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Cold Spring School puts project plans on hold until after November school board election, p.13

Bob Hazard and Dick Shaikewitz go face-to-face, neck-to-neck, and head-to-head (but hardly arm-inarm) as Montecito’s Water Board election gets just a little bit ugly (opposing positions begin on p.5)

Right At Home

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Water Wars

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Montecito Miscellany

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Letters to the Editor

Bob Hazard expounds on the MWD Board’s upcoming election and sizes up the candidates Rancho San Carlos; gala for Fareed Zakaria; Forbes rich list; Kevin Hart success; Gwyneth’s Goop; Roger Durling has a ball; State Street Ballet; Changing Lives bash; Bella Vista; Macbeth at New Vic; Green Gala; and Blues on the Bayou for Silvio Di Loreto Jim McEachen on water and Floyd Wicks; Randolph Siple’s final word; voting guide from Dr. John Burk; J’Amy Brown’s history lesson; E.P. Berrier surveys the South; Anita in praise of the Journal; and Dale Lowdermilk’s social studies

10 This Week

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Knitting and crocheting; poetry club; 10 West Gallery reception; Robert Eringer at BoHenry’s; golf tourney; Avocado Festival; Linda Thompson; Cynthia Waring; The Met at MAW; Happiness Hour; Lotusland plant sale; Table of Life Gala; MBAR meeting; Spanish group; book club; Lego creations; hiking trails; The New Yorker; Happiness Hour; dinner at Mount Carmel Parish; cancer walk/run; art classes; Cava entertainment; brain fitness; Story Time; Pilates; Italian talk; artisans and farmers markets; and Cars & Coffee

Home.

Tide Guide

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

13 Village Beat

Cold Spring School project delayed; Coast Village Plaza upgrades; MWD forums; Miramar groundbreaking; MFPD honors three residents; Westmont College blaze; and hiker found safe and sound

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Lynda Millner makes an appearance at the Big Heart Awards; SB Museum of Natural History hosts Artwalk; An Evening in Bloom; and Festival of Flowers

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16 Coming & Going

James Buckley recalls Larry Crandell, who will be honored at Marjorie Luke on Saturday; The Moving Wall replica showcased at Chase Palm Park; author Robert Eringer; and Jelinda DeVorzon and Linda Thompson

20 On Entertainment

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Steven Libowitz sets the scene for One Love Experience near Ojai; musician John Sebastian; Cynthia Waring at Center Stage; and Old-Time Fiddlers’ Convention & Festival

Movie Guide 25 Water Wars, Part 2

Richard Shaikewitz touches on California’s drought and gives his own assessment of the hopefuls for the MWD Board of Directors ballot

26 Real Estate

Mark Hunt explains market “shifting” and forces while highlighting four more properties available from the Foothills to San Ysidro Ranch’s vicinity

28 Your Westmont

U.S. News & World Report ranks the college No. 99 in the country

35 Brilliant Thoughts

For Ashleigh Brilliant, time is of the essence as he dissects the past, future, memory, history, dreaming, and time travel

36 Trail Talk

Lynn Kirst chronicles Montecito Trails Foundation barbecue; Hearts Pegasus luncheon October 13; and “Stories by the Stagecoach” on October 15

42 Behind The Wheel

Randy Lioz gives a tour of the Marconi Museum in Orange County, where the gallery’s creator steers stories to keep our minds racing

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44 Spirituality Matters

Steven Libowitz gets in touch with Dawa Tarchin Phillips (among others) when it comes to mindfulness and meditation; Compassionate Communication on October 8; and therapeutic writing with Paul Zakrzewski

46 Legal Advertising 50 Calendar of Events

1st Thursday with Edward Clynes exhibit; Brian Culbertson at Lobero; The Who in the Bowl; Laura Marling at SOhO; Cambridge Church hosts Bill & Kate Isles; LINE Ballet toes the Granada line; Peter Gros lecture; Lucinda Lane at SOhO; and UCSB screens O.J. Simpson documentary

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Water Wars

by Bob Hazard

Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club. The following opinions and statements are his own and are not necessarily those of the editorial board of Montecito Journal.

The Election is Near

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t’s October, and it’s still hot and dry, just as it has been all summer. In less than a week, your 2016 election ballot will arrive by mail, and for the first time in eight years you will have an opportunity to elect two new Montecito Water District (MWD) Board members for four-year terms. Who are the two best candidates to solve our water woes by securing new sources of reliable water that are independent of future rainfall?

The five members of the current MWD Board have a combined service tenure of 55 years, attempting, without success, to secure a reliable water supply at an affordable cost for Montecito and Summerland. The question for voters is: “ Should we keep doing what we are doing, or is it time for a fresh start? “

Jan Abel, Retiring Director

Jan Abel has been serving on the MWD Board for a quarter of a century.

This year, she chose not to complete her candidate filing for another four-year term. Her failure to file enabled Tom Mosby, the former general manager, who retired on March 4, 2016, from MWD after spending nine years as GM and 17 years as engineering manager, to file for a board seat.

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It is unusual, to say the least, for a board candidate to be receiving a CalPERS pension valued at nearly $200,000 a year, including lifetime health benefits. This vested financial interest makes it difficult for Mosby to objectively vote on MWD salaries, COLAs, employee pension benefits, and future healthcare programs.

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The 1929 property in the foothills of our tony enclave, which consists of a 30-room, 25,000-sq.-ft. house, is also known as the Jackson Ranch.

It was built by Ann Gavit Jackson Rancho San Carlos may have found a buyer and her husband, Charles H. Jackson, orchards – 60 acres for lemons, 30 for and has been in the family for three avocados, and five each for oranges limes. There is also a 11,250-sq.-ft. generations. It is currently owned by and a grandson, Jim Jackson, who says: covered riding area built in 1930.

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Monopolies and Their Discontents

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n his two-part rebuttal to my letter to the editor (“Montecito Voters Beware,” MJ #22/36) warning Montecito voters about Mr. Floyd Wicks’s tenure at Golden State Water, Mr. Wicks continues to insist that his experience as CEO of Golden State Water uniquely qualifies him for a vacant seat on the Montecito Water Board (MJ #22/37 “Wicks Ready to Serve” Parts 1 & 2). Perhaps he has not read the words that the California Appellate Court used in its decision against Golden State Water in their attempt to overturn a local election in Ojai that funded a bond to buy out Golden State’s interest in our water district and repair its long-neglected infrastructure.

Monopolists have long been unpopular in this country. When King George III’s chokehold on government led to intolerable levels of taxation, he was forced to divest his holdings. At the end of the 19th century, Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act with only a single dissenting vote.

(26 Stat. 209, as amended, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1-7.) Introducing his landmark bill, Senator Sherman summed up the prevailing sentiment: “If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.” (21 Cong. Rec. 2457 (1890).)

The court went on to state, “residents of Ojai, fed up with sky-high water bills, voted to oust appellant Golden State Water Company, the private utility that monopolizes water service to their city.” And yet Ojai is not alone in revolting against the water monopolists. Claremont is in a similar fight with Golden State, and recently Los Osos began its own movement against Golden State, and there are others. I would never deny Mr. Wicks his success as a businessman. With the help of the Public Utilities Commission, which in effect legitimizes the Golden State monopoly, Mr. Wicks has made his company and its stockholders a lot of money. Unfortunately, that business

success has come at the expense of many ratepayers in many communities who have been left with poorly maintained, crumbling infrastructures. The real question for Montecito voters is whether Mr. Wicks’s experience as a the chief executive of a utility monopoly is an appropriate background for a citizen seeking a seat on a municipal utility – a utility owned by the people of that municipality, not a private, for-profit entity.

The case of the destruction of the Ojai Playhouse by a broken Golden State water main was not the central argument of my original letter, but as Mr. Wicks has focused so much of his rebuttal on it, I feel the need to clear the air on that subject. Mr. Wicks claims that water main breaks are inevitable and it is unreasonable to expect otherwise of any system. I can certainly accept this as a reasonable statement in and of itself. Accidents happen.

What I have a problem with is the number of such accidents that have occurred in Ojai to Golden State’s system. And why after two years does Golden State Water continue to refuse to repair the Playhouse, forcing the owner to pursue litigation against them and their insurance carrier?

How would Santa Barbara residents feel if the Granada Theatre had been destroyed in a similar incident? And

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And yet the water main break that destroyed the Ojai Playhouse is not a solitary, isolated case. Water main breaks are epidemic in Ojai. I personally counted over 20 breaks on the water main that runs down the road adjacent to my property before Golden State finally decided that part of the main needed to be replaced. These water mains breaks occurred between 2006 and 2008, in the last years of Mr. Wicks’s tenure as CEO of Golden State. At that time, there were also multiple breaks along Grand Avenue and Signal and at countless other locations around town. Golden State did finally replace these lines, but only after the Public Utilities Commission granted them an 11% return on investment, in the form of rate increases, for every dollar they proposed investing in repairing their under-maintained system.

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This Week in and around Montecito

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7

Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

California Avocado Festival Carpinteria welcomes the avocadoinspired festivities that come every October. This year, expect 75 free music acts on four stages, plus countless food vendors and retail vendors.

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

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

Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. This month: Marianne Moore (1887-1972) When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Opening Reception 10 West Gallery hosts opening reception for new show, which includes art from Iben G. Vestergaard, Marlene Struss, Laurie MacMillan, Madeline Garrett, Pat McGinnis, Beth Schmohr, Pat Calonne, Stephen Robeck, and Sophie Cooper. Featuring a variety of media including: metal sculpture; oil and cold wax on canvas and panel; photography; acrylic, and mixed media on canvas and panel.

When: 5 to 8 pm Where: 10 W. Anapamu Street Info: 770-7711 Book Signing at BoHenry’s Cocktail Lounge Hosted by Chaucer’s Book Store, novelist Robert Eringer will sign and read from his new road novel, Motional Blur. All drinks half-price, free pizza.

Age 21 and up.

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

Book Signing at Tecolote Linda Thompson will sign her book, A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in Between.

When: 5 to 7 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977 One-Woman Show Cynthia Waring presents Bodies Unbound, her one-woman theater piece memoir about her career as a massage therapist for 37 years after leaving a newage convent to avoid being on the streets.

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

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 Happiness & Meditation Hour Led by Manas Lele from the Art of Living Foundation, the Happiness Hour will offer numerous tools that facilitate the elimination of stress and foster deep and profound inner peace, happiness, and well-being. It is an interactive and experiential stress-buster session where participants will have the opportunity to

The Met: Live in HD Tristan und Isolde / Richard Wagner The Met season opens in a new production by Mariusz Treliński (the director responsible for the 2014-15 double bill of Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle) and will be well-served by a cast of outstanding Wagnerians: Nina Stemme as Isolde, Stuart Skelton as Tristan, Ekaterina Gubanova as Brangäne, and René Pape as King Marke, with Sir Simon Rattle conducting.

When: 9 am Where: Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Road Cost: $28 Info: musicacademy.org experience energizing breathing technique and relaxing meditation; experience alertness, and relaxation at the same time. No experience in breathing exercises or meditation is required.

When: 10 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Lotusland Exceptional Plant Sale This signature event is designed for garden connoisseurs, featuring rare and hard-tofind plants. Enjoy a wonderful afternoon at Lotusland with wine, specialty cocktails, and sumptuous hors d’oeuvres served on the lawn. The highlight of the event will be a spirited live auction during which more than a dozen rare, special plants will go under the gavel. Other collectible plants and garden items will be offered during a silent auction, and for those impatient plant lovers, there will be a “buy it now” section of interesting and not-so-common species, many propagated from Lotusland plants.

Proceeds from the event will be used to care for and support Lotusland’s botanical collection.

When: 1:30 to 5:30 pm Cost: members $60, non-members $85 Reservations: 969-9990 Table of Life Gala The Foodbank hosts the 5th Annual Table of Life Gala, which brings together chefs, winemakers, and foodies to celebrate Santa Barbara County’s finest. Guests will enjoy a seasonal farm to table dinner prepared by local top chefs Michael Hutchings and Christine Dahl, wine, cocktails, and a silent auction. Plus live music by the popular Doublewide Kings and guest speaker Fred Kass, M.D., Cancer Center of Santa Barbara. Proceeds

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

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito.

When: 2 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Cold Spring School Board Meeting When: 6 pm Where: 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road Info: 969-2678

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library announces a new Spanish Conversation Group. The group will meet on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month beginning today. The Spanish Conversation Group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

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

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12 Montecito Library Book Club Join for a lively discussion of this month’s title. Current title is Still Time by Jean Hegland; new members always welcome.

When: 1 to 2 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Build with Legos Drop in and build a fun Lego creation using your imagination. Lego building fosters creativity and is a fun way to build on early literacy skills. All materials are provided and no experience is necessary.

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

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Hiking Santa Barbara’s Historic Backcountry Trails Join local author James Wapotich as he shares images, stories, and trail conditions from his treks through our local backcountry. James has hiked many of the trails in the southern Los Padres National Forest. He is a volunteer wilderness ranger with the Forest Service, and is the author of the Santa Barbara News-Press hiking column, Trail Quest.

When: 7 pm Where: Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 W. Anapamu Street Info: (805) 729-4250

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker.

When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 Happiness & Meditation Hour Led by Manas Lele from the Art of Living Foundation, the Happiness Hour will offer numerous tools that facilitate the elimination of stress and foster deep and profound inner peace, happiness, and well-being. It is an interactive and experiential stress-buster session where participants will have the opportunity to experience energizing breathing technique and relaxing meditation; experience alertness and relaxation at the same time. No experience in breathing exercises or meditation is required.

When: 10 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Dinner & Music Our Lady of Mount Carmel hosts an Italian dinner to benefit both the Church and the Italian Earthquake Relief Fund. The dinner includes Italian chicken stew, polenta, vegetables, and salad. A live auction and live entertainment will also be part of the evening.

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hen we last reported on Cold Spring School’s (CSS) plans to build a new administrative building and classrooms near the entrance of campus, the project was moving forward and groundbreaking was on track to take place in February 2017. Now, after careful consideration and a closer look at the school’s financial picture, the school board has pressed the pause button on the project. “We want to do it right and not rush it,” said school superintendent Dr. Tricia Price, who, along with board president Bryan Goligoski, sat down with us earlier this week.

“We are very happy with how far we took the project,” Goligoski told us, explaining that the current school board will see some turnover after November’s election. Two seats are up for grabs on the board, including the one held by Goligoski, who has been on the board the last eight years.

Three candidates are running for those seats: current board member Gregg Peterson, former teacher and former CSS parent Kathy Davidson, and current CSS parent Amanda Rowan.

“This is the first time in sixteen years we’ve had a contested election,” Dr. Price said.

Those elected will join current board members Jennifer Miller, Kim Ferrarin, and Leslie Kneafsey. “It makes more sense to allow the new board to make its own financial decisions, instead of rushing to push the project forward and leaving them to figure it out,” Goligoski said.

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It was time to have the Big Heart Awards and donor appreciation party.

The Montecito campus was “given” to Friendship Center by the reverend George Hall from All Saints-by-theSea Episcopal Church in 1979. Later, he would benefit from its services. It’s a charming building centered around a wonderful courtyard where we had the Big Heart Awards. There was live music by Larry Duff, a wine bar courtesy of Buttonwood Farm Winery & Vineyard and Qupe, and heavy hors d’oeuvres from Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara.

Greeting guests for the mix-andmingle hour were most of the board of directors, including president Kathy Marden, vice president Pat Forgey, secretary Pamela VanderHeide and CFO Jacqueline Duran along with

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Mistress of ceremonies Pamela Dillman Haskell got the program going by sharing, “I’ve been involved with Friendship Center for 12 years in various capacities. I love this place.” The Big Heart Awards winners are always a secret and are given for outstanding service through the years. This year’s winners were Joanne Talbot (presenter Dana VanderMey). Susan Kohn (presenters Esther Katz and Flora Burnham) and the California Retired Teachers Association, whose president Frank Stevens accepted the award from Karolyn Hannah.

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arry Crandell, “Mr. Santa Barbara” to many, and “Mr. Montecito” to me, passed away August 30 at the age of 93. He – along with Dana Newquist, Katherine Abercrombie (who also passed away recently), Andy and Dolly Granatelli, Gillian Christie, and Bruce and Jane Defnet – was among Montecito Journal’s very first subscribers. In addition to his check for $12 for a yearly subscription (we were monthly then), Larry added a personal note and invited me to breakfast with him at Tutti’s (now Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf) on Coast Village Road.

