Broadway on Board – The Condor Express takes guests through an evening of food, fun, and Broadway tunes, P.14
Popping Through – The touring pop-up from designer, speaker, author, and philanthropist Dru Hammer is in Montecito, P.41 The Seaweed Artist – Tamara Thompson makes art of seaweed and is displaying it at the Apiary, P.12
The Fun of Aging – Ernie’s world is getting a little more sore and the playful young’uns aren’t making it any easier, P.23
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P.23 Ernie’s World – Ernie enters Jack’s world when his six-year-old nephew spends a week visiting Brilliant Thoughts – Ashleigh ponders four-year election cycles, leap years, cosmic entrances into the world, and more
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25 August – 1 September 2022Montecito JOURNAL4 “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” – Winston Churchill INSIDE THIS ISSUE
The Santa Barbara Library Foundation successfully raised millions to fund the revitalization of the main library’s plaza
P.26 Robert’s Big Questions – Why doesn’t the United States have nice things like universal healthcare, good public transit, and free public college education?
P.30 On Entertainment – Santa Barbara Symphony announces its 70th anniversary season, and the world’s largest cornhole tournament returns to Ventura
P.35 Your Westmont – New students arrive for Orientation and a professor and young alum win international mathematics award
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Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco – Shays’ Rebellion: Washington’s Personal Example
Compounding Concerns – Congressman Carbajal visits the San Ysidro Pharmacy to hear their concerns Village Beat – MPC completes review of 101 Highway project through Montecito, and watch for cyclists this weekend 8 Montecito Miscellany – La Lieff tasting room opens, a garden party for the Rona Barrett Foundation, Frank McGinity’s newest tome, and much more Letters to the Editor – The community weighs in on Rinaldo Brutoco’s column, learning from our ancestors, local opinion writers, and more Tide Guide 11 Montecito Reads – In chapters 10 and 11 of Montecito, Hollis meets the ExOh team members 12 Our Town – Tamara Thompson showcases her seaweed art at Apiary in Carpinteria alongside her father, Michael Harvan 14 Montecito Musings – Guests on the Condor Express enjoy Broadway hits, and a fond farewell to MJ’s longtime society columnist Lynda Millner
P.32 Far Flung Travel – Exploring Humboldt Canyon, Santa Cruz Island’s secretive side canyon
P.36 Calendar of Events – Drag show at Center Stage, Gabriel Iglesias at Chumash Casino, and a screening of North Shore in this week’s calendar
P.41 Fashion Forward – Dru Hammer brings her Druville pop-up to Legacy in Montecito
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The report included a recommenda tion for across-the-board restrictions on compounded hormones with critics of the report claiming that it expressed bias and was not comprehensive enough, only considering 13 studies in its analysis.
The FDA has stated that it will base its next decisions on compounded hor mone therapy around this report, with its conclusion indicating that the FDA may place bioidentical hormones on a ‘diffi cult to compound’ list, effectively making them unavailable for their customers.
The concerns raised by the SYP staff was heard by U.S. Congressman Salud Carbajal, who paid the store a visit this past Monday. Meeting with their staff, the congressman stated, “Today I’m visit ing the pharmacy to see this community treasure firsthand. All that they do for the community and area residents. They’ve been around for 68 years. They perform some services that other pharmacies don’t necessarily always perform.”
One of the main concerns by Hove and other compounding pharmacists is that this new consideration by the FDA may affect availability of bioidentical hor mones, plant-derived compounds that are chemically identical to those your body produces. Hove further explained, “For instance, the estrogen is from yams. So, it is naturally occurring. Of course, they’ve changed it into a powder. But that’s very different from synthetic hormones that have nothing to do with nature. They just make the body respond a certain way, and those tend to be harsher.” Many of their visitors rely on the facil ity to prepare these plant-derived hor mones for their specific biological needs.
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When I spoke with San Ysidro Pharmacy owner Lara Edington-Hove beforehand, she expressed, “That’s our main focus here. That the FDA wants to stop bioidentical hormones from being manufactured by compounding pharmacies. So that’s what we’re asking today. If he could just have open ears and realize, there’s more to it than just the safety of Congressmanothers.”Carbajal joined Hove and her staff at this Upper Village main stay to learn about compounding phar macies and their concerns noting, “[com pounding medications] is a unique func tion that they provide. And at the end of the day, this pharmacy has been here for years, decades. And it’s just amazing the work that they do and the services that they provide to the community for decadesSpeakingon.” to some of their staff and the press, Salud made clear, “First of all, they’re my constituents. And anytime my constituents have challenges or issues that they want to bring me up to speed on and make me aware of – I love that – because then I go back to Washington and explore what I can do to help. And in this case, I am going to do that. I’m going to explore what, if anything, is within my authority that I could address this very challenge that we are facing with the decision that might be made by the FDA.”
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A recent report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) titled, “The Clinical Utility of Compounded Bioidentical Hormone Therapy: A Review of Safety, Effectiveness, and Use,” has raised con cerns for the staff of San Ysidro Pharmacy (SYP) and other compounding pharma cies around the nation.
Congressman Carbajal and SYP pharmacist Andrea Dominic met to discuss the upcoming FDA decisions on bioidentical hormones
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At a third and final hearing at Montecito Planning Commission last week, the omission of sound walls related to the Highway 101 widening project were a main topic of conversation; a previous rendering shows the sound walls, which have been omitted from the project
The Montecito segment of the proj ect (called 4D) includes widening 1.4 miles of both directions of the freeway, from just before the Romero Creek bridge to Olive Mill Road to accom modate a part-time High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane. The existing road way pavement on the freeway will be replaced with 40-year concrete pave ment, and the project includes the installation of median barriers, guard rails, fencing, retaining walls, and new landscaping, reconstruction of the free way bridges over Cabrillo Boulevard plus a new southbound on-ramp, and replacement of the bridges over Romero Creek, San Ysidro Creek, and Oak Creek. The project also includes the removal of 158 oak trees (to be replaced at a 3:1 or 2:1 ratio) and 20 other native trees (to be replaced at a 1:1 ratio). Safety improvements of the project include increased stopping sight distance, exterior shoulders for disabled and emergency vehicles, new safety bar riers, enhanced pavement markings and signs, and safety lighting at ramps. New components of the project will result in reduced maintenance, according to project reps. As in previous hearings, Planning Commissioners continued to take great issue with the removal of sound walls from the project, which were removed earlier this year after analysis showed an increase in water rise during a 100-year flood event, using the County’s Recovery Mapping which was adopted in response to the 1/9 Debris Flow. The Recovery Mapping is based on a 100-year rain flow event, with additional conditions that all culverts and bridges are blocked, as well as a burned watershed area, which
Village Beat Highway 101 at MPC contributes to a broader flow of water over the area. According to Santa Barbara County Flood Control reps, the freeway has flooded seven times since 1960, and was closed for two weeks following the 1/9 Debris Flow in 2018. Flood Control reps are adamant that they do not sup port sound walls in Montecito as part of this project, despite new resiliency measures including larger (or new) debris basins, creek nets, and enhanced bridges. Project reps reported that Caltrans has committed to completing a broad er watershed analysis in Montecito to identify issues both inside and outside their State right-of-way. “They’re taking a larger picture into consideration,” said project rep Kirsten Ayars Commissioners also considered the timing of two parallel projects as part of the highway construction: the Olive Mill roundabout, slated to begin construction in November, as well as the San Ysidro roundabout, slated to begin construction in Spring 2023. Construction on the freeway project is expected to begin in Summer 2023, and will take 2.5 years to complete. Commissioners asked the team to try and avoid repeat on- and off-ramp closures, and to stagger the roundabout
I n a six-hour meeting last week, the Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) completed their review of the 101 Highway project through Montecito, sending their recommenda tions and comments to the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission (SBPC). This was the final hearing in a series of three conceptual reviews at MPC. SBPC will consider the project at two hear ings scheduled for both November and December of this year.
