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Writing Worlds – Resh Grewal found new worlds in writing, P.16 Painting Practice – Portico Gallery offers weekly painting classes with a brush of fun for all skill levels, P.21 More in ‘Montecito’ – Hollis is pulled deeper into Cyrus’ world in the next chapters, P.23 Sheep Scramble – A visit to the Arctic leads to an encounter with a flock of Dall sheep, P.41
Persons of the Year Congratulations to Ginger Salazar and Katina Zaninovich for being named SB Foundation’s 79th Persons of the Year, page 11 Farewell Seen Lynda Millner celebrates Fiesta Finale and more in her final column for the Journal, page 14
CLASH OF THE PARKLETS THE PARKLETS HELPED RESTAURANTS SURVIVE THE PANDEMIC, BUT SOME RETAILERS HAVE HAD ENOUGH. SHOULD THEY STAY? SHOULD THEY GO? MERCHANTS, RESTAURANTS, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS HASH IT OUT IN RECENT MEETING. (STORY STARTS ON PAGE 5, SEE WHAT THE NEIGHBORS ARE SAYING ON PAGE 10)
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P.16 Dear Montecito – Resh Grewal writes in about their history with writing and becoming a featured character
P.12 Montecito Miscellany – Local Motel 6 sets record, the Compassionate Care luncheon, a maritime birthday bash, and more P.14 Seen Around Town – La Merienda, the Courthouse Legacy Foundation, Fiesta finale, and a farewell from Lynda
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P.11 Local News – 79th Persons of the Year named, remains identified as not belonging to Jack Cantin, and a summary of the bills going through the California legislature
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P.10 Letters to the Editor – The community weighs in on the parklets on CVR, an opinion on energy, and thoughts on national news Tide Guide
Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco –Don’t Call This Court “Conservative”: “There’s a bad moon on the rise…” The Optimist Daily – Clean energy pledge in Chicago and how many human lives can be saved with climate action
P.21 Art for All – Portico Gallery hosts weekly painting classes that are open for all skill levels
P.5 Village Beat – The parklets are up for discussion, MUS begins its upgrades, fixing water leaks, plus changes in cannabis regulations
P.23 Montecito Reads – Another dinner at the Wimbys’ puts Hollis in a new position in the next chapters of Montecito by Michael Cox In Passing – The life of Richard Ray Easbey is remembered P.24 The Giving List – The Santa Barbara County Food Action Network connects organizations and resources to form better food systems P.26 Brilliant Thoughts – Take a seat and read about the concept of chairs throughout cultures and time P.28 Your Westmont – The observatory hosts an interstellar viewing and Kim Denu takes over as provost P.30 The Way It Was – The life of John William Chard and his efforts to bring adobe architecture into the mainstream
P.41 Far Flung Travel – A limestone scramble in the Arctic finds Dall sheep and some rambunctious squirrels
The parklets were an emergency mea sure for restaurants during Covid but their future remains to be seen
Montecito JOURNAL 518 – 25 August 2022 LICENSE 611341 DESIGN BY CHRIS DENTZEL ARCHITECT BUILD WITH US | (805) 966-6401 | GIFFIN ANDCRANE.COM Building Pea ce of Mind. 3,500 PROJECTS • 700 CLIENTS • 35 YEARS • ONE BUILDER by Kelly Mahan Herrick L ast Friday morning, a group of 30 business owners, property own ers, employees, and restaurant patrons gathered at the conference room of Montecito Inn to discuss the fate of parklets on Coast Village Road. A recent letter sent to the Santa Barbara City Council signed by over 25 Coast Village Road business and property own ers sparked the meeting, giving all stake holders an opportunity to share feedback about the parklets. Back in February, the City Council adopted an ordinance that provided an additional 22 months, until December 31, 2023, for businesses within city limits – including on Coast Village Road – to operate expanded outdoor business facilities and parklets. The original Emergency Economic Recovery Ordinance was adopted in May 2020 in response to the emerging pandemic, allowing for restaurants to add outdoor seating without licensing requirements, as a tool to allow businesses to survive when they weren’t able to open indoors. That ordinance was then extended through March 8, 2022, allowing the parklets and outdoor dining through out city limits to remain, despite the official “reopening” of California on June 15, According2021.to staff, as well as Downtown Manager Brian Bosse, who led the Coast Village Road meeting last week, the allowance for businesses to expand temporarily outdoors was a critical response to keep those business es operational during the COVID-19 pandemic. The extension to continue to allow businesses to operate expanded outdoor facilities was to help ensure their continued success. More than 200 businesses in Santa Barbara and Montecito have benefited from expand ing the business areas outdoors. But many business and property owners on Coast Village Road argue that the street, which has been lumped in with downtown Santa Barbara regarding parklet guidelines, should be considered separately, given the unique traffic and parking challenges in the Lower Village, as well as impending construction related to the roundabout at Olive Mill Road and the Highway 101 expansion, the former of which is scheduled to begin in November. “The conditions that created the parklets’ temporary existence, namely, indoor dining restrictions, haven’t been present since June 15, 2021 and thus are no longer required,” the letter to City Council reads. “Businesses on Coast Village Road and Coast Village Circle do not have the benefit of public park ing structures to support themselves as businesses downtown do, resulting in a pre-pandemic parking shortage. Businesses count on public street park ing to support them, including restau rants that do not have parklets. This is why removing 20% of the available pub lic street parking spaces on Coast Village Road, to build a handful of ‘temporary’ outdoor parklets, was never sustainable for the majority of businesses in the area, and has exacerbated the preexist ing parking shortage, and compromises publicRepresentativessafety.” from Tre Lune, Lucky’s, Bree’osh, Folded Hills, and Jim and Jason Copus , owners of Coast & Olive, told City reps at the meeting that the parklets have been an improvement to the community, giving residents and locals the oppor tunity to dine outside while COVID fears continue. “People are not ready to eat inside,” Jim Copus said. “The pandemic hasn’t gone away,” added Leslie Garofalo , GM of Tre Lune. Leonard Schwartz , GM of Lucky’s, told the group that more than half of their clientele will not eat inside, and said that outdoor seating brings more people to Coast Village Road, which helps all businesses. Jason Copus sug gested that the City increase parking Village Beat Parklet Discussion Village Beat Page 64
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Access to park ing is one of the main issues up, howev er concerns enforcement to help battle the parking problem along the road. Retailers and local business owners including Kimberly Hayes of Maison K, Kevin Frank of K.Frank, Paul Cashman of State Farm, and Brian Brunello of the Liquor & Wine Grotto agreed that the addition of parklets was necessary and beneficial at the height of the pandemic, but that their contin ued existence has exacerbated a larger parking issue on the road, which has a negative impact on their businesses. “At this point, if we as a team could create more legitimate outdoor dining, then everyone would be happy. We support the restaurants and we want them to flourish, and we want the same for ourselves. But it doesn’t feel equitable at this point,” said Hayes. “People are shopping and they need places to park. I think it’s time we all create a solution that is long term for our community and helps us all,” she added. “The parking is a public space that has been privatized,” added Frank. “Parking is a problem, and it is a prob lem that we need to face. To lose that much parking, it is a burden on us. We unfortunately do have to move forward from the Brunelloparklets.”pointed out that the par klets have added 253 restaurant seats to Coast Village, and according to the City’s municipal code, which requires one parking space per three restau rant seats, 84 additional parking spaces would be required to support the addi tional seating. “Rather than adding 84 parking spaces, parklets have subtract ed 28 parking spaces, resulting in a net deficit of 112 parking spaces. To put these numbers in perspective, there are only a total of 117 parking spaces available on Coast Village Road today,” heSeveralsaid. Coast Village property own ers were also in attendance, including Jeff Harding , Trey Pinner , and Judy Foreman . “I think the City did the right thing during the pandemic, but the retailers have suffered as well. My clients have suffered through the fires, the flood, and the pandemic. And now they are suffering through the parklets,” Harding said. “My call and my tenants call, is that we need our parking back, and to do that we need to get rid of the parklets. They are not aesthetically pleasing; build ings are obscured, and they block the view that makes it appealing to shop pers and restaurant patrons,” he said. Pinner agreed, and said that everyone wants the restaurants to be successful, but it needs to be on private property instead of in the public right-of-way. Foreman voiced concern over parking and upcoming construction, saying that the traffic issues on Coast Village are soon to be exacerbated. One member of the audience said she frequents Coast Village Road often, and has never had a problem parking. She also said the parklets have allowed her and her husband to feel safer eating out during the pandemic. Mayor Randy Rowse spoke on behalf of the City Council; Coast Village’s City Council rep, Kristen Sneddon , was notably absent at the meeting. Rowse said that restaurants operating parklets need to be aware and prepared that laws and codes that have been bent in order to support the parklets and outdoor dining, are going to come back at some point. Those include health department and building code standards. Public Works Director Cliff Maurer added that ADA rules are non-negotiable, so making the parklets smaller or fitting seating on sidewalks in order to allow for some more outdoor seating is not possible. He also made mention that no one is entitled to the parklets, and that it is public right-of-way that is beingCityused.staff took notes at the meeting, and has gathered additional data via a public survey. Bosse said that staff will summarize the general feeling of the majority of the community regard ing the parklets, and forward it on to the Public Works Director and City Administrator, who has authority on how the Emergency Economic Recovery Ordinance is put into action. See more community input on the parklet discussion on page 10.
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dining has made our city feel alive again in many more ways than one. It is my belief that this is a GREAT gift that COVID-19 has brought not only CVR, but also other parts of Santa Barbara County like State Street.
I saw a letter by Jeffrey Harding about CVR and removing the par klets. He just wants it to go back to the way it was – this is a mistake in my opinion. I am from Germany originally and know of the commercial value of pedes trian-only areas. Check out some imag es of this small city (about the size of Montecito) called Bad Toelz (german sights.com/bad-toelz/) and especially the “Markstrasse” which is the main road through the old town. When I was a child in the ‘60-‘70s it was still open to car traffic. It has been converted to a pedestrian-only area a long time ago and is one of the main attractions for tourists! Parking is in lots at the edge of old town and people have to walk to any of the shops and restaurants in the oldMontecitotown. has an opportunity to do this also! There is lots of parking down behind the buildings towards 101. I would propose Montecito redirect traf fic from CVR down to the parking lots and close CVR all together. Another option might be to make CVR one way from Olive Mill westward and only allow parking on the north side since parking is more restricted there. Then have traffic routed one way towards the parking lots starting at the gas station by the stop sign on the west end of CVR. This would free up room along CVR to create dedicated outdoor din ing areas instead of the parklets. It would also allow a wide walkway to be designed that weaves around and through the restaurant patios to allow access to stores. The Main Street in Bad Toelz just has cobblestones and two fountains plus flower planters in the summer, which could be nicer but makes it easy to use. Delivery trucks can still get in during dedicated times. It also has farmers and other markets regularly. I think that if CVR would be redesigned so that people were forced to park behind the buildings, they would get used to it and it would make the whole shopping and restaurant experience along CVR attractive for locals and visitors alike. Eberhard Brunner CVR Parklets I have been in business on Coast Village Road for nine years and it is my belief that parking has always been an issue. If some businesses want to com plain it should be to us, at 1236 CVR, and those at 1235, 1236, 1226, and 1230OurCVR.lease at 1236 CVR states that we have reserved parking spaces for patrons of each business in our building. Unfortunately, these spaces are never available to clients of our businesses as everybody parks in the 1246 designated lot to go shop on CVR or to attend the Farmers Market on Friday. Retail is down across the country and in our backyard for many reasons. The 2020 lockdown caused businesses to close their brick-and-mortar doors thus pushing and training people to shift to shopping online. This is one of the many effects the pandemic has had on businesses, however not one that can be solved by adding parking to the street when in reality, some CVR retailers should question themselves about their offerings to our commu nity and tourists passing through. The Montecito demographics have changed with migration to our coastal town that occurred during the pandemic. A new wave arrived in Montecito during the pandemic, I’m not sure our retail offer ings have changed to match the needs of our new and growing community! I hear many people, clients, and tourists comment: “Where do you shop around here? There is nothing!”
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As one of the few business owners whose business is actually being affect ed by the lack of parklets on CVR, I STILL BELIEVE that the parklets should remain as the good they bring to CVR outweigh the bad. Parking has, and will always be an issue on this road, removing the parklets will not solveThethis.fact is, the parklets are bringing a lot of good exposure to all businesses on CVR and it will be sad to see this goOutdooraway.
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There is primary reason to take to take out the parklets: One group of merchants (the restaurants) should not be able to do more business on the backs of all the other merchants and professional offices on Coast Village Road! The parklets served an emergency pur pose that is now gone and they should be gone as well! From a health and environmental standpoint, the 20% reduction in avail able parking spaces also has hundreds of cars prowling for a parking space each day, spewing out poison from their exhaust. Bad for the people eating in the parklets, a medical fact! Warmest best, Ernie Salomon Time to Learn a Lesson It seems as if Mr. Rinaldo Brutoco stubbornly ignores the lessons of the Ukraine/Russia war while he deni
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The parklets should stay, as they bring more seating, more foot traffic, more revenue, and more new customers for local businesses therefore creating a huge benefit to the city as well (tax revenue/ tourism/etc.).Tothecity, I propose you this: what if the city instated a permit system to allow parklets to businesses that are willing to pay for it? – a process that has been enacted by other cities to accom modate parklets! This system will generate revenue for the city, ensure that the benefits of increased foot traffic for local businesses remain, and it will appease residents by, hopefully, ensuring that one day, parking meters do not make their way to our CVR – further urbanizing our beloved beach town. Joel Mallet
California Legislature 2022 Watch: Some good bills, and some not so good by Sharon Byrne A s we head into the close of the 2022 California Legislative session, bills are passing that could help our community, and some that could hurt it. Here’s a round-up of the bills we’re watching: Conversion of commercial zones to housing. Senate Bill 6; Caballero. This bill allows a housing development project on a parcel that is within a zone where office, retail, or parking are principally permitted uses. The site cannot be adjacent to an industrial or agricultural use. The density for a housing development under these provisions must meet or exceed the density to accommodate housing for lower income households, including a density of at least 20 units per acre for a suburban jurisdiction. The development must meet all other local requirements, other than those that prohibit residential use, or allow residential use at a lower density than required by the bill. Development is subject to the local zoning, parking, design, and other ordinances, local code requirements, and procedures applicable to the processing and permitting of a housing development. Why it could be good: The state’s recent Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) is nearly 10 times what it was previously, giving California cities and counties major shock. The state requires municipalities to allow building of housing to quotas set by the
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The remains of Jack Cantin, the teenager who went missing during the 2018 debris flow, had reportedly been found in the summer of last year by former University of California, Santa Barbara anthropology professor Danielle Kurin and her undergrad uate students. While many news and media outlets (including the MJ...) announced Kurin’s claims, the Sheriff’s Department never removed Jack Cantin from the Missing Persons list. The office subsequently announced it would be performing its own detailed analysis. After nearly a year of investigation, a report emerging from the Sheriff’s Department, which includes genetic and forensic analysis, has identified that the bones found were non-human, and therefore could not be Jack Cantin’s remains. This story will be updated as new information emerges.
