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Tom Farr joined NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1975 and has helped develop the first geologic applications of imaging radar using aircraft, satellites, and the Space Shuttle. He has taught a class on planetary exploration at Santa Barbara City College for more than 10 years. He currently resides in Montecito.

Our Solar System: Mercury

As a kid I was always picking up neighborhood, we’ve launched spacerocks and wondering at the diver- craft to visit all the planets as well as sity of them all. Where did they some of those leftovers. We found the come from? And family camping trips inner planets, near the Earth, were gave me a sampling of the varied land- somewhat like the Earth – they had scapes of California and the West. When solid rocky surfaces and were of a simI found out I could combine my love of ilar size. The outer four planets, howthe outdoors with the study of rocks ever, were completely different: huge and landscapes, I knew I had found my and made up of gas and ice. The many career. My graduate work led me into moons of the outer planets held interthe use of remote sensing – using sat- esting surprises, though. In the next ellites to study the Earth and by exten- few months, we’ll visit all the planets sion, other planets as well. I became as well as those leftovers (asteroids, interested in using what I learned from comets, Pluto, and beyond). We’ll see applying remote sensing techniques on how different conditions in the solar Earth to the other planets. system led to very different results

These are worlds that are not like and we’ll learn more about the Earth our own. Pockmarked by billions of and our place within the solar system. years of impacts, some large enough to And we’ll consider other solar systems fragment a planet. Poison atmospheres beyond our own; we now think that and sulphuric acid rain. Rivers and there are more planets in the Milky lakes of liquefied natural gas. Gas balls Way galaxy than there are stars… so massive that hydrogen is squeezed But the visit today is to the innermost into a metal in their cores. Cold so planet, Mercury. intense that nitrogen freezes and forms In the mid 1800s just after Neptune, flowing glaciers. Frozen moons that the last of the planets to be discovered harbor oceans beneath their icy surfac- was sighted, calculations by Urbain es. Places where a jump will send you Joseph Le Verrier, the most famous into orbit. astronomer of his day, predicted a new

Science fiction? No, it’s our neigh- planet circling the sun inside the orbit borhood, the worlds of our own solar of Mercury due to strange wobbles it system. experienced. He called it Vulcan. For

Orbiting an average yellow star the next 60 years people set up teletoward the outer fringes of the Milky scopes searching for the elusive planet. Way galaxy are eight planets and some Some claimed to see it. Then Albert leftovers. One of those planets we call Einstein came along with his new thehome. In order to learn more about our ory of general relativity and explained the odd motions of Mercury through the bending of its image by the sun’s gravity. That day Vulcan vanished, leaving Mercury as the closest planet to the Sun.

You’d be forgiven if you looked at a satellite photo of Mercury and assumed it was our moon. It’s only slightly larger and pockmarked by impact craters just like our satellite. There are differences, but it took many years to fully understand them as the first spacecraft to visit Mercury, Mariner 10, merely flew by several times as it orbited the sun and, as luck and orbital mechanics would have it, was only able to photograph the same side of Mercury each time it passed by. Only half of the gigantic Caloris impact basin was tantalizingly imaged. Finally, in 2008, the MESSENGER mission flew by and then entered orbit around Mercury for an extended visit, allowing complete photography and inspection with many state of the art instruments. Mercury was revealed.

Besides being closest to the sun, Mercury has other special attributes. As it’s much smaller, it wasn’t able to keep any atmosphere it might have had in the beginning, so meteorites were able to impact at will, covering the surface with craters. However, extensive lava flows have poured forth, much like the Moon’s dark lava plains, and covered some of the craters. In addition to the impact craters and lava flows, huge faults stretch across Mercury. These all have large vertical offsets and show that Mercury has actually shrunk by about 10 km (6 miles) since it formed.

Mercury was once thought to show only one face toward the Sun, but now we know that its ‘day’ lasts 59 Earth days (its year is 88 Earth days long). Because it’s so close to the sun and it has no atmosphere to even out the temperature differences, the sunlit side roasts at about 450°C (840°F) while the night side freezes at -170°C (-275°F). Mercury’s rotation axis doesn’t tilt like the Earth’s so there are no ‘seasons’ and this led to an interesting discovery. Powerful radar antennas on Earth were able to image Mercury and they found a unique signature in deep craters at the poles. Comparing those signatures to known targets, the investigators found that water ice was the only substance that made sense. On the hottest planet in the solar system! When Messenger arrived at Mercury some years later, it made a complete 3-D topographic map of the planet and found that the craters at the poles were forever shaded, causing them to act like non-stop freezers, trapping any water that appeared at Mercury, such as from comets or outgassing from the interior.

