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THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 11 • MOVIE GUIDE, P. 41 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42

LEAVING HIS POST Bob Neustadt is Montecito’s mailman: friendly and helpful, and nearly always on time, but he’s trading in his uniform and delivery truck for a cowboy hat and RV and saying farewell to Coast Village Road after 16 years (story on page 12)

Starr’s Gazing

Diana Starr Langley’s early life was centered in a home for delinquent boys that her parents ran, so she was a natural to head up the United Boys & Girls Club; she has now chosen to get back to business, p. 10 Cover photo of Bob Neustadt by Kelly Mahan

Generosity of Eye

Montecito’s power TV couple Brad Hall and Julia LouisDreyfus screen documentary about her dad’s extensive art collection that he’s putting up for sale to help children in Harlem, as the Santa Barbara International Film Festival digs deep into its 30th season, p. 20

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

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Tom Mosby presents the latest news from Montecito Water District, maps out potential solutions, and provides insight about a desalination facility

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Letters to the Editor

Katy Perry’s pre-Super Bowl jitters; Rob Lowe looking youthful; Alan Thicke opines about Bill Cosby; Gretchen Lieff birthday bash; Oprah’s Selma celebration; Edythe Kirchmaier’s 107th birthday; Dream Foundation’s 20,000th dream; SB Lodging and Restaurant Association; Camelot at the Granada; Unfinished Business with Rod Lathim; and Gerald DiPego and 154 & Paradise

Tom Kress on rain retention; Wendy Gragg expresses safety concerns; Matt McLaughlin and the price of free speech; Karen Malamatenios in search of pillars; Marie Profant on unfinished business; Nancy Gifford’s and Brad Nack’s gratitude; Steve Gowler and Charlie Hedbo; and Christina Allison’s advice

10 Coming & Going

James Buckley sits down with Diana Starr Langley, interim CEO of the United Boys & Girls Club, whose replacement is Michael Baker; Marie Profant’s velvet jacket; and Peter Clark and Lois Mahalia with Palm Springs All-Stars at SOhO

11 This Week

Knitting and crocheting; introduction to Capacitar with Taran Collis; “Live Well” series; and Dance Fever showcase; tea dance; author Robert Hemphill; MA Land Use meeting; VISTAS class; Living Art Culture Show; Walk & Roll; Valerie Bentz book signing; Festival of Hearts; and job expo for SB Zoo

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12 Village Beat

Montecito mailman Bob retires; Miramar gains approval from planning commission and Friendship Center’s Festival of Hearts

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Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner enjoys a day of wine and Rosas, visits the SB Museum of Art Women’s Board luncheon, and chronicles LifeChronicles’ annual Father Virgil Remarkable Life Award

20 SBIFF 2015

On the precipice of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Steven Libowitz interviews filmmaker Brad Hall, who collaborates with wife Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Generosity of Eye; and converses with Whiplash director Damien Chazelle

26 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz chats and chuckles with Don Rickles before his latest Chumash show; and professor Joel Feigin unveils Twelfth Night at Lotte Lehmann Hall

28 Ernie’s World

Ernie Witham points out that winter weather is relative, depending on where one lives, and puts his green thumb on repotting bonsais

29 Your Westmont

A tourney combines stick and disc golfers February 2; opera classics to be performed the weekend of January 30; and a large gift will endow scholarships

32 Trail Talk

Lynn P. Kirst trots along with Buellton’s Charlotte Bredahl-Baker, now assistant Dressage Youth coach for the U.S. Equestrian Federation

40 Legal Advertisements 41 Movie Guide 42 Calendar of Events

Benefit concert for Cinder Jean; SOhO celebrates 20 years; R&B Bombers at Carrillo Recreation Center; Vittorio Grigolo in Les Contes d’Hoffmann; Banjo Babes stringing along; Norman Doidge at UCSB; Tamasaburo Bando and Kodo; Tales from the Tavern in SY; majestic Willie Nelson; W. Kamau Bell at UCSB

44 93108 Open Houses 46 Classified Advertising

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29 January – 5 February 2015

Guest Editorial

by Tom Mosby Tom Mosby is the General Manager of the Montecito Water District

Water District Update

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ontecito Water District (MWD) is working on multiple fronts to improve water supply conditions during this exceptional drought.

We are purchasing supplemental water as a short-term bridge, while planning and developing additional reliable and secure water supplies for the community’s future. This article contains an update of our activities.

Water Supply Reliability

The District’s goal is to protect public health and safety, and to maintain the ambience that defines Montecito by providing a sufficient water supply to meet the reasonable needs of our customers. The current water shortage has demonstrated the vulnerability of our existing local and State Water Project water supplies during an extended drought. Although the State Water Project is vital for transporting the supplemental water we purchase, our experience has shown us that we can no longer rely on it to provide water during exceptional droughts. As a result, the need to develop additional reliable water supplies is imperative.

Short-Term Water Supply Solutions

We are now four years into the drought, and the District continues to purchase supplemental water to offset our normal water supply losses. These purchases, along with continued conservation, is expected to meet current levels of water use through October 2016.

Purchasing supplemental water is not a permanent reliable solution; rather it serves as a water-supply bridge while we continue planning and developing long-term water-supply answers.

Long-Term Water Supply Solutions

To maximize our community’s water security, significant local supplies need to be developed to provide reliability both in times of severe drought and to protect against the disruption of water service caused by a seismic or catastrophic failure of Cachuma Lake’s Tecolote Tunnel or Jameson Lake’s Doulton Tunnel. In combination, these tunnels convey up to 95 percent of the District’s total water supply.

We are working on a number of parallel fronts to determine the most cost-effective path forward in achieving water security. This is a complex process whereby various alternatives are being vetted simultaneously, including the following:

1. Desalination Intake/Discharge Testing

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The next step in determining the feasibility of desalination in Montecito is to test whether seawater intake/discharge systems are viable. Preparation for this test program is well underway. Because of the lack of public lands along our coastline and existing structural and geotechnical barriers, the most viable locations for the subsurface seawater intake structures are the Santa Barbara Cemetery and the Miramar Resort properties.

MWD’s consultants, RBF Consulting, have provided Seawater Intake Project descriptions and conceptual piping schematics to both property owners. We have received a positive response from the Cemetery Association and are working toward conducting non-invasive testing from its site. At the same time, we are continuing our dialogue with Caruso Affiliated regarding the co-location of a seawater intake and discharge pipelines beneath the Miramar property.

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Along with assessing the viability of seawater intake/discharge structures, MWD is determining the optimal location of the new desalination facility. The three locations under consideration are: Montecito Water District Site We have determined that the existing Water District site on San Ysidro Road can accommodate a desalination facility. The benefits of using this location is

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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 network anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, and a commentator on the KTLA Morning News.

He moved to Montecito eight years ago.

Crooner Katy Gets Super-Nervous

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anta Barbara warbler Katy Perry is one of the world’s top rock stars, having sold 11 million albums, 81 million singles, and being on the Forbes list of top-earning women in music for three consecutive years, but her 12-minute halftime performance on Sunday at Super Bowl XLIX in Phoenix, Arizona, which is expected to attract more than 110 million viewers, one of the biggest audiences of her 14 year career, is putting the former Dos Pueblos High student on edge.

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With 30-second ads on the NBC sporting spectacular between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks going for $4.5 million, a 12-percent increase on last year’s Fox broadcast, the halftime show is considered the biggest prime-time opportunity for any artist, with past performers including a bold-faced roster of music legends like U2, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Paul McCartney, Tina Turner, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Sting, Madonna, and Diana Ross.

The 30-year-old says: “I don’t get nervous about much, but I’ll definitely be a little tingly inside on the day. But I’m looking forward to the challenge.”

The “Roar” singer, who appears on the cover of the February music issue of ESPN Magazine with Houston Texans defensive end JJ Watt, adds: “I feel like I’ve outdreamt my dream.”

But Katy, who recently rekindled her romantic relationship with fellow singer John Mayer, won’t be alone, with Lenny Kravitz featured as a special guest.

The mega event will be more than a “Teenage Dream” for the sexy songbird, who began training at an early age with the same voracity as the sportsmen who will be vying for the national title.

“Everybody would be going about their business, and then all of a sudden their heads would turn when I would start singing,” she said of discovering her talent at age nine with evangelist parents.

“It was this magic ticket that I had. I guess I loved the attention, and I went for it.”

Last week, the “Wide Awake” singer took the stress of the upcoming big day with good humor, tweeting: “Playing so many bowls this year. So stressful.”

She included a link to Animal Planet’s annual Puppy Bowl count-

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Katy Perry showing nerves over Super Bowl halftime show

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Lowe Glow At 50 years old, Montecito actor Rob Lowe remains an eternally handsome heartthrob who has managed to stop the clock.

And Rob has revealed that swapping his hard-partying ways for healthier activities has helped him keep his good looks that skyrocketed him to fame in the 1980s.

“I don’t drink and I work out a lot,” the former Brat Packer explained to TV talk-show host Conan O’Brien.

“I’ve learned some tricks over the years.”

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On-Site Rain Retention Works

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hen I worked for John Carl Warnecke in San Francisco, and then William Pereira in Los Angeles in the 1960s on projects that required urban-rural design, there was an established way of practicing, a common language in both cities.

Verbal and written research reports were accompanied by large charts that visually illustrated existing and proposed design facts. Those drawn charts consisted of what was then called a Master Plan: an overall skeletal plan of the city that I drew in black and white on to which researched facts, existing and proposed, were added in color illustration or graphically. Traffic flows, for instance, were added in dark blues onto one Master Plan copy. A second master copy illustrated commercial areas in reds. A third illustrated residential densities in yellows, and so on.

Those Master Plan charts reflected what was said and written in private and open design procedure meetings, and erased or verified unsubstantiated facts and projections.

Other small towns here in Santa Barbara County have built rainwater retention areas. For example, there are football and other athletic fields that are required to be constructed “level” or slightly sloped to drain.

They are minimally recessed below surrounding areas when newly built, or surrounded with berms that are added to existing level areas. The flow of rain is then temporarily contained as compared to flowing toward roads, streams, and then to the sea.

Those retention areas are difficult to notice, as the depth is only in inches and the slopes to them are slight. (They are not as deep as the recessed lawn at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse at Anapamu and Anacapa Streets.)

The retained water in recessed areas soaks to groundwater storage where it doesn’t evaporate. The on-grade landscaping then requires less sources of water from artificial means.

The areas can be located on a Master Plan chart in green color; the total areas can be added up in numbers and words for design-planning research and presentations.

Other retention areas could include lawns, parks, street, or hardscape diversions located-below-grade-groundwater basins, tennis courts, and so forth. The planning of on-site rain retention areas for each project before the Montecito Planning Commission or the Architectural Review Board

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meetings could be added to the current Montecito General Plan as a requirement that intends to resolve many water-less issues.

During this current drought, there have been many sightings of wildlife re-entering urban and rural areas from the surrounding wilderness areas. Deer, bears, bobcats, coyotes, birds, et al, some of which might be quite tasty in a casserole. Some make good self-reliant pets. The birds eat those tasty bugs and attract the neighbors and feral cats whose “markings” defray unwanted guest rodents. I’ve even heard what the doe said when she walked out of the woods: “That’s the last time I’ll do that for a buck!”

I’m also hoping some humor can be an added benefit to our Montecito General Plan to retain some lost enjoyable-ness in our beautiful town.

Hoping to not be restrained, Tom Kress Montecito

Underground Now!

An accident on the evening of January 17 makes a compelling and very strong case for undergrounding utility power poles and live wires. A motorist struck and knocked down a power pole on Alameda Padre Serra at Cleveland Elementary School that completely blocked the heavily trafficked thoroughfare all Saturday evening and into Sunday morning. Aside from knocking power out to over 1,000 residents for several hours, the bigger and more compelling issues are the live power lines and the large utility pole that completely blocked APS, including access to Cleveland Elementary School. What would have happened if live wires and the power pole were in the street in front of Cleveland Elementary on a school day?

What would happen in a large earthquake if several power poles and their live wires were to fall, making access routes all over Santa Barbara impassable?

We can’t wait for a devastating event to take place that risks the lives of Santa Barbara residents. It’s time for action on a large scale toward undergrounding utility poles and lines in Santa Barbara now.

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construction to their homes to pay to underground from their homes to the power pole. Santa Barbara also needs to impose a requirement on Edison to eliminate the poles over time.

Santa Barbara should not ignore this very critical safety issue.

Wendy Gragg Santa Barbara

(Editor’s note: We’ll just reiterate what we printed in last week’s issue: the Charlie Hebdo killers were cowards and those killed – editors, cartoonists, policemen, and visitors – were heroes. You don’t seem to believe that the idea of free speech involving speech that is truly free is a worthy endeavor. I disagree strongly.

– J.B.)

Playing with Fire

Fond Remembrances

If a car pulls up to The Montecito Journal and a gunman gets out and blows you away because you published an offending cartoon of Mohammed (more than once), I think you’ll go down as somebody who was reckless with his own life and played with fire more than to be thought of as a hero. But, until the end, I guess you did enjoy free speech.

Congratulations.

Free speech is relative. To this day, if an employer warns a truck driver of an approaching drug test he can be fined by the U.S. Department of Transportation. What’s wrong with that happening in America? The feds aren’t supposed to censor speech.

But in 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order 12564 (anyway), forcing some employees to be drug-free on and off the job.

Matt McLaughlin Santa Barbara

I would like your help in locating a very special Montecito location. It is where a dear friend of mine – Sandy – spent some time with her husband, Steve, who passed away years ago.

I have been told that the location is where two Greek Pillars are set and they overlook the ocean, up the street near the Biltmore Hotel. I was not able to search the area during my recent visit to the Santa Barbara area, as I was visiting with my very sick mother in Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.

I am now back home in England, but I took home a page from your newspaper so that I could write and ask for your help in maybe getting a photo and address of this mysterious location.

Thank you to your whole team. I really enjoyed your Year In Review issue (MJ #20/50).

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ast year, Diana Starr Langley volunteered to become interim CEO of the United Boys & Girls Club until a successor could be found.