During that first breakfast, Larry congratulated the paper on its fledgling efforts and proceeded to reveal he wasn’t religious, that he didn’t believe in an afterlife or a supreme being, but that he was dedicated to making other people’s lives better in spite of that.

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personal revelations of my own that he no doubt stored away in that gifted memory bank of his.

As “Mr. Santa Barbara,” Larry emceed practically every fundraiser and gala that took place in those days (early to mid-1990s right through the first decade of the 21st century). Two of those events come to mind: once, during a Channel City Club engagement at the old Miramar, Tennessee senator Fred Thompson, then considered a potential presidential candidate for the Republican Party, was the invited speaker. Larry, as emcee, parried with the guest speaker and flippantly made fun of his tie. At one point, Senator Thompson looked askance to one of his aides and asked, “Who is this guy?” not knowing that high or low, Mr. Santa Barbara treated everyone equally.

Another fundraiser at the Coral Casino featuring a number of high-profile audience members, including Michael Douglas and his then-wife, Diandra, Chris and Maryann Edgecomb, and, well, anyone who was anyone in Santa Barbara, Larry co-emceed with comic Dennis Miller. For every humorous description, story, or one-liner Miller threw out, Larry had a snappy comeback, sometimes outdoing Miller. Together, they performed like two seasoned masters of ceremony cajoling reluc-

tant audience members into emptying their pockets for the cause. One of the auction items of that particular evening was lunch with Kirk and Ann Douglas; I believe the Edgecombs bought that... for $50,000. Larry knew where the deep pockets were, and half the time he’d shame those pockets into bidding on things they clearly neither wanted nor needed.

Larry Crandell made people laugh, even when he told a joke he’d told a hundred times before; he tugged at their deeper emotions and was so damned charming he proceeded to help make things happen, lots of things. That list is long and substantial, everything from the then-new YMCA in the 1960s to Westmont housing to Elings Park to...

If someone wants to erect a statue of Larry, we’d be supporters of the effort.

The public is invited to join Larry’s family and friends in an appropriate good-bye set to take place at the Marjorie Luke Theatre at 721 East Cota Street (in the SBJHS building) on Saturday, October 8, beginning at “11 am sharp.” Doors will open at 10:30 am and friends and acquaintances are asked to bring their own memories and stories of this exceptional man. McDonald’s franchiser David Peterson will be serving apple pie,

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It’s a Fareed Country Tim and Monica Babich opened the doors of their charming Montecito estate to host a reception and dinner

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Zakaria, who studied at Yale and Harvard, was speaking at a sold-out UCSB Arts & Lectures event at the Granada.

He writes a weekly column for The Washington Post and has been a columnist for both Newsweek and editorRich and Luci Janssen with Fareed Zakaria (photo by Grace Kathryn)

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at-large for Time, as well as writing five books, three of them international best sellers.

His lecture, A View From Home and Abroad, coming just 12 hours after the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton – which garnered a record audience for more than 83 million viewers – made particularly interesting listening.

Among the supporters turning out for the bash were executive director Celesta Billeci, Hugh and Kelly Boss, Rich and Luci Janssen, William and Kristin Loomis, Charles and Betsy Newman, Jim and Stephanie Sokolove, and Heather Silva.

Richest of the Rich It’s one of the world’s most exclusive and expensive clubs, with the price of entry exceeding $1.5 billion.

But, needless to say, many residents of our rarefied enclave meet the criteria to be in the heady ranks of the Forbes world rich list, with Oracle computer tycoon Larry Ellison, 72, who has three homes in our Eden by the Beach, ranked at number seven with $43.6 billion, which is a drop from the $47.5 billion he was estimated to be worth last year.

Microsoft magnate Bill Gates, 60, remains on top for the 23rd consecutive year, with $75 billion, while Spanish tycoon Amacio Ortega, 80, owner of

the Zara fashion brand, is ranked number two with $67 billion, and Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffet, 86, comes in third with $60.8 billion.

Amazon magnate Jeff Bezos, 52, who booked every room at the Biltmore last week for his annual Camp Fire comference for celebrities, authors, and innovators, is number five with $45.2 billion, followed closely by Facebook tsar Mark Zuckerberg, 32, with $44.6 billion.

Google’s Sergey Brin, 43, is lucky number 13 with $34.4 billion and sports giant Nike’s Phil Knight, 78, is at number 24 with $24.4 billion.

Tesla’s Elon Musk, 45, who hit the headlines last week with his futuristic plans to colonize Mars, is valued at $10.7 billion at number 94, with Montecito resident and Google honcho Eric Schmidt, 61, who lives on TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres’s former estate, is at number 100 with $10.2 billion.

Further down the rich list are Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, 49, owner of England’s Chelsea soccer club, with $7.6 billion at 151, entertainment tycoon David Geffen, 73, at number 176 with $6.5 billion, and two fashionistas Giorgio Armani, 82, with $6.4 billion and Polo potentate Ralph Lauren, 76, with $5.5 billion, ranked

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COMING & GOING (Continued from page 17) The Moving Wall, a half-size replica of Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, will be on display at Chase Palm Park on East Cabrillo Boulevard from Wednesday, October 12, through Monday, October 17

coffee, water, and Diet Coke after the event, and attendees will receive a free copy of Steven Crandell’s loving memoir of his dad: Silver Tongue, Secrets of Mr. Santa Barbara.

Oh, and along with your story or memory (LifeChronicles will be there to record those in a video booth), wear your favorite bowtie. If you don’t have one, buy, rent, or borrow one for the occasion. Larry was partial to bowties and virtually never wore a traditional tie. Tickets are available online at www.lifechronicles.org or call (805) 682 3411.

At the conclusion of the remembrance, a family finale will take place onstage with a Community Sing Along, and closing remarks by Steven Crandell.

••• And this, from Judi Weisbart, who is helping put the reception and remembrance together: “Larry’s true calling was raising money for nonprofits. So it’s only fitting that this celebration will benefit local students through the Larry Crandell Scholarship Fund at the Santa Barbara Scholarship Foundation. The family is grateful for Tom Parker’s leadership and the generosity of the Hutton Parker Foundation to make Larry’s last gig one that truly serves the community.

“To Larry, giving was second nature.

If you feel so moved, we invite you to donate to the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara in Larry’s name. You will find an envelope in each book.”

The Moving Wall

I am a Vietnam era U.S. Navy veteran, so visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., was a required pilgrimage for me. Visiting the wall, with more than 58,000 names of U.S. servicemen and women killed in the conflict, is a moving and unsettling experience. Reading the hundreds of notes from their children, their loved ones, their parents, their friends, stuck on the black granite wall wherever a space presents itself, or on the ground underneath, brings one to tears.

If you’ve never visited the wall in Washington, the Moving Wall, a half-size replica, is coming to Santa Barbara, thanks to the private efforts of a group of military veterans who have made it their cause to bring this (and another just like it) to as many U.S. cities as possible. The Moving Wall came to Santa Barbara’s Chase Palm Park on Cabrillo Boulevard once before, in 2011, whereupon as many as 20,000 people paid their respects.

It’ll be here again from Wednesday, October 12, to Monday the 17th.

The Moving Wall will be staffed 24 hours a day by Vietnam veterans, currently serving military personnel, and civilian volunteers. During the hours of darkness, the wall will be bathed in a sheen of golden light and will be visible to passersby on Cabrillo Boulevard.

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Robert Eringer, author of Motional Blur, held a recent book signing at Tecolote and copies of his book, signed by the author, are available at the book shop

If you’d like to do more than just visit the wall, you are invited to contribute $100 to sponsor one of the flags flying onsite during the time of the exhibition. Your contribution will be acknowledged in writing at the base of the flag. When the wall leaves, the flag will be yours. They are also looking for more volunteers, so for more info, please go to info@vvvachapter218.org or call (805) 284-6372.

A Motional Blur

He arrived in Montecito in 1999 for a “summer vacation” and liked it so much he decided to move here, and author (and former spy) Robert

Eringer did so in 2001, mainly to see that his daughter Claire graduated from high school. Claire graduated and now lives in Montecito with her husband, Marcus Boyle, who works at Sequel Salon on Coast Village Road.

Their son, Rylan, currently attends All Saints Pre-School.

Robert has written and published a number of non-fiction books, as well as novels, and I’ve read a few, but his latest – Motional Blur – is by far his best effort. It’s really a novella, clocking in at just under 200 pages, and is something one could read at

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one sitting, during, say, a five-hour cross-country flight. Which would be appropriate, as Motional Blur is a road novel and takes places in familiar territory: Montecito, Santa Barbara, Santa Ynez Valley, Las Vegas, and parts north. The book is not only a good read, but delivers a satisfactory and surprising jolt at its conclusion.

I found myself loath to put it down, eager to get back to it when business intervened. Best-selling author T.C. Boyle, also a Montecito resident, has offered strong words of praise for Motional Blur.

Eringer began his literary life as a published author in the traditional sense. His book, Strike for Freedom: The Story of Lech Walesa and Polish Solidarity, was published by Dodd, Meade & Company in 1982. Ruse: My Undercover Exploits With FBI Counter Intelligence was published by Potomac Books.

Along the way, he became disenchanted by the slowness of the publishing industry and decided to become a self-publisher.

“I couldn’t escape the stigma,” he admits as we sit at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Coast Village Road for a short interview. “There is a difference between vanity publishing and self-publishing, but not enough people parse the difference,” he says.

So, he has determined that “There’s nothing quite like conventional book publishing. It’s much more respectable,” and advises aspiring writers that “no matter how long it takes and no matter what you have to give up, it’s the better way to go.”

Eringer credits some of the literary power of Motional Blur to Skyhorse Publishing’s editor-in-chief, who adopted the book and “did some serious editing” on it. “But, the writing is all mine,” he adds.

“It’s a road novel,” he explains.

And, like all road novels, it’s the journey that matters. “Let’s face it,” he says, “we all end up at the same destination; it’s the journey – what we do, what we learn, how much fun we have, what we experience – that matters. I think a road-trip novel, maybe better than any other, is able to convey that.”

There is a crispness to Eringer’s writing style, and you will enjoy this delightful short read. You can find Motional Blur at Tecolote in the upper village and at Chaucer’s in Santa Barbara, as well as, of course, on Amazon.

Eringer resides in Montecito with his wife of 37 years, Elizabeth Claire, and their younger daughter, Olivia.

A Friend of Jelinda

You’ve read in these pages an admission of sorts: that there are a • The Voice of the Village •

few women in this town we simply cannot say “No” to. They are Diana Starr Langley, Hiroko Benko, Gerd Jordano, Dolly Granatelli, Hillary Hauser, and Jelinda DeVorzon.

These ladies have us in thrall, and we are unable to deny even the grandest request, though most are minor and easy to fulfill. So, when Ms DeVorzon asked that I write “a little something” about a friend of hers who has written a book and is set to sign it for fans at Tecolote on Friday, October 7 (from 5 to 7 pm), we naturally agreed to do what we could.

Little did we know that this “friend” is a powerhouse who needs nothing from Montecito Journal. Truth be told, Jelinda was bestowing a great honor on us by suggesting we could help author Linda Thompson, whose book, A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner and Songs in Between is bound to become a best-seller despite our meager ability to publicize it.

Linda, you see, was the wife of Olympic gold medalist Bruce (now Caitlyn) Jenner. And she was Elvis Presley’s longtime live-in lover and moved into Graceland after the king’s breakup with Priscilla. Did I mention Linda was also Miss Tennessee (Universe)? Or that one of the songs she wrote with her husband, David Foster – “I Have Nothing,” sung by Whitney Houston in the film The Bodyguard and sung regularly by contestants on shows such as The X Factor, The Voice, and American Idol – was nominated for an Academy Award?

Oh. In any case, any friend of Jelinda DeVorzon’s is a friend of ours. If you’d like to meet this dynamic and talented woman, you are invited to Tecolote Book Shop on Friday, October 7; Linda will be there (as will Jelinda, and Bui Simon) from 5 to 7 pm.

Tell them you read about it in the Montecito Journal, would you please?

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Mosby the day after his retirement. Because there is a required 180-day wait period before a retired GM can serve as a paid consultant, the board contract with Mosby was changed from a “Consulting Services Agreement” to a “Retired Annuitant Service Agreement” – whatever that is.

The bottom line is that Mosby is being paid at the maximum hourly rate that can be paid to an ex-GM. This is known as “double dipping.” Mosby’s consulting contract continued even after the arrival of the new general manager, Nick Turner. It is a bad business practice to have the old GM serving beside the new GM. After 26 years with MWD, it is difficult to view Mosby as a candidate for change. His forte was doing what he was told; not thinking outside the box.

Under his watch, the board failed to file its 2010 and 2015 state-mandated Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP). For two decades, the MWD Board has rejected the re-use of recycled water in cooperation with the Montecito Sanitary District. Negotiations with the City of Santa Barbara for desalinated water have gone nowhere.

Worst of all, a legal settlement announced in July of this year by judge Thomas Anderle, of the Santa Barbara County Superior Court, leaves MWD customers on the hook for a $1.86 million settlement against our District, plus another $500,000 in legal fees we have been ordered to pay to the opposing attorneys, plus, presumably, another $500,000 of our own attorney’s fees.

With two board members-attorneys, plus outside counsel, at every board meeting, it is difficult to comprehend why our District lost a class-action lawsuit for improper rate reclassification, a violation of Proposition 218, which states that a punitive pricing system is illegal in order to generate “substantial revenues” from water service. The board’s answer: “We will only have to pay the half a million in attorney fees to the other side’s lawyers this year. The large payout on the judgment won’t hit us until the following year.”

Wow! That’s a relief!

Charles E. Newman, Incumbent Candidate

Charles Newman was appointed to the board in July 2015, championed by fellow former Midwestern trial lawyer, MWD Board president Dick Shaikewitz. Newman has tried unsuccessfully to initiate change. His effort to appoint a strategic planning committee of the board was soundly rejected by

the other members, even though Newman argued that the last long-term plan filed was in 2005.

Newman also claims to have championed a new plan for the use of recycled water. This same plan from Goleta Water District was shopped around to every other water district along the coast and was rejected more than a year ago. It calls for 2,000-gallon tanker trucks from Goleta to rumble through Montecito, offering Goleta’s excess wastewater to Montecito homeowners.

What Newman does not talk about is the cost of the Goleta truck plan. A 2,000-gallon truckload carries 2.7 HCF of water. Residents are billed in HCF units. The Goleta cost per HCF is $94, more than 10 times the cost of potable water purchased from MWD. Another way of looking at the cost is that each acre foot (AF) of recycled water bought from Goleta would cost a staggering $40,903, or 17 times more expensive than the estimated cost of desalinated potable water at $2,400 per AF, now deemed too expensive for consideration.

If this is such a good deal, why not sell trucked water from our own Montecito Sanitary District to Montecito homeowners?

Newman is a class-action trial lawyer. Board meetings often resemble a courtroom battle between Newman and Shaikewitz, each trying to win dominance over the remaining three board members. The board’s paid outside attorney serves as a referee. This fight for pre-eminence between competing trial lawyers is toxic and can only be resolved by one less lawyer. Newman is the only one up for re-election this year, so he should go.

The Dysfunctional MWD Board

All boards, public and private, suffer when there is minimal turnover in board members. When the world around you changes at warp speed; when you lose your two primary water supply sources in Lake Cachuma and Jameson Lake; when you have no margin for future drought protection; when you were warned by your own consultants of your lack of groundwater storage, and you continue to do business in the same old way; when you rely on “phantom water” over-promised by the State; and when you purchase imported water that can’t be delivered to Lake Cachuma because of pipe restrictions, it is time for a board change.

Tobe Plough and Floyd Wicks, Candidates with Fresh Ideas

Fortunately, two highly qualified candidates have emerged this year with excellent credentials: professional planning expertise, fact-based solutions and the necessary experience to navigate this District through the treacherous world of regulatory restraints on water supply. Divisiveness is out. This board needs reasoned voices to bring all parties to the table to find new ways to work together to craft mutually beneficial partnerships.

The present board has had years to solve its problems; it has failed to deliver.

This board needs an infusion of new thinking, new ideas, and new leadership.

Tobe Plough and Floyd Wicks both have a demonstrated record of solving problems. Wicks has a 35-year record of successfully serving millions of water users in California. Plough has built his career crafting coalitions in support of a wide range of public initiatives.

Together, these two candidates will help MWD achieve a reliable supply of water, a responsible funding plan, and a realistic delivery system. As Mark Twain once noted impishly: “Incumbent politicians and diapers need to be changed often, and for the same reason.”

