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Hot Springs Happenings

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The pandemic and social media have led to a surge in popularity of the hot springs… what are the impacts on parking and safety, plus where to go from here, page 12

Village Beat

Parking near the hot springs has been a major point of local discussion and a group of neighbors has filed a lawsuit against the County – read why and the rationale behind it, page 6

MERCI BEAUCOUP, PIERRE A local legend has passed… Reflecting on the life and influence of Pierre Lafond and his lasting legacy of wine, design, and definitive Montecito style (story on p.5)

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Editorial – The impact of Pierre Lafond’s legacy and his role in defining the local style and culture

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Village Beat – An in-depth look at the lawsuit filed against the County regarding Hot Springs parking, and local Scouts reach the high achievement of Eagle rank

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Montecito Miscellany – Westmont stalwarts retire, the Choral Society gets groovy, Riviera Ridge raises some yeehaws, and other tidbits around town

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Letters to the Editor – A case for studies on water and sanitation, more parking observations, and letters commenting on inflation, oil, and Putin Tide Guide

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Montecito Moves – The hot springs have always been there, but the conditions around them have changed – a look at how they have and what is being done

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Seen Around Town – Girls Inc. celebrates Women of Inspiration and other “STEMinists,” Walk Montecito keeps its pace, and Mad Hatters have lunch

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Stories Matter – From mystery and intrigue to bookstore mavens paving their way, there’s a little bit of everything in the May book buffet

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Everyday Sacred – The incredible and inspiring story of SBCC student Chernor Diallo and his journey from Liberia to Santa Barbara

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Hot Topics – The Montecito Fire Department vents about home hardening… actually, they calmly articulate how upgraded vents really can help during wildfires

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Robert’s Big Questions – Are we Good or Evil? Robert asks, and explores answers in the first of this two-part question

Santa Barbara by the Glass – Tercero Wines tries their hands (and feet) at pinot, and an upcoming wine and music pairing Travel Buzz – Family fun and tropical foliage makes for a vacation haven on the island of Paradise Point

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Nosh Town – Eat like royalty with these fashionable and flavorful recipes from Carolyn Robb, chef to the royal family for 13 years

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The Giving List – The myriad benefits and literary charms of the Montecito Library and its Friends

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Calendar of Events – Mother Hips found in SOhO, Ballet Hispánico turns 50, a May Day maypole, plus more

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Community Voices – Drinking Water Week is coming up and the MWD has a new Five-Year Strategic Plan to sip alongside it

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I Covet the Waterfront – Joe Donnelly’s newest book tells of characters, whimsical moments, and SoCal oddities from his time as an Angeleno

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On Entertainment – Rubicon enters Twilight, Out of the Box goes tick, tick…

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Your Westmont – The college’s inaugural nursing cohort completes its first semester, and a fund is created to aid a staffer’s family in Ukraine

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Editorial

Looking Back Lafondly

Raise a glass to the legacy and memory of Pierre

by Gwyn Lurie

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ierre Lafond passed away this past Sunday at the age of 92, after 60 years in Santa Barbara enterprise overlapping a 25-year career in architecture.

Pierre Lafond and his wife, Wendy Foster, developed a number of shops in Montecito and in greater Santa Barbara. And they were vintners and early adopters of Central Coast viticulture, putting Santa Barbara on the international wine map – Santa Barbara wineries are now the second most popular in the U.S. with only Napa ahead of them.

However, to me, and I suspect to many of us, the meaning of Lafond and Foster to Santa Barbara is even greater than the sum of their many accolades and successes.

On the occasion of Pierre’s passing, I reflected on how and why their enterprises have been so signature to the region. If you sometimes think as I do that Montecito looks like an idyllic town from a model train set, part of the reason for that is the lifestyle curated and cultivated by Pierre Lafond.

For me it has to do with quintessence. Pierre was, and Wendy is, classy and elegant in a relaxed, but not showy manner. Their various shops selling food, fashion, and home goods were perfectly curated for Montecito lifestyle – and helped to define it.

How many of our memories are filled with mental snapshots of our kids grabbing a quick bite at Lafond before an MUS Walk & Roll? For so many of us, meeting up at Lafond’s eponymous café was like meeting at the trailhead. Lafond was always a great way to start a day and end a day and everything in between. I do not have a single bad memory of the place.

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Village Beat

Neighbors Sue County Over Trail Parking

by Kelly Mahan Herrick

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arlier this month, we reported that there was pending litigation between several neighbors on East Mountain Drive and the County of Santa Barbara, regarding parking issues at the Hot Springs Trailhead.

A preliminary hearing on the matter is scheduled next Friday, May 6.

Petitioners Christopher Anderson, Ross Bagdasarian, Peter Barker, and James Morley, represented by Attorney David Cousineau of Cappello & Noel, have taken legal action – including a temporary restraining order – against the County in response to a proposed parking project near the trailhead.

The parking project, according to Court documents, would add up to 62 parking spots in the public right of way in the area, which has become increasingly popular among locals and tourists, some of whom are seeking out the hot springs along the trail. (See Sharon Byrne’s piece on page 5 for more info). Currently, there are rough-

ly eight parking spaces at the trailhead, and in pre-pandemic times, it would not be unusual to see 10-12 additional cars parked illegally along Riven Rock Road, and the problem has increased exponentially over the last year. Riven Rock Road was white striped on either side of the road in April of last year, in an effort to thwart parking and maintain resident emergency evacuation routes. Hikers are still parking in the area, some near the creek bank, despite hundreds of tickets being issued and cars being towed.

According to court documents, in October, the County installed lath stakes outside of all the homes along the edge of the public right-of-way, on both sides of East Mountain Drive, in a line stretching for 4/10ths of a mile, from Hot Springs Road to Ashley Road. The stakes prompted neighbors to inquire about the County’s plans, which includes demolishing longstanding improvements such as boulders and landscaping in the rightof-way, which would open up space to provide more parking spots. The right-ofway would be cleared incrementally, three

homes at a time, with six homes on East Mountain Drive targeted initially, according to Court documents. The County sent certified letters to three homeowners on East Mountain Drive in February, demanding that all private encroachments be removed immediately.

“With these letters, the County announced its intention to proceed with the Project to create new parking spaces without any formal approval or hearing of the matter by the County, and without studying the Project’s environmental impacts under CEQA. If the work described in the letters is done, those now-barren areas of the public right-ofway will be immediately available as additional parking. The County has repeatedly stated its intention to perform further scraping of the right-of-way to create additional parking in the future, in an incremental fashion, without further hearings, environmental review, or formal approval,” the Court document reads.

The lawsuit contends that the rightof-way improvements and the addition of more parking would lead to both an increase in fire ignition risk and will affect the ability of the public to safely evacuate during a wind-driven wildfire. In addition, the suit contends that the County’s actions violate CEQA. “This translates to a more than fourfold increase in current foot traffic on Hot Springs Trail, home to sensitive, special-status plant and animal species and County-designated environmentally

sensitive habitat areas, in and around a blue-line stream,” reads the Court memo.

“The potential adverse impacts to these environmental resources, and to the area’s over-stressed firefighting and evacuation resources, from this tremendous increase in trail use are manifest. Yet the County has not conducted any review of these potential impacts through the study and public hearing procedures required by CEQA.” Next month, the Montecito Fire Protection District is expected to release its Emergency Evacuation Analysis which will include community education explaining the methods used to model simulations of likely emergency scenarios, an interpretation of the results, and identification of the vulnerabilities of emergency evacuations in Montecito, together with recommendations. According to Court documents, the Emergency Evacuation Analysis may help residents and the surge of hundreds of new daily visitors facing the increased fire danger from the County’s up-to-62-space project receive information about whether the project will significantly interfere with Montecito Fire’s current evacuation plan; whether residents and the surge in additional trail users will have viable evacuation routes other than the primary Hot Springs Road shown on Montecito Fire’s emergency Evacuation Plan Map; what other emergency vehicle ingress routes first responders would have given the per-

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Westmont Professors Say Farewell Carrie Patterson, Michael Shasberger, Marilyn Gilbert, Ben Patterson, and Steve Butler (photo by Priscilla)

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ontecito is losing two of its musical stalwarts with the retirement of Westmont College professors Michael Shasberger and Grey Brothers.

The dynamic duo were fêted at a dinner for 200 guests at Page Hall along with three other members of the faculty retiring, with 142 years of teaching at Westmont collectively between them.

Michael, who I have known during my 15 years in our rarefied enclave, joined the college in 2005 as the newly created Adams Chair of Music and Worship, and staged the first of 17 extraordinary Christmas festivals, which is now a signature Yuletide event in our Eden by the Beach. In 2013 he also created another new tradition, an annual opera, as well as strengthening ties with the Santa Barbara Symphony and the Music Academy of the West.

He is now retiring to Roanoke, Virginia, with plans for travel and more musical adventures, including setting up a new chamber orchestra, Roanoque Baroque, which will have its first performance under his baton in October, and returning to our tony town to conduct the Santa Barbara Symphony on Independence Day.

A keen athlete, he plans to run in the next Boston Marathon and, if his time is good enough, to enter the Berlin Marathon in Germany.

Grey, who has been at Westmont since 1993, is retiring to a farm in Humboldt County, California, where his wife, Carrie, is a physician assistant.

“Westmont was an ideal fit for me,” says the UCSB graduate. “I could be a practitioner, a performer, a singer, and a conductor, although my degree is not in performance. At a larger research institution, I likely wouldn’t have had the opportunity to do so many different things – and they all influence each other.”

Other retirees were Greg Spencer, professor of communication studies; Randall VanderMey, who has taught English at the college for 32 years; and John Moore, the college Warriors’ longest tenured and all-time winningest men’s basketball head coach, with 27 years of service as associate professor of kinesiology.

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Westmont’s retiring honorees: Randall VanderMey, Greg Spencer, Michael Shasberger, John Moore, and Grey Brothers (photo by Priscilla)

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NEWS & VIEWS Studies Are Vital in Policy Process

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look forward to reading the studies that the Montecito Water and Montecito Sanitary districts have jointly commissioned, one by Carollo Engineers to evaluate recycling options and the other by Raftelis to explore the pros and cons of a business case for district consolidation.

The need for recycled water supplies is rather self-evident.

The self-evident case is apparent when one understands the gravity of how much and how fast Montecito Water’s two major sources of imported supply, namely, the Santa Ynez River (Cachuma Project and Juncal Reservoir) and Sierra snow melt (State Water Project), as well as Montecito’s local groundwater supply, have become unreliable due to climate change.

But maybe not so apparent is how Montecito’s new water services agreement (desalination) with the City of Santa Barbara is able to backfill the reliability losses of the above sources of supply.

What may not be self-evident to the casual observer is the complex interwoven context for Board decisions to launch a major investment in a recycled water program. These include upward trending construction costs for large scale reclaimed water projects, ever evolving and costlier modern technologies for water treatment and storage, and increasing costs of facilities operations.

All of the above source of supply variables must be addressed in a detailed study (if not studies) for the two Boards to make informed decisions about recycled water.

The need for Montecito Water and Sanitary District consolidation is, however, not self-evident. Agency consolidation is a complex and difficult process for a number of reasons having to do with vested interests, costs, and equity.

These must be carefully identified in a study and openly vetted for review by customers and voters.

There are a number of examples of separate water and sanitary districts in California working together by agreement, not consolidation, to produce and deliver reclaimed water, including the Goleta Sanitary District and the Goleta Water District and the Carpinteria Valley Water District and the Carpinteria Sanitary District. A somewhat famous example (in the water industry at least) is the Orange County Water District and the Orange County Sanitary District’s agreement to produce purified wastewater for injection into the Orange County groundwater basin, holding back seawater intrusion, and augmenting groundwater supplies for drinking water wells.

And there are examples of agencies simply created to provide both water and wastewater services. One that I worked with quite a number of years ago is the Irvine Ranch Water District, which provides water and wastewater services for a multi-city service area.

Another is the Camrosa Water District in Camarillo, where I was once Assistant General Manager in the late ‘80s.

Given the daunting complexity of both recycling and consolidation issues, the Boards of both Montecito Water and Sanitary districts appear to be on the right path. They are engaged in a process, which if not done thoroughly, without detailed studies, would be a mistake.

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Parked Montecito Fire Engines On Wednesday morning (April 20, 2022), my friend and I took a hike up Cold Spring Trail. As we returned on the Ridge Trail, we encountered a number of firemen hiking up the trail; they were carrying shovels and axes. A fireman explained they were doing PT (physical training).

When we reached East Mountain Drive about 10:30 am, two fire engines were sticking out in the roadway. Hikers are getting ticketed if their vehicles stick out – even a little – but the Montecito Fire Department can do so with immunity. The fire engines were abandoned there for quite a while – it appears the fire department isn’t worried about vandalism.

To ensure emergency vehicle access, the fire department wants fifteen feet of clearance on a roadway after cars are parked. There was about 10 feet of roadway remaining when the fire engines were parked. This created a bottleneck, making it more difficult for emergency vehicles to get through, and slowing them down. If hikers’ cars had been parked on the other side of the road, which is often the case, the situation would have been even worse, particularly if some of those cars stuck out.

Good response times are important in fighting fires. If fire engines parked on Mountain Drive are needed in the

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Eagle Scouts left to right: Rowen Manriquez, Matthew Fernandes, Davis Peterson, AJ Heinemann, Kedrick Condie, and Peter Moschitto

manent spike in visitor traffic trips; what shelter-in-place resources on the exposed trail watershed without structures will be available to the hundreds of additional visitors; and what will be the increase in trail rescue and other emergency response times for such visitors.

The Montecito Association’s Land Use Committee will be discussing this issue at a meeting next Tuesday, May 3. Visit montecitoassociation.org for more information and instructions on how to join the meeting. We’ll have more on the issue in next week’s edition.

Local Students Earn Eagle Scout Ranking Earlier this month, Troop 1 of Los Padres Council held an Eagle Court of Honor to officially recognize six local high school students who have achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. A.J. Heinemann, Peter Moschitto, Davis Peterson, Rowen Manriquez, and Matthew Fernandes were joined by Kedrick Condie, who began his scouting career with Troop 1 but completed it with Troop 194 in Colorado.

To achieve Eagle, each Scout must complete a minimum of 21 merit badges, perform community service, serve as a leader in the troop and complete a project that benefits an outside organization, all before his or her 18th birthday. Required merit badges such as First Aid, Citizenship in the Community, Cooking, Camping, and Personal Management are designed to build character, life skills, and leadership skills.

Some of the most popular merit badges include Communications, Kayaking, Wilderness Survival, and Photography.

Eagle Scouts must plan, fundraise, and execute their Eagle Project while demonstrating leadership skills and involving younger troop members. Heinemann, Fernandes, and Manriquez’s projects brought improvements to the Lake Cachuma Recreation Area. Heinemann planted and installed irrigation for new oak trees. Fernandes created and installed a new Wildlife Lake Tours sign. Manriquez constructed and installed an information kiosk at the Sweetwater Trailhead near Bradbury Dam. Moschitto constructed a sandbox and archway for the preschool of the Cliff Drive Care Center.

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The following local businesses and individuals generously donated goods and funds to enable these Scouts to complete their Eagle projects: Aqua-Flo, Haywards, Home Improvement Center, Santa Barbara Stone, Allen Construction, Miners Ace Hardware, Carpinteria Lumber Co. Carpinteria Roofing, and Mr. Martin and Mrs. Danielle Osborn.

These six Scouts were honored in a Court of Honor Ceremony at Santa Barbara Community Church on April 9.

The ceremony was officiated by Troop 1 Scoutmaster Robert Blessing and attended by family and friends of the Scouts, Troop 1 Adult Leaders, and Troop 1 former Eagle Scouts. Associate Pastor Alan Strout of the First United Methodist Church offered a prayer of thanksgiving and benediction. Special presentations were made and certificates were awarded to the Eagle Scouts by Joe Bauer of the Catholic Committee on Scouting, Major Jose Ramirez of the Military Order of World Wars who awarded each Eagle Scout with a Certificate, and Command Sergeant Jonathan Church, who presented a Certificate to each Eagle Scout on behalf of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Organization. The ceremony was followed by a dinner reception.

Troop 1 was founded in 1910 and is the oldest Scout Troop west of the Mississippi River. It is chartered by the First United Methodist Church in Santa Barbara.

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The Hot Springs Trail is heavily over-used by tourists on weekends. The visible sign – parking overrun – exploded in July of 2020. Here’s a picture of trailhead parking in 2018, from Google:

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they were not only celebrating being in Carpinteria 50 years, but had just paid off their mortgage.

There were three Women of Inspiration awards: Audacious Foundation Executive Director Catherine Brozowski, Mercedes Millington and Susan Torrey from the Mithun Foundation, and community philanthropist Lynda Fairly.

Lynda just had the Girls Inc. courtyard named after her and the renovation will be completed sometime this fall.

There were also 2022 scholarships given out to Briana Rodriguez, $5,000; Monica Delgado, $1,000 and $5,000; Dulce Perez, $850; and Jessie Marquez, $250.

The young women who were masters of ceremonies for the afternoon were Sofia Olvera and Monica Delgado.

Speaking in front of 200 people is no small feat when you’re a teenager. Good job, girls.

It takes a village and Carpinteria has a good one. They currently serve more than 1,100 youth in the Valley from K through 12. To learn more please visit girlsinccarp.org.

irls Inc. of Carpinteria celebrated empowering women and girls at its annual Women of Inspiration luncheon recently. And what could be a more powerful example than a NASA rocket scientist, Tracy Van Houten, to give the keynote speech? Tracy is a lead engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She calls herself a STEMinist (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and an activist, advocate, and mentor for women and all those who have been historically excluded from science, technology, engineering, and mathematic fields.

