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Montecito’s Gary Fettis earns Oscar nomination in production design for Dunkirk, p. 6

LETTERS, P. 8 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 23 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42

WOODSTOCK WEST!

WELL, NOT REALLY, BUT MORE THAN 3,000 ATTENDEES DID ENJOY AN ARRAY OF TOP TALENT, HEADED UP BY KATY PERRY, ALAN PARSONS, KENNY LOGGINS, AND WILSON PHILLIPS, ENHANCED BY ACTOR ROB LOWE, TALK-SHOW HOST ELLEN DEGENERES, AND SCORES OF OTHER BIG-NAME PERFORMERS AT PAT NESBITT’S BELLA VISTA RANCH IN SUMMERLAND (STORY BEGINS ON PAGE 18)

Real Estate: Where to Now?

Bob Hazard, Mark Hunt, and top real-estate pros analyze the future of home values, pages 5 and 40 (main cover image by Priscilla)

Inn it Together

Iconic Montecito Inn, scoured by the January 9 mudflow, re-opens after seven-week makeover, p. 12

The Maine Thing

MJ’s Curious Traveler visits Bar Harbor, Gilded Age retreat for fabulously wealthy Americans, p. 41

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5

Guest Editorial

Bob Hazard crunches the numbers – based on feedback from local real estate professionals – about home values, risks, and the bottom line

6 Miscellany

Gary Fettis nomination; Kick Ash Bash; winemaker Fred Brander; Danish String Quartet; pianist Peter Serkin; Wine & Food fest; Josh Shaw; Kinky Boots; Natalie Portman; and Archie McLaren, rest in peace

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Letters to the Editor

An assortment of correspondence from MJ readers comprising Jamie Kellner, D.R. Big, Jerry Droz, Dale Zurawski, Mark Olson, Judy Pearce, David McCalmont, Denice Spangler Adams, Angela Marasco Gresser, Marilee Zdenek, ex-resident, and Justin Ruhge

10 This Week

Knit ‘N Needle; poetry; exhibit opening; Walk & Roll; Spanish; STEAM; antiques sale; Porch gala; book signing; Josie Gower tribute; MA Land Use; Parenting Ed; MBAR; Cold Spring School Board; improv show; SB Music Club; Davey’s Voice; Grief Recovery group; and art classes

Tide Guide 12 Village Beat Photography by Spenser Bruce

Dream. Design. Build. Home.

The reopening of Montecito Inn; updates about rebuilding; Los Arroyos news; upper village celebration; and sheriff’s blotter

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Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner laces up the skates for Goleta-based Ice in Paradise; and an update on the 10th annual Santa Barbara Wine Auction to support Direct Relief

16 Spirituality Matters

Steven Libowitz interviews Martin Ball about entheogenics; “Connecting in Love”; Satsangs with Krishna Gauci; Yoga Soup; and One Heart assembly

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20 Ernie’s World

When it comes to children and his granddog, Ernie Witham isn’t kidding around – even when feeling as if he doesn’t know Jack

Movie Guide 22 On Entertainment

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Steven Libowitz gets a handle on puppets and Muppets while interviewing Peter Linz; Philip Huber’s marionettes; Josh Shaw; Die Fledermaus; classical music; and acoustic summary

23 Brilliant Thoughts

Be not afraid: Ashleigh Brilliant dissects fears and phobias – some of which are bizarre and abnormal – without trepidation

24 Our Town

Joanne Calitri catches up with millennial Torrie Cutbirth, the Arts Fund SB newly appointed executive director

32 In Business

Jon Vreeland gets up-close and personal with Santa Barbara Rescue Mission’s Rolf Geyling, Stacy Ralston, and Rebecca Weber

34 Celebrating History

Hattie Beresford reports on the SB Historical Museum’s latest exhibit, “Only the Oaks Remain”, which showcases the Tuna Canyon Detention Center

35 On Law

In the aftermath of Montecito’s mudslides, Stephen Blum continues his series about litigation and rights, while shuffling in history lessons

38 Legal Advertising 40 Real Estate

Mark Hunt surveys the post-mudslide scene, dissecting recent property sales and spotlighting four more homes from Coast Village Road to Picacho Lane

41 Curious Traveler

In part two of a series, Jerry Dunn continues traversing Maine with his family as they explore trendy vacation spots along the state’s coast

42 Calendar of Events

Restaurant Week; Richard Schloss art; 1st Thursday affairs; HH11 dance fest; Squirrel Nut Zippers; Communicating Doors; Staging the Daffy Dame; SB Blues Society; Israeli exhibition; and Carmen at Granada

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47 Local Business Directory

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Guest Editorial

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

The Outlook for Property Values in Montecito

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or most residents of Montecito, a large portion of their investment portfolio and net worth is tied up in the value of their home. What will be the long- and short-term impact of the twin tragedies of the Thomas Fire – the largest in California history – and the destructive 1/9 debris flow on real estate values and home prices in Montecito?

These questions were put to a panel of local real estate professionals that include Dan Encell at Berkshire Hathaway; Harry Kolb at Sotheby’s; Suzanne Perkins at Sotheby’s; Dinah Landi at Riskin Partners/ Village Properties; Crystal Clark and Nigel Copley at Berkshire Hathaway; Wendy Gragg at Distinctive Real Estate; and Michael Phillips at Coldwell Banker.

Current Home Values

The median value of a home in Montecito is currently $3,380,800, according to the Zillow Home Value Index. The median price per square foot in Montecito has risen to $1,231, considerably higher than the $495 for the entire county.

There is a consensus among the realtors that the sale of more expensive homes in Montecito was already experiencing a slowdown prior to the fire and debris flow. Dan Encell points out that “high-end home values in Montecito real estate were poised to take an additional hit with the passage of the 2017 Tax Act, which limits the federal deduction for state income taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes to $10,000 (SALT), and lowers the cap on mortgage interest deduction (MID). These changes make the cost of owning a home in Montecito higher.”

Encell adds, however, “With as many as five hundred homes destroyed or damaged, we will see a 10 to 15 percent reduction in home supply in Montecito.

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Monte ito Miscellany

by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, and a commentator on the KTLA Morning News. He moved to Montecito ten years ago.

Oscar Nod, by Design

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Gary, 68, who has lived in our rarefied enclave since 1992, has been nominated for his fourth Oscar for Best Production Design for Christopher Nolan’s epic $110-million World War II film, Dunkirk, about the May 1940, evacuation of 330,000 troops to safety across the English Channel, starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and One Direction singer Harry Styles.

His previous nominations date back to 1990 with The Godfather, Part III, Changeling in 2008, and Interstellar four years ago.

“I look forward to the Academy Awards,” says Gary, who is just back from London after attending the

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Oscar nominee Gary Fettis outside his Montecito home

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

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

Shame Game

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fter reading the letter from “A Montecito resident” (“Where’s the Shame,” MJ #24/8) I stopped by Jeannine’s on Coast Village Road and heard from one of the employees there that Jeannine’s was not the “bakery on Coast Village Road” that created a GoFundMe page in order to raise $60,000. Please let your readers know that it is Bree’osh, farther west on Coast Village Road that is seeking funding.

No name please Montecito (Editor’s note: Ah, the unintended consequence of removing the name of the business in order to avoid embarrassment for the establishment was to shift blame to Jeannine’s, a popular and long-standing Coast Village Road business. We apologize for not simply naming Bree’osh in the first place. Just to say though, if you are a fan of Bree’osh and wish to support their expansion plans with a donation, that is certainly your right. And heck, if you’d like to donate some extra tips to the help at Jeannine’s, by all means do it. Now. Everyone with a business in Montecito needs the help! – J.B.)

Who Should Pay (Part III)

I believe you are off on this one (“Who Should Pay?” MJ #24/7). Most of the merchants I spoke with were paying their workers at least part of their wages. You might want to call around. After all these years, you would think a business could protect workers from their losses.

I don’t want to name people who told me they continued to pay their employees, but I was told that. I know Birnam Wood, for example, paid all employees throughout the

two evacuations. I believe business interruption insurance policies have varying coverage for employee wages. I think it is worth a little investigation so the truth can be out. I also think it would help our merchants to know what their peers are doing. How about a 5 percent increase on all purchases to help replace lost wages?

Jamie Kellner Montecito (Editor’s note: Thank you for taking the time to further examine the issue of whether an employer should be required to keep employees – particularly hourly employees – on payroll, and for how long.

It’s a tricky issue, but if continuing to pay employees while a business is forcibly shut down causes a small retail merchant or service provider to declare bankruptcy or simply close its doors for good, what has been gained? The shop mentioned was not only forced to close by a mandatory evacuation order, followed up by law enforcement barricading access routes, but the owner was also prohibited from entering the premises.

Perhaps there is an equitable solution out there, but the fairest way to deal with such an event, we believe, would have been to help the hourly employees find temporary work elsewhere. – J.B.)

Be Early-Resource Heavy

I am not a firefighter but respect them immensely. Cory Iverson, the firefighter who drove up from San Diego and died in the fire, is constantly on my mind. His wife is pregnant. About that “army of more than 8,000 professional firefighters…” when the fire first broke out,

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they sent in a first-strike team; as the fire got bigger, they added more, each day or two, and so on, until it reached that “army” of 8,400 to 8,600 firefighters.

In the future, wouldn’t it make more sense to put way more personnel up front, before it gets out of hand?

Anyone can look back and say, “We didn’t know the wind would blow that hard, for so long” – but it did, so it could. It would have cost way less in lives, wildlife, property, et cetera, had it been extinguished promptly.

These fires are man-made. “The brush that hadn’t burned for up to 65 years” didn’t have to burn.

D.R. Big Santa Barbara

Bad Right Turn

Recently, at approximately 7:30 pm, I was about to make a right turn onto Cota Street from State Street (at Joe’s), when someone apparently tied to the 100-plus bicyclists that were freely roaming the streets held up his right hand while standing in the middle of the intersection and stopped traffic on State Street, so that his fellow bicyclists would make a left turn through a green, then red, light. Neither the man directing traffic to a halt nor the bicyclists have a permit to assemble, impede, and disrupt the flow of traffic and ride in the middle of the street.

As I patiently waited for the bicyclists to turn onto Cota, when there was a break in the flow of bikes, I carefully made my right turn onto Cota, but the bicyclists were all over the street behind me and in front of me, hoarding the entire street with no regard for safety or motor vehicles, only themselves.

Essentially what they are doing is taking over our streets. They must get a permit to lawfully assemble, direct traffic, and impede or block traffic.

Studies must then be done to determine the best and most suitable times to allow them to assemble.

The Santa Barbara Police chief should direct her fine officers (who are doing an excellent job) to start citing these bicyclists. They are taking over our streets and city.

Jerry Droz Santa Barbara

In Search of Community

The night before, the sheriff warned of a disaster heading toward Montecito. Rain, wind, flooding were certain; they just didn’t know how bad or where. As I walked down the driveway the next morning, the air was chilly and fresh. Instead of the morning paper, I saw a pick-up truck

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This Week in and around Montecito

FRIDAY, MARCH 9

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, MARCH 1 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. This month’s poet: Adrienne Rich.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Art Opening “Reality, as it were…” is a new exhibit at 10 West Gallery featuring ten contemporary artists: Penny Arntz, Chad Avery, Pippa Blake, Sophie Cooper, Laurie MacMillan, Maria Miller, Stuart Ochiltree, Carson Pritchard, Beth Schmohr, and Marlene Struss.

When: Reception, from 5 to 8 pm Where: 10 West Anapamu Street Cost: free Info: director@10westgallery.com, 770-7711 FRIDAY, MARCH 2 Walk & Roll Montecito Union School students, teachers, and parents walk or ride to school, rather than drive.

When: 8 am Where: Via Vai, Ennisbrook, and Casa Dorinda trailhead Info: 969-3249

Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish.

Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 After-School STEAM Program Build with Legos, do snap circuits, and drop-in craft activities at Montecito Librar y.

Ages 5 and up.

When: 3:30 to 4:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, MARCH 3 20th Anniversary Sale Homestead Antiques & Trading Co. hosts storewide sale today and tomorrow When: 10 am to 5 pm Where: 943 Linden Avenue, Carpinteria Info: 684-9640 Opening Reception at Porch Lety Garcia, known for painting urban scenes, takes a look at plants; succulents and droughttolerant varieties. In hopes of raising awareness of viewing water as a finite resource and the need for mindful gardens that reflect that awareness. Refreshments and wine will be served.

When: 3 pm Where: Porch, 3823 Santa Claus Lane Info: www.letygarcia.com

Science-Meets-Improv Show Dr. Greg Rasmussen, who has spent more than 30 years in southern Africa studying and working to save highly endangered painted dogs, is the guest animal expert appearing at the next IMPROVology show presented by the Santa Barbara Zoo. His stories and knowledge provide the fodder for on-the-spot comedy improvisation by members of L.A.’s Improv Theatre Company. Audience participation, musical accompaniment, snacks, and beer and wine are all part of the fun.

When: 7:30 pm Where: Santa Barbara Zoo, 500 Ninos Drive Cost: $15; $12 for members Info: 962-5339 SUNDAY, MARCH 4 Book Signing at Chaucer’s Help Pascale Beale celebrate her newest book and support a local school at the same time! Pascale will be signing copies of Les Legumes: Vegetable Dishes from the Market Table and 25% of all sales will be contributed to Montessori Center School.

Pascale is author of the four-volume Mediterranean-influenced cookbook series, A Menu for All Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, as well as the highly acclaimed Recipes From the Market Table series, Salade and Les Fruits.

When: 4 to 6 pm Where: Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State Street Info: 682-6787

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7

Josie Gower Dedication A bistro-style characterization painting of mudslide victim Josie Gower by artist Bill Dalziel will be hung at 5 pm at the Pierra Lafond Wine Bistro in Montecito’s upper village. All friends are encouraged to bring a photo and a story of Josie to share.

When: 5 pm Where: 516 San Ysidro Road

Parenting Education Laguna Blanca School is proud to present a free parent education talk by Simon Marean, “Raising Resilient Girls.” The talk is open to the community and will take place at Girls Inc. Goleta Valley Center and focus on practical, actionable advice that parents can use at home to help support their daughters. Mr. Marean focuses on the developmental stages of girls in grades K-8. If you are eager to learn about the pressures that are unique to being a girl today and are curious about how you can help girls navigate these challenges and grow resilience and confidence, then mark your calendar for this 90-minute free presentation. A 30-minute Q&A will close the evening.

When: 6:30 to 8 pm Where: 4973 Hollister Avenue

TUESDAY, MARCH 6

THURSDAY, MARCH 8

Montecito Association Land Use Committee The Montecito Association is

MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu

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committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito; today, the Land Use Committee meets to discuss upcoming projects.

When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road

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present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music.

A valued cultural resource in town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public.

When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free Davey’s Voice Film Festival The 1st Annual Davey’s Voice Film Festival is an evening of family-friendly, animal-related films celebrating the bond between human and animal. The short films are selected from hundreds of local and international submissions to include moving and joyful films to ensure a balance of films that entertain as well as educate. The Festival Honorees and main beneficiaries of this year’s event include Paws Up 4 Pets, a collaboration between local nonprofit Davey’s Voice and CARE 4 PAWS to promote compassion and accountability for animals to school-age children, and Social Compassion in Legislation, a non-profit organization that has been sponsoring landmark legislation since 2007.

The mission of nonprofit Davey’s Voice is to establish positive change: to create awareness regarding

animal abuse; empower the public to advocate for voiceless, victimized animals; bring animal abusers to justice; and, support projects and programs that promote animal welfare.

When: 5 pm Where: The New Vic, 33 West Victoria Street Info & RSVP: www.daveysvoice.org, 770-8449 ONGOING Grief Recovery Support Group GriefShare features nationally recognized experts on grief recovery topics. Seminar sessions include, “Is This Normal?” “The Challenges of Grief,” “Grief and Your Relationships,” “Why?”, and “Guilt and Anger.”

When: 10:30 am, each Monday from March 12 through May 21 Where: Montecito Covenant Church, 671 Cold Spring Road Info: call Pam Beebe at 679-1501 MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call.

Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850

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Village Beat

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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Montecito Inn’s newly painted sign was installed on Monday, as crews made finishing touches to the hotel before reopening this weekend

fter seven weeks of vacancy while mitigating the damage caused by the January 9 debris flow, Montecito Inn is scheduled to reopen its doors this Friday, March 2.

“We are grateful to the community for the ongoing support, and the crews that worked so hard to get us back in business,” said Jason Copus, whose family has owned the inn since 1989.

The Copus brothers – Jason, Danny, and Jim – have been hard at work reviving the 61-room hotel on the corner of Coast Village and Olive Mill roads.

“For some reason, the hotel has really been front and center in the news of the mudslide, and I think the community is looking at our reopening as a sort of symbol of hope for Montecito,” Copus said. “But truthfully, when you compare our damage to some other areas of Montecito, not to mention the lives lost, we feel like we got off pretty lucky.”

The inn sustained significant damage that morning, with the underground parking garage filing with water, mud, and debris, which also damaged the exterior of the building, the main doors, and part of the lobby, and flooded the hallway leading to the ground floor suites. Montecito Inn has undergone a mini transformation, with a new exterior marble driveway, new epoxy coating in the valet garage, repairs to the back parking lot, new grand entrance doors, new carpeting, exterior plaster repair, and repainting of the entire exterior including trim and iron work.