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was crashed into Mercury in 2015. But another mission is on its way to continue study of the planet: BepiColombo is a joint project between the European and Japanese space agencies and should arrive at Mercury in 2021, settling into orbit in 2025. It will concentrate on the geology and internal structure of the planet as well as its very thin atmosphere and surprising magnetic field.

Mercury is periodically visible from Earth, although it’s always close to the Sun. It’s now disappearing into the rising sun and will next appear in late January 2021, just after sunset.

Next time: the veiled planet Venus. •MJ

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Our new monthly music-themed crossword puzzle is created and brought to you by Montecito resident Pete Muller and runs in the Washington Post and the Montecito Journal. Thank you, Pete, for playing with your home team! What is a Meta Crossword Puzzle? A meta crossword puzzle provides the ultimate “aha” moment, challenging the solver to come up with a single answer somehow hidden in the puzzle. Hints to the answer can come from the title, the theme entries, the clues, or the grid. If I’ve done my job as a constructor, once you get the meta, you’ll know it. If you’re thinking, “Hmmm…maybe this is it,” you probably haven’t found the meta yet! Pete Muller has enjoyed solving crosswords since he was a teenager. He started creating them in 2005

Metas are well-suited to contests, since it’s hard to cheat on a meta. An obscure crossword clue like and published his first NY Times puz[Nickname for President Van Buren, from his birthplace] can be answered in a second using Google zle in 2006. While Pete is known for his innovative and tricky puzzles, he (“OLD KINDERHOOK”), but you can’t do the same for a meta. While googling is considered cheating places primary importance on creat(to some) in solving a crossword, googling is encouraged in solving metas. ing a fun experience for the solver.

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COMFORT MEALS AND NEW BEGINNINGS

Inside the kitchen at Santa Barbara Rescue Mission a team of masked and gloved volunteers prepare six dozen turkeys – washing each bird, stuffing them with onions, garlic, and herbs, basting them with butter and seasonings – all in preparation for the most important dinner of the year, the Christmas Feast.

It’s a time-consuming process that takes five days of kitchen preparation. During the pandemic, however, while unemployment is still high and COVID-19 cases are on the rise, the atmosphere is sobering. In between chopping, mixing, and hand-washings the volunteers take a respite to share a holiday joke or invoke some laughter to take their minds off the pandemic.

Sulaiman “Freddie” Rashad works as a kitchen manager and chef. Unlike most chefs, he doesn’t have control over the ingredients he uses for his meals and often he has to be resourceful in his meal making. He creates dishes with ingredients he purchases with his monthly budget or those donated to the mission by local residents and restaurants.

“Every month I have a budget I work with and when I do holiday feasts it comes out of our regular budget,” said Rashad. “There isn’t really a special budget for holiday meals because most of the produce we use is already donated or items that we normally have in stock already.” Most of the canned foods and dry foods (such as pasta) that fill the pantry come from local residents, he said.

Rashad has worked at the Rescue Mission for almost two years. Previously, he worked as a junior sous-chef at Mesa Burger on the Mesa and in Goleta. Prior to that he worked in construction for 16 years.

At the Mission he manages a team of 10 men who are in the residential treatment program and work in the kitchen preparing meals.

“We have two bread guys, two produce guys, two breakfast cooks, one lunch cook, and three dinner cooks who assist me in making the feast,” he said. “The produce guys handle all organizing in the walk-in fridge and prepare salad for every dinner meal and a salad bar for our residents,” he added. Volunteers also provide prep work for the cooks, acting as sous chefs when needed.

Preparing the fowls for the holiday dinner is an all-hands-on-deck operation with up to 15 volunteers in the kitchen at a time, Rashad said. “Roughly seventy turkeys are slow roasted for about eight hours. The side dishes are prepared two days prior to the feast. We use all four ovens, the cook top, and flat grill,” he added.

The Rescue Mission serves dinner to approximately 135 homeless guests every evening, 30 men in the residential recovery program, and 20 women in recovery at the Bethel House.

The demand for meal service during the pandemic has increased, according to Kevin Carroll, the Rescue Mission’s homeless guest services director. “Meals have gone up about fifteen percent,” he said. “[Prior to the pandemic] we served one hundred meals at a time, but now we are only seating twenty-four guests at a time, plus the to-go boxes.”

To accommodate the increase in meals for families and individuals, the Rescue Mission spread out its holiday feast over three consecutive nights, December 21-23. All guests’ temperatures were checked before they entered.