As Executive Director of Girls Inc. Jamie Collins says, “Our mission at Girls Inc. is to ignite girls’ potential so they can break through barriers, reach for the stars, and accomplish their goals.” Tracy is a shining example of what it means to be strong, smart, and bold and to dream big.

In 2017, Tracy campaigned to be the first female engineer in the U.S. House of Representatives and currently serves as a State Assembly appointee on California’s Oil Spill and Recovery Technical Advisory Committee. That’s only part of her bio.

There’s a group of folks who are changTwo hundred people were at Girls Inc. ing the face of Montecito in a good way in Carpinteria, this year staged outside – their goal is to “Walk Montecito” safeon a perfect California day. There was a big cheer when it was announced that Seen Page 454 454

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Stories Matter A May Book Buffet

by Leslie Zemeckis

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ances by Daphne Du Maurier, Samuel Beckett, and Peggy Guggenheim. This is a love note to literature and those keepers of stories, while trying to re-write their own unforeseen endings.

handsome doctor. This is a story rooted in traditions, and loyalty to family, love, loss, and sacrifice with a family of strong women helming the narration.

Neruda on the Park

Our Last Days in Barcelona Bloomsbury Girls

Apparently, even in the 1950s bookstores were having a hard time staying afloat. In Bloomsbury Girls by author Natalie Jenner, we travel to London, where three ambitious women working at Bloomsbury Bookstore have unrealized dreams for their future and the bookstore, a place run by men who are old fashioned and as musty as the rare books they sell.

Jenner expertly weaves her characters who yearn for so much more, with appear-

Chanel Cleeton continues her saga of the Perez sisters in Our Last Days in Barcelona, moving the majority of the action from Cuba to Spain. It is 1964 and Isabel, the oldest of five sisters, travels to Barcelona after sister Beatriz has seemingly vanished. Isabel determines her younger sister is most likely involved with the CIA, but the discovery of a picture of herself as a baby, taken in Barcelona, is the most disturbing discovery, especially after her mother Alicia denies Isabel ever having been in Spain. The story moves backwards to 1936 with Alicia traveling to Spain and falling in love with a

Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera is an exquisite story of a Dominican family in New York. Luz Guerrero, recently fired from her law job, and mother Eusebia dominate the story of their changing neighborhood that is being gentrified. Eusebia takes matters into her own hands to stop nearby construction that would lead to devastating consequences. This one is lyrical and emotional.

Never Coming Home

Half-Blown Rose Leesa Cross-Smith’s Half-Blown Rose is haunting and joyful, filled with a woman’s passion and desire. After her husband betrays her, Vincent (named after Van Gogh) travels to Paris to work searching for who she is and what she wants. She begins a passionate affair with a younger man, even as her husband begins wooing her back. Cross-Smith beautifully paints both Paris and Vincent’s appetites and awakening. There is poetry and beauty in evenings listening to music, walking along the Seine, and smoking too many cigarettes. And the book ends as only it

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Lovers of thrillers will delight in Hannah Mary McKinnon’s Never Coming Home. Lucas has been plotting the demise of his beautiful, wealthy wife for a while. Now that the deed is done, he slips into the role of grieving widower when photos of his dead wife unexpectedly appear on his doorstep.

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hernor Diallo arrived at LAX after a long, exhausting flight in May 2021. His host for his twoyear stay in Santa Barbara met him. He had come a very long way in both time and space.

He had imagined that Santa Barbara would have skyscrapers and wide boulevards, like other American cities. But when he woke up in the morning of his first day here, he saw narrow streets, palm trees, and flowers of every imaginable color. And the beach and ocean immediately reminded him of his home in Monrovia, Liberia, and its beaches. He told himself that he must be a sojourner in paradise.

Chernor told me that his name in Fulani, the language of the Fula people, one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa and especially in Guinea where his mother and father came from, means a scholar. And, he immediately added that his middle name was Amahdu, which is one of the familiar names of the Prophet Muhammad among West African Muslims.

He grew up on Newport Street in the center of Monrovia and he described his family as belonging to the “struggling class” of Liberia. His father had a bodega, selling small things, like pads of paper or packages of tea and other small essentials.

When he was 14, his mother died on a visit to her family in Guinea and his father went to the funeral, leaving him in the care of his older brother. Children have to pay fees for their junior and high school education and for Chernor that meant pedaling a rickshaw around the streets of Monrovia. He would work from 1 or 2 in the afternoon after his classes and get home around 10 pm. He would then do his homework.

But as he struggled to earn money and to do his schoolwork, he became interested in academic competitions. He joined his high school quizzing team and quickly became a team captain. Each team had four members, and each would be assigned one of the areas of the quizzes – science, social studies, mathematics, and language

arts. Teams competed against one another to answer questions before their opponents. His area was language arts, and the examiner might read a sentence or paragraph from a novel and ask the name of the author. He recalled one competition in which the examiner read a single sentence from the introduction of Chinua Achebe’s great African novel Things Fall Apart and Chernor immediately identified it. It was through these competitions that Chernor received a scholarship to pay for his high school fees.

At a conference for the thousands of Liberian students who participated in these competitions he met one of the guest speakers, Saye-Maye Cole, who was the national coordinator of the International Baccalaureate Diploma program in Liberia. Cole is the Budget Director in the Ministry of Finance and Budget Planning with responsibility over the health, social development, and education sectors of the Liberian government. He encouraged Chernor to take the national exam for the United World College program that would provide a scholarship to attend college abroad. Hundreds take the national exam and on the first cut, 500 are chosen to advance. Then the number is cut down to 100 and then through interviews that number is cut to five who would receive a fellowship to continue their education abroad. Chernor was ranked seventh. SayeMaye Cole told me in a phone conversation that he would have been ranked much higher, but he had come from a high school that had comparatively few resources. His highest scores were in leadership skills and Saye-Maye saw him as an individual who could potentially lead others and also be a team player. He put him on the waitlist and hoped that one or two of the higher ranked students might decline the scholarship.

Leaving Liberia But then something unpredictable happened. Saye-Maye Cole received an announcement from Nurit Gery, the Executive Director of a new high school in Israel called Givat Haviva International School (GHIS), that they were accepting

“Plants do not speak, but their silence is alive with change.” – May Sarton

applications for their first class of students.

Cole told Chernor about the school, he applied, and was accepted. Gery told me that when she and her colleagues started GHIS, they had a dream. Their international school would bring together students from Israel and from all over the world to build a community of young leaders who would understand the power of diversity. “Over the last three years,” she continued, “this community formed.

We crossed many divides and brought together youth who would never otherwise have the opportunity to meet. Part of our mission is to give a chance to those who have huge potential, but still need to be found. And we were lucky enough to find Chernor.”

But being accepted to GHIS was just the beginning. He would need a visa to study in Israel and the closest Israeli Embassy was in Ghana. Saye-Maye Cole raised money from his friends to send Chernor to Ghana where he stayed with one of Cole’s friends while his visa application was being reviewed. Cole worked his friends to find the money to purchase his ticket. And, Nurit Gery and her school provided a scholarship.

I was interested in how Chernor thought of his decision to apply and then leave Liberia to study in a place he knew very little about. “Did you think your decision was courageous?”

“It was more like a miracle, to get this opportunity. People are blessed by this opportunity. If I would have stayed in Liberia, I would have become like so many others. A street seller. I would have dropped out of school. Perhaps I was courageous when I was young, but I thought of myself as being independent.”

“And how did you tell your brother?”

“Most of my family and my friends did not believe that I had an opportunity to study abroad. It is so rare for a person to leave Liberia.” Many were envious of him.

He would become the first in his family to graduate from high school.

A New Chapter Nurit Gery met Chernor at Ben-Gurion Airport and took him to the school. He told me one of the things he worried about was whether he would like Israeli food.

However, he quickly learned to like it very much. But, shortly after he arrived he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and he spent three months in a Haifa hospital.

Among all those experiences he had at the school and in Israel and that he could never forget, one stood out. It was a school trip to Jerusalem. He remembered that in his Muslim school in Monrovia he had learned that anyone who prays in Jerusalem will have his or her prayers answered by God. He recalled that as he and one of his Palestinian friends from the school approached the entrance to what Muslims call the Noble Sanctuary with its al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, his heart was pounding.

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Wildland Fire Specialist Maeve Juarez explaining why switching out your vents can make all the difference

The Small Home Upgrade That Could Save Your Home in a Wildfire

by Christina Favuzzi

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hether you are in the process of renovating your home or still in the planning and dreaming phase, your Montecito Fire Department has a project to add to your list – the vents.

Hear us out. Overhauling your vents may not be nearly as satisfying as a new kitchen, but having new vents could be the difference between returning to your home after a wildfire or not.

It’s arguably the simplest upgrade you can make to your home to immediately and significantly increase its resilience to wildfire damage. To make matters even easier, Montecito Fire will cover the cost and organize the installation work for you.

You’re thinking, “What’s the catch?”

No catch. The 2022 Home Hardening Assistance & Vent Retrofit Program is a first-of-its-kind wildfire preparedness initiative in Santa Barbara County.

Last year, Montecito Fire’s Prevention

Bureau presented the idea to our Board of Directors for a pilot program that would replace vents in local homes with fire-resistant materials. With the support of our Board of Directors, Montecito Fire allocated budget funds to create the Home Hardening Assistance & Vent Retrofit Program.

Wildland Fire Specialist Maeve Juarez explains why switching out your vents can make all the difference. “People often think homes are destroyed in wildfires because of a large flaming front, but most often, it’s the little things – like embers,” Juarez said.

“Embers travel into the vents and can cause the home to burn from the inside out.”

Recent post-fire assessments have found hardened structures had over three times the likelihood of surviving compared to non-hardened structures. “When homeowners work on hardening the home, all the small changes add up to a major improvement in defensible space,” Juarez said. Ember-resistant vents are designed with ultra-fine mesh that block the tiny,

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Montecito Fire Marshal Aaron Briner says upgrading your vents is not only smart but necessary, due to a recent change to the state’s fire code. “The California Fire Code was recently updated to require that vent screens are 1/8 to 1/16 inch apart,” Briner said. “These newly designed vents provide excellent ventilation and prevent flames or embers from entering the home.”

Overhauling your vents may not be nearly as satisfying as a new kitchen but having new vents could be the difference between returning to your home after a wildfire or not.

Wildland Fire Specialist Nic Elmquist says there is substantial scientific evidence to show vents can make or break your home’s chance to surviving a wildfire. “We looked at the studies that came out after the Camp and Woolsey fires and learned many of those homes were lost because of ember-intrusion,” Elmquist said. “In Montecito, we are prone to sundowner winds that can propel embers long distances and make their way into homes, even if the main fire is still relatively far away.”

Montecito Fire is one of the first fire departments in the West to provide free home-hardening assistance to community members.

“The first year of our Vent Retrofit

Program proved to be a huge success in our community,” said Montecito Fire Chief Kevin Taylor. “We’ve spoken with several local government agencies about how to implement a similar program in their communities based on Montecito Fire’s model. We’re grateful to have the opportunity to share our success with this progressive program with other proactive, wildfire-prone communities.”

As your fire department, changing out vents is one small, simple way we can help our community be safer from wildfire. All you need to do is apply and we will take it from there.

Applications are currently being accepted through montecitofire. com. Click on the “Home Hardening Assistance & Vent Retrofit Program” tab for instructions on how to apply.

This free service is only available to residents with a 93108 zip code. Our Wildland Fire Specialists will evaluate each application and prioritize properties based on their risk of being

adversely affected by a wildfire.

To schedule a complimentary Defensible Space Survey and inquire about home hardening strategies, contact our Prevention Bureau at 805-969-7762 or visit montecitofire.com.

Christina Favuzzi is the Montecito Fire Public Information Officer

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Freedom Fuel in the USA and Abroad Severing the Umbilical Cord

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

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n April 14, this column introduced the concept of “Freedom Fuel.” It outlined the potential unlocked by shifting from a planetary fuel system based on fossil fuels to a system based on the wide availability of hydrogen created by electrolyzing water with renewable energy (so called “Green Hydrogen”) at prices below fossil fuel. As that transition rapidly progresses, particularly in Germany and France, shifting to hydrogen as the fuel will not only free Europe from Russian domination of Europe’s biggest economies, but it will also free the entire planet from the ravages of climate change.

Can you imagine two more critical goals: freeing Europe from Russian fossil fuel control (thereby providing an end to Russia’s ability to finance Ukraine or any future Ukraine-type misadventure), and releasing human civilization from the certainty of biosphere destruction? The question is, how will this twin miracle actually occur?

The first phase of the hydrogen revolution is now well advanced. There are over 20 production plants in the world today that are already creating liquid hydrogen in massive quantities (Australia), are scheduled to open in the next eight months (Neom, Saudi Arabia), or are at advanced stages of development in countries ranging from the Middle East to Latin America and everywhere in between. Both Saudi Arabia (which has committed to building 10 Green Hydrogen plants) and the United Arab Emirates have formally declared that the future “export fuel commodity” from the Middle East will be Green Hydrogen – not oil or gas! What a remarkable statement this is! When the oil sheiks of Arabia conclude that Green Hydrogen is inevitable, you can bet everyone else in the capital markets world has come to the same conclusion. Including Goldman Sacks in a major new report, McKinsey in a major report only a couple of months old, and internal work at Boston Consulting Group, just to name a few.

Initially much of this hydrogen will be going to Europe, but ultimately it will be going everywhere in the world that currently uses fossil fuels.

Hydrogen is used in fuel-cell cars (Toyota and Hyundai are leading in this race); in semitrucks for long haul (clearly Toyota currently holds the lead, soon to be challenged by the Daimler-Volvo joint venture); in buses (Emeryville and the Big island of Hawaii are very advanced with these); locomotives (Germany has them running, the French are releasing theirs as we write, General Motors in final development mode); ferry boats (now operating in San Francisco Bay); “green” steel and cement plants now on the drawing board; and, most importantly, fuel-cell assisted microgrids.

Of all these uses for commercial hydrogen, the biggest could be this last category: fuelcell assisted microgrids.

A microgrid is a localized source of energy (i.e. primarily solar or wind for the foreseeable future) which can be supplemented by a hydrogen powered fuel-cell. So, the proverbial question is finally answered. “What do you do when the sun doesn’t shine, or the wind doesn’t blow?” You turn on your supplemental fuel-cell to power the microgrid until the sun resumes shining or the wind resumes blowing.

Best of all, the hydrogen to power that fuel cell itself will have been made from converting solar, wind, and geothermal energy into hydrogen to begin with so the microgrid will be 100% green while still costing less to operate than the existing electric grid.

This idea has been a central focus of our research over the past several decades at the World Business Academy. It is outlined in our The Clean Energy Moonshot films that explore the concept of how California could convert to a 100% green interconnected microgrid system within 10 years or less at zero additional cost to the ratepayers — best of all we wouldn’t have all those forest fires created by the grid because we’ll allow the grid to fall into disuse. A distributed energy system of interconnected microgrids is possible, and the only tenable path for a clean energy future.

How would these interconnected microgrids operate? Picture the individual cells in a honeycomb where every side of the honeycomb is touching an adjacent honeycomb. In that way, power can be passed back and forth to those cells that need extra power to those which are producing excess power all without using a “wire” (i.e. a high-powered power line like the one that wiped out Paradise, California).

What about microgrids that are in the middle of, say, the San Joaquin Valley in Fresno?

No problem, put adequate hydrogen storage on site for them to receive from a central distribution point and they’ll be 100% resilient and 100% reliable no matter the weather

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he No Mow May initiative encourages gardeners and homeowners to let their lawns grow wild to boost biodiversity and support pollinator populations. Beginning in the U.K., it caught on in Appleton, Wisconsin, in 2020.

This year, at least 25 more Wisconsin cities like Green Bay, De Pere, Oshkosh, and Egg Harbor joined the movement and have agreed to incentivize residents through the month of May. Biologist Israel Del Toro said that after Appleton’s first year, they “found a fivefold increase in abundance of bees in No Mow May lawns relative to mowed areas.”

There are alternatives to mowing such as planting native plants and eliminating or reducing chemical usage. “For the whole month, you can just let things come to flower, dandelions, clover, mint,” he adds. “All of those things are great foraging resources for our bees.” To continue supporting pollinators, No Mow May can go longer. Consider mowing less or leaving a designated patch in the yard to grow long throughout the spring and summer.

Attract nesting birds to your garden

Want more local and migrating birds in your garden this spring and summer?

Support these beautiful creatures and your garden’s ecosystem with these five gardening tips.

Variety of plants: Just like us, birds have their preferences — some like trees, some like the ground, and everything in between. Give birds a variety of choices to occupy or hide from predators.

Native plants: Planting native trees and plants provide nesting birds the food they need. Gardens with more native plants average eight times more birds than gardens with grass lawns and imported plants.

Nesting boxes: Instead of birdhouses vulnerable to predators and weather, build practical nesting boxes with different-sized entrances on posts or in standing trees.

Also, avoid removing dead trees, which make ideal spaces for birds to nest and feed.

Food and water: Keep a birdbath, remember to change the water every two to three days in the summer, and keep it away from areas accessible to predators. Leave bird food out, but don’t spoil their appetite for insects. Birdfeed should only be used in times of scarcity and in fall/winter. Make sure the birds’ natural food source is pesticide-free.