The Copus brothers also designed a newly landscaped garden, which includes a planter surrounded by 23 stones, in honor of the 23 lives lost on January 9. In addition to that token of

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A new garden at the corner, featuring a planter surrounded by 23 stones, honors the lives of the Montecito mudslide victims, two of whom were still missing as of press time

remembrance, the inn shined a brightblue spotlight for 23 hours over several evenings in early February, which members of the community reported being able to see from their homes during the week that Montecito was repopulated after long evacuations.

“We just wanted to give back to the community, a small token of hope that we are in this together,” Copus said.

The historic Inn – built by a group of investors in 1928 that included Charlie Chaplin – celebrates its 90th birthday this year, and also marks the first time ever being evacuated; both the Thomas Fire in December and the subsequent mudflow in January prompted mandatory evacuations of inn guests and staff. Contingency plans for displaced guests during future

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Seen Around Town

Ice in Paradise

A group of skaters performing

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Among the skaters: Lindsey Thompson, Acacia Danza, Lauren Dalmatoff, Louryn Lesovsky, Grant Hochstein, Caroline Zhang, Akari Nakahara, Sebastien Payannet, Valentina Juricek, Livvy Severson, Amalie Wilson, and Sebastiano Juricek (photo by Alison DeLorenzo Juricek)

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veryone says we live in paradise, but there is another paradise in Goleta at the state-of-the-art ice skating rink called Ice in Paradise. It’s located not far from Costco at 6985 Santa Felicia. The rink’s main donor (more than $1 million) was Ed Snider, who owned the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League. In

fact, 50 years ago he mortgaged his home to found the hockey team. He was chairman of Comcast Spectator, a Philadelphia entertainment company.

Snider had a great passion for hockey and wanted Santa Barbara to have an ice rink so everyone of all ages could learn the sport. Snider died a billionaire entrepreneur in Montecito

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on April 11, 2016. He had realized his dream, for Ice in Paradise has hockey teams for youngsters from five up to oldsters over 40. They also have a skating school that teaches newcomers from their first time on the ice to jumps and spins or to play hockey. Ed was a board member, donor, and friend – an inspiration to Ice in Paradise.

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President of the Figure Skating Club Alison DeLorenzo Juricek called me to attend my second annual Christmas ice show, their third. This year’s theme was Holidays Around the World: Olympic Style. The show had to be rescheduled because of the Thomas Fire. They had Nathan Chen, 2017 US National Champion on board, but he had to be at the Olympics on the new date.

Then tragedy struck. Before the show February 10, Ice in Paradise lost two of its skaters in the Montecito mudslide. One was Dr. Mark T. Montgomery, M.D., who was a member of the adult hockey team, the Aces, and played his last game only hours before the slide. His daughter, Caroline, also passed away. The other Photos of Dr. Mark T. Montgomery and Peerawat” “Pasta” Sutthithepa, who passed away during the mudslide

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#MO NT ECITOSTRO NG was 6-year-old Peerawat “Pasta” Sutthithepa. He was in the skating school and had practiced hard to be in the “Polar Express” part of the show.

In fact, his love of trains inspired them to do Polar Express as the production number. Pasta and other family members were lost as well. The star on the ice during the Polar Express was in memory of Pasta and represented his skating routine just as he rehearsed it. He had huge potential as a figure skater and brought joy to the ice every time he skated. He will be missed.

What I love about the show is that everyone gets a chance to shine, no matter their skill level. And as general manager Larry Bruyere said, “We are humbled by the generosity of our champion ice skaters that have traveled to be in our show today.” They take your breath away with their skill.

By press time, the Winter Olympics will be over and the next group of skaters will be working toward their goal of Olympic gold.

This holiday show takes months to produce – including building sets, attending practice sessions, finding or creating costumes, and more. Some of the movers and shakers are producers Juricek and Bruyere with announcer Joel Smulson. Terry Tonius is the skating school director, and board chair is Jack Norqual along with board president Steve Heinze.

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Spirituality Matters

wearing. When you get beyond that, it becomes immediately obvious.

My interest is how to work with that as a tool, because it’s the ego – the narrative we create about ourselves – that causes 99 percent of our suffering, which dissipates when we realize that literally we are all one. It’s not a new age statement. It’s reality.

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really can’t recall how many time shivers ran up and down my spine as I talked with Martin W. Ball last weekend about his upcoming talk at Unity of Santa Barbara this Saturday, March 3, when Ball – one of the world’s leading experts and proponents of entheogenic/psychedelic medicines and an authority on the relationship between entheogenic (which means “generating the divine within”) experience, nondual awakening, and personal transformation – will serve as the first speaker in a planned series from Santa Barbara’s new EntheoMedicine Salon.

I was dumbstruck by his clarity, lack of pretension, grounded explanations peppered with passion, and his patience when I shared my own stories during my 90-minute phone call with the self-described “Nondual guy in the psychedelic world,” who in the name of scientific research recently underwent a brain scan while dosing with the powerful psychedelic 5-MeODMT, which is found in a wide variety

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of plant species as well as a toad.

Ball, a Santa Barbara native who later earned his Ph.D. at UCSB and now teaches religious studies at Southern Oregon University, will discuss how and why psychedelic compounds are both effective medicines and spiritual healing tools, the latter a special focus of his recent books and our phone call.

An extensive Q&A session follows the talk. Tickets are $30 and available at www.entheomedicine.eventbrite.com.

(Find more info on Ball at /www. martinball.net, or on Santa Barbara’s EntheoMedicine at www.entheomed icine.com.)

Below are painfully truncated excerpts from our conversation.

Q. Let’s assume a sizable percentage of my readers, like myself, have little to no experience with psychedelics. What is the most important thing for them to know?

A. Human culture have been using psychedelics for healing, growth, ceremony, and spirituality since the dawn of human history. People just

Martin Ball speaks Saturday, March 3, at Unity of Santa Barbara

don’t realize that. They think it was invented in the ‘60s. Which can’t be further from the truth. And because of that history, we can be assured that for the most part they are very safe. Now, it’s finally coming out in clinical trials and medical studies, although most of these drugs are still classified as Schedule 1, meaning a high propensity for abuse, addiction with no medical benefits. That is a lie!

None of that is true. They’re safe, with multiple medical applications, not to mention the spiritual ones. Cultures around the world have known this for thousands of years. We’re the odd ones out with our modern war on drugs. We’re the ones who are backwards and primitive in disrespecting these medicines that come from the Earth.

But Western culture is going thru a psychedelic renaissance. Research was suppressed. But the barrier has now been broken. Medical experts and universities are looking at how these medicines can be used to help people in many ways.

How is taking psychedelics, especially 5-MeO-DMT, a spiritual experience?

It’s powerful energy and when you consume it, it completely and totally overrides your sense of self – the ego.

From the ego perspective, it thinks “I’m dying. It’s happening.” And that’s scary. But if you can relax into that and trust it, you get beyond the ego. There’s an experience of complete unity with all reality. I’m not religious, but this is where I use the word God. It’s about a being of infinite energy, awareness, and consciousness that is all reality – that for me is God. Everything that exists within reality is this one universal being that basically is acting, pretending to be someone named Martin or Jane. The ego convinces us that we are that person.

But it’s a mask, a costume that we’re

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Isn’t there a danger in confronting the sense of the ego as the false sense of self?

Trauma if you don’t surrender?

My most recent book is about learning how the ego exists and reacts and how to move beyond that, and more importantly, how to integrate the experience. Because the real question is, how are you living moment to moment, day to day? Do you focus on what’s present, or are you lost in thought and the conflations of your ego?

But don’t ever let anyone talk you into taking a psychedelic. If you want it for yourself, if you feel ready, that’s the time to do it. Not because you’re curious, or your friends are doing it, or even to support your lover or partner. Because this is about actualizing your own authenticity and taking responsibility for yourself. It’s a very self-centered practice, not in the egoic way, but in that you are in charge and there will be consequences. Your world view is going to be challenged. Your sense of self is going to be challenged. If you don’t want that, don’t do it. But if you do, find a good practitioner who can help guide you through, which makes a huge difference. And don’t let fear stop you.

That’s the primary tool of the ego: to keep things under control.

If it’s such a great experience, why wouldn’t you want to just be on it all the time, and live in that space of nonduality?

Because there’s no sex or chocolate or Game of Thrones. It’s just infinite unity. Which is beautiful and wonderful, and gives you a baseline for understanding your experience of reality. But the joy of reality is the game! The goal of the game isn’t to get out of it and be absorbed in the infinite forever. It’s about being aware that you are the infinite enmeshed in this incredible game where everything you interact with is yourself. And it’s a lot of fun, and it’s scary, and painful, and immensely pleasurable – a whole spectrum of stuff. So, it helps you to know who you are, so you can then move in the game with clarity and grace.

What about issues such as “bad trips” and flashbacks?

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above-board. Because in the hands of someone inexperienced, you can freak out and have trauma. It’s not common, but it is real.

Speaking of which, how are you able to be so open about these psychedelics given that they are still illegal?

I am a cultural renegade. I’m convinced of their value and benefit, as they’ve only improved and enhanced my life. So, I’m not afraid of the consequences. For a while, I had a sense that they’d come get me some day. But I’m well beyond that now.

Truth is more important than my own personal well-being. That’s why I’m very open. I made this my job because I wanted to communicate it. Like with gay culture just a few years ago, there’s a “coming out” of the psychedelic closet. It’s a human rights issue.

People are afraid to be open about it, but it’s changing.

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“Loving” series that also includes “Loving Yourself” and “Loving Your Choices”. But no matter the semantics, HAI is still all about love, intimacy, and sexuality, as well as relationships, communication and being authentic.

Get a clearer picture at a free “Mini” workshop 6 to 9 pm this Saturday in Santa Barbara that carries the theme “Deepening Intimacy – Introduction to the Tools”. Participants will have the chance to start the journey of developing a greater depth of intimacy and love as a HAI presenter leads a series of exercises designed to expand your heart and connect to yourself and others in a new way.

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BAFTAs, the British Oscars at the Royal Albert Hall, attended by Prince William and his very pregnant wife, Kate.

He has been nominated for three BAFTAs during his stellar career with Interstellar and Changeling, but lost out this year to The Shape of Water.

He is hoping for better luck at the 90th Oscars at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.

“I hope that one of the master storytellers, Christopher Nolan, a man truly in love with filmmaking, will get some encouragement from his peers to keep doing what he loves, and that is to make epic films that rivet us to our seats in large movie theater venues like Cecil B. DeMille and David Lean.

“Dunkirk is not so much a war film as it is a story of survival on a large scale. People helping people. A message for humanity. Strangely similar to what we are experiencing here in our hometown of Montecito.

“The sweeping scale of the film may hopefully reach people of all ages and motivate us to make sure this never happens again. I am certainly optimistic, given it is my fourth and probably last time.”

Cash from the Ash More than 3,000 people descended on Bella Vista Ranch, the sprawling Summerland estate of polo playing hotel magnate Pat Nesbitt and his wife, Ursula, for One805’s Kick Ash Bash to honor first responders while raising much-needed funds for emergency equipment and relief efforts in the wake of the Thomas Fire and the devastating January mudslides.

The brainchild of Eric Phillips, Sheila Herman, and Pat Smith – all friends, evacuated from their homes because of the fire that burned more than 300,000 acres – was a music lover’s delight with live performances from Alan Parsons & Friends, Kenny Loggins, Wilson Phillips, Steve Vai, Richard Marx, The Sisterhood Band with Rod Stewart’s 30-year-

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old daughter, Ruby, David Foster, Katharine McPhee, Dishwalla and Glen Phillips, while political pundit and comedian Dennis Miller emceed, all of whom waived their normal fees.

There was even a surprise performance by Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry, who decided at the last minute to sing a medley of her hits at the gridlocked event before jetting off to London, as well as cameo video pieces from local Rob Lowe, sing1 – 8 March 2018

er Brad Paisley, and actress Whoopi Goldberg.

Among the attendees were Jane Seymour, Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Don Johnson and Billy Baldwin.

One of the most poignant moments was when Lauren Cantin, 14, who was dramatically rescued from a mountain of mud when her house was flattened, sang “God Bless America” with students from Janet Adderley’s Santa

Barbara Youth Ensemble Theatre in memory of her late father, David, 49, and 16-year-old brother Jack, who is still missing.

A committee from the Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance will decide how the monies raised, around $2 million, will be divided among the three objectives: a fun day off for first responders free of charge, funds for 1/9 survivors through Direct Relief, and funds for At-Ease, a private counseling service for first responders.

“It’s really a collaborative process for those of us serving on One805’s beneficiary community,” says SB fire

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chief Pat McElroy. “Essentially, we are taking off our badges and saying, ‘Okay, what does the community need most?’”

Youngsters were also included in the fun and frolics with a dedicated area featuring cast members Emily Skinner, Molly Jackson, and Luke Mulle from the hit Disney show Andi Mack, a Sea Center touch tank, Search & Rescue dogs, face painting, Duncan the Dinosaur, Smokey Bear, Sparky the Fire Dog, three helicopters, two fire engines, and a squad car.

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Using My Teaching Skills “Bub… bub… bub…”

“Much improved! Now, if you block one nostril and flick your finger over the other one when humming through your nose, you can add another instrument – “snah-snah-snah-snah-snahsnah-snah-snah when she comes.”

“Bub… bub… bub…”

“Okay, that one is a little advanced. I didn’t really perfect it until first grade.

‘Bout the same time as I mastered the underarm fart.”

“Fart.”

“Oops, crap, don’t say fart, okay?”

“Crap.”

“Ah, jeez, don’t say crap or fart.”

“Ah, jeez.”

“What are you teaching him?!” Pat asked.

“Ah, the Bible. We were talking about Jesus.”

“Fart.”

“Oh? And what book of the Bible is that from?”

“Deuteronomy?”

“Well, you’d better un-teach him quickly before his parents get back.”

We moved to the patio door. Jack pointed through the screen as an airplane went over.

“Plane,” he said.

“Plane, that’s right!”

“Plane,” he said again. And again.

And again. And again.

“Yes, there are a lot of planes. That’s because we live near the airport. Some people think all those planes suck, but I don’t mind.

“Planes suck.”

“Oh, man. Let’s go out back and explore nature, wanna?”

“Wamma.”

We have a large common area at our condo complex, with paths, a tennis court, a playground, and lots of nature.

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love kids. And fortunately, they seem to like me okay, too. Which is good, because between my wife, Pat and I, we have five children, four grandchildren and one granddog that I love teaching new tricks.

“Roll over, no? Sit, no? Shake, no?

How about lay there like a lump?

Yeah!”

And now, I get to use my many teaching skills again with Jack, our 20-month old grandson – a great age because he is so curious. “That’s the remote control for the television. No, it’s not meant to come apart… oh, those are the batteries… no, don’t eat them! Yuk, bad.”

“Yuk, bad.”

“That’s right. Wait, that doesn’t mean you have to throw the remote in the trash… oh look, there are my glasses. And my car keys. And the dog. Maybe we should leave the trash for right now. How about I teach you some music?”

I handed Jack a Tupperware bowl and a wooden spoon. “See, if you tap it lightly, it sounds like a drum.”

“What the heck is that racket?” Pat yelled form the other room.”

“Music,” I yelled back over the cacophony. I grabbed the spoon.

“Maybe we can make quieter music instead. Face music! Perfect! See, Jack, if you wiggle your finger really fast over your lips while humming, you can make bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub sounds.”

“Bub… bub… bub…”

“Good start! With practice, you’ll soon be able to do “She’ll be coming ‘round the mountain when she comes” like this – bub-bub-bub-bubbub-bub-bub-bub when she comes… bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub-bub when she comes.

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“Bird.”

“That’s a crow. See it’s crowing.

Caw caw caw.”

“Bird.”

“Yes, it is a bird, but it’s also a crow.

See there’s another one. And they are all cawing at us and, well, they kinda look mean.”

“Yuk birds.”

We moved away from the tree with the birds and found a rosemary bush.

I bent down and sniffed. “Smell the rosemary?” Jack bent down to sniff and a bee landed right in front of him.

He was fascinated.

“That’s a bee.”

“Bee?” “Yes. “Bee?” “Yes. “Bee?” “Yes. Again. Its job is to transfer pollen from the male part of the plant to the female reproductive organs of the plant.”

“Reproductive organs.”

“Ah, let’s go back to bee.”

“Reproductive organs.”

Oh, man, I thought. His mom is going to kick my butt.

“Butt.”

“Come on! I didn’t even say butt, I just thought it!”

“Butt.”

I hustled him away from the all-tooraw part of nature until we came to a tree.

“Tree.”

“That’s right. It’s a pine tree. But we shouldn’t touch it because…

“Stuck.”

“That’s called sap. The same thing the family will be calling me soon.”

I picked Jack up and carried him home, trying to prevent him from sapping his eyeball. Pat quickly helped me clean him up.

“You came back just in time. Jon and Jess are on their way back.”

“Reproductive organs, yuk, crap,” Jack said.

“I’m going to go away now,” I said to Pat. “Call me when the coast is clear.

Bye-bye, Jack.”

“Butt-butt,” he said.

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EDITORIAL (Continued from page 5)

Those same five-hundred displaced households will need places to live, either temporarily or permanently, within Montecito or elsewhere.” Harry Kolb notes too that “With all due respect to those who suffered significant loss, ninety percent of Montecito homes remain undamaged.”

Assessed Valuations

Theo Fallati, County of Santa Barbara auditor-controller, projected property tax collections in Montecito for 2017-18 at $104.5 million. This suggests a collective assessed property valuation in excess of $10 billion for Montecito real estate, an all-time high. Even that $10 billion in assessed value for homes and businesses in Montecito, is well short of either market value or replacement value.

