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Veteran Montecito actor Kirk Douglas celebrates birthday among family and friends, p. 6

LETTERS, P. 8 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 27 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 48

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An Irish Celebration

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5

Guest Editorial

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Montecito Miscellany

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Letters to the Editor

A brief history of Montecito’s relationship with the 101 over the years Kirk Douglas turns 102; Silverhorn returns; Carol Burnett receives Golden Globe award; San Ysidro Ranch getting ready to reopen; Breast Cancer Resource Center tea and fashion show; Santa Barbara Beautiful Christmas party; State Street Ballet’s The Nutcracker; David Myrick’s new book published posthumously; Christmas fête at Leslie Ridley-Tree’s home; polo party at El Encanto; concert at Hahn Hall; Parade of Lights; SBHM Trusted Treasures exhibition; Oprah’s final memories with her mother; Ellen Degeneres celebrates 15 years of marriage; sightings A collection of communiqués from Journal readers comprising Dan Seibert, Thomas Carlisle, Dick Shaikewitz, and Rachel Altman

10 This Week

Adam Miller concert; Italian conversation group; fiber art crafts; living nativity scene; Spanish conversation group; Fishermen’s market; SB Zoo open on Christmas Eve and Day; Christmas Eve and Day church services; New Year’s Eve Pops Concert; Pop-INN shopping event

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1250 Coast Village Road to get a facelift early next year; three key terms of the Water Supply Agreement; debris basins performed well during latest winter storms; California Gold Ballroom Dance Studio opens in Carpinteria

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26 On Entertainment

Lit Moon Theatre takes on A Christmas Carol in a unique way; The Christmas Revels: An Irish Celebration of the Winter Solstice; three questions with Sudama Mark Kennedy

27 Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant has a bone to pick with those that dig up the past, whether it be in the form of a corpse or a shipwreck

32 Our Town

32nd Annual Parade of Lights boat show winners

40 Local People

Sigrid Toye sits down with Wendy Foster to learn about her life travels and how she ended up back in Montecito

41 Favorite Things

It’s not too late to visit local stores and find those perfect gifts for everyone on your Christmas list

44 Discovering What Matters

Dr. Peter Brill answers a reader’s question about impact investing and nonprofit organizations

48 Calendar of Events

Ending this week; SB Night Market; Irish Christmas in America; Adam Miller plays at Montecito Library; Montecito Trails Foundation meeting; California Honeydrops at SOhO; Sudama Mark Kennedy Winter Solstice dinner show; Grace Fisher Foundation fundraiser; Organic Soup Kitchen annual meal

50 Legal Advertising 52 Real Estate

Mark Hunt profiles four attractive homes, all priced under the $5 million mark

54 Classified Advertising

Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales

55 Local Business Directory

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Guest Editorial

by Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard is an associate editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club.

The Need for Forward Thinking on the 101

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o plan for the future, it is helpful to recall the past. Montecito’s relationship with the 101 highway dates back 92 years to 1927 when residents approached the State Division of Highways asking them to pave the two dirt lanes through Montecito. John Jameson led a crusade to design America’s first scenic parkway, using planted center dividers, landscaped shoulders, and a frontage road. In 1937, Jameson’s parkway was extended from Olive Mill to San Ysidro, and in 1949 to Sheffield Road.

Jameson raised private funds to purchase the right-of-way for what became North Jameson and South Jameson Lanes when the Division of Highways refused to allocate funds for that purpose. Where would we be today without North Jameson Lane stretching from Olive Mill to Sheffield Drive, serving as the third lane of the 101 during both the morning and the evening peak hour commutes?

In 1954, a plan was devised to remove the local traffic lights on the 101. It took 34 years, until May 1988, to get the job done. The story of the 101 is a story of good intentions, questionable enlightenment and missed opportunities.

1989-1993: Don’t Widen Because We Will Lose Our Parkway Look

In 1989, a 101 widening project was included in the list of Measure D projects approved by voters. Widening to three lanes was initially popular, until 1992 when “Grassroots 101,” under the leadership of Alex Pujo, was formed. Fearful that widening might reduce the width of median landscaping, Montecito voters narrowly rejected the project.

At a crucial meeting of the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) in the spring of 1993, then Supervisor Naomi Schwartz deemed the 101 widening plan to be “inadequate to protect the scenic character of the freeway.” The decision was made to put aside the widening and study alternatives.

Caltrans had funding for the widening in-hand and the design was shovel-ready. However, Caltrans immediately shifted funding to more receptive transportation projects, while Montecito went to the back-of-the-line for future funding.

Representative Lois Capps sounded the alarm in September 1993: “The daily frustration of traffic gridlock on Highway 101 demands our immediate attention. The truth is we should have done something long ago, but we didn’t.”

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1993-2019: Montecito Has No Seat at the SBCAG All-Important Decision-Making Table

SBCAG, the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments, has federal and state responsibility for the final design and funding of all Santa Barbara County transportation-related projects. It allocates gas tax funds, Transportation Development Act (TDA) and Measure D funds; sets work priorities for specific projects; and plans for our transportation future. Membership in SBCAG includes the County’s eight incorporated cities: Guadalupe, Lompoc, Buellton, Solvang, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria – plus the five County Supervisors.

The result is that tiny Buellton with 4,828 residents, Solvang with 5,245 residents, and Guadalupe with only 7,080 residents have more say over 101 design, funding, and widening schedules than Montecito’s 8,965 residents, whose sole influence at SBCAG is County Supervisor Das Williams, whose responsibilities include Carpinteria, Summerland, most of the City of Santa Barbara, and Cuyama, in addition to Montecito.

Montecito is only an echo in its advisory role. Now and in the future, we need a voting seat at the SBCAG table to plan, design, allocate funding, and minimize traffic congestion that affects our community character and quality of life.

Closure of the Southbound On-Ramp at the Cabrillo/Hot Springs Interchange

Montecito had no say in the closing of the southbound entrance to the 101 at Cabrillo Boulevard, which rerouted Santa Barbara beach and hotel traffic onto Coast Village Road, before entering the southbound 101 at Olive Mill Road.

Santa Barbara City planners denied there would be a Montecito impact from the southbound closure, claiming they knew better.

The City of Santa Barbara controls the decisions made at the Olive Mill and the Cabrillo/Hot Springs interchanges. County Planners control the decisions

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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 national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 11 years ago.

Celebrating a Living Legend

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eteran Montecito actor Kirk Douglas celebrated his 102nd birthday at his Beverly Hills estate, with fans and Hollywood bigshots all paying homage to one of the last stars from Hollywood’s Golden Age. With a huge floral backdrop that read “102,” Kirk and his wife of 64 years, Anne, posed outside their home for the many fans gathered for the occasion, as a host of Hollywood heavyweights, including his Oscarwinning son Michael and his Welsh actress wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, joined them inside for lunch, along with Steven Spielberg, Dreamworks magnate Jeffrey Katzenberg, actress Angie Dickinson, film mogul Ron Meyer, son Joel Douglas, and Anne’s sister, Merle, who flew in from Berlin for the occasion.

Our rarefied enclave was also well represented by jewelry and interior designer Corinna Gordon, Aris and Ilene Demetrios, son Peter Douglas, and grandchildren, Kelsey and Jason Douglas.

Catherine described Kirk, who received three Oscar nominations, a lifetime achievement Academy Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, as the “most beautiful man,” while Cameron Douglas, his grandson, shared a laudatory post to “a gentleman’s gentleman with a true heart of gold.”

I fondly remember when I had dinner with Kirk, who has written ten novels and memoirs, and Anne some years back and I asked him what was his favorite film he’d starred in, think-

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

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

Up In Smoke December 2017’s Thomas Fire looked like it was about to take out Montecito, but luckily the 8,000 firefighters in the vicinity had something else in mind

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ne year ago, pretty much right now, I was looking up from Montecito Street in Santa Barbara at Montecito Peak on fire.

I thought for sure all of Montecito would burn. But it didn’t, thanks to 8,000 firefighters.

Dan Seibert Montecito

(Editor’s note: Well, yes, while we can’t say Montecito was “lucky,” as we lost nearly 10% of our housing and the lives of 23 of our fellow residents in the ensuing mud-and-debris slide of January 9, it does seem that things are getting back to “normal” here. The Thomas Fire that you

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to order. Rockfish, lingcod, black cod, live rock crab, abalone, sea urchin (uni), and more are available weekly, rain or shine.

When: 6 am Where: Harbor Way Info: www.cfsb.info/sat

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20 Folksongs of the Winter Holidays Join us for a free concert with Adam Miller. Adam is a folksinger, storyteller and autoharpist who will share well known and not-so-wellknown traditional folk songs and carols for New Year’s, Hanukkah, Christmas, and the Winter Solstice.

When: 10:30 to 11:45 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Italian Conversation Group The Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System hosts a Italian conversation group for those who would like to practice their Italian language conversation skills and meet others in the community who speak Italian. Both native speakers and those who learned Italian as a second or foreign language will participate, and new members are always welcome.

When: 12:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 pm to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Annual Living Nativity For more than 25 years, the congregation of the First United Methodist Church has staged a recreation of the Holy Night for three nights just before Christmas. Under a redwood tree and adjacent to the church, a grassy area is transformed

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into a wooden stable, complete with Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus asleep in the manger. Three majestic kings with their gifts to the Holy Child, angels appear nearby, and lowly shepherds tend to their flocks. The Living Nativity will be held for three nights: December 20, 21, and 22 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Warm cider and goodies will be served and free tours of the historic Sanctuary will also be available. The two-story Sanctuary, built in 1927, is decorated with a 10foot Christmas tree, poinsettias, and Christmas music softly playing.

When: 5:30 to 7:30 pm Where: First United Methodist Church is located at the corner of Garden and Anapamu streets, one block from the SB Courthouse. Parking is available behind the church with the parking entrance off Garden Street.

Info: 963-3579 or visit the website www.fumcsb.org FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22 Fishermen’s Market Every Saturday, get fresh fish and shellfish at unbeatable prices straight from local fishermen on the city pier next to Brophy’s restaurant. Buy fish whole or have it cleaned and filleted

All Libraries Closed Central, Eastside, Carpinteria, Montecito, Solvang, and Buellton libraries closed for the Christmas holiday.

When: today and tomorrow Zoo Open on Christmas Eve Families can create a new tradition by visiting the Santa Barbara Zoo on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day. Keepers keep things jolly with special talks and holiday enrichment for the animals. Early closure; general admission ticket sales end at 2 pm, membership admission ends at 3 pm.

When: 10 am; zoo closes early at 3:30 pm on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Where: 500 Niños Drive Info: www.sbzoo.org Christmas Eve Services Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 1300 East Valley Road: 4:30 pm, family mass with children’s choir; 9 pm, mass with adult choir El Montecito Presbyterian Church, 1455 East Valley Road: 4 pm, family worship service; 9 pm, candlelight service All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 83 Eucalyptus Lane: 4 pm, children’s Christmas service with singa-long carols; 7 and 10 pm, festival Eucharist TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25 Zoo Open on Christmas Day Families can create a new tradition by visiting the Santa Barbara Zoo on or on Christmas Day. Keepers keep things jolly with special talks and holiday enrichment for the animals. Early closure; general admission ticket sales end at 2 pm, membership admission ends at 3 pm.

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Christmas Services Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 1300 San Ysidro Road: 8 am mass with carols, 10 am, and noon mass with adult choir El Montecito Presbyterian Church, 1455 East Valley Road: 11 am, Christmas Day Service All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 83 Eucalyptus Lane: 10:30 am, Christmas Day service THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27 Italian Conversation Group The Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System hosts a Italian conversation group for those who would like to practice their Italian language conversation skills and meet others in the community who speak Italian. Both native speakers and those who learned Italian as a second or foreign language will participate, and new members are always welcome.

When: 12:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 pm to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29

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When: 10 am; zoo closes early at 3:30 pm on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Where: 500 Niños Drive Info: www.sbzoo.org

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Kelly has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond. She is also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, and is a member of Montecito and Santa Barbara’s top real estate team, Calcagno & Hamilton.

Iconic Coast Village Building Slated for Remodel Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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he iconic building at 1250 Coast Village Road is slated for a refresh next year. The Warner Group Architects firm, which has been a tenant in the building for 20 years, is designing the remodeling project, which architect Thiep Cung calls a “complete face lift.”

The building was finished in 1991, and has been home to several longterm tenants including the Warner Group, Village Properties, and Trattoria Mollie, which moved out of the building earlier this year. “It’s such an ideal location, being on the sunny side of the street,” Cung said.

“It just needs a nice refresh, as it’s had a lot of wear and tear.”

The project plans include a completely revamped exterior façade, including a new paint job and color scheme with warm grey tones, new exterior tile floors in a porcelain herringbone pattern, remodeled roof to a more contemporary patina standing seam roof, replacement of the awnings, and a new landscape plan, designed

by Susan Van Atta. The landscape plan includes drought tolerant plantings, as well as adding foliage to help screen the exterior ramp walls. Faux grass will be removed, and the existing eucalyptus trees will be worked

into the plans. The project will also bring the bathrooms up to ADA compliance, as well as replace the elevator, widen the ramps, and add ADA van parking in the downstairs parking lot.

“We are just modernizing it and bringing it up to current standards,” Cung said. The project is being managed by Kathleen Fahey, who called the project an “exciting revitalization.”

The plans for the remodel were in front of the City’s Architectural Board of Review earlier this month, and will be back for more conceptual review in January. The project will not need to be seen by the Planning Commission, as no square footage is being added.

Current tenants include Village Properties, Riskin Partners, Synergy Lending, and the Warner Group. The spaces formerly occupied by Mollie’s are currently up for lease.

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The charming gingerbread house with an electric train going round at the Four Seasons Biltmore

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Co-chairs Mindy Denson and Paige Beard with Lobero Associates president Annie Williams at their annual tea

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hristmas is the time this hard working group of women have an event just for their own pleasure – a tea at the Four Seasons Biltmore. Well, not really because they ask attendees to bring an unwrapped toy to be given out to underprivileged children.

Nobody makes better tea sandwiches than the Biltmore, especially the lobster ones. Champagne was bubbling and Fredrik Rosvall was at the piano playing holiday tunes.

President Annie Williams welcomed the group and promised exciting (and secret) things for their annual Hats Off Luncheon. Lobero executive

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director David Asbell told us, “Year in and year out the Associates work for the theatre. In their forty-six years they have given over one million dollars.” He recognized Maribel Jarchow and Hope Kelly as their torchbearers.

