Santa Barbara's Next Mayor?

Toast of the Town 19-26 November 2020 Vol 26 Issue 47

SERVING MONTECITO AND SUMMERLAND

Greg Brewer, first Santa Barbara vintner to be named Winemaker of the Year by Wine Enthusiast, p. 36

Santa Barbara’s Next Mayor?

Working from Home

Movie producer Ivan Reitman has stayed prolific during the pandemic, p. 10

An Incredible Legacy

Why old-school journalism and standout practitioners like Ann Bardach matter more than ever, p. 22

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JAMES JOYCE HAS SPENT THE LAST EIGHT YEARS BEHIND THE SCENES AS DISTRICT DIRECTOR FOR STATE SENATOR HANNAH-BETH JACKSON; IS IT TIME FOR HIM TO STEP INTO THE SPOTLIGHT AND RUN FOR SANTA BARBARA’S NEXT MAYOR? (STORY BEGINS ON PAGE 5)

Drive-in Remembrance

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Inside This Issue

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Editor’s Letter

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On the Record

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Letters to the Editor

Different moments in time call for different types of leadership. Who will be Santa Barbara’s next mayor? Gwyn Lurie sits down with potential candidate James Joyce.

Four Seasons Biltmore employees seek lost wages; Teacher’s Fund annual fundraiser; Pierre Claeyssens celebrates Veterans Day A collection of communications from readers Carlos the Bear, Robert Bernstein, Monie de Wit, Nancy Freeman, Myrna R Fleishman, John Stewart, and Eric Friedman

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Director and producer Ivan Reitman hasn’t left his Montecito home in seven months, but he has eight screenplays in the works

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Lynda tastes tapas and is transported to times in Spain of yore; Casa del Herrero takes Christmas at Casa online

16 Montecito Miscellany

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22 An Indelible Legacy

Ann Louise Bardach’s work can now be found at USCB’s Library Department of Special Research Collections

26 Perspectives by Rinaldo S Brutoco

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27 Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant opens a window on the etymology of the word fenestration, and all the historical baggage that it carries

28 On Entertainment

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Santa Barbara Symphony goes full Beethoven; A Paris Love Story at the Rubicon; PlayFest plays on

36 Santa Barbara by the Glass

A toast to Greg Brewer, the first Santa Barbara vintner to be named Winemaker of the Year by Wine Enthusiast

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Editor’s Letter

by Gwyn Lurie CEO and Executive Editor of the Montecito Journal Media Group

Santa Barbara’s Next Mayor?

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he 2020 political season is over. Mostly. But like California’s fire season, once reserved to only certain months of the year, election cycles now seem to be with us 24/7-52-365. I guess there’s no rest for the weary. So let me be the first to welcome you to the early days of the next important local political contest, involving who will be elected Santa Barbara’s next mayor come November of 2021.

Anyone who stays abreast of Santa Barbara politics or is just generally concerned with the state of the city, knows that Santa Barbara has had some hard years and faces considerable challenges – some of which we’ve written about in these pages. The state of State Street, the need for affordable housing, a growing homeless population, struggling businesses, and a diverse but still deeply segregated community top the list of Santa Barbara’s looming challenges which call out for inspired leadership. And that was before the pandemic.

The way our counties and cities are run and by whom has a profound impact on our daily lives – economically, educationally, spiritually. Different moments in time call for different types of leadership. Which brings me back to the critical question of who will be SB’s next mayor?

There’s been talk on the street of a “new kid in town.” Except this person of note is neither new to town, nor is he a kid. He has spent a big piece of his career behind the scenes, making things happen for some of our county’s key political players. But now he’s considering stepping up to help lead Santa Barbara toward the bright future he sees and feels Santa Barbara deserves.

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“I think definitely what sets Montecito apart is it has the assets and the people who have been successful in various endeavors and careers and those people represent potentially invaluable contributions to the community brain trust” – James Joyce

I met James Joyce in 2016 in his capacity as the District Director for State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson. I immediately liked him, and not just because he had one of the all-time coolest names. Over time I’ve gotten to know James better through our mutual work with the Lois and Walter Capps Foundation “Common Table” Project; and I worked with him post debris flow through my involvement with TPRC. I’ve watched with interest as James created his “Coffee With a Black Guy” platform – an innovative social impact movement that seeks to “merge the tactile and digital worlds to bring greater understanding, compassion, empathy, and love into our shared community.”

Through CWABG, James regularly brings people together to create a greater sense of understanding and in so doing, builds community cohesion. And that started long before the nearly concurrent tragedies of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery.

Despite James’ proclivity for political engagement, I’ve always found him to be one of the most authentic and least transactional people I’ve met in politics.

So imagining that he would consider jumping from the fire of legislative work and community building into the frying pan of elected office is interesting

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On the Record

by Nicholas Schou

Nicholas Schou is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of several books, including Orange Sunshine and Kill the Messenger. If you have tips or stories about Montecito, please email him at newseditor@montecitojournal.net

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anta Barbara’s hospitality industry still isn’t close to recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic but few employees have had it as bad as the roughly 450 workers from the Four Seasons Resort the Biltmore Santa Barbara, all of whom were furloughed last March and who lost their employer-funded medical insurance in July. Although the resort is currently booking reservations for May 2021, that would mark 14 months of unemployment for workers, while the Ty Warner-owned hotel takes advantage of the pandemic to complete renovations, which include measures to improve COVID and other viral protections like duct/ventilation work, carpet removal for wood floors, planters in the dining room for patron distancing and others.

Although the Biltmore’s lawyers didn’t want to comment for this story, Warner, in an interview with the Montecito Journal earlier this year, personally debunked rumors that he planned to sell the hotel and possibly his other Santa Barbara area properties such as the San Ysidro Ranch and Montecito Club, the former of which remained open during the pandemic, although the latter remains closed.

For his part, Bruce Anticouni, the Santa Barbara-based lawyer currently representing about 160 Four Seasons employees in a possible legal action against the resort, said that he was still in the first stage of a two-step process to obtain compensation for his hard-pressed clients.

“The first step is mediation, and if mediation isn’t successful, we will go to arbitration,” Anticouni said, adding that he estimated that his law firm, Anticouni & Associates, will represent roughly 250 to 300 employees by the time mediation actually begins at some point early next year. “The goal is to try and solve this issue for all the employees, not just the ones we currently represent,” he said.

Although none of the resort’s employees were permanently laid off as opposed to temporarily furloughed, Anticouni argued that given the length of time the Four Seasons anticipates being shuttered, that’s a distinction without a difference. “The employee handbook provides for separation of pay and that is triggered when there is a layoff,” he explained. “Our argument is that when a furlough is extended for fourteen months to allow for a substantial remodel of a hotel, that’s a layoff situation.”

According to Anticouni, his firm is still in the early process of signing legal representation paperwork with employees as well as reviewing a list of potential mediators who might be able to help negotiate an agreement sometime early next year before the resort is scheduled to reopen. Because it’s unlikely for the resort to be able to hire back all of the employees even assuming it does reopen on schedule, Anticouni said any resolution would have to cover lost wages for both workers who are rehired and those who aren’t as lucky.

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arlos here! Since I have good Wi-Fi here in my den, I was able to watch the Town Hall meeting a few weeks ago about me. I was grateful for a large attendance of twenty-something people who logged in to learn, listen, and let their thoughts be known about my presence.

Fish and Wildlife put on a Zoom seminar for this Town Hall that I can safely say was accurate, informative, and to the point. I cannot thank the Montecito Association enough for hosting this event. We are all neighbors here in our little village and without their help I might not be writing this to you. You see, I caused some concern a while ago and some people feared I was going to harm them. But, as the seminar showed, I am just a hungry bear getting ready for winter.

As you have probably noticed, the days are getting shorter, the nights colder, and the weather a bit more extreme. Even though it is warm today as I write this, winter is just around

the bend and I must fatten up before my deep sleep of hibernation. I will be out and about foraging for food until mid-December when I bed down. You probably will not see me again until mid-March next year when I wake up.

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When I was a young cub, my mother would tell me stories about Montecito.

“Carlos,” she would say, “so much is different today than when your grandmother was alive. Back in the 1800s there were far fewer people and there was another breed of bear that lived here, right in our neighborhood.

They were called Grizzly Bears and we Black Bears kept our distance; somehow, we managed to get along, most of the time. We hunted the occasional deer and lined the creeks to fish during the Steelhead runs. Now the Grizzlies are gone, hunted to extinction and the creeks are now choked

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Arts in Lockdown Series Part 15

Film Director and Producer Ivan Reitman Joanne Calitri reporting “live” from the Ghostbusters car with film director Ivan Reitman at his Montecito home office

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pically known as the one director who can harvest the funniest talent for his movies, Ivan Reitman continues his film making legend during lockdown with eight screenplays in the works, a sequel to Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting, and the next installment of the Ghostbuster series, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, to be released in theaters in June 2021.

For certain his entire body of work thus far has endured a place in the history of feature film comedies, with Stripes, Animal House, Twins, and Kindergarten Cop. The first Ghostbusters film is recognized by the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Ivan writes, directs, and produces films for theater and TV. With his director/ producer son Jason, he formed The Montecito Picture Company in 1998.

Ivan established his home in Montecito 25 years ago with his wife, Geneviève, with whom he has three children, Jason, Catherine, and Caroline.

With some upcoming spoiler alerts, here’s our interview: Q. Can you talk about how the lockdown has impacted film and TV? A. I’m missing film in terms of going to a theater and watching a film with 300 people. That’s a very particular

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and special experience, especially if you make comedies, which I’ve done a lot. What’s really frightening right now is the theaters have been closed for seven months, and looks like they will be closed for another six months, and that will be over a year. The real issue is going to be whether those theaters can reopen. I think there will always be theatrical screenings at least in our lifetime, but the question is, how much will that sort of event be shrunk.

On the other hand, watching shows at home has become a lot more prevalent because it helps us get through the day. We have way more hours available and we’ve gotten used to watching longer films. There is a tendency to binge watch, where it’s not enough to watch a one-hour program, you’ll watch all twelve episodes in a day or two. It’s been a real boom to the streamers, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, they’ve all done extraordinarily well through this unfortunate period.

Netflix has somewhere around 200 million subscribers.

We’ve grown up to want to gather and socialize; it’s been extraordinary to not be in theaters. Thank God for this [Zoom] ability and technology for us to be together in some way to get through this period.

Is it more profitable to make a film for streaming now?

Film director Ivan Reitman taking five during a filming (photo courtesy: Ivan Reitman)

I doubt it. The reason having a theatrical release is so strong is because it’s both very profitable and not so profitable anymore, it’s the place that really successful films can make a lot of money. Streamers now are giant companies, which can purchase larger projects. The theatrical movie companies have had to sell their films directly to streaming because there is really no theatrical experience now. And even before the pandemic, they’ve had to make a decision if the film is a theatrical film and can withstand today’s market or it’s better suited to the small screen. Ironically, it was the home market that helped support the film business a great deal, there was always the secondary sales market right to the home, and to make that special, filmmakers would add extras and behind the scenes cuts to the purchase.

Like director’s cuts? [laughs] Director’s cut means you’re putting in a lot of extra scenes that probably shouldn’t have been put in the movie in the first place.

What is the news at The Montecito Picture Company during lockdown?

The release of Ghostbusters: Afterlife was due out this summer and we moved it to June 11, 2021. I’m not sure if people will be back in movie theaters by June 2021, but I hope by summertime there is a growth in theater openings.

What are you doing to stay creative and inspired?

I’m meeting with writers a lot to develop new projects. We’re deep into making an animated film called Ghost Ghostbusters, which is ghostbusting from the ghost’s point of view. It takes place in New York and in a ghost dimension where the ghosts grew up.

It’s a full-length film hopefully to be screened in theaters.

We’re developing actively eight movies right now, which does not necessarily mean all eight will be made.

You have to develop a great script,

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” – Eckhart Tolle

scripts are hard and they take a long time, you have to keep polishing them to get them better. That’s very creative work and it’s very intense, I attempt to have three creative meetings a day via video call, locked down here in beautiful Montecito.

How did you find Montecito and what about Montecito do you love?

All the way back when I produced Animal House (1978), I came to California and considered moving here, which I did a year after. Elmer Bernstein, the film composer, lived in Montecito, and I remember visiting him to talk about Animal House. It was the first time I visited Montecito, and it was so beautiful, you know what it’s like, you get really hooked into what an extraordinary town and village this area becomes. I remember telling my wife, Geneviève, we should look into this area when we move to California. We first lived in Beverly Hills to be close to the studios but we kept visiting Montecito, and 25 years ago we built a home here. My daughter Catherine also just bought a home in Montecito. We feel lucky to be here and work hard to pay it back through charities.

And the Montecito Journal?

If you live here [Montecito], you would definitely know this paper, it’s a very important publication for this small community.

You bring together the funniest people in film. Do you have actors ready for your current projects?

I’ve really taken the pandemic seriously. I’ve been here at home unfortunately every day and night for seven and a half months; I stopped counting at the end of the summer! At this time, we’re not looking at actors because we are not in production, but I’m spotting talent and thinking about doing things with them. One of the projects we are working on and have been taking seriously in the last couple of

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Seen Around Town

Talking Tapas

Michael Imwalle, chair of the California Missions Foundation board; Anne Petersen, executive director of the Presidio; and Dacia Harwood, interim deputy director of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum checking out the tapas

by Lynda Millner

California Missions Foundation Executive Director David Bolton and Council General of Spain for Tourism Javier Rodriguez Mañas by the Tumaca Truck that Spain brought to Santa Barbara

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he first time I ever heard of tapas was when my Navy pilot husband, Cork, our two young children Kim and Dane, and I moved to Spain in 1969. The kids went to school on the Rota Navy Base but we lived on the economy. When Friday night came we didn’t go to McDonald’s (there weren’t any), we went tapa hopping.