Montecito, with only 3% of the parcels in the county (4,322 out of 145,796) generates 13% of the county’s property tax revenue ($104.5 million out of the $797 million in county property taxes). The average tax parcel in Montecito generates $24,172 in annual property taxes, compared to an average contribution of

$5,464 per parcel for the entire county.

Santa Barbara County is concerned that at least 400 Montecito homeowners with destroyed or damaged homes will petition the assessor’s office for lower property tax assessments. This would result in a considerable hit to county coffers. It is in the best interest of the county to see that all property values in Montecito are restored as quickly as possible.

Uncertainty: Real Estate’s Worst Enemy

Dan Encell warns: “It is difficult to sell real estate whenever there is uncertainty.” The list of uncertainties includes the overhanging risk of future rains and debris flows; the risk of the future insurability of homes in Montecito; the risk of availability and cost of water in the event of a prolonged drought; the risk of major traffic congestion discouraging buyers affected by construction dirt, noise, and parking problems, and possible new restrictions in land use and permitting policies in the red zone.

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On Entertainment

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

by Steven Libowitz

Strings Attached: Huber’s Marionette Hubris

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t’s still hard to fathom how Philip Huber created the marionette shows “performed” by John Cusack and the title actor in Being John Malkovich, the 1999 inside-thebrain comedy-drama film that was the astounding feature debuts of director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman. Huber won’t be sharing his secrets at PuppetPalooza, but he will be performing an all-ages show that should prove even astounding, since it will be happening right in front of your eyes live on stage.

Q. How do you make the marionettes seem so lifelike when all you have is strings for control?

A. Marionettes are the most difficult form of puppetry, and I wasn’t a natural. I started when I was 5, and they’d always get tangled so that my father would have to hang them on a lamp to get them free again. But I love the challenge of being able to project a personality down through the strings, rather than your hand. The object is to get beyond the mechanics, of having

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to think about how to pull or twist to get what you want, and instead be thinking about what the puppet is thinking, and project that personality. It’s the same feeling as a classical pianist once he’s mastered a piece of music.

We now live in a world of computer animation. Why do marionettes still connect?

It’s true that some dismiss this as really low-tech. But live theater isn’t robots. You don’t know what you’re going to get, because no two performances are identical. When you see people live, it has an impact because you know the puppeteer is doing everything for that puppet live in front of you. But if he’s doing his job correctly, you don’t even see him.

Turning to Being John Malkovich, how was it to see your creations in a critically acclaimed movie?

It has a special place in my heart as the first film where I was given that artistic freedom to produce the actions. The director demanded things from me that I thought were impossible for marionettes to do. So, it really stretched me. I had to work to produce the vision that he had.

Ultimately, I was very proud of my finished work on the screen – getting the marionette to do the forward somersault and back flip. It took about 27 takes before we got one I really liked where the puppet didn’t fall off-center. But we got it; what is on film is real. And it introduced marionettes to a whole new generation.

What will you be doing here at the festival?

“Suspended Animation”, which is a variety show, one I tour all over the world. It’s a bunch of vaudeville-style acts, so there’s no language barriers.

There are puppets doing everything from walking a tightrope to other circus acts, novelty acts, trained dogs, opera singers, violinists, and lots of

other fun things you wouldn’t think a marionette would be able to do. So, it appeals to all ages and cultures.

Merry Melodies as Bubbly Barber

With his Star Trek-themed Abduction from the Seraglio, opera stage director Josh Shaw messed with Mozart in a ultra-modern way, taking the tale of kidnapping and beaming it into outer space with a new book he wrote himself. He’s not doing that radical a rearranging of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville in his local debut with Opera Santa Barbara (OSB) at the Granada this weekend.

But there will be a twist or two in the beloved prequel to Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, a clever tale of bribery, deceit, and disguise featuring Figaro as barber and matchmaker. After all, you don’t hire Shaw if you’re seeking a straight-down-theline show.

In the opening scene of Act II, for example, when Count Almaviva enters in disguise to disrupt the proceedings, he’ll be dressed in drag as Dona Alonza. “That gives the whole scene a very different dynamic,” Shaw said. “Now he/she’s not just an annoying distraction, but maybe also someone the Don wants to get to know.” Then there’s the role of Bartolo, portrayed by Peter Strummer, who Shaw said first performed in Barber back 1976. “He’s done 50 productions since then, and I guarantee I’m asking him to do things that he never has before.”

Shaw is also playing a little fast and loose with the setting, noting “We’re still in the period of 1900, but we come and go out of that as we please.

And there’s the Gaudi-inspired, very not-realistic, set. I see Barber as just a cartoon come to life. There are these incredible melodies and a fantastic fireworks of singing, but there are so many silly situations, you can’t take any of it too seriously.”

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As for the delivery of all those gorgeous arias and ensemble pieces? The cast is in good hands with Shaw too.

The director is a former singer himself with more than 100 stage productions and 35 operatic roles to his credit, before he retired to co-found and serve as artistic director of the L.A.based Pacific Opera Project (POP). He knows the challenges of singing on the move.

“I can’t imagine trying to tell people what to do without knowing what it’s like,” he said. “Opera is so different in terms of demands, especially the physicality, which is something we focus on. At POP, we mostly do comedies, so I’m familiar with running around and doing choreography while you’re trying to sing. The singer’s perspective is always high in my mind.”

Fortunately, OSB’s chief Kostis Protopapas has put together an amazing array of artists for Barber’s cast, in which virtually every member with a significant role boasts at least a time or two on the stage with The Met in New York on their resumés. “The cast is young, attractive, and very accomplished,” Shaw said. “I think Kostis brought me up from L.A. because he has these great singing actors who can do the shtick that I create.”

Which won’t be quite as “out there” as his version of Abduction, which updated the book for the Mozart opera he described as “cheesy without being funny, but with some of the best music Mozart ever wrote” and became a big hit now entering its eighth production this fall. But for this moment in this place, Barber is best for Santa Barbara, Shaw said. “What’s so great is the timing. Barber is the right opera and the right time after all that’s happened (with the fire and mudslide). Such a lighthearted comedy is just what’s needed. Everybody will be walking out with a smile.”

(Opera Santa Barbara presents The Barber of Seville at 7:30 pm Friday, March 2, and 2:30 pm Sunday, March 4, at The Granada Theatre. Call 8992222 or visit www.granadasb.org.)

Muppets, MalkovichMeister and More

For Santa Barbara’s first PuppetPalooza, creator Mitchell Kriegman has come up with a festival so vast and imaginatively populated with puppets, marionettes, and just about every other possible permutation of the genre giant and small, including literally the hand and glove, even his own character Clarissa might have a hard time explaining it all to you. Kriegman – a three-time Emmy winner as a creator, developer, and/

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Brilliant Thoughts

by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara with wife Dorothy since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com

Who Scares?

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espite FDR’s famous dictum, that “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” we do have plenty of other things to be afraid of. But what matters is how we deal with them. The ones really worth fearing are those we can’t prevent and can’t adequately insure against.

Crossing a street is a chance we all take, at least occasionally. On any particular occasion, the chances are good you’ll make it safely across. Perhaps in your whole life, just one time you won’t. I lived 77 years before that happened to me and can only hope that it improves my odds against it ever happening again.

Some people are labeled “accident-prone.” Maybe they simply have bad luck. After all, regardless of the activity, the laws of probability bunch most of us in the middle – but there are always some at the edges, who will have more accidents, or more good luck, than the rest of us. (It’s that old “Bell-shaped curve” again.)

There are some people, called actuaries, who spend their whole professional lives calculating risks. I’ve often wondered how the nature of their work affects their personal lives. Do actuaries go in for hazardous sports such as mountaineering? What insur-

ance do they buy? Does Las Vegastype gambling appeal to them?

As for the rest of us, where does fear come in? Over the long haul, it has unquestionably helped us to survive. What matters is to be afraid of the right things, at the right time, in the right way, and not to waste your emotional energy being afraid of

where, in order for their affliction to get into the reference books.

But the point is that these are all irrational fears, and no normal, healthy person should be troubled by them.

However, the distinctions are not cut and dried. An otherwise normal person may be terrified when confronting a spider or some other kind of insect.

(Fortunately, when I’ve been present on such occasions, I have been able to play the brave hero and come to the rescue.) And the fear some people (stereotypically women) might display in the presence of a relatively harmless little mouse has long been considered a supposedly comic phenomenon, with the victim standing on a chair and crying “EEK!” So, what (you may ask) am I per-

process of continued aging and dying.

Otherwise, my fears are relatively minor, possibly the biggest one being of catching somebody’s cold or flu or any other communicable disease – so I quickly withdraw myself from any such chance of contact. I’ll also admit to being fearful of firearms and don’t even like being near one.

I’m glad there are things that many other people seem to be afraid of, which don’t frighten me – such as thunder and lightning, or flying, or even riding a bicycle. I’m not afraid of embarrassment –no longer having much to be embarrassed about.

I’m also not afraid of loss of privacy, which seems to be a big issue to many people nowadays. As for such major matters as global warming, nuclear

I am still afraid of the process of continued aging and dying things that aren’t really dangerous. In its worst forms, this can amount to a mental illness, which the shrinks call a phobia.

You’d be amazed at how many different phobias there are, and how strange, not to say crazy, some of them sound. Of course, there are the wellknown ones, such as fear of heights, or of dogs, or of germs. But Roget’s Thesaurus lists hundreds of them, including fear of skin (dermatophobia), fear of leaves (phyllophobia), and fear of ideas (ideophobia). Some of the phobias listed must be quite rare, but presumably each of them must have been suffered by somebody some-

sonally afraid of? I would put loss at the top of my list – particularly losing friends and other people close to me, and losing my own remaining physical and mental abilities. I’m not afraid of death per se (though I couldn’t always have said that – for many years I was beset by occasional fits of terror at the thought of ceasing to exist). But I am still afraid of the dreary

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sion set of goals for year one?

AFSB year one for me is jam-packed.

A huge focus for the organization is to continue the expansion of the Teen Arts Mentorship Program in North County and South in Carpinteria. I am also planning to meet all of our donors and supporters. The Arts Fund has 35 years of history in this community, and we have such amazing partnerships with individuals, foundations, businesses, and other art nonprofits. It is important for me to meet and connect with them all and show our appreciation.

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Arts Fund SB’s New Executive Director

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ur Town’s latest millennial superstar is Torrie Cutbirth, artist, arts community enthusiast, and recently appointed executive director of the Arts Fund Santa Barbara [AFSB]. She is making headway as the youngest E.D. for the organization with an art background, education, and passion to move its mission forward.

I met with Torrie at the AFSB gallery to talk about it: Q. How did you come to the AFSB and explain your evolution to executive director?

A. My experience with AFSB and evolution to its executive director role has really come full-circle. I grew up in Santa Barbara and first experienced AFSB in high school participating in its Teen Arts Mentorship Program.

Like many other students who went through the program, the work I created contributed to my scholarship award to attend Cornell University for my undergraduate art degree. Upon graduation, I reached out to AFSB to volunteer. I feel fortunate because I was able to work with Marcello Ricci (former executive director) on a number of projects, and later hired as assistant director. I gained experience and knowledge in all of the amazing programs that AFSB does. In late 2017, Marcello decided to move to New York City, and I applied for the executive director position, which I was granted in November. I am so excited and happy to be able to be part of such a great organization that truly focuses

What does 2018 look like for the AFSB Gallery and programs?

We have six exhibitions on the schedule for 2018, including a fiber arts show, mail art show, and our Teen Arts Mentorship exhibition. Programs will continue to expand. We’re offering new art classes with new teachers, and a few new mural projects are in the works for the Funk Zone Public Art Program.

Torrie Cutbirth, newly appointed executive director for the Arts Fund SB

Where do you see the AFSB going under your directorship?

One of the many things I love most is that the organization has always evolved with the needs of the community. As the newest director, I really want to be as involved and connected in the community as possible. I plan to evaluate how our programs are serving our county and to continue to evolve our programs to do so. We’ve expanded the Teen Mentorship classes in North County from one class in 2015 to six classes in 2017. I’m invested in continuing to expand the program further in both north and south counties.

For the Funk Zone Public Art Program, I look forward to continuing our relationships with the City, artists, and property owners to continue to facilitate public art pieces being created. As always, we have some special projects in development and will announce them throughout the coming year.

on fostering the arts in Santa Barbara County.

Your art background, education, and interest in art...

I knew I wanted to be an artist since I was 5 years old. Some of my earliest and most fond memories were sitting at the kitchen table painting with my grandma. I continued to pursue art through school, obtaining my BFA from Cornell. Prior to volunteering at the Arts Fund, I worked with Marcello in the Funk Zone at Gone Gallery and GraySpace doing exhibition installations and E-Newsletters. I have a lot of love for all art forms but am particularly interested in painting and printmaking, and have exhibited in California and New York.

As the new E.D., what is your first mis-

The AFSB is up for a countywide recognition award...

Yes! 2018 is a big year for celebrations for our organization. We are truly honored that the SB County Arts Commission is awarding us the Leadership in Art Award, for our “significant impact on the arts and culture of our region through innovative thinking and exemplary commitment to promoting, sustaining, and advancing our quality of life through the arts.” In addition, we are celebrating the 35th anniversary of the AFSB, the 25th anniversary of our Teen Mentorship Program, the 5th anniversary of coordinating the Funk Zone Art Walk, the continuing of our community gallery guest curator program, and our stewardship of the Funk Zone Public Art Project with over 15 public art projects in the Funk Zone and Santa Maria. The AFBS would not be where it is today without the continued and generous support of the community, its board members, and donors, and its co-founders, Joanne Holderman and Shirley Dettmann.

Anything else you’d like us to mention?

We invite the community to drop in the gallery at 205 C Santa Barbara Street, say hi, and learn more about our organization! I am always encouraging people to share their thoughts, needs, and vision for our community.

As [part of] a nonprofit that has been serving SB County for 35 years, I want to continue to grow the AFSB with the community’s needs. We are launching our new website and donor membership in the coming month, so please check out our website for more details: www.artsfundsb.org and be sure to check out our Instagram @arts fundsb where we post our upcoming events and gallery exhibits.

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drive by. The kids sitting up in the bed asked if I needed rescuing. It seemed like a strange question. I slipped on my hiking boots and headed out for a look at the creek. This was exciting.

I didn’t know then about the missing and the dead.

Being in a voluntary evacuation zone, we didn’t leave the night before the storm. Like most of Montecito, we were up repeatedly with sounds of wind, rain, and the force of the flood.

There was a loud bang that woke us.

When we looked out our bedroom window, Montecito was lit up like there was another fire. A 21-inch gas line had exploded and sent a torch 10 feet into the sky. In the morning, the sun rose to meet a clear sky.

For the next three days, we were on an island with debris and mayhem all around us. The houses along San Ysidro were mostly undamaged but bordered on both sides by mudchoked creeks. Rain, unimpeded by vegetation, stripped the soil from the fire-exposed hills above Montecito and tumbled down Olive Mill Road.

The muddy stream took out everything in its path. At the intersection with the 101 freeway, the land levels out before it comes to the ocean and the remains from the flood settled.

The debris brought down by the force of the muddy water included tires, balls, wood, tree branches, and rocks as large as the room of a house.

The destruction was unbelievable.

It was impossible to get out of our neighborhood, unless you walked and then you couldn’t get back in.

Normally, we lived behind hedges, walls, and security systems. Now we were too bored without cable TV or Internet to stay at home. We were out and about to look at the damage. We were mingling with neighbors we rarely encountered on the streets. People were anxious to talk and swap stories about what they had seen and what they had heard. The death and loss had not yet penetrated our psyches.

Eventually, the Army Corps of Engineers took over and wanted

everyone out of Montecito. The sheriff escorted us through the mud as we drove to Santa Barbara. Once at Geoff’s mother’s house, it was like seeing a satellite view of a hurricane.

TV news and newspapers blasted us with images we hadn’t imaged. Uber drivers, store owners, the lady at the coffee shop talked about their connection with the catastrophe. One man at the barstool next to us owned a now-vacant restaurant and was holed up in Santa Barbara. He had to be rescued from his second-story apartment after he had helped a person off an outcropping on the beach. He told also of the naked body they had seen lying on the shore.

In Santa Barbara, we were able to grasp the impacts to the local businesses, as well as the personal trauma.

The fire in December followed by the mudslide had closed restaurants and the 101. Seventy percent of the workforce weren’t getting paid, since they couldn’t get to work. Trucks couldn’t deliver inventory to builders or stores.

The stories came out of everyone you met, each one seemingly more upsetting than the last. When I read the newspaper, I cried for the first time.

Something about touching the paper finally made me feel the impact of the fire on my neighbors in Santa Barbara and in Montecito.

In the aftermath, I follow the news and hope for the best. I had spent three days isolated by the mud-filled creeks. Being outside, talking with neighbors, was reminiscent of a time before computers and cell phones dominated our lives. Now I mourn the lives lost and worry about the rebuilding. But mostly, I long for the sense of community I had found when I was out from behind my hedge.

Dale Zurawski Montecito

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event tragedy. Our community has pulled together in amazing ways, and the MJ is a big part of that local connection.

The picture on the bottom right of page 30 (MJ #24/8) caught my eye, living close to the corner of Olive Mill and Coast Village Road. The picture is actually the corner of San Ysidro and East Valley. It is now the park in front of Pierre Lafond where the proposed rock memorial would be built. You can see the San Ysidro Pharmacy and Pierre Lafond behind the 76 station.