Co-chairs of the event were Paige

Maribel Jarchow, Lobero executive director David Asbell, Hope Kelly, and Cheryl Trosky

Lobero director of planned giving Jim Dougherty with Joan Crossland associates treasurer, administrative director Marianne Clark, and director of development Brandon Mowery

Beard and Mindy Denson.

Some of those attending were Eileen Mielko, Emily Johnson, Janet McCann, Barb de l’Arbre, Lucinda Freeman, Kathleen Sawyer, and Emily Dempster. Keep up the good work!

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After 60 years, UCSB Arts & Lectures is still churning out dozens of events a year. One of the latest is “An Evening with Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen” at Campbell Hall. They have performed in Santa Barbara before and the house was packed this time too.

“My, my. A body does get around.” – William Faulkner

Lovett is a four-time Grammy Award winner with a rich and eclectic body of work. Keen has become an Americana cult hero with a raspy voice and a reputation as one of the nation’s finest musical storytellers.

They go back a long way when they were buddies in college in Texas and obviously feed on each other’s sense of humor. They swapped songs on the front porch and lived only a few blocks apart.

Lyle Lovett has broadened what American music is, fusing elements of country, swing, jazz, folk, gospel, and blues, defying conventions. He

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here is no dearth of yoga studios in Santa Barbara, although the landscape is frequently changing. On the other hand, the possibilities are only as limited as the great outdoors. Wild Yoga Santa Barbara has been hosting events amid nature all around town over the last year, with locations including an all-levels class on East Beach just in front of the public bathrooms in August and under the trees at Oak Park, Wild Sunset Yoga at Franceschi Park, and Wild Adventure Yoga at Inspiration Point following a hike up the Tunnel Road trail.

The period poses program meets when the muse strikes, and the next gathering has been set for high noon on Christmas Eve at La Mesa Park overlooking the Pacific Ocean at 295 Meigs Road on the Mesa.

Bring your own mat, blankets, water, props, and comfy layered clothes for the one-hour session, which begins with “checking in with our hearts as we prepare to spend time with family and friends – no matter what holidays we celebrate.” In keeping with the wintertime vibe, the class will be a “really slow, internal-diving flow” to connect with the breath and the center on the day before Christmas. Open to everyone via a suggested donation of $5. More info at www.facebook.com/wildyogasb.

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Meanwhile, back indoors, some of the yoga studios also have special holiday sessions on tap as well as year-end class package specials. DiviniTree’s Christmas Eve slate starts at 10 am with Shanti Flow with Rachel Wilkins, a special morning offering to bring about a sense of balance and peace, Shanti, during this hectic time. The class begins with a creative vinyasa flow to move, open, and drop into a space of embodied grace, and the practice closes with gentle stretching, restorative and extended deep relaxation. Nicole Inglish’s A Solstice Journey, at 12 noon on December 24, celebrates having “stepped through the armoire” to winter season, a time to nourish ourselves and our dreams, taking time to enrich ourselves away from friends and family, and enjoy equanimity and balance this season with your practice via a supportive well-rounded Vinyasa Flow class good for all levels. DiviniTree, located at 25 East De La Guerra Street, also has an intro month of unlimited yoga for $48 for new members. Call (805) 897-3354 or visit www.sb.divinitree.com.

Santa Barbara Yoga Center maintains its regular schedule on Christmas eve from 9 am until noon – including Iyengar Level 1-2, Integral Yoga Hatha, Yin Yoga and Meditation, Joyful Chair Yoga – before closing early for the holidays.

But there’s also a Winter Solstice workshop, “Light Up,” with Amardeep Kaur and Kundalini Yoga & Gongs, slated for the actual solstice day, December 21.

Prepare for the longest night of the year by embracing your own personal darkness, opening up energy freeways with Kundalini Yoga (appropriate for all levels), surrendering to the healing vibrations of the three different gongs, and awakening the inner light with mantra and chanting. The 7-8:30 pm session costs $20.

Hypnosis for Insomnia

The longest night of the year might also be a good time to actually get a good night’s sleep, so a special workshop on the subject slated for the evening before comes with perfect timing. Tara Lilley, Certified Hypnotherapist, hosts a special live event at TV Santa Barbara’s studios where you can be part of a live studio audience for a powerful hypnosis session to help increase your sleep success, creating a deep, sound, and restful sleep. Those suffering from chronic insomnia or just looking to improve sleep are invited for what Lilley is calling “the most fun you’ve had talking about sleep” that will focus on the art of selfcare and identifying what isn’t working to get people relaxed and calm ready for sleep success.

Lilley is an honors graduate of the Hypnosis Motivation Institute, and a member of the American Hypnosis Association (AHA), the Hypnotherapists Union Local 472 since 2004. She also teaches seminars on Emotional Freedom Technique and Advanced EFT (Tapping).

The free session takes place at 6 pm on Thursday, December 20, and is limited to 30 people. Bring a blanket, cushions, and/or warm socks for comfort.

Register in advance at www.eventbrite.com/e/free-self-improvement-session-hypnosis-for-insomnia-tickets-52975892320, call (805) 836-0463 or email 805tara@gmail.com. But hurry: You snooze you lose! •MJ

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made at the San Ysidro and Sheffield interchanges. Montecito controls nothing.

We are politely asked to offer input, so others can make the critical decisions on our behalf.

SBCAG members routinely make deals among themselves. Should available gas tax funds be spent on street improvements and bikeways in Carpinteria, or on a bridge in Lompoc or Santa Maria, or for road improvements in Montecito?

In the real world of deal-making and trading favors, Montecito has been left sitting on the sidelines.

2011: Successful Montecito Community Intervention Efforts in the 101 Widening Process

Individual efforts can have major consequences. In 2011, a coalition of Lower Village residents that included Martha Siegel, Sybil Rosen, J’Amy Brown, and Carla Tomson persuaded Caltrans engineers to add a new right-hand northbound 101 off-ramp to the final design for the Cabrillo/Hot Springs intersection. The original plan contemplated using the existing Hermosillo exit as the sole exit for local Montecito and beach-bound traffic. The revised design, now known as F-modified, has become the approved option for the Cabrillo/Hot Springs interchange.

Again in 2011, an alert Montecito resident Robertson (Bob) Short noticed that during the 2008-2012 widening of the northbound 101 from Cabrillo/Hot Springs to Milpas, Caltrans had been unable to negotiate with the Sunshine Trailer Park just north of the Salinas off-ramp for an additional 10 feet to widen the 101 to three lanes. Short suggested to Caltrans Engineers that shrinking the median strip from 10’ to 4½’ would allow for three lanes all the way to Milpas, proving once again that individual efforts can make a lifetime of difference.

2012-2016: The Montecito Association (MA) Community Coalition Effort to Retain Left Lane On-Off Ramps

Starting in 2012 and continuing for four years, a well-intentioned group of Montecito citizens, known first as the MA Community Coalition, and later as Common Sense 101, raised some $200,000 in community contributions to petition Governor Jerry Brown and Caltrans to retain the existing northbound leftlane off-ramp at Cabrillo Boulevard and the existing southbound left off-ramp at the Sheffield interchange.

Environmental Impact Lawsuit Stops the Widening in the Montecito Corridor

In late 2014, a so-called “Transportation Futures Committee”’ retained local attorney Marc S. Chytilo to challenge the Caltrans Environmental Impact Report (EIR), inducing another two-year delay for Montecito. This lawsuit, supported by then-Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider, cemented the decision to widen first in Carpinteria, and push Montecito’s widening to the tail-end of the widening process.

Where Are We Now?

Our community is in for a bumpy ride for the foreseeable future. The North Jameson frontage road has already become the 3rd lane of the 101. In addition, commuters exit the 101 to use the Sheffield Drive to East Valley Road to Hot Springs/Olive Mill local roads to bypass the proverbial pig-in-a-python traffic snarl on the 101.

The reality is that until 2030, Montecito is likely to be the only stretch of 101 between Los Angeles and Goleta restricted to one or two lanes of traffic in each direction. A highway with a design capacity of 45,000 cars and trucks per day, will be asked to carry 100,000 vehicles per day through Montecito.

I’m sure that smarter minds than mine can suggest mitigations to reduce this greater gridlock and community frustration. Any ideas?

Next week: A Few Remedies for Montecito... A Focus on Solutions. What are the plans for widening the 101? What are the timeframes? What are the costs? •MJ

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Caltrans planners and the California Highway Patrol were adamant that leftlane on-off ramps on six-lane highways were unsafe. Caltrans officials feared that if Montecito were granted an exception, Caltrans would be legally liable for accidents because it had already declared left-lane ramps unsafe on six-lane highways.

The only result of the Common Sense 101 campaign was a four-year delay in the approval of the March 2012 Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the South Coast 101 HOV Lanes Project. An additional consequence was that the Montecito community was viewed as an obstructionist to widening efforts by both SBCAG and Caltrans. Wiser planners in Carpinteria eagerly embraced the widening process and secured early funding for their projects.

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Kirk Douglas with his wife, Anne, and Corinna Gordon at his 102nd birthday bash

Golden Globe award named in Carol Burnett’s honor

ing he’s say his 1960 movie Spartacus with Peter Ustinov and Laurence Olivier.

He replied that it was Lust for Life, the 1956 film when he played a doppelgänger of the troubled artist Vincent Van Gogh.

Kirk is ranked number 17 in the American Film Institute’s list of greatest film legends of classic Hollywood cinema and the highest rated living person on the list.

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the public.

“This is a new concept for us and will be a new experience for our clients,” says Carole. “We believe this is a rejuvenation of traditional retail and will engage our customers.”

The tony twosome’s dogs, Ruby and Gracie, will also be at the store, which was formerly the headquarters of the Coast Village Association during the New Year mudslides and the former French designer footwear store, Arche.

Silverhorn’s Back Like the proverbial phoenix, the Montecito bling emporium, Silverhorn, which closed its doors after 30 years at 1155 Coast Village Road, has returned to the ritzy rue at

Michael and Carole Ridding open new CVR bling emporium

1235 Coast Village Road.

The new 1,100 sq ft store, which complements owners Michael and Carole Ridding’s boutique at the Biltmore, enables customers to see the company’s artisans at work behind a glass screen. Formerly the workshop, with its goldsmiths and designers at work, was upstairs and not seen by

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Another Living Legend Veteran Montecito comedienne Carol Burnett is to receive a brand new Golden Globe award named in her honor by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

At the 76th annual awards ceremony at the Hilton in Beverly Hills next month the inaugural award will go to Carol, who celebrated her 85th birthday in April, herself.

The trophy will be given for the recipient’s work in television throughout his or her career, and is not limited to onscreen personalities.

Carol’s successful show with Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Harvey Korman, ran from 1967 to 1978, winning 25 Emmys over the course of its run.

She won five Golden Globes, a record for a TV star, and got a further six nominations for the show, racking up a total of 17 nods throughout her stellar career.

The Ranch Returns After suffering major damage in the New Year mudslides, Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner’s San Ysidro Ranch is almost ready for its closeup again

“It’s easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don’t need trunks.” – Wallace Stegner

after digging out from the mud took three months alone.

The Stonehouse restaurant is offering brunch on December 22, 23, 29, and 30, and the charming rustic cottages are expected to be back on line

by March.

“We want to show people we are back after the disasters,” Scottish manager Maxine Rutledge told me when I visited the five star hostelry last week. “We have been deluged with people wanting to make restaurant reservations and book cottages.”

Unfortunately, the giant bronze turtle statue that graced the lawn opposite the reception for many years went missing after the disaster, so a new one has just been delivered, but is yet to have a name.

If you care to christen the new turtle, please send your entries to me at the Journal (richardmineards@verizon. net) and Maxine will judge the most appropriate entry.

The winner will receive a champagne brunch for two at the Stonehouse...

On the Catwalk The Breast Cancer Resource Center jammed the Loggia Ballroom at the Biltmore when 165 guests turned out for the 11th annual tea and fashion show, which raised around $30,000.

Board president Rose Hodge and executive director Silvana Kelly welcomed the supporters as they watched a runway show staged by Lisa Stern, owner of the Montecito Antoinette Chartier, friend, Penny Sharett, and Silvana Kelly at the Breast Cancer Resource Center annual tea and fashion show (photo by Linda Blue)

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fashion boutique Chasen, with fashions modeled by SBRC clients, including Karen Anderson, Debbie Barnett, Cindy Feinberg, Alice Green, Amara Maliszewski, Colleen Rae, Barbara Urbonas, and Edna Vazquez.

Supporters turning out for the repast and winter market, with a record 11 vendors, included Debbie Arroyo, Kay Castagnola, Shane and Elizabeth Cohn, Michael Feinberg,

Neil and Johanna Israel, Maria Long, and Melinda Rogers.

Tweet the Halls Santa Barbara Beautiful’s annual Christmas party was for the birds!

The boffo bash for 110 guests took place in the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum’s aviary hall and

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have chronicled became the largest and most destructive fire in California history at 281,893 acres, until the 459,123-acre Mendocino Complex Fire took out thousands of homes and many lives just a few months later. We’ll have a memorial issue on January 9th that will pay tribute to the men, women, and children whose lives were lost and the homes that were damaged and/or destroyed. The latest and last of David Myrick’s trilogy on Santa Barbara and Montecito – History Never Ends – features extensive reportage of that seminal event taken from Montecito Journal’s coverage and written by me, as its last chapter. All of us that lived through it will certainly never forget those horrific days. The book is available at Tecolote in the upper village and at Chaucer’s in Santa Barbara. Thanks for stirring our memories. – J.B.)

The Mad Prophet

In the 1976 movie, Network, Howard Beale, as “the mad prophet,” hears a voice telling him that he has to start “telling people the truth.” He responds to the voice that he’s not Moses and “this isn’t the burning bush.” The voice says, “That’s okay, I’m not God.” The prophet then says, “Why me?” The voice responds: “Because you’re on TV, dummy!”

I bring this movie up because this country is going through its own version of Network. I’m not suggesting that President Trump is “the mad prophet,” but he represents the will of the people who are saying, “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.”

As Network progresses however, the prophet’s popularity wanes and he is eventually finished (literally). This president is very strong-willed but he needs to step back a moment to see how he can learn to deal with the Schumers and Pelosis that are holding him back; he’s not going to last out his first term if his ratings don’t improve.

Thomas Carlisle Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Interesting comparison and you’re not far wrong about any of it.

Though, to be fair, President Trump has to learn the art of telling the truth and nothing but the truth from the start rather than letting the facts drip out over time if he hopes to improve his ratings. – J.B.)

Ethics in Journalism

In my opinion, James and Tim Buckley have the highest ethics in journalism. They welcome and print all sides of a controversy, and they let you know what their personal opinions are.