“Santa Barbara Design and Build was fabulous. Don and his crew were the BEST from day one. He was honest, timely, flexible, artistic, patient and skilled. They understood my vision and built my dream home”. -Santa Barbara Resident by MJ Staff Santa Barbara Foundation names their 79th Persons of the Year as Ginger Salazar and Katina Zaninovich. Salazar, who is from Lompoc and has lived in Montecito for the past 17 years, has served on the board of Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara. Currently, she is on the boards of Cottage Health, the Santa Barbara Foundation, and the Towbes Foundation. Salazar is also co-chair for the LEAD Council at Stanford University and co-chair of the Lompoc Community Track & Field Project. She has also helped Montecito Union School create an organic garden and healthy lunch program. Zaninovich is a retired nurse with a long history of volunteerism. She founded the San Marcos High School Royal Pride Foundation and was the first chair of the board. Currently, she is a board member of Casa Dorinda. She has also been chair of the board for the Central Coast Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, chair of the Alzheimer’s Women’s Initiative, vice chair of the board of the Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation, and co-chair of Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics Capital Campaign. Recently, Zaninovich administered free COVID-19 vaccines in the parking lot of Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital. Both Salazar and Zaninovich have given back to the community in meaningful ways. They will be honored in-person on Wednesday, September 21 at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort Rotunda. Tickets to join the celebration are available at SBFoundation.org/PYAwards Bones Determined to Not Belong to Jack Cantin
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Montecito JOURNAL16 18 – 25 August 2022“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem 190 Viajero Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117 RCFE #425802106 at Ellwood Shores Mariposa *Move in or deposit by 08/31 for this special o er *Terms and Conditions apply yourCgoletaseniorliving.comalltodaytoschedulepersonalizedtour 805.618.1957 We let you have all th e f u n Savings up to $2,500!* Indep endent & Assisted Living | Memor y Care Live Your Way with Resor t Style Senior Living! Mariposa at Ellwood Shores is a warm, inviting senior living community designed for your comfort and care Whatever your lifestyle, you’re sure to find just what you’re looking for with a host of amenities and activities designed for you. by Stella Haffner F or young writers, the advice is often “write what you know.” And so, the ques tion becomes: What do I know? In many ways, this may be a question that young people seek to avoid. In painful periods of self-growth and in mundane life trials – your chemistry pop quizzes and the like – what you know and of course what you don’t know can be an area of discomfort. Resh Grewal knows this intimately. The 22-year-old and recent graduate of UCSB is a developing writer and life-long lover of stories. Born in India, Resh has spent the last four years at UCSB wading through the choice between self-expression and self-concealment. Today, they have joined us in the column to talk about their journey into writing. Dear Montecito, I found solace in books at a young age. My local library was an ivory tower, hold ing bits of beauty and worlds that I could submerge myself into. Reading is a form of escapism for many people, and for me it was also a part of survival. During this time, I also dabbled in writing. I experimented with different forms, writing songs and short stories inspired by nature and the people around me. But I was careful not to write about myself. I didn’t think I was grand like the people in the picture books and novels were, I didn’t think I earned a role beyond the narrator. I wrote my first book in sixth grade, kind of as a dare to myself. A test. I ended up with six hundred and sixty-seven pages handwritten. There were plot holes and under developed characters, but it was a new world. One of my own creation. My wrists hated me, but my heart felt full for the first time. The day that I blissfully wrote ‘the end’ and closed my fifth notebook is the day I decided I would pursue writing. I needed to. I had not just proven to myself that it was possible, that I was passionate enough to dedicate endless hours to narrative prose, but I honestly felt like it was meant for me.
I wrote nonlinearly, with the intention of my collection to be unchronological. To connect the pieces, I began writing poems and open letters to aid the essays. Soon there was a common thread, a continuation of open letters to my deceased mom, who I lost way too young and whose death I never truly processed until I was faced with the challenge of writing about my life. I realized eight months into the writing process that this memoir wasn’t about cre ating a narrative of my life. It wasn’t really about me at all. It was about her, and it was for her. It’s an exploration of grief and love. Writing from the wound and writing from the care I have for my mom, honoring her and sharing my life with her, and in that, sharing her life with you, the reader. Writing isn’t confined by the laws of nature, it’s not dictated by life or death. I think that’s the beauty of it, that’s what drew me in all those years ago. As I completed my memoir for my Senior Capstone Project and for the Raab Writing Fellowship this past year, I began to understand writing as more than storytelling. Writing is resurrection, writing is immortalization, but most importantly, writing is transmutation.
Writing from the Wound: Resh Grewal
After writing multiple books throughout their childhood, Resh Grewal became the character of their own story
Surrounded by notebooks with ink-stained fingerprints is when I felt understood. I had the power to distort time and travel through it, explore different characters and let them help me understand the world around me. Throughout middle and high school, I continually completed notebooks, wrote for hours on Word docs, hiding and finding pieces of myself in the narratives, still believing I didn’t deserve an audience’s gaze. I even began putting writing online anony mously, gaining a good following and getting hundreds of thousands of reads. It was moti vating, interacting with people from around the world who found something of value in the words I tangled together. From the age of 12, college was my goal, and I knew writing was my ticket in. I thought of college as a sort of savior. In the ways that reading and writing provided mental escapes, college would allow for a physical one. I love my family, but there was also a chaos that I needed to get away from. I was worried that I would never be able to find myself, or define myself, as separate from them, unless I created physical distance. During my junior year of high school, I found the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara. The intellectual autonomy is what overall drew me in, but the creativity, absurdity, and community that it fostered made me fall in love. I committed to CCS with the sole intention of writing realistic fiction. Because of the adversities I had experienced and witnessed throughout childhood, I had a special interest in human psyche and psychopathology. Intergenerational trauma, mental illness, devel opment, and identity were all common themes in my work. I stubbornly didn’t want to admit why. Many of us write what is familiar to us, even if we want to face that or not, and I hid artifacts of myself in the characters and plots that I developed. When assigned to write a creative nonfiction piece for a required class, I struggled a bit, unfamiliar with being so honest. So, I did what I did best, I hid. I wrote a story about my cat, her life and her trauma, her anxiety and her journey to finding peace, using her to mirror myself. In response to my submission, I was told to write a memoir, which I abra sively rejected. At least ten professors and mentors voiced similar sentiments, encouraging or directly telling me to write one. My second year of college, when proposing my Senior Capstone project, I caved, proposing a collection of personal essays. I never thought of myself as a main character, but I appreciate stories. And I appreciate the things stories do. I always understood my stories as an interrogation of the binary, an exploration of gray areas. I want to disrupt the common, romanticize the mundane, dive in deep into shadows. When I began this collection, I wrote about a plethora of experiences, topics that I felt were neglected or misrepresented: when food becomes a weapon, when affection becomes a demand, when love becomes confused with fear.
ReshYours,Grewal
Dear Montecito
From the shores of Scotland, Stella Haffner keeps her connection to her home in Montecito by bringing grads of local schools to the pages of the Montecito Journal
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AB1991 – Conversion of hotels to housing; Assemblymember Gabriel. You can’t stay in a hotel/motel for more than 30 days presently. If you do, the site loses its ‘transient’ status, and that’s a problem. We shelter some Hands Across Montecito clients in hotels for a period of time. When 30 days is up, they have to check out, and re-check-in, to not jeopardize the hotel’s transient occupancy status. This bill allows hotels and motels to con tinue occupancy for those experiencing homelessness who are sheltering under the care of a program like Hands Across Montecito.
AB1771 – Ward. Anti-Speculation in Housing Act. Would have helped cool specula tive forces in California housing markets.
AB2283 Friedman. Will require that projects to alleviate freeway congestion, like the 101 expansion, fit into a corridor’s multi-modal transportation plan. This bill could possibly have prevented the 101 expansion project in Montecito from obtaining funding, had it been passed earlier. This takes effect January 1, 2024. It’s in the Senate now. Bills that died: AB1775 – Levine. Home Hardening and Insurance. We’re sorry to see this one die. It would have helped a lot of Montecitans with homeowner’s insurance.
Source: County of Santa Barbara Housing Element Update 2022
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SB1338 – CARE Court. After personally helping clear encampments, Governor Newsom saw the same thing Hands Across Montecito team members did: some people are in dire need of mental health support, and won’t accept help or services. The state laws require that they present a danger to themselves or others before they can be forced to accept mental health treatment, and even that is very limited. For everyone that’s worried about the lady that is always at Starbucks and the Chevron station, this is the bill we’ve long needed so as to get her some very much needed help. It’s cleared the Senate, now in the Assembly. CARE stands for Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act, and would use courts to help compel treatment, housing, and supportive services to Californians with complex behavioral health care needs so they can stabilize and find a path to wellness and recovery. This could be a game-changer, positively, for people experiencing severe mental health struggles that are caught in the criminal justice system and/or experiencing homelessness.
Noticebreakdown:howpoorly we’re doing in the low/very low-income categories. By contrast, we seem to be able to build housing for above moderate income, especially in north county. Many people work in Montecito, but don’t live here. Many of those folks are in ser vice-sector jobs that pay lower wages. They need a place to live. Thus, the need to pro vide affordable housing. While we disagree with the state’s ridiculously high numbers, we realize that we need to look to build affordable housing in places in the county where housing isn’t today. Commercial buildings and under-utilized parking lots could provide locations for new, high-density housing targeted to lower-income residents. This bill is highly likely to pass, having cleared the Senate. It’s now in the Assembly.
AB1910 – Conversion of publicly owned golf courses to affordable housing. AB2237 – Would force the California Transportation Commission, that allocates freeway funding like the 101 expansion, to only fund projects that fit into a commu nity’s sustainability plans.
The California Legislature’s last day of the 2022 session is August 31. Sharon Byrne is the Executive Director of the Montecito Association
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Viva la Fiesta! Courthouse Legacy Foundation Soirée Many folks don’t realize there is a group that looks after the preservation of our Santa Barbara Courthouse called the Courthouse Legacy Foundation. During Fiesta they gave their annual party in the Mural Room and adjoining balcony where guests could look over into the Sunken Garden to view the Noches de Ronda show going on below. The Legacy Foundation’s current proj ect is the Great Arch. For several years portions of the entry which spans the passageway between Anacapa and the Sunken Garden has been deteriorating, especially the stonework, which is erod ing, and the mortar joints that are failing. The Foundation has been on a sever al-year project to restore this great arch. All the event ticket sales went to this.
Fiesta Finale
The John E. Profant Foundation for the Arts welcomed everyone to “Where Fiesta traditions began,” the El Paseo Restaurant for one final night of celebrating. John Profant was born in Santa Barbara on May 23, 1928. His parents, Dr. Henry and Mabel Profant, were very active in the cultural com munity, helping to found CAMA and serv ing on the board for 50 years. He performed and supported the arts while raising a family and having a long career in business. In his honor his four daughters (Michele, Marie, Musette, and Mignonne), plus his wife, Lyn, established their Foundation that helps artists of all ages in the community through scholarships.In1950a young woman and her sister visited the Courthouse Tower and heard the docent tell about Fiesta. They went to the heart of Fiesta, the El Paseo restaurant, where a tall, handsome man asked the young woman to dance. He was a José Moneró
Courthouse Legacy Foundation’s president Angelique Davis and husband, Erik La MariaPresidenteCabrera and her husband, hon orary FranciscoPresidente Co-chairs of the Courthouse Legacy party were Robert Ooley and Rodney Baker
civic and cultural enlightenment of its members. This article appeared in the Morning Press, “A ladies social club has been organized in Santa Barbara and four large sunny rooms facing the Arlington Hotel in the upper Hawley block are to be fixed up with all elegance possible.”
Catering with music by Tony Ybarra. There was a signature cocktail called Maracuya Margarita. Tara Mata, the Spirit of Fiesta, performed in the Mural Room. Looking ahead, Angelique tells us there is a five-year conservation plan shown on the website and they will need all the donor help they can get. “Please consider becoming a board member or joining a committee.” The email is clfoffice@sblf.org.
The Profant girls: Michèle, Mignonne, Marie, and Musette
The group started La Merienda in 1928 and opened the Club to the public for the day. Memberships are available. For information call Janet Bullock at (805) 964-9547.
Angelique Davis is president of this hardworking group of fund raisers who have restored the Mural Room and lit the ceiling for the first time ever. Now the many tourists who visit every day can see how truly beautiful it is. During the pan demic they were able to clean the huge chandelier because there were no visitors in the way. There are now draperies in the corridors like there used to be many years ago and the list goes on. Robert Ooley and Rodney Baker were event chairs. Now that Robert has retired as the Santa Barbara County Architect, he has rejoined the Legacy Foundation Board and says, “I want to bring my passion, knowledge, and expertise to help move the work forward.” There was also a fundraising art show, which included all paintings of the Courthouse. In addition, they are planning a donor gala to celebrate their founder Robert Ooley in his 30-year career as our County Architect. Save the date for October 22, 2022. Tasty tapas were provided by Lorraine Lim
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Through the years the Club has moved sev eral times, the last was when the Rockwood Inn had a fire. The next morning the pres ident drove by and put $100 down on the property until she could consult with her members. They agreed but there was always a problem with parking even in horse and buggy days. In 1938 the adjoining property became available through one of the mem bers and it’s still being used.
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For more information and to join the fun, call (805) 695-8850 or visit the gallery at 1235 Coast Village Road. Audrey Biles is a foodie on the hunt for flavor, a freshman at Georgetown University, and a fan of all things Santa Barbara Join Jordan Pope at Portico’s Monet Room below the gallery for one of their Tuesday painting classes The Portico Gallery specializes in landscape paintings that fea ture the works of notable California and national artists withhost/comedian DANCRONIN
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For two and a half hours, I am away from a screen and forced out of my own head. Instead of TikTok videos and Snapchat stories, I am enter tained by colors and class mates. An essential part of the art class experience is Jordan, an accomplished artist in her own right, who spreads her passion with so much joy and enthusiasm I forget what a beginner I really am!