One of our favorite places to go was so small that its name meant

“move over there”: Echate Pa Ya! It was only about six feet wide and everyone stood up. Our son’s favorite tapa was pinchitos, which is a spiced meat on a stick or skewer. Mine was tortilla Española, our equivalent of a potato and egg frittata. Remember, there are no Mexican tortillas in Spain.

No tacos or enchiladas. My daughter loved fried calamari. So did my son until he found out he was eating

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From the Millner archives before gray hair my family’s favorite tapas place in Puerto de Santa Maria, Echate Pa Ya (“move over there”)

squid. There is a tapa (small bite) for everyone, from hot ones to cold ones and even the soup gaspacho.

Why all the talk about tapas? Santa

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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, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 13 years ago.

What’s Better Than Buying Property in Montecito? Buying Two, Of Course

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hat’s what ultra-wealthy San Francisco locals, Marc and Elisa Stad, have just completed in our Eden by the Beach.

The first deal closed in September when the couple forked out $12.2 million for a shingle-sided mansion with seven bedrooms and 13 bathrooms in nearly 14,000 square feet of living space.

Built in 2008, the 2.1-acre estate has a full size sports Venture capitalist Marc Stad and his wife, Elisa, dropped $29 court, a 65-foot swimming million for this Mediterranean-style mansion tucked into the pool with inset spa and Baja Montecito hills (Photo courtesy: realtor.com) shelf, a 10-seat movie theater, mirror-walled gym, and two three-car garages.

Less than three weeks after buying the first property, Stad, who is 41 and is founder of the Dragoneer Investment Group, closed on a second acquisition, a $29 million Mediterranean-style mansion tucked into the Montecito hills.

The nearly 13,000-square-foot six-bedroom structure was built in 2005 and boasts a formal motor court that’s more reminiscent of an Italian palazzo than an ordinary American drive. It formerly belonged to cell phone tycoon Craig McCaw, who paid $25 million for it in 2015, and then flipped it three months later to private equity magnate Jack McGinley for $27.5 million.

In the last five years it has had five owners. McGinley recently bought actor Rob Lowe’s estate on Picacho Lane for $44.5 million.

Harvard alum Stad owns a big chunk of Uber and funded pre-IPO debt for Spotify, among lucrative investments in a number of other high growth tech companies. He also maintains homes in Pacific Heights, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, and Napa Valley.

Dennis Miller Sells Montecito Spread

Comedian and political pundit Dennis Miller, 67, has sold his Montecito spread for $49 million in an all-cash deal.

It’s the second largest amount recorded for a home in our rarefied enclave in recent years, behind only the $63.3 million paid by construction heir Riley Bechtel for a much larger estate last month.

According to records, Miller paid about $11 million for the property in 2006, and subsequently spent much of the next ten years constructing his Comedian Dennis Miller landed new Montecito dream estate, which consists of five $49 million for his Montecito estate structures on a three-parcel lot totaling 4.3 acres.

There’s a 9,000-square-foot Cape Dutch-style main house, a guesthouse, poolhouse, a detached garage, and an infinity-edged swimming pool. Altogether there’s well more than 16,000 square feet of living space, plus off-street parking for dozens of vehicles.

Miller and wife, former model Slim Paley, still own a vacation home in Sun Valley, Idaho, though they’ve long made Montecito their primary residence.

At one point the tony twosome also owned a Carpinteria beach house that they sold to tech entrepreneur Lynda Weinman in 2015 for $19 million, who flipped the Padaro Lane property this September to Las Vegas Golden Knights hockey team owner Bill Foley, also a major winemaker with nearly 20 vineyards.

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One of the major investors in the electric car giant Tesla has splashed out $18 million on a new Montecito home and is moving here from Beverly Hills.

Alan Salzman, 63, heads VantagePoint Capital Partners and owns 7 million shares in the auto company worth more than $2.3 billion.

His new hilltop Tuscan-style property was built in 2016 by construction magnate Jim Hughes and his wife, Cynthia, and boasts eight bedrooms and Venture capitalist and Tesla investor Alan Salzman landed 11 bathrooms in more than 13,000 a hilltop Tuscan-style Montecito property for $18 million square feet of living space spread across three floors.

Set on three acres, the estate is gated and cloaked behind walls of mature trees, and has panoramic views of the Pacific.

Salzman, sold his 2.6-acre estate in Atherton, one of the Bay Area’s most exclusive neighborhoods, for $30.5 million last year, and has put his Beverly Hills estate, which he bought for $20 million three years ago, up for grabs for $38 million.

ShelterBox, Now by Royal Appointment

To mark ShelterBox’s 20th anniversary, Her Royal Highness Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, who serves as patron of the organization, sent a video thanking them for their pioneering achievements over the past two decades.

“I also want to salute your heroic efforts this year to support people already battling for survival,” the wife of Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth’s eldest son, said. “I send my heartfelt thanks to everyone working for this remarkable organization.”

Kerri Murray, ShelterBox president, has met Camilla a number of times, including at the nonprofit’s operational headquarters in Truro, Cornwall, and at a lunch at Clarence House on the Mall in London, just a tiara’s toss from Buckingham Palace.

“Camilla and Charles were first introduced to us during an official visit to Pakistan in 2006 when they learned about our work supporting families who lost their homes in the Kashmiri earthquake,” says Kerri. “Camilla became our patron in August, 2007. She certainly helps raise visibility of the importance of our work.

“When I met HRH at Clarence House the month after the Montecito debris flow she was deeply concerned about our community and our recovery.”

A recent virtual fundraiser for ShelterBox was “attended” by a record 450 guests and raised more than $260,000.

The Cypriot Next Door

Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, who recently bought Bill and Sandi Nicholson’s 22,000-square-foot, 11-acre Montecito estate, Solana, for $30.8 million, has applied for Cypriot citizenship.

The move would afford the multibillionaire, 65, a visa for travel to the EU enabling him to travel to Europe during the pandemic restrictions, according to reports.

Schmidt, who used to live on TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres’s estate near Lotusland, which he bought in 2007 for $20 million, has included his wife, Wendy, and daughter, Sophie, in the naturalization application.

Schmidt was Google’s CEO from 2001 to 2011, and continued as executive chairman until 2017. His net worth is estimated at $17 billion with Forbes ranking him as the world’s 84th richest man in the latest wealth list.

Ellen Scores on East Valley Estate

TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, who just won the People’s Choice Award for Best TV Talk Show, has sold her Balinese-style Montecito mansion for $33.3 million, pocketing a handsome profit of $6.3 million after extensive renovations to the East Valley Road property.

The 10,674-square-foot, five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath home on three parcels over 9.3 acres was originally priced at $39.9 million when it went on the market last month.

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was recently explaining to a clinical psychologist friend of mine that a coping mechanism I use during the pandemic is to mentally escape to another destination when times get stressful. “I’m sure I’m not the only one using escapism to cope,” I added. My friend, Weston, a college buddy, said he couldn’t understand why I would want to mentally escape beautiful Santa Barbara. I explained that living and working to pay bills in the location was an automatic disqualifier. Now that it’s winter time I’ve been enjoying warm beverages and reminiscing about a visit to Geneva’s Christmas Market at the Parc des Bastions a few years ago, where I celebrated the season with friends outdoors, taking in the traditional crafts and Christmas treats, with a glass of warming mulled wine in hand. This year I plan to enjoy holiday cocktails with friends and loved ones fireside on FaceTime. Warm up winter and lift your holiday spirit with a special mocha, hot cider, mulled wine, festive margarita, or fizzy mocktail. Why not add a celebratory cocktail to your to-do list? Whether you’re planning to enjoy a winter warmer outdoors at a local establishment (safely distancing) or in the comfort of your home, here are some festive cocktails that local bartenders suggest to lift your spirits this holiday season. Rosewood Miramar bartender Justin Rhoads gave us the best advice for the season, that is, to lift a glass to the here, the now – and the before.

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he Jack Frost is our holiday version of a neo-classic 50/50 style martini with winter flavors and plenty of holiday spirit. It starts with London dry gin and vermouth as a base and then a bit of pine tree essence is added in the form of Zirbenz Pine Liqueur and some minty notes with our favorite crème de menthe. A candy cane garnish completes this cold, dry, minty holiday-themed martini variation ($13).

A glorious comforting hot chocolate was the inspiration for 24 Blackbirds Boozy Hot Cocoa. A balance of sweetness and spice makes this an ideal winter cocktail. I use local chocolatier Michael Orlando’s 24 Blackbirds hot cocoa mix, Irish whiskey and Averna amaro. Add coconut milk and cream as a finishing touch to this decadent The Jack Frost is a holiday version of a neo-classic 50/50 style martini with winter flavors and plenty treat ($12).

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The beautiful and strikingly purple La Reina gin and tonic is made with Empress 1908 gin, manzanilla sherry, lavender and tonic ($15).

Served in a golden pineapple for two, Xamyaca features cinnamon citrus rum, mango guava cordial, brandy, pimento dram and lime ($28 for two people).

The magenta limonada is alcohol free Santa Barbara sunrises and sunsets are the inspiand refreshing blueberry, basil, lemonade ration behind Loquita’s seasonal cocktails made with natural herbs and spices mocktail ($6).

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An extra rich take on the classic, Negroni de Girona made with St. George Terroir, Suze, Lustau Blanco sherry and cava has a deep golden yellow tone ($16).

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Your thoughts on diversity in films and the industry?

I’m quite liberal about all that. I think that women should be directing, and they are already writing a ton of scripts, and are much more prominent in the industry than five years ago. There’s a real interest and desire to create involvement of everybody into the creation of films, from writing, directing, actors, and behind the scenes workers. We worked very hard when we did A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting, and when my son directed Ghostbusters: Afterlife, to have a very diverse crew, actors, and everybody involved in the process, and I see doing that always. It’s important for the unions and the guilds, and the Academy is trying to undo decades of bias. My daughter, Catherine, the creator, executive producer, writer, and star of the CBC/Netflix comedy series Workin’ Moms, had an all-female crew four years ago when the show started.

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

Boy that’s a big question! [laughs] I’m on the older side of the Baby Boomers, and I’m speaking for a very large group. We’ve been very lucky, there’s an expansion of our desires and beliefs, depending on where you grew up, to walk away from the rac-

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.” – Eckhart Tolle

ism of the past, to be open about sexual orientation and not feel that there is any kind of problem with it, and in terms of gender issues, we’ve been a part of it.

I spent most of my formative years in Canada, which is a fairly enlightened and liberal society. I started in music and evolved into films, so I can say generally speaking, the arts community is open to what society considers unusual ideas and to helping break barriers. You still had a period of disparity in the past four years with the Trump administration and what it’s done to the anger in our country.

When Biden won, it was wonderful to see people celebrating, it felt like the shackles have been taken off our shoulders.

Any advice for the next generation of filmmakers?

My advice is the same as it was when I began: really focus on the story, tell the story you believe in, try find a way to do it in an original way, stay away from clichés and try to be as insightful as your brain will allow you to be. My early films are certainly not political and even if they are, they are told from a humorous and human point of view. Films that interest us are a human-based story that’s an original corner of where the big events of life occur. I don’t think we need a lot of films that document the events that we just went through necessarily, but we do need insight into them.

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And with sheltering in place comes more reliance on gathering information and news from the internet, where the lines between legitimate, professional journalism and “fake” news have become dangerously blurred.

Because of the barrage of content we’re forced to confront on a daily basis, our understanding of what news is, and how it’s actually gathered, has virtually been lost in this age when anybody can post anything and call it “news.”

This is why old-school journalism, and stand-out practitioners of the craft like Ann Bardach, matter more than ever.

Fortunately, for those of us holed up here in Santa Barbara, as well as for scholars, historians, political scientists, and students of journalism the world over, and thanks to the incredible team at USCB’s Library Department of Special Research Collections, we now have online access to the physical archives of prize-winning journalist Ann Louise Bardach. This trove of material offers a rare, granular look at how the bedrock values of professional journalism – truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fairness, and public accountability – actually take shape on the page or on the air.

Known by her gender-neutral AL Bardach byline, or as “Annie” to her friends and colleagues, Bardach, who lives and works on the Central Coast, continues to practice the kind of journalism that makes other journalists rhapsodic with praise.

“Annie is in my pantheon of journalistic heroes,” says veteran local journalist Jerry Roberts. “Her energy is a force of nature. She’s a voracious reporter and a stylish writer.”

But beyond her gifts as a writer, Bardach is renowned for her diligent docu-

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Seen (Continued from page 14 14)) Santa Barbara Maritime Museum Executive Director Greg Gorga, La Presidenta of Old Spanish Days Stephanie Petlow, previous president Erik Davis, and Javier Rodriguez Mañas

gathered. The truck had already visited San Francisco and will also be making stops in San Diego at Balboa Park.

The museums are either reopened or about to be, and the staffs have been working diligently to make it happen safely.

Tumaca Truck chef Benny is from Vienna but trained in some of the finest Spanish restaurants. This day he made for us croquetas, pan con (bread with) tomate y Serrano jamon, patatas bravas (fried potatoes dusted with sweet smoked paprika and topped with garlic aioli), and albondi-

gas (meatballs). According to the Los Angeles Times Benny’s truck “has some of the best sandwiches in the city.”