I do differ with many of the opinions and conclusions of their Associate Editor Bob Hazard. The Ethical considerations for news stories are to “… avoid … outside activities that may compromise integrity or impartiality, or may damage credibility.”

There is far greater latitude with editorials. Mr. Hazard frequently writes Montecito Journal Guest Editorials, but I’m not sure that his outside activities are known.

As the drought intensified and water rationing occurred, Mr. Hazard complained that he was losing about half a million dollars in landscaping.

This might certainly affect his editorial opinions. Over two years ago, when Tobe Plough and Floyd Wicks announced they were running for the two open Montecito Water District seats against incumbent Charles Newman and retired District General Manager Tom Mosby, Mr. Hazard wrote many articles favoring Plough and Wicks. But he also had donated $5,000 towards the Plough-Wicks campaign, and may have encouraged many others to donate to their $82,521 campaign fund. I may have missed it in his writings, but Mr. Hazard never said whether he encouraged them to run, talked to Ken Coates about being their campaign manager, or helped encourage other big donors.

When the just-concluded Water District and Sanitary District campaigning began, Mr. Hazard was again one of the first to donate $5,000 to the Campaign for Montecito Water Security, raising $127,425. I’ve heard

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that Mr. Hazard and a few others made a list of possible candidates, and tried to talk several of them into running. A number turned them down, but others did not. Many of the same big donors to the Plough-Wicks campaign also donated heavily to the Water Security campaign. Mr. Hazard wrote many articles favoring the Water Security group.

Was Mr. Hazard active in raising campaign funds and meetings with potential voters? It would be nice if in his next article he covered all that he did to help the five new Water District and two new Sanitary District Directors get selected and elected. I bring this up because in his last week’s Guest Editorial he praised the five new Water District Directors and said his next article would be about the two new Sanitary District Directors.

In his last article, he praised Wicks’s participation in the desal negotiations and panned my and Newman’s earlier participation in desal negotiations. Mr. Hazard was never at any of the negotiations, was unaware that Wicks only attended a few meetings, and that Newman and I only attended one or two of the negotiation meetings where we took almost no part. Further, that Newman was responsible for finding and meeting with David Moore, who Mr. Hazard praised for helping to make all this work. Mr. Hazard also forgot to mention that the board voted

5 to 0 to turn down the City’s original offer that was based on only a 20-year contract, so that after we helped pay off the City’s bond obligation, they could say “Good Bye Montecito.” He also panned Tom Mosby, our past General Manager, saying Mosby couldn’t decide if the deal was needed or not.

Is this desal deal needed? Mr. Hazard’s figures show the current cost adds an additional $4,000,000 a year to our $19,000,000 Water District Budget. He forgot to mention the $250,000 needed for loan deposits, and a possible 20-25% cost overrun, bringing the total to about an additional $5,000,000 a year. He then writes about recycled water, and fails to mention the additional $1-2,000,000 cost. There was not one word in any of his articles favoring the Water Security group as to what might be eliminated to help reduce the burden on ratepayers. Apparently Mr. Hazard and his associates are not concerned with additional rate increases; but others of us are.

Hopefully there will be one or more community meetings, and a community vote, before Mr. Hazard’s new Water District Directors sign a 50-year, quarter-of-a-billion-dollar contract with the City. Maybe what they’re doing is good, or maybe it’s not.

Historically, Montecito has had 20 to 25 years of normal rain and then 5 to

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20 – 27 December 2018

10 years of drought. If this continues, how happy will you be paying about 25% more on your water bill, especially during normal low use when rain is normal?

As an additional aside, at the first new water board meeting, when assignments were given to the members concerning Joint Powers meetings such as COMB or CCWA that they should attend monthly, Brian Goebel and Cori Hayman, two of the three new water board members, announced they have conflicts in the afternoons, and can’t attend any afternoon meetings. So, future water board and other meetings will be in the mornings, and other directors will have to cover any non-changeable afternoon meetings.

It would have been proper if these two had disclosed their problem earlier.

Dick Shaikewitz Montecito (Editor’s note: Thank for the personal kudos; no doubt, Bob Hazard will have a response to your charges and observations in an upcoming issue – J.B.)

Dangerous Jobs

AERA Energy (owned by Exxon/ Shell) has proposed to expand oil and gas production in Cat Canyon, southeast of Santa Maria, with up to 296 new wells.

Spokesperson Rick Rust stated on KEYT-TV on December 3 that the project uses steam injection to remove the heavy crude oil. What he did not say is that this process requires drilling through the Santa Maria groundwater, then injecting the chemical-filled wastewater into the ground, compromising the health of the aquifer on which 200,000 people in 12 cities rely for water. The aquifer is also vital to agriculture, a primary income base for North Santa Barbara County.

The “hundreds of good paying jobs” touted by Mr. Rust is an inflated number, multiplied by the life of the project, which is projected to be 35 years; direct employment in any one year will be far less than that.

Additionally, oil jobs are dangerous operations whose workers will likely be driven in from Kern or elsewhere, whereas renewable energy employs locals. In Santa Barbara County, there are eight times more jobs in clean energy than in the oil industry.

AERA’s proposal will come before the Board of Supervisors in early 2019.

Write them or at least your Supervisor and tell them to put the health of 450,000 people in Santa Barbara County ahead of the profits of Big Oil. The Cat Canyon project is a short-term play profiting a few special interests at the long-term expense of the rest of us.

Rachel Altman Santa Barbara •MJ 20 – 27 December 2018

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Meet the Chorus

by Sigrid Toye, Ph.D. Ms Toye is a former L.A. Unified School District teacher and has worked as an educational-behavior therapist in private practice since 1979.

Than k you

In Praise of Pam Herzog and the MUS Chorus

We want to thank all of our clients for your continued support over the past year.

As a community we grow stronger by coming together, sharing our stories, supporting each other, listening and laughing. We are lucky to know each and every one of you.

We also want to thank our stylists, Annemarie, Alex, Shantal, Celeste & Solange. Happy Holidays!

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in their black and white tuxedo outfits with a perky red cummerbund and bowtie, singing songs of Christmas and Hanukkah all over town. Under the direction of Music Specialist Pam Herzog, the MUS chorus brings holiday music and the energy of youthful voices as a special gift to our community, and in the case of the magical iPhone, to Santa himself. Nothing like preparing the Bearded One for a longer stop here in Montecito this year!

“Our amazing chorus is the highest level of performance our school has to offer and is an honored tradition at MUS,” says Pam proudly after one of their performances. “It’s an all-volunteer group,” she boasts, “of kids who come to school over an hour early each day for practices and rehearsals.”

Although the chorus is well known throughout the community, what isn’t as well known is the dedication and time each participating student and his or her family devote to being a part of the group.

At the beginning of each school year, children in the 4th to 6th grades who wish to take part are asked to make a commitment for the entire school year. “Practices begin during the first weeks of school and effectively continue until the end of school in June,” says Pam. “Think about that,” she adds. “Almost every day! That’s a long day for an elementary school child... and they’re happy to do it!”

There are actually two choruses underway during the school year: a Mustang chorus composed of 4th graders directed by Music Specialist Ron Zecher, and the 5th and 6th grade chorus, the primary performance group.

During the months of November and December of this year, the chorus has made appearances at the Montecito Rotary, the Channel City Club at the Beachfront Hilton Resort, the Music Academy’s Women’s Auxiliary in

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Lehman Hall on the Music Academy of the West campus, the Coast Village Road celebration for the Montecito community, not to mention a series of Winter Sings, and other performances at school – all before Winter Break.

More rehearsals and spring performances follow after the break and, of course, the trips to Knott’s Berry Farm and Disneyland are highlights of the performance year.

One of the most interesting aspects of the program is how eager the students are to join and the commitment of energy they are willing to make to be involved. The kids are truly dedicated and the opportunity to be a member of the chorus is one that also involves taking a huge risk as a performer, which for some can be quite a challenge.

The students, however, view their yearly commitment from the perspective of the heart. “When I sing, it lets me express myself” is Nichole’s reason for joining. “I enjoy our chorus because we are all a family and if we make mistakes, we learn from them together.”

Not feeling vulnerable, being able to make mistakes and learn from them is a confidence building experience.

“What I like about chorus is everyone is so supportive and makes you feel like you can sing out, without being made fun of,” adds Chloe.

The students, otherwise known as the chorus family, share one thing in common: they love to sing. “I joined chorus because I love singing and making other people happy,” says Lovelynn, “and that’s what matters to me!” Simone, like many of the chorus family, seems to enjoy starting her day with music. “I like waking up every morning and coming to school to a joyful group, ready to start our day off singing.”

Having to rise and shine before the sun on winter days can be a challenge, but with Simone’s enthusiasm, the thought of getting up at the crack of dawn seems less daunting. Frances, a 6th grade student, expressed what many others feel about being in the chorus family. “I would say we laugh often, but when we need to be serious we are. I love chorus and I’m so sad to leave after this year! I think I most enjoy singing with friends and seeing people smile.” And how right Frances is, they do make people smile. I can attest to that myself.

One of the early risers that happily trots off to chorus at the crack of dawn is my granddaughter. A big smile appears on her face when she talks about it. “I love chorus; Mrs. Herzog and all the kids are so nice.

Singing is one of my favorite things in the world!”

Thank you Pam and Ron so much for bringing such joy to our children, and to the entire community. And Santa, on his iPhone at the North Pole, thanks you too! •MJ 20 – 27 December 2018

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On Entertainment

by Steven Libowitz

Revels: Get your Irish Up

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ike nearly all of Santa Barbara’s performing arts organizations, Santa Barbara Revels suffered some hardships during last year’s Thomas Fire, losing two of its planned four performances of its annual Christmas show to the smoke and ash and evacuations. The cancellations were even more painful because the 2017 show was the company’s first ever fully original effort, a Santa Barbara-based story penned by the company’s founder, Susan Keller, a longtime Montecito resident, to celebrate the local Revels’ 10-year anniversary.

Keller expects to revive that original story for 2019, but this December promises a revisiting of one of the most popular shows in the company canon: The Christmas Revels: An Irish Celebration of the Winter Solstice. The story features a topic that might be even more timely – a tale of immigrants on their way to America to search for a better life, in this case a group of Irish people in December 1907 as they journey to Ellis

Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than 10 years.

Island aboard the S.S. Furnessia out of Londonderry.

“We at Revels like to salute the fact that our country is made up of immigrants who all brought something that contributed to the richness and fullness of our country,” Keller said.

“When the Irish first came to America, they weren’t very welcome either because they were different. But they all managed to thrive and prosper.”

Of course, politics doesn’t actually show up in the show, which is mainly a family-friendly holiday tale full of singing, dancing, and all around merriment, with plenty of audience participation and something for people of all ages and faiths to enjoy. With

the Irish show taking place onboard ship, the people who have left behind friends, family, and familiar surroundings find a way to combine nostalgia with anticipation by bonding over sharing songs, stories, and seasonal traditions.

“It’s a wonderful way of dealing with the sadness of being away from their homeland and loved ones,” said Keller, who once again stage directs the show. “They each have their stories and traditions from different villages to share. They’re drawn together as a group even though they’re all headed to different destinations when they arrive.”

Keller has added a new romantic element to the story last presented at the Lobero four years ago, as a young man en route to the Bronx connects with a woman headed to Boston midsea. The character of the poet, a disillusioned cynic who is consoled but also challenged by a Mother Earth character, has also been updated with original elements from Keller. “In our new version he comes around to see how these people have pulled together to create something special among themselves. He becomes a little less cynical. We’ve also given the Welsh purser and British captain characters a bit more to do over the journey, being more protective of the passengers.”

As always, all of the traditional

elements of a winter solstice Revels show are present, including the midshow Mummers play including the sword dance, and the audience joining in “The Lord of the Dance” to close out the first set by dancing down the aisles out into the Lobero lobby, and adding their voices to Christmas carols. The music itself gets an upgrade via second-year music director Erin McKibben, who performs and conducts a crack band and several choruses in songs, including “The Shores of Amerikay,” “Colcannon,” and “The Parting Glass,” sung as the passengers disembark from the ship.

“It’s just so much fun for everyone,” Keller said.

(The Christmas Revels: An Irish Celebration of the Winter Solstice performs at 2:30 & 7:30 pm Saturday, and 2:30 pm Sunday, December 22-23, at the Lobero. Tickets are $13-$50.)

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Just as with Tchaikovsky’s evergreen Christmas ballet The Nutcracker, A Christmas Carol, the morality play based on the classic Charles Dickens’ novella, seems to show up in the Santa Barbara area every December.

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The Ethics of Archaeology

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t has always seemed puzzling to me that in some situations we have great respect for the dead, while in others we couldn’t care less.

In general, the determining factor seems to be time. The more recently dead you are, the more you can expect to be handled with care, and referred to with some consideration for your feelings, even if you no longer have any. Archeologists (if you will pardon the expression) seem to make no bones about digging up people who in many cases were obviously buried with great care by grieving loved ones. They often put on public display not only the skeletal remains of the deceased but the objects which were lovingly placed in their graves – a child’s toys, a man’s tools, a woman’s looking-glass. Particularly touching to me are the small lachrymal containers which held some tears of the mourners.

And of course, the most elaborate tombs, whether in Egypt or Mexico, Cambodia or China, have been diminished, or if you like, elevated, to the status of major tourist attractions.

But is this right? What justification have we for disturbing the dead, even in the name of Science? And how much has legitimate Science really advanced thereby anyway?

Modern cemeteries are sacrosanct.

Any interference with their grounds or markers or inhabitants is considered desecration – even if the remains have been reduced to a few ashes in an urn. Even Robert Ballard, who exhumed, so to speak, the corpse of the Titanic, which sank only a century ago, seems to have had some twinges of conscience about profaning a maritime sepulcher of such recent vintage.

And where does religion fit into all this? Every culture has its funerary rites, and, as is well known, the ancient Egyptians, among many other peoples, believed in a very real after-life, for which they might be provided with well-stocked tombs (thereby ensuring a livelihood for whole generations of grave-robbers).

And then there is the curious custom of making wills – by which the dead attempt to influence the living, and the living, with remarkable concurrence, feel bound to honor the wishes of the dead. To lawyers, this makes a great deal of sense (and dollars) – but in purely practical terms, there is no reason why what was 20 – 27 December 2018

once referred to as the “Dead Hand” of those now permanently absent should in any way control the activities of the living. This may be one reason for the biblical tradition of observing a regular cyclical period (in the Bible, it was 50 years) at the end of which, the year of “Jubilee,” all debts would be forgiven, and all slaves and prisoners freed. In effect, it meant a starting afresh – or what we might now call a “re-set.” This at least put a limit on the extent to which the Past could maintain a strangle-hold on the Present.

