After the Deluge

The Giving List 14-21 January 2021 Vol 27 Issue 3

SERVING MONTECITO AND SUMMERLAND

A spotlight on MLKCommitteeSB, whose mission is to perpetuate Martin Luther King’s speeches and legacy, p. 5

AFTER THE DELUGE THREE YEARS AFTER MONTECITO’S DEVASTATING DEBRIS FLOWS, SOME MEMORIES JUST WON’T FADE AWAY (STORY BEGINS ON PAGE 6)

A deGruy of Influence

Prolific Montecito underwater filmmaker Mike deGruy’s world comes back to life, p. 14

One Fortunate Feline

Three years after Montecito’s deadly debris flows, a cat name Patches is reunited with its owner, p. 12

The 1/9 Commemoration

A night of love and light, in the darkness – a collective hug for Montecito to remember, p. 10

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5 The Giving List MLKCommitteeSB’s mission is to perpetuate Martin Luther King’s speeches and legacy 6 On the Record Three years after the debris flow, Hot Springs residents still seek closure, while a cat presumed to have died in the disaster was finally reunited with its owner 8 Letters to the Editor A collection of communications from readers Lou Cannon, Elizabeth Araluce Mason, and Cheryl Banigan 10 Montecito on the Move Third Annual 1/9 Commemoration, a night of love and light, in the darkness – a collective hug for Montecito to remember 14 On Entertainment The enduring legacy of filmmaker Mike deGruy; SBIFF scores a pair; talking screenwriting at Pollock; Jake the ukulele master 16 Village Beat Jeannine’s Bakery closes downtown; local ADU ordinances updated; homeless camp on beach cleared 18 Muller Music Meta Crossword Puzzle Tide Guide 20 Montecito Miscellany Brad Paisley to the rescue; Valley Heart Ranch for sale; Condor Express makeover; mega TV producer Don Bellisario buys new home; much more 22 Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco Escaping minority rule: is insurrection the final straw?

The Optimist Daily Indian startup turns black carbon into eco-friendly tiles and an aquatic robot removes garbage from local waterways 23 Senior Portrait Zach Rosen kicks off his new column with a profile on Peter van Duinwyk, a counterintelligence officer and school teacher for over 30 years 25 The Bloomin’ Times Winter is the season to quietly take stock of your garden’s strengths and weaknesses, writes Alida Aldrich 31 Nosh Town Renowned chef Nancy Silverton on being a business owner and staying creative at “San Quarantine” 32 Brilliant Thoughts Ashleigh Brilliant on the dazzling and archaic ways in which we count the years 35 Dear Montecito Exams are finished. School is out. What’s a girl to do? Well, visit a Scottish yurt in the pouring rain, of course.

Robert’s Big Questions Are you willing to change your mind about anything? Robert asks.

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Philanthropy Spotlight

hen I moved to Santa Barbara in 1993, I was struck not only by the area’s beauty – the opportunity to play volleyball daily on pristine East Beach, the nearby mountains – but also by the rich cultural opportunities. I was mesmerized by the extensive listings in what was then called SBCC Adult Ed (now known as the School of Extended Learning) and, as a longtime arts writer and lover, I was giddy about the music, theater, and film scene that seemed far more expansive than one would expect in an area with such a comparatively small population.

Then I became aware of the nonprofit world. It seemed every other person I met had at least once worked for a local nonprofit, and it was clearly the generosity of the decidedly philanthropic folk who live here that helped make the arts scene so rich and diverse.

A few years ago, I began augmenting my then 15-plus years of entertainment coverage in the Montecito Journal with a column for the paper called “Benefit of the Week.” And now, I am happy to announce my new assignment as the author of the weekly Giving List column, in conjunction with the inaugural edition of the annual Giving List book. With this weekly column I will have the privilege of connecting with the people at the organizations who are making such a difference in our community and write about their ongoing work that goes far beyond the impact of any single fundraising event.

I’m not sure that writing about Santa Barbara nonprofits qualifies for what Montecito Journal Media Group CEO Gwyn Lurie called “engaging in charitable deeds” in her introductory essay, but I can attest that even the smallest contribution has already affected my own personal happiness, along with a renewed sense of inspiration that followed my recent interview with Ernesto Paredes, the Executive Director of Easy Lift, to kick off the column last week.

I am excited about diving in with 50 more of our finest nonprofits over the coming year and doing my best to bring their inspiring stories to our readers and potential contributors. I feel honored to be able to talk with the people who are doing their part to make the community and the world a better place, especially during our troubled times. I hope you will enjoy the column as much as I imagine I’ll enjoy writing it.

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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee of Santa Barbara chose the theme for its 14th annual observance of the holiday celebrating the birthday of the slain civil rights leader back in early April. That was just a couple of weeks after the COVID-19 pandemic brought California’s first lockdown, more than a month before George Floyd’s killing led to the Black Lives Matter marches and racial justice protests of spring and summer, several months before it became clear that Blacks and other racial minorities were among the hardest hit populations affected by the continuing coronavirus crisis, and most assuredly before last week’s shocking insurrection at the U.S. Capitol received a far different The mission of MLKCommitteeSB, says president E response than the BLM gatherings had. onja Brown, is to perpetuate Martin Luther King’s Still, King’s observation that “The speeches and legacy ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy” sure does seem prescient for last year’s milestone events.

“More than ever Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words are as prophetic now as they were more than fifty years ago when he said (them),” says E onja Brown, president of the committee, noting that the mostly young people protesting the death of an unarmed man whose life was brutally taken by those sworn to defend us faced plenty of their own challenges.

“Despite being in the midst of a pandemic, [so many people participated in] one of the longest and most persistent protests ever illustrated the demand for

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to thrive as a source of community togetherness. The nonprofit organization One805 purchased three mobile command units in order to immediately support emergency workers, an investment that will help prepare for future emergencies. The Montecito Trails Foundation both restored and expanded our local front-country and community trail network. And the Partnership for Resilient Communities constructed several Swiss-made steel nets in the canyons above town that stand ready for the next time the forces of nature combine to spill forth a deadly downhill landslide of liquid, wood, and rock.

by Nicholas Schou

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Ground Zero

Three years after Montecito’s devastating debris flows, some memories just won’t fade away

lthough the mud is gone, and most of the rocks have been either carted away or stacked in piles nearby, the intersection of Hot Springs Road and Olive Mill Road still bears witness to the work that remains to be done before all the visible scars are wiped away from the January 9, 2018 debris flows that swept downhill from the mountains all the way to the sea. First of all, there’s the bridge, which instead of concrete rails still has freeway dividers on either side to prevent cars or people from falling off. The asphalt along the road near the bridge is still scored with deep grooves from either the boulders that poured onto the street or the teeth of the earth-moving equipment that eventually removed them.

Montecito has made great strides in recovering from the natural disaster.

Although some damaged or destroyed homes remain, mired in myriad lawsuits and insurance settlements, many more have been rebuilt. Roads that used to be closed to through traffic have reopened, and bridges that were swept away have been replaced.

In the days after the tragedy, groups like the Bucket Brigade drew volunteers together to literally help residents dig out of the mud and have continued

Last week, just a few days before the third anniversary of the event, Andrew Schmoller sent a frustrated letter, a copy of which he shared with the Montecito Journal, to First District Supervisor Das Williams asking why the bridge still has yet to be fixed. “Maybe with all the things going on people might have forgotten about it, but it’s still right here for everybody to see,” he said on a recent afternoon, pointing at the bridge as he hiked up the creek, which is still decorated with random flotsam that continues to appear as stark reminders of the tragedy.

Schmoller points at somebody’s zip-up windbreaker and then a stray rubber tire from either a child’s toy or a landscaper’s wheelbarrow both of which could be seen half buried in the soil. “Whenever it rains, the earth pushes this stuff up,” Schmoller said, pointing at the creek-side debris on display in the shadow of the bridge. “This is what we find on a daily basis: dolls, clothes, pieces of glass, all kinds of things.”

On the morning of the disaster, Schmoller recalled, he awoke at about 3:30 am amid a violent downpour. “I got out of bed and went outside,” he said. “And then it was over as soon as it started. I went back to bed and put my head down and maybe five minutes later there were flashes of light and I heard a ‘boom, boom, boom’ and could hear the whole creek coming down and I knew something was very, very wrong.”

Schmoller later realized the sounds were of his neighbor’s house and a gas line exploding and that the light flashes were from electrical transformers igniting. He ran back inside his house and gathered his family together upstairs. “I went outside on my balcony, and I could hear it coming,” he said. “It sounded like a massive rush of water. The house was shaking, and it went from a freight train sound to the sound of trees just snapping apart in an avalanche.”

Next door, Lalo Barajas and his partner, Peter Fleuret, were also both awakened by the rainfall. While Barajas remained in bed, Fleuret got up to answer the telephone. The call was from friend of theirs who lived uphill and who tried to warn them that something terrible was coming their way. “There goes the trampoline,” the man observed. “You need to be ready.”

Fleuret hung up the phone and called Barajas over to the window. “I could see the orange glow of fire and heard ‘pop, pop, pop’ and the snapping of the trees,” he said. Barajas grabbed his clothes and was able to put on a pair of shorts. “I grabbed the keys and ran to the door and was just about to open it when it burst open.”

Mud began to pour into the house as Barajas and Fleuret sought to find another way out, but to no avail. “The whole house was just lifted off its foundation,” he said. What happened next was initially a blur to him, but three years after the fact, Barajas says, he finally gained a clearer picture in his mind of his last

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ike most Americans, I was distressed last week when rioters at the instigation of Donald Trump invaded and trashed the Capitol. It was even more upsetting for my wife, Mary, who worked twelve years on Capitol Hill. I covered Congress for Ridder Publications before going to The Washington Post and have been in the Capitol many times. What happened there was an affront to every American.

But something useful happened as a result of this terrible event, which was triggered by Trump’s speech to a D.C. rally Wednesday. You’ll recall that Trump urged his supporters to go to the Capitol and said he would be there with them. (Instead, he cowardly returned to the White House to watch on television what he had wrought.) The invasion of the Capitol did for many prominent Republicans, including Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Lindsay Graham, what no previous Trump provocations had been able to accomplish, turning them against the president. Trump still has millions of followers, but his incitement of the mob removed whatever luster remained on his presidency. He’s never again going to be the Republican nominee and probably will cease to be a Republican kingmaker.

By barring him from social media, Twitter, and Facebook delivered the final blows. Trump is a master of the Twitter form. No Twitter, no Trump.

Trump also deserves responsibility (or credit, depending on one’s view) for the outcome of the Senate runoffs in Georgia. The GOP nominees cast themselves as watchdogs of a Biden presidency that Trump was trying to prevent from coming into being. It was a mixed message.

As President-elect Biden has observed, Trump’s baseless lying about the election also served the useful purpose of demonstrating the independence of the judiciary. Trump and his minions filed more than 60 lawsuits attempting to set aside the election results in half a dozen states. All were dismissed for lack of evidence. One of the most powerful rebukes was delivered by a federal judge whom Trump had appointed.

I have no idea what happens going forward. I’m a political independent who voted for Biden and Kamala Harris, and it seems to me as if they’ve struck a positive tone during one of the most difficult political interregnums in history.

All of us – Democrats, Republicans, and Independents – have a stake in reducing the fiercely partisan rhetoric that is tearing our country apart. It’s

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not going to be easy to do after the last four years, but I hope that some of the Republican leaders in Washington and elsewhere join Biden in doing it.

Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, not for the first time, is showing the way.

There are genuine and important policy differences in our country. They deserve to be contested on their merits, not on demonizing those who do not agree with us.

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Take This Seriously

Although I acknowledge the justifiable angst of Montecito’s restaurateurs regarding statewide restrictions on outdoor dining and the deleterious impact on revenues and employees, I am also concerned about some sentiments expressed in reference to the coronavirus in a recent publication.

While I am not doubtful that every precaution is being taken to protect the lives of patrons while dining and that there has been no concrete evidence to correlate outdoor consumption of food with actual contraction of the virus, I nonetheless wonder where one writer who commented that 99 percent of the people suffering from the virus avert death, has obtained that statistic.

In reality, it could in all likelihood be higher, especially, when all is said and done. Of more concern, however, is increasing research that a significant amount of COVID sufferers have not fully recovered. Incidents to the contrary are staggering: protracted fatigue and malaise and damage to vital bodily organs. Whether these effects abate completely over time, remains to be seen. What is apparent, however, is that this is not a disease to be toyed with or perceived in a frivolous manner. Knowing this, it is truly incumbent for all of us to take this pandemic seriously and to cooperate toward the eradication or balanced control of this devastating disease.

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On The Record (Continued from page 6) moment he shared with his partner.

“The memory just came back to me somehow,” he recalled. At first, all Barajas could remember was him and Fleuret running to the bathroom and standing on the sink. “He was trying to keep me calm and kept saying that we just had to get higher.” Barajas is now able to recall that moment in more detail. “We were in the bathroom when the house finally started to splinter and lift up,” he said. “I looked over at Peter and he was trying to break the window. As he did that, I started to fall backward into the house, but he hooked my elbow with his and pulled me through.”

Tree of Life

Fleuret managed to pull Barajas through the broken window and out of the house. The effort resulted in a severe gash on Barajas’ forehead, but saved his life. “If he hadn’t done that, I would have been lost in the house,” Barajas said. “His last words were, ‘Grab onto some wood and don’t let go.’ So I grabbed onto a tree and hung on to it and pulled my body around. I was freaking out, thinking about all these cars and boulders and wires and pipes and cables and how something was going to come along and kill me now.”