While the public has been unable to visit our museums during the pandemic the staff has been busy preserving and conserving and keeping our history alive. As David said, “Everyone looks at Spain as a great destination but it’s got such great cultural ties to Santa Barbara, and so much of that is housed in our museums. We are a unique treasure chest of Spanish culture and history.”

Javier told us, “We had to design

a project in which we bring Spain to the houses and to the places of our potential clients and of course, of the people who love Spain. We like to transmit the warm, the kind, the way of life in Spain.

I learned from the Mission’s community development and marketing manager Suzy Plott that they receive no funding from the Catholic Church and no money from the federal or state government. The Mission has lost more than $1 million during the pandemic and is starting a capital raising campaign to try and make up for the loss. There are several projects needing to be done for this 15-acre property and 200-year-old mission.

The Mission relies on tours, donations, and the gift shop for funding.

For me it was a day filled with memories of my times past, those seven years in Spain. What better way to be reminded than with the flavors of delicious small bites? Thanks to Spain and its people for always being so kind to us as we were learning and living their culture.

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This year it will be an amazing online Christmas boutique silent auction that opened November 1 and will end on November 30, 2020.

Committee co-chairs Heather Biles and Marc Normand Gelinas want you to know some of the goodies you can bid on. There will be elves to charmingly wrap all of your gifts and stocking stuffers; one of a kind experiences such as a catered BBQ dinner for 20 with wine, prepared on George Fox Steedman’s historic grill; a relaxing day at the beach at Rosewood’s private Miramar Club with lunch on the deck and an opportunity to privately cruise the Channel Islands National Park in great style with lunch and ocean activities, and many more items.

Just go to casachristmas.com, and click on the “auction” tab in the upper right corner to see the items. Merry Berries!

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by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

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

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

A Spaceship Named ‘Resilience’

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he crew capsule aboard the Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket that NASA successfully blasted into space last weekend achieved an amazing milestone. This incredible event was the remarkable result of the public-private sector partnership between NASA and SpaceX that sent astronauts directly from the U.S. to the International Space Station for the first time in nine years. This is a demonstration of the very best that both sectors can accomplish by working together to solve national demands. The crew-chosen name of the “Resilience” capsule will permit us all to focus on the showcase of the resilient return to space aboard a uniquely powerful, reusable U.S. spacecraft. In fact, naming it Resilience has given us all an opportunity to reflect on the years passed since the Space Shuttle was grounded in 2011.

Quoting Florida Today in describing the spacecraft: “It can withstand temperatures exceeding 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit as it barrels through Earth’s atmosphere but it’s more than a spacecraft. To the astronauts that named the capsule, it’s a symbol of what mankind can accomplish in the face of extreme adversity.”

The article goes on to quote Resilience’s commander, Mike Hopkins, who observed: “I think all of us can agree 2020 has certainly been a challenging year: A global pandemic, economic hardships, civil unrest, isolation. And despite all of that SpaceX and NASA has kept the production line open and finished this amazing vehicle that’s on its maiden flight to the International Space Station.” Those two quotes best summarize the significance of the upcoming launch. With the Resilience launch, America will return to regularly scheduled trips into space (the next one reusing the same rocket will occur on March 30, 2021). This will be precisely what the private sector requires for our next bold move: space tourism. Resilience is a spacecraft, a metaphor, and a gateway to the heavens.

The noun “resilience” is defined as “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness,” or in the alternative, “the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.” Wow, have we faced difficulties this year. Yet

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we continue to bounce back and achieve new heights. The victory of President-Elect Joe Biden can be seen as proof of the electorate’s resilience with 77 million people voting for him – the most by far that ever voted for an American president.

Americans were eager to “turn the page” on what has been the most vitriolic, politically poisonous, and medically challenging year for more than 100 years.

Here in Montecito and Santa Barbara we have been dealing with the question of resilience since the Thomas Fire of December 2017. In 2018 the World Business Academy volunteered a design for a microgrid that would power the Montecito Fire Station located in the upper village even if it lost power from the grid (it lost power in the fire and was unable to pump diesel to fire trucks, taking them out of service). The Montecito Community Microgrid would also power the physically co-located water department facility that controls the dam even in a power loss, which once allowed hundreds of thousands of gallons of water to pour down the hillside causing the destruction we all witnessed. Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of the contractor the Academy brought in to supervise the actual microgrid implementation (the Clean Coalition team), the community has not yet been willing to fund the final implementation of the microgrid. Unfortunately, this leaves us as less than “resilient” and more likely to sustain one more future catastrophe at some point.

In a similar vein, the Academy has been advocating for a Santa Barbara County microgrid that would cover the electrical “load pocket” from Ventura to Goleta (approximately 250-300 megawatts) for several years. The purpose of this interconnected microgrid would be to replace, in a resilient way, the existing “umbilical cord” of Southern California Edison’s back country main parallel transmission lines so a future fire won’t incapacitate all of South County’s electrical system.

And, despite the fact that both PG&E and Edison are staging Public Safety Power Shutoffs (“PSPS”), Edison has not dropped its continuing resistance to letting us create resilience for ourselves here on the Central Coast.

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uring election season, it’s completely normal to see front yards covered with campaign signs. But now that the election season is over, what should be done with all these political signs?

Rather than toss them in the trash, a beekeeper in Florida is asking people to donate signs to help keep her honeybee hives warm. The beekeeper, Alma Johnson, said the signs are better than the corrugated plastic that she buys from Home Depot. Plus, using them for her beehives keeps the signs out of the landfill.

To transform the political signs into homes for bees, Johnson cuts the plastic signs into squares and seals the bottom on one side. The little corrugated holes are filled with oil and apple cider vinegar to act as a natural trap for pests that threaten the bees like hive killing beetles and mites.

Johnson’s company, The Sarasota Honey Company, plans to distribute the campaign signs to neighboring beekeepers to help keep their bees safe as well. Meanwhile, other bee farms in the Tampa Bay area are mimicking Johnson’s idea and collecting and distributing political signs through local beekeepers’ associations.

Perhaps your local beekeeper might appreciate them too!

Purina introduces sustainable pet food made from insect protein

Insects are an increasingly popular source of sustainable protein and thanks to Purina, your pets can join in on the potential food of the future as well. The company’s new “Purina Beyond Nature’s Protein” will include insect protein from black soldier fly larvae as well as plant proteins from fava beans and millet.

The kibble is being launched in Switzerland this month with other countries in Europe slated for the near future. If you don’t live in Europe, don’t worry, Purina plans to offer this pet food online in 2021.

Part of what makes insects so sustainable is their low water and feed consumption compared to traditional protein sources. It takes only 1.7 kilograms of feed to produce 1 kilogram of edible insects compared to the 10 kilograms of feed it takes to produce 1 kilogram of beef.

“We’re constantly looking at ways in which we can source sustainably for the longer-term while still delivering the high-quality nutrition that pets need today and tomorrow,” said Bernard Meunier, the CEO of Nestlé Purina Petcare EMENA. •MJ To obtain resilience we need to disconnect from our 100 percent reliance on a single transmission line that supplies our power and replace it with locally generated, locally distributed microgrid power. It is long past time that we, the residents, were freed from Edison’s total monopoly control of our electrical system and begin to construct resilient, 100 percent renewable and reliable local energy created and distributed by our own microgrid at a cost far below what Edison currently charges. Which, by the way, Edison has put in for yet another rate increase which will benefit them but not us as the ratepayers.

Other areas we should explore include how to make our politics more resilient, because clearly, we must come back from the precipice of a civil war that Mr. Trump is encouraging his followers to consider with his total denial of the legitimacy of our election. We also need to look at the resilience of our economy which has been shattered far worse

“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.” – Eckhart Tolle

than most people realize. We need to address the resilience of our employment markets where approximately 25 million people can’t currently find a full-time job.

Of course, we also have to think about creating resilience in our healthcare system which has been devastated by COVID, and now must develop resilience to successfully get 330 million people vaccinated. We have to build resilience into our education system from pre-K through postgraduate, as the entire system is now in shambles with every expectation that matters will get worse with this pandemic before they get better.

We need to develop resilience in our labor markets as automation replaces yet more jobs.

Finally, we have to develop deep emotional resilience as the death toll from COVID when you read this column exceeds 260,000. Thank you, crew of Resilience, for reminding us that resilience is precisely what we need to achieve at this seminal point in history.

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Brilliant Thoughts

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

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

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

Out the Window

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here are many things we don’t have words for – and if asked, you’d probably never have thought there was a word for throwing somebody out of a window – but there is such a word, and in fact I’ve known it most of my life, although I have never had any pressing occasion to use it. The word is defenestration.

It comes from the Latin for window, “fenestra.” But it would probably never have become part of our language, were it not for one celebrated historical incident that occurred 400 years ago, and became known as the Defenestration of Prague.

I learned about this event when I was first studying European history. The historical details are incredibly complicated, but they have to do with the religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants which we now call the Reformation, and which convulsed Central Europe for so long that just the final part is known as the Thirty Years War. The incident I’m

telling you about is supposed to have been one of the precipitating events which brought on that war.

So, who got thrown out of what window by whom, and why? As you already know, it happened in Prague, which has been a major city of a region variously known over the centuries as Bohemia, Czechia, Czechoslovakia, and the Czech Republic.

It happened in the Royal Castle, which is still there in Prague, and tourists today are shown the window where in 1618 the famous Defenestration took place. It was then already a century since a German monk named Martin Luther had started the movement known to History as the Protestant Reformation, by publishing a list of 95 “Theses,” protesting against the way the Church was being run.

Until that time, there had, in effect, been only one Church in Europe, with the Pope at its head. But the movement Luther started caused a pro-

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found unsettling, with various regions becoming “Protestant” a la Luther, or adhering to the old Catholic setup.

Amazing as it may seem to us now, these religious quarrels, among people who all called themselves Christians, persisted for generations, sometimes degenerating into the most frightful violence. What was at stake? Often it was nothing more momentous than some doctrinal issue, such as whether water could be turned into wine, or whether the Holy Trinity was three-inone or one-in-three.

At times, cooler heads prevailed. In 1555, a settlement was reached, called the Peace of Augsburg. With much of Central Europe then divided into separate little states, it was rather cutely decided that henceforth, the religion of the ruler would determine the religion of whatever particular area he ruled. This worked pretty well in theory, but of course there were many complications, and there had to be many exceptions. That – to put it very simply – is the situation that finally came to a head in Prague in 1618.

The Protestants of Bohemia thought they had been granted an exemption to practice their religion by their King Ferdinand, who happened to be a very strong Catholic.

But Ferdinand didn’t see it that way, and sent some representatives to Prague to make sure that the Protestants weren’t getting out of

hand. At particular issue was the matter of some Protestant churches that were then under construction.

At a stormy meeting in the Council Chambers of the Castle, the King’s representatives found themselves heavily outnumbered by the angry Protestants – and, when push came to shove, three of the King’s men were tossed out of the window.

It was a 70-foot drop – and why they weren’t killed, or even badly hurt, I can’t tell you. But this was such an incendiary incident that it triggered the almost unbelievably catastrophic conflict which we know today as the 30 Years War. So, if anybody comes up to you in the street and asks what you know about the Defenestration of Prague, you will now no longer be totally at a loss.

But this story has a sad and mysterious modern postscript, concerning another Prague “Defenestration,” which took place in 1948. This time, the victim was a popular Czech leader named Jan Mazaryk, who was found dead in the courtyard beneath his bathroom window in the Foreign Ministry Building. It was the era of the Cold War, and Mazaryk, who was officially Foreign Minister, had been doing a difficult balancing-act between the pro- and anti-Communist forces. To this day, it remains uncertain whether his death was a case of suicide or murder.

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Rolling Over for Beethoven

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ne of the perks of the Santa Barbara Symphony’s decision to dive into digital rather than completely forgo its 2020-21 season is the opportunity to celebrate an important milestone for Beethoven, perhaps the most important composer in the classical music canon. The symphony is marking his 250th birthday with “Beethoven @ 250,” a chamber music performance featuring a cross-section of his chamber works including some newly created arrangements.

The intimate performance at the Music Academy of the West is the second installment in the symphony’s ambitious attempt to chase the coronavirus blues away with an “up close and personal” experience with the symphony musicians and other local luminaries, including six-year veteran concertmaster Jessica Guideri, principal violist Erik Rynearson, principal cellist Trevor Handy, and several horn, wind, and other players. They’ll be joined by guest pianist Robert Koenig, the chair of the UCSB Department of Music, and soprano Julia Metzler, who is an alumna of the Music Academy of the West and was an Opera Santa Barbara Chrisman Studio Artist for the 2019-20 season.

Among the more intriguing selections are an arrangement of Beethoven’s Sonatina in F Major, Ahn. 5 (Allegro Assai, Rondo) for marimba, played by Eduardo Meneses, and Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor, “Für Elise,” arranged for harp played by Michelle Temple.

The program was recorded live on stage with state-of-the-art audio recording and multi-camera work last week and will be streamed at 7 pm on Saturday, November 21, and 3 pm on Sunday, November 22, and then be available on-demand for 30 days for ticket holders.

The concert represents something of a reunion for Guideri, as the concertmaster attended Juilliard while pianist Koenig was on the piano staff, when he would serve as an accompanist for her lessons. We talked with her over the phone last weekend.

Q. You performed on two of the pieces in the program, and just a movement from each one. What led you to choose these selections, and what do they represent for you?

A. I chose “Spring” sonata (Violin Sonata No. 5, Op. 24) because the opening theme is just so beautiful and sunny – which is why it got its nickname but also because it becomes really dramatic really quickly. There’s a great dynamic range where it gets suddenly loud and suddenly quiet, which is kind of Beethoven’s staple, but right after this gorgeous melody makes a really lovely juxtaposition.

