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ON THE WATER FRONT

The Water Wars Continue...

by Bob Hazard

he biggest mystery in this village is where exactly Montecito stands on desal with the City of Santa Barbara after more than a year of negotiations. What has happened, in other words, during that time, and how close are we to a deal we can live with? . . . continued on page 54 And, boy, do we have letters, from: Tom Mosby, Blair Whitney, Ann Edmonton, Jean von Wittenburg, Joan Wells, Chip Seigel, Lee Heller, Martha Blackwell, Dr. Edo McGowan, and Carolee Krieger, among others... (Letters to the Editor begins on page 8)

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Creative Minds

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On The Water Front

Montecito Miscellany

Letters to the Editor

Bob Hazard expounds on desalination and missed opportunities, what he refers to as MWD’s non-response, City of SB’s reaction, desal negotiations, and board transparency Davey’s Voice; David Crosby sounds off; Ellen Degeneres’s income; Angelina versus Brad; Ken Burns at Granada; Linda Thompson’s new book; Robert Eringer at Tecolote; bash for Celesta Billeci; Ernie Brooks; Gold Ribbon luncheon; Arts Fund gala; CAMA hosts Philharmonia Orchestra; SB Chamber Orchestra; Table of Life fundraiser; Bread & Roses in Summerland; Arthur Swalley re-elected; and Neville Marriner, RIP Paul Didier gives praise; Tom Mosby on water; Blair Whitney talks MWD leadership; Ann Edmonston gives thanks; Joan Wells for Charles Newman; Karen Friedman on non-profit funds; Michael Edwards photo op; anonymous on grass; Chip Seigel likes Charles Newman; Lee Heller sounds off; Martha Blackwell on rights; Carolee Krieger on the drought; Art Thomas and Caltrans; Roy Miller extolls David McCalmont; H.T. Bryan’s list; and David McCalmont expounds on Hillary

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Knitting and crocheting; The New Yorker; Happiness Hour; Neal Taylor Nature Center; SB Republican Club; dinner at Mount Carmel Parish; cancer walk/run; Mindfulness Meditation; Spanish group; MUS meeting; Carp School Board forum; MPC meeting; MUS food drive; Italy celebration luncheon; MWD candidates; YMCA golf tourney; Happiness Hour; and music club

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Beautification Day in full swing; Montecito Water District holds two meetings next week; stakeholders turn out for Miramar groundbreaking; Montecito Association meets; and Laguna Blanca teacher shows art at Westmont

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner chronicles SB Historical Museum showcasing Spanish exhibit; State Street Ballet; and New Beginnings Counseling Center Changing Lives Gala

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Homecoming honors the late William S. “Bill” Klug ’98 and Angie Hill ’90; a downtown lecture tackles the race for the White House; and Shakespeare’s As You Like It opens October 14

31 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz talks with singer Nina Yoshida Nelsen as part of SB Symphony’s season opener; Kerry Candaele’s documentary Following the Ninth; The Creative Mind at UCSB; Arlington hosts Ian Anderson; Mersey Beatles at Lobero; and films in focus

38 Legal Advertising 39 Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant ponders the meaning of life, as he makes reference to biologists, philosophers, religion, and the Bard himself

Movie Guide 42 Calendar of Events

And Then There Were None in Carp; Fall Feast with EDC; As You Like It at Westmont; SBCC hosts Other Desert Cities; Sings Like Hell at Lobero; Van Morrison in the Bowl; Harbor and Seafood Festival; SB Beer Fest; pianist Joey Alexander; Chowder Festival; Screenagers at the Arlington; and Movies That Matter

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ON THE WATER FRONT

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

Desal Talks... Opportunity Lost

ast fall, the City of Santa Barbara took the initiative by forwarding a “Term Sheet” to the Montecito Water District (MWD), offering a guaranteed new source of 2,500 AF of water (70% of the 3,500 AF of water MWD used last year) for each of the next 20 years. The City’s plan was to produce 3,125 acre feet (AF) of desalinated water for its own use. With a year’s lead time, IDE Technologies, the City’s desalination contractor, had firm prices to add the needed RO modules (called trains), to service an added 2,500 AF for Montecito, taking the desal plant from its planned 3,125 AF capacity to 5,625 AF, but still short of its maximum 10,000 AF permitted capacity. The beauty of that deal was that adding train capacity would have lowered the cost of desal water to City users from an estimated $2,400 per AF to somewhere around $1,600 per AF because of greater operating efficiencies and substantial economies of scale. The City of Santa Barbara needed a response from MWD by December 31, 2015, in order for IDE to contract for the manufacture and installation of the added trains at a known cost.

MWD’s Non-Response

As I understand it, the Montecito Water District’s Board of Directors refused to pursue the City’s offer, apparently hoping for torrential rains from a forecasted El Niño that did not happen in our area. Former MWD general manager Tom Mosby did persuade the board to allow him to send a polite perfunctory response on December 31, 2015, acknowledging the City’s offer to expand its desal plant capacity up to 10,000 AF. His New Year’s Eve transmittal ends with this optimistic note: “Best wishes to all in 2016, and may ample rainfall fill our reservoirs (and cups) this winter.” This was an enormous lost opportunity for Montecito to procure a new and reliable water source to help end MWD’s mandatory rationing, do away with rationing penalties, and curtail its total reliance on future rainfall. Our water district was the first, and now the only water district in the state, to impose both mandatory rationing allocations for each month and emergency water surcharges. This community has cut its water use by 46%, but the reward has been the doubling of cost for half as much water. Montecito’s trees and gardens are showing the stress as the drought grinds into its 5th year.

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City of Santa Barbara Reaction

Upon receiving the MWD negative response on December 31, 2015, stunned City officials logically asked, “Are these guys interested in making a deal, or jerking us around, while we spend serious City money on engineering and city staff efforts to accommodate Montecito?” City officials were perplexed that MWD negotiators complained of their “risk adversity.” After all, who assumed the greater risk? The City boldly stepped forward and committed $55 million to reactivate the once jointly controlled, mothballed desalination plant; MWD took no action, refusing to share modest desal maintenance costs, while continuing to rely on the unreliable promises of State water and other purchased water; now MWD cannot get into Lake Cachuma because of pump and pipe restrictions. Meanwhile, the City applied for and was granted 1.6% state financing for its desal plant reactivation, while MWD failed to file its required State-mandated Urban Water Management Plans (UWMP) in 2010 and 2015, eliminating its chances for grants, loans, or favorable funding. Responsibly, the City incorporated its desal costs into its current rate structure, while MWD not only failed to do the same, but reneged on its promise to Montecito voters to use its own 55% compounded rate increase to honor its promise to replace its 100-year-old pipes. Montecito has no money in its current rate structure to fund desal, or pipe replacement, or recycled water programs. Now ask me again, which one of these two water providers is better managed and more responsible?

Desal Negotiations in Spring 2016

When the El Niño rains did not materialize, the MWD Board sheepishly asked Mosby to beg Rebecca Bjork, director of Public Works at the City of Santa Barbara, to re-open desal negotiations. Not surprisingly, disgusted City officials cut the amount of water available to Montecito in half from 2,500 AF to 1,250 AF a year, increased the cost of that water, and demanded an upfront, non-refundable check for $527,897, consisting of $193,594 for the City to study the desal plant

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WATER FRONT Page 204 October is the fallen leaf, but it’s also a wider horizon more clearly seen. – Hal Borland

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Monte ito Miscellany by Richard Mineards

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

Davey’s Dogs in Good Hands

wo hundred dogs have been rescued from horrific death in China by the Montecito-based animal rights organization, Davey’s Voice, founded by activist Gretchen Lieff, in association with other recue groups. The cute critters were destined as canine canapés at the notorious Yulin Dog Meat Festival, during which 10,000 animals are slaughtered for their meat in less than humane conditions. “It is one of the most abusive acts towards dogs in the world,” says board member and international liaison Deborah Hall. “We were compelled to help, to be their voice.” The cost for care and transport is raised through a website: www.you caring.com/yulin-dogs-591102 “Our biggest challenge is funding the transport,” admits Deborah. But thanks to volunteers on the ground in China, who set up proper procedures for vaccines and health certificates, moving them out of Asia was relatively easy. The massive rescue has been a team effort by the entire Davey’s Voice board, along with Becky Kelber, Amy Celto Bellomy, Martha Gray, and Laura Jones, as well as tremendous community support. Once the rescued dogs arrive in the U.S., they are made available for adoption, but only in areas with no kill shelters. The nonprofit follows up with reference checks and home visits before a pet is placed. “The conditions are heart wrenching and emotionally challenging, but nothing compared to what our little heroes endured, who, despite the torture, never gave up the fight for life. “I cry as I hug them, tears for the suffering they endured and happy tears knowing they will only know love from this moment forward,” adds Deborah, who flew to Yulin in June with Marc Ching of the Animal Help and Wellness Foundation, to pull the dogs out of the slaughter houses to safety. Another group of survivors will be arriving later this month. If you care to adopt one of the cute imports who have avoided unthinkable deaths, check out the website www.daveysvoice.org/yulin-adop

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Davey’s Voice founder Gretchen Lieff with rescue dogs from China

tion.html Paws for thought, indeed. Between the Covers Two of our rarefied enclave’s top socialites, Bui Simon and Jelinda DeVorzon hosted a sunset soirée at Tecolote, the bustling bibliophile bastion in the upper village, for author and award-winning songwriter Linda Thompson for her new book, A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in Between. The former beauty pageant queen, who had a nearly five-year relationship with Elvis, ending it eight months before his untimely death in 1977, had a colorful existence with his drug abuse and infidelities, before marrying gold medal Olympian Jenner, by whom she had two sons, Brandon and Brody. Her ex-husband, now better known as Caitlyn Jenner after his gender transformation, had expressed his feelings about changing sex nearly 30 years ago, she reveals in the tome, which took her 18 months to write. “It wasn’t a labor of love, just a labor!” she admits. After divorcing Jenner in 1985, Linda married Canadian Grammy Award-winning producer David Foster in 1991, which she describes as a relationship of 19 tumultuous years, which ended in divorce in 2005. Foster just split from his fourth wife, Yolanda Hadid, mother of supermodel and former Montecito Union School student, Gigi Hadid, after four years

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TO THE EDITOR

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

Kudos for J.B. and MJ

ow. I am impressed. I have had close to 100 journalism interviews in my working career and all of them have contained 10% to 50% errors. Your article (“A Man Of Honor,” MJ #22_38) stands as the most accurate I have ever experienced. Kudos. But, good journalism and writing is about much more than accuracy. You captured some of my passion, my goals, my raison d’étre. You wove a fabric of facts, quotes, and contexts that delivered up a living, breathing person. Thank you, thank you. My family, friends, and business associates (several of whom I ran into at the Montecito Motor Classic that weekend) have commented positively that they feel like they know me better now. The article was superb and the front page still makes me a little uncomfortable: in a good way. Your interview style is quite engaging and your probing questions spot-on. As someone who has spent most of his adult life trying to build a better community and who has lived in John Murphy’s former home on San Leandro for almost 30 years, you have rendered new and vibrant meaning to the word “community.” Thank you for your professionalism and your efforts to build a better community. G. Paul Didier, CFP, MBA President & CEO United Way of Santa Barbara County (Editor’s note: Well, shucks, what is there to add? Thank you for taking the time to write such a nice note. – J.B.)

Water Wars Rebuttal

Thursday, October 20, 6:00 pm at Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro Road for more information: 969-2026

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In Mr. [Bob] Hazard’s politically charged article (“Water Wars,” MJ #22_40) he has again overstepped the common courtesy and practice of professionalism and respect and has elected to criticize and provide misinformation to any and all that stand in the way of achieving his personal agenda against the Montecito Water District (MWD). Mr. Hazard lives in the comfort of a private golf club community with emerald-green fairways, while most of us, in this time of an unprecedented water crisis, have made the difficult decision to reprioritize the use of water for essential use and public

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health. Our decisions as a collective reflect our high level of consciousness in dealing with this drought and a scenario never considered by South Coast water agencies – no water supply deliveries from Lake Cachuma. Mr. Hazard is apparently not willing to accept the fact that most of California is in a state of emergency and that all water agencies, especially those in the central valley and Santa Barbara County, have been seriously impacted. He believes he has found the answer to the drought by promoting two candidates for the MWD Board of Directors through Montecito Journal articles, candidate statements, and spreading damaging misinformation on the other candidates. I have respect for all candidates, and will take the high road and speak from the record, versus spreading misinformation that questions a candidate’s credibility. As for Mr. Hazard’s recent article and critical statements about my career as the water district’s general manager (recently retired), I take offense at his inaccurate comments and wish to correct the record. Double-Dipping Accusation I had retired and at the urging of the MWD Board returned to the water district as a consultant for one purpose: to assist the new out-of-town GM, in the midst of this ongoing drought crisis. I retired with a pension of about 60% of my salary, and my hourly consultant rate is fixed by law to be no more that the position I am serving in, which is the engineering manager and receiving no other benefits. My current rate of pay as a consultant is about 50% of what the District would pay to a consulting engineering firm. The District and its customers are benefitting from this arrangement, as it capitalizes on my 25 years of experience with MWD. For me this has never been about money, it has always been about public service and assisting the community that I have been a part of since 1963. Not a Candidate for Change This implies status quo with no response change to the water-shortage crisis. My career has been about “out of the box” planning and implementation of solutions that began with my engineering position. The way you receive water today as a customer is very different from the way water was delivered in 1990 when I was hired by

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This Week in and around Montecito

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(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 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 stressbuster 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 Fall Luncheon The Santa Barbara Republican Club will hold its fall luncheon at the La Cumbre Country Club. Andy Caldwell, well-known political commentator and executive director of COLAB, will lead a discussion on the 17 propositions that California voters will be expected to vote on in the November election. It will be a helpful

chance for attendees to find out more about them before making a decision. As always, the public is invited to attend. When: 11:30 am Where: 4105 Via Laguna For reservations or further information: 684-3858 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. When: 6 pm Where: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, 1300 East Valley Road Cost: $30 Info: 965-6425 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 Cancer Center Walk/Run The Cancer Center of Santa Barbara and the Biltmore present the 24th Annual Cancer Center Walk/Run, a 5K run or walk or a 10K run (and Kids’ Fun Run). Participants will be raising money based upon the support each receives from friends, neighbors, family members, local businesses, and others. One-hundred percent of the proceeds from the Walk/Run benefit Cancer Center of Santa Barbara’s Clinical Research program. When: 10K run begins at 8 am; 5K walk/run begins at 8:30 am; Kids Fun Run at 10 am Where: Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro Road Info and registration: www.ccsb.org Mindfulness Meditation A half-day retreat with guided meditations from Radhule Weininger, M.D., PhD. All levels

Terrific Treat A terrific event for kids and adults is being offered at Neal Taylor Nature Center in partnership with the Community Services Department and the Santa Barbara Zoo. On the lawn at the nature center, Alice Abela and her collection of spiders, snakes, and other reptiles will offer an exciting view into a fascinating world of small beings; Gabrielle Drozdowski from Eyes in the Sky will introduce you to Max the Great Horned Owl, and representatives from the Santa Barbara Zoo will teach all you would like to know about bats and other creatures associated with Halloween – up close! Other activities will entertain youngsters and parents alike. Arts and crafts activities will be a hit where making your own mask will be one of the focused activities. When: 11 am to 1 pm Where: 2265 Highway 154 Info: 693-0691 welcome. When: 2:30 to 6 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18 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 MUS School Board Meeting When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19 Montecito Planning Commission Meeting MPC ensures that applicants adhere to certain ordinances and policies, and that issues raised by interested parties are addressed. When: 9 am Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 Food Drive at MUS To benefit Santa Barbara Foodbank, donations can be left in the school’s parking lot in the morning during dropoff. Items needed include baby food, cereal, pasta, peanut butter, rice, soup, and canned goods. Where: 385 San Ysidro Road That’s Italian Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Veneto and Venice joining the Kingdom of Italy, as well as the 155th anniversary of the Reunification of Italy. The Celebration Luncheon is organized under the auspices of the honorable Antonio Verde, consul general of Italy. Dr. Verde will honor us with his presence. For more historical background and practical information: http://italianheritagesb. org/2016/09/26/celebrationluncheon/ There are two ways to reserve and

