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The Three Vlads– Putin, Zelenskyy, and

Palahniuk (though you know the last one as Jack Palance), P.5 Elephant on the Block– Retailers discuss their concerns with parklets and parking along Coast Village Road, P.10

Preserve Rehabilitation – Recovery efforts

underway at the Arroyo Hondo Preserve, P.20 McGinnis in Town– SB County GOP Chair Bobbi McGinnis discusses local and state issues, endorsements, and more, P.26

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The Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade and a new committee are helping build a better pedestrian path through town with Walk Montecito. Eight miles of trails are planned, and they are looking at the road ahead (STORY STARTS ON PAGE 6)

A Summerland Look

A group of citizens works to establish an underpass that looks like Summerland for the 101 widening project, page 8

Marty Touches Down Montecito’s Marty Allen reflects on his trip aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, page 12

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Michael Drury goes Far and Near in his upcoming exhibit of vivid plein air paintings from the West Coast and abroad, page 40

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Editorial – Gwyn Lurie compares three Vlads and why Jack Palance matters, why Ukraine matters, and the matter of Putin

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Robert’s Big Questions – UCSD’s John Wixted gives a talk on the research and reliability of eyewitness evidence

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Village Beat – Walk Montecito is forging the path for a more pedestrian friendly Montecito, a dog emporium at Cashy’s Playpen, and the CBID moves forward

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A Summerland Look – Reeve Woolpert recounts the efforts to preserve the character of Summerland in the Evans Avenue undercrossing

Our Town – An interview with Bobbi McGinnis, SB County GOP chair, covering the key local and state issues, changes in the party, candidate endorsements, and her goals

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Letters to the Editor – An elephant is on the 1200 block of Coast Village and a bear misses the Montecito Library Tide Guide

In Passing – Friends and family remember the joyous and impactful life of Ted Tedesco, city manager and public servant

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The Giving List – The care and independent lives led at Hillside House and the help both given and needed there

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Montecito Miscellany – Marty Allen touches down with Richard Mineards in an exclusive, Coral Casino renovations are underway, Gordon Guy is remembered, and more

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Your Westmont – An elegant new entrance awaits at Westmont, Assistant Professor Kya Mangrum receives research grant, a powerful Presence and Spring Sing returns

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een Around Town – Bill Dedman talks Huguette Clark, Spain’s Ministry of S Culture visits our Spirit and Mission, Daniel Stone visits Lotusland, and more on Montecito’s Little Book

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Calendar of Events – The Moth enters the mainstage, speed dating, kites fly at SBCC, Spirit auditions, and more happenings this week

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Real Estate – The numbers from the March madness of real estate sales and some of the notable offerings still available

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On Entertainment – Robert Battle dances through the ages; American Son, Chicago, and The Wolves come to the theater; and Aoife O’Donovan’s Apathy

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The Way it Is – Traipse along the West Ridge Trail and encounter the protective measures and intricate ecosystem that has followed the Alisal Fire

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ainting Far and Near – The illustrious and reflective plein air paintings of P Michael Drury display the scenery of California, Nevada, and Ireland at the SB Fine Art Gallery

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

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Editorial

A Tale of Three Vlads

by Gwyn Lurie

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his is the story of three Vlads. Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and Volodymyr Palahniuk, whom you knew by his stage name: Jack Palance. I did not know until recently that Jack Palance died here in Montecito at the home of his daughter Holly. Nor did I know until fairly recently how much Holly Palance has contributed to this community as a journalist. Turns out there’s a lot I didn’t know about the Palances, their strong ties to Montecito… and to Ukraine.

The story I’m about to tell regarding Jack is timely and poignant for two reasons.

The first is – up until two weeks ago – probably the most famous Academy Award acceptance speech was done by Mr. Palance when he won his Oscar for City Slickers in 1992. He got on stage and showed his physical might (and sense of humor) by proceeding to do one-armed push-ups right there in front of the cameras at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The other reason I’m talking about Jack Palance is – he was a proud Ukrainian – but also his story underlines just how long Putin has wanted to absorb that country.

Jack Palance was 72 when he finally won his Oscar in 1992, though he’d been nominated two times before over 45 years of acting. Before that, Palance had worked in mines, been a boxer, was a student at Stanford, and had been an understudy for Marlon Brando in the Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Apparently when they were sparring one day, Palance accidentally broke Brando’s nose. That was unfortunate for Brando, but fortuitous for Palance, as it gave him the opportunity to acquit himself well in the role of Stanley Kowalski and get noticed by Hollywood.

The rest is showbiz history.

Oftentimes when actors are in the later stages of their lives and careers, they use their notoriety to collect accolades and lifetime achievement awards, give endorsements, and their lives become one long victory lap. Cher goes on a farewell tour just about every other year. But this was not exactly true for Palance, who worked a lot both before and after his Oscar, not just as an actor, but as a poet! And supporting various philanthropies, especially Ukrainian ones. He worked with orphans in Chernobyl and he led the Hollywood Trident Foundation, a group of Ukrainians working in Hollywood who petitioned for fair elections in Ukraine in 2004.

Enter Vladimir Putin. That same year, 2004, Russia invited Palance to receive a People’s Choice Award of a sort to be bestowed in Hollywood by a vague RussianUkrainian Federation. In fact, Russia had lured Palance to their propaganda ceremony under a false pretext. The award was really a straight up Russian award with no Ukrainian bent whatsoever. This may not have been the best strategy to try and hoodwink the famously outspoken Palance known for winning the Oscar then announcing to the world, “Billy Crystal, I crap bigger than him.”

The Montecito Journal unearthed the epic story of what happened next at the Russian People’s Choice Awards and reached out to Jack’s daughter, Holly, for corroboration. Holly said the person most expert on what happened that night was someone named Peter Borisow, a close friend of Jack’s and also a fierce defender of Ukrainian sovereignty who had been a personal advisor to multiple Ukrainian prime ministers.

As Borisow tells it, “Dustin Hoffman had just received an award and now it was Jack’s turn. But it became clear the event was pure propaganda assembled by the Russian Ministry of Culture, which Palance deduced quickly. So when it was time for Palance to receive his statuette, Jack instead got up and announced, ‘I’m not Russian, I’m Ukrainian. So, excuse me, but I don’t belong here.’ The crowd was stunned, then me and Jack and his brother had to take the long walk to the exit in this very big theater. You could hear a pin drop… and then we went out for sushi.”

We asked Borisow what Russia’s point might have been in their failed attempt to bestow this honor upon Palance. Borisow said it would have been a nice feather in Putin’s fur hat to get Palance, a 114 Hollywood and American legend, to go Editorial Page 114 along with the narrative that his achievements were actually tied to Russia and not Ukraine. Said Borisow, “It’s part of the larger Russian strategy called ‘unrestricted warfare’ wherein everything is Gwyn Lurie is CEO weaponized against Russia’s targets, not and Executive Editor of just military weapons but there’s industhe Montecito Journal trial warfare, economic warfare, control Media Group of various energy pipelines, and of course Putin has always been partial to cultural erasure.”

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Village Beat Walk Montecito

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he Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade is launching a new campaign this week, aimed at raising funds for Walk Montecito, a project that will ultimately create eight miles of roadside walking trails throughout Montecito.

“The project reflects our commitment to long-term recovery from the Thomas Fire and Debris Flow, and our mission to build both community connection and resilience in the county,” said Bucket Brigade founder Abe Powell, who met with us earlier this week on the recently-built trail on the corner of Hot Springs and Olive Mill, across from the entrance of Casa Dorinda.

“How long do we all want to wait to be able to walk safely in Montecito?”

Powell asked as he stepped into the bike lane to demonstrate where pedestrians are expected to walk in most areas of Montecito. “I’ve been waiting 46 years to be able to walk safely in this community, and in that time, I have seen walking space along the roadside disappear. Traffic has increased, and distracted driving has become the norm in Montecito, putting

Walk Montecito, a capital campaign to build a total of eight miles of walking paths in Montecito, launches this week. The project includes formal and informal pathways, like this decomposed granite pathway on the corner of Hot Springs and Olive Mill.

Bucket Brigade Founder Abe Powell and Walk Montecito campaign committee members Michael Smith, David Jackson, and Lisa Aviani on the corner of Hot Springs and Olive Mill roads

pedestrians at risk. We’re all expected to share the road with cars and bikes, and it’s just not safe.”

Powell and his team – with the blessing of Santa Barbara County Public Works – have already built two miles of walking trails in the public right-of-way along North Jameson Lane, Olive Mill,

and Hot Springs Road thus far, and are seeking to raise a total of $2.54M for trail construction and ongoing trail maintenance to build the remaining six miles.

“We want to start this next phase now, so we can ultimately build a neighborhood network of trails that connects schools, churches, parks, open spaces, beaches, and businesses,” Powell said.

The grassroots initiative calls for pedestrian improvements that are in alignment with the semi-rural ambiance of Montecito, prohibiting paved, concrete sidewalks that are not compatible with

the Montecito Community Plan. The mix of formal and non-formal trails are and will be ADA friendly in most areas, and are or will be made from both decomposed granite in main thoroughfares, and informal compacted shale alongside roads, connecting to nature trails through public open spaces and parks.

With a goal of building six more miles of trail in the next three years, Powell has built an active executive committee for this campaign, co-chaired by Michael Smith and Geoffrey Slaff. The first phase of the project will be what Powell calls “The Hot Springs Gap,” which is the area between Casa Dorinda and Middle Road on Hot Springs Road; just last month the corner at Olive Mill and Hot Springs roads was completed, with a previous section from Montecito Country Mart to Middle Road completed in 2021. Future streets earmarked for trails include Barker Pass, Camino Viejo, Eucalyptus Hill, San Leandro (Ennisbrook to Santa Rosa), Santa Rosa, Sinaloa, South Jameson, and Sycamore Canyon Road. “Other neighborhoods that want to connect in with this trail system just have to let us know, and we’ll see if it’s feasible,” Powell said. To build the trails in most areas, the vehicle and bike lanes will be reduced in size yet still to regulation, and a new curb will be built out to accommodate the walking

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A Summerland Look

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Central Summerland, 101, and Southern Pacific — In this aerial of central Summerland, I erased the part of town occupied by 101 and the railroad to show how they tear through Summerland. What remains is held together by the solitary stitch on the left — the Evans Avenue undercrossing.

by Reeve Woolpert

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ot long ago, saying “I live in Summerland” would trigger a puzzled “where?” Then someone would mention the Big Yellow House.

Had the restaurant then been empty and a shade of white as it is today, the landmark might have been the enormous

LIQUOR sign looming over town. The next place to dog Summerland just might be a truck-stop-sized, out-of-place new gas station canopy and sign.

If there were a lost and found for towns with missing identities, Summerland would be there. Surges of exploitation have repeatedly muddled the town’s character. Current make-believe descriptions include hamlet, nestled, quaint, casual,

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burgeoning, seaside haven, design destination, comeback community, and chic, convenient, and artsy.

Through the years, Summerland has suffered from labels like “Seventh Heaven,” “Spooksville,” “Bohemian,” “where the debris meets the sea,” “the unwanted stepchild of Santa Barbara County shoved off to the side and forgotten,” “the next Laguna Beach,” and “Baja Montecito.” In an iconic, long-exposure photo, a sleepy Summerland is pictured laid-back beside the Pacific Ocean above a stream of dazzling commuter lights and railroad tracks, with everything looking quiet and intact. Jeez!

Summerland lost much of its presence and peace to Highway101, its main street and blocks of residential streets to the needs of commuters, its ocean sounds and fresh breezes to traffic noise and soot. The best of Summerland’s bluffs and chunks of beach went to the railroad, its water district and most of Ortega Ridge to Montecito, control of its fire department and school to Carpinteria, and its downcoast to a Padaro Lane “private” beach. Summerland’s eastern flank became who-knows-what when that far-removed-from-Montecito side of Summerland was dubbed Montecito Ranch Estates, and the adjoining sodfarm, Montecito Oceanfront Polo Estate.

The integrity of Summerland’s neighborhoods is being compromised by short-term rentals; the local context of

downtown by whitewashing; the solace of a beach walk by vacationers, glamour photographers, e-bikes, and dude strings of selfie-taking horseback riders. Santa Barbara’s touted, southern gateway – from Rincon to the city – is gentrifying and dragging Summerland along.

Most Summerlanders chose to fit in when they arrived. They chose not to fret about Summerland’s funky inferiority or seek to change it. They relished the separateness, slowness, and unconventional authenticity and wanted it left alone.

They didn’t come to transform, shop, or sell Summerland. They came seeking community and belonging, along with great views of the ocean and a short walk to it.

A rare opportunity to address Summerland’s persistent struggle with identity came a few years ago when Caltrans showed up with drawings for a 50% wider 101. They planned to add a dozen-plus acres of pavement to the sprawling highway that since the ‘60s has disfigured Summerland, sundering our shoreline from us, along with a grounded sense of place.

With more work and wrestling than I care to remember, a small team of champions fought to capture what we could of our town’s soul through the addition of local design elements to the state’s plans.

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NEWS & VIEWS The Elephant on the 1200 Block of Coast Village Road

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ave you ever wondered why you can’t find a parking space on Coast Village Road? Coast Village Road is not downtown Santa Barbara. Unlike downtown, Coast Village Road does not have public parking structures and has suffered from a parking shortage well before the pandemic. So, it should come as no surprise that removing 23% of the available public street parking, to build temporary outdoor parklets, to help some restaurants through the indoor closure phase of the pandemic, would have a significant negative impact on the parking problem, business, and public safety.

The parking problem is compounded exponentially when you consider the fact that the majority of these parklets are overbuilt, some as much as 60% in violation of the sizing guidelines under ordinance #5944. This added illegal capacity generates more space for customers of course, which in turn necessitates the need for more staff and support personnel of all kinds, all of which require more parking, not less. These violations have been known to the city of Santa Barbara since the parklets were first constructed nearly two years ago, yet nothing has been done to correct them. The problem is so bad today that employees and business owners have run out of parking on Coast Village Circle where parking was once always available.

When you add to this the fact that the city does not have the parking enforcement resources to enforce current parking laws – customers, businesses, and public safety suffer.

The public safety issues these overbuilt parklets create are many. Alleys, fire lanes, bike lanes, sidewalks, and

Originally these outdoor parklets were due to expire on June 15, 2021 when full indoor dining was resumed, but were later extended to March 9, 2022.

Did you know that the Santa Barbara City Council has voted to extend them for an additional two years? While the situation downtown may justify some sort of extension, it clearly does not on Coast Village Road where there is only street parking available to the public. driveways are being blocked; cars are double- and triple-parked on a daily basis. Recently (March 5, 2022), an automobile accident resulting in serious damage occurred on the 1200 block of Coast Village Road when three double-parked restaurant cars were struck by a motorist (see SBPD report #22-9191 for details). Bicycles are constantly being forced from established bike lanes and into traffic due to overbuilt parklets extending eight feet past the maximum allowed. It is only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured or killed.