With the Opus 18 (String Quartet No. 4 in C minor), I’ve always loved that quartet. I don’t know why. Maybe because it is also very dramatic you can really sink your teeth into it.

The Santa Barbara Symphony’s “Beethoven @ 250” marks the composer’s 250th birthday with a chamber music performance featuring a cross-section of his chamber works

Can I turn to the logistics? How does sitting at least six feet apart and wearing masks affect your music making, in terms of connection to the other musicians without as much non-verbal communication?

The mask definitely affects individual playing. I had to practice at home with it on because it’s quite an adjustment. Violinists want to look down at your bow every once in a while. Looking over our noses is tricky, but you learn how to do that over the years. But then also having to look over a mask, you feel like you’re going cross-eyed. (As far as the social distancing), that was also a challenge. But we also rehearsed that way so we got used to it. But there was definitely an issue of hearing even just being a few feet further apart. I had to ask some people to play a little bit louder. And you are right about facial expressions being a big thing, but it felt like we were trying to show it through our eyes to stay connected.

I’m imagining that because you’ve done a lot of studio work, you’re familiar with playing with no live audience, and classical music is much less interactive than, say, a rock concert. Still, I’m curious how having nobody in the seats affects you?

There might not be as much back and forth as in a rock concert but we definitely feel the energy and are inspired by it and react to what comes off of the audience. I was actually trying to imagine that there was an audience, and because the auditorium was dark that made it easier to stay in performance mode. But it’s definitely a different vibe.

The special “Beethoven @ 250” concert brings special focus to the composer. I’m not sure if you consider yourself a Beethoven authority, but what’s your take on the importance of Beethoven, at least to you personally?

Oh, it’s been a huge, huge influence. The depth of his writing and the breadth of it from the early pieces to the late Beethoven quartets – it just becomes more and more spiritual. When he was suffering with the loss of his hearing, you can really hear the pain. One of the movements in a late quartet is essentially a prayer to God, which reaches way into the soul, and encapsulates his music.

On the other hand, one of the things that makes these livestreaming shows different is the opportunity to see the performers up close and from different angles, and also having the interview segments to watch. That doesn’t normally happen. I’m wondering if having a chance to talk a little bit about the music and more is enjoyable for you?

Absolutely. It’s a lot of fun for me and when I watched the recording of the first concert I felt like the interviews were actually a really nice addition to the concert itself. That should be part of the concertgoing experience from here on. I think it would be really cool for the audience and the performers to get to know each other better. That would be really great.

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On The Record (Continued from page 6) “We anticipate that when the hotel reopens they will only bring back some of the employees,” he said. “Hotels and motels are not seeing their occupancy levels return to what they were before March. It’s a bad time not just to lose your job but also your medical insurance right now, especially with COVID19,” he said. “Unfortunately, there are just no jobs available for most of these people right now.”

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Teacher’s Fund Raises Cash for Local Teachers in Back-to-School Drive

The Santa Barbara-based nonprofit Teacher’s Fund has raised tens of thousands in cash to help local teachers purchase tools and materials for their classrooms. Although the annual fundraiser, which took place between September 16 and October 16, had to be held online this year, it nonetheless managed to raise $56,000 worth of badly needed school supplies.

“This much-needed money will be put to good use supporting our Santa Barbara teachers and students,” said Renee Grubb, owner of Village Properties Realtors and founder of the Teacher’s Fund. “We are so impressed and grateful for the generosity of our community. Despite being restricted to fundraising virtually, we easily surpassed our initial goal of raising $50,000.”

The annual Back-to-School Drive was held online this year due to the COVID19 pandemic. Community members and businesses were invited to donate to the fundraiser between September 16 and October 16. Donors could also sponsor an individual teacher’s request for supplies. All proceeds raised from the event will be forwarded directly to local kindergarten through 12th grade teachers in order to help them buy additional educational materials. For obvious reasons, this year many teachers specifically asked for help in purchasing remote learning software and other tools to help students overcome the challenges posed by the pandemic.

Grubb credited Village Properties realtor Brianna Johnson, who organized the first Back-to-School Drive, as the main organizer of this year’s event. She and Grubb co-chair the drive’s organizing committee; other committee members include Leanne Wood, Dianne Johnson, Amy Abbott, Sheela Hunt, Angel Speier, Candace Cavaletto, Dana Patterson, Ivonne Arroyo, and Rachael Bissig. “Johnson’s creativity and dedication is what makes this event

possible every year,” said Grubb. “Thanks to her leadership, a strong committee, and all of their efforts, we’ve made a real difference in the lives of hundreds of teachers and students.”

Sponsors and individual donors to the drive received entry into a prize drawing for each $50 donated toward supplies. Top prizes included a Staycation Package consisting of a three-night stay at the Chapala Cottages (donated by Bissig) and two one-pound bags of roasted coffee beans from CAJE Coffee Roasters; a Virtual Learning Package offering a Microsoft Surface Pro 7 12.3inch Touchscreen (donated by Kristin Hall), a Kid’s Basket filled with brain games, arts and crafts activities, puzzles (donated by Speier); and several Wine Packages containing 15 bottles of wine donated by Bradley Family Wines, Babcock Winery, and various Village Properties agents.

The Teacher’s Fund was created in 2002 by the owners of Village Properties as a way for teachers to request much needed supplies for their classrooms. So far, it has donated over $1.7 million to local schools. For more information about Teacher’s Fund visit www.teachersfund.org, and for information about Village Properties visit www.villagesite.com.

COVID-19 Couldn’t Stop Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation from Honoring Heroes

Vehicles arriving for the Pierre Clayssens Veterans Day drive-in remembrance (photo by Priscilla)

For the past 22 years, the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation has celebrated Veterans Day in style with gala events at the Hilton Waterfront Resort (formerly the Fess Parker). The group is named after the Belgian-born architect and humanitarian who fondly remembered his homeland’s First World War rescue by allied troops before moving to Santa Barbara and marrying oil heiress Ailene Wood. Each year, it also staged annual Memorial Day parades as well as individual memorial services (complete with flyovers) at the local cemetery for deceased military vets and surviving family members.

But none of that was possible this year, with indoor gatherings prohibited under California’s COVID-19 rules and even outdoor burials severely restricted. So instead of the Hilton, this year, the foundation had to settle on a dusty drive-in lot in an industrial neighborhood of Goleta.

“This was the best we could do this year, even though it looks like a nuclear test site,” joked John Blankenship, a former Navy airman in Vietnam who founded the Pierre Claeyssens Foundation in 2003 thanks to a generous check from Claeyssens, who passed away that year at age 94. “It’s like in the Navy we always say: ‘Adapt and overcome.’ We couldn’t have the ball, couldn’t have the parade, and couldn’t be at the cemetery, but we still wanted to do something.”

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Letters (Continued from page 8) and altered so badly that while those trout/salmon still run, not so many of them make it to their ancestral mating grounds. Because of these changes it is harder for us to fatten for The Sleep.”

She would say, “Be a proud, cautious, and concerned bear, be a good neighbor, and try not to cause trouble, because this ecosystem needs you!”

So please, do me and the other wildlife in our little village a favor. Let us know we should go somewhere else for food by using some of these easy to implement and cost-effective methods to give us the message: • Install electric fencing around chicken coops.

• Install motion sensor activated noise makers and lights around property.

• Place low voltage, Not Welcome mats at doorways.

• Use bear resistant trash bins and protected trash storage areas.

• Keep your outdoor BBQ grill clean (this was emphasized more than once).

• Do not panic, keep a safe distance, and enjoy my meanderings, but if I get out of hand call the Sheriff or go directly to Fish and Wildlife and let them know I am misbehaving!

I love living in Montecito and do not want to cause a fuss, I just want to keep doing what bears do. Thank you everyone who participated in

the seminar and thank you to everyone who puts up with my bearish behaving. It is a privilege to live here and I appreciate being part of the community.

Carlos Romero, The Bear Montecito Forwarded to the MJ by Carlos’ friend, Michael Edwards

Following in Reagan’s Footsteps

[This is in reference to the “Purely Political” column in the 22-29 October 2020 issue of Montecito Journal] Reagan Biographer Lou Cannon is far too superficial in his comparison of Reagan and Trump. Yes, they have different styles. But almost everything that people find distasteful in Trump originated with Reagan.

Reagan began his campaign talking of “states’ rights” in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The site of the murders of civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964. A loud dog whistle to racists that he is on their side.

During Reagan’s first term, an entire book, Reagan’s Reign of Error, was published, documenting hundreds of his substantive lies. Nixon was taken down because he made a few strategic lies. Reagan discovered if you lie

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habitually, the really important lies are buried in a sea of fabrications.

Trump simply copied and expanded this tactic.

Reagan committed a number of impeachable offenses in his obsessive quest to support terrorists in Central America. The only difference with Trump is that Reagan was never actually impeached for his criminal offenses.

Many of Reagan’s appointees and associates were convicted of crimes directly connected with Reagan’s illegal actions. As with Trump, he pardoned most of them.

Reagan taunted the Soviet Union, calling them the “Evil Empire” just as Trump taunted North Korea. And he likewise made an about face afterwards.

Reagan removed the solar panels from the White House roof that President Carter had installed. He killed the programs to move our country off of fossil fuels. He was in utter denial about the need to move to sustainable energy and sustainable transportation. Trump simply followed his lead.

There is one difference: Reagan supported the torture and murder of tens of thousands of people in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala in an attempt to get these desperately poor people to “Cry Uncle” in his own schoolyard bully terms. For all of his bluster, Trump has not actually started any wars.

Trump may be obsessed with building his wall to keep out refugees. But it was Reagan who caused the horrific problems that have made these people so desperate to escape.

And, most important: It was Reagan who told us that “government is the problem” in his inaugural speech. In 1961 Reagan put out a record warning that Medicare would lead to a “socialist dictatorship” in the U.S. As Trump tries to destroy Obamacare, remember that it was Reagan who fought against any government programs to help the people. Trump is just the aftershock.

Robert Bernstein

Thank you to Montecito

I want to thank our wonderful community for making my candidacy for school board a meaningful adventure. I met so many wonderful people during my visits at the Farmers Market, ranging from parents concerned about their children to an employee for the California Department of Education to a literacy advocate based in Africa.

And through countless conversations and communications, I learned how much the message of the need for improved literacy practices resonates throughout our community.

I am so grateful to so many, and

“All you really need to do is accept this moment fully.” ― Eckhart Tolle

would especially like to offer a big shout-out to Jerry Roberts who took the time to interview each candidate “in the year of the plague” and chatted weekly with reporters to share the latest insights and updates.

I also want to express my thanks for the tech-savvy among us who arranged for the Zoom forums, including representatives from the Montecito Journal, the Santa Barbara Independent, KEYT, and the Coalition for Neighborhood Schools. And, of course, to my courageous friends and supporters who displayed yard signs and to all those who voted for me.

With many lessons learned, and a sense of appreciation for the democratic process that allows citizen participation, I will continue my literacy advocacy in other ways. One project very close to my heart is a photographic collaboration called “inVISIBLE: The Face of Dyslexia in Santa Barbara and Beyond.” The multi-media project celebrates those with learning differences from all walks of life and interviews about their experiences and ideas and is sponsored by The Dyslexia Project.

As always, I encourage dialogue about the important issues that we have raised before, during, and after the recent election. To continue the discussion, feel free to contact me at photo@silcom.com.

Sincerely, Monie de Wit

Really?

In his article, “The French Have It Right” (MJ, November 12-19) James Buckley spins a charming remembrance of his love of France and their freedom of speech policy which, Buckley claims, is so much more loaded with freedom than the U.S. constraints of speech freedom in our colleges. A French teacher, according to him, should be able to speak his mind and show images known to be offensive to the five million Muslims living in France.

I am shocked to be able to agree on this point with Mr. Buckley.

However: he paints an unrealistic picture of France’s freedom of speech policy, which since 2011 bans wearing face coverings! This ban – no burkas, no scarf covering one’s face – is a ban aimed solely at Muslim women who, for religious reasons, do partially cover their faces and hair in public.

Is this not a blatant restriction of freedom of speech? Is this not a gross restriction on a religious belief, which is clearly an attempt to control how one expresses one’s belief?

If France is concerned that a face be exposed, what about the men who have beards, wear sunglasses and hats with beaks – how much of that face is visible to the public?

If making one’s face visible (and not 19 – 26 November 2020

a curtailment on religious freedom, France hypocritically argues), why then not ban wearing beards, hats, etc. in public?

(And incidentally how does the mandate to expose one’s face fare when wearing COVID-protection masks?)

If France’s argument is that one’s religious beliefs should not be made in a public setting – which is what France is really trying to do – does Mr. Buckley approve of that? Or does his memories of youth spent in romantic France dim his one-sided reality of that country’s “expansive” freedoms of speech?

It might be charming to remember being young and in love, but that is not the whole story about France’s approach to freedoms.

And while I’m at it: having been exposed, through his writings, of Mr. Buckley’s ultra conservative leanings, I wonder how he views this Republican President’s attempts to deny Americans of their many freedoms of speech. Without naming all of them – limiting the Press, denying immigrants entrance, abusing HIS freedoms of speech by lying about others’ truth-telling – how does Buckley justify consistently and dogmatically supporting a political party whose leader is so against our freedoms of speech?

It must be wonderful to have a platform – this or other privileges – to selectively criticize America’s present dilemma: how, when, and to whom, freedoms are allowed or curtailed.

