIE PARK RESTROOM REMODEL 1.

Bid Submission.

The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its MacKenzie Park Restroom Remodel (“Project”), by or before October 14, 2020, at 3:00 p.m. through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids™ portal in order to submit a Bid Proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that their Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received

by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids so plan accordingly. The receiving time at on PlanetBids’ server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids.

Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal.

Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

2.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at MacKenzie Park, 3111 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA and is described as follows: Remodel the restroom and concession stand facility per attached Plans and Specifications.

2.2 Time for Completion. The Project must be completed within 60 calendar days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about mid-October 2020 but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.

2.3 Estimate. The estimate for this Project is $300,000.00 2.4 Bidders’ Conference. A pre-bid meeting will not be held. However, the building will be open and available for inspection by prospective bidders from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on September 30, 2020. Questions or requests for clarifications regarding the Project may be submitted through the PlanetBids Q&A tab until 3:00 p.m. October 9, 2020.

3.

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): B General Building 3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 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?CompanyID=29959

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 issues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other submittals required by the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award.

6.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., 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 one-half.

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

7.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide separate performance and payment bonds for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount, as further specified in the Contract Documents.

8.

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

9.

Subcontractor List. Each subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a complete Subcontractor List WITH ITS Bid Proposal through the PlanetBids portal. Failure to do will result in rejection of your bid. The Subcontractors List shall include the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license 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 onehalf of 1% of the bid price.

10.

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

11.

Retention Percentage. The percentage of retention that will be withheld from progress payments is five (5) percent.

By: _______________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

Date: ________________

Publication Date: 9/23/2020 Montecito Journal

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with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 11, 2020.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2020-0002330.

Published September 16, 23, 30, October 7, 2020.

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: Drain Masters, 5983 Cuesta Verde, Goleta, CA 93117. Christopher J Dorn, 5983 Cuesta Verde, Goleta, CA 93117.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 31, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2020-0002194.

Published September 9, 16, 23, 30, 2020.

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: Ninaya’s Healing Journeys, 604 Rockwood Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Nancy Strandberg, 604 Rockwood Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 2, 2020.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20200002228. Published September 9, 16, 23, 30, 2020.

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: Santa Barbara Talks with Josh Molina, 6827 Silkberry Ln, Goleta, CA 93117-5546. Jagan Media, 6827 Silkberry Ln, Goleta, CA 93117-5546. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 13, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20200002043. Published September 2, 9, 16, 23, 2020.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 20CV02573. To all interested parties: Petitioner Tao Chadwick Gia Doan filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Chadwick Gia Doan. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed September 10, 2020 by Elizabeth Spann. Hearing date: October 27, 2020 at 9:30 am in Dept. 3, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/7

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