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Breast cancer survivors use the fashion runway to thrive and shine, page 14

The “Snappy” Skyscraper In 1924, Standard Oil, Felix the Cat, and a Wurlitzer Organ filled the new Granada Theatre (story begins on page 22)

Let’s Celebrate!

A medical-musical milestone at the symphony spotlights doctors who play Mozart, page 11

Cooking Secrets

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In Business

Bissell Clinic in the Upper Village celebrates 25 years in business as multidisciplinary chiropractic and physical therapy facility, page 35

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Inside This Issue 5 On the Record

MJ hosts a town hall meeting with several local politicians and health officials concerning the County’s vaccine rollout; Nick Schou seeks more vaccine info from Jackie Ruiz; 101 Highway widening update

8 Montecito on the Move

Issues at Hot Springs Trailhead; bills you should pay attention to

10 Letters to the Editor

A collection of communication from readers Eileen White Read, J.W. Burk, Moya St Leger, and Fran Davis

Tide Guide 11 On Entertainment

Santa Barbara Symphony honors medical community in next concert; UCSB Opera Theatre and Department of Music presents Don Giovanni; PCPA’s InterPlay series revived; much, much more 12 Village Beat Mail thief arrested; balloons and twine placed in eucalyptus trees to deter cormorants; Miramar receives distinguished accolades; baby boom at ELMO

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Breast Cancer Resource Center’s THRIVE fundraiser goes virtual

16 For Goodness’ Sake

Ken Saxon profiles the career path of nonprofit leader Cynder Sinclair

19 Stories Matter

The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah, is set during the Great Depression

20 Our Town

Brayell began recording music at age 15, appeared on American Idol, and now co-directs his own music videos

22 The Way It Was

Hattie Beresford dives into the history of the majestic Granada Theatre

26 Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

How to achieve freedom from unreliable, dangerous wires

The Optimist Daily

Five ways to practice gratitude in your everyday life

29 Dear Montecito

Jack Moller spent a month traveling the U.S. in a van and gained some valuable perspective

35 In Business

Bissell Clinic in the Upper Village celebrates 25 years this spring 36 Senior Portrait Marilyn Bachman spent over 40 years teaching students the value of teamwork, hands-on experiences, and the splendor of the great outdoors

40 Montecito Miscellany

Peter Lance publishes new book; Ty Warner’s hotels receive top ratings; Royal mess; much, much more

41 Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant on the importance of labels

44 Nosh Town

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents “Chefs in Conversation” with Samin Nosrat and Yotam Ottolenghi 46 Classified Advertising Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales

47 Local Business Directory

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On the Record

by Nicholas Schou

Nicholas Schou is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of several books, including Orange Sunshine and Kill the Messenger. If you have tips or stories about Montecito, please email him at newseditor@montecitojournal.net

Montecito Journal Hosts Town Hall Meeting with Local Officials on COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout

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n February 19, the Montecito Journal hosted a mid-morning Zoom meeting during which several local politicians and health officials answered questions and addressed the challenges that have affected Santa Barbara County’s ongoing efforts to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to residents. Hosted

by Editor-in-Chief Gwyn Lurie and Chief Operating Officer Tim Buckley, the meeting’s guests included U.S. Congressman Salud Carbajal; 37th Assembly District Representative Steve Bennett; County supervisors Das Williams and Gregg Hart; the County’s Public Health Director Van Do-Reynoso; and the county’s Public Health Officer Dr. Henning Ansorg.

The MJ’s Lurie began by stating the newspaper’s dedication to answering questions ranging from who exactly is eligible for vaccines to where the vaccines are being offered. She also clarified that her February 11 editorial headlined “Santa Barbara Needs a COVID Czar” was not meant as a criticism of Santa Barbara’s public health officials, but as an acknowledgement of the widespread frustration in the county about the lack of access to vaccines. As Lurie said, “The suggestion was simply that when we have an issue this pressing, sometimes it helps to bring in someone whose sole focus is to help coordinate these efforts.”

“I know it’s been rocky; it has not been easy,” Congressman Carbajal told the Zoom audience. “It’s all about supply.” Carbajal explained that despite severe shortages of vaccines, President Joe Biden’s proposed multitrillion-dollar American Rescue Plan (ARP) aims to provide more resources in order to increase the supply and speed up the distribution of vaccines. “Until we get the supply produced and then distributed to everybody, we will see these types of challenges,” he said. “I think that our local officials, under the circumstances, have been doing a heroic job.”

“It’s not over; there will be hiccups going forward,” echoed Assemblyman Bennett. “There have been eight million vaccines delivered to California, and nearly seven million have been administered.” So far, Santa Barbara County officials have delivered about 70,000 vaccines into the arms of local residents at 11 different locations, Bennett said. He added that Governor Gavin Newsom had just announced on Friday morning that his administration is focusing on educators. “He’s prioritizing teachers so that they’ll be able to get back into the classroom and we can get all the schools open again as soon as possible.”

Public Health Director Do-Reynoso began her comments by explaining the difficult choices the County has faced in trying to prioritize vaccine recipients.

“It’s a daunting task,” she said. “Every group has a compelling reason why they should be prioritized and are anxious if they are not first in line or not in line at all.” Do-Reynoso attributed some of the anxiety that community members feel to misinformation about vaccine availability that has been spread on social media, blogs, and in newspapers.

“No community should have to manage the scarcity of vaccines, but here we are, unfortunately. In making the difficult choices of who gets priority, we are following State guidelines,” she said. “We simply don’t have enough, so we are forced to prioritize. With State guidance, we cautiously expanded from the 75-and-older (category) to 65-and older last week.” But now, bad weather throughout parts of the country is holding up vaccine deliveries. “We have not been receiving enough vaccines from the State to offer it to everyone who is eligible,” Do-Reynoso added.

On a positive note, Do-Reynoso stated that Santa Barbara County was just allocated 34 percent more vaccines in the past week because of its relatively high vaccination rate. “We were one of seven counties to receive an unexpected 1,170 doses yesterday, on top of our County clinics receiving 500 doses weekly.

We are indeed getting our fair share of vaccines,” she concluded. “I am confident that better days are just around the corner.”

“Supply issues, that’s the big problem,” Dr. Ansorg said when it was his turn.

“There were some delays in the trial period.” Whereas the Federal Government had promised to deliver 20 million doses to California by the end of December,

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On The Record (Continued from page 5) only 12 million were shipped to the State and just three million were actually injected. “Operation Warp Speed did a fantastic job in creating these vaccines and creating a fast rollout,” said Ansorg. “But the production and distribution was delayed, unfortunately. We have to work with what we are getting... We always requested the maximum we could get from the State and have been as transparent as possible.”

For his part, Supervisor Williams said he was just as upset as anyone about the delays. “I am frustrated. Our public health staff is frustrated, and our community is frustrated because there is a supply problem,” he said. “We were only receiving 6,000 a week, which represents a little more than one percent of our population, or half that number twice. That creates frustrations.” That said, Williams stated that he believes the problem of vaccine shortages will soon be solved. “I want to tell you that things are looking good,” he said. “At the height [of the epidemic], we had about 3,500 active cases. Now, we have only about 500 cases.”

After her guests made their opening remarks, Lurie read questions that had been submitted by audience members. “Why is there a supply issue? Did we not ask for enough vaccines?” one participant wanted to know. The reader added that Santa Barbara County averaged 19,000 doses per 100,000 residents whereas Santa Cruz County’s ratio was 60,000 doses. That means that Santa Cruz County ranked eighth in the state based on the number of total shots delivered per capita versus Santa Barbara County, which ranked 31 among the 58 counties in California.

Since SB County has actually administered more total shots so far than Santa Cruz County (it’s really not much to brag about since we scored 19th overall to Santa Cruz’s 22nd place) this statistic seemed to take Dr. Ansorg off guard, enough so that he brought it up several minutes later in the Zoom call when Lurie asked why spouses of healthcare workers weren’t being given vaccines yet, despite possibly being at a higher rate of exposure to the virus.

“I can take a stab at that question,” Ansorg said. “Unfortunately, unless they are over the age of 65 or a healthcare worker... they are not in line to now get the vaccine. So my wife wasn’t able to get it either. I am sorry about that, but that is simply a fact. They are not at that high risk because they are not in direct patient contact.”

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can’t pass on whatever they’ve been exposed to,” she argued. “So in fact they are one person away, sort of exposed indirectly to the patients that their spouses are exposed to.”

“Let me rectify this, sorry,” Ansorg said. “There is no science saying that spouses who are direct family members of healthcare workers are at greater risk for catching [the virus]. You may have anecdotal stories but please show me the science and don’t just put things out there like comparing [us] to Santa Cruz County.” Ansorg then asked Lurie for the source of that figure, to which Lurie responded that it was based on information recently released by the California Department of Health and already in the public domain. (You can see these rankings here: www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/covid-19-vaccines-distribution.)

One interesting exchange occurred when Lurie read aloud a question from a reader who wanted to know why County sanitation workers weren’t being included in the same category as other high-risk front-line workers.

“Obviously, the trash has to be picked up,” Lurie pointed out. “They can’t not work, so are they being considered as at-risk people? I know Marborg workers are handling waste, porta-potties etc., for homeless people.” Lurie also referred to reports that many sanitation workers have been forced to self-quarantine because of fears of falling ill from the virus.

“I appreciate the services being provided by Marborg,” Do-Reynoso responded. “They are critical, essential workers that also need to be vaccinated.

Unfortunately they are not in the three categories at the three sectors that the State is allowing right now.” The County, she said, is currently waiting for guidance from the State on when that criteria might change.”

At this point, Carbajal asked if he could chime in. “I think it’s important for the State and our governor to hear us on making sure that sanitation workers are allowed. You go for a week without your garbage being picked up, it’s not going to be healthy or good. So I think it’s important that we let our governor know that we’re a few days away from disaster when it comes to that. I would say he needs to open up, and I know it comes down to supply, but I think it’s really important to advocate for and really reexamine, to see if he can add sanitation workers.”

Perhaps the most striking moment of the town hall occurred when Do-Reynoso objected to Lurie’s use of the term “discretion” to characterize the County’s approach to vaccination. However, in elaborating her objection, Do-Reynoso essentially confirmed that, in fact, exercising a certain level of discretion is exactly what the County had been forced to do.

“I think the bottom line is we are all in agreement that everyone deserves to be vaccinated,” she explained. “Unfortunately, I want to ground us: We simply do not have enough vaccines to offer everyone and so until we get to that point, we do have to do the ‘Sophie’s Choice’ and vaccinate the most critical and the most vulnerable members of our community.”

To watch the entire video of the town hall and to see additional answers to questions, go to montecitojournal.net.

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Q. So who exactly in Santa Barbara County is eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine dose as of right now?

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Montecito on the Move

by Sharon Byrne, Executive Director, Montecito Association

Fixing Issues at Hot Springs Trail

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Bills to Pay Attention To

Thank you for coming to our annual meeting, and thanks to our State legislators Monique Limón and Steve Bennett for taking our tough questions on the housing bills, state priorities, and more. Multiple bills are coming through the state this year to create housing supply. In working on our homeless encampments through the Hands Across Montecito project, we’re keenly aware that there is a tremendous need for housing, both affordable for very low-income individuals, and for families with moderate incomes. However, some of the state bills will be one-size-fits-all, as the intent is to a) get as much housing built as possible by b) removing all local controls.

What does that mean for Montecito? The state is effectively setting new zoning laws for our community, and our local governments have no say in it. Local existing land use codes for single family will be superseded by state laws, should these bills pass. We’ll be working hard on advocacy on these bills and invite you to join in this effort. This is land use to the 100th power in attempting to shape legislation before it passes. We support more housing in our state, and easier routes to building it are clearly needed.

However, we should never jam people into high fire or geologically hazardous zones (and we’ve got plenty of experience with this in Montecito).

Further, we sure don’t want to see these bills destroy the semi-rural character of this community. We’ll be talking about this in our next Land Use Committee meeting on March 2 at 4 pm.

Here are bills YOU should be paying attention to right now, and letting your state legislators know how you feel: SB9 – allows lot splitting and duplexes. This will encourage land speculators to buy houses, demolish them, split the lot, and build six to eight market-rate housing units where one house previously existed. SB9 eliminates objective zoning standards allowing unrestricted building size.

SB765 – fixes the ADU law effective 1/1/20 to allow setbacks to be regulated by local controls.

•MJ Contact your legislators through their websites: California Senator Monique Limon: https://sd19.senate.ca.gov/contact California Assembly Member Steve Bennett: https://a37.asmdc.org/contact

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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 letters@montecitojournal.net

Commingling Water and Sewage?

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here’ve been two letters in the past two weeks concerning the possibly inappropriate influence that Bob Hazard might be trying to exercise over water policy in our village, specifically his amateur hydrological agenda that includes a risible proposal to merge the boards of the Montecito Water Authority (MWA) and the Montecito Sanitary District (MSD). For readers new to our village, this person is a retired motel franchiser from Phoenix and a rightwing political gadfly who has stretched legal definitions of ethics by helping to run the political campaigns of, and raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for, candidates who now control both boards. At the same time, he’s “covering” these boards, including their elections, as a volunteer amateur “journalist” for this newspaper. Over several years, Hazard repeatedly defamed the incumbents while promoting his “water security team,” and he falsely claimed that during the essential water rationing in the recent seven-year drought, profligate water users (such as himself) were “hauled” before a “tribunal,” when in fact they were simply fined. His inflammatory writings promoted the false notion that everyone in Montecito, where water use is an outrageous 200 gallons of water per capita per day, has the right to unlimited water by virtue of the “public trust doctrine,” a common law legal concept that says no such thing.

Here is Hazard’s manifesto in the MJ on September 21, 2020: “Conserving water has become synonymous with ‘Saving the Planet.’ Practically speaking, conserving water makes about as much sense as conserving air. If we destroy our green plants that clean the air and transform Montecito and our neighboring communities into a desert, air quality and environmentalists would suffer.”

This guy’s views are simply out of touch with Montecito, with California, with the United States, and indeed with much of the free world.

To learn for myself what former MSD board member Jeff Kerns and a spokesman for Heal the Ocean wrote in their letters, I attended the virtual MWD board meeting this week. The meeting was “webinar style,” which means only videos of the board and staff of the MWD would be shown on screen as the public observes, unseen. Yet there was Hazard, in his own video on screen, positioned in the middle of the top row with board members. I am going to assume this was simply an error and that it does not symbolize that the five board members consider Hazard a kind of sixth member. The MWD board members and staff at the meeting I attended conducted themselves with admirable professionalism, discussing essential water business and approving a grant application to fund overdue multimillion-dollar retrofittings or replacements of Montecito’s fragile water reservoirs. Hazard spoke up to berate the board members for a meeting that was “all about housekeeping” and not about fulfilling his personal agenda, which he listed as: “on this side of the mountain, safely bank[ing] five years of potable water”; completely eliminating “dependence on state water”; and “recycl[ing] one hundred percent of wastewater.”

There were only four or five other members of the public attending that day’s meeting. Thus, I want to urge my fellow villagers to participate in these meetings of the water and sanitary boards, and to ask them what legitimate purpose might be served by “commingling” water and sewage, so to speak. A strategic planning session of the MWD will be held March 2 at 10 am. I also want to beseech Tim and Gwyn to please assign one of your experienced professional journalists to cover these meetings and their vital issues. Montecito needs the

sun to shine in the dark corners of water and sanitary policy. Without public awareness, there won’t be participation, and the board members might believe that many villagers agree with Hazard’s junk science.

Eileen White Read

Entropy on a Biblical Scale

Back in the ‘60s, TV viewers were limited or, as Rinaldo Brutoco would put it, “enslaved” by having only three networks from which to choose. Now we have almost unlimited choices. Fractionalizing audiences provides more choices, but a price is paid. Our country is more divided because we do not share the same news or believe the same facts. Rinaldo, I would not be so sure about providing voters with more political parties from which to choose, to argue about them, and to cast votes on a more confusing ballot. It might very well be that you’ll get your wish and the fracturing of the two major parties into multiple ones may occur, as it has in European countries. But it will not be a “freeing” experience; rather it could lead to entropy on a biblical scale.

J. W. Burk

The Brits Like Us!

I wonder how many readers of your beautiful magazine are aware that the majority of Britons would prefer never to see or hear again from Meghan Markle? Her vanity, her self-idolatry, and money-grubbing approach to life is a stain on the American people, who are the most self-sacrificing, family-oriented, generous people in the world. Where is Meghan’s generosity to her own father?

Her recent remark about service demonstrated a disrespect of The Queen that I have never experienced in my lifetime. I shall be 83 next month.

Meghan’s rejection of an invitation from The Queen to Balmoral a couple of years ago, so as to be at a tennis final with Serena Williams, was a measure of her arrogance. The Queen is Head of State of 16 countries. What English person living in America would turn down an invitation from the American President?