Nesting material: Instead of getting rid of twigs, grass clippings, pine needles, or even your dog’s shed clumps of fur, leave them a pile of this optimal material to deck

out their nests.

from day to day. Storing excess sun and wind energy in electrolyzed Green Hydrogen, which is portable and long lasting is the missing piece to this puzzle.

No more rolling power blackouts! No more forest fires. No more constantly escalating electrical bills to continuously rebuild and pay over and over again for all the power lines that otherwise have to be maintained and rebuilt every few years because they keep burning down.

So how do we phase in the new inter-connected microgrid system while we’re still on the grid? Simple, every electrical substation becomes the heart of each new microgrid. All the power continues flowing to that substation until the microgrid has enough installed capacity of photovoltaic solar (Santa Barbara doesn’t have wind resources good enough for energy, but Lompoc has an awesome amount of sun and wind too!) that it can constantly use less and less grid energy as it builds out its renewable resources.

When it’s done, the grid as an “umbilical cord” will become a useless appendage, as all umbilical cords are after the birth of a newborn. That grid as an umbilical cord will be allowed to pass, as it should, into the dustbin of history without any disruption of electrical

service, and only as the microgrids power up to enlighten our clean energy future.

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

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Editorial (Continued from 5)

That’s Entertainment

by Ashleigh Brilliant

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elieve it or not, the original meaning of “to entertain” was “to hold together.” But, when you come to think of it, that isn’t so far from what it still means today. People are held together by watching the same show, enjoying the same songs or jokes, admiring the same performers, feeling the same emotions engendered by the same drama. Or, when it comes to entertaining guests at home, there is of course nothing like a table full of good food to draw people together.

But fashions of entertainment do change, thanks partly to changes in technology. It was once possible to enjoy cruelty and violence only by witnessing it in person, in such displays as gladiatorial combat, or various staged fights between humans and animals, or animals pitted against each other.

Now, movies and other media, on big and little screens, can give us artificially enacted, but very realistic, murder and mayhem, which we can take comfort in knowing that nobody actually gets hurt – not even the animals.

Then too, real explosions, fires, volcanic eruptions, and other disasters are also fun to watch, so long as neither you yourself, nor anybody you know or care about, is harmed. But that line is getting harder to draw. Everything that happens somewhere potentially affects everybody and everything everywhere else.

I myself used to think of watching the News as a form of entertainment – until too much of it got too close to home.

Now, looking back, those times seem like the Good Old Days.

We may be on safer ground with more limited forms of entertainment – the metaphorical types of battle we call competitive sports, or even the games and puzzles you play by yourself, or with a few friends.

Speaking of puzzles – mysteries of all kinds are a major source of entertainment, from crime novels to magic shows. Sometimes the pleasure comes in being permanently mystified. But often there can be no satisfaction unless there are answers, if only “in the back of the book.”

Over the centuries, different kinds of presentations have had their appeal, and then lost it, to be replaced by something new. In America, for many years there was a very standardized kind of theatrical production called a “Minstrel Show,” which invariably involved white people performing in “blackface,” depicting the lives and culture of current and former slaves, in a kind of appealing fantasy. Then came “Vaudeville,” which was ethnically more diverse, and offered a wider variety of “acts” and performers, 28 April – 5 May 2022

including many who became “stars” and celebrities in subsequent media.

Everything changed with the coming of movies – and yet – incredible as it’s always seemed to me – although sound recording already existed, for an amazing 30 years, movies remained “silent” – until the advent of “talkies” in the late 1920s.

For some reason, silent films never even developed the idea of “subtitles,” which are so common today in making “foreign” films accessible to speakers of other languages. Instead, the text had to appear separately, between the action-scenes, against a blank background.

The next phenomenal development was a new medium of communication called Radio, which was, in a way, the opposite of silent movies, because it was sound-only. But it was easily portable and transmissible, and could reach virtually everybody everywhere, even in their cars. While talkies had made performers’ voices important to audiences, radio made them vital – and made personal appearance of no importance at all. So, a whole generation grew up listening to disembodied voices.

But then came another big change — something called “television” (along the same linguistic lines as “tele-graph” and “tele-phone”), which would have invaded our homes much sooner, had it not been for the long delay caused by World War II. And now, of course, we have computers, which are capable, in various ways, of replacing all previous media, visually, aurally, intellectually and emotionally.

But meanwhile, what has become of Entertainment? Numerous prizes are given annually for being the “best” in different categories of Cinema, Theater, Music, etc. – but none, that I know of, for being the most entertaining – not even for being the funniest, or most inspiring, or saddening, or gladdening.

You may say that these are simply matters of personal judgement – but so are most group choices, from the Oscars to the Presidency.

This may help to explain why Hollywood developed a “Star System,” to rank performers by their box-office appeal. After all, there is ultimately no Court more Supreme than The Public.

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.

Pierre Lafond, Wendy Foster, and family at his 90th birthday party

just a free cup of water always offered to guests. For many of us our first socially distant meetings were in that park out front, coffees in hand. The place has defined the word “hub” and has truly been our Central Perk.

One of the keys to Pierre and Wendy’s successes is they have been outstanding curators. Lafond Market may not be Harrods, but it seems like everything on their shelves is pretty darn good.

And of course, there’s their undeniably outstanding greeting card collection, which seems to be curated by the cartoon editor of the New Yorker. I’m sure I’m not the only one who looks at their entire oeuvre at least once a month.

If you sometimes think as I do that Montecito looks like an idyllic town from a model train set, part of the reason for that is the lifestyle cultivated

by Pierre Lafond.

In my opinion, the seeming effortlessness of Lafond’s and Foster’s enterprises (though I know the opposite is true) and their welcoming vibe kind of set a tone for the whole 93108. Though behind the scenes I know that quietly, and without flaunt, Pierre and Wendy have kept at it, they’ve grinded it out, they’ve put in long hours and yeoman’s labor. Likewise, for their vinting. Their wines have gotten better and better over the years from constant tinkering and attention.

Beyond our little locality, Mr. Lafond popularized the Pinot Noir grape, as well as Santa Barbara, as a more-than-legitimate wine region. His Santa Rita Hills bouteille has been a staple and a workhorse for half a century. And with climate trends, many oenophiles theorize Santa Barbara wines, the best of which already rank in the 95’s (out of 100), are giving NorCal vineyards a run for their money. (It has to do with our fog, which creates better growing conditions for pinot than one gets, say, in Burgundy.)

What many don’t know about the originally Canadian Pierre, is he was trained as an architect and designed homes all over Calgary, as well as here in Santa Barbara.

What Is the Legacy of Pierre Lafond?

Pierre Lafond was a quiet visionary. He was developing Santa Barbara vineyards 40 years before the movie Sideways made them “a thing.” He anchored the Funk Zone when it still reeked of actual funk.

He always responded to local needs and desires in the Montecito way, quietly and without fuss, providing free EV charging before EVs became ubiquitous.

Pierre employed generations of his own family as well as generations of others. Because he believed that families frequently had their own ethos and culture. And that if an employee was really good, they probably were not a one-off. Pierre helped and bussed tables till he was 90.

Certain people put their imprint on a place and set a tone for a whole area.

Pre-canceled Woody Allen defined New York, Federico Fellini defined postwar Rome, and the photographer Slim Aarons defined Palm Springs. With his elegant manner and curation of quality, Pierre Lafond left an indelible mark on Montecito and will be missed.

Fortunately, his many great enterprises,

ethos, and legacy will live on.

Architect, vintner, and influencer before it was cool, Pierre Lafond

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Move (Continued from 12 12)) Just a few of the national websites that promote the Montecito Hot Springs: Alltrails.com, Ultimate Hot Springs Guide, HotSpringers – “the world’s most informative blog dedicated to geothermal springs in North America,” The Hiking Project, Hike Speak, Silent Hiker, Mainstay Luxury Estates – vacation rental site, Outsideonline. com, Yelp, Trip Advisor, Findinghotsprings.com – It’s even in Secret Los Angeles!

Not everyone embraces rejiggering nature, as this review from Yelp illustrates:

What Can Be Done?

Instagram takes the prize for views and hits, though. Just search #montecito hotsprings. Influencers are all over it; including visitors who are not worried about those “park closed at dusk” signs: Instagram and social media encourage us to capture amazing ‘this is it!’ pictures of spectacular places and share them with the world. As places become more ‘collectible’ in our social media documenting of them, natural sites that were never meant to host thousands of yearly visitors get bombarded by them.

The Montecito Hot Springs is presently being Loved To Death by visitors eager to experience what they’ve seen on social media. I talked with Woody Jackson, who worked with the Land Trust of Santa Barbara County to acquire the Hot Springs. He talked about how it was a sacred Chumash healing site. Now, the Springs are being physically altered to create more pools, disrupting the natural environment.

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In many national parks and nature sites with heavy visitor traffic, rangers serve as a moderating factor. When a site is too crowded, or parking is full, they turn people away. There is no ranger at the Hot Springs Trailhead. Proposals for one, with funding provided by neighbors, have been discussed, but not implemented. This could be a viable solution. The current sign showing the park is closed at sunset is not enforced.

A ranger could enforce it.

The Montecito Trails Foundation, a solid partner, is bringing on community service interns this summer that will pick up trash and help keep eyes on the situation. The MTF maintains and restores our trails from public donations, but they have no ability to regulate use. They regularly get complaints that locals can no longer access the Hot Springs due to overcrowding.

In the absence of County resources, like a ranger, CHP, and Sheriffs have valiantly tried to keep visitors from blocking roads and driveways. The parking tickets cost $37.50. This is less than a day of parking at Venice Beach, not a big revenue generator.

Maybe it should be increased.

Shuttles partially funded by neighbors have also been proposed, from a location with parking, like Mt. Carmel, or Manning Park. But why bother waiting for a shuttle if you can wrangle parking up there?

Some self-anointed advocates push unrelentingly for unfettered access to the Hot Springs and public parking, but they ignore something extremely salient to this community: fire. The Hot Springs is in the Very High Fire Severity Zone. Great consideration and deference must be given to the Montecito Fire Protection District’s forthcoming evacuation study. The County should exercise considerable caution and fully incorporate that study before bulldozing front yards on Mountain Drive for a 60-car parking lot. This is purported as necessary to replace ‘lost’ parking on Riven Rock. That’s a specious argument, given parking on Riven Rock was ‘found’ parking at best, meaning someone thought they could squeeze their car in, no signs said otherwise, so others followed suit, to the point of rendering the road effectively one-way.

When Riven Rock was designated no parking, people just drove over the curb onto the creek shoulder – more ‘found’ parking. No parking has been ‘lost.’

Would the County also responsibly post signage so that visitors unaccustomed to California’s high wildfire risks are alerted that they might have to evacuate rapidly?

Warning of serious fire danger could deter people carrying camp stoves and firewood up the trail.

The U.S. Forest Service recently banned all camping and fires in the front country until 2024. But would all the tourists and residents up there be able to evacuate in a swiftly moving wildfire? These questions make first responders sweat, on the inside, understandably.

The California Insurance Commissioner repeatedly warns we should not push more people into the high fire areas. Mountain Drive and Riven Rock residents lost their homeowner’s insurance because insurers deem the fire risks are too high. Belief in climate change is not required to know that California wildfires in mountainous communities produce tragic stories of people who could not get out in time, perishing in their cars.

No one wants that in Montecito.

So why the rush to jam more people up there without really thinking this through?

It feels reckless. The Hot Springs is a beautiful natural site that visitors should be able to access. But it’s in a very high-fire setting that requires major caution, not blatant egging-on to over-use. Mountain view neighbors were offering additional parking spaces adjacent to the trail before the lawsuit was filed. We can find a way to balance access with protecting this natural resource from overrun and fire danger.

The Montecito Association will be discussing this issue at our Land Use Committee meeting on Tuesday, May 3 at 4 pm. You’re welcome to attend. For more information,

email info@montecitoassociation.org.

Sharon Byrne is the Executive Director of the Montecito Association

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Sacred (Continued from 18 18)) At the entrance, the two were stopped by the guards and they interrogated Chernor. They wanted to know if he was a Muslim. He and his Palestinian friend told them that his mother and father and his entire family were Muslims. One of the guards immediately produced a Quran and opened it to the very first surah, the first chapter, and asked him to read it. Chernor had learned to read the Quran in Monrovia and had virtually memorized this first chapter, titled “The Opening,” which is learned by children in their schools.

The two boys then ran to al-Aqsa as the afternoon prayer was beginning.

Nurit had a great deal to tell me about the two years that Chernor studied at GHIS. Over those two years, the staff watched Chernor grow. “It was not always easy,” Nurit told me, “and he had many challenges to overcome. Our committed staff worked with Chernor and his classmates to make sure they excelled in every possible way.” Chernor was in the very first graduating class of GHIS – Nurit underscored that he did very well.

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The Student Trustee is the liaison between the student body government and the Trustees of the College. He told me that the monthly meetings of the Trustees have provided him with an opportunity to understand district-wide issues and also the politics of the State of California. In one of my interviews with him, he was on his way to Sacramento to participate in a state-wide meeting of student government representatives.

Kindred Murillo, the Interim Superintendent and President of SBCC, shared with me her thoughts of working with Student Trustee Diallo. “He is one of the strongest Student Trustees I have worked with during my 26 years in the community college. Not only is he diplomatic and wise beyond his years, he is grateful and humble, which just engages students who work with him. His authenticity coupled with his intellect is inspiring. With leaders like Student Trustee Chernor Diallo, I know the future will be better than the one we created for them.”

But he is already looking toward this coming fall and running for Student Body President. He has begun to develop his platform. First and foremost, he wants to help develop new ways for students to succeed, by among other things, increasing access to the library and the learning center. He also wants more affordable options in the cafeteria, in the bookstore, more options for low-income students, and to increase communication between students and their academic counselors.* As I spoke with Chernor, I kept thinking about the very first sentence of Joan Didion’s The White Album, that intensely intimate collection of essays about California in the late 1960s when she was living in Hollywood and Malibu, waiting for Jim Morrison, interviewing the founders of the Black Panthers and writing on the prosecution of the Manson Family. She wrote, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Perhaps a story like Chernor’s will remind us that indeed every opportunity is a blessing. * This story was written before last week’s SBCC Associated Student Government elections – in which Chernor won the Student Government Presidency.

Richard D. Hecht is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at UCSB and this essay is one of his ongoing “Everyday Sacred” stories about the place of religion in our everyday lives

Robert’s Big Questions

Are People Basically Good or Evil? Pt. 1

by Robert Bernstein

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utin’s invasion of Ukraine is the latest situation that might lead us to think that people under the surface are evil and only a thin veneer of civilization protects us.

My college lady friend recently introduced me to the book Humankind that takes this on. Many issues are raised, and this will be the first of several articles gleaned from it.

In a nutshell, author Rutger Bregman says that our species is a self-domesticated ape – “Homo puppy.” We aim to please.

This is good when harnessed for humanitarian purposes. But this desire to be “helpful” can produce the worst horrors when we are trying to be helpful to a brutal dictator. Or to an imagined sky god.

We may have heard of oxytocin as the “love hormone.” But it really is more about tribal bonding with “people like us.”

Steven Pinker’s book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, meant to present an optimistic view that modern times are the least violent period in human history. But Bregman challenges his data. Bregman notes that there are no cave paintings depicting war. Ancient bones do not bear marks of violence. War is relatively recent.

And even in the throes of war, almost all killing is done by a minority. Even in war, most people find it impossible to kill someone they can see.

Do we need sociopath leaders for complex society? Bregman talks of an ancient structure Göbekli Tepe in what is now Turkey. Built by nomads! A “collective work event” that brought people together with no leader.

Bregman claims it is property and ownership that created inequality and conflict.

WWII made people wonder if we are all just Nazis waiting to be triggered to evil. Two infamous experiments after the war were meant to demonstrate this.

One was the Zimbardo Stanford Prison Experiment. This seemed to show that people spontaneously would take on the role of cruel guards. Bregman carefully goes through the evidence and shows it was really a scientific fraud.

The BBC re-did it as a reality TV show The Experiment in 2002. Without the devious manipulations of Zimbardo, the guards and prisoners all got along well and proposed creating a commune!

The other infamous case was the Milgram Electric Shock Experiment.

People were recruited under the false claim that they were participants in a memory experiment. Their job was to shock “subjects” who forgot things to see if they would learn better. The world was horrified to learn that most of the participants were willing to deliver lethal voltages. In fact, it was more complex. The shocks

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were not real, and half realized this. Most of the other half quit.

The claim that people do harm because they are “just following orders” is not correct. Those who were pressured to obey dropped out. Those who complied thought they were being helpful with important research.

This was true for many Nazis as well.

They often went above and beyond what was asked by their superiors. To be “helpful.”

Bregman described 150,000 pages of German POW documents discovered in 2001. There was very little anti-Jewish talk or ideology in the transcripts. It was mostly talk of loyalty, camaraderie, self-sacrifice. The German military leveraged this by keeping soldiers together to form powerful bonds. The Allies missed this and kept re-assigning soldiers to different units.

The Nazis rained Blitzkrieg terror on England from above, destroying homes to break morale. It had the opposite effect, as we see now in Ukraine. Disasters actually bring out the best in people.

We think of empathy as caring for others. But, as with oxytocin, it is really a spotlight that singles out one person as you ignore the rest. Humans can cuddle a puppy and eat a mistreated farm animal at the very same time.

Bregman told a story from WWI. The war was utterly pointless. Over the course of four years, the 500mile front line hardly moved. But the Christmas Truce of 1914 was very revealing. On Christmas Eve, each side took turns playing Christmas carols and they joined together with “Come Ye Faithful” and “Silent Night.” On Christmas Day, the Germans and British met up and shook hands. They played soccer and shared food.