Art for All Painting in Portico
Jordan Pope opened Portico Gallery after moving to Santa Barbara in 2001, and has spent the last 18 years in the gallery’s Coast Village Road location. She moved from Seattle, leaving behind an established gallery, and most significantly, a large following of dedicated art students. “It was so hard to leave my students,” she told me, but she couldn’t resist the south-facing beach and shore line that is unique to Santa Barbara. In terms of plein air painting, this type of light is world class. Portico is primarily a landscape gallery and features the works of many notable artists, including Pope herself. Let me assure you, there is no better source of inspiration than a walk through Portico. In an instant you will find yourself enrolled in Jordan’s six-week class plan. Classes are held in the Monet Room (just below the gallery) on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and are open to students ages 16 and older of all skill levels. And by all levels, she quite literally means all levels. In my Tuesday afternoon class, my canvas looks out of place next to my classmates’, many of whom have had their works featured in exhibitions and art showcases. Despite this massive difference in skill level, the group is supportive and kind, as much a learning environment as a social one. Jordan’s teaching style is collaborative rather than authoritative, a balance of learning with individual dis covery that maximizes improvement (and enjoyment). She welcomes mistakes as opportunities for growth, and small class sizes allow for individualized attention. “I really feel involved,” she told me. “Then, when I am painting on my own, I expect someone to open up my paint and pull my paletteTryingout!”something new often feels like a daunting task, and amidst our busy lives, these opportunities are rare. This is exactly why I love Jordan’s classes: they are accessible and approachable, and they take place just down the road. Beyond helping me hone a skill, they have transformed my Tuesday after noons into a time of complete presence. “I have many of my students say it’s the best part of their week,” Jordan told me, and I couldn’t agree more.
This is how many human lives can be saved with climate action Thanks to a recent study, we have a good idea of how many lives will be saved if we cease emitting carbon into our atmosphere at unnatural rates.
The dictionary definition of “radical” reads like this: Advocating…complete political or social change; representing or supporting an extreme section of a political party…”
Bressler’s calculations found that every 4,434 metric tons of carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere in 2020 equates to one extra premature death by 2100. To put that in per spective, 4,434 metric tons are the average annual emissions of just 3.5 Americans. Based on those critical results, he found that taking active recommended steps to cut carbon emissions today would reduce premature deaths from about 83 million to nine million by the2100.right itself need not be spelled out because the right to travel freely is inherent with any reasonable reading of what is contained within the four corners of the Constitution.
Climate Solutions to Celebrate the Inflation Reduction Act Passing Chicago pledges to run all city operations with clean energy Perspectives
The “conservative” position is simple: the right of privacy for each of us is a right we had before the nation was founded. This was not taken away by the Constitution, and therefore under the Ninth Amendment remains our right to this day. That’s not only the conservative interpretation of the Constitution, but it’s also the only way consistent with our freedom-loving democracy’s approach to balancing our rights as individuals, as well as the rights of states and the federal government to govern us appropriately.
Thomas’s logic also invalidates the other cases referenced above which confer rights not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution, but nonetheless are implied by the very nature of our government being one that protects citizens over the intrusions of the State. That is precisely what the Founders intended.
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We need look no further than the Ninth Amendment, which states: “The enumera tion in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
According to the statement released by the mayor’s office, the city signed an energy supply agreement with Constellation New Energy Inc., a retail electricity supplier, in collaboration with Swift Current Energy. The agreement is valued at up to $422 million and begins with a five-year term that is set to start in January 2023. The initiative is expected to lower Chicago’s carbon footprint by over 290,000 metric tons per year. This is equivalent to the emissions associated with 62,000 passenger vehicles. In addition to the impressive reductions to carbon and other harmful emissions, this deal promises to create thousands of jobs for local residents. According to the city’s state ment, Constellation and Swift Energy have also pledged to fund education, job training, and apprenticeships. These programs will help to create the sustainable workforce need ed to maintain these clean energy resources and provide an economic boon to one of the largest urban areas in the country.
Don’t Call This Court “Conservative” “There’s a bad moon on the rise…” by Rinaldo S. Brutoco D oes it upset you when you hear traditional media refer to the current Supreme Court as dominated by “Conservatives”? If not, it should. The truth is, there is nothing conservative about the current six-person majority of the Supreme Court. They are radical, pure and simple. Referring to these Justices as “conservative” implies that their judicial approach appears on some sort of reasonable spectrum of judicial thought. It does not. What does it mean to be a “conservative” on the court as opposed to a progressive or some other label? While we can all agree that labels of any sort can be misleading, label ing this bunch “conservative” does violence to both logic and to the English language.
On what basis is Thomas willing to throw all those rights out? In Thomas’s written opinion, there is no “right of privacy” in the Constitution. Thus, for Thomas, privacy is not Thatprotected.ispurepoppycock. How do we know he’s incorrect as a matter of judicial scholarship? Simple, he is denying the “Four Corners Doctrine” first held in 1849 in The Passenger Cases. You see, there is no stated right to travel from state to state in the Constitution. Nonetheless the Court back then held: For all the great purposes for which the Federal government was formed we are one people, with one common country. We are all citizens of the United States, and as members of the same community must have the right to pass and repass through every part of it without interruption, as freely as in our own States. In other words, the right to travel was so essential to the nature of a common union that O n August 8, 2022, Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a plan to have Chicago’s airports, libraries, and water-purification plants running on 100 percent clean energy by 2025.
That’s precisely what the Republican party is fostering on us with its Christian Nationalism. It is radical. It is dangerous. It will destroy our Union if we let it, even if 70 percent of us don’t agree and would not wish to live under it.
Thinking of a world where Thomas and the Gang of Six may prevail brings to my mind these Creedence Clearwater Revival lyrics, “I see the bad moon arising, I see trou ble on the way.”
A conservative is someone who interprets the law not with the intention of chang ing it, but in preserving historical precedents into the future, particularly in relation to individual rights over the state. What would a conservative do if faced with the choice of upholding more intrusive “Big Brother” government versus more of a laissez faire ruling? Obviously, the conservative would opt for the laissez faire approach based on the conservative philosophical principle that less government intrusion is better than more government peering into every corner of our lives. Yet, “the Gang of Six” in the Dobbs case overturned Roe v. Wade by coming out in favor of government intervention between a patient and her doctor.
The study, conducted by Daniel Bressler, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University, looks specifically at a metric called the social cost of carbon, which calculates future damages from carbon already emitted into our atmosphere. Bressler analyzed the most recent science on temperature-related deaths tied to climate change to calculate how much human life could be saved with various climate action scenarios.
Furthermore, overturning 50 years of established judicial precedent to come out with that intrusive ruling is the antithesis of conservative judicial principles. This ruling makes a mockery of stare decisis. A conservative jurist would go to great lengths to avoid overturn ing a well-established precedent of long standing. To change the law so radically after 50 years of settled precedent, is the very definition of “legislating from the bench.”
Here’s another example. Conservative jurists have put a very high value on “States’ Rights” – leaving the states to decide local issues so that the Federal government need not to get involved. The tyranny of Reconstruction, leaving Jim Crow laws in place, and a host of other judicial failings have all been justified on the principle of States’ Rights. So how could the Gang of Six rule that New York is not legally allowed to make reasonable rules legislating the safe use of concealed weapons? That’s a States’ Rights issue if there ever was one. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Supreme Court reversed a decision upholding New York’s 108-year-old law limiting who can obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun in public. That’s not just a refusal to follow existing prec edent, it is an appalling example of how the Court puts gun manufacturing profits in front of citizen safety. There is absolutely nothing conservative in that. Worst of all, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that decision on behalf of the Gang of Six. Why is that so awful? Because it was the same Justice Thomas who wrote the most frightening concurring opinion in the Dobbs case that many Constitutional law scholars have ever read. In this concurring opinion, Thomas laid out his belief that all privacy rights currently enshrined as the law are in imminent jeopardy of being overthrown by this politically motivated group of judicial radicals who are doing their best to assert their version of Christian Nationalism on the nation. Interracial marriage (Loving v. Virginia, 1967); the use of contraceptives in one’s own bedroom (Griswold v. Connecticut, 1969); interstate travel (the Passenger Cases, 1849); same-sex marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015); and equal rights for LGBTQ individuals are just a few of the legal precedents that may come under judicial attack. All those cases correctly interpret the Constitution and are considered “settled law.”
by Margaret Easbey R ichard Ray Easbey was born in Helena, Montana to his parents Jim and Doris on April 19, 1945. There he shared his childhood with his late brother, Jeffrey. Richard moved to the Los Angeles area in the early ‘70s to attend the Light and Powerhouse – a bible college. Soon after he moved to Goleta, California to join the Grace Catholic Church, which after a wonderful journey, became the St. Athanasius Orthodox Church communi ty where he was ordained as a Deacon in 1987 and has been the spiritual, earthly home he loved for over 40 years. Richard created many leather goods including bibles, which are still treasured today. He worked for 7UP bottling company earning him memorable trips to France and the Caribbean for his success in sales. His career then changed to real estate which included investment properties as well as financing. He retired from a highly respected career in mortgage banking in 2012. He spent his later years traveling often, including multiple cruises and trips to various golf courses around the coun try with his family and friends. Because of his unwavering faith he was always up for a deep theological discussion. He enjoyed playing and listening to music, and was continually attempting to solve the problems of the world. He is survived by his wife of 45 years, June Boettner Easbey. He loved and took very much pride in his eight children and their spous es: Joanne (Verne) Gish, Robert Todd, Kristi (Doug) King, Dorian (Tim) Florez, Katherine (Hani) AbuGhazaleh, Sylvia (Josh) Porta, Michael (Margaret) Easbey, and Elizabeth (John) Heiduk He was blessed with 19 grandchildren with one on the way and four great grand children with one more on the way, as well. Dn. Richard was blessed with a pain less and peaceful passing on August 6th. He enjoyed playing and listening to music, and was continually attempting to solve the problems of the world. We ask for continued prayers for his soul and those of us who miss him deeply and look forward to seeing him again. Funeral services were held on August 9, 2022. In lieu of flowers Richard’s family respectfully requests donations be made to St. Athanasius Orthodox Church Pastor’s Benevolence fund or the Howard Shannon Memorial Golf Tournament. Information for both can be found at StAthanasius.org.
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Montecito by Michael Cox Chapter 8 After hosting her book club the previous night and going to a friend’s birthday dinner at The Lark the night prior, Cricket had her heart set on picking up burgers from Tinker’s and watching a family movie. But when I teased that I had surreptitiously met Cyrus for coffee that morn ing and that there was a chance that he might need my services after all, she acquiesced, seemingly shocked that I had it in me to do anything that could be described as surreptitious. Just like the first time, Entre Nous wine flowed freely, and artisanal pizza slices were consumed as quickly as they came from the oven. The kids swam for a while then retired to the television room which was more private theater than room. Two other couples were in attendance that evening — both invited by Genevieve who fortuitously met them at events where the rich and successful congregate. I did not know either couple personally, but I knew them by name and reputation. John Colton’s family had founded Miramar Bank and Trust, now a one-billion-dollar bank, and he sat on every other non profit board in Santa Barbara County. And Susan Workner ran the residential real estate firm in Montecito; one that only dealt with prop erties with price tags over five million dollars and served champagne at all open houses. The conversation was effortless and elegant; Cyrus and Genevieve
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In Passing Richard Ray Easbey Richard Ray Easbey by MJ Staff T ake a sneak peek of Montecito by Michael Cox in this ongoing serialization of his yet-to-be-published book. This fictional story is inspired by “tales of true crime THAT HAPPENED HERE.” After meeting with Cyrus, a momentous opportunity lingers after morning coffee. Chapter 7 is available online at montecitojournal.net and the QR code below.
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Aaron P Crocker Financial Advisor 5320 Carpinteria Ave Suite J Carpinteria, CA 93013805-684-8470$1000 $1000 $1000 3.152.80 2-year 2.70 6-month1-year by Steven Libowitz E verything seems to move quick ly these days, but the speed of growth and expansion of the Santa Barbara County Food Action Network (SBCFAN) is fast enough to turn heads. It was just six years ago that the Community Environmental Council and the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County cre ated the Santa Barbara County Food Action Plan – a countywide, community-driven strategic initiative that assessed and provided recommendations for how we grow, distrib ute, consume, and dispose of food, and cre ated a “blueprint” for an accessible, thriving, sustainable, and healthy food system. It was only in 2019 that the Santa Barbara County Food Action Network was launched, an organization that works to accelerate the activation of Food Action Plan goals by connecting, aligning, and activating a network of food system groups ranging from farmers to businesses to con sumers themselves. Less than six months ago, SBCFAN became its own 501(c)(3), a reflection of the organization’s status and effectiveness, not to mention demand for its services. “It’s massive, because it proves not only value and demand, but also our ability to get things done, because becoming an official nonprofit is no small feat,” said Executive Director Shakira Miracle But that’s just one small step toward the goal of creating more stability and security surrounding food in the country, said Miracle, who heads the organization that grew out of a 2011 study showing that while Santa Barbara County ranks in the top one percent of nationwide agricultural value, 99 percent of the locally-grown produce is exported elsewhere while 95 percent of the food consumed is grown or harvested outside the county. “Emergency and charitable feeding are probably always going to be necessary because of all the uncertainty in the world,” she said. “What we’re doing is looking at the systemic issues in our bro ken food system, both globally and local ly, that are causing all of these constant worsening disruptions. If we can localize food systems and build out regional food systems so that no matter what happens – fire, flood, pandemic, debris flow, and whatever the world or the changing cli mate wants to throw at us – we will be able to not only survive but thrive. And the lens is economic development. If we have a healthy economy locally, then we will have a healthy food system.”
