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fter finally recovering from COVID-19 and feeling well enough to play golf again, Billy Mandarino woke one morning to find his hands, feet, and face completely numb.

He is now re-learning how to walk. Mandarino is one of the more than one hundred thousand cases nationwide with what doctors are calling Long Haulers Syndrome, or Post-Acute COVID Syndrome, which is quickly becoming one of the biggest health issues in the country. (Story begins on page 5)

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Inside This Issue 5 Editor’s Letter Join us for a Zoom Town Meeting to address your questions and concerns regarding the County’s vaccine rollout plan; “Long Haulers Syndrome” now plaguing those recovered from COVID 6 On the Record American Riviera Bank plays crucial role in helping businesses stay open during pandemic; Carpinteria mayor requests State Senator’s support in sponsoring legislation that would provide direct assistance to local businesses; GoFundMe set up to support Barbara Dutra; 101 Freeway construction updates 10 Tide Chart 12 Village Beat Montecito Association Board of Directors holds 73rd Annual Meeting; Sepi Consignment closes 14 Letters to the Editor A collection of communications from Dave Noris, Ray Bourhis, Kristine Sperling, and more

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Mark Hunt highlights four homes looking for their new owners 18 Dear Montecito Shelagh Morphy was accepted into Northeastern University in Boston as a Media Arts major, but has since changed her major twice 20 The Giving List Organic Soup Kitchen’s SoupMeal recipes are designed to strengthen the immune system, increase energy, and promote healing 22 On Science Tom Farr recalls the end of Cassini’s 13-year journey orbiting Saturn 26 Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco Let’s use Valentine’s Day as a reason to celebrate all those relationships we tend to take for granted every other day of the year

The Optimist Daily How to help hummingbirds survive the winter months; “tiny forests” to be planted across U.K. 27 Coming & Going Drought & Flood, The History of Water in Santa Barbara and Montecito is a book all homeowners should own 28 On Entertainment The Shot premieres; UCSB Theatre Department’s One Act Plays go virtual; UCSB A&L’s House Calls series; and more 30 Library Mojo Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the Montecito Library; Santa Barbara Public Library presents programming around Day of Remembrance 33 Brilliant Thoughts Ever wonder what are some of Ashleigh Brilliant’s favorite things? Now’s your chance to find out.

34 Senior Portrait Dorothy Vendrame has lived on Circle Drive for the past 60 years and is a local personality in the neighborhood 36 Our Town Joanne Calitri chats with Oniracom’s Jacob Tell 40 Your Westmont Historian Nancy Koehn speaks at the President’s Breakfast on March 5; and the college hosts Black speakers, racial justice workshops, and Black History Month celebrations 42 Santa Barbara by the Glass The J. Wilkes wine label stands out for its singular focus: “appellation expression”

Muller Monthly Music Meta Crossword Puzzle Solution 43 Nosh Town Olio e Limone’s Elaine and Alberto Morello have been partners in life and business for more than three decades; Sarah Lehmberg’s favorite red curry dish 46 Classified Advertising Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 47 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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Editor’s Letter

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accinating at least 70% of the world’s population is, to say the least, challenging. Especially when you consider the number of variables that must coalesce, like Federal, State, and local governments, private industries, varying political perspectives and trust levels, and, of course, sheer math. It’s a logistical bear.

The confusion and inconsistencies that have plagued our national COVID response have trickled down to the granular level, to our State and local governments who scramble to keep up with the constantly changing stream of information and regulations, not to mention their own political pressures, multiple stakeholders and, of course, a shortage of actual vaccine supply.

Never has our dependence on our local county officials’ ability to get something right been more evident and unnerving, given the enormous personal stakes for all of us. So naturally, we all have questions, concerns, perhaps some criticism, and a strong need to have some if not all of these items addressed. Now we will have the chance.

Please join us on February 19 at 10:30 am for a Montecito Journal sponsored Zoom Town Meeting designed to address your questions and concerns regarding Santa Barbara County’s COVID Vaccine Rollout Plan. During this hour-long Virtual Town Meeting, we will be joined by Congressman Salud Carbajal, County Supervisors Das Williams and Gregg Hart, County Director of Public Health Van Do-Reynoso, Public Health Officer Dr. Henning Ansorg, and State Senator Monique Limón for an update on the status of Santa Barbara’s vaccination rollout plan.

In addition to bringing us all up to speed with the latest information regarding our Federal, State, and local vaccination rollout, the majority of this hour will be devoted to responding to the questions and concerns of community members. So please send your questions to letters@montecitojournal.net. There will also be an opportunity to submit questions during the Zoom.

And as if any of us needed more evidence for how critically important the ability to be vaccinated is, please read Michael Bowker’s story about a local community member who continues to struggle with the painful and unpredictable fallout from his own bout with COVID-19.

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by Michael Bowker

n January 22, Billy Mandarino, a real estate adviser for Engel & Volkers in Santa Barbara, was excited to play golf after recovering from a bad bout with COVID-19. He looked forward to being healthy again. What he didn’t know was his nightmare with the disease was just beginning.

The morning after his golf round, he woke up to find his hands, feet, and face had gone totally numb. He was told by a neurologist to take ibuprofen, but his symptoms worsened quickly over the next two days. “I had a terrible pain in my hips, my tongue and mouth were on fire, and my feet were so numb I was walking like a drunken sailor. My wife, Desa, had to help carry me to the car so I could get to the emergency room.”

Although doctors were puzzled at first, Mandarino was ultimately diagnosed with what many medical experts now fear is a second pandemic that is already spreading across the county, and the country. Called “Long Haulers Syndrome” among many other names, it is striking those who have already suffered, and seemingly recovered, from the COVID-19 virus.

“We are being slammed with patients with these symptoms – which are different than the ones people have when they first get COVID,” said Dr. Lynn Fitzgibbons, Chair of the Infectious Disease Department at Cottage Hospital.

“In the near future, we should expect to see hundreds, if not thousands, of patients in Santa Barbara County suffering from these long-term effects.”

More than one hundred thousand cases have been reported nationwide, and the number of unreported cases could be far higher. Surveys conducted by patient groups indicated that 50 percent to 80 percent of patients continue to have symptoms three months after the onset of COVID-19 – even after the virus has left their body, according to a report from the Harvard University Medical School. To date, there are an estimated 30,000 cases of COVID-19 in Santa Barbara County, nearly 30 million cases in the U.S., and 106 million cases reported worldwide.

“So far we’ve seen about two-thirds of the patients who suffered initial, acute COVID attacks later come down with these other, often worse, symptoms, which can last for months, if not for a lifetime,” said Dr. Christian Sandrock,

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American Riviera Bank Helps Local Businesses Obtain a Slice of Federal Stimulus

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ometimes it takes a global pandemic to highlight the crucial role that community banks play in rescuing local businesses from the economic nightmare that comes with a year-long statewide shutdown. For American Riviera Bank (ARB), which opened in 2006 thanks to about 400 local shareholders who put up roughly $25 million in start-up cash, the COVID-19 plague provided an opportunity to give back to the community that has helped it become one of the most successful local banks in California.

“We started with our first branch in downtown Santa Barbara,” said Jeff DeVine, ARB’s president and CEO. “The economy was cranking and real estate was flying high.” But just two years later, under the weight of American Riviera Bank’s Jeff DeVine America’s over-leveraged real estate market, the economy crashed. Unlike other small banks that had been around longer, ARB had yet to cash in on what then seemed like a lucrative mortgage financing sector.

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“American Riviera Bank was fortunate to have a lot more capital than other banks, and we rode through that time feeling comfortable because we had a strong capital cushion,” he recalled. ARB waited until 2012, before opening a mortgage department.

The following year, the bank opened its Montecito branch and four years after that, merged with the Bank of Santa Barbara, which increased its assets to more than $400 million. “We were a bit of an underdog at first,” said DeVine. “But we received a lot of support from the community. We went from having $400 million in assets in 2016 to $971 million in assets today.”

So when COVID-19 hit Santa Barbara, ARB, which had invested in online technology, was quick to find ways to help its customers weather the economic fallout. “It takes a while to open up an account, DeVine explained. “You have to have addresses, driver’s licenses, and dates of birth, or if you’re a company, articles of incorporation. We realized this was an opportunity for us to leverage those digital channels. Our customers started filling out information online and giving us that information, as well as using DocuSign, which saved a lot of time.”

While most of ARB’s mortgage business involves adjustable rate mortgages, jumbo loans, and construction loans, COVID allowed the bank to boost its efforts on behalf of clients who needed help applying for the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in order to stay afloat during the past year.

“When we did the first round of PPP, it was pretty chaotic,” DeVine said. “We had to build the infrastructure to handle this massive volume of loans that was going to come in.” Typically, ARB would handle between 50 and 100 new and existing loans each month. All of a sudden, we were doing 600 loans for a total of $120 million in the course of about six weeks, and we ended up with a total of 12,000 jobs in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties who were covered by these loans, which made us feel really good. If we actually helped save 12,000 local jobs or anything close to that, we are really happy.”

One of those customers is Angela Zungri, owner of Santa Barbara’s Walter Claudio Salon, which first opened in 1992 and at its peak employed 35 people in a 4,300 square foot space on West Figueroa Street. “Now there are ten of us,” Zungri told the Journal. “Everything changed because of COVID. The extra layers of protocol have changed how we do business and we will never go back. I had a staff of five just for training purposes, but now the stylists do everything including checking out the customers. It’s never going to be the same.”

After being closed for three months, Zungri was able to reopen her salon in June 2020 but had to close a month later, and then shut down again during the Christmas holidays. “People were desperate to pay their bills,” said Zungri.

“We had to shut our front door and regulate the number of people that come in our building. We could have no more than twelve people inside, including four or five stylists, at any given time.”

According to Zungri, the only thing keeping her business alive was support from the SBA’s paycheck protection program, and she credits American Riviera Bank with helping her obtain paycheck relief. “Without their help, it would have been a nightmare,” she said, adding that while she was able to retain 75 percent of her staff after the first shutdown, many more employees subsequently left California.

“The comparison between having a small community bank like American Riviera Bank or Montecito Bank and some huge national bank is that they are very responsible and can help you get loan forgiveness. I had someone at ARB who held my hand through the whole thing, which was very complicated, and I didn’t have to hire anyone to do that.”

Another way American Riviera Bank has helped keep Montecito and Santa Barbara’s businesses intact is through the federal government’s Shuttered Venue Grant (SVG) grant program, which provides 45 percent revenue relief for movie theaters and other stages dependent on annual ticket sales. The stimulus package includes cash to help local movie theaters and live venues obtain lost revenue.

“Movie theaters and live music venues that are completely struggling have had revenue declines of 90 to 99 percent,” said DeVine, adding that his bank’s customers are able to apply for up to a 45 percent reimbursement of lost revenue. “So if customers had a 45 percent decline in revenue, they can’t get all that back” explained DeVine.

Both Metropolitan Theatres, which operates downtown Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theatre, and the historic Lobero Theatre, have obtained SVG assistance from American Riviera Bank. “We haven’t had a live performance since the end of February or March of last year,” said Don McGreevy, controller of the Lobero Theatre Foundation.

Unlike with the first round of PPP last year, this time, in 2021, businesses have the choice of applying for either a loan or a grant. “With this second round of stimulus, you can’t apply for both,” McGreevy said. “Both go directly through

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Editor’s Letter (Continued from page 5) Director of Critical Care at the UC Davis clinic, which was formed to care for those with these recurrent symptoms. “We call it the Post-Acute COVID Syndrome (PACS),” he said. “It’s quickly become one of the biggest health issues in the country.”

Symptoms are varied, but most often include cognitive breakdowns called “brain fog,” difficulty breathing, leg pain, numbness, tachycardia episodes that can send a patient’s heart suddenly racing to 135 beats a minute, constant fatigue,

What to Do if You Suffer Symptoms

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f you are suffering from any of the identified symptoms of Post-Acute COVID Syndrome, nicknamed “Long Haulers,” such as profound fatigue, constant cognitive issues (brain fog), sudden jumps in your heart rate and blood pressure, or leg or chest pain, dizziness or numbness, you should immediately contact your physician, according to Dr. Lynn Fitzgibbons, Chair of the Infectious Disease Department at Cottage Hospital.

“I also highly recommend that if you suffer from these symptoms, keep a daily diary of them,” said Fitzgibbons. “Keep track of exactly how you feel, and what is happening to your body. It is extremely important that your physician understand what you are going through. We are at the beginning of this and every bit of data is going to be critical to them in being able to guide you toward the correct treatment.”

A detailed list of symptoms also helps convince physicians you have a physical, not psychosomatic ailment. “One thing is now clear,” said Dr. Mitchell Miglis, a Stanford University neurologist who has treated many PACS patients. “These mystery diagnoses are real, and they aren’t just in the patient’s head.”

Too many with PACS were not taken seriously earlier in 2020. “With the suddenness of the COVID pandemic and now this, doctors have been asked to learn a huge amount in a short time,” said Fitzgibbons. “Keeping a detailed list of your symptoms will help them tremendously. You should work shoulder-to-shoulder with your doctor on this.”

For those trying to recover from the sometimes-devastating effects of PACS, doctors and physical therapists strongly recommend not rushing the process. “It isn’t like other recoveries,” said Dr. Christian Sandrock, Director of Critical Care at UC Davis. “You have to listen to your body every day. If you wake up feeling fatigued, you shouldn’t do anything. Rest is the best medicine.”

For Billy Mandarino, a Santa Barbara real estate adviser who recovered from COVID in mid-January only to come down with PACS, which left him nearly paralyzed, the physical therapy efforts he is undergoing at Cottage Hospital have been counterintuitive. “Having been in athletics all my life, I’m used to recovering from injuries by pushing through the pain,” he said. “You can’t do it that way with this. I am being trained to do about fifty percent of what I think I can do regarding the physical therapy and when I’m tired or in pain, they have me quit immediately.

They have told me that damage done by PACS is often so widespread that doing too much reverses the healing process quickly.”

Are doctors in the Santa Barbara area becoming more aware of the dangers of PACS? “Yes,” said Fitzgibbons. “Unfortunately, more and more of us are getting first-hand experience with it as more patients come in. It’s helpful and tragic at the same time.”

Many experts are calling for PACS clinics to be established in every community in America. “We have no idea how long this is going to last,” said Sandrock.

“Some of these symptoms may last a lifetime, we just don’t know. The most important piece of advice I can give is for people who are suffering, don’t think it is all in your mind – take these symptoms seriously and call your physician.”

depression, headaches, chest pain, migraines, disrupted sleep patterns, lung and heart scarring, and many other problems. At its worst, PACS has caused death by shutting down breathing pathways, and causing strokes and heart attacks.

“It’s too early to tell how this will affect Santa Barbara County in terms of heart issues,” said Sansum’s Dr. Michael Shenoda, one of the leading cardiologists in the area. “We’ve seen a lot of pericarditis/myocarditis (inflammation of the lining of the heart and heart muscle), but no post COVID heart failures.”

A Critical Point in the Pandemic

One sobering fact about PACS is, unlike the initial COVID symptoms, younger patients are highly vulnerable. “We’re seeing it in younger and middle-aged people who had only light symptoms when they initially caught COVID, but who are now suffering a great deal,” said Fitzgibbons. “We don’t know yet how long these symptoms will last. Some patients have been struggling for months and are still struggling, but others seem to be getting better. We’re seeing a range of recovery – there just isn’t that much data yet.”

Major issues still face the medical community and those who are falling prey to PACS. The rapid spread of PACS, for whatever reason, has been slow to penetrate the nation’s media and some doctors are still relatively unaware of it. Part of the problem is the symptoms are varied and present themselves differently.

Many patients are treated for obvious symptoms, such as depression, fatigue, or high blood pressure and sent home, only to suffer tremendously without knowing why.

“I think this is a critical point,” said Fitzgibbons. “We all have to come to the realization this is not a psychological problem – this is not a made-up ailment in people’s heads. It is a real physical problem that can attack the brain, lungs, heart, and other organs in long-term ways.”