Millions were entranced by her and did not complain about the $45 million of British taxpayer money that was spent on the wedding of Meghan to Prince Harry. Her behaviour since their wedding has lost her the affection of the British people. It is a pity that Montecito is now only known worldwide because Meghan and her obedient lap dog Prince live there.

I wish you all that is good for your superlative journal.

Yours sincerely, Moya St Leger

Fewer Extended Essays, Please

I enjoy getting the MJ where I now live in faraway Goleta and am grateful your carrier delivers here. The first thing I turn to after the Editor’s Letter is Rinaldo Brutoco’s column, always informative (even about the history of Valentine’s Day!), articulate, and sensible. I especially enjoyed the “Let My People Go” column and Brutoco’s righteous indignation about the mock “trial” in the Senate.

His inclusion in the MJ accomplishes a balance I think the paper needs.

As a former Summerlander (I wrote a Summerland column for the Coastal View News for 20 years), I always enjoy Leslie Westbrook’s latest take on my changing hometown and its hearty hillside residents.

One suggestion I’d like to offer is that you consider limiting the length of the letters. Some are more like editorials, rambling on for pages and breakovers. Even though lockdown has gifted us with more time for perusing, my patience often wears thin after the first few paragraphs. While people have a need and a right to have their say, fewer words often do the job as well as an extended essay.

Fran Davis •MJ

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the possibility of helping them. That’s why I chose medicine.

by Steven Libowitz

Symphony’s Concert a Musical (and Medical) Marvel

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here’s plenty to celebrate in Santa Barbara these days, and not just the spurt of greenery and wildflowers poking up from the earth in the sunshine following last month’s rains or the fact that the number of daily COVID-19 cases has dropped down to double digits for the first time in nearly two months.

Joy also comes via the Santa Barbara Symphony’s upcoming concert as the orchestra’s historic season that was made possible by The Santa Barbara Symphony honors the medical community finding a way to return to with its next livestream concert, “Santa Barbara Celebration” on playing together safely on February 27 stage continues with “Santa Barbara Celebration” on Saturday, February 27. The event at the Granada marks a medical-musical milestone by paying tribute to the local healthcare community. What’s more, the honor isn’t merely lip service, as a few local physicians who are also musicians are actually performing on stage as part of the ensemble.

Indeed, local ophthalmologist Dr. Toni Meyers – who just so happens to be the younger sister of the acclaimed professional violinist Anne Akiko Meyers – will be following in her sister’s footsteps in appearing as a soloist on stage at the Granada with our local orchestra. Dr. Meyers, herself a former award-winning pianist, will play the “Elvira Madigan” movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 21. Dr. John Zemjanis, a family medicine specialist in Carpinteria, will play the violin as part of the orchestra, and other physician-musicians are also expected to appear.

Adding to the medicine and music nexus, symphony board chair Janet Garufis will lead a conversation with Dr. Kurt Ransohoff, CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Sansum Clinic, and Ron Werft, President and CEO of Cottage Health, about the connections between music and healing. The lovely program also finds maestro Nir Kabaretti conducting the Santa Barbara Symphony musicians in Mozart’s Symphony No. 29, Beethoven’s Romance in F Major with concertmaster Jessica Guideri, the “State Street” movement from Bramwell Tovey’s Santa Barbara Sonata, and the “Nocturno” by Russian composer Alexander Borodin, who was also a physician.

Ophthalmologist Meyers saw fit (sorry!) to share her thoughts about her musical and medical history in advance of the concert. Visit https://thesym phony.org for tickets and details.

Q. Given that your sister is who she is, obviously music runs in your family. I’m curious what it was like growing up, and then how she went one direction with music and you moved into medicine. What drove your choices?

A. I think it’s a combination of factors. I always enjoyed music. I actually started violin, too, when I was four and piano when I was five, and I played both of those instruments until college when I stopped playing violin. Growing up both my sister and I studied pretty seriously. We were both at USC’s Colburn School of Music learning music theory and taking classes when we were pretty young, and we both did pre-college at Juilliard. But I think having a really talented sister, I saw what it took to become a musician and the passion that she had for it at a really young age.

But I had more than just music. Even as a kid, I was interested in math and science and, actually, medicine. When I was 11 years old, I was hospitalized because I had to have a benign tumor removed. That was a big turning point for me. I remember after a week my mom told me I could either be discharged today or tomorrow. And I said, “Can I stay till tomorrow?” I didn’t want to leave the hospital. I was having so much fun. I walked around with my IV pole and met the other pediatric patients on the ward and I loved it. That’s when I started thinking more about medicine. I took up any opportunities like doing little internships here and there, or shadowing doctors when I was in my teens.

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Hearing about you walking around the hospital with your portable IV, I can’t help picturing at least a dozen episodes of Grey’s Anatomy. I didn’t know that happened in real life! Anyway, given that your sister played with the L.A. Philharmonic as a kid, and did the Johnny Carson show twice by age 11, I’m wondering what that was like for you. Was there ever any envy or was it more pride or perhaps something more subtle?

I have always just been so proud of her because that was her dream to take music to that level. It wasn’t mine. And we have very different personalities.

She definitely likes to be on stage. She likes to be the one that’s performing and in front of an audience, whereas I like to be behind the scenes. I’m much more drawn to the one-on-one interactions that are much more private. Medicine is a quieter kind of a profession, one where you’re not in the limelight, which is what I like. So, for me to be thrown into this performance (with the symphony), my mind is very outside of my comfort zone. I don’t talk about myself very much, so even doing these interviews is definitely not the norm for me.

Have you kept up with playing the piano on a regular basis? I imagine you must have if they’re giving you a solo slot in the concert.

Not really. I only play rarely because I have my full-time career. I just play for relaxation, and not very often. Maybe once every few months I’ll sit down at the piano and just play some old pieces for a little while. Mostly, I’ve just been in a supportive role because I have two boys, nine and 10 years old, and they have been playing piano since they were four. I help them with their music lessons in their music, but other than that, honestly I have not played or practiced regularly since college. So when this opportunity came along, I definitely felt like my fingers were out of shape. I had to do a lot of scales and finger exercises to try to whip them into shape for the performance.

Wow. I’m thinking back to last fall when the symphony was starting to perform again and (conductor) Nir (Kabaretti) told me that he hadn’t picked up a baton in months.

You’ve gone a little longer. Are you nervous?

That’s a good question. I used to have nerves when I performed, but I think it can be positive to have that nervous excitement. We just had a rehearsal yesterday and what I noticed most was that I used to get a lot of stage fright when I

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According to the Sheriff’s Department, on December 29, 2020, a victim of mail theft filed an online report for several packages that had been taken from their community mailbox cluster in the area of Canyon View Road and Sycamore Vista Road in Montecito. This same victim contacted the Sheriff’s Office in January to report that they again had their mail stolen, and this time they captured video surveillance of the suspect. A Sheriff’s Deputy gathered the video evidence and began an investigation to identify the repeated mail thief.

Through the deputy’s investigation, and with the assistance of Santa Barbara Police Detectives, Custody Deputies, and Sheriff’s Detectives, the suspect was identified as Coronado-Mendoza. The deputy authored a warrant for the arrest of Coronado-Mendoza as well as for the search of his home. The SBPD also authored warrants for Coronado-Mendoza on several fraud-related crimes.

Sheriff’s Deputies along with Sheriff’s Detectives and Santa Barbara Police arrived at the suspect’s residence and arrested him on the warrants.

During a search of the residence, dozens of pieces of suspected stolen mail were recovered, with addresses ranging from the Santa Ynez Valley to Oxnard.

Coronado-Mendoza was booked at the Main Jail for unlawful possession of tear gas (felony) as well as four warrants for charges including: violation of probation, making fictitious checks, using ID with intent to defraud, forgery, burglary, credit card fraud, and mail theft.

He was released at intake without bail pursuant to the local court’s exten-

sion of Emergency Rule 4, which is a statewide order that went into effect in April 2020 to reduce jail populations during the pandemic.

The mandatory order ended June 20, but local counties are able to extend it as they see fit. Sheriff’s Deputies will continue to follow up on this case, including contacting potential victims A deputy with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department identified by evidence that organizes dozens of pieces of stolen mail seized from a home was seized. Coronado- on the eastside of Santa Barbara Mendoza’s mug shot was not released to the public. Sheriff PIO Raquel Zick says the decision was made not to release it because it would not aid in the investigation.

The Sheriff’s Office would like to offer some tips to prevent package theft as well as theft of mail used for fraud. The mailbox at your house is often an easily accessible place for thieves to steal checks, credit cards, gift cards, and information that can easily make you the victim of identity theft.

Here are some tips to help prevent mail theft: Set up electronic billing. This avoids paying bills by checks that can be intercepted, altered, and cashed.

Consider going paperless. You can sign up for electronic statements so there is nothing in your mailbox for identity thieves to steal and use. Consider using a post office box for all important mail. It is difficult for your mail to be compromised if it is secured and locked in a post office. Opt-out of credit card offers by going to OptOutPrescreen.com where you can halt prescreened credit card and insurance offers. Sign up for delivery notifications. The United States Postal Services offers a free service called Informed Delivery that gives you the ability to preview images of your mail and manage your incoming packages. Install a locking mailbox. Most mail thefts are from unlocked, standard mailboxes. There are several locking mailbox options available at local hardware stores and more customized and decorative options found on-line. Make sure you get one that is approved by the Postmaster General and have it properly installed at the

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BCRC provides emotional support and offers free services to empower women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer

by Steven Libowitz

Breast Cancer Resource Center: THRIVE is Alive

them complete a cycle of sorts, even if they’re in continued treatment. It’s a point in time where they can celebrate and be seen as vibrant.”

That vitality, of course, is the main purpose of the Breast Cancer Resource Center, whose unique support services include everything from a lending library to peer groups to hands-on practical programs such as reflexology and reiki treatments, all in service of empowering a sisterhood and create healing by fostering hope to counteract the terror of facing a cancer diagnosis.

“Our services are unique in that we approach the healing process and the journey by looking at mind, body, and spirit,” said Kelly, who, like most of the staff at BCRC, is also a breast cancer survivor. “When we started 23 years ago, that wasn’t a generally accepted concept. We were really blazing a trail to provide patient services.”

Nowadays, thankfully, such forward-thinking medical providers as the BCRC’s THRIVE Fashion Show fundraiser will take place virtually on Sunday, May 2 Ridley-Tree Cancer Center offer a number of patient support services, but ebster’s Dictionary defines thrive as a verb meaning “to grow vig- only BCRC exclusively deals with women diagnosed with breast cancer, an orously, flourish” or “to progress toward or realize a goal despite or important factor that makes the nonprofit services still vitally important, because of circumstances.” she said.

No wonder the Breast Cancer Resource Center of Santa Barbara – the non“Women tend to want to be with other women, and going to a support profit that provides free educational resources and unique support services group, you want to be with people who are going through the same thing for women currently facing a breast cancer diagnosis and/or undergoing you are.” treatment – a few years ago chose Thrive as the new name for its Fashion With the pandemic still preventing most in-person gatherings, particularShow fundraiser. ly for people who are immunosuppressed such as cancer patients, most of The annual event serves as a celebration of the courageous BCRC clients BCRC’s services have moved online, Kelly said. through “modeling” appearances by a select few of the women who proud“We’ve now migrated almost everything to a virtual platform, including ly showcase their confidence and strength by donning designer threads to support groups that meet twice a month and one-on-one sessions between walk the runway and sharing their cancer journeys via video segments. clients and support personnel over the phone or Zoom. There’s even remote “We wanted to recognize and celebrate the journey that these women Reiki healing and an online sound healing session with crystal bowls and are taking,” explained BCRC Executive Director Silvana Kelly. “Whether chimes.” they’re in treatment now, or are post-treatment and surviving, or just living Even so, Kelly said, people are still coming to the center, although the with the disease, the thought is, let’s celebrate our life, celebrate who we are, traffic has diminished. what we’ve been through and where we’re going.”

“So we’re still open in the office,” she said. “I’m glad that we are because Where one of the cancer survivors/thrivers went is somewhere she never that personal human touch really matters when you are in such sensitive cirwould have imagined prior to her diagnosis, said Armando Martinez, cumstances. It’s important for the women to sit across from us and go, OK, BCRC’s Director of Donor Engagement. “She was a physician but through these ladies are healthy, they’re thriving. It inspires them and encourages the process of being diagnosed and her cancer journey she let her practice go them to get through.” and is now dedicated to helping other women that are also managing breast Which circles back to the THRIVE Fashion Show, which was previously cancer. Her thrive story is that although her life took a turn when cancer hit, one of the biggest sources of revenue for BCRC, which receives no governit also deepened her purpose when she was able to reapply her medical back- ment funds, instead relying on donations from individuals, businesses, and ground toward helping other women in a more focused way. That’s why we private foundations. realized it was a great idea to have the women tell their own stories.”

“It’s been quite the challenge for us to get the message out that we are Being seen walking the runway at the THRIVE Fashion Show also allows still open and are still available to provide support to the women who need the women to see each other in a different light, Kelly said. us,” Kelly said, adding that even though most oncologists already refer their “It’s a way to share that they’re back to being a mom, being a spouse, a breast cancer patients to the center, others need a little push. “Sometimes we caregiver, or whatever multiple roles that they’ve played. It’s a way to say, feel like medical sales rep, making the rounds to sit in front of the doctors to ‘I’m back.’” keep them aware of what it is we’re doing.”

Surprisingly, after taking 2020 off due to the strict guidelines on gathWhat’s even tougher, though, given the continuing coronavirus crisis, is erings during the earlier stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the THRIVE making sure the funds will be there to keep their services bustling.

Fashion Show is also back, albeit virtually. This year’s event will be filmed “It’s really tough for the fundraiser because people really like to get to go at the Belmond El Encanto’s Lily Pond in the Santa Barbara foothills and to events when they make donations, which is understandable.” Kelly said. broadcasted on Sunday, May 2, via Zoom to paid viewers and sponsors with “They want to have some fun. The question for us is how we keep those peoan intention to also have it aired on KEYT-TV over Mother’s Day weekend. ple involved. How do we keep them connected to what it is we’re doing?”

The women will be invited one at a time to have their hair done and makeHopefully, the fashion show, by attracting sponsorships and ticket sale up applied, and then shoot their video in their own words, Martinez said. donations, will fulfill BCRC’s fundraising needs. After all, it’s a celebration The videoclips will then be compiled with footage of the fashion show itself of life. And who doesn’t want to thrive? that will take place at the Lily Pond.

•MJ “It creates a sense of joy and accomplishment to say and show, ‘This is Breast Cancer Resource Center is located at 55 Hitchcock Way, Suite 101, in what I’ve been through and this is my journey,’” he said. “Even if it’s in a Santa Barbara. For more information about the services offered, visit bcrcsb.org really small format, it’s still important for the families of these women to see or call (805) 569-9693.

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For Goodness’ Sake

by Ken Saxon

Ken Saxon’s second act – following his business career – has been building a leadership network to empower, elevate, and connect Santa Barbara County’s nonprofit leaders. He enjoys the opportunity to engage in civic life and leadership locally, especially through the nonprofit leadership organization he founded, Leading From Within.

The Career Path of a Nonprofit Leader

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hrough my work at Leading From Within over the years, I’ve had the good fortune to know many nonprofit leaders. They’re a special group of people that are uniquely called to make the world better than they found it. Many of them sacrifice a great deal in their commitment to help others.

Where do these people come from?

How did they get where they are?

Most are driven by some sense of vocation, service, and justice. But to be a successful nonprofit director, you also need many leadership and management capabilities. Until recently, there were few if any formal nonprofit management development programs or peer support networks. So many nonprofit leaders whom I’ve met are basically self-taught.

This lack of systematic investment in nonprofit leaders is counterproductive. The fact that the nonprofit sector doesn’t have more clear pathways to

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I’ve been thinking about this after reading a memoir entitled My Wild and Precious Life, written by one of our region’s most storied nonprofit leaders, Cynder Sinclair. Since arriving in Santa Barbara in the mid-‘90s, Cynder has served as E.D. of the Girl Scouts, Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics, and Community Action of Ventura County. She also has a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership.

But how did a young housewife and mother of five in the Central Valley become the self-assured, highly competent, super-educated organizational leader whom we know today as Cynder Sinclair? She begins her memoir by recounting the story of how she first dove deeply into community service, in the 1970s, in the agricultural town of Kingsburg near Fresno.

In her children’s classrooms, Cynder came face-to-face with children who did not have the most basic of needs such as food and clothing. Because Cynder spoke Spanish, her kids’ teachers asked her to help with the Spanish-speaking students, who were mostly the children of local farmworkers. Cynder had studied Spanish in school and had spent three months in Mexico as part of an exchange program. Her ability to communicate with these children placed her in close contact with people whose lives were very different from her own.