Easy mistake, since there was a 76 station at that location and we had one up until recently at Olive Mill and Coast Village.

These flood history pictures and stories are very revealing how easy we can forget. Unfortunately, I think this one will be much more difficult to ever leave our memories.

Heartfelt wishes to all our families, friends, and neighbors in Montecito.

Keep up the good work.

Mark Olson Montecito (Editor’s note: We stand corrected; thank you for noticing and thank you too for the kind words for Montecito Journal. – J.B.)

MJ Gets Around

Thank you for publishing my letter. I had people tell me they liked it. None were Montecito folks, which tells me that the Journal gets around and seems to have a lot of readers.

We met recently with our Farmers Insurance agent. He said he has a business client on Coast Village Road, and not only did Farmers pay for damage but was also paying employee wages for the time the business was closed. He went by after it reopened and the workers were all thanking him. Also, he got a call from a Montecito client on the morning of January 9 (our agent didn’t even know about the debris flow at the time), concerned because she had hadn’t paid her flood insurance and

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was worried about coverage. Dave said he called Farmers about 9 or 10 am to inquire; they called him back by 1 pm and said all clients were covered as a fire-related disaster.

Makes us glad to have Farmers Insurance.

Judy Pearce Carpinteria

Good Luck to Katy

I have little reason to doubt Richard Mineards’ report that Katy Perry, after amassing an obscene fortune from crooning and warbling, has decided to grow up and become an adult at age 33.

What she is unconsciously saying here, of course, is that adulthood is associated with settling down, getting married, and raising children.

Everything else she’s been doing, no matter how satisfying and profitable, has only been extending her adolescence (almost) to middle age. The real duty of life is giving yourself to something outside yourself – in her case, a husband and children.

These are the chores of adulthood.

Everything else is extending immaturity indefinitely into the future. Some people in the 21st century don’t/never “grow up.”

That’s the major sadness connected to our current-day culture.

Suddenly, I wish Katy Perry much happiness!

David McCalmont Santa Barbara

Time to Get Busy

Montecito cannot get to the next step of the restoration process until all mud debris is removed from private property. I was horrified, shaken, on our recent holiday weekend, after six weeks of avoidance, finally driving my usual route down Olive Mill to enter Southbound 101.

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vate property owner victim-survivors stuck in mud arriving from multiple sources both during and after 1/9.

Shame on government officials for passing the buck, the non-response, or choosing to be ostriches sticking their head in the sand versus removing the mud. Government creates roadblocks only we as a force can remove.

First, hundreds of us – starting with you and me – must immediately and intensely pressure supervisor Das Williams to explain why the successful debris removal program in Sonoma won’t work here. Hold accountable Das and Darcel, Das’s hand-picked organizational guru, to help your neighbor. Call now: (805) 568-2186.

Next, contact Matthew Pontes, deputy CEO of Santa Barbara County and head of all recovery efforts. 568-3400.

Mpontes@countyofsb.org.

Then each of us needs decide how to best help the Bucket Brigade, and the hundreds of victim-survivors, if we don’t physically “Do mud.”

1) Pay your gardener(s) or a strong student to work a weekend for the Bucket Brigade or call Westmont, SBCC, or SBHS Athletics to hire a student; or 2) today mail or call in to make a Bucket Brigade donation of any size: every dollar helps! No tax-deductible gift is too small. The Bucket Brigade/ SBCC Foundation 721 Cliff Drive, SB 93101. (805) 965-0581.

A $200 or larger gift will pay a now underemployed former Montecito gardener, whose client’s home was lost, $18/an hour to work a day assisting our prized Bucket Brigade volunteers, plus pay for some needed supplies. Added feel-good benefit: You’ll be helping a gardener pay his rent, besides contributing to restoration efforts.

A larger gift to the Bucket Brigade will help patch the $70,000 or greater out-of-pocket checkbook gap of founding leaders buying essential supplies, and going forward pay for needs of highly valued volunteers from supplies, protective clothing, and critical meal breaks. Then after you drive through Montecito, reflect.

Envision trading places with a suffering Montecito acquaintance, and your important role in our greater Santa Barbara community.

Think how to restore Montecito. If nothing else, call again your supervisor, Assembly rep Monique Limone, senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, or congressman Salud Carbajal to demand action not side-stepping, double-talk.

Denice Spangler Adams Vista del Montecito (West)

Plan It Together

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taining, may I offer some suggestions for our community as it begins to contemplate a public space memorial for victims of the recent mudslides?

Pace and process are crucial. The grief and agony of victims’ families coming to terms with the reality and specific horror of their loss, and coping with the uncertainty of their future, all require time and emotional equilibrium that can neither be rushed nor prodded. Therefore, prior to any decision regarding a memorial, the concerns, feelings, and pace of recovery of these families should be first and foremost, as their participation in that design process and ultimate outcome is crucial.

Let’s not relinquish a design decision to a select panel without considering first the wishes of the families, and thereafter of the community at large – for this is a community heartbreak as well. Developed proposals from artists in all fields, designers of landscapes, graphics, structures, urban planners – as this will be a public space – should require inquiry and input from victims’ families prior to executing a final presentation. As a public space, of course, safety codes and other issues will prevail; but these are part of the creative process that any designer must confront and resolve. Finally, allow our community to also participate in a final decision, as it will encourage our healing as well.

Much research has confirmed natural elements that suggest flow and regeneration provide comfort, induce contemplation, and encourage hope.

Most obvious are tranquil water elements, the play of light, meandering access, and areas of stillness. Less soothing would be objects or imagery that recall the tragedy or directly caused it. These are best archived for historical reference. Let’s not forget that the families of the victims might frequently visit a memorial site, where their loved ones are remembered publicly. Their sensitivity and concerns must be respected, as their loss is most grievous.

Angela Marasco Gresser Santa Barbara

Saving the Stories

The whole world has seen photos of the wounded village of Montecito in the aftermath of the devastating fires and mudslides. But photos don’t fully capture the spirit of compassion and strength of those who are determined to make our village whole again. Many of us have experienced the thoughtfulness of friends and the kindness of strangers.

It is deeply satisfying to remember these stories.

After weeks of evacuation, it was time to go home. Coast Village Road was opening for business, and I

stopped for breakfast at Jeannine’s before driving up the mountain. But then, as I walked back to my car, suddenly, with no apparent cause, my right knee failed me and I was headed for the cement. I don’t even remember what I grabbed that broke my fall. The pain was excruciating. “Let me help you!” a woman said. In moments, someone brought a chair from a store, someone else offered to call an ambulance or a friend. You might find that kind of response anywhere, but it was just the beginning of this story.

The problem was clear: I couldn’t put any weight on my right leg, much less drive my car. I live with my family, but my daughter and son-in-law were in Australia on vacation. My closest friends had evacuated, many left town, some lost their homes completely, some still couldn’t get through the mud and debris and didn’t know if their houses stood or were demolished. Mine was a small problem compared to theirs, but clearly I needed help.

I’m 83 years old and until the moment I fell, I was confidently independent. I still write books, lead workshops, serve on the Board of Hospice of Santa Barbara, travel alone, and live as I did decades ago, usually painfree. But now...

Now, I was vulnerable and overwhelmed. I wanted to remember the name of the woman who was so helpful. “Nicole Daniels,” she said.

“I can get you home, but you obviously can’t stay there by yourself.” I have never seen a gentler face. You know, the kind that radiates compassion and could pass for an angel, except she doesn’t have wings?

“I know someone who can help you,” she said. “My mother has two caregivers and could spare one for a few days.” She made the call and, within moments, a caregiver appeared in a Jaguar with a well-groomed Pomeranian in the passenger seat.

Well, this is Montecito – why was I surprised?

A man who was passing by came to help me into the car, but my right leg was useless, so it was a bit awkward. They put me in the Jaguar and the driver said, “I’m Stella, this is Bourgeois. ” She introduced the wellgroomed pooch that was determined to sit in my lap.

“I’ll take you home.”

“But what about my car!” How would I get it home? Would it be impounded?

“Don’t worry about that,” Nicole said, “Give me your keys and I’ll follow you home.” Remember, I met this woman only moments ago, but I handed her my car key (house key, mailbox key, safety deposit key, all linked together.)

“My car is about a block from here.

It’s an Infiniti, the color of pinot noir,” I said, looking in the direction where

Imagine Johnny Depp and Lenny Kravitz going out on the town. Wrong! More scarves.

I left it.

It wasn’t long before Nicole pulled up behind us and stayed close as we moved to the freeway and then to the winding road that leads to my home. We ignored the sign that said Road Closed and drove slowly past the boulders that were larger than the car.

Huge trees lay fallen with roots still attached. We drove slowly, around fallen debris. High on the hill, my wooden house was still standing, like a tough old woman who refused to be displaced.

Stella was with me for three days, and I don’t know how I would have managed without her help. My knee is healing nicely. I’m grateful.

“It takes a village,” as they say.

Neighbors help neighbors and strangers help anyone in need. We are a strong community and a compassionate one. We have seen and heard the stories of others with heart-wrenching tragedies and heroes who risked their lives for strangers. It’s important to remember them. But I think we also need to weave the small stories of thoughtfulness into the larger tapestry that forms our memory of this tragedy. When the houses are rebuilt and the bridges restored, when the rivers of mud are carried away, we need to remember what we learned from this disaster. We are more than a town that has suffered.

We are a village that is healing, one story at a time.

Marilee Zdenek Montecito

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SEEN (Continued from page 15) Direct Relief design committee member Kathleen Ousley, former board member Helga Morris, and event chair Jen Jones

Carrie Tighe and Direct Relief president/CEO Thomas Tighe at the gala fundraiser

this outstanding charity. As he said, “We have a network of over 1,400 nonprofit health centers and clinics in all 50 states. We thought about canceling this event due to the tragedy here.

Upon reflection, the boards of SBVF and Director Relief concluded that the purpose for which the event always has been held – to help those in need – is more important now, as the needs exist in our own community.”

The evening began with a VIP reception and the silent auction, mostly wine related. Dinner was the creation of chef John Cox from The Bear and Star restaurant in the Fess Parker hotel in Los Olivos. He has teamed with Parker siblings Eli and Ashley Parker to open this refined ranch cuisine

Chris Kleveland and board person Patricia Kleveland with Beth Green and Steve Green from the board

I remember in the early 1980s when there were only 12 wineries in the whole valley. One of the 12 was that of Fred Brander, who this evening was awarded Vintner of the Year. I only like Sauvignon Blanc made by Brander, but I didn’t realize that Fred is known all over. One master of wine wrote that Fred’s Sauvignon Blancs not only rank as the best in California but also in North America. He’s sometimes called “King of Sauvignon Blanc.” Fred is now creating exceptional Cabernet Sauvignon as well.

Some of the leaders of these groups are SBVF president Steve Fennell, Direct Relief board president Angel Iscovich, M.D., and SBCVA board president Matt Murphy. The event manager was Jen Jones with co-chairs Lori Baur and Gillian Kulp.

Emcee was Chris Harrison, who is host of ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. DawnMarie Kotsonis played the important role of auctioneer for the live auction. At one point, there was a match bid of $50,000. The gala brought in more than $1 million.

During the Thomas Fire, Direct Relief supplied 400,000 N-95 particulate masks to the public. In the hours following the mudslides, they purchased universal terrain vehicles and other equipment, which were immediately deployed and put to use by four lead local response agencies.

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They provided tetanus shots to those working in the debris and more.

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become like heroin, illegal everywhere and available anywhere.

I propose a trial. For a year, let those who would prey on defenseless children in our schools know that they are no longer defenseless. For one year, any teacher willing to be trained in its operation, would be allowed to carry a firearm. Doing this on a trial basis for a year will help to determine if it’s the worst idea in history, as some will say, or if it is a workable answer to deterring school shooters.

Protecting schools with enough guards armed to do so would be cost-prohibitive. Teachers are always with their students and should be given the option of becoming the first line of defense. Those who would decry arming teachers in schools should ask which is the greater threat to the lives of our children: teachers with the ability to defend them, or shooters with the ability to end them?

The purpose of this proposal is not to put teachers in shootouts with shooters. It is to offer a deterrent to prevent shooters from acting at all.

A former Montecito resident

Build the Wall

The plans by President Trump to ”build the wall” is the present day

continuation of this effort to control the very porous 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border which began in 1994 with the George H.W. Bush administration. It was continued by the 1996 Republican Congress and president Bill Clinton.

At that time, three walls were funded for control in California, Arizona, and New Mexico. This was a piecemeal program and resulted in poor quality and incomplete protection, so in 2006, president George W. Bush and Congress passed the bi-partisan Secure Fence Act, HR 6061. This provided for uniform quality fencing from the Pacific Ocean in San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico.

By 2010, 700 miles of construction have been built from San Diego to the Texas Border at a cost of $3.5 million per mile. Some fencing has been built at Brownsville, but the longest unbuilt section of the proposed wall is from New Mexico through Texas along the Rio Grande River, which defines the border in Texas. Fortyseven miles of the original Act are still to be built.

In 2017, President Trump signed Executive Order 13767 to continue the wall development and to deal with this longest unbuilt section of the border wall while improving sections that needed rebuilding. These improved walls may cost $15 billion.

In addition to the walls, the Border Patrol has increased to 20,000 agents, and there have been 8,000 added cameras, 11,000 ground sensors, 107 aircraft, and 84 boats. Plans for the Trump Wall include adding 5,000 more border agents.

Since beginning the wall projects, the illegal alien incursions have gone from 1,189,000 in 2005 to around 170,000 today, except for 2015, in which President Obama allowed 800,000 undocumented children and women from Mexico and Central America to enter the U.S. The border is being intruded every day by drug and illegal aliens, and more needs to be done to get it totally under control. Trump’s wall will help end these problems and clearly mark our sovereign border.

Mexico has complained about the wall plan, but the U.S. has had walls for over 20 years. Mexico has its own walls to stop hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from crossing from Guatemala. At this border, Mexico has built 541 miles of walls and has guards. Colombia is building a fence to control the thousands of illegal aliens escaping from the failed socialist government of Venezuela.

So, it is necessary to complete Trump’s wall if we are to stem the flow of illegals and drug intrusions.

Justin M. Ruhge Lompoc •MJ

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ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 22)

PuppetPalooza, which begins Thursday, March 1, isn’t dangling by a string

or story editor of children and family TV series on Nickelodeon, Disney, and PBS, including Bear in the Big Blue House, Book of Pooh, It’s a Big Big World, Clarissa Explains It All, Rugrats, Ren and Stimpy and Rocko’s Modern Life, among others – envisioned PuppetPalooza as a Fiesta or Solstice-style family celebration.

But this first fest far exceeds either of those long-standing Santa Barbara traditions’ debuts, as it boasts four full days when puppets will virtually take over the city with more than 20 performances and events featuring upward of 30 performers at venues and parks all over town, including the former Macy’s and a vacant storefront in Paseo Nuevo that serves as PuppetPalooza central and has been showcasing several creatures all last month.

Indeed the build-up prior to the

Q. Why puppets?

A. It’s because I have a completely worthless skill set that doesn’t work for anything else. Like (Muppet creator) Jim Henson said, we’re actors from the wrist up. One of the earliest memories was playing a squirrel puppet in preschool. Being able to make the other kids laugh that way was like a magic trick. Puppets are really just one DNA strand removed from magicians. Getting people to care about and believe in a bag of cloth is astounding.

Thursday, March 1, official opening has been quite extensive, what with film screenings, preview parties, workshops at MOXI, Community Arts and Fishbon, and the dashing hand-puppet version of the omnipresent KEYT-TV reporter John Palminteri that might been even more tireless than he is. But the main event is even more impressive, as locals will get a chance to meet The Muppets, perhaps the most famous puppets in history, featuring Kermit, Miss Piggy, and the gang, as well as Phillip Huber, the world-renowned, Emmy award-winning marionettist of Being John Malkovich fame whose creative shows are as captivating as they are complex.

Beyond those two impressive headliners, there’s also Manuel Morán’s bilingual puppet theatre; Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins, who worked with Missy Elliott on her music video “WTF”; Puppetopia, a day full of stiltwalkers, face painting, bubbles, and sock puppet workshops for the kids; and Naked Puppet Theatre, a late-night performance of short puppet acts, including the L.A. Puppetry Guild’s Puppetzilla Puppet Slam, for the over-18 set.

Details, a complete schedule, tickets, and more information are available online at www.puppetpaloo zasb.com.

Why have the Muppets endured?

They speak so many truths. We all see ourselves in our characters.

They embody human foibles and shortcomings, but in charming and endearing ways that are utterly relatable. They’re timeless. And the audience is a participant in what’s happening on stage or screen. The puppets aren’t emoting. Kermit is just a green sack with some white circles and a flap that opens and closes. But in the right hands, that becomes a living, breathing character that people care about and love and laugh at. It’s a symbol and the audience buys into it.

All the main Muppet characters are being interviewed by Debbie McClellan at the festival. What will take place?

It’s like a panel. The four of us will be on stage, and we’ll talk about what we do. We’ll show some exclusive behind-the-scenes material, and we’ll have the puppets there. So, we’ll talk some as ourselves and also as the Muppets, sharing stories, songs, and some audience participation. It’s a rare chance to get a glimpse of how we do what we do, the magic of TV puppetry. You can’t do that with an animated character.

Muppet Madness with Linz

Peter Linz, who was a part of Kriegman’s Bear in the Big Blue House and played Pooh in Book of Pooh, portrays Walter on the Muppets and will also reprise an old role as Snook the Eco Sloth during the other days of the festival. He talked about his craft recently.