For many patients, not knowing what is wrong with them, and suffering sometimes debilitating fatigue and pain, it can create what some described as, “hell on earth.” Les Teel, an ex-Navy Seal, has suffered for months from central nervous system and heart issues. “The fatigue level is just horrible,” he said. “This causes so many problems in so many parts of your body.

Imagine a one-hundred-car pileup in your body where everything keeps crashing into itself.”

With so many symptoms presenting in different ways, trying to deal with PACS has been a challenge. Mandarino had to undergo hours of MRI’s – especially excruciating because he is claustrophobic – and many other tests, including a spinal tap, before he was diagnosed with PACS, with part of it being a rare disorder called Guillain-Barré, which itself slams the body with multiple symptoms. Originally admitted to Cottage General, he was moved to the hospital’s rehabilitation center eight days later. He is still there.

“Post COVID symptoms can be quite severe,” said Dr. Greg Vanichkachorn, a specialist at the Mayo Clinic. “The fatigue associated is not a normal fatigue – this is profound. People often say they have to rest for hours after taking their pet for a walk of only a block. What we have to realize is this post COVID syndrome is not rare – patients, providers, and employers should all be expecting to see it prominently in their communities.”

The Importance of Vaccines

Doctors are quick to point out the immergence of PACS greatly underscores the importance of the COVID vaccines. “Many people have been thinking about COVID as a bad flu, now we know it has the potential to cause terrible long-term problems,” said UC Davis’ Sandrock. We are encouraging everyone to get vaccinated – and this is true for people who have already had COVID. We believe the vaccine will prevent or lessen the chances that patients will suffer from PACS.” Right now, there is no cure for PACS. Doctors can treat many of the symptoms, like lowering blood pressure, but the strong autoimmune element of

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PACS makes its exact cause elusive.

Worldwide, PACS is emerging as a problem no one expected or wanted. An initial study done in Wuhan, China found that three-quarters of COVID patients suffered from PACS six months after being released from the hospital for initial COVID treatment. In Paris, physicians reported seeing hundreds of patients with PACS monthly, with an average age around 40 years old, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A study in Italy showed that 125 out of 143 Italian patients were suffering from PACS two months after their first COVID symptoms emerged. In England, Billy Mandarino is currently recovering and where it is known as “Long COVID,” learning to walk again after battling Long Haulers Syndrome, or Post-Acute COVID Syndrome say some studies show up to 50 percent of COVID patients have suffered these continued symptoms for months and many are still suffering.

Funding for immediate research into possible medicines and cures is greatly needed. Governments are already beginning to gear up for what could be an onslaught of disability – short and long-term – claims due to PACS. Physically and psychologically, the symptoms can be devastating. For Mandarino, who is also the author of a self-help inspirational book, The Nowist, the battle with the disease is still underway. He is hoping to recover in time to conduct a seminar in Santa Barbara, based on his book, in May. Overcoming unforeseen challenges in life will definitely be part of his presentation.

“I am having to learn to walk again,” said Mandarino, who can only go short distances with the aid of a walker. “It’s a slow process. The severity of the symptoms come and go. Luckily, I have great doctors, but I have had to rely on every positive concept I know. This has included some of the darkest moments of my life. But I have to trust we will be able to conquer this in the end.”

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by Kelly Mahan Herrick 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.

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he Montecito Association Board of Directors held its 73rd Annual Meeting on Tuesday, followed by its monthly meeting.

During her executive director report, Sharon Byrne gave an overview of the MA’s activities in 2020.

“It was a really, really good year in a lot of ways,” Byrne said, adding that the MA gained 102 members in 2020, for a total of 1,221 current members.

The organization received 470 different donations throughout the year, earmarked for various causes including the Village Fourth Road Show, the Hands Across Montecito homeless outreach project, and pandemic kits.

“Our community is extremely supportive and generous,” Byrne said.

Issues tackled by the Association this year include the Hands Across Montecito project, which created a contract and budget for outreach for the ongoing issue of homelessness.

Homeless encampments on the rail-

road tracks between Olive Mill and San Ysidro were cleared in October, and beach camps were cleared in December. Fifteen members of the community have participated in outreach, and three homeless individuals have been moved indoors due to the efforts, including one in permanent housing. Most notable, the City of Santa Barbara and the County of Santa Barbara have adopted similar models of the outreach pioneered in Montecito.

The MA answered several neighbor concerns, including parking issues on Miramar, paparazzi issues on Riven Rock, multiple issues on the trail at Sea Meadow, and fire concerns on local trails. The board has also supported residents of the Periwinkle neighborhood on their pilot program to underground utilities.

The MA has been instrumental in dissemination of information related to the pandemic, including testing,

case numbers, vaccines, and more.

The MA also procured and delivered pandemic kits and masks to neighbors, and checked in on the most vulnerable members of our community.

President Megan Orloff noted the retirement of two directors: Peter van Duinwyk and Dorinne Lee Johnson, who announced her retirement last month. Orloff called van Duinwyk “thoughtful, inquisitive, rational, and humble,” and thanked him for the last six consecutive years of service.

Peter has been on the MA a total of 12 years, in addition to his work on the Montecito Union School Board and the Montecito Fire Protection District Board of Directors. Orloff also acknowledged the recent loss of two vital preservationists in our community: Kellam de Forest and Dan Eidelson, both of whom passed away recently.

The board had eight vacant seats to be filled for three-year terms. Newly elected members include Bill Babbitt, a new Montecito resident, who is an architectural designer; Penelope Bianchi, a returning board member who has lived in Montecito since 1997; Martha Gray, also a returning board member and licensed architect; Kathi King, a returning board member who has been on the MA board since 2015; Bill MacFadyen, founder and publisher of Noozhawk;

John Murphy, a 17-year Montecito resident; Sandy Stahl, a returning board member and local realtor; and Megan Orloff, returning board member and EVP, Chief Strategy Officer at Montecito Bank & Trust. The slate of officers include president Orloff, first VP Doug Black, 2nd VP Houghton Hyatt, treasurer King, and secretary Bianchi.

During the monthly meeting, there was a healthy conversation with California Senator Monique Limón and Assembly Member Steve Bennett.

The two discussed issues they are working on including COVID-19 relief, reopening of schools, and economic recovery, and issues that were at hand prior to the pandemic, including upcoming housing bills, environmental issues, education, and more.

Senator Limón warned the board that it’s likely a new housing bill similar to SB1120 will come back, which could create significant issues for the semi-rural atmosphere of Montecito.

“I have and will continue to be vocal that housing development should not look the same throughout the state,” Limón said. “With wildfires and debris flow, we know that we cannot build without considering our topography.”

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nteresting concept, as per last week’s lead piece of this newspaper. Having a COVID vaccination czar in Santa Barbara. It would be even worth investigating if it weren’t so hypocritical and so self centered for this particular newspaper to bring the subject matter up.

Two weeks ago MJ’s investigative reporter Nicholas Schou pointed out, what most of us senior citizens already knew; just how difficult and confusing it is in the South Coast to get our COVID vaccinations in a timely manner.

However what Schou and then MJ’s editor grievously left out was the reason why the County’s attempt to vaccinate our most vulnerable citizens is most definitely inept is not that the fault of the local hospitals, clinics, grocery, and drugstores.

No, it’s the lack of ample vaccination supplies that is coming lock, stock, and barrel from the source who purchased the life savings vials: the Federal Government.

And who was the administration that saw the rise of this pandemic, denied it from the beginning of its deadly crossing from China to the world and then sabotaged all efforts to contain the pandemic from the beginning: the Donald J. Trump administration. A Republican administration as well as a Republican senate.

Which brings me to the original MJ owner, James Buckley, who has apparently never met a Republican official he didn’t like or endorse.

Obviously preaching to the choir.

So basically the real problem with the lack of vaccinations here as well as the rest of the country is simple; supply. Asking for a czar of vaccinations is probably as inept an idea as creating a federal drug czar as this country did back in 1990 with William Bennett. How did that work out?

Also asking or rather grilling our first district Supervisor Das Williams, as Ms Lurie did regarding why vaccinations aren’t going swimmingly, is like asking your mom why you have to go to school. He has absolutely no control over the supply nor does our esteemed governor Gavin Newsom.

So despite the entitlement that comes from living in the village of Montecito, you’ll have to buckle up for a rough ride until perish the thought, this Democratic adminis

tration straightens things out and opens up the supply of vaccination vials so that all of us, rich and poor, can get this lifesaving serum in our bodies. Unfortunately every level of politics entered into this pandemic and unfortunately it has caused some 450,000 American lives to be lost. That is where our outrage should be.

Dave Novis

One Size Fits All?

There’s a group in Montecito pushing to consolidate the local Water and Sanitary Districts, presumably as an effort to streamline and improve service.

This appears to be a case of forward engineering when experience suggests that for complex problems, the best approach is to reverse engineer.

That is, first, define the problem, and then solve the defined problem with the appropriate organizational structure, rather than create an organization to solve a problem that is perceived, but may not actually be a problem.

For example, at a recent Montecito Sanitary District meeting, Bob Hazard, a member of the group advocating for consolidation, outlined an idea to combine Montecito, Summerland, Carpinteria Sanitary Districts for the purpose of storing recycled water in aquifers underlying the Carp Sanitary District.

(Recent studies have shown that aquifers underlying Montecito and Summerland are not suitable for storing water.) Sounds like a reasonable idea, but before embarking on such an adventure, wouldn’t it make sense to first confirm that it’s feasible to store large volumes of water in Carpinteria? If the answer is yes, proceed to the next step to create the appropriate organizational structure.

Imagine creating an organization to implement a project, only to later discover the project is not practical.

Another perceived problem often discussed by Bob Hazard is the fact that there are five Wastewater Treatment plants within 20 miles of coastline between Goleta and Carpinteria. The implication is that they should be consolidated into one or two centralized plants. That may be, but the first question that comes to mind: Is it a problem? Would one

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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.

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he desire of so many to purchase a home in Montecito, along with the phenomenal number of homes sold and sales over ten million dollars this past year, has been covered at length in many local and national publications. This rush to buy has left Montecito’s Real Estate market with very few homes for sale, and right now, there are only about 75 homes on the market across all price ranges when a more normal number would be about 140+/homes for sale in any given winter month.

To highlight this demand for homes in Montecito, I mentioned in my last article that two new listings had hit the market in prime areas (the Hedgerows and lower San Ysidro Road area). In that article, just two weeks ago, I also stated that I was not featuring those two homes as they would likely be in escrow by the time my article hit the newsstands, as both homes were in that popular $2.5 to $4,000,000 range and in areas of highest demand.

Indeed, both homes went into escrow, and one of them, with a rumored 16 offers, has closed escrow already, in less than two weeks. This can be the state of things if you want to purchase a home in the Montecito area, especially if one is making a play for a new listing in the under $4,000,000 range when it hits the market.

As I continue to highlight properties that have been on the market a “minute or two,” it confuses me as to why some homes sell at a premium or premium++, and others are still available at what might be considered reasonable prices when compared to other area sales.

It is often that one or two features of one home over another make the decision for a buyer. The fact that a home is still on the market does not indicate any negatives with the properties at all, nor does it indicate a property is priced too high. It’s all about a home finding their new owner.

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Below are four properties available as of the writing of this article, all of which have been for sale, more than a couple of weeks. This indicates, that if you like one of these homes and made an offer, you might not be competing with a dozen other buyers, which is nice. These homes are all in excellent condition, with either newer construction or having been recently remodeled. From a condo near the beach to a hilltop estate, Montecito has it all and so can you… for a price.

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Dear Montecito

by Stella Haffner

Montecito Alumni Write Letters from Life’s Front

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he letters in this column often remind me how young we are when we’re asked to make big decisions. We’ve heard from so many people who had chosen their path before they even reached legal autonomy. Evidently, a third of students change their major at least once and as many as one in ten change their major multiple times; which shouldn’t surprise me since both the author of today’s letter and I fall into the latter category.

This week we’re hearing from Crane and Cate alumna Shelagh Morphy.

Shelagh is here to tell us about growing up, the process of reorganization, and treating the present as a gift.

Dear Montecito,

My Name is Shelagh. I am 20 years old. I’ve lived in Montecito my entire life, attending Crane Country Day from kindergarten through eighth grade. I went on to Cate for high school. After high school, though, I decided to attend college in Boston.

Shelagh Morphy was accepted into Northeastern University in Boston as a Media Arts major, but has since changed her major twice

I am currently a Design Major at Northeastern University with a minor in Creative Fabrication. Pretty much up until this past year, I had little idea of what I wanted to do or be “when I grew up.”

P.S. Parents of Montecito children, if you have recommendations on people to feature in “Dear Montecito” please contact me, stellajanepierce@gmail.com •MJ

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In the second grade, my best friend and I were dead set on becoming neurosurgeons. In third grade, fashion design was in, neurosurgery out. Around fifth grade, my dreams were set on musical theater. Photography and jewelry making were next. Then, when my seventh-grade science teacher Mr. Von Phul told me I had a knack for chemistry, theater was a thing of the past. During my first two years of high school, I stuck with science and math. I wasn’t passionate about either subject, but I wasn’t much good at anything else. I did love art, but, again, I wasn’t all that talented. I tried painting, drawing, ceramics, etc.

I ended up taking photography, because an art class was required. At the beginning of my senior year, we did a period on surrealism. The Oxford Dictionary defines surrealism as a cultural movement which “sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind; for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.” I loved the idea of creating art where the beauty of the natural world meets the absurd impossibilities of our own imagination. In class, we were tasked with creating works inspired by this movement, manipulating photos rather than paint. It was this project that pushed me to consider a future in art. I ended up only applying to schools for media arts, photography, or photojournalism. I was accepted into Northeastern as a Media Arts major, and I have since changed my major twice. All this to say that I have never really known exactly what I wanted to do with my life. I have a better idea now, but I am wary to make plans.

Some people are planners; others do not have the necessary mental (or emotional) capacity. Take me, for example. My brain can have a difficult time accepting the kind of commitment plans often entail; my brain can also have a difficult time remembering said plans. Last week, I tried to plan out the rest of my college career in an effort to graduate in a semi-timely manner. I had mapped out my classes, and not 10 seconds went by before I decided it needed reorganizing. I continued this cycle relentlessly until finally I resolved to leave it be. That last draft I came up with has only gone untouched for so long because I completely forgot about the whole ordeal until just now. I am not a planner.

And I think we’ve established I am not a writer (at least not a very concise one).

I don’t have a five-year plan, because I know that my idea of the next five years will change, over and over again. Look at this past year.

Since the seeming eternity of quarantines and lockdowns began, this year has taken turn upon turn for everyone. I did not expect that I would be living at home for more than a year in the middle of my college career. I did not anticipate taking three-hour studio art classes from my bedroom.

I was supposed to be across the country while my brother celebrated little victories like getting an A on a test, while my mom developed a passion for simple syrups, and while my dad went crazy for home improvement projects. I was supposed to be in Boston while my friends were scattered across the country.

Instead, I get to be the one to high five my brother, taste-test for my mom, and hold the level for my dad. Instead, I get to spend almost a little too much time with my best friends.

I did not have much planned for this year, so I couldn’t really be disappointed by life not going according to plan. I don’t think I would have been able to appreciate all those little gifts quite so much.

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The Giving List

by Steven Libowitz

At Organic Soup Kitchen, the Proof is in the Soup Organic Soup Kitchen’s soup designers collaborate with leading cancer specialists to formulate metabolic oncology recipes aimed at lowering inflammation, balancing blood sugar, and improving circulation

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istorians say that soup has been a staple of the human diet as long as man has cooked his food. Archaeologists believe that humans have been making soup for at least 20,000 years, beginning with the advent of waterproof containers such as clay pots, where folks could pile in ingredients and boil them over a fire. For sure, soup has captured our attention in popular culture through a series of unforgettable advertising slogans and other references.

Campbell’s “M’m! M’m! Good!” phrase pervaded for many decades dating back to the 1930s, while the company’s “Soup is Good Food” tagline also curried a lot of favor. In the 1970s, Lipton found its catchphrase “Is it soup yet?” entering the lexicon.