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To be clear, while Miracle keeps one eye on big-picture thinking, the bulk of SBCFAN’s day-to-day work is hands-on help in creating systems and connecting food growers and suppliers with distri
SBCFAN’s ability to coordinate, assist, and direct helped cross the divide, Miracle explained. The fisherwoman got support with navigating county compliance, the chicken producer is getting direct access to funding to build a new poultry processing facility, and the church received access and sources of funding for an offsite location to have a safe space away from their church to build out its social enterprise. Its 2020 Food System Resilience awards re-granted $150,000 of its funds to projects across the county that includ ed supporting the launch of a solar-pow ered mobile cold storage facility and a mobile farmers market based in Lompoc. Miracle has a plethora of projects she can passionately point to, including things as unglamorous but astonishingly effective as providing a grant to a new Equipment Sharing Alliance that has grown exponentially in a short period of time, aided in part by SBCFAN’s help in creating a business plan to attract financing and connecting them with an economic development collaborative and state earmark funding. “There were just four farmers who want ed to share some equipment and start to build a culture of sharing and trust between them,” Miracle said. “Within months they had multiple dozens of farmers involved. We continued to connect other farmers to them and now they’ve gotten so big it’s now the Central Coast and Southern California Equipment Sharing Alliance, and they’re hosting Zoom meetings with each other to share who’s growing which crops and who needs seeds and who has some to share. It started with a couple of pieces of equipment and now they’re sharing their knowledge, wisdom, and even their labor to help each other out. It’s incredible.”
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“Last week alone, I had conversations with a fisherwoman, an organic poul try producer, and a church that is now making a closed loop system around con necting charitable feeding to jobs in food systems,” she said. “And each of them told me that if not for the network, they wouldn’t have been able to bridge the bar riers and gaps and challenges and might have ended up not being able to scale up or even shutting down because they don’t have the time, the capacity, or the knowl edge base to keep all those balls in the air while running their businesses.”
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Becoming a 501(c)(3) was SBCFAN’s way of helping itself be even more effec tive and efficient, Miracle said. “People who fund organizations like ours always want to know if it’s working,” she said. “Now we can effectively raise funds ourselves, and access traditional financing channels and investment financ ing funding. And we can create all kinds of creative funding streams for our non profit members who don’t have access, and help finance food system projects that can really have an impact.”
SBCFAN itself is still in its own explosive growth stages, and is currently calling for additional board members and core funding to hire staff positions in Communications, Food Economy, Foodshed, Health, and Community in advance of strategic plan ning in early 2023. “Giving Tuesday (which comes right after Thanksgiving) will launch our year-end appeal for Founding Gifts for SBCFAN,” Miracle said. “This is an incredibly exciting time for the network to coordinate regional infrastructure, procurement, workforce devel opment, farmland preservation, etc. We need core funding so we can hire staff to keep up with the pace of demand for our services – the seeding of the soil for the cultivation for food systems-building for years to come. Santa Barbara County is in a unique position to go beyond direct services and secure our food system. This is the moment for people who are looking for ways to help to have some thing they can really sink their teeth into.”
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“That’s terrific,” Susan said. “Dumb question, but what is this ExOh Holdings?”Cyrusbegan to spin his tale, describing with glee the massive retail opportunity in China and how the Amazons and Alibabas of the world were structurally segregated from it. I listened for a minute before Cricket’s repeated squeezing of my knee finally registered. I turned to look at her and saw her admiration. It was a look I had not seen in some time. When our eyes met, she squeezed my knee even harder, leaning in and whispering, “this happened over coffee?” I arched my eyebrows. “Kind of,” I whispered back. “When were you planning to tell me?” I shook my head. “Surprise?” Her smile said it all: pride, a little bit of shock, and a lot of relief. “Wow!” she whispered. Wow indeed. My emotional pendulum swung from uncertainty to frustration to gratitude. The look on Cricket’s face made it clear I could not back out now. I still did not know how I would explain the no-cash-compensation scheme to Cricket, nor how I would survive the no-cash-compensation scheme. The smile faded from my face as these weightier thoughts took hold. Cricket must have sensed my anxiety because she removed the hand from my knee and threw it over my shoulder, pulling me in for a sideways hug. “And what will you do, specifically?” John Colton asked me as Cyrus finished his soliloquy. Again, the eyes turned to me, but this time I had Cricket’s arm around me. Nothing could hurt me now. “Well, John, we just came to an agreement on working together this – uh – morning,” I said, nodding at Cyrus to bring him in on my acceptance of his ramrodding; he raised his glass and winked in acknowledgment. “I am going to be Cyrus’s right-hand man in getting ExOh’s stock trading again,” I continued. “I am going to get the company’s global operations coordinated and efficient. And I am going to pick up Cyrus’s dry cleaning and get his car washed. Whatever it takes.”
But what is a “chair” anyway? The concept can have all kinds of purposes and connotations, such as a throne (which never looks to be very comfort able), an electric chair (where comfort is hardly of concern), a toilet (which ought to be just comfortable enough to get the job done), or a rocking-chair (which harks back to the cradle, where comfort is everything). Babies also have “high-chairs,” whose height is really for the convenience of the adults tending to them. And of course, certain people with disabilities have wheel-chairs, which come in many different flavors –from the simplest, which require an able-bodied person to push them, to the automated vehicles which today enable the handicapped to navigate city streetsThenalone.there are benches, tiers, and stools, whose chief distinction is that they have no support for the back. Most chairs have four legs, but a stool can have as few as three. In case you were wondering about a “stool pigeon,” it was originally a live bird attached by hunters to a stool, to attract other birds. In other words, it was a decoy, but in underworld lingo the term came to mean an informer. But chairs can also be fun – as in the ever-popular party game of Musical Chairs – except that there’s nothing musical about the chairs at all. 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: leighbrilliant.com.www.ash Montecito Reads (Continued from 23) were master hosts. Cricket too kept everyone laughing as each conver sation topic zoomed from one tangent to the next while the enormous firepit lit everyone’s faces. We did not speak of Landon whom neither John and his wife, nor Susan and her husband, knew. Even for Cricket and me, Landon’s coming and going felt like something we might have imagined. Only Cyrus and Genevieve had truly known Landon, and they seemed to be processing their grief well. I slipped into a state of easy motion that almost felt comfortable; it was a surreal notion to a man who rarely felt comfortable outside his house. Then the inevitable happened. “So, Hollis,” Susan Workner said, “what do you do?” Her intentions were almost certainly honest. I was the quiet one; she was trying to bring me into the conversation. But I could feel the blood drain from my face as all eyes turned to me. “Well, I …,” I began, then stuttered silent. “He works with me,” Cyrus said. “Hollis is the Chief Executive Officer of ExOh Holdings.” Cricket grabbed my knee, but my eyes were glued to Cyrus. I had not said yes to anything. More to the point, I had not properly briefed Cricket on the details of Cyrus’s offer, specifically the fact that it was a job with a highfalutin title, opaque responsibilities and – critically – no paycheck. It was the most intriguing thing in my otherwise empty hop per, but I still had not decided yes.
Montecito JOURNAL26 18 – 25 August 2022“Have a bias towards action – let’s see something happen now.” – Indira Gandhi by Ashleigh Brilliant B ecause of the way our bod ies bend, the most comfortable position, when not prone, tends to be with the buttocks emplaced some distance above the ground (depending on the length of our legs) and our backs resting, if possible, against a vertical surface. This is known as “sit ting,” and, for all the improvements, in housing, in furniture, and in tech nology (where would we be today without our recliners?) it remains a basic human posture. But the story hardly ends there. Different cultures take their own posi tions (so to speak) on this whole issue. In some parts of the world, it’s as natural to sit upright cross-legged on the ground as upon any object. (Chief Sitting-Bull no doubt never sat any other way, until he became “civilized.”) In other regions, the generally approved resting status is what we would call “squatting.” It’s probably no coincidence that these cul tural variations tend to occur in places where trees have always been scarce. Otherwise, you could at least sit on the trunk of a fallen tree – or on the stump of a felled one. Such images have found their way into American folklore. When I studied Education (I actually got an M.A. in that subject, in the process of acquir ing a California Teaching Credential), one thing I learned – of the few that stuck with me – was that Mark Hopkins, an eminent educator of the Nineteenth Century, had been referred to in a speech by then-President James Garfield, who said that his own con cept of an ideal university was “Mark Hopkins at one end of a log, and a student at the other.” We can no longer hope for such ped agogical simplicity. But we have another arboreal image, concerning informal ora tory, which is the “stump speech.” This, of course, harks back to a time when a tree stump might have made the most convenient speaking platform. The term now, as we know, connotes a standardized address delivered in various places usually by a political candidate. But in our culture, what we call a “chair” has always been of great impor tance – even when, or particularly when, there are not many of them. That being the case, when there is a relatively small gathering, perhaps around a table, the person occupying the single chair auto matically acquires a leadership role. Or it may be that the shape of the table designates a “head,” and, no matter how many people are seated at it, the one sitting there is the “Chairman” or “Chairperson,” or simply the “Chair.” In the academic world, it came to mean an endowed position. In the political, especially the Communist, world, the Party Chairman was the top dog – as was Stalin in Russia, and Chairman Mao in China. It’s also customary, under Parliamentary Rules, for organized meetings to have someone at least nom inally conducting the proceedings, and for anyone wishing to address the entire gathering to first secure their permission by beginning with “Mr. Chairman!”
Senator Joseph McCarthy, a prominent American political figure of the 1950s, became notorious for his over-use of that expression when he sometimes failed to get permission to speak, usually adding “Point of Order!”
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The last line drew a chorus of hoots and another silent toast from Cyrus. I did not know what I was doing – following an impulse really – but the moment was alive with possibility. I still had no idea how to finance this possibility, or if I could actually perform the jobs I would be tasked with. But Cyrus’s belief in me felt like a missing ingredient in my heretofore career. Somehow, some way, this was meant to be. “Well, on that glorious note, let’s have dessert,” Genevieve announced. The group moved from the firepit back to the dining table which had been reset for dessert in our absence. With a nod of Genevieve’s head, the pie was presented unsliced; Genevieve liked to do the slicing herself, Cyrus told us, divvying out bigger slices to her favorite guests. We passed our plates over one at a time and received our shares. The
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More cooking; more silence. “You really believe in this?”
“I really do,” I said, and again, I really did. “I told my parents about ExOh today,” she said. I closed my eyes tight. Cricket’s parents were fantastic and had sup ported me through all my stumbles. But the thought of the three of them speaking about me, made me incredibly uncomfortable. “What did they think?” “They were excited,” she said. “Dad thinks he might want to invest.” Cricket’s dad loved to unwind from a long day of teaching Physics at UC Santa Barbara by watching CNBC’s aftermarket shout-fests. They were cotton candy to his intellect. “That’s really kind of him,” I said, “but not“Theyyet.” want you to see that they believe in you,” she said. I cringed at what I was about to say next. “Well, I think Cyrus has set some kind of minimum investment size and I think it is pretty big.” “Oh,” she said. Cricket’s parents had done just fine, but they weren’t sitting on piles of cash. “Well, it’s the thought that counts, right?” “Right,” I agreed, grateful that I wasn’t adding the responsibility for Cricket’s parents’ retirement savings to the draining of my own. “So, we have a plan?” I asked. “An approved plan?” “Since when do you need my approval?” “Since always.” She smiled. “Yes, we have a plan.”
“Almost professional,” John Colton added with a grin. “If your man ever gets in a pinch, you could probably pay the rent with this pie.” Genevieve’s eyes narrowed to size of gunnery slits in a World War II pillbox. “I was a professional, Mr. Colton. And I can more than pay the rent with my talents.” Even I – a decorated veteran of the foot-in-mouth faux pas – recognized that John Colton had struck a nerve. This was the moment when I usually groveled an apology, but Colton took a less contrite path. “Oh, I’m sure you could,” he said, his grin broadening into a can’t-you-take-a-joke smile. “But thankfully, you don’t need to.” Genevieve returned his toothy smile with a forced one of her own. “You know,” I said after several beats of silence that seemed to make everyone else uncomfortable, “I love to bake. This is probably beyond my pay grade, but I would like to give it a try. Can you share the recipe with me,GenevieveGenevieve?”put down her wine glass, her forced smile morphing into pursed lips. “I’m sorry, Hollis,” she said, shaking her head no. I waited for her to elaborate, but she added nothing. “Don’t worry,” I offered, “You won’t catch me selling pies. I cook for an audience of four; that’sTheit.”corners of her pursed lips edged up slightly. “It’s nothing like that, Hollis,” she said. “Cyrus assures me that you are a man that can be trusted …”My eyes shifted to Cyrus. He raised his wine glass and nodded in acknowledgment.“Butthisrecipe is a family secret,” Genevieve continued. “One I’ll never share.” Chapter 9 Cyrus arranged a global video teleconference so that I could meet the rest of his ExOh team. To accommodate all time zones in an equally painful manner, the call was held at 10 pm Montecito time. I was nervous all day. To satiate those fears, I read anything I could find about global finance, Chinese trade barriers, Asian import tariffs, trade wars, and how those who have managed to set up profitable Chinese retail operations accomplished it. Research had always been my blankie and at no time had I felt more in need of new knowledge thanWhilenow.making dinner that night, Cricket pressed me for the terms of my new employment. I knew we would come to this topic eventually, but I had been avoiding it; this was where her flood of enthusiasm would meet its wall of resistance. “If you’re not being paid, you’re not being valued,” she correctly argued. “It was a non-negotiable issue, Cricket. No one on the executive team is getting paid in cash,” I said. “It’s take it or leave it.”
Tune in next week for Chapter 10 and a meeting with the ExOh team
“Hmmm,” she said, then went back to preparing the meal, turning the options over in her head, comparing the crushing weight of the rock to the unyielding exterior of the hard place. I was desperate for her validation. So much so, that I briefly considered voicing a supporting argument based on the economic theory of com parative advantage – desperate times indeed. Comparative advantage is a theory that argues for free trade based on the surprising conclusion that every country should specialize in its relative advantages, even if those rel ative advantages are actual deficiencies. Marriages are like this, I planned to argue. Yes, Cricket was a better breadwinner than me. She was also a better CEO of the Crawford household and a better nonprofit volun teer. Unfortunately, she could not wear every hat in the house unless she planned on adding a neck brace. So, what to do with inept Hollis? CEO of the Crawford house hold? Child Protective Services would be on premises within a week. Nonprofit volunteer? I wouldn’t survive a day. Breadwinner? By pro cess of elimination, it remained the only option where my success was conceivable.Icrackeda slight smile at the logic of this argument. The smile lasted for a millisecond before I grasped the pitiful emasculation of it all. I did not have the courage to voice the truth; Cricket would have to be man enough for us both. I sat, watching her cook, waiting for the white smoke signifying that her papal conclave had reached a conclusion.