The next day the war resumed, and millions were killed. The truce was considered a myth until a 1981 BBC special documented it. The truce was so popular among the soldiers that the generals had to make it illegal. But secret letters were passed between the sides warning of

attacks. “We will shoot too high.”

My next article will deal with some positive lessons of Humankind.

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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NEWS & VIEWS Letters (Continued from 10 10)) event of a serious fire, they’re not going to be readily available if the firemen are way up on the mountain.

Why can’t firemen use a smaller vehicle to get to the trailhead, allowing the big equipment to remain in the station?

Bryan Rosen

solar panels, and cancelled the mileage standard. Ever since, the Democrats have encouraged renewable energy and increased mileage standards as they fight for energy independence and against climate change. The Republican party just says drill, drill!

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On Inflation

Not Trusting the Mainstream Media’s Politics

Mr. Brutoco presents a lot of information purged from various reports by financial institutions in his article, “Inflation, the Economy, and More.”

In my opinion, he misses three important points. First, inflation was primarily caused by printing money through the many give away programs of the Biden administration. Second, some of the high cost of oil could have been prevented if the progressive Biden government had not canceled the Keystone pipeline and severely restricted oil drilling. Third, Mr. Brutoco states the stock market is “seriously over valued,” yet he does not have the background or experience to make that statement. Nevertheless, once the progressives are removed from power, the stock market will flourish again.

Frank McGinity

Approaches to Oil To read the interview with Bobbi McGinnis, one would believe we had energy independence on January 19, 2021, and it was gone by January 21, 2021. Oil is an international traded commodity, and it was disrupted by Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Our national energy policy was established in the 1970s. In 1973 there was an oil embargo from Arab producers as a reaction to the Yom Kippur War. President Carter introduced the National Energy Act, which established energy goals: to reduce the nation’s dependency on oil, increase the use of renewable energy, and encourage conservation. He put solar panels on the White House roof, established first mileage standards, and suggested we wear sweaters.

In 1981, President Regan removed the

After ignoring, misrepresenting, and essentially burying the story for a year and a half, the mainstream media has now admitted that the emails and other materials discovered on a laptop Hunter Biden left at a computer store in April, 2019 were authentic. The disclosures in those emails which surfaced in the final weeks of the Presidential election were explosive… so explosive that polls taken after the election show that Biden would have lost the election if voters were simply informed of them. They document a web of suspect international transactions trading on the Biden name while Joe Biden was Vice President. The disclosures were factually supported and confirmed by witnesses at the time, but the left-wing media circled the wagons to defend the Bidens. Generally, this took the form of simply not reporting on them or if they did, labeling them “Russian Disinformation,” even though there was no evidence whatsoever supporting such a characterization. Social media joined the all-out Biden protection program by censoring any discussion of it and cutting off links to reports of the laptop.

Contrast this to last month when the same media outlets went front page and lead story to report email messages exchanged between Mark Meadows, White House Chief of Staff under President Trump, and Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Those email exchanges were subpoenaed by the House Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots and… surprise, surprise… leaked by an “undisclosed source” to the Washington Post. All but one of the emails exchanged

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were in November 2020, in the days immediately following the election. They discuss using all available means to challenge what they believed was an election result achieved through voting irregularities. This was like raw meat for the press, eager to change the subject from the growing public dissatisfaction with the current administration. Allegations of conflict of interest came screaming from the newsrooms and Democrat politicians asking for Justice Thomas’s resignation and/or his recusal from any case involving the Trump Administration because of his wife’s expressed election concerns.

I submit that the revelations of Hunter’s laptop evidence are a far greater conflict of interest than anything found in Ginni Thomas’s emails. They present potential criminal and national security issues that need to be investigated. Don’t count on the so-called journalists in the mainstream media to be involved in any such investigation or to report any findings.

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Putin and Ukraine Many on the far-right indulge in their fantasy that if Trump were still president, Putin would not have invaded Ukraine because he would have faced “dire consequences.” The truth is that Trump had his head so far up Putin’s posterior, he could have performed an eyewitness colonoscopy.

Putin did not invade Ukraine under Trump’s watch only because it wasn’t necessary to achieve his alleged objective – to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO. Trump wanted to abandon NATO entirely because the Europeans “did not pay their dues.” (FYI – there

are no membership dues.) He did pull U.S. troops out of Germany, much to Putin’s delight.

It has been President Biden who has led a broad coalition in response to Putin’s aggression. Weapons have been provided to the courageous Ukrainian resistance and economic sanctions have made the Russian ruble virtually worthless. That’s what a real leader, with a strong commitment to democracy, does.

Some are saying President Biden should be following the example set in 1938 by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Neville Chamberlain, who “negotiated” with Hitler and allowed him to annex Czechoslovakia.

PM Chamberlain promised this would guarantee “peace with honor” and “peace for our time.” What could possibly go wrong? One might ask Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Yugoslavia, and Greece that question.

Those countries were all invaded, in succession, by Hitler’s military between 1938 and 1941. For whom was this peaceful or honorable?

At the end of WWII, there was a universal cry of “Never Again.” Yet, some now want another megalomaniac to literally call the shots.

Should we allow history to repeat itself and passively accept Putin’s atrocities as a fait accompli? Will Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, already NATO members, be the next victims of Putin’s 21st century Soviet Union fever dream?

Those who don’t want an expanded war should think about that.

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Santa Barbara by the Glass Finally, Pinot: New Releases Take Tercero Wines in New Direction

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Families in Paradise: “Are we there yet?”

by Leslie A. Westbrook

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Pinot is an unexpected direction for the explorative Tercero winery

by Gabe Saglie

“P

eople do tell me – ‘Wait, I thought you said you’d never do pinot!’” jokes winemaker Larry Schaffer. We’re chatting inside his sleek Tercero tasting room in downtown Los Olivos. And he’s pouring me his latest release: pinot noir.

Schaffer’s Tercero label has always been a bastion for imaginative, thoughtful Rhône wines. And his approach has always been intriguing – single vineyard manifestations of grenache and syrah, single bottlings of rarer grapes, like carignane and cinsault, and creative blends, like the 2019 Aberration ($33), a fruity but layered 60-40 cinsault-grenache mix that’s delicious and best enjoyed chilled.

The commitment to Rhône wines kept pinot noir, Burgundy’s darling, off Schaffer’s radar. “It wasn’t my intent to ever do pinot,” he admits. The fact it’s flooded the marketplace in recent years made it even less enticing for a man who thrives on “challenging perceptions” and who touts innate curiosity as the impetus behind crafting wine. “I don’t have answers,” he tells me as he pours, “I have questions.”

Schaffer changed his tune, though, with the 2020 vintage marking his first foray into making wine from pinot noir grapes. It is, in some ways, a love story.

“Jill, my wife, loves the variety, and she really, really, really wanted me to make [it]!” The pair dated for seven years before marrying in December, and they’re expecting a daughter in June.

Schaffer’s pinot venture was not without some trepidation. “It’s something I’d never done before, and expectations would be high,” he says. The financial risk is higher, too – pinot per ton costs a lot more than most other grapes.

The approach to how he’d make pinot, though, was familiar. It’s driven, for one, with “a passion for staying true to the vineyard,” he says.

The best wines, he believes, are the ones that showcase a vineyard’s distinctive nuances. He’s always tapped celebrated sources for his Rhône wines, like Larner Vineyard in Ballard Canyon and Thompson Vineyard in Los Alamos. For the Tercero pinots, Schaffer sourced from Kessler-Haak, a 30-acre, family-owned, organically-farmed vineyard in the celebrated Sta. Rita Hills AVA. Like with so many other wines, Schaffer crushed his pinot noir grapes the old-fashioned way – he stomped them by foot. They were also whole-cluster fermented – stems included. And he aged them for 16 months in barrels that were at least five years old, to allow the wood to enhance texture but without

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resort’s pond? Rent a surrey or a sailboat?

Try the onsite restaurants? Swim in the huge party pool or climb the tower? All of the above, we decided.

“What’s there to do, Daddy?”

The list was long and there was plenty included in the daily resort fee ($36) including ping pong, corn hole, putt putt, volleyball, basketball, football, tennis, bike rides, and even painting seashells or rocks. We could climb the 81 steps to the top of the Observation Tower or take a yoga or meditation class. For additional fees, there’s SUP yoga, Yin + Sound meditation/Chakra balancing for stressed out moms and dads, and a pampering spa to retreat to while the kids make a tie-dye t-shirt or take a skateboarding lesson! The

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ow can you — or your kids — not be happy when the GPS navigational voice instructs: “Make a left on Vacation Road.” Especially after that relentless, age-old question: “Are we there yet?” Even a high school friend of mine’s face lit up when I told him I was heading to San Diego’s Paradise Point. “I used to go there as a kid!” Gary Karrass reminisced, “It’s like Hawaii… without the weather!”

I was really looking forward to a couple of nights at this family-oriented resort on an island on Mission Bay. I also knew that this was the kind of vacation best shared with kids, so I invited my former UCSB intern/dear friend Collin Mitchell (who morphed into a book reviewer and author) and his adorable six-year-old son, Henry, to join me for a taste of Paradise Point, billed as “San Diego’s Island Paradise.” I checked in ahead of their arrival and settled into my delightful bungalow with a view of Mission Bay. The resort, originally called “Vacation Village,” was developed in 1962 by movie producer Jack Skirball with the help of architect Ted Spencer. Over 600 plant varietals, including over 1,000 palm trees and 900 birds of paradise, were imported to create the tropical, Hawaiian feel on the island’s self-contained 44 acres.

Collin and Henry arrived not long after and we discovered there would be a lot of activities to choose from. Should we go to the onsite Island Market and buy food to feed the ducks and fish in the

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Sunset on Mission Bay from a bungalow at Paradise Point Resort and Spa

Marina offers sailing, fishing, and more.

Collin and Henry ventured out for a nighttime climb of the tower while I watched the almost full moon rise over the bay. After tasty room service burgers and fries (delivered hot and with a smile) for dinner the first night, we all settled in for the next days’ activities – but not before a pajama party with sparklers on the bay to celebrate our good fortune!

Henry opted for a slumber party with lucky me! The next morning, I was grateful for my bungalow’s two rooms and two TVs: Henry watched cartoons in the living room; I watched the news from the comfort of my bed – while his dad had a well-deserved sleep-in in their adjacent bungalow just across the path, but well within view. Henry also mastered the electronic key system and bounced back and forth between our two bungalows, when not bouncing up and down on the beds.

The stylishly decorated front room had a dining table, wet bar with small fridge, microwave, sink and coffee maker, a sofa bed couch, and TV. The separate bedroom also had a huge screen TV and a cute-as-a-button bathroom with a spacious shower.

The next morning, after breakfast snacks, we wandered down to check out the onsite boat rentals and tried to sign up for a sailboat rental and lesson, but turns out 24-hour notice was required. Instead, Henry and his dad hit the miniature “putt putt” golf course. Soon after, Henry proudly reported back that he won! The score? “6,000 points to one!” he cheered.

Take note: once landed in “paradise,” it’s hard to leave. There are two restau-

rants on the property; bungalows have microwaves and decent size minifridges, so you might want to pack in treats of your own choosing and picnic supplies (there’s no glassware, utensils, or plates), especially if you are cost conscious. (For example, instant organic ramen costs $8 at the onsite market.)

We drove off property for tacos/burritos and quesadillas at the nearby Red Rooster followed by a walk along the marina to ogle the boats. Bird Rock and La Jolla are also up the road; tasty sandwiches and fab loaves can be found at Wayfarer Bread and Pastry.

As luck would have it, I had a few minutes to surf the internet one afternoon and came across my neighbor-friend-videographer Larry Nimmer’s charming and clever video of his “Nimmer Family Summer Olympics” at the resort. Larry and his wife, Tara O’Reilly, recently took their blended family on a uber vacation with activities at the forefront, with six of their adult children and 11 grandkids ranging in age from newborn to 11 years old. “Our vacation was a great way to have all ages of the family play together and share a common experience,” Larry told me.

Five pools are open from 6 am – 10 pm and yes, there’s an “adults only” pool.

Collin and Henry opted for the huge family pool and jacuzzi – in full swing at 5 pm; I met a native San Diegan friend for an early “grown-ups” dinner with views of the bay.

A super tasty three-course dinner was enjoyed thanks to the talent of the resort’s new Chef Eddie Zamora at Paradise

A sunset “mocktail” at Tidal restaurant set on Mission Bay

Chilled shrimp salad with strawberries, the first course of a prix-fixe dinner at Tidal restaurant at Paradise Point

Point’s upscale but casual restaurant, Tidal. Lured by the alluring espresso short ribs in the smoker out front and the delightful setting, real estate agent Kathleen Westwood joined me for the fine sunset prix-fixe meal ($49 per person) consisting of a delicious starter of shrimp tostadas with a punch sent out

by Chef Zamora, followed by a tasty spring chilled shrimp salad with greens and strawberries, “bread fries” with a crab dip, and entrees of sea bass and the short ribs. The sides excelled as well: roasted forest mushrooms, flavorful citrus farro with fennel pollen and lemon-scented creamy polenta — all topped off with a lemon cheesecake with strawberry coulis that was as tasty as it was pretty.

Kathleen reminisced that she used to hang out at the beach at the resort with high school friends after football games.

Later in life, she’d bring her children to feed the ducks and walk up the tower. “Now I do it with my grandkids!” she noted.

many cool neighborhoods, like Hillcrest and Little Italy as well as La Jolla.

When I checked out the next day, after a quick morning swim in one of the smaller pools on property I had all to myself, I told the front desk clerk that I felt like I was leaving Disneyland. For a brief moment in time, Paradise Point certainly felt like “the happiest place on earth” for Collin, Henry, and me.

“It was fun!” six-year-old Henry told me on a follow-up Facetime call. When I asked what his favorite part was, he quickly replied, “Being with YOU!” which not only warmed my heart but cemented a future invitation to a kid-friendly place.

His dad, Collin, was more matterof-fact: “It’s an easy spot to unpack your stuff, have fun, and just enjoy simple pleasures,” he said, adding that he appreciated the very good service at San Diego’s memorable, family oriented

island paradise.

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I spent two nights at the resort, but I think three would be perfect to allow enough time to take in some of San Diego’s great off-site offerings like Balboa Park and the San Diego Zoo, Old Town, the great music scene (I am a huge fan of the Wednesday night free jazz led by Gilbert Castellanos at Panama 66 and the Young Lions Jazz Conservatory kids, age 11-18, who will blow your mind!) and terrific restaurants, ranging from walk-up taco joints to upscale fine dining spots, located up the road in San Diego’s

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Nosh Town

Simple, Homegrown Meals Fit for a Royal Family

by Claudia Schou

“W

e don’t talk about Bruno tonight,” joked El Encanto General Manager Janis Clapoff on a recent warm and breezy evening. She was partially making reference to the Oscar award-winning animated film Encanto, but also referring to the hotel’s Executive Chef Bruno Lopez, who was taking the night off as head chef and serving as sous-chef to the evening’s guest chef, Carolyn Robb.

In the hotel’s newly installed chef ’s garden under twinkling lights, guests enjoyed an intimate farm-to-table culinary experience featuring goat cheese and ricotta soufflé sweet peppers, spring pea and crispy prosciutto salad with avocado dressing, filet of chicken, wild mushroom arancini, and salmon dressed with garden-herb gremolata served with a savory creamed celeriac with chives and wilted baby chard, lemon possets, Eton mess, and sticky toffee pudding. In between courses, the South African-born chef discussed the complexity of each dish and answered guests’ questions about perhaps one of her most important roles in the kitchen.

Robb isn’t just any chef. For 13 years, she served as a culinary master to Their Royal Highnesses, The Prince and Princess of Wales, and their young sons William and Harry, creating everything from intimate family meals to formal events at some of the most beautiful palaces the royals have called home. According to Robb, her role was to keep up with royal standards on healthy and sustainable meal making.

“Prince Charles prefers simple, contemporary, fresh ‘farm to table’ cuisine, which by definition is a healthy, seasonal diet,” Robb said.

When Robb isn’t teaching her classic-meets-contemporary culinary style, she’s writing cookbooks about her time with the royal family, including The Royal Touch: Simply Stunning Home Cooking from a Royal Chef (Abe Books, 2015) and Tea at the Palace: A Cookbook: 50 Delicious Afternoon Tea Recipes (White Lion Publishing, 2022). Her forthcoming cookbook, Christmas at the Palace (Simon & Schuster, October 2022), is an homage to the royal family and other culinary influences.

The Montecito Journal recently caught up with Chef Robb to discuss contemporary, farm-to-table-style cooking for a royal family.

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Chef Carolyn Robb

Q. British cooking has experienced a renaissance in recent decades, with the elevation of traditional dishes such as Shepherd’s Pie, Bangers and Mash, and even Fish and Chips at hip gastro pubs, and creative cuisine by a new generation of chefs at exciting and bold eateries like St. John Bread and Wine in London. Can you elaborate a bit on recent changes in Great Britain’s culinary scene?

A. Britain is a melting pot of so many wonderful ethnic cuisines and this has undoubtedly elevated restaurant food to a whole new level. In addition to this, the availability of so many fantastic ingredients allows the home cook to be more adventurous. We are now all so much more aware of the importance of the providence of the food that we eat than we were even five years ago.

An awareness of food miles, the traceability of the food that we eat, and also the sustainability of its production, has led many to shop for locally produced ingredients and eat with the seasons, which means that ultimately, we are all eating a better diet.