From his perch on the oak tree that he clang to, Barajas saw his own vehicle sliding downhill before he closed his eyes and reopened them, struggling to The tree that Barajas found just in time see. He later learned that his blurry vision was the result of a profusely bleeding head wound. Barajas never saw Fleuret again. “He was found at the corner of Hot Springs and Olive Mill,” he recalled. “The last time I saw him was when he yelled at me to hang on.”

The tree that helped rescue Barajas was in Schmoller’s backyard, where the body of another victim of the disaster was also found. “It’s a tough memory,” Schmoller said. “I had to go outside. My wife didn’t want me to. Everything was still moving and the water was draining downhill, and I was being pushed by the mud and the water. And five minutes later it was all over.”

Barajas managed to walk through the mud to Schmoller’s house. “I didn’t have any shoes on,” he said. “I was lucky to have shorts on.” Three years minus one day after the event, Barajas hugged the tree that helped save his life during the disaster. He estimates that the mud and water was at least waist high before it began to recede, allowing him to reach higher ground.

Barajas says his biological clock has yet to reset. “My alarm doesn’t go off until 4:30 am,” he said. “But my body still gets up at the same hour. It’s crazy.”

Heart to Heart

Last week’s “Editor’s Letter” was special and touched me. Not only did I enjoy your family teen experience, but also your focus on seniors, including those in your family now living locally.

I look forward to reading more, knowing [MJ writer] Zach Rosen will receive many suggestions for future editions.

Best wishes for 2021.

Cheryl Banigan •MJ

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Schmoller, under the bridge

Bridge Over Troubled Water Schmoller, whose house miraculously survived the disaster, considers himself lucky compared to his neighbor Barajas, who now lives in a trailer that is parked in the vacant lot where his house used to sit. Schmoller had only moved to Montecito seven months before the event, “to get away from L.A.,” as he puts it, and he had barely had time to acquaint himself with his neighbors when the disaster struck.

“All the authorities and government and law enforcement agencies did a good job and that was confidence boosting,” Schmoller said. “But there is still a lot to be done. There are some open issues, and things that remind me on a daily basis of what happened. It’s going to be a long time to heal for me and for people like Lalo it will never go away.”

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Montecito on the Move

by Sharon Byrne, Executive Director, Montecito Association

Love And Light In The Darkness:

The Third Annual 1/9 Commemoration

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The searchlight as part of the Third Annual 1/9 Commemoration (photo credit: Marco Farrell)

aturday night, many of us gathered electronically to commemorate the third anniversary of the Debris Flow that claimed 23 of our community members, destroyed hundreds of homes, and shook us to our core.

It’s a day we’ll never forget.

As with all major disasters, the entire community experienced a collective trauma: shock, loss, grief, and overwhelm.

We’ve held two large commemo-

rative events in years past, but this year we were presented with a stiff challenge: How do you bring the community together when you can’t gather? At least, not in person.

A small team of Montecito Fire, the Montecito Association, the Montecito Community Foundation, Montecito Union School, Cold Spring School, and others that worked on the prior year’s events started asking this question in December, and Abe Powell of the Bucket Brigade gath-

ered us on Zoom to figure it out.

The answer: we’ll do it electronically. Over Zoom. Or livestream. Or Facebook Live. All of the above!

Many of us have had to migrate to electronic forms of meeting and doing business this past year, out of necessity. While we’ve mastered Montecito Association Board meetings over Zoom, for example, there’s rather a bit of a jump to doing a livestream event that involves three locations and three broadcast outlets.

The premise was simple: do something powerful but compact, using video, so everyone could participate, privately from their homes, to the extent they felt most comfortable.

No one has to risk their health. We’ll commemorate the day, and honor those who were lost, as a community.

Trying to make all that work, however, turned out to be arduous, even for the Tech Wizards on this team. We test drove the technology and equipment. We hit glitches. We scrambled. Abe Powell hustled to procure equipment, set it up, and test, while we were at our individual locations, right up until showtime.

Then we hit a few more glitches, such as Zoom failing to work, and video switchover delays. Grrr.

Thankfully, we still had Facebook Live on both the Bucket Brigade’s and the Montecito Association’s pages, and KEYT livestreamed it on their website. We recorded the event, so folks could see it.

At least part of the event was visible and audible from anywhere in Montecito. No tech needed. Whew.

We were stunned at showtime when a trombone or foghorn (depending on who you asked, and where you were) fired off 23 times at

At Manning Park, the Montecito Fire Department held a moment of silence to honor the memory of those we lost in the Debris Flow in 2018 (photo credit: KEYT)

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“We are here. Happy New Year. Let’s make it ours.” – Beyoncé

6:30 pm. We have no idea who that was, but appreciated their honoring of the day.

Chief Kevin Taylor began the evening at Montecito Fire, with an invocation that was both heartfelt and heartwarming. Firefighters experienced our trauma up close that morning – they lifted us out of the mud, navigating an entirely new landscape, the old one obliterated by giant geological movement. Chief Taylor made it very clear that we’d suffered, but we’d also found new strength and community connection.

He also said what we all most fervently wanted the night to express: You are cared for in this community. You are loved.

Our firefighters then carried lit candles, from our first year’s event at Manning Park (electric, not live flame) and carefully placed them on the table in front of the fire engine.

They did this one-by-one, in silence.

We then held a moment of silence, to remember together, and honor the memory of those we lost.

Bells then rang out across the community. We shifted to Cold Spring School, where Dr. Amy Alzina had children ring the bell, with Keith Hamm from the Bucket Brigade filming from his iPhone. The bells were supposed to ring in unison, but sometimes there’s the event you want to do, and then there’s the event-that-wants-to-be-done. It actually sounded lovely, as I listened from MUS, to hear different bells going off in the darkness across the community, from El Montecito Church, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, MUA, Cold Spring School, and the Montecito Fire Station.

Finally, we shifted to MUS, where Superintendent Anthony Ranii let us put up a searchlight to shine into the night sky. We had trouble switching the video link to my iPhone, but then… there it was: a powerful symbol of raising our light in the darkness.

Right up until people pulled into the parking lot, shining their headlights straight into my camera, obliterating the visual.

Sigh. They wanted to be part of the night, too, clearly. It was for everyone.

While it did not come off as perfectly as your little intrepid community-based event planners hoped, in hindsight, maybe it was enough. It was a perfectly dark and quiet night.

You could see the light from Santa Barbara. People were able to remember and honor that day safely, in privacy, allowing them to grieve as they needed, while also being with others in community.

It was a night of love and light, in the darkness – a collective hug for Montecito.

We will never forget.

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On The Record (Continued from page 9) Schmoller would like to see the bridge fixed and the dirt triangle at the intersection of Hot Springs and Olive Mill to be turned into some kind of memorial for the 23 victims of the debris flows, which includes next door neighbors Dave Cantin and his son Jack Cantin, whose body was never found and is presumed to have been washed to sea.

“It’s three years later, and still this hasn’t been addressed,” Schmoller said, standing beneath the bridge, pointing at the detritus still visible in the creek floor from the debris flow. “This stuff reminds me on a daily basis what happened because it is still here. I would like to see our street paved and our bridge fixed. And the triangle relandscaped in some way or another in tribute to the twenty-three people that died.”

Meanwhile, for both men, the creek that abuts their properties, no longer a source of dread, has become something of a spiritual refuge. There’s even a small pool where, on hot days, Barajas likes to take a dip. “It took me awhile to get okay with the creek,” Barajas said as he hiked alongside the empty lot where he now lives in a small trailer outfitted with a makeshift outdoor patio and heat lamp.

“I used to come over to the water but not get down in it,” he explained. “But I finally made peace with the creek.” In his free time, Barajas has constructed a makeshift memorial consisting dozens of rock cairns that line both sides of the water. “I made twenty-three little stone gardens in honor of the people we lost,” he said. “But since then I’ve made many more, every once in a while. There’s maybe sixty of them now. It seems like they want to be together.”

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December 29, 2020 started out as just another regular day for the cat-rescue volunteers at Santa Barbara’s Animal Shelter Assistance Program (ASAP), a private nonprofit group that helps the county’s animal control agency find homes for abandoned cats. “We were operating on a very limited scale because of COVID,” said Becky Morrill, ASAP’s shelter operations manager.

Mornings are always busy with incoming cats from around Santa Barbara, Morrill explained, and at first the only information the county could provide was that the cat, a calico named Patches, had a chip showing that its owner was deceased.

“They sent us a screen shot of the record for the cat.” Morrill said she immediately recognized the own- Patches the cat, presumed to be dead after the 1/9 er’s name as Josie Gower, who died debris flow, was found alive and well three years in the debris flow but who Morrill later knew well as a longtime supporter of ASAP and its efforts. “We reached out to her family,” Morrill said, “and they put us in touch with Norm.”

Norm is Gower’s surviving partner, Norm Borgatello, who survived the deadly event and had long assumed that Patches, like Gower, had perished in the tragedy. After learning Patches was still alive, Borgatello immediately came to the shelter to pick her up. The story, which first went live on Noozhawk over the weekend, has since spread like wildfire on the internet, leading Borgatello to politely decline additional interview requests.

However, all the media attention may someday help solve the mystery of what actually happened to Patches in the three years since she disappeared.

According to Morrill, the people who brought the cat to the county’s attention had only met her a few days earlier. “The cat was brought in by some folks who said she showed up on their porch three or four days earlier,” Morrill said.

“They live within a quarter of a mile of where Josie and Patches and Norm lived on the night of the debris flow.”

Amazingly, despite three years of presumed homelessness, Patches was in fine health when she reached ASAP. “She was in great condition and clearly had been fed,” said Morrill. “She was clean and in good condition, but it’s still a mystery where she’s been all these years.”

One thing is certain, said Morrill: ASAP would never have been able to reunite Patches with Borgatello if Gower hadn’t authorized a microchip to be placed inside the feline. “We never would have gotten that cat back with its owner if it wasn’t for that chip,” said Morrill. “If you own a cat or dog, make sure you get a chip for your pet and make sure there’s a valid telephone number so we can find you if we find your animal.”

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‘Diving Deep’ into deGruy’s Degree of Influence

Mike deGruy’s films pushed the seafarer boundaries and his kids Frances and Max immediately took to the water

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early nine years after his death, prolific Montecito underwater filmmaker Mike deGruy’s world comes back to life via Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy, the documentary written and directed by his wife and filmmaking partner Mimi Armstrong deGruy. The film doesn’t only cover his underwater life, where deGruy most assuredly blew past typical seafarer boundaries to explore the ocean’s depths and visit the creatures who live there as Diving Deep also delves into Mike’s motivations, his youth, his passion for the environment, and – most touchingly – his family life in Montecito.

The bulk of the film features deGruy’s captivating underwater cinematography balanced by his often humorously self-deprecating on-camera commentary, plus plenty of accolades from his former colleagues that include Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron, for whom deGruy was shooting when a helicopter crash took his life in Australia in February 2012.

But some of the most moving as well as lighthearted moments come from the deGruy children, son Max and daughter Frances, who were just 18 and 14, respectively, when Mike died. But both had already served as assistants on some of Mike’s projects and, later, aided Mimi in producing the documentary about their dad that includes scenes of them playing as infants.

Diving Deep premiered by opening the 2019 Santa Barbara International Film Festival – we ran an extensive interview with Mimi at the time – before going on to claim multiple awards on the film festival circuit, including Best Film at the Ocean Film Festival and Audience Favorite at the Aspen Mountain Film Festival. In early 2020, the film had a limited theatrical release, opening in 35 cities, before the pandemic canceled more screenings.

Now, two years after it first screened in town, the film is set to make its streaming debut via Apple TV/iTunes and Amazon Prime Rentals on January 19.

We caught up with Mimi, Max, and Frances via Zoom last weekend. Here are excerpts from the conversation.

Q. Mimi told me two years ago that beginning to work on the documentary less

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than a year after Mike died was stressful but also healing. Max and Frances, you were involved, too. How was it for you?

A. Frances: It was a very emotional process for all of us to go in and see it during the early stages of development and kind of try and help weed out which clips should be in it and which were too personal. We mostly acted as sounding boards for our mom and mostly I was thinking that what she was doing was amazing: it’s hard, but it’s going to be worth it.

Max: My mom was such a trooper going through all of that stuff, looking through the footage of my dad after having not seen it for so long right after we lost him. I can’t imagine how hard that would have been to do it by herself.

So I’m glad that we could be a little bit of a support mechanism for my mom, but also help decide what was important and what was too close to home.

And then of course we were interviewed too.

Mimi, I still can’t imagine anything harder than trying to be a filmmaker while looking at the footage is also hitting your heart nonstop just months after he was killed. I know we talked about this before, but how did you get through that?

Mimi: There were a couple of reasons I had to make the film. The first was that I felt Mike had a lot more to say, but he was cut short, and I wanted to do my best to imagine where he would’ve gone. But it was also part of the grieving process for me, like I was continuing my conversation with him and that he was present while I worked on it. So it was an incredible gift to be able to do it.

In the movie, Mimi talks about hearing the news of Mike’s death and thinking “How can someone so full of life be here one minute and then gone the next?” The film doesn’t have anything about the kids’ reactions. I don’t want to pry, but can you talk about what it was like?

Max: Going back to that night’s pretty tough. But I can say that he was a rock, always a constant in my life, so it was a given that he would always be there and be a support mechanism. To have that gone so suddenly shook my faith in everything because I had taken his presence for granted. If we can relate that to the movie, I think we often take the natural world around us for granted. We expect it to always be there, to be in the same shape or form that we know it, but when it is gone, there’s no getting it back either. So we have to protect it.