“You really believe in this?” she finally asked. I swallowed. “I do. I really do.” And I did, I really did. I believed Cyrus’s spiel about ExOh becoming the next Amazon, and every time the practical reality of not getting paid crept to the front of my conscious ness, I thought about one million dollars’ worth in stock on the way to becoming ten million in cash. I was not going to get an offer like this anywhere else. She nodded. “How will we get by? I can’t exactly ask for a raise,” she said. “Two times zero is still zero.” “I have a plan,” I said. The plan was the unthinkable sin of cashing in my retirement money early. I had run the numbers in anticipation of Cricket potentially giving me the go ahead. If I set up an automatic withdrawal program on my Individual Retirement Account, the after-tax, after-penalty value of my account divided into twelve equal installments would match a decent take home salary for a start-up business executive. By the time my retirement funds ran out, my ExOh stock would be fully vested and worth millions, and this little speedbump would become a fun piece of familyCricketlore.nodded along. “I hate that plan.” “Me too,” I said. “But it is the best one I’ve got.”
pie had a buttery graham cracker crust with the faintest hint of mint. Sandwiched between the lime and the crust was a thick layer of dark choc olate. On top, homemade whipped cream squeezed from a pastry bag with a petal piping tip. It was worthy of a photo; a truth not lost on Genevieve. She positioned her plate in front of a few candles with a glass of Entre Nous in the background and snapped several pictures for Instagram. Then we dug Magnificentin. was not an adequate descriptor. I have never tasted anything like it. The lime and chocolate paired perfectly with the Pinot Noir. Each bite and sip combination sent my taste buds swooning. I finished my slice and looked longingly at Cricket’s. When she was done – she was blessed with the ability to know when she was full and the wisdom to listen to that voice – I implored her to share the remnants with me. I then finished hers“Thistoo.is unreal, Genevieve,” I said. “I am so glad you like it,” she said, clapping her hands together.
Another remnant of a white dwarf lies nearby in Messier 27, the Dumbbell Nebula. “Although created through the same process as Messier 57, this object will look very different to the public – in the shape of a bowtie,” Whittemore says. “What process produced this asymmetric object? Was there an unseen stellar com panion to redistribute the gas cloud into this odd shape?”
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Denu, born and raised in Los Angeles, says her husband and three children are overjoyed to be at Westmont and to be a part of the Santa Barbara community.
While in the stellar region, Whittemore plans to point the telescope to the cen tral section of Cygnus, the Swan, where a number of open clusters dot the region where an absence of stars forms what is known as the Coalsack Nebula. He encourages the public to bring binoculars to use on the observatory deck where he will be able to point out a number of gems in the southern sky, a region too low for Westmont’s eight-inch refractor telescope.
“We have been warmly welcomed by President Beebe, the Westmont commu nity, and our local neighbors,” she says. “We have enjoyed the hospitality of com munity members who have dropped off fresh bread, delivered flowers and cards, and who have invited us to their homes. We feel blessed to be here.”
New Year With a New Provost Westmont’s new provost Kim BattleWalters Denu and her family have arrived in Santa Barbara. She began August 1 and has been getting to know faculty who are preparing for the first day of classes August 29. “I’m thrilled to welcome her to Westmont,” says Westmont President Gayle D. Beebe . “With her 25 years of experience as a senior leader in Christian higher education and her deep commitment to a life of faith, she brings the perfect blend of rigorous academics and deep love of God that wePreviously,desire.” she served as interim director at the District Church in Washington, D.C., and as vice pres ident for education programs for the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. She spent much of her career at Azusa Pacific University, most recently as vice president and chief diversity officer.
The observatory is home to the Keck Telescope, a computer-controlled 24-inch reflector telescope (photo by Brad Elliott)
The Ring Nebula (Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage)
Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College “At the center of the Milky Way lies one of the most star-studded regions, sandwiched in the region of the Summer Triangle that consists of the bright stars Deneb, Vega, and Altair,” says Thomas Whittemore, emeritus instructor of physics and SBAU member. The triangle houses Messier 57, the Ring Nebula, an expanding cloud of gas that used to be the atmosphere of a dying white dwarf star. “Visitors should know that this will also be the fate of our own star, the sun, but far, far in the future,” Whittemore says. “Although the central white dwarf will likely not be visible in Westmont’s refractor telescope, the spheri cal, expanding cloud of gas will.”
Provost Kim Denu outside her office in Kerrwood Hall (photo by Brad Elliott)
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The Way It Was: What Chard Wrought
SOLD | $104,000,000 ± 123,000 SF office/R&D complex on ± 29.06 acres with sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean by Hattie Beresford I n the 1920s, American Santa Barbarans, enthralled with the mys tique of Santa Barbara’s roman tic Spanish past, set about preserving the rapidly-disappearing adobes. Ester Hammond purchased and paid for the preservation of the Hill/Carrillo Adobe, architect Louise McVhay completely ren ovated the Gonzalez/Ramirez adobe to reflect her vision of a romantic ranch house, and Irene and Bernhard Hoffmann preserved the De la Guerra Adobe while creating a charming faux Mexican village known today as El Paseo. They also pre served the Lugo adobe, but like McVhay, “improved” its architecture to reflect a fictious vision of the past. Into this mix, came architect John William Chard, a descendent of a pio neering California family. Chard’s grand father, New York born William George Chard, had traveled the Santa Fe Trail to arrive in Los Angeles in company with other trappers and traders in 1832-33. With a partner he established a soap factory and vineyard on the San Gabriel River before moving north in 1837 to
In 1920, Ludmilla Pilat Welch and her sister built the house that Chard designed for them in the Fellowship Colony on the Mesa (Santa Barbara HistoricalMuseum)
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The Way It Was try his luck in Santa Barbara. For a short time, he worked as a trader and otter hunter on the coast, and stayed in the Channel City long enough to become a naturalized Mexican citizen before mov ing on to Santa Cruz. On December 3, 1839, he converted to Catholicism and was baptized at Mission Carmel as “Jorge Guillermo Chard.” One month later he married the young Maria Estefana Robles at Santa Cruz. In 1844, Chard received a Mexican land grant of some 13,000 acres in Tehama County on the western bank of the Sacramento River. He named it Rancho de las Flores and constructed a log cabin, which he called “Sacramento House.” In 1857, fire destroyed the dwelling and Maria almost died. Vaqueros on the ranch had to chop a hole in the wall to get her out. Valuable papers were burned as well as cherished relics of the days of Spain. When they rebuilt, they rebuilt with tried-and-true fireproof Mexican adobe. Maria and William’s first-born son, Joseph William Chard, was born in 1841. As he grew up, Joseph ran stock and farmed on the family’s ranch in Tehama, but by 1879 he had moved to Montecito and found work as a butcher. In 1880, he married Dina Garcia, and they moved onto a portion of the 1820 Garcia family land grant in Montecito’s Cold Spring Canyon. John William Chard, born the following year, was their first child. Ten wouldThoughfollow.several of their children were born at the homestead in the canyon, Dina, was deathly afraid of rattlesnakes and feared that one of her children might be bitten in this viperous envi ronment. By 1894, she apparently had
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On Entertainment The Iration Nation On Entertainment Page 424
Danny Hutton of Three Dog Night
I ration’s most recent album is called Coastin’, described as a record about being thankful for the moments that we have. The reggae/alt.rock band’s current tour, in which Iration co-head lines with the Minneapolis based under ground hip-hop act with the cheery name of Atmosphere, is dubbed Sunshine & Summer Nights. So Iration’s lead singer-guitarist-songwriter Micah Pueschel understands why that might not immediately appeal to everyone, but he’s making no apologies for Iration’s upbeat vibe. “A happy, positive reggae-rock band from Hawaii located in Southern California? I get it,” Pueschel said. “I imagine my initial reaction would be maybe it’s a little too saccharin without enough edge. We do have some songs like that. But it’s not one-note reggae. There’s a lot more going on, too. It’s dynamic and it’s big and diverse with a lot of Indeed,musicality.thesound has shifted a bit from its early days as Isla Vista favor ites in the mid-2000s – when Iration would regularly draw thousands of students and others to its regular gigs on Del Playa – on the way to festival regulars who will be playing yet anoth er show at the Santa Barbara Bowl on August 25. But the vibe has remained the same, even as evolving iterations of Iration continue to place albums on the top of the reggae charts and sell out venues across the nation. And Pueschel, the only band member who still lives in Santa Barbara, is just fine with that. Q. Did you ever imagine back in IV that Iration would be where you are now? A. We were just some dudes from Hawaii that decided to start this band, who got popular in a college town. But it wasn’t until we started doing original songs, sold out a club on the Sunset Strip where people were singing our songs, that it started to take off. The whole reggae/island music sound was getting popular, and we were able to carve out our own space. What was that first Bowl show like at the KJEE Summer Roundup a decade or so ago? We didn’t play our best because we were also nervous and playing on such a big stage, and in our hometown. We weren’t quite ready for it. But we love it every time we get to come back because it’s always a cool moment to play the County Bowl [sic] where we used to go see other bands as college kids. Talk about how your sound grew over the years. When [original co-lead singer Kai Rediske left] that threw us for a loop and took some of the momentum we’d been building. But it also allowed us to naturally evolve to where we could just let it go and be ourselves and let the songwriting take us where it want ed to go rather than trying to direct it in the same way… But now, actually, after making three records that had a lot of high production with drum loops and everything, we’re trying to go back a little bit, going back to more of an organic feel, focusing on hearing the room, hearing the band playing together. The idea is to draw as much energy from the live performance as we can, which is what makes us special, and get that onto a record as opposed to trying to make them sound per fect… In concert, we play stuff from our whole catalog, though, because we try to please everyone from whenever they became a fan. Feed them a good meal. We’re people pleasers. And still maintaining the positive atti tude, even during the ongoing pandemic… Yeah, that’s just who we are. If we tried to do downer songs, or get polit ical or talk about hardship, it would be bull----. We grew up in Hawaii and we’ve all had pretty good lives and we feel very lucky. What we do is truthful and real. So even when we do songs about having issues, we still put a pos itive spin on it, and have an optimistic outlook by the end. Looking back to IV days, when it was all about fun and keeping drunk college kids interested, how do you think it shaped the band and how much is still there now? It’s in our DNA. We always want to do a higher energy show than people might expect to get that response of getting the crowd going. You seek that forever. What it comes down to is trying to recapture that Isla Vista vibe and that wild, crazy feeling of anything can happen. It’s that desire to feel that rush of those initial shows again. Speaking of which, you have a toddler daughter. Are you going to let her hit the IV scene when she’s older? No! God help me! Hopefully by then, UCSB turns even more into an Ivy League-type school, and I won’t have to worry.
Iration has come a long way from its early days of playing in IV (photo by Chris Colclasure)
Top Dogs of the Night
Three Dog Night scored 21 consec utive Top 40 hits between 1969-1975, 11 of which made the Top 10, with three hitting No. 1. They sold some 40 million discs over the years. The band pioneered the concept of hav ing three different lead singers trading off on vocals, often within a single song, and coming together for pow erful three-part harmonies. And while they didn’t do much original material back in their heyday, Three Dog Night helped connect mainstream audiences with up-and-coming singer-songwriters
Montecito JOURNAL 3318 – 25 August 2022
WHERE: Location provided after ticket purchase COST: $27 INFO: https://galavant.live
COST: $20-$75 INFO: (805) 962-7776 or sohosb.com
WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1317 State St. COST: $25-$40 INFO: (805) 963-4408/ thearlingtontheatre.com or axs.com/venues/2330
INFO: (805) 963-4364 or sbma.net
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20
The Full Nelson – While Rolling Stone has called Willie Nelson “the most unique and versatile country artist of all time – a cowboy singer with jazz phrasing playing Django Reinhardt guitar licks on a beat-up classical gui tar,” his son Lukas hasn’t fallen too far from the fold. Lukas and his band, Promise of the Real, these days better known as POTR, have turned into leaders of the country-Americana genre through intelligent, emotional depth exploring albums and fiery stage performances that weave soul, folk, and R&B elements into their signature sound. POTR’s 2019’s pre-pandemic album with a prescient title of Turn Off The News (Build A Garden) and the 2021’s A Few Stars Apart both topped the Americana Albums charts for sev eral weeks. The ensemble has also served as Neil Young ’s regular backing band for the last seven years, including the surprise stop at the Lobero back in 2018. This time around the band, sans Young, plays the Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara’s largest indoor venue.
Third Thursday at SBMA – Augmenting the eve ning art walk hours for the Downtown Orga nization’s 1st Thursday events, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art hosts its own event two weeks later with not only free admission, but a bunch of activities, including celebrating the newly-in stalled, iconic portrait bust by artist Awol Erizku called Nefertiti – Miles Davis (Gold) . Inspired by the 1968 studio album from the American jazz trumpet/composer legend, the sculpture by Erizku, Ethiopian-Ameri can contemporary artist who splits his time between New York City and Los Angeles, is now on view over the Visitor Services desk at the State Street entrance. Also on tap for tonight’s festivities is dance music from DJ Darla Bea on the front terrace, complimentary docent Ten Talks for the current exhibit Going Global: Abstract Art at Mid-Century, museum teaching artist-led art activities in the Family Resource Center, and a free raffle entry for a chance to win a gift bag of artful treasures from the Museum Store. Meanwhile, the museum’s Mary Craig Auditorium hosts “Abstraction after Psychology,” a talk by Los Angeles-based art historian, critic, and USC professor Suzanne Hudson about mid-century abstraction in relation to psychology and projective testing that examines the ways that the use of images in clinical settings conditioned audience encoun ters with art.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23
WHEN: 5:30-11:30 pm WHERE: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Calendar of Events by Steven Libowitz
WHEN: 1-10 pm WHERE: Seaside Park, 10 W. Harbor Blvd., Ventura COST: $59-$149 INFO: bootsandbrews.com/ventura
Music on the Move – Webster’s defines ‘galivant’ as “to travel, roam, or move about for pleasure,” which would seem to fit to a T the recent Santa Barbara entity Galavant, which produces intimate outdoor pop-up events with a cura tion of live music. After several events at such places as the Botanic Garden and private Montecito homes, Galavant is teaming with the fledgling Santa Barbara Records, which itself has produced concerts at the Canary Hotel rooftop, to collaborate on a series of intimate pop-up shows in town. First up is a double-bill of label mates Omar Velasco and Chris Beland , held at a pri vate coastal farm featuring local food bites from Eating with Jo, aka Joanna Lawlor , whose blend of cultures is represented in her Filipino food menu for the event.