However, for better or worse, in our culture of today we hallow no such sensible system, even though, in what is still our most popular prayer, we ask the Lord to “forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” Of course, if this were taken literally, the whole structure of Capitalism would collapse.

But, getting back to Archaeology, the chief ethical concern that it seems to generate in our world is not the question of whether or not antiquity should be dug up, but of who can claim it, and what should be done with it, once it does re-emerge.

The salvaging of shipwrecks loaded with treasure has been a notoriously fertile field for such controversies, sometimes involving states and governments which didn’t even exist at the time the ship was lost. How, for example, can modern Spain claim any rights to the contents of Spanish galleons which may have gone down in the 16th century, and which were discovered and salvaged by enterprising maritime treasure-hunters with no Hispanic connection whatsoever?

Nevertheless, let me not, in closing, appear to have been making light of the profoundly mysterious relationship between those conditions we call “Life” and “Non-life.”

There are those who still take very seriously the idea that this world (if not the next) will still exist when they are gone.

And the epitaph on Shakespeare’s grave (whoever wrote it) is still worth bearing in mind, when we consider the ethics of archaeology: Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To dig the dust enclosed here.

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 12)

Montecito Water District directors Floyd Wicks, Ken Coates, Cori Hayman, Brian Goebel, and Tobe Plough at the December 7 meeting, where the three new board directors were sworn in

City of Santa Barbara. Phase 2 negotiations resumed in late March 2018, spearheaded by Nick Turner, MWD’s General Manager.

Turner and MWD staff, along with District consultant David Moore of Clean Energy Capital, met with Josh Haggmark, City Water Resources Manager, providing key terms to a long-term Agreement at the December 5 meeting. These key terms, which staff representatives backed as mutually agreeable, represent significant progress through a process that has been reinvigorated by a renewed commitment in regional partnerships.

“We are hopeful that the terms will be viewed favorably and garner mutual agreement so that we can move on to the next steps: finalizing a term sheet and drafting an agreement,” said Turner. “We’re striving for regional cooperation that will bolster the production and affordability of local, reliable water supplies for all parties.”

Key terms satisfactorily address a number of past sticking points, including duration of an agreement, source of water supply, and cost, as follows: 1) Duration: A 50-year term for the agreement is proposed, the maximum allowable under the City’s charter.

Shorter terms were a concern in prior MWD discussions, due to the significant costs involved.

2) Source: The source of water supplied remains at the City’s option, which is understood as vital for their management of a complex water supply portfolio. MWD is guaranteed water that meets all federal and State primary water quality requirements.

Ultimately, this increased flexibility of supply will work in everyone’s favor as conditions change over time, and particularly if the agencies cooperate more on regionally appropriate strategies.

3) Cost: A new cost structure has been carefully engineered by the two parties, and lands the estimated cost at approximately $2,700 per acre-foot.

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This is a moderate reduction from prior MWD estimates, and seems to better address the needs of both agencies in planning for fixed versus variable costs.

The cost decrease is partly due to increased volume as the discussion now commits to 1,430 acre-feet per year, an increase of 180. Greater volume would give MWD more water security, and help the City achieve efficiencies by running the plant at greater production levels. The cost may be even further reduced in years when a newly described “Take if Offered” (TIO) provision is exercised, which could provide MWD with additional water, up to 445 AFY, when the City has available supply. Depending upon quantities involved, costs may be comparable to State Water, however the reliability of this local source gives it much greater value.

The City Council received a comparable presentation at their meeting last week. The meetings were scheduled in tandem with hopes that both presentations would garner agreement and that staff could return to their respective boards in January with term sheets for consideration and possible approval to move forward with development of a Water Supply Agreement. Preliminary support was expressed in both meetings.

Also happening at the District: new board directors Ken Coates, Cori Hayman, and Brian Goebel were sworn in on December 7. The newly elected directors join Floyd Wicks, board president, and Tobe Plough, board vice president. Board meetings are open to the public and are typically held on the fourth Tuesday of the month, now at a new time: 9:30 am.

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Debris Basins Post Storm

Santa Barbara County Flood Control reps report that Montecito

Montecito Creek debris basin following the November 29 rainfall event. The basin is located on Montecito Creek just east of Olive Mill Road and south of Casa Dorinda. Flood Control reports that the basins performed as they expected, and did not overflow.

debris basins performed nicely during the most recent winter storms in late November. Flood Control cleaned approximately 3,100 cubic yards of material from the Cold Spring debris basin, and about the same amount from the San Ysidro Creek debris basin, resulting from the late November rainfall event.

Dance Studio Opens in Carpinteria

Dadiana Salon owner and professional ballroom dancer Diane Meehan has opened a dance studio, California Gold Ballroom Dance Studio, on Carpinteria Avenue, just months after Montecito’s Dance Fever Studio closed its doors in Coast Village Walk. Dance Fever owner Vasily Golovin, who has been dancing with Meehan for years, is now the master instructor at the new studio.

“He makes dancing fun for all levels, and I’m delighted to be working together after dancing together for years,” Meehan said during a recent visit to the large studio.

Hosting a grand opening this past weekend, Meehan says the space, which used to be home to a CrossFit gym, is a “one stop shop” for lessons, practice, professional performances and showcases, social dancing, and a theater for live stream international performances and lessons. In addition, the studio is the only place in town that sells authentic competition dancewear and shoes, as well as jewelry, makeup, and other dance necessities. The studio has been outfitted with a floating dance floor imported from Denmark, as well as large mirrors, a ballet barre, and a spinning

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Vasily Golovin and Diane Meehan at the new California Gold Ballroom Dance Studio in Carpinteria

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Golovin was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and has been dancing since age 9; he has won countless national and international dance championships, some of which while dancing with Meehan.

The studio offers tea dances, social dances, and an extensive program of classes and lessons for adults and kids. Styles include Latin, Ballroom, Swing, and more. “Even if you don’t think you can dance, you can start with the basics. Dancing can be a great form of exercise, strengthening your core and improving focus,” Meehan said.

For more information, visit w w w. c a l i f o r n i a g o l d b a l l r o o m dance.com. The studio is located at 4647 Carpinteria Avenue, (805) 705-9090.

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32nd Annual Parade of Lights 2018

The 1st Place Commercial Fishing boat winner, Bernard Friedman with his boat, Perseverance

Grand Prize and First Place Sail Winner Shawn Hughes with his team and presenters Skip Abed and Mick Kronman at the 2018 Parade of Lights awards

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n Sunday, December 9th, the 32nd Annual Parade of Lights Boat Show was held at Stearns Wharf and seen along the city beachfront from west to east beaches. This year marked the return of the event from 2016, as SB Waterfront decided for the safety of our citizens to cancel it last year due to the Thomas Fire.

The parade, founded by Captain Don Hedden, past president of the Stearns Wharf Business Association in 1985, is a holiday favorite. With it comes Santa, goodie bags for the kids, the annual harbor tree lighting, the boat parade contest, and concludes with a fireworks show launched from West Beach.

The boat contest theme for 2018 was Hollywood Holidays. There are three winners in each boat category, complete with trophies, gifts, and cash prizes. Boat parade participants enter for free under the categories: human-powered, power, sail, power, or commercial other vessels.

Thanks to the SB City Waterfront, I was given my usual bird’s eye view of the parade in the judge’s loft to take photos, upstairs at the Deep Sea

Tasting Room patio. Captain David Bacon is the Master of Ceremonies with his wife, Cathy, announcing each boat as it “poses” in front of the judges while cruising along the harbor from East Beach going west. Boats are judged on a scale of 1 to 5 for use of lights, interpretation of the parade theme and overall impression.

Judges were Mark Danielson General Manager KEYT, John Koontz SB Yacht Club Commodore, Cathy Murillo SB Mayor, Ken Oplinger President and CEO Chamber of Commerce SB Region, and Kristen Sneddon SB City Councilmember.

Skip Abed, SB Sailing Center owner, with Mick Kronman, Harbor Operations Manager, presented the awards ceremony held at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, courtesy of Greg Gorga, Executive Director of the museum. Announced at the event, Dominique Samario, SB Waterfront Public Information Officer, who has been administrating the event for the past 10 years, has accepted a position with the City of Goleta. She has done a remarkable job and we wish her the best. Kronman was also recognized

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Richie said, “The holidays are really for the kids, and knowing that these toys are going to children in our town that may not have the means otherwise is appreciated in our annual drive.”

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Accepting her 1st place award is Barbara Mullen with her team wearing their lightening gloves, and presenters Skip Abed and Mick Kronman

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SEEN (Continued from page 14) Community Leaders luncheon speaker Miguel Cruz, sponsor Janet Garufis, and Scholarship Foundation board chair Don Logan

Lyle Lovett with sponsor Fredric E. Steck after the UCSB Arts & Lectures concert

has 14 albums to his credit. He made his musical debut in 1986 and has since been given the Americana Music Association’s inaugural Trailblazer Award and was named Texas State Musician.

Robert Earl Keen’s motto is “The road goes on forever… and the party never ends!” That’s the way he lives his life. His goal is not to reach a destination of fame and fortune, but just to write and sing his own songs as long as possible. It seems to be working.

He has 19 albums and thousands of shows under his belt with no end in sight. He has been coast to coast with his band and belongs beside the likes of Willie Nelson, George Strait, and Eric Church.

Sponsors and friends were treat-

Robert Earl Keen with sponsor Loren Booth after the concert

ed to a private reception for the stars after the concert in a cozy small tent outside Campbell Hall. The event sponsors were Loren Booth and Fredric E. Steck. Miller McCune executive director Celesta Billeci gave thanks to their Community Partners: the Natalie Orfalea Foundation & Lou Buglioli and corporate season sponsor Sage Publishing for the 2018-19 season. For tickets to upcoming events call UCSB Arts & Lectures at 805-8933535.

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lion to over 50,000 students,” board president Don Logan told the 350 guests at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachside Resort. Every year the Foundation gives a luncheon to thank volunteers and donors for their help.

Why does it matter? College graduates will earn nearly $1 million more over the course of a 40-year working life; more likely to have a pension or retirement account; have higher employment rates; live an average of nine years longer; vote and volunteer more; pay more taxes and require less public assistance.

The SFSB mission statement is: “Inspires, encourages, and supports Santa Barbara County students to and through college, graduate, and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.”

During lunch, student speaker Miguel Cruz told us his amazing story. “I grew up in extreme poverty in Mexico. I was on a gang list even though I was never a member.

I didn’t like to work on cars. Three of my classmates committed suicide and I had two children.” Eventually he graduated from SBCC with honors because he was a recipient of a scholarship.

The keynote speaker was Chairman and CEO of Montecito Bank & Trust Janet Garufis. Her credits are nearly as long as a speech. She’s been called a

“Sometimes in life you just have to take a leap of faith.” – Abby Clements

real life Wonder Woman. She succeeded in spite of setbacks in her jobs and education. As she says, “Education is transformational.” She also admits to liking to be in charge and being bossy.

Her bank was the premier sponsor of the luncheon.

Also introduced was the SFSB brand new CEO Victoria Juarez. She was from Girls Inc. in Carpinteria.

Her appointment came after an eightmonth nationwide search. As she said, “My grandparents were migrant workers and my father never made it past the third grade, but my family instilled a deep love of learning in me.

They understood that a college degree could open opportunities that would have otherwise remained closed to me.

There’s nothing I’d rather do than help the next generation of students better their lives and enrich their community through access to higher education.

SFSB is the nation’s largest community based provider of college scholarships. In May 2018, the SFSB awarded $8.32 million in scholarships to 2,620 students. The six-year graduation rate among SFSB recipients is 81 percent while the national average is 63 percent. Fifty-four percent of recipients are first-generation college students.

There are always more qualified students than money. If you’d like to help, call 805-687-6065 or go to www. sbscholarship.org.

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isn’t doing their full-throated original adaptation that proved very popular in recent years (in favor of the utterly astonishingly South Pacific, by the way, which should not be missed), community theater productions have taken place at the Alcazar Theatre in Carpinteria and via a truncated version from the new teen theater troupe Lights Up! just last Sunday at Center Stage.

This weekend, however, features perhaps the most original take on the miser-meets-redemption tale, as Lit Moon Theatre Company revisits its 10-year-old adaptation Humbug!, adapted and directed by company founder John Blondell as part of Lit Moon’s 25+1 anniversary celebration that culminates in January with a special reunion show (more on that next week). Refreshed and renewed for Christmas 2018, Humbug! miniaturizes some of the main physical characters through the use of dolls in a way that also maximizes the emotional impact via an intimate approach.

Featuring Nina Sallinen as Scrooge, with company members Victoria Finlayson, Stanley Hoffman, Anna Telfer, and Chris Wagstaffe, Humbug! plays 7:30 pm Friday, 4 & 7:30 pm Saturday and 4 pm Sunday, December 21-23, at Lit Moon’s perennial home of Center Stage Theater. Tickets cost $23 general, $18 students, seniors, and

children. Call (805) 963-0408 or visit www.centerstagetheater.org.

Blondell talked about the uniqueness of the show last weekend.

Q. Humbug!, of course, is based on A Christmas Carol, one of the best-known and most beloved holiday. How did you Lit Moon-ify it?

A. Let me put it this way: A friend of mine is playing Mr. Fezziwig (Scrooge’s kind-hearted old boss) in a production at the Guthrie Theater (in Minneapolis) right now. It’s very gorgeous, opulent, with a cast of thousands, a big wonderful, spectacular show. Our version is the exact opposite. It’s very simple, with just five actors, minimal costumes, and some objects. We zero in on the storytelling aspect of the Dickens novella. The actors all both play characters and narrators of the story. There are no big production numbers because we really focus in on the poetry and the simplicity of the story, and the austere beauty at the beginning and the emotional transformation that takes place.

I posted on my Facebook page that I really like both approaches. The spectacular production is terrific, but our version is about really seeing the simple human nature of the story, true chamber theater, presented up close the way we can in the Center Stage Theater. It puts the story in the imag-

ination of the audience watching it.

The other thing that’s very different is that we have a woman playing Scrooge, which by its nature offers a different angle. The four other actors portray all the other characters. You get an opportunity to see the company members move in and out of the play, doing six, seven, or more characters, which is something we’ve done a lot in Lit Moon over the years.

ed working on it in November, just in our house, sitting around the big country table in the kitchen. The table itself took on a form as the major scenic element, with everything happening around it. As we worked, the dolls developed from that premise of it being just a kitchen table show using objects to represent aspects of the story. The concept emerged from the rehearsal process itself.