Each year the Christmas Feast serves hot meals for up to 300 guests within two hours. Typically, guests can sit side-by-side and share a Christmas meal together. This year, because of COVID-19, things were different.

“We had to re-imagine the dinner because it draws large crowds,” explained Rebecca Weber, the Rescue Mission’s director of communications. “We separated [walk-in diners] from our men in the recovery program who are using the dining hall located in their section of the facility. We had tables and chairs set for six feet distancing, and the meals were served in to-go containers to aid in social distancing.”

A new sound system was installed in the chapel to play Christmas carols and provide a festive atmosphere for guests, Weber added.

What does a pandemic holiday feast look like? The special menu featured a traditional turkey basted in butter, garlic, rosemary, thyme, and basil served with hot gravy, roasted broccoli, and butternut squash. Local farmers donated some of the vegetables, including the butternut squash.

There were also comfort food favorites such as a five cheese mac and cheese, with sharp cheddar, colby and Monterey jack, mozzarella and parmesan. Rashad added heavy cream, butter, and milk to the macaroni to make it extra creamy and bread crumbs for texture. He tossed in crispy bacon bits to elevate the flavors.

The holiday meal also included a spring mix salad with tomatoes, cucumber, goat cheese, almonds, and a lemon vinaigrette dressing and a Hawaiian sweet roll on the side.

A MISSION, NOT JUST A JOB

Rashad sees his job at the Rescue Mission as more than a culinary experience to add to his resume. Working in the kitchen and serving the Mission’s guests has a deeper, more personal meaning to Rashad because he used to be a resident.

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Q. What drove you to adapt this famous story that has been a staple of Christmas for decades for ETC to take on this year?

A. My original idea with this was that a lot of people have experienced A Christmas Carol, either as a movie or the animated TV special or onstage as a theatrical play in some version, but they may never have actually read the story. The language is just so rich and wonderful that it’s very enjoyable just to even listen to it. And rather than do somebody else’s version I just decided to edit it myself down to about 90 minutes or so. Because of COVID, the goal was never to present it as a full theatrical production. But initially our hope was to film it live on stage with the five actors from last year’s successful production of It’s a Wonderful Life, to have them return to do this where they would play all the roles similar to the way they did in the radio play, with Foley (sound effects) and live music.

But we ended up having some complications with the Screen Actors Guild and then Equity (theater actors guild) so we had to shift gears and rethink how we could do it. After a couple of tries, what we ended up with was having everybody in their homes filming themselves there, which is what we would have had to do with the new (COVID protocols) anyway. We sent the actors cameras and microphone equipment and all sorts of backgrounds, and are pre-recording it. There still will be live Foley that we are adding into it as well as original by music.

You were involved in Karyl Lynn Burns’ new adaptation of A Christmas Carol at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura just a couple of years ago. I know you are working from the novel, but what can you tell me about your approach?

I really wanted to highlight the text. I did not want to veer off and try to recreate something, because people should experience the descriptive language, which is very delicious, without imposing the idea of what they should be seeing or what something looked like. For example, there are a lot of really great descriptions of various scenes and characters that never, you never get, you know, you never hear about because they’re just depicted visually on stage or a movie. But in the novel, some of the descriptions are just outrageous, and are worthy of being left alone. I didn’t want to disturb them. The tough part was cutting it down because there’s some beautiful sections and passages and scenes that I really wanted to include but it’s hard to watch things online that are two and a half hours these days.

It’s quite a concept to have the same actors from last December come back to do a reading/radio play of another classic Christmas story. What inspired you to go that route?

Audiences just loved that group of actors in It’s a Wonderful Life and they did such a great job playing all the parts and playing off of each other. Knowing the piece as well as I do, I knew they could do all of the roles in A Christmas Carol too. Peter van Norden has played Scrooge for many years and he and Teri were both were in the production that I had done at the Rubicon. The whole cast had already experienced telling a story and very effectively portraying different characters with just the voices. I figured our audiences would find it interesting if it was that same group of people doing this show.

I just want to revisit, if we can, what it is about this story that resonates with you, makes it meaningful enough to have worked with it in at least three iterations?

I’ve always just loved how it’s such a bizarre thing to have a ghost story about Christmas. What a strange juxtaposition, but I really love the scary parts. I also love darkness, because that’s where you can have the fight for light. And Dickens is a master in the way he describes the setting and the various moods and atmospheres.