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“We aim to reach beyond the wine bottle by encouraging connection, communication, and collaboration.” I’ll drink to that... Garden Party for the Rona Barrett Foundation Scott and Kohanya Groff opened the doors of their delightful Riven Rock estate for a garden party for the 22-yearold Rona Barrett Foundation with 70 guests raising more than $20,000, its first ever event in Montecito. The monies will go towards the con struction of a 60-unit extension to the former Good Morning America gossi peuse’s Golden Inn & Village in Santa Ynez, which opened in December 2016, as a safe haven for low-income seniors. The complex consists of one-bed room and studio apartments specifically designed for an aging population.
Enjoy a glass of La Lieff wines in the Funk Zone
by Richard Mineards M ontecito animal activist Gretchen Lieff, who has been making wine for 17 years, has opened her first La Lieff tasting room in the Funk Zone. The 1,000-square-foot Gray Avenue locale, formerly a storage facility for the late Pierre Lafond, had a sneak preview for Tama Takahashi’s 10-year-old Inside Wine club with 37 guests to show off wines from her eponymous label, which specializes in Rhône Varietals, including grenache, sau vignon blanc, and syrah, using grapes from the 300-acre Alamo Creek Ranch, which she founded two years ago. The label’s winemakers are Kris Curran and Sally Sigouin, with many years of experience between them.
“It has been a long time in the works,” said Gretchen, as we noshed on Indian food from Santa Barbara caterer Nimita’s Cuisine.
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ONE THOUSAND SECONDS would take about 16.67 MINUTES. ONE MILLION SECONDS would take about 11.5 DAYS. ONE BILLION SECONDS would take about 31.7 YEARS. ONE TRILLION SECONDS would take about 317 CENTURIES. Something to think about when you listen to government politicians talk about spending the taxpayer’s dollars.
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ing, one encounters the mathematical terms thousands, millions, billions and tril lions. By the end of the 2021 fiscal year California’s state debt was about $144 billion and the federal debt was about $28 trillion My unscientific research has led me to believe that many good people have diffi culty relating to these number quantities. The following might help: If you started timing right now...
Today, we clearly have a problem of young adults well into their 20s and 30s still tethered to their parents’ homes and purse strings and unable to make it on their own. In my own home, Bank of Dad and the extra room in Dad’s house get regular use by adult children in mid- and late-30s in temporary need or real However,crisis. lack of economic self-suf ficiency is only the surface problem. Forget twenty-first century children and grandchildren in perpetual need. Parents and grandparents are themselves still liv ing off the considerable social, economic, and political capital supplied by their far distant ancestors who actually knew how to live democracy day to day. If it were only true that sappy story we like to tell about how generations Y (Millennials) and Z have been standing on the shoulders of their Boomer and Xer parents, and Boomers and Xers in turn have been standing on shoulders of their parents. Nobody is standing on anybody’s shoulders today. The truth is, Boomers, Millennials, Xers, Millennials, and Zers are all badly slumped on the backs of ancestors going back a dozen generations in this country or in the countries the ancestors immigrated from. Our people today have simply forgot ten how to be self-motivated, self-suffi cient, self-less, and bound together into social units. Instead, we are self-import ant, self-interested, self-righteous, and standing alone. We have a super-exag gerated sense of personal importance in a world that doesn’t reward but absolutely stomps on such individualism. We need strong interpersonal relationships, mar riages, and families to be able to endure life, and we don’t have them today. The only way we can live at all securely and comfortably going forward is to learn how our ancestors built this country. And to do that, we have to study our nation’s history and the laws, ethics, and spiritual values our ancestors lived by that enabled them to build the economic and ethical powerhouse that came to be the United States of Unfortunately,America. that powerhouse has rapidly decayed into the humongous wel fare state required today to take care of our helpless and life-less citizenry of all ages.