And who could forget the famous 1995 “Soup Nazi” episode of Seinfeld where the purveyor of a new soup stand makes concoctions so outstandingly delicious that customers line up out the door and kowtow to the owner’s insistence on a strict code of conduct while ordering lest they get banned from the place. Jerry even disavowed his smooching girlfriend to avoid the dreaded “No soup for you!” rebuff.

I’m sure the m-m-m-m-mulligatawny was marvelous. But the thing is, at Santa Barbara’s Organic Soup Kitchen (OSK), not only is the soup really good, it’s also really good for you.

Each one of OSK’s SoupMeal™ recipes – it’s such a unique concept that they’ve trademarked the name – is designed to strengthen the immune system, increase energy, and promote healing. OSK’s soup designers collaborate with leading cancer specialists to formulate metabolic oncology recipes aimed at lowering inflammation, balancing blood sugar, and improving circulation. The hand-crafted, small-batch soups are sourced from largely local organic produce, healthy fats and oils, and non-irradiated spices, resulting in a medicinal quality, complete balanced meal that contains at least 10 different vegetables, whole grains and a full spectrum of plant-based nutrients.

Once it’s cooked and ready to eat, each SoupMeal is then packaged in a 24-ounce BPA-free container that is hermetically sealed to eliminate contamination by airborne pathogens, bacteria, and viruses. OSK employees and volunteers then deliver the soups to clients once a week.

“We have a really good product,” OSK founder and Executive Director Anthony Carroccio said simply. “In fact, I would put it up against any soup out there in the market. That’s why I trademarked SoupMeal because our soups have everything that a complete meal would have, everything you need for nutrition.”

Which is why its Cancer Recovery Program has proved so popular in town.

Ever since its founding, OSK has served the community through weekly delivery of its SoupMeals, servicing the area’s more than 15,000 recorded cancer patients upwards of 1,000,000 bowls of soup collectively.

“We don’t cure cancer. We’re not the doctors, so that’s not what we do,” Carroccio said. “But I will go to the mat and say, yes, we do help people build a strong immune system, and a good immune system helps you heal. You need

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a real good, nutritious, and balanced diet to have a good immune system, and that’s what we provide.”

A little more than a decade in, the Cancer Recovery and Chronic Illness Initiatives are still going strong. But 2020 provided a new series of challenges when the pandemic hit and demand for OSK’s products and service skyrocketed. In response, OSK expanded its delivery of its signature plant-based immune-building soups throughout Santa Barbara County to cover door-to-door Organic Soup Kitchen staff and volunteers personally deliver services from Carpinteria to the nutritious soups to community members the Santa Ynez Valley to an even wider client base.

“We literally doubled in service when COVID started because we were aware that low-income seniors don’t want to leave the house to go shopping,” Carroccio said. “We doubled our clientele and production right down the line.”

Which was no easy task, as OSK’s menu of handcrafted small batch soups now runs to a baker’s dozen options, including such delectable varieties as Butternut Squash, Coconut Curry Lentil, Cowgirl Chili, Roasted Tomato and Wild Rice, Italian Fagioli, and Tuscan White Bean & Kale. Six of the soups now also come with a bone broth base for additional nutrition for those who aren’t vegan, plus traditional turkey soup boasting meat from an organic bird. Carroccio said he’s in contact with alternative and traditional doctors as well as such health gurus as John Robbins (of “Diet for a New America” fame) and Andrew Weil to stay on top of the latest information in nutrition and immune-building foods.

That’s a lot of work, even though the soup-making is largely a labor of love.

Carroccio himself shows up at two in the morning each Tuesday to start making that week’s soups, filling the two 60-gallon kettles that are the centerpiece of OSK’s newish 2,000-square-foot industrial kitchen before another crew comes in that afternoon to ladle out the servings into the special containers and chill them. On Wednesday morning, the team of 20 drivers arrives to pick up the soups and head out on their delivery routes.

And even though there are more people to serve than ever before, OSK hasn’t cut back on service to their existing client base.

“We give them as much as they want because when someone has cancer, they don’t feel like cooking, and it’s dangerous for them to go shopping anyway,” Carroccio said. “So we give them what they want, which often ends up being four or five, sometimes six containers a week.”

So obviously costs have also increased sharply as demand shot up during the ongoing pandemic.

Good thing the soups are also available for anyone to buy. That’s right: you don’t have to be sick or elderly to enjoy Carroccio’s tasty and nutritious creations.

Soup for Good

“We’re selling an awful lot of soup these days and that’s really keeping us alive to keep doing what we do,” he said. “But that’s great, because funding is still tight as hell.”

The soup sales – each variety sells for $15 for a 24 ounce container – directly fund the programs for the cancer and chronically ill patients or those who can’t afford them as the pandemic has curtailed a lot of people’s income. “Every soup you purchase allows us to donate a soup to a low-income person,” Carroccio explained.

OSK’s donation program is also a big boost, he said. Members of the so-called SouperHeroes make automatic gifts of as little as $10 a month, although most contribute $50 or more.

“Folks are doing it because they know that our soup that’s going out there is a good product for the folks who need it,” Carroccio said.

But OSK’s financial needs are still growing.

“We just put in a $50,000 freezer, and, you know, we outgrew it immediately,” Carroccio said. “So now I’m on the market looking for another walk-in freezer to install and I’m trying to raise money to buy it. It’s an immediate need. We are begging, I hate to use that word, but in truth, that’s what it’s like these days.”

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On Science

by Tom Farr

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.

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0 June 2004, 7:30 pm. The VIP room at JPL is quiet as we all watch a thin line trace horizontally across the big screen at the front of the room. It’s the radio signal from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft as it speeds toward Saturn Orbit Insertion (SOI) after seven years in transit. JPL invites some folks to planetary encounters and landings, so we often get an eclectic group of space enthusiasts like June Lockhart (the original matriarch of Lost in Space), Jeff Bezos, and will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas. At this encounter, I’m one of the scientists available to provide commentary and answer questions. What we hope to see is a dip in the signal indicating that its frequency changed due to the Doppler effect. That would tell us the spacecraft slowed down and was captured by Saturn. It would also tell us the spacecraft survived crossing the ring plane where even a small particle could end the mission before it started. Sure enough, right on time the signal dipped and we all cheered.

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That was SOI; the start of 13 years of intense scrutiny of Saturn, its rings, and its many moons, which held many surprises for us.

Saturn had been visited before by Pioneer 11 in 1979, Voyager 1 in 1980, and Voyager 2 in 1981. All of those were fly-bys, but they were enough to pique our interest in Saturn, its rings, and its system of moons, particularly Titan. Like Jupiter, Saturn itself is made up almost entirely of gasses like hydrogen and helium, with minor amounts of methane, ammonia, acetylene, and other gasses that give its clouds some color. Saturn is even gassier than Jupiter, though, and its overall density is actually less than water – it would float if you had a bathtub big enough.

The rings are Saturn’s big claim to fame and were even observed by Galileo 400 years ago. They’re easily seen in a small telescope, though they disappear when they’re occasionally edge-on. One of the big mysteries of the rings has been, how are they maintained? Models show that the rocks and dust that make them up should all fall into Saturn over time. But the Cassini mission found that they were far more dynamic than originally thought: Waves were seen flowing around them and many tiny moons were discovered in the gaps between rings that are now known as “shepherd” satellites as they keep the rings from disintegrating.

For a geologist like myself, the larger moons were of the most interest.

Especially Titan, the largest (about the size of our moon) and only the third body in the solar system to have a significant atmosphere: one and a half times Earth’s. Annoyingly, Titan’s atmosphere contained gasses and aerosols that mimicked thick

smog so the surface couldn’t be seen with optical instruments. That’s why Cassini came armed with an imaging radar that could “see” through the clouds and image the surface. We were excited about the first views of Titan’s surface as the previous flybys and observations from Earth had shown that the atmosphere contained a lot of methane (aka natural gas) and the temperature out there at Saturn’s orbit was about -290° F. That’s the point where methane can exist as a gas, liquid, or solid. In other words, methane could act on Titan like water does on Earth. There could be rivers and lakes of liquified natural gas on Titan! The only way to know was to pierce the veil and map the surface.

Finally, on October 26, 2004, Cassini was directed close enough to Titan

large lakes. To address the lakes, a colleague with whom I’ve sailed a lot proposed a probe to Titan that would parachute down to a lake and float around, collecting data on depth and currents. That idea wasn’t accepted, but a later proposal to send a drone was. It’s called Dragonfly with a planned launch in 2027 and arrival at Saturn in 2036.

Titan wasn’t the only moon with a surprise for the Cassini team. As the spacecraft approached Enceladus for the first time, the sun illuminated wispy plumes shooting up from the south pole. Images of the area showed huge fractures in the icy crust and no impact craters: a sign that the surface was young. As the mission went on, the Navigation team got bolder and eventually commanded the spacecraft

Saturn is even gassier than Jupiter, though, and its overall density is actually less than water – it would float if you had a bathtub big enough. to capture a radar swath across the moon. My colleagues in the Cassini Radar Science Team and I sat glued to our computers as the radar processing team sent out the first swath.

As we scrolled down the long strip, we discussed via telecon what we were seeing. We realized we were the first people in history to see the face of Titan. Unfortunately, we didn’t see any rivers or lakes that day, though we did discover numerous sand dunes near the equator. Later, as the Cassini Navigation Team worked their magic and the spacecraft caromed around the Saturn system getting orbital nudges from one moon so the orbit would pass by another moon, we eventually mapped much of Titan’s surface and sure enough, huge lakes appeared in the northern polar region, as big as our Great Lakes.

Titan still has its mysteries: We still don’t know what the dunes are made of, though it’s likely the “sand” is actually water-ice particles. We also don’t understand the dynamics of the

to actually pass through the plumes, passing only 30 miles above the surface of Enceladus. That allowed sensors to determine something about the composition of the plumes. They were found to be composed of water vapor and many complex carbon-containing compounds chemists call “organic,” through that’s because the compounds contain carbon atoms, not because they’re alive. The source of the heat and water is still unknown.

After 13 years orbiting Saturn, Cassini was running low on fuel and it was decided to command the spacecraft to spiral slowly into Saturn. The mission team was understandably emotional about the end of such a longterm relationship: years of planning, seven years in transit, and 13 years in orbit. JPL made an Emmy award-winning film about the final days called “Cassini’s Grand Finale,” which can be found on YouTube. Incredible images were obtained as the spacecraft closed in on the rings and Saturn’s cloud tops. The last signals were sent on September 15, 2017.

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Real Estate (Continued from page 16 16) equipped with Wolf and Subzero appliances and the enclosed patio-room provides an outdoor lounge space within the comfort of your home.

Enjoy the security of a private garage and dual entry, all located in the Montecito Union School District and just two short blocks to Butterfly Beach.

from the upper and lower villages of Montecito, Summerland, and Carpinteria.

An imported Italian kitchen, custom finishes, and California Closets throughout are just a few of the features in this recently remodeled home. There is also a completely private second floor two-bedroom guest quarters, with custom private bath and balcony.

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Step into your backyard and pick fresh oranges, lemons, limes, persimmons, avocados, plums and pomegranates, and enjoy them from your deck overlooking the lushly landscaped property. Wake to the peaceful sounds of birds chirping on this private and secluded property, yet you are only minutes away

his Montecito farmhouse-style home features a blend of old-world charm and top-of-the-line modern amenities. Lovingly restored by top Montecito designers and craftspeople, this historic turn-of-the-century home is set on 1.34 very private acres in an area of homes priced generally from $4,000,000 to $20,000,000 and above.

830 Riven Rock features 5,000+/- square feet of living space with four bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, five fireplaces, chef’s kitchen, open family room and a living and dining room that share walls of windows providing views to the ocean. An upstairs, ocean view primary bedroom suite, three offices, and a wine cellar add to the value of this listing. Ocean view balconies overlook the stone pool and spa terrace and provide a peek of the ocean, framed by mature oaks and sprawling lawns.

Mountain views to the north and majestic rose garden terraces, along with a charming one bedroom, one bathroom guesthouse and a three-car garage, complete this property that is conveniently located within the Montecito Union School District.

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oasting what might arguably be the best views in Montecito, these astonishing panoramas stretch from Point Mugu to Campus Point, with all of Montecito at your feet, sunrise to sunset. The Spanish Hacienda style home evokes classic Santa Barbara with the ease of single level living for all the public spaces, primary and secondary bedrooms. Two offices (or a bedroom and office) plus a full bath complete the second story addition, part of the remodel and expansion in 2014 by Unander and Associates.

The whole house unfolds to the views and the outdoor living spaces and privacy is a given when you are on top of it all. Music fills the home as well as the stunning pool and courtyard areas, while the family room transforms into a cinema experience with a state-of-the-art entertainment and sound system.

Just moments from the Upper and Lower Villages of Montecito, and within the Montecito Union School District, this hilltop residence is complete with solar, generator, wells, and cell phone back up in addition to a Lite Touch lighting and advanced security system featuring remote operation from anywhere in the world.

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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Two of Today’s Most Exciting Classical Musicians

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Chefs Samin Nosrat and Yotam Ottolenghi will share their passion for everything food, inviting the audience along for a mouthwatering evening as they dish secrets from the kitchen.

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Perspectives

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

Backyard Environmentalism

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

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

Three Ways to Help Hummingbirds Survive the Winter Months

Happy Relationship Day!

A Time to Reflect on Our Precious Connections

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h yes… Valentine’s Day is here. Commercially, it’s a very successful day because merchants have historically used this “hearts and flowers” day to sell lots of sugary red hearts and flowers. And, having grown up as a Catholic, I’ve always experienced a certain sadness from learning how St. Valentine was beheaded for sending a note to a young Roman maiden signed “Your Valentine” – a practice widely in use globally to this day.

Unfortunately, the real St. Valentine was at least two different historical characters. One a Catholic priest, and the other the Bishop of Terni. Both were purportedly beheaded by Claudius II around 270 A.D., commemorating the death and burial of St. Valentine on February 14th. One of the many problems with this theory is that the Catholic Church actually canonized (i.e., made a saint) at least three different Roman era Valentines. To further cloud the picture, we cannot be sure if the young Roman maiden was the jailer’s daughter, the daughter of a wealthy Roman who Valentine cured, or if the whole thing was merely made up to obscure that Valentine’s Day was probably created to “Christianize” the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia.

Now, Lupercalia was a really interesting Roman holiday that dates back to the 6th century BC, and is attached to Rome’s two founding twins, Romulus and Remus. Without going into great detail, Lupercalia emerges from the name Lupercal which was the name of the she-wolf cave where the twins were raised by the she-wolf that is believed to be located at the base of Palatine Hill.

How the boys ended up there is a great story with a Moses-like beginning, a basket left in the reeds, etc., and ends with the founding of Rome itself from that single cave.

In addition to that noble lineage dating to the very beginnings of Rome, Lupercalia also trades off the name of Lupercus, the ancient Roman goddess of fertility. Due to the Romans’ attentiveness to all things relating to sexuality, nakedness, promiscuity, and fertility, it is no wonder that the church under Pope Gelasius declared in the 5th Century that the former Lupercalia (always celebrated in mid-February) would henceforth be known as St. Valentine’s Day and celebrated on the 14th. So, that’s how we got here. What conceivable significance does any of this have for us today?

Viewed from its full historical framework, Valentine’s Day is about so much more than red doily heart-shaped notes, more than flowers, and more even than sharing “I love you.” It’s about relationships.

Valentine’s Day is built on an altar of relationships: The relationship of Romulus and Remus that led to the founding of Rome; the relationship of the Luperci priesthood in Rome who slapped young maidens with red blood from a sacrificed goat to increase their fertility and mark them as “available” to young bachelors (yes, that’s where the red comes from); the relationship of Cupid as a Greek symbol of Eros; the relationship of all three of the St. Valentines to their jailers and whatever young maiden belonged in their story; the relationship of Roman emperors and Christian popes; the pagan festival of Lupercalia to the February 14 day we currently celebrate; the relationship of the first recorded “Valentine” sent in 1415 by the Duke of Orleans to his wife from the Tower of London; and, even more importantly, the relationships all of us enjoy in the 21st Century. Those who share our feelings of love and affection for the various “Valentines” in our lives understand the nature of relationships full well.