One has been found: his name is Michael Baker, and he has 26 years of experience working with the Boys & Girls Club, including the last 14 years with the club in Anaheim. Carolyn Brown of the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara worked with Michael in Seattle and originally recommended him. He took over on January 2, allowing Diana to move on.

Diana was, it seems, born to be a representative for United Boys & Girls Club. Her father began life in an orphanage in Albion, Michigan. “My parents, when they were twenty-three and twenty-five, started a delinquent boys’ school in Van Wert, Ohio (next to Fort Wayne, Indiana)” she reveals as we sit on the patio outside our office on Coast Village Circle.

When Diana’s parents graduated from the University of Michigan, they were asked to start a school-orphanage on a 40-acre site in Ohio, which they did, calling it Starr Commonwealth (which accounts for Diana’s middle name).

Diana Starr Langley no longer heads up United Boys and Girls Club but remains active with the nonprofit and is about to launch a new for-profit enterprise

She grew up on the campus. “I had thirty-six ‘brothers’ with a revolving door,” she says. Van Wert was a town about the size of Montecito with a population of 10,000.

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This Week in and around Montecito

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8

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

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Book Signing at Granada Books Valerie Bentz, Ph.D, signs her book, Flesh and Mind: The Time Travels of Dr. Victoria Von Dietz, with music accompaniment by clarinet player Chad Cullins.

When: 5:30 to 7:30 pm Where: 1224 State Street Info: www.sbgranadabooks.com

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crocheting and knitting.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Track Registration Club West Youth Track and Santa Barbara Parks & Recreation hold track registration.

When: 4 to 5:30 pm Where: San Marcos High School, 4750 Hollister Avenue Info: www.clubwestyouthtrack.org

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 An Introduction to Capacitar This workshop offers a basic overview of holistic healing practices to enhance wellness and facilitate healing from stress and trauma. You will learn practices that you can utilize immediately, both for yourself and for the care of others. Taran Collis is a certified Capacitar trainer.

When: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $60, includes lunch Info: 969-5031 Health & Wellness Series Today is the second of two consecutive “Live Well” events at the Santa Barbara Public Market, which has partnered with

two leading health and wellness experts, Dr. Izzy Lira and Nora Tobin, for the Live Well series. The series will feature free low-impact group workouts (space is limited; first-come, first-served), healthy food samplings from Public Market merchants, as well as additional health and wellness programming, demos, and offerings from local vendors in their event space, The Kitchen.

When: starts at 11 am; visit www. sbpublicmarket.com for schedule of events Where: 38 West Victoria Dance Fever Winter Showcase Santa Barbara Dance Fever Studio presents a dance festival featuring a raffle, dance shows, social dancing, and more.

When: 6 pm Where: Santa Barbara Dance Center, 127 W. Canon Perdido Street Cost: $15 Info: www.sb.dancefeverstudio.com

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Tea Dance The City of Santa Barbara donates use of the ballroom and volunteers provide music and refreshments for this ongoing, free dance event.

Ballroom dance music including the Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Slow Fox Trot, Quick Step, and rhythm dances such as the Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing, Mambo, and Bolero are played, among other dance music. Participants can hone their dancing skills or learn new dance techniques.

The Santa Barbara Ballroom Tea Dance is held on the first Sunday of every month

Job Expo People with a love of animals and a passion for nature are wanted to join the Santa Barbara Zoo. Short-term or ongoing paid and volunteer positions are available, for adults 18 and over, and teens in junior high and high school. Special event hosts, climbing wall monitors, train engineers, performers for zoo shows, and educators for Zoo Camp are just a few of the opportunities to help support the zoo’s conservation, animal, and education activities. Team members from all zoo departments will be on hand to discuss the positions. Volunteer opportunities are available for teens 13 through 19.

When: 3 to 5 pm Where: 500 Niños Drive Info: www.sbzoo.org

at the Carrillo Rec Center. No partner necessary, but if you can find one, bring him or her along!

When: 2 to 5 pm Where: 100 E. Carrillo Street Info: 897-2519 Cost: free

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Lecture & Luncheon Channel City Club presents author and globe trekker Robert F. Hemphill, who will discuss his book, Dust Tea, Dingoes & Dragons, which touches upon the humor and practicality behind traveling the world while building a billion-dollar power company. The book, through a series of letters Hemphill sent to his father during his decade traveling the world, is a lesson in the meshing of cultures, the diplomacy of building business relationships, and, ultimately, of surviving to tell the tale.

When: 11:30 am check-in Where: Reagan Room at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort, 633 East Cabrillo Blvd.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Montecito Association Land Use Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito; tonight the Land Use Committee meets to discuss various local projects.

When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road VISTAS Lifelong Learning Class For the past 17 winters, David Bisno and

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For the last 16 years, Neustadt’s route has included all of Coast Village Road, Coast Village Circle, the neighborhoods around Hermosillo, Los Patos Way, and the Butterfly Beach neighborhood. “I know everybody’s name on this road,” Neustadt said of Coast Village, where he’s seen countless businesses come and go during the last 16 years. “I will really miss the day-to-day contact with everyone… those two minutes each day saying hello,” he said.

Neustadt was hired by USPS in 1988 and had routes in Goleta, San Roque, and the upper east side neighborhood of Santa Barbara before being assigned to Montecito. “It was a full-circle moment,” he said, adding that he spent his teen years living

Coast Village Road mailman Bob Neustadt retires this week after 16 years on the same Montecito route

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“At one point, we had seven teens and four of their babies living with us,” Neustadt said. After a few years of farming in addition to his volunteer work, Neustadt made the move back to Santa Barbara, and applied to USPS. “It hasn’t been a dull life,” he laughed.

After having two boys of their own, Bob and Sandy split up, but he says the family remains close-knit. His oldest son, Robert Neustadt IV, works for Deckers Outdoor Corporation in Goleta; his younger son, Gabriel, attends a small Christian college in Alabama.

Neustadt says he has met many friends on his daily route, which often takes him five hours to complete, not including the time it takes to sort and organize the mail he delivers.

One of his favorite memories is being tasked to deliver a letter addressed to: “Grandma on Coast Village Road,” written in a child’s careful cursive. “I asked every grandmother I knew on the road, asking if anyone was expecting a letter from a grandchild,” he

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The Profant Foundation for the Arts hosted the party – that would be Lyn, Michele, Marie, Musette, and Mignonne. There was help from MJ’s James Buckley, Hiroko Benko and Erin Graffy. Some of the sponsors were Chris Toomey of Glenair Inc., Montecito Village Grocery (fine wines), Ventura Rentals, Simply Cocktails, Life Cube Inc. (logistics) along with Mimi Michaelis, Carl and Patricia Perry, Lad Handelman, Linda Seals, Stan and Betty Hatch, and Patricia Hinds.

The guests came through wind and sleet and snow. Well, maybe not, but it was pouring down rain and had been for several hours. Diana called for valet parking shortly before the party was due to begin. Among all the raincoats and umbrellas, I came home with the wrong coat. Turned out to be my friend and fellow reporter Erin

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Being a bit smushed together makes for a good party.

Gil rarely took a break as everyone sang along with “great American song books.” Our hostess Diana received the Michelangelo Award for all her support to the Foundation. Visual Art scholarship presentations went to Colleen M. Kelly, who received the Patricia Crosby Hinds award for sculpture, while Margo Von Phul received the Pauline Award for mixed media. Other awards went to folks who couldn’t be there, such as the Rose Award to Anke Gladnick, a Community Service Award to Judy

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SEEN (Continued from page 14) Gil’s wife, Susan, with Leslie Ridley-Tree and Dolly Granatelli at the singalong

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As one recipient wrote, “Thank you!

The Profant Foundation provided an opportunity of a lifetime for me… The work you do has a profound effect on artists as well as the public, which has benefited from your programs.”

Some of those enjoying the sing along were Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Barthels, Silvio Di Loreto, Jim

New members honored by the SBMA Women’s Board Miriam Slater, Lynn Brown, Katherine MurrayMorse, Carolyn Vogt, and Lauren Hanson. Unable to attend were Nancy McGrath and Kristin St. John.

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) Women’s Board held its annual New Member Luncheon at the Santa Barbara Club. The honorees were Lynn Brown, Lauren Hanson, Nancy McGrath, Katherine MurrayMorse, Kristin St. John, Miriam Slater, and Carolyn Vogt.

Among the many past presidents attending were Sunni Thomas, Barbara S. Wallace, Grace Yoon, Deanna Major, and Gwen Baker.

When current president Carolyn Williams asked each of them what meant the most, they “shared a passion for art and wanted to bring people to art and art to people.”

As Carolyn reminded us, “The auxiliary has given over a million dollars

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He looked sharp in a black leather jacket, red plaid button-down shirt, and black trousers.

With a glowing tan – courtesy of his Christmas vacation in Hawaii – a full head of dark hair, and no sign of distress on his face, he admitted he found the fountain of youth through sports and sobriety. This year, the About Last Night star celebrated 25 years of clean living.

“I take very good care of myself,” the St. Elmo’s Fire star remarked. “I’m aging on the inside. I’m 103 in my heart. I’m so bitter.”

The West Wing actor previously referred to himself as an “adrenal junkie.”

“I don’t drink or do any of the crazy things I used to when I was wild and young, so I try to do things to let the wild man out. So skiing, surfing – adrenaline stuff.

“I tried boring stuff that you’re supposed to do. I tried golf, but gave that up because I killed the Iowa state bird in a golf tournament,” referring to a 2007 incident when he defied the odds and hit an American goldfinch in flight.

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company that sponsored the event estimated the probability of such a kill-swing was one in 747 million.

Incredibly, the odds of an amateur golfer making a hole-in-one is 1 in 12,500.

“I figured after that, I’m quitting.

The PETA people were furious.”

In his 2011 memoir, Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob said that during an Australian press tour in 1990 he was on so many painkillers that he did not remember getting a tattoo.

He quit drinking after entering a rehab clinic that same year, describing it in his book as “one of the most exhilarating, liberating and exciting four weeks in my life.”

The Emmy-nominee is promoting his role as Ben Novack Jr. in the Lifetime biopic Beautiful & Twisted, which airs on Saturday, January 31, on the cable channel.

The drama chronicles the murder of the Fontainbleau Miami Beach hotel heir and his mother, played by Candice Bergen, and the kinky details of his marriage to a former stripper, played by Paz Vega, that emerged after she is named as the suspect in the deaths.

Thicke of It Carpinteria actor Alan Thicke has weighed in on the growing Bill Cosby sexual assault scandal.

Alan, who currently stars in the Canadian TV reality series Unusually Thicke which focuses on his wife Tanya and his family, not only starred in the hit ABC series Growing Pains, but was a producer on Cosby’s variety show Cos back in the 70s.

“There is no doubt in my mind Bill Cosby was a bad boy,” he said in a recent interview.

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Alan Thicke weighs in on Bill Cosby sex scandal

“When there’s that much conversation, when there’s that much smoke, there must be some fire,” he tells the Toronto Star. “I’m sure that Bill must have been a bad boy. I think the issue will be to what degree.”

That being said, Alan, 67, was quick to point out that he never once witnessed any of this behavior from Cosby.

“In my history with Bill, I saw absolutely nothing of the controversy around him now. I just saw a guy who was doing his job.”

And while he is quick to praise Cosby for all he contributed to the world of comedy, and for being “one of the guys who really rescued the sitcom,” Alan says he is not sure how to “move forward” in his relationship with the actor, noting that he has not spoken to him since women began coming forward last October claiming they were drugged and raped by the comedian.

Cosby meanwhile is continuing his North American stand-up tour, seemingly oblivious to the protesters who have begun gathering outside his shows.

However, as a result of the many allegations, NBC revealed recently that they would not be moving forward with a previously announced show featuring the actor.

NBC entertainment chief, Bob Greenblatt, said it was “safe to say” the network would never again work with Cosby in any capacity...

A New Lieff on Life Socialite and philanthropist Gretchen Lieff threw an Amazonsonly bash at her George Washington Smith estate, Los Suenos, to mark a major birthday.

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William Louis-Dreyfus’s considerable art collection and generosity has inspired a documentary and premieres at this year’s Santa Barbara International Film Festival

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our-time Emmy Award-winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld, Veep) knew her father, William, a now-retired highly successful international businessman, was a dedicated art collector. But she had no idea of the extent of his collection of some 3,000 works – including paintings, sculptures, and sketches – until he recently decided that he would sell virtually all of it to create an endowment for the Harlem Children’s Zone, a nonprofit seeking to eradicate generational poverty among the inner-city area of New York.

Similarly, Louis-Dreyfus and her husband, Brad Hall, had no intention of making a full-fledged documentary when they set out to New

York to delve into his collection. In fact, Julia wasn’t even going to be in it at all.

“All we were going to do was get some high-quality images of the art and make a family video just so our kids would know about this gift and their grandfather’s interest in helping African-American children,” Hall said. “We didn’t know all that much about the art ourselves. But when we saw it hanging in the former electronics factory up in Mt. Kisco, we realized this was the real deal, a very unusual collection.”

After spending quite of bit of time with William Louis-Dreyfus, and meeting some of the artists whose work is represented in the collection, Hall and his wife upped the ante,

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but were still thinking of a private video.

“He’s such a fascinating character and had interactions with all these mixes of people,” Hall explained.

“So we decided to do it a little higher quality to present to people to gin up the value of the art (for sale). But then, as generally happens when you’re shooting footage randomly, we realized that Julia was discovering a lot of things about her dad that she hadn’t really explored. That became the story.”

The result is Generosity of Eye, which combines an art catalog with the moving story of Julia LouisDreyfus learning first-hand about the extent of her father’s close relationship with many of the artists, and how his passion for art and social justice came together with the act of generosity that will play out over many decades.

Brad Hall and Julia Louis-Dreyfus – who have lived in Montecito for decades (Brad is a native) – will be at both screenings of the documentary at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), slated for Friday, January 30, at 7 pm and Monday, February 2, at 4 pm, both at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Hall talked about Generosity in advance of the screenings.