How is it for you to have those little pieces of home movies in there? How were those choices made?

Max: The decision making really came down to my mom, but we had veto power. I think it adds to the movie. It shows that my dad tried to expose us to as much of the outdoors as he could all throughout our lives. I mean, I’ve got the hummingbird on my head when I was an infant. So I think it adds a lot of characterization for him and shows our family in a pretty realistic light.

Frances: The first time I saw the finished product was when it premiered at SBIFF, which was weird because I was looking around and thinking, that’s baby pictures of me and my brother screening for this huge audience (at the Arlington Theatre). But it was very accurate of what growing up was like, because we did have our lives so intertwined with the natural world. Our dad would go off on these expeditions, but because he was a self-employed freelance cinematographer, much of what we did in normal day-to-day life was also kind of combined with work. There wasn’t really a big separation between the two. We’d go camping, but it was also an opportunity to film, whether that was Max and I running around or filming the squirrels and the

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Tre Lune on Coast Village Road has posters showing dismay for the restaurant shutdown during the Covid-19 pandemic

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.

Covid Restrictions Crush Local Businesses

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arlier this week, Jeannine’s Bakery owner Alison Hardey announced the closure of her downtown store; the latest local casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing stay-at-home order that has shuttered most California restaurants, allowing them to be open solely for takeout orders. “It wasn’t an easy decision, it’s kind of like ‘which child do you give up?’” Hardey said about closing the largest location of her four local eateries. “We had millions of dollars into that location, but we just don’t have the staying power as a small, locally-owned business,” she said.

With over three decades in business in Montecito and Santa Barbara, and most recently, a Goleta location, Hardey said the decision to close the Lalo Mendoza of Jeannine’s is dedicated to serving downtown location was based partial- the community during the pandemic. Jeannine’s on Coast Village Road is the only location curly on the fact that it was largest of the rently open, as owners announced the downtown four outlets, and had the most indoor location in La Arcada is closed for good. Two seating, which is not ideal during a other locations, Ontare and Goleta, are closed pandemic. Another factor: the majority temporarily during the stay-at-home order. of her downtown clientele was local business people grabbing a quick breakfast or lunch, so the business was hit especially hard when the vast majority of people began working from home, away from the hub of downtown. “I think it’s going to take several years for the vitality of downtown to come back from this. All the activities and parades are canceled; gathering places like the Courthouse, the Lobero, the Arlington, and the Museum, all closed indefinitely.

All those places that create a downtown are not going to be at full capacity for a long time,” she said.

The downtown Jeannine’s, located in La Arcada, was in business for 18 years, and was a busy, bustling bakery on a daily basis. “We are really sad to say goodbye, and it wasn’t an easy decision,” Hardey said.

As far as the three other bakery locations – located in Goleta, on Ontare/ State, and on Coast Village Road – Hardey says she and her family feel positive about them, calling them “neighborhood stores” which are smaller, have more outdoor seating, and a different type of clientele. The Montecito location is currently the only of the three open for limited offerings. “We’ve definitely taken a hit out here, but not as bad as the other units,” she said, adding that during the aftermath of the 1/9 Debris Flow in January 2018, it was the other locations that helped keep the Coast Village Road outlet afloat. The Hardeys made the decision to close the other two stores temporarily until outdoor dining is once again allowed, which she expects will be late February. “I think once the vaccine takes hold, and we are further away from the holiday gatherings that caused Covid numbers to spike, we will be in a better place to reopen.” Hardey also says she is pursing PPP loans to keep the three other locations afloat.

For now, the Montecito location is open daily 7 am to 2 pm, offering limited breakfast and lunch options and of course, coffee and pastries. “It’s a day-by-

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day decision to stay open, but keeping our doors open definitely boosts morale, both for our staff and for the community,” Hardey said. “We are keeping it open as long as we can do it safely, and as long as our staff remains well. We don’t want to be a super spreader and be part of the problem.” Hardey added that she wants the eatery to be a place for the people who are still working on Coast Village Road to be fed and caffeinated.

Hardey says that people who want to help Jeannine’s, and other restaurants and retail stores which are also struggling, can do so by buying gift cards, which was a huge help back in May 2020, when the Coast Village Association, Montecito Journal, and the Montecito Association organized the Virtual Cash Mob, which put over $170,000 in the hands of local businesses via gift card purchases (nearly $10K of which was spent at Jeannine’s). “Gift cards are a really wonderful vehicle to show your love and support. It gets cash in the pockets of retailers and restaurateurs when they need it the most, and it gets customers back in the door when the days are brighter.”

So until further notice, Jeannine’s Montecito’s beloved manager Lalo Mendoza will be there to greet customers for their daily coffee and scone, behind a mask of course, as the eatery tries to make it through this unprecedented time. “He brightens everyone’s day, and for that, I am grateful,” Hardey said. Mendoza has been with the company for 18 years, and says he looks forward to the day that business returns to normal.

Down the street from Jeannine’s, another business owner, Gene Montesano, is publicly showing his dismay for the restaurant shutdown, posting large signs at Tre Lune, as well as his downtown bakery, D’Angelo. MJ News Editor Nick Shou will have more on this in next week’s edition.

New ADU Revisions

Santa Barbara County Long Range Planning Staff is once again hard at work updating local ordinances pertaining to Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) that comply with state laws. We’ve been reporting on ADU laws since 2017, when Assembly Bill 2299 and Senate Bill 1069 reduced barriers, streamlined the approval process, and expanded the capacity to accommodate the development of “granny units” aka ADUs in order to provide additional rental housing in residential areas.

Back then, the laws superseded local zoning ordinances, and while County and City planners developed standards and permit procedures to better implement the State legislation, changes to the State ADU laws last year have made the County’s laws null and void. “We don’t have much latitude to apply our local regulations, but we are doing what we can,” said Long Range Planner Jessica Steele, who presented the updated State ADU laws to the Montecito Planning Commission last month.

Until new County laws are in effect, the County must process ADU applications pursuant to state law, which has broadened the ability for homeowners to add additional housing units on their properties. The new state laws make adding an ADU easier than ever, and even allow for the addition of multiple ADUs on a single lot in some instances. For example, some single family properties would be able to build a detached ADU, as well as build what’s called a Junior ADU (JADU) within the primary residence. A JADU is limited to 500 sq. ft., and requires a kitchen or kitchenette facility, but does not require a separate bathroom. “Many people turn their primary bedroom into a JADU, as long as it has a separate entrance,” Steele told us.

The new state laws also limit the setbacks required; no setbacks are required for structures that are converted into ADUs, or structures that are demolished

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Double Meaning – 2021 January January 2021 Double Meaning by Pete Muller

Pete Muller has enjoyed solving crosswords since he was a teenager. He started creating them in 2005 and published his first NY Times puzzle in 2006. While Pete is known for his innovative and tricky puzzles, he places primary importance on creating a fun experience for the solver.

Our new monthly music-themed crossword puzzle is created and brought to you by Montecito resident Pete Muller and runs in the Washington Post and the Montecito Journal. Thank you, Pete, for playing with your home team!

What is a Meta Crossword Puzzle?

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meta crossword puzzle provides the ultimate “aha” moment, challenging the solver to come up with a single answer somehow hidden in the puzzle. Hints to the answer can come from the title, the theme entries, the clues, or the grid. If I’ve done my job as a constructor, once you get the meta, you’ll know it.

If you’re thinking, “Hmmm…maybe this is it,” you probably haven’t found the meta yet!

Metas are well-suited to contests, since it’s hard to cheat on a meta. An obscure crossword clue like [Nickname for President Van Buren, from his birthplace] can be answered in a second using Google (“OLD KINDERHOOK”), but you can’t do the same for a meta. While googling is considered cheating (to some) in solving a crossword, googling is encouraged in solving metas.

The meta answer will usually be reasonably well-known to most solvers. If it’s not, it will definitely be accessible via a web search.

For more information or to submit an answer, please go to https://pmxwords.com.

Those submitting correct solutions before the contest deadline (8pm PT, Sunday January 17) will be eligible to win a free MMMM mug.

ACROSS 1 Title of a hit song by Irene Cara or David Bowie 5 E-cig company whose name sounds like a well-known singer 9 Literary character whose name is an anagram of 56-Down 13 Praise plentifully 15 Exxon, once 16 One guarded on a soccer field 17 "Capeesh?"

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22 Grammy-nominated country crooner Bentley (14 nods, 0 wins) 23 Bit of baby talk 24 Bo of 1979's "10" 25 Belgian airline that went bottomup in 2001 28 "The Sweetest Taboo" singer 29 Sevenths in musical scales 32 Forever, after "in" 34 Reckon, informally 36 "I Smell ___" (Clarence Carter or Patty Griffin tune) 37 Ticklish toys 39 Itself, to a lawyer speaking Latin 40 Cut to the cloth?

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The Giving List (Continued from page 5) systemic changes,” says Brown, whose introduction to Dr. King was standing just steps away when the civil rights leader delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C. in 1963.

But perhaps it’s also true that Dr. King’s words are just so timeless that any moment in our nation’s long history of oppressing those who are less privileged would seem a more than appropriate time to consider the courage of standing bold in the face of challenge and controversy.

And that’s a big part of MLKCommitteeSB’s mission, to make sure Dr. King’s speeches and legacy, and his vision for a world where people were no longer divided by race, perpetuate, Brown said.

One of the ways that shows up is the annual essay and poetry contests for local school children that award three prizes and honorable mention in four categories.

“The students participate in the contest each year to show how Dr. King’s words connect to the realities of their own lives and the world around them,” she said. “We want students to think and make connections to the theme for themselves.”

The first place winners of the contests normally have a chance to read their poems and essays at a live celebration that culminates the four-day celebration surrounding the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday, the MLKCommitteeSB’s biggest event of the year.

“Dr. King’s vision was the beloved community, to embrace everyone,” Brown explained. “We reach out to be that point where all people can come and feel free and be in a safe environment to speak their mind.”

Normally, to that end, the weekend features events ranging from speeches at the Eternal Flame at UCSB’s campus, Interfaith services at local churches, and a Unity March from De La Guerra Plaza to the Arlington where a lively celebration would feature music, the student readings, keynote speeches, and more.

But of course the pandemic has forced an inevitable move to a livestreaming event. Still, Brown stressed, all of the above facets of the four-day celebration will be represented in the Committee’s two-hour virtual program beginning at 11 am on Monday, January 18, which is the Federal observance of King’s birthday. The event will be livestreamed on www.mlksb.org and on the MLKCommitteeSB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/MLKCommitteeSB).

Speakers who recorded presentations include Rev. Richard A. Lawrence, a retired United Methodist clergyman who was active in the civil rights movement and knew Dr. King personally as he participated in the Selma to Montgomery march and later helped Dr. King organize an anti-discrimination demonstration in Chicago. Dr. Anna Everett, an emeritus professor of UCSB, who was recently elected to the Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees and also serves on the Santa Barbara County Commission for Women, will also talk.

In addition, the program will feature a photo and video montage of past MLK Day celebrations – including encore performances from Inner Light Gospel Choir and Santa Barbara Dance Institute, World Dance for Humanity, and the Red Sea Rhythm Rockers – and highlights from this year’s other offerings from

the Committee, including group and individual videos that were created for Santa Barbara’s Juneteenth celebration and the Committee’s Virtual Townhall meeting “State of the African-American Community in Santa Barbara County” that featured a diverse panel of health professionals in a dialogue with county administrative leaders.

“There were more than 1,000 participants on Zoom asking questions, people in the community whose voices aren’t often heard,” Brown said, noting that the series will continue this spring examining issues of inequality in unemployment and education.

But there’s much more the all-volunteer organization could be doing with additional resources, she said.

“It has been an extra challenging time during the pandemic in terms of reaching out to people to get funding, which is what we need to do each year in order to sustain what we do for free,” she said. “With more stability in the organization, we could be spending our time developing programs instead of raising money to support the ones we have now.”

Brown wondered aloud why that’s necessary in a community as well resourced as Santa Barbara.

“Actually, it boggles my mind,” she said. “We’re a community where there is enough for all of us, but for some reason, we haven’t gotten the funding that we need to be able to develop our programs more. And now with the pandemic, not having direct contact with people has seriously impacted us, because if people don’t see you, it’s like that old expression: Out of sight, out of mind.”

•MJ

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Monte ito Miscellany

by Richard Mineards

Valley Heart Ranch, Montecito’s only coffee plantation, is up for grabs for $14.9 million (photo: Riskin Partners)

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 13 years ago.

A Friend in Need

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ontecito singer-songwriter Brad Paisley, who was generous with his music and contributions during the 2018 mudslides disaster, as well as being a major supporter of the Unity Shoppe along with fellow musician Kenny Loggins, brought major help to Nashville, Tennessee, after the Christmas bombing, I learn.

Brad, 48, who has sold 11 million albums and has had 32 Top 10 singles, lost no time coming to the aid of Texas-born musician Buck McCoy, who lost his cat Molly, apartment, and material possessions in the carnage, sending him a guitar from his enviable collection of instruments so that he could still earn money playing each weekend at Legends Corner in downtown.

To help McCoy build his life again, the three-time Grammy winner also offered to pay for unlimited groceries and encouraged others to donate to his GoFundMe account, which raised $35,626 in the first six days and continues to increase.

His beloved feline has also now been found. Purr-fect...

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Estate Group at Village Properties is the listing agent for the bucolic spot.

Montecito’s only coffee plantation, Valley Heart Ranch, spread over 9.5 acres on three parcels, is up for grabs for $14.9 million.