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candidates Gary Blair, Maureen Claffey Foley, and Rogelio Delgado, and where they stand on issues pertaining to the Carpinteria Unified School District. Each candidate will answer the same three predetermined questions, and audience members are invited to submit additional questions for the contenders that will be posed as time allows. When: 7 to 9 pm Where: Carpinteria Children’s Project at Main, 5201 8th Street in Carpinteria

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pay: by check with an RSVP form or by credit card (PayPal) online. Reservations required; deadline is Friday, October 14. When: noon Where: La Cumbre Country Club Info: Gabriella at (805) 969-1018 MWD Candidates Forum The four candidates running for the two vacancies on the Montecito Water District Board of Directors will participate in a candidate forum at Montecito Union School. When: 6 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 On Course for A Cause Join the Montecito Family YMCA for an afternoon of golf, dinner, and more at their Annual YMCA Golf Tournament. All proceeds from the event will go directly to the Open Doors financial assistance program, which helps local youth and families take part in life-changing YMCA programs and membership opportunities. When: 11 am Where: Glen Annie Golf Club, 405 Glen Annie Road Cost: $200 Info: 969-3288

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 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 stressbuster 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 Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music. A valued cultural resource in town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public. When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free •MJ

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aturday, November 5, marks the 31st Montecito Beautification Day, and the dedicated beautification committee has been hard at work planning a fresh, fun, family event that focuses on beautifying Montecito. This year’s theme is “Save our Monarch Butterflies,” and participants will be donning gold T-shirts; they are encouraged to wear additional butterfly attire, including wings, says co-organizer Mindy Denson. Denson and her loyal crew, co-chair Cliff Gherson, Cindy Feinberg, Trish Davis, Jean von Wittenburg, Caryl Crahan, Christy Venable, Heidi Winston, Patty Zucherman, Jane Burkemper, Nina Terzian, Helen Buckley, Dana Hansen, Andrea Newquist, Michael Edwards, Monica Babich, Connor Rehage, Sylvia Easton, and Marie Larkin, are working to not only plan the event, but actively identify and choose three beautification winners from a handful of categories. As always, hundreds of volunteers are expected to turn out to pick up trash along Montecito’s streets, trails, roads, onramps, cul-de-sacs, byways, bridges and beaches, after enjoying a light breakfast catered by the Biltmore. After the cleanup, the Beautification Awards will be given to homeowners in Montecito – we’ll have photos of the winners here – and the Citizen of the Year award is being given to two people this year. Without her knowledge, Mindy’s committee voted to name her, as well as Nina Terzian, as Citizens of the Year. “I cried when I found out!” Denson said. Denson has organized Beautification Day countless times, and this year also took over the reins at the Village Fourth event. We’ll have more on the accomplishments of both Denson and Terzian

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in our Beautification issue in a few weeks. Our local special districts, along with teams from MERRAG, Casa del Herrero, Friends of Montecito Library, Montecito Trails Foundation, and MarBorg, will set up informational tables at the event. Montecito Village Grocery is teaming up with Montecito firefighters to provide lunch when the volunteers return to the village green. The menu will include hot dogs and Montecito firefighters’ famous “five-alarm” chili, as well as homemade chocolate chip cookies from the Beautification Committee. Local artist Bill Dalziel will be providing face painting, and Montecito Union School’s Green Team will provide two hydration stations this year, for volunteers to fill up their reusable water bottles. “This is an extraordinary day to not only help keep Montecito beautiful, but to reconnect with all the incredible families and friends that make Montecito so special,” Denson said. The event begins at 9 am and goes until about 2 pm, at the upper village green, 1470 East Valley Road. Tee-shirt sponsorship opportunities are still available. Call the Montecito Association at 969-2026 for more information.

MWD Meetings Next Week

Next Tuesday, October 18, Montecito Water District will hold a public meeting on desalination and the District’s water supply. The meeting, held at El Montecito Presbyterian Church, will summarize the District’s key terms included in the working desalination

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anta Barbara Historical Museum (SBHM) is being honored as the only venue on the West Coast for Spain’s exhibit “Designing America: Spain’s imprint in the U.S.” The showcase offers a coherent view of Spain’s extensive contribution to configuring the territory, landscape, and cities of the United States. The executive director of California Missions Foundation David Bolton, was responsible for bringing the exhibit to Santa Barbara, so I went to Los Angeles to speak with the consul general of Spain, Javier Vallaure, regarding this show that opens Thursday, October 20, at SBHM. As the consul general said, “Santa Barbara is the capital of things Spanish in this part of the world.” We remember this especially during Fiesta when we celebrate our Spanish and Mexican roots. It probably looks more Spanish than any other city in the U.S. After living in Spain for seven years and embracing their customs and culture, I have many wonderful memories of the country and its people. The Fundacion Consejo EspanaEstado Unidos is organizing the exhibition, and one of their purposes is to enhance the knowledge of the two countries: Spain in the U.S. and vice versa. After a big opening success in Madrid, the show went to Washington, D.C., and then to Houston before being sent to us. Our Spanish history goes back to 1513, the year when Ponce de Leon first set foot in Florida and goes through the 21st century. Spain was the first European nation to settle in the territory of what today we call the United States. The Spanish rule from 1565 to 1821 influenced the composition of our landscape and architecture. The exhibit has four blocks: The image of America; Constructing the territory; Cities: the Spanish urban and Constructed works: architecture and engineering. There will be video and a multi-touch table with zoomable

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State Street Ballet took over the Biltmore Loggia Room and made it its own. The decorations were absolutely stunning, with hot-pink satin tablecloths and black-and-white stripe chair covers. There were silhouettes of dancers on the wall back-lit in pink. The centerpieces looked like tall, thin vases, but in fact they were lamps lit from within. And then there was a large dance floor to accommodate the ballet dancers and later the guests. All this was due to gala committee chair Jill Dexter and her talented husband, Ron, who created the silhouettes and lighting. She said, “There were ‘dancers’ all over the house.” Of course, she was backed with a commit13 – 20 October 2016

Can-can girls Arianna Hartanov, Alexandra Gosiengfiao, and Meghan Buddy at the ballet gala

Catherine Gee, honoree Chris Lancashire, and chair Jill Dexter at the ballet ball

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VOTE FLOYD WICKS TOBE PLOUGH

The Montecito Water District needs to adopt a modern “Green Agenda”...

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e agree with the experts in the field of water management that recycled water is critical for managing Montecito’s and Summerland’s water needs. The Montecito Water District Board of Directors has not made recycled water a priority. As Water Board Directors we will move the District into water recycling like our neighboring communities and other water districts are doing throughout the State of California.”

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the District. Changes have occurred with new infrastructure development that has resulted in the District delivering 90% of its water from the Cachuma Project South Coast Conduit with Cachuma, State, and supplemental water now able to reach more than 90% of the District’s service area. As MWD’s GM, I introduced the conservation tiered rate structure and water limitation ordinances that were adopted by the board. Each of these were developed and approved under District general counsel oversight to specifically address the anticipated future water shortages caused by the periodic annual allocation reductions in the State Water Project. The tiered rate structure at the time of its adoption fulfilled all legal requirements according to general counsel and later came into dispute when a customer was reclassified to single-family residential leading to the filing of a class action suit. About that time, an appellate court issued the San Capistrano decision that put into question the validity of tiered water rates related to cost of service. With a recommendation from special counsel, it was decided that it would be less expensive and more appropriate to settle the litigation versus going through a prolonged costly trial. Though not popular, but critical for water supply sustainability, I, the

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board and special counsel took immediate action at the onset of the drought to develop the allocation ordinance in response to the high customer water demand resulting from lack of appreciable rain and dwindling local water supplies. Due to the unprecedented drought, the District (and other South Coast water agencies) lost more than 80% of their previously reliable water supplies. The allocation ordinance has resulted in a stable and sustainable customer water demand level today with the District continuing its efforts to acquire and build on its available water supplies. Other changes to the status quo also included review of and controlling MWD’s operating expenses such as employee benefits and retirement plans, reanalyzing the long-term cost consequences to District customers. As a result, new employees receive far fewer benefits, resulting in a significant cost savings to the District. This action counters what is still occurring in other local water agencies. Urban Water Management Plan Much has been written about the District not completing its 2010 UWMP update. Claims have been alleged that the District has lost out on drought grant funding and low interest loan opportunities that would have benefitted District customers. In 2014, the

District (and the other South Coast water agencies) received a $2-million emergency drought grant relief funding for the Cachuma barge project. MWD’s share, which consisted of two State agency grants, was $500,000. The State did try to back out of its commitment to Santa Barbara County, as the South Coast was not viewed by the State as high priority due to more serious water-shortage conditions occurring statewide. Our elected officials in Sacramento were called in and were of great help to us. The State has strict criteria for providing low-interest loans. Disadvantaged communities and those with water quality issues have priority. Even though our water-shortage condition is serious, the State criteria makes us one of the last agencies they would consider for financial assistance. This is due to MWD customers using up to four times the amount of water deemed essential for public health and sanitation. Low-interest State loans also require the barrower to own the project and the land it’s on. This particular loan condition precludes MWD from obtaining its own State loan for possible participation in the City desal facility. MWD has no ownership in the facility, located entirely on City land. This situation is similar to our participation in the City’s regional Cater Water Treatment Plant, also located entirely in the City. We partner with the City on the Cater project by separate agreement, sharing in Cater’s capital costs. The most recent example being the $20-million water-quality ozone project. The City obtained a State 20-year, low-interest loan for the project and then passed down the low interest financing to the District by a separate 20-year agreement. If MWD and the City reach an agreement on desal participation, it is anticipated a similar agreement will be executed. Regarding the current status of the UWMP update, District staff is expecting to have a draft of the plan available within the next 30 days. Recycled Water MWD had several recycled water feasibility studies prepared by qualified consulting engineers who have come to the same conclusion: there is limited opportunity based on the high cost of developing a water reclaim facility. In two earlier reports, a suggestion was proposed that MWD consider joining with the City of Santa Barbara in developing a regional wastewater reclaim facility. A City recycled purple pipe water main is located about 1,100 feet from the Santa Barbara Cemetery, right next door to the Montecito Sanitary District. The City’s wastewater recycled facility has been out of service for the last two years and was recently placed back into operation

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following an upgrade and increase it its production capabilities. MWD is currently talking about its possible participation with City staff in the City’s recycled water facility. Reclaiming wastewater is an environmentally superior solution in creating a new water supply for a specific purpose – outdoor irrigation. The limited value for MWD developing a recycled water supply is a function of the number of customers it is able to serve, which earlier studies identified as less than 1%. The cost to provide less than 1% of our customers with reclaimed water in the 1990s was estimated between $15 to 20 million. Regardless, recycled wastewater as a water supply may have a future with MWD and its customers. The analysis of cost versus value for local or a regional recycled-water supply needs to be considered with the District in current negotiations with the City on its participation in the City’s initial 20-year desal facility estimated at more than $150 million. The impact on rates and charges to customers must be accurately weighed and understood, as MWD has a very small customer base upon which to spread these costs. Hazard’s Agenda I wish to bring to your attention something in Mr. Hazard’s political program that I find most disturbing and counterproductive to our efforts over the last several years. The State regulatory agencies (and many water agencies) do not sympathize with MWD’s current water-shortage problem. I personally visited two State regulatory agencies when we were in the process of trying to obtain an emergency permit to build our own desal facility. The reception at the State agencies were guarded, since MWD and some of its customers have a reputation of excessive water use; being affluent and arrogant. Mr. Hazard is promoting the wrong message that will not be taken well by the State and other water agencies – that is, more water for non-essential purposes, i.e., Make Montecito Green Again. The message from our community needs to be conservation and the efficient use of water. Providing more water and especially reliability can be achieved, but keep the message consistent with the goals of the State and other water agencies. A possible paradigm shift with long-term consequences is in progress regarding our future water supplies. I ask that we all remain focused with the common goal of making the right choices and sound decisions moving forward. With all that is at stake for our community, please be sure to vote. Your vote does count. Tom Mosby Montecito 13 – 20 October 2016

MWD Leadership on Trial

Next month, Montecito residents are set to make a critical vote for two Montecito Water District (MWD) Board seats. When voting, please consider the predicament the current MWD leadership has put us into. In February 2014, the MWD leadership came to the incredible conclusion that Montecito would exhaust its water supply in just four months, by July of that year. Having to panic and steeply increase their pricing via a quickly passed ordinance, they immediately put in place the most severe rationing penalty system in California. This system raises more money in penalties than in water sales. MWD also stumbled into a class-action lawsuit, which they lost, costing us millions of dollars. Even though your Montecito water rates are the highest you have ever seen, get ready for even higher bills next year to pay for this mismanagement by the current Water District Board. The history of the MWD is to have no commitment to water conservation, in terms of appropriate staffing or other resources, no incentives or rebates for replacing lawns as most other California water districts have implemented, not enough employees working on property inspections to help you check for leaks or ways to save water. They have a poor track record on encouraging modernization of Montecito’s irrigation systems or training Montecito’s gardeners to greatly cut back on water use. The MWD has provided continuous obstruction and is completely against using reclaimed water for irrigation, the purple pipes you see all over Santa Barbara City. This even though 80% of Montecito’s water use is for landscaping irrigation. This in spite of the fact that the Montecito Sanitary District has ample-treated wastewater for use in a reclaimed wastewater system for Montecito. This is spite of the availability of state funding for this purpose. The MWD has not even negotiated to extend use of excess Santa Barbara City reclaimed water that is available. This could help water our parks, school playing fields, orchards, et cetera. Instead, we see the likes of the Cold Spring School field turn into a barren dirt patch for the children of Montecito to try to play soccer and other sports upon. The MWD is even against using this water for the Montecito Cemetery. After more than a year of negotiations, the MWD has failed to reach an agreement with Santa Barbara City to share in the water from the Santa Barbara desalination plant. There is still no contract in place to provide Montecito with this source 13 – 20 October 2016

of water. There are four candidates vying for two spots on MWD this election. Two are from the existing old leadership that have given us such poor results. However, the good news is that there are two highly qualified newcomers with fresh ideas that will turn around the Board and institute new wellthought-out policies to dig us out of the state we are in at the moment. Therefore, please vote for Tobe Plough and Floyd Wicks this coming election. Blair Whitney Montecito (Editor’s note: Though we don’t agree with your assessment of all negative results you’ve laid at the feet of the present Montecito Water Board, we do agree that it is probably a good idea to bring new people in. – J.B.)

Water Board Election Update

Two of the candidates for the water board – Tobe Plough and Floyd Wicks – spoke to a group at Casa Dorinda last week and gave a very interesting and “depthy” presentation. I know we all are so much better informed now. Thank you both for sharing your thoughts and plans with us. Ann Edmonston Jean von Wittenburg Montecito

She Likes Charles

In what has turned out to be a high-profile election for the Montecito Water District Board of Directors, the MJ associate editor has taken a high-profile endorsement stance for a ticket of two candidates. In doing so, I believe he has overlooked a highly qualified and highly dedicated candidate, Charles Newman, who was appointed just last year to the board. Newman is actually the new man on the board. I know Charles to be intelligent and astute, having put in hours and hours of study at the District office before he even applied for the job. He has spearheaded the work on finding solutions for the District’s financial challenges, has pressed forward with the Santa Barbara desalination connection, is examining wastewater treatment options and making the District more accountable to its customers by being more transparent. Take a look at MWD’s web page (Montecitowater. com), which has been redesigned with a wealth of information. After living almost 60 years in Montecito, I recently have downsized, sold my home, and now reside in Santa Barbara. But my heart is still in Montecito, where I spent most

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VOTE FLOYD WICKS The Montecito Water District needs to adopt a modern “Green Agenda”...