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Westmont Theater’s new version of Strauss’s Die Fledermaus (The Bat) doesn’t head into outer space either, but director John Blondell certainly shakes things up according to his oeuvre, which frequently favors movement over words. His brand-new, avant-garde production of the 1874 Viennese romp keeps the music intact but sets the period in modern times, adopting the “funky-chic” influence from haute couture of the present time annual Met Gala, and adding a choreographic staging that replaces much of the dialog with imagery and wordless acting, using silence and movement – as well as interacting with the physical set comprising found objects – to progress the plot. The 23-students cast is joined by members of the Westmont Orchestra, performing on stage in different locations for each

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act. The Bat swoops downtown this weekend also, with shows at 7 pm Friday and Sunday at the New Vic. Info at 965-5400 or www.newvicthe ater.com.

Elsewhere in Classical: Start ’em up

The Catalyst Quartet, which comprises alumni of the internationally acclaimed Sphinx Competition, have become quite a favorite at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s chamber music series. The quartet that has toured throughout the U.S. and abroad, including sold-out performances at the Kennedy Center, Chicago’s Harris Theater, the Met, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center returns to town Thursday, March 1, to perform Hemispheres: North America, which features “Valencia”,

by Caroline Shaw, the Grammywinning singer in Roomful of Teeth and youngest-ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music who was a composer-in-residence at the Music Academy of the West in 2016. Also on the intriguing program: Philip Glass’s String Quartet No. 3; Barber’s “Mishima” String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11; Javier Alvarez’s “Metro Chabacano”; Kevin Putz’s “Credo”; and “Strum”, by Catalyst Quartet member Jessie Montgomery. Info at 963-4364 or www.sbma.net,

Acoustic Alchemy

Fill up your week with folkies and other assorted acoustic artists beginning with David Rawlings (and Gillian Welch) at the Lobero on Friday, March 2. Mystical singer-songwriter Johanna Warren headlines an intriguing event hosted by TOTEM that same night (www.face book.com/events/321892361642829 for details), while Cambridge Drive Concert Series fave Dulcie Taylor returns to the Goleta venue with special guests Dennis Russell and Laura Hemenway. The Lobero also hosts a Sings Like Hell show with the bluesy Chris Smither Trio plus Jackie Venson on Saturday, with other choices including Matt Costa at the Alcazar Theater in Carpinteria, and veteran Ventura/ Ojai folkie Alan Thornhill is at Trinity Backstage.

Back at the Lobero on Tuesday night, March 6, Ghostlight Society has an induction ceremony that also features a performance by the great country chanteuse k.d. lang on her Ingénue Redux Tour, celebrating a milestone for her breakthrough album. Finally, folk-pop frontman Johnny Irion teams with singer-songwriter sidekick John Goodwin for a Tales from the Tavern date at the Maverick in Santa Ynez also featuring The Mammals on Wednesday.

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In Business

by Jon Vreeland

Jon Vreeland is a writer of prose, poetry, plays, and journalism. His memoir, The Taste of Cigarettes, will be published May 22, 2018, with Vine Leaves Press. Vreeland is married to artist Alycia Vreeland and is a father of two beautiful daughters who live in Huntington Beach, where he is from.

The Metamorphosis Continues

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ust last year in the dawn of November, the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission (SBRM) and Frank Schipper Construction began a $10-million renovation on the organization’s 30-year-old building at 535 East Yanonali Street. The devoted neighbors of the 101 freeway and sanitation plant on the southern end of town is the same building that – according to Rolf Geyling, president of the non-profit organization – feeds and houses up to 200 men and women a day among the homeless guests and clients who reside in the successful drug and alcohol treatment program.

For now, the half-a-century-old organization can only house 40 overnight guests: 18 men and 22 women.

When it comes to the men, all bear some kind of medical issue – either physical, mental, or both. And for the women, director of homeless guests for the past year, Stacy Ralston, says the 22 are the “most we’ve had,” and that maybe 20 to 25 percent of the women have issues with addiction. Stacy adds that at least five of the women work full-time jobs and simply cannot afford the rent here in Santa Barbara (which according to

numbeo.com is $1,850 for a one-bedroom), and that more than just some guests simply have no family they can retreat to at all, for that loving assurance only their own DNA can bring.

According to statistics on numbeo. com, for a family of four to live in Santa Barbara California, the family needs $3,321.91 a month to live. But that’s not all. This number excludes rent (which in most regular cases is half of the renter’s bills). Also, and remember, without rent a single person (who we may also recognize as the male species) will need $916.51 to reside alone, and not with total strangers, in the sparkling crusts of the America Riviera, where like everywhere else in California the workers’ minimum wage is $11/hour.

After speaking with numerous Santa Barbarans over the years – who for one reason or another are or have been without a home – I’ve learned that a lot or half of these men and women – mothers, daughters, fathers, sons, sisters, and brothers – trudge the city without a single family member left in their lives at all, if they had anyone to begin with. Nobody to run home to when times get tough. No brother or sister to text and celebrate a

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new job or retirement. No resurrected dreams of a solid childhood from a simple phone call (most likely to a landline if it does exist) – just a family of the dormant psyche in the shadows of opaque dreams.

On the other hand, the director of communications and constituent relations, Rebecca Weber, says the number of dinner guests remains, and that the 53-year-old program can always feed as many people as needed, and never send dinner guests away hungry. Every day at 6 am and 6 pm, the Rescue Mission feeds around 100 guests for breakfast and dinner: burgers, spaghetti, lasagna, a salad bar with fresh watermelon and fruit – conventional meals to which Americans are accustomed.

As of right now, the city of Santa Barbara has more than 90,000 citizens, and the “average monthly net salary (after tax) is, $4,150” per numbeo.com. The Santa Barbara Rescue Mission can normally house around 100 hundred homeless men and women a night. And with the temperatures in Santa Barbara down to the high 30s as of late, PATH has kept their word and opened 100 beds, during the 40-and-below temperatures.

For now, in the City of Santa Barbara, that’s 140 beds for those who fit the descriptions already mentioned, and two hot meals and a cot as they wade through the world’s perpetual inflation amid the deprivation of a loving, or living, mother and father, waiting for the train to sing them to sleep in their cozy nook where, hopefully, nobody will report them for vagrancy – another bill that may just go delinquent.

But founders Chuck and Mary Pope not only opened the Mission to help the homeless eat and get a place to sleep (the capacity started with six overnight guests) but a drug and alcohol treatment program that welcomed the drunk, the addicted, the soon-to-be perished and diseased if their ways didn’t change. What has evolved into the year-long inpatient drug and alcohol treatment program the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission offers – which, according to the organization’s website, show around a 53-percent success rate for graduates in their first five years of post-program tribulations: a stellar statistic – continues to be one of, if not the only, residential living rehab and homeless shelter in the entire city.

In 2018, the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission’s drug-treatment program continues to be well-respected with-

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in the walls of the Santa Barbara Courthouse: “The Santa Barbara Rescue Mission is a wonderful organization that has helped a lot of people in this town,” says Annie Hayes of Hayes and Hayes Law Firm in Santa Barbara. “Not only do they offer daily services for people in need, but they offer life-saving programs for both men and women who struggle with drug or alcohol addictions, and who may be reintegrated into society following incarceration.”

That being said, a recent graduate of the SBRM drug-treatment program, Bronson Thomas Sr., continues his journey into a new-fangled world of sobriety – with a talent he discovered throughout his sober journey that began as a homeless dinner guest not two years ago. Now that he is a Santa Barbara Rescue Mission graduate, he attends Santa Barbara City College, where he also tutors English. And just before the end of 2017, on December 29, Thomas Sr., who once was a lost soul and claimed to “have no life,” submitted a poem to Tuck Magazine and is now a published poet: How painful the frost of the morning, yes, how wicked is its bite It took all day yesterday to thaw out from the previous night Stomach growls from the painful hunger, at least I wasn’t abruptly awaken Beaten by prowling transients left bleeding and violently shaken Never drank alcohol or smoked crack All I want is my childhood back” – a stanza of “What Mourning?” by Bronson Thomas Sr. Now, as for the remodel, the productive aftermath of the dual disasters has consisted of massive footings dug six feet into the earth – metal beams as long as a school bus delivered to the (let’s just say “odoriferous” when the wind gusts north) job site, dropped in the small but noisy backyard under the cacophony of the 101, then installed into the buildings’ structural evolution. This stage of the renovation the average guest or passerby cannot see unless he or she stands between the naked walls and on the bare cement floors; however, the new gargantuan footings and trenches filled with rebar and cement are footings big enough for a grown man to be buried in while standing up, and can be considered the most vital stage of what president Geyling calls a “long overdue” project.

The Santa Barbara Rescue Mission’s next graduation is on Friday, March 23, at Calvary Chapel. On Thursday, March 29, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm is their Easter Feast in the decorated dining hall at 535 East Yanonali Street in lower Santa Barbara. The phone number at the Rescue Mission is: (805) 966-1316.

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themselves and live in the truth of their own experience, takes place Sunday, March 4, in a private home in Samarkand. The meeting consists of silent sitting and a short talk followed by interactive dialogue with Krishna that clears doubts and sheds light on the most important matter of all, which is the active realizing of our original nature. Krishna – who was impacted by the direct and simple message expressed in the nondual Advaita teachings of his spiritual teachers, the European Advaita master Jean Klein, Krishnamurti, and the living disciple Ramana Maharshi, as well as in the pure Buddhist expressions of nondual realization in Zen and Dzogchen – has been offering satsang meetings around the world to share the message of that which you are is ever awake, bright, radiant and present, right here and now.

The final in the Santa Barbara series takes place 7 to 9 pm on March 4, by donation. Call Joyti at 563-4904 for reservations and directions.

Lion, Gale & Britta – Oh, My

Maya Shaw Gale and Rudi Lion are hosting Restoring Relationship: Finding Your Way Back to Deep, Respectful, and Passionate

Connection, a free event for couples at Yoga Soup on Friday night, March 2. Couples of any configuration who may be experiencing boredom, irritation, distancing, a lack of communication, or a feeling of having lost that “spark in the relationship are invited to attend the informative and playful evening to discover new possibilities for a closer and more empowered connection with each other. Lion is an MFT specializing in couples, while Gale is a life coach, somatic therapist, and the creator of Mindful Reconnecting™. Call Maya at 857-1789 to register for the 7 to 9 pm event on March 2.

Britta Gudmunson, the Yoga Soup instructor, co-creator of the new inCourage Chorus (which meets there every Monday night), and the host of a monthly Yoga Soup series on healthy eating, is also an integrative nutrition health coach who is the author of the book Eat Here Now: A bite-sized guide to ritualize your life, nourish your body and feed your spirit.

Her workshop, The Art of Mindful Eating, which takes place 7 to 9 pm on Wednesday, March 7, is for those who want to create a spiritual practice with their food. Get support in extending mindfulness onto the plate and improve your relationship with food in the workshop that will

explore specific techniques for specific health issues and deepen connection with the body. Admission is $15 in advance / $20 day-of. Call 965-8811 or visit www.yogasoup. com.

Community Healing

Paradise Found, the Spirit Owl and SOhO are collaborating in hosting One Heart Community Gathering to support those affected by the Thomas Fire and the Montecito mudslide/ debris flow. The event, slated for next Thursday, March 8, is created as a gathering of hearts to share in an evening of comfort, peace, compassion, and love. Among the offerings are music, song, meditation, and spoken word, from various guests and members of the community, all coming together as one. Doors open at 5:30 pm for mingling, visiting, and sharing in food and drink before the formal program begins at 7 pm, at which point the doors will be closed. Seating is limited for the program portion, which continues until 10:30 pm, and there will be a guest list at the door so you must RSVP to reserve a place at Greetings@ ParadiseFoundSB.com or by phone at 564-3573. No charge, as the gathering is offered as a complimentary giving of hope and love.

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Celebrating History

Entrance to Tuna Canyon Detention Station exhibit

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Remembering Tuna Canyon Detention Station

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he opening ceremonies for the Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s latest exhibit began with a moment of silence and prayer for the victims of the Thomas Fire and the tragic flood/debris flow. Although the exhibit focuses on the victims of another disaster, the wholesale internment of Japanese, German, and Italian residents of California during WWII, the opening ceremonies were a celebration of cultural riches brought to the United States by its Japanese immigrants.

More than 350 people gathered in the museum’s courtyard in February, where the full moon competed with white paper globe lanterns dangling from garlands of lights that illuminated the scene. Dressed in a traditional kimono, Nancy Teramura Hayata performed the lovely crane dance, and the Togen Daiko Drumming Group enthralled the audience with their dynamic performance.

The traveling exhibit, Only the Oaks Remain, which tells the story of the Tuna Canyon Detention Center that was established near Los Angeles 1941, joins Displaced: the Detention and Internment of Santa Barbarans During

Togen Daiko Drumming Group enthralled the audience at the opening ceremony

Dr. Sigrid Toye with Nancy Termura Hayata at the opening ceremony of Only the Oaks Remain, the latest exhibit of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum

WWII. Both exhibits chronicle the experiences of people who were considered enemy aliens, regardless of their citizenship status, and deemed to be security risks to the United States. From Tuna Canyon, whole families were sent to detention camps throughout the western states.

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The impact on loyal U.S. families of foreign descent was devastating.

Baseball great Joe DiMaggio’s father was a fisherman who lost his boat and his livelihood because of the implementation of exclusion zones.

Nikuma Tanouye, a Japanese immigrant whose children were born in the United States, had registered for the draft during WWI and was willing to fight for his adopted country. Instead, in a midnight raid by the FBI who kicked down the door of his house, he was arrested and interned in Tuna Canyon Detention Station. With air-raid sirens screaming through the night, the FBI also arrested Dr. Sigrid Toye’s father, Dr. Eugen Banzhaf, thereby leaving the family without a means of support and vulnerable to anti-German sentiment and harassment.

Today a resident of Santa Barbara, Dr. Toye has produced a film recounting her family’s story, which is part of the exhibition, as are Santa Barbara newspaper accounts of the Japanese attack on Ellwood and articles about the expulsion of local Japanese fami-

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lies. More than 2000 Japanese, Italian, and German detainees were incarcerated at Tuna Canyon, and their names have been gathered onto an honor roll.

Several who attended the opening on Thursday night found the names of fathers, mothers, or grandparents listed on that roll. It was a sobering and moving moment.

On Wednesday, March 28, at 11 am, historian Dr. Jean-Paul deGuzman will share historical images and oral histories of the Tuna Canyon Detention Center. Admission to “The Untold Story of Incarceration and Hysteria in Los Angeles’s Backyard” is free for members and guests, but seating is limited and RSVP is required.

The Santa Barbara Historical Museum collaborated with the Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition and was assisted by the Japanese American National Museum in bringing these stories to Santa Barbara.

Sponsors for the exhibition include Dr. Sigrid Toye, Eleanor Van Cott, Oswald J. DaRos, William Burtness, Schafer Family Foundation, and MarBorg Industries.

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On Law

by Steven A. Blum Steven A. Blum received a law degree from Yale Law School in 1987 and has practiced real estate litigation, specializing in landslides, over the past 30 years in law firms big and small. He lives in Montecito and his website is www.cal-landslidelaw. com. He is a partner of Blum Collins LLP.

Attack of the Frank Galvins: Ambulance Chasing in Montecito

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emember Frank Galvin from Sidney Lumet’s 1982 film, The Verdict? Paul Newman played Galvin, an ambulance-chasing attorney who reads the obituaries to get clients. When we first meet Galvin in the movie, he is bribing funeral directors to let him pass his business cards to the bereaved.

Galvin’s ghosts have been trolling for business in Montecito since the January mudslides. They have bombarded residents with telephone calls pressuring them to join one of the numerous class-action and mass-tort lawsuits that were filed even before residents could return home from the evacuation.

One of my neighbors in Glen Oaks, who lost his home, has been harassed by a lawyer who calls him almost every other day. This lawyer tells my neighbor that he must sue right away or he risks waiving his claims.

Nonsense. Residents have six months from the date of injury to file an administrative claim against a government agency for personal injury or wrongful death, and a year for real property damage. The time limit to sue other defendants is two years for personal injury and three years for damage to real estate.

Some lawyers have “parachuted” into Montecito from places as far away as Texas or Louisiana. They say they are here to “investigate,”

but really they are trying to sign up as many mudslide victims as quickly as possible – without any concern for potential conflicts of interest between clients with opposing goals – so they can create a bandwagon psychology and use the victims as pawns to obtain quick settlements.

Solicitation, the gentler term for ambulance chasing, has long been prohibited because it is fraught with risks of undue influence, intimidation, and over-reaching, especially for physically and emotionally distressed victims recovering from a major disaster.

My mentor 30 years ago was professor Geoffrey Hazard, who struggled to upgrade the integrity of the legal profession. He wrote the modern Model Rules of Professional Conduct for the American Bar Association (ABA). As he told it, the prohibition on solicitation dates back to medieval England. (The old word, still in use, is “barratry.”) Solicitation was believed to “stir up” unnecessary litigation, which was a crime in England since at least the 14th century.

In Colonial America, when many people represented themselves in court, many colonies prohibited lawyers from making “any kind of reward or profit directly or indirectly” for representing clients. The result was a black market for legal representation, where lawyers actively solicit-

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ed business and were condemned by contemporaries such as John Adams for fomenting lawsuits.

Direct solicitation by lawyers remained commonplace through most of the 19th century, until it was curbed

by State Bar Association regulations.