We are in a messy confusion at present, largely brought about by the antics of the president still holding office, a confusion regarding freedoms of speech, of religion, of pride in the color of one’s skin!

But please, don’t selectively romanticize what France does regarding freedoms.

I too have memories of the France of my student days, and they are not all pleasant.

It might be convenient to forget, France did not welcome visitors from the U.S. It took a lot of years and different leaders to convince the relatively arrogant French citizens of those days to be welcoming to visitors.

In this same issue, the most diplomatic editor of this Journal recommends compromise.

I think it is a wise suggestion.

However, if we’re going to wear glasses which blind us to truth and reality, there can be no compromise. There cannot be two truths on the same issue.

If there were, we would have to accept this administration’s concept of “alternative facts.” That is an impossibility: There are facts, not an alternative to.

How does one compromise in the face and the fact of the thousands of lies this administration has put out as truths? That is my question in response to Ms. Lurie’s many questions, to which I don’t have answers.

Nancy Freeman

Right Man for this Moment

I feel my face broaden into a deep and satisfying grin as I listen to and watch Joe Biden addressing the American people. Like awakening from a bad dream, I can feel my insides begin to relax and hope come flowing back into my heart.

For all of these months and years, I have wondered how anyone could possibly vote for Trump, or really believe he had the interest of Americans at the forefront of his mind. His behavior since losing the election, tells the true story of Donald Trump. With a virus raging out of control, with transition plans needed to assure Biden and his team are ready on January 21 to smoothly transition into a new administration, what is Donald Trump doing?

True to form, he is only thinking of himself. He is fabricating every possible outrageous scenario he can imagine, with no evidence, to convince himself he hasn’t lost this election.

Firing key members of his administration whom he believes failed him, bellowing about Fox News for calling Arizona in Biden’s electoral count, complaining voter fraud when it was one of the cleanest elections we’ve had, and generally behaving the way any bad sport would in a moment of defeat.

Joe Biden, on the other hand, looks into the camera and into our eyes and hearts as he soothes us with guarantees he will transition no matter what Trump and his allies do. He isn’t calling Trump names, as a matter of fact he seems quite disinterested in Trump’s actions, maybe even to the point of feeling a bit sorry for this guy’s deep insecurities.

With Biden not even sworn in, Trump is already talking about running again in 2024. Is it hard to figure out his reason, I don’t think so. He needs his minions gathering to tell him how wonderful he is. It isn’t for the sake of this country and his concern for the people. Make no mistake; someone who asks not what we can do for him, but what he can do for us for the first time in four years, is caring for the American people.

Joe Biden is the man for this moment.

His whole life has been a training ground preparing him to lead a troubled, sick, bifurcated country back to unity and sanity. Having already survived the most unbearable loss he could have imagined, the death of his beloved son, Beau, there is nothing he can’t tackle. The inner fabric of this man’s heart and soul is so filled with hope and promise; it’s hard not to be touched by his presence. My prayer is, in the days to come, all of those people who supported Trump will

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Comment: 70-plus million vs. 70-plus million might suggest that to be the case. “Mutual compromise” at a personal level is one thing. “Compromise” vis-a-vis the U.S. Constitution is quite another. Rules concerning the counting of votes and deadlines relating thereto are quite specific. The violation of these rules seems to favor one side over the other nationwide.

John Stewart

Keep Up the Good Work

Just read your article on business, economics, and climate change.

Thanks for focusing on this public-private partnership approach to societal solutions. I look forward to the future examples you will highlight in future columns. Keep up the good work.

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Editorial (Continued from page 5) and a little surprising. I sat down with James Joyce this past weekend to talk about it all.

Q. So your long tenure as the District Director for State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson is coming to an end. How are you feeling about that?

A. It’s funny, because I haven’t really thought much about it until recently, as we were doing some legacy events for her (HBJ). And I’m thinking back on all the things we’ve been through and all that we’ve achieved. I mean eight years is a long time, but with Hannah-Beth, that’s almost like 20 years with the speed that she goes and I’m extremely proud of the work that we’ve been able to do, making sure that her legislative accomplishments are echoed and known in the district appropriately and making sure that she has her pulse on things that are happening here locally. The best compliments are when people, particularly through the disasters, thanked her for her work during that time, and it felt good knowing that I was part of making sure that happened. Much of our work, due to COVID, has transitioned from being at events and representing Hannah-Beth to helping people with the Employment Development Department, and helping businesses find the right avenues to go down to get critical federal loans or other assistance that’s available to them.

Since you’re “boots on the ground,” what’s your sense of how people in this district are doing?

Right now I think things have been tough in this region, the Greater Santa Barbara area, I call it, pretty much Gaviota down to the Ventura County line.

In my opinion things haven’t been right around here since the Elliot Rodgers situation (Isla Vista shootings in 2014). It seems like there’s been one disaster after another with very little time between each challenge. So by the time of COVID, of course we’re more resilient, because we’ve just been through years of disaster. So I’m glad we endured but that’s also rough. And the compounding aspect of it, that’s the part that’s been most damaging to businesses locally.

I know at one point a few years back some people approached you to run for State Assembly and you decided against that. We discussed that around the time we first met, I think at a lunch at Rudy’s. Are you still against the idea of running for office?

Well first let me correct you. The first time we met is when you came into Hannah-Beth’s office with Human Rights Watch to discuss the ICE raids up and down the coast that escalated in 2017. And there’s something that stood out to me about that, which is that of all the time I had worked for HannahBeth, you were the only person I had encountered who asked about me personally. “What’s your background? Where are you from?” And so that stood out to me.

That’s nice. Thanks for saying that. So while you’re thinking positive thoughts about me, I’m just going to come out and ask you: is it true that you are seriously thinking about running for Mayor of Santa Barbara?

Yeah, I’ve been thinking about it. I’ve been having some targeted conversations with folks. I think part of the challenge is I’ve been reluctant to put myself out front. I mean the role of working for an elected official involves

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being behind the scenes, making things happen and keeping it moving. And that’s kind of my mentality. I’ve never been a big fan of the way our system works. I don’t like the influence of money in politics. I’ve never wanted to have relationships with people based on their ability to donate to a campaign.

But things have changed drastically. I mean we’re at a whole new place in our understanding of the reality in this country… and by not addressing those issues head on, you don’t solve them that way.

Running would be more about broadening the magnitude and the reach of that impact. And I see what I’m able to do with the platform that I have now (CWABG). And to be able to scale that up to an even larger level that could bring even more people to the table and bring even greater understanding across cultures, across differences, and get good things done, that’s attractive to me.

Where did Coffee With a Black Guy come from? How did you come up with that?

In 2011 in Hawthorne, California the police were doing a thing called “Coffee With a Cop.” Coffee With a Cop was based on the idea that the cops wanted to humanize the badge, see beyond the uniform. And I get that.

What’s that thing Martin Luther King said? Be judged by the content of your character. Well that’s not the reality in America for everyone. And so to help us move closer towards that end, it’s just sit down and have conversations, have a better understanding of where folks are at. When married couples are having a tough time, and they go through marriage counseling, and they say, “Talk through your problems.” And there’s this facilitation of that difference that helps bring unity.

Would you bring that same outside-the-box thinking and leadership to the office of mayor?

A willingness to think outside the box is important in setting the tone in leadership. Whether it’s setting the moral tone or the economic tone, setting the tone for a community is key. And that can’t be achieved with just any leadership. It’s got to be leadership that’s in touch with people, all people, and in

“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.” ― Eckhart Tolle

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touch with enterprise as well. We’ve got a very engaged and inspired citizenry locally, and they’re intelligent. So that must be tapped. I think I can bring about that balance of an engaged citizenry combined with my own informed leadership style. And I don’t think there’s any question that would be quite useful for our community right now.

Let me pivot to a Montecito-centric question. Coast Village Road is an important business and social center here, and it is technically part of Santa Barbara City. But there is a sense here that we are treated like that privileged enclave down the street that can take care of itself. But the fact is, we’re inextricably connected to Santa Barbara as a whole. Our kids go to Santa Barbara schools, we support and provide leadership to a lot of Santa Barbara County’s nonprofits. We shop in the city, we play in the city… we consider it our city too. So while most of us who live here can’t vote for Santa Barbara’s mayor, having a close working relationship with the mayor is important to us. Can you speak to that?

Yeah, Montecito is an important constituency, not just for the funding, the taxes, as you pointed out, but for the infiltration of… community. Post mudslide and other disasters, I was working with Women’s Economic Ventures, which was leading the We Love Local Business Campaign and I was on that campaign taskforce. And while the focus initially was State Street, eventually it involved the East Side, and Coast Village Road… all of the businesses needed support and revitalization and focus. I get the importance of it. And you kind of alluded to this a little earlier, when you talked about all the nonprofits and philanthropic efforts that come from the Montecito community. But along with that in Montecito there are a lot of folks who have achieved great things in their careers and have come here for a reason. You’ve got incredible brain power behind those hedgerows… I think definitely what sets Montecito apart is it has the assets and the people who have been successful in various endeavors and careers and those people represent potentially invaluable contributions to the community brain trust.

So in what direction would you like to push Santa Barbara?

Obviously revitalizing downtown is critical – while there’s still a “there” there. I thought you guys (the Montecito Journal) did a nice job reporting on that (“The Long Now” by Mitchell Kriegman) – there’s much that can be done.

It’s important to look at best practices in other cities. We’ve got the shining example of nearby San Luis Obispo with lots of urban planning success to emulate there. I’ve had the opportunity to get to know and work with quite a few people who have led innovative urban planning efforts here in California and around throughout the country. Obviously adaptive reuse is going to be a big part of the picture. And as the Journal mentioned, incredible effort and talent went into developing Santa Barbara’s architectural charette – in my mind, it’s just waiting for someone with energy and vision to pull the trigger.

But Santa Barbara faces many issues, like affordable housing, a rising homeless population, livable wages, the need to create a more hospitable environment for those who live here and those who visit here and those who want to build businesses here. And we’ve got to bring people together around making progress on these and many other issues.

And you think you can succeed where others have failed? There are a lot of strong and sometimes divergent interests to pull together.

I think the issue has been a lack of communication. You get these splinter groups, because folks feel like they weren’t part of the initial conversation.

We’re not dealing with it as an engaged citizenry, as we’ve seen in previous generations like the Pearl Chase generation. But there are many different groups working and innovating to figure this out. I’ve been involved in some of those conversations over the past several years and working with the folks in the city. It’s hard to talk about this work without bringing up the knowledge and background of folks like Nina Johnson. The work that she’s been doing to revitalize and reimagine State Street is key. And I think the next step is really moving forward on some of those things. And that’s going to require strategy and planning, because some of those things don’t necessarily fit with the norm of what we’re used to. But just as our country has had to evolve, so does our city. That evolution is going to be key to our survival, business and otherwise.

Sometimes it is just as simple as getting everyone in the same room or on the same Zoom and envisioning. But innovation is key to moving us forward as a community, getting more people to feel buy-in, having more people feel as if they have a place at the table. And I think that is something that I especially bring. You might even call it my wheelhouse.

How so?

One great example is my work with the Common Table Foundation, which we did through the Lois and Walter Capps organization. The Common Table program did a great job reengaging communities and reengaging with the 19 – 26 November 2020

common touch of your neighbor. I think there’s much to be said for creating genuine community. That starts with human decency. We just need to be better humans to one another. And yeah, there’s policy issues that need to be fixed. There’s procedures and things that definitely could be upgraded. But I think before you get to all of that, you need visionary leadership from someone who can paint that picture of folks, so that they have a north star of where to navigate. In my view, that’s something we’ve been missing.

Beyond State Street there are many disparate stakeholders in SB. Including a part of the population that does not speak English, some of whom feel disenfranchised. How do you begin to bring these groups together?

Food, food, start with food. It sounds simple and kind of Pollyannish, but there’s something to be said when you sit down and break bread with somebody. You learn a lot about them. I’m not a native Spanish speaker myself, but I have friends who their parents don’t speak English to me. And so being able to understand and figure and navigate that without being defensive, it’s about learning about and accepting your neighbors for who they are, allowing them to show up as their whole selves.

I’ve referred to Santa Barbara as kind of like a great Petri dish… just by the very nature of what is contained in our little bowl here, we’ve got the ingredients to do some great stuff. But there needs to be certain elements in place to let that happen, certain leadership, certain energy, certain vision. And I think all that stuff is just prime picking for making this a great community and a great model community.

And so here we are again back at the importance of local leadership. You’re talking to people, and you’re doing your due diligence right now. Are you close to making a decision?

I’m close. People think it’s as simple as a yes or no answer. And it could be.

But that’s not the person you want. There are a couple key conversations that I’d like to have. And it’s more my own traditional thing than anything else, but I’m leaning more towards yes.

Is it about getting the blessing from certain people or groups?

Not necessarily the blessing, but it’s about checking in. I can’t ignore the fact that this land belonged to the Chumash. And people run for office left and right, and I’m not sure how many check in with that original element, that native element to our area. And I think that there’s something to be said for that. I think that there’s something to be learned from that as we’re talking about institutional knowledge. In 2017, 2018, the area was shocked to find out about these fires and the mudslide. But if you talk to folks that are native to the area, that’s kind of the cycle here. And it wasn’t until I heard that perspective that, well, of course it makes sense. And so for me, there’s an element of traditionalism that goes into wanting to make sure that you check in with those folks and make sure that the natives have a voice at the table and feel welcome to that conversation, should they want to engage.

So you think you can navigate the labyrinth of city politics?