The estate, which produced 2,500 pounds of coffee last year, has four bedrooms in the main house for a total of seven bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, and 4,469 square feet of living space.

Other amenities on the Toro Canyon property include an ocean view, an infinity pool, a ranch office, greenhouses, a gym, and a detached four-car garage that doubles as a fullsized pickle ball court.

A detached au pair suite is steps from the main house. And two one-bedroom guesthouses – 1,006 square feet and 900 square feet – are also nearby.

The ranch started life a century ago as a citrus farm and grew into a floriculture nursery providing plants to the San Ysidro Ranch.

It was owned and operated by the same family from 1953 until architectural designer Darrell Becker and his interior designer wife, Kirsten, bought the property in 2015.

“It feels like a heart in the center of the valley,” says Kirsten, host of TLC’s Hope For Your Home and Property Ladder series.

Darrell, who owns the Becker Studios in Santa Barbara with his wife, said they initially loved the idea of a vineyard, but coffee made more sense.

“It sounded romantic, but I soon discovered that way was the quickest way to lose $5 million, so we went with the coffee farm!”

The dynamic duo is now looking for a new venture. “We want to explore our creativity and have a few more projects left in us,” adds Kirsten. “It’s just what we do.”

Dina Landi of Riskin Properties

“The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Condor’s Captain David Beezer carefully guides the second 740 HP engine into placement (photo

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To the Ventura Harbor Boat Yard with my trusty shutterbug Priscilla, where the beloved Santa Barbara whale watching vessel, Condor Express, owned by Hiroko Benko, has been undergoing a major transformation.

The 100-ton, 74-foot catamaran, which was rebuilt in 2011, still had the original engines from its 2002 launch, and had to meet new environmental requirements under the Clean Air Act by next year under Tier 3 rules, so Hiroko, widow of original owner Fred Benko, decided the pandemic lockdown was the ideal time to install four new $150,000 one-and-half-ton engines made by the Swedish company, Scania, part of the Volkswagen group.

The diesel engines, which produce 740 horsepower each, will enable the vessel to be cleaner burning and more fuel efficient, with a top speed of 30 knots. As they are much lighter than the old engines it will also increase the capacity allowed from 127 passengers to 149.

It takes 2,000 gallons of diesel to fill the Condor Express tanks, which normally last four or five days with

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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

Escape from Minority Rule: Insurrection

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enator Mitt Romney succinctly summarized the events of last Wednesday in one sentence: “What happened here today was an insurrection incited by the President of the United States.” Former President George W . Bush also used “insurrection” to describe the attack on the U.S. Capitol, felt by many to be “the center and sacred symbol of democracy” as observed by Representative Mario Diaz-Balart. They are precisely correct. This column isn’t about Republicans or Democrats. It is about the naked attempt by Donald Trump, actively waged since days before the election, to overturn the votes of 80 million people who lawfully elected Joseph Biden.

The last time the Capitol was successfully attacked was the War of 1812 when the British occupied Washington. No one since would ever have dreamed that a violent mob would leave five dead and a shattered sense of safety for the American people on the blood and trash strewn floors at the sacred center of our democracy. Clearly, inciting insurrection is what you know you are doing when you send a mob to the Capitol, to invade it by sheer force, chanting that they were there to “hang Mike Pence.”

Trump wanted his mob, which he literally sent down Pennsylvania Avenue to “be tough,” to stop the Congress from counting the Electoral College votes from the last Presidential election. He wanted to stop the wheels of government, have the election results overturned, and have himself declared President for another term. That is the classic definition of a coup d’état. The mob was armed with dozens of plastic handcuffs for the Congress Members they intended to take hostage – some with the expressed intention of executing them as well.

The dictionary defines “insurrection” as “a violent uprising against an authority or government.” Clearly that noun describes accurately what happened, as everyone around the world saw in real time. It happened and we all witnessed it firsthand: confederate flags, anti-Semitic sweatshirts, white supremacist advocates, and miscellaneous brutish thugs. What a display! So, what is the crime for planning, preparing, conspiring, and/or joining in an insurrection? One such crime is called Sedition, “the inciting of oneself and others to rise up against an authority or government.”

Russia’s Vladimir Putin launched an “asymmetric” cyberwar on the U.S. more than nine months ago, which dealt a crippling blow to the federal government and continues to this day. When an insurrection occurs at a time when the Nation is at war, such as now, the crime for insurrection is then technically called “Treason.” High Treason, as it was known originally in Anglo-American jurisprudence, is “the crime of betraying your country… especially in the overthrow of the government.” In fact, if Trump attempts further efforts to convene his private army, it is clear that an insurrection of that magnitude would by itself give rise to the crime of treason even if it hasn’t thus far.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has outlined three courses open to Mr. Trump for his guilt in organizing and inciting the insurrection: 1) He can resign (assumedly so Vice President Pence could pardon him, as a self-pardon is not legally proven); 2) Pence can take him out invoking the 25th Amendment and merely declaring the President as unfit, and upon the agreement of the majority of the Cabinet then serving, the Presidency would pass to Mr. Pence until Mr. Trump could obtain a hearing in the Senate and survive a vote of confirmation in that body; or, 3) he can be impeached. I like all three options given the mafia-like “Don” we’re dealing with exhibits classic psychological “challenges.” Wisdom dictates we should simultaneously pursue every avenue with all deliberate speed to prevent more harm to our nation.

Hence, the Articles of Impeachment introduced this week with more than 200 supporters in the House possess only one count: “Incitement of Insurrection.” What more needs be said? After four years of wild distortions and more than 35,000 documented lies, he whipped up his mob followers to a crescendo for an attack on the Capitol itself for the express purpose of wresting political power away from the Constitutionally required vote of state certified electors.

Why pursue impeachment when he will be out of office in just a few days? He must be held accountable. There are two very good reasons: 1) to

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New Innovations in Clean Water and Air

Indian startup turns black carbon into eco-friendly tiles

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arbon dioxide is advertised as public enemy number one in the fight against climate change, but did you know there is a substance called black carbon found in air pollution that absorbs one million times more energy from the sun than carbon dioxide?

The production of traditional clay bricks in India is responsible for around 20 percent of black carbon emissions globally. Seeking to turn all that pollution into something productive, architect Teja Sidnal founded a startup called Carbon Craft Design (CCD) that extracts black carbon from polluted air and upcycles it into strong, stylish tiles.

CCD collaborates with Boston-based Graviky Labs, a company that has figured out how to convert carbon soot from cars and factories into sustainable products. Together, the companies are turning purified carbon into a carbon pigment, which can be mixed with cement and marble waste from quarries to produce handcrafted, monochromatic tiles.

The cement tiles are handmade by craftsmen using traditional, lower-carbon processes that have been used in India for more than 200 years and requires just one fifth of the energy.

One sustainable building tile contains at least 70 percent waste material and is equivalent to cleaning 30,000 liters of air. On top of that, the tiles are also stronger than conventional cement tiles due to the higher carbon content.

Aquatic robot removes garbage from local waterways Removing litter from local waterways can prevent plastic waste and other types of debris from ending up in the ocean, where waste is a lot more difficult to retrieve.

With that in mind, Hong Kong-based startup Open Ocean Engineering has developed the Clearbot — an aquatic robot that removes litter floating in harbors, lakes, and canals.

The Clearbot either moves back and forth across a predefined geofenced area or it uses its smart vision system to identify and go after individual pieces of floating trash. Either way, the trash goes through the robot’s open bow, accumulating in an interior mesh bin.

Clearbot can run for 48 hours straight and once its litterbin is full, the robot makes its way back to a central docking station, where the bin is automatically emptied and the battery recharged.

One single robot can hold up to 53 gallons of waste and can thoroughly clean the surface of one square kilometer of water in eight hours.

•MJ do nothing is inconceivable when the then-sitting president of the United States incites a mob to attack the Capitol, as the end point of a campaign he orchestrates for eight weeks, precisely with the intent of stopping the peaceful transfer of power by physically interrupting the counting of the Electoral College votes; and 2) at the conclusion of the Impeachment trial, which could take one day, a majority of the Senate can pass a motion to bar this dangerous man from ever again holding public office.

This latter point is clearly incentive enough, for if Trump is not stopped, he will, as he always has, continue to trample on democratic norms, violate the Constitution, engage in numerous other crimes, and seek to unlawfully restore himself to power like some modern-day Napoleon successfully plotting to escape Elba and re-start the “war.” On Sunday he posted a seven-minute “recruiting” video for his followers to return to Washington on January 20 in what is clearly a call for a “holy war” by Lord’s Prayer read fully at the end.

If, on the basis of facts all available on video and the internet, the House of Representatives did not feel Trump’s conduct was sufficient to justify Impeachment then no conduct would ever justify it.

We should all recall Congressman Adam Schiff’s concluding remarks at Trump’s 2020 Senate Impeachment trial – that Trump, if allowed to go free, will perceive there are no limits on his future abuses. Schiff correctly predicted that Trump would do worse in the future.

There is no more dramatic way to grab and maintain minority power than by staging a coup of a small minority that then installs its own dictator as president. Enough!

•MJ

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Senior Portrait

by Zach Rosen

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Peter van Duinwyk

lot can be learned from a book, but wisdom and insight are often obtained through life experiences. The elders of a community are naturally the most experienced and have their entire lives to reflect back on the lessons they’ve learned along the way. At a time when we are all looking to remain connected to our community and make sense of what is happening around us, our senior citizens (who could also use some company right now) have the experience we could all use to help us put the current state of the world in context. This column will explore the fascinating stories and experiences of our senior community, passing along their life lessons and celebrating the accomplishments of those who have spent their lives contributing to our community. Peter van Duinwyk is a natural fit for this very first column. As a political science high school teacher for over 30 years and having served as an officer and instructor in counterintelligence, he has helped prepare future generations to become active members of the community and contributors to society.

Peter was born in New York as the son of an airline aircraft mechanic. The family originally came out to Los Angeles so his father could work at the Los Angeles Airport. Peter grew up in the San Fernando Valley. Both of his parents being city folk, they immediately bought a horse and livestock for their property, which Peter has continued on to this day. With his dad being a tradesperson, Peter was encouraged to pursue a craft during grade school. When his counselor asked him what he planned to do for a career in his senior year of high school, Peter realized he had no idea. The counselor handed him some papers and told him to fill them out. It was an application for UCSB, where he was accepted and ended up attending. No one in his family had attended college and Peter had never even heard of Santa Barbara before that moment but he immediately fell in love with the area once getting to campus. Working his way through school, he majored in history with a minor in biology, focusing specifically on insects. He also enrolled in the ROTC during college, which led him to being commissioned as an officer in Army intelligence. It was at UCSB where he met his future wife, Susanne, who was born and raised in Santa Barbara. Upon both of them graduating, she was looking for a change of scenery and he decided to apply to a military academy on the East Coast.

They both moved to Maryland where he attended the United States Army Intelligence School in the now defunct Fort Holabird in Baltimore. He notes that this was the best education he had ever received and instilled a passion in him for constitutional law and history, many of the courses being taught by University of Maryland professors. After the 16-week program, he was assigned to the Presidio of San Francisco as Chief of the Special Investigation Section along the West Coast. The high position came as a big shock to him, but he turned out to be well suited for it, even receiving decorations for “finding solutions to potentially controversial operational matters.” He was given a team 14 – 21 January 2021

PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 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 Anna Marie Gott of the Planning Commission’s decision to grant a Coastal Development Permit for Bicycle Share Stations in the Coastal Zone.

If the City Council approves the project on appeal, then it is appealable to the California Coastal Commission under California Public Resources Code §30603(a) and SBMC §28.44.200. If you challenge the Council's action on the appeal of the Planning 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.

As a counterintelligence officer and school teacher of over 30 years, Peter van Duinwyk has spent his career teaching future generations to look at discussions from every angle

of agents that spanned from Washington state to San Diego and all the way over to Salt Lake City, Utah, whose role was to investigate loyalty and suitability cases in individuals with or receiving security clearances. They looked into everything from potential gambling and drug problems, to people with problematic beliefs or connections behind the Iron Curtain, and even those that had compromising family ties in those areas. He stayed in the position for 14 months, but not wanting to spend his entire career in the military, Peter and his now-wife Susanne ultimately decided to return to where they love, Santa Barbara.

After his military service, Peter decided to pursue his passion for teaching. He first taught high school science for two years before becoming a senior government and political science teacher, which he continued for the next 32 years. His in-depth experience in counterintelligence and constitutional law taught him to always look for compromise and the middle ground in a discussion. During his classes he encouraged students to think in the grey areas, looking at a question from multiple sides, with Peter always willing to play Devil’s Advocate in a discussion. With summers off from high school, Peter was accepted as a summer school instructor in Army Intelligence, which he continued for nine years. And his love for teaching shows, having received both the Santa Barbara County Teacher of the Year award and an outstanding instructor award at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center during his tenure. For the last five years of his educational career, he served as the Assistant Principal at Santa Barbara High School.

Although he retired in 1999, Peter remains an active contributor to the community. He feels that every person has an obligation to pay back what past generations have given us and pay it forward for future generations. He would impress this lesson on each of his students in his classes but also wanted to make sure he lived up • The Voice of the Village •

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.

On Thursday, January 21, 2021, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 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.