And puppets.

Yes. Jim Connolly made these fabulous objects which are hard to describe, basically dolls that are made out of paper bags. They’re gorgeous and haunting with a poetic beauty.

That’s very distinctive and unique.

They’re not classical puppets, but they are objects, cross between a doll and a puppet, almost like a toy theater approach. The entire Cratchit family are these dolls that the actors move around.

You also have original music by Jim Connolly that is quite different.

All of the music is Christmas carols that have been de-formed, de-natured, rearranged, broken up, and put in different keys. So there’s an incredible haunting, almost disintegrating quality, having these gorgeous, very familiar Christmas carols put into a completely different musical context

by Jim.

Why make these sorts of choices, especially the dolls? It’s been a few years since I’ve seen the show, but I remember how disorienting and yet intimate it was to see the interplay between the live actors and the tiny dolls.

We conceived and developed the show when we had just come back from a European tour in 2007. That was in October, which is when we decided we wanted to do it. We start-

Why use fractured carols? What’s being said?

It came from a suggestion from Jim. The original story of A Christmas Carol is actually divided into sort of a musical form, a staff. I was thinking about how he structured it, and the title itself. I had seen it a lot of times and heard lots of traditional music, but never a production that used only carols. I liked the idea of focusing on

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 21) John Palminteri giving birthday wishes to Dana Morrow, along with Luke Swetland (photo

by Priscilla)

Accepting the Recognition Award for Santa Barbara Beautiful is Jacqueline Dyson, with Ginny Brush and Leon Olson (photo

by Priscilla)

Bror Saxberg, Margie Yahyavi, Brad Whittell, and Leanna Merritt at Santa Barbara Beautiful’s Christmas party (photo by Priscilla)

was certainly a glittering occasion, given sparkle was the theme of the fun fête.

Jacqueline Dyson, outgoing president of the organization, passed the torch to Penny Haberman, while guests, including Ron and Roz Amortegu-Fenson, Mark Whitehurst and Kerry Methner, museum director Luke Swetland and wife Stacey, Bob and Alex Cunningham, Susan Keller, Thad and Laurie Macmillan, John Palminteri, and Kevin and Sheila Snow, quaffed the wine and noshed on the eclectic comestibles from caterer Pete Clements.

All It’s Cracked up to Be State Street Ballet’s production of Tchaikovsky’s enchanting The

Nutcracker at the sold-out Granada is always a Christmas highlight.

With the Opera San Luis Obispo Grand Orchestra under Brian Asher Alhadeff for the seventh year, it has taken on a whole new perspective.

Boasting colorful sets from Moscow, including a magnificent expanding Christmas tree and ornate costumes from Christina Giannini, Mary Etta Lang, and Nicole Thompson, and a truly international cast with dancers from Russia, Japan, Brazil, Chile, and Cuba, the show couldn’t fail to please.

Brazilian Deise Mendonca and Marika Kobayashi from Japan took on the roles of the Sugar Plum Fairy, partnered with Cuban guest artist Francois Llorente and Tanner Blee.

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At the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History are Tom Jacobs, Cass Ensberg, Luke and Stacey Swetland, Steve Windhager, and Pamme Mickelson (photo by Priscilla)

Additional principal roles were performed by company members John Christopher Piel, James Folsom, and Anna Carnes.

Artistic director Rodney Gustafson, Gary McKenzie, Megan Philipp, and Marina Fliagina mustered every available performer – nearly 200 dancers – in the talented company’s arsenal from the tiniest of tots to the seasoned professionals, including Sergei Domrachev, who plays a magnificently camp Mother Ginger.

History Never Ends Thirty years after it was first published, a third book on our rarefied enclave, Montecito III: History Never Ends, has just hit the bookshelves.

David F. Myrick’s first tome in the

series, Montecito: The Days of Great Estates, was followed three years later, in 1991, with the second volume, From Farms to Estates.

Myrick died in 2011 at the age of 93, but had already done considerable work on the third volume, which has been completed by a host of well qualified contributors, including Dana Newquist, Judy Pearce, Rick Closson, Mindy Denson, Journal columnist Kelly Mahan Herrick, Barbara Doran – who spent her childhood at Huguette Clark’s estate, Bellosguardo –, and Journal president, Jim Buckley.

Many of them were at Tecolote, the bibliophile bastion in the upper village, when the third work was launched with a bijou bash.

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After canceling her annual Yuletide fête last year because of the Thomas Fire, Montecito uber philanthropist Leslie Ridley-Tree was back with a bang as she hosted a boffo bash at her magnificently decorated home, complete with roaring log fire, for a heavenly host of names quaffing the champagne and wine, while feasting on food from culinary whiz Michael Hutchings.

Among them Bob and Val Montgomery, Bob and Marlene Veloz, former mayor Helene Schneider, Hiroko Benko, Barry and Jelinda DeVorzon, Corinna Gordon, George Leis, Jeff and Hollye Jacobs, Brooks and Kate Firestone, David Lacy, Milt and Arlene Larsen, Chris Toomey, Mary Collier, Merryl Brown, Ray Winn and Peter Kavoian, George Schoellkopf, Mary Dorra, Brian King, and Alan Parsons.

also welcomed the tony hostelry’s new manager, Colleen Huther, and sales executive Rob Roche, who has moved to our Eden by the Beach from the Peninsula in Beverly Hills.

A model of the new $375,000 Rolls Royce Cullinan SUV from Westlake O’Gara Coach graced the hotel’s entrance, as the 120 guests filed in.

Among them were Barry and Jelinda DeVorzon, Bill and Sandi Nicholson, Chris and Mindy Denson, David Sigman, Scott Campbell and Tara Gray, Justin and Mindy Mahy, Kerri Ramgren, Morten and Lisa Wengler, and Marc Fialip.

In other Belmond news, Bernard Arnault’s LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world’s leading luxury group, is acquiring the hotel company – which has 46 hotel, restaurant, trains and river cruise operations in 24 countries, including the Hotel Cipriani in Venice and the Copacabana Palace in Rio – for $2.6 billion.

Enchanting El Encanto Belmond El Encanto, the hotel aerie on the Riviera, hosted a polo party with Texan promotional dynamo Charles Ward and yours truly, which

Hahn Hall Harmonies Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West was gridlocked when Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, accompanied by pia-

Barbara Delaune Warren with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Polina Leschenko at the Music Academy of the West (photo by Grace Kathryn)

nist Polina Leschenko, put on a sizzling display of her musical dexterity.

The Grammy-nominee, clearly at the top of her form, played works by Bartok, Poulenc, and Romanian composer Georges Enescu.

Afterwards major supporters of UCSB Arts & Lectures met the fab fiddler at a bash at the Marilyn Horne House.

Festival of Lights Dynamic duo Roger and Sarah Chrisman took the harbor Christmas

Parade of Lights to heart decking out their 78ft. cruiser Polaris II with a light show worthy of Las Vegas.

Three dozen boats took part in the maritime show, which had a Hollywood Holidays theme for its 32nd year, concluding with a spectacular five-minute show of colorful pyrotechnics.

Among the partygoers on board, enjoying the food from the Bear and Star in Los Olivos, were Terry and

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Todd Fallen, Kelly Kearley, Leanne Schlinger, and Roger Chrisman (photo by Priscilla) Kari Lloyd of Westlake O’Gara Coach surprised the party by arriving in the first ultra-luxury Rolls-Royce Cullinan SUV to be shown in Santa Barbara, with marketing guru Charles Ward

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Betsy Coates, Erin Graffy, George Burtness, Warren Miller, and Bill Reynolds (photo by Priscilla)

Motoring by on a SB Sailing Center boat, Montecito, are Sarah Crawford, Kostis Protopapas, Elizabeth Crawford, Tim Accurso, and Ediben Bilog (photo by Priscilla)

period with each trustee coming in separately and going through the considerable collection in storage to choose their favorites,” says Dacia Harwood, the museum’s deputy director.

More than 130 guests turned out to see the works at the exhibition and member appreciation evening, with Guests and costumed carolers Katherine, Allison Lewis, Adriel, Dacia Harwood, the Bidwells (Alex, Geri, and Jerry), Daisy, Amanda, and in front are Sophia and Luna (photo

by Priscilla)

On the bow of the Polariis is Leanne Schlinger and daughter Lila holding Lola with Kelly Kearley and daughter, Ava (photo by Priscilla)

Pam Valeski, Bill and Trish Davis, Ken and Elsbeth Clements, Tim and Marion Putz, Howard Smith and Trish Dixson, and Roberta Griffin.

Trusted Treasures Santa Barbara Historical Museum set its trustees, past and present, to work choosing favorite pieces of art from more than 3,000 works in the venerable institution’s vault for a Trusted Treasures exhibition featuring

Last Memories

TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey, 64, has opened up about the final days she spent with her mother, Vernita Lee, who died at her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, aged 83, last month.

“In hospice care they have a little book about the little conversations,” the Montecito resident tells People.

“Isn’t this strange? I am Oprah Winfrey and I’m reading a hospice care book on what to say at the end.

“I sat with my mother. I said, ‘I don’t know if you’re going to make it.

Do you think you’re going to make it?’

She said, ‘I don’t think I am.’

“I started telling all the people who cared about her and that she knows it’s the end, so if you want to say goodbye, you should come and say goodbye.

“It was as sacred and blessed as a passing can be.”

Missed Messages Montecito TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres celebrated 15 years of marriage to actress Portia de Rossi by hiring a plane to fly by their $18 million Carpinteria beach house trailing a banner with the number “15” and a heart.

But it wasn’t until the plane flew over the home, with its 79ft. of ocean beachfront, that the former Oscars host realized the message was too small to be read from the ground.

Ellen, 60, had a lunch with Portia, 45, as they watched the aircraft fly by.

Robert Adams, Nancy Clare Caponi, Carol Scott Wathen, and John Woodward flanking a famed Christmas nutcracker (photo

by Priscilla)

16 works, with each piece accompanied by a photo of the trustee and a quote or two on why the painting was chosen.

“It was done over a three-month

Sightings: Oscar winner Kevin Costner noshing at Tydes at the Coral Casino... Michael Douglas and his children, Dylan and Carys, at the High Sierra Grill in Goleta... Carol Burnett dining at Pierre LaFond’s Wine Bistro Pip! Pip! And a Merry Christmas to you all.

Entertained by carolers and SBHM’s Trustee’s Treasures are Lisa Lunsford, Royce Woodbury, Sheri Mobley, Patricia Perry, and Phyllis Westwick (photo by Priscilla)

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guests including Peggy Wiley and Wilson Quarre, Joan Tapper, Gail Beust, Beverley Jackson, George Burtness, Frank Ochoa, and Paula Lopez.

“I’ve come to understand that life is a constant letting go.” – Scott Stabile

Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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that, the poetic concentration it gives, with both the beauty and familiarity but also something broken up and haunting, to echo the story.

Dreamtime December: 3Q’s with Sudama

Dreamtime Continuum has been one of Santa Barbara’s most eclectic ensembles since Sudama Mark Kennedy first formed the group way back in 1994 as an outlet for his all-encompassing world music approach that he came by naturally as the son in a diplomatic family. The group underwent a few personnel changes over the years and the recording of seven albums, although many of the core members were intact from 2000 until about 2012 or so, when Dreamtime more or less went on hiatus in favor of Kennedy’s solo projects.

But solstices, both summer and winter, have always been the main calling of the Continuum, and with the winter one arriving this weekend, Kennedy congregated members old and new to put on an early show (6-8 pm) at SOhO on Saturday, December 22. Kennedy, who is also an intuitive healer and shaman who works with private clients and groups, dished on the upcoming dinnertime offering earlier this week.

Q. Dreamtime has largely been dormant in recent times, right?

A. Yes, we haven’t been active because many of the main people moved out of state, so I’ve been doing kirtans at private houses mostly these days. But a few of the core members are still around and I’ve been playing with guitarist Filippo Francini for the last couple of years, and he’s just amazing. It will be a bit different, but definitely still a Dreamtime show, where the music is about the groove and the healing.

What is it about solstice that works for you?

I’ve always liked these crossover times in seasons because there’s an energy that shifts too. December 22 is the first day when we’ve passed the darkest night of the year, and now each day gets longer. We’re emerging from total hibernation. Ancient people always had big celebrations on the solstice, wanting to affect the universe to bring bounty to the crops and the lands. And it’s also a full moon, a perfect astrological resonance to do this shamanic music, which has a healing intention. It’s the perfect day because the energy in the universe is already poised to be transformative and it’s also a good time to party because it’s celebrating the incoming light.

Sudama Mark Kennedy plays a Solstice dinner show at SOhO on December 22

A dinner time show is a bit different for you.

Yes, it will be a shorter set, maybe 90 minutes to 2 hours only, something lighter and more kid-friendly for families. No big lights show like we had for my solo CD release party in July.

But we’re just going to go for it.

There will be music from the album, but also favorite Dreamtime songs interspersed like “Green Evolution,” “Winken, Blinken and Nod,” and “Your Heart Just Knows.” It will be more dreamy, lighter dinner stuff for the first hour and then after people finish their food and are ready to get up and move, we’ll play the reggae

and funk, and the more groove part for the second set.

But really it’s all groove. I let the mystical mood of the evening wash through. I just feel it, connect to the audience and the band, and let it go off into the mystic, but it’s also controlled, not too out there. We just let the Dreamtime space come in and guide us. There’s a set list, but I also play by feel. Sensing the audience is the most important thing for the band leader to do. It’s always been my consideration as a healer to find the resonance that’s existing in the moment, attune to that and let it guide what we do.

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LOCAL PEOPLE

Wendy Foster, the store’s buyer Laura McGuire, Dina Bleakney, Julia Burrows, and Trisha Saroya head up the staff at Wendy Foster in Montecito

by Sigrid Toye, Ph.D. Ms Toye is a former L.A. Unified School District teacher and has worked as an educational-behavior therapist in private practice since 1979.

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utside Wendy Foster’s signature store in Montecito’s upper village, the tables were completely occupied, but I was lucky enough to find a spot under a tree dressed in the colors of the fall season.

From my perch, I could appreciate the park’s green lawn, the tables nearby under which a few furry friends had made their home, and the comings and goings on the walkway. I must have looked like a shopper with my satchel because a tourist coming out of Wendy Foster carrying one of her signature bags approached me. “All I had to do was look in that window,” she exclaimed gesturing toward the shop with her free hand, “to know that every elegant piece of clothing inside and out must have been chosen by an artist with distinctive tastes and a grasp of international fashion, and what a surprise… right here in this small town of Montecito!”