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Water Wars, Part 2

by Dick Shaikewitz Mr. Shaikewitz is president of the Montecito Water District Board of Directors. The following views are solely his own, and not necessarily those of the Montecito Water District (MWD) Board of Directors.

Worst Drought Requires Best Candidates

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e are entering the sixth year of the worst drought in California’s recorded history. There are four candidates seeking two board seats on the five-member MWD Board of Directors. Which two will best serve the customers of the District?

A good director is one who is smart, hard-working, and caring. That would be all four. But the director must also have knowledge of water, and be familiar with, and understand the complexities of the MWD and Santa Barbara County water agencies. That would be two of the four.

Tobe Plough

I have only met Mr. Plough on an occasion or two. From what I know of him, he is a hard working caring community leader. But I could find nothing indicating that he has any background or knowledge of water. If Montecito and Santa Barbara County were in normal water supply conditions, there would certainly be time for Mr. Plough to learn on the job. But in crisis management, due to the severity of the current drought, a director, in order to make informed decisions needs to know and understand the Brown Act; the new Water Laws coming our of Sacramento; MWD’s financial and water supply conditions, including the legal basis for establishing water rates and charges; and water supply and demand management.

My concern is that having Mr. Plough on the MWD Board at this time would be like a community, in the throws of a terrible epidemic, deciding that it will rely on a first-year medical student to try to find a cure.

Floyd Wicks

There are two candidates with extensive water knowledge. For many years, Mr. Wicks, who is one of them, headed a large for-profit water company that owned many smaller water companies in California. There is a big difference between for profit and not for profit water companies. The for profit companies are regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC). The PUC sits and meets in Northern California, and has the reputation of being deferential to the for profit companies — giving them pretty much what they ask for while paying little heed to the communities they serve. These companies are governed by a board of directors that can meet in private and keep much of their information private.

A not for profit water company such as MWD meets locally, its records and proceedings are all open, and every two years, anyone from the community who cares to run for its board can do so. It is the local community that selects and elects its board of directors.

My concern is that Mr. Wicks’s main interest appears to be to privatize the MWD. He recently met with MWD’s general manager and explained the benefits of a private water related company for whom he just happens to be a consultant.

In a recent issue of Montecito Journal, Jim McEachen from Ojai wrote a letter titled, “Montecito Voters Beware.” It read: “As a resident of Ojai, I would caution Montecito residents to think carefully before supporting the candidacy of Mr. Floyd Wicks….” He was “…the former CEO of American States Water, parent of Golden State Water of which he was also president and CEO….” “I would submit…that Mr. Wicks’s long tenure… uniquely disqualifies him for any role as a public servant responsible for the circumspect management and equitable dispensation of our vital resources.” The letter writer goes on to say that Ojai water users “pay over three times more for water” than their neighbors in the Casitas Water District, which is a not for profit district similar to MWD. Mr. Wicks’s responded via a letter in the MJ of September 22-29, in which he states, “I retired as president and CEO of American States… in 2008… after serving in that capacity for sixteen years.” And with reference to the Ojai letter, “all of this happened long after my affiliation with Golden State had ended.”

Well, three judges of the California 2nd District Court of Appeals, in an opinion filed on 4/14/15, seem to disagree with him. “Nothing is more necessary to life than water. Residents of Ojai, fed up with sky-high water bills voted to oust appellant Golden State… the private utility that monopolizes water service to their city, and replace it with… Casitas Municipal Water District….” “Golden State is unwilling to sell its business.” “Casitas is a publicly owned water utili6 – 13 October 2016

ty….” “Golden State charges its customers rates that are more than double those charged by Casitas, and the disparity is growing. Over a 20-year period, Golden State’s average annual rate increase was nearly twice that of Casitas.”

Mr. Wicks seems to have overlooked all those pre-retirement years when he was president and CEO and set in motion the rates and policies that continue. To date, Ojai has spent more than half a million dollars on legal fees in its attempt to get away from Mr. Wicks’s former company. No wonder Golden State is resisting. They have a cash cow to feed their stockholders.

If you are considering voting for Mr. Wicks, you might want to talk first to anyone who lives in Ojai or Claremont. To date, Claremont (another city trying to break away from Golden State) has spent more than $3 million and may have to spend an additional $2 million.

Tom Mosby

The candidate with the most knowledge about MWD is Tom Mosby. He has been a member of our community since 1963, and for the past 25 years worked for the MWD – first as its engineer, and then as the unanimous choice as general manager. Mr. Mosby was and is extremely dedicated to MWD and the community it serves, and is very familiar with the complexities of water in Santa Barbara County. As MWD’s engineer, he gained great knowledge of the entire District’s water system. He conducted a capital program that included miles of water main replacements and re-engineered the system for the delivery of State Water. As GM, he effectively managed the District through its worst water-shortage crisis and set up a water supply and demand management strategy that will carry MWD into the future, even with continuing drought conditions.

More importantly, he was available at all hours. He could frequently be reached on evenings and weekends working at the District office. At various times, he did double duty for the District — serving at the same time as GM and engineer. He retired about six months ago, but at the board’s request, he stayed on in a limited capacity as engineering consultant serving the new GM. Even now, he bills far less than the time he spends working to assist the District and its customers.

As a board candidate, he follows in the footsteps of other retired Santa Barbara County water agencies’ GMs who served, or are serving, on water district boards: Bob Liebernecht from Carpinteria; Chuck Evans from MWD GM to Goleta Water Districts (GWD) Board; and Kevin Walsh from GWD GM to Santa Ynez Water Conservation District ID1.

Charles Newman

Mr. Newman has been a MWD Board member for about 15 months. He was the unanimous choice of the board following an extensive interview process to replace a retiring board member. Like Mr. Plough, he had no real water experience; but earlier had served for two years as the attorney for a major Midwestern sanitary district. Further, unlike any other MWD Board candidate, he spent the better part of three months, prior to his board appointment, at the MWD offices going over District minutes, policies, maps, contracts, manuals, water laws, and procedures. He came when the drought was in its fourth year, and spent countless hours and days both before and after his appointment to learn as much about the District as possible.

Conclusion

In about a month, two new directors for the MWD will be chosen by a community vote. There are a few MWD customers who attend an occasional meeting, have their own ideas on how to solve the statewide drought and water shortage condition in Santa Barbara County, believing they know more about water than the current board. These customers are vocal in their pronouncements and think that a new board is the answer. The cities of Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, and Goleta are all having the same water shortage problems we have. As an example, Santa Barbara, even with its desal facility scheduled to come online in four months, is considering prohibiting lawn watering, and has raised its rates so that many of its customers are paying more than MWD customers pay for the same amount of water.

This is a statewide problem affecting not only the urban water supply, but also causing irreparable environmental damage where millions of trees have died.

Several communities have totally run out of water. The State is trying to help those who are desperate. The officials in Sacramento do not place Montecito in that category with MWD customers, on average, using up to four times as much water per person as other communities.

Please give much thought on who can best help the MWD before you vote.

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Real Estate

You’ve got what it takes to be a Cardinal!

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On Market Forces

by Mark Ashton Hunt

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

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ou may have read that the real-estate market is “shifting,” that sales are slowing and that sales volume is down in one area or price range. You may also have read that the “high end” is slowing down, but prices are up; it can be confusing.

Some of what you may have read is true. In Montecito, some well-priced homes with amenities and benefits to buyers haven’t moved. These are homes on good lots with pools and views and desirable school districts that have added value features and price reductions and yet, still have not sold.

With current lot values and construction costs, one would be hard-pressed to reproduce any of these listings for what they are being offered, price-wise.

Additionally, all the following homes are in the Montecito Union School District, have had one or more price reductions, and have been on the market more than 200 days.

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longer than expected and cost more money than estimated. The project, which will be ultimately approved and overseen by the Division of State Architect, includes a lobby area and administrative offices, as well as three classrooms.

A former iteration of the project included two classrooms, but the adhoc committee which was formed earlier this year suggested slightly increasing the building’s footprint and decreasing the size of the lobby and office space to create a third classroom. The classrooms will replace the three portable schoolrooms that are currently on the campus; the portables have been damaged by weather over the years and were never intended to be permanent structures.

The design of the building, which will create a more formal entry onto campus, will be cohesive with the school’s current architecture; a Spanish-style building with white walls and a terra cotta-colored roof.

The school board has long since had a goal of creating a more secure school; currently the business office is located in the center of campus, which requires visitors to traverse the campus to locate the office. Two sets of restrooms are also slated to be included, with one set for students that could be accessed from the playground. The plans also include a cov-

ered outdoor learning area, as well as a covered walkway.

Dr. Price said the project would fit the school’s needs for at least the next 30 to 40 years, based on projected enrollment numbers. Enrollment is currently at 174, and population studies have shown that number is expected to hold steady, Dr. Price added.

Once the new board is seated, there is much preliminary work to be done on both the revised design of the building and survey work to assess taxpayer support of a future bond.

“The community is going to have numerous opportunities to give feedback,” Dr. Price said.

In the coming weeks, the school will provide the venue for a Candidate Forum, so parents and community members can hear from the three candidates vying for the vacant seats on the board. CSS is working with the Montecito Association to find a non-parent moderator for the forum, and the date of the forum has yet to be determined. We’ll have it listed in our calendar once a date is finalized.

For more information, visit www. coldspringschool.net.

Coast Village Plaza Upgrades

Last week, remodel construction began on Coast Village Plaza, the

A rendering of the new stairs and patio area at 1187 Coast Village Road. Construction commenced on the remodel project last week.

20,000-sq-ft retail center located at 1187 Coast Village Road. All businesses remain open during the construction, which is expected to be finished next summer.

Preliminary work began earlier this year with a new roof and the removal of two specimen pine trees on the northeast setback of the building. Now, the extensive work on the west side of the building (the stairs leading to the former location of Here’s the Scoop) has begun, with the stairs and associated concrete patio being demolished to make way for an upgraded staircase and expansive patio area. Other exterior

improvements include upgrades to the 60-space parking lot that fronts Coast Village Circle, and upgrades to the decks, exterior patios, lighting, signage, doors, landscaping, and elevator, and repair and replacement of supports. The building will also get a makeover with new paint.

The building currently houses retail tenants Giovanni’s Pizza, Here’s the Scoop, The Tennis Shop, UPS, Norvell Bass Cleaners, Riviera Smiles, Sequel Salon, and Richie’s Barber Shop. Dani Boy, the children’s clothing shop next to The Tennis Shop, closed its doors

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Jack Michael Staniforth June 9, 1954 – Sept. 21, 2016

Your Westmont

by Scott Craig (photography by Brad Elliott)

Jack Michael Staniforth, 62, of Carpinteria, Calif. passed away peacefully with his wife, Mary, at his side on Sept.

21, 2016 at Serenity House.

Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

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ike’s journey began June 9, 1954 in Santa Barbara when he was born to Beverly Joan and Jack Floyd Staniforth. Born and raised in Santa Barbara, Mike received a certificate of merit from the Chef de Cuisine Association of California and was trained as a garmache chef. He opened Bonaventure Restaurant in Los Angeles and the Brown Pelican here in Santa Barbara, he was Executive Chef at Santa Barbara Yacht Club, Birnam Wood Golf Club, Andria’s Harborside Restaurant, San Ysidro Ranch and H&R Cattle Co. where he met his wife. He later became Project Manager at Giffin & Crane where he oversaw the creation of some of the most beautiful homes in Santa Barbara. Mike was also a member of the Clampers (E Clampus Vitus De La Guerra y Pacheco #1.5) dedicated to the study and preservation of the heritage of the American West.

Mike is survived and forever remembered by his wife Mary, his son Logan, his loving sisters Karen Kester and Jodi Kester, his brother Gary Staniforth, and his nieces Andria Kester and Michelle Staniforth.

Mike was one of the most generous, loving people with a passion for fishing and cooking. Mike’s father thought it was apropos that a fisherman know how to properly prepare his catch. His friends and family benefited from his passion by enjoying his culinary creations. He is best known for his cheesecake and macaroons. His recipes will forever remind everyone of his generous nature and creativity.

Friends and family are invited to join the family on October 15th at 10:30 am at Butterfly Beach for an oceanside gathering followed by a celebration of Mike’s incredible life at noon at upper Manning Park, 449 San Ysidro Rd, Montecito, CA 93108.

In lieu of flowers, the family has requested donations be made to the Serenity House, VNHC Foundation, 509 East Montecito Street, Suite 200, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, 805-690-6290.

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estmont remains in the top 100 best liberal arts colleges

by U.S. News & World Report for the eighth straight year. “America’s Best Colleges, 2017 Edition” lists Westmont as tied for No. 99 out of the nation’s liberal arts colleges.

Only eight other liberal arts colleges in California appear in the top 100: Pomona (T-4th), Claremont McKenna (T-9th), Harvey Mudd (T-21st), Scripps (23rd), Pitzer (T-32nd) Occidental (T-44nd), and Thomas Aquinas (53rd) colleges. Soka University of America, which was reclassified in 2010, ranked 41st.

“The ranking affirms Westmont’s distinctive educational experience, which transforms young men and women into effective leaders with character,” says president Gayle D. Beebe. “Students grow deeper in all areas of their lives — intellectual, spiritual, and personal – while developing their talents, discovering their calling, and preparing for a lifetime of service.”

Westmont improved in several U.S. News categories, including SAT/ACT 25th to 75th percentile (1050-1300), freshmen in the top 10 of their high school class (37 percent), and percentage of classes under 20 (65 percent).

Westmont is just one of two liberal arts colleges among the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) in the top 100, and the only one in California to be listed in the first tier.

Now in its 32nd year, the U.S. News list states a college degree is one of the most important investments an individual can make, according to a recent study by the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers.

“The earnings gap between a college and a high school graduate continues to widen,” reports Farran Powell of

U.S. News, “with those earning bachelor’s degrees making nearly $1 million more in their lifetime compared with those with only a high school diploma, the report found.”

U.S. News collected data from more than 1,800 colleges and universities, ranking them by different categories and evaluated on up to 15 indicators of academic excellence, such as freshmen retention, faculty resources, and graduation rates.

“Along with the U.S. News rankings, I hope college-bound students consider such factors as community, spiritual life, and their relationships with faculty when choosing a college,” says Silvio Vazquez, dean of admission. “About 80 percent of students participate in some kind of community service. The student to faculty ratio at Westmont is 12 to 1.”

For four straight years, Forbes Magazine has ranked Westmont in the top 100 colleges and universities in its survey, “The 100 Top ROI Colleges: The Grateful Grads Index.”

In a new ranking, Forbes names Westmont No. 10 of the “Top 50 Most Entrepreneurial Colleges in the Nation” in 2015 based on the number of businesses started by graduates.

The Washington Post listed Westmont as No. 15 in the nation among colleges and universities in 2014 with the greatest salary growth between average starting and average mid-career salaries of graduates.

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Finally, with regard to Mr. Wicks’s claim that residents of Ojai “pay approximately half” of what Montecito and Summerland residents pay in water rates: this is more than a little exaggeration. It is a false equivalence to compare Montecito and Ojai water rates, as they depend on completely different sources and distribution infrastructures. Ojai does pay approximately 25% less than residents of Montecito and Summerland, not 100% less. Water bills are a little more complex than just the rate matrix.

There is also the meter charge, which is 100% more expensive in Ojai, while Montecito residents pay more for their usage rates and slightly more than we do for their version of our WRAM surcharge. But then, Mr. Wicks should know all of this. The question is why is there a need to exaggerate the actual facts? And if he really wanted to make a fair comparison of our water district to a district very similar to it, he would have compared it to the Casitas Water District, a municipal water company that charges a third as much for the same water Golden State Water distributes to Ojai.

I had not planned to write a rejoinder to Mr. Wicks’s rebuttal of my letter. He certainly has a right to defend himself, but in consideration of the fact that he has now authored two such rebuttals to my original letter,

I felt that an answer to some of the claims he was making was appropriate. Clearly, Mr. Wicks has experience in the water business. Montecito voters just need to decide whether this is the kind of experience they want or need. From my own personal experience, I would suggest that it is not.

For anyone interested in Ojai’s struggle with Golden State Water, please visit Ojai Friends of Locally Owned Water, Ojai Flow at ojaiflow. com Jim McEachen Ojai

My Last Announcement

Randolph Edward Siple, born June 5, 1933, in Glendale, California, left this world on September 20, 2016.

It is with some regret that I tell you I have died, but with no regret that I have joined so many of my friends on the other side. Let me tell you a little about my life.

Soon after my birth to a very liberal lady, I hit the decks a common sense conservative and a Renaissance man.

(Such a person is restless in learning and studying, and there is no end to it.) Because of a split family, I attended some 13 elementary schools, two military schools, one junior high, and two high schools. No middle schools.