What was the process of menu planning and how involved was the royal family in your menu selections?

Menus were selected by family members from a menu book in which I would write suggestions for lunch and dinner each day. Menus were always inspired by, and planned, according to what was in season, and in particular what fruit and vegetables were growing in the garden at any time. When planning any menu, it is always best to start with what ingredients are locally available and are in season, as that is when they are at their best.

What were some royal favorites?

Prince Charles was never happier than

when eating freshly picked fruit, vegetables, and salad from his organic garden.

He loved a good risotto. One of Princess Diana’s favorites was minted lamb cutlets served cold with salad and a baked potato. For dessert, Princess Diana loved nothing more than a bowl of freshly prepared fruit salad made from fresh berries, sliced orange, apple, banana, grapes, pear, and some very finely shredded mint.

When William and Harry were young, sausages and mash with gravy was definitely one of their favorites. Other nursery fare they enjoyed included Shepherd’s Pie and roasted chicken.

How did you play a role (or participate) in the modernizing of royal cooking during your tenure?

As their chef I did not influence what they ate, I just worked as creatively as possible to present food that was as attractive in its presentation and delicious. Wherever we were based, be it London, Highgrove House, or other locations within the UK, we always used local butchers, fishmongers, greengrocers. Prince Charles always loved to serve his own home-grown produce to his guests, and I loved cooking with such fabulous fresh ingredients. It was a great privilege to cook for two people who were so passionate about food and were also always so generous in their appreciation of it.

“[Prince Charles] was ahead of his time in that he realized the enormous importance of organic farming methods, sustainability, traceability, and good animal husbandry.”

Spring pea and ham risotto with mint

The following are some recipes from Chef Robb’s royal menu that you can prepare and enjoy in your home.

Pea and Ham Risotto In this recipe I have introduced a very ‘English’ pairing of ingredients, peas and ham, into some risotto: one of the great cornerstones of Italian gastronomy. I love the vibrant colors and delicate flavors of this combination. There are some wonderfully evocative Italian terms for the various stages of making a risotto.

Sofrito is the sautéed garlic and onion to which the rice is added. Tostatura is the process of cooking the rice in the garlic, onion, and butter to coat each grain with a film of fat. Mantecatura is the vigorous beating in of butter and Parmesan just before serving, to give the risotto a silky richness and to make it all’onde – “flow in waves.”

Yield: Serves 4, generously Ingredients: 12 oz frozen peas (2 cups) A handful of sugar snaps 4 oz unsalted butter (1 stick) 1 onion 1 small leek 1 clove of garlic 8 oz Carnaroli risotto rice (1 cup) 1 cup dry white wine 4 1/2 cups chicken stock 2 oz freshly grated Parmesan (1/2 cup) 4 oz diced ham (3/4 cup) 4 sprigs of mint 4 tbsp crème fraîche

– Chef Carolyn Robb Prince Charles was incredibly ahead of the times with Duchy Home Farm, converting 900 acres of his Highgrove House estate into organic farming in the mid ‘80s and farm-to-doorstep initiative in the late ‘90s.

It was around the same time Alice Waters created the Chez Panisse Foundation (1996) and the Edible Schoolyard program in the U.S. What was that experience like for you as his personal chef?

[Prince Charles] was ahead of his time in that he realized the enormous importance of organic farming methods, sustainability, traceability, and good animal husbandry. I was so fortunate to have access to such wonderful, organic, homegrown fresh produce; it made menu planning a joy. The Highgrove House chapter [in my book], in particular, brings back memories of the joy of walking into the garden to pick fresh produce, rather than picking up the phone to place an order with a greengrocer.

“In some Native languages the term for plants translates to ‘those who take care of us.’” – Robin Wall Kimmerer

Directions: 1. Cook the frozen peas in boiling, salted water until tender. Do not overcook as they will lose their vibrant green color. Drain and reserve a little of the water they were cooked in.

2. Set aside 1/4 cup of the peas. Using a stick blender or liquidizer blend the remaining peas to a smooth purée, adding about 4 tablespoons of the cooking water and 30g (2 tablespoons) of butter.

Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Keep on one side.

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3 . Cook the sugar snaps lightly, so that they are still crisp, and set aside with the remaining peas, to use for garnishing the risotto.

4. Remove the tough outer layers from the leek, then chop it finely. If it is at all muddy, place it in a colander or sieve and rinse it under cold running water, drain well.

5. Peel and finely chop the onion and crush the garlic.

6. In a heavy-based, deep saucepan,

melt 3 tablespoons of butter and add the onion, leek, and garlic. Cook until it is very soft and starting to color. This is your sofrito.

7. Add the rice to the sofrito and stir well.

8. Next the tostatura stage; cook the rice gently with the buttery onions and garlic for a couple of minutes to ensure that each grain is coated in butter.

9. Add the white wine and cook rapidly. Continue stirring until the liquid has mostly evaporated.

10. Bring the stock to a simmer in a separate saucepan.

11. Add the stock to the rice ladle by ladle. Cook over a low heat, stirring constantly. Once most of the stock has been absorbed, add the next ladleful.

12. It is important to keep stirring the rice as this helps to release its starchy coating while also allowing the harder kernel to gently swell and soften, and it is this that gives a silky texture to the risotto.

13. Carnaroli rice will take 15 – 18 minutes to cook. Arborio may take a bit longer. Check the package instructions for precise timings.

14. Taste the risotto from time to time to see if the rice is tender. Traditionally it should be served with a little bit of ‘bite’ to it. You may not need to use all of the stock.

15. Add the pea purée, peas, sugar

snaps, and diced ham to the risotto.

Heat it through quickly, but do not cook for too long or the color will lose its vibrancy. The risotto should ‘flow’; it should be all’onde. If it doesn’t slip off a spoon easily then add more hot stock to it.

16. You have now reached the mantecatura stage; vigorously stir in the remaining butter and all but 2 spoons of the Parmesan, for a wonderfully creamy finish to the risotto.

17. Spoon a dollop of crème fraîche onto the risotto. Finely chop the mint and sprinkle it on top with the remaining Parmesan.

18. Serve at once.

Roasted chicken with gravy, potatoes, and garden vegetables

Quick ‘Sunday Roast’ In England, Sunday lunch at its most traditional, is a roast with all the wonderful trimmings. This is a very quick way to prepare roast chicken when you only need a small quantity or for a nursery (toddler) meal.

Yield: Serves 2 Ingredients: 2 organic chicken breasts 4 rashers of organic streaky bacon 2 oz organic butter 2 good-sized sprigs of fresh thyme 2 medium organic potatoes, peeled

and diced 4 organic mini corn, cut lengthwise 2 organic mini courgettes, sliced diagonally 1 large organic carrot, sliced and cut out with a small star shaped cutter

side of the supreme; this prevents the bacon from unraveling during cooking.

3. Spread a little butter onto each

supreme and place them on top of the thyme on a baking tray.

4. Boil the potatoes until they are still slightly firm. Drain thoroughly. Mix with 1oz butter and place in the baking tray with the chicken.

5. Roast everything together for 25-30 minutes.

6. Test the chicken to be sure it is

cooked by piercing it with a skewer. If the juices that run out are clear, then the chicken is cooked. Leave the chicken to stand for 5 minutes before carving it.

7 . While the chicken and potatoes are roasting, cook the vegetables lightly in boiling, salted water. Drain, season, and mix with a little butter.

8. To serve: Slice the chicken thinly and fan it out on a warmed plate. Place the potatoes and vegetables on the plate next to the chicken.

9. Serve with a little gravy, if required.

Claudia Schou is a high-heel enthusiast, boot camp novice, and fancy recipe collector. Loves Flannery O’Connor and Breakfast with The Beatles. Formerly at California Apparel News, Orange County Register, and L.A. Times Community News.

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The Giving List

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Library Friends: They’ll Be There for You

by Steven Libowitz

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t’s not hard to get a clear picture of the breadth of the age range served by the Montecito Library. Take a look at the events tab on the Friends of the Montecito Library website and you’ll find Italian Conversation, Knit ‘n’ Needle, Poetry Club, Spanish Conversation, Pre-School Story Time, and a New Yorker Discussion Group all within a span of a week or so.

And new or expanded programs are always being added. The library’s new weekly “Stay and Play” event, which takes place before Storytime, encourages parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors, and other caregivers to actually get down on the ground and play with their little ones, using a rotating selection of developmental toys provided by the library. Library staff also get involved in interacting with the kids, including incorporating books in a more informal way. Montecito Book Club meets regularly, while a Storywalk at nearby Lower Manning Park is also available.

The programming is tailored to the com-

munity by Kim Crail, the Branch Lead of the Montecito Library, who also writes a monthly column on library activities and more for the Montecito Journal.

So it’s easy to see how the library serves the community in very engaged ways well beyond the usual book lending, reference, and recommendation services.

What is a bit more challenging to comprehend is the complicated budget structures of how that all happens. While normally, library friends groups exist to augment basic services supplementary to their operational needs, in unincorporated Montecito the situation is different, and involves ever-changing approaches and such areas and administrative recovery fees between governmental agencies, differing budgetary priorities, and even allocation of recent revenues from marijuana growers.

Which is why the Friends have played such a big role in the library’s success for nearly half a century, as, in a rather unusual relationship, every year the organization gives the County of Santa Barbara a grant of $125,000 to ensure that the Montecito Library stays open a full five days per week.

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Over the years, the Friends have funded up to half of the Montecito Library’s normal operating budget as well as the programs for adults and kids.

But not even Patricia Saley, the President of the Friends of the Montecito Library, wants to get into the nitty gritty of the funneling of funds and dollar distribution lest she lose her listener.

“When you try to explain [the details] to people, their eyes glaze over or roll back in their head,” Saley said with a small laugh. “But it is important to understand in a general sense that this library is only open because of our generous community, because the government funding is not nearly sufficient. The people who donate to the Friends are a very important component.”

Saley said that even in our Internet, smartphone, and tablet era, libraries are still a vital resource for the community, including those who might be isolated or lack the resources to have high-speed connections or a massive home collection of books.

“It’s all about helping people learn and enrich their lives, get lost in books, and use their imaginations. The same way that open space and parks are important for people’s psyche, libraries matter because the Internet can’t meet that need.”

Keeping the library open for a full five days matters even more as we emerge from the pandemic, Saley said, because varying

hours make it hard for people to make going to the library part of their regular schedule.

“We used to be open six days a week, and now it’s down to five,” she said. “At some point you get diminishing returns. If you keep closing for a day, after a while people forget about the library altogether. The library is such a valuable resource and we’re just trying to keep it financially viable.”

Fortunately, through the Friends and its generous donors, the Montecito Library is currently financially solvent.

But Saley and the organization know the model of such a high reliance on private support isn’t sustainable in the long term.

Which is why a current mission of the nonprofit is to create an endowment for the library so that operations aren’t at the mercy of the vagaries of ever-shifting budgets and donations.

“Right now it’s all year-by-year,” Saley said. “We’re hoping that the people who donate to the Friends will be generous enough that we all know that our children and grandchildren will know there will be a Montecito Library for them forever.”

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Cathy O’Neil The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation Tue, May 3 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall / FREE / Data scientist Cathy O’Neil explores the dangers of social networking, the consequences of algorithm design, and defending human dignity in the context of predatory capitalism.

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Ted Chiang Tue, May 10 / 7:30 PM UCSB Campbell Hall / FREE / “Exhalation by Ted Chiang is a collection of short stories that will make you think, grapple with big questions, and feel more human. The best kind of science fiction.” – Barack Obama Books will be available for purchase and signing, courtesy of Chaucer’s Presented as part of UCSB Reads, sponsored by the UCSB Library and the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor with additional support from UCSB Arts & Lectures and a variety of campus and community partners

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Calendar of Events

SATURDAY, APRIL 30

by Steven Libowitz FRIDAY, APRIL 29 Pride of Chico – The Mother Hips might have been just another flash in the pan put together by a pair of students at Chico State 30 years ago were it not for American Recordings, the label founded by producer-pop visionary Rick Rubin. The relationship lasted only a couple of years, but the band took the opportunity and connections to develop their sound, which has evolved over the course of a dozen largely well-received studio albums to forge a particular path through California rock and soul, built from harmonies, a rootsy approach, close-to-the-bone songwriting and a dash of psychedelic Americana. Mother Hips’ latest, Glowing Lantern, released last December, represents something of a homecoming for co-founders Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono, who lived together in Chico for several years after getting signed before stepping up to San Francisco. Written and recorded during the heart of the pandemic, the album is meant to be “a warm safe place to be in and get out of the dark cold night,” even as it grapples with the profound anxiety of these troubling and uncertain times – continuing their legacy, as the New Yorker put it, of singing it sweet and playing it dirty. The co-founders co-produced the album themselves, re-developing a distinct sense of camaraderie, a feeling of closeness, and brotherhood that the band has ironically only come to rediscover as a result of the past year of isolation and lockdowns, cementing their newfound brotherhood after several years of solo projects. A return to a favored stomping grounds of SOhO seems only natural. Continuing the connections, opening is The Coffis Brothers, whose latest Americana album, Turn My Radio Up, was produced by Bluhm.

WHEN: 9 pm WHERE: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $19 INFO: (805) 962-7776 or sohosb.com

SATURDAY, APRIL 30-SUNDAY, MAY 1 Buffet of Ballet Over Two Days – It’s a big weekend for State Street Ballet at the Lobero Theatre this weekend, starting at 7 pm tonight with the company’s Gala Performance that also serves as a benefit fundraiser. The exciting evening of visionary works includes Appalachian Spring with choreography by Artistic Director William Soleau; the pas de deux from Executive Artistic Director Rodney Gustafson’s Romeo and Juliet; Kassandra Taylor Newberry’s (con) version featuring intricate movements intertwined with athleticism; Laurie Eisenhower’s Bubbles boasting the upbeat music of Lawrence Welk; and the virtuosic elegance of the pas de deux from Don Quixote. The event also pays tribute to SSB patrons Sara Miller McCune, Carrie Towbes, Margo Cohen-Feinberg, and Tim Mikel, and honors the legacies of longtime supporters Léni Fé Bland and Michael Towbes. Tickets cost $51 for the performance only; $106 tickets feature preferred seating and a pre-performance Champagne toast on the esplanade, while a $256 VIP ticket adds a post-performance reception… Tomorrow afternoon, State Street Ballet’s 2021-22 Professional Track Program presents its final presentation, a mixed bill featuring classical choreography by Marius Petipa, contemporary works

by Gustafson, faculty members Megan Philipp and Nicole Powell, State Street Ballet dancer Arianna Hartanov, and State Street Ballet Young Dancers crowd-favorite Autumn Eckman. Tickets for the 2 pm show are $25.

WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. INFO: (805) 963-0761 or lobero.com

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88 Keys to Success – Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov made his Santa Barbara debut with an all-Bach program anchored by The Art of Fugue back in early 2020, not long after being named Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year and winning the 2018 Grammy for Best Instrumental Solo Album. The young pianist – he just turned 31 – known for combining consummate technique with rare sensitivity and depth, ascended the crowded classical music scene, not only as a solo artist but also an in-demand champion of the concerto repertoire, and chamber and vocal collaborator, and composer. Now Trifonov is back to try his hand at a more tempestuous solo program boasting Prokofiev’s Sarcasms and Debussy’s Pour le Piano with Szymanowski’s “Sonata No. 3, op. 36,” and Brahms’ “Sonata No. 3 in F minor, op. 5,” serving as bookends.

WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus COST: $35-$50 adults, $10 students (livestream viewing option available) INFO: (805) 893-3535 or ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

Fifty Years at the Forefront – For half a century, Ballet Hispánico has been building its reputation as the leading organization combining artistic excellence with advocacy, and is now the largest Latinx cultural organization in the United States. Ballet Hispánico’s innovative dance productions celebrate and explore Latino cultures while representing transcendent choreographic achievements, elevating diverse artists and igniting cultural pride. Ballet Hispánico’s current touring program, Noche de Oro: A Celebration of 50 Years, boasts Tiburones, the West Side Story-inspired piece from award-winning choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, the narrative ballet specialist who has created works for 68 dance companies worldwide. The New York-based company will also perform Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s 18+1 and Vicente Nebrada’s Arabesque. Stay after the performance for a talk-back/Q&A session with the company.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $51-$66 INFO: (805) 899-2222/ granadasb.org or (805) 893-3535/ ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu WEDNESDAY, MAY 4 French Faves in Recital – Cellist Gautier Capuçon is a multiple award winner celebrated for his “extraordinary sophistication, dynamic daring, and supple phrasing” (The Times, U.K.). Grammy-nominated pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet – a frequent visitor to town via the Music Academy of the West, has been called “a master colorist and a great communicator, able to reduce a large concert hall to an intimate chamber of intent listeners.” Paired up, the French friends will play a program of Schumann, Brahms, Debussy, and Shostakovich at UCSB. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus COST: $45-$65 adults, $10 students (livestream viewing option available) INFO: (805) 893-3535 or ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu THIS WEEK Book ’em: Words of Wisdom at Campbell Hall Colson Whitehead claimed both a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for The Underground Railroad, his work of alternative historical fiction that was also adapted into a 2021 TV miniseries adaptation written and directed by Barry Jenkins, the double-Oscar winner for Moonlight. Whitehead’s 2020 book The Nickel Boys also won a Pulitzer, while his latest, Harlem Shuffle, completed during the COVID quarantine, just came out last fall. Hear live words from Whitehead at 7:30 pm on Thursday, April 28, at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. (Tickets: $10-35)That’s also the venue for the Sunday, May 1, illustrated “Wild Hope” presentation by photographer and filmmaker Ami Vitale, whose work has taken her to more than 100 countries and whose cover story in the October 2019 National Geographic featured her image of Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, and the heroic efforts of the local people

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SUNDAY, MAY 1 May Day, May Day! – Santa Barbara Revels’ May Day celebration – the 14th annual and the first in-person one since 2018, as 2019’s event was rained out before COVID caused cancellations the following two years – is a multi-discipline participatory event in the historic De la Guerra Place across from Paseo Nuevo Cinemas. The seasonal celebration to meet on the first day of May in mid-spring has something for all ages.