Of course, it’s also that it’s such a classic story of redemption which we always need to be reminded of in our own lives. It’s important to look at the ways in which we are miserly or how we are like Scrooge, and remind ourselves of the spirit of giving and community and care for the less fortunate, that important message of what it means to be a good human being. God knows we have plenty of Scrooges in this world.

It seems with all that’s happened this year, it’s also a potent parable for our times.

With the state of the world right now, there’s an even greater need for stories like this. Care for others is a constant thing that we have to practice. We have to be aware of our actions and our impact and our responsibility to each other. We have free will and can choose to be whatever kind of person we want: someone who is selfish and self-contained or one who is doing things for each other because that’s the right thing to do. (ETC’s virtual staged reading of A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas will be available to stream on demand for free from 5 pm on December 24 through 12 noon on December 28. Register (required) online at https://etcsb. org)

Another South Coast ‘Estella Scrooge’ Connection

We mentioned in these pages a few weeks ago how the new Broadway-onfilm production of Estella Scrooge, based on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and featuring lots of references to many of the author’s other works, had originated a decade ago at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura as a Plays-in-Progress production. Now we’ve discovered that the pandemic-prodded “digital theater piece” has another local angle: Patrick Page, the Tony-nominated actor who plays Mr. Merdle, is an alum of PCPA, having undergone some early training and professional experience as a part of the rep theater’s class of 1982.

Meanwhile, Estella Scrooge has been winning plaudits in the press for the latest collaboration for which John Caird directed and co-wrote the book with lyricist-composer Paul Gordon, and the novel approach in which the actors were filmed individually due to COVID protocols then the footage was enhanced with animation, backgrounds, and other imagery. “The talented cast more than thrives under the strange filming conditions,” according to the L.A. Times, which notes that the two leads “convey their complicated history well and have palpable chemistry despite having to film their scenes in isolation.” (Scrooge can be seen via pay-per-view stream through January 3. Get tickets online at www.streamingmusicals.com or through your favorite local theater, including the Rubicon, to have them receive a portion of the price.)

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Holiday Memories Take Center Stage

Center Stage Theater’s Personal Stories program, The Moth-inspired series of true stories performed by their authors that started out under the auspices of its Speaking of Stories banner but survived the cessation of the mothership because of its growing popularity, has completed the second edition of its pandemic pivot this month. With the theater closed to the public, CST’s annual Holiday Memories has veered into the virtual space, with the readers sharing memories of holidays throughout the year, from Christmas to Halloween to the Fourth of July and beyond, and including, we imagine, a bevy of beauties about celebrating during these strange times. And if we can’t be together to hear the tales in person, at least we can cuddle up with some cookies and milk (or a cozy partner or roommate) and enjoy the stories in the safe and socially distanced location of our own choosing to escape back to the wonder of hearing someone read us a story.

There are five separate programs to Holiday Memories, each consisting of funny, personal, touching, and/or heartwarming true tales all told by their authors, ranging from three to five per episode. The pay-what-you-can price for tickets begins at $10 and goes up in stages for those who want to further help the theater survive these incredibly challenging economic times.

The full series of videos was released last weekend and will remain available for on-demand and/or repeat viewings through January 15. Visit centerstagetheater.org for details and tickets. •MJ

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Larry Ellison moving full time to live in Hawaii (photo: Oracle PR)

ting California to live in Hawaii.

Ellison, 76, the world’s 11th richest man, owns 98 percent of Lanai, the state’s sixth largest island at 140 square miles. He bought it in 2012 and employs the majority of the island’s residents.

His company follows in the footsteps of Elon Musk and Tesla, which is also leaving Silicon Valley for Austin, Texas.

Ellison, who is worth around $75 billion, told company employees he will work via Zoom for the foreseeable future.

Clevr for Christmas

New Montecito resident Meghan Markle has gifted her close friend and fellow neighbor Oprah Winfrey with an enormous hamper of coffee from a “woman-led” mission driven wellness company to mark the Yuletide season.

The former TV talk show titan, 66, showed off the contents from the California-based Clevr in an Instagram video, captioning the post with a crown emoji and writing: “On the first day of Christmas my neighbor ‘M’ sent to me – a basket of delicious coffees! (Yes, that M)

“My new drink of choice for the morning or night,” she added.

Perfect publicity for the Duchess of Sussex, who is reportedly an investor in the company.

Art of Titanic Proportions

Gordon Frickers, an old friend who used to be my photographer on The Falmouth Packet when I started my career, has morphed into a very competent maritime artist.

Now living in Brittany in the north of France after 25 years in the seafaring city of Plymouth, Devon, Gordon has just completed a two-year project of twin paintings of the doomed White Star liner Titanic, which took 800 hours of research.