25 August – 1 September 2022Montecito JOURNAL10 “There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.” – Winston Churchill MONTECITO TIDE GUIDE Day Low Hgt High Hgt Low Hgt High Hgt Low Hgt Thurs, Aug 25 3:48 AM -0.2 10:18 AM 4.1 03:10 PM 2.3 09:16 PM 5.9 Fri, Aug 26 4:13 AM -0.3 10:38 AM 4.3 03:42 PM 2.0 09:48 PM 5.9 Sat, Aug 27 4:38 AM -0.2 11:00 AM 4.4 04:15 PM 1.8 010:20 PM 5.8 Sun, Aug 28 5:02 AM 0.0 11:23 AM 4.6 04:51 PM 1.7 010:54 PM 5.5 Mon, Aug 29 5:26 AM 0.2 11:47 AM 4.7 05:30 PM 1.6 011:30 PM 5.1 Tues, Aug 30 5:51 AM 0.6 12:13 PM 4.9 06:15 PM 1.5 Weds, Aug 31 12:11 AM 4.5 6:15 AM 1.1 12:43 PM 5.0 07:10 PM 1.5 Thurs, Sep 1 1:03 AM 3.9 6:41 AM 1.8 01:20 PM 5.1 08:21 PM 1.4 Fri, Sep 2 2:17 AM 3.2 7:09 AM 2.3 02:09 PM 5.1 09:55 PM 1.1 Executive Editor/CEO | Gwyn Lurie President/COOgwyn@montecitojournal.net| Timothy Lennon Buckley VP,tim@montecitojournal.netSales&Marketing|Leanne Wood Managingleanne@montecitojournal.netEditor| Zach Rosen Art/Productionzach@montecitojournal.netDirector|Trent Watanabe Account Managers | Sue Brooks, Tanis Nelson, Elizabeth Nadel Office Manager | Jessikah Moran Graphic Design/Layout | Stevie Acuña Contributing Editor | Kelly Mahan Herrick Copy Editor | Lily Buckley Harbin Proofreading | Helen Buckley Arts and Entertainment | Steven Libowitz Contributors | Scott Craig, Ashleigh Brilliant, Kim Crail, Tom Farr, Chuck Graham, Stella Haffner, Mark Ashton Hunt, Dalina Michaels, Sharon Byrne, Robert Bernstein, Christina Favuzzi, Leslie Zemeckis, Sigrid Toye Gossip | Richard Mineards History | Hattie Beresford Humor | Ernie Witham Our Town | Joanne A. Calitri Society | Lynda Millner Travel | Jerry Dunn, Leslie Westbrook Food & Wine | Claudia Schou, Gabe Saglie Published by: Montecito Journal Media Group, LLC Montecito Journal is compiled, compounded, calibrated, cogitated over, and coughed up every Wednesday by an exacting agglomeration of excitable (and often exemplary) expert edifiers at 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite G, Montecito, CA 93108. How to reach us: (805) 565-1860; FAX: (805) 969-6654; Montecito Journal, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite G, Montecito, CA 93108; EMAIL: tim@montecitojournal.net JOURNAL newspaper B ravo (yet again) to Rinaldo Brutoco’s August 11 column. He always comes up with the best adjectives when clashing up against “Big Power” greed: “Preposterous shibboleth” ... Makes me laugh every time I look at it! In throwing big shade last week at the PG&E & Edison monopolies, he calls back to his group’s white paper on the shortcom ings of nuclear power and his 2020 column on the creation of interconnected fuel cell microgrid networks, to 1) divorce ourselves from the Big Power monopolies, 2) miti gate climate change and 3) create sustain able & renewable electrical resilience. It’s a mouthful, but deceptively simple and elegant. In a word, hydrogen. Hydrogen. Hydrogen. Hydrogen.
Welcome to Ms. Thorn’s (almost) weekly Whine Festival. She constantly complains about the MJ’s alleged parti san bias. Does anyone wonder why she
Bravo, Brutoco has never voiced similar concerns about the extreme right-wing bias of a certain localFordaily?example: Opinion writer, James Buckley, had these things to say about Donald Trump. 1) “(He) became one of the best presidents in the history of this great nation.” 2) “He received more votes than any other candidate ever in his bid for re-election.” Joe Biden received 7 million more votes than Trump, so who has blind ers on now? 3) He was “snookered” out of electoral victory “via the machinations of too-clever-by-far Democrat lawyers.” One can assume that Mr. Buckley is referring to the fact that Trump and his acolytes lost 63 out of 63 court cases alleging voter fraud. This is like a little boy riding his bike into a lake; running home to his mommy and cry ing that some bullies stole it. He also makes the obligatory and predictable complaint about “the conniving support of the estab lishment press” ... of which he is a part! 4) “In the four years of his hugely successful (?) administration, President Trump fulfilled – one by one – nearly every promise he’d made during the campaign.” Mr. Buckley then goes on to list “accomplishments” that exist only in his and Trump’s own minds. Trump did NOT make us energy independent. He did NOT take on the Chinese communists. He did NOT quiet the North Korean dictator. His record on job growth pales in comparison to that of PresidentAnotherBiden.opinion writer, Heinz Schute, who previously claimed a reluctance to make Nazi references, just compared the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS, and virtually any one who challenges his Trumpian point of view as being the equivalent of Nazis, the Gestapo, or the SS. Accordingly, the IRS is referred to as the IRSS. Ha! Good one, Heinz! Does this make him smarter than the average fifth grader? You be the judge. This, apparently, is the kind of objec tive and non-partisan reporting that Ms. Thorn relishes. We should all be grateful that MJ provides a much-needed balance.
Throw in a little AI (Artificial Intelligence) to run these microgrids and maybe, just maybe, we won’t have to run scared of PG& E & Edison for the rest of eternity. The ultimate stress-management tool: fearlessness.Thanks,Rinaldo. Keep shouting it. Please.
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25 August – 1 September 2022 Montecito JOURNAL 11 FREE IN HOME www.MontecitoKitchens.comCONSULTATIONDonGragg805.453.0518License#951784 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.” With an offer to be the CEO of Cyrus’ venture, ExOh, Hollis prepares to meet with the other members of the team. Chapter 9 is available online at montecitojournal.net and the QR code below.
Montecito Reads Team Work Montecito Reads Page 184 Scan here for Chapters 8 & 9 Dan Encell “The Real Estate Guy” Dan Encell is one of the few real estate agents in the world who has successfully closed over a billion dollars in residential sales. This tremendous achievement is a
Montecito by Michael Cox Chapter 10 By 10 pm, with nerves and enthusiasm burning through my stores of ener gy, I was wiped out. I needed shut eye, but I settled for evening coffee. This was a bad move, but I figured it was better to deal with the repercussions of over caffeination than to yawn my way through my initial meeting with the result years of
dedicated to artists. Thompson cred its Barnaby Draper and his partner Ashley Farrell for her second career as an artist. “When they opened up Santa Barbara Hives in Carpinteria last year, I stopped by to say they needed to have some seaweed art,” she says. “After a studio visit, Draper took 16 finished works to his hive for display and pur chase. I had no idea it would be an art I could sell and be viewed as an artist. My father is the artist, and I come from a family of creative people. When I showed my dad my seaweed art, he said he was impressed. I always felt I had a creative side and now I found my niche.”
My Interpretation: There are many fine art artists working with seaweed such as Josie Iselin in San Francisco whose focus is science x art, showcasing the elemental and environ mental qualities of it. She first scans it, and then digitally creates images of the seaweed printed on fine art paper, and authors books on it. And East Coast seaweed artist Corinna Kaufman, whose first collector of her seaweed art on greeting cards when she was only 15 was renowned photogra pher Alfred Eisenstaedt. Like Kaufman, Thompson uses the Tamara Thompson with her seaweed art and her father Michael Harvan’s paintings on exhibit at the Apiary (photo by Joanne A. Calitri)
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Initially, she gave her art away to friends and people who stopped by to view it at her Palm Loft apartment, a section of housing in Carpinteria
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I t wasn’t all Montecito all the time, but there were plenty of Montecito folks who joined a grab bag of Santa Barbarans, Carpinterians, Goletans, Noletans, Mesa denizens, and adventur ous tourists, on owner Hiroko Benko’s seventh annual “Broadway Cruise” that took us from Santa Barbara Landing on West Beach – home port of Condor Express – down the coast to the Montecito border and back, coddled by two hours of musical melodies.