Revels’ Song Leader Erin McKibben will teach special spring songs as well as lead everyone in singing along to familiar favorites of the season. Guest instrumentalists join McKibben, who plays flute and whistle, while members of the Santa Barbara Bagpipe & Drum Corps will also add to the merry music making in anticipation of their appearance this coming December in the SB Revels production of The Christmas Revels: A Scottish Celebration of the Winter Solstice. Also, the Revels Dancers will perform “Upon a Summer’s Day,” a favorite English Country dance, and invite the audience to join in. Youngsters and parents alike can use the provided flowers to make traditional nosegays and wreaths before the afternoon culminates in the traditional maypole ritual with two circles of participants walking in opposite directions around the pole while holding colorful ribbon streamers, weaving intricate patterns as they move to the inside and then the outside of each other.

WHEN: 1 pm WHERE: 651 Paseo Nuevo COST: free INFO: (805) 364-4630 or santabarbararevels.org

to save a species. (Tickets: $15-25) Meanwhile, mathematician and data scientist Cathy O’Neil – whose work explores the realities and dangers of social networking, considers the consequences of algorithm design, and examines defending human dignity in the context of predatory capitalism – comes to Campbell Hall on Tuesday, May 3. Her bestselling books include Weapons of Math Destruction and The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation, the latter forming the basis for her UCSB talk. (Tickets: free, registration required) WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus

INFO: (805) 893-3535 or artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4 Indie Folk-country at Its Finest – It’s no slight to suggest the real draw for tonight’s concert at the Arlington Theatre isn’t the headliner.

Not that there’s anything not to love about Ray LaMontagne, the New Hampshire-born singer-songwriter in the great folk-rock vein of classics such as Van Morrison, Beck, and Nick Drake. LaMontagne’s eight albums have elevated the genre, particularly his 2010 effort, God Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise, which captured a Grammy for the Best Contemporary Folk Album. But LaMontagne has alighted a few times in town before, most memorably at the Santa Barbara Bowl around the same time. It’s the opener Sierra Ferrell who intrigues as the latest singer-songwriter to captivate the country world with her debut Rounder album, Long Time Coming, that has earned raves across the spectrum, including everything from Country Music People, to PopMatters, American Songwriter, No Depression, and even Forbes. Ferrell, who collaborated with LaMontagne on a new version of his song “I Was Born to Love You,” joins the tour fresh off a solo jaunt that included her first appearance at the Grand Ol’ Opry.

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Community Voices Drinking Water Week

by Laura Camp

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here When You Need It,” the theme of this year’s National Drinking Water Week, is apropos for Montecito Water District — currently celebrating its 100th year of reliable water service.

Drinking Water Week 2022, celebrated May 1-7, also times well with the publication of Montecito Water District’s Five-Year Strategic Plan. Developed over the past year with staff, Board, and public input, the 2022 Strategic Plan provides a general overview and historic highlights for Montecito Water District, while also detailing the District’s immediate goals and objectives.

“We’ve made tremendous headway towards drought resilience in the past six years,” says General Manager Nick Turner, “and this Strategic Plan lays the groundwork for the coming five years – and longer. We’re excited to keep building on the solid progress the District has made on the supply side of the equation.

On the demand side, responsibility rests largely with the community, and we’re committed to finding new ways to support and encourage water efficiency. It’s our hope that this Plan will both inform customers and inspire their partnership as stewards of this most precious resource.”

Water purveyors across the country are commemorating Drinking Water Week by encouraging consumers to learn more about the importance of water services and water infrastructure, and to make or renew their commitment to using water wisely. The week is intended to recognize the vital role tap water plays in daily life, the infrastructure that is required to carry it to and from homes and businesses, and the critical work that water professionals accomplish around the clock to ensure the delivery of quality tap water. In tune with this, Montecito Water District’s 2022 Strategic Plan is neatly presented in an illustrated booklet designed to help customers understand more about where their water comes from, current challenges to water supply reliability, and the solutions being explored.

“We’ve built a good track record telling the public what we are going to do and then getting it done,” says Brian Goebel, one of the five local publicly elected Directors serving on the Board. “The 50-year Water Supply Agreement that partners us with the City of Santa Barbara for Desalination and Groundwater Banking – which helps protect our substantial investment in the State Water Project, are two prime examples of MWD’s recent achievements. The projects laid out in this Plan are deemed essential for the security of our community’s water supply, and it is important

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The Montecito Water District is currently celebrating its 100th year anniversary

to take the time needed to do them right. More complicated initiatives such as water recycling involve new infrastructure, multiple agencies, and may be eligible for State and Federal funding. These types of projects don’t happen on their own or overnight – they require sustained commitment. Our goals are set, transparent, and we have every intention of finding the best solutions possible for the challenges we are facing.”

The Plan identifies four goals: Water Supply Reliability, Infrastructure Dependability, Operational Excellence, and Water Policy Inclusion, and provides specific planned projects with timelines for each. With a list including Managing Demands – also described as Building Community Partnership in Conservation, Water Recycling, and the exploration of District consolidation, all are highly relevant to the community.

“While some community members are up to speed on these issues, others may not be,” says Tobe Plough, Board President. “The District is first and foremost a source and purveyor of water, yet it is also essential that we provide accurate information about all of our activities. We hope this Plan sends the clear message that Montecito Water District is here to serve the public. We invite people to communicate directly with staff and Board members about any questions, concerns, or ideas they may have.”

The 2022 Five-Year Strategic Plan is available online at www.montecitowater. com and customers are invited to pick up a printed copy at the office at 583 San Ysidro Road during regular business hours (8 am – 12 pm and 1 – 5 pm, Monday through Friday). Shared public copies are also available at the Montecito Library. Whether online or in-hand, you can get your copy in plenty of time for Drinking Water Week, and pair the read ing with a nice tall glass of water!

Laura Camp is the Public Information Officer for the Montecito Water District

Glass (Continued from 28 28)) imparting aggressive notes of oak.

The Tercero pinot project is also a study in clones. Schaffer plucked three pinot noir clones off the Kessler-Haak vineyard – Pommard, 115, and 114 – cuttings that are genetically identical but that possess unique traits around things like color or disease resistance.

By sourcing different grape clones from the same vineyard, “you can really taste the differences that each clone brings to the glass,” says the winemaker. We sipped through them a couple of weeks ago, just two months after they’d been put in bottle.

Tercero’s 2020 Clone 115 Pinot Noir ($55) is perhaps the most classic of the bunch, a poster child for the Sta. Rita Hills region: bright red fruit, bracing acidity and a splashy mouth feel. Over time, this wine will be fleshier, more aromatic, and more elegant.

The 2020 Pommard Clone Pinot Noir ($55) showcases similar fruit and palate feel, but it’s a bit more brooding, the acidity a bit less intense. Darker berry notes prevail, along with a tea quality on the taste buds, a subtle biproduct of the stems included in the fermentation.

“Pinot geeks are most excited about this one,” Schaffer says of the 2020 Clone 114 Pinot Noir ($55). This one delivers on texture – more earth, more tannin, more chew. It exhibits an elegant, almost lacquered, mouth feel and a darker, more austere flavor profile.

The Tercero pinot project is also a study in clones. Schaffer plucked three pinot noir clones off the Kessler-Haak vineyard – Pommard, 115, and 114 – cuttings that are genetically identical but that possess unique traits around things like color or disease resistance.

Schaffer’s fourth pinot is a bottling that blends all three clones, though about 60% of it is Clone 115. The 2020 Kessler-Haak Pinot Noir ($45) has awesome structure and showcases both fruit and herbal characteristics, with graceful spice notes. This is a fantastic food wine.

Fewer than 50 cases of each clone-specific bottling were made, and the Tercero wine club has already had dibs – so get yours now! Schaffer plans on keeping his new venture going, with twice the production of 2021 vintage pinots already in barrel. Find out more at tercerowines.com.

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” – Luther Burbank

Larry Schaffer of Tercero wines

And One More Thing…

Tercero wines were a big hit at the latest meetup by WineMusicLA, the wineand-music pairing venture I’m spearheading with my musician sister that I wrote about in the MJ a few weeks ago.

The intimate concert earlier this month spotlighted Meriette Saglie performing piano pieces by French composer Erik Satie, each of which I got to pair with a different Tercero wine. The idea? That the deliberate matchups would enhance the experience and appreciation of both the music and the wine. Schaffer’s 2016 Marsanne, an aromatic and complex white wine, was a big hit. Per the winemaker’s recommendation, we served it at room temperature, not chilled. That accentuated its rich texture and tropical flavors, matching Satie’s Gnossiennes, a trio of short pieces that are both brooding and exotic, really well. I paired the 2020 Kessler-Haak Pinot with Satie’s “Je Te Veux,” a waltz that’s believed to be the inspiration for the Grammy winning “Married Life” track in Pixar’s animated film, Up. Both this wine and this music, in fact, are classically French, vivacious, and memorable. The next @ winemusic_LA event is slated for May 7 – dances for piano and violin – with

wines TBD!

Gabe Saglie has been covering the Santa Barbara wine scene for more than 15 years through columns, TV, and radio. He’s a senior editor with Travelzoo and is a leading expert on travel deals, tips, and trends.

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I Covet the Waterfront Joe Donnelly’s SoCal is a Strange and Stirring Cornucopia

by Jeff Wing

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he pantheon of male American writers is a grab bag. Terkel, Mailer, Hamill, Hemingway — these tough guys and their generally hormonal prose are almost a literary brand. Plimpton — with his willowy erudition, patrician accent, and Paris Review creds — runs with another herd.

Our Joe Donnelly is a third species, as evidenced by his new book So Cal: Dispatches from the End of the World.

Donnelly is one of those tallish guys whose vertical attenuation is not at the expense of a certain bunched muscularity. He’ll walk into a reading with his battering ram dome, deep-set brooding eyes, and a nose whose tasteful asymmetry suggests “knuckle magnet.” The guy could be a prizefighter or a stevedore. But then he flips open his most recent work and starts in. The penetrating delicacy of Donnelly’s prose illuminates the subject — even when the tenderized reader might rather a gauzier read. Donnelly’s refusal to pull a punch can give his pieces a wrenching glory. It’s really something, honestly.

Former L.A. Weekly editor, onetime foot soldier for the L.A. Times, and founder with Laurie Ochoa of Los Angeles’ storied, implosive literary supernova Slake, Donnelly is a known quantity in the Southern California literary salon whose portraiture daubs Bel-Air and the Bowery in the same palette of mild, sun-drenched nausea. In Donnelly’s hands, the Golden State’s darkling weirdness exalts. L.A. has been Donnelly’s stomping ground and muse for long enough to embrace him as one of its own — but like many Angeleno minstrels, Joe is a besotted adoptive son. You wouldn’t know it to read his many-gabled new book of nonfiction. From the tragic saga of GPShaunted lone wolf OR-7 to lithe surf legend Danny Kwock’s transfiguration into self-loathing magnate, So Cal: Dispatches from the End of the World gives us the twilit California goods.

Donnelly is not here for the sunshine.

“Like Johnny Cash, I’ve been everywhere, man — and for a long time Los Angeles had the best ace up its sleeve of any city I’d lived or spent time in over my many, many formative years. That ace being that L.A. was affordable and interesting. My on-again off-again time in New York from about ’86 to ’90 roughly coincided with the tail end of that city being either of those things.”

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go see. In my naivete, the place that inspired the songs on that first record felt magical. I mean, the songs were explicitly about that magic!”

But like many preincarnate writers, when he got out of college Donnelly had his sights set on NYC. Then came Colorado, the Bay Area, L.A., D.C., Colorado again… and then Homecoming. There was no fanfare.

“I arrived in L.A. at 31. Too old to be young and too young to know that. It is the city I chose. My adult life took root, and I grew into myself in Los Angeles and I’m grateful for that.”

The Writer

bipolarity. “In New York, the people I traveled with were interested in making money and being upwardly mobile.

In the Bay Area, where I lived in the early ‘90s, sanctimony seemed to be the cultural currency. D.C. was a company town with a pretty singular fixation.”

The West Coast’s manic lack of focus was a late discovery, and a plus. “In L.A. it was about everything — there was no unifying theme, which of course may be the unifying theme of the region’s literature. But it was exhilarating to be around cinephiles, foodies, surfers, skateboarders, hustlers, performance artists, musicians, writers, journalists, labor organizers, environmentalists — all at the same time. At the same party.

In the same backyard. Sometimes in the same person. Making sense of this place provided endless fuel for writing.”

The California Dream was on young Donnelly’s radar early on but was supplanted by daily life. “We moved to Ireland when I was a kid, so I didn’t get the steady ‘swimming pools and movies stars’ TV diet many did growing up. Still, there was always something that beckoned.” L.A. may have first imprinted on its future minstrel through the movie Repo Man, arguably a sort of punk Day of the Locust.

“I went to college in a frozen tundra in the real upstate of New York.

During senior year my housemates and I would stop whatever we were doing — especially going to class — if Repo Man came on. The movie imprinted me with a vision of some psychological and geographic terrain that needed to be experienced. My freshman year, that first Go-Go’s album (Beauty and the Beat) was constantly playing in the apartment of this older girl I used to

Donnelly the writer is … what’s that racy term for someone whose unbridled artistic passions are manifold and all-consuming, their pursuit ultimately a sort of romantic self-immolation? Oh, yeah. “Generalist.” Donnelly’s oeuvre is like a dropped milkshake, but in a good way. “I’ve really been all over the place. I started a long time ago writing about arts and culture for a small weekly paper in Vail, Colorado. I happened to make friends with the arts editor there, Trish Kieswetter, because the whole crew would come into a bar I tended after their shifts were done. One thing led to another. I’m pretty sure a review of Thelma & Louise was the first thing I had published.” By the by (as they say, or used to say), Donnelly made his way home. So Cal: Dispatches from the End of the World is aglow with the variously charmed and damned spirit of the place. A more personalized and revealing SoCal primer is hard to imagine.

Donnelly’s writing — in terms of recognition — is also a many-splendor thing. His short story “Bonus Baby”

appeared in the 2016 O. Henry Prize Stories, he was the 2014 Pen Center USA Literary Awards Finalist for Journalism, and 2013 longform.com editor’s pick for “Lone Wolf,” published by Orion Magazine, and his work in Slake earned three Los Angeles Press Club awards.

His other book of nonfiction, L.A. Man: Profiles from a Big City and a Small World, was published April 2018 by Rare Bird Books. The list goes on — but good taste and propriety preclude our heaping more praise onto the man. (Full disclosure: Donnelly’s and my paths crossed when he was editor of a shortlived, but wildly impactful investigative/ narrative journalism project in Santa Barbara called Mission and State, where I was a writer.)

“So much of what’s in this book, at least implicitly, is about people — or animals — striving to attain, express, or maintain their own agency. I think it all works together as a pretty compelling reflection of an era, and how a place works on a writer and a writer works on a place.” Donnelly pauses. “I wanted to get as far away from where I came from as possible — in almost every way. It wasn’t easy, but Los Angeles eventually provided me the space to be myself. Or at least a version I could live with.”

Jeff Wing is a journalist, raconteur, autodidact, and polysyllable enthusiast.

A long-time resident of SB, he takes great delight in chronicling the lesser known facets of this gaudy jewel by the sea.

Joe Donnelly tells of stories and oddities from the southside of the Golden State in his newest book

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Notice Inviting Bids

ORDINANCE NO. 6064 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ADOPTING A MILITARY EQUIPMENT USE POLICY FOR THE SANTA BARBARA POLICE

WESTSIDE COMMUNITY PASEOS PROJECT Bid No. 3914 1.

DEPARTMENT The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its Westside Community Paseos Project (“Project”), by or before Thursday May 12, 2022, at 3:00 p.m., through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly. The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on April 19, 2022.

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

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

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

Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

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Project Information.

ORDINANCE NO. 6064

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located in the City of Santa Barbara along Mission, Gillespie, San Pascual, Micheltorena, Castillo, Sola, Salsipuedes, Panchita, Victoria, Alta Vista, Anapamu, & Nopal Streets, and is described as follows: the Project will establish safe and efficient connections from the Westside to the Downtown area, the Eastside, and to schools and parks. Work generally includes, but is not limited to: construction of curb extensions, traffic diverters, stop islands, ADA compliant sidewalk and curb ramps, improved signage, speed humps, raised crosswalk, Class I, Class II green lane, and Class III bike routes, and tree removal and planting.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on April 12, 2022 and adopted by

2.2 Time for Final Completion. The Project must be fully completed within 150 working days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about August 8, 2022, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.

the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on April 19, 2022 by the following roll call vote: AYES:

2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is $3,450,000.

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3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A. 3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

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Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Randy Rowse

None None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on April 20, 2022.

Sarah P. Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager

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

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on April 20, 2022.