WHEN: 5:30 pm
Montecito JOURNAL34 18 – 25 August 2022“A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.” – Confucius
Country on the Coast – The Wild Horses festival’s attempt last November at attracting an audience to the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club for two days of country and American roots music proved to be a one-and-done affair. But CBF Production’s Boots & Brews is back again at Surfer’s Point in Ventura, adjacent to the Ventura Seaside Park fairgrounds. While part-time Montecito resident Brad Paisley is skipping Ventura to perform at the Santa Clarita event two weeks later, today’s lineup features some mighty tasty country stars, too, including Cole Swindell , whose fourth studio album, Stereotype , released four months ago, contains the singles “Single Saturday Night” and “Never Say Never.” Singer Eddie Montgomery , who was one-half of the popular hitmaking country duo Montgomery Gentry for more than two decades before the untimely death of Troy Gentry. Montgomery, who has collaborated with Charlie Daniels , Toby Keith , Five for Fighting, and members of The Allman Brothers Band, still tours under the duo’s name but also released his first studio album as a solo artist, Ain’t No Closing Me Down , last November. Also on the bill: RaeLynn ( Racheal Lynn Woodward ), who used her appearance through the quarter finals on the 2012 season of The Voice to springboard her country career. RaeLynn’s 2017 album, which coincidentally is titled WildHorse , hit No. 1 on Billboard ’s country chart. Don’t forget your cowboy hats and dancing boots. And given the event’s name, yes lots of beer will be available on site, but at an extra cost.
WHEN: 5-8 pm (Talk at 5 pm) WHERE: 1130 State Street COST: Free admission, $5 for Hudson’s talk
SUNDAY, AUGUST 21 Girly-Q at SOhO – Indianapolis-born Los Angeles-based stand-up comedian Audrey Stewart serves as emcee for a six-hour par ty at SOhO presented by Ace Pro Music as a community-based Pride Week kick-off party and benefit event for Pacific Pride Founda tion. Stewart, who has been heard on Net flix is a Joke Radio, seen on the NBC Series Bring the Funny, The Drew Barrymore Show, and the Facebook Watch series Fuzzballs, will bring the laughs before and between sets of music starting with Jennifer Corday, an Out-And-Proud award-winning sing er-songwriter-guitarist-cellist who boasts five studio albums and whose original music has been heard in MTV documentaries and numerous movie soundtracks. Also per forming is Jayne Wayne, the erstwhile Santa Barbara band of longtime locals who play original and obscure tunes with tight three-part harmony and danceable beats plus a little lilt, swing, twang, and sway. When the live music ends, it’s time for DJ Darla Bea, winner of the “Best Event DJ in Santa Barbara” Award for six consecutive years. The Santa Barbara native appears all over town and has supported the Pacific Pride Foundation as an ally and a music curator for LGBTQ Mixers, Proud Proms, Drag Queen Brunches, and more since 2016.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25
WHEN: 6-7 pm WHERE: Zoom COST: free INFO: hospiceofsb.org/hsbseries
WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $33.75-$54.25 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or lobero.com
18 – 25 August 2022
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25
Guitarist Who Really Cook(s) – The Canadian guitarist Jesse Cook has carved out a clever career as an acoustic wizard whose fiery music gets a lot of at tention from both fans and the bestowers of awards. Over the last 27 years, he’s claimed 11 Juno Award nominations (the Canadian Grammy equivalent), winning for 2001’s Free Fall, been named Acoustic Guitar Player’s Choice Award silver winner in the Flamenco Category, and earned a combined 10 platinum and gold records for his studio albums. There have been sold out concerts around the world, five PBS television specials, and a self-produced video collection called “Love in the Time of Covid” that consists of some two dozen solo YouTube videos of his favorite songs featuring Cook playing all the instru ments, which he also recorded and filmed himself. This would surely seem to be a can’t-miss show for fans of the flamenco-based guitarist Benise, a frequent Santa Barbara visitor who is set to return to the Lobero himself on October 1.
Surfer and Sage Wax Philosophical at Chaucer’s – Back in the spring, legendary world champion surfer Shaun Tomson and international bestselling poet-philoso pher Noah benShea – both decades-long residents of Montecito – joined forces to co-write The Surfer and the Sage , created as a guidebook to offer transformational insights on a path of purpose, hope, and faith covering topics from loss and aging to relationships and depression. The book alternates between experiential essays from Tomson, who was rated the No. 1 surfer in the world in the late 1970s, and spiritual commentary from benShea, the beloved Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet-philosopher who created Jacob the Baker . The pair have traveled prolifically, both during their lives and in the wake of the book’s publication, launching a tour that debuted at Tecolote and anchored an evening at the Maritime Museum before hitting the road. Now, back home, they’re visiting the area’s most event-oriented bookstore, midtown’s Chaucer’s, to once more charm and uplift the locals.
WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center COST: free INFO: (805) 682-6787 or chaucersbooks.com
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Stress as a Friend – Health psychologist and Stanford lecturer Dr. Kelly McGonigal, known for her evolving work in the field of “science help” focusing on translating insights from psychology and neuroscience into practical strategies that support health and well-being, is the next guest in the Illuminate Speaker Series, the pandemic-in spired streaming series from Hospice of Santa Barbara. McGonigal, who has written extensively about medication, willpower, stress, and resilience – her TED Talk on stress has more than 20 million viewings – will be in conversation with Jonathan Bastian, the well-known NPR host at KCRW who has interviewed numerous influential writers, thinkers, and policy makers, including Salman Rushdie, the late Congress man John Lewis, Michael Chabon, Oliver Sacks, Barbara Kingsolver, and many others.
The Nature Lab’s Tower Gardens are recently completed, allowing students to learn multiple ways of growing produce MUS Improvements
MUS on San Ysidro Road is undergoing a two-year-long construc tion project to address accessibility and infrastructure issues
Just days before school goes back in session following summer break, Montecito Union School is busy get ting classrooms rearranged in order to accommodate what will ultimately be two years of construction in order to modernize campus infrastructure. The project, which is 15 years in the making, includes improving infrastruc ture and accessibility in Building D (over 100 years old) and Building E (over 70 years old). Because the campus is eclec tic, the topography includes multiple levels, which means that there are mul tiple sets of stairs and non-compliance with ADA regulations. Two elevators will be added to the main building; new bathrooms will be added and existing ones will be brought up to code; thresh olds will be modified to accommo date wheelchairs and walkers; truncated domes will be added where necessary for the visually impaired; ADA signage will be added; new built-ins will be installed where old ones are torn out during construc tion; and new equipment and some furniture will be purchased. Both buildings will also be outfitted with air conditioning, which the rest of the campus already enjoys. Newly-installed solar panels will generate the power nec essary for the new HVAC systems.Thisproject will occur in five phases. Phase 1 is near ly complete, and included moving everything out of Building D, and bringing in eight, full-sized portable classrooms. A temporary office has been set up in one of the fifth-grade classrooms, and other classrooms have been shuffled around. Fourth-grade classes, as well as music and one Spanish class, will be located in the temporary portable class rooms.Superintendent Anthony Ranii, who gave us a tour of the campus earlier this week, wants the community to know that the gate cre ated in the fencing above the school on San Ysidro Road, is not permanent, and is not a new entrance to the school. “We had to bring in the portables through this temporary access,” he said, adding that the portable classrooms, located on the field, could not be placed via School House Road because of the road’s narrowness. Phase 2 will take place this school year, and includes all upgrades to Building D (the main building). From the outside, the building will look the same, but there is fencing up to secure the area during construction. Phase 3 includes completing the elevators, which Ranii says is the most complex part of the project.Next summer the campus will be shuffled around again, with classes and administration going back to a newly-renovated Building D, and work beginning on Building E in Phase 4, which will displace TK, Kindergarten, and first graders to the portables. The final phase, Phase 5, which is anticipated in the summer of 2024, includes removing the tempo rary classrooms, renovating the field and hardscape, and moving everyone back to their original location. Ranii says that safety is the primary concern during construction. “There will be physical barriers between construc tion areas and students, and all equip ment and materials will be in a lay-down area enclosed by fences. We are finger printing construction staff members and meeting daily to discuss how to mitigate and minimize any disruptions due to noise and dust,” he said. Questions and concerns can be directed to Mr. Ranii at: aranii@montecitou.org.The$14Mprojectis being self-fund ed by the school and includes a $3M grant from the State of California. MUS has been aggressively putting aside money for this project, adding $700K-$1.5M per year to a special fund for the last five years. Earlier this year the School Board approved a bridge loan in order to secure the rest of the funds before lumber and con struction costs inflate further. Also happening on campus, a new school breakfast and lunch provider, NuCuisine Catering, is under contract for the upcoming year. Ranii said food service at the school has consistent ly scored low on parent and student feedback surveys, and that NuCuisine was chosen with the enthusiastic rec ommendation of a panel of teachers, staff members, parents, and students.
Montecito JOURNAL36 18 – 25 August 2022“Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” – Richard Cushing Village Beat Page 444 Village Beat (Continued from 6)
The Outdoor Learning Pavilion is under construction, expected to be completed by October 1
Longtime executive assistant Autumn Noe has been instrumental in helping to transition to this new provider, which has created a food program that meets the needs and values of MUS. NuCuisine Catering, owned by chef Koji Nomura, has been providing school lunch programs in Santa Barbara for 13 years. They currently serve lunch and breakfast at Riviera Ridge (formerly Marymount) and have also provided lunches for Bishop Diego High School and Hope School. Mr. Nomura has owned and operated Santa Barbara restaurants including Piranha Sushi Bar, Rocks Restaurant, California Noodle Kitchen, Miso Hungry, Santa Barbara Tennis Club, and was the Executive Chef at Oku Restaurant. The food program will be free to all students. Two new projects are also ongoing on the other side of campus, at the school’s Nature Lab. The Outdoor Learning Pavilion is in progress, with four learn ing counters currently being constructed, which will have student sinks and elec trical outlets. This pavilion will allow for science, art, and the preparation of fruits and vegetables from the Nature Lab, and is expected to be completed by October 1. Plans for bathrooms for the Nature Lab have been submitted, and once complete, they will allow for greater use of the facility for younger students, as well as communi ty Forevents. more information, visit montecitou.org. The campus is located at 385 San Ysidro Road. Find & Fix a Leak Initiative Recognizing that leaks can be a major water-waster, the Montecito Water District recently checked every cus tomer’s meter for the faucet icon that indicates a potential leak on the prop erty. More than 800 faucet icons were identified and the District has mailed notices to these customers so that they are aware of their potential water waste. The District is asking all customers to do everything they can to monitor for leaks, and to make any needed repairs rightCustomersaway. frequently ask about the status of the “smart meter” program. The
A temporary entrance on San Ysidro Road has been utilized for construction purposes
New temporary portable classrooms will be on campus the next two years
Montecito JOURNAL 3718 – 25 August 2022 On Friday Evening, September 16, 2022 we honor our 2022 Legends on stage at The Granada Theatre. Palmer and Joan Jackson Philanthropists State Street Ballet Cultural Organization Allen Sides AArtistGala with captivating surprises. Unexpected bursts of talent to thrill. Enchanting visual experiences. Music and song to delight. Anecdotes from the heart. Experience the 2022 at The Granada Theatre. For more information call 805.899.3000 or email Jill Seltzer, Vice President for Advancement, The Granada Theatre at jseltzer@granadasb . org. The proceeds from the Legends Gala go directly towards supporting The Granada Theatre.
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Montecito JOURNAL38 18 – 25 August 2022“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
by Robert Bernstein A recent New York Times Opinion piece claimed that inequality is not as bad as it appears because “spending power” is a more accurate measure than income or wealth. I reached out to author Peter Coy and to Berkeley economist Alan Auerbach who wrote the orig inal paper.
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grates natural gas, the cleanest of the fossil fuels and nuclear, a key clean, safe, and green energy source. Has he learned nothing of the leadership folly in Europe and their reliance on an autocratic government as their key energy source? Germany especially errored in shutting down their nucle ar plants, something they are trying to reverse now. European countries, now desperate for more natural gas, are building LNG terminals to accept natural gas from the USA which has ample supply once the Biden admin istration allows them to produce and ship it. Maybe this pending energy bill in congress will allow that. But, in the meantime, Europeans are turning to the dirtiest fossil fuel coal, to support their natural gas capacities for the upcoming winter. Such are necessi ties. Sometimes heat waves require the AC and when it is 104 degrees no one worries about the energy sources. That goes for required heat when freezing cold temperatures arrive. It is one thing to preach about energy sources in the pleasant coastal town of Santa Barbara and quite another to do so in Bavaria in December. When you are traumatized by the actual effects of cli mate change you need energy to cope with them and you want the switch to “Go ON” no matter the source. Most reasonable people can agree that low-carbon green energy is an important energy goal for our country and solar, hydrogen, and wind, but also hydro and nuclear, need to be part of the solution as we transition away from fossil fuels over the next couple of decades. And plentiful U.S. natural gas will be a key fuel in the transition. The next generation of nuclear is a key solu tion and one advance is Small Modular Reactors or SMR’s (something promot ed by Bill Gates ) which are safe, clean, and carbon-free. The Department of Energy views small-footprint SMR’s as a key source for power, desalination, and other industrial uses and will play a pivotal role in protecting our environ ment and promoting energy security. And just like in making a Tesla, min ing, milling, manufacturing become part of the carbon-unit mix that is required if we are going to innovate and move forward. I would not be so quick to criticize Fareed Zakaria when he supports nat ural gas and nuclear as part of the pres ent solution Mr. Brutoco, it makes you seem absurd. J.W. Burk Blinders On? To the Editorial section of the Montecito Journal Do you have blinders on? Why are you not publishing letters to the editor about national and worldwide issues? Do you not care that our Republic is being systematically taken apart by the left, including a senile president who cannot even put his jacket on? Isn’t it the job of the press to keep citi zens informed so they can make wise and informed decisions? Case in Point: Do you not care that out of control spending by our politicians is increas ing inflation? Do you not care that the IRS, the DOJ, and the FBI are being weaponized against average Americans who disagree with the leftist agenda? Do you not care that 87,000-armed IRS agents will be unleashed on aver age Americans? Do you not care that the full weight of the federal govern ment is being used to target former Pres. Donald Trump instead of being used to deal with America’s many problems?Goingforward, please do your job. Keep your readers informed about what is happening in the real world. Diana Thorn Popcorn on the Fifth During the 2016 presidential cam paign, Donald Trump and the GOP were enraged at Hillary Clinton’s han dling of potentially classified material as Secretary of State. A congressional inves tigation was established to get to the bottom of this alleged scandal. When several Clinton aides pleaded the Fifth Amendment, Donald Trump said, “The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the FifthSinceAmendment?”81.2million voters removed Trump’s humongous rear end from the White House, this Crown Prince of Corruption and his henchmen have been singing a different tune.