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Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager Published January 13, 2021 Montecito Journal to it. Over the years he has served on the Santa Barbara County Grand Jury and was an officer on the board of the Montecito Association. He still currently serves on the board of the Montecito Union School District as Finance Committee Chair and as a solar subcommittee member on the board of the Montecito Fire Protection District. He also believes in finishing what you start, which can be seen in his hobby of fixing vintage cars and even the restoration of their Montecito home. Whether it is supporting electric energy with solar panels and Teslas, or through personal investments, Peter is a big proponent of saving and investing in the future, both personally and globally. He was able to buy a home in Montecito on a teacher’s salary where he has lived for the past 50 years with his wife of 60 years as they raised their three daughters, two of which still live in the area, including one who lives next door to them. While many discussions exist in a grey area, Peter’s contribution to the community does not.

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On Entertainment (Continued from page 14 14)) birds. Even sitting at the dinner table, there would be a camera in your face.

There’s a clip that didn’t make it in the movie of my dad asking me what I think about dolphins living underwater but breathing on the surface. I was six years old but he was trying to get a complex interview with my childhood views of the natural world. That was just a normal table conversation. So home life and work life were all really mashed up together.

Later, though, I remember getting my first camera as a Christmas gift when I was 10 and there was never any hesitation to let me take pictures of anything.

If we were driving down the street, we could pull over at any point and get out on the side of the road and both of my parents would be so patient when I’d be on the ground taking close-up pictures of grass that would probably be deleted a couple of days later. There was a lot of room for our own creativity.

I’m realizing that neither of you has mentioned filmmaking or working specifically with nature as anything you’re doing professionally or otherwise currently. Has that been a conscious choice not to take up the family business?

Frances: On paper it does seem like we’ve really gone in different directions, but for me it doesn’t feel that way. Both parents always told us that it doesn’t really matter what you do, but whatever you choose, be passionate about it, be really involved, and get really in with the community. That was really ingrained in us. And that’s what I’ve done with healthcare, where for me that sense of community is really important. And Max and I were scuba divers growing up and have been really involved in the ocean. That sense of love and respect and relationship will always be there. The ocean and diving will always be a really important part of my life even as I’ve explored other facets and gotten involved in other things.

Max: For me, when I went away to college, I was at a stage of life where I wanted to branch out from my dad a little bit. I had gone to Santa Barbara High School and participated in the multimedia arts and design academy, where I learned a lot about camera work and editing. I participated in the 10-10-10 student film project with SBIFF and was immersed in all of the film lifestyle. But I wanted to branch out at college and maybe return to it later.

Then when my dad passed in my freshman year, subconsciously I needed to just distance myself from all of it. I think it was a bit too close emotionally to him to be able to pursue that at the time. So I studied English and writing and storytelling, which is actually what my dad was, too. But the outdoors and

Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy is a documentary written and directed by his wife and filmmaking partner, Mimi Armstrong deGruy

film are coming back into my daily life. We’ll see where we go. I think time will tell, but I wouldn’t expect film to be too far from either of our lifestyles.

Mimi: I just want to pipe up for one second. I know what they said is true, but I also think the jury is still out, at least with Max. He has encyclopedic knowledge of film. (To Max): You’ve seen more movies than anyone I know your age. So I’m just sitting back watching this movie unfold with both these kids.

Now that the film is being released to the general public, is it tough for you to watch it? Is it fun? Healing? Or maybe something else?

Frances: All of the above. It’s increasingly less difficult to watch and more really fun, especially when I show it to other people, because the reaction overwhelmingly at the end is that it makes you analyze your own life a little bit. What kind of impact have you made? What kind of impact do you want to make? What sorts of communities will really matter to you and how can you make a big contribution to that? My hope is that you look at the natural world a little bit differently after watching it. I always feel excited because like Max said it does totally feel like we get to hang out with our dad for an hour and a half again, which is really rare and special. And I still can’t quite wrap my head around (what happened). But I think that that sense of being reinvigorated, passionate, and excited is really contagious.

Max: I’d agree. Once you finish that movie, you just want to start something immediately. You want to get out there and fix things. One of the final memories I have of my dad was around the time of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, with him being so depressed and disappointed at the reactions (where people didn’t seem very concerned about) the implications and effects for the wildlife around it that were so great and so tragic. I think he was curious why we weren’t focused more on that. So it’s a healing experience just to know that his message will be given to many people. He was still trying to figure out how to get that message out (when he died). So thank goodness for my mom for finalizing that idea and those words. Thanks, mom.

Focus on Film

SBIFF Scores a Pair

Two new conversations from SBIFF’s December deluge of virtual Q&As with the filmmakers of potential Oscar contenders and other new releases have just been added to the festival’s YouTube page. One Night in Miami, the directorial debut of Oscar-winning actress Regina King (Best Supporting Actress for 2018’s If Beale Street Could Talk), is a fictionalized version of a real meeting between Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown, where the Black icons discussed their roles in the Civil Rights movement and

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“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” – Germany Kent

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The Bloom’n Times

by Alida Aldrich

In Appreciation of Winter

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hhhh… winter has arrived (December 21). More time for bundling up, hot soups, warm fires, and lit candles. Winter in Santa Barbara brings on crystal clear days and nights. It’s as if you could touch Santa Cruz Island. And the stargazing in winter is outstanding – look for Orion’s Belt in the S/W sky.

Last fall I talked about some of the natural virtues of living in Santa Barbara. There are more noteworthy factoids to appreciate in our unique locale: Santa Barbara is in one of only five Mediterranean climate zones on the planet (along with the Mediterranean Basin, Southwestern Australia, Central Chile, and the Western Cape of South Africa). I’ve visited Cape Town, and you’d think you were in Santa Barbara. There are jacaranda trees and bougainvillea vines blooming everywhere!

Stellenbosch (their wine country outside Cape Town) looks just like our Santa Ynez Valley. There’s actually a Mediterranean plant palette specifically suited for these five zones.

Another bonus: Because of the

Agave layered in snow is a sign that winter is officially upon us

proximity of our mountains to the ocean, we’re considered to be in perfect Feng Shui harmony. Lucky us.

Everything that happens in a garden takes place in slow time. Flowers, shrubs, and trees simply get on with growing at their own pace. A number of plants and trees including roses, stone fruit trees, and hydrangeas go deciduous in winter – they require this down time. There’s still plenty to enjoy now though. Study the bare, architectural structure of our Japanese maple, birch, liquidambar,

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and sycamore trees. They’re every bit as impressive now as when they leaf out.

Winter is the season to quietly take stock of your garden’s strengths and weaknesses – design-wise. I view the discipline of landscape design just as culturally valuable as literature, the performing arts, and the visual arts.

If you’d begin to see yourself as an artist and your garden as an opportunity to create, you’ll come to understand that not only is the concept of “form follows function” essential, but you’ll learn to appreciate that the artistic value of color, texture, light, form, movement, contrast, perspective, scent, and touch – all have a distinct place in a thoughtfully designed garden.

You might consider the areas in your garden as rooms with ceilings, floors, walls, doorways, and focal points. You have a distinct style of your own – trust your intuition on this, as it’s simply decorating for heaven’s sake.

I found 2020 to have been a long, hard slog – for all of us. We deserve to spoil ourselves now. Think about your garden in terms of wants and needs. When you get bored with the needs part, go for it! Have you always wanted a – rose garden – water feature – pergola with an outdoor kitchen – garden sculpture – hammock –

sundial – hot tub – fire pit – vegetable and herb garden? My sister has one of those tower herb/veggie gardens, and swears by it. She’s a marvelous cook to begin with, but she says the freshness of her handpicked bounty makes a big difference to her dishes. There’s no harm in daydreaming about this stuff. Also, it’s planning for future – something positive to look forward to in 2021.

As a special gift, Cymbidium orchids (and other orchid varieties) are in bloom now. There are a few excellent greenhouses in Carpinteria. At the very least, treat yourself to a bunch of fresh cut flowers now and again.

Some Winter Garden Tips

Check your irrigation system for clogged lines, heads, or emitters. Be sure gutters are clear – and drainage systems are working properly before more winter/spring rain. Now is the time to fertilize your citrus trees. Last chance to buy and plant bare root roses (my new favorite rose is Sugar Moon, a luscious white rose, with an incredible scent). La Sumida Nursery, in Goleta, has a vast selection of roses.

Don’t forget, your existing roses will benefit from a deep pruning now.

In the spring column, we’ll need to talk about the “elephant in the garden.”

•MJ

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On Entertainment (Continued from page 24 24)) cultural upheaval of the 1960s. The story takes place in February 1964 on the night the 22-year-old Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) won the heavyweight championship. He headed over to Malcolm X’s suite at the preeminent motel catering to African-Americans in Miami in that era, where they were joined by football great Jim Brown and soul superstar Sam Cooke.

Principal actors Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, and Leslie Odom Jr. were interviewed by SBIFF’s Roger Durling last month prior to the film’s limited theatrical release on Christmas Day. One Night in Miami starts streaming on Amazon Prime on January 15.

Meanwhile, writer-director Eugene Ashe and composer Fabrice Lecomte discussed their new film, Sylvie’s Love, about a young woman who has a summer romance with a saxophonist who takes a summer job at her father’s record store in Harlem and much later reconnects to discover that their feelings for each other have not faded with the years. Sylvie’s Love is available now on Amazon Prime. Visit youtube.com/user/officialSBIFF to watch either Q&A session.

Film Talk

Conversation About a Conquering Cattleman

Filmmaker Robin Hauser’s cause-based documentary films at Finish Line Features include Bias, about how unconscious gender bias affects the way people are hired and promoted and how projects get funded, plus CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, which exposes the dearth of American female and minority computer science engineers. The latter film premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2015, and has caught the attention of the international tech industry and of policy makers and educators in Washington, D.C. and abroad.

The Bay Area-based Hauser’s 2019 short Tino switches direction to tell the story of a lifelong cattleman whose dedication to ranching is confronted by the modern-day forces challenging his way of life. As Northern California experiences severe drought, expanding vineyards, and the declining price of beef, Tino adapts to changing conditions and continues to nurture the cattle, his ranch – and the woman he loves.

Hauser will hook up with a SBIFF programmer for a virtual conversation about Tino at 6 pm on Thursday, January 14 in the next installment of SBIFF’s Film Talk series. Visit sbiff.org/filmtalk for details, registration, and a screening link.

Talking Screenwriting at Pollock

The Diary of a Teenage Girl is the 2015 comedy-drama that earned writer-director Marielle Heller an Independent Spirit Awards for Best First Feature.

The film received a lofty score of 87 from review aggregate Metacritic for its sharp, funny, and provocative account of one girl’s sexual and artistic awakening in 1970s San Francisco, largely told without judgment.

Matt Ryan, director of the Pollock Theater at UCSB’s Carsey-Wolf Center, will have a virtual conversation with Heller – who helmed 2019’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, which netted Tom Hanks a nomination for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of TV icon Fred Rogers – as part of the program’s Script to Screen series at 7 pm on Tuesday, January 19. The Diary

Marielle Heller’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl will be among topics covered at Script to Screen series session on January 19

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Everything’s Jake for Ukulele Master

All of the UCSB Arts & Lectures House Calls and Race to Justice virtual events have been recorded specifically for the Santa Barbara community and every program concludes with a live Q&A session with one of the A&L staff or a member of the local area arts or education community. But perhaps none of the visiting artists feels more like a local than Jake Shimabukuro.

Our little Eden-bythe-sea was one of the early stateside stomping grounds for Shimabukuro after he Jake Shimabukuro became a sensation thanks to a YouTube went from unknown to video of him covering George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gentlly Weeps” in 2005 international sensation thanks to a jaw-dropping YouTube video of him creatively covering George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gentlly Weeps” in New York’s Central Park back in 2005.

“I was very, very lucky with the timing,” Shimabukuro said in a phone interview last week. “YouTube was brand new, and when that thing went viral, the term viral video wasn’t even invented yet.”

As time has gone by, the ukulele master has drawn comparison to such legends as Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, and Bela Fleck for his ability to transform how the tiny instrument was perceived, taking the four-string, two-octave ukulele on musical adventures that are almost impossible to believe, along the way creating an amazing amalgam of sound that touches on rock, jazz, blues, bluegrass, classical, and folk as well as more traditional Hawaiian music.

And while the irrepressible virtuoso has traveled the world, Shimabukuro still considers Santa Barbara more than a home away from home, as he shared that “I always have to go walk up State Street and go out to Stearns Wharf and out to the pier to the end. It’s just so peaceful and quiet that I could sit there for hours. There’s a vibe there, a sense of community, and of course all the great restaurants and the beaches. it’s about as close to Hawaii as you can get in the States.”

In fact, Shim’s connection to the community happened even before he played his first official public note in town at SOhO in 2007 when, having completed the sound check, the musician and his manager headed downstairs from the music club to grab a bite and discovered Arigato, the popular sushi restaurant.

“Oh, my God. It’s the best sushi I have ever had,” said Shimabukuro, who is of both Hawaiian and Japanese descent. “And then we met the owners and the people who work there, who are all the kindest, nicest people.

We just got so close and have become such good friends. Every time I go to Santa Barbara, I look forward to seeing them and reconnecting.”

Santa Barbara also happens to be home to some of Shim’s recent cherished collaborators, including rock-pop superstars Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald, as well as sometimes-resident Jack Johnson, all of whom appear – along with Lyle Lovett, Bette Midler, and others – on his latest album, Jake & Friends, that would have been released last year if not for the pandemic.

Making it was another milestone for the ukulele master.

“I’m still super shy that even if I hear through the grapevine that someone is familiar with my work, it’s still so hard for me to reach out and ask,” he admitted. “So it was so surreal to actually be in the studio with them and be able to observe their process.”