In a 1905 speech, President Theodore Roosevelt rebuked attorney misconduct, and the ABA adopted the 1908 Ethical Canons, which stated, “[S]olicitation of business by circulars or advertisements, or by personal communications or interviews, not warranted by personal relations, is unprofessional.” Today, this rule might be considered classist or even a violation of the right of free speech.

California Rule or Professional Conduct 7.3 states, “A lawyer shall not by in-person, live telephone, or real-time electronic contact solicit professional employment from a prospective client when a significant motive for the lawyer’s doing so is the lawyer’s pecuniary gain ....”

In a 1978 case, the United States Supreme Court upheld the prohibition on direct client solicitation.

An Ohio lawyer had contacted the parents of an 18-year-old driver injured in a car accident and signed her up with a contingency fee agreement. (The lawyer gets a percentage of the recovery.) This Galvin-ish fellow then approached a passenger at her home on the day she was released from the hospital and secured another contingency fee agreement.

Both clients later fired the attorney, so he sued them for breach of contract and settled for part of the driver’s insurance money. The clients filed complaints with the Ohio State Bar Association and the attorney was indefinitely suspended.

The case went to the United States Supreme Court, which held: “[t]he solicitation of business by a lawyer [poses] a significant potential for MontJournal_February28th'18:Layout 1 harm to the prospective client.” The court warned that “in-person solici-

tation may exert pressure and often demands an immediate response, without providing an opportunity for comparison or reflection.”

The California State Bar has enforced its rules against solicitation for the same reason. It even prohibits lawyers from participating in mass disaster victim Internet chat rooms because the lawyer’s conduct is intrusive and even coercive – “visitors to the chat room are inhibited from making a reasonable judgment about retaining [an attorney] because of their physical, emotional, or mental state.”

The rules against solicitation discussed above bar some of the over-aggressive efforts by lawyers to sign up vulnerable mudslide victims in Montecito. The lawyers sometime falsely warn that if victims and relatives fail to take immediate action, they will lose their legal rights to compensation.

The Frank Galvins who say that you are running out of time to sue are more desperate than their prospective clients. Heal first. There will be plenty of time to litigate. For those who have already signed up with a lawyer through improper solicitation, California law (Business and Professions Code section 6154) says that any contract secured by an attorney through improper solicitation may be void.

Attorneys have a special duty of loyalty to their clients, and the vast majority are careful to adhere to the profession’s ethical standards. With some limitations, legal advertising is allowed and, indeed, provides a service to the community. But clients should be aware of their own emotional and economic vulnerabilities and take care in moving forward.

This is the fifth in a series of articles about the law and the Montecito mudslides. You can read the first four articles on montecitojournal.net, volume 24, 2/21/18 4:01 PM Page 1 issues 4-7, or email blum@blumcollins. com •MJ

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In the evening, the party transitioned to an after-bash with Santa Barbara reggae band Iration headlining as they were joined by David Crosby, Robby Krieger of The Doors, Caverns, The Feal, and DJs Zeke Monarrez, Suzanne Boisvert, and Matt Moore.

“There is a lot of need in the community right now,” says Eric. “One805 is a great option for those who want their contributions to have wide-reaching and lasting impact. We are letting those who serve on the front lines determine the best use of the funds we have raised.” (All Kick Ash photos taken by Priscilla) Fine Wine Pioneering winemaker Fred Brander was honored as Vintner of the Year at a socially gridlocked gala in aid of Direct Relief at the RitzCarlton Bacara.

The biennial oenophile bash and wine auction, which attracted 600 guests and was emceed by The Bachelor host Chris Harrison, raised a hefty $1.2 million, with a third of the mon-

ies benefitting victims of the Thomas Fire and the Montecito mudslides and flash floods.

Fred, who started his flourishing business with 40 acres in Los Olivos in 1975, received a ceramic Mexican vase reflecting his passion for the country’s folk art from Steve Fennell, president of the Santa Barbara Vintners Foundation.

His popular Santa Ynez Valley vineyard specializes in Bordeaux varietals, including Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon.

Among the guests lauding Fred, who was born in Argentina and became the architect for the Los Olivos-Santa Ynez AVA – American Viticultural Area – were Thomas Tighe, Andrew Firestone, Eli Parker, Salud Carbajal, Das Williams, Fabian Bravo, Steve Clifton, Doug Margerum, Kenneth Kahn, and Shelby Sim. String Thing The incomparable Danish String Quartet returned for another UCSB Arts & Lectures sold-out concert at Campbell Hall.

The fab four – violinists Frederik Oland and Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen, cellist Fredrik Schoyen Sjolin, and violist Asbjorn Norgaard – were on top form, playing classical works by Haydn, Mozart, and Brahms.

The only exception came after the intermission when the Copenhagen quartet, whose U.S. tour includes 30 performances across 17 states, played 44-year-old German composer Jorg Widmann’s extraordinary work Jagdquartett, an evocation of hunting with galloping rhythms and exuberant Fred Brander, Victoria Foyt, Megan and Fabian Bravo, Fred’s winemaker

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vocal cries.

It is nice to note, according to Miller McCune executive director Celesta Billeci, they will now be an annual feature of the popular series program.

Santa Barbara Wine + Food Festival Kick Off 2018 at Grassini Family Vineyards Tasting Room in El Paseo.

(From left): Rebecca and Chris Coulter, Katie Grassini, and Diane Devine (photo

by Briana Tivey)

Tickling the Ivories

Keyboard master Peter Serkin mesmerizes (photo

by Regina Touhey Serkin)

Peter Serkin showed his mastery of the piano keyboard when he performed in a CAMA Masterseries concert at the Lobero.

The Grammy-winning son of the late legendary pianist Rudolf Serkin and grandson of the famed violinist-composer Adolf Busch played Bach’s challenging Goldberg Variations – which he has recorded four times – along with two works by Mozart, Adagio in B minor and Sonata No. 17 in B-flat Major.

A master of his art on his fifth Masterseries visit.

History in the Making Santa Barbara Natural History Museum’s 31st annual Wine and Food Festival on June 30 is going to be the biggest and best yet, raising around $110,000, predicts president Luke Swetland.

The popular tourist attraction hosted a pre-fest bash for 60 guests at the Grassini Wine tasting room in El Paseo to promote the event.

“There will be more food and wine offerings,” says Luke. “It is a very impactful event for us and directly helps the museum’s bottom line.”

Among those snaffling the C’est Cheese canapés and quaffing the Grassini wines were Brad Burk, Meridith Moore, Denis Volich, Tory Milazzo, Leane Orsua, Rochelle Rose, Chris and Barbara Hill, Katie Grassini, Ellie Olsztynski, Tom Shapiro, and Stuart Woodward.

A Cut Above Josh Shaw, who is directing Opera Santa Barbara’s upcoming production of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, found his role particularly challenging when staffers threw down the gauntlet for him to make his own barber’s visit for some major trimming of his bountiful bushy beard.

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Andrew Morton received secret cassette tapes from Prince Charles’s thenwife before publishing Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words, a worldwide best seller in 1992.

Written by James Clements, who will play the part of the author, the production is set to debut in London this summer and will make its New York premiere in May. A Farewell to Archie

(from left) Krista Fahy, Linda Miller, and Amy Carpenter of SBMNH (photo by Briana Tivey) Archie McLaren, R.I.P.

So Shaw, who is artistic director of the Pacific Opera Project in Los Angeles, made a short trip to master barber Jorge Salgado’s shop, just a tiara’s toss across the road from the Granada, where the show opens on Friday, March 2, for two performances.

Salgado has been cutting lengthy locks since the age of 11 and his upscale State Street store features irreplaceable antique barber chairs and even TV cowboy Gene Autry’s personal leather chair with silver accents.

“Josh, with his new trim and neat beard, is now ready to face the audience for those standing ovations sure to follow each performance,” predicts marketing director Marylove Thralls.

Hair-raising stuff.

Boots Made for Walkin’ There was a lot of sole searching going on when the Granada staged the Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper Tony Award musical Kinky Boots, based on the 2005 film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as a drag queen who saves a failing shoe factory in Northampton, England.

Eight years later, Ejiofor was nominated for an Oscar in 12 Years a Slave, but Jos N. Banks in the Theater League production was well up to the principal role, playing it to the hilt, or should I say the thigh.

Scenic designer David Rockwell, who I used to know in New York when he did one of his first restaurant projects, Il Palazzo, for friends of mine, Bruce and Arnold Zimberg, well captured the drab interior of factory life, while music director Kevin Casey and his nine-piece band accompanied with

energetic catchy numbers.

A great show.

Water World Montecito’s newest celebrity resident, Natalie Portman, has revealed she had a mistaken pregnant pause.

At the end of her pregnancy last year, the Oscar-winning actress thought her water had broken when she was expecting her second child, Amalia.

Harvard graduate Natalie says it happened when she was picking up her son, Aleph, from school as she called her husband, Benjamin Millepied, the doctor and midwife to go to hospital.

It was only later, she told TV talkshow host Jimmy Kimmel, that she realized it was actually a leaking water bottle from her son’s backpack dripping on her.

From Page to Stage The story of how the late Princess Diana leaked her tell-all tales for an explosive book on life inside the British Royal Family is being turned into a stage play.

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On a personal note, I mark the untimely passing of the irrepressible beret-wearing Archie McLaren, founder of the Central Coast Wine Classic.

Archie, 75, who hosted the KEYTTV show, Wine Country, for two years, had been battling pancreatic cancer at his rainbow-colored home in Avila Beach, where I last saw him before Christmas, when I was under mandatory evacuation from the Thomas Fire.

The affable philanthropist organized his 32nd and last classic in Santa Barbara last year, raising several million dollars for 130 local charities.

A tremendous character who will be much missed.

Sightings: Oscar winner Jeff Bridges masticating at Opal...Oscar winner Michael Keaton at Ca’Dario...NewsPress publishers Wendy McCaw and Arthur von Wiesenberger noshing at Trattoria Mollie Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C11 Elevator Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess the above mentioned license at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being nonresponsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total for the first/initial year will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. If the renewal options are exercised, new bonds shall be required.

Bidders are hereby notified that a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total for the first/initial year will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000.

The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. If the renewal options are exercised, new bonds shall be required.

Bidders are hereby notified that they shall furnish a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashier’s certified check, payable to the order of the City, in the amount of 10% of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. When submitting a bid via PlanetBids™, the Bid Guaranty Bond must be uploaded as part of your submittal AND the original Bid Guaranty Bond must be received by the bid date and time to be considered responsive.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.

_________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: February 28, 2018 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Multi-Media Moguls; Signature PR Pros, 1187 Coast Village Road #736, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Annamarie Seabright, 1187 Coast Village Road #736, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This

statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 1, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Margarita Silva.

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A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on March 13, 2018 1:00 p.m., at El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant located at 520 E Yanonali St, Santa Barbara, CA to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please be punctual since late arrivals may be excluded from submitting a bid.

Scope of work includes relocation of fence at the El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant, identical to the existing fence, to be constructed along the northern edge of its property.

The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.

The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein.

Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C13 Fencing Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess the above mentioned license at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total for the first/initial year will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Bidders are hereby notified that a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total for the first/initial year will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Bidders are hereby notified that they shall furnish a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashier’s certified check, payable to the order of the City, in the amount of 10% of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. When submitting a bid via PlanetBids™, the Bid Guaranty Bond must be uploaded as part of your submittal AND the original Bid Guaranty Bond must be received by the bid date and time to be considered responsive.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: February 28, 2018 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

FBN No. 2018-0000379. Published February 28, March 7, 14, 21, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANNEXX; ANNEXXHOMES; ANNEXX, LLC; ANNEXXLAB;

ANNEXXBLOOM, 1117 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. ANNEXX, LLC, 1805 Chapala St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 6, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify

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that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2018-0000424. Published February 28, March 7, 14, 21, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: C.P. Notary Services; P. Human Capital Services, PO Box 3071, Santa Maria, CA 93457. Consuelo Palacios, 429 El Cerrito, Santa Maria, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 16, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Marlene Ashcom.

FBN No. 2018-0000522. Published February 21, 28, March 7, 14, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Montecito Sweets; Erica Urech Photography, 101 Palm Tree Lane, Montecito, CA 93108. Erica H Urech, 101 Palm Tree Lane, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 25, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Deputy Clerk. FBN No. 2018-0000289. Published February 21, 28, March 7, 14, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Clear Choice Estate Services; The Clear Choice, 1187 Coast Village Road Suite #740, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Kenneth Hieronymus, 2111 Shadow Creek Dr., Oxnard, CA 93036. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 14, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran.

FBN No. 2018-0000499. Published February 21, 28, March 7, 14, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Marbella Boutique, 801 Hot Springs Road, Montecito, CA 93108. Caroline Encell, 801 Hot Springs Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 13, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2018-0000493. Published February 21, 28, March 7, 14, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Empire Landscape Company, 1208 Alden Ct., Lompoc, CA 93436. Carlos JR Sanchez, 1208 Alden Ct., Lompoc, CA 93436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 6, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Mary Soto. FBN No. 2018-0000415. Published February 21, 28, March 7, 14, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Overland Protective Services, INC, 1517 Stowell Center Plaza, Suite L, Santa Maria, CA 93458. Overland Protective Services, INC, 1517 Stowell Center Plaza, Suite L, Santa Maria, CA 93458. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 14, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Marlene Ashcom.

FBN No. 2018-0000508. Published February 21, 28, March 7, 14, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Elite Athletix, 465 E Clark Avenue, Orcutt, CA 93455. Tyrome Lee, 1440 Marsala Avenue, Santa Maria, CA 93458. Michael Richard Romero, 465 E Clark Avenue, Orcutt, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa

Barbara County on February 7, 2018.

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

FBN No. 2018-0000438. Published February 14, 21, 28, March 7, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 93108FUND.ORG, 1482 E Valley RD #514, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Win Win Give INC, 104 Divisadero ST, San Francisco, CA 94117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 29, 2018.

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

FBN No. 2018-0000317. Published February 14, 21, 28, March 7, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Children’s Department, 1187 Coast Village Road STE 420, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Minemine Kids, INC, 1225 Coast Village Road, STE C, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 31, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN No. 2018-0000355. Published February 14, 21, 28, March 7, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Montecito Candle Company, 446 Old Coast HWY, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

Christa Lococo, 446 Old Coast HWY, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 29, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Margarita Silva. FBN No. 2018-0000320.

Published February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mission Villa, 321 W Mission St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Dana Newquist, 605 Juan Crespi LN, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 2, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2018-0000397.

Published February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Merry Maids of Santa Barbara and Santa Maria, 3130 Skyway Dr. Unit 404, Santa Maria, CA 93455. K W Holding, 416 S Elm St Unit B, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 30, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Deborah Sanchez. FBN No. 2018-0000330.

Published February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2018.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 18CV00643. To all interested parties: Petitioner Peter Avery Mendel filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Tokpa Korlo. 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 21, 2018 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: April 18, 2018 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published February 28, March 7, 14, 21, 2018.

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EDITORIAL (Continued from page 21)

Risk #1 Possibility of Another Catastrophic Event

Every homeowner in Montecito is deeply concerned over the future risk of a mud and debris flow, fire, or earthquake that could dislodge the boulders above Montecito. Rob Lewin, director, County Office of Emergency Management says: “Let us not be fooled that the 1/9 storm has flushed the debris from the mountains. To the contrary, the canyons are still loaded with rocks, sediment, and other debris.”

Montecito has recently been segmented into three risk categories – all bad: 1) Extreme risk near a creek or channel (the Red Zone). These properties are at extreme risk of debris flows from water overtopping stream banks, creating high-velocity debris flows of rocks, mud, and water that cause destruction.

2) High risk between creeks and channels (the Yellow Zone). These properties are at high risk as creeks and channels may leave their regular courses, impact properties and roads, and isolate residents for multiple days or longer.

Roads may become impassable and deadly. Utilities may become disrupted or destroyed.

3) High-risk burn area (the Grey Zone). These properties are at risk from mudslides and rocks from the slopes above, or by debris that is carried down the watercourses from high-up on the mountain.

County sheriff Bill Brown has warned Montecito residents there is a strong possibility of future debris flow and the need for future evacuations. He says the new normal is “extensive danger.” It will take less rain to move debris than it did on 1/9. If anticipated rainfall is projected to be a half-inch per hour or greater, a mandatory evacuation notice will be sent to both Red Zone and Yellow Zone homes. Access to local roads in Montecito will be closed off by the California Highway Patrol two hours before a projected major storm. All voluntary evacuation notices have been eliminated. Personal discretion is not an option.

Harry Kolb describes the real estate risk this way: “Everything depends on if we have another major flood within the next few years, or another rain event forces our creeks to overflow. The damage to real estate values will be severe and long-lasting.” Adds Kolb, “I expect that each brokerage firm will require a disclosure that is quite discouraging, just to be on the safe side of any possible future liability.”

Risk #2

The Cost and Future Availability of Disaster Insurance

Wendy Gragg asks: “Will catastrophic insurance for fire, flood, and earthquakes be available for homeowners and, if so, at what price? Some homeowners are reporting that their insurance companies are cooperating, while others have had to retain attorneys to settle claims on their behalf. Disputes range from evacuation reimbursements to mud removal to replacement values for homes and furnishings, to repeated deductibles to landscaping damage.

Litigation will delay the rebuilding process and negatively impact the aesthetics of this community.”

Harry Kolb adds: “Any adjustment by insurance companies to reduce liability by reducing coverage would have a significant, if not destructive, effect on real estate sales. It would red-line our community as unsafe.”