Q. What was your and Julia’s experience with this art before making the movie?

A. I’d seen a very small, part of it with her mom. When we moved to New York together when we were very young to do Saturday Night Live, she was just 21 and we started spending more time with her dad, with whom she had never really lived. The art was all over the place. But Julia didn’t know that her father had these very intimate relationships with the artists who were working right there in New York. And he traveled to Paris a lot, where he had a whole other life of European art she had no idea about.

After he retired, he brought all that art back to the States. He had some fancy art dealers come in and look at it, and they’re the ones who told him it was a very valuable collection.

He had never purchased anything to sell; he was never a dealer. Right after that happened, he came across [the executive director of the Harlem Children’s Zone] Jeff Canada on a 60 Minutes piece, then ran into Tom Brokaw in an airport and Jeff came up again. Right after that, he walked into Jeff’s office and said, “I’m going to give you all this art.” As soon as he realized what it was worth, he gave it away.

Julia is very funny and personable, mugging for the camera, whispering in

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her dad’s ear. It’s almost a home movie.

When I started to look at the footage, one of the most compelling things as someone who knows Julia well was that’s very much what she’s really like. When you see her play a role, elements of that come out, but this is pretty much unadorned. To see her observe her father’s relationships with the artists and Jeff Canada was very moving, both to me and her.

How weird was it for Julia to delve so deeply into something from her past that she didn’t know that much about?

It was a little weird. I think she held back from being super emotionally available on camera at first and then kind of gave up. It’s unusual for an actor. She’s used to having the artifice of a role. In this case, she was the interviewer, which she’d never done. I’d give her areas I wanted to cover and often they went somewhere else. That writes itself.

We added voiceover later to put it together.

She gets teary, and when I first showed her some cuts of the movie she said, “Oh God, do we really have to have that in?” But she realized that most of us would be as moved as she was that he would be so generous with these kids. My only real regret was that we didn’t have more time and couldn’t bring the kids to the gallery, which they did later, but I wasn’t there. So much was touching. And Julia and her dad are also very funny. We figured if you (the audience) would have to sit there for an hour looking at art on film, you’d like to be entertained a bit, too.

So have you achieved the original objective or raising the value and awareness of the art?

Yeah, it really has. We’re very happy to show it at the museum.

That’s what we hope to continue to do. And it will also live online as a resource for the collection. It’s very complicated how it’s going to be sold. It has to be very carefully managed. The bulk of this art won’t be sold for a decade, and it will take several decades to sell it all. And it’s not as if William has stopped buying art. He’s like an addict. So there will be income for the next 50 years for the Harlem Children’s Zone.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 19) Celebrating with dishes of their favorite fares followed by birthday desserts are Melinda Gandara, Gwen Stauffer, Corinna Gordon, Victoria Hines, Kristy Newton, Channing Solodar, Laura Bridley, Susie Cronin, Edie Caldwell and seated is Marina Gray, Cathy Halpler, Gretchen Lieff, Nancy Gifford, and Christine Smigel (photo by Priscilla)

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the beginning,” says Gretchen.

“A really great bunch of working girls!

“It was a wonderful evening filled with memories and connections. Susie Cronin asked everybody how they met, in essence pulling the red thread through all the women at the table. Our favorite photographer, Priscilla, wrote a poem that captured everything and then asked all the guests to add something to the birthday card and sign it. I was left speechless.”

Among the guests at the

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boffo birthday bash were Victoria Hines, Corinna Gordon, Gwen Stauffer, Nancy Gifford, Kristy Newton, Edie Caldwell, Melinda Gandara, Christine Smigel, and Marina Gray...

Living Legends If you weren’t lucky enough to receive an invitation to TV titan Oprah Winfrey’s mega bash at the Bacara to celebrate the legends of civil rights and her new Paramount film, Selma, which she co-produced with Brad Pitt, in

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Unfinished Business

The “Greek pillars” where Sandy and Steve spent some romantic moments way back when are just up the hill from the Biltmore on what we affectionately call “Warner’s Bluff”

Kindest regards, Karen Malamatenios London, England (Editor’s note: There are actually two sets of pillars, close to each other but belonging to two different properties.

The more interesting ones are set behind a small gate and were an adjunct of the Robert Preston (the original “Music Man” in both the Broadway play and the movie) estate. He died in 1987, and his widow, Catherine Craig, died in 2004, whereupon the house was purchased by a wealthy neighbor. The next-door pillars belonged to another family, though I believe the pillars were built before they owned the house. – J.B.)

When the mirror of life looks right back through us, we realize how critical our “unfinished business” really is.

Thanks for that heads-up – well done.

Imagine how you’d change mankind if all families were to see [Rod Lathim’s] play. But also, please know that your play is a gift to everyone who listens so hard for messages from their departed loved ones. Thank you, not only for an entertaining evening of great talent, but a most important message of hope.

We can hear, if only we stop to listen.

I’ve never been so proud of one of our scholarship awards with my dad’s name in some small way involved; I hear from him, but now I’ll listen more often. Just maybe he was talking to us through you.

Marie Profant Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: The John Profant Foundation “Viva Award” was given to Rod Lathim at the 2014 Fiesta Finale, where he received a standing ovation when the crowd heard the surprise announcement. He used this award to help bring his play Unfinished Business to life in at Center Stage Theater last weekend in Santa Barbara.)

Thank You All Around

The Arts Fund would like to thank

Lynda Millner for her great coverage of our latest opening. She does such a great job and is very generous with her time. Your paper just gets better all the time!

While I am at it, I’d also like to thank Richard Mineards and Priscilla for coming to all our openings; Joanne Calitri is also a terrific arts writer, so you have a great loyal team – which says a lot about the Montecito Journal, which has been so helpful in spreading the word about our little organization.

Nancy Gifford Vice president, Board of Trustees Arts Fund Santa Barbara

The Wrath of... God?

France is a Catholic nation, and many French who say they are agnostic also self-identify as Catholic. A Charlie Hebdo cartoon found on a link that I prefer not to have published, depicts the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost engaged in a very unholy trinity. This type of cartoon is typical for Charlie Hebdo, yet its offices had not been stormed by angry Catholics or Christians.

I am Christian, and the image in the cartoon about the trinity is a joke; a joke in the sense that Christians do not believe their God needs them to avenge an insult and indeed can han-

dle insults himself in whatever way he chooses. After all, God is... well, God... and the real joke is on those who believe in a prophet-deity so weak and pathetic that he requires a fainting couch.

Steve Gowler Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: You are right about that; however, you would not have been right about that say, 250 or 300 years ago. But that only underscores that Muslims have a lot of catching up to do. – J.B.)

Pay Attention

We are still in a drought, and we must all pay attention to our use of the available water. In the meantime, I see that another multi-million-dollar desalination plant is proposed. May I suggest if we do build another one, that we: A) Remember to turn the thing on; B) Be informed as stockholders when and if parts are being sold off; C) B e told how much we made by said sale, and D) Be informed where the monies are being stashed (pardon me), and where the funds are being invested, just in case we have to build a third one!

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On Entertainment “Mr. Warmth” to Shine at Chumash

by Steven Libowitz

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on Rickles ended our interview with a question for the writer. “Are you planning on coming to the show?” he said. “I hope you do. You sound like a nice gentleman, and I wish you a lot of luck.”

Say what? Don Rickles exchanging pleasantries. Heck, even Mr. Potato Head, who Rickles voices in the Toy Story movies, would’ve tossed out at least one “You knucklehead” for some of the smarmier questions.

Well, it turns out the legendary “Insult Comic”, sardonically dubbed Mr. Warmth decades ago by Jay Leno, is a pretty nice guy when he’s not on stage. But see for yourself as Rickles, who appears at the Chumash Casino’s Samala Showroom on Thursday, February 5, took a trip down memory lane and analyzed his act with us over the phone earlier this week.

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What’s the formula for a perfect insult?

There’s no such thing. Because it’s really not insults. I kid about life and myself, and people laugh. I don’t tell mean jokes – two Jews fell off a bus.

That’s not what I do. I just notice things about people.

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Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than ten years.

want me to make fun of their coat or hat or clothing, or the way they look. They get a kick out of it.

Nobody can really do that because it’s not their personality, but mine is based on ripping people and laughing at life.

Bob Newhart called you “The sweetest man I’ve ever known” because your stage show is just an act. Does it feel good to put that hat on all the time?

Well, uh, put it this way: You want a share of the money? I’m 88 and just signed a new deal in Las Vegas, which is a pretty good thing.

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I don’t even think about the line. It never shows up. I just do what I do.

Listen, you’re a writer, and I’m sure not everybody loves your column.

When you stand on the stage, I’m sure not everybody in the world loves me, but the majority are on my side.

I never had a writer. I just say what’s in my head what I think is funny. I do my stuff in front of people and they laugh. When I make fun of something, it’s always in good humor. So there’s no line.

But have you ever gone too far? Or thought, “Maybe I shouldn’t have said that”?

No, no. I never take it back. You do what you do, and you go with it. If you run scared, you go no place at all.

I’ve been doing what I do for over 55 years, in all sorts of places, and I never backed up.

Do people come up to you on the streets and ask you to insult them or their spouses?

Oh, sure. All the time. They just

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You’re the voice of Mr. Potato Head in the Toy Story movies. It sounds like it must be a lot of fun, but some folks under 35 only know you from the movies.

Sixteen years ago, (Toy Story creator) John Lassiter – 16 years already! – asked me to do it, and I said “I don’t do that stuff.” But I read a few lines for him, and he said, “You’re Mr. Potato head. You’ve got to do the voice.” It’s a lot of fun. So why not? But if kids only know me as Mr. Potato Head, I’ve got a big problem.

You used to hang out with some of the greats in entertainment. Do you relate to today’s comics?

I’ve never done blue, and I never swear on stage. I don’t knock that kind of humor; if they can get people to laugh at it, more power to them. But it’s not my cup of tea. All I know is my stuff is still making it.

Why do you think your style has lasted so long?

If you’re different, you have a chance. I tell that to young people all the time: be different from the next guy. Original and funny. But rejection

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After all these years, do you have a favorite moment, a favorite line where you feel like you just nailed it?

I’ve enjoyed all of it, but the highlight of my career was [Ronald] Reagan’s inaugural with Frank Sinatra, when he insisted I be on the show or he wouldn’t do it. That was a great, great night for me.

You’re 88 years old and have been in the business for more than 60 years. What keeps you going?

No, I’m not tired of it at all. The traveling is a pain, but that’s about it. It’s fun to perform. I’d like it if the theater was right in my house, but that’s the only part.

So, no career change?

(Laughs). No, no, no. I’m just trying to stay alive. Leave me alone with career change!

Five Q’s about Twelfth Night

UCSB music professor Joel Feigin’s Twelfth Night, an opera based on Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, finally sees its West Coast premiere this weekend, more than a dozen years after it was originally composed. But for Feigin, a former student of both Nadia Boulanger and Roger Sessions who plans to retire at the end of the year after 23 years teaching composition at the school, there’s nothing but joy in the upcoming production.

Directed by Emmy-winner David Grabarkewitz, the general director of El Paso Opera who has also worked extensively with New York City Opera, Twelfth Night features a large cast of university singers and musicians in UCSB’s biannual, fully staged opera presentation.

Feigin, who practices Zen Buddhism, waxed enthusiastic about the two upcoming shows on Friday evening and Sunday afternoon at Lotte Lehmann Hall.

Q. Why did you want to adapt Twelfth Night into an opera?

A. To me, a play that begins “If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it” is just waiting to be turned into an opera. You have all the ingredients: music, love, and excess. It’s a wonderfully lyrical play, with some of Shakespeare’s greatest songs. They’re gorgeous. I also love the gender-bending. There are two identical twins, a boy and a girl, which of course is impossible. They get shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, where everyone just pursues love as they see fit. In Shakespeare’s time, when there were no women in the theater, there was a boy dressed as a girl disguised as a boy having a love scene 29 January – 5 February 2015

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with a boy disguised as a girl. Everyone gets mixed up. So that’s a lot of fun.

Shakespeare has proven challenging to adapt for composers. What did you do to avoid the pitfalls?

Everyone is terrified of taking on Shakespeare. For me, basically it’s just chutzpah, no question about it... I cut it tremendously, maybe 90 percent, which you have to do in opera. But I found hope in Arrigo Boito’s libretto for Verdi’s Othello. If you compare the texts, nothing is left. But everything is there. He extracted from Shakespeare the mere scaffolding, but it works. So you just do the best you can.

Can you talk about your choices in what to focus on?

I tended to cut more of the farcical scenes than the romantic ones. But I’m happy to say that they more than hold their own in what’s left... it’s very funny. The most difficult part by far is destroying some of the greatest poetry ever written in any language. As Verdi said, you put your hand on your heart and write your music.

How did you handle the original language of the play?

I kept as much as I could. There’s maybe one or two lines in the whole thing that weren’t Shakespeare. When I needed something else, I stole from the sonnets. If the singers know what they’re doing in terms of diction, it’s much more possible than people would think.

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It’s such a happy play, so delightful, so the music is very accessible.

Nobody should have any problem with 99.9 percent of the music. When you have gentle romantic feelings, there’s no reason to use the more recent musical styles of the last century, which aren’t adept at expressing that. Twelfth Night is a joyous comedy full of love and beauty. It just seemed appropriate to write it as melodic as I could make it.

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Santa Barbara Cemetery Site We are actively engaged with the Santa Barbara Cemetery Association regarding the use of its vacant property located by the railroad tracks as a possible location of the desalination facility. Studies and negotiations are currently underway for this site.

Montecito Sanitary District Site The MSD is revisiting its existing facility master plan to determine whether a desalination facility could be physically co-sited on the Monte Cristo Lane property. MSD’s preliminary findings are anticipated in late spring 2015.

SB’s Desalination Facility Reactivation

MWD is continuing its discussions with the City of Santa Barbara. The city is seeking regulatory approvals to recommission its desalination facility. The approvals of two state regulatory agencies are expected by the middle of February 2015. Once State regulatory approvals are granted, the city’s facility could be operational in 2017.

If Montecito were to partner with the city in the recommissioning of its desalination facility, it would be considered a “regional facility” and could reopen permits to new project conditions and possibly delay reactivation.