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The sea was calm, the sunset hazy, and the music, delivered by the undisputedly talented trio of Renée Hamaty on key board, soprano Deborah Bertling and tenor Adam Phillips, was delicious, as were the sushi spring rolls and other gus tatory delights Appropriately,served.oneof the first songs was Gershwin’s “Summertime” (from Porgy and Bess) followed by a medley of tunes and duets from various Broadway shows, including a spirited rendition of “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.” Although many of us know this song as the Platters’ great 1959 smash hit, the song was actually written by composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for a 1933 Broadway musical called Roberta. Other numbers included “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina” from Evita, “Some Enchanted Evening” from South Pacific and many more. Tenor Adam Phillips serenaded us all near the end of the evening with a spirited “Fly Me To The Moon,” and a short medley of other Frank Sinatra signature songs. Among those onboard the Condor Express was reproductive endocrinol ogist and infertility expert Dr. John Buster, now retired, but who earlier in his career was Director of the UCLA research team that performed the world’s very first human embryo transplant in 1983. Accompanying Dr. Buster was the
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Dr. John Buster and Victoria Hines enjoyed the hits during this year’s Broadway Cruise (photo by Priscilla)
Soprano Deborah Bertling and tenor Adam Phillips were the stars of this year’s Broadway Cruise onboard the Condor Express (photo by Priscilla)
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“It’s personalized medicine. That’s the future of healthcare. Not every body is the same. One or two or three different strengths [of a medicine] may not be good for an elderly patient, even if it’s the lowest strength available; it may not be good for an elderly person whose systems are slowing down a little bit. They may need half of the lowest dose and we’re able to compound that,” says Dominic. This is not just in the consideration of their human patients; specific pets can also have different sensitivities to these additives with some of their customers looking for naturally-derived or more chemically-pure treatments for their pets.
With the congressman visiting, Dominic and the staff hoped to teach him more about the ways they help the community, their services, and how the FDA considerations will affect their busi ness. “We’re trying to do our part, and having Salud here is really great. We want to be heard and our community wants to beWeheard.”later headed back into the lab area to meet with the congressman. The two spoke in the backroom filled with glasslined shelves, scales, and the clean tables where they measure and mix the various medications to one’s specific needs. As Andrea and the congressman met, Salud noted, “The decision has been made administratively, not through the leg islative process, through the FDA. But where I come in is that the question is always: ‘Are there legislative things that can direct the FDA to take a differ ent course of action?’ I don’t know the answer but I’m going to go back, consult with my team, and learn more about this and explore what can be done.”
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“There are a lot of women going through menopause right now. You know, with the baby boomers, it’s the largest amount. And andropause is real. Not every man gets andropause, but some do, and that’s where your testosterone starts lowering. So we also make that – I don’t think that’s bioidentical but we do compound it in low levels – and that’s the key. We can get to lower levels than what the prefab stuff does. And some men just don’t need a lot. They just need a little,” says Hove. With concerns around the source of what we put in our body becoming ever more prevalent, some people also may simply not want to ingest the synthetic compounds found in pharmaceuticals.
The implications of this new report and the outcome it may have has raised con cerns for her and the staff. “There’s some [upcoming] legislation that’s designed to limit our ability to compound medica tions, take you through natural hormone therapy. And we don’t feel that the study that was done by the FDA really included much of the research that is out there on the safety and efficacy of hormone products. And it will severely impact our business,” says Dominic.
In addition to these compounds, the patients that come in for medication might be sensitive allergic to different binders, fillers, and even coloring agents, that are found in their commercial coun terparts. Compounding medications do not just serve their more seasoned clients, but their younger, smaller ones as well, with similar concerns surrounding the fillers, preservatives, and binders found in pediatric medications.
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Dominic sees another concern for their regulars. “There are going to be more and more drug shortages. It’s happening. People come in and we have a different brand every time because there’s a short age list. We’re able to use a pure com pounding powder, not in tablet form, to be able to get people through the short ages. They don’t want us to do that any more so therefore people have to change their medication when that might not always be the best thing for the patient.”
“This has been researched enough –I’ve been here for over 20 years and a compounding pharmacist for close to 50 years – this is what my profession does,” says Andrea Dominic, a longtime SYP pharmacist who has been compounding hormones since 1989. “We’ve helped many, many women through menopause using natural hormones.” Adding that these compounds are naturally-derived and therefore not patentable by pharma ceutical companies.
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“Hello, Umed,” I said, waving awkwardly at the passport sized photo on my laptop screen. This immediately felt sophomoric; I recalled my hand. I wondered if I should volunteer about my own technology back ground but thought better of it. I did not want to come off as compet itive or territorial. All this second guessing and over-analyzing had me feeling like a teenager.
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“But before we get to that, Hollis,” Cyrus continued, “I think everyone here is actually most focused on your main initiative.”
“Of all the tasks on the docket, yours is the most critical,” Reuben said with an Eastern European accent. “You are absolutely crucial to the success of ExOh.”Myface reddened at the flattery, but I was not sure what my task actually was. Too embarrassed to admit this, I tried to deflect in the way I had seen CEOs and professional athletes do it on TV. “Yes, well,” I began, “I am excited about the job in front of me, but I’m sure that it will be meaning less without Noah’s sales team and Kai’s finance team and–”
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Perhaps Cyrus noticed my face scrunching under the weight of a bud ding list of questions, so he jumped in to clarify.
“It’s really quite simple,” Rueben said, lighting a fresh cigarette with the burn ing remnants of his last. “ExOh is currently ex-US, do you understand? We’ve got the globe covered except for your home country. As Cyrus I am sure has explained…”Myeyesdarted to Cyrus’s image, looking for a port in the storm; he was nodding along happily.
All proceeds from this event will benefit Santa Barbara Humane rest of the ExOh team. With my heart rate chemically jacked into cardio territo ry, I booted my laptop, plugged in my headphones, and clicked the meeting link. Five one-dimensional faces were already online and engaged. I checked my watch; had I screwed up the time zones? “Hollis!” Cyrus said. “Great to have you.” “I’m really sorry, Cyrus,” I said. “I can’t believe I got the time wrong on my very first team meeting.” “No, no,” Cyrus said. “You did nothing of the sort. I started a little early with the rest of the team to give them some background on you and to suss out some other issues.”
“The only thing keeping ExOh from becoming the next Amazon.com is establishing our U.S. base,” Kai interrupted. “We’ve got to have our U.S. infrastructure in place. We’ve got to have our stock re-trading. We’ve got to have a platform that Cyrus can sell to American investors. And we can’t do any of that without you, Hollis.”