Originally these outdoor parklets were due to expire on June 15, 2021 when full indoor dining was resumed, but were later extended to March 9, 2022. Did you know that the Santa Barbara City Council has voted to extend them for an additional two years? While the situation downtown may justify some sort of extension, it clearly does not on Coast Village Road where there is only street parking available to the public.

Restaurants with parklets on Coast Village Road have more than recouped their losses due to previous extensions and additional illegal capacity they have benefitted from to this point. Each day, moving forward these select few restaurants, 8% of the total businesses on Coast Village Road, are now profiting at the direct expense of the 92% of businesses without them, some of which are restaurants themselves. Extending the use of public parking on Coast Village Road to a handful of restaurants for two more years is unnecessary, inequitable, and unsafe. If you haven’t seen the elephant on the 1200 block of Coast Village Road, this may be because he is hiding under one of the Circus Vargaslike tents.

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Editorial (Continued from 5) tling of Ukraine has always been important to Putin. “There can be no Russian empire without Ukraine’s agricultural and mineral wealth. Ukraine is known as the bread basket of Europe and is incredibly fertile. They say in Ukraine that if you put a broomstick in the ground in winter, it will flower in spring.”

And why is Ukraine important to the United States? “It’s a bellwether,” says Borisow. “As goes Ukraine, so goes Europe. And as goes Europe so goes the rest of the world. Putin’s ultimate goal is to defeat the United States because the 20th century was widely known as the ‘American Century.’ As Putin sees it, the Russians have been a disbursed people that he is trying to (re)unify, and at the same time he is trying to disburse us.”

How could Putin possibly disburse the United States? According to Borisow, Putin has already had much success. “Russian agents like Maria Butina were proactive in funding and organizing the KKK affiliates who started the racial hate riots in Charlottesville, to give just one example.”

The Montecito Journal’s own Katherine Stewart recounted well in The New York Times the easy access Russian operatives have to many of our most influential politicians (Katherine Stewart, “What Was Maria Butina Doing at the National Prayer Breakfast?” New York Times, 7-18-2018).

“In service of his goals, Putin may not

be able to make Russia stronger, but making America weaker can serve Putin just as well,” says Borisow. “He’s weakening us not just through our media and social media, but also in our divided universities, think tanks, elections, and politics.

The issues don’t matter. For Putin it’s all about the fighting. Creating and exacerbating divisions in our society.” Vax/ anti-vax. Mask vs. anti-mask. Team Chris Rock vs. Team Will Smith.

“The U.S. has a choice. It can fight Putin on U.S. soil or on Ukrainian soil,” says Borisow. “It’s the greatest existential threat to the United States in its history.

In earlier wars the oceans on both sides protected us, but cyber warfare knows no borders. In Europe, Russian funding of rabid hate together with manipulation of media and social media has produced startling results including Brexit and the Dutch referendum blocking Ukraine’s entry into the EU. Marine Le Pen’s racist party in France is openly funded by loans from a Russian bank.” (Further research shows this bank has deep ties to a Russian aircraft company which in turn supplies planes to Syria.) Sometimes Putin plays five or six chess boards all at once.

On the other hand, sometimes Putin miscalculates. Russia seems to have miscalculated with Zelenskyy and Ukraine as it did with an earlier proud Ukrainian named Jack Palance nearly two decades previous.

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fter soaring into the heavens last week aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket from a spaceport in Van Horn, Texas, the former CEO of California Closets and Party America reached an altitude of 350,000 feet, or about 66 miles, above our planet, flying above the Kármán line, which is defined as the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space.

Marty was part of a crew of six, which was to have included Saturday Night Live regular Pete Davidson, 28, beau of reality TV star Kim Kardashian, but he had to back out with a scheduling conflict when takeoff was delayed a week. Even on launch day it was not all smooth sailing.

“Our flight had a 47-minute hold which came during our countdown,” says Marty. “There was a communication issue with the booster rocket and it had to be fixed before launch. The engineers were able to resolve the issue with about five minutes to spare before the mission would have been scrubbed. In simple terms, once fuel is in the rocket it begins to cool and basically would freeze the electronics around the engine given enough time. During that time we just sat in the capsule strapped into our seats and waited and waited and waited. And then the issue was resolved, countdown continued, and we blasted off.”

After the launch, the reusable zero greenhouse gas emissions rocket landed vertically at a pad, while the craft continued soaring upwards creating a few minutes of weightlessness while taking in the majesty of Earth before the capsule re-entered the atmosphere, deploying its chutes and floating back to the surface in a gentle desert landing.

“I am still processing the experience,”

“Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.” – Truman Capote

Montecito businessman Marty Allen blasts into space

Marty told me in an exclusive when he arrived back in our rarefied enclave on the weekend. “My early reaction is several fold. Before going into space, I was excited about the idea of weightlessness, but once up there, the weightlessness became secondary to the view out of the widows, which was just mesmerizing.

“We were in space and it was black, and I mean black. Then we could look back and see Earth and the curvature of the planet. One thing for sure, the world is not flat! That was a sight I’ll never forget.

The ride up to space in the rocket was nothing short of amazing.

“We reached a speed of 2,300 miles per hour and once the booster rocket separated, which you could feel, then the capsule continued into space and we had a very real feel of floating. Then the descent was amazing. We just fell out of the sky and came hurtling back to Earth reaching five Gs. I could lift my arm off of the hand rest and then it just got slammed back down!”

Before the launch Marty and his fellow crew members had to undergo training for four days. “Much of it was centered around a lot of protocol that surrounded the entire event, with most of it being inside the capsule. The most critical procedure was learning how to get back into your seat in weightlessness, although all that training was done in gravity. We repeated all the procedures many, many times until it became a muscle memory.

And there was training on many of the what ifs.

“The capsule itself also had a very powerful rocket built into it, so that in an emergency the capsule could be launched off the booster rocket. The safety feature was active from the time we were strapped into our seats until we separated from the booster rocket. Every step of the process was always built around our safety.”

Marty, who says he loved aviation as a

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Summerland (Continued from 8)

Sidewalk Detail — This plan view of the undercrossing with a 3D rendering insert illustrates the wavy pattern for the new undercrossing sidewalks. The pattern will be made by contrasting smooth and pebbled surfaces. No details of other interior elements, such as the kelp pattern on the retaining wall, are shown in the insert.

Kelp Detail — This composite of studies shows Summerland’s kelp pattern formed into the retaining wall of a new Evans Avenue undercrossing sidewalk

successful, but were able to add some native character to the proposed tons of concrete and highway paving madness again coming our way.

Only one skinny, central tunnel penetrates mighty 101 – the Evans Avenue undercrossing. That solitary tube is key to holding together our split Summerland, connecting homes and businesses with nature and recreation, and a sense of place with place. During planning meetings with the state, county, and buttinskies, we were told that the undercrossing must look like other highway structures up and downcoast that were to be remodeled

or rebuilt. The planners sought a “continuity of commuter experience” and a certain “Santa Barbara look.” Some of us felt we deserved more than that for the edifice that dominates our center. One that was attuned to Summerland: distinctive, delightful, and memorable. One that announced SUMMERLAND. And because the undercrossing needed only strengthening, not razing, our opportunity was limited.

Construction is underway. Falsework is up. Formboards are built. Soon the community’s own sun designs will dress up the old, cold Evans undercrossing

to celebrate the warmth enjoyed here on Summerland’s uncommon, nearshore, south-facing hillsides. The Summerland name and founding date will be stamped into a new fascia above the undercrossing’s entrances to say this is SUMMERLAND, a unique and separate place. Pedestrians will enjoy wavy-patterned new sidewalks that will lyrically reflect location and animate the undercrossing’s passageways.

The tired, ‘60s look of highway buttresses when Evans was built will be textured with an eclectic, board detail reminiscent of Summerland’s early wharfs and built environment. New interior lamps and columns will be more anonymous and less distinguished than we hoped. But on long, new sidewalk retaining walls,

a deeply cast, joyful pattern of kelp will celebrate Summerland’s pioneering past, seaside setting, and spirit.

Too much of the local team’s vision – homey features like a tiny community plaza; public art sites; tailored columns and highway center divider; and fun, indigenous colors and lighting – got lost in a too-painful effort to encourage indifferent overseers to give back a little of Summerland. But in limited, though significant, details, we will soon enjoy a greater sense of place – a greater sense of OUR exceptional place. And, for me, these community-made designs will be an enduring reminder of the challenging and rewarding work of mindful citizens

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hile I don’t follow March Madness basketball, I do follow the Montecito Real Estate market, house by house, sale by sale, and March was indeed Madness. While an average March might bring 18+/- sales, March 2022 showed strong with 26 solid sales, more than half of them being over $6,000,000.

That is, in a word, incomprehensible to local agents.

All statistics quoted are from the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and there were numerous other sales not reported in March, yet still changing hands “off camera” if you will, including the whopping $52,000,000 paid for (second time sold in a couple of years) originally the Rob Lowe family compound on Picacho. Let’s play, guess who bought the mansion in Montecito this week?

In the MLS this March, there were seven significant sales between $8 and $10 million. There were four sales over $10M with a high of $25,000,000 paid for an East Coast compound with views, tennis, privacy, couple of acres, etc... Only two homes sold in the under $3M market (which used to represent 50% of all sales just a few years back), and as of this writing there are only two available listings in the 93108 under $3M market to choose from.

Of the 24 listings right now on the market in the entire 93108 and Montecito area, only six homes are listed under $5,000,000 and the other 18 listings are over $5,000,000. That’s a $1.65M condo, up to the $39,995,000 sticker price for the multi-acre Scarface compound. Both listings seem worth the asking price for what you get and based on comps and sales ongoing. Condos in that same, centrally located Coast Village Road building for instance have been selling in the $1.6 to $1.8M range and many multi-acre mega estates are fetching between $20 and $50M these days, so $40M for the Scarface compound where Al Pacino and his tiger once roamed seems in line, yes? It’s all lotto money to most of us.

Anyway, there are the stats. It was great to see rain last week. We need more, that’s for sure. Happy house hunting. Here are four homes available as of the day I am writing about them.

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Nested on a low-traffic street in the foothills off East Valley Road, and resting on nearly an acre, this contemporary single-level home offers solid, sweeping views of the Santa Ynez mountains. Entering through gates, you are led into a private oasis with lush landscaping featuring an abundance of fruit trees and permaculture inspired gardens.

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2255 Ortega Ranch Road – $10,995,000

Impressive ocean views, privacy, and single-level living are top features of this estate, located alongside other impressive homes on a private road along the ridge separating Montecito and Summerland. Close in, vast ocean views span the horizon and offer an inspiring backdrop to this beautiful 5+/- acre property.

Indoor/outdoor living spaces, lush gardens, finishes, and furnishings by John Saladino combine to project Montecito’s coveted lifestyle. The spacious primary suite features dual walk-in wardrobes and a study. There are two additional en suite bedrooms, spacious public rooms that are ideal for entertaining, and a dedicated home office offers flexibility. Outside, an expansive covered patio creates a second living room with multiple seating and dining areas. There is a fountain, fire pit, and room for a gym.

1010 Cima Linda Lane – $11,250,000

Expansive ocean views bring in the horizon at this newly renovated, single-level, mid-century modern home on “the curve” at Cima Linda, where some of the best, close in ocean views are available for residents of the area. Step into an open floor plan that celebrates Montecito’s indoor/outdoor lifestyle and appreciate the upgrades and improvements done to prepare this stunning 1950s architectural home for the future.

Sliding doors open both to the ocean terraces and central patio, extending the lines of the house and blurring into the natural environment. Throughout the home, chic finishes coalesce with beautiful proportions and scale to create a sophisticated and welcoming home. Designer finishes, dual baths/closets, and a gas fireplace make for a dreamy primary retreat. Outdoor spaces offer entertainment, dining, and sun or shade areas.

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The interior features a versatile, open floor plan with a media room, dining area, chef ’s kitchen with a spacious double-edge waterfall marble island, separate butler’s kitchen, and walk-in pantry. Enjoy dual primary suites with one located on the main level and the upper one featuring dual baths, each with large walk-in closets, a bar, and a private ocean-view balcony. In addition, there are multiple flex rooms for added versatility.

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The Way It Is

Arroyo Hondo Preserve Manager John Warner shows the flower and seed pods of the coastal lotus, Acmispon maritimus, whose spreading nature provides a backdrop for its fellow fire followers

Arroyo Hondo Fire Followers

View from West Ridge Trail looking east shows sheep grazing and yellow-flowered mustard blanketing the hills

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s the Mule smoothly powers up the West Ridge Trail of Arroyo Hondo Preserve, we pass a flock of sheep grazing on yellow-flowered mustard. The wooly beasts and their owners await an upcoming shearing day in the paddock at the base of the hill. In the meantime, the flock munches on the grasses and mustard on the slope above.

My friend Ann and I are taking a tour of Arroyo Hondo’s stages of recovery from the Alisal Fire, and John Warner, Arroyo Hondo Preserve Manager, is our driver and guide. John has been busy in the months since the fire burned, removing silt from the base of trees, weeding, rebuilding roads and trails, conducting/ supervising studies concerning regrowth, and countless other chores. All are necessary to the recovery and reopening of Arroyo Hondo Preserve to the public with the added mission of education about the role and effect of fire in the landscape.

When I toured the damage to the canyon in early November 2021 (thanks to an invitation from the Land Trust of

Santa Barbara County, which established and owns the preserve), the bleak charred landscape was shocking: scorched trees, hillsides denuded of chaparral, already the rivulets of erosion from the previous week’s rain and silt in the creek adding to the concern for a major debris flow. Yet even then, here and there, a few blades of new life were sprouting. At that time, Warner had explained that annual grazing by sheep and a neighbor’s cattle to the west had kept the mustard at bay and grazing by sheep on the slopes to the east had helped as well. Also, the west side had burned in 2004, so the chapparal wasn’t as overgrown. On the east, however, it hadn’t burned since 1955, and the Alisal Fire had raged down the hillside to threaten the venerable Ortega Adobe.

Today, the mustard is standing too high. Rolling hills of yellow-flowered mustard may appear beautiful, but the plant is an invasive species that chokes out a host of native plants. As we travel upward through these colorful fields, John explains that black mustard (Brassica nigra) is allelopathic. It chemically inhibits the germination of seeds of other species, and so it thrives and becomes

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Fire Followers on the Ridge As we near the top of the ridge, John parks the Mule and we proceed on foot. A short distance up the road we encounter the magic of the fire followers. What had been a desolate moonscape of charred skeletons in October, has become a lush garden of floral splendor. Fire followers are plants that germinate in response to fire, charred soil, and smoke. For many, the heat cracks seeds that have lain dormant for years. For others, the chemicals in charred soil stimulate germination.

Still others find that the destruction of

dense chaparral allows sunlight to coax them to blossom.