Since Valentine’s Day is fundamentally an ancient story retold through time as a series of intricate relationships, we really must ask ourselves how this relationship orientation can serve our evolving species as we celebrate Valentine’s Day. So, let’s look beyond the relationship of one grammar school child to the other kids in class that send and receive red colored paper notes and heart-shaped sugar drops with one-word messages. Let’s look at all the relationships we would be wise to honor as adults.

We are all suddenly aware of the relationship we each have to the “essential workers” who have kept our medical facilities running, our groceries bagged, our clothes dry cleaned, our houses protected, our online packages delivered and our mail uninterrupted during this horrific pandemic. For the very first time, many of us have begun to see our relationship to those

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f you live in a cooler place, your hummingbird feeder may not get many visitors in the winter, but if there are any stragglers or early arrivals in your area, keeping a feeder stocked with food can make a big impact on their survival.

In warmer winter climates, hummingbird feeders are an essential source of food for birds on the move. If you want to help these fast-flying creatures during the winter, here are three things you can do.

Keep feeders warm: Experts recommend filling feeders with a sugar-water solution made of four parts water to one part sugar. Keep the feeder in direct sunlight, away from wind, and place it near a window or outdoor light fixture for warmth. You can also maintain two feeders and rotate them, keeping one indoors.

Clean feeders: Replace the sugar-water solution in your feeder at regular intervals to prevent bacteria and fungi from colonizing. Regular cleaning and refilling ensures that the feeding ports don’t get clogged.

Provide natural shelter: Check which hummingbird species inhabit your area and what plants they prefer, then add native flowering plants with a range of early and late bloom cycles. Create “habitat layers” by giving the hummingbirds a mix of variables like sun and shade as well as vegetation and open space.

The U.K. to Plant “Tiny Forests” to Replenish Urban Woodland Areas A piece of land the size of a tennis court in Bristol will soon become one of a hundred “tiny forests” planted across the U.K. over the next three years.

The miniature forests are part of a nationwide initiative to replenish precious woodland areas, and will be planted across Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Leicester, and Glasgow with mighty oaks, birch, elder, and more.

Planting tiny forests cleans the air and provides habitats for animals and insects. The tiny forests use no chemicals or fertilizer and can attract more than 500 animal and plant species within the first three years.

The planting and maintenance of the tiny forests is also a way to involve young people as “citizen scientists” who work to collect data on carbon absorption, flood mitigation, and biodiversity.

Each forest is estimated to require up to 100 volunteers on planting day, 40 people on monitoring days, and approximately five forest ambassadors who commit to regularly support the maintenance of the forest.

•MJ usually faceless workers as worthy of praise and appreciation. If we extend that circle of appreciation many more relationships emerge. We see the relationship of our children to their schoolteachers in an entirely new light, we see the relationship we all enjoy with the “butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker” in a new light, we see the relationship we all have to our electronic communications, and we see the relationship we have to each other as citizens of a great republic that is fighting for its survival a mere 245 years after it was birthed.

By contrast, Valentine’s Day has evolved over the last 2,600 years revealing one series of entwinements after another. Viewed from this historical context, we gain a new appreciation for all the multitudinous relationships which have built upon one another, co-creating the romantic holiday we celebrate today, and showing us that it is so much more than romantic. On this “relationship” holiday, we can celebrate connection in all its wonderful expressions.

Let’s celebrate all those relationships we tend to take for granted every other day of the year. Let’s continue to celebrate all those that arise in civil society every day and vow to keep them in our consciousness even when the sun sets on February 14. Even better, let’s celebrate on February 14 that we humans have the unique ability to create, cherish, and encompass myriad forms of relationships and make this a day we celebrate having relationships at all.

Our human relationships are clearly one of the most defining aspects of human civilization. It could be said relationships define who we are as a species. How about we start celebrating Relationship Day every February 14 by reminding ourselves and each other just how precious our relationships are – even when we sometimes forget to experience them.

In the words of the immortal poet John Dunne: “No man is an island, alone and to himself complete…” Thank goodness we are all in this together, able to celebrate Relationship Day. •MJ

“We are most alive when we’re in love.” — John Updike

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Coming & Going

by James Buckley

Drought & Flood

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’ve lived in Montecito – in the same house – for over 35 years and find it necessary to point out to folks just moving here that while we live in a beautiful place, ensconced as we are between the 4,000-ft Figueroa Mountains and the deep blue Pacific Ocean, it isn’t perfect. Add a near-ideal year-round climate, a few thousand really nice homes, two elementary schools that rank near the top in the state and boast of seriously high-achieving students and, well, it’s a nifty place to live, all in all.

However, those mountains and dense dry foliage behind us and the Pacific Ocean in front (or vice versa, depending upon your point of view), have, from time to time, caused any number of calamities and near disasters, the most recent being, of course, the mud and debris flow that took 23 lives in 2018 and destroyed and/or seriously damaged as many as 400 homes. Before the debris flow, the Thomas Fire – at the time (2017) California’s largest; it still numbers in the top five – nearly wiped out the entire village, if not for the serindipitous doubling up of one group of 300 firetrucks about to replace another 300 firetrucks at precisely 7 am on a Saturday morning just as 30mph+ winds were whipping up 40-ft flames that seemed intent on rushing into Montecito proper.

The virtual army of firefighters and their equipment in the hills above us were so abundant that firetrucks were able to station themselves at individual homes as embers landed on their roofs, thereby saving Montecito.

Again.

We had major flooding in the winter of 1995/96, again in 1998 (and 1967, 1983, etc., but I didn’t live here then), and of course many instances of both wildfire and floods going back as far as history allows.

So, Michael F. Hoover’s (with David Wilk) recently published Drought & Flood, The History of Water in Santa Barbara and Montecito, is a book you as a homeowner should not only read but should also add to your library.

Even though pretty much everything that could burn did burn in the Thomas Fire and we really don’t have to worry about forest fire for perhaps as many as fifteen years, flood waters are likely to recur any time we get a 7-inch+ rainfall in a short period of time, say 24 or 48 hours. Currently, our creeks are clear, steel nets are in place above creeks in half-a-dozen strategic spots, and debris basins have been deepened and added to.

So, we’re in good shape.

But, Mr. Hoover, who writes like an engineer because he is a (water) engineer, goes back millions of years and describes events that have actually created Montecito and Santa Barbara. I say he “writes like an engineer,” and mean no disrespect. In fact, his book reads like a thriller that could have been written by, say, one of the astronauts on the failed Apollo Mission 13. Listening to those men – engineers all, I’d say – speak laconically of their mortal predicament as they calmly and deliberately discuss ways of engineering their hobbled space craft back to Earth is absolutely thrilling. Drought & Flood presents its informative evidence of turmoil in the same way. Words such as “devastation,” “horrific,” or phrases like “the coming disaster,” and others are dispensed with as hyperbole by the authors.

Instead, they methodically and calmly narrate the tale of decades-long droughts, wildfires, flooding of Biblical dimensions, and of enormous debris flows that helped create both Montecito and the entire Santa Barbara area.

Chapters cover everything from geologic history, the Chumash, the Spanish presence, the Franciscan water system (still in evidence up behind the Santa Barbara Old Mission). Messrs. Hoover and Wilk recount The Great

Drought of 1863 that required the massacre of herds of cattle for lack of drinking water (and gave the name Shark’s Cove to the shallow area just offshore; the carcasses dumped in the ocean there and attracted a great number of sharks).

You’ll read of regular flooding in California, “atmospheric storms,” and the “Pineapple Express,” which is a flow of moisture from Hawaii that is drawn in and converges with a low pressure system from Alaska, creating an “atmospheric river” of precipitation and, frequently resulting in flooding.

You’ll read of the building of Gibraltar Dam, Juncal Dam, and the Cachuma Project as Santa Barbara and Montecito attempted to ensure a sufficient supply of water for their residents. You’ll also read of horizontal wells, water tunnels, cisterns, the development of private water companies, state water, desalination, and much more, closing with prognostications on the future of water in Santa Barbara.

Drought & Flood is an easy and enjoyable read. It’s also comprehensive; you’ll learn more about the geologic formation of this area than you possibly ever imagined knowing. The illustrations, maps, and charts are clear and informative.

I set aside a long and rainy weekend afternoon and settled in to read this wonderful little tome and have since added it to my own library of local literature that includes David Myrick’s three-volume Santa Barbara & Montecito, along with Walker A. Tompkins’ colorful treatises, Erin Graffy’s clever How To Santa Barbara, books, and a few others.

I do believe both Tecolote Book Shop in Montecito and Chaucer’s at Loreto Plaza in Santa Barbara carry it, and at $20 a pop, it’s a steal.

•MJ

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by Steven Libowitz

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ou could say that Robin Gerber has had a backwards career.

After working as a lawyer in Washington, D.C., and then serving as a well-paid Congressional lobbyist for trade unions for 15 years, Gerber, experiencing self-described burnout, junked it all for a life as a writer for newspapers and magazines.

Then her mentor suggested she try her hand at books, penning Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way, using the former First Lady’s tale of rising above her difficult childhood to achieve what few women ever had before her.

“The book did really well, and it got me a speaking career,” Gerber explained. “I hadn’t anticipated it, but it turned out I was very good at telling her stories. So companies started hiring me for their conferences, and that gave me the money to keep writing.”

Gerber kept writing, revisiting Roosevelt in a fiction called Eleanor vs.

Ike and in between one on Katharine Graham subtitled “The Leadership Journey of an American Icon.” The book didn’t break any sales records, but it did spark an idea for a play about the woman who rose above

Sharon Lawrence stars in a virtual reading of The Shot, a play based on Katharine Graham’s life (photo by Mingle MediaTV)

her own emotionally impoverished childhood and suicide of her abusive, mentally ill husband to run the Washington Post, proving her mettle by defying the government by publishing the Pentagon Papers and taking on the Nixon Administration during Watergate.

“I’m very drawn to the transformational moment in people’s lives,”

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Gerber said. “I just couldn’t stop thinking about how her husband killing himself is that moment in her life. She grew up wealthy, she gets married like she’s supposed to, but she’s lost the newspaper that was her family’s and then he turns out to be bipolar and abusive. The horror of what that must have been like is hard to overplay. I really got interested in how she went from being, as she described herself, a doormat wife who was abused to a highly successful publisher of the paper.”

The Shot narrows the focus to Graham’s troubled marriage, with the title referring to the night that Phil Graham takes his own life with a hunting rifle in the couple’s bathroom.

“I’d been too glib about that in the book,” Gerber admitted. “When I really dug into what abuse means for women, I realized that I was quite wrong about how easily she recovered. She didn’t just turn on a dime as I thought. It was much more complicated, all those parts of equating love and protection with abuse and thinking you can change the person, that you’re their savior. That’s why I wrote the play, to dive deeper into all that.”

After being workshopped in Ojai in 2016 and developed for an additional two years-plus as a one-woman play starring Sharon Lawrence and directed by Michelle Joyner, The Shot was set to premiere in Los Angeles last March before the initial COVID closures. With the pandemic still problematic for live productions, the team behind the play decided to film a truncated version as a staged reading in Lawrence’s home.

And rather than producing The Shot for profit, they are making the video available for free as a fundraising tool for organizations working to end intimate partner violence and the theaters they partner with.

Center Stage Theater, which provided the camera and recording equipment and personnel to operate the filming for the taping in January, is screening the world premiere of the so-called cyber-play as a joint fundraiser for the theater and Domestic Violence Solutions from February 12-15, with the opening night followed by a post-show interactive Q&A panel with playwright Gerber, actress Lawrence, Domestic Violence Solutions client advocate Miriam Ceballos, and survivor Nataly Sarabia.

Gerber, who moved to Ojai 12 years

ago, is excited to finally have the public witness the work that turned into a passion project, and excited about the possibilities of the partnerships. “It’s all about raising awareness the way my awareness was raised as someone who hadn’t encountered domestic abuse. And also empowering women whether they’re out of the situation or not to know they can rise above it if they have support. That’s why we all wanted to do this for free, because we all felt that the reward of helping in this way was more important than anything else.”

Sharon Lawrence might be the only person who, in retrospect, is happy that the California COVID closure came when it did last March, necessitating the cancellation of The Shot’s planned premiere in front of a live audience in L.A. But not because she was nervous or not ready to take on the challenging portrayal of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham in the one-woman show.

“I had my first symptoms of my COVID bout on the day that we would have performed,” Lawrence explained. “I didn’t realize it at the time and wasn’t even sure until I got an antibodies test in June, but it really hit me like a ton of bricks so I don’t know if I would have been able to do it anyway. But thank God we weren’t all there. It was terrible that we had to cancel it, but good that nobody was damaged by me. I probably would have given COVID to everybody in the front row.”

Lawrence is much more used to giving people thrills and chills over the long and varied acting career highlighted by several years playing Dennis Franz’s wife on NYPD Blue, a role that earned her a SAG Award and three Primetime Emmy nominations, scores of guest shots including another Emmy-nominated turn her portrayal as Izzie Stevens’ mother on Grey’s Anatomy, a more recent threeyear run in a recurring role as a real estate mogul Margo Mierzejewski on Shameless, plus a number of theatrical parts in Los Angeles.

Lawrence talked about portraying Katharine Graham in The Shot earlier this week.

Q. What drew you to want to be the star of The Shot, and stick around for the four years since you first read it?

A. When Robin first approached me

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I’m imagining it must have been daunting to play Graham after Meryl Streep’s turn in The Post.

Well, she’s the best actress ever.

How do you describe Meryl Streep except as the GOAT (greatest of all time)?... We had already started working on this, done a reading of it in Ojai before I read that The Post was coming out. I thought, “Oh God, I don’t want to be compared to her.” But at least we were going to be a play. But now that we filmed it because of COVID, it’s a thought, it’s a concern. But sometimes you do things for bigger reasons than whether or not it’s going to be the best thing for you as an actor or

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at the Ojai Film Festival, I didn’t know that Katharine Graham’s life had the shadow of such a difficult aspect of her marriage and having to negotiate mental illness and then her husband’s suicide. It’s a very compelling story because of the vulnerability of a time when they didn’t have the understanding and the acceptance and the treatment (medications). Even though my degree is in journalism, during the time that she was really in her heyday I must admit I was not paying much attention to what she was doing. But of course I was drawn to playing a woman who’s living in a high level of society and a high level of achievement while dealing with what was happening at home, and everything it took to just maintain that tight rope.

But Robin is the reason that I have stayed passionate about it. She’s a true advocate for women’s leadership and that’s what this endeavor has remained. Robin is indefatigable, which is why she was so effective as a union lobbyist. She truly is an advocate who attaches to what she believes is the highest value of something in her hierarchy and sticks with it. This is her first play, so she has also been a student who is very open and intrigued by the dramaturgy that those of us who have been in the business were revealing to her, and not at all defensive about the writing.

It’s been a team with (director) Michelle Joyner, who I knew because her husband, Robert Egan, had directed me a couple of times. The three of us working together has been really great. When we workshopped for the Ojai Playwrights Conference, we just sat around a table, pulling the play apart, and improving its structure.

How we communicated was so surreal. I know that sounds dramatic and hyperbolic, and maybe it’s because I’m very seldom in the midst of that level of development. But the three of us were on equal footing. Nobody had more authority. It was a three-legged stool that was as sturdy as anything you could imagine, and it’s been that way ever since.

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Library Mojo

are unable to drop off, a pick-up can be scheduled by emailing info@montecitolibrary friends.org. Thank you for supporting your local library.”

- Kelly Hatchett, Friends of the Montecito Library Board Member

by Kim Crail

“It was so easy to donate. Although I live in Montecito, I wasn’t familiar with the address. There’s a sign there that tells you exactly what to do and it’s in a cul-de-sac. I left five or six boxes and didn’t see anyone.”