Randy Rowse Mayor

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

Published April 27, 2022 Montecito Journal

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

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

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

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Subcontractor List. Each Subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a completed Subcontractor List form with its Bid Proposal, including the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the base bid price) for each Subcontractor that will perform Work or service or fabricate or install Work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

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Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for more detailed information before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in Article 1 of the General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, including this Notice Inviting Bids.

By: ___________________________________

Date: ________________

William Hornung, CPM, General Services Manager 2) April 27, 2022 END OF NOTICE INVITING BID

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ABSENT: ABSTENTIONS:

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: http://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959 A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

Publication Dates: 1) April 20, 2022

NOES:

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” – Michael Pollan

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sofias Flowers, 1325 Tomol Dr., Carpinteria, CA, 93103. Omar C. Martinez, 1325 Tomol Dr., Carpinteria, CA, 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 25, 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. 2022-0001103. Published April 27, May 4, 11, 18, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Branding Crew, 1475 Sterling Ave, Carpinteria, CA, 93103. Erika Pruett, 1475 Sterling Ave, Carpinteria, CA, 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 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. 2022-0000940. Published April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Poe, 27 West Anapamu St. #465, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. Brittany Harris, 27 West Anapamu St. #465, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 12, 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. 2022-0000972. Published April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 2022

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Notice Inviting Bids HSIP CYCLE 9 PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT HSIPL-5007 (090) Bid No. 3999

ORDINANCE NO. 6065 AN UNCODIFIED ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING THE 2020

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Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its HSIP Cycle 9 Pedestrian Safety Improvements Project (“Project”), by or before May 18, 2022, at 3:00 pm., through its PlanetBids portal.

Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly. The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy, and facsimile bids will not be accepted. Bidders are encouraged to upload bids by 2:30 pm to Planet Bids.

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

Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

THE INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION PURSUANT TO CITY CHARTER SECTION 1301 The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on April 19,

Bids will be called out on Zoom at 4:00 pm on May 18, 2022 Join Zoom Meeting: Link: https://santabarbaracagov.zoom.us/j/82325292293?pwd=eUNYT3Zla21Sc2JxYnZaZUduaVpRZz09 Meeting ID: 823 2529 2293 Passcode: HSIP500790 2.

CENSUS ELECTORAL DISTRICT MAP AS REFERRED BY

2022.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at four intersections within the City of Santa Barbara; Bath Street at Sola Street, Bath Street at Victoria Street, Canon Perdido Street at Nopal Street, and Salinas Street at Old Coast Highway and is described as follows: Lighting and pedestrian crossing enhancements including construction of 16 ADA compliant access ramps, construction of a pedestrian refuge island, construction of concrete curb extensions, signing and striping, lighting infrastructure (including but not limited to poles, foundations, 623 feet of conduit, meter installation, pull boxes), complete and in place.

2.2 Time for Final Completion. The Project must be fully completed within 100 working days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about July/August 2022, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.

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

2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is $1,011,000 3.

(Seal)

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager

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

4.

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: http://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959 A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

5.

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

6.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

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

ORDINANCE NO. 6065 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

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

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Subcontractor List. Each Subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a completed Subcontractor List form with its Bid Proposal, including the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the base bid price) for each Subcontractor that will perform Work or service or fabricate or install Work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

10.

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on April 12, 2022 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on April 19, 2022 by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Randy Rowse

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

Caltrans Administered Project. This Project is funded in whole or in part by federal funds administered under Caltrans’ Local Assistance Procedures Manual (“LAPM”).

10.1 Federal Bidding Requirements. LAPM bidding requirements and forms are provided in Attachment A - Federal Bidding Requirements. Each bidder must comply with the requirements set forth in Attachment A, including completion and submission of required federal forms with its Bid Proposal, as further specified in Attachment A. 10.2 Title VI Non-Discrimination Assurances. The City, in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d et seq.) and applicable regulations, including 49 CFR Part 21, 28 CFR § 50.3, and any other applicable statutory or regulatory authorities identified in the Standard Title VI/Non-Discrimination Assurances, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full and fair opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award. Any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement will be subject to Appendix E of the Title VI Assurances, a copy of which is included in Attachment B - Federal Contract Requirements

11. Disadvantaged Business Enterprise: Bidders are advised that, as required by federal law, the State has established a statewide overall Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal. This Agency federal-aid contract is considered to be part of the statewide overall DBE goal. The Agency is required to report to Caltrans on DBE participation for all federal aid contracts each year so that attainment efforts may be evaluated. This agency federal aid contract has a goal of 14% DBE participation.

12. Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for more detailed information before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in Article 1 of the General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, including this Notice Inviting Bids.

13. Bidders are advised that this project is a Federal-Aid Construction project and the Contractor shall agree to all requirements, conditions, and provisions set forth in the specification book issued for bidding purposes entitled “Proposal and Contract.” Attention is directed to Appendix B of the “Proposal and Contract” specification book for federal requirements and conditions, as well as documents required to be submitted with this proposal request. This project is subject to the “Buy America” provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 as amended by Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

Pursuant to Section 1773 of the Labor Code, the general prevailing wage rates in the county in which the work is to be done have been determined by the director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. These wages are set forth in the General Prevailing Wage Rates for this Project, available at the City of Santa Barbara, General Service Manager, Purchase Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California and available from the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Internet website at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. The Federal minimum wage rates for this project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the specifications and in copies of these specifications that may be examined at the offices described above where project plans, special provisions, and bid forms may be seen. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holder of these specifications. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates. Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage requirements in the specification book entitled "Proposal and Contract." Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of the "Proposal and Contract" specification books. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates.

If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes "helper" (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage determination otherwise available for use by the Contractor and Subcontractors, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the Federal Minimum wage rate, which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question.

By: ___________________________________

Date: ________________

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on April 20, 2022.

Sarah P. Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on April 20, 2022.

Randy Rowse Mayor Published April 27, 2022 Montecito Journal

Gregory M. Corral, Purchasing Supervisor Publication Dates: 1) April 27, 2022 2) May 4, 2022 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Reed’s Restaurant Equipment Service, 524 W. Pedregosa Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. Simon Trisler, 524 W. Pedregosa Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. Mary Trisler, 524 W. Pedregosa Street, 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

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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. 20220000750. Published April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Paradise Gardening, 460 Evonshire

Ave, Santa Barbara, CA, 93111. Fernando Jimenez, 460 Evonshire Ave, Santa Barbara, CA, 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 6, 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. 2022-0000912. Published April 13, 20, 27, May 4, 2022

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

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT On Entertainment

Out of the Box Theatre returns with three performances of tick, tick...Boom! (photo by Rob Grayson)

Rubicon’s Twilight

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 revolves around the Rodney King riots with a message that is just as impactful and relevant, 20 years later (photo by Loren Haar)

by Steven Libowitz

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ubicon Theatre Company (RTC) officially kicks off its first full season since the pandemic shuttered its doors in February 2020 with a new production of Twilight: Los Angeles,1992 at 8 pm on Friday, April 29. That would be exactly 30 years and just shy of five hours since the not guilty verdicts were announced in a Simi Valley courtroom for the Los Angeles police officers who had been caught on videotape savagely beating African American motorist Rodney King a year earlier.

Fueled by years of racial injustice and economic inequality in L.A., anger over the acquittal quickly burst into furious flames, with violence spilling over into the streets for five days of rioting in the city. Scores of businesses were looted and wrecked, 50 people were killed, thousands were arrested, and property damage totaled more than $1 billion.

The riot also sparked a national conversation about racial and economic disparity and police use of force. One that continues today and can be traced in a straight line to the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests that took place two years ago.

In the aftermath of the uprising, playwright/actress Anna Deavere Smith created Twilight, her second piece of documentary or verbatim theater, fashioned from interviews with hundreds of people to get first-person insight into the actions, anxiety, and complex issues behind the struggles. Verbatim quotes from those conversations comprise the one-person play in which a single actor portrays all the roles. Smith herself performed the piece back in 1993. Three decades later, Ovation, NAACP, and Garland Awardwinning actor Chris Butler, who was appointed RTC’s associate artistic director in the summer of 2020, is set to serve as the solo star for the historic re-mounting.

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The varied voices and scope of the interviews is what sets Twilight apart, Butler said, noting that the breadth of the characters he has to play is both the work’s biggest challenge and its greatest reward.

“We’ll never be able to completely embrace someone whose experience is so different from ours or have a total understanding of where they’re coming from,” he said. “But [Smith] talked to people from all walks of life and sides of the chasm and just laid it out for us to see and hear. One actor can be the vessel for our community spending a couple hours just sitting in someone else’s experience without passing judgment.”

Twilight has Butler playing 40 different characters and delivering 150 pages of monologues, but the actor, whose experience runs from smaller parts on Broadway to leading roles with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and numerous TV series, was eager to take on the show.

“At the height of the BLM movement and the aftermath of George Floyd, I did my marching, and I gave money to bring awareness to a cultural divide that still exists in America. But someone also needed to tell this story on the 30th anniversary,” Butler explained. “I was a senior in high school in North Carolina back then.

But now I didn’t want to shy away from doing everything that I could to foster the healing work that still needs to go on.”

Butler said that nothing about Twilight feels dated because, unfortunately, the same issues still cause gaping rifts in our current society.

“If you take out the words ‘Rodney King,’ you could be talking about today.

That’s what is so troubling. This is a piece that asks us to look at us as one community… Now that it’s 30 years later, and we have a lot more information, maybe we can actually look at what happened with more clarity about the components and see ways to embrace our community as a whole. The play isn’t telling us to do anything except perhaps to be more open and

accepting of other perspectives, realizing that everybody’s on a journey.”

Twilight: Los Angeles,1992 plays at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura through May 15. Visit rubicontheatre.org or call (805) 667-2900.

OOB’s ‘Tick….’

Also emerging from the pandemic for its first live theatrical production in 30 months, Out of the Box (OOB) is reviving a three-decade-old work as well, in this case tick, tick...Boom! (TTB), originally a semi-autobiographical oneman show that Jonathan Larson created in the early 1990s before his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Rent.

Coincidentally, TTB originally had its West Coast premiere at the Rubicon Theater back in 2005 in the three-person pop-rock musical format that was devised (by Proof’s David Auburn) after Larson’s untimely death the night before Rent opened in New York.

A lot has transpired in those 17 years, including OOB’s founding as an indie company devoted to edgier musicals that might not otherwise see the stage in Santa Barbara, from Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson and Bare: the Musical to Next to Normal, Heathers, and Lizzie.

Also, of course, tick… was turned into a movie directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, In the Heights) last year that garnered Andrew Garfield an Oscar nod for Best Actor.

But OOB founder Samantha Eve believes the time is right to bring the show to town, partly because it was her exposure to the musical’s soundtrack at 17 that launched her on the path of founding Out of the Box. “I had never heard musical theater that sounded like that before, and it really sparked my love of contemporary musicals,” she recalled, adding that she listened to the cast recording again in 2020 while searching for songs for solo singers for OOB’s virtual videos during the pandemic. “It was the first time since high school and I understood the show in an entirely different way now as an adult, as a performer who has had to ask those questions about being an

“Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.” – Victor Hugo

artist that the show poses: Why am I still doing this? Is it worth juggling survival jobs just to do theater?”

Tick… also fit for OOB’s cautious return to the live stage, as the show needs only three actors – Jonathan (played by Nikko Arce), his best friend Michael (Carzie Carter), and girlfriend Susan (Eve, who also directs) – and a minimal set and props to tell the story of the aspiring composer questioning his career choices as he nears his 30th birthday. The intimacy stands in contrast to the new fleshed-out film version, and Eve believes that the timing will likely create more interest in OOB’s production.

“It’s great that everybody is aware of it now, whether or not they watched it on Netflix,” she said. “It’s great that for once we don’t have to explain what our show is about.”

Out of the Box Theatre Company presents three performances of tick, tick...

Boom! April 29-May 1 at Center Stage Theater in Paseo Nuevo. Visit centerstag etheater.org or call (805) 963-0408.

It’s the Truth: PlayFest Picks Up on ‘Lies’

PlayFest Santa Barbara, the theatrical play-nurturing endeavor co-created by former SBCC department chair R. Michael Gros, is gearing up to present a free reading of the 2021 award-winning work in partnership with the Santa Barbara Public Library. Jerry Slaff’s Lies is a dark comedy/political drama that is set in 1950 and follows Benny, a fresh out of law school public defender who is trying to win parole for a notorious German World War II radio propagandist. The work considers whether her truths are all lies, or her lies are really the truth – meaning, what happens when you can no longer tell the two apart? An obvious allegory about lying in government, Lies was also the Grand Prize winner of the 88th annual Writer’s Digest writing competition selected from more than 5,000 entries across nine genres and disciplines.

Seasoned Santa Barbara actors Leesa Beck, Brian Harwell, and E. Bonnie

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Daniil Trifonov, piano Sat, Apr 30 / 7 PM (note special time) / UCSB Campbell Hall / All Student Pricing Available!

“Without question the most astounding young pianist of our age.” The London Times Named Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year, pianist Daniil Trifonov combines consummate technique with rare sensitivity and depth. He returns following his brilliant 2020 Santa Barbara debut with a program featuring Szymanowski, Debussy, Prokofiev and Brahms.

Gautier Capuçon, cello Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Wed, May 4 / 7 PM (note special time) / UCSB Campbell Hall / All Student Pricing Available!

Recognized for his “dynamic daring and supple phrasing” (The Times, U.K.), cellist Gautier Capuçon performs one of the year’s must-see recitals alongside “master colorist” (The Seattle Times) Jean-Yves Thibaudet. The program will include Schumann, Brahms, Debussy and Shostakovich.

Pre-concert Talk by Derek Katz, UCSB Associate Professor of Musicology 6 PM / Whalen Plaza, UCSB Mosher Alumni House / Free to concert ticket holders Event Sponsor: Albert & Elaine Borchard Foundation

Amythyst Kiah Thu, May 5 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall / “Her razor-sharp guitar picking alone guarantees her a place among masters, but it’s her deep-hued voice that can change on a dime from brushed steel to melted toffee that commands attention.”

The New York Times

Performing with her band, versatile singersongwriter and deeply soulful singer Amythyst Kiah fuses her gritty alt rock influences with folk, Americana and blues.

Health & Safety protocols apply. See the A&L website for details. Events with

include an at-home viewing option.

(805) 893-3535 www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu 28 April – 5 May 2022

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Rubicon (Continued from 40 40)) Lewis will star in the 90-minute two-character play (plus narrator) that will be read at 6 pm Saturday, April 30, at the library’s Fireplace Room followed by a talkback with the playwright.

Slaff will also lead a free playwriting workshop at 10:30 am that same morning, featuring a series of individual and group writing experiments to help participants explore and deepen their playwriting skills and begin to create a short written theatrical work. No experience is necessary for the workshop in the library’s Technology Lab. Visit facebook.com/layFestSantaBarba ra for details and reservations.

Oddities in Ojai All in the Timing, David Ives’s hilarious collection of one-act comic plays, has had several performances in town, including at least twice at SBCC Theater (‘07 and ‘16), and further back in 2006 with Ensemble Theatre Company directed by founder Robert Grande-Weiss. The short pieces include one that demonstrates the theory that three monkeys typing randomly will eventually produce Hamlet; a bit where minimalist classical composer Philip Glass visits a bakery, and another a blind date-cafe encounter between strangers where a cautionary bell rings each time one of them says the wrong thing so they can rewind and try again.

Starting this weekend, five actors working out of Ojai will take on the collective 15 roles at the Ojai Art Center Theater, with performances continuing through May 15. Any chance to see Ives’ words in action up close is worth the drive. Visit ojaiact.org for more details.

Classical Corner Still pivoting due to the pandemic, the Santa Barbara Symphony is squeezing in the pair of postponed performances featuring violin superstar Anne Akiko Meyers as guest soloist beginning just a week after the ensemble offered the world premiere of Concerto for Piano Four Hands and String Orchestra by composer Richard Dünser via Brahms and Schumann. Meyers – the sister of Sansum ophthalmologist Dr. Toni Meyers, who was honored by the symphony last year with a special COVID tribute concert to local healthcare workers that featured the eye doctor performing on the Granada stage – will perform a program of Mexican and Spanish-inspired music anchored by Fandango, a violin concerto written for her by Mexican composer Arturo Márquez. The symphony will also play selections from Bizet’s Carmen Suite, Márquez’s popular “Danzón No. 2,” and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol.

Performances of the “Fandango Picante”

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NTERTAINMENT program originally slated for January are 4 pm on Sunday, May 1, and an evening concert the following Thursday, May 5.

Met Opera’s first-ever production of the original five-act French version of Verdi’s Don Carlos boasting a monumental new staging by David McVicar gets a Live in HD encore screening at 2 pm on Sunday, May 1, at Hahn Hall. Yannick NézetSéguin conducts an all-star cast featuring tenor Matthew Polenzani in the title role, with Sonya Yoncheva, Jamie Barton, Etienne Dupuis, Eric Owens, and John Relyea. Visit musicacademy.org.

Focus on film The Carsey-Wolf Center’s Pollock Theater hosts three special screenings followed by Q&A sessions this week, starting with Timbuktu, which was Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and features a series of scenes where residents’ lives are upturned by the militant occupiers. Co-writer-director Abderrahmane Sissako joins Richard Watts of University of Washington for a discussion after the Thursday, April 28 screening. Watts and Sissako, who is also writer-director of Life on Earth (1999), Waiting for Happiness (2002), and Bamako (2006) will also participate in a roundtable discussion the following morning at 10:30 am.