“O

ne of the best ways to manage groundwater reserves is to recharge aquifers with recycled water. Unfortunately, this is not being done by Montecito Water District, and the current Board is not even considering it as an option.” As a Montecito Water Board Director I will make this a priority.”

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agreement between the City of Santa Barbara and Montecito Water District, and the recent progress that has been made on reaching an agreement. The Montecito Water District board of directors will also summarize the District’s water supply through the next four years. The meeting is at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, October 18. For more information, visit www.montecitowater. com. Two days later, on Thursday, October 20, Montecito Association hosts a candidate forum for all four candidates running for the Montecito Water District board of directors: Floyd Wicks, Tobe 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.

Miramar Groundbreaking

“It’s been well worth the wait,” Los Angeles-based developer Rick Caruso told about 100 supporters and members of the media on Monday morning, during an official groundbreaking ceremony for the highly anticipated rebuild of the Miramar Resort. The event, held on the vacant 16-acre site in Montecito, included current and former Montecito Association board

Miramar owner Rick Caruso addresses 100 supporters, stakeholders, and members of the media at the Miramar groundbreaking ceremony earlier this week

members, key stakeholders, neighbors of the project, and representatives from the majority of local news outlets. “Expect the Rosewood Miramar Beach Montecito to be the finest resort on the California coast, if not in the world,” Caruso said. The groundbreaking was a long time in the making, with Caruso purchasing the property back in 2007 from Ty Warner, who purchased it from Ian Schrager. The former hotel was operational until 2000, and since then has been considered an eyesore along Montecito’s coast. Since Caruso took ownership, he and his team designed multiple iterations of the project, and the final plan has been reviewed by Montecito Planning

Rosewood Miramar hotel director Luigi Romaniello, developer Rick Caruso, and Rosewood president Radha Arora officially break ground at the Miramar

Commission, Montecito Board of Architectural Review (MBAR), the Montecito Association, Montecito Water District, and others. “We want the hotel to be a community asset and did our best to do right by this community,” Caruso said. Scheduled to open summer 2018, the resort will be part of Rosewood Hotel & Resorts’ prestigious collection of luxurious destinations. According to Rosewood president Radha Arora, who also spoke at the groundbreaking, the resort will be a world-class destination, reinventing the five-star experience with 124 refined guest rooms and 37 luxury suites located within lanai cottages, garden bungalows, and a classic main house. “Rick is a visionary, and his passion for this property is infectious,” Arora said. Along with an oceanfront restaurant and bar with an outdoor terrace, the property will feature a signature restaurant in the main house, two swimming pools, a fitness center, and a wedding/event space accommodating up to 400 guests. The Miramar Beach Club, an exclusive beachfront,

private members-only beach club, will open in tandem with the resort and feature an indoor/outdoor lounge, dining venues, beach access, and activities, a private pool and cabanas. Also speaking at the ceremony: Luigi Romaniello, the recently named managing director of the resort. “My goal is to make Montecito proud of the Rosewood Miramar,” said Romaniello, who has who most recently served as managing director of Rosewood Abu Dhabi Hotel, and has spent more than 15 years with Rosewood Hotel & Resorts properties. Romaniello, who specializes in openings, renovations, concept development, and operations, told us he looks forward to becoming a member of the Montecito community. The final design of the hotel will require further review by MBAR and will reflect elements of the original Miramar Beach Hotel, one of the first-ever beachside hotels in California, built in in the early 1900s. Caruso estimates the project will create 1,000 jobs

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of my adult life and where I volunteered many hours in the community. I have studied and been involved in water matters since 1991. Montecito’s water issues are complex with no easy answers. That is why I can’t think of a better candidate to be on Montecito Water District’s Board than Charles Newman. Joan Wells Santa Barbara

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Governments collect taxes and distribute the money for the good of the people. At one time non-profits were charities, and there were few restrictions on how the funding was used. Integrity and federal tax laws kept the system working for generations. In 2012, California legislators came up with a new model of corporate organization – the Flexible Purpose Corporation – which allowed a private entity with simply a commitment to do good in the community, to partake of the many advantages once intended for charities. As of 1 January, 2015, Flexible Purpose Corporations are now called Social Purpose. But it is too complicated for me to keep up. I do know that for-profits are taking the subsidies intended for housing social service and medical care. Budgets are increasing and services are being cut. Human nature being what it is, I am not surprised that someone found a way to keep 95% of the funding and donations. And it can’t be stopped, because it is legal in California. I would suggest that Donald Trump did not release tax records because it is no longer required by law, and we can’t make him. Thank you for seeing the potential abuses of what was meant to provide much needed funding for non-profits. The idea was that if more corporations made small donations to local nonprofits, it would help lessen the burden on charities struggling to meet the growing need. That is not what happened. Many squeaky-clean 501(3)(c) were hijacked. It appears that Flexible Purpose also protects the benefit from shareholder lawsuits. People were starving while Imelda (Marcos) bought shoes. People in America are starving while foundations are throwing parties at Bellagio. Thank you, Mr. Buckley, for choosing free speech and the editorial process over the offer of non-profit funding. Peace. Karen Friedman Carpinteria (Editor’s note: Thank you for your kind note, but I wasn’t writing about the non-profit world (“The Clintons’ ‘NonProfit’ Scam” Editor’s note, MJ #22_39) to pat myself on the back. I just wanted readers to know that many nonprofits 13 – 20 October 2016

Having breakfast or lunch at Pierre Lafond has become a real charge for Tesla and Leaf owners

Here is a photo of part-time Montecito resident Pete Panos’s Tesla getting charged up at Pierre Lafond. Pete says the charger is a 240-Volt unit capable of charging his Tesla at the same rate as the regenerative braking system on the car would at 20 miles per hour, and that it is four times as fast as a 120-Volt wall outlet. He also says that he needed to use a Tesla-provided adapter to make electrons flow. Good news for those wishing to get around our Little Village while keeping it green. Michael Edwards Montecito (Editor’s note: Thanks, Michael; the switch from internal combustion to electric is an interesting trend; my only objection to all these so-called “clean” cars is that the energy is produced at places such as Four Corners, and though it may mean a greener Montecito, it also probably means a less pristine Grand Canyon. – J.B.)

Oh, Sod it!

Just when I thought my neighbor was taking up his lawn and replacing it with drought-tolerant landscaping, the sod truck arrived to lay approximately three-quarters of an acre of new lawn. I guess he has water trucked in to load into his huge cistern, but where is this water coming from? Huh? Name Withheld Montecito (Editor’s note: If it is recycled water, it’s not a bad thing and may come from a number of sources, but our understanding is that recycled water cannot presently be used for residential purposes, only for public landscaping, so the short answer is: we don’t know! – J.B.)

New is the Man

As we all suffer through our sixth year of drought in the area, there is not a more important matter on the bal-

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The Montecito Water District needs to adopt a modern “Green Agenda”...

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ontecito needs to do the environmentally responsible thing, which is to use its recycled water for landscaping, public parks, schools, resort irrigation, golf courses, greenbelts and roadways. Instead, the current Montecito Water Board has thwarted the Montecito Sanitary District from recycling the 600,000 gallons per day it currently discharges to the ocean and instead MWD recommends high-cost, shortterm fixes, like trucking recycled wastewater from Goleta. I will make recycling a priority.”

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WATER FRONT (Continued from page 5) itself, plus an additional $334,303 to study conveyance issues before resuming talks. Negotiations to pay the City to allow talks to begin again have just been concluded. The bottom line is that more than a year has passed since MWD and the City started talking about desal. The MWD negotiating team of Charles Newman and Dick Shaikewitz has failed to deliver a desalination deal for Montecito.

Desalination Negotiations in Fall 2016

MWD faces a whole new hurdle now. The City has decided to delay the expansion of the desalination plant until after this winter. Worse for Montecito, the City of Santa Barbara projects a new 300 AF shortfall in its own water supply next summer, due to inadequate pipe and pump capacity to get State and purchased water into Lake Cachuma. City water officials last month presented the city council with a plan to prohibit all lawn watering to close the 300 AF gap. The council decided not to make that move now, but to keep it as the preferred alternative for 2017.

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Board Transparency

Each time the question is asked of the MWD as to what is happening in desal, a cone of silence descends over Shaikewitz and Newman, the two board members assigned as MWD’s desal negotiating team. The two attorneys claim that not even their three fellow board members, let alone their customers, have been privy to desal negotiations. Telling their board what is really going on would require open board meeting reports under the Brown Act, which is, as far as I can tell, anathema to this board. This veil of secrecy over desal negotiations becomes even more bizarre when all five MWD directors are routinely asked to vote for millions of dollars to buy imported water, while uninformed of the cost of a desal alternative. Is the MWD Board exercising its proper fiduciary responsibility by not sharing desal costs equally among board members? Through the transparency of the Santa Barbara City staff and the Santa Barbara City Council, combined with a Freedom of Information record request to MWD, plus numerous inside conversations at both the City and MWD, much can be learned. It is apparent that sending in MWD’s two trial lawyers, with a primary focus on avoiding legal liability, to negotiate what should have been a relatively simple business deal with the City of Santa Barbara, was not a good decision.

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 18)

during construction, and 200 full- and part-time jobs once open for business, as well as millions in transient occupancy tax for the County. “We are here today thanks to the enduring support of the Montecito community and many others, who have shared this vision of creating a magnificent luxury resort that pays homage to the rich history of this region.” Caruso said.

Kay, and Charlene Nagel. The next Montecito Association board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 8.

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Montecito Association Meets

At a quiet Montecito Association (MA) meeting, the board heard from local school superintendents regarding new projects at both Montecito Union School and Cold Spring School. Montecito Union School superintendent Tammy Murphy reported that the school was recently certified a “Habits of Mind” (HOM) School. The certification is granted to schools where a learning community of thinking and 16 “Habits of Mind” are taught, practiced, valued, and infused into the culture. There are only six other schools within the United States with this distinction, and HOM founders Bena Kallick and Art Costa were on campus last week presenting the award. Murphy also reported that she is working with County engineers to look into traffic solutions on San Ysidro Road. Altering of traffic flow in relation to the school’s parking lots is part of a project paid for by school reserves to increase safety at the school. Murphy will be in front of the Montecito Association’s Land Use Committee once design proposals have been developed. Cold Spring School superintendent Tricia Price reported that the school has recently launched a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) program and converted a classroom into 21st-century learning space. The STEAM classroom was initially intended to be part of the new administrative/classroom building, but since the school has delayed the project (check out MJ #22/40), school reps decided to build the STEAM classroom anyway. Also at CSS: the Montecito Association is hosting a candidate forum on campus on Tuesday, October 25, at 6:30 pm. Three candidates are running for two vacant seats: current board member Gregg Peterson, former teacher and former CSS parent Kathy Davidson, and current CSS parent Amanda Rowan. Also at the meeting, the MA board’s nominating committee released the names of five individuals who will be nominated to join (or remain on) the MA board of directors in the new year. Those people are: Laura Bridley, Cliff Ghersen, Houghton Hyatt, Jerome 13 – 20 October 2016

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Laguna Blanca School art teacher Dug Uyesaka’s work will appear in a mid-career retrospective at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art in Santa Barbara this fall. The installation, which will run Thursday, October 20, through January 14, 2017, will include a variety of paintings, prints, and assemblage from Dug’s childhood through the present day. Dug grew up as a third-generation Japanese-American in Clovis, California, and he went on to pursue an arts degree at UC Santa Barbara in 1975. He has been a mainstay in the Santa Barbara arts community ever since, later taking up freelance graphic design and working with a local film production company as he continued his craft. He also taught after-school art programs and art workshops, and joined the staff at Laguna Blanca in 2000. In 2009, Dug received the Laguna Blanca School Faculty Excellence Award in addition to a William T. Colville Grant. In 2010, he received an Arts Fund of Santa Barbara, Individual Artist Award for Collage and Assemblage. “I am so grateful to share my art with my kids here at Laguna, at Westmont, and throughout the greater Santa Barbara community,” Uyesaka said. An opening reception will be held at Westmont’s Ridley-Tree Museum of Art on Thursday, October 20, from 4 to 6 pm, and is free and open to the public. Laguna English teacher Charles Donelan, Ph.D., wrote the catalogue for the installation. Visit www.westmontmuseum.org to learn more. •MJ

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lot this November for us locally than the election of the Montecito Water District Board members. I urge the citizens of Montecito and Summerland to re-elect Charles Newman for one of the two open board positions and endorse Charles unqualifiedly and unreservedly. I have known Charles for my entire 33-year legal career and have had a number of cases both with and against him. I know first-hand that Charles is and has been a staunch advocate for his clients, but a fair opponent. Over the years, Charles has become known for his many redeeming attributes, not the least of which are integrity and honesty. You always know where Charles stands on an issue, as he is completely transparent with no hidden agenda. He is a loyal and trusted friend of many of us in the community, for good reason, no doubt. Most importantly, as it relates to the MWD, Charles is a true problem-solver. He tackles difficult problems with his keen intellect, irrepressible energy, and extraordinary vision and by building consensuses among various and oftentimes competing positions and perspectives. Charles has already demonstrated his unique capabilities to the Montecito and Summerland residents since his appointment to the MWD Board in 2015, and he is just getting started. We have a very substantial water problem in our area, and I know of no one more qualified to resolve this problem than Charles Newman. Chip Seigel Santa Barbara

How Green is My Lawn?

I opened this week’s Journal, with its cover “The Water Wars,” looking

forward to a well-considered and informative piece about the candidates running for the Montecito Water District. Instead, what I found was an editorial clearly biased in favor of two of the candidates, while offering no meaningful facts to persuade me that they are worthy of my vote. Indeed, all I am told is that candidates Plough and Wicks have “fresh ideas” and a record of “solving problems.” A few examples, please? Or am I just supposed to take the word of a columnist with his own obvious axe to grind? Mr. Hazard focuses his energy on attacking Charles Newman for being a lawyer and for having ideas that the rest of the current board has not supported. Consider this: perhaps the problem is with the current board and its retrograde vision of how to handle the most serious drought in known California history. Mr. Newman has the endorsement of the Sierra Club, which means that he understands our water crisis in a larger environmental context, not just in terms of lawns gone brown. He has championed long-range planning with community involvement (long overdue), supported making it easier to install gray water systems in homes to allow use of gray water in landscaping (eliminating the need for County permits and getting systems online quickly), adding recycled water to the District’s water supply, creating a ground water basin authority, and exploring water storage options currently absent from the District’s portfolio. By contrast, Floyd Wicks and Tobe Plough have peppered the area with signs reading “Keep Montecito Green.” The motto is mind-boggling in its cluelessness about the crisis we face, at a time when District custom-

ers need to be facing up to the reality of exceptional drought, and making water-wise decisions about their landscaping and lifestyles. Mr. Wicks is a water purveyor, and as such has no business serving on an elective body whose decision-making is likely to have such an impact on his and his friends’ bottom lines. At the very least, he may have to recuse himself on votes regarding water acquisition. Together, these men represent a vision of water management that is shortsighted and shallow. We in Summerland look on in disbelief as our Montecito neighbors insist that their happiness depends on the greenness of their lawns. Homeowners who worry about their property values going down if their landscaping looks wilted should consider the impact of homes with no water to drink or shower in. I’ll keep my lawn brown, thank you, as long as it means there is still water at my kitchen tap. And I’ll vote accordingly. Lee E. Heller, Ph.D. Summerland (Editor’s note: Lots of us have taken our lawns out and replaced them with drought-tolerant plants; not all Montecito folk are stupid, crazy, or greedy. – J.B.)