“Noah, based in Sydney, is head of sales. Kai, based in Hong Kong, is head of “Noah.finance.”Kai,”I said, head-nodding at both pixelized heads; a more adult approach, I hoped. “And finally: Reuben, based in London,” Cyrus said. “Reuben is head of legal.” I nodded at Reuben as well but could not make out his image for the cigarette smoke circling him like Pigpen’s dust cloud. “Ok,” I began. “It’s great to meet everyone.” I nearly waved again, but thankfully caught myself. “Maybe we could, uh,” I stammered, “go through a quick status report on the main initiatives under way?” “Indeed, indeed,” Cyrus said. “Excellent idea. Critical. Good thinking, Hollis.” I smiled as if I had earned a gold star, though, in truth, I had simply grasped at the most general question I could think of. I did not really know what to ask; I was still learning what the business did and hoped that a few sessions of Q&A might fill my void.
I am not sure if my wide eyes registered on Zoom, but I could certainly feel my eyebrows reaching for my hairline. “Sure, I would be happy to–”
“…You are the head of our U.S. business,” Reuben continued. “You will open and manage our corporate bank account. You will supervise the preparation of our financial results. You will find and manage a lawyer that will sign off on the accuracy of said statements. You will manage our stock’s relisting on the exchange. And you will sign all financial filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. It is,” he took a deep drag, “a critical assignment.”
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Thank Goodness! I thought, knowing how critical first impressions are, especially from a bunch of people meeting me for the first time via Zoom. “Let me introduce you to the rest of the team,” Cyrus continued. “Umed is based in Tel Aviv. He oversees technology and is neck deep in our website relaunch right now.”
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“Absolutely,” Cyrus said. “I can fill you in. To be honest, Hollis, this team is Swiss Army precise. I hate to distract them from their work. When you have questions, come to me.” “Oh… ok,” I said. It seemed strange that the founder of the company would want to take things off his employees’ plates but maybe that was just the kind of guy Cyrus was. He wanted to avoid the tedium and maximize efficiency. How novel and refreshing. “I’m riding the ponies with Genevieve all day tomorrow,” he continued. “Let us catch up bright and early the day after next. Merci for coffee? 10 am?”
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All spotlights were now on me, awaiting my reassurance. The part of my brain that wanted to argue about priorities, assignments, efficiency, and responsibilities was called into a meeting by a second part of my brain that had a story to tell. The story was a memory about me two jobs prior. I was a mid-level techie in a disagreement – hell, an argument, who am I kidding – with the Chief Technology Officer of the company about the most efficient way to encrypt our server-to-mobile messages. The CTO was fifty years old – ancient, I thought at the time – and did not under stand the latest specs I had been churning out. Per always, when he did not understand something, he rejected it, labeling it as unnecessary. Instead of backing down, I bet him one dollar that I could prove that his method was four-times slower and half as effective as mine. Everyone else in the room recognized my mistake; I had cornered an injured animal. The CTO took my bet. When I won, he handed me the dollar bill and, thirty minutes later, handed me my first cardboard box. Noah, Umed, Kai, Reuben, and Cyrus waited. There was only one answer to Cyrus’s question. “Of course,” I said. “If that is true, you will be worth far more than the two million dollars in stock Cyrus has promised you,” Reuben said, flicking the inch-long ash off his cigarette nanoseconds before it fell. I cleared my throat; did Reuben say two million? I was not promised two million, Cyrus had only offered me one-million-dollars’ worth of stock. It was the same, sizeable amount Landon had negotiated out of him, Cyrus had claimed. I looked at Cyrus’s pixelized head, but instead of the smiles and supportive nods from a few seconds earlier, he appeared distracted by something in his hands. My face burned with embarrassment. In my eagerness to no longer be unemployed, I had sold myself short by half. God, what a fool! Had I even negotiated with Cyrus? My mind reeled back to that day at Merci to find the answer: No. I had been so grateful for something, that I greedily gobbled it without“Gentlemen,question.I have another call to attend to,” Reuben announced, and his smoke-filled square disappeared. “Cyrus,” Noah said, holding up his cell phone. “I’ve got an incoming from your friend at Bloomingdale’s.” “Take it,” Cyrus said. “We’ll catch up later.” “Umed and I need a sidebar to talk about the website budget,” Kai announced. “Mind if we jump too?”
“Indeed, Hollis’s role is crucial, but I don’t think we need to overstate the challenge he faces,” Cyrus interjected. “The shell company we purchased has clean financials. Kai – who, let us not forget, has an MBA from the London School of Economics – will provide the financial statements. Hollis is not being tasked with the reinvention of the wheel. He simply needs to coordinate everything and serve as the squeaky-clean face of our U.S.Cyrus’soperations.”repeated references to my metaphorical hygiene bothered me, but that was not the only disconcerting item on my list. The tasks themselves – while important – all seemed rather… clerical. Open bank accounts, sign forms, manage the process: surely those tasks could be more efficiently tackled by a junior executive or even an experienced assistant. There was so much more I could do to help–“The stock re-listing is the key here,” Noah said, interrupting my train of “Absolutely,”thought. Umed agreed. “We are dead in the water without that.”
“Gentlemen,” Cyrus said. “We have this covered. Hollis is up to the challenge, aren’t you, Hollis?”
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“Of course,” Cyrus said. “The goal isn’t for us to sit around and yap, it’s to make some money.” With that, it was just Cyrus and me. “I think that went well,” he said. “Yes,” I said, tentatively, feeling burned by the revelation that I had accepted my job at half the pay. “I agree,” I continued. “I would love to get an update on everyone else’s projects too. Maybe next time?”
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Washington modeled the requisite patriotism he wanted all of us to mirror. To simi larly act from patriotism is the opportunity we share at this critical juncture of American history, as Elizabeth Cheney is doing now. President Washington enjoined us to do precisely that in his farewell address, where he warned us to be suspicious of anyone who would seek to abandon the Union or challenge the Constitution’s supremacy.
It also leaves us understanding that Insurrectionist Trump is truly “a subject fit for a madhouse.”
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” – Winston Churchill
Shays’ Rebellion
On August 29, 1786, just three years after the formally securing independence through the 1783 Paris Peace Treaty, a revolt against the United States began. Primarily led by Revolutionary War officers and soldiers around Springfield in Western Massachusetts, it is sometimes referred to as “America’s first civil war.” It was the first time a group of citizens chose to violently attack courthouses and a state capitol for the purpose of overthrowing the rightful authority of that state rather than seek to address their grievances through constitutional means.