Shortly after that enthusiastic encounter, Wendy emerged from her shop and joined me at the table, cup of tea in hand. “What can I say about myself,” she began, “other than I suppose I’m a traveler at heart?” A revelation true for Wendy’s frequent buying trips to New York, Paris, London, and Milan and other cities across the globe, but also for her life in general. “New York City is where I was born but my parents moved to Massachusetts, to Manchester by the Sea – like in the movie,” she says, laughing lightly.

“Travel must have come naturally,” she continues, “because another move to a huge family farm in Palm Beach, Florida sparked my love of nature and gardening.”

When Wendy was five years old, her parents sold the farm and came to Santa Barbara, the start of a geographically stable period in her life.

She attended Crane School, then Marymount, and finally Santa Barbara High School. “But I have to say,” she admitted, “that it wasn’t long after graduation I became curious as to what was going on in that great big world out there!”

The Travel Bug

From sleepy Santa Barbara, Wendy headed back to New York City. “I went to the City,” she says, “because it just seemed like the most exciting and happening place.” On the 15th floor of New York’s most iconic building – the Empire State Building – she landed work as a receptionist for a blue jeans company, where she was

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first exposed to the rudiments of the clothing business. But, her self-admitted “itchy feet” got the better of her, and she set off for Mexico, where she spent a year and a half studying anthropology. Then, it was back to the Eastern seaboard, with stops between.

“I finally settled in Boston working as a typist at the Harvard Medical School, but what I mostly remember was the Boston Strangler who had the entire city in a uproar,” she chuckled.

“I stayed just long enough to earn the money I needed to travel to France, a place I’d always wanted to visit,” In France, Wendy – now an excellent typist – was hired by UNESCO in the French-English written translation department. Surrounded by fashion houses, culture, and French cuisine, she stayed for over two years and readily admits that France left a lifelong mark on her sensibilities.

After bouncing around Europe for several more years, her journey took her to Israel living on the land in a kibbutz. Wendy’s travel lust was in full swing with trips around the globe then back across the ocean to Mexico where she added ancient cultures and fabrics to her repertoire, and eventually to Los Angeles working for the Walt Disney Company. A siren song carried, apparently, on a Santa Barbara breeze, lured the wanderer back to Santa Barbara, the home of her youth.

Enter Pierre Lafond

It’s not possible to think of Wendy Foster without Pierre Lafond – owner and founder of Santa Barbara Winery and Lafond Winery & Vineyards – coming to mind. Although a working architect in Santa Barbara for many years, Pierre’s main focus now is as a vintner, retailer, and restaurateur. Pierre’s early business ventures were wine and spirits stores in Santa Barbara, Santa Ynez Valley, and eventually San Ysidro Road in Montecito. Wendy, upon her return to Santa Barbara, also started a business of her own as a graphic designer and letterpress typesetter with business partner Bill Horton. During that time she frequented the wine and spirits store owned by Pierre Lafond. And there it was that Wendy met Pierre...

First as friends and later as a married couple, Pierre and Wendy were above all, entrepreneurs. Pierre’s Montecito wine and spirits shop began to expand with merchandise: wet bar aprons, kitchen items, fabrics, and a few eclectic selections. “The store con-

tinued to evolve eventually to expand to a delicatessen and market,” Wendy recounts. “There actually was no place to eat at the time other than Cafe del Sol, a Mexican restaurant (now Pierre Lafond’s Montecito Wine Bistro), so it seemed a natural next step,” she says.

The expanded wine and spirits shop and delicatessen took a great deal of work and it soon became obvious that additional help was needed. “Pierre was doing all the buying at that point, most of it on the phone,” she reveals. A buyer was hired to lighten the load, but with the opening of the sportswear shop directly adjacent to the deli, the buyer couldn’t handle the overload and left.

At that critical juncture, Pierre suggested that Wendy take over as buyer for the sportswear store.

“There was nothing like that in Montecito so it was a hit in the beginning!” Wendy exclaims. “I put my entire heart into that job... all my strength, everything I had. I worked for free for six months, seven days a week and,” she adds, “I loved every minute of it.” With the passing of time, other Wendy Foster stores were successfully unveiled: Wendy Foster in Montecito, on State Street and in Los Olivos, Angel on Coast Village Road, and of course, Wendy Foster Sportswear.

Broken Back

For many years, Wendy continued to do the buying for the stores herself.

“I used to travel six to eight times a year,” she says, shaking her head. “A couple of times to New York, to Paris, London, Milan, and other locations when necessary to develop collections for the various locations. It was a lot of work but,” she says with a laugh, “I do love to travel.”

Unfortunately, after a fall in Milan that broke her back and a lengthy hos-

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pital stay in Paris, Wendy was forced to slow down. She still travels and continues to buy, but at a slower pace.

“I have to admit that after forty years, I’m very proud that the collections in the Wendy Foster stores in Montecito, Santa Barbara, and Los Olivos are now known and appreciated in cities worldwide.

Wendy and Pierre make their home in Santa Barbara. Their main focus continues to be their enterprises.

“We’re passionate about our business ventures,” Wendy says. “They’ve become like our children… as a matter of fact, they are our children!” And the family has grown. Pierre Lafond’s successful Montecito Wine Bistro now occupies the restaurant space on San Ysidro Road and is a showcase for his wines with an excellent menu and plenty of ambiance. When not working, Wendy’s garden is her consuming interest. “I bought a lot downtown where cars were brought to die and turned it into a garden,” she says, smiling. “I’m there every day tending to my plants, a passion of mine since the early days.”

When indoors, it’s her piano. “I can practice – and it is a practice – for hours completely absorbed. I love that piano… it’s my therapy!”

As the afternoon grew to a close, I waved good-bye and Wendy returned to work. A last look at the display windows reminded me of the tourist’s insightful words: these tasteful and elegant garments had indeed been chosen by an artist with distinctive tastes and an international flair not often seen.

And, I should add, someone with a wealth of lived experience that has been woven into the fabrics, colors, and styles that bear her signature.

And think about it: we don’t have to go through security at an international terminal for that kind of a selection; it’s all right here in Montecito! •MJ 20 – 27 December 2018

A Few of My Favorite Things

by Megan Waldrep

Shopping and Buying Local

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hough the weather might not remind you of Christmas, one glance at the calendar sure will.

We pulled together a few of our favorite independent boutiques around the area to help you narrow down the search for the perfect holiday treats.

Doesn’t that sound great?

Do you gift wrap?

We do! We love gift wrapping.

Presentation is one of my favorite things.

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Owner Laura Dinning of Allora

by Laura in Montecito, along with her daughter T.J. Breidenstein, create a non-intimidating approach to high-fashion through their desire to make each customer look and feel confident in their body. They sort of operate as personal stylists – a big reason why customers keep coming back for more. “I’m so honored to be here in my sixth year,” Laura says. “I’m grateful for our wonderful customers.

It’s truly amazing.” Be sure to check out the website as T.J. incorporates photo journals from buying trips, a behind-the-scenes look at what makes their boutique stand out.

Describe your brand to someone who’s never visited your shop or website.

Our motto is “Captivating modern luxury,” though luxury doesn’t always mean “pricing.” It can mean exclusivity. I enjoy buying softer knitwear silhouettes and very clean looking designs. I don’t do a lot of structured or tailored looks, but I do incorporate them. I try to interrupt people’s thinking about what’s possible whether they’re career people or going to a black tie event.

What current products are you most excited about for the holiday season?

I love sequins because there are so many different ways to wear it. Pair it with dark jeans and it’s almost black tie. Or try a tight sequin skirt with a silk blouse and a crop sweater. I like pairing it with knits as well. Also, chunky sweaters that have a little extra texture to them. I think leather

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is all year round. It can look sexy and edgy or it can look sophisticated and Ralph Lauren-like. And you can make anything look magnificent with the right boot.

If you could choose anything from your shop, what item would you like to receive and what would you give to your best friend?

I would want anything from my fine jewelry collection, Kai Linz. I always gift a big, cream-colored cashmere long scarf with tassels and on top of that I would put a bottle of my Uma Absolute Anti-Aging Body Oil. So you can put on your body oil first then wrap yourself in cashmere.

Walking into K. Frank is like walking into the closet of your very stylish friends who happen to be a couple. One side of the shop features menswear and the other side features women’s, which means K. Frank is a place everyone can enjoy. The shop is a perfect representation of husband and wife team Katie and Kevin Frank who, if you can believe it, not only run the independent boutique but a family of three kids under the age of nine as well. They complement each other in business, life, and family and it shows.

If you could choose anything from your shop, what item would you like to receive and what would you give to your best friend?

Katie: I would love a blazer from Veronica Beard. They have beautiful blazers with a dickey insert. I would love to get one of those with a couple of dickeys to swap in and out.

What products are you most excited about for the holiday season?

Katie: We have an incredible jewel-

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ry collection called Julez Bryant. It’s made entirely in Los Angeles from start to finish. We also have a vintage Louis Vuitton collection that is hand painted. Super unique and a way to get something luxury and yet unexpected for the holiday.

Kevin: Happy Socks is doing a cool collaboration with The Beatles album, Yellow Submarine. So we have a whole box set of socks that gain inspiration from the album.

Describe your brand to someone who’s never visited your shop or website.

We have a focus on a casual sophistication. It’s really a confluence of up-and-coming designers and established global designers coming together for both men and women.

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a range of products from five dollars to fourteen hundred. Be sure to check out Andria’s small batch jewelry collection called Whitewater and sales associate Allison Van Wingerden’s jewelry found among the treasures in this specialty boutique.

Describe your brand to someone who’s never visited your shop or website.

A beached-themed decor with something for everyone. We focus on local makers or made in the United States.

What products are you most excited about for the holiday season?

Driftwood Christmas trees and jewelry. We have amazing, one-of-a-kind pieces.

Kevin: I would love to receive and give anything from Common Projects and Golden Goose, the two awesome shoe lines we carry that can really fit in any guy’s wardrobe.

Do you gift wrap?

Yes! We have a signature heavy stock box and ribbon that we always use. And if people desire to go beyond that, we are happy to gift wrap.

Anything you’d like to add?

Given what everyone has been through in the last year, we’re feeling energized by how many people have supported local businesses on this street. We’ve been in Montecito for two years and we’re still so excited to be a part of this community.

offers local, California, and U.S.-made products – arguably the go-to gifts for those who have it all. Family owned and operated for eight years, Tidepools was opened by Montecito born Jody Kester, a forty-year retail veteran of Saks, Nordstrom, and William Sonoma to name a few. She, along with her niece Andria Kester, offer quality merchandise presented in thoughtful vignettes throughout the store. No gaudy or touristy items here, this seaside curiosity shop is a treat for your eyes and your wallet offering

If you could choose anything from your shop, what item would you like to receive and what would you give to your best friend?

Jody: To gift and give, I would pick jewelry. I love Allison Van Wingerden’s collection. She uses real gems, some from the 1800s.

Andria: I would love to get a soy candle because they smell amazing and you can use the melted soy wax to hydrate your skin, like a lotion. I would also give one of our pillows or blankets.

Take your pick with locally sourced sea glass jewelry.

Some of the sea glass and abalone pieces were found in Montecito.

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Body, room, and linen spray, roll on perfume, or lip gloss by Hensley Asher Co. would make great stocking stuffers. Easy for travel, too.

Do you gift wrap?

Yes! Anything you’d like to add?

Andria: We’re a small staff. When we answer the phone, they’ll say, “Is this Andria, Jody, or Allison?” People know us by name. Also, customers come by just to visit our shop dog, Nala.

What’s your favorite part of working in a family business?

Jody: To me, it’s just fun. We always joke around with each other.

Andria: She’s like my sister. I’m super thankful that she’s let me be a part of the shop.

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Discovering What Matters

by Dr. Peter Brill

Dr. Brill can be reached at pbrill@dwmblog.com. His blog appears at www. dwmblog.com. Specializing in medicine, psychiatry, marriage and family therapy, nonprofits and business, he has served as a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and Wharton School of Business, consulted to more than 100 organizations, run workshops on adult development, and performed major research on the outcome of psychiatric treatment. He is the founder of Sustainable Change Alliance & co-author of Finding Your J Spot.

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. I read the previous column about Jonathan Gartner and his excitement about impact investing. Isn’t philanthropy the best way to help people?

I have heard that impact investing yields a low financial return. Why should I be interested in it? – Sam in Montecito Certainly, philanthropy is vitally important to our welfare at the community, county, state, and federal levels. In a recent meeting at the Community Environmental Council, it was noted that 25% of all jobs in California are in the non-profit sector.

That is a remarkable number. They help with everything from substance abuse, animal welfare, art and cultural activities, after school programs, the needs of seniors and the aging, minority and women’s rights, environmental issues, homelessness, food, health, to mention just a few. To address your questions, I would like to break it into

two parts and then give an example.

First a disclaimer. Clearly, non-profits do an enormous amount of good.

Just look at the partial list above. We would have little art, starving people, and every other kind of social ill without them. That is not the question. The question should be, “Is the philanthropic non-profit model always the most effective way to produce social change?” It certainly is not the only model. Government is involved in dealing with many of the same problems and has a vast array of programs directed at the same targets. But most non-profits are only a month away from running out of money. They often are limited in their ability to produce prolonged change by, among other things, their lack of resources. In the paradigm of “give them a fish, teach them to fish, and finally change the fishing industry,”

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most are closer to the “give them a fish” model. Given their focus and resources, they have little choice. But what if there were an organization that made money while addressing social needs? Then it would not need to raise new money every year. If it were profitable, it could build on its successes, be able to broaden its reach, and attack the problem in a much more expansive way.

Childhood obesity in America is a great example. It has become a national problem. Kirsten Saenz Tobey and Kristin Groos Richmond were concerned about this problem and the way it hinders learning, so they set out on a mission to change the way students are fed by creating Revolution Foods.

It became a national company that provided healthy food to schools. And it made a profit doing so. How much money would have to have been donated to create that change? And they did it without increasing the school lunch cost. Clearly, there are more ways of producing social good beyond traditional non-profit philanthropy.

Now on to the second question: “Isn’t impact investing just a low return way of investing?”

There are three dimensions to impact investing. Since all impact investments are designed to create social good, they have to measure their IMPACT, which is the first dimension. The second dimension is RISK. The third is RETURN. If you imagine a three-dimensional space, there are impact investments present in all quadrants of that space.

There are impact investments that have little impact, high risk, and little return.