Riparian Rights

Recently, I was running my normal route in the trails and, as I was making my way up along the Hot Springs single track next to the creek, noticed the sound of water. Lots of water. The creek was flowing, a couple of waterfalls were cascading; it was as if it had just rained. After climbing a few 100 meters farther up, I found the source: one of the old corroded pipes had broken and a tremendous amount of water was gushing down the trail and into the creek; I’d estimate it was flowing at about one gallon every couple of seconds. Over the past year or two, new pipes have been installed, running from high up in the mountains near the Hot Springs trail and down into

containers on private land below. I’ve always heard the water running in the pipes, but never realized the significant amount of water that was being transported in this network of privately owned pipes. Clearly, someone has rights to this water, perhaps owning that land where the trail exists as an easement. My question is: why does that owner have rights to all that water? Shouldn’t some of the water be allowed to run naturally down the creek, providing much-needed relief to the native flora and fauna, and eventually reaching lower-level aquifers? Additionally, the water isn’t necessarily originating in the location it’s being tapped into, so why does it suddenly belong to one (or multiple) individuals? And what are they doing with all of it? It really was a considerable amount of water. Martha Blackwell Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: They’re called riparian rights, allowing a property owner to use the water that freely flows through his property for his own use. The property owner is not, however, allowed to “store” that water, but merely to use it. It gets complicated, and maybe someone who knows more about California water rights can write in to clarify. – J.B.)

Exceedingly Complicated

An interesting take and germane to the current discussion on election candidates is the article written by our Mr. Floyd Wicks on the California Supreme Court decision: Hartwell, see: www.thefederation. o rg / d o c u m e n t s / 2 0 . A s s a u l t % 2 0 o f % 2 0 C a l i f o r n i a % 2 0 Wa t e r % 2 0 Supply.pdf. This should be a read by the Montecito voters prior to the water board election. My take on this and as reflected by Mr. Wicks, if I understand him, is that the court held that a water company (in this case a for-profit company) might be able to successfully poison its ratepayers

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without liability, if that poison had no state standard and such standard if it did exist had no numeric matrix attached. Under this understanding, such an absence of liability would offer the water company a safe harbor. He noted that the court also mentioned that contaminants might legally exceed standards: “and that isolated exceedences of maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) do not constitute violations in California.” Interestingly, if this exceedence was a highly reproducing pathogen, then there might be a chance for establishing a permanent growth of a sloughing biofilm in the equipment and piping, but by this court case such an event seems not to matter, and it would not matter anyway, because the way our antiquated water quality standards are written, they do not speak to this. Very few of the realworld pathogens now found in water are called out in standards. Dr. Edo McGowan Montecito

Unprecedented Drought

Our family has lived in Montecito since 1972, and I have been deeply involved in our water issues since the 1980s. California is experiencing

a historic drought. We are in a water crisis so unprecedented that it has never been considered in any longrange plan before. It is very clear to me that the two businessmen challengers, Floyd Wicks and Tobe Plough, want to privatize our water district. I think adding a profit layer is the last thing we need to do here. Ask the folks in Ojai and the City of Claremont where Mr. Wicks’s private water company, Golden State, profited from selling these communities water, why they have sued to take back their water districts and make them public again. In the recent Ojai decision that made the water district public again, the 2nd District Court of Appeals had harsh criticism for Mr. Wick’s water company, citing price gouging that went on for more than 20 years. The three-judge panel wrote, “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 rates increased at nearly twice that of Casitas.” Our community is very fortunate to have Tom Mosby, retired MWD [general] manager, and Charles Newman, recently appointed to the water board, running for the two seats now contested. I am endorsing Tom Mosby and

Charles Newman, and here is why. In my 30 years’ experience dealing with water issues, I have worked with many water managers and can wholeheartedly say that Tom Mosby is among the best, if not the best I have ever worked with. He is honest, knowledgeable, dedicated, and always puts the customers’ interests first. He is first and foremost a public servant and for the best interests of our community. He started working at our water district in 1990 as an engineer and became manager in 2007. We need his experience in this unprecedented drought to guide us through this water crisis. Charles Newman was appointed to fill a vacancy on the water board one and a half years ago and has been a breath of fresh air. He has put in many hours over and above the norm, because he wants to do the best job possible for our community in this water crisis. He initiated the board’s work to bring reclaimed water into Montecito’s water portfolio and is working hard to get us a desal contract with the City of Santa Barbara. The mandate of our water district is to provide us, its customers, with a reliable water supply at a reasonable cost. There are two critical things that need to be done. One is concluding negotiations with the city of

Santa Barbara to get desal on-line for Montecito. The other is working with other South Coast water agencies to replace with larger pipe the 7½ miles of undersized pipe that runs from Solvang to Lake Cachuma. This needs to be done to assure delivery of all the water MWD has purchased outside our county. Tom Mosby and Charles Newman are our best choices to get this done. They have my vote on November 8. Carolee Krieger Montecito

Caltrans the Culprit

I note that in your response to Robert P. Coronado (“Not Another L.A., Please”, MJ #22_39), you believe that the elimination of the southbound 101 on-ramp was due to “… Santa Barbara-Based politicians who pressured Caltrans to remove the southbound Cabrillo Boulevard entry to 101.” I attended two or three public hearings where this, along with the rest of the project, were discussed. What I saw and heard was that the City was not in favor of removing that on-ramp. However, Caltrans was adamant that the fast lane on-ramp violated their safety guidelines and

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The Way It Was

In Search of the Old Road

Railroad map circa 1900 shows the old County Road winding into and out of canyons and ravines. At Arroyo Hondo, the road northbound sidled down a hillside past the barn, crossed a wooden bridge and sloped up again behind the Ortega adobe that served as a stagecoach stop. The red line shows the intended route of the train. (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

by Hattie Beresford

The State Highway bridge across Arroyo Hondo canyon paralleled the train trestle and eased auto travel along the Gaviota Coast (Courtesy John Fritsche)

The Arroyo Hondo Bridge in 1927, one year after State Route 2 became U.S. Highway 101. Note the car “speeding” along the bridge and the man in the tall Stetson hat crouched on the old County Highway. (Courtesy Chris Mancini, photo archivist for Division V of the Department of Transportation)

etween 1909 and 1922, Santa Barbara County and the State of California heeded the public outcry for “Good Roads” and engaged in building the State Highway System. Remnant stretches of this “old road” are sentimental reminders of earlier times when enthusiastic autoists first took to the road to see America. Recently, my husband and I decided to take a “sentimental journey” and

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took to the road ourselves to do a little exploring.

The Creation of Route 2 The State Bureau of Highways Commission had been founded in 1895. Its first act was to send three commissioners on a 16,500-mile journey in a buckboard to map out a network of roads that would connect

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the counties. After a year and a half of rough, muddy, or dusty roads and hundreds of nights spent in tents, they came up with a plan for a 14,000-mile State network. Other than buying the Lake Tahoe Wagon Toll Road (Hwy 50), not much came of their recommendations. The reason was familiar: a lack of funds. With State plans stalled, a road trip through Santa Barbara County in the early 1900s was not for the faint of heart. C.D. Cox, who chronicled a 1908 motoring trip from Ojai to San Luis Obispo, said he crossed nine fords on the creek road and three streams in Ventura. His car became mired in the third stream and a young man with a team of horses pulled him out. Several flat tires later, he arrived in Santa Barbara where he had to wait eight days for tires to arrive from Denver. On a test drive with the new tires, his water pump gave out and his battery needed repair as well. Of the next leg of his journey, he writes, “Road from here to Gaviota horrible. Crossed 45 creeks and canyons up one steep hill after another. Most discouraging….” An early strip map from Hamilton’s Auto Atlas describes the road between Goleta and Las Cruces as “Mostly rough winding grades, sharp turns 2 to 20 degrees, fords and poor bridges, but this is the main coast road and • The Voice of the Village •

the only practical one for autos at all times.” Then in 1909, the State Highways Act provided $18 million to build the State system. It seemed like a vast sum of money, but it soon became apparent that it wasn’t nearly enough. So the State made a deal. If the counties would pay to build the bridges, arrange for fencing of lands bordering the highway, and acquire the right-ofways, the State would pave the road. Many landowners freely gave a right-of-way to Santa Barbara County for improvements in the road. By condemning the land of recalcitrant landowners, County acquired the remaining right-of-ways. Next, a rash of bridge building ensued. In 1909 alone, at least 15 bridges were built along the line of the County Highway and several others on lateral roads. The supervisors were worried about some of the bridges, however, for they passed an ordinance making it illegal to ride or drive (a wagon or car) over them at a clip faster than a walk. “Speedsters” paid a $5 penalty. Paving on the 99.1 miles of the new State Highway through Santa Barbara County didn’t begin until 1913. Built mostly by hand and with horse-drawn equipment, the new State Highway was created of concrete poured 16 feet wide, enough for one lane in each direction. After the second State Highway Act took effect in 1916, the highway was named Route 2, and Santa Barbara County tackled the remaining bridges along the highway west of Goleta. Some 35 bridges were commissioned by the County, most of reinforced concrete.

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Wherefore Hillary?

Why do Democrats spend so much time pontificating on the philosophy and principles of the Republican Party when it’s their goal in life to demonize and disparage – destroy – the Republican Party? Democrats hate the Republican Party more than they despise the hated foreign enemies of the U.S. because the Republican Party is the one force in the land that can keep the Left/Liberals from reaching complete power over 315 million people. Democrats want complacent and compliant Republican leaders to serve as opponents of Democrats in elections. That way, they can be assured their legacy won’t be unraveled on day one of a Republican presidency. Democrats want Republican leaders who will serve the interests and needs of Left/Liberals, not the wishes of rank-and-file Republicans and patriotic Americans. Donald Trump is the Democrats’ worst nightmare and the salvation and resurrection of a great American Constitutional Republic! David S. McCalmont On the road in western Pennsylvania Where you’ll never come across a “Hillary” yard sign! •MJ 13 – 20 October 2016

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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veryone has the power to heal in their own hands, right under their own noses. That’s the premise behind The BodyWisdom Way to Intimacy, Love & Connection, Dawn Marie Jordan’s system of “smooth moves and easy grooves” that improve communication between the body, the heart, and the brain. “I help people get back into touch, literally, with their sense of touch,” Jordan said about her new program that she developed over years as a massage therapist, where doing more than 20,000 sessions offered a great deal of feedback about how people’s bodies contain vast untapped storerooms of knowledge and wisdom. “Everyone’s sense of touch and our ability to move is a form of intelligence that we not only don’t cultivate in America, but we’re afraid to even explore. I want to raise awareness about the importance of reclaiming your sense of touch. Everything that goes on in the brain or heart begins with sensory information that comes in through your skin.” Jordan will share her new program at an introductory talk and experiential gathering on Wednesday night, October 19. The evening will begin with Jordan’s Body Check awareness exercise, a guided scan of the body because, she said, “You can’t change what you don’t notice. So we will explore the world that begins at your skin and goes in.” The system uses massage, active meditation, dance, and brain exercises to restore balance and move through stuck areas to increase freedom, connection, and intimacy. “Every thought is grounded somewhere in physical reality,” Jordan explained. “Talk therapy can help, but when you can move it out, it’s really effective.” The session takes place at the home of Ragan O’Reilly Thompson at 1954 E Valley Road in Montecito. The intimate gathering has limited capacity; RSVP at 453-7281 to reserve your spot. Visit www.dawnmariejordan.com for more information.

Cuddle up

Speaking of the power of touch, the third Santa Barbara Cuddle and Connection gathering takes place at 6 pm Saturday, October 22, at its new home at the Santa Barbara Body Therapy Institute, 516 N. Quarantina Street. Leader Amber York, Platonic 13 – 20 October 2016

Touch therapist, invites all to “bring your warm and curious self” to the circle experience, where participants will begin by learning the safety protocols that are used in the Cuddle Flows, including how to set healthy boundaries and celebrate others’ boundaries without taking it personally. The Cuddle Flow that follows is an opportunity to use these skills to give and receive platonic touch in any number of ways and positions that feel satisfying and nourishing to both partners. Exchanges are mutually consensual and no touch is required at anytime. You are invited to participate by observation if that is your choice. Reserve for $15 by Wednesday, October 19, or $20 after that date. Call York at 450-2907 or visit www.meetup. com/Cuddle-and-Connection-SantaBarbara/events/234412931.

Singing Your Way to Freedom

Mick Pulver and his wife, Tess, the founders of Breakthrough Performance workshop – a therapeutic program that allows participants to channel the power of the voice to make transformative, life-affirming changes toward a fully expressed life – have moved back to Santa Barbara and started offering local sessions again. Get to know the couple and the re-emerging Breakthrough community at a potluck gathering on Sunday, October 16, at 5 pm featuring live music, group singing, dancing, and celebration. Then on Tuesday, Tess will be leading the Heart and Soul Singing meetup in a private home (624 San Miguel) beginning at 7 pm, which consists of an experimental singing workshop featuring

inspiring and energizing activities such as group singing, soulful vocal expression, and dynamic movement. Both are free. Visit www.meetup. com/Breakthrough-Singing-in-SantaBarbara/events/234653055 for details. Earlier in the week, Bay Areabased Lisa G. Littlebird teaches WHOLEHEARTED: A Community Singing Workshop for All at Yoga Soup on Thursday, October 13, from 7 to 8:30 pm. The workshop is designed for people of all ages and abilities, and you need to be able to read music, or even think you can sing to enjoy the evening of play and connection that might leave you feeling uplifted and alive. Weaving vocal invitations, body movement, improvisation, and a repertoire of more than 400 oral-tradition songs, Littlebird invites singers to expand and delight in the full potential of their voices. Fee is $25. Visit www. yogasoup.com/wholehearted-a-community-singing-workshop-for-all.