Look, I ran hurdles in college, that was my event in track. I always had a passion for hurdling, but I realized early on in my twenties that hurdles was more than just a track event, it was a lifestyle. When I’m facing hurdles, that’s when I’m most comfortable, that’s when I feel most aligned with some sort of purpose.

The work I’ve been doing with Hannah-Beth has been that. And the work I’ll do for Santa Barbara will be that. Running hurdles is not just a skill, it’s an attitude.

An attitude I have always had and always will have.

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Santa Barbara in a Glass

by Gabe Saglie Gabe Saglie has been covering the Santa Barbara wine scene for more than 15 years through columns, TV and radio. He’s a senior editor with Travelzoo and is a leading expert on travel deals, tips and trends. Gabe and wife Renee have 3 children and one Golden Retriever named Milo

A Santa Barbara First: Winemaker Greg Brewer Gets Top Honor

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he latest honor for winemaker Greg Brewer is a perk for Santa Barbara County, too: it’s the first time a Santa Barbara-based vintner has been named Winemaker of the Year by the popular publication, Wine Enthusiast.

“The accolade is flattering because my name is on it,” Brewer said last week after the award was announced.

“But it’s really Santa Barbara’s award – I really mean that,” he continued. “Wine is a reflection of place – in our case, Santa Barbara and the Sta. Rita Hills. And the manner in which we craft our wines is transparent and vulnerable. So I’m most prideful of that – the fact an award like this elevates our area in people’s awareness around the world.”

Wine Enthusiast Wine Star Awards, now in their 21st year, honor international players and brands in the world of wine across 15 categories, and they are a result of multiple layers of nom-

inations and votes by the publication’s staff. Brewer beat out four other high-profile nominees from Northern California, Italy, and South Africa for the 2020 win. Santa Barbara County was nominated as 2020 Wine Region of the Year, along with Adelaide Hills in Australia, Rias Baixas in Spain, and Mendoza in Argentina, all of whom lost out to Trentino, Italy.

Mr. Brewer’s win is a nod to his groundbreaking accomplishments as winemaker for the renowned BrewerClifton label, which he launched in 1996 with then-business partner Steve Clifton. Brewer sold the label to Jackson Family Wines, and stayed on as winemaker, in 2017. “The best years of my career to date,” said Brewer of his business relationship with the Santa Rosa-based mega-producer, for a blend of support and autonomy that he says allows him to thrive.

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major diurnal swings in climate that allow Burgundian grapes like pinot and chardonnay to thrive.

“The ocean is the critical thing and, to me, it is both serene and savage, both contemplative and calming but also intimidating and scary,” he continued.

“The wines in this region channel and demonstrate that duality. There’s something very confident and composed about the wines we’re making here. But there’s intensity beneath, as well – something pent-up and intense and wound-up tight and explosive.

It’s that energy that excites me, and it’s that energy in the wine that people love to discover.

“That makes Sta. Rita Hills such a special place. And to be a quiet voice, a steward of that, to get that message out to the world, is such a privilege, professionally.”

The limited edition Brewer-Clifton wines are made available through two allocations a year, in spring and fall, which can be accessed by signing up at brewerclifton.com.

Brewer, who left Melville in 2015 and now crafts all his wines at a facility in Lompoc, also makes a line of lean chardonnays under the Diatom brand and small lots of cool-climate Syrahs under the label, Ex Post Facto.

Another first? The Wine Star Award winners, who are usually feted during a lavish affair drawing hundreds of wine enthusiasts in person, will be honored virtually during a three-day online event in January.

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Miscellany (Continued from page 16) Ellen also bought an adjacent property for $1.9 million and built a 1,400-squarefoot guesthouse.

Blackbird’s Executive Chef Travis Watson serving his “Lite Delights” to MJ’s Richard Mineards at the Hotel Californian (photo by Priscilla)

Back for Another Season

Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz, hosts of the popular History Channel show American Pickers, are returning to our Eden by the Beach next month.

The series follows the dynamic duo, two of the most skilled pickers in the businesses they hunt for America’s most valuable antiques.

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A Few of Her Favorite Things

Former TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey, 66, has unveiled her annual list of favorite things for 2020 in the December issue of her magazine, O. The 72 items total $11,598 though many are under $100 with the priciest items including a $3,500 Samsung outdoor TV and The Mirror, a $1,495 piece of workout equipment that allows users to stream exercise classes.

Other highlights include a $70 sea salt, a $60 ranch truffle set, a $264 hoodie, and a $75 dog hoodie for your favorite canine.

“The elves and I have worked overtime in search of fantastic treats for everyone,” gushes Oprah.

two years ago and tried out the Memphis-style barbecue chicken wings and buffalo cauliflower with carrot coulis and smoked blue cheese, washed down with Grassini cabernet, before concluding the repast with honey and blueberry cheesecake.

Others checking out the revamped locale were Bill and Barbara Tomicki, and travel guru Charles de L’Arbre with his wife, Barbara.

Now, like then, we left raven about the experience.

Saluting Navy Art

The arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in our rarefied enclave has kept me busy over the last few weeks and saved me from going completely mad in this pandemic lockdown.

Going from full throttle to full stop has not been fun, but the world’s media has kept my phone red hot.

Interviews have included the London newspapers, the Sun, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail, as well as the German celebrity glossy Bunte, Los Angeles Magazine and People.

I also seem to have become a regular on the nationally syndicated TV entertainment show Access Hollywood hosted by Mario Lopez, with whom I used to appear on the late Dick Clark’s show The Other Half, with Partridge Family actor Danny Bonaduce, taping at NBC in Burbank.

Fond memories…

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is hosting an extensive collection of 53 paintings that chronicle the accomplishments of the U.S. Navy, from the USS Constitution to atomic bomb tests, and expeditions to the North and South Poles.

The colorful show, Arthur Beaumont: The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is hosting Art of the Sea, who was known as the an extensive collection of 53 paintings that chronArtist of the Fleet, starts on December icle the accomplishments of the U.S. Navy (paint3 thru May 30, 2021. It will be its ing courtesy of SBMM, Arthur Beaumont, Chinese last appearance on the Left Coast and Junk Boat, 1962) SBMM is one of only 10 museums nationwide given permission to host the exhibition.

Beaumont, who was born in Norfolk, England, and died in 1978 came to America to study art at Berkeley, and received a commission as a lieutenant in the Navy. Following the end of World War II, he continued to travel and paint for the U.S. Navy on missions in the Pacific, to China and Japan.

Throughout his life Beaumont used impressionist techniques in painting the stunning images, and on January 21 his son, Geoffrey Campbell Beaumont, who has written a book about his father, will give a lecture.

Blackbird Sings Again

To the Hotel Californian for the re-opening bash of Blackbird, the hostelry’s signature restaurant, which has been reimagined with “a beverage-forward atmosphere” featuring cocktails by celebrity mixologist Devon Espinosa, alongside a thoughtfully curated menu of light bites by executive chef Travis Watson who pays homage to the culinary bounty of the Central Coast.

My trusty shutterbug Priscilla and I attended the opening of the eatery (from left) Warren Nocon, managing director of the Hotel Californian; Devon Espinosa, consulting celebrity mixologist; and Mia Giobbi Thomas, director of sales and marketing (photo by Priscilla)

Media Blitz

Off the Field, On the Market

Montecito’s latest celebrity resident is decorated all-star baseball player Steve Finley, who played for a total of eight teams, including the Dodgers, Astros, Orioles, and the Padres, in his 19-year major league baseball career.

Finley, 55, has splashed out $5.7 million for a 5.7-acre 1930s ranch in the foothills above our rarefied enclave, a mere four percent discount on the asking price of the three-bedroom, three-bathroom single-story hacienda style residence.

It also boasts a two-bedroom, one-bathroom guesthouse, as well as a large motor court that can handle two dozen vehicles.

Finley, a five-time Golden Glove award winner, and his wife, Meaghan Hunt, have long primarily resided in the affluent San Diego suburb of Rancho Santa Fe, where the retired player has embarked on a second career as a Morgan Stanley financial advisor for his fellow athletes.

In Passing: Alex Trebek

On a personal note, I mark the passing of Alex Trebek, the long-running host of the TV quiz show Jeopardy! for 36 years who died at the age of 80 after a valiant battle with pancreatic cancer.

I started watching the Merv Griffin-produced show in the 1980s and have been hooked ever since, learning much on the American Civil War from the broadcasts.

When I was a guest on Sir Richard Branson’s inaugural Virgin Atlantic flight to Los Angeles, I also played cricket with Trebek at Will Rogers State Park in Pacific Alex Trebek hosted more than 8,000 episodes of Palisades.

Jeopardy!, by far a record for A most charming and erudite man... a television game show

Sightings: Actor Orlando Bloom getting takeout at Pierre Lafond... Rob Lowe and son Matthew checking out the surf at Miramar Beach... Actor Dennis Quaid and wife Laura Savoie strolling on State Street •MJ 19 – 26 November 2020

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ORDINANCE NO. 5971

ORDINANCE NO. 5972

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

SANTA BARBARA AMENDING CHAPTER 2.31 OF THE

SANTA BARBARA AMENDING TITLE 2 OF THE SANTA

SANTA BARBARA AMENDING TITLE 2 OF THE SANTA

SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE TO ESTABLISH A

BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING CHAPTER 2.41

BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING CHAPTER 2.42

HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT

TO

TO ESTABLISH A SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE

ESTABLISH

AN

INFORMATION

ORDINANCE NO. 5973

TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT

DEPARTMENT

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on November

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on November

10, 2020.

10, 2020.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

California.

California.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on November 10, 2020.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

(Seal) /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5971 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on November 10, 2020, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on November 11, 2020.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on November 11, 2020.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

Published November 18, 2020 Montecito Journal

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STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

ordinance was introduced on October 27, 2020 and adopted

was introduced on October 27, 2020 and adopted by the

by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

on November 10, 2020, by the following roll call vote:

November 10, 2020, by the following roll call vote:

AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

on November 11, 2020.

on November 11, 2020.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance

November 11, 2020.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published November 18, 2020 Montecito Journal

ber 30, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2020-0002691.

Published November 18, 25, December 2, 2020.

ORDINANCE NO. 5973

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing

on November 11, 2020.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Genesis, 80 Deerhurst Drive, Goleta, CA, 93117.

Genesis Co. LLC, 80 Deerhurst Drive, Goleta, CA, 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Octo-

(Seal)

ORDINANCE NO. 5972

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on October 27, 2020 and adopted

(Seal)

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Magic Digital Design, 251 S Hope Ave. #302, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105. Stephen T Crozier, 251 S Hope Ave. #302, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105. This statement was filed with

Published November 18, 2020 Montecito Journal

the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 9, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2020-0002756.

“All the things that truly matter arise from beyond the mind.” – Eckhart Tolle

Published November 18, 25, December 2, 2020.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Scarcello and Benedetto Dental Partners, 3714 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105.

Lynda J. Benedetto,

DDS, INC, 3714 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105. Gregory M. Scarcello, DDS, 3714 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 9, 2020.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of 19 – 26 November 2020

ORDINANCE NO. 5974 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING THE SANTA BARBARA

FY21 STORM DRAIN REPAIRS AND CIPP LINING PROJECT Bid No. 5867

MUNICIPAL CODE BY AMENDING SECTIONS 30.185.040 AND 30.295.020 TO REGULATE ACCESSORY DWELLING

1.

UNITS IN THE NONCOASTAL ZONE OF THE CITY, AND REPEAL INTERIM URGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 5930 The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on November

If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal. Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids. The PlanetBids technical support phone number is 818-992-1771.

10, 2020.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its FY21 Storm Drain Repairs and CIPP Lining Project by or before December 3, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly.

The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

2.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project location and scope of work is outlined below:

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

1.

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

2.

California.

3.

(Seal)

4.

5.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

Cul-de-sac at Rialto Lane due west to St James Drive: Repair and lining of 420 linear feet of a 15-inch diameter CMP storm drain Between 865 and 869 La Milpita Road and running 150 linear feet southwest to its outlet: Lining of a12-inch diameter CMP storm drain W. Islay Street starting at De la Vina Street to Castillo Street: Lining of a the 1,000 foot segment of 30-inch diameter brick storm drain W. Carrillo Street starting at State Street and continuing to Canon Perdido Street: Lining of a 420 foot segment of the 24-inch diameter concrete storm drain Pedregosa Street at Chapala Street south 1,900 linear feet to the outlet into Mission Creek south of the Islay and Castillo Streets Intersection: video capture of the large diameter storm drain system with elevations

2.2 Time for Completion. The Project must be completed within 40 calendar days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. The City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about January 25, 2021 but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.

ORDINANCE NO. 5974

2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is $225,000.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

3.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): California General Engineering License Class A. 3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on October 27, 2020 and adopted

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on November 10, 2020, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

License and Registration Requirements.

6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

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

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on November 11, 2020.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for more detailed information before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in Article 1 of the General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, including this Notice Inviting Bids.

11.

Optional Pre-bid Meeting. An optional pre-bid meeting will be held on Monday, November 30, 2020 at 10:00 a.m., at the following location: intersection of Live Oak Lanes and Saint James Drive, nearest address to the meeting place is 2204 Saint James Drive.

The optional pre-bid meeting will acquaint all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite.

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on November 11, 2020.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published November 18, 2020 Montecito Journal

By: ___________________________________ Date: ________________ Bill Hornung General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) November 18, 2020

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

FBN No. 2020-0002758.