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In a contemporaneous account of what transpired on August 29th, Massachusetts Governor James Bowdoin reported “A large concourse of people, from several parts of that county, assembled at the Court-House... many of whom were armed with guns, swords, and other deadly weapons, and with drums beating and fifes playing, in contempt and open defiance of the authority of this Government, did, by their threats of violence and keeping possession of the Court-House until twelve o’clock on the night of the same day.”
Well, red panda fans have even more reason to celebrate – the Paradise Wildlife Park in Hertfordshire, U.K., welcomed the birth of a real-life endangered red panda cub named “Little Red” on the 16th of July. The little cub is a success of the European Ex-Situ Breeding Program, which hopes to create a safety net for endangered species in the wild. This sloth orphanage nurses sloth babies back into the wild
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He could just as easily have been describing our Nation’s Capitol on January 6, 2021. And like Vice President Pence on that day, Bowdoin called for every armed officer of the state to assemble and repulse the mob, which they did.
Washington’s Personal Example by Rinaldo S. Brutoco S hays’ Rebellion, which doesn’t get much attention in History class, was the first test of the young nation of the United States of America. And yet, understanding the uprising and its immediate aftereffects is extremely important today.
As a result of decades of deforestation and other human activities, sloths are among the most endangered mammals in the world, with only about 1,500 remain ing in the wild according to the WWF. In Costa Rica, sloths are often under threat from an early age. Many orphaned cubs are a common occurrence in the rainforest.
The first violent attempt to overthrow our Constitution occurred just two years later, with the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791 on the frontier in Western Pennsylvania. As it became increasingly violent, Washington accepted that it was his role to lead the federal government in suppressing the revolt. He personally organized and, despite his advanced years, led a force of 12,950 into the battle, warning the local populace: “not to abet, aid, or comfort the Insurgents… as they will answer… at their peril.” That was what our Founding Father knew had to be done if the Nation was to survive. Incredible foresight, courage, and discipline led Washington to see, in his first term, that the Constitution must be defended at all costs, or the entire struggle for inde pendence would founder on the rocks of what he called “partisan passions.” Best of all, because Washington himself led the unsuccessful peace negotiations that preceded the armed conflict, and then the battle itself to preserve the Union, we never had another insurrection until January 6, 2021.
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Captain Daniel Ogden Shays, who loyally served as an officer in the Continental Army, was a farmer, and ultimately a revolutionary. The grievances he articulated dealt with what he viewed as crushing, undue taxation, and a usurpation of the right of the people to overthrow their government by force if that was their desire. In this, we hear echoes of many of the thousands who mistakenly believed the “Big Lie” – that the government was stolen by an unlawful election, which the Insurrectionist Trump continues to proclaim despite knowing that he lost by over seven million votes. As you read this column on the 236th anniversary of Shays’ Rebellion, we offer two essential take-aways: 1) in a democracy the only way to alter the functions of government is by peacefully invoking the Constitution and following its direction. In the Trump Insurrection case this meant allowing the Federal government to complete the task of counting legitimate Electoral College votes and permitting President Biden to be declared the winner; and 2) even awful events like an armed rebellion, in which a capitol was for a time seized by men with guns, swords, spears, and the “beating of drums,” could lead to powerfully useful outcomes.
Birth of endangered red panda cub is a “symbol of hope” for the species
In response, General Washington and his fellows vowed to launch a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia the very next year to address what they saw as an immi nent threat to the collective safety. They saw the necessity to dramatically alter their form of government by common consensus of all 13 colonies lest their experiment in democracy be overturned.
The staff at the facility also ensure that the sloths get adequate medical care and nutrition. Because they have an extremely low metabolic rate, sloths can take days to digest food that other animals would process in a matter of hours. Given that the sloths don’t have the guidance of their mothers, the caregivers at the facility put a lot of effort into encouraging the cubs to eat a highly nutritious diet. Before releasing them back into the wild, the caregivers microchip the sloths so they’re able to track their journey. They also paint their nails in colors to distinguish them easily upon encounter. the organic, always adaptable collection of guiding principles by which our nation has weathered the attacks of all “enemies foreign or domestic” for the last 233 years. Shays’ Rebellion, as negative as it was for our young nation, catalyzed into existence the great government that we have enjoyed for so long since. Yes, sometimes a stronger Union emerges from the chaos of violent misdirection.
In the case of Shays’ Rebellion, George Washington observed that it threatened “the tranquility of the Union,” and he gathered Founders Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Dickinson to address what they perceived to be inherent weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation, which was the chief governing document at the time. As Washington wrote to Henry Knox, “If three years ago any person had told me that at this day, I should see such a formidable rebellion against the laws & constitutions of our own making as now appears I should have thought him… a fit subject for a mad house…”
Sounds quite a lot like the direct lineal ancestor of January 6th, doesn’t it? That’s because it was.
Located within the heart of the La Ceiba rainforest, the Jaguar Rescue Center (JRC) is there to offer sloth babies a chance to develop the skills necessary to survive in the wild. When an orphaned cub arrives at the JRC, the facility quickly acts on helping the mammal adapt to its new environment through a school-like system, where they are placed with other sloths of the same age.
The rebellion ended in February 1787, when 1,500 men unsuccessfully attacked the Federal arsenal in Springfield with an intent to seize the weapons and overthrow the government. They were repulsed by 1,200 men from the state militia (their ver sion of the National Guard) who were able to hold them off and secure the arsenal.
The new form of government they birthed is famous for many things, most impor tantly these: 1) Washington agreed to abandon his retirement and become the first pres ident of the new Republic in order to provide it strong leadership at a time of national disunity; 2) a Constitution that more clearly laid out the respective powers of the Federal Government, the States, and the People in an elegant balance of power that has only been challenged twice since 1789; and, 3) that this Constitution survives to this day as S ince Disney Pixar released the animated feature film Turning Red earlier this year, interest in red pandas has blossomed. This is excellent news for the species since they’re classed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list. Currently, fewer than 2,500 remain in the wild. Red pandas are under constant threat due to factors such as deforestation, climate change, and the illegal pet trade. Any attention and support that the species can garner are helpful in protecting and conserving these adorable mammals.
Ernie’s World Let the Ibuprofen Games Begin!
by Ashleigh Brilliant There was once a common expression, “This is where we came in.” The meaning was originally quite literal. In the early days of movies – and at least into my childhood in the 1940s – when movies, espe cially new releases, were still something most people went out to, rather than seeing them at home – most theaters showed the same films (sometimes the same one or even the same two) in a continuous cycle. The whole pro gram might change once a week. This meant that, even if you arrived late, and perhaps missed part of the beginning, if you waited long enough, the same part of the same movie would come on again. So, you’d at least know that you hadn’t missed anything, if the point in the plot was reached at which you could whisper, “This is where we came in.”