Santa Barbara is also near and dear enough to his heart that when he was asked to talk details about the solo concert he pre-recorded for the upcoming House Calls stream that debuts at 5 pm on Tuesday, January 19, Shimabukuro confessed that he wanted another shot at it.

“When this interview came up, I realized that I really want to redo it,” he said. “I recorded it about seven months ago, and so much has happened since then. Whatever energy or vibe I was giving off, or the songs I chose

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot

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to play, or maybe just the way I played them – I don’t think it’s going to be right for, for where we are today. I’m going to call my manager and find out if I can do that as soon as we get off the phone.”

Such dedication – and Shimabukuro confirmed last Monday that he’d done a new video performance that morning – is just the latest evidence of how important his relationship with both the ukulele and his audience remains nearly 40 years after he first picked up the instrument at age five.

“I fell in love with it immediately,” he recalled. “Even then I would rather play the ukulele than play with Legos or video games or anything like that.

My mom and dad wouldn’t let me take it to school, so I’d immediately rush home so I could play. They would have to take it away from me so that I would do my homework or eat dinner or go to bed.”

By high school, he was grabbing classmates’ attention by arranging Metallica riffs, flamenco passages, and a couple songs from Les Misérables for the ukulele. “It was a way for me to connect.”

Soon, he developed an approach that combines absurdly fast finger-picking with slow passages that stir the soul, often blending the two in a single composition or cover song – an organic approach to music-making that has made him a legend on the ukulele. Indeed, the only person who was surprised when Masterclass.com came calling early last year to see whether the virtuoso would be interested in joining the likes of writer Margaret Atwood, chef Gordon Ramsey, producer Timbaland, basketball star Stephen Curry, photographer Annie Leibovitz, and director Martin Scorcese in creating an online course in his craft was Shimabukuro himself.

“I’d already watched more than half of their videos even before then,” he said. “I couldn’t believe they called. It was so thrilling and exciting just to be in that company. My goodness!”

In Shim’s class, he deconstructs his astounding version of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” for the masses, explaining how to capture the essence of the song by focusing on both the feeling and the key notes, aware of which parts the listeners are going to be able to infer and which part had to be explicitly played.

Now, he can truly no longer sidestep the honorary title of “Ambassador of the Ukulele” that he used to deflect by simply stating that he’d always “just been a fan” of the instrument. But there’s no doubt that joy from four decades ago is still his primary motivation.

“There’s something about the instrument that just brings out the kid in you, takes you back to your childhood to when you were innocent and had big dreams of making the world a better place,” he said, the words seeming more poignant coming the day after the invasion at the U.S. Capitol.

“There’s something about playing the ukulele that brings people together.

There’s the sense of going back to the basic needs of expression, just coming together over music. I said it at that TED Talk 10 years ago when the theme for that year was ‘What the World Needs Now’ that we needed more people to play the ukulele. And it’s still true: if everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place.”

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‘Face’-ing a Troubled Past

Award-winning Santa Barbara writer, editor, writing coach, and conference leader Marcia Meier has just published her sixth book, another nonfiction work, but this time the subject is her own life. Face tells her story of childhood trauma and abuse, and issues of identity and faith all stemming from Meier having been hit by a car and losing the left side of her face and eyelid at age five. She underwent 20 surgeries and spent days blinded by bandages, her hands tied to the sides of her hospital bed, over the next 15 years, but although she was scarred both physically and emotionally, abused at school, and blamed and rejected by her mother, Meier survived and went on to create a successful life as a journalist, wife, and mother. But that controlled world was confronted at midlife and she began a journey into the darkness of her past, her true identity, her deepest beliefs, with the spiritual and emotional exploration resulting in the writing of Face.

Meier is the former director of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, founding director of the Summer Writing Institute at Antioch University here in town, a 10-year veteran of the Santa Barbara News-Press where she largely served as editorial page editor, and has taught locally at Westmont College, Brooks Institute, and Santa Barbara City College Adult Education. Her previous nonfiction works include the coffee table book Santa Barbara, Paradise on the Pacific, as well as how-to’s for authors Navigating the Rough Waters of Today’s Publishing World and Critical Advice for Writers from Industry Insiders.

Meier will talk about the creation of Face, which was published on January 12, in a virtual talk for Chaucer’s Books at 6 pm on Thursday, January 21. See it on Zoom at zoom.us/j/96222780200, or visit www.chaucersbooks.com for more info.

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Miscellany (Continued from page 20) The Condor’s well-seasoned, impressive crew: Captain David Beezer, Austin McNeir, Devon Hunt, Kelly Kohls, and Adam Fenster (photo

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Captain Beezer unloading and securing the second contained life rafts into place, each capable of holding 100 passengers (photo by Priscilla)

50-mile roundtrips to the Channel Islands.

The Environmental Protection Agency, which is overseeing the Clean Air Act legislation, has also provided a grant covering nearly a quarter of the cost of the engines and the installation which were moved into place with considerable precision by Big Red crane driver Richard Sawtell, who lowered the huge pieces of machinery through the small deck hatches like he was threading a needle.

“It’s quite nerve wracking,” he admitted. “But after seven years I’m used to it and manage to keep my cool.”

The boat’s longtime captain Dave Beezer, who was on hand to supervise the installation, joined us for lunch on the boat’s deck with scrumptious fare from Brophy Brothers, sister eatery to John and Sue Bennett’s popular Santa Barbara harbor nosheteria, which opened in Ventura Harbor 13 years ago.

After its major refit the popular vessel is scheduled to return to our Eden by the Beach on Valentine’s Day. How appropriate...

The Wall Street Bump

Retired high tech executive Jan Wesemann is getting priceless publicity in the Wall Street Journal this week as she puts her 20-acre French country-style Montecito estate on the market for $12 million.

Jan moved into the 7,600-squarefoot, five-bedroom, seven-and-a-half-

985 Park Place property nestled against a backdrop of the Santa Ynez Mountains (photo by Priscilla)

bathroom house, built in 2001, 10 years ago and brought up her four daughters on the Park Lane property, which also includes a four-car garage, a media room, an en suite guest bedroom, and a 10,000-gallon holding tank for water.

“The girls are now married and living around the country, so I want to downsize,” Jan tells me. “Being featured in the Wall Street Journal is an incredible opportunity given its outreach.”

Sandy Lipowski of Sotheby’s Real Estate is dealing with the sale.

Miscellany Page 304 Owner Jan Wesemann on the phone being interviewed by Jessica from the Wall Street Journal, which will feature her home listing this month (photo by Priscilla)

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Welcome to the Neighborhood

Mega TV producer Don Bellisario has bought a new home in Montecito for $5.2 million, just a tiara’s toss from his old estate near Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner’s San Ysidro Ranch.

Bellisario, who created myriad television shows, including Magnum P.I., JAG, and the NCIS franchise, found his new 1989 built, 6,875-square-foot estate with three bedrooms and three and a half baths, with a guest wing, on 3.17 acres.

Don’s former estate on Las Tunas Road was the setting five years ago for his 80th ‘40s style birthday bash, which I was exclusively invited to cover with my loyal lenswoman Priscilla.

The party, which featured characters in World War II uniforms, cigarette girls, and a full orchestra, also boasted a host of actors from his TV series, including David McCallum from NCIS, who found major fame in the ‘60s as Illya Kuryakin in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., with Robert Vaughn, and Scott Bakula from NCIS New Orleans.

Ellen Back in Action

After coming down with the coronavirus, Montecito TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has clearly recovered well.

She was spotted riding her Haibike electric bicycle rather than driving her Porsche or Mercedes and Land Rover SUVs around the Upper Village.

And this week she is scheduled to restart her long running show, which is taped at Warner Bros. in Burbank, but without the usual audience, given the pandemic.

Welcome to the Club

Renee Grubb’s Village Properties, a leading residential real estate brokerage in our Eden by the Beach, is now an elite member of Forbes Global Properties, a new curated consumer marketplace connecting discerning buyers directly to the world’s finest homes and the best agents that represent them.

Established as an invitation-only consortium of leading real estate firms around the globe, the company says it will immediately capitalize on Forbes’ engaged audience of more than 130 million monthly global visitors to connect, inform, and inspire high net worth potential homebuyers and sellers about the finest properties for sale in Santa Barbara, Montecito, Ojai, and Santa Ynez.

As a founding member, Village Properties will be one of only 100 elite brokerage firms invited to participate in the global network.

“It’s an exciting new chapter in our 25-year history,” says Renee. “It will create a powerful tool in captivating a luxury real estate clientele.”

The Mudslide, Three Years Later

It is hard to believe the Montecito mudslides disaster, which killed 23 people and destroyed more than 100 homes, was three years ago at the weekend.

On that fateful day, when 0.5 inches of rain pounded our rarefied enclave in just five minutes causing a cascade of boulders, mud, and tree branches up to 15 feet high, causing more than $177 million in damage, I had just arrived back from my three-week Christmas holiday in Cornwall, England.

When the disaster struck at 3:30 am, I was busy on my computer catching up on emails with my cottage door wide open listening to the rain when I heard a sound like a runaway freight train thundering down the creek 20 feet below me on Parra Grande Lane.

It was 11:30 am London time, so I was quite wide awake, but it wasn’t until the next morning when I walked down to the intersection of the lane with East Valley Road in my robe that I realized the actual carnage with the bridge connecting to Sycamore Canyon Road totally destroyed – it would be out of action for more than two years – and many homes concertinaed on each other, with one creekside residence totally swept away. It is only now being rebuilt.

The disaster followed the equally devastating Thomas Fire, which destroyed 281,893 acres and was the largest inferno in state history at the time, when I underwent mandatory evacuation staying at Montecito animal activist Gretchen Lieff’s vineyard near Santa Maria.

It is a memory that, for me, will last a lifetime. Memorial flowers were laid commemorating the event at the Plaza del Sol, opposite Pierre Lafond in the upper village.

Compliments to the Chef

On a personal note, I remember Albert Roux, the French-born chef whose London eatery, La Gavroche, was the first in Britain to earn three Michelin stars, who has died aged 85.

Albert and his brother, Michel, who moved to more heavenly pastures last year, opened their restaurant, named after a character in Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables, near my home off

Rest in peace Albert Roux, a culinary pioneer whose London eatery La Gavroche was the first in Britain to earn three Michelin stars (photo by Richard Vines – BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM)

Sloane Square in 1967 before moving to Mayfair 15 years later. The brothers also opened the Waterside Inn in Bray, a short drive from Windsor Castle, which was patronized by Queen Elizabeth and her mother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

I also ate there as well as Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck, a short walk away, considered one of the world’s top restaurants.

From a local point of view, Albert set his sights on Santa Barbara in 1986 and invested in his first American gastronomic venture, Michael’s Waterside Inn, which was established by an American protégé Michael Hutchings, and opened between 1984 and 1993. Michael, who was also chef at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club and Birnam Wood, retired in 2020 and moved to Charleston, South Carolina.

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County of Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Ocean Vistas, LLC Zoning Map Amendment and Comprehensive Plan Amendment January 26, 2021 Virtual Hearing begins at 9:00 A.M.

On January 26, 2021, the County Board of Supervisors will consider the Montecito Planning Commission’s recommendation to amend the Zoning Map designation on APN 011-070-002 from Public Utilities (PU) to Single Family Residential, two acres minimum lot size (2-E-1) and to amend the Comprehensive Plan land use designation on APN 011-070-002 from Public Utilities (UT) to Semi-Rural Residential, minimum parcel size two aces (SRR-0.5). The Board of Supervisors will consider the following actions: (1) make the required findings for approval of the proposed project, Case Nos. 20RZN-00000-00001 and 20GPA-00000-00001, including California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) findings; (2) determine the project is exempt from CEQA pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15061(b)(3) [Common Sense Exemption] and 15303 [New Construction or Conversion of Small Structures]; (3) adopt a Resolution to amend the Land Use Designation Map in the Montecito Community Plan to re-designate Assessor’s Parcel Number 011-070-002 from Public Utilities (UT) to Semi-Rural Residential, minimum parcel size two acres (SRR-0.5) (Case No. 20GPA-00000-00001); and (4) adopt an Ordinance to amend the Zoning Map in the Montecito Community Plan for Assessor’s Parcel Number 011-070-002 to change the zoning from Public Utilities (PU) to Single Family Residential, two acre minimum lot size (2-E-1) (Case No. 20RZN-00000-00001).

The Board of Supervisors hearing will begin at 9:00 A.M. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Clerk of the Board. Please see the posted agenda and board agenda letter available on the Thursday prior to the meeting at https://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx# under the hearing date.

For additional information, please contact Willow Brown, Planner, Planning and Development Department, at wbrown@countyofsb.org or 805-568-2040.

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Based on guidance from the California Department of Public Health and the California Governor's Stay at Home Executive Order N-33-20 issued on March 19, 2020 to protect the health and well-being of all Californians and to establish consistency across the state in order to slow the spread of COVID-19, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors meetings will no longer provide in-person participation.

We have established alternative methods of participation in the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors meetings, pursuant to the California Governor's Executive Order N-29-20, which states: 

Providing an opportunity to “observe and address the meeting telephonically or otherwise electronically,” alone, meets the participation requirement; and

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Removing the former requirement from Executive Order N-25-20 of having "at least one publicly accessible" location from which the public may observe and offer comment. Executive Order N-29-20 now states expressly, "Such a body need not make available any physical location from which members of the public may observe the meeting and offer public comment."

The following alternative methods of participation are available to the public: 1.