Moving through War

The Moving Wall is returning to Santa Barbara for the sixth time, once again sponsored by the local Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 218. And while the novelty of having the halfsized replica of the famous memorial

permanently installed in Washington, D.C., visiting at Chase Palm Park might have worn off, the process of healing still continues, especially for those veterans who never received the sort of hero’s welcome home afforded to nearly all other soldiers. At the dedication ceremony on Saturday, October 15, at 11am, each of the nearly 100 names of servicemen and women killed in the conflict who hailed from Santa Barbara County will be read aloud, with a bell tolling for each. The event features a fly-over at the conclusion of the ceremony when four Vietnam era planes (T-34 trainers) will do two passes, including The Missing Man. On Sunday, a Candlelight Ceremony at 6:30 pm has an inter-denominational ceremony to remember all those whose names are all on the wall. For a more personal and private opportunity to connect with the memorial and the memories and opportunities for healing, The Moving Wall will be open, lighted, and staffed 24 hours a day from noon on Thursday through the same hour on Monday. The beachside location makes it a perfect place to stop and not only appreciate the warriors who fought and died in Vietnam, but also reflect upon the tolls of all wars in human life and more. •MJ

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 6) of marriage. Turning out to get autographed copies of the book from Malibu-based Linda were Bill and Sandi Nicholson, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Peter Clark, Tom Reed, Mara Abboud, Barbara Tellefson, Eve Bernstein, Susan St. John, Hollye Jacobs, Hiroko Benko, Caroline Thompson, Tony Arroyo, Nina Terzian, Barry DeVorzon, Marilyn McMahon, and Linda’s brother, Sam, a former judge, and his wife, Louise. It’s All a Blur Earlier in the week, an old colleague from my days at the NewsPress, Robert Eringer, launched his latest novella Motional Blur, about a

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2nd to One Montecito comedienne and Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres is having a good year. Ellen, who has a long-running, Burbank-based eponymous TV talk show and myriad real estate investments, is ranked as the second-highest paid TV host in America, according to Forbes magazine, raking in $75 million. Topping the list is Phil McGraw, whose show earned him $88 million last year, with former American Idol host Ryan Seacrest at $55 million, judge Judy Sheindlin at $47 million, and NBC Today Show co-anchor Matt Lauer with $25 million. There are a total of six women in the top 20 this year, including supermodel Heidi Klum and Kelly Ripa, with $19 million and $17 million, respectively. Noticeably missing from the top 10 list are all of the late night hosts, who make in the $12 to $15 million a year range. Mock and Roll As the much heralded Desert Trip concert, starring the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, The Who – who just played the Santa Barbara Bowl as part of their 50th anniversary tour – and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters kicked off at the Empire Polo Club in Indio at the weekend, local rocker Dave Crosby clearly isn’t as enamored with what has been described as “the greatest rock festival of all time.” Crosby, who played at the rather more idealistic – and free – Woodstock with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in 1969 and was a founder member of The Byrds, blasts the event as “a scam.” The fest, which also has folk legend Bob Dylan and Neil Young with all performers having a combined age of 651 years, on the bill, “is a parking lot, an empty field, a few acres of dust,” thunders the hippy icon and former paramour of folk singer Joni Mitchell. “You’re standing there for hours and hours. They sell you a bottle of water for $7. You can’t tell who’s

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onstage because they’re a pinprick – that’s why [Mick] Jagger waves a scarf around, man: he’s so far away, you can’t tell it’s him.” Organized by Golden Voice, the promoters of the super-cool spring festival Coachella, the average age of the headline performers is 72 and has been dubbed Oldchella by some detractors, with the Strolling Bones, as they’ve been nicknamed, kicking off the mega event. Tickets around the front have been selling for nearly $2,000, but nearer the show date, according to reports, many tickets were selling for half price on the resale market, with seats as low as $149 on Stubhub and the promoters also offering discounted seats. Crosby, 75, adds: “The sound outdoors at that place is c**p. The situation is c**p. “It’s a great story to be able to say: ‘I was there. I saw the Rolling Stones with Neil Young and everybody all at once. But it’s a lousy concert. You could give me tickets and I wouldn’t go.’ “Truth is, the whole thing is about merchandising. It’s a gigantic money machine, and I’m not in it for the money.” Clearly, not music to his ears. Jazz It up Celesta Billeci, the veteran Miller McCune executive director of UCSB’s popular Arts & Lectures program, certainly had a birthday to remember when trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and his talented troupe, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, serenaded her with Happy Birthday! at the Granada when they performed to a packed house.

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After performing a free concert for enthusiastic schoolchildren earlier in the day, Marsalis, who has garnered nine Grammy Awards, and his 14 musicians were in the finest of fine form, playing favorites by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and many other legends. Afterward, Marsalis and his players joined Producers Circle members, including Morrie and Irma Jurkozitz, Robert and Margo Feinberg, Sara Miller McCune, Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp, Bruce and Susan Worster, Ralph and Melissa Iannelli, and Daniel and Mandy Hochman, at a Founders Room reception. Burning Desire One of the world’s best documentarians, Ken Burns, was guest of honor at a Granada brunch, hosted by UCSB’s Arts & Lectures, to celebrate the centennial of the National Parks Service. Burns, 63, who just signed a new contract with PBS through 2030, made a critically acclaimed 2009 series on America’s national parks “America’s Best Idea” to add to his other masterpieces, including 1990’s The Civil War and the 1994 series Baseball. His fascinating talk “The National Parks: A Treasure House of Nature’s Superlatives” to a sell-out crowd attracted quite a torrent of tony types including Sara Miller McCune, Carla Hahn, Dan and Meg Burnham, Eve Bernstein, Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman, Lillian Lovelace, Bob and Val Montgomery, Natalie Orfalea, Robert Weinman, Hiroko Benko, Kim

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Homecoming to Honor Outstanding Alumni

estmont will honor the late William S. “Bill” Klug ’98 and Angie Hill ’90 as Alumnus and Alumna of the Year during Homecoming, October 14-16. Jeff Dykstra ’92, co-founder and CEO of Partners in Food Solutions, will receive the Global Service Award, and Matt Blickendorf ’08, an emergency physician in Indianapolis, has earned the Young Alumni Award. The college will present the awards at the AllAlumni Brunch on Saturday, October 15, at 11 am on Magnolia Lawn next to Westmont’s Voskuyl Library. Mary Elise (Richter) Klug ’97, who met Bill while both were students at Westmont, will accept Bill’s award. He earned a master’s degree from UCLA and a doctorate from Caltech and joined the faculty at UCLA in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department in 2003. He specialized in computational biomechanics and the mechanics of biological systems, such as cancer cells. Bill held appointments in mechanical and aerospace engineering and in bioengineering, and was promoted to full professor in 2015. He died tragically on June 1. “Bill consistently gave his treasure and talents back to Westmont, visiting classrooms, giving guest lectures, teaching, and modeling for students what it means to be a person of deep faith,” says Teri Bradford Rouse, senior director of alumni and parent relations.

Hill, general manager for global marketing at Skype, oversees social media and marketing, digital and experiential campaigns, product integration across TV and film, global partnerships and promotions. She joined Skype from Tower 18 Marketing Inc., which she founded and led for four years. The company focused on integrated marketing promotions and worked with major movie, television, and gaming companies. “Angie has a true passion for advancing women in business leadership,” Bradford Rouse says. Hill serves on the Microsoft Advisory Council for Senior Marketing Development and Women of Microsoft Mentoring Council. She and her husband, Mike ’90, helped establish Pacifica Christian, a new high school in Orange County, which provides a rigorous, college-preparatory, liberal arts education for students from all backgrounds and neighborhoods. Dykstra, who began Partners in Food Solutions in 2011, works with leading food companies to improve food security, nutrition, and economic development in Africa through a partnership with USAID. He spent half his career in business and the other half in international development, and lived and worked with his family in Zambia and Kenya. “Jeff has made full use of his passions and talents in both the non-profit and for-profit worlds,” Rouse says.

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Knecht Dissects Clinton, Trump Campaigns Thomas Knecht, associate professor of political science at Westmont, reflects on the unprecedented surprises of the 2016 race for the White House in a talk on Thursday, October 13, at 5:30 pm at University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara Street. The Westmont Downtown Lecture, “Breaking All the Rules: Making Sense of the 2016 Presidential Election,” is free and open to the public. No tickets are required; the limited seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, please call (805) 565-6051. The lecture will try to make sense of the nominations of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and predict what might happen come November. “We’ll look at how candidates use various campaign strategies to make their way to the White House, and why those strategies usually don’t matter that much,” he says. In fact, I’ll argue that the things people tend to focus on — campaign ads, debates, media coverage, issue positions, gaffs, and hair — usually have little effect on who becomes the next president.” Knecht, a Stanford graduate who earned a master’s degree and doctorate at UC Santa Barbara, has written a book, Paying Attention to Foreign Affairs: How Public Opinion Affects Presidential Decision Making. He has also published research papers, “A Pragmatic Response to an Unexpected Constraint: Problem Representation in

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a Complex Humanitarian Emergency” to Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 5, and “Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: The Stages of Presidential Decision-making,” with M. Stephen Weatherford in International Studies Quarterly 50. The lecture series, Westmont Downtown: Conversations about Things that Matter, and the President’s Breakfast are sponsored by the Westmont Foundation.

Westmont Offers As You Like It

Westmont College Festival Theatre presents one of Shakespeare’s most loved and popular plays As You Like It on October 14-15 and October 20-22 at 7:30 pm in Porter Theatre. General admission is $12; $7 for students, children, and seniors. Tickets may be purchased online at westmont.edu/ boxoffice. “The play is full of remarkable language, wonderful comic situations, and familiar Shakespearean motifs about love, rivalry, redemption, and the transforming effects of the natural world,” says director John Blondell, Westmont professor of theater arts. “It’s a remarkable, nearly bottomless play. I am very excited to direct this, and impressed and inspired by our terrific company of student actors.” Shakespeare wrote As You Like It in 1599, the same year he penned Henry V, Julius Caesar, and most likely a first draft of Hamlet. The lyrical, moving, and funny comedy features numerous memorable characters, including Rosalind, who, along with Hamlet, Falstaff, and Cleopatra, is generally considered one of Shakespeare’s most complex dramatic characters. “She has the most lines of any female character in Shakespeare and displays tremendous resources of wit and feeling nearly unmatched in the world dramatic repertory,” Blondell says. Rosalind is the daughter of the banished Duke Senior, and early in the play falls in love with Orlando, the disinherited son of one of the duke’s friends. Banished from the court by her usurping uncle Duke Frederick, Rosalind flees to the nearby Forest of Arden with cousin Celia and court jester Touchstone in tow, where her father and his friends live in exile. Rosalind and Celia adopt disguises, and Rosalind disguises herself as a boy named Ganymede. While in Arden, new friends are made, families are united, and the play ends in a fabulous coup de theatre quadruple wedding. Yuri Okahana provides scenery, Miller James designs costumes, Jonathan Hicks oversees lighting and student composer Jay Real offers music. •MJ 13 – 20 October 2016

On Entertainment Couple Commemorates Anniversary on Stage

t will be more than a homecoming when mezzo-soprano Nina Yoshida Nelsen returns to serve as one of the soloists in the Santa Barbara Symphony’s season-opening, community-based performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony this weekend. The first concert on Saturday night, October 15, at the Granada, is also the 11th anniversary of the wedding of Yoshida Nelsen – who grew up in Montecito and began her career in the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony – and Jeff Nelsen, who she met here in Santa Barbara when the French horn player was a member of the Canadian Brass during the quintet’s Music Academy of the West festival in the mid-2000s. As it turns out, Jeff Nelsen will also be here, as he’s sitting in with the symphony for the concerts and will perform the horn solo in the Beethoven that is one of the most famous and longest in the repertoire. “It’s wonderful that we get to spend our anniversary on stage together just down the road from where we got

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married,” Yoshida Nelsen said earlier this week a few hours after she arrived at her childhood home in Montecito, off Ladera Lane, where her mother still lives. “It really is spectacular to be on stage with your spouse.” Yoshida Nelsen – who recently made her New York City Opera debut as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, a role she previously sang with Opera Santa Barbara – took to vocals rather late in life for a professional opera singer. While she sang with the chorus and the Madrigals at Santa Barbara High School, she largely focused on violin, studying with famed teacher Nina Bodner and others, and performing with the Youth Symphony, under the

aegis of the symphony. She majored in violin performance and psychology at Boston University, before taking philanthropist Lani Fe Bland’s advice (and scholarship funds) to attend graduate school in voice. “It’s definitely an unusual path, not the norm at all,” Yoshida Nelsen said. “But it was good for me because while I was behind in language and acting, as a violinist I learned so much about music that was very helpful in my singing.” After finishing her studies, Yoshida Nelsen returned to Montecito to take some time off, and spent a year working as a waitress at Chuck’s of Hawaii – “I grew up going there with my family all the time, so it was fun,” she said. It was during that time that she met Nelsen, who came to see her pianist accompany her in a one-off recital during the summer. “I saw him sitting there in the back and wanted to know who that very good-looking guy was,” she recalled. “So I introduced myself afterward, and the rest is history.” After conducting a long-distance relationship for a year, with Nelsen in New York performing in the Broadway revival of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang while she was doing school outreach for Orange County Opera (“You definitely learn how to keep an audience’s attention,” she said), the couple

married in Montecito the following summer. Three more years of commuting ensued, as Yoshida Nelsen pursued further studies in the prestigious opera program at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia while Nelsen accepted a faculty position at Indiana University. But they’ve been together in Indiana ever since 2009 and are now the proud parents of two boys, age 6 and 9 months. Indeed, Yoshida Nelsen cited sharing the stage with her son, who played the role of Trouble in Butterfly for Houston Grand Opera opposite mom’s Suzuki, as one of the great theatrical experiences of her life, though performing in the world premiere of An American Dream in Seattle last year also rates because it’s based on the Japanese internment camps during WWII. “My parents were interned,” she said. “So in a lot of ways, it was the story of my family.” Her heritage also plays a part in anticipating this weekend’s performances, when she’ll sing alongside fellow soloists Jeanine De Bique (soprano), Nina Yoshida Nelson (mezzo), Benjamin Brecher (tenor), and DeAndre Simmons (bass) and singers from the Santa Barbara Choral Society, Westmont College, UCSB, Quire of Voyces, and San Marcos High

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and Tammy Hughes, Robert Adams, and Scott and Ella Brittingham. As we sat at the same table, Burns told me of his prolific output, including a new 10-part, 18-hour history of the Vietnam War, a 16-hour series on country music, and a sprawling documentary on writer Ernest Hemingway. “Authenticity is the key to everything,” says Burns. “It’s in the style.” As to his fame, Burns, who lives quietly in Walpole, New Hampshire, says: “My celebrity, plus $2, gets me a cup of tea!” Charming deprecation.

Helping Hand Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt last month and things between the tony twosome, who have an 11-acre, $5-million home near El Capitan beach, have been tense ever since with therapists pitching in to make the situation smoother. But the duo may be getting some help from an old friend of Pitt. Montecito’s newest celebrity resident, Gwyneth Paltrow, who dated him from 1994 to 1997, is hoping to serve as mediator between the two, according to Radar Online. Gwyneth, 44, thinks she has good tips on how to make the split amicable after she “consciously uncoupled” with Coldplay rocker Chris Martin in 2014. “Gwyneth is convinced she can help and has even offered to act as an unofficial mediator for him and Angie. “It’s a goodwill gesture on her part.” The Oscar winner is currently dating Brad Falchuk, 45, a producer on American Horror Story and Scream Queens. But it looks as though she will have her work cut out as, according to Us Weekly, there is a lot of “bad blood” between the pair. Jolie is currently holed up in a $50,000 a month in Hidden Hills rental with all six children: Maddox, 15, Pax, 12, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, 10, and eight-yearold twins, Vivienne and Knox. Meanwhile, the celebrity glossy says Pitt is “frustrated.” Stay tuned. Brooks Bequeaths After accentuating the negative most of his life as a professional photographer, 81-year-old Ernie Brooks certainly made a decidedly positive

Ernie Brooks II, Bob Evans (Brooks Institute Graduate/ Force Fin Diving fin inventor and underwater photographer), and Hillary Hauser of Heal the Ocean (photo by Colin McNulty)

gesture at Santa Barbara Middle School when he gifted the impressive $8 million 1933 property, formerly the Brooks Institute’s Jefferson campus, to the academy, which teaches 165 students aged 10 to 15. Until now, the school, which had resided on a smaller campus near the old Mission, had a 30-year lease from 2011 with Brooks. It is one of the largest donations ever made to an independent school in our Eden by the Beach. Brooks bought the property, with its sweeping views of the Pacific, in 1976 as an extension to his eponymous photography school, of which he was president from 1971 to 1999. Headmaster Brian McWilliams, clearly holding back his emotions as he announced the gift, pointed out Brooks could have sold the property to any number of developers, who would probably have turned it into high-priced condos. “He’s lived a life of passion and purpose, of service, and lived a life as an artist and leader.” Two students presented him with an inscribed, carved wooden key to the school and teacher Whitney Ingersoll read a poem to Brooks in front of guests including Lois Capps, HannahBeth Jackson, Salud Carbajal, Janet Wolf, Hillary Hauser, and Bob Evans. Afterward, cycle students, known as the Bike Monkeys, rode through a yellow ribbon, officially opening their permanent home. Good as Gold The Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation hosted its fourth annual Gold Ribbon lunch at the Coral Casino to celebrate raising $300,000 during National Childhood Cancer Awareness month.