Nevertheless, MWD believes that there might be an opportunity for partnering with the city. With the city’s concurrence, we will begin efforts at the state level to demonstrate the value of a shared facility.

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In closing, we are dealing with a number of complicated issues that necessitate important decisions by the District. MWD remains committed to properly vetting alternatives and engaging our customers in a factual deliberation of the choices we have in creating a more secure water future for Montecito.

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Winter Wonderland?

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We also have rain, which means we have to make sure the ragtop is up on our convertibles and that the cover is off the rain barrel, so we can collect enough water to mist the Prickly Pear Cactus occasionally.

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trees, so I gathered and planted.

And the shows! Bonsai folks love to have shows. This is when they gussy-up their best trees, put them in designer pots, add moss around the roots like a real forest setting and place them on special pedestals with small accent plants that they must also learn to grow.

But the greatest thing about bonsai shows is that we can… wait for it… buy more trees! Seasoned bonsaists supply these trees, usually so that they can stay married. Our spouses love our trees right up to the point that they can no longer squeeze through them to get to the mailbox.

The other thing you find at these shows are bonsai pots. Round ones, oval ones, rectangular ones. Sizes vary from a few inches across to those that will require their own seat on the

The days are shorter, so we have to supplement our au naturel

bronzing with sessions at the tanning emporium and spray center But for some of us, this time of year holds yet another major challenge: repotting our bonsais.

Yup. Each “winter” we take our little trees out of their little pots, give the roots a trim, give them fresh soil, and carefully wire them back into their snug little homes.

This was pretty easy when I first started learning the art of bonsai. I did one tree one day and the other tree the next. Then I put them back on their shelf, pulled up the chaise lounge and waited for spring when they would grow new foliage that I would trim.

One tree one day, the other tree the next day.

And even though my two little friends seemed to get along well and enjoy each other’s company, I thought they might be a bit lonely, so I acquired another little tree. Then I was afraid that three being an odd number that two of them might turn their boughs on the third, so I added a fourth, then a fifth, then several more. I also found out that other bonsaists would save all the little branches they cut off and put them into training pots to see if they might propagate. So I did this, too.

Then I found out that some members of the Bonsai Club, which I was now a member of, would collect acorns in the spring and grow their own oak

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drive home. But not every pot is right for every tree. You learn this quickly when you bring trees to workshops and they tell you they love your pot but not with that tree. Then they describe the perfect pot, which is one you do not own.

So, the result of all this is my modest collection of trees has grown, so to speak. Which means even if I repot every day, it will take me weeks. I’ll need a trashcan full of the special bonsai soil, which is mainly expensive rocks, and copious amounts of wire in a dozen different gauges for shaping my trees into cascades, uprights, slants, windswept, and “others.” Not to mention rooting compound, fertilizers, pesticides, and enough special tools to put a carpenter to shame.

So for all of you lucky enough to be buried up to your eyeballs in snow, trying to figure out which frozen mountain is your car, relax. Watch bowling for dollars on television, play board games, roast chestnuts in your fireplace, and don’t worry about us overworked Southern Californians with no respite from good weather.

And if you happen to see me someday at a bonsai show, hawking junipers, please buy a few so my wife will •MJ let me move back home.

29 January – 5 February 2015

Your Westmont

David and Anna Grotenhuis with president Gayle D. Beebe

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

Stick, Disc Golfers Take Aim at Tourney Stick and disc golfers take aim Monday, February 2

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olfers and disc golfers will have a unique opportunity to play together in the seventh annual Will’s Tourney on Monday, February 2, at 11:30 am at the Glen Annie Golf Club. A buffet dinner, raffle and awards presentation will follow the tournament at 5:15 pm.

Green fees are $150, $115 for recent graduates (2006-’12) and $75 for current students. All proceeds from the event benefit the William Wiersma Endowment Scholarship Fund at Westmont. Sponsorship opportunities are still available. To register or for more information, go to will stourney.com or contact Karen Sloan, Westmont special events manager, at (805) 565-6069.

Wiersma graduated from Westmont in 2006 after spending his senior year studying at Oxford University. He was killed in a car accident in October 2006 while returning from an Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Phoenix. The following year, the Wiersmas established a scholarship to honor the principles of collaboration for which Will stood.

“Now in its seventh year, Will’s Tourney is, as far as we know, the only simultaneous stick/disc golf tournament in the country,” says Tom Wiersma, Will’s dad. “The nature of the tournament embodies three of the things that Will appreciated most — collaboration, competition, and fun.”

This is a conventional Best Ball/Best Disc Tournament. Traditional golfers and disc golfers will play their own game, keep track of their individual best scores on each hole and submit the best combined 18 scores at the end of the tournament.

The evening is filled with awards, raffle prizes, and dinner at the Frog Bar and Grill overlooking the Goleta coastline. The event, which was held 29 January – 5 February 2015

for the first six years at the Montecito Country Club, is officially sponsored

by Westmont and organized annually by Will’s family, friends and the college.

“If you are unable to golf, please come for the dinner and raffle,” Sloan says. “The key is to collaborate to raise money for the William Wiersma Scholarship.”

has taught voice at Westmont for nine years.

Two separate, live orchestras, conducted by Michael Shasberger, Adams professor of music and worship, accompany the singers.

Designers include Westmont professors Yuri Okahana (scenery), Miller James (costumes), and Jonathan Hicks (lighting).

“The operas couldn’t be more different,” says Blondell. “Where La Serva is bright, comic, and whimsical, Old Maid is more overtly psychological, and emotionally and musically demanding. The student performers are doing a fantastic job, and the theater and music faculty hope that this will be just the beginning for an exciting tradition of opera at Westmont.”

Opera Classics

Grotenhuis Scholarships

The Westmont Theater and Music Departments, which won three national awards for the 2013 co-production of The Pirates of Penzance, combine forces for “An Evening of One-Act Opera Classics” on January 30-31 at 7 pm and Sunday, February 1, at 3 pm, all in Porter Theatre. Tickets, which cost $15 general admission and $10 students/seniors/children, can be purchased by calling (805) 565-7140 or online at www.westmont. edu/boxoffice.

John Blondell, Westmont professor of theater, stages the operas that are directed by Celeste Tavera, adjunct professor and Music Drama Workshop teacher. The evening includes La Serva Padrona (The Servant Turned Mistress), an opera buffa by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, a libretto

by Gennaro Antonio Federico composed in 1733 and The Old Maid and the Thief. A Grotesque Opera in One Act, composed by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti to his own libretto in 1939.

The operas feature singers Wendy Kent, Robert Huff, and Matthew Maler in La Serva; and Emmalee Wetzel, Serena Lee, McKenna Kleinmeier, and Walter Dyer in Old Maid. “The singers have beautiful voices,” says Tavera, a Metropolitan Opera National Council winner who

David and Anna Grotenhuis have planned a gift from their estate to Westmont College that will endow approximately 12 full-tuition scholarships focused on attracting culturally and ethnically diverse students, and rewarding those with extraordinary musical accomplishments.

“David and Anna’s gift will make a

huge impact on our diversity initiative and our music programs,” says president Gayle D. Beebe. “We’re blessed by their continued involvement in the college. This fund will help us reach our goal of enrolling diverse, talented students from around the nation and the world regardless of their ability to pay. As our acclaimed music program continues to flourish, these scholarships will ensure that many gifted musicians are able to attend Westmont.”

David Grotenhuis graduated from Westmont in 1963 with a degree in economics and business. In 1972, he founded a respected California real estate investment firm, Santa Barbara Capital, with his college roommate, Wayne Siemens. Anna Grotenhuis has been actively involved in the Santa Barbara nonprofit community for many years and currently serves on the Westmont Foundation Board.

David and Anna are both also committed to Cottage Hospital and the Grotenhuis Multi Specialty Pediatric Clinic.

Based on Westmont’s 2014-15 tuition, the full scholarships would provide nearly $500,000 in annual student aid.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 22) Attending the Bacara’s showing of Oprah’s Legends Who Paved the Way are mayors of Goleta and Santa Barbara, Paula Perotte and Helene Schneider (photo by Priscilla)

Marty Plourd, Ona Brictson, Henry Dubroff, and Kristie Plourd at the Bacara’s film event while furthering their discussion of Oprah Winfrey’s project about the Civil Rights Movement (photo by Priscilla)

behind the scenes and really captured the essence of the event, which was really quite spectacular.”

The documentary has just started airing on OWN...

After seeing Legends Who Paved the Way and popcorn munching, Wendy Ino, Chris Hall, Andi Newville and in back Stephanie Winegardnere, Virginia Fletcher, Bobbie Reyna, and Melissa Ryan (photo by Priscilla)

December, guests at the tony hostelry were able to get a sneak-peek of a program Legends Who Paved The Way, covering the event, which is airing on Oprah’s eponymous cable channel.

The exclusive show in the resort’s 211-seat private screening room, just a tiara’s toss from the cavernous ballroom where the oh-so tony event was held with the likes of Sidney Poitier,

Berry Gordy, Andrew Young, Quincy Jones, and Harry Belafonte in attendance, attracted 200 guests, including Santa Barbara mayor Helene Schneider and Goleta mayor Paula Perotte.

“We asked for permission to host the screening, which they had no problem granting,” says hotel public relations whiz Anne Elcon. “It was a nice look

In Over-drive America’s oldest licensed driver, Edythe Kirchmaier, and a volunteer for Direct Relief for more than 40 years, celebrated her 107th birthday at the charity’s headquarters when Santa Barbara police chief, Cam Sanchez, appointed her honorary head of the city force for the day.

Thomas Tighe, the non-profit’s chief executive, also revealed that in due course a new volunteer center to be built on land recently purchased near the Santa Barbara Airport will be named in Edythe’s honor.

“She really is quite unique!” he gushed about Edythe, who appeared on TV shows such as Ellen DeGeneres and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, when she renewed her California driver’s license and passed her test with flying colors two years ago.

In her long driving career, she has never even received a ticket. “I can vouch for that,” smiled Cam. “I checked the records!”

Entertainment for the 100 guests at the party was provided by 10-year-old tap dancer Sofia Schuster, a member

of Janet Adderley’s Youth Ensemble Theater, who also sang the Nat King Cole hit “L-O-V-E”, while Montecito actor Billy Baldwin congratulated Edythe on her major milestone in a recorded segment.

Edythe, who was given a new Honda Civic by an anonymous donor last year, as I exclusively revealed here, says she is now delegating much of her driving, even though she still has three years left on her license, to her good friend, Gena-Vera Niblack, who is only 100!

Edythe Kirchmaier and SB police chief Cam Sanchez (photo by Isaac Hernandez)

(from left) The volunteer crew Direct Relief letter-writers: Gena-Vera Niblack, Dolores Marso, Ann Pless, Edythe Kirchmaier, and Ingrid Lindgren (photo by Isaac Hernandez)

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Lunch and Lodging After being in the doldrums during the economic downturn, things are definitely looking up for the Greater Santa Barbara Lodging and Restaurant Association with total occupancy tax up nearly 15 percent.

The organization’s annual lunch for 160 guests at the Coral Casino presented the Hospitality Employee Star Award to Drew Wakefield of the Ramada, and the Hospitality Star of the Year to Kathy Janega-Dykes of Visit Santa Barbara.

Association board member Nino Martinez from the Chumash Casino Resort also presented a scholarship to Alexandria Karnazes, who is enrolled in City College’s restaurant and hospitality program.

Among the guests checking out the lively repast in the La Pacifica Ballroom were Hiroko Benko, Tony Arroyo, Alessandro Cartumini, Greg Gorga, Dennis Longaberger, Peter Jordano, Roger Durling, Warren Butler, Skip Abed, Dean Noble, Dale Francisco, Ted Ellis, Ron Smith, Salud Carbajal, and Bendy White...

Dreamers of Dreams Since its founding 21 years ago, the Dream Foundation has performed innumerable good works and marked its 20,000th dream at its city headquarters last week.

The milestone dream was granted to Yvonne Rodriguez, a 34-year-old mother of two from Los Angeles suffering terminal breast cancer, who, two months ago, visited Sea World in San Diego, and the city’s world-famous zoo and safari park.

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TRAIL TALK

by Lynn P. Kirst

Bredahl-Baker Lands Coaching Position

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anta Barbara County’s reputation as a center for exceptional horse activities and riders got another boost recently, when Buellton resident Charlotte Bredahl-Baker was named Assistant Dressage Youth Coach by the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF). The Lexington, Kentucky-based organization made its announcement in October, when they also announced the appointment of renowned horseman George Williams as U.S. Dressage Youth Coach.

“It’s an absolute dream come true,” said Charlotte. “I can’t think of anything I would rather be doing for the rest of my life. I am so excited to have the chance to influence the next generation, not only in their riding, but also in their sportsmanship and horsemanship.”

Charlotte is familiar with both of those aspects of competitive riding, as well as the hard work, dedication and discipline that go along with them. Born and reared in Denmark, Charlotte came to the United States at the age of 22, with not much more than the suitcase she was carrying.

Bredahl-Baker’s first job was working as a groom at Bell Canyon Equestrian Center in Los Angeles County. Designed by world-renowned architect and horseman Cliff May (see “Trail Talk,” Montecito Journal April 5, 2012), the large facility houses 120 equines. Charlotte worked her way up from groom to manager, becoming an American citizen along the way.

Expanding her involvement in the horse world, Charlotte then began importing horses from Europe to train and sell.

“One of those horses was Monsieur,” remembered Charlotte. “I wasn’t a very good sales person, and I was the only one who could really ride him, so I ended up keeping him and ultimately riding him in the Olympics. I still have him and he’ll be 34 years old this year.”

Among her many awards, BredahlBaker won a Team Bronze medal in the 1992 Olympic Games held in Barcelona, as well as a Team Silver medal in the 1997 North American Championship. She is also a highly respected trainer and judge, and has a passion for mentoring young people.