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Randolph Siple (a.k.a. Rooster Bradford), who passed away at the age of 83 on September 20, learned to play 13 musical instruments in his long and fruitful life, including the Scottish bagpipes

I graduated from Stanford University in history and political science. Then ROTC sent me to Germany as a tank platoon leader.

Once I was back stateside, I graduated from USC as a doctor of law. I practiced law in Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, and finally Ventura County. I was both a prosecutor and a private attorney. I joined the Navy Reserve as an officer in intelligence and retired from that service. At one time, I led a law firm of eight lawyers and designed and built the office building known as Lincoln’s Inn in Ventura. When I came to believe progressives pushed the law business into an extortion racket, I quit and started several companies, developed raw land, built homes, et cetera. In the process, we ended up with several ranches and a brewery (Smoke Mountain) and winery (Rincon Mountain).

Somewhere along the line, I collected some 30 cars and restored many of them. I made ship models, learned to play some 13 or so musical instruments, including the Scottish pipes.

With all this, I founded and led the swing band named The Society Big Band. We played in most of the hotels in Ventura, Los Angeles, and specially played aboard the Queen Mary and at Avalon for New Year’s Eve. Once, my small band played under the wing of the Spruce Goose in Long Beach.

For over 16 years, my family and I have opened our ranch above the Pacific to New Orleans Jass and BBQ on the first Sunday of every month. No charge. It is the West Coast Traditional Jass Club. No, Jass is correct if you know your history.

I have written the following books: It Is S.A.D., Islam, The Death Star, The Naked Man, and America, Without Progressives. They can be found at Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

The most important events have been my family. I have three sons, Shaun, Edward Darren, and Tanner,

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and one daughter, Heather. My wife, Susan, has been my best friend and life’s partner. We have loved each other very much and still do.

Besides being in politics most of my life, the thing that I am very proud of is that I have had many business partners and they are all my friends.

To do that, you must be honest, fair, and always ready to help. Since this is my last opportunity to say so, I have concluded that every society is divided into three parts. One is left and dangerous, one is the middle and waffles back and forth, and one is to the right where all the common sense folks work and play.

You know where I have been.

Personally, I would rather slip out the back door with a wave of my hand and a shout good-bye, but the family will want a day to remember. So be it. Keep a scotch and soda ready – I might come back!

Randolph Siple Ventura (Editor’s note: A memorial service to celebrate the life of Randolph Siple will be held Sunday, October 23. Visit www. theroostercrows.net for details. – J.B.)

A Voter Guide

I, like many Californians, just received the Official Voter Information Guide for the November 8 General Election. It is about as thick as a telephone book, with 95 closely worded pages explaining the record 16 Propositions on which we are to vote.

I then had the outlandish idea to actually read all 95 pages. I do not know what got into me, but I became obsessed with digging deeply into each proposal in order to get an overall sense of the merits and pitfalls of each proposal. I am a non-affiliated Independent voter and tried to use experience (I am 60ish), wily savvy, and common sense to derive a position on each measure.

May you benefit from my suggested voting positions, each with a brief explanation... of sorts.

51-School Bonds NO – Why is the president of the Teachers Retirement Association backing this bill using the often repeated claim that the money will be used to better the kids’ education? Is he worried about funding his pension and knows one way or the other this money will help fund it? Even governor Brown is against this bill saying the money (total cost $17.6 Billion) could be better spent. Needs a tighter re-write.

52-Hospital Fee Program NO – This proposition to change the state constitution is unnecessary as the legislature can and has extended the hospital fee four (4) times since 2009 using accountability measures, all without this proposition.

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53 — Statewide Approval Bonds NO — This proposition, if passed, would result in chopping up one large project into smaller phases in order to avoid a statewide vote on projects over $2 billion. It is too easy for proponents of any project involving revenue bonds to go around this if passed. It is an ineffective state constitutional amendment.

54 — Legislation Proceedings NO – This state constitutional amendment slows down the legislative process by requiring new rules to follow on every bill. It tries to introduce more of something that is already done, mainly videotaping sessions and posting information about each bill. This measure would prevent quick passage of urgent legislation.

55 — Extension of Taxes to Fund Education & Healthcare NO —This proposition wants to extend taxes that were needed only during the recession to bail out the state’s general fund and was passed under a promise it would be temporary. Now with state budget surpluses, it is not needed. It is only supported by those who benefit from it. No surprise.

56 — Cigarette and E-Cigarette Tax YES – If the American Lung, Heart & Cancer Associations all support this measure to increase the cigarette tax, that’s good enough for me.

57 — Criminal Sentencing and Parole Law Amendments NO — Call this the “Get-out-of-jailfast” measure for “non-violent” felons w/time credits for violent felons. Nonviolent is a cloudy term that includes rapists, gang gun crime, robberies, lewd acts w/children, and human trafficking. When criminals are put back into the community on parole, the county will pay the increased probation costs, not the state. When crime is spiking, who would vote for this?

58 — English Proficiency in Education NO —This is a deceptive measure in several ways. It makes it easier for low-English students to attend bi-lingual classes and avoid all-English classes; the latter classes currently serve 95% of the current student population. In addition, existing law allows bilingual classes but is designed to get students into all-English classes faster.

This measure does the opposite and will slow English learning.

59 — Political Spending-Legislative Advisory Question ? — Corporations, labor unions, and other groups spend money to influence elections. Current law makes it an extension of free speech. One can try to amend the U.S. Constitution to do otherwise but, the chances are slim.

60 — Adult Films Regulations

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? – The condom and health regulations this measure requires would probably cause adult film producers to move out of California. Maybe a good thing.

61 — State Drug Purchase Requirements NO —This measure will not work as intended, i.e., to lower state drug costs by tying them to Veterans Administration drug costs. First, the VA keeps many of its drug contracts confidential. Second, forcing drug companies to give state buyers the same deal as vets may cause drug companies to raise prices to stay profitable, only hurting vets.

62 — Death Penalty YES —This measure will save millions and free-up the courts to deal with other criminal cases instead of endless death penalty appeals. No one has been executed in California since 2006 and only 15 since 1978. We might as well acknowledge that we really have no death penalty in this state and put our money toward more useful purposes and stop the charade.

63 — Firearm Ammo Restrictions NO — This flawed attempt to “make us safe” by going around the state legislature ignores new laws coming into effect over the next two years.

It will also divert scarce law enforcement resources toward law-abiding citizens owning guns and over-burden the court system with legal challenges. In addition, the CEO of the California Peace Officers Association and the president of the California State Sheriff’s association oppose this proposition.

64 — Marijuana Legalization NO — This passed in Colorado, so let’s watch the state’s driving accident records and claims about organized crime muscling in on operations there.

I also worry about the message sent to kids by this proposition passing. We already have “medical marijuana” in this state, which works modestly well to de-criminalize possession without outright legalization.

65 — Carryout Bags NO — (See Prop #67) This is a worthless proposal to redirect the money from any store selling bags to a new state fund. A “money-bag grab” that is ridiculous.

66 — Death Penalty Procedures.

No — See Prop #62 67 — Ban Single Use Plastic Bags YES — Most in Santa Barbara will want this, as the county recently passed such a measure. Frankly, I felt I was responsible enough to recycle or dispose of such bags properly, but that liberty is no longer mine.

That’s all folks. No comment on the presidential race.

Dr. John Burk Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Thank you, Dr. Burk, for doing my job for me! – J.B.)

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M.A. History Corrected

Montecito Journal recently published a historic photo captioned as the Montecito Association (MA) Board of Directors circa 1975. I have reviewed the 1975 Montecito Association Letterhead and Ms Lutah Riggs is not listed as a board member for that year. As a matter of fact, most of the people shown in the photo as being on MA’s 1975 board were not listed on the official 1975 MA letterhead. I believe the photo depicts some MA 1975 sub-committee, perhaps the 1975 History Committee, but not the board itself. To my recollection, Lutah Marie Riggs never served on the MA board.

Because the Montecito Journal is our paper of record and because both Ms Riggs and Ms Moody played prominently in Montecito’s history, I think this is a case where the photo caption’s accuracy is of importance. I assumed the MA’s History Committee chair would request a correction; however, seeing no rectification in your last edition, I decided to take it upon myself, for the sake of the community’s history, to set the published record straight.

J’Amy Brown Montecito (Editor’s note: Ms Brown is former president, Montecito Association, and former commissioner, County Historic Landmark Commission.)

On the South, “Hate,” and Hawaii

Reflecting upon Mr. McCalmont’s letter (“Remembering the Klan,” MJ #22/38) and the parties involved, it is important to note that it’s not the parties; it’s the ideology. The Republicans, when Lincoln was president were liberal. After the Civil War, the South went conservative Democrat and this lasted mostly until LBJ signed the equal rights amendment. LBJ said we have lost the South for a generation.

This is when the GOP went conservative, with race the issue that trumps all others.

As for today, according to politicalcomparisons.net, the 10 most liberal states versus the 10 most conservative states based on a study by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the liberal states have 61.9% fewer hate groups. The average is one hate group per 308,000 people. Mississippi – the most conservative state – has one for every 73,000. On the other side of the coin, Hawaii – the fifth-most liberal state – has no hate groups. Yes, it is paradise, in more ways than one.

E.P Berrier Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: To quote a “statistic” from one of the most liberal groups in the U.S. – the Southern Poverty Law Center – is, frankly, laughable, as is the “61.9%”. Why not 73.4% or, heck,

99.99%? Additionally, there are plenty of “hate groups” in your paradise island archipelago pushing for recognition of native Hawaiians and denigrating the upstart haole “invasion.” – J.B.)

She Loves That Journal

Your paper is so intelligent, educational, and fair.

Fair, because you publish “in my defense” letters like Floyd Wicks’, and others, without taking sides. You provide a peaceful forum, where two differing opinions can speak freely and honestly. I liken this opinion platform to an impartial court, where both sides can be heard objectively, without anyone’s subjectivity getting in the way.

Thank you for the story on Paul Didier (“A Man Of Honor,” MJ #22/38); how lucky he is to have been dealt a destiny life-card of giving. The state of living a life of constant giving is so delicious, and keeps one happy and serene.

Thank you for the clip on free meals for firefighters, and the cool photo of the new electric vehicle charger. I take mon chapeau off to Pierre Lafond for financing the whole project, plus footing the bill for future electric-fill-ups.

What pleasure he must feel.

And lastly, all the politically themed letters: thank you. I abandon myself to the words of every letter writer and hang on for the thought-feel ride.

We are such passionate creatures. I personally stopped myself from being so passionately invested in politics when I realized as a teenager that the leader of a society is the perfect reflection of the collective consciousness of said society. In other words, the consciousness of the majority of the citizens in any given society is the ultimate “chooser” of its leader.

Anita (no last name given) Montecito

Mean Genes

While bureaucrats and social behavior experts are constantly attempting to understand and prevent horrific events, they may be seeking solutions that don’t exist.

For example, well-intended liberals concerned about the abundance of firearms in America want gun control.

Cities with stringent gun control seem to be just as dangerous as those without. So what’s that all about?

Whether it’s the tragic loss of innocent children at Sandy Hook, dance club victims in Orlando, or an unspeakable attack of 2015 in Paris, everyone wants immediate action and brilliant solutions.

Could there be, however, something darker, much darker, that we cannot “fix” or acknowledge?

I respectfully disagree with gun-

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ban-control supporters who think these disasters, or any disaster, can be prevented. Isn’t it possible these random acts of violence, and particularly religious-political fanaticism, are permanently hardwired into and inseparable from our nature?

Whether considering the Holocaust, the 2011 massacre of children in the Netherlands, the 2012 slaughter of 77 people in Norway, victims of the 2010 Chinese ax mass-murderer, 35 innocents murdered by a computer programmer in Australia (1996), the 1994 gun/bomb attack inside a secured German courthouse, or the 2007 machete killings in the Philippines, humans have been on the warpath since we crawled out of the caves.

Try a Google search for “List of Battles by Casualties” and you’ll find that things started going bad very early on… with the “Siege of Sidon” (343 B.C.) where approximately 40,000 people were killed.

Going back even further, we are reminded of the serious unresolvable conflicts between two brothers: Cain and Abel.

Are these, or the thousands of other violent deaths throughout history, any less tragic than the murders occurring on the streets of Chicago, Baghdad, or at a high school called Columbine?

Isn’t any lost child (or adult) a deep personal tragedy for someone?

I believe that we, a supreme example of intelligence and adaptability, became a preeminent specie primarily because of our genetic predisposition for violence. Along the evolutionary trail, some branches of our family tree were pruned, some branches (the toughest, thorniest, most dangerous or toxic) thrived.

Visualize a confrontation involving a “progressive” Neanderthal who tries to negotiate with greedy neighbors instead of defending his food, mate, or territory. The lack of compassion or sensitivity by his aggressive, less-cooperative neighbors probably ended with an ignorant, collective grunt followed by several whacks on the head.

This may explain why our enlightened ancestral “Neville Chamberlain Neanderthals” were short-lived on the evolutionary grid.

What evidence is there to dispute the argument that we are, from the inside out, just mean little animals and if so, should we keep denying that essential chromosome and our human nature?

Throughout history, including the above-mentioned tragedies, the only way to stop a bad guy with a rock, spear, or gun, is a good guy with a rock, spear, or gun.

Cautiously evolving, Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara •MJ 6 – 13 October 2016

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 19) Tiffany Rose Ortega, Alex Launspach, Nuh Kimbwala, Darlene Velasquez, Roger Durling, Dan Launspach, Carl Reyes, and Caroline Durling (photo

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Frequent visitor Jerry Jones, 75, while his top NFL team, the Dallas Cowboys, is in summer training camp in Oxnard, is at 270 with $5 billion, while Virgin tycoon Richard Branson, 66, an old acquaintance, is at 286 with $4.9 billion.

Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas, 72, who has a sprawling beach house in Carpinteria, has $4.5 billion, earning him joint 324 with presidential candidate Donald Trump, 70.

Miramar developer Rick Caruso, 57, is joint 453 with film mogul Steven Spielberg, 69, with $3.5 billion, while Montecito’s most famous resident, TV titan Oprah Winfrey, 62, is ranked at 569 with $3 billion, followed by mall magnate Herb Simon, 81, at 612 with $2.8 billion. Beanie Baby hotelier Ty Warner, 72, is at 722 with $2.5 billion, and telecommunications tycoon Craig McCaw, 67, at 1,067 with $1.7 billion.

A stellar cast.

Roger That Santa Barbara International Film Festival director Roger Durling was fêted at a Black and White Ball, the 40th annual dinner hosted by the AntiDefamation League at Fess Parker’s,

which attracted a record 327 guests and raised $220,000.

The monochromatic soirée, co-chaired by Judy Egenolf and Cindy Lyons, was emceed by Cheers producer Cherie Steinkellner, with an in-depth interview by entrepreneur Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda. com.

Jeff Barbakow presented Roger, decked out in a Tom Ford tux, with the organization’s inaugural Stand Up Community Leader Award.

Among the torrent of tony types attending the bustling boffo bash

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Brilliant Thoughts

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

That was Now – This is Then

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ime is both real and unreal. What makes it real is that it somehow causes things to change (including the hands on a clock) – and the changes are unquestionably real.

What makes it unreal is that there’s no other proof of its existence -- no way to perceive or examine it. So, it becomes a fascinating playground for the imagination.

We create metaphors in which time is a river, or an arrow, or an army on the march. We personify it as a gypsy who is always moving on, or an old man with a scythe that cuts everything – and everyone – down.

Great thinkers such as Einstein have in some ways made Time even more of a puzzle than it already was. And scientists with powerful telescopes and microscopes find objects behaving in ways so strange they seem to challenge all pre-existing ideas about time.

But it is time-travel that offers the most alluring field for speculation. Of course, we are all time-travelers, but we are limited to traveling in a single direction and at the fixed rate of speed of 60 minutes per hour. What we want is something more flexible – perhaps a machine like the one H.G. Wells imagined – some means by which we could go into what we call the “Past” or voyage to that much stranger place known (or unknown) as the “Future.”

Of the two, the Past seems at least a little more accessible. After all, we can already go there, at least for short distances, with a device we call “memory” and on longer trips down through the many-windowed tunnel of “history.” And for very long journeys, we can gaze dimly through the eyes of “geology” and “astronomy.”

But we also possess another time machine that seems to be mainly Pastoriented. It’s called “dreaming,” and is very powerful. However, that power is something over which most of us have little control. In dreams, we may find ourselves re-living experiences and re-meeting people whom we had forgotten all about. But the dream-machine also has a habit of concocting events and circumstances which, as far as we know, have never happened and could never exist.