Risk #3

The Possibility of Montecito Running out of an Available and Affordable Supply of Drinking Water

Montecito cannot decide whether to “pray for rain” or “pray for drought.”

Rain can bring massive mud and debris flows, but prolonged drought brings an end to Montecito’s character as we know it. If Montecito becomes a Cape Town, South Africa, with no drinking water, we should take every water manager presiding over his or her own fiefdom and feed them to the “Great Whites” for failure to find and fund cooperative solutions to a water shortage that is staring us right in the face.

Risk #4 Traffic, Noise, and Parking Woes

Encell worries that “new buyers in Montecito will be looking at years of traffic congestion, noise, and parking problems associated with cleanup and rebuilding in Montecito.” Kolb suggests that fast “bridge repairs are the secret to greater mobility.” Caltrans and County Public Works need to get 192 East 1 – 8 March 2018

What real estate pros say about property values going forward: Dan Encell: “Most Montecito residents are committed to our community come fire or high water. People who can afford to live anywhere in the world will still choose Montecito. We need to work together as a community to overcome whatever obstacles come our way.”

Harry Kolb: “The public has a very short memory, but because these twin events were so significant and received so much global attention, recovery may take much longer.”

Suzanne Perkins: “My crystal ball is foggy. Sales of homes are down but will get better when buyers can get to properties more easily. No one seems to want any properties that were damaged or destroyed in the mudflow area. Unique, undamaged properties are still going to command interest.”

Dinah Landi: “With the tragic death of Rebecca Riskin in the debris flow, Riskin Partners has been emotionally affected by this personal disaster. It is too early to tell how the Thomas Fire and subsequent debris flow will impact our real estate market.

The majority of Montecito’s natural beauty remains untouched, although parts of our landscape look different.”

Michael Phillips: “If those who lost their homes choose to remain in Montecito, lower supply and equal demand will assure upward pressure on prices of homes outside the creek areas that were flooded.”

Nigel Copley and Cristal Clarke: “Montecito will always be a commodity in demand, either from local buyers or buyers moving to the area from all over the world.

There will be sellers who make emotional decisions to sell, although we have not yet seen that uptick in activity.”

Wendy Gragg: “Time will tell how this all plays out. I am proud to be a part of such a vibrant and positive community. I am hopeful that the insurance companies will do the right thing and pay homeowners’ claims to get the rebuilding process started.

Montecito is and always will be the very best place in the world to call home.”

Valley Road and our local roads back into service. We need to reduce the gridlock on Coast Village Road, reduce the dirt and grime in this community, and improve the quality of life, or affluent buyers will choose Hope Ranch, La Jolla, or Carmel as attractive alternatives.

A major threat facing Montecito is the continued survival of local businesses on City-owned Coast Village Road and in the upper village of Montecito from growing traffic congestion and parking woes that discourage shoppers.

Risk #5

Changes in Land Use and Permitting for Remodeling or New Construction in the Red Zone

Gragg asks, “Will some homeowners be denied permits to rebuild in the “extreme-risk” Red Zones? Will creek setbacks be modified? What new restrictions will be mandated by County Planning, the Montecito Planning Commission, or the Montecito Board of Architectural Review for homes rebuilt in extremely high-risk areas?”

As to the cost of rebuilding, Encell foresees that “Montecito already had a tight labor supply for construction. The additional labor to rebuild and repair hundreds of new homes will push construction costs even higher.”

The Bottom Line for Montecito?

As Das Williams and Darcel Elliott guide a community effort to develop a locally crafted plan for rebuilding Montecito, five issues need to be included in the agenda: (1) Solutions to lessen or alleviate future debris flows; (2) Regional solutions for water independence at an affordable cost; (3) Assurance of a choice of homeowner insurance policies at a reasonable cost; (4) Improvements in traffic flows in Montecito to protect local businesses and restore quality of life; and (5) Strike the right balance between rebuilding homes in the Red Zone while ensuring smart, safe land use and permitting policies.

If we are serious about rebuilding our community to make it better than it was before, protection of our community character and real estate values should be at the top of the list. •MJ

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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.

Remembering and Rebuilding

I

must say that the events of the past few months sort of slid right past me, both emotionally and literally. I remained stoic as we got past the fires; the flames stopped six houses up the hill from me. We moved back in, sort of.

And then the evacuation warning on January 7, which we heeded… and then the whole of it all, the heroic efforts to save lives and to rebuild our infrastructure, the discovery of those missing and the determination of everyone who worked tirelessly to turn things around these past weeks... just amazing. The lives and property lost, tragic, hitting too close to home for me to even comprehend.

But it is only now, in the rear-view mirror, and with the subtle and not so subtle reminders every day, that these events are sinking in.

It has not been easy becoming accustomed to this new normal. Yes, I know it will get better, but it’s difficult to know what to do when friends no longer have homes, as you drive by and ask where did they move to again? Who is where, when will they come back, can they rebuild or not? Are they okay financially, how’s their health, their art collection, their history...? The questions are endless.

We look to the future for information on how the situation will end up for ourselves and our friends, our businesses, our families and those in our community. It seems we will have to look to the future also to find out where our real estate market lies in terms of sales, values, and the like.

One thing we hear often is that finding and securing insurance is an issue to be addressed more now than ever in a purchase within Montecito. I am not an expert, so I suggest speaking with lenders and title folks, and we can connect you to someone in that area – but for now, looking at sales, here are some basic statistics, as well as a few listings that may be worth considering if you are looking for a home in Montecito.

Due to the fires and floods, few properties have been closing escrow in recent months. The lack of sales makes it difficult to determine what is happening with sale prices versus asking prices, but a positive sign is that there are nine properties that went into escrow since January 9 as of this writing, plus quite a few in this past week. And while still well off the average, there are homes going into escrow, and in various areas of the 93108, which is great to see.

Recent Sales: Only 8+/- properties have closed escrow in the 93108 this year, January 9 to February 25, 2018.

18+/- properties closed escrow in that same time period last year.

33+/- properties closed escrow in that same time period in 2016.

Volume and price point of sales have been lowered by half-year over year, with this season being wildly affected by the 500-year storm event, of course.

All properties mentioned today are within the Montecito Union School District, the area hit hardest by the recent mudslides. These properties represent significant opportunities in one way or the other. From a rarely available ocean view condo to a tennis court estate under $4 million, to a major estate on an A+ block to the only casita available on the market within the Ennisbrook gated community.

1220 Coast Village Road #309: $1,195,000

This is the premier condominium complex on the north side of Coast Village Road and unit #309 is one of the rarely available top-floor, ocean-view units. The 2-bedroom ocean-view condo is in the heart of Montecito’s Coast Village Road, surrounded by restaurants, shops, and conveniences, just a few short blocks to Butterfly Beach; a slightly longer stretch takes one to the bird refuge and pathways leading to East Beach, and toward the pier and marina and all that Santa Barbara’s waterfront offers.

Upgrades to this unit include Asian doors, newer kitchen, tilework, planta-

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tion shutters, and dual master closets. Enjoy ocean views from both bedrooms and living room, as well as from the exterior patio space. This development also features a common area patio, guest parking, and covered parking for one vehicle.

499 Monarch Lane: $2,975,000

This is an opportunity to purchase an “Ennisbrook Casita”, situated at the end of a private cul-de-sac, offering a sunny, private setting. The Casitas are located within the guard-gated community of Ennisbrook in Montecito. The floorplan allows for either a downstairs or upstairs master suite, each with fireplace and mountain views.

The living room boasts beamed cathedral ceilings, tall windows and doors overlooking the brick patio, and mountain views accented with a double-sided fireplace open on the far side to the formal dining room. The kitchen offers a recently upgraded Bosch oven, microwave, dishwasher, and cooktop complete with indoor grill. The adjacent laundry room has a front-loaded washer and dryer. Across the hall is interior access to the 2-car garage where additional storage has been added by the current owners.

In addition to the main common-area clubhouse, the pool, and tennis courts, the 18 Casitas share their own smaller clubhouse, housing gym equipment, and a pool with chaise-lined patio.

1520 Bolero Drive: $3,995,000

Located on just more than an acre, a block up and over from Montecito’s upper village on a quiet street is this tennis court property, ready for a new owner.

This property just hit the market in the last weeks and represents the rare opportunity to own a pool/tennis home in the upper village for less than $4 million. The property is adjacent to a 2+/- estate of some significance, while on the other side is a quiet lane, and to the north, your private tennis court.

The home includes 3 bedrooms and 4 baths in more than 3,400 sq ft of living space. The property is surrounded by a stucco wall and includes a private driveway and off-street parking for guests.

860 Picacho Lane: $13,600,000

In the heart of Montecito’s Golden Quadrangle is this newer, 9,000+ sq-ft Mediterranean estate (2008) boasting privacy, ocean and mountain views, and estate-level amenities. Enjoy gracious formal spaces, a master suite with dual baths and closets, and an expansive ocean view terrace. In addition, there are 3 en-suite bedrooms, nanny/staff room w/bath, playroom, theater, wine cellar, and a first-floor office with bath.

An elevator allows easy access to the second-floor bedrooms. The covered loggia w/fireplace ensures excellent indoor/outdoor living regardless of the season. The 2.2+/- acres host a 1-bedroom guest house, private water source, rose garden, and terraced gardens.

This is a significant estate with newer construction on one of Montecito’s most sought-after locations surrounded by other $10-million+ estates.

For more information on any of these listings or to have me arrange a showing with the listing agents, please contact me directly, Mark@Villagesite.com or call/text (805) 698-2174. Please view my website, www.MontecitoBestBuys.com, from which this article is based.

•MJ

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1 – 8 March 2018

the curious traveler

by Jerry Camarillo Dunn, Jr.

“The Curious Traveler” received the 2011 gold medal for Best Travel Column from the Society of American Travel Writers, in a competition organized by the group’s western chapter. For Jerry’s latest book, see www. myfavoriteplacenatgeo.com.

Maine Round-Up

An Abbreviated Guide to the Holiday Coast of Maine

(In our first thrilling installment, we took a family vacation to Maine. Today we look at popular vacation spots along the state’s coast, from north to south.)

Bar Harbor

Where: In what Maine folks call “Down East” (which is actually up, toward Canada). Bar Harbor lies on Mount Desert Island (actually, linked to the mainland by road) and is the gateway to Acadia National Park. (www.barharborinfo.com) Who: 19th-century visitors came to see the gorgeous maritime scenery depicted by artists of the Hudson River School. As a Gilded Age summer resort, “Bah Habah” drew Astors, Vanderbilts, and other wealthy families who built palatial “cottages.” Sixty-seven summer houses on Millionaires’ Row were destroyed by a fire in 1947; town buildings that survived are now often shops.

To do: My wife, Merry, and I walked Main Street, where the summer crowds rivaled those at Disneyland. Shops sold souvenirs (no shortage of lobster motifs) and tasty local ice cream. At Agamont Park, a green square overlooking a harbor of yachts and lobster boats, we people-watched: a busker singing, hardy New Englanders striding by with shocks of white hair and hiking boots from L.L. Bean. (The company founder’s full name was “Leon Leonwood Bean” – you see why he abbreviated.).

Travel tip: To avoid crowds in a tourist town, do things the locals do.

We attended a library talk by best-selling Maine author Douglas Preston, whose new book, The Lost City of the Monkey God, tells about an expedition to a remote Honduran jungle where he had to deal with poisonous snakes so fierce that one kept trying to bite and spew venom even after its head was cut off. After the talk, he signed books. (Facing long winters, folks in Maine love reading.)

Maine attraction: America’s first national park east of the Mississippi, Acadia has 47,000 acres of woodlands, lakes, beaches, and glacier-cut peaks.

A 27-mile loop road begins at Bar Harbor. One morning, we drove into the park – at least, I think we were in the park. It was so foggy and drizzly, we couldn’t see a thing. Trees faded into the mist like ghosts. At Jordan Pond, a lake with a perimeter trail, hikers set off through the rain wearing only shorts and sweatshirts. (Those hardy New Englanders again!)

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We drove to the granite summit of Cadillac Mountain. At the visitor center, Merry sat in the car while I intrepidly hiked to the gift shop for trail mix. At just 1,530 feet, the peak is the highest point on the East Coast. With its elevation and eastern location, it is one of the first places in the U.S. to see sunrise – a popular time to go.

A park highlight was the lovely (if not originally named) Sand Beach.

Two rocky points framed green waves breaking on shore. About 70 percent of the sand was made up of crushed shells: mussels, sea urchins, periwinkles.

Caution: Maine is tick territory (often found in tall grass). We met numerous local residents whose friends and relatives suffer from tickborne Lyme Disease.

Where to stay: Located away from the hubbub, the Bluenose Inn was a welcome retreat. Our room had a fireplace and balcony. The Looking Glass restaurant offers dramatic hilltop views of the water, a deck, and a menu that includes lobster variations (from excellent bisque to won-tons).

Rates from $119 to $859; (207)2882665, www.barharborhotel.com.

Southwest Harbor

Where: On the quieter side of Mount Desert Island. (www.acadiachamber. com) To do: We popped into the Wendell Gilley Museum, which is devoted to wooden bird carvings. Director Sean Charette pointed out paper flamingos made by local children for the next day’s annual Flamingo Festival.

In the morning, we were on Main Street early for the parade – flatbed trucks overflowing with kids and adults in pink flamingo hats, men walking in fluorescent grass skirts, and of course, Sean from the museum

and his contingent of flapping flamingos. We waved to each other like old friends, a warm bonus of visiting a small town.

But why flamingos in New England? Here’s jewelry shop owner Peter Aylen, a former San Francisco cable car conductor with the gift of gab: “I used to tell tourists that in the past, flamingos flew this far north and landed only in Southwest Harbor.

When that stopped, people put pink plastic flamingos on their lawns to lure them back ... so far with no success.” We all had a chortle over that one. (In truth, the designer of the iconic kitsch bird, the aptly named Don Featherstone, once lived in this area.)

Joining a small-town celebration is a fine way to learn about a place, a good idea for travelers anywhere.

Where to stay: The Harbour Cottage Inn bed-and-breakfast offers 11 rooms and suites in an impeccably decorated 1870 “cottage” with a gracious lawn and gardens. Delicious full breakfast.

Rates from $169 to $279; (207) 2445738, www.harbourcottageinn.com.

Kennebunkport

Where: In southern Maine, one mile up the Kennebunkport River from the ocean. (www.visitthekennebunks. com) What: In the 19th century, boatyards built grand sailing ships here – one-third of the U.S. maritime fleet.

Later, prosperous businessmen created a summer colony of fine houses and hotels. Kennebunkport is still a wealthy enclave, known as the Hamptons of Maine and summer home to former president George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara.

(They sometimes come to town for dinner and last year dropped by a biker bar.)

To do: To glimpse the Bush compound on Walker’s Point, we drove

out Ocean Avenue, which is lined with huge white New England houses. The Bush family retreat stood on a peninsula, shingled and handsome, but not showy. At this summer White House, President Bush hosted Margaret Thatcher and other dignitaries.

We also swung by the beach, a huge horseshoe of sand; the waves actually break in a curve. There were three separately named sections – Mother’s, Middle, and Gooch’s – with surfers riding gentle waves straight in, reminding me of Waikiki. Gulls flapped above colorful umbrellas – a classic summer scene.

The town itself centers on Dock Square, where shops occupy a 200-year-old rum warehouse and other historic buildings. The nearby Greek Revival house named White Columns was built by a trader in the 1800s. With its original furnishings and hand-painted French wallpaper, it operates as a house museum. Docent guide Larry Ryan showed us around and told lively tales of local history – a part of which we were about to spend the night in: Where to stay: We stayed at the handsome Kennebunkport Inn, formerly the 1890s mansion of a tea merchant, on Dock Square. White clapboard with a broad porch, it has 33 rooms in the main building and adjacent Riverhouse. We had the spacious corner Thompson Suite, with a fireplace and a sitting area decorated in a sophisticated blend of antiques and contemporary white and nautical blue. The excellent Burleigh restaurant serves fresh Maine seafood (I had lobster mac ‘n’ cheese with green chili and corn) and imaginative American fare (bourbon-roasted half chicken). The patio bar has live music.

Rates from $99 to $409; (207) 967-2621, www.kennebunkportinn.com; sister properties at www.kennebunkpor tresortcollection.com. •MJ

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

THURSDAY, MARCH 1 1st Thursday – With “Gifts from Around the World” the City Hall Gallery highlights the Santa Barbara Sister Cities program, displaying the various objects that have been contributed to our town by fellow sister cities across the globe over the years.... Santa Barbara Historical Museum lives up to its name with its new exhibits, “Only the Oaks Remain: The Story of Tuna Canyon Detention Station” and “Displaced: The Detention & Internment of Santa Barbarans During WWII”, which tell the stories of families imprisoned by the U.S. Department of Justice during World War II.... Recent 1st Thursday participants ShubinDonaldson Architects’ Anacapa Studios, a research and design campus with a focus on art, architecture and fabrication, showcases R&D of a façade system using innovative signage fabrication technology. Even if you’re not sure what that means, you can still enjoy a glass of wine and a tour of the campus, workshop, and gallery.... 1st Thursday newbie Yuliya Lennon Art Studio (1213 H State Street) hosts its Russian-born British artist namesake, whose works – which range from portraiture to contemporary cityscapes – are inspired by themes including music, dance, and travel....