On ascending the ridge we find, intermingling in festive swatches, the tiny yellow blooms and long seed pods of a legume called “coastal lotus.” Clusters of whispering bells have risen from the denuded earth. Fire poppies, Indian pinks, mariposa lilies, and Phacelia grandiflora grow merrily among the skeletal toyon and ceanothus. Rappaccini’s hand is seen in the death camas and wild cucumber. Bird song accompanies this floral party. Warner says he’s noticed an increase in these voices as the rebirth of the canyon progresses.

The flowers are not alone in their renascence, however. The toyon and greenbark ceanothus, which appeared completely destroyed in October, have begun their own resurrection. Both are crown

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IDEAS CORNER:

On Money, Politics and other Trivial Matters

Perspectives

War of the Currents From Transmission Lines to “Freedom Fuel”

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

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orest fires, cyber warfare, sabotage, and plain old utility company incompetence, greed, and malfeasance have brought us to the point where we must abandon the electrical grid. It isn’t safe. It does cause a significant percentage of forest fires here in California, it supports a utility (PG&E) that has been convicted of multiple felonies for blowing up towns like San Bruno and wiping out other towns like Paradise, where 84 people lost their lives. Maintaining this fragile, aging grid isn’t cheap, and now it is being intentionally turned off by utility initiated Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS). How on earth did we get saddled with such an expensive, inefficient, unreliable, and ultimately dangerous electrical power system? Better yet, why do we let it continue to exist?

Starting in the late 1880s a fierce intellectual battle raged on over how to best electrify New York City. On one side of the debate stood Thomas Edison, a brilliant man and one of the genius inventors of all time. On the other side was the genius physicist, Nikola Tesla, supported by a half dozen gifted engineers from two continents employed by one of the era’s wealthiest industrialists, George Westinghouse. You can see why this wasn’t a fair fight from the very beginning.

They were fighting to determine the future of electricity on a global basis. Edison had developed direct current (DC) as the most efficient way to power his recently invented incandescent lightbulb. DC is the use of electricity that comes down the wire one electron at a time in a constant one-way direction. Tesla favored Alternating Current (AC) where the flow of electrons changes directions. Backed up by a team of engineers he’d hired and

by European breakthroughs in AC transformers, Tesla convinced Westinghouse to develop AC as the standard delivery system for electricity.

DC is cheaper, far more efficient (e.g., at least 75 percent more efficient for lightbulbs), safer to handle, and is essential for our modern society to function. Every time you plug your laptop or smart phone into the wall, the little square thing your wire plugs into is a converter that takes the AC out of the electrical circuit and converts it to DC because your electronics can’t run on AC. No computer chip can. Stop and think how dependent our society has become on DC power.

So, why do we have AC in the first place? AC’s big advantage is that it can be powered up to very high voltages (DC tends to run on safer, more efficient low voltages) of alternating waves of electrons, can run in parallel as well as in sequence, and thus be sent long distances over high-powered transmission lines (the same hi-voltage lines that cause forest fires in our state) with little loss of power. Nikola Tesla thought it would be esthetically preferable to locate massive, centralized power stations in places where no one (important) lived, rather than build small pocket stations every couple of miles within the city. (His example was to put the first one in Brooklyn on the belief everyone would continue to live in Manhattan.)

Thus, the stage was set for what history refers to as the “War of the Currents.”

Regrettably, Westinghouse and Tesla won the “current wars” and we’ve been paying the penalty for it ever since. That it turned out this way is confounding, as both the physics and the economics of DC are preferable to those for AC. Plus, in the first couple of years of these “wars” for public acceptance, numerous people were electrocuted given the safety issues inherent in AC. While Edison lost the battle for many reasons that no longer apply, once lost it has been extremely difficult to dethrone AC as our primary power carrier. Fortunately, three massive forces are coming together to drive power generation and distribution back to Edison’s original idea of DC, and lovers of the biosphere will rejoice when it does. Those three forces are: 1) the advent of the digital age which can only use DC and therefore has a strong bias for DC power; 2) the necessity to tap 100 percent “green” energy sources; 3) the necessity for far greater efficiency; and 4) the requirement for far greater resilience.

How can we transition to the more efficient, more effective, more economical, and more “chip friendly” DC power when AC is all around us? The answer is simple: we must. The future is a future of interconnected microgrids that will use electricity generated locally and distributed locally – no more high-powered transmission lines. Thank God! Microgrids are miniature generation and distribution systems as small as a single home (like mine) or as large as all the folks who live in the service area between Ventura and Goleta. Modern microgrids operate by tapping into local renewable energy sources like wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, and related technologies and then distributing the

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New Discoveries from Sun to Ice

Ultrathin solar panels achieve record efficiency

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cientists from the University of Surrey and Imperial College London made an ultrathin solar panel that’s just one micrometer thick but has 25 percent more energy absorption than other panels of its size. For reference, one millimeter is made up of 1,000 micrometers. The record-breaking new design drew inspiration from butterfly wings and birds’ eyes to draw light from every available angle, making it textured and a receptive surface to light coming from different angles.

Potential applications for such high solar efficiency include fields like space technology, where photovoltaics could be used for sustainable power sources. That said, areas with little or limited sunlight could also benefit greatly from the new design.

Plus, this design can help lower the costs of efficient solar panels and further the transition towards renewables. The material could be the “ultimate cost-effective, reliable, and environmentally friendly solution to harness solar power,” as said in the paper published in ACS Publications. The next step is to find funding, business partners, and a plan to manufacture the ultra-thin panels. Soon we could see honeycomb-like panels covering roofs in all climates.

Ice volcanoes on Pluto. Here’s how they work.

When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, we got our first glimpse at some perplexing features on the dwarf planet’s surface. Scientists speculated that two gigantic peaks could be volcanoes pouring out an icy slush instead of lava. Now, a full analysis of the photos and topographical data of Pluto confirm that these are indeed a collection of many icy volcanoes. How could ice flow like this on a planet whose surface is -233 Celsius (-387.4 Fahrenheit)? What could be going on beneath Pluto to cause volcanic activity?

With Pluto’s very low temperature, this shouldn’t be possible at all. Scientists are working and investigating even further to figure out what could be causing this freezing volcanism. The data shows that along with slushy ice there are some “antifreeze” components in the volcanic material, such as ammonia or methanol, which could contribute to the flowing effect.

Some offer the idea that Pluto’s rocky core might be warmer than once thought.

It’s thought that the radioactive decay of some of its elements could produce enough energy that, when released, causes occasional volcanic eruptions. It turns out that

Pluto is not the inactive ice ball we once thought! electricity thus generated to the users who live and work nearby.

If you’d like to know how microgrids can be combined, like individual cells in a honeycomb, write or call the World Business Academy and we’ll share our library of materials on the subject. For today, all you need to know is that a microgrid that utilizes green energy as its primary source only needs one other thing to be 100 percent functional, inexpensive, reliable, and 100 percent resilient: a power assist from a hydrogen powered fuel cell for “stand by” power. Amazingly, such technology (fuel cell assisted microgrids) exists today and will, not may, soon revolutionize power generation and distribution throughout the world.

That’s how Germany, and every other nation in the world, will be able to free itself from fossil fuel as the source of electricity, as well as the locomotive power for transportation (cars, buses, trucks, trains, airplanes, and ferry boats). In Germany, this is particularly critical as it attempts to wean itself off Russian fossil fuel, which accounts for 40 percent of Germany’s fuel supply. The war in Ukraine is an international crisis largely because the worse the war gets, the higher the price of fossil fuels, the more money pours into Russia to fund the war, which in turn drives fossil fuel prices up still higher.

What’s the key to ending this vicious Russian war cycle? Hydrogen. That’s why we call

it the “Freedom Fuel.” More on this in next week’s column…

Rinaldo S. Brutoco, an entrepreneur, is the founding president and CEO of the Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy and a co-founder of JUST Capital

“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Brilliant Thoughts

Robert’s Big Questions

by Ashleigh Brilliant

by Robert Bernstein

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ne of the best tests of a civilization, is how disputes are settled.

You can’t prevent them from arising. There are just too many different ways people can come into conflict with each other, particularly over territory, property, or sexual relations.

Methods of settlement can range from pure force to peaceful adjudication. Of course, both methods work best if both parties accept the result.

Force probably has a much longer history – since it doesn’t even require language. And trial by combat has actually been an accepted part of many legal systems for millennia. In fact, it was not until as recently as 1818 that the laws of Great Britain, which, then and since, have been regarded as the world’s standard for judicial propriety, were changed to disallow what was known as “trial by battle.”

Until that time, there was, on the books, a law which permitted one person, in certain circumstances, to claim the right to settle a dispute by fighting it out, one-on-one. This was not the same as dueling, which never had official legal status, and certainly was never arranged through the courts. The climactic case, Ashford v. Thornton, was an ugly matter, involving charges of rape and murder of a young woman named Mary Ashford by Abraham Thornton.

Thornton had been acquitted by a jury, but, under the law as it then still stood, Mary’s brother William, who, along with most of the British public, believed Thornton guilty, had the right to challenge him to battle. Strange as it may seem, there had to be a literal throwing down of a gauntlet in the courtroom. And the person being challenged had to pick it up. But Thornton refused to do so – i.e., he did not accept the challenge – so there never was any actual battle. As a result, both of the last two people who might legally, under British law, have done each other to death, survived.

But all this had caused such a stir that, very shortly thereafter, Parliament acted to abolish the whole concept of trial by battle, which, in any case, had, for centuries, already been a virtual dead letter.

Like it or not, however, when it comes to disputes between large groups, such as nations, there is still a very common traditional method of reaching a settlement, called War. And despite the adage that “All’s fair in Love and War,” we tend to hear much more about “war crimes” than about “love crimes.” There have, in fact, over recent centuries been various attempts to codify “laws of war.”

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And there still exists, at The Hague, in Holland, an “International Court” which tries such cases.

But nations still insist that there is no higher law than their own sovereignty.

This sentiment is well illustrated in the chorus of a British popular song of 1878, when, after defeating the Turks, Russia threatened to capture the strategically highly important Turkish city, then still the capital, and still called Constantinople: e don’t want to fight – but, by Jingo, W if we do, We’ve got the ships, We’ve got the men, We’ve got the money too – We’ve fought the Bear before, and, while Britons shall be true, The Russians shall not have Constantinople.

True, Britain (together with France) had fought – and defeated – the “Russian Bear” a generation earlier, in what we now call the Crimean War – and which you may know of principally because of Florence Nightingale, and the “Charge of the Light Brigade.”

But the reason I am bringing all this to your attention here is because of one word in that song: the word “Jingo,” which gave rise to a whole political and cultural phenomenon known as “Jingoism.” This came to mean “extreme patriotism, especially in the form of an aggressive or warlike foreign policy.” In this case, war was avoided, and Russia never did get (what’s now Istanbul) – but she would still like to have it!

But the same phenomenon may, to a large extent, be blamed for both World Wars, and other conflicts since. We do now have a United Nations Organization, but the term “United” remains a hope rather than an actuality.

Incidentally, Constantinople was named for Constantine, the first Christian Emperor of Rome. One of his most important victories was attributed to his having seen a cross in the sky, with words meaning “In this sign thou shalt conquer.” I know of no equivalent anecdote for any celestial message saying, “In this sign thou shalt make

peace.”

Ashleigh Brilliant born England 1933, came to California in 1955, to Santa Barbara in 1973, to the Montecito Journal in 2016.

Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots,” now a series of 10,000. email: ashleigh@west. net. web: www.ash leighbrilliant.com.

Can We Trust Eyewitness Testimony?

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ho are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes?” Variations of this quote date back to Chico Marx in Duck Soup and earlier. Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has testified in criminal trials that eyewitness testimony is not as trustworthy as it seems.

Loftus has shown that it is easy to implant false memories of events that never occurred. Her student Jim Coan developed the “Lost in the Mall Technique” and showed how people could be made to falsely believe they had been lost in a shopping mall as a child. People have been charged with serious crimes, based on testimony that turned out to be the result of such implanted false memories. The McMartin Preschool case was a notable example. Improper questioning of children seemed to create false memories that later were very real to them. So, it was quite a surprise to attend a talk by psychologist John Wixted of UC San Diego with the title “Eyewitness Memory is Reliable but the Criminal Justice System is Not,” here at the UCSB SAGE Center.

He started out explaining the importance of the work by Loftus. The Innocence Project has overturned 375 wrongful convictions. The leading factor in 72% of these cases? Eyewitness misidentification. It is a real problem. The memory of the actual perpetrator can be replaced by the memory of the innocent guy in the courtroom.

It starts with a police lineup, early in an investigation. The witness is shown a photo of the suspect surrounded by photos of “fillers.” This process may be repeated multiple times by the time the trial occurs months later. When considering whether eyewitness memory is reliable, we need to ask: “Which test are you talking about?”

Evidence can take many forms. It could be a fingerprint or DNA – or the memory of a face. Evidence of any kind may be incomplete. Or it may be contaminated – which is why crime scenes are cordoned off quickly. Suppose incomplete DNA is found on a gun. We could get a better match to the suspect if we had the suspect pick up the gun later – clearly not acceptable! Yet, we effectively do the same thing by contaminating witness memory.

The first test using a photo lineup changes (i.e. contaminates) the witness’s memory. It is how the face of an innocent suspect first gets into the brain of the eyewitness, so no later test can be fair to that suspect. Wixted says this is why we must only use the first test, and the

results of that first lineup test, if properly conducted, are reliable.

Researchers like Gary Wells developed improved lineups over the years. He showed why there should be only one suspect in each lineup, why each filler should match the witness’s description of the suspect, and why the officer administering the test should be blind to which is the suspect. That is a properly conducted lineup. On an initial, properly conducted lineup, if a witness says they are quite certain about their identification, they are usually correct. But only on the first test – later tests are inherently contaminated!

No one had ever tested this in the real world until Wixted and colleagues conducted a field study with the Houston Police. If a witness says they are not sure, believe them! Perhaps more importantly, if they pick a filler out of the lineup or reject the lineup on the first try, that is evidence of innocence of the suspect.

Which brought Wixted to the case of Charles Don Flores. Witness Jill Bargainer described two perpetrators as both being thin, white men with shoulder length hair. A neighbor also said both were white. Suspect Richard Lynn Childs fit the description and was picked from the lineup and later convicted. But he had an accomplice, and the police suspected Flores, a known associate of Childs. On the first test, Bargainer understandably rejected the lineup containing a photo of Flores, a heavyset Hispanic man with short hair. But a year later at trial she picked Flores with 100% certainty.

Flores was convicted and has been on death row 22 years with no further appeal possible.

If we followed the advice of Loftus, we might rule out all eyewitness testimony as untrustworthy. But Wixted is making a point that the first testimony is trustworthy if made with confidence. And if a witness picks a filler or says the suspect is not in the lineup, that is actual evidence of innocence. He is doing his best to raise awareness that Flores is probably innocent of this crime. It turns out that eyewitness testimony is not so special after all. Like other forms of evidence, it has value if it is not contaminated and

properly tested.

Robert Bernstein holds degrees from Physics departments of MIT and UCSB. Passion to understand the Big Questions of life, the universe and to be a good citizen of the planet.