- Bob Toledo, Friends of the Montecito Library Board Member

Kim is the Branch Lead of the Montecito Library. Questions or comments?

Contact her: kcrail@santabarbaraca.gov

Love is in the Air…

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book is like a box of chocolates! You never know what you’re gonna get.

Stop by the library on February 11 from 10 am to 1 pm for a surprise wrapped book to celebrate Valentine’s Day in Montecito. We all need a little extra love these days and we have some fun bookmarks and treats for you!

Virtual Day of Remembrance Activities (register at sbplibrary.org for these events)

Day of Remembrance

On February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, paving the way for the violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans.

As part of Santa Barbara Public Library’s programming around the Day of Remembrance on February 19, we have partnered with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation to highlight Santa Barbara’s Nihonmachi (Japantown).

All are invited to participate in the SBTHP’s virtual Nihonmachi Exhibit. We encourage you to explore this while in the physical neighborhood, starting at the interpretive sign near the parking lot at the corner of Anacapa and Canon Perdido Streets.

On February 19 at 4 pm, the actual Day of Remembrance, all are invited to join a live discussion and Q&A of the film And Then They Came for Us with producer Abby Ginzberg and actor, author, and activist George Takei, who is featured in the film.

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- All Month: Nihonmachi Virtual Exhibit with Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation - February 12, 9:30 am: TED & Joe in the Morning - Truth & Reconciliation - February 12 - 18: Free screening of And Then They Came For Us - February 19, 4 pm: Q&A with producer Abby Ginzberg and George Takei - February 25, 5:45 pm: Social Justice Book Club on George Takei’s And Then They Came For Us

Happy Valentine’s Day

Thank you to all of our library patrons for making our work here a little sweeter. Some even agreed to pose with a book to show their love for the library with you.

We look forward to seeing you, speaking with you on the phone, sharing a laugh, and getting things back to some actual normalcy, hopefully in the near future.

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Village Beat (Continued from page 12 12)) technicality, would have allowed building of additional residential units within a single-family residential zone. Orloff said the bill, or a newer version, could create the largest threat to the semi-rural character of Montecito that we’ve seen in the last several years. The MA has been researching the upcoming bills, and have formed a sub-committee to keep close watch on developments. We’ll have much more on the concerns in future editions of the Journal.

During community reports, Montecito Fire Chief Kevin Taylor reported that the District’s neighborhood chipping program begins on February 22, and is ongoing for six months. Homeowners will receive a postcard in the mail a month in advance of the chipping.

Areas to be chipped can be found on the MFPD website.

Santa Barbara County Sheriff Lieutenant Butch Arnoldi reported that recent crimes in Montecito include mail theft in Montecito, Carpinteria, and the City of Santa Barbara. There have been three reported residential burglaries in Montecito, a few stolen vehicle reports, and an arrest of a stalking of a high profile celebrity.

School superintendents Dr. Anthony Ranii and Dr. Amy Alzina reported that in-person learning is going well, and neither school has seen a positive

COVID test in staff, nor has there been spread of the virus at either school. There has been an increase in enrollment at both schools, due to the increase in home sales.

First District Supervisor Das William’s rep Darcel Elliott reported that the Board of Supervisors voted to send a letter to the Governor, asking for Santa Barbara Unified to be able to reopen for in-person learning, a decision which the Public Health Department is advocating for due to the drop in local COVID cases.

Elliott also reported that the County is roughly 65% through the vaccination of the 75+ population, and the Board of Supervisors is eager to open up vaccination to the 65+ population, as well as teachers. The County is expecting an increase in supply of vaccines over the coming weeks. Lastly, Elliott said the County is testing a pilot program of road striping to delineate parking on Riven Rock between Mountain Drive and Hot Springs. If someone parks over the lines, the Sheriff’s Department can issue citations. This will be the first of potentially several areas where striping of parking lines will be considered.

The next Montecito Association meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 9. For more information, visit www.montecitoassociation.org.

The space formerly occupied by Sepi will soon be home to Gorjana, a casual jewelry company with stores nationwide

Sepi Consignment Closes

After six years in business, Coast Village Road consignment boutique, Sepi, has closed. Owner Sepideh Babri took over the shop in early 2015, when it was named Matti & Me after then-owners Matti Bourgault and Wendy Nanon Smith. The high-end luxury consignment store featured women’s clothing, handbags, shoes and boots, belts, sunglasses, jewelry, and accessories, in some of the most recognizable luxury brand names.

Contemporary jewelry store Gorjana is set to open in the vacant space, 1273 Coast Village Road, in early spring.

Founded in 2004, the mid-priced jewelry company is owned by wife and husband team Gorjana and Jason

Griffin Reidel, who set out to build a casual jewelry line that was “quintessential California.” The company’s popularity has steadily soared, and as of 2020 the jewelry can be found in over 1,000 retailers nationwide, as well as standalone stores on both coasts. Opening their first location in Laguna Beach in 2016, the couple and their team have opened 17 additional locations in the last four years, including in Irvine, Venice, Century City, Malibu, Long Beach, La Jolla, San Francisco, Walnut Creek, Brooklyn, and Scottsdale, among others. Montecito will be their 19th store, and the brand continues to grow.

For more information, visit www. gorjana.com.

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On Entertainment (Continued from page 29 29)) as a piece of business. It is such a challenge. I am not the most obvious choice for Katharine Graham. I’m not.

But I think of this (role) as something a lot of people can play and I hope a lot of people do down the road.

I agree with you in that, it seemed to me, you played Katharine Graham as more of a universal character who happens to have this particular story. Like you approached it as more of a human interest story.

Well I’m very aware that I don’t look like her nor do I have her energy.

I always thought of this as an exercise truly, and to help get the play ready and evolve. You just have to take the leap. Making the twists and turns that the story takes is something that I do feel I’m capable of, that I’m able to illuminate what it was like to traverse that terrible night and then three days later, gather her inner strength from everything that she’s gone through to face a board of directors, all men, and not acquiesce to what was the prevailing thought that the paper would no longer be in her family. The only way to save it would be for her to accept that she had the strength to do it.

She had everything she needed to search through the trauma and emerge as a leader. That’s the message for all of these women who are living through domestic abuse. You can come to the point where whatever damage might have been done, there is so much more to them and that they actually have wisdom from it that can be powerful.

Visit Centerstagetheater.org for information on purchasing tickets to the virtual play reading of The Shot, February 12-15, 2021.

well known and more obscure cover a wide variety of topics, each with some relevance to life as a college student. You Can See All the Stars by E. M. Lewis, which was commissioned by the Kennedy Center and premiered at the American College Theater Festival 2017, is about a sweet college student whose life has been shattered by being sexually violated by another college student whose healing journey proves heartbreaking and heartwarming as she picks up the pieces. Art/ Work by Russell Leigh Sharman is a three-character play examining what it is like to have a career as an artist navigating through a world filled with criticism – including an onstage one who judges the two artists’ output. A prostitute, a soldier, a businesswoman, an internet rapper, a programmer, and a philanthropist come together in Idris Goodwin’s Six, as their lives that have become entangled show that the ties that bind them together are becoming too tight for comfort.

Ryan M. Bultrowicz’s Three Women and an Onion follows three roommates who keep finding an onion that has appeared out of thin air in their kitchen, leading to an obsession to figure it out resulting in a mystery that plays like an absurdist detective comedy.

Directors Iris Skeen, Shianne Dingeman, Jack Richman, and Yizhou “Frances” Sun are all fourthyear students in the Directing program at UCSB. The One Acts can be seen for free at 7 pm on Friday and Saturday, February 12-13, and 1 pm Sunday, February 14. Catch the performances over Zoom at https://ucsb. zoom.us/j/81440429470.

Classical Corner

One Acts, Online

Like just about everything else during the “new reality” of the COVID19 era, UCSB Theatre Department’s One Act Plays for the Winter Quarter will take place online, as have all of its programs since March. The quartet of short plays from playwrights both

Music by a MacArthur ‘Genius’

UCSB A&L’s next event in its House Calls Virtual series was definitely not filmed exclusively for the Santa Barbara audience, as American cellist Alisa Weilerstein and Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan filmed their recital at La Jolla’s Conrad Prebys Performing

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Arts Center last fall for streaming for arts organizations across the country.

But that’s no reason not to tune in for what promises to be a brilliant concert featuring the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” award-winning cellist who The New York Times praised as “technically flawless and deeply expressive,” and her longtime recital partner pianist who the U.K. Evening Standard called “a true poet of the keyboard.” The program seems tailor made for Valentine’s Day, too, as the pair will play Manuel De Falla’s Suite Populaire Espagnole, which was inspired by beloved Spanish folk songs, and Rachmaninoff’s rapturous Cello Sonata. What is happening exclusively for the Santa Barbara audience is a live moderated Q&A with Weilerstein, with audience input via chat, following the streamed performance. Tickets for non-students are $10.

Visit https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/

Focus on Film

Inside Out in Joshua Tree

A number of recognizable faces and voices, as well as sites in a treasured nearby national monument, appear in Debbie & Doug Drop Acid in the Desert, the next short film examined in SBIFF’s weekly Film Talk series. Desperate to re-ignite the fire of their once passionate marriage that is about to hit rock bottom, Debbie and Doug (Angela Gulner and Zack Gold) enlist the help of an alternative therapist named Ariel who specializes in therapeutic psychedelics (Maria Bamford). Ariel suggests the only way to save their relationship from impending death is to take LSD together in Joshua Tree. When the connection-seeking couple accidentally drop a dose that is much stronger than prescribed, Debbie and Doug are transported into a hallucinatory world filled with bizarre and hilarious characters (Larry King and Paul Scheer) who shed a unique light on the problems affecting both their relationship and themselves, forcing them to journey within to learn a sobering lesson in love. Filmmakers Scott Brown and Zack Gold chat with a SBIFF programmer over Zoom at 6 pm Thursday, February 11. Visit www.sbiff. org/filmtalk for the viewing link and registration.

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Time, director Garrett Bradley’s documentary about Fox Rich’s campaigning for the release of her husband who is serving a 60-year prison sentence in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for bank robbery, is one of the decorated nonfiction films of 2020. The movie, which combines original footage with home videos, won the Documentary Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival, making Bradley the first African American woman to receive that award. It went on to be named the best doc of the year by National

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Board of Review; the New York, L.A., and National Society of Film Critics; the International Documentary Association and many others. Time can be seen on Amazon Prime. Bradley discussed the doc over Zoom with SBIFF’s Roger Durling last month.

Writer-director Sofia Coppola teamed up with actor Bill Murray – who so memorably starred in Coppola’s second film, Lost in Translation, back in 2003 – for On the Rocks, her latest comedy-drama in which Murray plays Rashida Jones’ father as they tail her suspicious husband portrayed by Marlon Wayans. Murray is nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. Coppola talked with Durling for about half an hour before actress Jones joined them for the final 15 minutes in a recent Cinema Society event.

The film streams on Apple TV+.

Also nominated for an acting Golden Globe are Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster for their roles in The Mauritanian, directed by Kevin Macdonald and based on the 2015 memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Salahi, a true story of Salahi’s experience of being held for 14 years without charge in Guantanamo Bay. Rahim, who plays Salahi (Foster is his attorney), and Macdonald – whose earlier films include the Academy Award-winning doc One Day in September (1999), Touching the Void (2003), The Last King of Scotland (2006), State of Play (2009), and the Whitney Houston documentary Whitney – recently did a Q&A session with Durling for SBIFF. Visit SBIFF’s YouTube channel to watch the conversations.

Virtual Virtuosos?

With the launch of the 36th Santa Barbara International Film Festival barely six weeks away, we’re thinking it must only be a matter of days before SBIFF announces the formatting and timing of the normal extravaganza that takes place all over downtown for 11 days every winter as a purely virtual event, since it’s a certainty by now that early April is likely too soon for audiences to be gathering in person inside theaters. But that hasn’t stopped SBIFF from soldiering on with its signature salutes to actors and other filmmakers who created some of the mostpraised and award-hopeful movies of the year. Announced last week were the winners of the Virtuosos Award, with, as always, an impressive slate of mostly up-and-comers. Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal), Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), Kingsley BenAdir (One Night in Miami), Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday), Sidney Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always), Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman), Tahar Rahim (The

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Brilliant Thoughts

by Ashleigh Brilliant

VALENTINE’S DAY at the MART!

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

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

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A Few of My Favorite Things

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y tastes in most categories are very conventional, so most of my favorites probably will not surprise you. In poetry, for example, at the top of my personal list is the piece known as “Gray’s Elegy in a Country Churchyard” – not to be confused with Gray’s Allergy. [Only kidding.] One reason I like it is that it has so many quotable lines. Perhaps without knowing their origin, you have seen these expressions: “ The short and simple annals of the poor.” “ Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.” “ Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife.” [No, it’s not “maddening.”] “ The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”

Yes, they all came from this one poem by Thomas Gray (1716-71), which consists simply of a young man’s ruminations as he sits among a bunch of old gravestones.

Considering the last line I quoted, I’m very fond of the (probably true) story that General Wolfe, besieging Quebec in 1759, read the Elegy to some of his officers, and said “I would rather have written that poem than take Quebec.” As you may know, he did take Quebec, but was killed on that path of glory.

As for films, my favorite is Citizen Kane, a pseudo-biography which makes wonderful use of the movie medium, flashing back and forward through an eminent man’s life. Orson Welles made it and starred in it, in 1941, when he was still a young man – but, although he lived another 44 years, he never did anything as great again.

For artists, I’d have to choose Van Gogh, just because of his wildly courageous use of color – although in his most dazzling canvases, it seems to have been a case of courage mixed with madness.

In classical music, my inveterate choice is the “Light Cavalry Overture,”

by Franz Von Suppé – an Austrian who wrote four dozen operas, yet none of them is as well-remembered – not even this opera itself – as the wonderful Overture to it.

For actual operas, I again go with the crowd, and choose Carmen, by Georges Bizet. One thing that seems remarkable is that Bizet, a Frenchman, was only one of many “foreign” composers, including Germans and 11 – 18 February 2021

Russians, who have been captivated by the spirit of Spanish music.

(Incidentally, many national anthems sound like hymns, but my favorite is the Spanish, which sounds like a dance.) My favorite song from Carmen is the “Habanera” – although I have to confess that I first learned of it through a parody version in the Marx Brothers movie Coconuts, with the words, “He lost his shirt, He lost his shirt – He won’t be happy till he gets it back.”

But the reality is another of those tragic stories of young geniuses. Bizet died at 36 (in 1875, of a heart attack) not long after Carmen’s introduction to the French public, who didn’t receive it very warmly. Bizet never had much chance to enjoy his own greatness.

My favorite American President is Grover Cleveland, the only one (so far) who has had two non-consecutive terms. My favorite story about him concerns his first campaign, in 1894.

Cleveland had a reputation for rectitude, and when it became known to his opponents (the Republicans) that he had once fathered a child out of wedlock, they marched through the streets chanting, “MA! MA! WHERE’S MY PA? – GONE TO THE WHITE HOUSE? – HA! HA! HA!” Cleveland responded by telling his supporters to “Tell the truth” (which in fact was not very dishonorable) and he went ahead and won anyway.

My favorite food is chocolate. (Had you any doubts?) And if anyone questions whether that is really a food, I need only call forth chocolate cake, pudding, drinks, ice cream etc. etc.

As it says on one of my insightful cards, “ANYTHING IS GOOD, IF IT’S MADE OF CHOCOLATE.” Favorite building: the Santa Barbara Courthouse. It looks like anything but a courthouse, is wonderfully asymmetrical, and full of imaginative touches, charmingly combining indoor and outdoor spaces, with flavors both of Hollywood and Seville.

It was built in my favorite period of American History, the 1920s – an extremely colorful era between the Great War and the Great Depression.

Favorite books: Non Fiction – Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. Despite its popularity, full of profound wisdom, which changed my own life. Fiction: Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne. Of all the stories I’ve ever read, it has the best and most surprising ending.