One of the paintings “Plymouth Harbour” was commissioned by Tim Martin, author of three books on the 883-ft., 46,328-ton ship that struck an iceberg in the Atlantic in 1912 on its maiden voyage with the loss of 1,500 passengers from its full complement of 2,240.

It is a copy of an original work by Royal Academician Norman Wilkinson that hung in the first class 24 – 31 December 2020

Artist Gordon Frickers and his work of the doomed liner Titanic

smoking room of the luxury liner.

“It is accurate to the last seagull and wave top and also the identical size – 31 by 68 inches,” Gordon, 71, whose work has been commissioned by the Cunard shipping line, Virgin Atlantic tycoon Sir Richard Branson, and the National Trust, tells me.

He is hoping to sell the second work next year after putting it on tour, with a portion of the proceeds going to, appropriately enough, a maritime charity.

His e-mail is artistfrickers@gmail. com and his website www.frickers. co.uk/art.

Maybe a fine addition to the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum?

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Former Home Sells

The Bel Air mansion owned by the late Hungarian glamorpuss Zsa Zsa Gabor has just sold for $16 million.

Zsa Zsa, known for femme fatale movie roles and many marriages, bought the aerie for $245,000 in 1973 and lived there until her death four years ago aged 99.

The 6,400-sq. ft. home on a oneacre lot, once lived in by billionaire Howard Hughes and rock star Elvis Presley, also had a discotheque named after Moulin Rouge after her 1952 film directed by John Huston.

I was often invited there in the late ‘70s by an old friend, the late veteran Rogers & Cowan publicist Gloria Luchenbill, and Zsa Zsa and I would cut the rug to the Studio 54 anthem “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor, who I later danced with on the CBS New York set of the Geraldo Rivera’s TV talk show as she lip synched her major hit.

Ivanhoe Mines billionaire Robert Friedland, a diamond and precious metals mogul who also has homes in Singapore and Thailand, is the new owner. It is the third time the French Regency property has changed hands since Zsa Zsa’s move to more heavenly pastures.

John le Carré R.I.P. (photo by Krimidoedel)

Carré, who has died at his home in Cornwall aged 89.

For six decades his 25 gripping thrillers dominated the bestseller lists and review pages using his pseudonym, although his real name was David Cornwell.

His enormous body of work goes back to 1961 with his novel The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, which made into a memorable 1965 film with Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner – which won four BAFTAs, the British equivalent of Oscars – catapulting him to global acclaim.

Le Carré wrote with authority having worked for the British Secret Service – MI5 and MI6 – in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Other works included Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in 1974 and The Constant Gardener in 2001.

His books sold more than 60 million copies worldwide, many being made into feature films and TV series.

I would often see John and his wife, Jane, on my annual visits to Cornwall, either strolling around the historic town of Penzance or at my local pub, The Logan Rock in Treen, a short drive from his cliffside aerie near the charming village of St. Buryan. L-R: Sabrina and Debra

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A: I am the Director of Project Delivery and Construction for the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG). I manage all SBCAG regional projects that are supported by Measure A, our local transportation sales tax, and other funding sources. I work closely with Caltrans and our local city and county partners on design, permitting, and construction. This includes the Highway 101: Carpinteria to Santa Barbara project where SBCAG has an active role and an in-depth partnership with Caltrans.

Can you tell us a bit about your background and other projects you’ve worked on in the past?

After graduating from Cal Poly with a civil engineering degree, I worked in transportation for an international consulting firm. Transportation and infrastructure improvement projects have been my focus for the last 30 years, with 20 years managing SBCAG’s regional program with an emphasis on the Highway 101 corridor. A few key projects include Highway 101 between Linden and Casitas Pass, Milpas to Hot Springs, and Ventura to Carpinteria.

What is the most exciting work going on in the 101 project?

I enjoy working on projects that have a direct safety benefit for people. The creation of righthand ramps at the Sheffield Drive Interchange will be a significant change from people entering and exiting the freeway from the fast lane. When you drive by, you can already see progress. It is interesting to see new bridges, walls, and ramps go into an area that has had issues for years.

So what don’t people know about the project that they should know?

Building these projects requires technical experience and a highly collaborative team. We work hard to make these projects better through partnerships with Caltrans, the County of Santa Barbara, and all the local governments along the South Coast. The amount of technical expertise and what is accomplished is impressive. There are more than 100 team members working to make this area

101 Freeway Construction Holiday Update

Note to readers: This update covers the time period from Dec. 20, 2020 to Jan. 9, 2021. Crews will not work on Dec. 24, 25, 31, and Jan. 1 in observance of the holidays.