Published November 18, 25, December 2, 2020.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: 19 – 26 November 2020

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HELLOSIMPLE, 4810 Sawyer Ave, Carpinteria, CA, 93013. Savana Herman, 4810 Sawyer Ave, Carpinteria, CA, 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 27, 2020. This statement expires five years from

2) November 25, 2020 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2020-0002659.

Published November 4, 11, 18, 25, 2020.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 911 Restoration Gole-

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ta, 289 Coromar Dr. Unit 150, Goleta, CA, 93117.

Levin’s Mitigation & Repair INC, 289 Coromar Dr. Unit 150, Goleta, CA, 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Octo-

ber 20, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County

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On Entertainment (Continued from page 28 28)) on and sanitizing. But it has to. Because otherwise life is kind of over. So I felt pretty safe about it.

What has it meant to you to be able to play even these limited concerts live with these other musicians in the same room?

Oh, it’s been so satisfying… I was really impressed that the Symphony decided to put on the season at all, which I think speaks volumes about how they feel about their community and how they feel about their musicians… My heart was so full driving home from Santa Barbara after the recording on Thursday night. I was on cloud nine. My eyes are welling up right now thinking about it.

It’s not only being around these really lovely people who I can call my friends who I haven’t seen in many, many months, but also rehearsing with them and then being like putting ourselves in a really focused situation with a very clear goal of making a good recording. It felt like it was an unspoken meeting of the minds and emotions and even of the soul. Not to be cheesy or anything, but that’s how it felt after all that’s been going on.

Classical Corner

Hershey Felder as Claude Debussy in A Paris Love Story, which premieres on November 22

UCSB Arts & Lectures’ House Calls virtual event series still has another couple of months to go, but they’re offering an early form of Thanksgiving via a special free “Gratitude Concert” featuring the brother-and-sister duo Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason at 5 pm on Sunday, November 22. Just 21 years old, Sheku is already one of the world’s most sought-after cellists, especially after his performance for more than 35 million people worldwide at the wedding of (now Montecito residents) Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. His 24-year-old sister Isata, the eldest of the family’s seven musical siblings, released her first solo piano CD last year, which promptly soared to No. 1 on the U.K. classical charts. The siblings will serenade us in a special recital from their home in Nottingham, England, followed by a conversation with the Santa Barbara Independent’s Charles Donelan. Details at https:// artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.

Irving Berlin, went on to Beethoven and then Gershwin. Then I created a season that would relate to stories audiences have asked for (as well as) timeliness: Tchaikovsky at Christmastime, etc. It unfolded naturally.

Felder Finds a New Forum

In embodying the various composers, you are both actor and musician. How does that interplay work for you?

It’s very complicated as they are not natural bedfellows. The mechanisms for acting and playing are very different. It has taken (and continues to take) a lifetime of work to finesse the line between the two so that we feel that we are listening to the composer speaking of and playing his work. Massaging them to be unified has been a lifelong commitment that I still work at, and will as long as I do this.

6Qs with the musician-actor

Prior to the arrival of COVID-19, veteran virtuoso playwright, performer, and pianist Hershey Felder had made a career out of creating and performing solo shows about composers Claude Debussy, George Gershwin, Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Leonard Bernstein, Irving Berlin, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky that have been seen across a wide range of Southern California venues, from the Geffen Playhouse, to the Berkeley Repertory Theatre as well as at Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theatre, elsewhere in the U.S. and in London’s West End. Since March, Felder has faced down the pandemic by creating live streaming adaptations of his Beethoven, Berlin, and Gershwin productions, each of which streamed as individual shows that partially benefited participating theatrical companies, including the Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura and the Ensemble Theatre Company here in town.

Now he’s upping the ante by forming five upcoming shows into a series that start with Hershey Felder as Claude Debussy in A Paris Love Story, which premieres on November 22, and Hershey Felder: Tchaikovsky (premiering December 20), both newly adapted and expanded versions of Felder’s original works for the stage. But there are also three new works created especially for the series, including world premieres of Before Fiddler (due February 7, 2021) in which he plays the great Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem, whose works inspired the classic musical Fiddler on the Roof; Puccini (March 14, 2021), about the scandalous life of the great Italian composer and featuring music from La Bohème, Tosca, Turandot, and more; and Anna & Sergei (May 16), about the strange, true life meeting in New York between composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff and Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the sole surviving member of the Romanov Dynasty, the Princess Anastasia.

Locals can watch the fundraising performances, which are available for a full week after each premiere, either through ETC or RTC by visiting https://etcsb. org or www.rubicontheatre.org, respectively, for tickets. Felder gave us a little insight into the series via email last weekend.

Q. What informed your choices of which composers, or themes, to take on for this series? Is there an overall thrust to the season?

A. As with all my works, it is about setting composers’ works in context.

During these terrible times in the world, somehow the lives of these great artists – and what they went through to create their art as well as the world they lived in – resonates. This “COVID season,” so to speak, began in May with

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How if at all does understanding a composer’s life and his times change your approach to his music? What have you been most surprised to discover?

I believe that one hears the music in a very personal way if one knows the circumstances of composition. This is not to say that, if a composer was going through a rough time that pieces from that period are sad and morose. That simplifies the situation. The works – the compositions themselves – reveal the character and depth of their personalities. Understanding the compositions within the contexts of their lives allows one to hear the humanity in it all instead of just the iconography.

The first two productions in the series are being adapted from stage shows. What changes in the switch to a livestream format? And for that matter, why does this format work for you?

The format is based on direct-address storytelling. In fact, I have been asked why the format seems to work so well. It is because the shows themselves were designed to directly address an audience in the theatre. The benefit here is that I can play directly to the camera – directly to “one person” – which is the goal in the theater. But there is a lot of looking around to capture the audience as if they are one. The camera allows for the intimacy that the shows were designed to create. Oddly, it’s the most natural rendering of the shows because of the original constructions and their formats.

While the pandemic has forced almost all performers to take huge pauses, you seem to be stepping up into a packed schedule. What’s your motivation... and stamina?

There were two options: take a long needed and perhaps even deserved break after 27 years of living on the road out of a suitcase, never unpacking, going from city to city, 5-10 weeks at a time, with three or so weeks a year at home. Or take the savings and fund the staff who have been by my side for years as best as I could so that they could continue feeding their families. Along with that, I felt it was important to contribute to the organizations that I have worked with over the years in some capacity or other. Then there was the support of artists in need and even contributions to theatres I do not work with but who I know are in need. So doing a bit of good feels like a motivation. It’s necessary. I didn’t get where I am all alone. Lots of folks took part in that, including audiences. And if I could find some feasible way to help, that’s motivation enough. Stamina is based on responsibility. Nothing to add to that.

I’m curious about partnering with shuttered theaters across the world. Is helping them survive part of your mission?

I am doing the best I can, and we have raised significant funds. But given what the industry and artists need, it’s a tiny drop in the bucket. But every single drop makes that bucket just a tad bit more difficult to kick.

•MJ

“If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me.” – Eckhart Tolle

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Ann Louise Bardach (Continued from page 22) Tom Wolfe and Ann

mentation and her dogged determination to fact-check and verify, so that her work continues to withstand the vagaries of social media, the limitations of technology, and the march of time.

“Her work has stood up against legal scrutiny and political blow-back because she was, and remains, determined to get it right. Because of that, it’s bulletproof,” Roberts adds.

Bardach has a long and deep relationship with UCSB, where she started and taught their first international journalism class in 2000. She also served on the board of the UCSB Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media, and was a resident scholar with the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies there. Several years ago, her friend and colleague Lou Cannon, former White House Correspondent for the Washington Post and noted Ronald Reagan biographer, placed his own papers with the UCSB library, and he suggested she consider doing the same.

Two years ago, Bardach delivered more than sixty boxes of journalistic research, ephemera, and backmatter, including notes, tapes, interviews, letters, FBI files, court documents, financial records, unusual and valuable photographs, and more, all of which, when taken together, offer a comprehensive portrait of the rigorous and unimpeachable methodology of the highest level of investigative journalism. The archive offers a glimpse into how journalism has changed over time and especially with the advent of the Internet. The newsroom of old has, it seems, vanished in the ether. That’s why The Bardach Archives are of particular importance at this moment in time.

“Annie’s research files span from 1979 to 2018, which coincides with the rise of the digital age. While new technologies have changed the way journalists work and made the research process much faster, Annie’s work over this timespan shows that it still comes down to knowing the core principles of journalism and how to employ them to get the true story,” says Hanna Rael, Communications and Marketing Manager at the UCSB Library.

The archive covers an eclectic array of topics that range from sensational murder cases, to the punk rock scene, to Castro’s Cuba, to the inner workings of Miami/Florida politics, to Arnold Schwarzenegger and his long history with the tabloids, and the dark side of California politics.

Part of what makes Bardach’s work so potent and timeless is that she understands, intuitively, that culture and politics are inextricably intertwined.

As Danelle Moon, Director, Special Research Collections at UCSB Library, put it, “Her work on Castro and Cuba is without compare. She’s an extraordinary listener, and she had the wherewithal to record everyone she was talking to. Her work on Cuba alone means that UCSB will become a primary research institute for Cuban-American studies.”

A self-professed “pack rat” who kept everything, Bardach was so methodical and dogged that she was able to get stunning admissions, on the record, from

Letter from Tom Wolfe to Ann

the famous and the infamous, including not just Fidel Castro, but also characters like Johnny Rotten, and E Howard Hunt. Her deep work covering notoriously corrupt political figures, in particular, benefitted from her insistence on verification and documentation.

Moon first met Bardach in 2018, when they were in the very early talks about possibly moving Bardach’s archives to UCSB. She recalls Annie talking about the threat of wildfires to her property and Moon suggested that they move at least her recordings (which were then being stored in a shed) to UCSB for safekeeping. Now those recordings are being digitized at UCSB’s state of the art Audio Visual Lab, one of the few institutions in the UC system that has the capability of capturing rare audio recordings, saving them for posterity, and making them available to students and scholars alike.

Moon, who is likely closer to Bardach’s body of work than anyone, notes that Annie “understood the historical significance of her work. She understood that her work was and would become a part of American history, and in this way, she worked as a kind of historian by preserving all of this invaluable material.”

Maer Roshan, the editor of Los Angeles Magazine, seconds this notion that Bardach understood that what she was doing was history-in-the-making.

“She’s not a ‘rote’ journalist by any means,” Roshan told me. “She brings so

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ORDINANCE NO. 5975 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING TITLE 28 OF THE SANTA

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

BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADD CHAPTER 28.86 TO REGULATE ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS IN THE

INVITATION FOR BIDS

COASTAL ZONE, AND AMENDING VARIOUS SECTIONS WIITHIN TITLE 28 TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THIS INTENT

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

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

BID NO. 5876

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on November

DUE DATE & TIME: DECEMBER 7, 2020 UNTIL 3:00 P.M.

10, 2020.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

(Seal) /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5975 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on October 27, 2020 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on November 10, 2020, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on November 11, 2020.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on November 11, 2020.

Published November 18, 2020 Montecito Journal

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Capisce Market, 1524 Bath Street, 1A, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. Serafina Logiacco, 1524 Bath Street, 1A, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. This

Scope of Work: The purpose of the project is to install traffic control devices and informational signage during the Downtown State Street Promenade’s interim period.

A Non-Mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held on November 30, 2020 at 9:00 a.m., at the corner of State and Anapamu Streets, in Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please be punctual since late arrivals may be excluded from submitting a bid. No relief will be granted to contractors for any conditions or restrictions that would have been discovered if they had attended the pre-bid meeting.

Please RSVP via PlanetBids no later than close-of-business the day prior to the scheduled bid walk.

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

If further information is needed, contact Jennifer Disney Dixon, Buyer II at (805) 564-5356 or email: jdisney@santabarbaraca.gov FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason 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, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code.

BONDING Bidder shall furnish a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order, a cashier’s certified check, or bond payable to the order of the City, amounting to ten percent (10%) of the bid. Bonds must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Note: All bids must be accompanied by a copy of the bid security uploaded to PlanetBids. Only the original bid security of the three (3) lowest bidders must be mailed to the Purchasing Office in a sealed envelope and be received within (3) City business days of the bid due date and time for the bid to be considered.

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.

Bidders are hereby notified that a separate Performance 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.

PREVAILING WAGE, APPRENTICES, PENALTIES, & CERTIFIED PAYROLL In accordance with the provisions of Labor Code § 1773.2, the Contractor is responsible for determining the correct prevailing wage rates. However, the City will provide wage information for projects subject to Federal Davis Bacon requirements. The Director of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rates of wages and employer payments for health, welfare, vacation, pensions and similar purposes applicable, which is on file in the State of California Office of Industrial Relations. The contractor shall post a copy of these prevailing wage rates at the site of the project. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and its subcontractors hired to pay not less than the said prevailing rates of wages to all workers employed by him in the execution of the contract (Labor Code § 1770 et seq.). Prevailing wage rates are available at http://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/PWD/index.htm It is the duty of the contractor and subcontractors to employ registered apprentices and to comply with all aspects of Labor Code § 1777.5.

There are penalties required for contractor’s/subcontractor’s failure to pay prevailing wages and for failure to employ apprentices, including forfeitures and debarment under Labor Code §§ 1775, 1776, 1777.1, 1777.7 and 1813.

Under Labor Code § 1776, contractors and subcontractors are required to keep accurate payroll records. The prime contractor is responsible for submittal of their payrolls and those of their subcontractors as one package. Payroll records shall be certified and made available for inspection at all reasonable hours at the principal office of the contractor/subcontractor pursuant to Labor Code § 1776.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2020-0002615.

Published October 28, November 4, 11, 18, 2020.