Cynder has a characteristic I see in many nonprofit leaders I know – an inherent drive to be of service. For many people, poverty and inequity is just the way things are. But there are some who encounter inequitable conditions and can’t help but respond to the need. As a volunteer, Cynder founded and built what became an award-winning social service effort in the Central Valley that involved a food bank, a thrift store, health care, preschool, and other elements.

Driven by this calling to serve, Cynder learned so much – about volunteer-management, real estate, warehousing and distribution, sales, public relations, cultural differences, and more. In spite of her steep learning curve, she was developing practical skills, and her confidence as a leader grew. This community effort also gave her a great amount of personal satisfaction.

Fast forward to the beginning of the ‘90s. After a divorce, Cynder needed to earn an income. Though she had never even written a resumé before, she had plenty of experience as a leader in community service work that she could market in applying for Executive Director jobs. And lo and behold!, she got herself hired as E.D. of the Child Abuse Prevention Council in Stockton. In her five years at CAPC, Cynder got exposed to more formal-

“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.” – Groucho Marx

ized approaches to management and organizational leadership skills.

Cynder moved to the Central Coast in 1995, when she was hired to run the tri-counties Girl Scouts organization. It was in the Girl Scouts organization that she began to learn about the idea of intentional leadership, and she started getting exposed to leadership thought-leaders such as Jim Collins, Stephen Covey, Frances Hesselbein, and Peter Drucker. In the Girl Scouts system, all regional CEOs were expected to actively participate in leadership development opportunities and to show the national organization that they were intentionally practicing what they learned.

One of the benefits of being a leader in a well-supported national organization – one that systemically provides professional development opportunities such as the Girl Scouts or the YMCA – is that you are invested in as a leader. Sadly, for leaders in many local, community-based nonprofits, there is often little expectation for professional development nor is there a systemic approach to investing in people.

Toward the end of Cynder’s Girl Scouts career (and during her two years at Santa Barbara Bank & Trust in the private sector), she pursued a master’s degree and then a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership. She had clearly caught the leadership bug!

Cynder dug deeply into a wide range of theories on leadership, and she learned to recognize different modalities of leadership and to choose and mold her own personal approach.

Armed with a clear understanding of leadership in general and her leadership style in particular, Cynder took on two more ED/CEO positions in our region: one at the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics and another at Community Action of Ventura County. In those roles, Cynder used her understanding of leadership to mentor her staff members so they could grow and develop themselves, personally and professionally.

Not surprisingly, Cynder now serves as a nonprofit coach and consultant helping other leaders and organizations be their best selves. She ends her book with a series of ten principles she’s distilled from her powerful journey of service and self-actualization.

I have so much respect for the committed nonprofit leaders I know such as Cynder Sinclair. Most of them have had to figure out so much on their own. I’d love to see a time when the nonprofit sector – including all funders and nonprofit board members – expect nonprofit organizations to systematically invest in all of their people. And to demonstrate this by budgeting for and funding it! That’s when we will see this sector really grow its potential to serve and lead in our communities.

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On The Record (Continued from page 6) category 1A, are still eligible; some have already received two shots, others have not. The rest of the folks in the 1B tier, which includes agricultural and food workers, teachers, and emergency services workers, are not yet eligible for vaccination in a broad sense throughout our county. However, there are pilot projects that will be underway to target some of those populations. UC Santa Barbara and the Marian Regional Medical Center have a special channel to get more vaccine than what the State provides through the Public Health Department. We are allowing them to distribute via their pilot programs beyond the 65-plus range, but they haven’t started yet.

Can you explain the delay in vaccine availability, which has led to the cancellation of appointments in clinics throughout the county?

Yes. Unfortunately, Public Health had multiple vaccine clinics planned for this week, but then received notification from the California Department of Public Health that our Moderna vaccine shipment would be delayed because of the weather. So, we don’t think we will see that shipment until next week. It’s a few thousand vaccines. We are not the only entity in the county that receives Moderna, so the impact will be broader.

How exactly did that impact the clinics last week?

We had planned [to offer vaccines in] four clinics. We were still able to have one on Tuesday in Santa Barbara. For our Wednesday clinic in Santa Maria, we were able to pull from all our resources and vaccinate 400 people, but we had to cancel about 800 shots. We had to cancel two clinics in Lompoc and Santa Barbara this week, but all of these patients received a link so they can receive shots next week.

At Public Health we partnered with a number of different pharmacies, including Vons on Coast Village Road, Albertsons in Carpinteria and Santa Maria, and the Ralphs on Carrillo Street in Santa Barbara. We have partnered with these pharmacies and are giving them vaccines so they can distribute to people in the community as well. Because of the limited quantities, it’s been limited, though. We are just not receiving enough vaccines.

How many vaccines have you been able to distribute in Santa Barbara so far?

The first date someone was vaccinated in our county was December 14, 2020.

Matthew Pifer, MD

As of this past week, we have distributed a total of 60,443 shots, which is a combination of first and second doses. We update our totals every week on our website, www.countyofsb.org/phd.

There have been rumors that cannabis workers are receiving their shots ahead of teachers and other front-line workers. Is there any truth to that?

Well, it’s a little bit varied. Per State guidelines, front-line workers in the medical cannabis industry are considered healthcare workers so they are eligible to be vaccinated. But that’s just a tiny handful of people. Cannabis industry workers involved in growing, storage, transport, and distribution are considered by the State to be in the same category as the agricultural sector.

That said, when it comes to the Public Health Department, nobody from the cannabis industry has been vaccinated at our sites. Eighty percent of the allocation of vaccines that comes to Santa Barbara County is given directly to pharmacies, healthcare centers, and hospitals; we only keep 20 percent of that allocation at our sites, so while it’s possible that some cannabis workers have been vaccinated, it’s not at all a result of county policy. In any case, this guidance from the state just came in on February 13. So before this, they were not eligible and there is no way they would have been eligible before that date.

Would you say that, once the vaccines are here, Santa Barbara County is well-positioned to get these shots to as many residents as possible in a swift and efficient manner?

Absolutely. We have always said we’d distribute to those aged 75 and older first, because they are the people who face the highest mortality rates. We had a pot of 35,000 people who fall into the 75-plus category. When we reached a threshold of vaccinating 65 percent of people aged 75 and older, we felt we could start looking at vaccinating people aged 65 and above. We truly wish we could vaccinate everybody, and we have a lot of resources.

So who exactly is helping accomplish all this?

At our vaccination sites we have anywhere from 30 to over 60 County workers who have had experience running annual flu vaccine programs for many years. They run each vaccine operation.

We also have County Fire employees in the mix, helping us. In fact, just

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The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (St Martin’s Press)

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he four winds have blown us here, people from all across the country, to the very end of this great land.”

For those of us who live in Montecito we are all too familiar with the land we love. Though lush and verdant, it has on occasion betrayed us with drought, fires, and mudslides. Still, California is the land of “milk and honey,” a place of opportunity, agricultural abundance and temperate climates.

Kristin Hannah’s compelling new novel The Four Winds is set during the Great Depression. Elsa Martinelli is living in Texas on her family’s farm, struggling on land that has turned against them. Year after year, they endure dust storms that blow for days, choking everything.

While their livestock starve, so does the family. Hope diminishes. To stay is unendurable. With her two children, one of whom is desperately sick, Elsa sets off, crossing the Great Plains in search of the American Dream.

“Our kind are hardworking Americans who have hit hard times,” Elsa says, but the people in her new California town don’t want her kind: dirty, poor migrants. Searching for work, she instead finds xenophobia. The locals aren’t happy to see a thousand “Oakies” a day pouring into California. No one will rent Elsa a room. No one will hire her.

I spoke with Hannah, who explains that when migrants arrived here, it was “a time of great tension and mistrust… when most Californians were already suffering.”

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I found myself choking up over several heart-wrenching scenes, such as the hospitals that turn away sick migrants Elsa sets up “home” in a crowded migrant camp and sleeps on dirty floors.

Eventually, she secures work at a large labor camp picking cotton. She rents a cabin, with real floors and buys food from the company store, all on credit. With low wages and no labor protections, Elsa spirals into debt.

The Four Winds is a sweeping story about the strength of a woman discovering how to be brave. It’s as much a story about the migrants, and the injustices that they faced, as it is a tale about love of family, who we call family, and a community that pulls together to feed, clothe, and nurse the sick. Just as our community here has often done.

I found myself choking up over several heart-wrenching scenes, such as the hospitals that turn away sick migrants and the schools that don’t want their children. As much cruelty as is displayed in Hannah’s emotional novel. there is also love and the coming together of community to help one another. The author’s prose is lyrical, her novel epic and it is one of those stories you’ll sink into. Elsa discovers that she is courageous. As she is reminded, as we can all be reminded these days, “Hard times don’t last. Love does.”

More stories: Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee is an extraordinary memoir about a 33-year-old aspiring writer who loses her short-term memory and her words. If you like thrillers check out Rachel Hawkins’ The Wife Upstairs. Jane’s new boyfriend might not have anything to do with the mysterious disappearance of his last wife. Or he might. Lots of great twists in this one.

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Our Town

by Joanne A. Calitri

Joanne is a professional international photographer and journalist.

Contact her at: artraks@yahoo.com

Arts in Lockdown #21: Musician Brayell

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rayell is a multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, and music producer in the genres of rap, hip-hop, and alternative. He has recently explored a version of indie pop music in his just-released single titled, “Made Her Feel Good,” a heartfelt song reminiscent of a breakup. He began recording at age 15 and, in 2017, started releasing his music professionally. His instruments are guitar, bass, and keyboards, all of which he’s self-taught. His dad introduced him to the sounds of Sam Cooke, Bill Withers, classic rock, reggae, and soul music. He attended Dos Pueblos High School where he won a songwriting competition; in 2019, he went through the American Idol auditions. Brayell made it to the Idol Hollywood Week’s live performance at the Orpheum Theatre, after which he decided to continue his music journey minus the industry mold.

In addition to composing, he participates in the creative process and co-directs his music videos. He’s paid it forward, too, by donating funds from performing to Santa Barbara’s Youth Interactive and Black Lives Matter. He’s also started a life-style clothing brand called Noleta that he launched online, and is currently in the 805 University store located in Old Town Goleta.

All that and more for Brayell, a GenZ cusp millennial. Here’s our Zoom interview: Q: During lockdown, is music a plus or minus for you?

A. The actual music aspect is a plus. Writing, creating, recording, and shooting music videos has been an important outlet during these challenging times.

However, not being able to perform live is something missed.

Joanne’s Zoom interview with recording musician Brayell [Brandon Kelley] and his Artist Manager HWY101 Entertainment Kim DeVenne

How does music influence the human condition?

It can be an emotional, healing, or spiritual experience. Music is a universal language that sees no boundaries. Artists can use their platform to influence society and an overall shift in culture.

Let’s start with your 2021 Valentine’s Day-released single “Made Her Feel Good.”

I wrote, produced, and composed the record. It features additional production from my mixing engineer and occasional production collaborator Philip Halloran. It is on my company label, Noleta. ​The song composition is live bass guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, and programmed drums. The song began in April 2020 after I woke up from a dream where I heard the music and lyrics. I got up, wrote it down, recorded and produced it at my home studio in a few hours. Then, it sat for nine months in my song files​. In January, Philip asked me if I had anything in the mix. I went through my song files and, when I listened to it, I had the same feeling I had when I first wrote it; that’s a good sign to me as a musician. I sent it to him, and he added an extra synth and auto-tune for a different feel than my current recordings. I also have an acoustic version of it. We decided to release the electronic version, as it’s upbeat and I felt like that was what my listeners needed during these times. For me, I record with

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The Way It Was

by Hattie Beresford

Founding the Granada Theatre

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hen Edward Johnson, principal stockholder of the Portola Theater Company, purchased the California Theatre on W. Canon Perdido Street in 1920, he envisioned a bright entertainment future for the town. At that time, there were only four movie houses, and one, the Strand Theatre, was being replaced by a motorcycle shop. By 1922, Johnson had incorporated the California Theatre Company and announced an ambitious plan, a grand theater seating 2,000 people in an eight-story office building. While primarily a movie house, it would host live performances as well.

Already in the works in 1922 was the renovation of the old Lobero Opera House which was to become Santa Barbara’s community theater and the main venue for the Community Arts Association’s Drama and Music branches. In February 1923, however, the plan to restore and renovate the venerable theater was abandoned, and a brand new theater design by George Washington Smith and his lead designer, Lutah Maria Riggs, was adopted. The revamped design included the latest in technology and planned to seat 670 people.

Johnson’s theater was to be much larger, but the plan to erect an eight-story skyscraper in Santa Barbara did not go unopposed. Even his claims that the building was Spanish in design because its façade, with rose and cream terra cotta detailing, and the theater’s interior, which featured elements of Spanish Colonial Revival, did not convince a large segment of the population. (Let’s face it, colonial days in New Spain never saw the likes of a rectangular skyscraper.) Nevertheless, ground was broken in 1923, and on April 9, 1924, three months before the completion of the Lobero, the Granada opened with a grand program that displayed its multifaceted amenities.

The Skyscraper

Regarding the building itself, six upper stories contained 70 rooms with

The 70-plus member construction crew at the top of the Granada celebrates by posing for a photo as the building nears completion (Courtesy Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts)

The Granada Theatre was the brainchild of Edward A. Johnson, president of the California Theatre Company (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Ms Beresford is a local historian who has written two Noticias for the Santa Barbara Historical Museum as well as authored two books. One, The Way It Was: Santa Barbara Comes of Age, is a collection of articles written for the Montecito Journal. The other, Celebrating CAMA’s Centennial, is the fascinating story of Santa Barbara’s Community Arts Music Association.

all the modern conveniences. Standard Oil Company leased the entire fourth floor and planned to make Santa Barbara its district headquarters.

Touting “pure Spanish architecture,” the lobby had travertine walls and elsewhere textured plaster imitating the mode of Mexico. The foyer featured a fountain and fireplace with a niche above it for a statue. Rich carpeting ascending the grand staircase, wrought iron fixtures, stippled walls, handmade furniture, and Moorish detailing all strove for authenticity.

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The theater encompassed the first two stories and despite the fact that the advertised 2,000 seats was an exaggeration (in reality, the number was closer to 1,700), the amenities for theatergoers were lovely and included relatively large and upholstered seats.

The women’s lounge included a cosmetic room with “snappy” hangings, mirrors, dressing tables, and benches.

The men’s lounge included a smoking room.

Twenty-eight dressing rooms in a five-story section near the stage included special rooms with private bathrooms and showers for lead performers and stars. The second largest Wurlitzer Organ on the West Coast would provide the music for silent films. And the ceiling of the auditorium sported a great chrysanthemum disc of light that illuminated the drop curtain, which was painted with a scene of Granada, Spain.

On opening night, the reporter for the Morning Press enthused about “the sumptuousness of its decorations and appointments, its comforts and conveniences, and the splendor of its great pipe organ.” One disappointment, however, was that the scores of movie stars advertised to be present were a no show. The moderator for the evening read “a great sheaf of telegrams” from movie stars extending congratulations but expressing last minute regrets.

Santa Barbara’s skyscraper and the Granada Theatre in 1924 (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Outside, a doorman dressed as a Spanish caballero in a black velvet suit with red and gold trimmings escorted people arriving in automobiles to the door. His three-gallon sombrero with silver ornaments and little red balls hanging from the rim fascinated the girl reporter for the Morning Press, who commented, “He must have

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Crews continue to construct the new median bridge columns and work on the bridge span of the Evans Avenue undercrossing

101 Freeway Widening Construction Update, Feb. 21 - March 6

Closures on Northbound Highway 101 Monday night, Mar. 1, 8:00 pm – 5:00 am, 1 lane: N. Padaro Ln. to Sheffield Dr., on- and off-ramps at Evans Ave, Ortega Hill Rd, Sheffield Dr. Mon. - Wed. daytime, Feb. 22 - 24, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm, on-ramp at Linden Ave. Southbound Highway 101 Mon. night, Mar. 1, 8:00 pm – 7:30 am, 1 lane: Sheffield Dr. to N. Padaro Ln., on- and off-ramps at Evans & Wallace Aves.

On-ramp at Sheffield Dr., closed for the duration of the project, anticipated reopening 2023, drivers can use the southbound on-ramps at Wallace Ave and N Padaro Ln. Off-ramp at Sheffield Dr., closed for up to 16 months, anticipated reopening end of 2021, drivers can use the southbound off-ramp at San Ysidro Rd. Off-ramp at Carpinteria Ave, closed up to 7 weeks, beginning Feb. 8, anticipated reopening March 29, drivers can use the off-ramp at Reynolds Ave. Off-ramp at Linden Ave, closed up to 5 weeks, beginning Feb. 15, anticipated reopening March 22, drivers can use the off-ramps at Reynolds Ave. and Casitas Pass Rd. Evans Avenue Undercrossing Flaggers will direct traffic with alternating lane closures as needed during daytime work for materials delivery and equipment movement. The majority of work will occur behind safety barriers with lanes open on Evans Ave. under the freeway bridges.