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From Autumn Phillips’s “Elevated Dreams” and performing their skills are Malcom McCarthy and Jeffery Schultz (photo by Priscilla)

of their Montecito estate for the annual Arts Fund reception, which raised around $70,000 for the Funk Zone institution. The sprawling property was jampacked with creative art installations, including an immersive waterfall video Tulle Falls by Jonathan Smith and Kym Cochran, interactive thermal reactions by Marco Pinter, Elevated Dream, aerial performances choreographed by Autumn Phillips, dancers choreographed by Robin Bisio, and an eight-minute art video, Imaginary Novels, by Nancy and my Journal colleague, Joanne Calitri. Shirley Dettmann, a longtime docent at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, received the Lifetime Achievement in the Arts award Marcello Ricci with honoree Shirley Dettmann and hostess Nancy Gifford (photo by Priscilla)

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Adding to the panache was an impeccably polished 1960 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud lent by orchestra supporter Tony Handler for the opening evening. “It was nice of you to lend your company car!” I quipped to SBCO’s executive director, Kevin Marvin. Czech composer Anton Dvorak’s

Foodbank board members Erwin Villegas, Vibeke Weiland, Frank Abatemarco, board chair Barry Spector, and Lori Shaw (photo by Jacqueline Pilar)

beautiful New World Symphony launched the concert followed by George Gershwin’s Concerto in F, starring returning orchestra soloist Wendy Chen, who made her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic aged only 15. A tidal wave of supporters turned out for the show including Seymour

Part of the group of opening night party sponsors are Linda Hedgepeth and Michael Millhollan with the Santa Barbara Ballet Company in performance (photo by Priscilla)

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John and Ruth Matuszeki, who sponsored Wendy Chen, soloist; with advisory board members Shirley and Seymour Lehrer (photo by Priscilla)

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Bread Winners The 23rd annual Bread & Roses shindig at QAD in Summerland was a sold-out affair with 700 guests and around $250,000 raised, with all monies going to the Fund For Santa Barbara’s grant making and assistance programs. Since 1980, the organization has awarded in excess of $5 million to more than 1,000 community organizations and projects. This year’s bash, co-chaired by David Landecker and Margaret Lazarus, featured the ubiquitous Geoff Green auctioning off a weeklong getaway to New Zealand, a week in New Orleans, and meals at some of our tony town’s finest masticatory meccas. Retiring politico Lois Capps was honored for her 18 years of service to the community. Guests, who bought tickets on a novel sliding-scale payment policy, included Sara Miller McCune, former mayor Marty Blum, Salud Carbajal, Joe Cole, Ron and Jill Dexter, David Edelman, Marcos Vargas, David Selberg, mayor Helene Schneider, Das Williams, Janet Wolf, Ellen Goodstein, Jeep and Sharon Holden, and Elsa Granados.

On the Board Arthur G. Swalley has been elected to his third term as board president for the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association. In his role, the Yale graduate and founding partner at Arlington Financial Advisors, will continue his focus on developing institutional and artistic growth. The 63-year-old orchestra, under maestro Nir Kabaretti, kicks off its latest season on Saturday with Ode to Joy: Beethoven’s ninth symphony, which includes the Santa Barbara Choral Society and the Quire of Voyces at the Granada. In Memoriam On a personal note, I mark the passing of world renowned conductor Sir Neville Marriner at the age of 92. A former violinist for the London Symphony Orchestra, Marriner, who last performed here with his Academy of St. Martin in the Fields as part of a CAMA concert at the Granada in 2008, was behind some of the most successful classical recordings of all time, with more than 500 made. The chamber group’s soundtrack for Miloš Forman’s 1984 Oscar-

with stylish performances of baroque and classical repertoire including Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Haydn. Sightings: Jon Hamm of Mad Men getting his Java jolt at Pierre Lafond...Actor Will Farrell spotted at a Magnolia Events party on Padaro Lane...Zooey Deschanel of Fox’s New Girl 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

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WAY IT WAS (Continued from page 24) The new concrete highway circa 1920 just west of Goleta (Arlo and Otto Atchison album, courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Culvert at Arroyo Hondo today has exchanged its passage for cattle for that of steelhead trout, a multi-agency project that was dear to the late J.J. Hollister’s heart

Steel trestle bridge across Dos Pueblos Creek

A stretch of the old highway near Eagle Canyon, west of Goleta Three layers of transportation history at Arroyo Hondo with the berm behind the bridge carrying the modern Highway 101

Hattie and Gail on the trail of the magnificent architecture of open spandrels of the Arroyo Hondo bridge, despite the desecrations

In a deal with the State, the County used $50,000 of the $350,000 bond money it had raised to contribute to the State’s building of two bridges along the Gaviota Coast. One was a bridge over Arroyo Hondo Canyon and the other over Refugio Canyon. When the State did not complete the project as promised in 1918, the Board of

Supervisors sent a scathing letter to the State Highway Commission. Since the bridges hadn’t been built and the road wasn’t paved, the old dirt roads that wound into the canyons would need to be used and they were in terrible condition. The Board of Supervisors wanted the State to pay the County to fix these roads out of the $50,000 the County had paid the State. They also were going to let the public know “that the present condition of the Arroyo Honda (sic) and Refugio turnouts is due to the dereliction of the State Highway Commission and its failure to keep its agreement with the County of Santa Barbara.” They were late, but the bridges and the paving were eventually completed.

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I had actually revisited a few pieces of the old road with which I was familiar about a week earlier with my pals Gail Kvistad of Living Local and filmmaker Paul Mathieu. We had teamed up several years ago to create a local history show, but, although we filmed a few episodes, life intervened and we went off in different

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directions. Now they wanted to try again, with a new theme that would integrate our fascinating local history with the contexts of today. It is a thenand-now approach with a working title of “On the Trail.” Inspired by my trek with Paul and Gail to do further research, my husband and I started by searching the parallel roads west of the Winchester Canyon exit. We were looking for a 16-foot-wide concrete roadway, and in many places we found it. Although it was often covered with layers of asphalt, we could nevertheless see concrete where the asphalt had worn through. Crooked desiccated telephone poles drunkenly lined the roads, and dry brush and other vegetation obscured the edges. (We also found a few homeless encampments and a lot of trash.) At the entrance to the Dos Pueblos Ranch, I suspect we found another little stretch of old highway with a steel truss bridge that, according to County records, dates from 1915-16. The scenic turnout at Arroyo Hondo, of course, celebrates this old state highway, and one can still walk on the open spandrel concrete bridge, which was built next to the 1900-era train trestle. It’s a great spot because from there one can see four different periods of transportation history. Locked between steep cliffs to the east, an endless series of ravines and canyons to the west, mountains to the north, and an ocean to the south, most Santa Barbarans in the early days preferred to travel by ship, especially after two wharves were built in the harbor. Stages did traverse the coast road, starting in the early 1860s but pretty much gave it up in favor of San Marcos Pass. Then in 1887, the train arrived and travel to Los Angeles was facilitated. In 1900, the completion of the series of train trestles bridging the canyons and ravines of the coast to

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the west allowed Santa Barbarans to travel by rail to San Francisco. Although statewide stage service ended with completion of the Coast Line, local traffic, mostly horse-drawn wagons and local stages still traversed the treacherous passes over the mountains and the ravine-studded coast. In fact, the old Ortega adobe at Arroyo Hondo was once used as a stage stop. As hay-eating horsepower gave way to internal combustion horsepower, the first State Highway made its appearance, and the bridge at Arroyo Hondo is a remnant of that first effort. Next came the enormous landfill that carries the modern U.S. Highway 101. The late J.J. Hollister, whose family owned Arroyo Hondo for many years, said that his father had insisted that the culvert through the land-fill be tall enough and wide enough for him to herd his cattle while riding his horse and wearing his Stetson. (Today the Land Trust of Santa Barbara County has stewardship over the historic Ortega ranch, which is open to the public by reservation.) So in this one place, we have evidence of more than 250 years of local history, and more if you can imagine the Spanish galleons of exploration (1542–1769) and the Spanish supply ships of colonization (1769–about 1816) and the English and American ships of the hide and tallow trade (1823-1848) sailing in the beautiful, if at times treacherous, Santa Barbara Channel. But there was more to discover, as we would find out when we reached Las Cruces. Next time! (Sources: Minute Books of the Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors; A Century of Good Roads by Norman F. Root, Chairman Caltrans Centennial Coordinating Committee; Division V Road Map, Santa Barbara County courtesy of Kendra Stoll, Caltrans Transportation Library and History Center; dozens of historic maps, articles by Stella Haverland Rouse. •MJ 13 – 20 October 2016

SEEN (Continued from page 15) Teri Jory and Seth Geiger both honorees and donors to the ballet

five days a week and have opportunities to perform and tour with the professional company. They also have their own fully produced performance at the end of the season. This was the brainstorm of two of tonight’s honorees – Teri Jory and Seth Geiger receiving the Visionary Award. It began four years ago with eight girls. Now there are 26 and a wait list. The participants come from all over the country and even the world. Longtime supporter Chris Lancashire was honored. As board president Lynn Stokes-Pena said, “His generous contributions help sustain many of the groups that make our community unique – Anacapa School, The Granada, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and our own State Street Ballet, to name a few. As Chris commented, “The real honorees of the evening are the dancers. They can stand shoulder to shoulder with all the great companies.” Chris offered up a toast to the late Leni Fe Bland, who gave so much to the ballet. Geoff Green had everyone waving their bid paddles often for the live auction with items all the way from Santa Barbara to New York and a river trip on the Seine to Normandy. It raised many thousands for the group. Arlyn Goldsby reminded us that our troupe had performed in 27 cities in China last year and the Chinese government paid for it. Leila Drake told

us, “Pointe shoes cost $100 a pair and last only a couple of weeks.” Hence, the need for the shoe auction. Besides many generous donations Sara Miller McCune donated $5,000. State Street Ballet founder (22 years) and artistic director Rodney Gustafson hoped the audience would attend “An American Tango” on Saturday, October 22, at the Granada Theatre. It’s been called “an entertaining, theatrical tour-de-force.” Event producers were Jonatha King and Lance Jones from King Communications. Dinner music was by Bent Myggen on double keyboards and guitars. It’s very special for a community our size to be able to support a ballet company. If you’d like to help in any way, call (805) 845-1432 for more information.

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New Beginnings honoree Mary Becker with her granddaughter Tallulah Downs

center that provides psychological counseling and supportive services to low-income families and individuals in Santa Barbara.” They offer affordable counseling, shelter, case management, and education to provide their clients with the ability to lead healthy and productive lives. Lisa Moore, vice president of clinical service for Cottage Health, told us, “There is no more deserving couple to honor than Mary and Gary Becker. Their bios are long, but a few highlights are that Gary practiced law for more than 40 years in Indiana and Kentucky. He sold the Becker Law Office in 2004 and retired here. As Kristine said, “Gary invested in our Safe Parking Program several years ago when the program’s funding was uncertain.

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Mary was a financial planner and investment advisor for 15 years. She also produced a documentary film titled Original Child Bomb. Both Mary and Gary joined the Immaculate Heart Community and strongly support La Casa de Maria Retreat and Conference Center. And the list goes on. Ciara Murray-Young presented the Community Champions Awards to Mary. Sadly, Gary was ill and couldn’t attend. The staff wanted to thank them both for their continuous dedication to improving and growing New Beginning’s programs and services. Their drive and commitment uplifts others touching the lives of many. Also speaking was Glenn Bacheller, president of Social Venture Partners. Board chair Diane Pannkuk gave closing remarks. One of my favorite New Beginnings programs is Safe Parking, which takes 115 vehicles off the streets overnight, placing them in designated spaces in 20 city, county, church, nonprofit agency, and industrial sites in Santa Barbara and Goleta. It is a $270,000 program that also furnishes bathrooms and spot monitoring. They are the working poor trying to lift themselves up from poverty. New Beginnings has placed 47 folks in homes in the last nine months. For more information about all New Beginnings does, call Gabriella Forrester, development coordinator, at 963-7777, ext. 112. •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brighten Solar Co.; Brighten Solar Construction, 6487 Calle Real, Suite D, Goleta, CA 93117. Synergetik LLC, 3463 State Street Ste. 257, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 28, 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. FBN No. 20160002781. Published October 12, 19, 26, November 2, 2016. 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. FBN No. 2016-0002707. Published October 5, 12, 19, 26, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Bait Yard, 124-A Gray Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Channel Islands Seafood, 1317 Virginia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. John Colgate, 327 Cordova Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Anthony Vultaggio, 444 Amherst Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 9, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 20160002612. Published September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 2016.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3823 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3823 for the Central Library South Entrance ADA Improvements Project will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 P.M., Thursday, October 27, 2016 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “Central Library South Entrance ADA Improvements Project, Bid No. 3823".

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5487 DUE DATE & TIME: November 3, 2016 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Landscape Maintenance at Various Parking Lots

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: provide enhancements for ADA access for the south entrance to the Santa Barbara Central Library, including on-site relocation of a palm tree and landscaping per plans and specifications. The Engineer’s estimate is $350,000. Each bidder must have a Class A or B license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Thursday October 20, 2016 at 10:00 A.M. at 40 EAST ANAPAMU STREET.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Bradley Klinzing, Project Engineer, 805-564-5456. In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal. A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work. January 1, 2016: The call for bids and contract documents must include the following information: • No contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project (submitted on or after March 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 [with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code section 1771.1(a)]. • No contractor or subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project (awarded on or after April 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. • This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder. GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages. In the event of a conflict between Santa Barbara Living Wage and the California Department of Industrial Relations Prevailing Wage Rates, Contractor/Subcontractor shall pay the higher of the two classification rates. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C-27 Landscaping Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. 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. The City will have a transition period where it will accept both electronic and paper bids. Bidders may request paper bids to the Purchasing Division (805) 564-5349. Bidders may also register and receive electronic bids online through the PlanetBid System™ at www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp. The system uses the NIGP commodity codes and vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on. The initial bidders’ list will be developed from registered vendors. __________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

Published: October 12, 2016 Montecito Journal

William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: October 12 & 19, 2016 Montecito Journal

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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

Life Sentences

f life is a game, there are no winners. Everybody loses in the end. But who ever said that it has to be a game? Why can’t life be taken as a joke, or a puzzle, or some kind of entertainment, put on by some (possibly sadistic) impresario? As Shakespeare saw it, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” Faced with this problem of definition, what do the scientists and scholars have to say about life? Biologists will tell you, a thing is alive if it’s not dead, and dead if it’s not alive. (Yes, of course, there are various criteria, such as “the ability to respond to stimuli” and something about “metabolism” – but that simple “Dead or Alive” is

or even the progress of a particular sports team. But where does religion come into this? The cynic will tell you that religion was invented to give meaning to an otherwise meaningless existence. In effect, man created God in his own image. Believers, on the other hand, pity such “lost souls” and cherish the hope and comfort that their particular faith provides. If they are truly devout, they may try to persuade others that theirs is indeed the authentic version of the truth. Their methods may vary from knocking on doors to chopping off heads. Those of us who can get along without religion, still (and perhaps even more decidedly) need an ethical

We all want to know the meaning of life what it all comes down to.) So let’s leave biology and try philosophy. I have found (somewhat to my surprise) that most ordinary people, if you ask them, “What is your philosophy of life?” will have a ready answer. Of course, the answers will vary a great deal – often it’s some proverb (e.g., that it’s better to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty). But what interests me is that everybody has thoughts and feelings about this. Indeed, we might almost conclude that having some philosophy of life is a basic psychological need. Apparently, no thinking person can function without at least some guiding principle, even if it’s only “Do what makes you feel good, so long as it doesn’t make you feel bad later.” We all want to know the meaning of life. But wait! Whole books have been written on just the meaning of “meaning.” This gets us into semantics and linguistics, where at this point I don’t think we want to go. It’s easier to assume that life has no meaning, except whatever meaning we choose to give it. But this troubles me, because so many people choose to find meaning in (to me, anyway) regrettable activities, such as waging war. However, most of us make relatively harmless choices. Parents find meaning in raising their children (much more than the children usually find in being raised). Then there are people to whom the most important thing in life is their own career – 13 – 20 October 2016

code – some notion of how we ought to behave toward one another, even if there’s no God looking over our shoulder. But without a deity – or even a holy book containing some set of Commandments, handed down from “on high” – what can, or should, our ideas of right and wrong be based on? Forgive me for stating the obvious, but don’t certain everyday factors come into play here – things such as common sense and ordinary experience? Do we really need a clergy-person to tell us that, generally speaking, if you’re nice to people, they’ll be nice to you – or at least they’ll be less likely to kill you? But what about the really big questions: Why are we here? Where did we come from? Where are we going? At the risk of seeming flippant, I can only say that your guess is as good as mine – and it’s certainly as good as those of your local priest or rabbi – or, for that matter, of your teacher, counselor, or shrink. So it may be that, ultimately, the necessary attitude is resignation. After all, when it comes to life, you can’t just take it or leave it. First we all have to take it. Then we all have to leave it. Thus we are left holding the (possibly empty) bag. “Life,” it seems, is simply shorthand for “The way it is.” This, in fact, is exactly what we mean when we try to console ourselves, or one another, with a sigh, and those poignant words “WELL, THAT’S LIFE!” •MJ

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School. “It’s always been just joyous and hopeful and so beautiful,” Yoshida Nelsen said. “But when I did it at Carnegie Hall with a choir from Japan, where it had become an anthem of hope after WWII, a symbol of new beginnings, that changed how I looked at the piece. It really is all about new beginnings, and just so thrilling to sing with that many people in a choir on stage.”