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Brilliant Thoughts
“I told you that you were too old for hopping, skipping, and jumping,” Pat thoughtfully reminded me. “But did you see that fall? People were lining up to see the replay.” They had a video setup that captured you in silhouette doing a funny walk, cartwheels, or the old hop, skip, jump from my track team days. “You were on the track team?” “Not exactly a team, but they had an event at Opechee Park in Laconia open for all kids and if I hadn’t stepped on my shoelace I think I would have won, hands down.” “Yes, I... we... everyone... saw the hands down part.” At least the cramp in my wrist had gone away. Earlier in the week we had taken Jack to the Butterflies Alive! exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. “Remember,” the young volunteer had told us, “do not touch the butterflies. If one lands on you that’s okay, but no touching.” She looked at Jack and smiled, then at me and narrowed her eyes. “Both of you.”
Ashleigh Brilliant born England 1933, came to California in 1955, to Santa Barbara in 1973, to the Montecito Journal in 2016. Bestknown for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots,” now a series of 10,000. email: ashleigh@west.net. web: www.ash leighbrilliant. com.
Where We Came In
The place where I came in was called the Caerthillian Nursing home. Located in northwest London, it was a small private institution, where people went to be born. (For what it’s worth, the name Caerthillian was derived from an old Cornish term mean ing “related to owls” – which may be as close to wisdom as I’ll ever get.) I didn’t re-visit the spot for some four decades, when I was surprised to find that the same building, as though anticipating my possible future need, had now changed itself into an Old People’s Home. They haven’t yet put up a plaque or statue in honor of my debut appearance, but, if you wish to make a pilgrimage, and are curious to see what’s there now, the address is: 87 Fordwych Road, London NW 2. Coming into the world and coming out of it can in many cases be very similar expe riences. On both occasions, you get a free ride – but each time, the baggage allowance is very Lookingsmall.at it from a cosmic perspec tive, however, where did any of us come in? – Or have we always been here, mere ly sliding through Time and Space on an endlessly looped tape? Enough of these speculations! In our little world, the important places for anybody to come in are clearly marked “ENTRANCE” – unless it’s a private home, in which case, there may be, at the front door, a sign of “WELCOME” (usually inscribed, rather ominously, on a mat beneath your feet, for you to trample dirt on). The exceptions are (or used to be, especially in England) large posh homes which had signs indicating where you might find the “SERVANTS’ ENTRANCE” (invariably at the rear) or the “TRADESMAN’S ENTRANCE” (possibly at the side.) Just in case you lost your place in my convoluted argument, let me assure you that this is not where you came in.
Jack, who’s too cute to get into trou ble, immediately put his hand out in front of a white peacock butterfly and tried to get it to crawl up on his finger. So I put my finger in front of a giant owl butterfly. I could tell Jack was really concentrating, but I knew the secret was not to move your hand no matter how much it started to hurt. “Look Ernie,” Jack said. He held up his hand with the white peacock carefully balanced on his finger. My butterfly turned his back on me and flew away. It was several minutes until I could bend my wrist again. So I had suggested MOXI because I thought it would be easier. We headed to the third level, the roof, which had... “Water features!” Jack and I began pumping things try ing to fill basins and make rivers. How the heck did a six-year-old have that much stamina? I started pushing my lever harder and harder... That’s when I felt the pain and grabbed my left thumb. “Old baseball injury from when I used to play first base,” I said loudly. No one seemed to care. “What’s next, MOMA?” Jack asked Pat. “Lunch,” she said. “And, I’m guess ing, ice packs.” Jack playing at the water features
Real GregAppraiserEstateBrashearsCaliforniaCertifiedGeneralAppraiser Gift Trusts, Probate, Divorce, Seller Pre-Listing, Buyer Cash Purchase V 805-650-9340 EM gb@gregbrashears.com by Ernie Witham “W hy are you grimacing?” my wife“Shhh.asked.I don’t want the others to know I’m injured.” Pat looked around. “By the others, you mean...”Acouple of eight-year-olds walked by. I quickly stopped rubbing my shoulder, smiled confidently and whispered, “that boy was good, but his sister caught a dozen pom-poms in a row.” “Maybe you should just compete with Jack. He’s only six.” Yeah right. My left calf was still throbbing from racing Jack up the hill at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s new Backcountry area for kids. He didn’t even use the ropes like you are supposed to. How’s a guy sup posed to win when the competition scram bles on all fours faster than a chimpanzee? Plus, he was able to run through the new maze exhibit without stubbing his toe even once. He went around the maze like three times, while I limped to the nearest tree stump to sit down. “Is your shoulder injury from getting stuck in the bee pollinator structure at the Botanic Gardens? Or when you tried to follow Jack and walk across the log exhibit?” “No more Botanic Garden talk, huh? I’m trying to concentrate.” I put a bright blue pom-pom into the air tube and watched it quickly zigzag its way to the top. Then it flew out. “I got it! I got it!” It hit me in the forehead and bounced to the floor. A kid in a Disneyland tee-shirt picked it up. “Can I try it now mister?” “Of course,” I said, reluctantly. Then I crossed the room to the rocket launcher just in time to see some teenager send his rocket all the way to the top of the wall, besting my last attempt by, well, a lot. Sigh. Pat and I were kid-sitting our grandson, Jack, for a week, so we were doing every kid thing in Santa Barbara, including MOXI, which has 17,000 square feet of interactive devices, designed to engage kids’ minds and challenge overeager grandparents.
Nowadays, of course, it’s only the meta phorical meaning which has much signif icance, conveying the idea that something (possibly unwelcome) which has happened repeatedly, is about to happen again. For some reason, that concept seems particularly perti nent in politics, especially in countries like the U.S. which have regularly occurring national elections – in our case, every four years. Oddly enough, there are at least two other phenomena which are on a four-year cycle – and, even more oddly, they are always the same four years. So, if, for example, you want to be sure if this is a leap year, you can determine the answer by simply asking either if there’s going to be a U.S. presidential election this year, or if the Olympic Games are to be held this summer. It’s not quite the same with many other regulars, such as holidays and birthdays, which all tend to be annual. What’s differ ent about birthdays is that they are cumu lative, so that what you’re celebrating is not, so to speak, where you came in, but another milestone (or millstone) on your way out. I myself “came in” on the ninth day of December in 1933. In world events, that was the year in which both Adolf Hitler and Franklin Roosevelt came to power. (And, coincidentally or not, they both stayed in power for an uninterrupted 12 years, and died within two weeks of each other in 1945.)
In American national events, that month of my birth was the same in which Prohibition officially came to an end – after only 13 years implanted in the Federal Constitution – its Repeal having by then secured support in the required number of State legislatures. (Despite what you might consider this baptismal blessing, I have nev ertheless been a lifelong teetotaler.)