You may observe the live stream of the Board of Supervisors meetings in the following ways:  Local Cable Channel 20,  

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Distribution to the Board of Supervisors - Submit your comment via email prior to 5 p.m. on the day prior to the Board meeting. Please submit your comment to the Clerk of the Board at: sbcob@countyofsb.org. Your comment will be placed into the record and distributed appropriately.

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Please make every effort to be available and mute all streaming devices once it is your turn to speak.

If you challenge the project 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 correspondence to the Clerk of the Board prior to the public hearing.

Attendance and participation by the public is invited and encouraged. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors by 4:00 p.m. on Friday before the Board meeting at (805) 568-2240.

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Brilliant Thoughts

by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara since 1973. No children.

Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000.

Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com

I’m All Years

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urely it can’t be pure coincidence that the number of degrees in a circle is almost exactly the same as the days in a year. (Of course, 360 was more suitable, giving us 4 neat angles of 90 degrees.) But, while we’re on the subject, why do the times a circle’s circumference is bigger than its diameter have to be such an odd number – (and I do mean odd)? It’s called “Pi” (the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet) but has only been Pi since 1706, when an English mathematician gave it that name, representing (in both Greek and English) the word “perimeter.” As you probably know, “Pi” can’t be expressed as an exact number, no matter how many decimal places you carry it to. I’m no mathematician (obviously) – but wouldn’t it have been much more convenient if whoever designed the circle had made the circumference exactly three times the diameter?

What’s nice about circles is that they have no sides – or, if you like, they have an infinite number of sides. In any case, they’ve no beginning and no end, making them a nice metaphor for time and life and the universe. And, in their spherical 3-D persona, they seem to be a popular shape for space objects, even for ours, not to mention our own sun and moon.

That word “infinite” represents a concept not easy for mortal minds to grasp. But then, neither is “finite,” at least when it comes to human life, especially one’s own.

In this culture (I’m not sure about all the others), we measure our lives by the number of times the Earth has gone around the sun. (Before Copernicus, it was the sun that went around the Earth, but, either way, the count was the same.) We call that revolutionary period a year. And traditionally, we date our own first year from the day we emerge from our mother’s womb (although many folks will give you an argument nowadays as to exactly when life begins).

That, officially, is our actual birthday.

But we don’t start counting birthdays until the first anniversary of that day.

So, during that first year, we are, so to speak, 0 years old. But from then on, it’s a steady stream of numbers, first single digits, then – almost before you know it – double digits. But very few people ever make it into triple digits – and, in our present primitive state of knowledge about aging, and what to do about it, I’m not sure how

“Many years ago, I made a New Year’s resolution to never make new year’s resolutions.” – D.S. Mixell

many of us even want to. (They call this academic field the science of “gerontology” – but even gerontologists, while they are studying the process of growing old and dying, experience it themselves.)

The year, as a unit of time, is so standardized that our lives tend to be built around it. But our systems of reckoning are sadly archaic. For example, the years, like the temperature, are thought of as a scale which goes down to zero, and then continues going down on the minus side. And because Christians set this up, they counted the birth of Christ as Year Zero, and called any year after that “Anno Domini” (A.D., “in the Year of Our Lord”) and the preceding years B.C. (“Before Christ.”)

What’s nice about circles is that they have no sides – or, if you like, they have an infinite number of sides.

But this meant that all the B.C. years had to be counted backwards – so, the farther back you go in time, the bigger the numbers become. It was (and still is, to me) very confusing. Then, as a further complication, non-Christians didn’t like this nomenclature, so, in many contexts, instead of “B.C.” and “A.D,” you now have, “B.C.E.” and “C.E.” meaning “Before the Current Era” and “in the Current Era.” But this is merely a cosmetic change.

Another aspect of year-counting stems from our ten-fingered hands, giving us “decades” of ten years, “centuries” of 100, and “millennia” of 1000. It’s really just a game which, like our calendar, could change at any time – although, considering the way we have clung to out-of-date customs, such as calling the last four months of our 12-month year by names which, in Latin, mean Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth – no sudden change appears to be imminent.

As the word suggests, those 12 “months” originally hinged on the behavior of the Moon. But there are 12, rather than, as previously, 10, only to honor two Roman Caesars: Julius (July) and Augustus (August).

Nobody since then has ever been thus honored – but it’s something to aim for, once you’ve achieved the Nobel Prize.

•MJ 14 – 21 January 2021

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND PENDING ACTION BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO: (1) 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 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 Christopher Schmuckal at Planning and Development, 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara 93101-2058, by email at cschmuckal@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 Christopher Schmuckal at Planning and Development, 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara 93101-2058, or by email at cschmuckal@co.santa-barbara.ca.us, or by phone at (805) 568-3510.

PROPOSAL: ABULAFIA POOL PROJECT ADDRESS: 1132 CHANNEL DR, UNIT#, SANTA BARBARA, CA 931082804 1st SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICT

APPLICATION FILED: 10/14/2020

The project is for a Coastal Development Permit to allow construction of a new 17 x 40 swimming pool and internal spa.

The project also includes an approximately 100 sf accessory structure to store the pool equipment and reduce noise to below 65 decibels at the property line. Additionally, the project includes running an electrical line from the house to the pool. Grading will include 140 cubic yards of export. No native trees are proposed for removal.

The decision of the Director of the Planning and Development Department to approve, conditionally approve, or deny this Coastal Development Permit 20CDH-00000-00023 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.

RENEWABLE DIESEL (Clear and Red-dye)

http://www.countyofsb.org/uploadedFiles/plndev/Content/Permitting/AppealSubReqAPP.pdf

The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.

The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.

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Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted.

If further information is needed, contact Caroline Ortega, Senior Buyer at (805) 564-5351 or email: COrtega@santabarbaraca.gov

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Biz In English,

INVITATION FOR BIDS

Scope of Work: The City of Santa Barbara is inviting firms to bid to supply renewable diesel fuel in both clear and red-dye to the City on an as needed basis.

For additional information regarding the appeal process, contact Christopher Schmuckal. The application required to file an appeal may be viewed at or downloaded from:

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Maison K, 1253 Coast Village Road #205, Santa Barbara, CA, 93108.

Maison K, INC., 1253 Coast Village Road #205, Santa Bar-

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA – GENERAL SERVICES DIVISION PO BOX 1990, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93102-1990

DUE DATE & TIME: February 3, 2021 UNTIL 3:00 P.M.

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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Solaire Inn & Suites, 1995 S Broadway, Santa Maria, CA, 93454. Jai Shiv, INC, 1995 S Broadway, Santa Maria, CA, 93454. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 18, 2020.

This statement expires five years

Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. Each televised Council meeting is closed captioned for the hearing impaired. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CouncilVideos.

BID NO. 5883

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.

bara, CA, 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 17, 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. 2020-0003009.

Published January 6, 13, 20, 27, 2021.

On Thursday, January 21, 2021, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Most Popular, click on Council Agenda Packet.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until the date and time indicated below at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for:

APPEALS:

735 State Street, Suite 220, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101.

Bubel Consulting, LLC, 735 State Street, Suite 220, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 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. 2020-0003016.

Published January 6, 13, 20, 27, 2021.

You are invited to attend this 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, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990.

Published January 13, 2021 Montecito Journal

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: • Applicant: Abulafia Trust • Proposed Project:

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Runner’s High, 6604 Sabado Tarde Rd, Unit B, Goleta, CA, 93117. Cole Diemer, 6604 Sabado Tarde Rd, Unit B, Goleta, CA, 93117.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 5, 2021. 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. 20210000028. Published January 13, 20, 27, February 3, 2021.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The hearing is to consider a time extension of the Interim Urgency Ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Barbara Prohibiting the Conversion of Senior Mobilehome Parks and Excessive Vacancy Rent Increases, as adopted on December 15, 2020, for an additional 10 months and 15 days, or until December 14, 2021, pursuant to Government Code Section 65858 and the City Charter.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at (805) 564-5305.

If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements.

Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

THIS PROJECT IS LOCATED IN THE COASTAL ZONE DATE OF NOTICE: 1/13/2021 REQUEST FOR HEARING EXPIRATION DATE: 2/3/2021 PERMIT NUMBER: 20CDH-00000-00023 ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO.: 009-352-014 ZONING: 1-E-1 PROJECT AREA: 0.41

City of Santa Barbara

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. 2020-0003021.

Published December 23, 30, 2020, January 6, 13, 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lavish Nails, 991 Linden Ave, Carpinteria, CA, 93013. Nhan Hoai Nguyen, 740 Janetwood Dr. Apt 1, Oxnard, CA, 93030. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 15, 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. 2020-0002988.

Published December 23, 30, 2020, January 6, 13, 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Economy Inn, 607 N Broadway, Santa Maria, CA, 93454. RONIAVI INC, 607 N Broadway, Santa Maria, CA, 93454. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 14, 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. 20200002981. Published December 16,23,30,2021,January6,2021.

• The Voice of the Village •

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.

CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE Contractor must submit to the contracted department within ten (10) calendar days of an order, AND PRIOR TO START OF WORK, certificates of Insurance naming the City of Santa Barbara as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements. _____________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

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Village Beat (Continued from page 16 16)) and/or reconstructed into ADUs. All other ADUs have a four-foot side and rear setback. The new laws also increase the size limits for ADUs. Maybe most significantly, the new state regulations do not require replacement parking, if parking areas on the property are used to build an ADU. “This is a huge change,” Steele explained, as the former state laws required that one additional parking space be provided for each sleeping room in the ADU, and that the parking space could be located in the side and rear setbacks of the property if setback requirements could not be met.

Historically, prior to these ADU laws, detached secondary residential units (with kitchens) in residential zones in Montecito were only permissible on properties of at least five acres; an attached unit (think cordoning off a master bedroom and bath, and adding a kitchenette and exterior entrance) was permissible on a lot of at least 7,000 sq. ft. Now, a secondary unit (aka ADU) is permissible regardless of the lot size.

The State also requires that the review period to build an ADU is now 60 days, down from 120 days from the original laws in 2017. The State is mandating that all ADU applications are considered ministerial, without discretionary review.

If the ADU is proposed to be built in an existing structure or as part of the existing residence, only zoning clearance is required, not a Land Use or Coastal Development Permit. A building permit is only required if the ADU requires new construction to be developed. “This is basically low hanging fruit when it comes to ways to deal with the housing crisis,” Steele said. The State has also gone as far as reducing, and in some cases, waiving, development impact fees, which significantly lowers the barrier to entry for ADU development. Some homeowners could save tens of thousands of dollars, depending on the size of the ADU. So what is the point in developing local laws? Steele says the new ordinance amendments will include provisions for height, setback, size, and design standards, where applicable. “We intend to bring ADUs to be as consistent with single family homes when it comes to design standards,” Steele said. “But again, we are limited by state law.” Before these new ADU laws, all new or altered structures located within the Montecito Community Plan area were subject to review and approval by MBAR, giving neighbors the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the project, and vent any concerns or comments. This is no longer the case.

Steele reports that there have been 60 applications for ADUs in Montecito in the last year, which is expected to increase given the current lack of red tape.

The County’s ordinance amendments pertaining to ADUs will be in front of the County Planning Commission in February, and in front of MPC in March.

Draft ordinance language will be posted online a week prior to both hearings, and public input is encouraged. It’s expected that the new ordinance language will be considered by the Board of Supervisors in the spring.

To learn more about ADUs, and to see newly-developed checklists and application submittal requirements, visit www.countyofsb.org/plndev/permitting/ adu-jadu.sbc.

Homeless Camp Cleared Prior to King Tides

An abandoned homeless camp surrounded by trash, bicycle parts, car batteries, flooded tents, and more became an eyesore on the “Graveyards” beach in Montecito, at the base of the cliff below the Santa Barbara Cemetery. In a recent newsletter, Heal the Ocean says they received a call about it from a concerned

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County Sheriff deputies inspect a homeless encampment below the bluffs at the Santa Barbara Cemetery (photo credit Harry Rabin)

Big Green employees haul the debris away (photo credit Harry Rabin)

citizen last week, and it took some time to figure out how they could legally do anything about it, as one cannot remove a homeless camp in use.

“Then we learned a King Tide, the highest and lowest tides of the year, would arrive along with high surf warnings on Monday and Tuesday mornings. The King Tide is about a foot or two higher than average tide levels. Knowing that everything in this camp would soon be swept to sea, HTO Advisory Board member Harry Rabin alerted HTO Executive Director Hillary Hauser, on Saturday, that something must be done about it,” the newsletter reads.

Hauser attempted to reach officials for permission to clear out the camp, while Rabin was able to get the assistance of two County sheriffs, who came out to inspect the camp, verify that it was abandoned, and give the okay for it to be cleared. By then Hauser had engaged Big Green to come with trucks and workers to do the bagging and hauling. The crew at Big Green had been working all day, and some had even gone home for the evening. But they reversed gear and arrived en masse to the site and jumped into action. By sunset, the mess had been loaded into trucks and driven away – less than 48 hours before the high tide hit on Monday morning.

Hauser and Rabin have joined a working group organized by Santa Barbara City and County fire chiefs to work on the problem of homeless encampments in problematic and sensitive areas. For the fire chiefs, the big worry is about these camps starting fires that can become instantly threatening to the Santa Barbara community and HTO’s concern is that homeless camps, which have no sanitary facilities, should not be parked on beaches or near storm drains, in creeks, or other watersheds as they pose a risk to water quality and environmental safety.