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Senior Portrait

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Dorothy Vendrame

e are social beings, and the stretches of isolation can be challenging. For seniors who are at higher risk of COVID and may be facing limited mobility, even the recent reopenings do not offer the same opportunity to rejoin a distanced social life. Many do not have the same social outlets to keep them active and are having to find new means to keep busy. For some, they fortunately have good neighbors to help them through the process. Recently Holly Kane reached out to me about her 94-year-old neighbor, Dorothy Vendrame, a resident of Circle Drive for the past sixty years. After speaking with Dorothy on the phone, she asked if I would mind meeting in person.

Having been sequestered to my studio for too long I agreed to my first in-person interview in about a year. I drove up to the Circle Drive home and entered through an open garage, walking by a table filled with puzzle pieces into the sun struck backyard. We sat masked around different corners of the pristine backyard dotted with polished driftwood furniture I later found out was made by her husband, Jimmy.

Her neighbors, Maggie Cote and Julie Ringler, joined us for the conversation as we discussed Dorothy’s life and the neighborhood during quarantine.

Dorothy was born in Santa Barbara along with her two brothers and two sisters. Her father, originally from Nebraska, was a foreman at a local dairy until The Great Depression hit when he lost his job, and the family lost their home on Castillo Street near Cottage Hospital. He had fortunately studied to be a barber and they soon

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moved to a new house on Ortega Street where he started a barber shop attached to the side of the house.

They lived there for quite a while as Dorothy and her siblings went to school. She attended many of the familiar local schools like McKinley Elementary School and Santa Barbara Junior High. Her father later became the caretaker of the Hammond estate in Montecito. Some of Dorothy’s siblings had already moved away by then but Dorothy lived there with her family, even eventually getting married on the property.

It was after graduating from Santa Barbara High School that Dorothy began working at Edison and worked there until marrying her husband James, or Jimmy. They originally met in a pool hall where she had been bowling before running into each other at East Beach. During the interview, at the neighbors’ request, Dorothy pulled out a charming photo of them cuddling on the beach soon after they met. Over the years, the outdoors and physical activities remained important in their life, paddleboarding, playing golf, and camping among their Californian travels. After going into the service, Jimmy held jobs as a gardener in Montecito and a water delivery service before becoming a radiator mechanic which he continued for the next thirty years. Dorothy tended to the home as she raised their three boys. She eventually began

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working as the secretary for the principal of Santa Barbara Junior High and continued there for over twenty years.

They first lived near “the foot of the Riviera” on Haley Street when they married before moving to the Mesa for ten years. They moved into their current house on Circle Drive in the ‘sixties where they have lived ever since.

Over the years Dorothy and Jimmy remained actively social. They were avid dancers with friends and a dance club. Up until the pandemic, Dorothy had monthly lunches with a group of friends from junior high and regularly met with an Italian group. Dorothy has had a long love for puzzles and was in a puzzling group forever, even getting the neighbors into it over the past few years. Throughout her time on Circle Drive, Dorothy has become a local personality in the neighborhood.

Many of the neighbors got to know Dorothy during her routine walks. She would walk with another neighbor named Dorothy, the pair being known in the neighborhood as “the two Dorothys.” Neighbors and families would say hi and catch up as the two of them walked by. Although Jimmy has now unfortunately passed, over the years he could also be seen around the community speaking and interacting with the neighbors. During the warm summer days Dorothy would offer neighborhood children ice cream and popsicles. If her garage door was

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Since the pandemic Dorothy has been fortunate enough to have family close by with a granddaughter and extended family in the area but her various groups and social outlets could no longer meet. The neighbors rallied to make sure she did not feel too lonely. Now, an open garage door signals to her across the street neighbor Steve that she is okay. He would also do regular temperature checks on her.

When Dorothy unfortunately contracted COVID this past year, the neighbors including Maggie, an RN of over forty years, kept a much closer eye on her (safely of course). Dorothy was able to recover from COVID without going to the hospital. She mentions that she still had too many puzzles to do. Dorothy, who will be 95 this June, remains strongly independent as she tends to her house. Although she does accept the occasional bunch of green bananas and help with her garbage cans.

In the beginning of the quarantine, the neighbors kept her company in the backyard from a safe distance. They started off slow by reading books aloud and listening to Dolly Parton podcasts. After making some COVID adjustments and moving the puzzle table into the open garage, they were able to start puzzling again, an important pastime for Dorothy. Their current puzzle, an arrangement of succulents, is a particularly hard one and they plan to have a celebratory glass of wine when finishing. As I leave the backyard, I walk back by the puzzle.

Looking down at the clusters of pieces fitted together and groups of similar shades and textures, there is still work to do but with some communal help, a completed picture begins to take shape.

•MJ 11 – 18 February 2021

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Pursuing improvement is always a worthy goal, so why not pursue it in the most logical manner?

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With regard to their concerns about first amendment freedoms, I hope they are not defending those that rioted in Congress in their failed attempt to overthrow our government. In any event, I certainly will give the Thorns the benefit of the doubt in that regard.

Hang in there, Diana and Don. I hope that you wind up pleasantly surprised.

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I am writing in response to Diana and Don Thorn’s letter of February 4, entitled “Who is Looking Out for America?” In it, the Thorns characterize President Biden’s eight million vote election as reflecting that “The Socialists are now in charge.”

They go on to complain that “our freedoms to speak, to act, and to assemble being threatened…”. and they ask, “Who is looking out for America?”

I would like to point out that President Biden is now requiring masks on federal property, has set up a COVID office that reports directly to the President, has rejoined the World Health Organization, appointed the most qualified and ethical Attorney General in memory, has put the definition of justice back into the Justice Department, has frozen student debt collections, restored protections for banning drilling in national parks, strengthened protections for Dreamers, and implemented ethics pledges for all Executive Branch officials. He has appointed top notch cabinet members that have been approved of by Republican as well as Democratic Senators, has sent billionaire ‘watchdog’ regulators packing and has restored a White House staff that is filled with highly qualified appointees rather than unqualified relatives. He is restoring relationships with long-standing allies and NATO, and has chosen an excellent Vice President as his partner. I think that is a pretty good start for his first month in office.

It would not surprise me if the Thorns do not support rejoining the Paris Climate Accords, taking steps to address global warming, and revoking permits for the Keystone XL Pipeline. They will fret that such actions will put people out of work.

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Arts in Lockdown #19: Jacob Tell of Oniracom

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illennial entrepreneur Jacob Tell, CEO and founder of Oniracom, is celebrating 20 years as CEO of a small business built during his studies at UCSB, with a mission to provide unique branded services to the arts and music artists, their agencies, and venues. He navigated his business into commercial branding and during lockdown pivoted to offer his clients avenues to maintain their business and revenue online. Jacob is posed to be a guest speaker on the virtual MIT Enterprise Forum Central Coast panel this April to share knowledge of emerging trends, new technologies, and discuss their impact on our future.

Joanne Calitri interviews Jacob Tell Born in Carlsbad, California, he came to Santa Barbara in the ‘90s to study at UCSB, where he holds a BA in Film Studies and Black Studies, with a desire at that time to be a political documentary filmmaker.

Here is our Zoom interview: Q. Is lockdown a plus or minus for you?

A. Supporting the arts has definitely been a mixed bag. Some music industry clients had to furlough all their employees and pause everything due to funding, while others with a strong revenue base asked us to virtually promote fundraising for them.

We worked with individual artists to bring their physical events to the virtual stage via live streams, where they are more broadly connecting and marketing with their audiences on a global level.

We changed our office space into a production stage environment and opened it up to the creative and nonprofit organizations in SB that needed that resource.

In 2020, we hosted nine gala events for nonprofits, and these groups were able to continue to raise funds virtually. Several reported back that due to a lower overhead, they netted more revenue doing a virtual gala.

Many projects were paused at the beginning of the lockdown, as companies did not know what was going to happen. In the summer and fall, they realized the pandemic was staying longer than they initially thought, and we got quite a bit of new business. In 2019, we were focused on long-term business strategy planning, whereas during the COVID era, things are much more technical and short-term thinking and assets to promote a business in the moment versus a two-year plan.

In sum, it’s been ups and downs, but we’ve managed to bounce back from that original decline in business March to May 2020, and we are proud we did not have to let any of our employees go. We did receive the PPP Loan designed perfectly for a company of our size.

CEO Jacob Tell at the Oniracom headquarters in Santa Barbara (photo caption: Emma Claire Brock)

Talk about the mission of Oniracom...

On May 17, 2001, we established Oniracom. The first decade was a music and entertainment focus. We diversified quite a bit in the last 10 years with businesses and cannabis. We’re proud to have pivoted many times prior to COVID (9/11 and 2008) and this was just another exercise in being an entrepreneur, with changes in digital landscapes, the types of people I used to hire were Gen X and millennials, now it’s Gen Z. We’ve been through a lot of changes and we have to adapt, which is the key to longevity in entrepreneurship, things are fluid and you have to roll with it and surrender to the flow.

Our first slogan, “solutions for dreamers,” played off our company name Oniracom, based on the Greek word oneiric meaning, a dream, which I learned studying Film at UCSB. The core mission is to listen to our clients, what their goals and dreams are, and how to translate that into marketing plans, digital web, productions and assets. In the last 10 years our slogan is, “We create a culture of positive disruption,” and we are proud to be associated with businesses in many different industries including cannabis.

What are you doing to stay creative and inspired?

As a CEO and biz leader, I’ve taken an interest to dissolve the lines between private and public persona. I’m very socially-politically active and that influences my staff and company. We openly support Black Lives Matter, put out content for businesses about dealing with systemic racism, creating a more equal playing field, and white privilege. It’s been wonderful to not have the split between public and private persona. We actively are working on our hiring process for more team diversity, in our production casting of models and actors diversity, in script writing themes and settings more open and diverse, and less status quo.

Have you taken up any online courses or education?

Yes, I have been a part of “Vistage,” a CEO peer group, which is a great resource of CEO mentors and peers to process issues and challenges.

Movement and mindful eating are both key especially during quarantine. We are so blessed to be in SB with our outdoor places to connect with nature for mental health. Live music is my church, the venues suffering are my temples, so I’m still tuning in on the internet and supporting venues and artists, and often replace the TV with music.

Industry roadblocks?

We were one of the first full-service marketing agencies in SB, and I didn’t have a model, the internet was different, no smart phones, tablets, difficult to set up a website, people did not trust setting up credit cards on the internet.

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We came in to support artists, record labels, and artist managers to go into the digital space.

Now you can set up an online store and website in a weekend.

To be honest, to have as much diversity as we need, the hiring pool in SB is pretty white here in the applicants that apply for our open positions. We are sensitive to it, and for example during COVID we added a more diverse team.

As a voice for your generation, what is the world looking like now, what do you want to change and how?

I hesitate to generalize any generation, however my observation is that I think there is a lot of talking past one another, the internet is a double-edged sword. A concept from Stephen Colbert, called truthiness, rather than facts defining the truth, you have a gut response, “I feel this way therefore it’s true.” What I think we need is Jacob Tell presenting at the SB Executive Roundtable in a respect for science and the sci- February 2020 (photo credit: Emma Claire Brock) entific method. I hope we can start labeling things on social media the same way a publication has the responsibility to label content, like op-ed. On social media it’s a big problem, we have to teach a generation about media literacy and to research facts, it creates mistrust. We can have discourse and disagreements, but if we’re basing it on other things rather than reality, we will never have a realistic debate. We can pressure all our online resources and social networks to have public policy written in this country that forces them to start labeling things properly, and educate people to research what they are reading so they don’t take it as gospel. It’s so easy to manipulate people through the media right now. We need the government to enforce the policy. The same thing should happen to social media that happens to The New York Times and Washington Post. From a citizen standpoint we need to push pro-science and education, logic and reason. The Gen Y and Z’s I’ve seen are more socially and politically active, care about the story of a brand and where it’s sourced from, they vote with their dollars, think about the environment and future, they see the writing on the wall.

Paying forward/giving back?

We are very community-orientated, we make in-kind and financial donations to groups, and we offered free consultation and at-cost media studio services, photography, video, podcast recording, voice-overs, and live streaming for people and organizations that provide inclusive, social justice, and democratic causes.

Advice for the next generation of entrepreneurs?

Have a clear purpose and a clear why, and lead with the why, rather than the what. The why for us is we want to support artists, we believe in artists being the voice of society, making a positive impact in our world. Those things will allow the company to thrive and you will attract your clients, partners, and team by being purpose driven.

Who inspires you?

Neil deGrasse Tyson, he really makes science cool and engaging, more importantly people like him want to teach people how to think for themselves to synthesize and assess facts to come up with their own thoughts and put creativity into the world.

Anyone doing creative things inspires me, everyone has creativity from engineers to artists, there are spectrums of creativity in everyone, and what inspires me is seeing people create not destroy.

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Notice Inviting Bids EL ESTERO WATER RESOURCE CENTER DIGESTER DOME REPLACEMENT AND CLEANING PROJECT Bid No. 4012

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Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its EL ESTERO WATER RESOURCE CENTER DIGESTER DOME REPLACEMENT AND CLEANING PROJECT (“Project”), by or before Wednesday, March 10, 2021, at 3:00 p.m., through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid Proposal and to receive addendum notification. 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.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at El Estero Water Resource Center, 520 E Yanonali St, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, and is described as follows: Maintenance of the two anaerobic digester tanks occurs approximately every five to seven years, depending on their condition. Each tank has a 75-foot inner diameter, is 25 feet in height, and has a cone depth of 5.5 feet. Cleaning includes power washing the interior walls, roof, and piping inside the two tanks, and then followed by coating and concrete crack repairs. Prior to cleaning and performing any surface repairs, the contractor shall remove and dispose of all remaining digester contents, approximately 200,000 gallons from each tank. In addition, the work includes replacing the 8-foot diameter steel cover (digester dome) centered on the roof of each tank, replacing the digester gas equipment associated with each digester dome, and replacing various-sized digester valves. The Project also includes the installation of new pressure indicator transmitters (PIT) on the digester domes, and the modification of the existing digester gas piping in order to accept a new connection in preparation for a future City gas-piping project. This Project also includes the demolition of the abandoned sludge piping in the Digester Control Building.

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction for the Project is 496 working days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed.

2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is $1,849,400.

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND PENDING ACTION BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO: WAIVE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON A COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT THAT MAY BE APPEALED TO THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION AND (2) APPROVE, CONDITIONALLY APPROVE, OR DENY THE COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT (1)

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A “General Engineering” and Class C-10 “Electrical”. If the Prime Contractor is self-performing the engineering and electrical work, then the Prime Contractor is required to have both licenses. Alternatively, an electrical Subcontractor is required to have a Class C-10 license

This may affect your property. Please read.

Notice is hereby given that an application for the project described below has been submitted to the Santa Barbara County Planning and Development Department. This project requires the approval and issuance of a Coastal Development Permit by the Planning and Development Department.

The development requested by this application is subject to appeal to the California Coastal Commission following final action by Santa Barbara County and therefore a public hearing on the application is normally required prior to any action to approve, conditionally approve or deny the application. However, in compliance with California Coastal Act Section 30624.9, the Director has determined that this project qualifies as minor development and therefore intends to waive the public hearing requirement unless a written request for such hearing is submitted by an interested party to the Planning and Development Department within the 15 working days following the Date of Notice listed below. All requests for a hearing must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Request for Hearing Expiration Date listed below, to Willow Brown at Planning and Development, 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara 93101-2058, by email at wbrown@co.santa-barbara.ca.us, or by fax at (805) 568-2030. If a public hearing is requested, notice of such a hearing will be provided.

WARNING: Failure by a person to request a public hearing may result in the loss of the person’s ability to appeal any action taken by Santa Barbara County on this Coastal Development Permit to the Montecito Planning Commission or Board of Supervisors and ultimately the California Coastal Commission.