Granada Screens Beethoven Documentary

Audiences are invited to get a sneak-peek of the concert and extra insight into the Beethoven masterpiece on Thursday afternoon, October 13, when the symphony presents a free screening of the documentary film Following the Ninth. Directed by Lompoc-raised filmmaker Kerry Candaele, the documentary, which has screened in more than 200 cities across the U.S. and Europe, blends new and archival footage with commentary from a variety of experts to document the wide social influence of Beethoven’s famous work, well beyond the scope of the music itself. The 4:30 pm screening at The Granada concludes with a conversation with Candaele, Kabaretti, symphony board member Howard Jay Smith, and San Marcos High School vocal director Carolyn Teraoka-Brady, followed by an open rehearsal by the orchestra. The symphony’s 2016-17 season continues November 19-20 with a program of Mozart and Tchaikovsky piano concertos featuring soloists Natasha Kislenko (UCSB and Music Academy of the West faculty) and visiting artist Markus Groh. A family concert with Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf featuring former Santa Barbara storyteller Michal Katz follows on November 26, before guest conductor Bob Bernhardt returns for the annual New Year’s Pops Concert, which this year ups the ante via an appearance by aerial performance troupe Cirque de la Symphonie. Guest conductor David Lockington conducts Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber and orchestral accompaniment for screened scenes from Disney’s Fantasia films on January 28-29 before Kabaretti returns for the West Coast premiere of American composer Jonathan Leshnoff’s Clarinet Concerto paired with Copland’s Symphony No. 3 on February 11-12. Guest violinist Philippe Quint solos for Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, which sit side-by-side on March 18-19; Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5 and Grieg’s Piano Concerto, featuring guest soloist Lilya Zilberstein, are performed

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April 15-16; and a celebration of Paris, including Mozart’s Symphony No. 31, Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto (with guest artist Zuill Bailey), Liszt’s Les Préludes, and Gershwin’s An American in Paris concludes the season on May 13-14. Elsewhere in classical music, Camerata Pacifica’s October concert features the return to town of pianist Vassily Primakov, who endeared himself to Montecito patrons during his time as a fellow at the Music Academy of the West. Primakov will pair with Camerata’s principal violinist Paul Huang for Lera Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Violin & Piano and Tchaikovsky’s Valse-Scherzo. In between, he’ll play Shostakovich’s Op. 34 Preludes and Chopin’s Grande valse brillante, Op. 34, No. 1 & Etude in C Minor, Op. 10, No 12, “Revolutionary”. The music begins at 7:30 pm at Hahn Hall. Call 884-8410 or visit www.cameratapacifica.org. UCSB’s music department’s String Program has two new faculty members, both bringing impressive credentials to their new positions. Both cellist Jennifer Kloetzel, formerly of the Cypress Quartet, and Jonathan Moerschel, of the Calder Quartet, are teaching and coaching on campus starting this quarter. Kloetzel’s local public debut comes Sunday, October 16, at 7:30 pm when she takes part in the free “Jill and Friends” faculty concert with flutist Jill Felber and pianist Robert Koenig at Trinity Episcopal Church. Beethoven is also on the menu when CAMA’s Masterseries at the Lobero launches its new season with pianist Jonathan Biss and the Bretano Quartet on Monday at 8. The program feature Beethoven’s final piano sonata (No.32 in C minor, Op.111) and his final string quartet (No.16 in F Major, Op.135), as well as the Violin Sonata No.10 in G Major, Op.96. Tickets are $39 & $49.

Mind over Matter at UCSB

When Françoise Mouly and Anita Kunz team up to present the free event The Creative Mind: An Evening of Cover Art, Illustrations and Comics at UCSB’s Campbell Hall on Monday evening, two of the most important figures in periodical illustration will be sharing the stage. As art editor at The New Yorker and publisher of RAW, Mouly has worked to take comics and cartoons from low-brow pulp to literature and high art and recently turned her attention to comics-making for children, while Kunz’s provocative imagery laced with social and political commentary has graced the covers of Rolling Stone, Time, and The New Yorker, among others. Mouly talked about the comics, The New Yorker, and more over the phone

Françoise Mouly and Anita Kunz present The Creative Mind: An Evening of Cover Art, Illustrations and Comics at UCSB’s Campbell Hall on Monday, October 17

there’s is a built-in level of humility, because you are at the service of the understanding. The reader completes the circle. The artists have a duty to be clear. The covers are not explained, they’re not subtitled. The images have to have an echo. That’s why I’m so fascinated by this medium, one that’s all about communication.

earlier earlier this week. Q. What drew you to work in art direction, specifically to take the position editing the cover art for The New Yorker more than 20 years ago? A. Week after week, we come up with covers that are unpredictable. One week can be a sweet image of a kid on the beach, the next of Trump as Miss Universe responding to the news. The forte of The New Yorker, and what’s interesting to me, is that a drawn image, done by hand very simply, can have such weight even in 2016, at a time when we are awash in thousands of images every day on social media and TV. Yet still, the covers of the NY manage to resonate with wide audiences and often tap into the moment. The common denominator is that the artist finds the image and manages to say something that is on our minds and starts as a point of discussion. Often it’s to make people laugh, or to provoke, but always to make them think. (It’s tricky) because you don’t want to publish something where everyone is scratching their head wondering what it means. When I go to a museum and look at a painting, if I don’t understand it, I think I’m an idiot. But once I publish a cover for The New Yorker or a comic strip, if the reader doesn’t understand it, you will think that the artist is an idiot. So

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You have had quite a few controversial covers over the years, most famously the one of Barack and Michelle Obama as Muslims in the Oval Office. It seemed quite a few didn’t get the satire. Oh, they understood the irony, they got it, but they thought that others wouldn’t. They were worried that other people weren’t as smart as they are. But we presume that the audience is intelligent, even as we get broader ripples when a cover goes viral on the internet, that everybody gets to have a chance to respond to the images. The image was making manifest innuendos that were poisonous. The image made those visible, and demystified the entire insidious discourse. Showing him in Muslim garb and Michelle as Angela Davis became a turning point in letting it be discussed. What was your reaction to the Charlie Hebdo attack? My life has been devoted to the power of the image, and they were close to my heart because I grew up in Paris. I don’t always feel comfortable about everything they said, but they challenged, nothing was sacred. We did a cover that showed the Eiffel Tower standing in a sea of red, with the top the tip of as a pencil, to show an element of defiance. It was an awesome tribute to the power of cartoons – both deadly and absolutely terrifying, but I am proud to be on our side of the divide, to stand up no matter what the consequences. We didn’t reprint the images (of Mohammed). But the cartoonists were not cowed by this and still aren’t. They put out 13 – 20 October 2016

images that fearlessly provoke, airing things out that would otherwise have noxious power. What’s the similarity between your work at The New Yorker and your publishing company TOON that puts out comic books for kids? Is there tension between the sophistication of the magazine versus the young minds of the comics? Cartoonists reduce complex issues to their essence. That’s why the icons, the symbols, work, because they become something that could be read quickly. The foundation of one’s intelligence is being able to function with visual symbols. It’s a direct enabler of literacy. We think in reductions, so we’re using cartoons as building blocks that help to make sense of the world. You need to have a foundation before you can appreciate Shakespeare sonnets. What will take place at the UCSB event with Anita Kunz? We’ll be showing images and interacting with each other. We want to show the process of our relationship, how we work together, the dialogue I have with the artist as a facilitator. We’ll see some of her early sketches for cartoons, and ones that weren’t published and see how we gauge response. When we first started working together, she was reluctant to send

me anything but the finished drawing, but I told her to think of me as your confessor, you can tell me everything, because this is how I get to know the inner thoughts of the artists and cartoonists.

Ian Anderson performs at the Arlington on Wednesday, October 19

A Tull Order at Arlington

Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson’s latest project, four years since the demise of the band in its 44th year, carries the title of band’s namesake, an 18th-century English agriculturalist. The flutist-singer-songwriter has put together a song-filled, video-enhanced narrative that re-imagines the original Tull in the near future, dealing with the issues of climate change and food production. In a far-ranging conversation that covered everything from cancellation insurance to colonoscopy, to former band members and breakfast cereals, Anderson talked about the production that arrives at the Arlington Theatre on Wednesday, October 19. Q. Why was it suddenly important to come to terms with your band’s namesake after almost 50 years? A. Well, it wasn’t. But I get bored easily, so when something crops up as an idea out of the blue, it’s fun to divert

my attention for a while. I was driving thru the countryside of Northern Italy in 2014, and I got into my head to look up Jethro Tull. I read about his life and times and then amused myself by writing down a list of the songs of mine that came to mind that related to him. It was an uncanny fit. Things like “Farmer on the Freeway” and “Heavy Horses” were obvious fits, but others have a curious coincidence; as it turns out, the original J.T. suffered from a congenital pulmonary disease which made “Aqualung” have an immediate point of similarity, among other weird little coincidences that never occurred to me. I realized I suddenly had a set list, and it was only a short jump from there to turning it into a stage show narrative based on his life, using our music. I had to change a few lyrics here and there, and write a few extra songs. I decided to re-imagine him in present day, as a contemporary crop

scientist working with modern technology in genetic modification and cloning. To feed an ever-hungry planet, you need to come up with great new ideas in the adverse situation of climate change. It’s nice to pay homage to the original Jethro Tull, to his undeniable work and enthusiasm for the agricultural revolution in those times. Yes, I owe him a lot. It’s nice to tip your hat and say, “Thanks, old Jethro.” How are the new songs holding up? It’s challenging to come up with something new and have them sit along the best-known J.T. material and keep the audiences attention. That’s very hard for old-timers like me. But you can sneak them in in the context of a narrative that requires it. Amazingly and a little strangely those new songs seem to meet with 0the same approval in the shows. The number-one trick is keep them short. Don’t overstay your welcome and you might get away with it. Are you still feeling as strong and motivated at 71 as you did in your 20s? In other words, are you getting “Too old to rock ‘n’ roll”? Performing has always been quite demanding ever since I decided to not

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 Getting Away with It – Asa Olsson directs Samuel French’ s theatrical adaptation of Agatha Christie’s mystery-thriller And Then There Were None at Carpinteria’s Plaza Playhouse Theater. Several people have been lured to an island under different pretexts, including offers of employment, an opportunity to enjoy an early-autumn holiday, or just to meet old friends. It turns out that each has been complicit in the deaths of other human beings, but either escaped justice or committed an act that was not subject to legal sanction. The guests and two servants who are present are charged with their respective crimes via a Gramophone recording after dinner the first night, and informed that they have been brought to the island to pay for their actions. There is no escape due to the distance from the mainland and the inclement weather. In typical Christie suspense, one by one they start to fall, leaving the audience to guess who might be the mysterious killer over the course of the three-act play. WHEN: 8 tonight & tomorrow and next Friday & Saturday, October 2122, plus 3 pm Sunday and October 23 WHERE: Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: $17 general, $12 students & seniors INFO: 684-6380 or www. plazatheatercarpinteria.com

gathering of eco-minded politicos, activists, nonprofit organizers, and community members at its charming downtown sunken-gardens style headquarters. There is a full dinner served, featuring jerk chicken and additional Cajun delights from Big Easy Catering; music by The Americana Cats; and a large slate of raffle prizes donated by Patagonia, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, SeaVees, Toad&Co, SunRun, and Santa Barbara School of Mosaic Art. As always, admission, which is just $5 more than the typical events, includes two drinks (beer, wine, soda) and all the fun and hobnobbing you can stand for a full three hours, a solid 60 minutes more than usual. WHEN: 5:30 to 8:30 pm WHERE: 906 Garden Street COST: $20 INFO: 963-1622 or www. environmentaldefensecenter.org/tgif

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 Young Lion – Piano prodigy Joey Alexander first encountered a piano at the age of 6, when he tickled the ivories with a Thelonious Monk melody. His father recognized that his technique and ability to grasp complicated musical concepts was well beyond someone of his years, and got him into jam sessions with senior musicians where his musical intuition could flourish. Not long afterward, he was winning international competitions and astounding festival audiences, not to mention recording a debut album, My Favorite Things, that was nominated for a Grammy. No less an authority than The New York Times has hailed him as “A thoughtful musician as well as a natural one, with a sophisticated harmonic palette and a dynamic sensitivity.” Now at the ripe old age of 13, the Bali-born pianist – who has won plaudits for his adventurous spirit and captivating verve as well as a surprisingly deft touch and imaginative, sophisticated arrangements – is headed our way for his area debut hot on the heels of his sophomore album, Countdown, which came out late last month. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $25 to $40 general, $10 students INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

night-only revival on November 18 as part of a large citywide event called Tangled Web – Westmont College Shakespeare@400.SantaBarbara, theater professor (and Lit Moon Theater marking the 400th anniversary of Company founder) John Blondell the death of Shakespeare (Ensemble directs a student production of Theater Company’s Macbeth Shakespeare’s As You Like It, a “nearly concludes its run at the New Vic this bottomless play,” the director says, weekend). WHEN: 7:30 tonight that’s “also quite tricky, since what & tomorrow and October 20-22 begins as an action-packed revenge WHERE: Porter Theatre on campus, and escape story, soon transforms 955 La Paz Road COST: $12 general, into a series of meditations about life $7 students, seniors and children and love, city and country, art and INFO: 565-7040 or www.westmont. nature, melancholy and happiness.” edu/boxoffice The piece also features the Bard’s most prolific part for an actress, Rosalind, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 a complex dramatic character who has the most lines of any female Roots Folk-Rock – Sings Like Hell Last Defense – The Environmental character in Shakespeare oeuvre, digs deep for the fourth concert in Defense Center’s final TGIF! event of the plus an ending boasting a “fabulous the current series, featuring Pete & season is its annual Fall Feast, a slightly coup de theatre” quadruple wedding. Maura Kennedy with Radoslav more upscale version of its monthly The show can also be seen in a oneLorkovic as headliners. The Kennedys are capable of seamlessly stitching together a disparate palette of influences they’ve cultivated over SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 the last two decades, from Buddy Holly-style acoustic-rock to sweet Just Deserts in the Desert – Several stalwart Santa Everly Brothers melodies and rhythms, Barbara thespians comprise the majority of the cast as The and the ringing 12-string jangle of Theatre Group at SBCC continues its 2016-17 season with the early Byrds with darker edges that Other Desert Cities. Jon Robin Baitz’s family drama recall British folk-rock of the Fairport finds Brooke Wyeth returning home to Palm Springs after Convention era. Opener Dead Rock a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents West is a little bit country, a little bit – a former movie star/United States ambassador and rock and roll, and completely likable his wife, who are made to resemble the Reagans – and thanks to their charming harmonies. her TV producer brother and sharp-tongued aunt. Brooke WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon announces that she is about to publish a memoir dredging Perdido St. COST: $34 INFO: 963up a pivotal and tragic event in the family’s history, a wound they surely don’t want 0761 or www.lobero.com reopened. As secrets are revealed, will the family be able to come to terms with its shadowy past? Although the play only opened on Broadway in late 2011 – when it was nominated for a Best Play Tony Award – Rubicon Theatre mounted a local debut two seasons ago in Ventura. But this is a work well worth seeing again, and surely for the first time during this highly charged political season with the SBCC cadre of players that includes Tom Hinshaw, Stephanie Katers, E. Bonnie Lewis, Meredith McMinn, and Justin Stark. Theater department co-chair R. Michael Gros directs. WHEN: Opens tonight, continues through Saturday, October 29 WHERE: SBCC’s Jurkowitz Theatre, SBCC West Campus, 900 block of Cliff Drive COST: $10 to $26 INFO: 965-5935 or www.theatregroupsbcc.com