Under the direction of the newly appointed coaches, Williams and Bredahl-Baker, the USEF Youth Dressage Program will provide educational clinics for young riders aged 14-21. Williams and Bredahl-Baker will teach some clinics together and others separately; their schedule is

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Charlotte Bredahl-Baker, one of Santa Barbara County’s most accomplished equestriennes, has been appointed Assistant Dressage Youth Coach (photo by Kathryn Burke Equiessence)

Standing on the Olympic podium with her teammates, Charlotte Bredahl (far left) wears the Bronze medal she won at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics

A museum and travel professional, community volunteer, and lifelong equestrienne, Lynn Kirst is a fourth-generation Californian who grew up in Montecito; she can often be found riding or hiking the local trails

oriented toward the seasons, starting with January in Florida.

“I’ve already been down to Florida this month, and I’ll be there again for three to four weeks in March,” said Charlotte. During the spring, clinics will be held in California, and summer events will be mainly on the East Coast. Both coaches will be at the Kentucky Horse Park for the five-day North American Championships, and they will also hold Outreach Clinics in various areas of the country that are either “hot spots” for youth dressage, or places where promotion of dressage is needed.

To those outside the sport, it may seem strange that 18-21-year-olds are considered “young riders,” and that “youth riders” have an average age of 16 to 21.

“They are also considered young riders up to age 25, but that’s getting them into Grand Prix level,” said Charlotte.

It’s a complicated system with a lot of overlap, but the Youth Program feeds riders into other programs, all run by the USEF. The Developing Program is for younger contenders, and the Elite Program is for team contenders.

“We all work towards the common goal, and that is to get on the podium at the Olympics,” related Charlotte.

“We need a broad base of really good riders.”

Riding her palomino American Quarter Horse named Trigger, Charlotte Bredahl-Baker demonstrates how even Western horses can benefit from dressage training.

Charlotte rides Trigger on trail rides with the Fillies, an invitational women’s trail riding group.

When asked about the relatively advanced age of these athletes, Bredahl-Baker explained that the average age of Olympic equestrians is much older than athletes in other sports.

“I was 35 when I was in the Barcelona Olympics, and I was one of the youngest equestrian competitors.

Experience counts a lot in this sport.

Riders are very fit but they don’t have to run a marathon.”

While Bredahl-Baker is used to riding in a top hat and tails, she is equally at home riding the trails with her American Quarter Horse, a beautiful palomino named Trigger.

She is a member of The Fillies, a local women’s trail riding group, and every year she gives a “Cowgirl Dressage” clinic for her fellow Fillies members.

Why? Because even a cowgirl and

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her trail horse can benefit from some dressage training.

Mark Your Calendar

Thursday, January 29 Wine Reception at 6:30 pm Film at 7:15 pm $25 per person The Legacy of Sheila Varian Buellton Parks Plaza Theater 515 McMurray Road, Buellton The Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum is presenting a one-time showing of this inspirational movie about revered horsewoman Sheila Varian.

The film includes never-before-seen footage from Varian’s early years. She and producer Evie Tubbs Sweeney will attend. Advance payment advised, through the museum’s website www. santaynezmuseum.org, or by calling the museum at 688-7889.

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Vice president and luncheon chair Fran Morrow with Robert and Mercedes Eichholz, director and CEO Larry Feinberg, and president Carolyn Williams at the luncheon

LifeChronicles honorees Pete and Gerd Jordano with founder Kate Carter in the center at the pre-event reception

and many of the paintings have never been exhibited outside Glasgow.

Thanks go to vice president Fran Morrow for arranging the lovely luncheon for the members. We all benefit from the work these ladies do.

Remarkable Life Award

LifeChronicles will be giving their third annual “Father Virgil Remarkable Life Award” to Pete and Gerd Jordano in February. Meantime, they held a pre-event reception at the charming Community Partners Center (adobe) now owned by Union Bank at 15 W. Carrillo Street. Prior recipients were Betty and Stan Hatch and Sue and Ed Birch.

LifeChronicles began 17 years ago when Kate Carter’s friend and young mom was dying of cancer. She had three children she wanted to remember her, so Kate videotaped her friend’s life memories and thoughts for her family. Thus began LifeChronicles. As Kate said,” We have now done 1,200 videos in 38 states for the seniors or seriously ill.” She remembered, “The first fundraiser was called ‘Rebel for a Cause,’ and was a sock hop.” If a family can’t afford to pay for the service, it is given to them.

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of service and compassion that were also the touchstones of Father Virgil’s life. The history of Jordano’s company goes back 100 years, and they now have 600 employees whose average time with the company is 16 years.

It’s obviously a good place to work because that’s a lot of longevity for this day and age.

As Pete joked, “My mom used to say, ‘If you don’t love yourself no one else will.’ So I grew up lovin’ myself.

Our vocation is our vacation.” Gerd and Pete met 40 years ago. Event producer Judi Weisbart recalled, “I am of the Jewish faith, but Father Virgil had a wisdom that included all faiths.”

The dinner will be at the DoubleTree Resort on Thursday, February 12, where LifeChronicles will show parts of a four-hour video that Father Virgil requested to make toward the end of his life.

Some of those enjoying the wine and Fresco tapas were former NYPD Blue star Dennis Franz and wife Joanie, June and Jorgen Kjaempe, David Pintard, Hannah-Beth Jackson, Salud Carbajal, George Leis, Randy Weiss, and newlyweds Kit and Barry Liker.

LifeChronicles is, “Memories in the Making.” They capture life when it matters most. If you’d like to support this program, call 682-3411 for reservations to Father Virgil Remarkable Life Award event.

•MJ

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COMING & GOING (Continued from page 10) people... My parents had MSWs (Masters in Social Work) degrees, so they were of a different mindset – I was always interested in business – but they were both bright.”

Diana went on to attend the University of Michigan as a business major. “My first business experience was selling asparagus (grown in her backyard) along Route 30,” she recounts. She moved to California at the age of 25, and started out as a rep for a medical manufacturer, selling implants for cataract surgery. Within a year, she founded her own enterprise: a medical manufacturing company; it was a path she followed for the next 20 years.

In 1996, she sold the last of the companies she either owned or founded. One of them, for example, was Dioptics Medical Products, a $60-million business at the time, which she sold to Foster Grant. “We put the first ultra-violet absorbers in sunglasses, and, then in eyeglasses, and then intraocular lenses for cataract surgery,” she notes rather proudly.

“When you have cataract surgery,” she explains, “they give you a pair of ugly sunglasses. Those are my sunglasses, and we’ve sold over a hundred-million pairs. They’re called ‘Solar Shields’ and they’re still out there! They are in every major retailer, including CVS.”

After selling her companies, Diana “retired”. She belonged to a group called YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization) and had lived in Newport Beach where her manufacturing company was. Her company moved sales and marketing up to San Luis Obispo and when Diana gave birth to Kelley Starr in 1988, she was determined to raise her daughter “in a Midwest upbringing,” so moved to San Luis Obispo, where they spent nearly 10 years. When she sold her company, the YPO she was involved with was in Santa Barbara, so she decided to move here.

At the age of 44, she couldn’t just “retire,” so she took up... philanthropy. “It was something I didn’t really have time for before this,” she says.

She started with Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE International).

Ophthalmology was something she knew, so it seemed natural; she also knew SEE founder Dr. Harry Brown.

From there, she navigated to CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) a few years later. She served on the boards of both nonprofits. Then Kelley started volunteering with United Boys & Girls Club on the West Side and since her daughter was involved, Diana began volunteering too, eventually getting on the board. She became chairman in 2013, and when they lost their executive director in 2014, she

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As acting CEO, however, after studying the finances of her nonprofit, she realized that in order to bring United Boys and Girls Club back to fiscal health, she had to make some business decisions that have proven less than popular with a number of longtime employees.

“It started with parting ways with our executive director last February,” she says, admitting that she also let some key employees go that didn’t have the level of commitment and vision she expected. “My name is mud in some circles,” she confesses, “but I wasn’t there to win a popularity contest.” She says she believes she is popular with the funders but not necessarily with some of the staff.

“Sometimes people who’ve been with us for twenty-five, thirty, forty years

don’t want change. They don’t like change. They don’t see any reasons for change. But,” she stresses, “it’s a different era. It’s not the ‘80s where money was flowing and people just threw money at things.”

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The more comedic two act show – one more than when it debuted at the same theater in 2013 – while not to die for, is an interesting and novel concept on which to build....

Secret in Paradise

Kasidy Devlin as Modred, with the company of Camelot (Photo by Scott Scott Suchman) Encircling the Dream Foundation’s 20,000th dream recipient, Yvonne Rodriquez, are staff and volunteers Miriam Carreon, Megan Turley, Kaitlyn Turner, Kisa Heyer, executive director; Yvonne Rodriquez, wife and mother of two; Jackie Waddill, donor relations manager; Tristan Layton, director of Corporate Partnerships & Marketing. In the back are Kelly Sweda, Kristy Raihn, Lori Thil, Senior Dream coordinator; Gaelen Vasquez, Ann Smithcors, and Emilia Doerr. (photo by Priscilla) In La Pacifica Ballroom of the Coral Casino with Gregg Hart, SB ProTem Mayor; Hospitality Employee of the Year Honoree, Drew Wakefield of the Ramada Inn; Warren Butler, president of the GSBLRA; Kathy Janega-Dykes, Hospitality Star of the Year honoree; and Tony Vallejo Goleta councilmember (photo by Priscilla)

Unlike last year’s production with Robert Sean Leonard as the king, Adam Grabau’s sovereign is made of darker, sterner stuff, with director Michael McFadden knocking a full hour off its original three-and-a-halfhour running time.

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at the Bacara while in our Eden by the Beach.

“It was better than anything we could have asked for.”

Executive director Kisa Heyer says: “It allows individuals like Yvonne the chance to dream again and create memories and experience moments that are among life’s most important, for themselves, but also for their loved ones.

“A dream for an adult is often a

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humble request about gathering with loved ones, making the most of the time they have left and celebrating a life lived.”

Out with the Old It’s hard to believe the Lerner and Loewe Arthurian gem Camelot is more than half a century old, but it had a decidedly fresh look when it performed for two nights at the Granada, courtesy of the Theater League.

Award-winning director and playwright Rod Lathim’s latest production, Unfinished Business, at the Lobero had the 160-seat audience on the stage in an intimate U-shaped formation rather than looking at it from the auditorium.

Focusing on the after life, Rod, a keen spiritualist, has based his script on the death of his mother several years ago with a strong spiritual element, with the dying character, a very horizontal role played by Laura Mancuso, while Ann Dusenberry plays the character in the after-life, with Solomon N’dungu, dressed in a cream tailcoat as a quasi angel, trying to effect the transition from life to a more heavenly locale.

As part of his script-writing experience, Rod attended an English school of spiritualism and psychic sciences last summer to better understand his

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Former Granada Theatre director Peter Frisch’s Producing Unit has come up with a major mystery with the world premiere of celebrated screenwriter Gerald DiPego’s 154 & Paradise at the Center Stage Theater.

The title refers to a highway junction where a tragic accident occurs when several characters who knew the victim are gathered together and relentlessly questioned by a mysterious “examiner,” wonderfully played

by Rich Hoag, trying to establish the truth of the collision.

DiPego, who has written screen plays for John Travolta’s Phenomenon, Julianne Moore’s The Forgotten, and Words and Pictures with Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche, has come up with an interesting script with a Sixth Sense-style twist, which I won’t reveal here.

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and operations, dealing with the 130 employees that need you almost every single working day.

The United Boys and Girls Club is one of the largest nonprofits in the Santa Barbara area, isn’t it?

The United Boys & Girls Club, with its $5-million budget, is the largest non-profit dealing with children in South Santa Barbara County. We have 4,500 kids and five clubs between Carp and Lompoc, six satellites, and a 5,500 acre camp – Camp Whittier.

There are a lot of moving parts, and a lot of things that can go wrong.

And some things had, apparently, gone wrong?

Yes. I wasn’t there, so I can’t really judge how our endowment was handled, but it was used for a lot of rainy days. Endowments should never be an operating fund; you should be able to take the interest from the endowment but “don’t touch the principal” is what any nonprofit should live by.

If a nonprofit is not making a profit, it will not have money put aside for those “rainy days.” It will not have money put aside for those hiccups, those unexpected expenses. When buildings are 50 years old... we went through a lot of maintenance and got that handled this year, went through a lot of building systems and infrastructure, evaluating staff, putting in some key players, all things you would normally do in a business.

So, you got into trouble for running the Boys and Girls Club like a real business?

In a for-profit organization such as [the companies I founded and later sold], I could be a benevolent dictator.

It was my vision. It was my playground. It was my ball. And, it was my money at risk. With a nonprofit, I can’t say it’s my way or the highway.

I have to be more inclusive. But, if a business was run like a nonprofit, it would never make it, because businesses don’t have endowments; they don’t have benefactors; they don’t have... most nonprofits don’t run like a company. The reason is that most of the time they are not being run by someone who has run a company, per se: on budget, with systems. What I found when I came in was a lack of systems, a lack of accountability. A lot of nice people doing it for the right reasons. The trouble with that is the heart, the vision, the intent, is all there, but the accountability and structure is not – and therefore the discipline is not there.

Why is that?

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it becomes. “Founders Syndrome” is alive and well in nonprofits.

Tom Parker (of the Hutton-Parker Foundation) has a philosophy that nonprofits should be their tax status, not their income statement.

Fund raising must present the real challenge in running and maintaining a nonprofit. How much of that $5-million budget do you have to raise privately, as opposed to depending upon grants and your endowment?

Probably a third of our money has to come from private donors. The trouble with that is that we’re not the only wonderful nonprofit out there.

When people are looking to give money, they look at what affects their lives, like cancer, Alzheimer’s. I hope they’ll also look at what’ll affect the overall quality of life in Santa Barbara County. If we don’t take care of these kids, if we don’t help them become better citizens, we’re going to pay the price later. These are the kids who need us most.

And they need you because?

We pick them up from school every day, bring them back, help them with homework for an hour, then they get involved in music or sports, and they’re there until six o’clock every night. We’re there for them every day, five days a week, and we’re open early when school’s out.

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There are many nonprofits in our area; do you have any advice you’d care to pass along in print?

Sure. We need to relook at ourselves.