As for the “Future,” it is a much stranger land, of which there are no maps, because nobody who goes there ever comes back. Many people claim to have “premonitions,” usually, for some reason, of bad rather than good, 6 – 13 October 2016

or even just ordinary, events -- and there are numerous stories of allegedly “telepathic” predictions, which make enjoyable telling and hearing about – but none of this lore has ever stood up to rigorous scientific testing and analysis.

Ask everyone you know if they have ever had a “psychic” experience, and the chances are that you will soon have a large collection of impressive personal accounts, many seemingly inexplicable, unless you admit the possibility of “pre-cognition.”

It is time-travel that offers the most alluring field for speculation I myself have had just one, which at the time I thought quite remarkable.

It happened in 1994. I dreamed that a certain well-known person had committed suicide. Upon waking, I actually wrote this down, as I sometimes do after a particularly vivid dream. A few hours later, I heard on the radio news that said person had in fact just died.

But it was not suicide (or at least never publicized as such).

Still, for some time afterward I thought of this experience as “psychic,” until I read a “de-bunking” type of article which made me realize how many times in my life I had dreamed of things which never did happen.

And I had to acknowledge (and continue to believe) that this was simply an example of that well-known phenomenon called “coincidence.”

If I really could visit the Future (and it wouldn’t have to be very distant) one thing I feel sure of is that, unlike the Past, it would be so strange and frightening that I wouldn’t want to stay there.

In the Past, (assuming I couldn’t change anything) it would be interesting to be able to solve certain mysteries, such as where Shakespeare spent his “missing years,” about which we know nothing.

But ultimately, we come back to the mystery of Time itself. We’ve all heard that “Time is money” -- but how can that be, if money is not time?

The richest person in the world can’t buy a nano-second of it. And you and I are both lucky that I had the time to write this, and that you had time to read it.

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ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 20) most famous appearances.

The singer-songwriter, now 72, a 2000 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, talked about the old days and today over the phone in advance of his concert Wednesday night, October 12, at SOhO.

Q. You are responsible for so many 1960s classics such as “Darling Be Home Soon”, “Summer in the City”, “You Didn’t Have To Be So Nice”, “Daydream”, “Younger Girl”, and “Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?”

Did songwriting in those days come easy, or was it a struggle?

A. It varies song to song. I’ve spent as much as a whole summer on a single song. But those ones that you finish in four minutes are the ones that last the longest and people like the best. Not that many came from my personal life. You have to use your imagination. But “Do You Believe in Magic” came from an event that was important. We were playing in a little club that just had poetry readings, and one night there was a young woman in the corner who was dancing, and that just gave us hope. Sure enough, only a week or two later we started to see all the beautiful young girls come in just to hear Spoonful playing.

You famously played an impromptu set at the original Woodstock Music Festival only a year after leaving Spoonful, just you and your guitar. How were you not overwhelmed just by the size of the crowd?

I had been working as a soloist for a year or so – one guy and one guitar, just like I’m doing now. As strange as it may seem, once I got on stage, it felt very intimate because it was a very willing crowd. They were with you before you even started. So I think of it as an intimate gig. And I didn’t have time to have nerves. They asked me to go and play about five minutes before I had to go on. I had none of my own equipment. I was just there as a member of the audience. That helped.

Are you still writing songs?

Not enough to hurt me. A few little goodies spring up now and then. But it’s not like I’m on a schedule or that the world can’t wait for a new John Sebastian album.

What can we expect to hear at your show?

It’s an hour and change of me and my guitar and singing. What I try to do is give people a cross section of the music I’ve done over the years. I don’t exclude any period. Lovin’ Spoonful was part of my best stuff, and I can’t deny it. There’s some middle period songs. And I very often get into the jugband music as a way of explaining other tunes, songs that came out of that music.

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One Love Fits All

Love is in the air at Lake Casitas Campground

After leaving behind Bahkti Fest, the eight-year-old yoga, dance, sacred music and meditation festival at Joshua Tree he co-founded, Kenneth Schwenker found another path through his own meditation practice, and the answer was obvious – a more direct expression of the heart.

“I just had the idea that the strongest force on Earth is love – it was as simple as that,” Schwenker said over the phone earlier this week. “Let’s just bring together the highest vibration we can.”

Thus was birthed One Love Experience, which in its third year is expanding mightily from small oneday events to a three-day extravaganza on the shores of Lake Casitas near Ojai this weekend.

As with Bahkti, there will be lots of kirtan and other sacred music and plenty of opportunities to practice yoga and meditation. “But I wanted this to be more like a conscious Coachella,” Schwenker said, referring to the massive annual pop music event near Palm Springs. “Something on a very large scale but with a very conscious vibe.”

To that end, One Love Experience will feature some major musical names, including headliners Matisyahu, Trevor Hall, and David Starfire – artists that reflect the goal with their lyrics, style, and overall integrity – as well as influential selfgrowth experts and healers, including Ojai-based relationship coaches Gay and Katie Hendricks; Yogi Cameron, Ellen Degeneres’s yoga instructor; relationship coach and tantric sex expert Psalm Isadora; pure flow yoga teacher Winter Jendayi; resilience

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It’s a tradition that I can personally remember happening since the 1970s, and it may go back even farther than that. MTF was founded in 1964, to obtain, preserve, and maintain a local system of riding and hiking trails.

MTF is entirely a volunteer-driven, non-profit organization, and the annual barbecue is important as it’s the only fundraiser held throughout the year. Monies raised at this event, plus membership dues, go toward maintenance of the beautiful network of trails we enjoy throughout Montecito.

Supporters could attend the barbecue at noon, or meet earlier for a variety of hikes and horseback rides led by volunteers.

Special kudos are due to Hal and Mary Coffin, who for the last several years have opened the gates to their Montecito Valley Ranch as the venue for this event. This year, more than 140 people attended, enjoying live music and a silent auction in addition to the tasty fare. MTF board members Sheila Snow and Monty Amyx could be found pouring margaritas at the bar, another MTF barbecue tradition.

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Jack Sears would provide the famously potent margaritas from his popular restaurant, Café del Sol, sadly no longer extant.

Los Padres Outfitters, owned by Graham Goodfield, provided the bountiful feast that fed hungry riders and hikers after their forays on the local trails. While the ever-ingenious Graham was busy providing a unicorn for a client at a simultaneous event, his mother, Marilyn Goodfield, oversaw the capable crew manning the buffet tables. Just when everyone’s appetites were sated, out came dozens of fresh strawberry pies to top off the menu.

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cheon; instead, Hearts depends on its message to inspire attendees to donate what they can. If you are interested in attending, visit www.heartsriding.org and go under “Special Events” to click on the email link, or call 964-1519.

Because of its generous contributors, Hearts has been able to provide more than 60,000 lessons to adults and children with physical, emotional, and cognitive disabilities since 1985.

Marilyn Goodfield (left) with her Los Padres Outfitter crew provided the delicious fare at the MTF barbecue, including fresh strawberry pies for dessert (photo by Barbara Cleveland)

preserve our precious trails, visit the website MontecitoTrailsFoundation. org.

Mark Your Calendar

Trail Talk columnist Lynn Kirst (left) with popular horse trainer Boone Campbell and MTF volunteer Kathleen Bagley-Formidoni (photo by Barbara Cleveland)

Los Alamos with husband Jimmy Dominguez), former Montecito resident and MTF board member Susie Simpson, who came from her home in Los Olivos, Cindy Young, and documentary filmmakers Susan Jensen and Paul Singer.

For more information about this worthwhile group that does so much to

- Thursday, October 13 Hearts Pegasus Luncheon 11:30 am to 1 pm Coral Casino, Montecito Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center will hold its annual fundraiser, The Pegasus Luncheon, at the Coral Casino Beach and Cabana Club.

This inspiring event helps Hearts provide lessons, scholarships, and comprehensive care for its therapy horses throughout the year. With a special video highlighting the Hearts community, local wines, a delicious lunch, and heart-warming stories from some of the Hearts riders and staff, guests are in for a pleasant mid-day treat.

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- Saturday, October 15 Stories by the Stagecoach 2 to 3 pm Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum 3596 Sagunto Street Santa Ynez In conjunction with the Santa Barbara Public Library, the Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum and Carriage House presents the second of its Fall 2016 history series for families with children ages 7-12. Bringing history to life, each month features a reading from a historical novel or picture book, followed by a talk about the young people of that time, and a related craft or activity. The October 15 session will feature readings related to California from the 1830s to 1844, taken from Anita of Rancho del Mar by Elaine F. O’Brien, and The Stories of Juana Briones, Alta California Pioneer by Glenda Richter. Please call 688-7889 to reserve a spot.

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were senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Judy Foreman, Dan Meisel, Steve and Cindy Lyons, John and Susi Lamoutte, Bob and Joan Rothenberg, City College president Anthony Beebe, Antioch president Bill Flores, David and Anne Gersh, Roger and Robin Himovitz, Kim and Tammy Hughes, Larry Koppelman, Doug and Marni Margerum, Lee and Marla Philips, Rick and Nora Scheinberg.

Healthy Hart Comedian Kevin Hart, who tied the knot with fiancée, Eniko Parrish, in a lavish Montecito wedding just a tiara’s toss from Oprah Winfrey’s estate in August and spent his honeymoon night at the San Ysidro Ranch, has a lot to laugh about.

The funnyman, who has hosted Saturday Night Live, the MTV Video Music and BET awards, has topped the Forbes list of the highest-paid comedians with earnings of $87.5 million.

The 37-year-old has dethroned longtime earnings leader Jerry Seinfeld, who made $43.5 million.

This year, Hart has appeared in the movies Central Intelligence, Ride Along 2, and The Secret Life of Pets. He has also been taking part in his lucrative What Now? comedy tour.

Currently he is filming the Jumanji sequel alongside Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, and Jack Black.

The movie comes more than 20 years after the release of the 1995 original, which starred the late Robin Williams.

It is scheduled for release next July.

Fun with the Force Hotel magnate Pat Nesbitt’s expansive Summerland estate, Bella Vista, was a sea of blue when the Santa Barbara Police Foundation threw its third annual Fun With The Force fundraiser.

The popular event, chaired by Eric Phillips, attracted a record crowd of 700, raising around $300,000 for

Billy Baldwin and Eric Phillips (photo by YTS Films)

Fun with the Force drew a record crowd of more than 700 people, raising around $300,000 for the Santa Barbara Police Foundation (photo by YTS FIlms)

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Stretchberry, Tom Parker, Peter and Mireille Noone, and Mario and Judy Borgatello.

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much-needed equipment, which is not included in normal budgets, and the At Ease program which supports first responders. The sizzling bash honored Montecito philanthropist and avid car collector Michael Hammer, the Wood-Claeyssens Foundation, Jimmy Nigro, and officers Mike McGrew and Greg Hons.

Actor Billy Baldwin and ubiquitous KEYT-TV reporter John Palminteri conducted the auction with a Sun Valley, Idaho, getaway, a private dinner for 24 catered by culinary wizard Michael Hutchings, and a private jet weekend to a Russian River estate among the lots.

Among those checking out the SWAT drills and K-9 dog team demonstrations were new Santa Barbara police chief Lori Luhnow, Barry and Jelinda DeVorzon, Andrew and Ivana Firestone, Jeff and Hollye

K-9 team demonstration (photo by YTS Films)

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Gwyneth Goop Montecito’s newest celebrity resident Gwyneth Paltrow is blaming sexism for the “vitriolic” public response to her Goop website.

When the Oscar winner first launched her lifestyle newsletter back in 2008, she was positively ripped apart by the public, who wondered aloud just what qualified her, as an actress, to tell people how to live their lives.

Eight years later, the mockery hasn’t stopped.

Goop seemed out of touch, aimed at a minority with unattainable wealth and the whole enterprise came off, to some people, as a vanity project for the peripatetic thespian to show others just how fabulous her life is and plug her favorite brands.

But in a conversation with Lena Dunham and Girls co-writer Jenni Konner for Lenny Letter, the 43-yearold ex-wife of Coldplay rocker Chris Martin opined that the mere fact she is a woman also got in the way of the public accepting her new venture, since many famous men in her position have followed similar paths but were treated more sympathetically.

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She specifically cites Ashton Kutcher, who moved on from playing a dumb-but-sexy goofball on That ‘70s Show and a string of mildly successful movies to having a successful career spanning several arenas, launching his own restaurants, investing in tech – Skype, Foursquare, Airbnb – and creating a website, A Plus.

Yet when Gwyneth did something similar, she was basically told – in her words – to “stay in her lane.”

“Everybody wants you in the caricature of you if you’re a woman. You’re supposed to be this, and I’m supposed to be that. If you start to cast that off, it makes people very uncomfortable, especially if they’re projecting a lot on to you and they identify with you.”

“I was genuinely surprised at the vitriol,” says Gwyneth of the initial reaction after her first mailing. “The response was totally bananas.”

Still, she has stuck to her guns.

“At first, it only made sense to create one place for all of my best ideas and advice, since my friends came to me for it, anyway.

“I’ve always been that person to my friends, where they ask me, ‘I have a guy coming over for dinner. How do I roast a chicken?’ Or, ‘Where do I get a cool poster?’”

But now, she says, she has gotten over caring what everyone else thinks.

“It’ strange to also make the transition from ‘Oh no,’ to ‘I don’t f---ing care.’ I’m very unapologetic about it. I really believe in what I’m doing, and I really love what we’re doing, and I love the product we sell,” she adds.

On Their Toes It was all tu-tu much when the State Street Ballet hosted its annual gala at

SSB dancer Leila Drake with Guy Veloz, author of An American Tango (photo by Ron Dexter)

the Biltmore on the hottest day of the year, as temperatures soared past 105 degrees.

English computer entrepreneur Christopher Lancashire, a longtime friend, was honored for his many philanthropic endeavors at the elegant 164-guest event, co-chaired by Seth Geiger and Teri Jory, which raised around $120,000 for the tony troupe, which is celebrating its 22nd anniversary after being founded by Rodney Gustafson.

The can-can from Offenbach, suitably enough, kicked off the tony troupe’s party, with Leila Drake and Jack Stewart doing dazzling duets.

The ubiquitous Geoff Green conducted the auction, with a seven-night cruise along the Seine and a stay in Paris, and a trip to the Big Apple up for grabs.

Among the bevy of balletomanes attending were Ron and Jill Dexter, Bob and Alex Nourse, Jonatha King and Lance Jones, Henry and Dilling Yang, Arlyn Goldsby, Catherine Gee, Robert and Margo Feinberg, Robert and Marlene Veloz, Peter Clark, Stan and Betty Hatch, Barbara Burger and Paul Munch, Craig and Kirsten Springer, Mort and Judy Weisman,

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Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony Gershwin’s Concerto in F THE EVENING BEGINS with a party on the Lobero Plaza. Join us for wine, hors d’oeuvres and a performance by State Street Ballet celebrating Old Hollywood.

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Artwalk 2016

Artwalk co-chairs Sue Adams and Patti Ottoboni with Natural History Museum director Luke Swetland and curator Diane Waterhouse

Big Heart honorees Joanne Talbot, Frank Stevens, and Susan Kohl

Artwalk blue-ribbon winner Derek Harrison beside his $12,000 painting

A caregiver testimonial by Marlys Schram explained, “You can feel the energy.” Each year, approximately 360 classic folks attend the center’s adult day services program. Up to 900 of their caregivers and families benefit from the respite and other services.

There is transportation, meals, snacks, games, dancing, brain fitness classes, and much more. All of this is under the leadership of 30-year executive director Heidi Holly.

Friendship Center depends on the support of donors and the work of their volunteers. If you are interested or need more information, call 969-0859. It is a community treasure.

Save the date for the 18th annual Festival of Hearts luncheon on February 11, 2017!

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s (SBMNH) Fleischmann Auditorium turned into a museum of art albeit temporarily. The Artwalk was here for the 28th time, courtesy of the Museum League to raise funds for the museum. Co-chair Patti Ottoboni has been involved for 18 of those years. Her right-hand co-chair was Sue Adams, who is also involved in many community affairs.

The event began on Friday evening with a reception for the indoor exhibit in the auditorium. This was curated by gallery owner Diane Waterhouse (her husband is artist Ralph) and included not only a room full of paintings from both local and visiting artists but sculpture and photogra-

President of the Museum League Terry Behrens, chair of the indoor show Randee Winitzky, board chair Bobbie Kinnear, and former mayor Hal Conklin

phy. Saturday and Sunday, you could stroll the grounds to see the rest of the show. The reception was jammed with appreciators checking out the huge display while sipping wine and munching on passed canapés, especially the shrimp and sausage one.