INSTALLATION OF INTERIM TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES ON STATE STREET

statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 15, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2020-0002573.

Published October 28, November 4, 11, 18, 2020.

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The contractor and all subcontractors under the direct contractor shall furnish certified payroll records directly to the Labor Compliance Unit and to the department named in the Purchase Order/Contract at least monthly, and within ten (10) days of any request from any request from the City or the Labor Commissioner in accordance with Section 16461 of the California Code of Regulations. Payroll records shall be furnished in a format prescribed by section 16401 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, with use of the current version of DIR's “Public Works Payroll Reporting Form” (A-1-131) and “Statement of Employer Payments” (DLSE Form PW26) constituting presumptive compliance with this requirement, provided the forms are filled out accurately and completely. In lieu of paper forms, the Compliance Monitoring Unit may provide for and require the electronic submission of certified payroll reports. The provisions of Article 2 and 3, Division 2, Chapter 1 of the Labor Code, State of California, are made by this reference a part of this quotation or bid.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently licensed to perform the work and registered pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5 without limitation or exception. It is not a violation of this section for an unlicensed contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

CERTIFICATIONS In accordance with California Public Contracting Code § 3300, the City requires the Contractor to possess a valid California Class A, or Class C31, or Class C32 contractor’s license at time the bids are opened and to continue to hold during the term of the contract all licenses and certifications required to perform the work specified herein.

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

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On The Record (Continued from page 30 30)) PCVF Keynote Speaker Col. Anthony Mastalir, CO of Vandenberg Air Force Base and Future Space, with PCVF co-founder John Blankenship with “The Trombone Society” performing on stage (photo by Priscilla)

Army Lt. Col. Jack Armstrong, Jennifer Marsh, and her son Ryan Marsh (Brigadier General Frederick Lopez Family) (photo

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and a crisply tailored color guard from UC Santa Barbara’s Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) assembled as a long line of vehicles, many of them festooned with patriotic colors and decorated with photographs of various family-member veterans entered the drive-in. According to Blankenship, the idea of an outdoor gathering quickly led to a proposal to screen a military-themed movie, and it didn’t take long to settle on the World War Two film Memphis Belle, which tells the Sharol and Wayne Siemens were among those tale of the first U.S. Army Air Corps sponsoring the PCVF event (photo by Priscilla) crew to survive 25 combat missions in a war where the average life expectancy of air crew members, more than 70,000 of whom perished in the war, was only seven missions.

“First the quota was 25 missions, then of course, it was 35 and then 50,” Blankenship said. “People don’t realize how perilous their job was,” Blankenship said. “They had the highest casualty rates in the war, even higher than the Marines, because unfortunately the Germans were very good at what they did, not just the Messerschmitts [fighter planes] but the flak guns, so we lost a lot of planes.”

Since 2003, Blankenship has served on the board of directors of the Foundation along with his wife, Hazel. Although they didn’t meet until well

after the Vietnam War, both of them served there at the same time; John flying missions up and down the coast spotting potential enemy sampans running supplies from north to south and Hazel working incognito at the CIA’s Saigon station, with the official cover that she was a Naval map reader. “It’s pretty funny because I still can’t read a map,” Blankenship says. “But on the board, Hazel does pretty much everything else.”

Despite the somewhat bleak surroundings this year, the Veterans Day gathering drew a sold-out crowd. Following a rousing rendition of the National Anthem by Sgt. David Gonzales and an invocation by Lt. Col. Jack Armstrong, Col. Anthony Mastalir, the Vandenberg Air Force Base’s commanding officer delivered a keynote speech honoring a pair of World War Two veterans, the late Ugo Arnoldi, who served as an officer in Gen. Patton’s Third Army, and Arthur Peterson, who fought with the legendary 101st Airborne Division of Band of Brothers fame. Also honored was Patricia Rumpza, a former Air Force flight nurse who now fights on the frontlines of the war on COVID-19 as a volunteer for Cottage Hospital.

The evening ended with the movie screening and final farewell from Blankenship, who quoted a 1939-era British propaganda poster that helped steel the allied nations for the looming war against fascism. “Thank you for your attendance,” he told the departing crowd. “See you all next year and remember: Keep calm and carry on!”

For more information about the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation including how to make a donation, please visit www.pcvf.org.

•MJ

Navy veteran Nancy Jean Tobar with PCVF co-founder Hazel Blankenship and Dana Newquist (photo by Priscilla)

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much passion to her work. And she will follow a lead as it twists, turns, and loops around until, inevitably, in her capable hands, it lands in a good, valuable place.”

We talked a bit about how so often what passes as “news” on Twitter or other social media websites is not buttressed by experience or a sense of history. There are no fact-checkers or legal departments chasing after the endless flow of sound bites that flood our newsfeeds. We agreed that Annie remains a standout, an exemplar of what it means to be a journalist in America today.

She’s a believer in all of the checks and balances that make journalism so central to a functioning society and, not incidentally, she understands how crucial a free and robust press is to a society’s ability to maintain a true democracy.

“She’s got an incredible divining rod for the news,” Roshan adds, “She’s a master at uncovering the telling detail, and she’s just fearless in her pursuit of the truth. On top of that, she’s also very funny and has a way of making even dire news go down easier.”

To access Bardach’s Archives, go to: www.oac.cdlib.org

good grade-A maple syrup has so many tasting notes, and to pair it with different flavors is exciting to see which flavors come through. For my selection of bourbon maple and cream, I reached back into my memory, like Proust with his madeleine, to remind me of all the wonderful seasons I’ve enjoyed. The here, the now – and the before ($24).

Apple pie in my mind is the king of seasonal pies, partnered with the king of cocktails, the old fashioned. Kentucky Toast drums up all the flavors of the season. Cinnamon, allspice, clove, apple bourbon, and brown sugar all together makes you feel like a cozy Smitten Mitten’s base is made with horchata and sweater, cold on the outside and warm on the pumpkin spice with a touch of bourbon maple inside ($24). syrup to add some flavor highlights.

“A great reporter is really just a relentless gumshoe-private eye type who can write really well.”

– Ann Bardach

About Ann Louise Bardach:

Bardach launched her journalism career as a crime reporter in New York City in the ‘70s, covering the murder of Nancy Spungen, the girlfriend of Sid Vicious. She also investigated and wrote about the Manson murders, and the JonBenét Ramsey murder case. She covered the punk rock music scene too, interviewing members of the Ramones and The Sex Pistols. Her ever-expanding curiosity led her to write on Vivekananda, the 19th century Indian Hindu monk who introduced meditation to the U.S. at the end of the 19th century.

These pieces were published in the Sunday New York Times and the Sunday edition of the Wall Street Journal.

For ten years, she was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and she’s written for a vast array of publications including The New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, and the Financial Times. She’s appeared on 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Good Morning America, NPR, CNN, and the BBC, among other broadcasts. She also created the “Global Buzz” column for Newsweek International and “the Interrogation” column for Slate.

The Columbia Journalism Review called her “the go-to journalist on all things Cuban and Miami” and she was lauded by New Journalism icons Tom Wolfe, who called her “a relentless reporter who writes like a dream,” and Gay Talese, as well as literary giants Alfred Kazin and Irving Howe, with whom she studied at the Graduate Center in New York.

Notably, she won the 1995 PEN USA Award for Journalism for her reporting on Mexican politics. In 1994, she was a finalist for the same award for her coverage of women in Islamic countries. Her book, Cuba Confidential, was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism and the PEN USA Award for Best Non-fiction Book and was named one of the “Ten Best Books of 2002” by the Los Angeles Times.

She was also a finalist for the 2005 Pen USA Award for Journalism for her story on then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ties with the tabloid press which was published in Los Angeles Magazine. Her book, Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington is considered a seminal work on Cuba and was selected by the Miami Herald as one of the “Ten Best Books of 2009.”

Currently, she can be seen in the HBO documentary 537 Votes (2020), which chronicles the outrageous political maneuvering that led to the unprecedented, contested outcome of the 2000 presidential election, and the chaotic Florida ballot recount that ended with George W. Bush winning by a razorthin margin.

Additionally, the creator and producer of Showtime’s hit series Homeland is co-writing a show based on her five-part New York Times story on the Cuban exile and former CIA asset, whom Bardach referred to as “Fidel Castro’s most persistent would-be assassin.”

•MJ

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Kentucky Toast Festive offering in Caruso’s, Manor Bar & Miramar Club through January 3, 2021 Ingredients: 2 bar spoons of apple butter 2 ounces bourbon (we use Buffalo trace) ¼ ounce apple cider ¼ ounce turbinado simple syrup 2 dashes of Fee Brothers old fashioned bitters 1 dash of angostura bitters Instructions: Add all ingredients into the mixing tin and add ice. Stir for 25 rotations. Kentucky Toast drums up all the flavors of the Prep a double old fashioned glass with mixed season with cinnamon, allspice, clove, apple half white sugar and half brown sugar around bourbon, and brown sugar the glass rim. Strain over a big cube of ice. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.

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he holidays are all about celebrating the season and the start of a new year with family and friends. One of my favorite wine selections this season – and one to consider for your own holiday tables – is the 2016 Joyce “Massa Estate” Chenin Blanc.

Joyce Vineyards is a family-run small-batch winery that began as a chance planting

by Francis Joyce in 1989 on a steep hillside in Carmel Valley.

In 2010, Francis passed the winery down to his son, Russell Joyce, who grew up working alongside his dad at the family’s estate. Russell takes a classic and minimal approach to winemaking. He creates wines of such purity and elegance while focusing on the local varietals in Belmond El Encanto Sommelier Jordan DeVille recommends 2016 Monterey County.

Chenin Blanc is a fun grape Joyce “Massa Estate” Chenin Blanc. that is getting a lot of attention during the holiday season because of its light and fruity flavor. It’s one of the most versatile, food-friendly wines for the holidays. Taste its fall flavors: Baked apple, apple cider, or yellow pear, hay, honey, beeswax, and dried lemon. Pair the 2016 Joyce “Massa Estate” Chenin Blanc with a cream-based chicken entrée, grilled vegetables or a soft, creamy brie cheese. Or, enjoy a glass at Belmond El Encanto, where you can pair it with our lobster cobb salad, featuring tossed red gem lettuce, bacon, grilled corn, tomato, avocado and green beans dressed in tarragon-citrus vinaigrette. Cheers and Happy Holidays!

•MJ

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805-538-1119 or JBG PO Box 3963; SB, Calif. 93130.

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Local Contractor

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STEVEN BROOKS JEWELERS Appraisals for Estates and Insurance Graduate Gemologist ~ Established 1974 Sales of Custom Designed and Estate Jewelry Purchasing Estates sbjewelers@gmail.com or 805-455-1070

WE BUILD

• Debris Removal • Material Pickup (sand, rock, gravel, mulch etc.)

• Move Out Clean Ups • Residential and Commercial Fully Licensed and Insured

DONATIONS NEEDED Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary Menagerie 2340 Lillie Avenue Summerland CA 93067 (805) 969-1944

805-259-4075

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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED K-9 PALS need volunteers to be foster parents for our dogs while they are waiting for their forever homes.

For more information info@k-9pals.org or 805-570-0415.

CA$H ON THE SPOT CLASSIC CARS RV’S • CARS SUV • TRUCKS ! u o y o t e m o MOTORHOMES We c 702-210-7725 19 – 26 November 2020

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749 SAN YSIDRO RD, MONTECITO UPPER 12.77±acs • $62,000,000 Cristal Clarke, 805.886.9378 LIC# 00968247

1104 CHANNEL DR, MONTECITO 1.13±acs • $32,000,000 Phyllis Noble, 805.451.2126 LIC# 01448730

ROMERO CANYON ROAD, MONTECITO 5BD/5½BA • $20,000,000 Cristal Clarke, 805.886.9378 LIC# 00968247

945 LILAC DR, MONTECITO UPPER 5BD/7½BA • $16,995,000 Cristal Clarke, 805.886.9378 LIC# 00968247

313 SAN YSIDRO RD, MONTECITO 5BD/5½BA • $8,875,000 Josiah Hamilton, 805.284.8835 LIC# 01415235

810 BUENA VISTA DR, MONTECITO 6BD+apt/9BA • $8,495,000 Marsha Kotlyar Estate Group, 805.565.4014 LIC# 01426886

2838 E VALLEY RD, MONTECITO UPPER 3BD/5BA • $6,950,000 Nancy Kogevinas, 805.450.6233 LIC# 01209514

1445 E MOUNTAIN DR, MONTECITO 3BD/4+(2)½BA • $6,450,000 Daniel Encell, 805.565.4896 LIC# 00976141

1235 E MOUNTAIN DR, MONTECITO 4BD/4½BA • $6,400,000 Daniel Encell, 805.565.4896 LIC# 00976141

2148 PIEDRAS DR, MONTECITO UPPER 4BD/3½BA • $5,100,000 Patrice Serrani, 805.637.5112 LIC# 01764713

595 FREEHAVEN DR, MONTECITO 5BD/6BA • $3,950,000 Ken Switzer, 805.680.4622 LIC# 01245644

850 ROCKBRIDGE RD, MONTECITO 3BD/2½BA • $3,450,000 Daniel Encell / Barbara Neary, 805.565.4896 LIC# 00976141 / 01491532

805 TORO CANYON RD, MONTECITO 10.67±acs • $2,375,000 Nancy Kogevinas, 805.450.6233 LIC# 01209514

521 TORO CANYON RD, MONTECITO 3BD/2½BA • $2,195,000 Marsha Kotlyar Estate Group, 805.565.4014 LIC# 01426886

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