Boards need to be more accountable to the finances. Sometimes boards are made up of nice people who aren’t used to reading income statements and balance sheets. On the other hand, they are sometimes made up of business people that are really busy and don’t necessarily hold the CEO or executive director as accountable as they probably should.

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You’ve said you’d become involved in philanthropy, which requires donating money. What do you see ahead in that regard?

I’m 62. I’m worried about the generation under me that are into their businesses as I was when I was in my 40s. I think a lot of them are philanthropic, just not to the extent of the older families that were in this town that we have depended on, such as the Abercrombies, Pierre Claeyssens, Leni Fe Bland. Who are going to be the next Michael Towbes? The next Leslie Ridley-Tree? Where are they? I can’t name them.

Speaking of “next,” where do you go from here?

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said. After a few weeks, he was able to find the intended recipient, just in time for the Christmas holiday. “I’ll never forget that,” he smiled.

On Monday, February 1, Bob will leave Santa Barbara indefinitely; he is packing up his RV and heading out on the open road. “My first stop will be Alabama, to see my son,” he said.

He plans on spending years on the road, traveling to the northeast portion of the country and visiting family on both coasts of Canada. Neustadt’s brothers and mother live on the family ranch in Arroyo Grande, so he plans on traveling back through California at various intervals.

“There will be many points on my trip where I can go either right or left depending on my mood. That’s the beauty of traveling alone and being retired,” he said. “It’s just me and my dog.”

Planning Commission Grants Miramar Approval

On January 21, Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) voted 3-2 to approve the newest iteration of the Miramar Resort, but not before revising and adding several conditions to the project.

The day long hearing was contin-

ued from the December 15 hearing, in which the commissioners brought up several issues related to water usage, parking, and traffic impacts.

In response to those issues, developer Rick Caruso’s team showed further revision to the plans, which include moving the beach club from the west side of the property to the east, widening Miramar Avenue to accommodate greater fire access, angling parking stalls on Eucalyptus Lane, and adding sound walls to increase the safety of the parking lots in relation to the nearby All Saints by-the-Sea. “We are very proud of these changes, and of the plan in general,” said Caruso Affiliated executive vice-president Matt Middlebrook.

Project manager Evan Krenzien told us the decision to move the beach club was in response to neighbor concerns that beach club members would park on Miramar Avenue instead of on the property. “We hope we’ve alleviated those concerns,” he said. The changes to the off-site parking do not add to the parking totals, Krenzien said.

Middlebrook explained to the commission that the project provides 2.6 parking spaces per room, compared to 1.6 spaces per room at the nearby Biltmore Hotel, and 1.03 spaces per room at the El Encanto in Santa Barbara. County planner Nicole Lieu explained in her report that coun-

ty staff has concluded that multiple parking analyses show the 436 spaces on-site and 87 off-site are adequate.

“Even when we are at 100-percent capacity, during peak demand, we still have a surplus of 35 spaces,” Middlebrook said, adding that the team projects an average occupancy rate of 76 percent.

“You said you feel confident that your parking is adequate,” said commissioner Jack Overall, “I guess the problem here is that we have to feel that your parking is adequate, and we have various conflicting material that has been presented to us.”

After many comments from the public regarding their desire for the commission to move the project forward, it modified several conditions regarding both parking and event capacity (in order to minimize water usage, traffic impacts, and overflow parking during events). Caruso will have to adhere to parking conditions, including distributing employee decals, employing a traffic coordinator, reporting traffic counts, implementing a parking education and disciplinary plan, and more. Conditions for events include capping the event capacity at 300 (down from 400), and restricting the number of events to three per day.

“I think if we want a great hotel for the area, I’m in favor of letting them run their business as much as possible,” said commissioner Joe Cole, adding that the annual parking reports Caruso is required to submit to the commission will be sufficient in incentivizing the developer to ensure adequate parking, rather than further limiting the number of beach club members or event capacity.

The project, which is expected to be open in 2017, will be before the MPC for review of the parking adequacy 12-18 months after operations begin.

Commissioners Cole, Michael Phillips, and Sue Burrows voted in favor of the project with conditions; chairperson J’Amy Brown and vice chair Overall voted against it. Caruso may appeal the MPC’s decision by the end of this week, which would require a hearing at the board of supervisors.

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It’s that time of year! On Saturday, February 7, Friendship Center will hold its 16th annual Festival of Hearts.

The popular event will be themed “Mardi Gras Magic,” and will include a festive luncheon with local wines, Heart-Art, and a live auction, all to benefit Friendship Center.

At the center of the Hearts event are whimsical papier-mâché hearts donated by local artists, celebrities, and students from area high schools.

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Auctioneer and emcee Gail Rappaport will once again lend her services at Friendship Center’s Festival of Hearts event on February 7

Rod Lathim, and other local artists, to be up for grabs on the silent-auction block. Guests receive a hand-decorated heart from local students as a party favor.

Live auction highlights this year include a Magic Castle package donated by owners Milt and Arlene Larson; a San Francisco getaway at Nob Hill’s Mark Hopkins Hotel; a Santa Barbara staycation with a night at the Fess Parker, a show at the Lobero, zoo tickets, sailing tickets, and more; a wine-tasting adventure in the Santa Ynez Valley; and a lighthearted historical presentation with wine and appetizers at the home of historian and MJ columnist Erin Graffy.

Friendship Center, located on the grounds of All Saints by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, has been providing adult day care and respite for caregivers since 1976.

Tickets cost $100. The event is from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm at Fess Parker’s Reagan Room. For more information, call 969-0859. To learn more about the Friendship Center, visit www.friend shipcentersb.org.

Gem Carver at Silverhorn

On Friday, January 30, and Saturday, January 31, the master German gem carver Bernd Munsteiner will be coming to Santa Barbara to make an appearance at Silverhorn. He will greet customers and showcase his extraordinary collection of unusual gems from 10 am to 5 pm.

For more information about Mr. Munsteiner and his family business, visit www.allaboutgemstones. com/atelier_munsteiner.html. The event is free and open to the public.

Silverhorn is located at 1155 Coast Village Road.

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the frontrunner for best supporting actor, and Chazelle himself is up for an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay.

At SBIFF, Chazelle will participate in both this Saturday’s writers panel and Wednesday night’s directors panel. He talked about the movie over the phone last week.

Q. I understand that Whiplash was based on your own experiences as a drummer in a jazz band in high school.

Was making the movie about processing that situation some sort of catharsis, and resolving the issues that had come up for you?

A. Being a jazz drummer was my life for a long period of time in high school, and even in college I was in an competitive intensive jazz program with a conductor and an atmosphere I’d never seen captured in a music film. Many years later, it occurred to me it might be fodder for a movie. So it wasn’t cathartic for myself but to shed light on an aspect of the music world that seemed under-documented, the flip-side to the joy of music that we normally see. I wrote it very quickly; it just came out. Because it was so personal, it wrote itself in a way. I was very much trying to be as specific as possible to details of my own experience, while also creating a drama that would speak to people who hadn’t been in my shoes.

So you had a teacher like Fletcher, J.K. Simmons’s character?

To a certain extent. He’s a bit of composite of teachers I had, plus Buddy Rich’s reputation as a bandleader, and others who were famous for their tyrannical behavior. I didn’t have to invent very much whole cloth.

Fletcher has been seen as a very unsympathetic character, one who maybe eventually gets Miles to turn in a great performance, but with extremely cruel methods. Is that how you wanted him to be viewed?

At the outset, I just wanted to write a great villain. That’s the structural role he plays. But there are multiple shades. He wasn’t just purely a sadist; he wasn’t inflicting pain purely for pleasure. There’s a part of that, but in his mind, he’s actually serving a good [purpose] – turning these students into great musicians. I wanted to see if there was part of that philosophy I agreed with by putting him in the service of the story as a despicable human being. I do believe that talent is mostly about hard work. The idea of being born talented or not is ridiculous; it’s reductive and defeatist. But certainly, the methodology leaves something to be desired.

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So you don’t believe you have to be bullied to be great, but it does seem like you come down clearly on the Malcolm Gladwell Outliers side of things, that it might take 10,000 hours to be really good at something?

I don’t know if I believe it wholesale. I think a combination of hard work and art is closer to the truth.

You have to work for it. That’s why I think education and training are very important, as well as practice and conditioning. The movie is about honing technique, not artistic creativity. You need to have that before you can truly be creative. That’s why we focus on things like tempo, and other rudiments, the basic building blocks that are fundamental to education. But they’re only a prelude to something else.

I was a bit thrown by the romantic subplot, which gets introduced, and there are few scenes, and then you barely return. It’s an unusual technique, but it serves to show that Miles can be a real [ass], too.

He’s the flip-side to Fletcher. By the end, they become the same person. The Faustian bargain of giving up your soul to obtain some kind of greatness is a very archetypal story. But while I was writing it, at its heart, this was a movie about [asses] and about a too competitive society – even though it might produce good art, or good technique, or productivity, it really does take a toll, physically, emotionally, morally. I didn’t want to shy away from that.

There is a real rhythm to Whiplash, almost like a musical without songs.

How did you make that happen?

Thanks. From the writing to how my editor and I cut the movie was about maintaining the tension and building a momentum. We wanted it to feel like a piece of music with ebbs and flows, something that leaves at you at the end feeling spent. That’s how it felt to me when I was a drummer; the intensity and energy of those years is what I wanted to communicate.

It’s very rare that a filmmaker ever talks about what happens after the movie ends, but you’ve discussed where you see these characters going. It’s not pretty, is it?

I want audiences to make up their own minds. But I always saw it pretty darkly. There’s a fleeting victory at the end, but Andrew is a shell of his former self, cut off from his life.

He let the abuser win. That’s kind of chilling. No matter where it goes from there, I wanted the ending to be the saddest happy ending you •MJ could imagine.

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PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, February 10, 2015, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara.

The City Council will consider amending the General Plan to adopt the 2015 Housing Element Update.

2015 Housing Element Update: Recent legislative changes extended housing element planning periods from five years to eight years. To comply with this statutory requirement, the City was required to submit an updated Housing Element to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) by February 15, 2015.

On November 5, 2014, the Draft 2015 Housing Element was submitted to HCD for review. As part of the review, HCD directed that minor revisions and technical clarifications be incorporated into the Needs Assessment and Eight Year Work Program (Appendix G) to meet statutory requirements. With the incorporation of these revisions, on December 24, 2014, HCD found the Draft 2015 Housing Element to be in compliance with State housing element law.

The Proposed Final 2015 Housing Element Update is prepared in compliance with State law and addresses the City’s 2015-2023 planning period, including analysis of existing and projected community housing needs and identification of goals, policies and quantified objectives to meet those needs. Because the existing Housing Element was recently certified by HCD in 2012, no policy changes are proposed. The City Council will consider adoption of the Proposed Final 2015 Housing Element Update, including recommended revisions by the Planning Commission and HCD.

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3738 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3738 for the LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT DEMONSTRATION STREETS, SIDEWALK, & ALLEYS PROJECT PHASE I will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, February 19, 2015 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT DEMONSTRATION STREETS, SIDEWALKS, & ALLEYS PROJECT PHASE I, Bid No. 3738.”

Environmental Review: The 2015 Housing Element Update is within the scope of the 2011 General Plan. The Certified Final Program Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the 2011 General Plan adequately describes the activity for the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). An Addendum to the FEIR for the 2015 Housing Element Update documents no substantial change to impacts previously identified in the Program EIR.

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete a permeable concrete paver storm water infiltration project including excavation, concrete construction, base placement and compaction, paver installation, asphalt conform construction, and monitoring well installation. The Engineer’s estimate is $1,200,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

If you challenge the 2015 Housing Element Update or environmental document in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Planning Commission at, or prior to the public hearing.

There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 2 P.M. at Steven’s Park, 258 Canon Drive, Santa Barbara CA 93105.

You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Laura Yanez, Project Engineer, (805)897-2615.

On Thursday, February 5, 2015, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, February 10, 2015, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Quick Links, click on Current Council Agenda & Packet. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.santabarbaraca.gov: Click on the Government tab, click City Council Meeting Videos (under Quick Links), and then click on the Video link for the meeting date.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at (805) 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

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Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager January 28, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: California Flower Farms, 5300 Foothill Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013. California Flowers INC, 5300 Foothill Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 7, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2015-0000056. Published January 28, February 4, 11, 18, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cold Spring Staffing, 16 W. Mission St. #G, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Cold Spring Engineering, 16 W. Mission St. #G, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 20, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 20150000209.

Published January 28, February 4, 11, 18, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Resilience Personal

Training, 5681 Hollister Ave., Room 14B, Goleta, CA 93117.

Kevin Long, 6261 Marlborough Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 14, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 20150000148.

Published January 21, 28, February 4, 11, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Her Grace, Barbra, Duchess of Guernsey; Her Grace, Virginia, Dowager, Duchess of Guernsey, 2707 Glendessary Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. David C. Agnew, 2707 Glendessary Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 8, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0000079. Published January 21, 28, February 4, 11, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OM Sweet Mama, 3952 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Aida Robana, 3952 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA

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93110. Richard Wayman, 3952 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 13, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 20150000134.

Published January 21, 28, February 4, 11, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Heating & Air, 5700 Via Real #42, Carpinteria, CA 93103. Joseph William Clemens, 5700 Via Real #42, Carpinteria, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 14, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2015-0000152. Published January 21, 28, February 4, 11, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pirate Racing & Design, 4138 Vista Clara Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Wayne E Bloxham III, 4138 Vista Clara Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara

County on January 7, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2015-0000061. Published January 21, 28, February 4, 11, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Golf Rite Products LLC, 929 Alston Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Golf Rite Products LLC, 929 Alston Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 6, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0000040. Published January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: At Your Service Documents; Your Docs Served!, PO Box 1011, Nipomo, CA 93444.

Tyler Gross, 937 Camino Caballo, Nipomo, CA 93444. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 2, 2015. 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

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In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work.

Effective March 1, 2015, Senate Bill 854 requires the City to only use contractors and subcontractors on public projects that have been registered with the State of California Department of Industrial Relations.

The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.