Yum! The show also included children’s art, one piece from 26 different schools. Patti told me, “We make cards from those pieces of art and sell them at Artwalk.” Since public education is frequently lacking in art programs this is an important arm. Also, the students get to attend the Artwalk for free – perhaps their first museum experience.

Last year, the league raised about $100,000, and this year they hope to surpass that number. Don’t forget to add this great facility to your “to visit” list. There’s something for all ages.

The location is 2559 Puesta del Sol – phone (805) 682-4711.

Evening in Bloom

It’s pretty special when an organization such as Girls Inc. of Carpinteria gets to have their fundraiser in an orchid-growing greenhouse – Westerlay Orchids. Although the committee had to do work to transform it into a party place, still the backdrop is thousands of orchids in a rainbow of colors. Breathtaking! It was definitely “An Evening in Bloom.”

It had all the makings of a successful soirée with a red-carpet photo

reception featuring cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, dinner buffet, live and silent auctions, and dancing to live music. An added delight was the dessert dash, wherein tables bid and the highest bid gets to dash for their favorite sweet treat first. I think our table was last.

Arranging all of this were co-chairs Stefanie Herrington (board president) and Donna Baird. Honorary chairs were Victor and Susan Schaff, as well as title sponsors. The evening’s honoree was Betty Brown. Stefanie told us, “She was a critical force in raising funds for the new campus, which greatly expanded Girls Inc.’s reach in the community.” Before they operated out of a too small, two-bedroom home. Brown and her late husband spearheaded the capital campaign and raised $2.4 million in two years. The girls now have a l6,000-square-foot facility. To top off Betty’s special evening, she most deservedly won the raffle – $1,000.

The special guest speaker was Sylvia Martinez. She told us that in the 7th grade, she was almost flunking out of school until Girls Inc. came along. She became a National Scholar and currently serves as the program director for Girls Inc. of Greater Los Angeles. She works to inspire girls to go forward as Girls Inc. did for her.

Girls Inc. of Carpinteria executive director Victoria Juarez wants us to know, “We serve more than 700 girls each year helping them become strong, smart, and bold.” To learn Girls Inc. Carpinteria executive director Victoria Juarez, honorary co-chairs and title sponsors Susan and Victor Schaff with board member Theresa Huerta

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Girls Inc. event co-chair and board president Stefanie Herrington with honoree Betty Brown and co-chair Donna Baird

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Festival of Flowers

The Braille Institute of Santa Barbara was transformed from a place for the blind and those with impaired vision take many various programs, to a “Festival of Flavors”. That translates to yummy food prepared by a variety of restaurants, along with Zaca Mesa wine and a signature cocktail called “Mr. Collin’s Opus” by mixologist Patrick Sheppard-Reynolds.

Restaurants participating were Michael’s Catering, Industrial Eats, Los Arroyos Mexican Restaurant, Lure Fish House, and The Palace Grill.

An added treat was the cherry, ricotta, and amaretti parfaits prepared by cooking students at Braille.

If you’ve never been to Braille, it has a beautiful and tranquil courtyard surrounded by the classrooms. We started there for cocktails and a silent auction of 22 items and ended up in the auditorium for a dinner of tastings. All the while, there was music

by Montecito Jazz Project. The Braille ladies Auxiliary and president of the Auxiliary Mary Romo were meeting

Braille Auxiliary president Mary Romo with event chair and vice president Sandy De Rousse

and greeting put on the event.

Proceeds from the fête go directly to services that help students live independent lives. Besides cooking classes, there are computers, a library, recreational activities, and more reaching more than 5,000 folks in the tri-county area.

Thanks for all their hours go to the committee led by Sandy De Rousse: Pat Andersons, Linda Chapman, Sally Faulstich, Pearl Francis, Sally Hamilton, Janet Lew, Judy Mack, Diane Pannkuk, Carol Schleck, Barbara Toumayan, Sydney Tredick, Kay Utterback, Jean Von Wittenburg, and Carol Wenzlau.

Besides hard-working, did I mention what a welcoming group of women they are? Thanks for all you do for this nonprofit.

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Behind the Wheel Marconi Museum

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ecently, the Marconi Museum in Orange County held its annual open house. Your humble scribe was drawn to the event by his membership in the Porsche Club of America, with a Porsche corral right at the crack of 9 am.

Inside, Dick Marconi, who created the museum in 1994 and donated all of his cars to it, regaled his guests with stories of building his collection and his racing career. The museum is also a children’s foundation, which donates a portion of its revenues to local children’s charities. While the museum suggests a donation of $5 for admission, it makes most of its revenue from private events.

Rather than bore you with a bunch of words, for once I’ll regale you with plenty of pictures, of both the Porsche corral and Marconi’s $30-million car collection.

Warning: contains pure automotive red meat. Vegans dine elsewhere.

•MJ

One of the more special cars of that row, is the 991 generation’s GT3 RS, with real bits of raciness baked right in, like advanced aero (go ahead, ogle those sexy fender vents) and some pit crew adrenaline junkie center-lock wheels

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Spirituality Matters

by Steven Libowitz “Spirituality Matters” highlights two or three Santa Barbara area spiritual gatherings. Unusual themes and events with that something extra, especially newer ones looking for a boost in attendance, receive special attention. For consideration for inclusion in this column, email slibowitz@yahoo.com.

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a Casa de Maria’s monthly free Wednesday Retreat Day takes place on October 12, and features Dawa Tarchin Phillips leading a program of “Awakening Mindfulness and Meditation”. Phillips, a master dharma teacher and director of education at the Center for Mindfulness and Human Potential at UCSB, is a mindfulness and meditation expert and the author of a forthcoming book on mindful leadership.

Participants are invited to experience a deep exploration of mindfulness and meditation. During the day, you will explore personal access points to awakening more mindfulness and meditation in your life. Through periods of silent meditation, personal inquiry, liberating wisdom teachings, interactive exercises, and question-and-answer sessions, participants will be guided to take their practice to the next level.

Phillips, who trained as an ordained monk with the late Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Gendun Rinpoche and completed two three-year meditation retreats at Dhagpo Kundreul Ling Hermitage in France, has been a specialist in the UCSB Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, where his research focuses on the cognitive, affective, and academic benefits of secular mindfulness training in school children, young adults, and educational leaders. He is also president/CEO of Empowerment Holdings, LLC, a U.S.-based international leadership training and consulting firm that trains business leaders and organizations in Mindfulness Based Leadership and Conscious Business approaches.

Awakening Mindfulness and Meditation takes place 9:30 am to 3:30 pm at La Casa’s gorgeous retreat center at 800 El Bosque Road, up in the Montecito foothills not far from the famous San Ysidro Ranch. Admission

is free (though donations are accepted), and there is a $14 fee for an optional lunch, though you are welcome to bring your own food.

Phillips also serves as the resident teacher of the Bodhi Path Buddhist Center in downtown Santa Barbara, where he leads or coordinates weekly dharma teachings and meditation sessions (led by a sangha member); monthly “Joy of Practice” for longer periods of sitting and walking meditation; periodic “Introduction to Meditation” classes; weekend workshops on topics such as advanced practice, overcoming adversity, working with emotions, compassion, and loving kindness, and Buddhist philosophy; biannual five-day residential retreats; and more. Details online at www. bodhipath.org/sb.

Bodhi Path is also presenting a “Benefit Concert for Creativity and Awakening” featuring both music and discussion on Friday, November 11. Performances are by independent experimental pianist Hauschka and The Kin, the brother duo that maintain a keen interest in the experiment of self-expression and a propensity toward involving their audiences in the creative process. The musicians will then participate in an open conversation around creativity and its place in awakening led by Phillips and Jack Canfield, co-author of The Success Principles and the Chicken Soup for the Soul, and other special guests. Proceeds benefit Bodhi Path. Details and tickets at www.lobero.com/events/ bodhi-path-benefit.

Meanwhile, back at La Casa de Maria’s Center for Spiritual Renewal, much-beloved Santa Barbara couple Dyrian Benz-Chartrand and JoAnne Chartrand-Benz – both somatic psychology educators and counselors who are well-known from teaching myriad

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Also, the monthly half-day Mindfulness Practice Retreat with Radhule Weininger, M.D., Ph.D., takes place from 2:30 to 6 pm on Sunday, October 16. As always, all are welcome, from those with a dedicated practice to pure beginners, to come create a refuge for calming the mind, opening the heart, and finding peace with ourselves and others through gently guided meditations, including Metta (Lovingkindness) meditation. Concurrently that same day, rabbi Arthur GrossSchaefer of the Montecito Shul leads A Sukkah for Peace, an interfaith community gathering to remember the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which teaches us that our security and peace lie in the journey together with our neighbors and friends. Bring food to share for the afternoon (3 to 5 pm) of music, story telling, and dialogue.

Details and reservations for all of the above programs at La Casa de Maria and its Center for Spiritual Renewal are available online at www.lacasade maria.org/programs-calendar or call 969-5031.

Compassionate Communication

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Paul Zakrzewski’s next session of Writing For Our Lives: A Therapeutic Writing Workshop gets started on Thursday, October 27, but you can experience a two-hour Open House/ Writing Workshop before committing to the four-weeks program next Saturday, October 15, from 4 to 6 pm. The intro lets participants try out the group format and Zakrzewski’s approach, which is likely to be different from what you’ve experienced in the past. There will be fun, creative writing exercises to complete, some refreshments, and time for questions and meeting fellow writers. The cost is $5 (mainly to deter no-shows.)

Therapeutic writing has been shown to relieve stress and boost the immune system, as well as simply create more feelings of happiness, to which Zakrzewski adds that writing can transform old ways of seeing the self and form paths for creating new “life stories.” The workshop provides a safe and supportive space to write deeply and authentically about important life events. Get more info and make reservations online at www. pzak.info/lives.

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Participants will work with empathic listening for a more effective relationship, and then with expressing ourselves and our boundaries for more emotional freedom, then some inner work if there is time. All levels are invited and all will continue to learn and use these skills.

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Dancers Mauricio Vera and Deise Mendonca with founder and artistic director Rodney Gustafson (photo

by Kathee Miller)

Tim Mikel, Ryan and Angela Siemens, Stefan and Christine Riesenfeld, William Soleau, and Gary McKenzie.

The talented company kicks off its latest season with An American Tango at the Granada on October 22, which I last saw in the more intimate space of the Lobero three years ago.

Starting Over New Beginnings Counseling Center, which provides support to low-income families and individuals, hosted its fourth annual Changing Lives gala at the El Encanto, honoring longtime supporters Gary and Mary Becker.

The bash, raised $50,000 for the 56-year-old organization’s efforts,

which has a budget of $1.4 million annually, including its Safe Parking program that allows homeless families and individuals to sleep in their vehicles safely overnight in 20 parking locales in our tony town.

Kristin Schwarz, executive director, says the nonprofit serves 2,100 people annually.

Among those showing their support were John and Hazel Blankenship, Marybeth Carty, Allan Ghitterman, Geoff Green, Carlos and Angela Sanchez, Bill and Sue Wagner, Harry and Judi Weisbart, Maria Long, and Jean Schuyler.

Avon Calling!

Ensemble Theatre Company (ETC) opened its fourth season at the New Vic with Macbeth, the popular company’s first production of William Shakespeare in nearly 30 years.

The play, directed by ETC’s veteran artistic director Jonathan Fox, has all the right ingredients of supernatural forces, blind ambition and, of course, murder, while the actors wear contemporary attire rather than traditional Scottish costumes.

Jamison Jones in the title role is superb and Tony Award-nominated Kathryn Meisle, making her ETC debut as the conniving Lady Macbeth, is a wonderful match.

Glorious special effects, with the

Jamison Jones (left) and Kathryn Meisle in Macbeth (photo by David Bazemore)

apparitions created by advanced video projection technology, add to the entertaining show’s luster, as well as a capable supporting cast, with regulars Joseph Fuqua, Rudolph Willrich, and Leslie Gangl Howe.

This is a cracking show that only goes from bard to better!

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On Thursday, October 13, 2016, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, will be available at 630 Garden Street, City Clerk’s Office and the Central Library.

Agendas, Minutes and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov. Online Staff Reports may not include some exhibits. Continuances will not be granted unless there are exceptional circumstances.

You are invited to attend this hearing. Written comments are welcome and will be entered into the public record. Written information should be submitted prior to the meeting at the City Clerk’s Office, 735 Anacapa Street; or by mail attention City Clerk, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990; or by email at sgorman@SantaBarbaraCA.gov, and received no later than 4:30 P.M. on the Monday before the City Council hearing. Please submit 12 copies of any written materials over 2 pages. Written comments are accepted at and up to the time of the hearing; however, the City Council may not have time to consider materials submitted after the Monday deadline.

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.

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The Montecito Planning Commission hearing begins at 9:00 a.m. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Montecito Planning Commission. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to appear and speak in support or in opposition to the projects. Written comments are also welcome. All letters should be addressed to the Montecito Planning Commission, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93101. Letters, with nine copies, and computer materials, e.g. PowerPoint presentations, should be filed with the secretary of the Planning Commission no later than 12:00 P.M. on the Friday before the Montecito Planning Commission hearing. The decision to accept late materials will be at the discretion of the Montecito Planning Commission.

Maps and/or staff analysis of the proposals may be reviewed at Planning and Development, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93101 a week prior to the public hearing. They may also be found on the Planning and Development Department’s website, located at www.sbcountyplanning.org.

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1795 San Leandro Lane Anne Almy, Supervising Planner (805) 568-2053 Sean Stewart, Planner (805) 568-2517

Hearing on the request of Don Grady, Manager for the Santa Barbara County Real Property Division, to consider case number16GOV-00000-00005, application filed on September 19, 2016, for a determination that the proposed granting of a relocation easement to the Santa Barbara County Flood Control and Water Conservation District (District) from the Crane Country Day School (Crane School) (identified as APNs 007-340-061, 007-340-060, and 007-340-040) for the purpose of relocating the District’s existing “Drainage Facilities” on Crane School property (located on APN 007-240-061) conforms with the Comprehensive Plan of the County of Santa Barbara Pursuant to California Government Code Section 65402(c). The site is located at 1795 San Leandro Lane, in the Montecito Area, First Supervisorial District.

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Tyrnauer Appeal of Fischer Project 3080 Eucalyptus Road Exempt, CEQA Guidelines Sections 15301 & 15303 Alex Tuttle, Supervising Planner (805) 884-6844 J. Ritterbeck, Planner (805) 568-3509

Hearing on the request of Sallie Tyrnauer to consider Case No. 16APL-00000-00008 [application filed on April 4, 2016] to appeal the Director’s approval of Case No. 14LUP-00000-00470, in compliance with Chapter 35.492.040 of the Montecito Land Use and Development Code, on property located in the 2-E-1 zone district; and to accept the Exemption for approval of the proposed project pursuant to Sections 15301 and 15303 of the State Guidelines for Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act. The application involves APN 013-193-001, located at 3080 Eucalyptus Hill Road in the Montecito Community Plan area, First Supervisorial District.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO PROPOSERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed RFP’s will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly received for: RFP NO. 3837 DUE DATE & TIME: DECEMBER 1, 2016 UNTIL 3:00P.M. LABORATORY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LIMS) PROJECT The City of Santa Barbara requests proposals from qualified firms to provide and implement a Laboratory Information Management System for the El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant (El Estero) that will replace the current system, which has been in place since early 2007 and functions as a LIMS solution.

RFP’s must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. RFP’s packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or

by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for the RFP package and specifications.

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

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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Red Hair Salon, 1272 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Laszlo Gaspar, 1815 Mountain Ave, Santa Barbara CA 93101. Leora L. Gaspar, 1815 Mountain Ave, Santa Barbara CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 20, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Red Hair Salon, 1272 Coast Village Road,

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Laszlo Gaspar, 1815 Mountain Ave, Santa Barbara CA 93101. Leora L. Gaspar, 1815 Mountain Ave, Santa Barbara CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 20, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Bait Yard, 124-A Gray Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Channel Islands Seafood, 1317 Virginia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. John Colgate, 327 Cordova Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.

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Anthony Vultaggio, 444 Amherst Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 9, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes-Sadler.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: La Casa Concierge, 2052 Mountain Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Jennie Strait, 2052 Mountain Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 19, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in

the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cole Design Montecito, 815 Alston Road, Montecito, CA 93108. Monty Cole, 815 Alston Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 7, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis.