Sheffield Drive & N Jameson Lane Temporary stop signs have been installed at the intersection of Sheffield Dr. and N Jameson Ln. for the duration of construction of the Summerland segment.

Via Real & Linden Avenue Mon.- Wed., Feb. 22 - 24, 7:00 am - 5:00 pm: Flaggers will direct traffic as needed during the day on Via Real (between Santa Monica Rd. and Cravens Ln.) and on Linden Ave. (near the freeway) to allow crews to transplant palm trees.

As needed, the northbound Highway 101 on-ramp at Linden will be closed between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm. *To view detour maps, please visit www.SBROADS.com and select the project segment.

Highway 101: Summerland Crews will install underground storm drains and new drainage features.

Vegetation clearing will continue in preparation for upcoming improvements.

Crews will remove old safety barriers from the median and then excavate old pavement and soil.

Sheffield Drive Interchange Crews will continue to build footings, install rebar, and pour concrete for columns, side supports (abutments), and retaining walls for the new bridges in the median. Work will also continue on the bridge span (superstructure). Crews will prepare for temporary supports (falsework) needed for the next stage of construction.

Trees & Cormorants Near Southbound Hwy 101 As part of the long-term habitat and bird protection plan, biologists and arborists have removed old nests, installed visual deterrents, and will use auditory deterrents to discourage cormorant nesting within the construction area.

This effort is to encourage the birds to nest outside the construction zone. At the end of the nesting season, the visual deterrents (beach-ball type balloons, flash tape, etc.) will be removed. Trees will remain as part of the long-term habitat.

Biologists are on-site monitoring this effort.

Evans Avenue Undercrossing Crews will continue to construct the new median bridge columns (see photo below) and work on the bridge span (superstructure).

N. Padaro Interchange Concrete recycling continues.

Highway 101: Padaro The Padaro segment is located between North Padaro and South Padaro/ Santa Claus Lanes. This project will add a new third freeway lane in each direction and new bridges over Toro and Arroyo Parida Creeks. At the South Padaro Ln. undercrossing, the bridge and on- and off-ramps will be replaced.

At the North Padaro Ln. interchange, new on-and-off-ramp improvements will be built. There will also be three new sound walls built.

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Over the next few weeks, to comply with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife requirements related to bird nesting, crews will undertake pre-construction work to clear trees and vegetation so that construction can begin this summer. The majority of work will occur in the median and near the South Padaro/Santa Claus on- and off-ramps.

Highway 101 & Ramps Southbound Hwy 101 & Ramps Carpinteria & Linden Avenues’ southbound off-ramps Crews will continue regrading (see photo above) in preparation for ramp improvements. Rebar installation and concrete pours will begin for Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement (CRCP).

Please use the newly reconstructed ramps at Reynolds Avenue and Casitas Pass Road as detours. Work continues on foundations and posts for new signs.

Crews will drive piles for underground supports as needed for sign foundations. During pile driving, please expect loud noise during daytime work.

Sound Walls On southbound Hwy 101 between Carpinteria & Santa Ynez Avenues, crews will continue building the wall footings and then install rebar and in-and-out blocks.

For more information, please visit Caltrans’ project website at www.SBROADS.com, call 805.845.5112, or email the project at info@sbroads.com.

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Perspectives

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

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

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

Gridlock

Freedom from Unreliable, Dangerous Wires

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ngelenos think of “gridlock” as that which happens on the Interstate 405 every day, as well as on many other freeways around town. In this week’s column, we’re focusing on how the electrical grid in California helps start wildfires. (Governor Newsom says he sees this going on for more than a decade as the state currently has no plan to eliminate high-power transmission lines from sparking.). We’ll also look at the way the electrical grid in Texas almost collapsed. What both grids have in common is that they rely on a technology invented in the 1880s – an inherently a flawed way to distribute electricity.

Fortunately, there is a reliable, resilient, economically preferable and localized solution to problems that the grid creates.

Where did the grid come from and why was it invented? It turns out there was a big battle between two electrical geniuses: Thomas Edison and Nicola Tesla. Edison knew that direct current (DC) was more efficient, but it couldn’t travel long distances over copper wires. Edison proposed that Manhattan be served by a series of micro-generating plants spaced every few miles apart, which would drastically reduce the energy required to power Manhattan. This would also reduce costs and provide more resilience since no one plant would be required to supply more than a fraction of the city’s required energy.

Tesla had a different idea. He felt that city residents would not want to see their power plants, so he wanted to locate a massive one in the outlying borough of Brooklyn. He wanted to convert it to alternating current (AC) and transmit power back to Manhattan over large, high-powered transmission lines. Tesla knew that AC could travel many miles over high-powered lines. They would then be converted to lower voltages at substations and send AC electricity to individual homes and businesses, where AC appliances would use the current to heat and illuminate homes.

The future is to create a series of interlocking renewable energy powered, hydrogen fuel cell assisted microgrids across the state.

Tesla teamed up with a capable businessman, George Westinghouse, who financed Tesla’s idea because Westinghouse wanted, among other things, to manufacture AC lightbulbs. Edison, by far the more prominent scientist at the time, actually lost in the head-to-head matchup after Tesla proved his system was more viable in bringing power to the outer boroughs and countryside, where homes were situated miles apart.

We’ve been saddled with ugly, dangerous, and unreliable high-powered transmission lines ever since. Ironically, we all use personal computers and cell phones that run on DC. How do these devices get the DC? We plug them into AC outlets and run the power through an adapter to return the power, originally created as DC and then converted to AC, back into DC. Even more ironic, the digital world in which we live can only use DC – whether it’s creating electricity from solar panels on your roof, charging a laptop, cell phone, or your electric car (a Tesla perhaps?). Such irony.

If the Edison-Tesla battle was fought today, I believe Edison would win for a variety of reasons. First, Edison was correct that DC is much more efficient. It could provide all the power we need with less than a quarter of the total energy being created. Imagine being able to reduce our electric consumption by 75 percent if we just changed our household appliances! Everyone reading this has probably used a DC refrigerator and other DC appliances, if unwittingly. Where did you encounter them? On every recreational vehicle (“RV”) or boat you’ve ever been on. They all use DC. Why? Because the energy is created on the boat and used right there. No long distance means no AC, and no transformer means higher efficiency. In a world literally dying from climate change, the ability to drastically reduce energy consumption would be a huge opportunity for addressing climate change without changing our Western lifestyle.

Second, since a DC system would avoid conventional high-powered transmission lines, we’d eliminate the 70 percent of all forest fires that originate from the

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The Power of Hope and How to Build It

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2019 study found that optimism can boost your lifespan by 11 to 15 percent. It’s also associated with a lower risk of chronic illness and improved mental health. Hope is a big component of optimism, but it can be difficult to muster hope during difficult times. We all want to reap the health benefits of optimism and hope, so here are five strategies to build more hope into your day-to-day life.

1. Take control. A big part of cultivating optimism for the future is developing a sense of autonomy over it. Take control of your future with proactive steps every day to master your own future. This can look like setting new goals, volunteering in your community, spreading awareness about an issue you are passionate about, or making financial resolutions.

2. Seek out solutions. You’re already reading “The Optimist Daily,” which is a great first step! Whether in your personal life or in the world, focus on tangible solutions and how you can contribute to furthering them. This can be as simple as taking a walk through your neighborhood to reap the benefits of the outdoors, investing in a green energy company, or just sharing something good on social media!

3. Practice gratitude. We frequently discuss the benefits of gratitude in this column. It can make you happier and helps counteract negativity bias.

Institute a gratitude practice in your life such as journaling or ask your family members each evening what made them grateful that day.

4. Accept bad luck. Sometimes the unfortunate occurrences we face are just a consequence of plain old bad luck. If your grocery bag breaks or you get a parking ticket, remember that bad luck happens to everyone; the world is not out to get you. Let it go and move forward with a plan of action and selfcare. Start tomorrow fresh.

5. Look at the big picture. When times are tough, it’s easy to get caught up with everything going wrong. But if you look back at every challenge you’ve faced, most likely you came out the other side with a fresh perspective and a clearer path forward. Remember that this is just a small piece of your greater journey. Take action to make each day as fulfilling as possible no matter the circumstances.

•MJ sparking of high-powered transmission lines during high winds in the backcountry. (Some researchers envision new, DC towers moving massive amounts of DC energy to solve the energy crisis, but this scheme is impractical for many reasons.)

Third, and most important of all, the micro-generating plants that Edison envisioned were precursors to the microgrid technology developed in the past two decades. Although the wire was necessary to get Tesla’s electricity from Brooklyn to Manhattan, today the grid wires are the problem. Evidence demonstrates that the biggest problem with the creation, delivery, and distribution of AC electricity is that it requires massive plants at a distance that are not usually adaptable for local energy creation, are not resilient, and are not really adaptable to green renewable energy. California and Texas have a common problem: they both need to get rid of all those high-power wires that have repeatedly failed and will fail again in the future.

The World Business Academy, the think tank for which I am the founding president, has been working on this problem for the past several decades. It has proposed eliminating the grid in California as a way to achieve 100-percent renewable energy in ten years or less at no additional cost to ratepayers. In fact, the conversion will produce more economic benefits than expense.

History is proving Edison was right: for many sound business, environmental, and societal factors, the future of massive centralized power plants in California is this: they will never again be built here. The future is to create a series of interlocking renewable energy that is powered by hydrogen fuel cell assisted microgrids across the state. To visualize this honeycombed micro-grid energy network, I invite you to watch “Clean Energy Moonshot,” a video presentation that is on the World Business Academy’s website or YouTube. It tells the story of how to get to green by rethinking the basic Edison-Tesla conflict.

That is the future of a resilient, efficient energy system.

In that future there will be zero wildfires started from high-powered lines. In that future, the residents of Texas would have an economic, resilient, localized energy creation and distribution system that could not possibly crash. Best of all, we don’t have to wait for governments in Sacramento or Austin to get on board – we can start building those microgrids one home, one building and one community at a time, and just keep linking them together. Now that’s Power Progress with two capital Ps. •MJ

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Way It Was (Continued from page 22)

The ceiling of the 1924 Granada Theatre with its famous disk light and Moorish embellishments (Courtesy Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts)

tramped in many miles from a rancho way out in the country for the gala event.” Ushers and usherettes were similarly attired.

The Opening Program

Johnson was determined that the program reflect all of what the Granada was capable. His opening program began with “The Granada March” composed by Antonio P. Sarli, “the man who looks like Caruso.”

Director of the famous Greater Los Angeles Band, Sarli had initiated the Hollywood Bowl concerts in 1921.

Following the rousing music of the Great Sarli came a Granada Pictoral Review and then a dedicatory address by the mayor of Santa Barbara, Charles M. Andera, whose congratulatory speech was accompanied by an impromptu pipe organ concert. Used mainly to provide musical background and atmosphere for silent films, the organist may have felt Andera’s sober delivery needed a little punch. At this point, a host of movie stars were to be presented, but endless telegrams were read instead.

The audience must have perked up, however, when special red and blue glasses were distributed for the 1922 experimental three-dimensional movie Plastigrams. J. Wesley Lord then played a concert on the mammoth

Wurlitzer organ, which was capable of imitating an entire symphonic orchestra.

Felix the Cat then entertained in Feline Felix, the Kartoon Kitty. Felix had been created in 1919 by Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer and became highly popular before being supplanted

by Disney’s talking Mickey Mouse.

Apparently, there was no room in cartoon town for both a cat and a mouse.

Next the Great Sarli conducted his Granada Grand Orchestra in a concert that opened with Friedemann’s “Rhapsody Slavonic.” Friedemann was a German Swiss composer of symphonic music and marches. Sarli followed up with an arrangement of a musical mélange, and then enlivened the audience with his own Syncopated Rhapsody. Toes were tapping by the time the room darkened and the Pathé Review came on the screen. The Pathé brothers were pioneers of the French film and recording industries and had invented the cinema newsreel, hence the name.

Hazel Kennedy, the “amazingly clever” child clown, warmed up the audience for another novelty reel, and then the screen rose and the curtain opened for Theodore Kosloff’s ballet, A Legend of Old Spain. The Morning Press called it “a gorgeous spectacle of color, form, and movement.”

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Granada Theatre movies were a popular pastime for Santa Barbarans in 1929 (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

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Our Town (Continued from page 20 20)) analog and digital elements in my music depending on the direction I want the song to take.

Do you feel typecast as a musician?

I don’t feel typecast as a musician. I felt that way when I first started to do hip-hop, but as I matured as an artist, I realized that I was neglecting my diverse musical background and influences. I grew up with instrumentation and melody, and I would be selling myself short to not include those elements.

I intend to continue creating hip-hop/rap music in the future, but I’m not limiting myself to that genre. I create music in whatever I’m inspired by, in the moment, and my inspirations are day-to-day life experiences, the stories of others and my dreams.

During lockdown, what are you doing to stay creative and inspired?

During the first month or so of lockdown, I was extremely uninspired and had trouble creating. I stayed in touch with fellow creatives, meeting online in a community of musician friends, and there was comfort in knowing we all were experiencing the same thing. I came to an acceptance of it and ended up using the unexpected time to focus on my art and explore other aspects of music. I got really into the recording process and set up my own recording studio in my house. I had most of the gear I needed and just added on to it with a few more instruments and microphones. For production, I use software FL Studio, and, for vocals, usually Studio One. Recording inspired me to write and record more material, and to record and co-direct my own music videos with the talented director Tucker Horan. I’ve also been in constant collaboration with HWY 101 Entertainment, working on a short film, music videos, and exploring virtual performance opportunities. Last summer we hosted a full protocol, socially-distanced, outdoor concert in the brief time that it was permitted. That made me hopeful for the future and gave me inspiration to continue creating.

What’s next for you?

I have a vision of a full-length project. I’m currently in the creative process, writing and creating the accompanying visuals for it. More on that as it develops!

And your new streetwear clothing line?

I wanted to create something beyond my music that more people could be a part of. It’s available at the 805 University store in Old Town Goleta on Hollister Avenue and online. It is unisex casual streetwear, a lifestyle brand open for everyone. Growing up in and near the unincorporated area of Noleta, I always identified with that mindset of non-conformity. This intent is represented and expressed in every piece of the Noleta line.

What’s your dream collab?

J. Cole, John Mayer, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Isaac Slade, Eminem, Kanye West, Timbaland, and Stevie Wonder are among the many artists I’d love to work with. Prince would have been my dream collaboration.

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Brayell performing at a full protocol COVID safe gig in the Funk Zone in 2020 (photo credit: Tucker Horan)

What’s your experience been with diversity, equity, and inclusion in the music industry?

Overall, I’ve felt embraced locally. When I started putting myself out there in a predominately white demographic, I was unsure of how I was going to be received. I was pleasantly surprised with the response from my local community. There are times, however, when I’ve felt boxed in the hip-hop/rapper stereotype due to expectations of me from both the industry and fans in general.

For example, when I’ve pulled out an acoustic guitar at venues and, even on platforms like American Idol, I noticed a shift in perception from the audience and the producers. On a larger scale, I’ve noticed there can be issues with the gatekeepers in the music industry that sometimes typecast artists due to their race or background. I get through that by taking ownership of my work and by not relying on the gatekeepers. I make my music accessible to everyone.

What’s your advice for fellow musicians?

Music is so subjective; take feedback with a grain of salt but be open to constructive criticism. The inability to perform can be discouraging, but perseverance and consistency in creating content for different platforms can be rewarding in itself.

Find new things in life that inspire you and write about them. Your story is unique.

Advice for music venues?

Continue trying unique and safe approaches and adapt to the current times.

My heart goes out to all the performance venues that are struggling. I can’t wait for a time when we can enjoy live music again.

For your generation,​ ​what is the world looking like now?

There’s a lot of uncertainty and anxiety. But people in my generation are using their voices more and speaking out for positive change.

What would you want to change, and how would you implement it?

I’d like to help people believe in themselves and stay true to their beliefs.

Through my platform and the messages conveyed in my music, I’m able to stand up for what I believe in. I hope it inspires others to do the same.

What about giving back or paying it forward?

I have people in my life who have helped me grow and who want to see me succeed. I owe it, not only to myself, but to them to continue striving to achieve what I’ve set out to do. I try to empower others with the knowledge that I’m gaining in the hopes that they can succeed as well. When live shows were a possibility, I performed at numerous local charity events and collected donations at my gigs for many nonprofit organizations, such as Black Lives Matter and Youth Interactive.

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Montecito Alumni Write Letters from Life’s Front A scene from Jack Moller’s monthlong road trip

every night, so sometimes we’d park under a bridge or something. Someplace the cops couldn’t hassle us. But boondocking after a month definitely drains you mentally. You miss being comfortable. You miss all those luxuries that you’re used to at home. Road-tripping is okay for a month or so, but after that you’ve had enough because you know what you’re missing. Let’s just say I’m never going to take air-conditioning or hot showers for granted again. Not just because I didn’t have them while we were in the van, but because we saw a lot of the country, and I know there are many people who don’t even have a house.