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Village (Continued from 6) path. In other areas where space is prohibitive, there will not be curbs.

Co-chair Michael Smith said he got involved with the project when he saw the Bucket Brigade building a section of the walking path right outside his house. “What a dream to have a more walkable and inter-connected Montecito. My wife and I use the trails nearly every day and my kids are now avid walkers with us. The trails have beautified Hot Springs, made our neighborhood safer, more connected and friendly. I can’t wait for the next sections to open up so my kids can safely walk to school, we can leave our house and go hike into the mountains or down to the beach,” he said. “The ultimate reason I stepped up to help lead the capital campaign is I wanted to help Montecito become a more interconnected community.” So far $1,143,000 has already been raised, with the Zegar Family Foundation the lead sponsor thus far. Committee member David Jackson, who works with the Zegar Family Foundation, called the trail project “completely inclusive, and beneficial to kids walking to school as well as seniors no longer able to drive, and everyone in between.”

“Community-funded trails are the most cost-effective solution to make a community walkable,” Powell said, explaining that the path built on San Ysidro Road by Public Works took over four years to build, and cost $500,000.

“Building informal trails like these aligns specifically with the Montecito Community Plan and the trail construction guidelines that were established by the Montecito Association and Santa Barbara County, and it’s a whole lot less expensive,” he said.

Volunteers, sponsorship, and financial support is needed to make this project happen. For more information, visit sbbucketbrigade.org.

Caroline Martel-Miller (seen here with her Frenchie, Cash) has opened Cashy’s Playpen, a new luxury dog boutique on Coast Village Road

Cashy’s Playpen Opens A new pet boutique catering to dogs will softly open this weekend on Coast Village Road, next to Folded Hills Wine Tasting Room. The boutique is the brainchild of New York City transplant Caroline Martel-Miller, who landed in Santa Barbara with her husband about a year and a half ago. “I’ve always dreamed of having my own retail store, and I absolutely love this space on Coast Village Road,” she said.

Martel-Miller is originally from Paris, France, and has a four-year-old French bulldog named Cash. The camera-loving dog has quite the following on Instagram, where Martel-Miller has documented the pup’s adventures, and gleaned inspiration from followers. “His followers have asked me numerous times if I plan on starting my own brand of products. In fact, they gave me the idea to open the store.” She set out to open an aesthetically pleasing pet boutique, that is “worthy of Instagram photos.”

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Cashy’s Playpen is Martel-Miller’s version of an “aesthetically pleasing” pet store

grooming supplies, wellness products, food, treats, home accent pieces, travel carriers, collars and leashes, and more. Brands are American-made and include Jax & Bones bedding, treats from Winnie Lou and Bocce’s Bakery, Maxbone travel carriers, Pride + Groom grooming supplies, The Foggy Dog bandanas, Fluff & Tuff toys, Wild One harnesses, Waggo home accents like water bowls and treat containers, and many more. “The majority of our brands give back to rescue organizations and dog shelters, which is really important to me,” Martel-Miller said.

The shop – and Cash – welcome pet owners to bring their dogs. “It’s a place where hopefully people and their pets will enjoy visiting, to get everything they need for their pets,” Martel-Miller said.

Cashy’s Playpen is located at 1292 Coast Village Road. The shop will be open for business this weekend, with a grand opening planned for April 15.

Hours are Tuesday to Saturday 10 am – 6 pm and Sunday 11 am – 5 pm.

CBID Moves Forward for Coast Village Road Last week, the Santa Barbara City Council voted unanimously to endorse the Coast Village Community Benefit Improvement District (CBID), an idea brought forth by the Coast Village Association (CVA) nearly two years ago. Earlier this year, 94 property owners on the road received a formal petition for the proposed CBID, the goal of which is to take local control of the street’s aesthetics, safety, and marketing ventures, filling the gaps in service from the City of Santa Barbara, which governs Coast Village Road. The CBID will be funded by property owners as an additional tax assessment.

Properties on the street have been weighted according to parcel size, frontage length, and building size. During the petition phase of the process, 30% or more of the weighted votes needed to agree to move to the “ballot stage” of the process. Coast Village Association President Bob Ludwick reports that the CBID received 49.8% positive votes from property owners. The City Clerk

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will now send out official ballots to property owners; those ballots will be tabulated at a City Council hearing on June 7, 2022. At the ballot stage, 50%+1 of the weighted ballots returned will establish the district.

The expected assessments to the property owners on Coast Village Road range from a few hundred dollars per year to $19,000 per year, with the average falling around $1,800. The lowest assessments are for the condo owners at 1220 Coast Village Road (those range from $125 – $162 per year), with the highest single assessment at Villa Fontana, which has the most frontage and square footage on the road. Some property owners have said they intend to pay the tax themselves, while some have indicated that they will pass along the fees to their tenants.

If all goes as planned, and the CBID is approved, the funds – which total about $300K the first year – will be used for private security to help with the unhoused population and panhandlers in the area; much needed beautification of the road, including tree and vegetation maintenance, maintenance of existing and new public spaces, improvement of decorative amenities like benches and fixtures, regular sidewalk and gutter sweeping and steam cleaning, enhanced trash services, timely graffiti removal, installation and maintenance of hanging plants, and planting flowers throughout the district; branding and promotion of the road; events such as Taste of Coast Village; social media and marketing; parking attendants; traffic management; and more. Ludwick says it could be as early as this summer that a newly constituted Board of Directors will be formed; that Board will be tasked with managing the funds. Ludwick will not be part of that Board, as he has announced his retirement from the Coast Village Association.

CVA Vice President Rob Miller and Board Members Trey Pinner, Rick Lemmo, Francois DeJohn, Thorn Robertson, and property owner Jeff Harding have been working through the CBID process, with the help of consultant New City America, which has helped groups like the CVA form CBIDs across the country, including San Diego’s Little Italy and Los Angeles’ Chinatown.

For more information about the CVA and the proposed CBID, visit coastvillageroad.com

Kelly Mahan Herrick, also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond.

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Our Town

Talking with GOP Chair Bobbi McGinnis

by Joanne A. Calitri

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obbi McGinnis is the current Chair of the Santa Barbara County GOP committee, a position she has had since 2019, after being its secretary and committee member since 2013.

She is a first-generation U.S. born citizen. Her parents moved to the U.S. from England in 1949, choosing Santa Barbara as their new home, with her dad working at Vandenberg Space Force Base in aerospace and then his own business. Growing up and going to school locally, she became a realtor in 1977, along with working in property management. In our interview she talks about how she was a John F. Kennedy Democrat in her 20s. After having her own family, and owning a home in her 30s, she said she realized the heavy taxes and government regulations no longer served to support young families, and she changed to the Republican party for its values. “Government regulation is so heavy handed on us; we can’t prosper; we can’t afford the same opportunities we once had to create our individual American dreams,” McGinnis said. “I want my kids and everyone who is a legal citizen of the U.S. to have the equal opportunity to go after your dream, to be successful, to afford to have the life you make for yourself without having so much money taken out of our work’s earnings through state and local taxes, paying higher prices for gasoline in California, heating our homes, food, and other commodities.” Here is our interview: Q. What are the key issues facing California state and locally?

A. Since Biden took office, housing in Santa Barbara skyrocketed and shows no sign of softening. During COVID lockdown, many people from tighter controlled cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles moved here and it has accentuated our housing shortage.

During the Trump Administration, we were energy independent. Biden’s Administration has shut down our own oil production and forced the U.S. to buy oil

Bobbi McGinnis is the current Chair of the Santa Barbara County GOP committee

from other countries and foreign dictators.

Gasoline prices affect everything in our lives, from going to work, bringing our kids to school, the supply chain, and more.

On March 14, we lost the vote at the state level to suspend the gasoline tax to decrease the price by 60 cents per gallon, with “Gas Tax Holiday,” like other states are doing, to provide financial relief to our citizens.

We pay more for gas than any other state.

Even Elon Musk has told Biden to free up energy: “Hate to say it but we need to increase oil and gas output immediately.

Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures.” [Twitter March 4, 2022] The cleanest oil production is in Santa Barbara County, because we have our county energy policy, and the strictest rules and regulations for oil drilling, and the lowest carbon emission levels. People want clean air and clean water, but shutting down the infrastructure of our country before it’s ready to go to green energy is financial suicide. Natural gas, which heats our homes, is going to be shut off in California, making it more expensive to build and heat housing and commercial buildings. Our standard of living is being affected from commuting to work and buying food. Many businesses are not able to get workers and are losing income as a result of it. The middle and lower classes, the poor, and even the wealthy are feeling the impact.

All this makes it less and less affordable to live in California, and 18,000 businesses have left in the past two years, along with a million in population, and we lost a seat in Congress [writer’s note: the first

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time in the history of California that it’s population decreased]. We have the highest homeless rate and poverty rate in the nation. There is a bipartisan bill making its way through the state legislature to address homelessness. It includes a mental health component as well as housing.

There are basically three types of homeless: 1. People who have lost their jobs and don’t have enough resources through unemployment to meet their needs.

2. Addiction to drugs or alcohol who need rehabilitation programs.

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Those that chose to live on the streets rather than work.

The bipartisan legislation is to address these issues. Based on the premise that the individual with the right assistance will get off the streets. Providing free housing is a temporary fix. As the Chinese proverb says, “Feed a man fish, he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish, he eats for a lifetime.”

The question is: “Are you better off now than you were one and a half years ago when Biden took office? Although unemployment in California has dropped to 5.4% in February 2022 compared to 8.6% in February 2021, we still have not achieved the low unemployment of the Trump administration. Most of the jobs have come from the hospitality sector that was crushed during the pandemic.

What is your 2022 goal as GOP Chair?

My goal as GOP Chair is to re-establish a two-party system that will bring the checks and balances back into our government. And for Republicans to be ok to be Republicans, and not be a target or their businesses hurt because of their political party. Our biggest concern is Republicans not getting out and voting. Right now we have 59K registered Republicans and I am hoping we can get to 75K by November.

Like Sacramento and Orange County, Republican volunteers are at the gasoline pumps campaigning for lower gas prices by voting and registering Republican.

What changes in our political party system in California have been happening?

(Twenty of 38 former California governors were Republican.)

California does not have a two-party system anymore. Moderate Democrats don’t recognize the Democratic party anymore because it’s become so radically left since the 1980s. Schwarzenegger was the last Republican we had as governor, and that was a long time ago. [Term 20032011.] In the recent recall election, over four million Republicans did not vote because they thought the race was already over by the way the news media reported it, and voter fraud issues. The wind has been taken out of a lot of people since that happened. We have an election integrity project as part of our Santa Barbara County GOP function. We are examining California voter roles, which are bloated.

My message to our constituents in the county is that our elections office has people of integrity there, they are doing a good job, it’s just that we have these crazy rules and regulations like same-day regis-

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tration, and there is no way the elections office can verify if someone is a U.S. citizen or not; it’s based on the honor system.

There’s no photo ID so they can be 100% sure the person is who they say they are.

Which candidates is the Santa Barbara County GOP endorsing for 2022?

Locally at the top of the ticket we have Dr. Brad Allen, our only Republican candidate for 24th Congressional district running against Salud Carbajal. He is a pediatric cardiac surgeon, currently living in Summerland, and was recruited through our Regional Vice Chair. He wants doctors to be able to be doctors, supports individual choice in health care, and for parents to decide about the health care for their children. He supports private health care companies for private individuals and federal health care for those who do not have health insurance. We have a few conservatives as well for the 24th district.

Mike Stoker, former two-time Santa Barbara County Supervisor for the 2nd and 5th districts, and Area 9 EPA Regional Director [term 2018-2020], against current Second District Supervisor Gregg Hart. Stoker served as president in the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District, the Santa Barbara County Association of Government, and the Santa Barbara Water Agency and Flood Control District. Pro-business, pro-police, and pro-sheriff ’s department.

He is our security and safety candidate.

He wants parents to have control over the educational curriculum.

Bill Brown, going for his 5th term as Santa Barbara County Sheriff. Security is important to him, and he has a “Project Opioid” in the works to help people with the addiction. Brown is running against Juan Camarena [prior Republican, now No Party Candidate] who is a social justice candidate, a very fine man, well intentioned. We’ve seen social ambassadors in Santa Barbara, and funds have been taken out of the police department and moved to the social ambassador program, and it has not worked out well. We have more homeless and more crime than before due to defunding our police. We can’t afford to go the route of San Francisco, where police are not allowed to be police.

Our state endorsements are: Mark Meuser for U.S. Senate; Eric Early for California Attorney General; and Lanhee Chen for California Controller. For governor we are waiting to find out who emerges at the California GOP convention.

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Joanne A. Calitri is a professional international photographer and journalist. Contact her at: artraks@yahoo.com

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In Passing Ted Tedesco

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n a tribute to Ted Tedesco on his 90th birthday, his son David said, “Show me a man who does not like Ted Tedesco because I don’t believe it.”

A tribute from a friend said he learned three things from Ted: “It’s important to carry on no matter what life throws at you, remember to see the humor in things, and integrity does matter.”

Another friend said, “Ted is interested and interesting.” These statements sum up how people felt about Ted, who passed away on March 1, 2022, in Santa Barbara, California.

He was born in 1931 to Michael and Minnie Tedesco in the Italian enclave of Knightsville, Rhode Island, where he graduated from Cranston High School in 1949. An avid drummer, Ted went to New York City and toured the country with some of the hottest jazz bands of the era including the Stan Kenton band.

After receiving sage advice that “this is not the life for you, kid,” he enrolled at the University of Rhode Island. There he met, and in 1956, married the love of his life, Rosemary LeVasseur. He earned a degree in Political Science in 1956 and after a short stint in the U.S. Army, Ted received his master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Michigan in 1958.

Ted was known for his easy demeanor, sociability, and sense of humor Ted had a long and successful career in city management and public service.

In succession he was the city manager of increasingly larger cities, most notably Enfield, Connecticut; Boulder, Colorado; and San Jose, California. Ted left a lasting impact on Boulder where, after visiting Europe in 1969, he worked towards the early concepts for the downtown Boulder mall, which remains the heart of the city. Ted was creative in working with the city and community groups to create a funded, sustainable open space program in Boulder in the late 1960s, which continues to this day.

In San Jose, his controlled growth agenda often conflicted with certain members of the City Council. He had some victories, but eventually lost that battle, and anyone who has seen San Jose recently knows that loss has been felt to the present day. In 1978, Ted and Rosemary returned to Boulder where he became a Vice Chancellor for the University of Colorado. In 1985, they moved to Dallas where he led American Airlines’ hub expansions in Miami, San Jose, Chicago, 7 – 14 April 2022

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Dallas, and South America. Ted retired to Santa Barbara where he joined many nonprofit boards, led the committee to oppose the separation of Santa Barbara into two communities, and worked to begin the Santa Barbara Institute on Global Affairs. Throughout his career, Ted was a visionary and courageous leader. He mentored many, and left the companies, people, and places he loved better.