There are impact investments with high impact, low risk, and low return. And there are impact investments that have moderate risk, high impact, and phenomenal return! Let’s take the example of Apeel Sciences.

What is Apeel Sciences & what is its product line?

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According to an anonymous source – as a private company, its value is not public – Apeel is now valued at 500 times its initial investment. If that is accurate, one share of stock is now valued at 500 times what it cost the original investors. Whatever the number, its value has gone up enormously. Sam, that certainly isn’t a low return.

Additionally, beyond extending food life, the company has also produced local jobs, which benefit our community.

I truly believe that a commitment by Santa Barbarians to further the cause of impact investing will have a transformative effect on our community. It will help us address many of our social ills in a more effective, cost-effective manner while helping the community economically.

So, Sam, no, I don’t believe that non-profit philanthropy is always the best way to create social good and/or that impact investing will always provide a low return. There are too many examples in the world these days that prove otherwise. Thank you for your question.

I welcome all questions and comments and can be reached at pbrill@dwmblog. com.

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vegetables – to stay fresh two to three times longer, which promotes more sustainable growing practices, better quality food, and less food waste for everyone. For growers, suppliers, and retailers, Apeel is the only post-harvest solution that creates an optimal microclimate inside of every piece of produce, which leads to extended shelf life and transportability without requiring refrigeration, controlled atmosphere, or preservatives.

Apeel was founded in 2012 by James Rogers, after receiving a $100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to help reduce post-harvest food waste in developing countries that lacked a refrigeration infrastructure. The company is fighting the global food waste crisis by utilizing nature’s approach to preventing waste in the first place – a sustainable approach to the world’s growing food demands.

“In America, food waste is not only a sustainability issue – it’s a massive economic black hole,” according to Fast Company’s Assistant Editor Eillie Anzilotti, who covers sustainability, social good, and alternative economics.

“Each year, people in the U.S. throw away an average of 400 pounds per person, and retailers lose a combined $18 billion per year on tossed produce (globally, food waste accounts for $1.2 trillion down the drain). Through its rapidly scaling partnerships, Apeel is working to position itself as one facet of the solution to this problem.”

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The Field Notes Case is the ideal gift for loved ones on the go. $110

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by Montecito local Dino Ohanian, and clothing collections including marine collagen-infused yoga wear and lines such as Joseph Ribkoff. Of course, Giuliana Montecito also features jewelry, such as .925Suneera.

This jewelry line – handcrafted startto-finish in the company’s studio located in the Jewelry District in Los Angeles – is the product of mother and daughter team, Suneera and Ana Swarup. The ladies created a young, accessible, and everyday collection so versatile, you can wear the cuff bracelets alongside your tennis bracelet, a cherished heirloom piece, or a casual watch. Ana joined her mother’s jewelry business four years ago (an 18-karat gold fine jewelry line simply called, Suneera) and the two spent a year on this collection alone before launching. The stackable and highly collectable designs are a go-to if you yearn to break from the norm.

Describe your brand to someone who’s never visited your shop or website.

– by owner Steven Soria and his small staff of talented craftspeople.

He’s created well over one hundred designs, each made from one-of-akind leather hides, which are carefully hand picked by Steven himself.

Gift someone a custom belt and you gift them an experience. Each belt comes deconstructed in a small box along with a note inviting the receiver into the store for a custom fit.

“Sizing happens pretty fast. They’re in and out of here in five minutes,” Steven says. After that, it’s about a day or two turnaround time. Not bad for a personalized heirloom piece.

Describe your brand to someone who’s never visited your shop or website.

I’m a third generation Santa Barbara Leathersmith and everything is handmade. We make high-quality leather carry goods made with all U.S. domestic materials, including U.S. domestic cattle hides. Our style is American saddlery – not Western or John Wayne or Indiana Jones. More of a clean, American style.

What products are you most excited about for the holiday season?

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Do you gift wrap?

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Anything you’d like to add?

We have a lot of stocking stuffers this year. Small gifts with personalized initials on them have a big impact.

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The owners of .925Suneera suggest gifting your bestie earrings such as these Ria Earrings, made from back rhodium plated sterling silver with 14k gold and champagne diamonds. $945

This .925Suneera piece is a classic with a twist. The Joel Bracelet combines a satin finish with their signature texture in vintage style sterling silver. $950

nice pen, it’s got a place to refill notebooks, it fits a passport, credit cards, business cards, and has an area for cash. The whole thing fits in the back pocket, which is super important for people on the go.

If you could choose anything from your shop, what item would you like to receive and what would you give to your best friend?

I’ve designed and tooled knife cases for friends for years. They’re more like trophy pieces and I just think they’re really beautiful. I would want someone to buy me the messenger bag that I made for myself. I ended up selling it because that’s what happens to me every single time I make something for myself. I say, “It’s perfect! Let’s sell this!”

The Aria Cigar Band is a go-to piece for co-owner Ana Swarup. Each ring is uniquely designed around uncalibrated rose-cut diamonds and is made to order. $2,530

The cuff bracelets are where it all began for the .925Suneera collection. Try this Lani Cuff to wear alongside a tennis bracelet, heirloom piece, or casual watch to update your look. $575

Three words we use to describe the collection are edgy, classic, and everyday.

What products are you most excited about for the holiday season?

The initial line was cuff bracelets and that’s where it all began. I usually stack them in three. They kind of make your personal jewelry pop and into a modern, contemporary, and casual look. I think the cuff bracelets are great for everyone because they go with anything. Also the link bracelets.

You can wear them all the time.

If you could choose anything from your shop, what item would you like to receive and what would you give to your best friend?

Currently, I’m lusting over the cigar ring. All our rings are small but make a statement. I would gift our ster-

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ling silver earrings with diamonds.

Because as far as gifts go, I think a ring becomes a little personal because of size. But earrings are easy.

Do you gift wrap?

Yes! We have a cotton drawstring pouch that is easy to carry. Also, each piece comes with a care card.

Anything you’d like to add?

In terms of accessibility, our prices range from $500 to $3,000 so it really is for everyone. You can start with one or two pieces and gradually build from there. It’s about celebrating that aspect of jewelry collecting. You can tell your own story with it.

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DISASTER ALERT Fire. Debris flows. A burglar in your house.

A robber accosts you or a loved one.

Your car has been stolen.

Your child is missing....

Any of these critical incidents could happen to – or effect – you or a loved one.

WHO ARE YOU GOING TO CALL?

THE THESANTA SANTABARBARA BARBARACOUNTY COUNTYSHERIFF’S SHERIFF’SOFFICE OFFICE But, especially during unique disasters, what if they don’t have the equipment they need to protect you...and themselves?

The County budget has left gaping holes in the specialized equipment urgently needed by the deputies to help keep us and them safe, particularly during disasters.

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20 – 27 December 2018

YOU CAN HELP These first responders, who put their lives on the line every day to protect us, need the assistance of every person in Montecito and Santa Barbara County.

The extraordinary size and toxicity of last fall’s debris flood in Montecito dramatically demonstrated the need for specialized safety equipment not historically funded by the Sheriff’s Office County budget: Tyvek protective suits, hip boots, personal flotation devices, heavy work gloves and shovels, specialized helmets,

communication equipment. These are but a few of the missing pieces.

Through the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Benevolent Posse, you have the opportunity to help supply our first responders with the necessary equipment they urgently need. Please make a donation today of any amount to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Benevolent Posse (the 501 (c)(3) organization whose mission it is to assist our Sheriff’s Office).

GIVE UNTIL YOU FEEL SAFE Following is a Partial List of Items Needed Today: • Tyvek protective suits, protective helmets, safety throw rope bags, headlamps, hip boots, personal flotation devices, heavy work gloves and shovels for deputies use in emergency disaster response - $22,750 • Nomex fire protective jackets- $27,750 • GPS hand helds, lighting equipment, photoshop software for use in evidence collection during and after disasters- $13,348

Other Urgent Sheriff’s Office Needs Include: • Patrol dog trained in patrol, tracking and bomb/ explosive detection to give 24/7 365-day coverage for the entire county - $30,000 • Protective helmets and vests for the Special Operations Response Team as well as less lethal weapons $25,400

• Surface Pro Tablet computers for use in emergency response - $15,600 • Communications repeaters to replace those destroyed in Thomas fire, specialized printers for large format evacuation and search maps, satellite phones, air compressors, other equipment for emergency responder team use - $35,000

Donate online at www.sbsheriffsposse.org or mail a check to: Sheriff’s Benevolent Posse c/o Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office 4434 Calle Real, Santa Barbara, CA 93110 Call (805) 881-3197 for more information.

Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Benevolent Posse Board of Directors Richard Kline - President

Herb Barthels

John Wilczak - Past President

David Baskett

Christopher Hartman - Vice President

Richard Berti

Sara O’Shaughnessy - Vice President

Bob Bryant

Cliff Lundberg - Treasurer

Brooks Firestone

Diana Vandervoort - Secretary

20 – 27 December 2018

Justin Fox

James Gerlach Lynn Gildred Erin Graffy Michael Hammer Les Jones Dana Mazzetti Jimmy Messina

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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)

ENDING THIS WEEK RTC & ETC close shows – Both Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre Company and Santa Barbara’s Ensemble Theatre Company are winding up December runs this weekend of musical productions, although only one is officially categorized in the genre. That would be Rubicon’s South Pacific, a two-piano version of the late-1940s classic by Rodgers & Hammerstein chock full of memorable songs and taking on heady themes just a few years after the close of World War II. The show has received rave reviews from all over the Southland, with writers praising Katharine Farmer’s well-paced direction, inventive new choreography complete with both sultry and muscular numbers, and, especially, star turns by the principal actors, who were embraced for both their voices and emotional ranges. The show has been wildly popular, resulting in added performances that have also been virtual sell outs… Ensemble’s The Legend of Georgia McBride is a much more modern piece, both in chronological time – having just hit L.A. and New York a couple of years ago and making its Santa Barbara debut with this production – and its theme, which is about a struggling Elvis impersonator in the Florida panhandle who, reluctantly, strikes good as a drag queen. Despite the “far-fetched scenario” and “cumbersome, ludicrous plot,” the LA Times loved the show and

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praised director Jenny Sullivan for “a fast-paced and spirited staging that doesn’t give us a second to question too hard and burst the ever-inflating bubble of this sweet, optimistic show,” and also called it an “infectious, tongue-in-cheek delight [where] the audience enjoys getting played like a cheap piano.” The paper also cited the actors – especially star Stephen Michael Spencer and Bill Brochtrup as the aging drag queen “who takes to [drag] like a duck to sparkly pink water.” WHEN: RTC Pacific: 2 & 7 pm Wednesday, 7 pm Thursday, 8 pm Friday, 2 & 8 pm Saturday, 2 & 7 pm Sunday; ETC Legend: 8 pm Wednesday-Saturday, 2 & 7 pm Sunday WHERE: Rubicon Theatre Company, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura; New Vic Theater, 33 West Victoria St. COST: RTC: $25$65; ETC: $25-$70 with discounts for seniors and patrons 29 and under INFO: RTC: (805) 667-2900 or www. rubicontheatre.org; ETC: (805) 9655400 or www.etcsb.org Ongoing: Santa Barbara Night Market – Even if you’ve already finished your Christmas shopping, there are still plenty of good reasons to head on down to the European-style downtown “popup” that has proved wildly successful in bringing together businesses and the community in the ground floor of what used to be Macy’s in Paseo Nuevo. Local artisans, retailers, and boutiques share the holiday-themed

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decorated space with all sorts of vendors, including the rebirth of Random, the whimsical store that was all but forced out of its location next to the Granada earlier this year, plus there are healers and even tarot card readers. A wine, cocktail bar, and beer garden takes up about a third of the vast space, spreading holiday cheer in their own way, and that space include a stage where local bands, singers, and other performers, including Christmas carolers, get a chance to offer up entertainment, holiday themed and otherwise. Sister Velvet, the sextet formed out of the “Women of Song” songwriting group, plays this Saturday, December 22, from 6-8 pm, for example. Just 10 days and a single special event – one more ugly sweater party on December 23 – are on the schedule before the five-week foray wraps up on December 29.

WHEN: Open 4-10 pm daily through December 29 WHERE: 701 State St. COST: free INFO: (805) 722-9456 or https://santabarbaranightmarket. com/ www.facebook.com/ santabarbaranightmarket THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20 Irish Christmas in America – Step dancers brought the Erin to Xmas at the Lobero last week, and Santa Barbara Revels has Irish as its theme for its 11th annual production at the same venue this weekend (see feature in On Entertainment this issue). But as the Luck O’ the Irish would have it, there’s yet another chance to enjoy the holidays from the vantage point of the Emerald Isle in a more intimate setting. The popular touring show Irish Christmas in America features top Irish music, song, and dance in an engaging performance that is rich in humor and boundless energy, full of lively instrumental tunes on fiddle, flute, uilleann pipes and harp, along with thrilling Irish old-style dancing.

Niamh Farrell, a Sligo, Ireland, vocalist who has toured with UK singer-songwriting David Gray, teams up with West Kerry singer Séamus Begley, famous for his charming wit and stunning voice, to provide the lead vocals, while the hot-steppin’ comes from Samantha Harvey, who also plays piano, and Brian Cunningham. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Ojai Valley Woman​‘​s Club, 441 E. Ojai Avenue, Ojai COST: Suggested donation of $25 per adult, $15 for ages 6-15 INFO: (805) 6658852 or www.ojaiconcertseries.com

“Going away won’t change anything if you’re running from yourself.” – Joyce Rachelle

Folksongs of the Winter Holidays – Considered one of the premier autoharpists in the world, Adam Miller is also a renowned American folksinger and natural-born storyteller who accompanies his rich, resonant baritone with lively fingerpicking acoustic guitar and beautiful autoharp melodies. Praised by the late great folksinger Pete Seeger and New Age pianist George Winston, among others, as a masterful entertainer who never fails to get his audience singing along – no matter the age group – Miller has distinguished himself as one of the great interpreters of American folksongs and folktales, who has amassed a repertoire of over 5,000 songs. In his free library show today, Miller will share well-known and notso-well-known traditional folk songs and carols for New Year’s, Hanukkah, Christmas, and the Winter Solstice.