Funding for this Project has been provided in full or in part through an agreement with the State Water Resources Control Board. The contents of this document do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the State Water Resources Control Board, nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: Jan. 28 and Feb. 4, 2015 Montecito Journal

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on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Deborah Sanchez. FBN No. 2015-0000012. Published January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sight Surgery International, 1485 East Valley Road Suite D, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Neurological Health International, 1485 East Valley Road Suite D, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 6, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Miriam Leon. FBN No. 20150000054.

Published January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Studio 8, 3 E De La Guerra, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Brent Sumner, 3 E De La Guerra, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 7, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2015-0000070. Published January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AYM Arroyo Arabians, 1559 Edison Street, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. KLF Ventures, LLC, 1329 Cheyenne Lane, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 18, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0003518. Published January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) have abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): Famous Bail Bonds, 836 Anacapa St. #2279 Santa Barbara, CA 93102. Famous Bail Bonds INC., 836 Anacapa St. #2279 Santa Barbara, CA 93102. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 5, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. Original FBN No. 2014-0001521. Original Filing Date: 5/22/2014. Published January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Physiophyx, 1482 East Valley Rd #235, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Athletes for Athletes, LLC, 1482 East Valley Rd #235, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County

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Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 9, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2014-0003421. Published January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Images by Valerie, 3940 Maricopa Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Valerie Villa, 3940 Maricopa Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 22, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0003542. Published January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Chill Strategic Parnters, 619 Calle Rinconada, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Kathy Chil, Inc., 619 Calle Rinconada, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 18, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2014-0003520. Published January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Keep U Safe, 107 Nopalitos Way Box 4815, Santa Barbara, CA 93140. Joel Ruderman, 345 Kellogg Way, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 12, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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

FBN No. 2014-0003459. Published January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ambassador of Reigning Beauty & Relaxation, 513 Andromeda Drive, Vandenberg Village, CA 93436. Jeannette Marie Sackett, 513 Andromeda Drive, Vandenberg Village, CA 93436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 22, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter.

FBN No. 2014-0003546. Published January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cinnies, 209 W. Haley St Apt #4, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Katie Belanger, 209 W. Haley St Apt #4, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 30, 2014. This statement

expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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

FBN No. 2014-0003586. Published January 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1470097. To all interested parties: Petitioner Christina Ahn filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Yule Kim to Yule Ahn-Kim. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed January 6, 2015

by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: March 4, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 1/28, 2/4, 2/11, 2/18 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1469386. To all interested parties: Petitioner Jacqueline Aspen Lincoln filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Jacqueline Aspen Lincoln Nevarez. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed November 20, 2014, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: January 7, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1469652. To all interested parties: Petitioner Samuel Shin filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Samuel Seoung Ho Shin to Samuel Wright. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed Decemer 10, 2014,

by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: January 21, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29 Songs for Cinder – Cinder Jean, a longtime member of the close-knit Santa Barbara singer-songwriter community, is facing a long hospital stay for treatment of leukemia, and now several of her colleagues are coming together to play a benefit concert to help defray the expenses and show their love and support. Among the performers are Honeysuckle Possums, Kate Bennett and Jeff Bisch, Bruce Goldish, Anita and Brad Bayley, Full Moon Mystic, Robert Postel, Paris Slim, Sean McCue, Jon Lawton, Bill Flores, Penelope Salinger and Cinder Jean’s musical partner, Robert Thomas. Some of Cinder’s local students will also play at the event that also features a silent auction.

WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 INFO: 962-7776 or www. sohosb.com FRIDAY, JANUARY 30 “Wild” Night at SOhO – Hot on the heels of the epic Kenny Loggins/Michael McDonald show at SOhO, the club is hosting the third installment in its (mostly) monthly benefit series to raise funds for capital improvements and ongoing operations. The latest “team” to come together in celebration of the club’s 20th anniversary is anchored by The Dirty Knobs, the side project of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers lead guitarist Mike Campbell, who fronts the solid rock ‘n’ roll band that sports a decided

1960s influence. For whatever reason, the group rarely ventures beyond clubs in a 100-mile radius of Los Angeles, though they could surely have a strong career on their own. Tonight, however, they’ll also be supporting special guest John Kay, the iron-throated vocalist and primary songwriter of Steppenwolf, the 1960s rock band responsible for the rock classics “Born to Be Wild”, “Magic Carpet Ride”, and many others. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $30-$90 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 Bomb ‘em with the Blues – The original R&B Bombers, comprised of local Santa Barbara and Ventura players, weren’t just the best R&B band in the land during their initial tenure of late 1980s and early 1990s, they might very well have been the best band period. A horn-laden nine-piece outfit partial to jump blues and featuring terrific originals as well as well chosen covers, the Bombers were in-demand for private parties, organized dances, and all sorts of blues shows. The Bombers were the house band for the first three years of the Ojai Bowlful of Blues in the 1990s where they played their own sets and backed up such artists as Charlie Musselwhite, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Pee Wee Crayton, Johnny Copeland, and many others. Some personnel issues and the death of founding lead guitarist Larry Nass led to the Bombers’ demise, but the group re-formed with several original members a few new

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Banjo Babes – Hey, we know it sounds sexist, but that’s the name adopted by this traveling threesome of five-string banjo-wielding ladies who all hail from the western U.S. – and considering the calendar it’s better than Groundhog Day Gals. The concert features individual sets from the oldtimey oriented Sharon Martinson (who is also one-half of sublimely authentic Americana act The Littlest Birds), Central Coast singer-songwriter Erin Inglish, and Ventura’s own Donna Lynn Caskey. Expect lots of twangin’ and singing, and a celebratory show marking the release of the second-annual, limited-edition, international Banjo Babes 2015 Calendar and compilation album. WHEN: 7:30-10:30 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $10 in advance, $12 at the door INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2 No-brainer – Neuroplasticity – the ability of the brain to change its structure and function in response to mental experience – is one of the most important breakthroughs in neuroscience in the last 400 years. In his revolutionary new book The Brain’s Way of Healing – out less than a week – Norman Doidge, the best-selling author of The Brain That Changes Itself, delves into how neuroplastic healing works. As he did in his previous book, Dr. Doidge, who is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, uses true stories and case studies to present cutting-edge science with practical real-world applications, and outlines principles that everyone can apply to improve brain performance and health. He’ll discuss how natural, non-invasive stimuli such as light, sound, vibration, and movement can pass through our senses and our bodies to awaken the brain’s own healing capacities without producing the unpleasant side effects that often accompany high-tech forms of treatment. As reviewers and others have noted, there’s virtually no overstating the importance of this work in transforming our understanding of the brain, with profound implications for mankind. Tonight, Dr. Droige comes to Santa Barbara to deliver a free lecture on the subject. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: free INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu ones in 2008 and have been re-establishing their dominance over the last few years. You can get your groove on any way you want tonight when the band headlines the next show from the Santa Barbara Blues Society, the oldest continuing existing such organization in the U.S. There’s plenty of room to dance on the spring-loaded floor at the Carrillo Recreation Center, and plenty of chairs if you can somehow manage to sit still. Come early for the free barbecue snacks, and an opening set from Rick Reeves, another Santa Barbara veteran bluesman. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 100 E. Carrillo St. COST: call INFO: 722-8155 or www. sbblues.org Met’s Morning Idol – Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars in the title role of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, as the passion-filled poet whose many attempts at romance are invariably thwarted. Continuing the Met’s tradition of bringing in a successful Broadway director, Bartlett Sher takes his turn at the helm of the work based on three short stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann that fancies himself as the protagonist. Famed Music Academy of the West alumnus Thomas Hampson (1978-79) adds a new role to his extensive repertory as the Four Villains who interfere with Hoffmann’s courtship of four women: the mechanical doll Olympia, sung

by American soprano Erin Morley in her role debut; the consumptive artist Antonia and the self-absorbed

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diva Stella, both portrayed by Russian soprano Hibla Gerzmava; and the Venetian courtesan Giulietta, sung by English mezzo-soprano Christine Rice. American mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey will reprise the role of Nicklausse, Hoffmann’s faithful muse, while Canadian conductor Yves Abel wields the baton for this performance that will be simulcast live in HD across the country and the world. (Note: No live transmission at the Arlington today in deference to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Hoffmann will be screened there on Sunday, February 8, at 1 pm.) WHEN: 9:55 am (repeats 2 pm Sunday, February 15) WHERE: Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $27 INFO: 969-8787 or www.musicacademy.org WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4 I am La(i)n – Tales from the Tavern welcomes a pair of profoundly talented singer-songwriters to kick off its latest series of bi-weekly six concert at the Maverick Saloon in Santa Ynez. Jon Dee Graham’s roots in Austin extend so deeply, he’s been inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame three separate times: as a solo artist in 2000, as a member of The Skunks in 2008, and as a member of the True Believers in 2009. This last band, which also featured Alejandro Escovedo, are one of the seminal groups in cowpunk, the melding of literary songwriting with aggressive Americana music. Graham 29 January – 5 February 2015

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Timely Talk – With the recent furor over nonindictments of police officers in fatal shootings and other deadly encounters with black American citizens, the country could clearly use what W. Kamau Bell is currently offering. The sociopolitical comedian’s The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour is a comedic exploration of the current state of America’s racism, combined with a little (unknown) history, a little PowerPoint, and even bigger doses of Kamau comedy. The one-man show features the former host of the FX-TV comedy series Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell and seamlessly weaves together stand-up comedy drawn from the headlines with video and audio clips, personal stories and more. The W. Kamau Bell Curve was named the critics’ picks of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the New York Comedy Festival and prompted The New York Times to call Bell “The most promising new talent in political comedy in many years” and comedy colleague Margaret Cho to rave “Kamau Bell is the most important guy doing comedy right now… he’s going to be a legend in his own lifetime like Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce.” WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $20-$30 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu – whose well-crafted songs manage to find the streams of light in otherwise dark passages of life and relationships – played with the True Believers and under his own name at Santa Barbara’s own influential singer-songwriter series Sings Like Hell. At the Maverick, he’ll be joined by Iain Matthews, the English veteran who was an early member of the seminal Brit-folk band Fairport Convention (which also spawned Richard Thompson) before moving stateside and launching a solo career in the early 1970s. Matthews has enjoyed some pop success on and off through the years, and just last year released his 20th solo album, The Art of Obscurity. Also coming to Tales this season of similarly named artists: Paul Thorn Band on February 18, Dave Stamey on March 11, Owen Plant and Brother Sun on March 25, Ian Tyson on April 16, and Janis Ian on April 29. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez COST: $34.25 (season subscription $177)

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Full Nelson – Country music legend Willie Nelson last year turned 81, but from all reports he’s not nearly done. A hit-maker and country outlaw for more than four decades – his classic album Red Headed Stranger celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2015 – Nelson has also acted in more than 30 films, written several books, and been involved in activism for all sorts of issues, from the use of biofuels to the legalization of marijuana (not to mention his tax troubles with the IRS.) The current version of his Willie Nelson & Family tour pops in to the Majestic Ventura Theater tonight, a familiar stomping ground for the old salt, who has also headlined several times at the Santa Barbara Bowl. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 26 S. South Chestnut St., Ventura COST: $49.50 - $129 INFO: 653-0721 or www.venturatheater.net •MJ

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Bando’s Taiko – Tamasaburo Bando, who was recently named a Living National Treasure in Japan, is the artistic director of Kodo, the celebrated taiko drumming ensemble from Sado Island, Japan. With One Earth Tour 2015: Mystery Bando has fashioned a performance that features powerful live drumming, music, dance and spectacular imagery drawing from ancient Japanese folk arts – part athletic feat, part artistic sensation, and an all-around electrifying experience. But the words can’t do it justice, according to reviewers. “Superlatives don’t really exist to convey the primal power and bravura beauty of Kodo,” said the Chicago Tribune, while Time Out London marveled that “Nothing will prepare you for the 1,000-pound drum… the precise timing or the wall of sound.” Mystery has been called a tour-de-force display of exquisite musicianship, Shinto dancing, and dazzling visual theater that emerges from a realm of darkness and light, with exotic creatures, and mysterious reverberations. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. COST: $35-$65 INFO: 899-2222/www.granadasb.org or 893-3535/www.

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I will stay and continue to do projects for Michael and the Boys and Girls Club. I will continue to do fundraising.

And? I do have a new project on the horizon: a drowning prevention system for commercial pools invented by David Anderson. It’s a business. For profit. It’s been five years in the works and a couple million dollars to get it where it is. It’s in the software. It’s an eye above the pool that can identify each person that comes within a certain radius, then it can track them and know whether they’re just splashing or whether they’re drowning. Even with lifeguards, people drown. It’s a scary thing, and it’s more prevalent than people think. It’s still in the works, but I have an official name for it; it’s called Pool Hawk.

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If you’ve inadvertently found this velvet jacket in your closet, its owner, Marie Profant, would very much appreciate retrieving it from you

sored a Great American Songbook sing-along on Saturday evening, January 10. In case you don’t remember, that was the one night it rained.

And, because of the rain, many people arrived wearing extra clothing, all of

JUST SOLD (Represented Buyer)

Montecito Oceanfront Condo

MARK AND SHEELA HUNT

With family history in the local Real Estate business for over half a century Representing buyers and sellers in Montecito and Santa Barbara Please visit our websites

www.MontecitoAndSantaBarbaraHomes.com www.MontecitoBestBuys.com Call or Text us directly

Mark Ashton Hunt

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Santa Barbara songstress Lois Mahalia joins Peter Clark and the Palm Springs All-Stars for an afternoon of jazz and fun at SOhO on Sunday afternoon, February 8

which was shuttled into the master bedroom of the house. A couple items have yet to be found, including a velvet jacket from Caché and made in Paris (pictured). The owner – Marie Profant – asks that if you mistakenly took it home, please call her at 6828184 and she’d be pleased to come by and pick it up.

Along with the misplaced jacket, another attendee lost a gold hoop earring. Please call the Journal at (805) 565-1860 if you’ve found it.