Eric Trump , John Eastman , Roger Stone , Alex Jones , Jeffrey Clark , and Michael Flynn have each plead ed the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times. Amateurs! On August 10, at a four-hour sworn deposition in a New York civil case regarding the Trump Organization’s business prac tices, Trump “took the Fifth” more than 400 times. Some say that Donald Trump is the most corrupt president since Warren G. Harding. That is (as he would say), “so unfair.” In reality, com pared to Trump, Warren G. Harding is like Mother Teresa. As far as the handling of potential ly classified material, let’s see what’s in those fifteen boxes (some clear ly marked “Classified”) that Donald Trump illegally transported to Mara-Lago. The FBI’s search warrant was legally obtained and legally executed. How will the Fox puppeteers and their MAGA marionettes justify Trump’s clear breach of national security? Get out the popcorn. This should be very entertaining.
Robert Baruch
I asked Coy if he was familiar with the concept of Boots Economics: A poor person is forced to buy cheap boots that don’t last long, costing more in the long run. Making it more expensive to be poor. To his credit, Coy was familiar with this and sent me this James Baldwin quote: “Anybody who has ever strug gled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” He admit ted this changes his inequality claim. Auerbach never replied to me. Just a week later The New York Times had an Opinion piece “Alabama Takes From the Poor and Gives to the Rich.” Not sure why this is Opinion rather than News? Alabama makes it almost impossible to raise taxes. So, they make up for it with fees. A per son might have a small problem with the law that may not even be their fault. Immediately they are charged fees. If they fail to pay the fees quick ly, penalty fees are added. If they fail to pay the penalty fees they go to jail. Where more fees accumulate. Being in a U.S. jail also means pay ing outrageous fees to contact people on the outside. Huge private profits are made by forcing people in jail to make collect calls to people outside at grossly inflated prices. Being in jail also often means losing one’s job and/or housing. Making it very difficult and expensive ever to recover. As a student I had an older friend who commuted to work in Oakland on his moped. One day it was stolen. He had to take the bus. While waiting to change buses it started to rain. A crazy person beat him to steal his raincoat, putting my friend in the hospital. Poor people often have such cascades of one loss leading to a series of growing losses. Riding the bus, I often hear stories of people who have descended in such downward spirals. Here in Isla Vista the rents are among the highest in the region for some of the shabbiest housing in the region. Renters are forced to triple up in rooms to afford the outrageous prices. The more they crowd them selves in, the more the landlords raise thePoorprices.neighborhoods also tend to have the highest crime rates and insurance rates. Very expensive. “The rich get richer and the poor get – children.” Expensive. Painfully true now with the Supreme Court letting states outlaw all abortion. Money begets money through investments, dividends, and interest earned. And education and connections. Poverty begets poverty through interest paid, penalty fees, and lack of Reaganconnections.endedtax deductions for most interest, but kept them for those wealthy enough to own property. Civilized countries offset these “pov erty taxes” with an infrastructure of social programs: free healthcare, free college, generous paid leave, and pen sions. The U.S. does not. Healthcare is the leading cause of bankruptcy in the“PovertyU.S. is Expensive” is not just true for the poor. It is expensive for everyone. People who are poor can become despondent and turn to drugs for relief. They can find themselves addicted and in trouble with the law merely for “self-medicating.” This can lead to a downward spi ral of committing crimes to survive. Crime is very expensive to the victim relative to the meager reward for the criminal. And when the criminal is caught, they are living at public expense and not being productive. The U.S. is the world leader in incar ceration, both in sheer numbers and per capita. Very expensive. Because wealth begets wealth, inequality grows ever worse in the U.S. My June article “Policy Makers Don’t Care About You?” takes this to another level. Money also buys public policy that favors the wealthy over the poor. When working people fight back it is called “class warfare.” But the wealthy and powerful have always waged one-sided class warfare. Most wealthy people vote Republican to cut their taxes and public investment. But few vote for the long range public interest which helps them, too. It is up to all of us to organize and demand pol icies that offset this reality that poverty is expensive for everyone.
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Chard’s exquisite 1926 adobe house for Walter Candy in Pasadena has been designated a histor ic landmark (photo by Michael Locke)
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Chard designed one hundred small adobe homes for the Walnut Park subdivision of the Cudahy rancho. National Builder featured them in an August 1920 article touting the use of modern adobe.
The courtyard of the 1927 Thomas Miller House in the Los Feliz neighbor hood of Los Angeles is reminiscent of the courtyard at Solbrillo in Santa Barbara (photo by Michael Locke) The courtyard of Solbrillo in 1996 reveals the delicate touches of ornamentation in the shape of the columns, capitals, and arcade arches as well as the colonnaded framing of the sunroom windows and the multiple diamond panes of the bay (Montecito Association History Committee)
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe.” – Pablo Picasso PH# 805-886-5100 said “enough,” and the family moved to Carrillo Street in town and later to 1129 San Pascual Street. The Adobe Architect About 1904, the eldest son, John William Chard, headed for San Francisco where he joined his brother Alonzo and other Chard relatives in working for Shreve & Co, a silversmithing firm. By 1915, he had become an architect, most likely through an apprenticeship. He returned to Santa Barbara, moved in with the family at 1129 San Pascual, and built himself an apartment attached to the garage, where he spent his days drawing architectural designs. He also threw himself into the civic life of the town and became involved with the Hikers, the Progressive Business Club, Neighborhood House, and other organizations. A native son of California with both Spanish and American heritage, Chard had probably heard the story of his grand mother’s near immolation on Rancho de las Flores and the conflagration that took his Uncle Stephen’s house in Red Bluff. His own family had lived in an adobe house in Cold Spring Canyon, so it is no wonder that Chard’s architectural special ty turned to the reintroduction of adobe bricks as a viable building medium. By 1916, he was already being referred to as “the adobe architect.” In 1917, to prove the worth of adobe in the construction of houses, he decided to build an adobe house on the family plot at 1129 San Pascual Street as a demonstration of the advantages of using adobe bricks. He had created new techniques and equipment for creating and laying the bricks, special waterproofing to insure against deteriora tion, and methods for reinforcement. Adobe, he opined, was economical and usually found on the building site. It was also fireproof and non-conductive, and it provided insulation against both heat and cold. It was everlasting and soundproof. In addition, adobe buildings expressed something of the native beauty and romance of Southern California. His promotional campaign was convincing, and he was asked to add a chapter on “Adobe Buildings” to a 134-page report on city building ordinances. In 1918, Harry H. Webb, a famous and wealthy mining engineer, commis sioned John Chard to design an adobe home for his family in Montecito on Summit Road, on a lot adjoining the new lands of the Santa Barbara Country Club. Chard created a scale model for the house, complete with electric lights and a miniature garden, which was on display at his office in town and drew a notable amount of attention. Shirley Kunze, his niece, remembers this model which came to reside in the yard at 1129 San Pascual Street. It fascinated her as a child with its tiny architectural details and she and her sister used to play with it as children. Unfortunately, years of weather did their worst, and it became a ruin. Chard’s landscaping design for the gar dens stretched down the hill to today’s Old Coast Highway and became part of the beautiful views from a Moorish court and roof pergola. The two-story house had eight bedrooms and nine bathrooms, a servants’ wing, a library, a conservatory, an electric elevator, and capacious fireplaces. An article in the Morning Press at the time said, “In keep ing with Chard’s esthetic, ornamenta tion on the exterior will be modest in design and the entire effect shows good taste.” Webb dubbed his California home, Solbrillo (bright sunshine). Another of Chard’s early commissions was an adobe house on the crest of the hill on 10 acres at the end of Anapamu Street. The owner, Hermann F. Sexauer, was invested in several lots in the area and lived nearby. He named the house Sol y Mar. At one point, he rented it to a Romanian couple, Petru and Madame Bochescu, who established a restaurant, art gallery, and playhouse called Vagabondia. Opening night saw a host of societal luminaries gathered for a savory eve ning of entertainment. After Madame Bochescu had worked her magic in the kitchen, Petru, wearing a Romanian shirt with red sash and headdress, read his two one-act plays from in front of the great fireplace in the living room. The splashing of water from the court yard fountain helped set the mood. The The Way It Was
Chard designed the adobe family home on San Pascual Street to demon strate the value of using adobe as a building medium
the Dall sheep, there they were hundreds of feet below browsing across the colorful tundra two gullies further north. The views from up high were stunning to say the least. In the background, the Kongakut flowed amongst fortified ice walls on either side of the runnel. Known as “aufeis,” 10- to 15-foot-high walls of blue ice fields eventually break away during the short Arctic summer feeding the Kongakut and other significant rivers throughout the ANWR. After soaking in an overload of Arctic panoramas, I decided to give it anoth er attempt, and from the summit I down-climbed towards their direction. Fortunately, there was lots of cover amongst young willow shrubs, with the spongy tundra allowing me to easily bounce down the mountain. Eventually though, as I grew closer, those advantages became less and less. Deciding to shed my camera pack, I slith ered and scooched my way downward on my tummy and rear-end. Before I knew it, I was about 100 feet away from the nimble Dall sheep. They effortlessly climbed up into a lofty limestone spire cloaked in vibrant, orange lichen to graze and thermoregulate beneath the Arctic sun, the mighty Kongakut cascading northward below. I too had my own convenient lime stone perch from where I observed and photographed the 18 Dall sheep. During the several hours I spent on that exposed ledge, the winds howled from the north, and dark clouds swirled above. It rained, snowed, and I too baked in the sun as temps fluctuated from balmy and buggy to downright frigid, the Arctic biome alwaysSuddenlyunpredictable.though, I wasn’t alone. My cover was blown once again. Two raucous Arctic ground squirrels were not happy with my limestone occupancy on their steep scree slope. They chirped loudly and scuffed aggressively at the loose dirt just a few feet below me, little brown plumes of dust wafting skyward with the breeze blowing southward above the runnel. Eventually, they grew tired of me, and scurried off nearby in what appeared to be inside the jaws of a limestone slab. It then grew quiet except for the steady flow of the Kongakut. The Dall sheep were thoroughly relaxed as I barely budged from my perch. They continued grazing the tundra and peat moss, and all the surrounding ledges were occupied by resting, sunbathing herbivores. As the Arctic sun sank in the west, it was an epic scene of natural wonders in this roadless expanse. Plug Mountain was shadow casting across the Kongakut and beyond to the east. However, it was nearly midnight and instead of bedding down for a low-lit evening, the Dall sheep seemed to revel in the cool, crisp evening air, and in the abundant, palette of Arctic flora. Two rambunctious lambs frolicked amongst the browsing adults, their moth ers always with one eye on their young. Before I knew it, the herd had moved so far away, they appeared as they did when the afternoon had commenced, simply mistaken as white patches of snow across the grandeur of the Arctic. Chuck Graham is a free lance writer and photogra pher based in Carpinteria, where he also leads kayak tours and backpacking trips in Channel Islands National Park
A raucous Arctic ground squirrel
Looking for Dall sheep Found them
by Chuck Graham T hey could’ve been tiny patches of snow on a distant mountain face, winter clinging to an Arctic sum mer on the North Slope of the Brooks Range in the Arctic National Wildlife RefugeHowever,(ANWR).scanning with my binoculars while on a braided, swift-moving raft, on the Kongakut River, 18 snowy white Dall sheep gradually grazed the squishy tundra above. Megafauna was plentiful on the craggy peaks and sweeping river valleys of Northeast Alaska. Two miles upriver, I exited the raft with my camera pack slung over my shoulder, binoculars, and bear spray in hand. Using a forest of dense willows as cover, I made my approach toward the Dall sheep. Like other sheep species, they pos sess incredible eyesight, requiring open space to keep tabs on potential predators, mainly gray wolves. However, as soon as I left the willows and crossed a gurgling creek, I lost my cover. The sheep gradu ally moved away, and I thought I lost my opportunity to photograph them. However, summer days above the Arctic Circle are long. The sun sets at 12:30 am and sunrise is 3:30 am, so it never gets dark. There’s no need for a headlamp. Needless to say, I had plenty of light and ample time. I decided to hike up Plug Mountain, a steep, east-facing crag with impressive, toothy limestone jutting throughout its summit. The mas sive spire was north of Drain Creek, one of the many tributaries feeding into the Kongakut River. Once I topped out at the Plug Mountain summit, I continued scanning with my binoculars. Thinking I had lost track of
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Three Dog Night’s August 19 con cert at Libbey Bowl in Ojai – where, not coincidentally, Hutton’s son and grandchildren live – comes right as the band is putting finishing touches on The Road Ahead , its first record of new material in almost 40 years, made mostly with the same engi neer from the early 1970s records. But don’t expect to hear more than a single selection at the show, even though Hutton wrote half a dozen of the tracks – with the same ethos that informed Three Dog Night 55 years ago, even if the technology has“We’rechanged.going to put it out and see what songs the public likes on Spotify,” he said. “That’s still what it’s all about.” Steven Libowitz has covered a plethora of topics for the Journal since 1997, and now leads our extensive arts and entertainment coverage
Randy Newman (“Mama Told Me Not to Come”), Paul Williams (“An Old Fashioned Love Song”), Hoyt Axton (“Joy to the World,” “Never Been to Spain”), Harry Nilsson (“One”), Laura Nyro (“Eli’s Coming”), and many oth ers. Several of those songs remain radio staples and fodder for rock cover bands across the land. Yet Three Dog Night is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Never even been nominated. “I couldn’t care less,” said Danny Hutton, the only remaining member of the original band. “I can’t tell you how many [future] members of the Hall opened for us over the last 50 years, but I don’t need that validation. I care more about the audiences having a great time at our Huttonshows.”isn’t posturing. As a veteran who’d already had some Top 40 hits on his own, he put together TDN after working with Brian Wilson and getting ideas on the sound he wanted. He’s the one who recruited singers Chuck Negron and Cory Wells – the latter of whom stayed with the band until his death in 2015 – and subsumed the songs he composed in favor of choosing largely unheard material to cover for the band’s early albums. “The critics used to nail us for jump ing all over the place [in genres],” he recalled. “We weren’t hard rock, or heavy metal, or pop. I’m really proud of that… We’ve been on just about every chart, from easy listening to pop to rock, country and R&B, even classical when we made that record with the London Symphony Orchestra.”