The whole thing was really eye-opening. At the time, Oliver and I were still teenagers. We’re just 20 now, and it’s like we’re both still figuring stuff out. But this trip really gave me perspective. We live in such a bubble here in Montecito that we don’t really see what life is like in the rest of the country. Not everything is hunky dory. So that was the biggest benefit, I think. It was cool to get a new perspective.

If I were to make another trip in the future, I’d definitely go to the Pacific Northwest. We couldn’t go this time because of the Oregon fires, but I’ve been there before and know that I want the opportunity to drive around. Other than that, I’d say we probably should’ve planned a bit more. We did the best we could with the pandemic and all, but planning would’ve made things a bit easier.

If I were recommending this to other people, I would definitely say that you should probably wait until the pandemic is over. You want to be able to meet people and to actually spend time with others on the road. The other thing is, you need a good playlist. I recommend: 1. “Take It Easy” by the Eagles 2. “The Piña Colada Song” by Rupert Holmes 3. “Night Moves” by Bob Seger 4. “Southern Nights” by Glen Campbell 5. “Going up the Country” by Canned Heat Later, Jack

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’m excited to share today’s story with you for a couple of reasons. First, the author of this letter is Jack Moller, a kid with whom I’ve not only shared the same high school but also at the same preschool, elementary school, and middle school. Second, I can appreciate the fact that most of us are not going on many adventures right now. If my Netflix “recently watched” list is anything to go by, this pandemic has stirred our need for escapism and our desire to engage with stories a little more interesting than our own. With that, I’d like to introduce you to Jack and Ollie’s Excellent Adventure.

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

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Dear Montecito,

Hey! I’m Jack. And I went on a road trip last year.

I was talking with my dad, who’s almost 80. He was remembering when he and his brother went on a road trip back in the day. They drove around in an old school VW bus, touring all over and through the Middle East, Palestine, Israel, etc. This was pre-Desert Storm. Anyway, I’m talking to 32my dad, and he’s telling me all this, and I basically say: “Look. I’m tired of online school. I’m not learning anything.”

My dad knows this. He proposes that I rent a van and check out some places I’ve never seen before. And I thought it was a pretty cool idea, so my friend Oliver and I made a plan to leave on September 25.

We started in Santa Barbara, stopping in Sequoia National Park, then Las Vegas. We stayed in Utah for a week-and-a-half next to Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

We visited Yellowstone, then went to Colorado to go fly fishing and see some friends. Honestly, Colorado was so neat, just the banks of the rivers and the Rocky Mountains. We would definitely go26 back there. Next, we headed to Texas. I had never been to the South so the culture shock was real. And the landscape was all flat down there. It was real interesting.

We spent the last three weeks just touring the South. We had been visiting some friends in Dallas, but from there we drove to Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida. We saw some stuff while living in that very small 1995 Eurovan. I guess it sounds weird, but I really like Mississippi. It was the amount of trees and the way the roads wind through the forest. Everyone was just so nice. I know that lots of people are going to think it’s strange that I liked Mississippi so much, but truly the hospitality there was unmatched. At least three people invited us to stay at their houses. If you’ve ever been there, you understand. They’re just the kindest people. People aren’t kidding when they call it Southern Hospitality.

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Were you involved in choosing what you were going to play? Is the Mozart movement a favorite?

Nir told me, ‘You can choose whatever is in your repertoire, something you’ve played before.’ And I said, ‘I don’t have a repertoire anymore.’ I asked for some suggestions that would work with the smaller orchestra they have to use during the pandemic and he offered some Mozart pieces. “Elvira Madigan” is probably the most famous one and I’ve always loved it. Honestly, I had the thought that if I could play that piece with a symphony in my lifetime it would be like a bucket list item... I’m trying to just enjoy the moment. When we were rehearsing, I was looking around at the symphony players who I have seen perform many times in the 13 years I’ve lived here. Seeing the beautiful ceiling at the Granada, playing on a concert grand piano, and just taking it all in – it is a really exciting event for me, an exciting little moment in my life.

Can we switch gears and talk about what it means to you that the symphony is dedicating a concert to recognizing and honoring the medical community and even inviting you and other doctors to perform?

It’s really wonderful because obviously it’s been a hard year in the medical profession – the hospital staff, the nurses, and especially doctors have been working in a completely different environment than we’ve ever had to where you could be putting your life at risk just for going to work. It was a bit scary for a while, and when we shut down and even stopped doing elective surgeries, I couldn’t operate for over a month and I was really going nuts. We couldn’t really even see people in the clinic. It’s great that the symphony is recognizing all the people in our community that have made sacrifices, whether it’s quarantining from their family to keep working or putting their lives at risk to help somebody, and dealing with not only the morbidity but the mortality of COVID and how emotionally draining and taxing that is. Everybody’s tired, not only the healthcare workers, from the emotional drain and potentially losing income and housing. So to me it’s really special for the symphony to give back to the healthcare workers and make them feel that what they’ve done is noticed and appreciated... Actually, it’s pretty fantastic that they’re still working, producing music because this pandemic hit musicians hard, too. I think we all miss live music.

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found a way for the Symphony to be one of the few performing arts organizations in the country presenting performances that encompass socially-distanced orchestra members rehearsing, performing, and recording together in person.

Their five-year visionary framework is expected to be announced in coming months.

UCSB’s Zoom-tastic Don Giovanni Opera-ting in the ‘New Reality’

More Mozart is headed our way this weekend as UCSB Opera Theatre and the Department of Music present an abridged two-act virtual video version of Don Giovanni on Friday, February 26. The production is helmed by Associate Professor Dr. Isabel Bayrakdarian, the star soprano who sang the love interest role of Zerlina in multiple productions herself and now directs a cast of graduate and undergraduate Voice Program students. The presentation represents a passion project that perhaps rivals the lust of the main character, a shameless seducer whose deeds lead to his demise over the course of a mere 24 hours.

Directed by UCSB professor Dr. Isabel With no students actually on campus, pre- Bayrakdarian, an abridged version of paring to produce the opera via Zoom took Mozart’s two-act opera Don Giovanni a lot longer: many months dating back to the streams on Friday, February 26 fall quarter. Adapting proved quite a challenge even for the ever-optimistic Bayrakdarian.

“The nature of opera is togetherness, which was totally tested in this process because the organic process of music creation takes place when we’re all in the same space and time. But of course all of a sudden that wasn’t possible. And there’s simply too much lag over Zoom for opera, where microseconds count.

This way of doing opera is definitely a new frontier.”

Bayrakdarian’s solution included positioning the action-oriented opera as more of a concert performance, and then employing a storyboard approach to tell the story – truncated from two and a half hours to less than 60 minutes – in a way that would be clear and still engage the audience watching online.

“We started with the musical numbers, none of which is longer than four minutes, and cut out all of the recitativo because it’s almost impossible to have sung dialogue with a piano track,” she explained. “Instead we’ve got title cards with a brief explanation of what’s happened in a nutshell before the opera you’re about to hear just so your mind has a sense of the story that’s developing. And there are snippets of videos that show the different settings and visually lead the audience so you don’t get tired from the monotony of singers in boxes on your screen.”

To keep the singers as close as possible to a cohesive unit, she engaged UCSB lecturer Dr. John Ballerino and doctoral student Erik Lawrence to create a piano track to serve as a constant, a link between the singers who were located all around the country and across the globe. But the director also sought to keep as much camaraderie among them as possible.

“Group rehearsals had to change to intensive one-on-ones with each singer and the chorus,” she recalled. “But I’d have singers come to hear their colleagues’ coaching so that they could at least be inspired by each other’s artistry, even if they couldn’t join in.”

Even more inspired was the choice to cast second-year doctoral student Valdis Jansons in the dual roles of the infamous Don Giovanni and his personal attendant Leporello. In the 90-second preview scene that was provided, Jansons proved his own perfect foil in the pivotal argument scene.

“Psychologically, they are foils for each other, almost each other’s alter egos,” Bayrakdarian said. “Giovanni is so beyond any kind of moral consciousness or any fear of consequences while Leporello is the pragmatist and has a conscience with an approach to life where there’s karma for everything you do. Because of the COVID restrictions forcing us to have the production prerecorded, I thought it was a great opportunity to see the same person struggling with the internal battles. [In that scene], it’s hilarious to see on the screen the same singer arguing with himself.”

Despite the opera having premiered more than 230 years ago, that internal battle is an ageless one, Bayrakdarian said, perhaps one that played out in our political arena in recent months.

“At any moment we can, we can choose to be either good or evil… But I did not make any parallels or correlation for us when we were making the opera because it was really more music therapy. Especially Mozart, which is so refined and beautiful. It elevates your spirit. To me, singing Mozart is a complete spiritual transformation every single time. My hope is that I can convey that to the audience so that when they hear it, you get the feeling that

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you dropped a huge weight.”

(UCSB Opera’s Don Giovanni premieres at 6 pm on Friday, February 26, on the Department of Music’s YouTube channel. A Q&A session with director Isabel Bayrakdarian and some of the cast members follows at 7:30 pm on Zoom. Visit www.music.ucsb.edu.)

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UCSB’s Department of Theater and Dance closes out the month with a production of Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities

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On Entertainment (Continued from page 31 31)) view of race in America constructed in a similar fashion, can also be viewed for free through the end of the month through the Rubicon Theatre. Subtitled “A Conversation Between America’s Past and Its Promise,” the piece presents an unvarnished look at issues surrounding race in our current times with content sourced from speeches and writings of 20 African-American thought-leaders of the past and present, including James Baldwin, Mary McLeod Bethune, Malcolm X, and Barack Obama. Their words are brought together to create a “conversation” between a group of four actors as they candidly discuss what it means to be Black in America. Meant to create a collision of messages from the past and hopes for the future to produce a frank and forthright dialogue sounding a call to action, In Case You Hadn’t Heard was adapted and is being directed by Reggie D. White (Lessons in Survival at The Vineyard, The Inheritance on Broadway) and stars Darryl Gene Daughtry Jr. (The Inheritance on Broadway/ The Public), Crystal Dickinson (Clybourne Park and You Can’t Take It With You on Broadway), Jason Veasey (The Lion King on Broadway/Playwrights Horizons), and Clarissa Vickerie (Tisch School of the Arts/RADA).

On demand viewing of the world premiere theatrical presentation presented by the Bay Theater in Sag Harbor, New York, in partnership with Eastville Community Historical Society and the Southampton African American Museum began Tuesday and runs through March 1 at 11:59 pm. Register at www.bay street.org, and use promo code RUBICON21 to receive a free virtual ticket.

InterPlay Plays On

PCPA is reviving its InterPlay events, a series of readings of new plays making their Central Coast debuts, over the next four weekends. Up first in celebration of Black History Month is Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, which takes place in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 3, 1968, the last night Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spends on earth. Named after Dr. King’s famous “I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech he’d delivered earlier in the day, the play centers on the Civil Rights leader’s reimagined interaction with the motel maid that day.

Directed by Keith Arthur Bolden, the cast includes Yusef Seevers as Martin Luther King Jr. and Assata Amankeechi as Camae, with Lewis Powell serving as reader. Show time is 7 pm Friday and 1:30 pm Saturday, February 26-27.

The series also features readings of the World War 2 comedy Into the Breeches!

by George Brant (March 5-6), PCPA Resident Artists Erik Stein, Emily Trask, Don Stewart, Kitty Balay, Polly Firestone Walker, Katie Fuchs-Wackowski, and George Walker; the climate change political drama Two Degrees by Tira Palmquist (March 12-13); and Tanya Saracho’s bittersweet comedy Fade (March 19-20). Tickets cost $10 per household per play. Visit www.pcpa.org/interplay.

SBIFF 36 Goes Hybrid

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has finally announced how it will handle the huge task of mounting its 36th annual event while following pandemic protocols. The happy news, the hybrid approach will actually include the opportunity to see some of the films on the big screen after all, as the fest, slated for March 31 to April 10, is planning an elaborate build-out of two beachside drive-in theaters hosted at Santa Barbara City College expansive parking lots. More than 80 film screenings will be offered, with no admission charge to experience viewing the movies in socially distanced cars, although an RSVP prior to arriving will be required.

Meanwhile passes and individual tickets for the 2021 festival films have final-

ly gone on sale, as have tickets for the celebrity tributes that include honoring actors Bill Murray, Sacha Baron Cohen, Amanda Seyfried, Riz Ahmed, Maria Bakalova, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Andra Day, Sidney Flanigan, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Zendaya, and Delroy Lindo. The tributes and industry panels – which have not yet announced the participants – will be aired live over the festival’s virtual platform while most of the screenings of the film – which we’re told, surprisingly, were culled from a record number of submissions this year and include several World and U.S. premieres – will feature filmmaker Q&As. The film lineup and schedule are slated to be announced as soon as this week.

Visit www.sbiff.org for details, ticket plans, access info, film schedule, and purchasing passes and event tickets.

Discussions With Durling

Several new YouTube videos of Cinema Society-associated filmmaker Q&A sessions with SBIFF head honcho Roger Durling have been posted to the fest’s site, adding to the catalog of conversations about some of the year’s most important films. Mega-star George Clooney talked about The Midnight Sky, the adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight which he directed and stars in as a scientist who must venture through the Arctic Circle to warn off a returning spaceship following a global catastrophe… Dara of Jasenovac, Serbia’s submission to the International Feature Oscar race, is about a young girl who is sent to a concentration camp in Croatia during World War II. Director Predrag Antonijević and Michael Berenbaum, a professor, rabbi, writer, and filmmaker who specializes in the study of the Holocaust, talked about the film…

Writer-director Eliza Hittman and stars Sidney Flanigan and Talia Ryder joined Durling on Zoom to discuss Never Rarely Sometimes Always, which The New York Times hailed as “a stirring intimate drama… a low-key knockout (that) tells a seldom-told story about abortion that is also a potent argument about self-determination.” The film won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, a Special Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival and has been nominated for other honors, including several Independent Spirit Awards… As mentioned above, Sacha Baron Cohen and Maria Bakalova are already slated to virtually visit Santa Barbara in April for SBIFF 36. Catch what might be a sneak preview of their talking points at the tributes as the pair, who have been nominated for best actor/actress Golden Globes, chatted with Durling about co-starring in Cohen’s latest and probably best Borat blast, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Visit SBIFF’s YouTube channel to watch.

This week SBIFF FilmTalk focuses on Heather Edwards, writer-director of the short film Sky West and Crooked, which is about a young girl who is forced to grow up when she runs into her absent father during a school field trip at the local bowling alley. The film is based upon a true story and features original music recorded in 1972 by her own late father and features Matt Jones (Breaking Bad), Martha MacIsaac (Super Bad, Battle of the Sexes), Emma Fuhrmann (Avengers: Endgame), and newcomer Vivienne Rutherford. Visit https://sbiff.org/filmtalk for a viewing link and Zoom info for the 6 pm February 25 discussion.

Provocative Pollock

The Carsey-Wolf Center at UCSB takes a look at Gather, an intimate portrait of the growing movement among Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political, and cultural identities through food sovereignty, all while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide. The film follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation in Arizona, as he works to open an indigenous café that doubles as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation in South Dakota who conducts landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation in Northern California who are working diligently to save the Klamath River. Director Sanjay Rawal and editor Alex Meillier join Greg Johnson, director of UCSB’s Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life, for a virtual Q&A. Register at www. carseywolf.ucsb.edu to receive a link to screen Gather in advance of the Zoom Q&A on Tuesday, March 2.

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Montecito-raised writer-director Max Barbakow continues to score big with Palm Springs, the charming and thought-provoking science fiction time-loop romantic comedy movie that serves as his feature film debut. After finding instant success when it arrived on Hulu last summer, the film has reaped rave reviews and a ton of awards attention, topped by two Golden Globe nominations.

The film is up for Best Picture in the musical or comedy category while star Andy Samberg nabbed a nom for Best Actor in the same category. The 78th Golden Globes will be awarded live beginning at 5 pm this Sunday, February 28, with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler returning for the fourth time as co-hosts.

•MJ

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Village Beat (Continued from page 12 12)) correct height and accessibility for your mail carrier. Mail thieves target groups or clusters of unlocked mailboxes. Consider getting together with your neighborhood to set up a locking group or cluster mailbox. This option will require coordination with your local Post Office.

Deterring the Birds in Summerland

With ongoing construction on the Sheffield Drive bridge as part of the Highway 101 widening project, many drivers have noticed mylar streamers and balloons in the eucalyptus trees on the nearby bluffs. Both the Audubon Society and Heal the Ocean have received many concerns over what looks like broken mylar balloons in the trees. Kirsten Ayars, Public Information Officer on the freeway widening project, explains that the items are actually part of a strategic bird deterrent and protection plan related to the project.