Ted lost Rosemary too early in 1995 and threw all his efforts into being the best dad and grand-papa he could be from his home in Santa Barbara. There he honed his skill and love of travel, sailing, golf, and tennis. He enjoyed countless hours sailing with the Santa Barbara Yacht Club, and tennis with his beloved “Montecito Mafia” tennis club. He leaves behind three children, Jeff (Marti), Lisa (Bill Seamans) and David (Cheryl).

His five grandchildren, James, Cameron (Seamans), Jak, Colton, and Faith will always remember his supportive guidance and the annual trips to Mexico he hosted for his family – playing games, enjoying the ocean, and listening to jazz. Ted also leaves behind his beloved siblings Janet Perra (Lyle), Arlene Evangelista (Steve), and Michael Tedesco (Pat).

Ted was known for his easy demeanor, sociability, and sense of humor. He was warm in his interactions, open-minded, and had a deep appreciation for humanity. It was these qualities that enabled him to build strong, long-term relationships with many. Close friends remember many wonderful times laughing over gourmet meals with Ted and his beloved Rosemary, traveling to places near and far, and his exuberance in picking up anything that looked like a drumstick and happily tapping away. Ted lived a wonderful life filled with adventure and love, and his spirit will live on in the many family and friends who will miss

him immensely.

Miscellany (Continued from 12 12)) youngster and built his own rockets in his early teens, started piloting planes solo at 16, attaining his license on his birthday. “But my dad had to drive me to the airport as I didn’t have a driver’s license!” he laughed.

“So when I was selected to have the opportunity to go into space and be one of only 600 people to ever do so, it took me less than one second to make that decision.”

Even now, just a few days after his space adventure, Marty is raring to go back. “I would certainly do it again and again. I now want to circumvent the entire planet. It is no different than when we took our first airplane ride!”

As to the cost of the trip, Marty doesn’t care to discuss the price of a ticket, other than to say costs are reducing with each flight and the time. “It will all become accessible to many more people, particularly with the reusable equipment, including the booster rocket and capsule.”

But, after Amazon entrepreneur Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin flight, he has signed up to take a trip on British tycoon Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic first space expedition, which is currently going for $450,000 a ticket. Local singer Katy Perry and actor Brad Pitt have also signed up for the opportunity.

“I would not only recommend it, it is our future,” adds Marty. “Blue Origin has spent 18 years to figure out how to get to this point. It is about safety and building out the infrastructure to space.

We will be working and living on the Moon one day. Zero gravity has many benefits!”

Bezos was on the first crewed flight of New Shepard in July, 2021, and Star Trek actor William Shatner later went on another flight, making him the oldest man in space at 90. Tesla tycoon Elon Musk’s SpaceX is also on the lunar landscape. It’s all systems go...

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time Emmy winner David Letterman.

“When the show is over, I’m not kidding, take some time off. Take a week, ten days,” the 74-year-old CBS talk show legend told Ellen. “Travel, visit family and friends, then immediately get another show because it just doesn’t work.

I wouldn’t go two weeks. Two weeks would be dangerous. A week, ten days, you’re right back at it!”

Letterman recalled how he felt when the CBS Late Show with David Letterman wrapped in 2015 after 23 seasons. Ellen, 64, a 32-time Daytime Emmy winner, clarified, “So get another job?” Laughing, Letterman replied, “Yeah, you’ll thank me for this.” Stay tuned...

Coral Casino Renovations

Plans for major improvements at Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner’s Coral Casino are going apace. Members have received letters confirming Los Angeles company Shawmut Design and Construction has been hired as the general contractor for the work, with plans to start demolition last December.

But due to supply chain issues given the pandemic, there have been delays in delivery, as well as shortages in both materials and subcontractors to complete the “enhancement project.”

“These delays are affecting the major construction portion of the enhancement project,” says the missive. “We are making every effort to bring you a brand-new children’s wading pool, debut a newly enlarged, pristine beachfront whirlpool, develop a new and relaxing member rooftop lounge, expand FINS juice bar and equipment, enhance the Coral Cafe and Bar, create a distinct member dining room, and renovate Tydes bar along with upgraded Hope’s windows and doors.”

Despite the delays, the club’s ownership continues to progress with renovations as time, materials, and labor permit, with the Hope’s windows and doors delivery on schedule for June. “For now,” adds the letter, “we will focus on

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John Warner visits with Ann as we prepare to cross the creek in the Mule Smoke from the fire triggered the germination of fire poppies, papaver californicum, whose seed can lay dormant for years

Lupine coat the hillsides of the ravine, studded with skeletal remains of the chaparral

resprouters, which means they are able to regenerate their shoot system from the root crown. Many of the blackened scrags now wear a skirt of fresh green vegetation.

While John returns to the Mule, Ann and I walk down the trail and into the canyon, marveling at the flowers and snapping countless photos. In one burned out draw, the entire slope is blanketed with blue lupine. In other areas, white morning glory dots the landscape.

In years past, up on the Alisos Trail out of Paradise Canyon, I’ve seen the white flowers twining through the blackened chapparal in such great swaths that the verges of the trail appeared draped in matrimonial white.

John is waiting for us when we return to the canyon floor, and we are off again in the Mule heading for the Outlaw Trail.

We learned that the canyon lost 95% of its trees and 90% of those were bay trees.

Luckily, they too are crown resprouters, and we see several trees that are well on their way. Also, luckily, the famous “bathtub tree” is still intact. It is presumed that at one time it had regrown after an ancient fire. Perhaps there will be multiple “bathtub” trees in the distant future.

Fire Projects

As we wend our way under the riparian corridor, where the live oak and sycamore trees have fared better than the bay, Warner explains that there are now three camera projects in the canyon. The father-son team of Stuart and Callan have installed new video cameras and continue their monitoring of Arroyo Hondo’s wildlife. These are viewable on the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County’s website. A still camera project by John Stuelpnagel is motion activated by animals and shows both them and the background changing over time. Inadvertently, we become two of the animals caught on camera. The third project is by Ethan Turpin, who is taking time lapse photos of plant development and will be creating an immersive project of nature’s response to fire. Sally Isaacson, Arroyo Hondo Education and Volunteer Coordinator, is also keeping a photographic record of the regeneration over time.

Isaacson is working to create an educational tour and program aimed at elementary school children. Its focus will be to educate children (and adults) about the role of fire in the environment and how that is

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In another effort to study the effects of fire, five sets of two contiguous plots have been laid out in various geologic areas of the canyon. One of each set is weeded; the other is not. They hope to learn how post fire regeneration of native plants is affected by human intervention of weeding versus not weeding. They also hope to learn how soil and orientation affects regeneration. In addition, every two months, a meter-by-meter grid count of plants will be logged. This is a three-year project.

Meanwhile, the Preserve’s mission has always included restoration of the natural environment. Arroyo Hondo volunteers continue to plant native plants to enhance the habitat. These receive three to five inches of mulch and are irrigated for the first year, and then in summer for one more year. All seeds are collected on the Preserve, so the new plants are genetically local, an important aspect of true restoration. John tells us that that the native California poppy is bicolored, yellow and orange, but that introduced poppies and cross pollination has made such poppies disappear from most locales. In one case, bringing in genetic material from the same species of plant from another location has caused an entire species of insect to become extinct.

When we reach the junction of the

lower and upper Outlaw Trail, I am happy to see that the undergrowth of the hill I photographed in November 2021 is ablaze with blue lupine, though some areas are still bare and bear the rivulets of erosion I saw then. So, too, the view toward the ocean reveals significant regrowth, helped along by John and a crew that weeded and desilted the quebrada between the upper and middle meadows.

With our tour at an end, we return to the Ortega Adobe, which was mercifully saved from the fire. There is much that remains to be done at Arroyo Hondo Preserve, but the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County hopes to open the Preserve to school groups and the public this May. As usual, a visit is free but by reservation only. Donations, however, for the incredible work being done by staff and volunteers are always appreciated.

Hattie Beresford has been writing a local history column for the Montecito Journal for more than a decade and is the author of several books on Santa Barbara’s historic past

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The Giving List Hillside House

Hillside staff members are committed and caring and provide support to residents

by Steven Libowitz

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ack in 1955, Hillside House relocated to what was then a state-ofthe-art facility capable of housing and caring for children with developmental disabilities, the gleaming new digs located in what was then a remote part of Santa Barbara with the descriptive name of Hidden Valley.

A lot has changed in almost seven decades. Society no longer encourages families to keep their relatives with developmental or intellectual disabilities hidden away from public sight. And indeed, Hillside House engages every one of its 59 residents – who are now all adults – to be a part of the broader community to whatever degree is possible, working with its myriad partners in local agencies and organizations to provide transportation, connection, and cultural or social engagement.

“When this place was built, Hidden Valley was perfect because that’s what families did with their handicapped family members,” said President and CEO Michael Rassler. “They hid them away, out of the house, or stuck them in the attic or the cellar, and they weren’t out in public. Well, that time is long over and we’re all about helping our residents live their lives in whatever way they want to

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live them. We’re an Intermediate Care Facility and our residents are not behind locked doors. They are independent.

We’re just providing the care that they need in order to be independent.”

The thing is, Hillside House is still in Hidden Valley, and many people generally only see the nonprofit’s grounds in December when the organization stages its annual drive-thru festive display of holiday decorations and lights known as “Shining Light on Abilities.” So, raising awareness of what Hillside House actually does and how its services have grown over the years are two of Rassler’s primary goals, who took over as CEO in August 2020, at the height of the pandemic, after spending 35 years with the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara.

The new position is right up Rassler’s alley as his mother was the first to graduate with a master’s degree in learning disabilities from Miami University in Ohio, and his wife is a speech and language pathologist who works with severely handicapped children. “Now those are the people I’m working with,” he said.

“It’s part of my upbringing and I feel privileged to be helping to repair this little corner of the world.”

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involved with the organization in one way or another. First up is a desire to grow the direct care staff that works hands-on with the residents.

“That is singularly our greatest need because we were short staffed at the time that the pandemic hit, and the situation was exacerbated further as the day programs and community engagement activities shut down, and all of the off-campus experiences weren’t available, so we had to bring them in-house.”

The need has continued even as protocols have eased, and museums and libraries have reopened because recruitment of quality staff has become a bigger challenge in the sector. “I don’t know of any other industry that’s been as hard hit in the employment arena as healthcare,” Rassler said. “And in Santa Barbara, the talent pool is rather fixed at the nursing level, so it’s a fairly small pond that we’re all fishing in.”

Which is why Hillside House is offering sign-on bonuses, referral bonuses, and tuition assistance to attract topnotch employees. They would certainly appreciate donations earmarked toward making the facility’s offers more competitive and ensuring they can retain their current staff.

The CEO also wants to improve diversity on the board of directors, especially bringing in members who might have direct experience with the needs of the people Hillside House serves. “How can you fully address an issue or a cause if people afflicted with or affiliated with that issue are not part of the decision-making body that’s driving the organization?”

Rassler said. “So if someone wants to know more, please give me a call.”

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Finally, Hillside House needs people to attend its 18th annual Sunset Soirée, as the big annual fundraiser returns for the first time since 2019. The event is set for the heart of spring on Saturday, May 21 at Rockwood Santa Barbara Women’s Club with the theme of “Rooted in strength, growing in opportunities.” Grace Fisher serves as keynote speaker while the benefit will honor local philanthropic stalwarts Bob and Patty Bryant as its 2022 Persons of Purpose, the highest honor that Hillside bestows upon community members. The organization’s Advancing Abilities Award for a staff member who has demonstrated true commitment and dedication to the residents of Hillside this year goes to Martin Jimenez. The Director of Dietary Services has worked at Hillside for more than 34 years, Rassler said. Such longevity is not unusual at Hillside House for residents or staff, and speaks to the excellence of the facility, he continues.

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A Powerful ‘Presence’

An Elegant Entrance Welcomes You to Westmont Chief of Public Safety William Boyd greets a guest to campus at the new main entrance kiosk (photo by Brad Elliott)

by Scott Craig

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he next time you drive to campus, you’ll discover beautiful new kiosks featuring sandstone, greenery, and vine-covered trellises. Westmont has widened each entrance and designed the kiosks to better protect the campus.

“We’ve always had an open campus, and anyone who wanted to visit could make their way up the hill,” says Doug Jones, vice president for finance. Early discussions about safety led to the plan for the kiosks. Then COVID-19 hit.

“The state required higher education institutions to limit access to their campuses, and it became clear that kiosks would be beneficial,” Doug says.

Campus safety officers and student workers will staff the kiosks, which will provide an additional level of comfort and security for the Westmont community. “We’ll also better serve our guests by helping them learn where to park and how to find their intended destination,” says Randy Jones, director of campus planning.

Large events such as Preview Days may require additional staff. “As the first people guests interact with, kiosk staff have an opportunity to make a great first impression,” Doug says. “Important aspects of the job include welcoming guests, offering directions and a map to their destination, identifying available parking, and answering general questions.”

Randy worked with Blackbird

Architects and Susan Van Atta, a landscape architect, to design the kiosks to complement the existing campus. “The structures look like buildings you’d find in a garden,” Randy says. “Each kiosk is set in planted landscapes, with a trellis supporting flowering vines to soften the structures and a veneer of Santa Barbara sandstone, which occurs naturally on campus. The stone was cut and installed in a more refined style than we typically use because the small scale called for more delicate detailing.”

Each entrance now accommodates two lanes for entry and one for exiting. People with permits use the right lane, while visitors drive to the left to be greeted.

Staff members lift the heavy gate with an electronic switch. At night, when no one staffs the kiosks, a Westmont ID card will open the gate. The exit gate will open automatically as drivers approach.

Requests to modify the width of the road after construction began caused a delay, as did issues with the supply chain stemming from the pandemic. Bottenfield Construction had to wait for windows, transformers, and other electrical components to arrive before installing them.

Mangrum Awarded Prestigious Grant Kya Mangrum, assistant professor of English, has won a $9,900 Graves Award in Humanities research grant.

A 2021 Westmont Teacher of the Year,

Kya Mangrum, assistant professor of English (photo by Brad Elliott)

Mangrum is conducting research for a new book exploring how Americans remembered and wrote about slavery and the Civil War in the first five decades (1865 – 1915) following Emancipation and the end of the war.

The grant, made possible by Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves and overseen by a committee from Pomona College, is given every two years to younger faculty members who’ve achieved “outstanding accomplishment in actual teaching in the humanities.”

In the next few years, Mangrum will visit special collections libraries and archives across the country to uncover how U.S. fiction writers influenced the work of U.S. historians and vice versa.

“In the decades following the war, how did different communities, particularly religious communities, decide what was true about both the war and slavery?”

Mangrum asks. “How did stories about the Civil War and slavery influence how Americans lived, worked, learned, played, and worshipped?”

Mangrum, who began teaching at Westmont in fall 2018, contributed a chapter, “Beheld by the Eye of God: Photography and the Promise of Democracy in Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave,” to the 2019 book Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States.