If a request for public hearing is not received by 5:00 p.m. on the Request for Hearing Expiration Date listed below, then the Planning and Development Department will act to approve, approve with conditions, or deny the request for a Coastal Development Permit. At this time it is not known when this action may occur; however, this may be the only notice you receive for this project. To receive additional information regarding this project, including the date the Coastal Development Permit is approved, and/or to view the application and plans, or to provide comments on the project, please contact Willow Brown at Planning and Development, 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara 93101-2058, or by email at wbrown@co.santa-barbara.ca.us, or by phone at (805) 568-2040.

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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.

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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: 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.

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’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.

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.

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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.

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

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 onehalf of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

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

Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., at the following location: El Estero Water Resource Center, 520 E Yanonali St, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference may be disqualified from bidding.

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Publication Dates: 1) February 3, 2021

2) February 10, 2021

the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0000128. Published February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: E Salon, 5575 Hollister Ave, Suite C, Santa Barbara, CA, 93117. Eleni Tziouvaras, 2019 Bath

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DATE OF NOTICE: 2/8/2021 REQUEST FOR HEARING EXPIRATION DATE: 3/1/2021 PERMIT NUMBER: 21CDH-00000-00005 ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO.: 007-350-019 ZONING: 1-E-1 PROJECT AREA: 1.60

APPLICATION FILED: 1/29/2021

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: • Applicant: Nathaniel & Charlotte Ruess • Proposed Project: The project is for a Coastal Development Permit with Hearing to allow construction of a new 15 foot by 30 foot pool. Grading will consist of 83 cubic yards of excavation for the pool. No trees are proposed for removal. The parcel is by the Montecito Water District, the Montecito Sanitary District, and the Montecito Fire Protection District. Access is provided off of Arroqui Street. The property is a 1.60-acre parcel zoned 1-E-1 and shown as Assessor's Parcel Number 007-350-019, located at 111 Arroqui Street in the Montecito Community Plan area, First Supervisorial District.

APPEALS: The decision of the Director of the Planning and Development Department to approve, conditionally approve, or deny this Coastal Development Permit 21CDH-00000-00005 may be appealed to the Montecito Planning Commission by the applicant or an aggrieved person. The written appeal must be filed within the 10 calendar days following the date that the Director takes action on this Coastal Development Permit. To qualify as an "aggrieved person" the appellant must have, in person or through a representative, informed the Planning and Development Department by appropriate means prior to the decision on the Coastal Development Permit of the nature of their concerns, or, for good cause, was unable to do so.

Written appeals must be filed with the Planning and Development Department at either 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, 93101, or 624 West Foster Road, Suite C, Santa Maria, 93455, by 5:00 p.m. within the timeframe identified above.

In the event that the last day for filing an appeal falls on a non-business day of the County, the appeal may be timely filed on the next business day.

This Coastal Development Permit may be appealed to the California Coastal Commission after an appellant has exhausted all local appeals, therefore a fee is not required to file an appeal.

For additional information regarding the appeal process, contact Willow Brown. The application required to file an appeal may be viewed at or downloaded from: http://www.countyofsb.org/uploadedFiles/plndev/Content/Permitting/AppealSubReqAPP.pdf ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Information about this project review process may also be viewed at: http://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/permitting/planningprocess.sbc Board of Architectural Review agendas may be viewed online at: http://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/home.sbc

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END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Marley Confections; Sweet Dreams by Marley Confections, 803 Alston Lane, Santa Barbara, CA, 93108. Margaret Van Sicklen, 803 Alston Lane, Santa Barbara, CA, 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 21, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of

THIS PROJECT IS LOCATED IN THE COASTAL ZONE

Street Unit C, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 21, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0000162.

Published February 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Transform Through Arts, 4141 State St. Suite F6, Santa Barbara, CA, 93110. Yulia V. Maluta, 521 Alegria Road, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 26, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” — Zora Neale Hurston

that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0000211. Published February 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Country House Antiques, 525 A San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA, 93108. Jennifer Sanan, 1282 Pepper Lane, Santa Barbara,

CA, 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 25, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0000201. Published February 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021.

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ORDINANCE NO. 5990 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA

BARBARA

AUTHORIZING

THE

EXECUTIVE

DIRECTOR, OR DESIGNEE, OF SANTA BARBARA CLEAN ENERGY, TO EXECUTE, ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF SANTA

BARBARA,

A

SECURITY AGREEMENT,

AN

INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT, AND ONE OR MORE ACCOUNT CONTROL AGREEMENTS, RELATED TO THE OPERATION OF SANTA BARBARA CLEAN ENERGY

ORDINANCE NO. 5991

PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinance Committee of the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, February 23, 2021, which begins at 12:30pm. The Ordinance Committee will consider a recommendation to City Council on the proposed amendments to Santa Barbara Municipal Code (SBMC) Title 22: Chapter 22.68 (Architectural Board of Review), Chapter 22.69 (Single Family Design Board), and Chapter 22.70 (Sign Regulations) related to project compatibility findings for Architectural Board of Review projects (SBMC Section 22.68.045), and limits on the introduction of new evidence for Appeal Hearings before City Council (SBMC Section 22.68.100, 22.69.080, 22.70.050.J) consistent with the revised Historic Resources Ordinance.

SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AN AGREEMENT FOR THE LONG TERM WHOLESALE SUPPLY OF RECYCLED WATER TO THE LA CUMBRE MUTUAL WATER COMPANY The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on February 2, 2021.

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

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

2, 2021.

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

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.

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

(Seal)

California.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

(Seal) /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 5991 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

ORDINANCE NO. 5990 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced January 12, 20210 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on February 2, 2021, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

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

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced January 26, 2021 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on February 2, 2021, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

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

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

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

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on February 3, 2021.

on February 3, 2021.

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

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

The Agenda for the February 23, 2021 hearing will be available by 5:00 p.m. Thursday February 18, 2021 online at http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/CouncilMeetings. For more information, please email Irma Unzueta, Senior Planner, at iunzueta@santabarbaraca.gov.

The Ordinance Committee will receive and consider public comment and discuss the Ordinance Amendments at this hearing. This hearing will be conducted electronically via the GoToWebinar platform, as described in more detail below.

Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council Ordinance Committee via the City Clerk’s Office by sending them electronically to Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov. In order to promote social distancing and prioritize the public’s health and well-being, the City Council Ordinance Committee currently holds all meetings electronically. As a public health and safety precaution, the council chambers will not be open to the general public. Councilmembers and the public may participate electronically.

IN ORDER TO PROMOTE SOCIAL DISTANCING AND PRIORITIZE THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ISSUED EXECUTIVE ORDER N-29-20, WHICH ALLOWS THE CITY TO HOLD MEETINGS VIA TELECONFERENCES OR OTHER ELECTRONIC MEETING FORMAT WHILE STILL MEETING THE STATE’S OPEN AND PUBLIC MEETING REQUIREMENTS. AS A PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY PRECAUTION, THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS WILL NOT BE OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. THE CITY STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND WELCOMES PUBLIC PARTICIPATION DURING THIS TIME. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS: ELECTRONIC PARTICIPATION: Join the meeting electronically by clicking on the meeting link which will be found on the meeting agenda. You will be connected to audio using your computer’s microphone and speakers (VoIP). A headset is recommended. You can also select the option to use your telephone, but you must use the GoToWebinar software to interact with the meeting. Select “Use Telephone” after joining the webinar and call in using the numbers listed on the agenda that will be posted online. Oral comments during a meeting may be made by electronic participation only.

TELEVISION COVERAGE: This meeting will be broadcast live on City TV-Channel 18 and online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/citytv.

On Thursday, February 18, 2021 an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 including the items at Ordinance Committee will be available online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CAP. The Agenda includes instructions for participation in the meeting. If you wish to participate in the public hearing, please follow the instructions on the posted Agenda.

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance (SEAL)

on February 3, 2021.

on February 3, 2021.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

Published February 10, 2021 Montecito Journal

Published February 10, 2021 Montecito Journal

NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Take 5 Bodywork, 2020 Alameda Padre Serra, STE 104, Santa Barbara, CA, 93103. Suzanna Young Everett, 1646 Loma St, Santa Barbara, CA, 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 12, 2021. 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

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/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20210000073. Published January 20, 27, February 3, 10, 2021.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 21CV00078. To all interested parties: Petitioner Erik Edward Ladd Hoegh-Guldberg filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Jo-

seph Dillon Rush to Joseph Dillon Hoegh-Guldberg. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing

Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager February 10, 2021 Published February 10, 2021 Montecito Journal

to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed January 13, 2021 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: March 23, 2021 at 10 am in Dept. 3, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 1/20, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 21CV00156. To all interested parties: Petitioner

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Vito Anthony Kait Summa filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Vito Anthony Summa IV. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that

includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed February 3, 2021 by Elizabeth Spann. Hearing date: March 16, 2021 at 10 am in Dept. 3, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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Your Westmont

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

Historian Nancy Koehn Speaks on Courageous Leadership

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celebrated Harvard historian and bestselling author, Nancy Koehn President’s will discuss courageous and Breakfast principled leadership at the 16th annuSpeaker al Westmont President’s Breakfast on Nancy Friday, March 5, at 8 am. Tickets to the Koehn virtual event, which cost $35, go on sale February 12 at westmont.edu/breakfast.

Koehn, the James E. Robison professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, focuses her research on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations.

Her most recent book, Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times, was a 2017 Wall Street Journal bestseller.

This gripping historical narrative spotlights five masters of crisis, including President Abraham Lincoln, environmental crusader Rachel Carson, and abolitionist Fredrick Douglass, and what today’s leaders from a range of organizations and pursuits can learn from these extraordinary stories.

A dynamic presenter, Koehn has spoken at the prestigious World Economic Forum in Davos and the Aspen Ideas Festival, among other venues. Audiences around the world have responded to her vision for courageous, resilient leadership at a moment when organizations must manage change and help employees perform at their best.

PRESIDENT’S BREAKFAST Bestselling Author and Harvard Historian

NANCY KOEHN Courageous Leadership In Turbulent Times VIRTUAL EVENT Friday, March 5, at 8 a.m. $35 TICKETS GO ON SALE FEBRUARY 12

WESTMONT.EDU/BREAKFAST THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS Lead Sponsor: Westmont Choir Sponsor: David and Anna Grotenhuis Speaker Sponsor: In Memory of Jim Haslem Virtual Gold Hosts: Davies Public Affairs, HUB International Insurance Services, La Arcada Plaza, MATT Construction, Lindsay & Laurie Parton, Warren & Mary Lynn Staley

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Koehn identifies key leadership lessons, behaviors, and tools from history that businesses, government institutions, and nonprofits can apply today. The author of numerous books, articles and Harvard Business School case studies, Koehn also writes for The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Harvard Business Review Online and contributes to National Public Radio.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, Koehn earned a Master of Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government before completing her master’s degree and doctorate in history at Harvard.

The Westmont Foundation, local businesses, and individuals sponsor the President’s Breakfast to promote discussion of significant issues. Bank of the West is the Lead Sponsor. The Westmont Choir Sponsor is David and Anna Grotenhuis. The Speaker Sponsor is In Memory of Jim Haslem. The Virtual Gold Hosts are Davies Public Affairs, HUB International Insurance Services, La Arcada Plaza, MATT Construction, Lindsay and Laurie Parton, and Warren and Mary Lynn Staley. The President’s Breakfast will also host people attending the sixth annual Advancing Women in Leadership national conference recognizing National Women’s History month in March.

Understanding Race, Justice, and Equality: Celebrating Black History Month

Arrabon’s David Bailey (front left) training with Westmont President Gayle D. Beebe (back right), faculty, and staff

The Westmont community is learning together and going deeper in discussing several aspects of race, justice, and equality in our society, including the college culture at Westmont.

In commemoration of Black History Month, the college will hear exclusively from Black preachers and educators during virtual chapel this February.

“This is an important time in the life of the American church to listen to voices from the Black church,” says Scott The Next Step workshop focused on racial jusLisea, campus pastor. “We have so tice and reconciliation and featured speakers in much to gain from listening and being chapel, special lectures, discussion groups, and shaped by our Black brothers and sis- special sessions ters who have a long history of faith in Christ in the midst of marginalization and injustice.”

The Westmont Black Student Union has joined with the Campus Pastor’s Office for short videos at the start of each chapel, while Intercultural Programs (ICP) has released a series of short videos, “I AM Black History,” on social media. “We’re having Black students, staff, or faculty talk about their own experience of Blackness, plans for the future, family history, and more,” says Blake Thomas, director of ICP. ICP sponsored its ninth annual The Next Step workshop January 18-22. This virtual event focused on racial justice and reconciliation and featured speakers in chapel, special lectures, discussion groups, and special sessions. It featured seven leading voices on race and faith, including Lisa Fields, founder and CEO of the Jude 3 Project; Vince Bantu, author of A Multitude of All Peoples; Michael O. Emerson, author of Divided by Faith; Joel Goza, author of America’s Unholy Ghosts; Soong-Chan Rah, author of The Next Evangelicalism; Marcus Goodloe, author of Kingmaker; and David Bailey, founder of Arrabon. The speakers all sought to answer the question: “What is the next step for the church towards racial justice and conciliation?”

Bailey, who is consulting with Westmont through 2022, has led a number of training sessions on race and reconciliation with the college’s trustees, executive leadership, faculty, staff, and students. “During these dynamic and heartfelt learning opportunities, we’ve listened to personal stories and reflections that challenge and change lives. There is no finish line to our work to increase diversity at Westmont and to expand our efforts supporting and learning from our communities of color,” says President Gayle D. Beebe.

•MJ

“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” ― Pablo Neruda

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On Entertainment (Continued from page 32 32)) Mauritanian), and Zendaya (Malcolm & Marie) will receive their awards and discuss their work on Saturday, April 3, as the tribute will be moderated for the 11th year by Dave Karger, who spent 17 years as a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly before becoming Turner Classic Movies host and IMDb special correspondent host.

Chaucer’s Choice

Former Model Scrambles

Chaucer’s next Virtual Author Discussion is with author Fred Williams, a former professional model and bodybuilder turned storyteller whose book Scramble marks his debut as a published author following having his short stories published in several anthologies. The characters in the book are true to the title, as “Scramble” concerns a streetwise and sharp kid hellbent on avenging his parents’ death, a single mother confronting her past by taking the drastic step of committing robbery to pay off her overdue balance, and an elementary school principal who is willing to kill for his principles. Williams, who lives in Ventura, tells some stories in a Zoom event that we’re told includes an accompanying soundtrack at 6 pm Tuesday, February 16. Visit www. chaucersbooks.com for more info.

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Finding Resilience in Challenging Times

With the coronavirus crisis continuing with perhaps no end in sight (yikes!), Hospice of Santa Barbara’s Illuminate Speaker Series has another online offering meant to help us cope with challenging times. Meditation pioneer Sharon Salzberg, co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, is also an author whose books include the New York Times bestseller Real Happiness, Lovingkindness, and her 2020 release Real Change: Mindfulness To Heal Ourselves and the World. Her webinar on Wednesday, February 17, aims to provide an opportunity to deepen an exploration of the resiliency of the human spirit in a time when overwhelm and stress have become all too common. Salzberg will talk about how the three essential skills that cultivate balance – concentration, mindfulness, and compassion – can be developed through the practice of meditation.

The free presentation will include a talk, guided meditation, and a panel discussion. The series continues Dr. BJ Miller in March, Dr. Sunita Puri in April, Jenée Johnson in May, Nora McInerny in July, and Pico Iyer in August. Visit www.hospiceofsb.org for information or registration. •MJ

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On The Record (Continued from page 6) the SBA. We are a nonprofit, so we have fund raising, but despite a major loss in revenue, and having to furlough most of our staff, this will help us until we can open again.”

City of Carpinteria Asks California for COVID-19 Economic Relief

On February 8, Carpinteria Mayor Wade Nomura sent a letter to State Senator Monique Limón asking for her support for a proposal to provide economic relief to local businesses based on economic losses per square footage.

“Although some businesses in the city have been allowed to gradually reopen with protections in place, business activities within the city are severely restricted and as a result, commercial tenants are suffering from significant adverse revenue impacts,” the letter states. “These revenue impacts stress the financial resources of busi- Carpinteria City Councilman Roy Lee ness owners in the city and threaten a wave of small business closures and bankruptcies that would result in potential layoffs of city residents employed by these residences and quality of life impacts for all Carpinterians.”