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Closures: Northbound Highway 101

Sunday nights, 9:00 pm – 5:00 am, 1 lane: N Padaro Ln to Sheffield Dr, on- and off-ramps at Evans Ave, Ortega Hill Rd, and Sheffield Dr Sunday night Dec. 20th, 9:00 pm – 5:00 am, 1 lane: Bailard Ave to Santa Claus Ln Monday – Thursday nights, 8:00 pm – 5:00 am, 1 lane: N Padaro Ln to Sheffield Dr, on- and off-ramps at Evans Ave, Ortega Hill Rd, and Sheffield Dr

Southbound Highway 101

Sunday nights, 10:00 pm – 7:00 am, 1 lane: Sheffield Dr to N Padaro Ln & Santa Claus Ln to Casitas Pass Rd, off-ramp at Evans Ave, on-ramp at Wallace Ave Monday – Thursday nights, 8:00 pm – 7:30 am, 1 lane: Sheffield Dr to N Padaro Ln & Santa Claus Ln to Casitas Pass Rd, off-ramp at Evans Ave, on-ramp at Wallace Ave On-ramp at Sheffield Dr, closed for the duration of the project, anticipated reopening 2023, drivers can use the southbound on-ramps at Wallace Ave and N Padaro Ln Off-ramp at Sheffield Dr, closed for up to 16 months, anticipated reopening end of 2021, drivers can use the southbound off-ramp at San Ysidro Rd On- & off-ramps at Reynolds Ave, closed up to 16 weeks, anticipated reopening end of January, drivers can use off-ramp at Linden Ave and on-ramp at Casitas Pass Rd Off-ramp at Casitas Pass Rd, reopening December 21, during the temporary closure, drivers can use off-ramp at Linden Ave

Evans Ave Undercrossing

Flaggers will direct traffic with alternating lane closures as needed during daytime work for materials delivery and equipment movement. The majority of work will occur behind safety barriers with lanes open on Evans Avenue under the freeway bridges.

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The Commissioners, of which Susan Keller was absent, voted to receive and file the reports related to the compliance update, and determined that the current Beach Bar hours are compatible with the surrounding area. “If members of the community have any concerns, we ask that they call [the Resort] directly,” Ross said.

Rebuilding & Recovery Update

Also at MPC last week, County planner Joe Dargel gave an update on the rebuilding following the Thomas Fire and 1/9 debris flow, nearly two years after the debris flow damaged or destroyed 631 structures in Montecito, and took the lives of 23 members of our community.

When the County first took stock of the destruction, 221 of the structures damaged were tagged “green,” meaning minimal damage but habitable. 167 (41%) of the homes damaged were tagged “yellow” meaning significant damage and 243 (59%) were tagged “red,” which meant uninhabitable. Of those structures tagged yellow and red, 55% of them are now in the “green” category, 25% are still “yellow,” and 17% are still “red.” According to Dargel, 322 properties are still in the process of being rebuilt or cleaned up, and 50 are in an active phase of working with the County for rebuilding. 74 homes are still awaiting owner action, and seven are pending possible sale. The County is still unable to locate or make contact with the owner of sixty homes (12%) damaged in the debris flow. “We’ve exhausted all avenues to contact the owners,” Dargel said. Property owners affected by the disaster continue to seek planning permits; 68 were filed in December and 49 of them were approved. Most are like-forlike rebuilds, with a small few seeking a Coastal Development Permit or Land Use Permit. During the pandemic, staff has been working with homeowners virtually. “We’re able to process through digital means and it seems to be going very well,” Dargel said, adding despite this, the pandemic has caused a noticeable slowdown in the rebuilding process. Montecito Fire Chief Kevin Taylor presented an update on Montecito’s resiliency in terms of fire prevention efforts. Chief Taylor made note that the hearing was taking place exactly three years to the day that the Thomas Fire, which started in Santa Paula, made its way into Montecito proper.

MFPD has a long history of dedicating a significant amount of resources to fire prevention efforts, which include chipping, defensible space work, maintaining the fuel treatment network, conducting roadside weed abatement and hazardous tree removal, a pilot sheep grazing project, and more. Taylor reported that in 2020 the District has conducted 153 days of fire prevention work, which amounts to 607 tons of material, 35 acres cleared, and 10 miles of road cleared.