She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Michigan. She held a two-year appointment as a Mellon Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University before joining the faculty at the University of Utah. She also received fellowships from Penn State and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Fifteen graduating Westmont art majors make their presence felt in an exhibition April 7 to May 7 at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. A free, public opening reception for Presence is Thursday, April 7, from 4 to 6 pm at the museum.

The graduate exhibition features artists Brooke Dingman, Tirzah Dove, Katie Luttenberger, Meg Mason, Miguel Moreno, Marina Smith, Abigail Stadtlander, Selah Tennberg, Lauren Thomas, Cole Troya, Alyssa Mae Tumlos, Kenzie Westergard, Kate Wetterau, Anna Wheeler, and Rachel Yates.

The exhibition includes a wide variety of media, including gouache, oil, screen prints, mixed media, linoleum block prints, ink, pen, graphite, and acrylic on canvas. Ken and Francie Jewesson sponsor the exhibition at the museum, which is open Monday to Friday from 10 am to 4 pm, Saturday from 11 am to 5 pm; and closed Sundays and college holidays.

Spring Sing Bounces Back at the Bowl

The 61st annual Westmont’s Spring Sing, a student-performed variety show and competition between residence halls, was back and in person at the Santa Barbara Bowl April 1. It is the longest running tradition on campus and involves more students than any other college event.

For the first time, the Global Leadership Center (GLC) won top honors with their skit “The Wizard Abroad,” which poked fun at students studying “abroad” at Westmont Downtown. The winning side act was “Alex & Noah,” a hilarious songand-dance parody about the college’s

Augustinian scholar program.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 9

by Steven Libowitz

THURSDAY, APRIL 7 Moth Mainstage – What began as a modest storytelling collective in its founder’s living room has grown into a nationwide phenomenon with a cult-like following – and our desire for organic first-person stories and connection such as provided by The Moth has only soared during the two-year pandemic. The evening of true stories, told live and without notes by their authors, honors both the diversity and commonality of human experience and has broadened its desire for less-frequently heard voices in recent years. Expect a combination of inspiring, harrowing, courageous and/or humorous live stories from the five hand-picked Moth Mainstage all-stars in a performance that straddles documentary and theater.

WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $76-$96 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or lobero.com

A Few of My Favorite Strings – Last we heard locally from Billy Strings, Nashville’s bluegrass/newgrass singer-songwriter-guitarist sensation, he was putting together a damn-the-streaming, full-speed-ahead performance on stage (as opposed to from his living room) featuring a full band and professional production and lighting in launching UCSB Arts & Lectures’ “House Calls” streaming series at the height of pandemic in September 2020. Then he stuck around for an exclusive post-performance Q&A moderated

by A&L executive director Celesta Billeci in which he shared his love for famed electric ax-slinger Jimi Hendrix as well as early bluegrass stalwart Ralph Stanley, providing a key to the influences of his own hybrid sound that blends jam band, prog rock, heavy metal and more. Since then, the still under-30 Grammy-winner has become decidedly more popular, so his live local debut tonight and tomorrow takes place at our largest venue, the 4,200-seat amphitheater known as the Santa Barbara Bowl Still, one can expect the music to be as intricate and perhaps even intimate as is possible in such an arena.

WHEN: 7:30 pm April 9-10 WHERE: 1122 N. Milpas St. COST: $55-$85 INFO: (805) 962-7411 or sbbowl.com

THURSDAY, APRIL 7 1st Thursday – Entertainment enmeshed with fine arts and photography are showing up for the first 1st Thursday of spring. Santa Barbara’s current poet laureate Laure-Anne Bosselaar hosts an informal evening of poetry and piano featuring 11 local purveyors of poetry reading their work in the central courtyard of Victoria Court sponsored by domecíl (1221 State Street, Suite 7).

The 30-minute poetry sessions will be followed by a musical interlude with local pianist John Campbell… Spoken word of a more linear lineage wafts in the air at Wylde Works (609 State Street) as veteran local storyteller Michael Katz of the beloved radio show Katz’ Pajamas spins a series of enchanting tales. Also on tap are two hours of live music, curious cocktail concoctions, and an art show by owners Dylan and Sydney Wylde…

Souriez sends its acoustic jazz sounds synthesizing inspired by the Hot Club of Paris and the pre-war era jazz from the U.S. into the ethos at the weekly open air Promenade Market in the 1000 block of State Street. Dancing encouraged… Santa Barbara Community Arts Workshop (631 Garden Street) hosts “Progress Through Knowledge,” a one-night solo exhibition by artist Diego Melgoza (aka Melgo) featuring past and present work in multiple mediums that focus on social and environmental issues. All-vinyl music spun

by Val-Mar Records DJs complement the artwork, while food and beverage will be available for purchase through the 6-10 pm event… Graciela Cabello’s short film Black Like Plastic draws parallels between Black people in nature and plastic in the environment in an effort to touch on the Black experience outdoors. The 10-minute doc from ForestWatch and The Sea League will be shown at SBIFF Education Center (1330 State Street) as part of its Santa Barbara Filmmaker Screening Series… Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1130 State Street) hosts a community day for all of Thursday with free admission not only to the museum but also the landmark exhibition “Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources” for Santa Barbara and Ventura County residents. The usual assortment of family-friendly art activities also takes place 3:30-7:30 pm… And across the street at Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery (11 East Anapamu Street), the mirth comes from masses marveling at the opening reception of the latest solo show for beloved local magic realist painter Phoebe Brunner.

WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and side streets COST: free INFO: (805) 962-2098 or downtownsb.org/events/1st-thursday

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SATURDAY, APRIL 9 ‘Speed Dating Tonight’ – Don’t show up at Center Stage Theater this weekend expecting to engage in brief conversations in order to meet the partner of your dreams – unless you are capable of connecting silently in the dark with fellow lovers of unusual opera performances. Speed Dating Tonight!, which has been performed relatively rarely over its nine-year history, boasts a mix of opera, musical theater, cabaret, American songbook, and folk song created by Michael Ching, who wrote the music and lyrics. The one-hour interactive opera was created by Ching based on a concept

by Dean Anthony at the Janiec Opera Company in Brevard in 2013. The centerpiece of the opera is a series of 90 second “dates” with cast members portraying a bartender, cocktail waitress, busboy, dating coordinator and any number of daters who perform their roles accompanied by solo piano. As an opera exercise in characterization, the piece was tailored for a young artist training program presented in a formal theater in a black box, which means it’s perfect for the members of the Opera Santa Barbara Chrisman Studio Artist Program and the OSB chorus to produce at Center Stage. Who knows? Maybe you’ll connect with a future partner parrying about the presentation outside on the theater’s plaza after the show.

WHEN: 7:30 pm April 9, 2:30 pm April 10 WHERE: Upstairs in the Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center, at the intersection of Chapala and De la Guerra Streets COST: $18-$38 INFO: (805) 963-0408 or centerstagetheater.org SUNDAY, APRIL 10 Let’s Go Fly a Kite – You don’t have to be a flying nanny or her charges to appreciate the aerial and ground-based pleasure of the first Santa Barbara Kite Festival in three years. The 36th annual event returns to the Great Meadows at Santa Barbara City College’s West Campus with a theme of “Up,” selected to reflect both soaring kits and a positive statement of change in the community. Kids and adults alike can thrill to the children’s kite tail chase featuring the master kite flying of festival creator Rakesh Bahadur, whose family opened the first commercial kite store in America back in the late 1970s, plus friendly competitions in such categories as “Best Ground Display,” “Youngest & Oldest Kite Flyers,” “Most Unique/Unusual Kite,” “Funniest Kite,” “Most Un-flyable Kite,” “Most Beautiful” (with both handmade and commercial divisions), “Highest Flying,” “Largest & Smallest Kites,” “Sport Flying,” and “Best of Fest,” with prizes awarded to all contest winners. Don’t worry if you don’t actually own a flying contraption – kites as well as food and beverages can be purchased onsite at the festival.

WHEN: 11 am-4 pm WHERE: 721 Cliff Drive, across from SBCC’s Garvin Theatre COST: free INFO: (805) 637-6202 or sbkitefest.net

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SATURDAY, APRIL 9 Viva la Competition – Old Spanish Days Fiesta, which is expected to return to its full frenzied schedule this summer, is still four months away.

But that means it’s time to select the 2022 Spirit and Junior Spirit of Fiesta so that they can perfect their routines and begin performing at the myriad preliminary events that are sure to spark interest in the first full celebration in three years.

As in the pre-pandemic days, the Spirit Final Auditions will be performed before a live audience, with pageantry of Old Spanish Days on display this afternoon at the Lobero as 19 talented young dancers step on the stage at the historic Lobero Theatre – not coincidentally where Fiesta actually began 98 years ago. The community is invited to share in the excitement of the day and watch the talented dancers perform in the event, which culminates with the announcement of the 2022 Spirit and Junior Spirit of Fiesta.

WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $76-$96 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or lobero.com

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – The Aussie band with the triple rhyme-time name remains as prolific as ever with Omnium Gatherum, its 20th studio release and first-ever double album, set for release on April 22. Described as 16 “sprawling tracks of gonzoid prog jams, dizzying pop nuggets, rubber-legged hip-hop odysseys, and passages of pure thrash-metal abandon,” the new record comes out on the band’s own label, KGLW. Tonight’s show at the Arlington Theatre is just the third on a new stateside tour that runs through, appropriately, Halloween, and is the final tune-up before a pair of appearances at the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Can we call it a blizzard? Mildlife and DJ Crenshaw open.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1317 State St. COST: $65-$150 INFO: (805) 963-4408 or thearlingtontheatre.com or axs.com/events/427830

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TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2022, 7:30PM

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One of the world’s leading period‑instrument orchestras, the English Baroque Soloists, led by founder and multi‑ Grammy‑Award‑winning conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner, are acclaimed for their historically informed performances of Baroque and early Classical music, especially the works of Mozart, whose magnificent Sinfonia Concertante features some of the 18th century’s most life‑affirming music—and no one understands it better than Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 2022, 7:30PM TUESDAY, APRIL 12 ‘Everything Rises’ with Koh & Tines – One could hardly find a more timely composition than this piece commissioned by UCSB Arts & Lectures from violinist Jennifer Koh and bass-baritone Davóne Tines. In the multiple years that Everything Rises has been in development, there has been a new surge of activism against racist violence targeting Black and Asian Americans, providing perhaps a modicum of hope involving the issue of being an artist of color in a culture dominated by whiteness. The artists’ collective exploration led them to their family histories, sharing stories of Koh’s mother’s experiences of the Korean War and immigration to the U.S. as well as Tines’ grandmother‘s memories of anti-Black discrimination and violence. The new piece asks what it would take for all this grief, frustration, and anger to finally be heard. Koh and Tines have already been heard discussing Everything Rises via a free virtual Thematic Learning Initiative Meetthe-Artists Talk sponsored by A&L in early March. Tonight, the violinist and vocalist debut the work about reclaiming agency through ancestral memory with music, projections, and recorded interviews.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus COST: $35 INFO: (805) 893-3535 or ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu 7 – 14 April 2022

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Mark Fewer, violin

⫽ Jamie Parker, piano

Program: “Glorious

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Romani-inspired Songs and Operetta Arias Featuring works by Brahms, Dvořák, Iradier, Valverde, Sarasate, Yvain, Lehár and Kálmán

Internationally acclaimed soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian returns to CAMA’s Masterseries. She is joined by extraordinary Canadian chamber musicians Mark Fewer and Jamie Parker for a not‑to‑be‑missed concert of Romani‑inspired art songs and arias!

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Ailey’s AD Battles for the Ages A legacy of dance can be found in For Four (photo by Andrew Eccles)

by Steven Libowitz

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obert Battle intentionally benched his own creative endeavors when he took over as artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2011, as only the third person to occupy the position after founder Ailey’s 31-year tenure, and former dancer Judith Jamison’s 21-year reign. Instead, Battle focused on administrative duties and even more so on broadening the company’s scope, bringing in familiar and often surprising choreographers to create new work for the athletic dancers.

“I care more about the company continuing to be as vital as it always has and showcasing the rich tapestry of all that the dancers are capable of doing, ones who can go from hip hop to classical and everything in between,” Battle explained.

“I’d already made a lot of dances, so I didn’t necessarily feel deprived of the opportunity to create more.”

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Then the pandemic hit – the shutdown forced him to slow down and take stock, and even spend some time reviewing his own dance history. “It was really liberating to have the time to reflect on my own choreographic career, and I realized that yes, I do still have things I want to say.”

The result is a nifty, often frenetic 10-minute piece called For Four that addresses the pent-up energy produced by pandemic protocols as well as the amplification of racial issues that exploded with the George Floyd murder in the summer of 2020 and the attack on the Capitol in January 2021 – even if that was more a matter of instinct than intention.

“My inspiration was Langston Hughes’ I, Too, Sing America and the idea of reclaiming the notion that this country was built on the back of the people who have been made to feel less than human,” Battle said. “There are images and moments, but they’re brief and then you keep moving and that’s really true to life.”

For Four forms the centerpiece of a program featuring six other of Battles’ dances for Ailey, spanning 1999 – 2008, that comprises the first half of night one of Ailey at the Granada (April 13 – 14), meant to mark the artistic director’s 10th anniversary at the helm.

Battle said the program’s enthusiastic response has been “life affirming” and has him wanting to make more works for the company.

The second night’s opening piece is Lazarus, an hour-long work commissioned in 2018 from Rennie Harris to trace and commemorate the company’s history and legacy via words and movement from Ailey himself. Both nights close with Ailey’s 1960 gospel-inspired masterpiece Revelations, which somehow

seems even more timely than when it was created 60 years ago.

“It’s like the Mona Lisa, old but still vital and impactful,” Battle said. “No matter where we go, people relate to the work and find their own struggle in it, because there’s so much depth and humanity. And watching it makes you feel good.”

Dance Dimensions: Six Steps for Spring Visions of Vibrancy, UCSB Dance’s spring concert, features new original work from six senior BFA candidates with the choreographers featured in fall’s Kinetic Lab 2021 expanding their visions and casts to create more fully rendered pieces. The culmination of two years of choreographic research and developing their individual aesthetic and methods, the production explores such themes as the struggle of choosing self-preservation over sacrificing one’s humanity to conform, weaving new connections between the spiritual and physical embodiments, traversing the five stages of grief, and yearning for equality and diversity in a world that often falls short of inclusion.

Performances run April 7-10 in UCSB’s Hatlen Theater. Visit theaterdance.ucsb.edu for more information.

ETC’s American Son After two false starts forced by the pandemic, ETC is finally bringing American Son to the New Vic Theatre for a midApril run. The nail-biting drama takes place in real-time in the waiting room of a Miami police station where the parents of a bi-racial African American teenager anxiously await news about their son, who may have been involved in a police traffic stop.