According to Ayars, double crested cormorants have seasonally nested along southbound Highway 101 near Sheffield Drive since 2011, and biologists have been monitoring the birds and nest counts since 2013. “As part of the highway improvements, a bird deterrent and protection plan was created by state and independent biologists focused on the cormorants. Avoidance and minimization measures were created as part of the 2014 Environmental Impact Report, supplemented with a Natural Environment Study in 2018, and approved by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife,” says Ayars.

The multi-tiered plan starts with monitoring, then removal of old nests outside of nesting season when birds are not present, visual deterrents (such as mylar tape and predator balloons), and auditory deterrents prior to and during nesting season. “The goal is to protect the habitat area in the long term but temporarily encourage birds to find suitable nesting areas outside of the construction zone. This will reduce the potential for construction to impact nesting birds and their young,” Ayars went on to say. Eight different biologists have collaborated on the plan, and the area was established as an Environmentally Sensitive Area, meaning that construction activities within 500 feet of the habitat area are restricted to non-nesting times or require a biologist to be onsite conducting nest monitoring during construction activities.

“If the deterrence measures are not successful and cormorants still nest close to construction activities, additional bird protection measures are enacted. However, these would result in construction delays and longer impacts to everyone, including the birds,” Ayars reported to members of the Audubon Society.

“There is a balance to improving Highway 101 to address freeway congestion, planning for effective and efficient construction, and maintaining habitat areas.

Over the next couple of years, this area will be a sub-optimal nesting area for the cormorants. While we are maintaining the existing habitat area, there are many more suitable areas for nesting that will not have construction impacts on birds. If the deterrence measures are not successful, then we will enact larger buffer areas for the birds. The downside is that it would result in an additional year of construction and cost taxpayers up to $10 million in additional costs.

This would also mean that the habitat areas would see a longer construction impact than if we all work together from the outset,” said Joe Erwin, Highway 101 Corridor Manager at Caltrans District 5.

The visual deterrents include beach-ball type balloons that are tied with twine to keep them secure in the winds. The trees will not be removed as part of the project, but they have been impacted by the cormorant droppings so there are dead limbs in the area, Ayars reports.

For more information on the highway widening project, visit www.sbroads.com.

The Rosewood Miramar boasts 161 elegant guestrooms and suites, including many with beachfront views, six restaurants and bars and high-end onsite retail experiences, two cabana-lined pools, a fully serviced pristine beach, and Sense, A Rosewood Spa, offering guests unique treatments and rituals inspired by the healing traditions and native plants found in the local surroundings, as well as the latest technol- Montecito’s Rosewood Miramar has won accolades from three ogy and therapies on the leading travel publications market.

The U.S. News & World Report ranking evaluates and reviews more than 30,000 luxury hotel properties throughout more than 400 destinations in the United States, Europe, Bermuda, Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean, assessing both professional and guest opinion, as well as annual industry awards and star ratings. The full list is published exclusively online at www.travel.usnews. com/Hotels/ The T+L 500 list draws on the Travel + Leisure 2020 World’s Best Awards readers’ survey results, which rates hotels on characteristics such as guestrooms, destination, service and culinary programs, and then recognizes the best hotels around the globe by naming them to this year’s list. The celebrated awards program made its return this year following a six-year pause. The full list is featured in the March 2021 print issue. Additionally, Forbes Travel Guide is the only independent, global rating system for luxury hotels, restaurants, and spas, and its annual Star Ratings have been revered as a global authority on travel since its launch in 1958. This year, properties were inspected prior to the pandemic and when regional restrictions allowed for the safe return of guests. The winning properties, restaurants, and spas are showcased on www.forbestravelguide.com.

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Miramar Receives Accolades

Rosewood Miramar Beach announced last week that it has received distinguished accolades from three leading travel authorities. The distinctions include a Gold Badge in U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 Best Hotels rankings, as well as being named the best hotel in Santa Barbara and the ninth best hotel in California by the publication. This year marks the first year Rosewood Miramar Beach received a Gold Badge in the awards program, signifying the top ten percent of all ranked luxury hotels in the U.S. The resort has also been recognized on Travel + Leisure’s 2021 T+L 500 list for the first time. Additionally, Sense, A Rosewood Spa at Rosewood Miramar Beach received a Five-Star rating in Forbes Travel Guide’s 2021 Star Ratings for the second consecutive year.

“We are beyond thrilled to be named among the top hotels and resorts, not only in Santa Barbara and California, but in the world by such highly regarded awards programs in the industry,” said Rick Fidel, resort manager at Rosewood Miramar Beach. “Following a year of unprecedented challenges, we are honored to be recognized for the hard work and dedication displayed by our team members and we look forward to continuing to bring our guests and community the highest standards of service and exceptional experiences as they continue to discover the magic of Miramar.”

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Expectant mothers at ELMO: Brooke Costello, Kymberly Barlow, Krissy Yonker, Mindy Mahy, Jana Norman, and Kendall Clark

El Montecito Early School Director Suzy Dobreski reports that six families at the beloved preschool are currently expecting babies! She sent over this photo of the expectant mothers, with prayer shawls that were knitted by members of El Montecito Presbyterian Church.

Closed for almost two months around the holidays, the small preschool reopened in late January with 40 children in attendance (nearly half of the usual enrollment), which makes adhering to the new Covid protocols easier, Dobreski said.

For more information about the school, which takes kids from two years to pre-kindergarten age, visit www.elmopres.org.

•MJ

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In Business Bissell Clinic

By Kelly Mahan Herrick

Hank Peterson, Kimberly Courtney, Karen Still, Michelle Jackson, Sophia Owens, and Dr. Charlie Bissell at Bissell Clinic, located in the Upper Village. The Clinic celebrates 25 years in business this spring.

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or 25 years, Bissell Clinic in Montecito’s Upper Village has been helping Montecito and Santa Barbara residents deal with both chronic and acute pain. The chiropractic and physical therapy clinic provides multidisciplinary care with state-of-the-art equipment, offering patients a broad array of therapies to hone in on their ailments. “After being here this long, people have an inherent trust in us,” said owner and namesake Dr. Charles Bissell, who sat down with us at the clinic earlier this week.

Dr. Bissell, who received his doctorate at the well-respected Palmer Chiropractic College in San Jose and his MBA from Pepperdine, opened the practice in 1996; at that time, he was working from one treatment room as he began treating patients and building a strong reputation. The Clinic has expanded several times since then, offering multiple treatment rooms including a large space for physical therapy, which is a cornerstone of the facility.

Dr. Bissell explained that the Clinic is the first place to start for someone experiencing pain, as the team offers diagnostics, guidance, support, therapeutic

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treatments, and in some cases, referrals to specialists if the injury or concern is outside of their treatment parameters. “If it’s outside of what we are good at, we have a great network of physicians and surgeons we refer to,” Dr. Bissell said.

The Clinic treats kids and student athletes with sports injuries, to seniors with balance issues, and everything in-between, including back, neck, hip, knee, foot, elbow, and shoulder pain from sprains and strains, post-surgical conditions, chronic pain and tension, arthritis and inflammatory conditions, and much more. Dr. Bissell, who became passionate about chiropractic care as a young teenager when he sustained a back injury playing hockey, has served as a strength and conditioning specialist and sports advisor for several local schools and institutions, including serving as team doctor for the USA Triathlon Team. He has acquired specialty training for managing golf injuries through the Titleist Performance Institute, and he holds many certifications including Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician, Radiography Supervisor and Operator, State of California, National Board Certified Chiropractor and Independent Disability Evaluator, State of California, and is certified to perform Manipulations Under Anesthesia through the American Academy of Physical Medicine. “For patients whose pain is too much to handle while fully awake, we can put them under twilight sedation and break up their muscular adhesions, cavitate ‘frozen’ joints, and alleviate their recurrent pain issues,” Dr. Bissell explained. “We really are so much more than a traditional chiropractic office.” The Clinic’s state-of-the-art equipment includes a spinal decompression machine, shockwave therapy, and diagnostic ultrasound.

Bissell Clinic’s team of providers includes Karen Still, a Physical Therapist and Certified Orthopedic Specialist; Kimberly Courtney, a Doctor of Physical Therapy; and Hank Peterson, Physical Therapist. Sophia Owens is Dr. Bissell’s treatment assistant, Michelle Jackson is the office manager, and Dr. Bissell’s wife, Carrie, runs things behind the scenes. “We are a close-knit team, and patients enjoy coming in here to see us,” said Dr. Bissell, who added that the Clinic has a database of over 9,000 patients, most of whom found the facility through word of mouth. “We feel really lucky to be in such a wonderful community,” he said.

As an essential business, Bissell Clinic has been open throughout the pandemic and is following all required guidelines. The Clinic is located at 1470 East Valley Road, Suite M. Call (805) 565-5252 for more information, or visit www. bissellclinic.com.

•MJ

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Senior Portrait

Marilyn spent over 40 years teaching students the value of teamwork, hands-on experiences, and the splendor of the outdoors

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Marilyn Bachman

y working with others, we can discover our strengths and weaknesses.

Teamwork leads to not just self-discovery, but also teaches us how to trust in the skills of others to produce work that is greater than the sum of the team effort. Marilyn Bachman has spent a lifetime learning the value of teamwork as a grade-school teacher for over forty years. Marilyn was born in Bellevue, Washington, grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and attended the University of Washington, where she met her future husband, Steve. This occurred during the Vietnam War, and Steve was drafted. While he was away, Marilyn spent time with her mother-in-law, a kindergarten teacher, and discovered a passion for teaching. Her mother-in-law became her mentor. Upon returning from Vietnam, Steve finished his degree in geology and the couple were married. They moved to Los Angeles where Steve continued his education and geology career, and where Marilyn began teaching. On weekends and between school sessions, Marilyn would accompany Steve on geological field work. The two would work as a team with Steve taking measurements and Marilyn taking notes. From the High Sierras to the Philippines, these geological excursions had the couple moving over the subsequent 20 years, with Steve working in various positions with Marilyn teaching at local schools. In 1984, the two settled in Montecito, where Marilyn taught sixth-grade in the Montecito Union School District (MUS).

The Importance of a Good Team

At MUS, Marilyn found that teamwork was treated as the foundation of teaching. Not just the teachers, but for the students, too. Marilyn found that teamwork is important for developing social skills in students and for their own self-discovery. In her first 10 years at MUS, Marilyn worked with fellow teacher Carter Morgan to develop a curriculum that incorporated the principles of Habits of the Mind and taught students through first-hand and authentic experiences.

They decided to team up and teach specific subjects by different skill levels.

This allowed students to be taught to their individual strengths and to have the opportunity to work successfully at their ability level. Marilyn and Carter first adopted this approach with math before expanding to science, social studies and eventually to computer and technology classes. This style of teaching was well received; Marilyn actually found that students were eager to get the results of their math test. Just as the leveled classes allowed students to learn according to their strengths, they also allowed the team to teach to their strengths. As the student population grew, the two expanded their team of teachers to include Sue Carmody for language arts, the “cheerleader” of the team, and Barbara Frombola for social studies. Barbara also brought to the team a strong sense of humor that helped spark an ongoing series of tricks and pranks between her and Marilyn’s class. The teachers found that fun only took a few minutes out of the day and did wonders for building a sense of camaraderie for the entire class.

This fun approach to teaching went beyond the classroom with Marilyn taking students on five-day-long nature excursions. On these adventures, students would explore the outdoors while expanding their understanding of nature.

They’d be challenged with a physical feat like a nine-mile hike, or a high-rope course. Some of the kids had never been on a hike before, and the endurance events gave them a sense of accomplishment that became a benchmark for empowering the students. Whether it was a troubling math problem or a difficult essay, Marilyn would remind the students that if they could complete a hike or high rope challenge, then they could face an academic challenge. This blend of hands-on experiences and interactive education gave students the chance to discover their natural talents and develop their entire selves.

Of the seven or so school districts Marilyn has taught at, MUS is the best one she has been at and over the years her team had the complete support of the superintendent, Dr. Bronte Reynolds, and the school board. Marilyn recognizes the sacrifice that many families make to move to a home within the district so their children can attend MUS. Just as she and Steve did for their own two daughters, who both went to MUS and of course had their mother for math and science. The format of the programs their team developed have evolved over the years but many of the principles remain. Marilyn was awarded Santa Barbara County Distinguished Educator of the Year in 2001 and National Earth Science Teacher of the Year in 2005. Of course, she credits the team as a whole for all of their successes over the years. Marilyn retired from teaching in 2012 after 43 years in the classroom. Her passion for education had not faded though and she joined the MUS Board of Education in 2016. While Marilyn may be retired from teaching, she remains active in the community.

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Marilyn’s love for the outdoors and the natural environment remains as strong as ever with her describing the fossils and wildlife while on a cruise along the northern tip of Iceland, or telling of a wine picnic while cross-country skiing, as we speak. For 20 years Marilyn and Steve owned a house in Mammoth, which served as a base for their hikes, bike trips, and of course, skiing. They have long been avid bikers, even shopping at the original REI store while living in Washington. From biking across the Spanish Pyrenees to riding through the French Dordogne Valley, they have seen the world from two wheels. While international travel is not as easy these days, Marilyn and Steve still find solace in the outdoors, riding among the many beautiful biking paths or going to the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden for some socially distanced play with their grandchildren, who love the new plant scavenger hunt the gardens just introduced. Over the years, Steve has also discovered a taste for winemaking, operating a vineyard out of Santa Ynez along with noted mycologist Dr. Bob Cummings and his wife, Lynne, who was on Marilyn’s team at MUS. Just as in school or on a geological site, they work as a team with Lynne, Marilyn, and even the grandchildren helping in the vineyard. Marilyn has lived her life according to her own lessons of learning through hands-on experiences and the value of teamwork. One can say that the community is grateful that she is part of our team.

•MJ

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Way It Was (Continued from page 26) Felix the Cat had many roles beyond “Kartoon Kitty” and starred with Charlie Chaplin (public domain)

Kosloff’s Dancers provided “a gorgeous spectacle of color, form, and movement” (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

talkies soon killed off his motion picture career.

Then, the part of the program everyone was waiting for, the World Premiere of Mae Murray in Mlle.

Midnight. Nicknamed “The Girl with the Bee Stung Lips,” Murray

had begun her career as a dancer on Broadway in 1906 with Vernon Castle and later with the Ziegfeld Follies, becoming a headliner by 1915. She moved over to silent films in 1916 and became extremely popular, despite a chaotic private life that included four

Mae Murray as Mademoiselle Midnight (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Theodore Kosloff, at the height of his career, created the ballet, “A Legend of Old Spain,” for the Granada

husbands.

The Morning Press summarized the film thusly: “In Mlle. Midnight, the petite and charming Mae inherits the spirit of a madcap grandmother which leads her into some hair-raising adventures with a bandit chieftain and a wicked uncle, but also into the arms of a gallant Yankee who succeeds after some furious fighting and some hard riding in rescuing her and leading her to the little church across the plaza. The scene of the play is laid in Mexico, so the settings and costumes were thoroughly in keeping with the new theater where it had its first showing.”

Duly launched, the Granada would become the theater of choice for the Civic Music Committee’s 192425 concert season. This organization was founded in 1919, the same year

as the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and brought the soonto-be world-renowned orchestra to Santa Barbara that very first season. The Civic Music Committee was a forerunner of today’s CAMA (Community Arts Music Association), which celebrated its 100th year recently. The full story can be found in Celebrating CAMA’s Centennial: Bringing the World’s Finest Classical Music to Santa Barbara (by yours truly) and available at Chaucer’s Books. (I can’t wait for both the new Granada and CAMA to be operational again!)

(Sources: contemporary news articles including the Los Angeles Times, 14 March 1923, Part 1, Page 11; a plethora of internet searches for basic information about the performers at the opening.)

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ruary 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2021 February 8, 2021 SUBJECT: Request for Qualifications Aviation Planning Services for Santa Barbara Airport Taxiway H Extension Project Environmental Assessment Introduction The City of Santa Barbara (City) is requesting Statements of Qualifications from aviation planning and consulting firms to provide professional services needed to prepare both a Draft and Final Environmental Assessment (EA) on the proposed Taxiway H Extension Project (Project) at the Santa Barbara Airport (Airport).

The successful Consultant shall complete planning and environmental services necessary to provide Santa Barbara Airport (SBA) with a Draft and Final Environmental Assessment (EA) for its proposed Taxiway H Extension Project (Proposed Action).

The successful Consultant needs to prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) pursuant to the requirements of Section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (Public Law 91-190, 42 United States Code [USC] 4321 et. seq.) as outlined in Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 1500-1508 on the proposed Project. The format and subject matter included within the EA must conform to the requirements and standards set forth by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as contained principally in FAA Order 5050.4B, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Implementing Instructions for Airport Action and FAA Order 1050.1F, Environmental Impacts: Policies and Procedures. In addition, FAA’s interim policy regarding EA page limits is applicable (see www.transportation.gov/transportation-policy/permittingcenter/interim-policy-page-limits-nepa-documents-and-focused). The FAA is the Lead Agency in the NEPA process through its Los Angeles Airports District Office.