Current projects include conducting a study in partnership with the Carpinteria-Summerland District; results of the study, which in part looks at optimal sites for a new fire station, are expected in January. The District also continues to collaborate with partner agencies, including the Montecito Association, on its Hands Across Montecito homeless outreach project, and is taking part in a “home hardening grant” pilot program, which will offer funds to members of the community who cannot afford to prepare their properties for wildfire.

Chief Taylor reported that the District is planning to conduct an Evacuation Study come January. He explained that the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, had a profound effect on fire districts throughout California. Paradise was the first community in California to conduct an extensive evacuation study 15 years ago. “We all looked at their evacuation study as the gold standard. It was what we all strived for, and it served as the framework for every evacuation plan in the wildland/urban interface in California,” Chief Taylor said. “Unfortunately in the Camp Fire, given our new norm in fire behavior, we learned that that evacuation plan didn’t work. Several community members tragically lost their lives as a result of that fire, and we don’t want that here.”

The District is seeking to validate its current evacuation plan, which has

December 2017: the Thomas Fire makes its way into the Montecito Fire District area; it would become what was then the largest wildfire in California state history

been used in the Tea Fire, Thomas Fire, debris flow, and during other evacuation orders. “We want to validate that that plan is accurate utilizing the latest traffic modeling that’s available from evacuation scientists,” Taylor said, adding that a professional firm will be hired to look at the current plan and ensure that during a local fire, the evacuation zones we have now are not too large or are not too small. The hope is that the study will be complete by next year’s fire season.

For more information, visit www.montecitofire.com. •MJ

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Dear Montecito,

You never quite realize how special a place is until you no longer get to call it home. Montecito is one of those places. I grew up in a somewhat unconventional way. My father was the groundskeeper at Montecito Union School for over 30 years. He was known for his thick Scottish brogue and rough exterior, but anyone who knows “Scottie” remembers a hard-working, dedicated man with a big heart. He was an icon in the Montecito community for the many generations of families that grew up there.

My parents immigrated to this country in the 1970s. My mother from Japan and my father from Glasgow did what any other hard-working immigrants do. They both worked tirelessly in hopes to provide my sister and I opportunities that they never had. My father took a lot of pride in his work. He never considered being the head custodian of MUS a simple day-job. Given the responsibility required that he physically live on the school grounds to oversee the school 24-7, meant that he literally lived, breathed, and ate there. And in turn, my sister and I got to grow up there.

The education that we received at MUS was arguably the best advantage they could have given us. As a young child, it gave me the sense that anything was possible. I think back fondly to my summers in Montecito. Like most kids in the late ‘80s, the time was spent unstructured. No summer camps, no electronics. Simply riding our bikes with friends to the Wine & Cheese shop, collecting tadpoles in the nearby creek and learning how to paint as I “helped” and worked alongside my dad with random odd endjobs on campus. Living on campus also meant that the teachers, who are arguably the most committed group of folks I had ever seen, also spent much of their time there. And so I made myself useful babysitting their kids, while they worked on getting their classrooms together when their students were on break.

At age nine, I announced to my dad that “I want to be a doctor when I grow up!” He scoffed a bit, in a loving but honest way and replied: “You can do whatever you want. I just don’t think medicine is what you hope it is. It is far more political than you realize,” he told me. “But if this is what you want to do, do it… just make sure you give it 150 percent. Whatever you do, always give it 150 percent!” At the time, I didn’t really know what he was saying. Political? Aren’t you helping people? Decades later the irony of his comments would resonate.

Hard Work Pays Off

I knew fully well that despite my parents being some of the hardest working and most generous people I know, affording college was just not feasible. It would be up to me to figure it out. So, I immersed myself in competitive club swimming and other extracurricular activities. For many years, I remember my mother getting up at the crack of dawn, already dressed in her office attire ready to drive me to swim practice. I continued to swim for club, became the swim team captain at Santa Barbara High School, developed a love for public speaking and became ASB president. I was ecstatic when I was accepted into Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to study microbiology as a pre-med.

After undergrad, I sought a master’s degree at Boston University. Later, returning to California for medical school, I hoped to match into the “toughest” ER residency program I could get in to. Why? Because I wanted to feel like I could handle just about anything that came through the door. It was time to

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start at the USC Medical Center, dubbed the “knife and gun club.”

Residency was much like being immersed in a warzone. Quite literally. I wasn’t shocked to learn that the U.S. military rotates their medics through our ER to train before deploying them into combat overseas. So onward I went. Now married, 29 years old and eight months pregnant with my first child. It was a good thing I didn’t know any better at the time. I had no idea how grueling internship plus nursing and caring for a newborn post-night shift would be. Fast forward to my fourth year of residency, now equally pregnant with my second child as a senior resident running the trauma bay – it was a funny sight to say the least.