From top hits to a flurry of genres, Three Dog Night continues to keep its fans engaged
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A community staple for decades, Lynda Millner has helped the Journal, since 1995, keep its connection to the hundreds of events going on throughout the year
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The idea, Hutton said, was to put out records with really great songs rather than worry about getting publishing credits. “I don’t think of us as a cover band. We went out and found great songs that we really liked that hadn’t happened for whoever wrote them, resurrect and rear range them for our singers, completely change them, add the harmonies, and make them our own.”
The formula worked so well that half a century later people still turn up to hear Three Dog Night, with Hutton and its two other co-vocalists trading lead singing while they perform the hits night after night, about 100 times a year, said Hutton, who turns 80 later this“Weyear.still jump all over the place with our music. I love the idea that every night you’re going to hear every genre of music, although I guess we missed jazz. The song is everything.”
Masks from the Profant collection
In 2022, the impressive entrance that leads to the reception room shows signs of wear and the need for some “TLC” for the elegant centenarian (courtesy photo)
In 1958-59, Richard E. Brown ofthenConnecticut,ownerof Solbrillo, placed it on the market for $75,000. His “for sale by owner” brochure showed photos and floor plans. Association(MontecitoHistoryCommittee)
Hattie Beresford has been writing a local history column for the Montecito Journal for more than a decade and is the author of several books on Santa Barbara’s historic past
Sleep is MOST IMPORTANT for your well-being! magical enterprise lasted about a month before the Bochescus went vagabonding and disappeared into the anonymity of pre-internet America. In 1920, Sexauer sold the house to Mr. and Mrs. George McConnell who lived there several years. Chard’s reputation grew, and in 1919 he was hired to design 100 small adobe houses for the subdivision of the Cudahy Walnut Land Company near Los Angeles. Today this area is known as Walnut Park. Coincidentally, three Cudahy sisters lived in Montecito. They would be the main financers of the adobe-style Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (which is not made of adobe) in the 1930s. The small houses of Walnut Park were touted as being of artistic design combined with utility and livableness. In 1920, Chard partnered with Handy L. Wass. They designed a home for Mary R. Dennison on the property of the for mer Boyland school on the Riviera. She was the widow of the president of the Dennison Manufacturing Company of Framingham, Massachusetts. The adobe house was to have 20 rooms and ele gant servants’ quarters. Mary was soon involved in Santa Barbara society and travelled extensively. In 1921, the firm of Wass and Chard built an adobe home for John William Heaney at 2241 Garden Street. In 1922, Chard and Wass dissolved their part nership and Chard designed an adobe home for Ludmilla Pilat Welch and her sister, Anna Pilat Knight. They planned to build it themselves in the Fellowship Colony on the Mesa, and for the most part they did. Chard’s design included a tiled roof, large studio, living room, bedrooms, breakfast room, kitchen, dressing room, bathrooms, and large porch and sunroom. By 1924, Chard had left Santa Barbara to explore opportunities in Los Angeles and Pasadena, where he is credited with at least two adobe homes, the land marked Walter Candy House in Oak Knoll, Pasadena, and the Thomas M. Miller House in the Los Feliz neighbor hood of Los Angeles. Chard married and lived and worked in the Los Angeles area until about 1950 when he, now a widow er, returned to San Francisco to live with his brother Alonzo. Chard on Adobe In the early 1920s, John William Chard’s reputation was soaring. A contemporary article in Sunset Magazine touts the use of adobe and Chard. The author writes, “The man who perfected the adobe brick, making possible a new type of construc tion, is a Spaniard, John William Chard, an architect of Santa Barbara, California. Living in an adobe the greater part of his life, he not only made a study of Spanish architecture in all its aspects but exper iments with adobe in the belief that it could be made a practical and economical building material.”
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Community Arts Association’s vision for a uniform Spanish Colonial architectural style, therefore, he was cynical, but soon became an ardent devotee of the move ment. He was especially pleased with plans for a small house competition that would promote better architecture and make esthetically pleasing designs avail able to the small house builder. “A badly designed house loses the oppor tunity to contribute to the general value and beauty of the community,” he wrote. The elimination of all unnecessary orna mentations, protrusions, and imitations, he believed, was paramount. He became an active volunteer when the Community Arts Plans and Planting Branch created the Architectural Board of Review, which offered architectural advice and plans from qualified designers to the public. After Chard moved to Los Angeles, he had a regular radio show in which he talked about architecture, specifically adobe. As time passed, however, the popularity of adobe construction dried up, and 1942 found Chard working for Douglas Aircraft corporation in El Segundo. John William Chard died in San Francisco where his brother Alonzo S. Chard was living. He is interred at Goleta Cemetery.
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Chard himself wrote an article for California Southland in 1922 entitled “Some Suggestions for Small Houses.” As the fad for Spanish Colonial Revival architecture went viral, Chard had seen only a few examples of good architec ture “scattered in a maze of bewildering imitations, importations, and perverted originalities.” When he first heard of the
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In 1996, an outdoor stairway leads from the patio to a bedroom suite complete with sleeping porch and large open deck (Montecito Association History Committee)
Celebrating Under the Sea
The Coalition has been actively involved in the County’s permitting and regulation of cannabis over the past three years. The County has approved a series of actions to strengthen regula tion of cannabis at the Coalition’s urg ing, including imposition of a 1,575acre cap on cannabis cultivation in the inland zones of the County, prohibi tion of cannabis operations in identi fied rural neighborhoods, mandating Odor Abatement Plans for cannabis cultivation operations where over 51% of the parcel is planted in cannabis, mandating that cannabis processing be conducted in enclosed facilities with best available control technologies to control odor, property line setbacks, limits on transfers of ownership of cannabis facilities, and more. “As long as cannabis odors and other impacts harm our neighborhoods, schools, and businesses, the Coalition and its supporters will press the Board of Supervisors to adopt sensible regu lations on commercial cannabis opera tions,” Pence said.
Kelly Mahan Herrick, also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond.
Earlier this week, the County Board of Supervisors took final action to amend the county ordinance to require all cannabis cultivation facilities to apply for and obtain a Conditional Use Permit (CUP), effective January 31, 2023. “The CUP requirement caps a year-long effort by the Coalition and the community to strengthen con trols of cannabis cultivation facili ties” stated Coalition for Responsible Cannabis President Blair Pence “While we believe there is more work to be done, the CUP require ment is an important step in better controlling odors and other impacts from commercial scale cannabis in Santa Barbara County.”
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Greg Gorga with birthday gal Teresa Kuskey Nowak and Rick Oshay (photo by Priscilla) Tiffany Story and John Palminteri (photo by Priscilla) David Selberg, Marc Borowitz, and Charles Caldwell (photo by Priscilla) Village Beat
After margaritas and comestibles on the museum’s terrace accompanied by music from Maitland Ward and Jackson Gillies, dinner beckoned among the nautical exhibits as ubiquitous KEYT-TV reporter John Palminteri emceed the heaving hoe down, which included Teresa’s colorfully costumed La Boheme dancers and the dancing and singing of Timo Nuñez, and former Junior Spirit Alexandra Nocker Among the wave of guests were Gretchen Lieff and Miles Hartfeld, David Bolton, Drew Wakefield, fun loving Franciscan friar Larry Gosselin, Lynn Kirst, Chris and Mindy Denson, Greg Gorga, Richard Auhll, Adam McKaig, Fritz and Gretchen Olenberger, Mark Whitehurst and Kerry Methner, Erin Graffy, and James Garcia Miscellany (Continued from
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Carpinteria Mayor Wade Nomura, Blanca (photoWilliams,SupervisorNancyFigueroa,Baron,DasandKenWeissbyPriscilla)
“Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.” – Thomas Edison
Teresa Kuskey Nowak’s birthday bash at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum may have had an Under the Sea theme, but there was not a flipper or snorkel to be seen when 112 guests descended on the harborside institution for the fun fête hosted by social gadabout Rick Oshay
Teresa Kuskey Nowak celebrating her birthday with her La dancersBoheme(photo by Rick Oshay)
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The Coalition’s counsel Marc Chytilo stated: “The Board did the right thing here and created better controls for the commercial cannabis industry. Through legally significant statements by County Counsel, the County is now empow ered to control odor from all cannabis operations where the project and site conditions warrant an Odor Abatement Plan. Until now, most outdoor grows have been exempted from any kind of odor control. This action will directly translate to improved odor conditions in rural areas that have been impacted, including the Highway 246 corridor.”
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More than 800 leaks were detected by Montecito Water District during a recent initiative District has installed new meters, but the “smart” part that will provide realtime data has been delayed due to the global shortage of semiconductor chips. When fully functional, the new meters will provide benefits such as: leak alerts when out-of-the ordinary use is detect ed, and customer access to their usage data. In the meantime, the District continues to read meters manually and encourages customers to do the same. Weekly meter checks are a great way for customers to track usage and can help with early leak detection. More info: montecitowater.com/meters.MontecitoWaterDistrict has done extensive water supply planning to ensure that water supply will be adequate. As the drought stretches on, the need for efficient water use grows. The District is very focused on increasing water con servation efforts and helping customers achieve the goal of reducing use by 20%. Customers can schedule a free visit with their Water Conservation Coordinator that is on-site, in English or Spanish, and tailored to the needs of each property. Additional resources and information on current water regulations can be found at montecitowater.com/conserve.
Richard Payatt auctioned off an ocean bluff wine and dessert celebration, custom artwork by Entera, and fiesta attire from the collection of the late Santa Barbara mayor Hal Conklin, who died last year. Among the fiesta fans turning out for the boffo bash were Mary Collier, Erin Graffy and James Garcia, Stephanie Petlow, Ralph and Diane Waterhouse, Fritz and Gretchen Olenberger, Hiroko Benko, Lynn Kirst, David Bolton, Larry Gosselin, Rebecca Brand, Dana Hansen, and La Presidente Maria Cabrera
I last saw her perform four years ago when she sang at a “Songs of Hope” concert at the Lobero produced by Rod Lathim and Thomas Rollerson
Oprah Winfrey’s company Harpo Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the creators of the Oprahdemics podcast, claiming the program misleads listeners into believing they sponsored or approved it. In a complaint filed in Manhattan Federal Court, Harpo Inc. says it is neither seeking profits or damages from Oprahdemics creators Kellie Carter Jackson or Leah Wright Rigueur, nor trying to stop the podcast. Instead, it wants a name change, say ing the podcast and related live events dilute Harpo’s Oprah and O trademarks, and wrongly capitalizes on the good will Oprah has spent decades building.
Olivia was first diagnosed with cancer in 1992, aged 44, and valiantly fought it as it recurred throughout the years.
Olivia, who was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth in 1979 for services to charity and cancer research, shot to fame in 1978 in the Allan Carr-film Grease with John Travolta after representing Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest. She then starred in the 1980 movie Xanadu which featured the music of Montecito Oscar nominee Barry De Vorzon and her co-star Gene Kelly in his last film role.
Father A(phototheaudienceaddressingLarrytheduringFiestaFinalebyPriscilla)dramatictangoperformance by Guillermo De Fazio and Giovanna Dan (photo by Priscilla) This year’s La Presidente Maria Cabrera and her husband Francisco (photo by Priscilla)
Honoring Archewell Prince Harry and his former actress wife Meghan Markle are set to be honorees, along with their Archewell Foundation, for their work advocating for Afghan refugees. The Riven Rock tony twosome, who will not receive the award in person, are being thanked for their “generous” dona tion to the Human First Coalition. Archewell Foundation executive direc tor James Holt will be receiving the Partner Organization Award on their behalf at a New York event this week.
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Home Sold Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry’s 1959-built Regency-style five-bedroom Los Angeles home has sold for $18 million. The 5,427-square-foot property on a 1.16-acre lot was first marketed in March for $19.5 million.
The End of an Era Montecito actor-comedian Steve Martin, 76, is retiring from acting after a lengthy career stretching back to the ‘60s. He currently stars in the Hulu sitcom Only Murders in the Building alongside Martin Short and Selena Gomez, but he says he won’t pursue movie roles after the series“I’mends.not going to seek other movies,” he tells the Hollywood Reporter. “I don’t want to do cameos. This is, weirdly, it.”
Outside of acting, Martin’s upcoming projects include his twelfth book, a docu mentary, and more tour dates as a double act with Martin Short. Guest in Residence Designs
Former Montecito Union School stu dent supermodel Gigi Hadid has become a fashion designer. She announced on Instagram she’s taking her savvy style from the international run way to the design studio with the launch of her own knitwear line, Guest in Residence. Gigi, 27, combined captioned photos of herself hard at work, giving glimpses at various cashmere sweaters and styles, including a lavender hoodie, a grey paja ma set, and orange crewneck sweater. She also added “founder, creative director @guestinresidence” to her Instagram bio.
A Close Call Carpinteria actor Ashton Kutcher says he’s lucky to be alive after suffering from a rare autoimmune disease that left him unable to hear, see, or walk. Kutcher, 44, has spoken about the condition that upended his life in a sneak peek at an upcoming episode of Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge on which he detailed the horrific symptoms he suffered as a result of the disorder. “Two years ago, I had this weird, super rare form of vasculitis that blocked out my vision, knocked out my hearing, and effected my equilibrium,” he revealed. “It took a year bringing it all back up.”
Fiesta Finale Fun
Olivia RememberedNewton-John
The John E. Profant Foundation for the Arts hosted its 22nd annual Fiesta Finale gala for 144 guests at the historic El Paseo restaurant, raising around $100,000. The fun fête featured myriad enter tainers, including the Martinez Brothers, Marco Labastida, Guillermo De Fazio and Giovanna Dan, soprano Camila Lima and pianist Ruy Folguera, and flamenco dancers from Ricardo Chavez and Company.
Sightings Singer Katy Perry ’s father Keith Hudson with his restored 1940 Ford pickup truck at Pierre Lafond... Retired TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres noshing at Tre Lune... Laura Dern checking out Merci Montecito.
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