In the two intervening years since ETC had to postpone the show, of course, America and the world have undergone some radical awakenings in the area of racial justice via the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police and the massive Black Lives Matter protests that ensued. ETC artistic director Jonathan Fox, who is helming the production, maintained that those events haven’t undercut the play’s impact but instead only made the production more poignant.

“Now we are coming in from the perspective that [racial issues] are so much more present in our lives, and we’re much more aware even of language,” Fox said.

“A lot of us are grappling with how much we have incorporated racial attitudes and how does that play out in our lives, which only heightens the effect. The play was a vehicle for examining the issues that were primary in our minds two years ago, and the relevance and the need for that dis-

“Spring is the fountain of love for thirsty winter.” – Munia Khan

Social issues and intricate relationships are explored in American Son as a bi-racial couple awaits news of their son in a police station (photo by Zach Mendez)

cussion hasn’t gone away.”

Fox was even able to engage the author in updating some of the content as the work is meant to be set in the present moment. There’s a new reference to the movement to defund the police, for example, and the tone also needed to acknowledge what happened in 2020.

“He did some rewrites based on our suggestions and made some recommendations to us, and then Zoomed in with us so we could hear how they sounded – which was pretty exciting,” Fox said.

To be sure, though, American Son is also a relationship drama between the estranged husband and wife, and an edge-of-your-seat thriller, as we don’t find out what happened to the teenager until the play’s final moments. “It’s very much about a marriage that has fallen apart and how the racial issues inform the marriage,” Fox said. “There’s a lot of dramatic tension and even some comic relief.” Relief as well in finally being able to have all the actors on stage to bring American Son to Santa Barbara.

American Son plays April 7-24 at The New Vic, 33 West Victoria Street. Call (805) 965-5400 or visit etcsb.org.

SBHS Chicago Nearly two years after taking over for the legendary Santa Barbara High School theater director Otto Layman, newcomer Justin Baldridge is getting his chance to put his stamp on the kind of big classic musical Layman loved to bring to the school’s auditorium.

Chicago, the second longest-running show in Broadway history, is a songand-dance filled spectacular that is also a more fun-loving than biting satire on corruption in criminal justice and the concept of the celebrity criminal. The

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Father Gregory Boyle The Power of Extravagant Tenderness

Mon, Apr 18 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall FREE (registration required) / Includes an at-home viewing option Father Gregory Boyle, founder of the largest gang intervention and rehabilitation program in the world, will challenge our preconceptions and invite us to treat others with acceptance and tenderness.

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Michael Steele The Political Scene According to Steele Thu, Apr 21 (note new date) / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $20 / FREE for UCSB students Includes an at-home viewing option

A witty, engaging and savvy political observer, Michael Steele is a self-described “Lincoln Republican” who brings his experience from a lifetime in politics to a wideranging discussion about the key political and cultural issues of the day.

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Danielle Wood Space Enabled Earth Justice: Using Space Technology to Improve Life Fri, Apr 22 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall FREE (registration required) Breaking down complex, cosmic technologies, Danielle Wood shows us how entrepreneurial spirit and cross-disciplinary collaboration can be used to bring about a more just and innovative future.

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Colson Whitehead Thu, Apr 28 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall (note new venue) Tickets start at $25 / $10 all students (with valid ID) Includes an at-home viewing option

Colson Whitehead is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of unforgettable novels such as The Underground Railroad, John Henry Days and The Nickel Boys.

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SBHS’s newest rendition of the iconic Chicago features a minimalist set that lets the audience focus on the performances (photo courtesy of SBHS)

show pits nightclub sensation Velma Kelly against wanna-be Roxie Hart – both of whom have murdered lovers – for the attention and razzle-dazzle defense of Chicago’s slickest lawyer, Billy Flynn, as well as the press who turn the whole thing into a media circus.

Despite Chicago’s inherent glitz and glamour, Baldridge was drawn to direct the musical for its opportunity to employ his own minimalistic style. “It already has that quality of not needing huge set changes, and we’ve cut out any that were there in favor of the lighting and the costumes, which make everything pop for me when they’re coming from a more abstract land,” he said.

“I prefer minimal because I want the audience to be forced to pay attention to what the characters are saying, and not be distracted by how beautiful the show looks.”

That goes for the players, too, Baldridge said. “It’s perfect for high school because it forces the actors to do all the work to be on the forefront and to not let everything else tell the story.

They need to do their job and just let the technical elements support what they’re doing.”

Montecito-born senior actress Grace Wilson has had no trouble embracing Baldridge’s vision for Chicago as she never had the chance to work with Layman – her family relocated to Texas from age six to 16 years, and returned just in time for the pandemic to shutter live theater. Getting cast as Velma came as a surprise, not only because it was

only her second show since returning to the stage (she was in the chorus of SBHS’s Carrie last fall), but also because she’d auditioned for Roxy, the less self-assured of the murderesses.

“I’m pretty far from a Velma in real life, but on stage I translate as a bit more confident and bold,” Wilson said.

“Getting to be someone different is what I love about theater. I just didn’t expect anything like this having come in as a newbie my senior year.” Wilson said she’s been thrilled to reconnect to dancing from her earlier childhood, including learning tap just for a routine that was added to the show.

“Mr. B was teaching me one-on-one for three hours and it was quite rigorous of an experience, but it’s fun to be dancing. I also get to do the splits, and cartwheel and walkovers and more. And having such a [minimalist set] has been fun because it gives us freedom to play around and choose some of our own moves and locations. It’s super cool.”

SBHS’s Chicago runs April 8-16 at its theater at 700 East Anapamu Street. Visit sbhstheatre.com for more information.

Thrown to The Wolves The Wolves, the first play by former college actress Sarah DeLappe to be produced and professionally written while she was still an undergraduate at Yale, was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Now, SBCC Theatre closes out its season with the local pre-

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Aoife O’Donovan is entering the Age of Apathy (photo by Omar Cruz) The Wolves follows a girls’ indoor soccer team’s dynamics through the lens of their practice (photo courtesy of SBCC)

miere of the piece, ostensibly about a girls’ indoor soccer team, that has quickly become one of the most-produced plays in the country. As the members, who are known only by their numbers, warm up with kicks, shots, and other drills, what underlies the repetition and quest for precision are battles, victories, and losses that the “pack of adolescent warriors” must confront, as well as bigger questions of what it means to dominate on the field and in life.

Directed by Sara Rademacher, The Wolves will be performed in the Jurkowitz Theatre on SBCC’s West Campus April 6-23. Visit theatregroupsbcc.com for more information.

Aoife Addresses Apathy… and Affirmation Aoife O’Donovan has come a long way from her first recording as a member of the folk-bluegrass band, The Wayfaring Strangers, with stops as lead singer of Boston-based Crooked Still, collaborations with Chris Thile and other genre-busters, a series of critically-acclaimed solo albums, and her most recent Grammy-winning trio, I’m With Her, with fellow singer-songwriters Sarah Jarosz and Sara Watkins. Now there’s her most accomplished album to date in the paradoxically titled Age of Apathy.

In many ways the new album, which O’Donovan will be featuring in her band’s return to the Lobero on April 12, was sparked as much by the outdoor environment following her family’s move to central Florida as by reflecting on her inner world during the pandemic. “There’s just so much natural beauty there, like a wild jungle with gorgeous, lush greenery, rivers you can kayak, and mountains you can see from my house,” she said. “It’s an incredibly diverse ecosystem and that is definitely showing up in the music.”

But Age of Apathy also accesses a

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touchpoint in O’Donovan’s life journey, she said, one that needed to come out in her writing. “I’m almost 40 and that’s when you look back and it really feels like the end of an era, like my young adult is on the precipice of middle-aged.

I have a home, a husband, and a child.

How does that play into the essence of me? What do you want from yourself?”

Hence the enigma of the album’s title, which collects songs that are at once intimate and worldly, rooted in the earth but also spiritual, considering the past but also imagining the future.

The musical settings reflect the dichotomy with the folk base peppered with angular chord progressions and surprises in the melodies. “There’s so much out there in the world that’s bad news and then COVID and the result eventually leads to apathy because how much can you really absorb,” she explained. “I mean, what can any of us actually do?”

O’Donovan, of course, answers her own questions over the course of the songs on the album, which is truly a journey rather than a random collection of songs. “My apathy is losing ground/Open my mouth, make a sound,” she sings on the record’s penultimate track “Passengers.”

“That’s the crucial line on the album because it’s about making it to the other side, whether I’m on the ground or in a dream,” she said. “We all need to find that place where we can let go of sadness and despair. I’m really trying to find joy in music and my family and friendships and musical collaborations. That’s defi nitely the only way out for me.”

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND PENDING ACTION BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO: (1) WAIVE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON A TIME EXTENSION APPLICATION AND APPROVE, CONDITIONALLY APPROVE, OR DENY THE TIME EXTENSION APPLICATION This may affect your property. Please read.

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

The development requested by this application is under the jurisdiction of the Director and therefore a public hearing on the application is normally required prior to any action to approve, conditionally approve, or deny the application. However, in compliance with the Article II Section 35-179B.D.7, the Director intends to waive the public hearing requirement unless a written request for such hearing is submitted by an interested party to the Planning and Development Department within the 15 working days following the Date of Notice listed below. All requests for a hearing must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Request for Hearing Expiration Date listed below, to Willow Brown at Planning and Development, 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara 93101-2058, by email at wbrown@countyofsb.org, or by fax at (805) 568-2030. If a public hearing is requested, notice of such a hearing will be provided.

WARNING: Failure by a person to request a public hearing may result in the loss of the person’s ability to appeal any action taken by Santa Barbara County on this Time Extension Application to the Montecito Planning Commission or Board of Supervisors.

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

PROPOSAL: SAN YSIDRO ROAD - TIME EXTENSION - INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT PROJECT ADDRESS: San Ysidro RD, SANTA BARBARA, CA 1st SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICT THIS PROJECT IS LOCATED IN THE COASTAL ZONE DATE OF NOTICE: 3/29/2022 REQUEST FOR HEARING EXPIRATION DATE: 4/19/2022 PERMIT NUMBER: 22TEX-00000-00004 ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO.: 111-111-111 ZONING: PROJECT AREA:

APPLICATION FILED: 2/15/2022

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: � Applicant: Morgan Jones � Proposed Project: Time extension to development effectuated under 19CDP-00000-00098: The project proposes to enhance traffic operations and safety at the intersection between San Ysidro Road, North Jameson Lane, and US-101 on- and off-ramps by reconfiguring the stop-controlled intersection into a single-lane roundabout, adding sidewalks, directional crosswalks and connections to existing bike paths.

APPEALS: The decision of the Director of the Planning and Development Department to approve, conditionally approve, or deny this Time Extension application 22TEX-00000-00004 may be appealed to the Montecito Planning Commission by the applicant or an aggrieved person. The written appeal must be filed within the 10 calendar days following the date that the Director takes action on this Time Extension application. To qualify as an "aggrieved person" the appellant must have, in person or through a representative, informed the Planning and Development Department by appropriate means prior to the decision on the Coastal Development Permit of the nature of their concerns, or, for good cause, was unable to do so.

Written appeals must be filed with the Planning and Development Department at either 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, 93101, or 624 West Foster Road, Suite C, Santa Maria, 93455, by 5:00 p.m. within the timeframe identified above. In the event that the last day for filing an appeal falls on a non-business day of the County, the appeal may be timely filed on the next business day.

For additional information regarding the appeal process, contact Willow Brown. The application required to file an appeal may be viewed at or downloaded from: http://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/forms.sbc ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Information about this project review process may also be viewed at: http://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/permitting/planningprocess.sbc Board of Architectural Review agendas may be viewed online at: http://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/home.sbc Published April 6, 2022 Montecito Journal

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Shalhoob’s At The Market, 38 West Victoria St. #101, #112, #113, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. Tipsy Gypsy LLC, 1482 East Valley Road Suite 225, Santa Barbara, CA, 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 31, 2022. 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. 2022-0000841. Published April 6, 13, 20, 27, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Keeper of the Books, 5266 Hollister Ave #212, Santa Barbara, CA, 93111. Granfort Bookkeeping Services, LLC., 5266 Hollister Ave #212, Santa Barbara, CA, 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 16, 2022. 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. 2022-0000689. Published March 30, April 6, 13, 20, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Studio X, 216 E Gutierrez St., Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. Alisa M Deen, 311 West Ortega St, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 22, 2022. 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. 2022-0000747. Published March 30, April 6, 13, 20, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Recovery, 801 Garden Street STE 101, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. Central Coast Recovery Center LLC, 801 Garden Street STE 101, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 24, 2022. 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. 2022-0000779. Published March 30, April 6, 13, 20, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Matchmaking, 1332 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. Santa Barbara Matchmaking, LLC, 1332 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 18, 2022. 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. 2022-0000723. Published March 30, April 6, 13, 20, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Robles Handyman, 15 Mendocino Drive, Goleta, CA, 93117. Raul Robles, 15 Mendocino Drive, Goleta, CA, 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 22, 2022. 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. 2022-0000752. Published March 30, April 6, 13, 20, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Summerset Farms, 3450 Baseline Ave, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. Alexandra B Geremia, 3500 Hwy 154, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 21, 2022.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this

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is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0000729. Published March 23, 30, April 6, 13, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Alexandra King Dance, 310 West Padre Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Laurie K Alexander, 4202 Calle Real, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 16, 2022. 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. 2022-0000705. Published March 23, 30, April 6, 13, 2022

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

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 the date and time indicated below at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for: BID NO. 5947 DUE DATE & TIME: APRIL 26, 2022 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. STREET LIGHT ELECTRICAL MODIFICATIONS AND UTILITY POLE INSTALLATION PROJECT Scope of Work is installing new wood utility poles, installing ground wires on those new wood poles, and installing grounding wires on existing concrete street lights.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gladiator Massage, 1211 Coast Village Road Ste 1, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Jeff Dutcher, 3340 McCaw Ave Apt 201, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 16, 2022. 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. 2022-0000686. Published March 23, 30, April 6, 13, 2022

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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nexthome Preferred Properties, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. Steven C Decker, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 3, 2022. 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. 2022-0000578. Published March 16, 23, 30, April 6, 2022

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Michelles Pet Pals, 3080 Calle Rosales, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Michelle Quirke, 3080 Calle Rosales, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 8, 2022.

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. 2022-0000602. Published March 16, 23, 30, April 6, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Right Brain University; Rhythm & Reflex, 2655 Montrose Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Elizabeth G. Morse, 2655 Montrose Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 17, 2022. 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. 2022-0000462. Published March 16, 23, 30, April 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 22CV00704. To all interested parties: Petitioner Brianna Itzel Lopez filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Brianna Itzel Aguilar. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Filed March 8, 2022 by Narzralli Baksh. Hearing date: April 25, 2022 at 10 am in Dept. 5, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 3/16, 3/23, 3/30, 4/6

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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.

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

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.

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.

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 Section 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 C10 Electrical 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

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Painting Far and Near The Illustrious Artworks of Michael Drury

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n his upcoming exhibit, Far and Near, at the Santa Barbara Fine Art Gallery, Michael Drury explores the illustrious landscapes of California, Nevada, and Ireland, immersing the viewer in these locations with his distinctive style of plein air painting. While this exhibit captures vistas far and near, Drury got his start in painting more near than far.