This Project is funded by the FAA. As such, there is Federal language that is required in this solicitation. That language can be found in this document as Attachment A, Federal Solicitation Provisions.

Services to be Provided by Consultant Preliminary Draft EA and Coordination Section 106 and Section 7 Per FAA Grant 3-06-0235-057-2019, both Section 106 (National Historic Preservation Act) and Section 7 (Endangered Species Act) studies have been commenced by the Santa Barbara Airport. The successful Consultant (Consultant) will coordinate with the City’s Cultural Resources Consultant, Applied Earthworks, to discuss the completion of the cultural resources survey report, its recommendations, and its submittal to the City of Santa Barbara Historic Landmarks Committee (HLC) and FAA. Upon receipt of the Draft Cultural Resources Survey Report, the Consultant will review and discuss any comments with Applied Earthworks. Once the Draft Report has been accepted by the Consultant on behalf of the Airport, it will be transmitted to FAA for its use in its Section 106 responsibilities The successful Consultant will also coordinate with Kimley-Horn and Associates (KHA) (Project Engineer) and its biological sub consultant, Kevin Merk Associates, to discuss the completion of two Draft Biological Assessments (BAs), their recommendations, and their submittal to the FAA. Upon receipt of the BAs, the Consultant will review and discuss any comments with Kevin Merk Associates. Once the Draft BAs have been accepted by the Consultant on behalf of the Airport, they will be transmitted to the FAA for its use in its Section 7 responsibilities.

Preliminary Draft Submittal Upon receipt of the Final Cultural Resources Survey Report and the BAs, the findings will be incorporated into the Preliminary Draft Environmental Assessment (PDEA). The full PDEA will be prepared for electronic submittal, first to the Airport Sponsor for review and concurrence, and then to the assigned FAA Environmental Protection Specialist. Based on recent legislation and FAA policy, the PDEA should be no more than 75 pages, excluding exhibits, tables, and appendices. This task includes full preparation of the PDEA including teleconferences with the Airport Sponsor and/or City of Santa Barbara Planning staff, as needed, to go over internal team questions and/or comments. Elements of content for inclusion will be, at a minimum: • • • • • • • •

Proposed Action Purpose and Need Alternatives Analysis Affected Environment Environmental Consequences Relevant Discipline Documents (ex. Wetland/storm water, cultural, archaeological surveys) Mitigation (if determined necessary) Noise Analysis

Preliminary Draft EA Revisions and Release for Public Review Following FAA review of the PDEA, the Consultant shall incorporate comments made by the FAA into the environmental document. Electronic copies of the chapters containing the revisions shall be forwarded to the Airport Sponsor and the FAA for concurrence. An anticipated second round of revisions to the PDEA, based on additional review and comments by the FAA, shall be included in this Scope of Work.

Final comments made on the PDEA will be incorporated into the environmental document and a “check” version of the Draft EA shall be submitted electronically to the Airport Sponsor and the FAA for concurrence. Once the Airport Sponsor receives the FAA authorization to print the Draft EA, up to eight printed copies and two USB drives containing the Draft EA in Adobe PDF format will be prepared. The FAA will be provided one of the printed copies of the Draft EA and one USB drive. The Airport will posts links to the EA via the Airport’s website, which will be provided to all other agencies needing review copies of the Draft EA. A Notice of Availability (NOA) of a Draft EA will be prepared by the Consultant for submittal by the Airport Sponsor to the FAA for review and concurrence. The NOA will notify agencies and the public of the availability of the Draft EA and will allow for a 30-day agency and public comment period. The Consultant shall determine an appropriate distribution list. For example, agencies and quasi-agencies with an interest in the Airport may request notification of all airport-related projects. The Draft NOA will be prepared for the Airport to print on Airport letterhead and emailed or mailed to the agencies and stakeholders on the NOA list.

Preparation of Final EA Following the conclusion of the Draft EA’s agency and public review period, all comments that were received will be reviewed by the Consultant and the Airport Sponsor. The Consultant shall prepare responses to address all substantive comments concerning the Draft EA. These will be submitted to the Airport Sponsor for internal review prior to submittal to the FAA for review and concurrence. Revisions requested by the FAA to the responses to comment are included in this task.

After comments received from agencies and the public have been reviewed, the EA will be revised, as needed. The Final EA will include an appendix containing an affidavit of publication of NOA, a copy of the NOA, and copies of all comments received during the agency and public comment period. The appendix will include responses to all substantive comments as outlined above.

A Preliminary Final EA will be submitted to the Airport Sponsor for review and comment, followed by an Airport Sponsor submittal to the FAA. Upon receipt of any additional FAA comments, a revised Preliminary Final EA will be prepared and submitted to the FAA for concurrence with the final revisions.

Before printing the Final EA, the Airport Sponsor and the FAA will be provided with a “check copy” of the Final EA in Adobe PDF format. Once the Airport Sponsor receives approval to print the Final EA from the FAA, up to eight printed copies and two USB drives containing the Final EA will be prepared. The FAA will be provided two of the printed copies and one of the USB drives for their files. Links to the Final EA via the City or Airport website will be provided to all other agencies requesting copies of the Final EA. A Notice of Availability of the Final EA and an announcement of a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) or other FAA decision, as applicable, will be prepared by Consultant once the Final EA has been approved by FAA. This NOA will notify the public (and other agencies and stakeholders previously notified regarding the Draft EA) of the availability of the Final EA and the FAA’s decision and this will be submitted to the Airport Sponsor for publication in an appropriate newspaper.

Services to be Provided by City The services to be provided by the City shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the following: • Kimley Horn, on behalf of the City of Santa Barbara has already prepared the Taxiway H Extension Project Alternative Analysis Report (dated August 23, 2019). This report is incorporated into this RFQ as Attachment B. • The City is currently preparing both the Section 106 (National Historic Preservation Act) and Section 7 (Endangered Species Act) studies. Each of these studies will be made available to the successful Consultant for incorporation into the Draft and Final EA. • Posting the Preliminary Draft EA and Final EA link(s) on appropriate website(s) and for placing the Draft EA in public viewing areas and NOA of the Final EA and issuance of the FONSI for publication in an appropriate newspaper.

• Coordination between Consultant and the FAA through the Los Angeles Airports District Office.

• Coordination between the Section 106 and Section 7 consultants.

Qualification Requirements Firms responding shall submit one electronic copy of the proposal, which shall include the items listed below. Note that clear, organized, and concise proposals prepared by the Program Manager are highly desirable: 1.

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Description of recent projects completed that are similar in nature to the proposed Project.

Client references, which must include current telephone numbers of people to contact for references.

Description of Consultant team, including names, classifications and qualifications of key personnel and sub-consultants,and an organization chart showing how the team will work together.

A statement of the proposed approach to the Project scope of work, broken down by tasks and subtasks.

A table showing the estimated staff hours for all consultants assigned per task, based on the Consultant's understanding of the Project‘s scope of work.

Identification of sub-consultants and their scope of services.

A schedule estimating the time frames necessary to complete the proposed scope of services.

The successful Consultant is required to sign an agreement that includes indemnification and hold harmless language as set forth in the sample City Professional Services Agreement (Attachment C). Please identify any issues related to the Professional Services Agreement in your proposal.

Selection Process and Criteria As a qualifications based selection process, the City is most interested in relevant work that has been done by the Consultant at similar airports and under similar conditions. Based on the submittals received, the City will select a Consultant based on the following criteria. The City will select a Consultant directly from the qualifications submitted with no interviews Selection will be based on the following: 1.

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The Project Manager's qualifications and ability to perform throughout the Project as outlined above (20 points out of 100); Recent experience of the team's key staff on projects similar in scope and nature (20 points out of 100); Demonstrated ability to meet schedules, deadlines, and complete projects within budget (10 points out of 100); The firm's understanding of the Project's potential concerns and the Airport’s special concerns (20 points out of 100).

Willingness and ability of the Consultant to enter into an agreement with the City using the standard City Professional Services Agreement with contractors (Attachment 2), without modifications or supplements to the standard conditions (10 points out of 100); Responsiveness to Project needs and ability to perform the tasks outlined above (10 points out of 100); and Information obtained from references and City staff who have worked with the Consultant staff in the past (10 points out of 100).

Contract for Consultant Services The City will enter into negotiations with the firm receiving the highest rating following the interviews. If such negotiations are not successful, the City will then enter into negotiations with the firm or firms receiving the next highest rating.

The successful Consultant is required to obtain insurance as set forth in the attached City of Santa Barbara Professional Services Consultant Agreement (Attachment C). Failure to meet the insurance and indemnity requirements shall result in the Consultant’s disqualification. By signing and submitting a proposal, the Consultant is certifying that they have reviewed the City’s insurance and indemnity coverage requirements, and that the said insurance coverages will be obtained and be in force upon execution of a contract with the City. The successful Consultant shall submit a completed Certificate of Insurance with endorsements with the signed contract.

The proposer is also required to obtain a business license from the City prior to the execution of the agreement with the City for the consulting services.

Failure to respond to the requirements outlined shall result in the proposer's disqualification as non-responsive to this RFP. Please submit one electronic copy of your response to this RFP by 3:00 p.m., on March 11, 2021, to the following address: Leif Reynolds, Supervising Engineer at LReynolds@SantaBarbaraCa.Gov Sincerely, Brian D'Amour, P.E., City Engineer LR/sk Attachments: A - Federal Required Solicitation Provisions B - Taxiway H Extension Project Alternative Analysis Report (dated August 23, 2019) C - City of Santa Barbara Professional Services Consultant Agreement

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: P.V.U. Holdings, 220 West Arrellaga St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Kalon Gronquist, 220 West Arrellaga St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 18, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph

E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2021-0000442. Published February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Focused Supervision, 209 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Suzie Schonauer, 2353 N. Ventura Ave., Ventura, CA 93001. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 18, 2021. This statement expires five years from the

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

FBN No. 2021-0000445. Published February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JML Restorations, 336 A East Cota Street., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Joseph M Loge, 336 A East Cota Street., Santa Barbara, CA

93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 9, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2021-0000387. Published February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business

“I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap.” – Bob Hope

as: Wanderlust Luxury Rentals, 646 N. Hope Ave., Santa Barbara, CA 93110. DJJ Property Rental Group, INC, 646 N. Hope Ave., Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 8, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0000353. Published Feb-

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Real Estate; Santa Barbara Mansions; Carpinteria Mansions; Montecito Mansions, 1435 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Luis D Martinez, 5081 Alvarado Rd., Carpinteria, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 4, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2021-0000329. Published February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Loadstar Movers LLC, 1014 Via Regina, CA, 93111. Loadstar Movers LLC, 1014 Via Regina, CA, 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 8, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2021-0000366. Published February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Marley Confections; Sweet Dreams by Marley Confections, 803 Alston Lane, Santa Barbara, CA, 93108. Margaret Van Sicklen, 803 Alston Lane, Santa Barbara, CA, 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 21, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0000128. Published February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: E Salon, 5575 Hollister Ave, Suite C, Santa Barbara, CA, 93117. Eleni Tziouvaras, 2019 Bath Street Unit C, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 21, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2021-0000162. Published February 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021.

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

FBN No. 2021-0000211. Published February 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021.

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

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Notice Inviting Bids

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA - GENERAL SERVICES DIVISION PO BOX 1990, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93102-1990

BID NO. 5890 CCTV LATERAL INSPECTION SERVICES FOR VIDEO ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

INVITATION FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for:

1.

The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its CCTV LATERAL INSPECTION SERVICES FOR VIDEO ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (“Project”), by or before March 17, 2021 at 3:00p.m. through its PlanetBids portal.

Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids™ portal in order to submit a Bid Proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that their Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids so plan accordingly. The receiving time at on PlanetBids’ server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

BID NO. 5891 DUE DATE & TIME: MARCH 10, 2021 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE AT VARIOUS CREEKS RESTORATION SITES Scope of Work: Furnish all bonding, insurance, labor, tools, equipment, supervision and appurtenances necessary for providing landscape maintenance services at Creeks Division restoration sites within the City of Santa Barbara.

If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal.

Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted.

If further information is needed, contact Jennifer Disney Dixon, Buyer II at (805) 564-5356 or email: jdisney@santabarbaraca.gov

Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

2.

FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason 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, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code.

LIVING WAGE Any service purchase order contract issued as a result of this request for bids or quotes may be subject to the City’s Living Wage Ordinance No 5384, SBMC 9.128 and its implementing regulations. If there is a difference between the City’s Living Wage rate and Prevailing Wage rates for similar classifications of labor, the contractor and his subcontractors shall pay no less than the highest wage rate.

PREVAILING WAGE, APPRENTICES, PENALTIES, & CERTIFIED PAYROLL In accordance with the provisions of Labor Code § 1773.2, the Contractor is responsible for determining the correct prevailing wage rates. However, the City will provide wage information for projects subject to Federal Davis Bacon requirements. The Director of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rates of wages and employer payments for health, welfare, vacation, pensions and similar purposes applicable, which is on file in the State of California Office of Industrial Relations. The contractor shall post a copy of these prevailing wage rates at the site of the project. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and its subcontractors hired to pay not less than the said prevailing rates of wages to all workers employed by him in the execution of the contract (Labor Code § 1770 et seq.).

Prevailing wage rates are available at http://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/PWD/index.htm It is the duty of the contractor and subcontractors to employ registered apprentices and to comply with all aspects of Labor Code § 1777.5.

There are penalties required for contractor’s/subcontractor’s failure to pay prevailing wages and for failure to employ apprentices, including forfeitures and debarment under Labor Code §§ 1775, 1776, 1777.1, 1777.7 and 1813.

2.2 Time for Completion. All sewer laterals will be assigned once a month via a transfer meeting. The assigned laterals will be transferred to the contractor are expected to be inspected within 20 Calendar Days from the Transfer date, unless otherwise agreed upon. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about April 1, 2021 but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.

2.3 Estimate. The estimate for this Project is $175,000 per year, or approximately 650 private sewer laterals per year.

3.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently licensed to perform the work and registered pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5 without limitation or exception. It is not a violation of this section for an unlicensed contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

CERTIFICATIONS In accordance with California Public Contracting Code § 3300, the City requires the Contractor to possess a valid California C-27 Landscaping contractor’s license at time the bids are opened and to continue to hold during the term of the contract all licenses and certifications required to perform the work specified herein.

CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE Contractor must submit to the contracted department within ten (10) calendar days of an order, AND PRIOR TO START OF WORK, certificates of Insurance naming the City of Santa Barbara as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements. ___________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

Pepper Lane, Santa Barbara, CA, 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 25, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that

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License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class AGeneral Engineering OR C-36 Plumbing License OR C-34 Pipeline License OR C-42 Sanitation Systems License.

3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions

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Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959

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

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Prevailing Wage Requirements.

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

Under Labor Code § 1776, contractors and subcontractors are required to keep accurate payroll records. The prime contractor is responsible for submittal of their payrolls and those of their subcontractors as one package. Payroll records shall be certified and made available for inspection at all reasonable hours at the principal office of the contractor/subcontractor pursuant to Labor Code § 1776.

The contractor and all subcontractors under the direct contractor shall furnish certified payroll records directly to the Labor Compliance Unit and to the department named in the Purchase Order/Contract at least monthly, and within ten (10) days of any request from any request from the City or the Labor Commissioner in accordance with Section 16461 of the California Code of Regulations. Payroll records shall be furnished in a format prescribed by section 16401 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, with use of the current version of DIR's “Public Works Payroll Reporting Form” (A-1-131) and “Statement of Employer Payments” (DLSE Form PW26) constituting presumptive compliance with this requirement, provided the forms are filled out accurately and completely. In lieu of paper forms, the Compliance Monitoring Unit may provide for and require the electronic submission of certified payroll reports. The provisions of Article 2 and 3, Division 2, Chapter 1 of the Labor Code, State of California, are made by this reference a part of this quotation or bid.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at various locations within Santa Barbara city limits, and is described as follows: The work includes CCTV inspections of 4”-6” diameter private sewer laterals via the Video Assistance Program per these specifications, beginning approximately April 1, 2021.

A pre-bid meeting will not be held.

BONDING In accordance with Civil Code § 9550, if the bid exceeds $25,000.00, the Successful Bidder shall furnish within ten (10) consecutive calendar days after written Notice of Award, a Payment Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the total amount of the bid as well as a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total.

Bid Submission.

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

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

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

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

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

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Subcontractor List. Each subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a complete Subcontractor List WITH ITS Bid Proposal through the PlanetBids portal. Failure to do will result in rejection of your bid. The Subcontractors List shall include the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of onehalf of 1% of the bid price.

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

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Retention Percentage. Retention will not be withheld from progress payments for this contract.