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last month. We’re told the space may become an art gallery or shop, but a lease has yet to be finalized. Three other, larger spaces are currently being marketed as ideal restaurant or eatery locations, as they each have exclusive adjacent patio spaces. One of them is the vacant space to the east of Richie’s; the not-yet-built patio area is part of the renovations. The other two available spaces are located downstairs; one in the former home of Here’s the Scoop (which moved upstairs in March) and one in the space formerly occupied by Advanced Medical Hair Institute, which closed several years ago.

The renovations are two years in the making, with Montecito residents Hank Hurst and Richard Rosin purchasing the property in October 2014, with plans to bring the building up to its full potential. Hurst and Rosin enlisted a team of commercial professionals to help with the transformation, including Hayes Commercial Group agents Michael Martz and Francois DeJohn, design firm eID, Michael Hurst Designs, Tryon Company, and Schipper Construction.

“Coast Village Plaza will be a lifestyle center offering an incredible location for restaurants, coffee, and wine uses, boutiques, and many other businesses geared toward local consumption and use. It is very exciting to see the improvements finally underway, and we can’t wait to see our community enjoy this revitalized property,” said DeJohn.

For more information on the spaces for lease, visit www.hayescommer cial.com.

Save the Date for MWD Forums

Two candidate forums to learn more about the Montecito Water District (MWD) board director candidates are coming up.

There will be a Water Facts Forum with candidates Floyd Wicks and Tobe Plough on Thursday, October 13, at Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West. This event is sponsored by Wicks and Plough for MWD Board and is open to the public. The candidates will give a presentation of the current state of water supply and management in the district followed by a question-and-answer period and discussion. The event is from 7 to 9 pm.

The following Thursday, October 20, Montecito Association hosts a candidate forum for all four candidates: Wicks, Plough, Tom Mosby, and Charles Newman. The forum is from 6 to 8 pm at Montecito Union School. For more information, visit www.montecitoassociation.org.

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for two vacancies on the five-member board. The three other directors are Dick Shaikewitz, Sam Frye, and Doug Morgan.

Miramar Groundbreaking

Last week, we told you about an updated construction schedule released by Caruso Affiliated regarding the building of the Miramar Hotel. Now, developer Rick Caruso has announced the official groundbreaking will take place next week during a private ceremony for members of the media and additional stakeholders.

The groundbreaking will mark the beginning of nearly two years of expected construction on the 16-acre site, with the final goal of producing 200,000 square feet of development, including 161 ultra-luxury guest rooms and suites. The former Miramar Hotel was closed in 2000, and the iconic yet dilapidated blueroofed buildings were demolished nearly four years ago.

Caruso says he expects the resort, Rosewood Miramar Beach Montecito, will be open for business in the summer of 2018.

Local Citizens to be Honored

Also last week, we informed you about a vegetation fire at a property on Bella Vista Drive. Now, Montecito Fire Protection District will honor three residents for their courage and quick thinking, which likely help avert a disaster.

On the evening of September 23, Skylar Peak, Jeff King, and Jim

Marsh attended a birthday celebration in the 2700 block of Bella Vista Drive. Mr. Peak went outside to retrieve an item from his car and noticed smoke pluming on the property. A 911 call was placed immediately.

While awaiting the arrival of first responders, the three citizens began working to keep the fire with 20-foot flame lengths in check using a garden hose and hand tools. The 20 x 50-foot blaze was burning under eucalyptus trees and casting a river of embers into the dry Picay Creek drainage.

“Thanks to the brave actions of these citizens, the fire was able to be fully contained shortly after firefighters arrived, and a catastrophe was averted,” said Montecito Fire chief Chip Hickman. “I called each of these courageous citizens and personally thanked them for their extraordinary act.”

“With 40-mph sundowner winds and low relative humidity that evening, this could have easily become a very large event. We all owe these folks a hardy handshake and a great big ‘thank you’ for their heroic efforts,” Hickman told us, adding that the cause of the fire was arching wires.

These three citizens will be formally recognized at the Montecito Fire Board meeting on Friday, October 21, at 2 pm.

Fire at Westmont

Also last week: MFPD firefighters responded to a reported fire alarm coming from Page Hall on the Westmont College campus. While responding, the call was upgraded to a structure fire.

First-year students wait outside of Page Hall during a recent structure fire at the dormitory (photo by Brad Elliott)

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Upon arrival, Montecito Fire personnel reported light smoke coming from the three-story dormitory building, and immediately requested a second alarm response due to the large life hazard. The first engine reported heavy smoke in the second floor of the building. Students were evacuated, while firefighters located the seat of the fire in the storage room by the stairwell. The blaze was contained to the area of origin due to the fire sprinkler system and was controlled at 6:15 pm. Westmont Media Relations manager Scott Craig said the students living in the dorm were allowed back to their rooms at 10 that evening.

Responding agencies included Montecito Fire, CarpinteriaSummerland Fire, Santa Barbara City Fire, Santa Barbara County Fire, Santa Barbara County Sheriffs, and American Medical Response. There was one minor-burn patient, who was transported to the hospital by ambulance.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Lost Hiker Found Safe

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue (SBCSAR) team was called out around 10:30 pm September 29, to locate a lost hiker in the Cold Springs Trail area. It took more than 12 hours to locate, reach, and transport the 27-year-old San Diego resident safely out of the area.

The lost hiker is a UCSB graduate who was visiting some friends; he went on a hike up to Tangerine Falls off the West Fork of the Cold Springs Trail around 3 pm. During his trek, he climbed up the side of the falls but thinking he could not safely climb down, he decided to hike up to East Camino Cielo and call his friends. Using his cell phone, he reached his friends and instructed them to call 911 if he didn’t show up for dinner.

When he failed to show up at the designated time and place for dinner, his friends tried calling him but were sent directly to his voicemail.

The friends drove along the front country mountain roads until they discovered the subject’s car parked at the Cold Springs trailhead on Mountain Drive. Not seeing him anywhere near his car, they called 911.

The hiker was thirsty and tired but uninjured. He was driven back down to the trailhead on Mountain Drive to where his car was parked and released. SBCSAR reminds hikers to trek with someone and to carry the appropriate equipment to help be located in the event of an emergency.

For a full list of important hiking tips, go to www.sbcsar.org.

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coach Michela Haas; and Inhala yogi Micheline Berry.

The combination is expected to exponentially increase the experience, Schwenker said.

“Each of the artists have their own following and vibe. They bring in a crowd that is already operating on a higher plane. Those who are attracted to that will step in.”

But a focus on love? Isn’t that a difficult concept to pin down?

“It’s a very misunderstood and overused word,” Schwenker said. “But everybody knows love. It’s always there, like the water for fish. It’s in us and around us and in front of us. We just have to recognize it.”

The theme will be addressed in many forms, he explained, from

hands-on yoga to discussions to musical performances. “There are all sorts of distinctions of love: compassion, caring for people, feeling safe, creating healing, acknowledging people.

You can break it down. And that’s what we’re doing. The musicians, some special exercises for everyone, and all of the workshops are talking about their own versions of love.”

As with Lucidity, the local event that occupies Live Oak Campground each spring, there is a healing area, a tea lounge, and late-night after-party spots with DJ performances. But One Love Experience has one major difference from Lucidity or Coachella or Bahkti: no alcohol.

“I don’t mind drinking at all, but in large crowds it sets a different vibe,”

Schwenker said. “And that’s one we don’t want here. This is about being awake and conscious so something can happen to transform you life.

That’s just the result of people stepping into love. That’s what happens when you get into a higher vibration.”

(One Love Experience takes place Friday-Sunday at Lake Casitas Campground near Ojai. For tickets, camping reservations and more information, visit www.onelovefest.com.)

Waring Blender – Masseuse Bares All

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alcoholism and abandoning your husband and young son, and indeed your soul the way Cynthia Waring does in her one-woman show Bodies Unbound.

The play, based on her book of the same name, is the eventually triumphant story about a woman who tried various methods to escape her emotional pain, from a convent to endless road trips and avenues much more esoteric, and eventually becomes a massage therapist who lays her hands on more than 30,000 people. Over the years, she massages people from all walks of life, including several big names in Hollywood, and in the process uncovers some of the most deeply buried secrets from her own scarred life.

For Waring, though, the process of Montecito Journal creating the theater piece and book Full Page Color came about naturally.

9.864 x 12.55 rev:“I’d 09192016 started writing, and one day I just focused on my experiences as a massage therapist,” she recalled earlier this week from the Santa Barbara home she recently moved into. “I just wrote what happened. About how I became a massage therapist, and what happened when I received my first massage.”

The writing itself revealed new emotions and unveiled earlier memories, she said.

“The flashbacks of my own life came organically, from the people who remembered things (from their own lives) on my table. My past came up through writing the stories down... I couldn’t believe how strong the stories were. They were the stories of my clients, but my publisher said, ‘We want to know who you are.’”

But, Waring said, at time she hadn’t written down any of her own stories.

“What would I say about myself?

But it ended up that I was the thread that held all these stories together.

Slowly, it came out what it was that I had lived, and how I was healed by hearing the stories of my clients. All of those experiences taught me about life and how life wants us to be whole if we will allow it, by not drugging ourselves, or keeping so busy that we aren’t able to be conscious.”

Waring started performing the stories that would eventually become Bodies Unbound at International Women’s Week in Colorado almost two decades ago.

“The whole show just grew out of that reading as I kept working on it,” she recalled. “People were very moved. I’d never had an acting lesson, never been on stage since high school.

And I was very shy, but when I was on the stage that first time, this part of me came out – I call her The Queen – who knew just what to do. I had no idea I had it in me. Before I knew it, the show was over and I got a standing ovation, which happens every time I do the darn show.”

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Indeed, it’s been both the audience’s reaction and her own self-growth – “I had to keep doing it to meet that person I was on stage,” she said – that made it possible for Waring to be so open, vulnerable, and revealing about some of the traumas from her life.

“Others kept coming up to me and telling me how my experience had caused them to remember things from their own lives,” she explained.

“That emboldened me to see how valuable it was to be on that stage and show people what and how they could heal. Healing others became more important to me than what people thought of me. If I was a conduit, they could see me on stage and still love me; maybe they could find their own self love.”

After touring the show on and off for years, including some high-profile performances in New York City, Los Angeles, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Waring thought she was finished with Bodies Unbound.

“I wanted to leave the past behind and be done with it,” she explained.

But the break-up of her current marriage and approaching her 70th birthday caused some reflection. “I realized I was unfulfilled and that I wanted to do the show again.”

Waring revived the show a few months ago – which has plenty of belly laughs to go along with the heart-rending downturns – at house performances in both Montecito and Santa Barbara, where she received rave reviews and deeply moved the audiences. Now the public revival premiere is slated for two shows on Saturday at the Center Stage Theater, and Waring said she believes the piece is even more effective than before.

“It took me 20 years to grow into this show. I needed that time to carry it as a piece where the audience knows that I’m recovered and safe and that they don’t have to worry about me anymore.”

Waring said Bodies Unbound has now become something she can just perform without having to react to anymore. “I’m not re-wounded by the material. I can just do it as a theater piece, my work, my calling. It’s something that’s important for people to see to open their hearts and be able to be look at things they survived, things that wounded them that they hide. It’s important to deal with them and let them go so you can be healed.”

Indeed, recently Waring was able to heal the biggest hurt from her own past – the separation from her son, Montecito chiropractor and clinical kinesiologist Hesu Whitten.

“He called me a couple of years ago and said he realized that I couldn’t have become the person I needed to be if I hadn’t left him and healed myself,” she said. “And he said, ‘Then I wouldn’t have anybody to follow.’ It 6 – 13 October 2016

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was a complete healing. I’d been waiting for that phone call for 40 years.”

(Cynthia Waring performs Bodies Unbound at 2 & 8 pm Saturday at Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. Tickets cost $23. Call 963-0408 or visit www.CenterStageTheater.org.)

Not Fiddling Around

No one is happier that the Goleta Valley Historical Society has taken over administration of the annual OldTime Fiddlers’ Convention & Festival than Peter Feldmann, who founded the event back in 1972 on the grounds of UCSB. Now, after a five-year hiatus or so, Feldmann returns for the 45th event at Rancho La Patera & Stow House on Sunday, where he’ll play with his trio the Very Lonesome Boys as part of the festival that not only features all-day entertainment, but also one of the premier Old-Time Music contests on the West Coast, and plenty of impromptu jam sessions all around the expansive grounds. Also performing are Thompsonia, Meredith Axelrod, Sausage Grinder String Band, Echo Mountain, the Darling Brothers, and the Salt Martians.

Q. How is it to come back and play?

A. I’m thrilled because the Rotarians (the previous owner) were going in a direction that wasn’t of interest to me. I originally started it as focusing in on a friendly competition with fiddle, banjo, and singing, where anybody who wanted to to climb up on that stage and share their music, an amateur hour. This music has that homemade feel and I always wanted to encourage that as well as educate people about the music and its origins and history. The Rotarians wanted to turn it into a music festival to raise money so they could perform community service. But I started it as a community service. We just had a different point of view.

You’re playing with guitarist/banjoist David West and bassist Tom Lee, who

have a more modern approach to music.

They met each other when they were forming the Cache Valley Drifters, which grew out of appearances at my old Bluebird Cafe (where the Nugget on Victoria Street now stands) in the early 1970s. So, we’ve always been connected. I even tell them to their face they’re rock ‘n’ rollers who play on acoustic instruments. I’ve been trying to beat the old music into them ever since. But we put up with each other and that’s how we manage to stay together. We do a combination of old-time music and bluegrass; I’ve been interested in the transition between them. I tend to play the earlier stuff and avoid the modern slickedup bluegrass, but I’m okay with the stuff that fits between the cracks.

What’s the secret to finding a good jam at the festival?

You just have to bring some good walking shoes, because they happen all around the property. You never know who you will run into. I’ve played with Doug Dillard and Byron Berline and all sorts of musicians through the years, including a guy who played musical saw, and one who had the psaltery.

There are lots of weird instruments, and lots of old-time heart songs. It’s the luck of the draw.

(The 45th annual Old-Time Fiddlers’ Convention & Festival takes place 10 am to 5 pm on Sunday at Rancho La Patera & Stow House, 304 North Los Carneros, Goleta. Admission is $15 general, $5 students, free for children under 12. Call 681-7216 or visit www. goletahistory.org.)

Classical Corner

Save for Camerata Pacifica’s chamber music concerts, classical music more or less goes on vacation in Santa Barbara for the duration of the summer after the Music Academy of the West season came to a close in early August. But the two-month doldrums are over, as four of our local organizations are opening their seasons this week. In fact, if you have the stamina, you can indulge in a 13-hour marathon encompassing three different events on Saturday!

Esa-Pekka Salonen returns to the Granada with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London to perform Beethoven’s “Eroica” and Sibelius’ 5th symphonies, kicking off CAMA’s International Series at the Granada on Thursday, October 6. Salonen, of course, is no stranger to Santa Barbara as he was music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1992–2009, and played the CAMA series annually. The 2016-17 season, dubbed “A European Tour”, also features performances by the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Bruckner Orchestra

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Linz, the St Petersburg Philharmonic, and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, before the L.A. Phil returns to close out the series.

The Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra’s new season launches with one of the most popular symphonic works of all time, Dvořák’s deeply emotional New World Symphony, followed by George Gershwin’s Concerto in F, featuring acclaimed pianist Wendy Chen, who debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic when she was just 15. The concert, which takes place Saturday evening rather than the SBCO’s usual spot on Tuesdays, is preceded by a special fundraising Opening Night Party at 5:30 pm that includes wine, signature cocktail, hors d’oeuvres, and performances by State Street Ballet celebrating Old Hollywood.

The season also boasts an intimate chamber music concert in the Santa Barbara Courthouse’s newly restored Mural Room; a holiday program of works by Baroque masters Purcell, Vivaldi, and Corelli at All Saints-bythe-Sea Episcopal Church here in Montecito; and Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe on Valentine’s Day at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, among other concerts.

Complete season program information is available online at www.sbco. org/concerts/season or call 966-2441.

Meanwhile back at MAW’s Hahn Hall, the 11th season of The Met: Live in HD performances get going at 9 am on Saturday morning with the 100th transmission in the series history, a new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, with new staging and direction

by Mariusz Treliński, and starring Stuart Skelton and Nina Stemme in the title roles. Stemme has won raves for her portrayal all over the world, having been lauded as “astonishing” and “a force of nature” who “invests Isolde with luminous tone, tireless energy, and infectious sympathy.”