To address that problem, Nomura suggested that Limón and U.S. Congressman Salud Carbajal help introduce a bill that would reimburse local businesses. The plan: allow businesses, especially retail stores and restaurants, to apply for economic relief based on their square footage of lost space during the COVID-19 pandemic. “To mitigate these community-altering impacts, the city is requesting your support in sponsoring legislation that would provide direct assistance.”

Under the city’s proposed formula, the state of California would allow retail businesses to apply for state aid based on their loss of operating capacity, which under COVID, has forced indoor restrictions of up to 25 percent of their total square footage. The idea began with a proposal by Roy Lee, owner of Uncle Chen’s Restaurant, a member of Carpinteria’s City Council who introduced the measure.

“One day I was looking inside the restaurant at all these empty spaces,” said Lee. “Suddenly I realized it wasn’t fair what was happening. The state was preventing us from doing what we were supposed to do. I think every business will be positively impacted by this idea, and new restaurants, which are having a really hard time, will hopefully recover as a result of this idea.”

Longtime Montecito Cafe Waitress Subject of a Local GoFundMe Drive

Closures (weather and COVID-19 precautions permitting)

*Please remember to Slow for the Cone Zone and use care throughout the construction zone. The speed limit is reduced to 55 mph for safety throughout the construction areas.*

Northbound Highway 101 Sunday nights, 9:00 pm – 5:00 am, 1 lane: Linden Ave to Sheffield Dr, off-ramp at Santa Claus Ln, on- and off-ramps at Evans Ave, Ortega Hill Rd, Sheffield Dr Monday – Thursday nights, 8:00 pm – 5:00 am, 1 lane: Linden Ave to Sheffield Dr, off-ramp at Santa Claus Ln, on- and off-ramps at Evans Ave, Ortega Hill Rd, Sheffield Dr Southbound Highway 101 Sunday nights, 10:00 pm – 7:00 am, 1 lane: Sheffield Dr to Linden Ave, on-ramp at Santa Claus Ln, on- and off-ramps at Evans & Wallace Aves Monday – Thursday nights, 8:00 pm – 7:30 am, 1 lane: Sheffield Dr to Linden Ave, on-ramp at Santa Claus Ln, on- and off-ramps at Evans & Wallace Aves 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 Off-ramp at Carpinteria Ave, closed up to 7 weeks, beginning Feb. 8, anticipated reopening March 29, drivers can use the off-ramp at Reynolds Ave Off-ramp at Linden Ave, closed up to 5 weeks, beginning Feb. 14, anticipated reopening March 22, drivers can use the off-ramps at Reynolds Ave and Casitas Pass Rd Evans Ave Undercrossing Feb. 7 - 11, 9:00 pm - 7:00 am Evans Ave closed under Hwy 101 for bridge barrier rail demolition (see detour map below) 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.

Sheffield Dr & N Jameson Ln Temporary stop signs will be installed at the intersection of Sheffield Dr and N Jameson Ln for the duration of construction of the Summerland segment Via Real & Linden Ave Week of Feb. 15: Flaggers will direct traffic as needed during the day on Via Real (between Casitas Pass Road and Linden Avenue) and on Linden Avenue (near the freeway) to allow crews to transplant palm trees. As needed, the northbound Highway 101 on-ramp at Linden Avenue will be closed between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm.

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A week ago, the former manager of the Montecito Inn’s Café, Arielle Chang, manager of the marketplace, gave notice to the Journal about the fate of Barbara Dutra, a manager of the restaurant who has fallen on hard times with stage four colon cancer.

“Barbara has worked with us for fifteen years,” said Chang. “She was the most beloved waitress by the Montecito locals. She is one of those old school waitresses that make every meal a special occasion. Everyone wanted Barbara to wait on them.”

According to Chang, Dutra was known as the lunchtime girl at the Barbara Dutra, formerly of Montecito Cafe Cafe. “Locals and business owners and employees from Coast Village Road would flood our cafe daily to see Barbara for their lunch meetings,” she said.

“She was the most requested waitress, and still is to this day. She loves her guests and treats everyone like family.”

Unfortunately, Dutra was recently diagnosed with stage four colon cancer.

A single mother who has raised two children on her own, she just started chemotherapy. To help her through her health crisis, Dutra and others are raising cash to help her pay for rent, utilities, food, and medical bills, all of which are piling up.

To help pay for Dutra’s medical expenses, go to gf.me/u/zg9qpa.

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Santa Barbara by the Glass

The J. Wilkes wine label stands out for its singular focus: “appellation expression”

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

Sense of Place

J. Wilkes Wines Focus on ‘Appellation Expression’

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hen I launched my wine writing career in Santa Barbara some 20 years ago, Jeff Wilkes was one of the first personalities I came to know. His enthusiasm for the wines he shared with me was infectious. And his energy and sense of humor made him a fantastic wine sipping companion.

Wilkes was a salesman for the iconic vineyards owned by Santa Barbara’s Miller family: Bien Nacido and Solomon Hills, both nestled in the Santa Maria Valley, and French Camp, located in the warmer highlands of Paso Robles. He was a passionate champion of these unique grape growing regions, and, even more, an ambassador for the world-class wines they produced. He launched his own eponymous label, J. Wilkes, in 2001, as a vehicle to spotlight the potential of the Central Coast’s wine growing appellations, and he’d go on to enjoy a successful career as a vintner until his untimely passing in 2010.

In homage to Jeff Wilkes, the Miller family carried his label forward. It remains part of a varied portfolio of labels that also includes Ballard Lane, Barrel Burner, Smashberry, and the newly acquired Butternut. “Regardless of which of our wines they’re drinking,” director of winemaker Jonathan Nagy told me this week, “we want people to be impressed by the quality of the wine for the price they paid.”

But J. Wilkes stands out for its singular focus: Nagy calls it “appellation expression.”

Nagy is especially familiar with the Santa Maria Valley appellation, which became recognized by the feds as Santa Barbara County’s first AVA, American Viticultural Area, in 1983. After a stint with Robert Mondavi in Napa, he moved back home to Cambria Winery in Santa Maria in the late 1990s, and he’d go on to spend close to 20 years at neighboring Byron Winery. He joined Miller Family Wine Co. last year.

Sandy soils are key to wine growing in the Santa Maria Valley, and so is the east-west valley created by the Santa Ynez Mountains that give vineyards here “a straight shot to the ocean,” says Nagy. “We have one of the longest growing seasons in the world. We get bud break in February and aren’t picking until October or November.”

In the 20-plus years that he’s been making wine here, “vine age and technology in the vineyard now allow us to maximize quality,” he adds, making the J. Wilkes chardonnay, pinot noir, and pinot blanc produced here “more expressive, more concentrated, and more complex.”

By comparison, the Paso Robles Highlands, set on the eastern side of the San

Luis Obispo County wine country, “has nice elevation and a really good diurnal shift,” says Nagy. “It can get really hot during harvest days – 100 degrees or more – but then at nighttime there’s a 40- to 50-degrees shift, and that means that vines can really maintain acidity. Among the J. Wilkes wines grown here: zinfandel, cabernet sauvignon and petite sirah.

I taste my way through three J. Wilkes wines this week: 2018 J. Wilkes Pinot Blanc ($20): Refreshing and bright, this white wine from the Santa Maria Valley features green apple and pear notes and a luscious mouth feel. A perfect afternoon quaff and a tasty match for grilled shellfish, salads, and mild cheeses.

2018 J. Wilkes Viognier ($25): Grown in the Paso Robles Highlands District, the aromas on this lovely white wine are alluring: white flowers, nectarines, and apricots. Dense and fruit-driven, with honeysuckle overtones, the mild acidity and bone-dry finish makes it especially food friendly – think grilled chicken, lobster and any cheese-and-nuts platter you come up with.

2018 J. Wilkes Pinot Noir ($30): A classic Santa Maria Valley pinot, with earthy, peppery and black cherry notes. Just enough ripeness to make it elegant and just enough fruit character to make it delicious. Mushroom tarts, roasted duck, and any Brie or mild blue cheese will pair nicely here.

There’s great undercover value with these wines: while various third-party vineyards are sourced each year for the sake of achieving that “appellation expression,” fruit from those high-profile vineyards – Bien Nacido and Solomon Hills from Santa Maria and French Camp from Paso, which are regularly featured on labels two or three times the cost – are regular ingredients in the J. Wilkes wines.

The J. Wilkes tasting room in downtown Santa Barbara is back open. Various flights, wines by the glass, a chocolate-and-wine pairing option and a menu of paninis, salads, and cheese boards are available seven days a week from noon to 7pm inside the Hotel Californian at 35 State Street. Reservations are recommended and masks are required. You can also buy wine at jwilkes.com. •MJ

2021 Puzzle 2: “Support System” Solution The February MMMM challenged solvers to find a famous song.

The grid contains three 15-letter words: PALATE CLEANSERS, HERCULEAN EFFORT, and NEEDLE AND THREAD. These theme entries all contain the consecutive four letters L, E, A, and N. Hmmm. If you look directly below those letters, you see the two letters M and E. From there it’s not too hard to get to the classic soul hit Lean on Me, this month’s meta answer.

I had a little extra grid space and enjoyed the chance to put BILL [First name of an iconic singer who won his third Grammy in 1987] in there as well as WITH/HERS to give a shout-out to the song’s iconic composer and singer Bill Withers. Quite a few solvers noticed and let me know they found it – thanks!

Pete always does a cover version of the meta answer (usually with his band, the Kindred Souls). You can watch the video (stay for the outtakes) and see this month’s full write-up here: https://pmxwords.com/feb21solution.

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NOSH TOWN AT OLIO E LIMONE, IT’S AMORE

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by Claudia Schou

egular patrons of Olio e Limone are fans of the eatery’s Southern Italian fare as much as its owners Elaine and Alberto Morello. But there was a road that led the Sicilian chef and business partner wife to Santa Barbara. The two embarked on a business venture and romance that has lasted more than three decades and produced three popular restaurants: Olio e Limone, Olio Bottega, and Olio Pizzeria. Over the years, the couple has learned how to withstand long hours, short fumes, and the trials Olio e Limone’s Elaine and Alberto Morello have been partners in life of success. At the end of and business for more than three decades each day, they are as passionate for one another as the day they met, or so we learned during a recent interview.

Q. You met while working at Celestino Ristorante in Beverly Hills. Was it love at first sight?

Elaine: Not at first sight, but I did think Alberto was the most interesting and mysterious out of the five to six other Italians flirting with me at work! Then he swept me off my feet.

Literally. He proposed to me mid-flight on a hot air balloon. If that’s not romantic, I don’t know what is.

Chef Alberto: Yes, I was the quiet, stealthy one who won her heart. I got the nickname lupo (wolf) from that. On the day I proposed to Elaine, I didn’t tell her where we were going, just to wear layers of clothing for both cold and hot weather. I knew she had always wanted to go up in a hot air balloon. I’ll never forget the look on her face when we got to the airfield and she saw the balloons.

Your next job after that was working for Prego Ristorante in Irvine, where Chef Alberto served as executive chef and Elaine was on the event planning and catering side. Did you know then that you made a good business team?

Elaine: We already knew we’d make a good business team from our time working together at Celestino. But the experience we both gained at Prego (part of then-Spectrum Foods/ American Restaurant Group) was invaluable and definitely set the stage for us running successful restaurants of our own. What people don’t realize is that a restaurant isn’t as glamorous as they think, and it’s not just about good food and hospitality; it is first and foremost a business.

Chef Alberto: Yes. What Elaine said. And I had over 30 kitchen staff who reported to me at Prego.

What were some of the obstacles to opening your own restaurants and how do you work through challenging times?

Elaine: We had to wait nine years from the time we first created our concept for our own restaurant (which evolved during that time period) until it finally came to fruition.

Lots of sacrifices, cost, time, energy, perseverance. Working through the many challenging times over the years from 9/11 to the 2008-09 financial crisis, multiple fires, the worst being the Thomas Fire and subsequent Montecito debris flow. I think the most important factor was us continuing to play a role in our community, bringing people together, providing comfort and normalcy. Now with COVID-19 we’re doing the same but on a different level.

Chef Alberto: We would have opened our first restaurant in 1991 or 1992 if it were up to us, but it was good we had to wait. I think we’ve been more successful because we did. We’ve made it through so many hard times and we’re still here. That says something. We have a friend who calls us “The Little Engine That Could.”

What’s the secret to a healthy life partnership?

Elaine: The man cave.

Chef Alberto: The man cave.

Operating three restaurants is a 24/7 operation. How do you manage and still have time for romance?

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for over 30 – and the business takes up almost all of our time but I’d say it’s the little things.

Alberto still cuts roses from our garden and puts them in different spots to “surprise” me, which I think is the sweetest thing.

Chef Alberto: We don’t have a lot of free time but yes, it’s the little things. Like encouraging one another to spend time with our friends then being happier to see each other because we did. Once in a while, a sushi date night.

WEEKEND COOKING: ADD RED CURRY TO YOUR ROMANCE

Making a commitment to someone you love is one thing. Committing your time and energy on a complex recipe is another. Keep your Valentine’s Day meals simple by focusing on using quality ingredients and placing flavor over ambition.

Silky and savory with warming spices, Asian curries are a welcome dish during the winter months. It doesn’t hurt that curries are relatively simple to prepare, and you can make them with poultry, beef, and seafood or vegetarian and vegan style.

Ever since the stay-at-home orders were put in place, Sarah Lehmberg, a Santa Barbara resident and catering manager at Montecito Club, and her boyfriend, Michael, devote their non-work hours to trying new recipes in their cozy kitchen. For Valentine’s the couple is planning to create a romantic evening at home with an aromatic Thai dish: Red Curry Chicken and Chickpeas.

“This dish is perfect to make for your loved one because it is unique, comforting, and extremely easy,” Lehmberg said. “Preparing a meal for your partner is an easy way to express your love, even if you aren’t the ‘chef’ in the relationship.”

Sarah and Michael share a love of Thai food. “The biggest challenge at first was making it at home instead of taking a shortcut and ordering out every time,” she said. Lehmberg’s go-to recipe is both quick and nutritious, using Trader Joe’s red curry sauce and a combination of garlic, onions, coconut milk, bell peppers, and chickpeas.

“The magic and simplicity comes from Trader Joe’s red curry sauce,” she explained. “I use chicken, chickpeas, and bell pepper, but you could easily use snow peas, broccoli, or potatoes instead.”

For now, Lehmberg isn’t letting the pandemic blues discourage her culinary explorations.

“One day, when we can travel again, I’m headed to Thailand for the authentic dishes,” she said. “But for now I’ll enjoy this delicious dish at home.”

WORLD’S EASIEST RED CHICKEN CURRY INGREDIENTS: 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken tenders, cut into bite-size pieces 1 tablespoon butter 1/2 onion, diced 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 can coconut milk (14 ounces) 1 can of chickpeas 2 red bell peppers, cut into bite-size pieces Trader Joe’s Red Curry Sauce (3/4 jar) 1 tablespoon curry powder Dash of salt Dash of pepper Fresh cilantro 1 large lime 2 cups of cooked jasmine rice (either rice cooker or stove top)

PROCEDURE: In a large skillet, heat one tablespoon of vegetable oil.

Sauté onion and garlic for two minutes. Season chicken with salt and pepper and add to the skillet with a tablespoon of butter. Sauté together until chicken is brown, about five minutes.

Add coconut milk (scoop and discard solids off the top). Add TJ’s Red Curry Sauce and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and add a tablespoon of curry powder to thicken and enhance the flavor.

On low heat, add chickpeas and bell pepper and simmer for 15 minutes.

Montecito Club Catering Manager Sarah Lehmberg Squeeze in a bit of lime juice and serve preparing a delectable and nourishing red curry over jasmine rice. Garnish with cilantro. •MJ dish in her cozy kitchen

“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.” — Leo Buscaglia

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