By: _______________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager Publication Date: 2/24/21 Montecito Journal

Published: 2/24/21 Montecito Journal

this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2021-0000201. Published February 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR

CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 21CV00156. To all interested parties: Petitioner Vito Anthony Kait Summa filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Vito Anthony Summa IV.

Date: ________________

END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

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

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above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection

is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed February 3, 2021 by Elizabeth Spann.

Hearing date: March 16, 2021 at 10 am in Dept. 3, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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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, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 13 years ago.

Uncovering the Truth About Doris Duke

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anta Barbara author Peter Lance sent me his latest book Homicide at Rough Point, which is based on a story published in the Conde Nast celebrity glossy Vanity Fair last summer.

After a two-year investigation Peter, 72, a five-time Emmy Award winner, proved that the late tobacco heiress Doris Duke, once dubbed “the richest girl in the world,” murdered, her longtime interior designer and curator Eduardo Tirella outside the gates of her 11-acre Newport, Rhode Island, estate – a Gilded Age mansion built for railroad magnate Frederick William Vanderbilt. The murder occurred in October 1966, moments after Tirella told Duke he was leaving her employ to move to Hollywood as a production designer.

As if that wasn’t enough, wrote Peter, Duke, who died in 1993 at aged 80, refused to settle with the gay Bronze Star recipient’s five sisters and three brothers for as little as $200,000.

This was at a time when she was earning $1 million a week in interest on her money. As a result, they sued Duke in a wrongful death action.

Five years later at trial, Duke was found liable. Yet, her lawyer proceeded to denigrate Tirella’s reputation to such a degree that, in the end, she was

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Peter Lance publishes new book on Doris Duke murder mystery

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Peter, who attended Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is a recipient of the President John F. Kennedy Journalism Award, started his storied career as a cub reporter for the Newport Daily News in 1967, eight months after the murder.

“Even then the town was abuzz with rumors that Duke had bought her way out of murder charges,” says Peter, who also worked at ABC News 20/20 and was a reporter for Nightline and World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. “I should have covered this in my 20s, but my career got in the way. I spent two years hunting for the truth and finally found it!”

The book comes out in hardcover, paperback, Kindle, and Audible this week.

Highly Rated Hostelries

Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner has good reason to smile during this pandemic.

Both his tony Montecito hotels, the 500-acre San Ysidro Ranch, with 41 private cottages, and the Four Seasons Biltmore with 206 rooms on 22 lush acres next to Butterfly Beach, have received top five-star ratings in the latest 63rd annual Forbes Travel Guide.

The guide features 283 five-star hotels and 576 four-star lodging properties, with Forbes inspectors staying at each location for three days and two nights, posing as regular guests and

paying their own way.

They test up to 900 objective, stringent standards from modern-day facilities to more traditional luxuries, including interior decor, design, and even staff uniforms. Seventy-five percent of the rating is based on service and service care, with 25 percent by the quality of facilities.

Other top-rated hotels in our Eden by the Beach include the Ritz-Carlton Bacara, the Belmond El Encanto, and the Hotel Californian, all of which received four stars.

Ian Williams, new manager of the San Ysidro Ranch, described its latest accolade as “truly wonderful news.”

“It is a testament to our staff and leadership for continuing to evolve and innovate around ever-changing challenges during the pandemic. Even in the midst of COVID, providing a superior product and intuitive service remains paramount. Our single greatest asset continues to be our staff.

“Retaining our five-star status is recognition of our team’s resilience and relentless commitment to excellence.”

What a Right Royal Mess!

The news that Montecito tony twosome Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have sat down with neighbor and TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey for a no-holds-barred, 90-minute interview scheduled to air on CBS on March 7. This will follow the network’s top-rated current affairs show 60 Minutes, which may ensure boffo ratings. But the interview has gone down like a lead balloon at Buckingham Palace, I’m reliably informed.

Oprah flew in her Gulfstream jet from her 163-acre home in Maui, Hawaii, to conduct the interview over two days last week at the couple’s $14 million Riven Rock estate. But it seems that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex failed to let his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, know of the revelatory sit-down, or, more importantly, to seek her permission. The incident echoes Harry’s mother Princess

“I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.” – W.C. Fields

Diana’s notorious tell-all interview with the BBC’s Martin Bashir in 1995, when she famously described “three people in the marriage” in a veiled swipe at Camilla Parker-Bowles, now the Duchess of Cornwall.

News of the Oprah interview only leaked when one of her producers contacted Britain’s ITV network to obtain footage from another Meghan interview that it had broadcast. With that, the cat was truly out of the bag, much to the consternation of the monarch, who marks her 95th birthday in April, and her senior advisers.

However, her decision to remove Harry and Meghan’s royal patronages, including a number of Harry’s honorary military ranks, was made before news of the Oprah deal leaked.

Harry, sixth in line to the British throne, served two terms of duty in Afghanistan in the British Army and always looked dashing in his various military uniforms, including the Blues and Royals cavalry uniform he wore at his wedding in May 2018 to Meghan at the historic St. George’s Chapel, Windsor.

Now, his grandmother’s edict also sees him relinquishing his official positions with British rugby organizations and losing his cherished title of Captain General of the Royal Marines.

The question is now being asked: How much longer will the couple be styled as Their Royal Highnesses, given Diana’s title was taken away when she divorced the Prince of Wales in August 1996.

Royal service is not like the hokey pokey, where you can put one leg in and one leg out. One must be fully and totally committed, which the Queen obviously thought could not be done from 7,000 miles away in California.

Even so, Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, obviously thought otherwise.

It will be interesting to watch them put their case before Oprah, which will obviously be either a success or a total bust. Meghan reportedly feels it is an opportunity to have her voice heard by a large and sympathetic audience, something she obviously felt she didn’t get with the Royal Family.

Earlier this week a TV crew from CBS in Los Angeles interviewed me at Maison Mineards in Montecito to get my take on all matters royal. The interview is scheduled to air in the near future. Watch for more news here.

Healing from COVID

Montecito resident and AcademyAward winner Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed that she battled COVID-19 last year, which left her suffering from long-term fatigue, body inflammation, and brain fog.

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or many years, you couldn’t buy certain items, such as mattresses, in the U.S.A., unless they contained a federally required fabric label, or “tag.” I’m not sure exactly what information these labels provided, but what I do remember is that they also contained a very severe warning against removing them. Something like “DO NOT REMOVE, UNDER PENALTY OF LAW.” Nothing was said about the ultimate purchaser being exempt from this restriction.

This caused much bewilderment, and some amusement, at the prospect of “mattress police,” perhaps arriving in the night, to make sure the required label was still there.

Ultimately, in the face of considerable ridicule, the law was amended, to enable adding of the words “EXCEPT

BY THE CONSUMER.” But the matter of product labeling continues to be of huge importance in our society. Today, even individual pieces of fruit and vegetables contain their own stuck-on labels, which are sometimes hard to get off. Indeed, as all kinds of glues, and other adhesive substances, have themselves proliferated, techniques of label-removal have had to struggle to keep up. My own experience with this problem has mainly concerned small plastic jars, such as often originally contain peanut butter or jam. The jars themselves, in their subsequent lives, are extremely useful, but if you want a completely clean one, you have to get rid of the paper label, which usually wraps all the way around, and is fastened by some kind of glue. Even after you soak off the label, which isn’t hard to do, you’re still left with rows of glue-spots, which will not cooperatively soak, or even scrape, off.

You probably know all about this, but it’s only recently that I have discovered a marvelous substance trademarked as “GOO GONE,” which makes all kinds of sticky adhesives disappear, and, in my case, has given me a large and embarrassingly growing collection of rescued jars, which simply seem too good to abandon to the “re-cyclers.”

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thing to tell us what we are looking at? How often have you attended an event at which the first requirement is for you to put a label on yourself? Most pictures, wherever they appear in any published form, need some kind of caption, to make them meaningful. And of course, books need titles – although these often in themselves aren’t enough, and need to be supplemented by a publisher’s “blurb.”

The trouble is that, despite this abundance of labels, they are never present when you really want one. Nature does not provide labels. You have to learn the names which have been given to all the animals and plants, the mountains, lakes and rivers, the rocks, and all the other geographical and geological features, to say nothing of the immensity of objects beyond our own planet.

But, with all this concern, it may interest you to know that I myself once had a job which required making labels I didn’t understand, for items I never saw. As it happened, I was peculiarly qualified for this position. It was in the early 1960s, when I was a graduate student at Berkeley, taking any work I could get to help put me through. I was studying History, but I learned that the Botany Department had need for someone who knew something about printing. They had a little print-shop, on which they printed all their own labels for botanical specimens. Their equipment was of the very old-fashioned type, which required manual typesetting. This involved picking up individual pieces of metal type, each containing a letter or symbol, and “setting” them in a hand-held device called a “stick.” Some skill was needed, because the sectioned “case” containing the pieces of type didn’t have them in alphabetical order, and you had to learn the positions. Also, you had to put them in the stick backwards, and upside down.

Now it happened that some twenty years earlier, in Junior High School, I’d had a semester of “Print-Shop” – so I knew these, and other basics, of the art – and I got the job. Of course, I didn’t have the privilege of signing my work, which I never saw in use – but, for all I know, at least a few of the specimens in the world-famous Berkeley Herbarium still bear my labels.

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Miscellany (Continued from page 40) “I had COVID-19 early on,” the 48-year-old actress recounted in a Goop chat. “In January I had some tests done that showed really high levels of inflammation in my body.”

The Shakespeare in Love star said that she has been taking care of herself with an enhanced focus on selfcare while refraining from consuming sugar or alcohol. She designed a new regimen to combat the long-term effects of the virus.

“Everything I’m doing feels good, like a gift to my body. I have energy, I’m working out in the mornings, and I’m doing an infrared sauna as often as I can, all in the service of healing.”

A Good Start

Now that Governor Gavin Newsom has lifted the total ban on eating out, I ventured to the historic Santa Barbara Yacht Club to dine with my trusty shutterbug Priscilla, the Montecito animal activist Gretchen Lieff and her longtime beau Miles Hartfeld.

The dining room on the outside terrace overlooking the Pacific was socially gridlocked, with guests suitably distanced from each other. Chef Mario Santamaria offered a compact, but varied menu.

“Everybody has just been delighted to get out again,” said manager Richard Nahas. “Hopefully, with all the new vaccines now available, we’ll be back to normal soon. But this is a good start.”

Fighting the Good Fight

SBCC Foundation Receives Generous Gift

December aged 98, is up for sale for $380 million.

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Former Santa Ynez Valley resident and world-class warbler Olivia Newton-John uses plant medicine and medical cannabis in her long-running fight with stage four metastatic breast cancer.

Olivia, 72, told the BBC’s The One show: “I’m fine. I’ve been dealing with this for seven years and every day is a gift.”

The British-born, Australian-raised blonde is excited to attend her 35-yearold daughter Chloe Lattanzi’s small wedding to her fiancé of ten years James Driskins later this year.

James and Chloe run their cannabis farm Laughing Dog Farm in Canby, Oregon, which they opened in 2016.

Remembering Jean

Geoff Green, CEO of the City College Foundation

Olivia Newton-John goes to pot

The Santa Barbara City College Foundation has received a major gift of $375,000 from anonymous donors to support the college’s music department’s jazz and symphony programs.

The funds will provide the department’s faculty and staff with the necessary resources to initiate and fund special projects and intermittently critical needs of the programs.

“This generous gift is a manifestation of the immense appreciation our community has for City College music and its renowned jazz and symphony programs,” says Geoff Green, Foundation CEO. “We are grateful for the vision inherent in this support that will make it possible for students to benefit for years to come.”

Bubble Palace for Sale

Palais Bulles, the south of France summer home of the late French designer Pierre Cardin, who died in

Maddy, Cate, Matt, Cece, and Jacqui Stoll with Matt, Maddie, Sophia, and Jenny Haeg-Hudson enjoying the SBYC’s first evening dinner (photo by Priscilla)

On a personal note, I mark the move to more heavenly pastures for Jean Nell, who has died at the age of 96, just a few days short of her Valentine’s Day birthday.

I got to know Jean over the years while watching her usher at myriad events at the Granada, where she was undoubtedly the oldest volunteer, as well as doing sterling work at Cottage Hospital.

She was the oldest resident among 500 students at the Beach City housing complex, a tiara’s toss from City College, and never wanted to give up her ocean-view upper floor apartment.

The youngsters adored her, helping her with her shopping and laundry, and she in turn baked them cakes and cookies to show her gratitude.

Jean, originally from Chicago, told me that living with young people kept her young.

She will be much missed by us all...

Sightings will return in due course now Gov. Gavin Newsom lifted the total lockdown.

Pip! Pip! - Be safe and wear a mask •MJ

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ith their revolutionary perspective on the fundamentals of food preparation and flavor combinations, UCSB Arts & Lectures’ featured chefs Samin Nosrat and Yotam Ottolenghi represent a new paradigm of cooking ideals and styles. Moderated by Sherry Villanueva, Managing Partner at Acme Hospitality, “Chefs in Conversation” will feature the two James Beard Award-winning cooking book authors and chefs Samin Nosrat and Yotam Ottolenghi at 11 am on February 28. Nosrat and Ottolenghi will share their passion for all things gustatory as they dish about their experiences in –and secrets from – the kitchen.

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With a hit Netflix series, bestselling debut cookbook, and a New York Times food column, Nosrat is currently the “It Girl” of the culinary world. The Israeli-born London restaurateur and The Guardian columnist Ottolenghi is the bestselling author of several beloved cookbooks including Jerusalem, Ottolenghi Simple, and most recently, Flavour.

Nosrat’s anecdotes from Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and Ottolenghi’s innovative approach to vegetarian cuisine is certain to inspire both amateur chefs and gourmands alike. The event is part of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Winter 2021 House Calls series, a virtual program that delivers perNosrat’s best-selling book uses culinary chemistry for good cooking formance, conversation, thoughtful analysis, and witty commentary that streams directly to your living room.

Pre-COVID, the gathering of creative thinkers and doers live on the A&L stage – the environmentalists, musicians, novelists, chefs, humanitarians, Grammy winners, and others – was highly anticipated by Santa Barbara culture seekers. A&L pivoted with virtual programs that are roughly 60 minutes long, combining an informal talk-back session and other elements that would rarely happen on stage, organizers said.

To make the event even more appetizing, Acme, which owns and operates popular local eateries including The Lark, Loquita, Helena Avenue Bakery, and La Paloma Cafe, is partnering with UCSB Arts & Lectures to devise a menu to pair with each lecture in the series. For this weekend’s lecture, The Lark has created a carry-out brunch inspired by Nosrat and Ottolenghi. Executive Chef Jason Paluska and Chef de Cuisine Logan Jones will prepare dark chocolate babka with whipped cardamom butter and orange blossom; a Fattoush Salad with lettuces, cucumber, persimmon, pita, and feta; and smoked salmon with cured egg, shallot labneh, Iranian pickles, sourdough bread and dill. Brunch is $75 for two. Requests for orders are recommended by February 25. “[Prior to COVID] many of our audience members would meet at restaurants before Arts & Lectures shows, so when distancing became necessary and our programming had to pivot to the virtual world, we immediately thought about our local restaurants and what we could do to support them, which is why we’re so thrilled to partner with Acme Hospitality,” said Celesta M. Billeci, Arts & Lectures’ Miller McCune Executive Director.

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749 SAN YSIDRO RD 12.77±acs • $62,000,000 Cristal Clarke, 805.886.9378 LIC# 00968247

1104 CHANNEL DR, MONTECITO 1.13±acs • $32,000,000 Phyllis Noble, 805.451.2126 LIC# 01448730

296 LAS ENTRADAS DR, MONTECITO UPPER 6BD/11BA • $26,500,000 Nancy Kogevinas, 805.450.6233 LIC# 01209514

ROMERO CANYON ROAD, MONTECITO UPPER 5BD/5½BA • $20,000,000 Cristal Clarke, 805.886.9378 LIC# 00968247

1379 OAK CREEK CANYON RD, MONTECITO UPPER 5BD/9BA • $9,950,000 Nancy Kogevinas, 805.450.6233 LIC# 01209514

965 PARK LN, MONTECITO UPPER 4BD/3½BA • $8,900,000 Laurel Abbott, 805.455.5409 LIC# 01247432

2109 STRATFORD PL, MONTECITO LOWER 3BD/3½BA • $4,595,000 Cristal Clarke, 805.886.9378 LIC# 00968247

462 CROCKER SPERRY DR, MONTECITO LOWER 2BD+Office/3BA • $4,295,000 Marsha Kotlyar Estate Group, 805.565.4014 LIC# 01426886

805 TORO CANYON RD, MONTECITO UPPER 10.67±acs • $2,375,000 Nancy Kogevinas, 805.450.6233 LIC# 01209514

1094 TORO CANYON RD, MONTECITO UPPER 45±acs • $850,000 Jody Neal / Kathy Strand Spieler, 805.895.6326 LIC# 01995725 / 00851281

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