Drury is originally from the area – born in Cottage Hospital and growing up on the Riviera, where he still lives. His dad was a talented amateur painter so he developed an early interest in art, always having the tools around him at home. His parents wanted him to become a professor of literature. He did take courses in the major, but eventually his longtime passion for art drew him in, graduating with a BA and MFA from UCSB. At the time he was at Hollister Ranch,

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where he lived for 25 years, cruising the waves on his surfboard and painting the sites around him. “For the first couple of years, I surfed by myself a lot. It was something that will never be repeated unfortunately,” says Drury, “But in the meantime, I just painted.” It was when he met esteemed plein air artist Ray Strong in 1970 that he went from a “surfer that painted to a painter that surfed.”

He adds, “Then I met Ray and got better, and I realized that there were decisions to be made about what I was going to do with my life. And Ray said, ‘Well, you know, you have a choice. You could get your PhD in lit and all that stuff, but you might be happier being a painter – you will be impoverished, but you’ll be happy.’ And I thought, yeah, okay, I’ll do that.”

We did not cover financial success in our chat, but Drury did speak with clear contentment about his experiences from the path of painting. As we talked, he referenced remote structures off lost highways and described the notable rocks and trees he’s found along the way with the intricacy of someone who has spent countless hours capturing these sights in paint.

Looking at his body of work, the paintings seem to realize more than just what was there when he painted them. What stands out is the way in which he frames the composition and the colors he chooses to represent it. There is a brilliance to his palette – colors are sharpened as if touched by fresh rain, the amplified hues resonating

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through the foliage and into the lighting and shading of every precipice and stroke.

Many of the works have a central feature that makes its presence known. “I look for significant form. That’s what I look for,” says Drury. “A big rock, something big, or Point Conception – the chunk of point itself – casting a shadow on the ocean. Yeah, I like to make statements like that.”

As our conversation continues, Drury discusses his use of “simultaneous contrast” in his works. This technique incorporates contrasting scale, colors, and other qualities of different objects to influence and enhance the presence of one another. Mr. Perkin’s Barn, Fort Bidwell is one of the standout pieces in the show and a clear example of this technique. In it, a colossal barn sits up front, its roof jutting into the sky. Far-off mountains seem to droop behind the immediacy of the barn’s bracing presence. The sun’s rays shine from behind the barn, hidden from the viewer except for where they break through the weathered wood. The light’s sheltered warmth adds a background glow that contrasts with the dark umber hues of the barn and its looming form.

Many of his paintings feature barns and withered structures, seemingly forgotten in time, but Drury notes that many of them are still being used. As our attention and conversation is drawn towards Old Dairy Above Drakes Beach, he describes the history of the buildings and how the small town was founded on a marsh. In the painting, the structures straddle the eyeline of the ocean horizon, looking as if they are slowly sinking into the memories of themselves.

From the effects of lightning strikes to the deterioration of structures over time, each piece tells a story of where that area has been. These works illustrate his appreciation of both the splendor of nature and the beauty it forms over time – which is also evident in his position on the Historic Landmark Commission.

Drury’s upcoming exhibit at Santa Barbara Fine Art Gallery will feature about two dozen works that have never been exhibited before. These pieces span the coast and inland scenes of California and Nevada, with around six pieces painted in Ireland, Drury being of Irish heritage himself – taking visitors both Far and Near his

painted experiences.

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Seen (Continued from 14 14)) Lotusland board chair Lesley Cunningham, treasurer Stephen Schaible, and Executive Director Rebecca Anderson at their annual meeting

Patricia Orena, Spirit of Fiesta Ysabella Yturralde and the Council General of Spain Juan Carlos Sanchez Alonso when he visited here

Bill received the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for The Color of Money, his series of articles on racial discrimination by mortgage lenders in middle-income black neighborhoods. He won several national awards for an undercover investigation of racial steering by real estate agents entitled Long Island Divided.

Then he was with NBC News for eight years where he uncovered stories from the Pentagon regarding slow efforts to identify service men and women killed in past wars and fatal problems with firefighter safety equipment.

While house hunting in New England, Bill stumbled onto one of the most expensive ones, having been reduced from $35 million to $24 million, and no one lived in it. He discovered it belonged to Huguette Clark, the daughter of a late millionaire copper baron, Senator William Andrew Clark. And so began Dedman’s saga into the peculiar life of Huguette. Dedman cowrote Empty Mansions with Huguette’s cousin, Paul Clark Newell. It was on The New York Times bestseller list and chosen among the best books of 2013. Since the book’s release, Bill has given over 200 presentations. It holds the record locally for the most popular talk ever at SBHM. Huguette’s summer home, built by her mother after the 1925 earthquake, overlooks East Beach. Huguette was married once for a short time. She and her mother spent time here, but after she died Huguette never wanted to visit here again. It was too sad, she said. She lived to be 104 and spent the last 20 years in a hospital room (not sick). She participated in life from there through books and news. Her maid received $30 million in gifts. Huguette had $300 million to spend and bequeathed Bellosguardo to the Bellosguardo Foundation to promote the arts. They are still waiting for the permit to have tours of the property.

Ministry of Culture Spain’s Ministry of Culture department paid a visit to Santa Barbara recently headed up by the Counsel General of Spain Juan Carlos Sanchez Alonso. They were here by the Mission steps along with

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Lotusland Vice Chair of the Board David Jones and the keynote speaker, author Daniel Stone

Our Spirit Ysabella Yturralde when she visited Jerez, Spain

our Fiesta Spirit Ysabella Yturralde and a tapas truck with loads of Spanish ham.

Spirit Ysabella just returned from Jerez, Spain. The 10-day culture tour was given to her by the Ministry of Culture. “I took flamenco lessons every day, visited many different venues to watch flamenco, and I loved it and the people,” she told me. I lived there for seven years with my family and Ysabella loved it as much as we did.

We couldn’t dance like she can, but we had a horse and all the costumes. Great memories! Ysabella has the distinction of being one of the few ladies to be both Junior and Senior Spirit. She said when she was five, she saw a señorita in a white dress dancing in La Cumbre Plaza and she told her mom that’s what she wanted to do. Ysabella had a TV interview talking about her trip and then it was time to sample the tapas.

Ganna Walska Lotusland Ganna Walska Lotusland held its annual meeting in a different place this year: Instead of being indoors, we were in the Theatre Garden enjoying the beauty and then unto the lawn for a picnic lunch.

Board president Lesley Cunningham welcomed all. Thanks were given to departing Trustees Suzanne Mathews and Alexandra Morse and welcome to Connie Flowers Pearcy and Lisa Bjornson Wolf, who are just joining the

board. Treasurer Stephen Schaible gave “Lotusland exists as an oasis of trana financial report. Executive Director quility in an otherwise chaotic world.”

Rebecca Anderson told us about a new – The late Michael Towbes, Lifetime designation that allows Lotusland to be Honorary Trustee able to have more attendance and to be open in the winter.

The Little Book

Gilbar thinks the first author of note seems to be Edward Salisbury Field, who wrote many successful plays and novels in the first decades of the twentieth century.

The guest speaker was author Daniel Stone who told us stories about world class botanists. Santa Barbara is a treasure trove for gardeners because anything will grow in our Mediterranean climate. Daniel is a best-selling author and National Geographic editor and told us about Francesco Franceschi, Luther Burbank, and David Fairchild — contemporaries from different corners of the world. They had two things in common: their deep affection for plants and their unbridled enthusiasm for Santa Barbara.

Daniel is author of The Food Explorer about turn-of-the-century adventures of Fairchild, a globetrotting agent for the U.S. government.

“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball... I stare out the window and wait for spring.” – Roger Hornsby

Writers and friends gathered at Tecolote recently to celebrate Steven Gilbar’s latest tome, having published over 20 books. This one is titled The Little Book of Montecito Writers and includes over 50 names. This doesn’t count journalists or memoirists.

No garrets or starving poets here, with the median home costing about $5 million. Gilbar thinks the first author of note seems to be Edward Salisbury Field, who wrote many successful plays and novels in the first decades of the twentieth century.

He and his writer friends were well to do, living on large estates, traveling in Europe, playing polo, or going golfing at the Valley Club. Today, there are writers who earn a living, enough to live in Montecito.

Those of us attending the book signing couldn’t help but think how smart we were to have chosen this idyllic place to live as we sipped wine and munched on sliders.

All the proceeds from Gilbar’s book go to

Montecito Library. Enjoy the ink!

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Miscellany (Continued from 27 27)) the renovation and enhancement of the locker rooms, wood decks, cabanas, Tydes, Seagull Room, fitness room, members living room, and the installation of the controlled LED lighting features... We anticipate the completion of the construction will be sometime in the fourth quarter of 2022.” Good news, indeed...

rooms. There is also a two-bedroom guest house, and a pool house that has another bedroom.

Say Hello to my Little Paradise

Bringing Sole Singing superstar Katy Perry is sole searching! The California Gurls hitmaker has re-launched her shoe line with a new spring collection. She first debuted the Katy Perry Collectibles brand in 2017, with the intention of offering unique styles at affordable prices.

“I had the opportunity of either letting the brand slowly fade away into worthlessness, or take on the challenge and bet on myself, as I do most of the time, and just up my game and really mean what I say when I say I want to be the boss a** b****,” she tells Women’s Wear Daily. The new line, with Global Brands Group, features 19 styles that are floral and beach themed.

Podcast Forecast Meghan Markle will finally debut her Spotify podcast this summer – 18 months after inking a $25 million deal with husband, Prince Harry. The Sussexi’s Archewell Foundation confirmed the project, the former actress appeared in a holiday podcast shortly after signing the deal in December, 2020. Little is known about the Duchess of Sussex’s upcoming podcast, although she has spoken out on multiple social justice issues, including racism and misogyny. It will be produced

by Archewell Audio, an offshoot of the foundation set up by the dynamic duo, who live in Riven Rock.

A Winn-ing Needlepoint Gallery

Montecito entrepreneur Ann Winn, who with her husband, Alastair, recently bought Santa Barbara’s Public Market with partners for $7.65 million, has opened Village Needlepoint in the former premises of bling king Bob Bryant, just a tiara’s toss from Tecolote. Her love for the art started in her early 20s and she started building her influential professional career as a canvas designer in 1992.

Ann, whose work has been recognized with two Needlepoint Now covers and numerous feature articles, was chosen to provide an ornament for the White House Christmas Tree in 1998. Four years earlier she opened Needlepoint Galley in the Lower Village, after decades of teaching, hoping to inspire the next generation of artists, as well as continuing enthusiasts from beginners to experts.

“The new shop features a great selection of more than 1,000 thread colors made from cotton, wool and silk, metallics, plus handprinted canvasses and nee-

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Ann Winn opens new needlepoint shop in the Upper Village (photo by Priscilla)

dlepoint kits from France and England,” says Ann. “When fully stitched, needlepoint canvases can be converted into lasting wall art, ornaments, pillows, jewelry, purses, and wallets by expert finishers.”

Her website is MontecitoNeedlepoint.com.

On the Move

El Fureidis, the famous 10-acre Montecito estate used by director Brian De Palma for his film Scarface, is up for grabs again for $39.995 million. The four-bedroom property, just a tiara’s toss from Maison Mineards Montecito, was completed in 1966 and is notable for being one of a handful of homes designed by architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, and for hosting a litany of bold-faced names, including JFK and Einstein.

The 10,000-square-foot home has Spanish and Middle Eastern influences, as well as two guest cottages with another three bedrooms. The last time El Fureidis, which also boasts a dining room with a barreled ceiling with 24-carat gold leaf, changed hands was in 2015, when it fetched just $12.3 million. Paging Ellen DeGeneres...

Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry has bidden adieu to her sprawling Beverly Hills mansion, located in the Hidden Valley neighborhood next to the homes of fellow singer Adele and actress Nicole Kidman, which she purchased in 2017.

The 37-year-old former Dos Pueblos High student has been spending more and more time with her British actor fiancé Orlando Bloom and their oneyear-old daughter Daisy Dove, at their $14.2 million nine-acre Park Lane estate in Montecito. Katy bought the five-bedroom, six-bathroom 5,427 square foot home for just under $19 million, according to TMZ, and is selling it for $19.5 million. The two-story property, built in 1959, is on 1.13 acres of grounds and has a quarter of a mile tree-lined drive.

Back in Town Maroon Five frontman Adam Levine, 43, and his Namibian model wife Behati Prinsloo have splashed out $52 million on the former home of actor Rob Lowe. The tony twosome are no strangers to our rarefied enclave having sold their Park Lane estate, near Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom, for $28.5 million last year, $5.8 million more than they paid for it just three months earlier. The duo listed their compound in Pacific Palisades for $57.5 million just last month.

Rob and wife, makeup artist and jewelry designer Sheryl, purchased the land on Picacho Lane in 2005 and constructed their 10,000 square foot mansion.

They sold it in 2020 for $44.5 million.

The most recent owners of the 3.4-acre property, Oakview, were Jack McGinley, a healthcare private equity executive, and his wife Julie, who sold the property to the rocker. It has six bedrooms and eight full bathrooms, with three powder

Gordon Guy of New House, R.I.P. (photo by Priscilla)

Gordon Guy Remembered

On a personal note, I mark the move to more heavenly pastures of Gordon Guy, longtime executive director of the 73-year-old nonprofit New House, a recovery center for men with alcohol and drug problems. The charity, which has three facilities in our Eden by the Beach, holds its annual fundraiser at the Hilton emceed by ubiquitous KEYT-TV reporter John Palminteri.

An amazing and beloved spirit for the thousands of men he helped on the road to recovery.

Granada Season Announced

It’s going to be quite a season for the American Theatre Guild at the Granada.

The popular organization has just announced its ’22-‘23 Broadway season, including Cats in October; R.E.S.P.E.C.T., a tribute to the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin; and 9 to 5: The Musical, both in January; the Russian empire saga Anastasia in April; and The Book of Mormon in May. A Tony time, to be sure...

Edward S. DeLoreto joins CAMA board (photo by Nell Campbell)

Edward S. DeLoreto is CAMA-ing on Board CAMA – the Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara – which is celebrating its 103rd concert season, has elected Edward S. DeLoreto to its board of directors. A CAMA subscriber for 35 years, and a donor for two decades. DeLoreto is passionate about Baroque music.

He has supported the organization through sponsorship of concerts, including the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and next week’s performance by the English Baroque Soloists at the Granada. DeLoreto travels widely to attend great classical music performances and was a supporter of the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra. He is co-owner and manager of Loreto Plaza.

“The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” – Harriet Ann Jacobs

Sightings James Bond film producer Michael Wilson and his wife, Jane, at the Van Gogh exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art... Rapper Kanye West noshing at the FisHouse... Oscar winner Michael Douglas checking out Pierre Lafond…

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