Sullivan Goss hosts the opening of two exhibits, one of which celebrates a Santa Barbara stalwart with the first solo show at the gallery for beloved local painter Whitney Brooks Abbott. Also on display is

a collection of work by the important American Impressionist Colin Campbell Cooper, plus pieces from Patricia Chidlaw.... Puppets dominate the performance art front as PuppetPalooza officially launches with a 1st Thursday Block Party surrounding De la Guerra Plaza with games, live music, food trucks, and restaurants, and nonstop puppet entertainment in collaboration with the initial festival (see my On Entertainment column in this week’s issue for more).

Elsewhere, the Jazz Villains jam on Marshalls Patio, as the all-teen sextet that formed in the Notes for Notes Eastside Santa Barbara Studio plays a bunch of standards and at least one original song. WHEN: 5 to 8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and environs COST: free INFO: www.santabarbaradowntown.com/ about/1st-thursday HH11 = 4 – In dance math, anyway, as Nebula Dance Lab presents its annual Dance Festival that showcases more than 30 works over three unique shows during the weekend. The fourth season of HH11 – named after an astrological phenomenon – brings together movement artists from Santa Barbara with counterparts from the region, the nation, Canada, and even Hungary. The idea is to both expose the local dance community and fans to choreographers and performers from elsewhere, and to give those companies an opportunity to perform in Santa Barbara’s black box theater that would be a financial challenge in a solo show. Among the visiting

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ONGOING “Hell or High Water”, the second exhibit at Palm Loft Gallery after longtime gallery director Arturo Tello acquired ownership of the “true temple of art and music”, “Hell or High Water” features 18 paintings by Richard Schloss, whose one-man show was interrupted by the fire and floods, plus numerous works by nearly two dozen other artists and friends of the Oak Group. The exhibit serves as a benefit show in support of four families from Carpinteria’s foothills who lost their homes or art studios in the Thomas Fires or the subsequent 1/9 Debris Flow; 50 percent of sales will go to the fund. WHEN: Daily through March 11 WHERE: 410 Palm Avenue, Carpinteria COST: free INFO: 6849700 or www.palmloft.com

artists that range from emerging to established performing new or recent works are LA’s Psychopomp Dance Theater, FUSE Dance, and Louise Reichlin; Orange County’s Embark Dance Theater; Canada’s Kiruthika Rathanaswami; Budapest’s Janos Feledi; and San Francisco’s Peri Trono, while the Santa Barbara companies/choreographers include The Dance Network, SBCC and UCSB Dance, Briana Markovich, Stephen Kelly, Tonia Shimin, and Nebula. The festival opens tonight with the annual Apogee Awards honoring Dance Education & Youth with performances by four local studios and Budapest’s Feledi Project. WHEN: 7 tonight, 8 pm Friday & Saturday, 2 pm Sunday WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $24 general, $19 students ($68/$58 for festival pass, which includes preferred seating and a complimentary beverage at each performance) INFO: 963-0408 or www.CenterStageTheater.org FRIDAY, MARCH 2

ENDING THIS WEEK Santa Barbara Restaurant Week – After experiencing an epic fail with an original concept known as Epicure, Santa Barbara’s culinary crowd has joined the international Restaurant Week brigade that began with a simple Zagatsponsored lunch menu during the Democratic National Convention in New York City 15 years ago. A number of Santa Barbara’s nearly 500 eateries are participating in the event – chaired by Leslee Garafalo, manager of Montecito’s Tre Lune and owner of Santa Barbara Uncorked 00 where the restaurants offer a prix-fixe menu at a reduced price for lunch and dinner, priced at $25 to $45, to offer a foodie experience at accessible and affordable rates. Diners can pick from three options for each course including appetizer, entrée, and dessert. And for its initial season, which runs through this Sunday, March 4, SBRWeek has partnered with the California Restaurant Association Foundation’s (CRAF) Restaurants Care to donate 50 percent of proceeds from restaurant registration to CRAF’s grant program, which offers financial relief for restaurant and hospitality workers who experienced losses during the Thomas Fire and Mudslide. Find the details and list of restaurants online at www. sbrestaurantweeks.com.

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Ayck Attack – It’s been awhile since a Santa Barbara company has presented a play by Alan Ayckbourn, the British master of modern farcical comedy. So, Communicating Doors can’t arrive soon enough, though the action in Ayckbourn’s 46th play has a whole lot of coming and going, through portals both physical and time-related. That’s because time travel is an integral part of the thriller that has as its conceit a London sex specialist from the future stumbling into a murder plot that sends her traveling back in time. She and two women who were murdered in 2004 and 1994 (when Ayckbourn wrote Doors) race back and forth in time trying to rewrite history and

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prevent their own violent ends. Just to set the tone of the thing: the frantic race begins when a sex specialist is hired for an evening by an old man, who eschews a fling in favor of confessing his role in the demise of his wives. SBCC Theatre Group stalwarts George Coe and Leslie Gangl Howe head a cast that also features Felicia Hall, Brittany Harter, Matt Smith, Julia Trites, and Raymond Wallenthin in the production directed by Theatre Department co-chair Katie Laris.

WHEN: Opens 7:30 tonight, performs Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 pm, plus 2 pm Sunday through Saturday, March 17 WHERE: SBCC’s Garvin Theatre, 721 Cliff Drive COST: $14 to $26 INFO: 965-5935 or www.theatregroupsbcc.com Play within a Play – La dama boba (The Daffy Dame), a 1613 comedy by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega that is one of the earliest examples of the “comedia palatina” subgenre, got a barely noticed film adaptation by writerdirector Manuel Iborra back in 2006. Now with Staging the Daffy Dame, Notre Dame theater professor Anne García-Romero is taking the work in a different direction in production that takes place in the present on the campus of a California public university. Lupe, a Latina theatre professor, is directing a production of the 1613 Spanish Golden Age comedy as personalities collide onstage and off as the company grapples with the issues of race, class, and gender raised by the play. As opening night approaches, national politics start to invade the personal lives of the company, bringing up a central question: Does love have the power to overcome differences and lead to a new kind of knowledge? Students star in the UCSB Launch Pad production, 1 – 8 March 2018

THURSDAY, MARCH 1 Zip It – The 20th anniversary of Hot, Squirrel Nut Zippers’s fast-and-loose ode to hot jazz that was its second and most successful album, back in 2016 inspired band creator Jimbo Mathus and founding drummer Chris Phillips to reunite, recruit musicians from New Orleans and hit the road again. Now, with Beasts of Burgundy, their first studio album in 18 years, due out later this month, the Zippers are zipping all over the country again, including a stop – which is something the band actually doesn’t do a whole lot of on stage – at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. You know what they say: 20 years later, even a blind Squirrel (Nut Zipper) can find an acorn of an album. WHEN: 8 pm COST: $25 to $38 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

the latest from the high-tech lab for playwrights-in-residence. WHEN: 8 tonight & tomorrow and March 6-10, plus 2 pm Sunday and March 10-11 WHERE: UCSB Studio Theater COST: $12 to $20 INFO: 893-2064 or www. theaterdance.ucsb.edu SATURDAY, MARCH 3 Birthday Sugar – Blues singer Sugaray Rayford – who has been nominated for eight major Blues Music Awards from the Blues Foundation – fronts his seven-piece band as headliners as The Santa Barbara Blues Society (SBBS), the nation’s oldest, celebrates its 41st birthday. Rayford served as singer for the acclaimed Mannish Boys, named after a famed Muddy Waters song, before forming his own band since 2010. Santa Barbara’s own East Valley Road, recently back from representing the SBBS at the International Blues Challenge Youth Showcase, opens the show. Don’t forget the dance shoes: Rayford’s 2014 SBBS show packed the place and filled the dance area. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Carrillo Recreation Center, 100 E. Carrillo St. COST: $30 general, $40 VIP seating ($15 college students, $10 high school students; free for children under 12)

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70/70/70 – Yes, baseball season is just around the corner, but no, the title doesn’t refer to a way-out-of-reach homers/walks/stolen bases stat line.

Instead, Art at the JCC’s Israeli Artists in Santa Barbara exhibition celebrates the 70th anniversary of the birth of the state of Israel via show displaying a single work from 70 – emerging, mid-career, and established – different working artists. The show aims to expose the various aspects of current artistic creations by Israeli artists, and was initiated and curated by Sagi Refael, an Israeli art historian, author, curator, and owner of Israeli Art in Los Angeles, and by Lynn M. Holley, resident curator at SBCAST and Art@ theJCC, and co-manager of Gray Space Gallery. Today’s opening reception features wine, fine appetizers, and live Jewish Klezmer and Sephardic music from Kalinka, frequent headliners at the Santa Barbara Jewish Festival.

WHEN: 1 to 3 pm, exhibit continues through May 3 WHERE: Jewish Federation’s Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, 524 Chapala Street COST: free INFO: 957-1115 or www. jewishsantabarbara.org/art-at-the-jcc •MJ

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TUESDAY, MARCH 6 Contemporary Carmen – UCSB Arts & Lectures presentation of Compañía Nacional de Danza’s contemporary retelling of the classic story ballet represents something of a booking coup for the campus organization, as the shows are the only Southern California performances, and one of only three such engagements for Spain’s national dance company in the U.S. Johan Inger’s Carmen strips the tale to its most fundamental themes, envisioning the story through the eyes of a child, with its heroine now embodied by a courageous and modern woman, the mountains of Ronda re-imagined as poor suburbs, the military translated into senior executives, and the bullfighter recast as a movie star. Inger’s visionary re-shaping of the chestnut’s mythic and universal elements of passion and violence debuted in 2015, winning the coveted Benois de la Danse prize for choreography in 2016.

Members of Compañía Nacional de Danza will conduct a Community Dance Class at 5:30 pm on Monday, March 5, at Gustafson Dance, 2285 Las Positas Road that is open to observers (call 563-3262 to register). WHEN: 8 tonight & tomorrow WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $35 to $65 INFO: 899-2222 / www. granadasb.org or 893-3535/www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 12)

storms include staying at the Copus family’s other hotel, Coast Village Inn, or helping guests relocate elsewhere.

“It isn’t ideal, but we know it’s a new normal now,” Copus said.

Moving ahead, the Copus brothers look forward to welcoming chefs Phillip Frankland Lee and Margarita Lee and their new restaurant concepts, including Frankland’s Crab & Co, which will open in the former bar area in the next few weeks, and Monarch, the all-day restaurant located in part where Montecito Café used to be. Monarch is expected to open in June, and Silver Bough, the more upscale eatery concept, is expected to open in the fall.

For more information, visit www. montecitoinn.com.

Rebuilding Updates

At last week’s Montecito Planning Commission hearing, the commissioners were briefed on the rebuilding efforts in Montecito by director of recovery Matt Pontes, First District chief of staff Darcel Elliott, and County planning staff.

The County has been working the last few weeks to assign property owners to case managers and launched a new interactive website that links property history and current status. The map shows the progress of properties that have been “greentagged,” meaning homeowners have cleared mud and debris out and are able to inhabit their home. The map, along with a plethora of information related to rebuilding and next steps, is available online at www.sbcounty planning.org.

Pontes reported that the County’s primary mission continues to be safety: protection from debris, traffic safety, and storm readiness. “Our common goal is to build a more resilient Montecito community,” he said, adding that numerous groups, both public and private, have pulled together during the clean-up and rebuilding process. The Army Corps of Engineers is nearly finished with clearing out our debris basins, which is an integral part of storm readiness, Pontes said.

One of the most significant pieces of the puzzle is determining whether some areas will be rebuilt, and Pontes said it could be another 90 days before those determinations are made. “We are currently collecting land information, making sure we have the parcels, the creeks, and the boundaries all identified. That is going to be a big driver moving forward on our planning, building, permitting, and rebuilding plans,” he said. New people are being brought in to collaborate on the land information, including land mapping specialists, surveyors, financial planners, political experts, flood analysts, and 1 – 8 March 2018

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First District supervisor Das Williams’s chief of staff, Darcel Elliott, presented a power point to the Commissioners, to give an update on the group of stakeholders who will also help rebuild Montecito, within the confines of the Montecito Community Plan and Architectural Guidelines.

Hundreds of people responded to the County’s call to action, providing survey answers and volunteering time to the rebuilding process. One-hundred twenty-nine people signed up to be leaders, volunteering to be regularly involved in the development of future plans. Elliott said that plans are in place for those leaders to meet and discuss next steps.

The survey also garnered ideas for Montecito’s future, including improving bicycle and pedestrian access, building a memorial park for the lives lost in the 1/9 debris flow, and undergrounding utilities during the rebuilding process. Survey respondents reported wanting the Montecito Association, local business community, and County P&D to be included in the process.

Concurrently, a series of informational meetings at Montecito Union School are being planned by the Montecito Association, to provide a platform for County officials and first responders to provide the latest information and answer questions about the recovery process. The first was Wednesday, February 28, from 5 to 6:30 pm. Two subsequent meetings will be held March 14 and March 28 at the same time and place. Topics for the meetings include an update on red-tagged homes and updates on mud and debris removal.

For the latest on the recovery process, as well as information for future storms, visit www.readysbc.org.

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January. Organized by a group of volunteers, the day included kid-friendly craft activities, musical acts at multiple stages, food tastings, and shopping incentives.

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Los Arroyos owner Tony Arroyo was honored for feeding more than 800 first responders during the Thomas Fire in December

during the mudslide evacuations and was warmly welcomed back by the community on February 2. To mark the 19th anniversary of the downtown location, Arroyo is offering a special throwback menu with oldschool prices on several items. The offer is valid on Saturday, March 3, and Sunday, March 4, only, at 14 W. Figueroa Street.

Celebration in Upper Village

More than 1,000 people turned out to the upper village February 24, for a day of shopping, music, food, and reconnecting with business owners whose shops and eateries were closed for multiple weeks in December and

(Information provided by Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department) Tuesday, February 23, Carpinteria – Deputies from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office, Coastal Division, investigated reports that a threat of violence involving a firearm was made by a Carpinteria Middle School student. Numerous deputies were assigned to the investigation and met with staff at the middle school. Staff reported that the threat was made by a 13-year-old on-campus and was overheard by his fellow students.

The student was located and later arrested on a charge of making criminal threats. His residence was searched and no operable firearms were located. The suspect was transported and booked into Santa Maria Juvenile Hall.

School staff alerted parents of the incident earlier in the day. There will be increased patrols across all Carpinteria schools, and the Sheriff’s Office encourages anyone with information about a threat to a school to contact the Sheriff’s Office and school staff immediately.

The City of Carpinteria contracts with the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office for law enforcement services.

•MJ

Ted Simmons, Sandy Stahl, and Robert Kemp, who helped organize the Celebrate Montecito’s upper village event

This weekend marks the 19th anniversary of Los Arroyos’s downtown location, just a week after owner Tony Arroyo was honored for his efforts in helping to feed first responders during the Thomas Fire.

The Downtown Organization of Santa Barbara awarded Arroyo the Business Champion of the Year award at its annual breakfast event, held at El Paseo Restaurant on February 21. Arroyo is credited with feeding 800 first responders both at his Coast Village Road and West Figueroa locations, as well as on-site at Earl Warren Showgrounds, where hundreds of firefighters were staged. “To this day, no first responder is allowed to pay for food in his restaurants,” said Joanne Funari of American Riviera Bank, who presented the award.

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ELEGANT COUNTRY ESTATE 6BR, 5.5BA, Pool, 3 Fireplace, Security w/Cameras, Iron gate, on 17ac.

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Kelton Excavating is offering special rates for those effected by fire and storm. We can help you clean up with our Dozers, Excavators, Skidsteers and Backhoes. Please call 559-692-2240.

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Call us and let’s talk about how you can help.

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

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$9,250,000 | Villa Raphael, Montecito Upper | 3BD/5BA Nancy Kogevinas/Robert Kemp | 805.450.6233/229.6318 | Lic # 01209514/01246412

$3,395,000 | 299 Sheffield Dr, Montecito Lower | 5BD/4½BA Cristal Clarke | 805.886.9378 | Lic # 00968247

$37,500,000 | 1104 Channel Dr, Montecito | 5BD/7½BA Phyllis Noble | 805.451.2126 Lic # 01448730

$19,500,000 | 568 Toro Canyon Park Rd, Carpinteria | 4BD/6BA Cristal Clarke | 805.886.9378 Lic # 00968247

$18,500,000 | 1520 Roble Dr, Hope Ranch | 5BD/8BA + 4BD/5BA MK Properties | 805.565.4014 Lic # 01426886/01930309

$8,200,000 | 706 Park Ln, Montecito | 4BD/5½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896 Lic # 00976141

$8,200,000 | 3493 Padaro Ln, Carpinteria | 3BD/2BA Kathleen Winter | 805.451.4663 Lic # 01022891

$7,500,000 | Ojai Legacy Estate, Ojai | 5BD/4BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233 Lic # 01209514

$6,566,000 | Riviera Foothills | 5BD/4½BA John McGowan & Ashley McGowan | 805.637.5858/637.8661 Lic # 00893030/02041055

$4,525,000 | 1428 E Valley Rd, Montecito | 4BD/4½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896 Lic # 00976141

$4,450,000 | 502 Picacho Ln, Montecito | 4BD/4½BA Cristal Clarke | 805.886.9378 Lic # 00968247

$3,350,000 | 3717 Santa Claus Ln #2a & 2b, Carpinteria | Mixed use Calcagno & Hamilton | 805.565.4000 Lic # 01499736/01129919

$2,625,000 | 541 Hodges Ln, Montecito Upper | 3BD/3BA MK Properties | 805.565.4014 Lic # 01426886/01930309

$2,395,000 | 1414 La Vereda Ln, Montecito | 4BD/4½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896 Lic # 00976141

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