After training, I stayed on moonlighting as an attending at USC teaching residents but also enjoyed working in a community ER practice. With two young children as my primary focus, I felt emergency medicine was a pretty good “mom-job” due to the flexibility. However, the flipping of nights to days was wearing. And so, for self-sustainability purposes I felt it was important to expand my career. I had always been passionate about

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Fast forward to the spring of 2020, COVID-19 hits in Southern California. I suppose my early hunger to train in a specialty where I would be “ready for anything” is put to the test. At the time, we understood very little about the virus and even less about its virulence in hospital staff. Now, this was not my first pandemic. We had experienced H1N1 in 2009, cases of Ebola a few years later, but this… this felt different. There were characteristics of this virus and disease process that even our most senior physicians had never seen and left the scientific community perplexed. Add to that a national PPE shortage, and the combination was unnerving. Despite working for two of the largest medical systems in the country, we did not have enough protection. Our ER physician group all pitched in funds to buy PPE for our entire staff, as we could no longer rely on our administrations to provide the protection we needed, but this still wasn’t enough. We were literally reusing masks day after day. Something had to be done! So, in addition to drafting up my last will and testament, I also started crowdsourcing, hoping for donations of PPE. I sent emails to influencers, any connection I had on both coasts, and of course, back home to Montecito. Within two days, I got an email back from the CEO of Direct Relief International, Thomas Tighe. Apparently, he’d been forwarded my email from several Montecito connections asking, “Can you help her? She’s Scottie’s daughter.” Mr. Tighe not only offered to donate more than 2,000 N95 masks, but he personally drove the cases of masks down to me in L.A. His kindness and generosity and overall humanity was a perfect picture of the acts of kindness and strong sense of community that Montecito fosters.

Reflecting back, my earliest memories of Montecito remain true. It is a special community filled with incredible people. I am incredibly grateful to the people of the community I was raised in and to my parents who gave me the opportunity to grow up there. Particularly in a tough year where many of us are worn and strained in new, odd ways, it is important to reflect back on the things that matter most: family, friends, and a sense of community. Montecito beautifully embodies all of these things.

Be safe and well. May 2021 brings us all hope, health, and newfound happiness!

Dr. Mizuho Morrison

Twitter: @mizuhomorrison •MJ 24 – 31 December 2020

1. Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its FY2021C Pavement Maintenance Project (“Project”), by or before January 7, 2021 at 3:00 PM through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be

registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive

addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly... The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy, and facsimile bids will not be accepted. If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal. Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

2. Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at various streets throughout the City, and is described as follows: Repair various streets by performing asphalt dig outs to repair failed areas; tree root pruning and concrete curb and gutter replacement; sidewalk removal and replacement; asphalt; reconstruction of existing non-compliant curb ramps; construct new curb ramps; traffic striping and markings; relocate and protect existing signs and roadway name stamps; perform traffic control, notifications, and postings, complete and in place.

2.2 Time for Completion. The Project must be completed within seventy-five (75) working days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about February 15, 2021, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.

3.

2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is $1,450,000.

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 may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions. 4. Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: http://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959 A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155. 5. Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that within ten days after City issues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other submittals required by the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award.

6. Prevailing Wage Requirements.

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

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

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code § 1771.4. 7. Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bonds, each for 100% of the Contract Price, as further specified in the Contract Documents. 8. Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code § 22300. 9. Subcontractor List. Each Subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a completed Subcontractor List form with its Bid Proposal, including the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the base bid price) for each Subcontractor that will perform Work or service or fabricate or install Work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

10. Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for more detailed information before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in Article 1 of the General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, including this Notice Inviting Bids. By: ___________________________________ Date: ________________ William Hornung, C.P.M, General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) December 16, 2020 2) December 23, 2020

END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING A RESTATED LOAN AGREEMENT, DEED OF TRUST, AND COVENANT ON PROPERTY LOCATED AT 125 WEST CARRILLO STREET WITH RIVIERA HOTEL, INC., A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION AND AUTHORIZING THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE SUCH AGREEMENTS AS NECESSARY.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on December

15, 2020.

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

(Seal)

/s/

Sarah Gorman, CMC

City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 5981

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ) ) ss. ) )

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced December 8, 2020 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on December 15, 2020, by the following roll call vote:

AYES:

NOES:

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

None

None

ABSTENTIONS: None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on December 16, 2020.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on December 16, 2020.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published December 23, 2020 Montecito Journal

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