WHEN: 10:30 am WHERE: Montecito Branch Library 1469 East Valley Road COST: free INFO: (805) 969-5063 or www.santabarbaraca.gov/gov/ depts/lib/locations/montecito.asp Talkin’ Trails – Montecito Trails Foundation Board Member Ashlee Mayfield provides an overview of the work that’s been done over the last six months on the effected front country trails post-Thomas Fire and debris flow. She will detail the progress made since the reopening of the Los Padres National Forest in May, highlighting partners in the restoration and talking about the unique needs of each trail. Included will be the updated plans for 2019 as well as info about how to get out on the trails and get involved, from volunteering to group hikes, and more, including both front country trails and flat community paths. WHEN: 6:30 pm WHERE: Montecito Branch Library 1469 East Valley Road COST: free INFO: (805) 969-5063 or www.santabarbaraca. gov/gov/depts/lib/locations/ montecito.asp Do ‘Drops in – The California Honeydrops have come a long way since guitarist and trumpeter Lech Wierzynski and drummer Ben Malament started busking in an Oakland subway station, but a full decade later, the band has stayed true to that organic, street-level feel no matter where they are playing.

The Warsaw-born Wierzynski, raised

by Polish political refugees, learned his vocal stylings from contraband American recordings of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, and Louis Armstrong, 20 – 27 December 2018

and honed his sound at Oberlin College and, later, on the Bay Area club circuit. With Johnny Bones on tenor sax and clarinet, Lorenzo Loera on keyboards, and Beau Bradbury on bass, the ‘Drops have become a powerful outfit whose shows are often described more like parties than traditional concerts, with extensive jamming and crowd interaction. Seven albums in, the band has also become a popular draw at SOhO, where they perform at least a couple of gigs a year. Tonight’s show closes out a two-night engagement that should add some rockin’ rhythms to the holidays. WHEN: 9 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: Dreamtime: $30 INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www. sohosb.com SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22 A Dreamtime December – Sudama Mark Kennedy grew up as a resident of many different countries in a diplomat family, which might explain the all-inclusive feel to his world music style. Working as a musical intuitive healer of body, mind and spirit informs the other aspects of his music. Kennedy released terrific album called Shape Shifting Jaguar earlier this year, with guests including several of Santa Barbara’s musicians (bassist Eje Lynn-Jacobs, flutist Rebecca Kleinmann) plus many members of his longtime exploratory band known as Dreamtime Continuum.

A big part of the transcendent concert Kennedy put on at SOhO to celebrate the album’s release was populated by the Continuum contingent, and it’s under that guise that he and the band return to the club for a special Winter Solstice dinner show. The music will be all original songs and grooves, world music with reggae, calypso and folk-jazz funk, tinged with what Sudama calls “cosmic, trance-ndancing uplifting lyrics with a celestial inter-galactic vibe.” Deck the halls with boughs of aura… For a vibe of entirely different flavor, stick around for the late show featuring the thundering hard rock Led Zeppelin tribute band known as Led Zepplica. Fa la la la la indeed. WHEN: Dreamtime: 6-8 pm; Led Zep: 9 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: Dreamtime: $10/ Led Zep: $15 INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www. sohosb.com A Grace-ful Holiday – During her senior year of high school in 2014, Grace Fisher’s spine was ravaged by a virus leaving her paralyzed from the neck down. Diagnosed with Acute Flaccid Myelitis, she was sent to Craig Rehabilitation Hospital in Denver, Colorado, where she was introduced to music therapy and adaptive art, a treatment that not only 20 – 27 December 2018

helped strengthen her neck, but also worked to heal her mind and soul.

Since returning to Santa Barbara, Fisher, who is a quadriplegic confined to a wheelchair, has endeavored to help other children with disabilities through art and music as a way to pay it forward and stay in an attitude of gratitude. Fisher formed the Grace Fisher Foundation in 2016, which has worked to spread adaptive art and music education to the special needs community. Through local art events including mosaic tiling, collaborative murals, sculpture, and much more, the foundation has helped local special needs families enjoy the gift of creativity. Next up in the series is A Winter Music Showcase, featuring original compositions by Grace, and performances by Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, Santa Barbara Youth Music Academy, and others. The event is a fundraiser for the arts organizations as well as the Fisher Foundation. WHEN: 4-5:30 pm WHERE: Santa Barbara High School 700 East Anapamu Street COST: $20 INFO: www.eventbrite. com

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DANCING IN THE STREET: THE MUSIC OF MOTOWN AND MORE MON DEC 31 8:30PM KIDS HELPING KIDS

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25 Celebration in Soup – The Organic Soup Kitchen eschewed its annual Thanksgiving Day dinner for the community in favor of focusing on delivering hot, fresh, healthy meals to its core constituency of local cancer patients. But even Scrooge wouldn’t say “Bah, humbug!” to the nonprofit’s 10th Annual Christmas Community Meal. All people – homeless, veterans, and others who might just want or need a hot meal – are invited to the event held at the Veterans Memorial Building, where live entertainment (last year Michael McDonald dropped by for a bunch of hit songs and holiday tunes) and a visit from Santa Claus bearing gifts are the added attraction for the Italian vegetarian meal. As OSK even notes, however, all of that is “just props to bring people together and let them know that they are not alone” during the holidays. Volunteer spots are long filled by ongoing sponsors, but the organization is still accepting donations of size large and extra-large hoodies, backpacks, and socks for adults, plus hats, gloves, children’s gifts, gift cards grocery, MTD bus token/passes, and other items (please drop off new items at Yoga Soup, or at the UPS Store, 315 Meigs Road Ste. A #369). Or you can just bring your present to the annual Christmas Eve Gift-Wrapping Party (10 am to 1 pm), where volunteers can enjoy food, drinks, and holiday cheer while laying down the tape and affixing the bows.

WHEN: 12 noon-3 pm WHERE: 112 W. Cabrillo Blvd. COST: free INFO: www.organicsoupkitchen.org/ holidayproject •MJ

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Notice Inviting Bids Quinientos Street Bridge Replacement Project Bid No. 3716 1.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its Quinientos Street Bridge Replacement Project (“Project”), by or before Thursday, January 17, 2018, at 3:00 p.m., through PlanetBids. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is uploaded to PlanetBids on time. The digital time stamp on PlanetBids will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Paper copies of bids at the Purchasing Office bids will not be accepted.

2.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at west of the intersection of Quinientos/Clifton Street and South Canada Street, and is described as follows: Removal and replacement of the Quinientos Street Bridge over Sycamore Creek with construction of concrete channel walls. The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant, and equipment necessary to complete and deliver the finished bridge replacement project per plans and specs. Pay close attention to the Special Notices of the Specifications.

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 230 working days.

2.3

3.

Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $3,800,000.

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1

License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): A.

3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

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

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project.

The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

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

7.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

11.

Optional Bidder’s Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Tuesday, November 20, 2018 at 2:00 p.m., at 630 Garden Street, Public Works Main Conference Room for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders’ with the Contract Documents and the project site.

12.

Bidders are advised that this project is a Federal-Aid Construction project and the Contractor shall agree to all requirements, conditions, and provisions set forth in the specification book issued for bidding purposes. Bidders are advised that, as required by federal law, the State has established a statewide overall Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal. The agency is requires to report to Caltrans on the DBE participation for all federal-aid contracts each year so that attainment efforts may be evaluated. This agency federal-aid contract has a goal of 10% DBE participation.

13.

Attention is directed to the Special Conditions for the federal requirements and conditions specified in the Federal Provisions and Requirements, part 8 Buy America. This project is subject to “Buy America” provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 as amended by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.

14.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a toll-free hotline service to report bid rigging activities. Bid rigging activities can be reported Mondays through Fridays, between 1:00 am and 5:00 pm, Eastern Time at 1-800-424-9071.

Anyone with knowledge of the possible bid rigging, bidder collusion, or other fraudulent activities should use this number to report these activities. This outreach is part of the DOT’s continuing effort to identify and investigate highway construction contract fraud and abuse and is operated under the direction of the DOT Inspector General. All information will be treated confidentially and caller anonymity will be respected.

By: William Hornung General Services Manager

Date:

Publication Dates: 1) December 12, 2018 2) December 19, 2018 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

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F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Considerate Done, 225 Loyola Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.

Lisa McCollum, 225 Loyola Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 6, 2018.

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. 2018-0003142.

Published December 12, 19, 26, 2018, January 2, 9, 2019.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lucinda Nash Jewelry; Winters Wonderland Art Company, 755 Romero Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Lucinda Winters Nash, 755 Romero Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 27, 2018.

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,

“A lot of people think moving will solve their problems, when what they’re really doing is running away.” – Roxanne Snopek

County Clerk (SEAL)

by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2018-0003079.

Published December 5, 12, 19, 26, 2018.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ke-Nekt; KeNekt Technologies, 1117 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Evolution Sustainable I n d u s t r i e s Incorporated, 27 West Anapamu #454, Santa Barbara, CA 930101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 5, 2018.

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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2018-0002934.

Published December 5, 12, 19, 26, 2018.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 18CV04540. To all interested parties: Petitioner German Lopez Olvera filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Anthony Herman Lopez Olvera. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated 20 – 27 December 2018

NOTICE INVITING BIDS: BID NO. 3948 ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION UPGRADES 1.

Notice is hereby given that bids for Bid No. 3948 shall be received to furnish and deliver all services and materials for the Electric Vehicle Charging Station Upgrades per the attached terms, conditions and specifications.

Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids™ portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a bid. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal. Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

Bids will be received until 3:00 P.M., Monday, January 14, 2019. At this date and time all bids received will be electronically opened and posted.

It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Late or incomplete bids will not be accepted.

2.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at three Downtown Parking Lots: Helena Lot (217 Helena Avenue); Granada Garage (1221 Anacapa Street); and Old Town Lot/Lot 11 (523 Anacapa Street) in Santa Barbara and is described as follows: Replace and/or install electric vehicle charging station equipment and increase the electric vehicle changing station ports.

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 30 consecutive working days after Notice to Proceed.

2.3 Estimate. The estimate for this Project is: $63,000.00 2.4 Bidders’ Conference. A NON-MANDATORY bidders’ conference will be held on Monday, January 7, 2019 at 9:00 a.m., at the following location: Helena Lot (217 Helena Avenue) for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. Contractor is responsible for any conditions that would have been discovered if they had attended the pre-bid meeting. Meeting minutes will be posted.

3.

3.2 DIR Registration. City will not enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

5.

Fictitious Business Name: $45 $5 for each additional name Name Change: $150

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification: C-10 Contractor

4.

Publishing Rates:

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten (10) percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.

Summons: $150 Death Notice: $50

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

5.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

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

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

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Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide separate performance and payment bonds for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

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Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor Tab in the PlanetBids portal.

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Real Estate

by Mark Ashton Hunt

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

There is a formal dining room, butler’s pantry, living room with fireplace that opens to the yard. The master includes a yoga-exercise room. There are two water meters plus a well, a slate roof, and a room left for a new owner’s imagination with room for a theatre or project room.

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f there was a question about whether home sales have been slowing in Montecito in recent months (and other higher end areas around the country), then the dismal five escrows that closed in November and the only one home so far through December 9, together make quite a statement. Additionally, very few Montecito properties went into escrow in November, and a good number of homes already in escrow have been pending for months, so there is also not a strong pipeline under contract.

These periods of slower sales do not always mean drops in price or value. In fact, as inventory grows, options for buyers coming fresh into the market are increased. Properties on the market now, in many price ranges, provide solid opportunities regardless of a market slowdown. Their prime locations, costto-replace approach, comparable appraisals, all can give a buyer a sense of the value of a property.

But in some cases, there are value-added elements that can be overlooked, especially in mid-ranged estate properties, where amenities need to be addressed one by one.

One price point that usually shows value is the $4.9-million price point: homes that could be, or have been, priced over $5 million, but chose to indicate their owner’s incentive to sell by pricing just under that. For a buyer, a home sounds better at $4,995,000 than it does at $5,000,000.

Right now, there are numerous homes in the mid-mansion compound range that are priced under $5,000,000. Most of these options include a larger home on +/- an acre or more, pool, views, prime location, unique style of home, or something more specific like six bedrooms or a one-level compound.

256 Santa Rosa Lane: $4,950,000

Located down a quiet country lane near Oprah’s place, this home offers mountain views and a close-to-town-and-beach location. Set back off a less traveled road near and within the Montecito Union School District, this home sits on a level lot in a popular location.

The highlights of the listing include the prime location as well as the rare-to-find, in this price point, six bedrooms. The shingled home has been renovated throughout and is highlighted by white trim, mountain views, and gardens.

There is a ground floor master suite, guest bedroom and expansive level grounds irrigated by a shared private well; the home also has Montecito Water.

Other features include GFA and Central Air Conditioning, Pantry, library/office and more.

Situated down a long-established lane in the Montecito Union School District and just a block to the upper village, is this 1.1-acre estate. This sprawling, single-level compound has established gardens and boasts expansive lawns, entry fountain, Zen gardens, and a creek bubbling beneath a bridge, all bound by impressive specimen trees. The multiple outdoor patios, swimming pool, and spa offer mountain views, privacy, and areas to entertain.

The main home has a living room with fireplace and French doors leading to one of the outdoor patios. There is a formal dining room with wet bar, a master suite with sitting room, walk-in closet, and two bathrooms.

In a separate wing of the house, there are two additional bedrooms with French doors and garden vistas. The attached guesthouse has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchenette, and laundry.

1936 Jelinda Drive: $4,999,000

1567 East Valley Road: $4,995,000

A recent price reduction brings this 6,900+/- sq ft home under $5,000,000.

The home offers a European estate style of life on what I think of as Billionaire Row, just doors down from recent sales of $14,000,000 and $35,000,000, coincidentally, also near Oprah. The home is set down a private lane on a 1.49-acre level lot in the Montecito Union School District.

This estate features five bedrooms and five full bathrooms, a private study-office, five fireplaces, two powder baths and an au pair quarters with separate entrance. The celebrity designer’s kitchen features a great room, walk-in pantry, stone fireplace, and hand-hewn beams from a 300-year-old European barn.

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Here is an opportunity to live in an architectural statement, created by a noted contemporary architect and built in 1988. The home is within the guard-gated community at Ennisbrook yet is exempt from any Homeowners Association fees. The home includes three bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms in just over 5,300 sq ft of art gallery style living.

The estate rests on a one-acre property that features panoramic mountain views with custom designed landscaped terraced gardens. There is a pool, spa, private terrace, numerous fountains, and an outdoor fireplace. Additional features include GFA, Central Air Conditioning, den, library, study, butler’s pantry, etc.… all within the Montecito Union School District.

Please feel free to contact me regarding any Real Estate needs or to set up a showing with the listing agents of any properties featured here - Mark@Villagesite.com or call/ text 805-698-2174. Please view my website, www.MontecitoBestBuys.com, from which this article is based.

•MJ

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