Heal the Ocean gives big thanks to Mark Walker, the citizen who called about the situation, and to the County Sheriff department as well as Big Green, for helping on such short notice. Heal the Ocean paid Big Green’s charges for this work through a grant from Nora McNeely Hurley and the Manitou Fund. •MJ

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings

14 – 21 January 2021

Dear Montecito

by Stella Haffner

Montecito Alumni Write Letters from Life’s Front

D

ear Montecito, Exams are finished. School is out. What’s a girl to do? I could start a political campaign. How hard could that be? All in favor of banishing the word “unprecedented,” say aye.

I cleaned my room – that’s a good start. Did some work-related housekeeping too; you may notice I have a new last name. Don’t worry! No secret elopements. I’m too COVID cautious for that. In fact, Haffner is my real last name. Pierce was given to me by providence (or perhaps by our wonderful publisher, Tim Buckley) because it is the name on my email. All you need to know now is my date of birth, and you could hack into my old Webkinz account.

Ah, Webkinz. How sweet our hours together were. And how little closet space I have because you little stuffed animals are all jammed in there. But I cannot part with you! No, indeed, it is much easier to reminisce on the recent past, which is what we’re doing today. Please enjoy this short epic about wandering a small town.

St. Andrews is a very small town.

We have three commercial streets, cleverly named North Street, Market Street, and South Street. But most of the appeal of St. Andrews is, no doubt, the surrounding greenery and the nearby ruins where I try to spend much of my time. There are, however, some hidden gems within the town.

My old flat mate Keira and I decided to visit one of these hidden gems as a mini weekend adventure. A trip to the Botanic Gardens it is! But when we arrived at the gate, a sign informed us that the gardens were: “Closed. Due to weather.”

Closed due to weather? That’s gonna be a right pro’blem if ye live in Scotland, ye ken, lass. How could they be closed due to weather? It was the sunniest day in weeks! (I almost suspected that was the problem.) With limited options, Keira and I headed back towards the center of town. Our wandering brought us to the walls of St. Leonards, a local boarding school, and we enjoyed some light trespassing on the Sunday-quiet school grounds, completely ignorant of what we were about to find.

We had no idea that St. Leonards School was so big, with nice trees, a large football pitch, and… a yurt? I must’ve done something of a double take, standing there in what was now a mild, Scottish drizzle.

“Keira, check it out!”

14 – 21 January 2021

Robert’s Big ?s

by Robert Bernstein

Degrees from Physics departments of MIT and UC Santa Barbara. Career in designing atomic-resolution microscopes. Childhood spent in Europe and the East of the US. Passion to understand the Big Questions of life and the universe. Duty to be a good citizen of the planet.

Are Your Beliefs Falsifiable?

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Stella Haffner, in the confines of the Scottish yurt with the rain plodding above

We crept forward, occasionally glancing over our shoulders to check for any rogue school children or, mercy save us, groundskeepers. It would seem, however, that our adventure was over, as even seven or so meters away a padlock could clearly be seen hanging from the door. But when we reached the door, our spirits were once again stirred; the padlock had been left open.

Keira rapped on the door: “Hello?”

Nobody home.

With one more look to the grounds behind us, I unswiveled the padlock, Keira opened the door, and we swept inside. Not a moment too soon, it would seem. From inside the expansive wooden frame of the yurt (which was heated, of all things) we could hear the rain plodding above.

Looking upwards, Keira and I could see through the eye of the conical roof. And, as neither of us had brought an umbrella, we enjoyed the sight of the rain rolling off the outside of the plexiglass dome for a long while.

Best, Stella P.S. Parents of Montecito children, if you have recommendations on people to feature in “Dear Montecito” please contact me, stellajanepierce@gmail. com •MJ

used to buy snacks at the Isla Vista Deli Mart even though they were a bit more expensive than the competitors. I went there just to engage the former owner Mike in debate about Donald Trump, whom he supported.

(Note that the Deli Mart has new owners who are not Trump supporters.)

When Trump would do something especially outrageous, I would ask Mike whether this finally changed his view. Mike said he could not support Hillary Clinton in 2016 because he thought she was too close to the Saudi government. In 2018, after the Saudi government murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi and Trump sided with the Saudi government, I asked Mike whether this changed his view of Trump. No, because Hillary would not have been any better.

One day I asked Mike whether there was anything Trump could do that would make him stop supporting Trump. He said no. He likes everything that Trump does. Nothing could make him stop supporting Trump.

I explained to Mike that in science we have the concept of falsifiability: A theory can only be valid if in principle there is a way to prove it false.

For example, Aristotle said that heavy objects fall faster than light objects.

Galileo showed through experiment that a heavy cannonball in fact fell at the same speed as a light cannonball. Galileo asserted that all objects fall at the same speed regardless of weight. At the end of the last Apollo 15 moonwalk, Commander David Scott dropped a feather and a hammer and showed they indeed fell at the same speed in the absence of air. The Eöt-Wash group at the University of Washington has refined the experiment to one part in ten trillion.

Local journalist Starshine Roshell gave a delightful talk to the Humanist Society of Santa Barbara in 2008. When she was just three years old her grandfather drilled this into her. He asked, “How do you know if something is true?” She learned to answer, “Only if it’s observationally corroborable.”

We all hold beliefs that we operate on every day. Have you ever stopped to question these beliefs? In particular, have you ever asked yourself, “What in principle could prove my belief to be wrong?” Do you realize that your belief has no meaning if there is no answer to this question?

What leaders do you support? Is there anything they could do that would make you stop supporting them? If not, what does it even mean to support them?

Do you believe in astrology? Every year famous astrologers make predictions for the coming year. Does anyone ever go back to see if any of the predictions from the previous year came true? Perhaps more important, whether anything really important was missed? Susan Miller is considered a top astrologer. In January 2020 she predicted 2020 would be a “great” and “prosperous” year. What about that COVID thing? Oops. Missed that. So did every other astrologer.

I believe that the climate crisis is the most important issue facing the planet. I base this on following this issue for 40 years and watching the evidence accumulate. Could I be persuaded to change my position? Yes. If there was evidence showing that the record global temperatures in recent years were caused by some previously unknown factor that is going to go away. I would bet a lot of money that is not going to happen. How much would you bet on some of your beliefs?

Do you believe that tax cuts for the wealthy lead to increased wages for working people? That unregulated free markets would provide healthcare for everyone? That same-sex marriage will harm heterosexual marriage? That religious belief makes people more law-abiding?

Have you ever sought out evidence that might challenge your belief?

Do you believe that “voter fraud” “stole the 2020 election”? Did you consider that this claim might have been invented to cover up actual voter suppression of minorities that really did steal elections?

Care to try the Wason selection task, which tests your understanding of falsifiability? You have four cards in front of you labeled D F 3 7. The proposed rule is: If there is a D on one side of the card, then there is a 3 on the other side.

Which card(s) must you turn over to see if these cards obey this rule? Google “Wason selection task” for the answer.

Lateral Thinking author Edward de Bono said, “If you never change your mind, why have one?” I would rephrase this as: “If you don’t know what would change your mind, why have one?”

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everyone forget about San Francisco sourdough bread. Then she opened a string of wildly popular restaurants and wrote a whole slew of tantalizing cookbooks.

I wondered how she was surviving the pandemic. Like many Southern California restaurateurs, Silverton, who co-owns Pizzeria Mozza in Los Angeles and Newport Beach as well as Osteria Mozza, Mozza2Go, and chi SPACCA in Los Angeles, closed her dining rooms last spring. That was after she tested positive for COVID-19, and following the events that led to her downtown L.A. restaurants being ransacked and vandalized during early summer’s civil unrest.

But 2020 wasn’t all bad for Silverton. She wrote a cookbook, began her second-year residency in Ojai – the culinary events at Ojai Valley Inn are currently on hold – and recently celebrated the opening of a hip, new casual eatery called Pizzette at Citizen Public Market in Culver City.

For this late-December interview from her home in Los Angeles – which she fondly refers to as “San Quarantine” – she gave us her take on being a business owner and what her life has been like during the pandemic.

Q. As a business owner, what’s your take on the pandemic and its effect on the restaurant industry?

A. It has been devastating. There are so many clichés to say about the pandemic – “it’s like a bad movie,” “It’s hard to comprehend,” “It’s like living through a historically bad time,” and, sadly, they are all accurate.

You dropped out of Sonoma State University, where you were a political science major, and enrolled at Le Cordon Bleu in London. Did you feel you had a better chance at being a chef than as a politician?

I never ever intended to be a politician. Never. Isn’t poly-sci the go-to major people who don’t know what they want to study put down? When I expressed an interest in professionally becoming a cook, my father said, “If you are going to be a cook then I want you to go to the best cooking school.” Hence, Cordon Bleu.

With culinary schools like Le Cordon Bleu downsizing their programs, what advice do you have for budding chefs who want to join the service industry?

Join! And come see me about a job. But only join if it’s in your heart and soul. Join if you want to be a professional cook. Too many “budding chefs” as you call them, I think they see the TV shows on chefs and don’t realize the incredibly hard work it is as a “cook” before you become a “chef.” As for cooking schools, there are so many these days, many local that are fine. I was fortunate to have a father who sent me [to Le Cordon Bleu in the U.K.].

As a baker and pastry chef, you’ve had your share of disappointments in the kitchen while perfecting your recipes. What is the process like for you these days?

I try to make a dish as good as I can. And that involves, for example, a cook coming to me with an idea and having me taste a dish. It never, and I mean never, is ready to go as is. We tinker. We tinker. And we tinker. And it gets better. I’ll give you an example. This past week, Michael, the guy I live with [Michael Krikorian, former Los Angeles Times crime reporter] put the Christmas lights out on one [outdoor] tree, a pepper tree. And he put it on at night. But, I said, it’s not ready yet. “You need to make it better: more lights, higher lights.” The next day it got better. And the next. And finally, after the fifth day of him going up on the high steps of our ladder, it finally was good enough to “put on the menu,” or in this case to light up for the neighbors.

With Osteria Mozza, Pizzeria Mozza, and the newly opened Pizzette at Citizen Public Market in Culver City, how do you distinguish your concepts and ensure that each restaurant is unique?

The short answer is they all have distinct menus. You can’t get a pizza at Osteria or pasta at Pizzeria. Though when we were allowed to have outdoor seating at our “Piazza Mozza” — and hopefully will again soon – you could get both. As for Pizzette, we offer smaller pizzas and a completely different type of sandwich called the “stuffed pizzette.”

The one thing they have in common is they are all delicious.

How do you balance being an artistic and innovative chef with being a businesswoman?

I have an undercover agent that makes that possible. Her name is Kate and she is my director of operations. You might never know if you came by because she’s been working the takeout line at Mozza 2Go! In early 2019 you were named culinary ambassador of the new Farmhouse food and event space at Ojai Valley Inn. In what ways do you educate the public about sustainable foods?

I am as much a curator for the Farmhouse as I am an ambassador. While the Farmhouse is primarily about bringing the world’s best chefs to The Ojai Valley Inn for a grand time and delicious food, we always do touch on the important issue of sustainability when we talk about our ingredients. Our goal is to educate our guests the best way we know how, which is to serve them delicious, sustainable food.

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Nancy Silverton’s Peperonata With Ricotta Crostini, comfort food in all times

What are you cooking at home these days? Has the pandemic inspired any new recipes?

During the beginning of the pandemic, Michael and I were cooking every day at home; grilling lamb shoulder and chops, ribeyes, and various fish. But for the last few months we have mainly just been getting food from Mozza. As for new recipes? Always.

Pandemic or – and hopefully soon – no pandemic.

NANCY SILVERTON’S PEPERONATA WITH RICOTTA CROSTINI As published in Bon Appétit magazine 8 Servings

INGREDIENTS PEPERONATA ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil 1 large red onion, halved, cut into 1/4”-thick slices (about 2 1/2 cups) ¼ cup thinly sliced garlic cloves 2 teaspoons kosher salt, divided, plus more for seasoning Freshly ground black pepper 2 red bell peppers, seeded, cut into 1/4”-thick slices 2 yellow bell peppers, seeded, cut into 1/4”-thick slices 2 orange bell peppers, seeded, cut into 1/4”-thick slices 1 tablespoon Sherry vinegar 1 tablespoon dried oregano 2 teaspoons sugar 1 cup Basic Tomato Sauce (recipe also found on Bon Appétit’s website) ½ cup pitted Arbequina or Niçoise olives ASSEMBLY INGREDIENTS 3 tablespoons thinly sliced flat-leaf parsley leaves, divided 2 cups D.I.Y. ‘Ricotta’ or store bought 4 Crostoni Bagnati, halved diagonally High-quality extra-virgin olive oil Maldon sea salt or fleur de sel Freshly ground black pepper PREPARATION Step 1: Position a rack in middle of oven; preheat to 375°. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion, garlic, 1 teaspoon salt, and a pinch of pepper; cook, stirring occasionally, until onion and garlic are translucent but not browned, 7-8 minutes. Add peppers and remaining 1 teaspoon salt; cook, stirring occasionally, until peppers begin to soften, about 5 minutes. Add vinegar, oregano, and sugar; stir for 1 minute. Add tomato sauce; stir for 2 minutes. Season peperonata with salt and pepper.

Step 2: Spread peperonata in an even layer in a 13x9x2” baking dish. Bake for 10 minutes.

Remove from oven; stir in olives. Return to oven; bake until top is browned in spots and peppers are nicely roasted, about 45 minutes. Let cool at least 10 minutes.

Step 3: Divide peperonata among shallow bowls; sprinkle with 2 tablespoons parsley.

Mound ricotta on top of Crostoni Bagnati. Drizzle with high-quality olive oil and top with a pinch of sea salt, pepper, and 1 tablespoon parsley. Rest 1 toast on each bowl.

•MJ

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