The Palm Springs All-Stars

Montecito’s most hyper-active singer-songwriter-talent, Peter Clark, has

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– along with the Santa Barbara Jazz Society – put together an intriguing afternoon (from 1 to 4 pm) of music set for Sunday, February 8, at SOhO in downtown Santa Barbara. Peter will play and sing, naturally, but along with him will be Mike Costley, whose renditions of songs such as “Autumn Leaves”, “Night Life”, and “Too Marvelous for Words”, promise to bring the audience smoothly back to another, jazzier era. Along with Peter and Mike, Lee Hartley will add her melodious voice (I’ve only heard a small excerpt of “Cry Me a River” from her “Whole Lotta Somethin’” album, but it is glorious) to the mix, along with Palm Springs All-Star musicians Wayne Boyer, Chuck Buffamonte, Steve Alaniz, Lyman Medeiros, and Kevin Winard.

But wait, there’s more! Joining them all on stage will be none other than Lois Mahalia, Santa Barbara’s favorite and best-kept secret. Another treat is Peter’s new “discovery” from Germany, vocalist Nina Led. “Expect the unexpected,” says Peter. You can call (805) 962-7776 for more information.

•MJ

93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1

ADDRESS

TIME

1398 Oak Creek Cyn. Road 12-3pm 848 Park Lane 12-2pm 1445 South Jameson Lane 1-3pm 2170 Ortega Ranch Lane 1-4pm 1570 Bolero Drive

By Appt.

2931 Hidden Valley Lane 1-3pm 700 Juan Crespi Lane

By Appt.

1424 East Valley Road 1-4pm 3055 Hidden Valley Lane 1-3pm 115 Coronado Circle 1-3pm

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29 January – 5 February 2015

20,000 DreamS

COUNTING

To many of us, the coming of a new year signifies new beginnings, a fresh outlook, an opportunity to affect positive change.

But for the adults served by Dream Foundation, the end of one year and start of the next may well be wrought with fear, uncertainty or hesitation about the future. Their days may be marked by worry about things left unsaid or undone, financial hardship, and physical and emotional pain. To them, not only does a new year hold no guarantees, tomorrow doesn’t.

As dream makers, we are charged with positively touching the here-and-now for the 2,500+ dreamers and their families we expect to serve in 2015, just as we have for the 20,000 who came before them.

Making LasTing MeMories wiTh Loved ones Our 20,000th dream milestone was met recently when we served a young California woman named Yvonne. At 34, she was a wife, mother to two young children and was losing her battle with breast cancer. Financially depleted as a result of her illness, Yvonne had never been able to enjoy a special getaway with her family.

The opportunity to do so was the dream Yvonne brought to our organization.

Dream Foundation was privileged to send this young family to San Diego, where they enjoyed theme parks, relaxing accommodations, views of the Pacific and— most importantly—made lasting memories.

Thank You Today, 20 years after the inception of Dream Foundation, your generosity continues to be the fuel that allows us to serve more. On behalf of our dreamers like Yvonne, thank you.

The work of Dream Foundation expands the service and scope of palliative care: to care without curing by providing comfort and closure to the end-of-life journey.

Yvonne & Family

When you make a contribution, your gift directly impacts a terminally ill adult— and by extension of that, his or her loved ones, caregivers and communities— in the greatest of need.

As you count your blessings and look ahead to the new year, please remember the families we serve. Your heartfelt contribution—in any amount—will go far in the life of someone whose here-and-now may be profoundly touched in the most positive way with the realization of a dream come true.

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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING (805) 565-1860 (You can place a classified ad by filling in the coupon at the bottom of this section and mailing it to us: Montecito Journal, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA 93108. You can also FAX your ad to us at: (805) 969-6654.

We will figure out how much you owe and either call or FAX you back with the amount. You can also e-mail your ad: christine@montecitojournal.net and we will do the same as your FAX).

SIGN UPS CLUB WEST YOUTH TRACK Co-sponsor SB Parks & Recreation. Registration Thursday January 29th at San Marcos High School.

Practice Monday, Wednesday & Thursday 3:45 pm to 6:00 pm. (805) 969-5852 or (805) 452-5020.

WINTER DANCE FESTIVAL January 31st at 6pm.

Raffle tickets, General Dancing, Spectacular performances and Live band. $15- All seats general admission For more information and tickets call (805)512-0332. www.sb.dancefeverstudio.com

ESTATE SALE Estate Sale, February 1st’15, 12 Noon to 3PM: 1787 Fernald Point Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Furniture – contemporary and antique: loveseats, “easy” chairs, side tables, dining chairs, rugs, framed paintings/prints/ mirrors, lamps/pairs, crystal chandelier- 8 arm. Kitchen appliances, glassware/wines, china sets, china /crystal serving dishes/casseroles, bed comforters/ quilts – all sizes. Men/ladies dress and sports clothing. Sportswear/gear – scuba, ski, camping/golf.

Information: call 805 896-4313.

METAPHYSICS FROM NO EXPECTED HOUSE Rogue Initiate offers Priceless Perspective that You Yourself may literally See and Know the Greatest of Heaven’s Mysteries.

Thorough in-depth Illumination now accessible.

Is there a Destiny? Do you believe in Fairytales Come True?

How about Magic? Meet Pan, the Mystic.

805-453-0118

COLLECTIBLE WANTED Old Comic Books wanted.

Collector seeks old comic books like Spider-Man, Hulk, Batman, Fantastic Four, and X-Men. Cash paid.

Call Tom 617-331-1784.

SPECIALTY ITEMS FOR SALE Handbags, excellent condition & classic, unusual apparels. 563-2526, call for appointment.

HOUSE/PET SITTING SERVICES HOUSE & PET SITTING SERVICE -Client references. Responsible.

Great with all pets. 805-451-6200

ESTATE MANAGEMENT SERVICES

POSITION WANTED Need Help?

Organize your home, office or life. Run errands, grocery shop, pay bills, make appointments, Drive you, pet care & companionship. $25/hr. Excellent, local references.

Sandra 636-3089.

Looking for a personal/executive assistant position full-time or part-time. Willing to travel. Completely bilingual in English and Spanish. Sound knowledge of French and Portuguese and cross-cultural communications and administrative and operations management. Available immediately 805-455-7344.

WEBSITE DESIGN SERVICE

available. I will cook delicious fresh meals in your home to help you reach your individual health goals. Excellent references! Valeska (805) 448-0768 Therapeutic Massage-House calls Individually designed to Meet your Needs! Over 20 years experience Deep tissue, Sports, Myofacial release, Pregnancy/Infant, Fertility and More. Call Trish Salvatore, Certified and CA licensed 209-815-7981. Gift Certificates Available

AUTOMOBILE FOR SALE 2008 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet, First Owner & Fully Loaded, 9K mi., Triptronic Transmission, Silver paint, Cocoa brown interior & convertible top.. $82,500 .

Call 818-679-3419

Bluefire Design Web Design, Logos, eCommerce Elda Schaffield, 805-895-2255 http://BlueFireDesign.com info@bluefiredesign.com

CHILDREN SERVICES Nurturing & Reliable Expert Nanny 7+ yrs professional nanny experience w/ teaching certification in Waldorf Early Childhood Education, CPR/First Aid, creative, patient, cheerful, kind, excellent references.

Available now for live-out, full time or part time position.

Call Crystal: (310) 383-1124 Crystalsoufer@yahoo.com

Classic Beauty for sale 1966 Austin-Healey 3000MK lll BJ8, older restoration, tip top condition, ice blue, great/fun driver, garages CA car, 67K miles, priced to sell $59K, Call (805) 969-9600.

SPECIAL/PERSONAL SERVICES Everyone has a story. If you would like to preserve your past, pass along your hopes and dreams, and provide inspiration for younger generations, allow me to attend while you reminisce. Together we will create a written account that will become a cherished legacy for your family.

Lisa O’Reilly, Personal Historian, 684-6514

2012 Mercedes GL550. First owner. Blue ext. Tan int. 10k mi.,$55,500.00 Ruben 818-679-3419

HEALTH SERVICES Eating Disorder Therapy Get Help now for Bulimia, Anorexia, and Disordered Eating.

For information call 1 800 560 8518. Adolescent & Adult Programs La Ventana Treatment Programs Santa Barbara 601 E. Arrellaga # 101, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 Start the New Year Healthy! Experienced trained personal chef & certified health coach has 2 days each week becoming

$8 minimum

MONTECITO ESTATE selling 2003 garaged, regularly-serviced, infrequently-used (under 6,000 miles annually) Mercedes ML55 AMG (sports performance pack-

age) Sport Utility 4D in excellent condition.

New: 67.6K. Current Blue Book: $14,800.

First $11,500 takes it. Brilliant silver.

Charcoal leather/wood interior. Power sun roof. 5-speed transmission. 342 hp. AMG wheels w/high performance tires. Roof rack. GPS. Bose sound system. Privacy glass. Many safety features. Has every other option offered, too numerous to detail. Ph: 805.455.9418.

PHYSICAL TRAINING/ COACHING Fit for Life

Customized workouts & nutritional guidance for any lifestyle. Individual/group sessions in ideal setting. House calls available.

Victoria Frost, CPT,FNS,MMA. 805 895-9227.

Private Physical Therapy in the comfort and convenience of your home, place of work or gym. Over 34 years experience.

UCLA trained. Josette Fast, PT 722-8035 www.fitnisphysicaltherapy

PR SERVICES Marketing and Publicity for your business, non-profit, or event.

Integrating traditional and social media and specializing in PSAs, podcasts, videos, blogs, articles and press releases.

Contact Patti Teel seniorityrules@gmail.com

REAL ESTATE SERVICES Nancy Hussey Realtor ® Are You Talking Real Estate? Meet Nancy And Find Out Why She Is Called “America’s Best Realtor®” 805-452-3052 Coldwell Banker / Montecito DRE#01383773 www.NancyHussey.com

TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD $8 minimum

It’s Simple. Charge is $2 per line, and any portion of a line. Multiply the number of lines used (example 4 lines x 2 =$8) Add 10 cents per Bold and/or Upper case character and send your check to: Montecito Journal, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA 93108.

Deadline for inclusion in the next issue is Thursday prior to publication date. $8 minimum. Email: christine@montecitojournal.net Yes, run my ad __________ times. Enclosed is my check for $__________

Now available, a proven, trustworthy, innovative experienced facilities professional.

Inquiries will be kept strictly confidential.

Call 805-681-0600 (or) info@renewablecommunity.org.

Estate Manager Available Now Extensive Experience Please call 805-964-1891

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LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY

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STEVEN BROOKS JEWELERS Custom Design Estate Jewelry Jewelry Restoration Watches I will take in trade or purchase your gold and platinum jewelry, watches and silver items.

805-455-1070 sbjewelers@gmail.com

HOUSING WANTED Responsible & pleasant author desiring a studio or 1-bd cottage for $850/mo in a peaceful environment. Will take care of your property/pet if you travel. Call Susan at 805-845-3036

SHORT/LONG TERM RENTAL CARMEL BY THE SEA vacation getaway.

Charming, private studio. Beautiful garden patio. Walk to beach and town. $110/night.

831-624-6714 Furnished Studio/Bedroom Private Bath Private entry. $1100/mo Avail/Feb.1 contact 220-6320 lynncederquist@icloud.com

ESTATE/MOVING SALE SERVICES THE CLEARING HOUSE, LLC Recognized as the Area’s Leading Estate Liquidators – Castles to Cottages Experts in the Santa Barbara Market!

Professional, Personalized Services for Moving, Downsizing, and Estate Sales .

Complimentary Consultation (805) 708 6113 email: theclearinghouseSB@cox.net website: theclearinghouseSB.com Estate Moving Sale Service-Efficient -30yrs experience. Elizabeth Langtree 689-0461 or 733-1030.

29 January – 5 February 2015

COMPUTER/VIDEO SERVICES VIDEOS TO DVD TRANSFERS Hurry, before your tapes fade away. Now doing records & cassettes to CD. Only $10 each 969-6500 Scott.

BALLET CLASSES Private ballet lessons with former principal dancer.

Beginners (fitness/stretching) thru pre-professionals with coaching for

auditions.

Susan.manchak@gmail.com 805 451-2304 www.susansballet.net

TUTORING SERVICES PIANO LESSONS Kary and Sheila Kramer are long standing members of the Music Teachers’ Assoc. of Calif. Studios conveniently located at the Music Academy of the West. Now offering lessons in your home for children and adults.

Call us at 684-4626.

PARLEZ-VOUS FRANÇAIS? Learn the language with a native.

Exam prep, conversation, translation, trip planning etc... Contact

Bénédicte Wolfe 455 9786 or bebe1415@verizon.net

STONEWORK SERVICES Travertine, Limestone, Marble, Soapstone and Saltillo Pavers repair and refinishing.

We work on floors, counter tops, showers etc.

Over 25 years experience. Many references in Montecito. Reasonable rates. For a free consultation, contact PIERRE HANNON at ECOSTONECARE. State lic # 810 987.

Fully bonded and insured.

Ph: 805 218 6237 Email: pithannon@gmail.com Website: www.ecostonecare.com

WOODWORKING/CARPENTRY Finish Custom Carpentry.

Furniture, cabinets, restoration, doors, windows.. Ca Lic#911243.

(805)696-8507.

Cristian.

ARTIST REQUEST Used Nespresso Pods Wanted For Local Artist Do you drink Nespresso Coffee?

I want your used coffee pods. I’m a local artist and I use these colorful pods in my creations. Save them for me and I will pick them up from Carp. to Goleta area. Creative purposeful recycling (up-cycling) at its best!

Thanks so much! Evelyn email me at pods. nespresso@gmail.com

Over 25 Years in Montecito

Over 25 Years in Montecito

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FINE CABINETS AND FURNITURE

by Montecito Resident David Krouse.

310-991-9204

(805)969-1575 969-1575 (805)

Artisan Custom Woodworks All types of repairs, doors, window, gates, kitchen tune ups, small jobs welcomed.

Appliances don’t fit, call me!

Ruben Silva. Cell 805 350-0857 Cal lic#820521.

STATE LICENSE No. 485353 MAXWELLL. HAILSTONE MAXWELL L. HAILSTONE 1482 East Valley Road, Suit 1482 East Valley Road, Suite 147147 Montecito, California 93108 Montecito, California 93108

February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March. – J.R. Stockton

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