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Still the Man – It’s been nearly 50 years since Van Morrison released his major-label solo debut, Astral Weeks, a jazz-tinged soul album that remains a remarkable masterpiece and one of the greatest records of all time, according to just about any source. But the soul shouter/poet-

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sorcerer has remained vital to this day, ever adding to his spiritually transcendent body of work that fuses folk, blues, jazz, and soul into a mythic vision that is all his own. Just last week he released his latest album, Keep Me Singing, which has already captured critical acclaim for its emotional content and continued symbolism over the familiar blend of Celtic folk drenched in R&B and light jazz. Although Morrison went through a period where his concerts were frequently hit-or-miss affairs, recent reports indicate the now 71-year-old musician is focused and present and offering truly compelling shows all over again, which the cozy confines and open-air wonder of the Santa Barbara Bowl should only enhance. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $55-$305 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com Harbor Festival – The Santa Barbara Harbor and Seafood Festival is in its 15th year as the revival of the old Fishermen’s Festival that featured a Blessing of the Fleet and a parade of fishing boats packed with people and covered in flowers and streamers. Now, the popular event draws thousands of people to the waterfront to enjoy succulent seafood including fresh lobsters, barbequed albacore, crab, prawns, oysters, sea urchin uni, and other delights from the ocean, plus a host of other seafood treats and marine-related information and demonstrations, music, and more. Events this year include Chuck Waterfront Grill “Green Egg” barbecue demonstrations, free lectures in Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, Santa Barbara Harbor Patrol fire boat demonstrations, dockside tours of several boats including the Tall 13 – 20 October 2016

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 Screenagers’ Screening – The average kid spends more than six hours a day looking at screens, these days more smart phones than TV, with an average six-second attention span. Physician and award-winning documentary filmmaker Delaney Ruston wondered about the impact as she watched her own kids and negotiated balance. In Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age, she explores struggles over social media, video games, academics, and internet addiction through poignant and funny stories, along with surprising insights from authors, psychologists, and brain scientists. The film delves into how the habit impacts kids’ development and then offers solutions on how adults can empower kids to find balance with the digital world. Today’s free community screening presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures will be followed by a Q&A with Scilla Andreen, the film’s producer and CEO of IndieFlix, as well as an award-winning filmmaker and Emmy-nominated costume designer (The Wonder Years, Party of Five, and Dawson’s Creek). WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. COST: free INFO: 893-3535 or www. ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

Ship Spirit of Dana Point, free boat rides on the Double Dolphin, more than 40 vendors showcasing face painting, clothing, jewelry, custom artwork, and live music from the David (Courtney) Segall Band, Spencer the Gardener, and FISH & the Seaweeds. WHEN: 10 am to 5 pm WHERE: 132 Harbor Way COST: free INFO: 897-1962 or www. harborfestival.org Pints in the Park – At just eight years old, the Santa Barbara Beer Festival can lay claim as the town’s oldest such event, and it’s clear that the experience has helped refine this festival into one of the city’s most enjoyable fall excursions. The fest features a big bevy of brewers, all in one place offering tastes of their finest barrel creations, accompanied by food, lots of music, and spectacular scenery at Elings Park. Your ticket gets you a tasting glass and the opportunity to cruise the grounds of the venue sampling at your leisure from among microbrews from the central and west coasts, both well-known (Firestone, Figueroa Mountain, Island, Pure Order) and more esoteric (St. Killian, Stone, Third Window and Topa Topa). Thunder Rose, Sonic Chaos, Bella Hart & Soul Band, and Slanted Land provide the melodies for your memories, the rhythms as you romp. Proceeds helps support both Elings Park and the Santa Barbara Rugby Association. WHEN: noon to

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“FOLLOWING THE NINTH” FILM SCREENING AND CONVERSATION THU OCT 13 4:30PM FREE EVENT SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY

4 pm WHERE: 1298 Las Positas Road COST: $60 general, $15 designated drivers INFO: www.sbbeerfestival.com

ODE TO JOY: BEETHOVEN’S NINTH

Chowder Festival – If you’ve still got room in your tummy – and a desire to take in more fruits of the sea – why not drop by the 7th Annual Santa Barbara Chowder Fest this afternoon? Santa Barbara’s only chowder competition, food festival, and wineand-beer tasting event all in one, the event brings together some of the area’s best eateries (Max’s, Enterprise Fish, Scarlet Begonia, Jalama Beach Grill and the Boathouse, among them) to compete for the overall title of Santa Barbara Chowder Champion. Plus, for the first time, this year will also feature a chili competition. Competitors will prepare and serve fresh, delicious chowders or chilis of all varieties that will be judged by a panel of experts and local personalities, and you get to taste each competing dish as well as other foods, wines, beers, and spirits. Numerous local wineries and brewers are also on hand for attendees to sample their wares, along with live music from Santa Barbara acoustic blues favorites Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan, and both silent and live auctions. As always, proceeds benefited the Legal Aid Foundation. WHEN: 1 to 4 pm WHERE: Fess Parker DoubleTree Resort, 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd. COST: $75 INFO: 963-6754 or www. santabarbarachowderfest.com •MJ

SAT OCT 15 8PM SUN OCT 16 3PM MOVIES THAT MATTER WITH HAL CONKLIN

SAY AMEN SOMEBODY MON OCT 17 7PM STATE STREET BALLET

AN AMERICAN TANGO SAT OCT 22 7:30PM UCSB ARTS & LECTURES

LIL BUCK TUE OCT 25 8PM OPERA SANTA BARBARA

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Movies That Matter – Hal Conklin’s film series at the Granada Theatre continues with Say Amen, Somebody, the documentary about gospel music that touches on the real-life experiences of early unknown singers including Willie Mae Ford Smith and Thomas A. Dorsey. But the performances won’t only be on screen tonight, as the movie will be preceded by a performance by Santa Barbara’s community-based Inner Light Gospel Choir, and a special discussion with Inner Light’s artistic director Dauri Kennedy, assistant artistic director Peter Hernandez, and president Terri Cruz, moderated by Conklin. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 1214 State Street COST: $10-$20 INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org

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just stand still in front of the microphone. These days, it would be crazy to think I have that same energy I did in my 20s. But I’m in tune with what I can and can’t do... I’ve canceled less than 10 concerts in 48 years.

Has it been gratifying that even after all these years there really isn’t anyone else who sounds like you? You could say the same thing of a Ford Mustang. It looks and sounds and smells different. I made the decision in ‘67 to find something else so I wouldn’t be just a third-rate guitar player. I took up the flute for no good reason other than it was portable,

fun, and no one else was using it as a lead instrument. We became the band with the guy who stood on one leg playing the flute, and that’s what made us the breakfast cereal you remember, the one that stands out on the shelf. What’s next? An album of string quartet (versions) of J.T. songs, a true classical setting with a little help from me here and there. It’s for the fans who probably think they’ve heard everything so they can have the songs in a different context, to enjoy them for weddings and funerals.

Fab Four Friday

There are Beatles tribute bands all over the place, something like 800 of them around the world. But only one has the unique advantage of being childhood friends who were born and raised in The Beatles’s hometown of Liverpool, England. That would be the Mersey Beatles, who not only hail from the working-class town but also served for a decade as the house band for The Cavern Club, the same venue where the original Fab Four played a whole bunch of gigs before making it big. The Mersey Beatles have been touring since 2012 but have never made it

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stateside. And while their U.S. debut isn’t anything like the one The Beatles made back in 1964, Friday’s gig at the Lobero Theatre is nothing to sneeze at, either. That’s partly because the band doesn’t take their mission lightly, as they play at least one song from every Beatles album as well as plenty of singles and a few other affiliated songs. They dress the part, changing from the early black suits of the Mop Top era to Sgt. Pepper’s costumes and the Abbey Road clothing, including John Lennon’s white suit. They recreate The Beatles’ revolutionary sounds via replica instruments and amplifiers, including Rickenbacker and Gretsch guitars and Hofner basses. And being from Liverpool, they don’t have to strain to talk and sing with the correct accents, as it comes naturally. For the current tour, the Mersey Beatles are being introduced by Julia Baird, the director of the Cavern Club who also happens to be John Lennon’s half-sister, and the author of Imagine This: Growing Up with My Brother John Lennon, the book she’ll be signing at the merchandise table before, during, and after the show. Also performing are The Empty Hearts, featuring four guys from longstanding bands who gave come together to play ’60s garage rock and British Invasion music: Wally Palmar of The Romantics on lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and harmonica; Elliot Easton of The Cars on lead guitar and vocals; Andy Babiuk of the Chesterfield Kings on bass and vocals; and Clem Burke of Blondie on drums. And opening the show is Santa Barbara’s own Beatles-lovin’ boys, The Tearaways, who have played Beatles Fest in Liverpool annually for more than a decade.

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Hal Conklin’s official Movies That Matter series has a screening at the Granada this week (see the Calendar of Events), but the downtown library is also hosting a documentary that wants to make a difference. Fix It: Healthcare At The Tipping Point, which screens at 2 pm Sunday, October 16, sponsored by Health Care for All – California, Santa Barbara Chapter, and the League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara, is a one-hour movie that explains how an expanded and improved “Medicare for all” system in the U.S. could deliver good universal health care while saving money for individuals, families, businesses, and public employers. The film, which features testimony from business owners and conservative politicians regarding single-payer health systems, will be followed by a Q&A session and discussion. (The film is also available for viewing online for free at www.fixithealthcare.com/ watch-the-movie.) •MJ 13 – 20 October 2016

Real Estate View 3rd Quarter Numbers

Montecito Heat Index

by Michael Phillips

Michael is a realtor at Coldwell Banker, and is a Montecito Planning Commissioner. He can be reached at 969-4569 and info@ MichaelPhillipsRealEstate. com

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demand this quarter. As the lower end shows signs of slowing, the higher end may be showing signs of improvement. Year to date, new listings are up by 2% yet still well below what buyers would like to see. The total number of houses under contract slipped by 5%, though the number sold is up 2%. Sellers, who have been enjoying a slow but steady median price increase each quarter for the last four or so years, are beginning to face a new reality. With the median price 5% below last year at $2,800,000, sellers are beginning to drop their prices to attract buyers. And we are not alone. Not to compare, but for the same period Hope Ranch’s median sale price decreased by 13%. Some people who spend a lot of time looking at graphs and making predictions therefrom argue that the last major home market correction and resulting recovery places us in

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he Montecito Heat Index measures demand for the Montecito single family market within five distinct million-dollar price sectors. Scores for the 3rd quarter of 2016 are compared to scores for the 3rd quarter of 2015. All data are from the Santa Barbara MLS and are uniformly deemed reliable. So how hot was the Montecito market during July, August, and September, the 3rd quarter of 2016? The total Heat score is 59, a 31% decrease from the 3rd quarter of last year and a 42.1% decrease from the last quarter; certainly not hot and arguably not even warm. As the adjacent graph reflects, our hottest sector is the $1-2M sector with a score of 19, meeting last year’s score, yet well below last quarters’s score of 33. For the $2-3M group, buyers bought fewer houses in this sector than they did last year by a significant 58.9%. And they liked the $3-4M properties not at all with this sector finding no buyers throughout the entire quarter. Surprisingly, the $4-5M sector outperformed by a significant 200%, and interest in the $5M and above mega estates was not quite robust yet nearly met last year’s number. These two sectors alone delivered 41.6% of all

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the “every nine years or so” correction window. It actually has been more than nine years since the market fell apart and we are at or near the 2006/07 highs – yet, dare I say it, it appears different this time. For one, the loan-approval process has completely changed, making those fun “liar loans” a thing of the past. And if the huge Millennial group isn’t stepping up to buy homes as we would like, they have available to them the lowest loan rates ever and rental pric-

es that continues to climb. At some point, family formation, and needs associated therewith, will kick in, and they will want to spend their slowly gained but increasing raises. This group is big, and they will be home buyers and move the market. I sense no major correction in sight but rather a period of fewer sales and slower price appreciation. Sellers have been having all the fun for a long while. It’s time for buyers to assert some pressure on our high listing prices. •MJ

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$12,500,000

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698-2915

Sotheby’s International Realty

2084 East Valley Road

1-4pm

$7,150,000

5bd/5.5ba

Jeff Reeves

689-2058

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1813 Fernald Point Lane

1-3pm

$6,950,000

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Bob Lamborn

689-6800

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1-3pm

$6,495,000

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455-3226

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1-4pm

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451-2306

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1-4pm

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Patrice Serrani

637-5112

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1000 East Mountain Drive

1-5pm

$4,250,000

4bd/3ba

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570-7356

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1385 Oak Creek Canyon Road By Appt.

$4,150,000

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Joe Stubbins

729-0778

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3-4pm

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450-7477

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1-4pm

$3,785,000

5bd/4.5ba

Christpher W Hunt

453-3407

Village Properties

595 Freehaven Drive

2-5pm

$3,475,000

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680-4622

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices

1375 Plaza De Sonadores

By Appt.

$2,995,000

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Patrice Serrani

637-5112

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices

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1-3pm

$2,995,000

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351-2101

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1-5pm

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570-7356

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2-4pm

$2,650,000

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689-1602

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1-4pm

$2,299,000

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284-7177

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2-4pm

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680-6524

Sotheby’s International Realty

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12-4pm

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By Appt.

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455-3669

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1-4pm

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4bd/2ba

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689-3078

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2-4pm

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2bd/2ba

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689-1818

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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. – John Burroughs

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$2,995,000 | 82 Humphrey Rd, Montecito | 1BD/3BA Michelle Damiani | 805.729.1364

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

$3,475,000 | 595 Freehaven Dr, Montecito | 7BD/6BA Ken Switzer | 805.680.4622

$3,450,000 | 26 Seaview Dr, Montecito | 2BD/2BA Kathleen Winter | 805.451.4663

$3,250,000 | 935 Arcady Rd, Montecito | 4BD/4BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896

$3,195,000 | 2931 Hidden Valley Ln, Montecito | 4BD/5BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896

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$2,995,000 | 754 Winding Creek Ln, Montecito | 4BD/4BA Mary Whitney | 805.689.0915

$2,995,000 | 1375 Plaza De Sonadores, Montecito | 2BD/2½BA Patrice Serrani | 805.637.5112

$2,995,000 | 140 La Vereda Rd, Montecito | 3BD/3BA Ralston/Hitchcock | 805.565.4024

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