Nine more new live simulcasts and 11 encore screenings round out the 2016-17 season, with MAW alumnus featured in the upcoming productions, including Susanna Phillips (’02, ‘03) as Clémence in the Met premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s 2000 opera L’Amour de Loin; and Thomas Hampson (’78, ‘79) as Giorgio Germont in Verdi’s La Traviata. Single tickets cost $28. Call 969-8787 or visit www.musicacademy. org/metlive.

Finally, the Santa Barbara Music Club inaugurates its new season of free concerts at the Faulkner Gallery in the downtown Public Library at 3 pm on Saturday. It’s a one-man show as pianist Constantine Finehouse performs Chopin’s Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 and Robert Schumann’s Fantasie in C major, Op. 17. More info online at www.sbmusicclub.org. •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 Funk Zone – No, we’re not talking about the trendy area down by the waterfront, but the Lobero Theatre, which might just have to raise its rafters after tonight’s concert with Brian Culbertson. The award-winning multi-instrumentalist, writer, and producer who crosses genres between contemporary jazz and R&B is out on his aptly dubbed “Funk!” tour, named after his new album, a throwback to the incessant P-Funk records of the ‘70s and ‘80s that combined infectious

bass lines, greasy horn licks, sing-along hooks, and a decided upbeat.

Culbertson, who began his musical studies at 8 on piano before picking up drums, trombone, bass, and euphonium by age 12, has released 16 self-produced solo albums, most of which have topped the Billboard Contemporary Jazz charts. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $29.50 to $59.50 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com Who’s Next – Wondering which band is coming up as the Santa

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 1st Thursday – World of Wonder, Montecito Journal magazine’s hardworking photographer Edward Clynes’s new exhibition, shows off the Brooks-educated artist’s reverence for nature, a driving force behind his work as he opens his aperture to the beauty of the natural world to capture his love of Earth’s landscapes. The exhibition is part of Service Objects’s15th anniversary open house that also features food and wine and enviable views of downtown from its location on the fifth floor of 27 East Cota Street (Suite 500). Elsewhere in the visual arts of 1st Thursday this month, which carries the theme of “Cuisine, Libations & Wellness: Bread & Butter” in La Arcada Court, hosts an art show titled Yodeelayheehoo, with watercolors and music by Travers Adler... The venerable Channing Peake Gallery offers Duct Tape Dreams curated by Maiza Hixson, in which Joe Girandola visualizes the world’s greatest architectural wonders out of duct tape. Employing a quick-fix material to depict now crumbling artifacts, Girandola creates a wry commentary on past and present empires.... Michael Drury is the judge and jury for the benefit show for the Los Padres Forest Watch that was open to all artists at Gallery 113.

Good Morning San Francisco, Good Night Golden Gate is the title of the exhibition of new work created by artist Ben Watts at SlingShot Gallery, where you can enjoy a glass of wine and meet the artists.... At the recent fully open Impact Hub Santa Barbara, join colleagues and visitors in celebrating the journey of life through the virtual lenses of more than 15 local contemporary artists and artisans. Indulge your other senses as you savor bites from Sama Sama and sip invigorating elixirs from Kotuku and/or wine from Armada. Body work, life readings, and a community canvas round out the experience.... Just in time for the presidential election, Voice (nee CASA Magazine)’s offices host an exhibition inspired by Mary Watkins and Edward Casey’s “Up Against the Wall” asking “Who’s my neighbor? How are we related?” and inviting the artists to live in their skin and sense the possibility of living “beyond walls.” As always, refreshments, wine and sing-along piano tunes are on tap.... On the performance arts front, there are varied performances at the three standard 1st Thursday spots. Hospice of Santa Barbara hosts “Before I die I want to…”, an interactive, community art installation that becomes a collective expression of living our mortality out loud, at the patio at 900 State Street. Kalinka. the lively Santa Barbara quartet that offers a unique rendering of Old World tunes, mixing Jewish Klezmer, Balkan, vintage jazz and gypsy swing, performs for passers-by in the very same space in front of Marshalls. Three blocks up, on the corner of State and Anapamu streets, the Santa Barbara Guitar Collective offers everything from intricately arranged classical guitar ensemble pieces to upbeat, artistic expression of traditional, dance-rhythm music, and masterful improvisations. Includes rumba, tango, gypsy, Latin jazz, and more. Meanwhile, dancer and choreographer Lisa Beck performs and teaches sexy Bollywood moves at Nectar Eatery & Lounge, and Los Caminos, a Santa Barbara-based flamenco guitar duo comprised of Jared Wachtmann and Joaquin Gray, create flamenco rumba musical stylings at Te Amo Estate & Fine Jewelry. WHEN: 5 to 8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and environs COST: free INFO: www.santabarbaradowntown.com/about/1st-thursday

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 Music from Minnesota – Bill & Kate Isles hail from Duluth, Minnesota, which also happens to be the berg on the shores of Lake Superior where Robert Zimmerman, a.k.a. Bob Dylan, grew up.

But unlike Dylan, the acoustic singer-songwriter duo still live there, which might be why their performances are said to carry audiences through a broad landscape of experiences from metaphorical worlds to small-town family stories, with a detour to zany comedy. Both are capable of catchy melodies and memorable songs, and their love of singing in public has been palpable since they first hit the road a decade ago, playing everything from house concerts to festival stages, and everything in between. One of those comes tonight, when the Isles perform for the Cambridge Drive Concert Series with a special focus on their latest album, the open-air Minnesota-invoking title of Still Beneath the Stars and Moon. Opening is Rebecca Troon, the Santa Barbara singer-songwriter who accompanies herself on guitar, banjo, and percussion – which can also be seen in her other gig as a member of the Honeysuckle Possums, the harmony-based old-time, originals and bluegrass band.

WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Cambridge Drive Community Church, 550 Cambridge Drive, Goleta COST: $12 with advance reservation and $15 at the door INFO: 964-0436 or www.cambridgedrivechurch.org

Barbara Bowl season finally starts to wind down as autumn advances?

Why, it’s The Who, who are merely one of the greatest and longest-lasting of the so-called British Invasion bands from the 1960s. Just a day before they head south to Indio to participate in the already-legendary Desert Trip dual three-day weekend concerts (that also feature The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young), the surviving original band members – lead vocalist Roger Daltrey and guitarist/ singer Pete Townshend stop by our slightly smaller venue (just 4,200 seats) for a sneak-preview full of the classic rock hits dating back more than half a century. Should you be there for the band’s first-ever visit to our fair city?

You better, you bet! WHEN: 6:30 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $64.50 to $355 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 Marling’s Marvel – Laura Marling, the adventurous and prolific singer-songwriter who put out five albums between the ages of 16-25, has, as one reviewer noted, allowed her recordings and persona to evolve through many decisively rendered, fully formed phases. But after taking her first bit of time off recently, during which she delved into different avenues of self-discovery and embarked on a year of side projects, Marling is back out on the road

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with her own reflective and incisive music, including a solo show tonight at SOhO. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $20 INFO: 9627776 or www.sohosb.com SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 Animal Ambassador – That’s how wildlife educator and advocate Peter Gros refers to the menagerie of his magnificent animal friends that he brings along on experiential lectures, such as the one this afternoon that kicks off the new Family Fun series from UCSB Arts & Lectures. Gros, who was co-host of Mutual of Omaha’s original Wild Kingdom on Animal Planet, will share exciting adventures from his travels, inspirational tales of conservation and the thrill of wildlife filming – including hilarious animal bloopers. Gros draws from his actionpacked stories from nearly 30 years in the field with sharks, tigers, and elephants (oh, my!), including research expeditions that have taken him to Siberia’s Lake Baikal, the world’s largest, oldest, and deepest lake, and to the Amazon Basin, where he led an expedition of 39 six-graders to study the Peruvian rain forest. In today’s presentation, Gros, accompanied by some of the world’s friendliest exotic animals, will offer a connection to the natural world that can rarely be experienced in such proximity and is perfect for instilling a concern about wildlife and wild places in kids and 6 – 13 October 2016

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 LINES of Connection – There is more than one local tie-in when Alonzo King LINES Ballet returns to the Granada Theatre tonight for its first local appearance in more than three years. The celebrated contemporary ballet company known for developing classical forms and techniques into a new language of movement has been guided by King since 1982, just 13 years after he graduated from Santa Barbara High School, having been raised in our bucolic berg before it was as busy and bustling as it is today. King thinks of ballet as a science, founded on universal, geometric principles of energy, and evolution, ultimately creating works that are known for connecting audiences to a profound sense of shared humanity.

This time back in town, that connection is palpable as the company is presenting the Santa Barbara premiere of “Sand”, King’s new collaboration with tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd, a longtime Montecito resident, and jazz pianist Jason Moran.

Lines will also perform “Shostakovich”, set to four of the composer’s string quartets, with movement a pervasive undercurrent of restless agitation. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1214 State Street COST: $35-$45 INFO: 899-2222/www.granadasb.org or 8933535/www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

the whole family. Come an hour before showtime for balloons, face painting, and crafts on the plaza in front of the theater. WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $16 general, $12 children (age 12 & under) INFO: 893-3535 or www.

ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu MONDAY, OCTOBER 10 The Juice is Loose at UCSB – Despite everyone knowing the history and outcome, the made-forTV series The People v. O.J. Simpson made ratings history when it aired this summer. Even more surprisingly, OJ: Made in America, the multi-part documentary that went beyond the trial – both in chronology and scope – did incredibly well, too, when it aired just a few weeks later. The film, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance

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Film Festival and aired as a five-part miniseries on ABC, placed the socalled “trial of the century” within the complex history of race, gender, class, news, and entertainment media, policing, criminal justice, and the sports industry in the United States, offering an unflinching and timely portrait of our time far beyond Simpson. Tonight, UCSB’s Pollock Theater screens Part 1 of the gripping documentary that is considered a frontrunner for the documentary Oscar, followed by a discussion and Q&A session with director Ezra Edelman and professor Jennifer Holt and Ph.D. candidate Steven Secular of UCSB’s Department of Film and Media Studies. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Pollock Theater, UCSB campus COST: free (reservations recommended) INFO: 893-5903 or www.carseywolf. ucsb.edu/pollock •MJ

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AIndieBossaSwingTwang – That’s the kerning-challenged, self-described genre adopted by the Santa Barbara band called Lucinda Lane, which has grown from its original format as a duo collaboration between guitaristsongwriter Joe Woodard (who is also the music journalist at the Santa Barbara News-Press) and singer Nicole Lvoff, who is normally more partial to jazz standards. Now expanded to a quintet featuring frequent Woodard colleagues (chiefly Headless Household) drummer Tom Lackner, bassist Jim Connolly, and pedal steel and string wizard Bill Flores, Lucinda Lane takes to SOhO to flesh out some material before (belatedly) heading into the studio to record their debut album.

It might just be one music scribe’s opinion, but Lucinda Lane might just be the best thing any of them have ever done. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $10 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

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CEC host John Palminteri, Nina Johnson, Santa Barbara assistant manager; Neil Dipaola, sponsor and honorary chair; Leanne Schlinger, CEC host Spencer Fischer; and Robert Forouzandeh (photo by Priscilla)

Environment leaders Laura Capps, CEC president; Neil Dipaola, CEC honorary chair; Clive Parry, Sage Publications, Sara Miller McCune, Laura McGlothlin, Partnership Council; and green goddess Haley Carrere (photo by Priscilla)

Supporters Ross McGlothlin, CEC board; Kate Schwab, SBDO; Sigrid Wright, Community Environment Council CEO/executive director; Nadra Ehrman, Towbes Group; and Geoff Green, SBCC CEO (photo by Priscilla)

CEC’S Partnership Council and friends Tim Taylor, Steve Schaffer, Jordan Ben Shea, Derek Carlson, Perrin Pellegrin, managing partner; Tim Taylor and Haley Carrere (photo by Priscilla)

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for the cause.

The bash, lavishly decorated in green hues by Montecito design whiz Merryl Brown, was co-chaired

by Laura McGlothlin and Neil Dipaola, while ubiquitous twosome, KEYT-TV reporter John Palminteri and City College Foundation honcho Geoff Green, and radio host Spencer Fischer, auctioned off a vacation package to Taos, New Mexico, a VIP night out at the Santa Barbara Bowl, a pet portrait by local artist Lanny Sherwin, and a children’s playhouse made by eco-builder Allen Construction.

Among the environmentally friendly guests, noshing on the food from executive chef Jason Paluska and patissier Jeff Haines, were Sara Miller McCune, Tim and Monica Babich, Laura Capps, Das Williams, Judi Weisbart, Hal Conklin, Salud Carbajal, Sigrid Wright, Karl Hutterer, and Gretchen Lieff.

Signature Parking donated its services.

Blue Bayou The 51-year-old Rescue Mission hosted its 14th annual “Blues on the Bayou” bash at Rancho Dos Pueblos honoring 91-year-old Silvio Di Loreto with the Leni Fe Bland award, named after the Montecito philanthropist, who died two years ago.

The sun-soaked party, co-chaired

by Susan Hughes and Suzi Ryan of the women’s auxiliary, was emceed by radio host Catherine Remak and, with more than 320 guests, raised more than $400,000.

“It is a large part of our annual $2 million-plus budget,” says president Rolf Geyling. ‘We have an open-door policy 365 days a year, serving nearly 145,000 meals and providing in excess of 56,000 safe overnight accommodations.”

Silvio, who I’ve known for many

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years, is known as the “Godfather of Real Estate” and developed the first multiple-listing service book for the industry in the late 1960s.

He ran Sunset Company Realtors for more than four decades and has served on the boards of more than 20 nonprofits, receiving numerous community awards.

Silvio was instrumental in helping secure the location on Yanonali Street where the Rescue Mission now resides.

Among those turning out to fete the affable character, who is an emeritus member of the City College Foundation and Hillside House, were ranch owners Henry and Dundie Schulte, Hal Conklin, Gerd Jordano, Karl Willig, Andrea Preiser, Dianne Davis, Rebecca Weber, Lois Capps, Rose Hodge, Mary Collier, Terry Foil, Bill and Barbara Cirone, Dana Hansen, Penny Jenkins, Dana Newquist, and Antonio Di Loreto.

Saxophonist Ron McCarley and his jazz quartet from San Luis Obispo entertained.

Sightings: Actress Julia Roberts and husband Danny Moder noshing at Opal...Oscar winner Kevin Costner and his wife, Christine, celebrating their wedding anniversary at the El Encanto...Music Academy of the West president Scott Reed at the Santa Barbara Polo Club Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and other amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301 •MJ 6 – 13 October 2016

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to a private walled terrace with fountain.

The updated kitchen has a sitting room. The master suite has its own fireplace, boudoir sitting area, and lavish bath. Many rooms have French doors opening to patios and outdoor areas. There is custom iron and woodwork throughout the home. Outside, there are open views across the adjacent ranch that is for sale at $125,000,000.

Above Bella Vista: $3,995,000

If your goal is to own a single-level home with privacy, ocean views, and a pool with an ocean view, then this Mediterranean style home might fill that bill. The 2.5+/- acre property is off a private lane above Bella Vista Drive, west of Romero Canyon Road, and offers substantial views from the home, over the property to the foothills, ocean, and islands beyond.

There are three bedrooms in the main home and a fourth guest suite-office, along with a total of five bathrooms. A center courtyard offers outdoor dining and lounging area in privacy. A water well permit adds to the potential sustainability and value of this unique property.

$10-million-plus range. Inside, one will find 4 bedrooms and 3.5 baths, hickory-wood floors and new kitchen and baths. Patio, trails, and sitting areas bring you out into the yard to enjoy the privacy and natural surroundings.

Near San Ysidro Ranch: $6,575,000

Inspired by rural French homes of Provence, this villa is a blending of Old World style with the convenience of today. The home is located in a prestigious Montecito location, on 1.39 landscaped acres just a few doors down and across from the San Ysidro Ranch and Casa De Maria retreat center.

The home features 5 bedrooms and 7.5 baths in more than 6,600 sq ft of living space. Swimming pool, gated driveway, and motor court, impressive entrance, magical backyard, romantic master suite balcony, and serious privacy are all additional attractions.

For more information on these properties or if you would like me to arrange a showing with the listing agents, please contact me directly: Mark@Villagesite.com or call/text (805) 698-2174. For more Best Buys, visit www.MontecitoBestBuys.com from which this article is based.

•MJ

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In the Foothills: $4,295,000 Ocean and Montecito Valley views are featured in this very private setting.

Surrounded by many more expensive homes, this is a recently renovated contemporary view home on a prime less-traveled and prestigious street.

The home across the street sold just months ago for $16,000,000, for instance, and a couple of surrounding homes are on the market in the $5- to

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