On Saturday afternoon, Pollock’s Script to Screen series projects the original Jurassic Park movie followed by a talk with screenwriter David Koepp, also the scribe of the sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Panic Room (2002), Spider-Man (2002), War of the Worlds (2005), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), and Inferno (2016), among others. Tuesday evening brings a showing of an episode from HBO’s Scenes from a Marriage, the English-language remake of Ingmar Bergman’s highly influential 1973 Swedish miniseries that traces a couple’s crumbling marriage over the course of a decade. The post-screening chat boasts Rick Rosen, who is a Carsey-Wolf Center advisory board member as well as the co-founder of WME Agency and the agent/representative for Hagai Levi, the writer-director of the 2021 series that stars Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain. Visit carseywolf.ucsb.edu for details and reservations for the free,

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Todd Aldrich, Marylove Thralls, and Dick and Marilyn Mazess (photo by Alma Rose Middleton)

100 Woodstock-garbed guests raising around $50,000. Co-chairs Margo Callis and Debra Stewart gushed: “It’s so wonderful to be back. Music pulls everyone’s soul like nothing else!”

Veteran music director JoAnne Wasserman, with David Potter at piano, directed a groovy concert tiedye with the singers, many in go-go boots and Ban the Bomb memorabilia, singing “Love, Love, Love,” a medley of Beatles songs arranged by Stephen Dombek with Will Breman, who performed as a semifinalist on season 17 of NBC’s The Voice, as a soloist.

The talented vocalists, including Naomi Merer, James Kirkland, Matt Latta, Suzannah Ruth, and Steve Thomson also threw in “Tonight” from the Leonard Bernstein musical West Side Story for good measure.

Auctioneer Jim Robbins put his gavel talents to good effect when he sold off items including a Monterey golf experience, a getaway to Napa Valley, and the chance to Take the Baton, conducting the chorus in Handel’s Messiah at the Lobero in December.

Among the musical mavens noshing on fare from Via Maestra 42 and dancing the night away to the delightfully named Captain Cardiac and the Coronaries, were Todd Aldrich, John and Hazel Blankenship, Barbara Burger, Marylove Thralls, Robert and Kay Chambers, Brooks and Kate Firestone, Fred and Nancy Golden, Dick and Marilyn Mazess, Sandy Knox-Johnston, Scott Reed, and Jonathan Bishop.

Clearly their get up and go had not got up and gone...

Clapping to the Sound of Four Hands

It was certainly a hands-on performance when Berlin-based piano twosome Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg sharing the keyboard performed the world premiere of 62-year-old Austrian Richard Dunser’s composition derived from the work of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms with the Santa Barbara Symphony for Romance in a New Key at the Granada. Dunser dedicated his composition to the Israeli keyboard duo and the symphony’s veteran maestro Nir Kabaretti.

Accompanying the four hands work “Interpretation of Schumann’s ‘Piano Quartet in E flat major,’” the orchestra performed Mendelssohn’s “Scottish Symphony No.3 in A minor,” another classic of the romantic repertoire. An enchanting afternoon....

Fun Over Yonder Ridge Cowboy hats proliferated when Riviera Ridge School hosted a Westernthemed fundraiser with 200 guests raising a hefty $300,000 for school activities and faculty.

The boffo Home on the Ridge! bash, co-chaired by Tina Wood and Andrea McFarling, kicked off with a champagne-fueled VIP reception at the home of head of school Christina Broderick,

Steven Libowitz has covered a plethora of topics for the Journal since 1997, and now leads our extensive arts and entertainment coverage

Guests at the Riviera Ridge bash (photo by Priscilla) “To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.” – Alfred Austin

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DeVine Direction at Ensemble

complete with mouthwatering canapés from Bristol Farms.

Partygoers then joined other guests at the school campus, just a tiara’s toss down the road, for dinner catered by Nu Cuisine and entertainment provided by the popular Doublewide Kings.

Ubiquitous Andrew Firestone, whose children Brooks and Anja attend the school – which changed its name from Marymount nine months ago – emceed the fun fest.

Oh what a beautiful evening...

On the Market Philanthropic billionaire Sue Gross, who bought a Los Angeles contemporary home from Montecito TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres four years ago for $35 million, has re-listed the 0.72acre estate, which was originally put on the market for $38 million. The 1966built four-bedroom, six-bath house near Coldwater Canyon, is now up for grabs for $32 million. Gross’ worth is $1.6 billion, according to Forbes.

Isabel’s Bella Tune

It was an evening of decidedly high note when Lebanese-born soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian performed in a Glorious and Free concert at the Lobero, part of CAMA’s – the Community Arts Music Association – Masterseries.

The performance of Romani-inspired songs and operetta arias featured works

by Dvorak, Brahms, Lehar, Salman, and Yvain sung effortlessly by the 1998 Music Academy of the West alumnae, where she was the first winner of the Marilyn Horne Foundation vocal competition.

Bayrakdarian, 48, who has performed around the globe in London, Paris, Milan, Vienna, Florence, and Salzburg, was featured vocalist on the Grammywinning soundtrack for Lord of the Rings: The Twin Towers and teaches at UCSB where she serves as Professor of Voice.

She was accompanied by Canadian chamber musicians Mark Fewer, violin, and Jamie Parker, piano.

Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason impress (photo by David Bazemore)

Siblings Play and Impress

As British cellist Sheku KannehMason had performed at their royal wedding at historic St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, in 2018 and watched by two billion people globally, it was hoped that Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle might attend his entertaining concert with his pianist sister, Isata, at UCSB’s Campbell Hall, part of the popular Arts & Lectures program. But the tony twosome were a no-show given they were attending the Invictus Games for disabled veterans in The Hague in the Netherlands.

But they certainly missed a musical treat as BBC Proms veteran Sheku, 23, and Leonard Bernstein Award winner Isata, 25, both students at London’s Royal Academy of Music, performed works by Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Karen Khachaturian, and Dmitri Shostakovich. Sheku, who plays a 1700 Matteo Goffriller cello, was appointed an MBE – Member of the British Empire – in the New Year’s Honors List two years ago. A dynamic duo, indeed...

Brooklyn Bridge for Sale: Contact Richard

Despite erroneous stories in the U.K. about the Sussexi planning to move from their $14 million Riven Rock estate, Prince Harry says he feels very much at peace in our rarefied enclave after nearly two years here. Harry, 37, speaking with Hoda Kotb on NBC’s Today show, said he had been welcomed “with open arms” by the “great community” of Montecito.

Needless to say, after the “moving” story appeared in London I was deluged with phone calls. My response? “Can I also sell you the Brooklyn Bridge!”

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Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian delights (photo by Zach Mendez)

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Summerland racketeer Maria Sharapova is expecting her first child with British businessman fiancé Alexander Gilkes. The retired tennis champion, who bought her $8.6 million five-acre ranch property in October 2020, made the announcement on her 35th birthday in a post shared with her 4.2 million followers.

“Precious beginnings!!!,” she declared.

“Eating birthday cake for two has always been my specialty.” Sharapova began dating Gilkes, 42, in 2018 and they made their red carpet debut at New York’s 2019 Met Gala. He proposed to the five-time Grand Slam champion in December 2020, presenting her with a dazzling $400,000 diamond engagement ring.

Bon Voyage!

Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow is at sea! The Montecito actress’ lifestyle brand goop has partnered with Celebrity Cruises for a nine-day $5,000 sail around the Mediterranean, hitting the French and Italian rivieras, departing September 24. The all-around wellness cruise, including workshops and fitness sessions, is on board the one-year-old, 1,073-foot, 21-deck Celebrity Beyond. Paltrow, 49, serves as Celebrity’s well-being advisor, curating exclusive holistic wellness programs and products for passengers.

Saint Kirst My congratulations to my friend and Journal colleague Lynn Kirst who has achieved sainthood! Our illustrious organ’s bridle correspondent has been selected to portray Saint Barbara in this year’s Old Spanish Days fiesta by the 121-year-old Reina Del Mar No.126 of Native Daughters of the Golden West.

In a tradition that dates back to 1926, the announcement of Lynn’s “beatification” coincided with the commemoration of the founding of the Santa Barbara Presidio 240 years ago in 1782.

A fourth-generation Californian, the Montecito resident attended Bishop Garcia Diego High School and UCSB, earning a degree in the History of Art. She also spent a semester in Madrid, Spain, where she studied art history at the Prado Museum.

Lynn is a former member of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation board of directors, the Community Arts Music Association, and the executive committee of the Sierra Club’s Santa Barbara group. For fiesta events, Lynn will be dressed in Saint Barbara’s traditional white gown, scarlet cape, and will wear a golden crown. Most impressive...

Ensemble Theatre Company has a new head honcho. Following a national search, the New Vic-based organization has appointed Scott DeVine, who brings 20 years of theater management experience to the role, as its managing director.

“Scott has skillfully managed complex artistic organizations and been responsible for ensuring theaters he has served have maintained a sound financial base, especially in difficult economic times,” says Simon Williams, ETC’s board president.

“Here at ETC we already have a solid base within the community and look forward to strengthening that base and sustaining our position as the leading professional theater between Los Angeles and the Bay Area.”

DeVine was most recently with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley for more than a decade as general manager, and also spent two years as general manager of the Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto. He also held positions at the Brooklyn Arts Council and the Akron Symphony Orchestra.

Sightings Oscar winner Ben Affleck at CVS on CVR... Actor Taylor Lautner checking out the Rosewood Miramar... Former Charlie’s Angel Jaclyn Smith shopping at Pierre Lafond...

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Your Westmont

Westmont nursing’s inaugural cohort (photo by Brad Elliott)

Nursing Students Learn the ABCs of Compassionate Care

by Scott Craig

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he inaugural cohort of students has nearly completed their first semester of Westmont’s 16-month Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) program. The intimate class of eight students has been learning on state-of-the-art equipment through a curriculum immersed in the Christian liberal arts. They’re scheduled to graduate in May 2023.

The ABSN allows someone with a baccalaureate degree to complete the intense education and clinical training to become a registered nurse within 16 months. Nursing students must meet required prerequisites in religious studies, world history and lifespan development in psychology.

The college, in partnership with Cottage Health, have developed robust and generous scholarships to attract exceptionally qualified and diverse students, with a pathway to career opportunities upon completion of the program.

In 2021, the college renovated the first two floors of Westmont Downtown, 26 West Anapamu Street, to house the nursing program.

The small class has offered countless benefits to the students and faculty.

“The cohesiveness among students, faculty, and staff has been a blessing,” says Carol Velas, founding director of the nursing program who has served as a registered nurse for 35 years. “It’s nice to get to know each student on a deeper level than we could if the group were larger. As our enrollment grows, we hope to stay connected to the students on this deeper level.”

“I love the fact that we’re a small cohort and such a diverse group,” says nursing student Trisha Beaudin. “I truly feel we’re a team working together to navigate through this accelerated program. We’re learning a tremendous amount of information, and the 16 months are flying by.”

With a focus on compassionate care, the unique liberal arts program blends classes such as Health Assessment, Pathophysiology, and Fundamentals

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of Nursing with Understanding My Neighbor: Society, Culture, and Health with Blake Kent, professor of sociology, and Nursing and Human Flourishing with Jim Taylor, professor of philosophy.

“Kent provides a broad view of sociological theory applied to caring for diverse populations, while Taylor offers the philosophical perspectives and the conception of nursing as a call to care for vulnerable human beings created in God’s image who experience the pain and suffering that results from living in a fallen world,” Velas says.

The students are immersing themselves in the community, working at retirement centers, and volunteering for underserved populations. In the first month, Velas and the students joined Santa Barbara’s mayor to provide socks and information to people experiencing homelessness in and around the Westmont Downtown building.

“Students are caring for patients at Samarkand, making a difference in their patients’ lives by simple caring, shaving a male patient, or preparing a foot bath for another,” Velas says.

Other full-time faculty include Lesley Gardia, who teaches Health Assessment and Fundamentals; Annamarie Rivas, assistant program director who teaches the clinical lab for Health Assessment and will lead varying medical/surgical/geriatric courses throughout the program; and Dianthe Hoffman, who teaches pediatrics and nursing research. Becky Love is the skills and simulation coordinator.

The program, which the California Board of Registered Nursing approved in November 2021, is applying for accreditation by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), essential for students interested in continuing their education at the master’s and doctoral levels.

“This program is an amazing addition for Westmont and a huge benefit for our community by educating and training more nurses,” says Beaudin, who graduated from Westmont in the 1980s and is thankful for the opportunity to achieve a lifetime goal of becoming a nurse.

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther

Westmont is now accepting applications for the fall semester that begins August 29.

Ukraine War Hits Close to Home The war in Ukraine is leveling cities and devastating lives, including friends and family of the Westmont community.

Igor Rozhko, Westmont’s network manager since 2005, has shared the desperate need from his sister-in-law, Vera, in Kyiv, where she and her husband are missionaries with Ukraine Christian Radio and Video and where they attend the large Kiev Baptist Church. They’ve been besieged since February 23, but with their place of ministry bombed they left the metro bomb shelter in order to care for the more than 150 orphans taking shelter in the church basement. This has become a transition center for evacuees.

Women and children continue to come while others are evacuated to the western parts of Ukraine, then on to Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania.

The Rozhko family has organized fundraising for urgent needs, including food, medical supplies, and gas. They have raised more than $30,000 to date and have sent the first transfer of funds to purchase these supplies.

If you wish to help, there is a GoFundMe page (gofund.me/ac805073) you can use to give and share with others. It details the situation and even the names of some of those helped by your support. Simona Evna, Igor’s daughter, oversees the fundraising from here in the U.S. and will provide ongoing updates to all donors.

Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

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Walk Montecito Campaign Co-chair Michael Smith and Bucket Brigade Co-founder Abe Powell

More flappers: Kait Hamilton, Mary Kathryn Marr, and Myna Grande

ly. The Montecito Neighborhood Trail Network would allow pedestrians to feel safe to bike or walk to school, parks, beaches, and businesses. The movers and shakers are CEO and co-founder Abe Powell and campaign chairs Geoffrey Slaff and Michael Smith.

Lots of people want to live in this “semi-rural community,” but it is one of the least pedestrian friendly areas in the county. People are forced to walk in the street for lack of sidewalks. The Bucket Brigade proposes 10 miles of trails: ADA-friendly decomposed granite pathways along main thoroughfares; informal compacted shale trails along side roads; and nature trails through open spaces and parks.

Walk Montecito is a three-year campaign. The Bucket Brigade have already completed two miles of new trails. They want to build another six and half miles over the three next years. The proposed trail network budget is $2.5 million and includes maintenance for generations to come. The San Ysidro Road Path cost over $900,000 per mile and took four years to build with no maintenance included. Walk Montecito’s trails will cost $370,000 per mile including a long-term Trail Maintenance Fund. The

total is $2,504,000 and left to raise is $1,360,286.

If you would like to help in dollars or manpower, call Lisa at 805-568-9700 or email lisa@sbbucketbricade.org for information.

Mad Hatter Luncheon It’s been three long years since Transition House Auxiliary has been able to have their Mad Hatter Luncheon.

This year the theme was “Roaring ‘20s Revisited,” and indeed it was. The Rosewood Miramar ballroom was filled with fascinators, fringe, and feathers.

Carolyn Sweet took home the most beautiful chapeau, Scott Seltzer went away with most humorous, and most creative was Aaron Coon. Cate School jazz band kept the mood alive.

Transition House Executive Director Kathleen Baushke told us just what they do. “The funds you are helping to raise will provide vital program services to approximately 200 homeless children who reside in our shelter each year.” They offer an array of children’s programs to help break the cycle of generational poverty and bring hope for the future.

During their stay at Transition House, infants and toddlers receive quality licensed infant care, while school-age children receive tutoring, homework help, and summer camp experience. They par-

ticipate four evenings a week in a specially designed evening enrichment program.

They can safely discuss the difficulties related to homelessness and talk with staff about career and education goals.

Transition House strives to get parents back on their feet — into new or better jobs and back into housing. This year there was a donor who matched all the money donated up to $50,000, and they did!

Jamie Collins says, “Our mission at Girls Inc. is to ignite girls’ potential so they can break through barriers, reach for the stars, and accomplish their goals.”

The lady who leads the impressive group of Auxiliary members is President Lorraine West and aided by Vice President Darlene Amundsen, Treasurer Missy Sheldon, Secretary Diane White, Membership Chairman Pita Khorsandi, and Publicity Chairman Jean Keely.

The luncheon chairman was Carolyn Creasey, invitations Diane White, res-

ervations Missy Sheldon, decorations Wendy Clapp and Mimi Veyna, sponsors and ads Jane Macedo de Veer, and silent auction Judy Cresap, Nancy Kozak, and Lana Marmé. Andrew Firestone was back for the eighth time to lead the auction, commenting, “I haven’t worn a tie for three years.”

Dana Newquist was offering up a ride on his fire truck and lunch for 10 folks large and small. Besides the silent auction there was a live one. Transition House also needs new volunteer dinner provider groups to purchase, cook, and plate dinner, and to make sack lunches one night per month for families living in their shelter. Contact Claire Frandsen at 805966-9668 x129. For other information,

visit transitionhouse.com.

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Transition House Auxiliary President Lorraine West and Event Chair Carolyn Creasey

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Mini Meta

Last Week’s Solution:

By Pete Muller & Andrew White For each of the first five mini crosswords, one of the entries also serves as part of a five-word meta clue. The answer to the meta is a word or phrase (five letters or longer) hidden within the sixth mini crossword. The hidden meta answer starts in one of the squares and snakes through the grid vertically and horizontally from there (no diagonals!) without revisiting any squares.

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