Ernie Witham has been writing humor for more than 25 years. He is the author of three humor books and is the humor workshop leader at the prestigious Santa Barbara Writers Conference.
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While the immediate fundraising for the project is complete, the Library Foundation is looking into launching an endowment campaign to help with program sustainability and upkeep at the plaza that might be needed in the future in perpetuity. Those who are itching to donate should feel free to contact the organization to jumpstart the effort. And rest assured, the foundation is also happy to accept your contributions for other efforts, such as SB Reads 2022, in which the Santa Barbara Public Library invites the community to read and celebrate N.K. Jemisin’s award-winning speculative novel The Fifth Season starting in October as a way for local residents to read the same book at the same time to connect with one another, engage in discussions about issues that matter, and examine the world from viewpoints other than their own.
“It looked like a big empty swimming pool, the way that the ground kind of sank in at the center there,” Trujillo said. “It was pretty unsafe and more of a delivery truck drop off Betweenspace.”the three areas, the plaza will accommodate everything from Storybook Hour for the kids, to community meals, civic forums, job fairs, volunteer exposi tions, theatrical productions, and even con certs from the Santa Barbara Symphony.
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a massive upgrade and expansion of the Children’s Library. “We couldn’t have done it without the support from the community, and from Michael Towbes and his vision for a community space.”
Chief among the assets, Trujillo said, was that the plaza will continue to demonstrate that the library is more than books, with the new facility taking some of the critical programming that happens inside the building – including lots of activities and learning opportunities for kids that grew so exponentially after the Children’s Library expansion that people were turned away – out into the open air, offering more space and more accessibili ty to more people in the community.
But Trujillo is concerned that, despite the fundraising success, the public may not be fully aware of what’s in store for the space, and why there’s a chain link fence block ing the Anapamu Street access, save for a narrow walkway, just months after similar construction fencing at the adjacent Santa Barbara Museum of Art came down.
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The Library Plaza campaign was successful in raising the $5.4M required to revitalize the historic space Construction has begun on the new plaza that will bring arts and entertainment to the outdoor area
“Taking our programs outside is great, but it’s also a community space where the more than 65 nonprofits the library part ners with annually can also take advan tage of to reach the community with free and accessible events to reach and grow their audiences,” Trujillo said. She said Opera Santa Barbara, which regularly offered noontime concerts featuring its studio artists inside the public library, but has postponed them during the pandemic, is looking for ward to returning when the plaza is ready. Similarly, Drama Dogs, which has brought one-acts and staged readings to the indoor space, can expand its offerings in the great outdoors. The Santa Barbara Film Festival has plans to offer outdoor screenings, UCSB Master Gardens pro gram, and Apple to Zucchini Cooking School, which teaches children, teens, and adults how to prepare delicious, nutritious, and affordable meals made from seasonal and local ingredients, are three more organizations looking forward to participating in the plaza.
Construction is well underway on the project that will turn the plaza – to be renamed in Towbes’ honor – into a cul tural and educational hub in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara, a gleaming new asset boasting drought-tolerant land scaping with permeable pavers and nat ural sandstone for both the library and other arts and civic organizations to hold classes, concerts, gatherings, and more.
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T he Santa Barbara Library Foundation’s director Lauren Trujillo is in a celebratory mood. The foundation’s $5.4 million capital campaign to revitalize the historic plaza at the Santa Barbara Library, a once bustling pedestrian thoroughfare that had fallen into disrepair, has been fully funded. The organization raised nearly 60 percent of the dollars from private contributions –including an inclusive Buy-a-Brick cam paign in which community members had the opportunity to leave their own legacy by purchasing a personalized brick on the revitalized plaza for as little as $500. “We’re just so grateful.” Trujillo heads up the foundation, whose mission is to support the Santa Barbara Public Library by funding large-scale initiatives such as the plaza renovations and its initial campaign a decade ago that resulted in
Santa Barbara Reads is funded through the annual support of the Santa Barbara Public LibraryOtherFoundation.capitalimprovement projects are in the pipeline, too. But for now, Trujillo and the Library Foundation are taking a pause to reflect.
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“We’re all very excited for the new space, and we want the public to get as excited and engaged as we are,” she said. “That’s why it’s important to update people on the progress of the project and remind them what it’s all about, and why the library isn’t open except for three hours a day for pick-up and drop-off.”
“The library is really one of the last places you can go where you don’t have to spend money,” said Trujillo. “It’s open to anyone, all backgrounds, from all walks of life, which is such a beautiful concept. It’s really wonderful to be creating this public square right here because there are really no barriers to this space.”
The 10,000-square-foot plaza that spans the area directly behind the Art Museum all the way to Anacapa Street will have three distinct programmable areas including new ones in front of the historic Faulkner Gallery doors, and another in the area that connects the library to the Art Museum and the side entrance to La Arcada Court.
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Hochschild was so intrigued by this that she sought out “the most Red state paradoxical county” that she could find. It was Calcasieu Parish in Louisiana. The area around Lake Charles. She moved there and lived among the people there for five years. The result was her 2016 book, Strangers in their Own Land. I watched her speak on BookTV about her findings. She was able to condense her observations into two nar ratives. After a while, she could come up to a stranger and could guess which nar rative applied. And the stranger would say, “Yes! You understand!”
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A hundred years ago socialism was seen positively in much of the world as a way to share in the productivity of modernPresidentindustrialization.FranklinRoosevelt and his labor secretary Frances Perkins worked hard to give working people basic rights and benefits. Some argue that they were the best friends the capitalists ever had, as they averted a movement to bring full socialism to the U.S. Working people received disability insurance, regulation of working conditions, and social secu rity in old age. During the period from the New Deal up until the late 1960s, most working people knew that it was the Democratic Party that had given them theseButbenefits.therewas a catch: These New Deal laws excluded agricultural and domestic workers. Which excluded most Blacks and other people of color. President Johnson changed this with his Great Society programs. Not only did Johnson bring us Medicare and Medicaid, he also expanded these social programs to include Blacks and other people of color. Nixon used this as a wedge to create his “Southern Strategy” when he ran in 1968. He campaigned in the South and other historically racist areas claiming that Johnson’s programs were giving the hard-earned money of white people to “those lazy people.” This worked for Nixon to win the elec tion. And it worked to divide working people against their own self-interest. Back in 1996 I met writer and sociol ogist Arlie Hochschild at a convention on shorter work time. A topic I will write about another time. She went on to study what is called the Red State Paradox: The fact that the states that take the most public assistance are also the states that vote most Republican and most against public assistance! For example, Blue state residents in Massachusetts pay $2,343 more to the Federal government than they receive in benefits. Whereas Red state residents in Kentucky receive $9,145 more in benefits than they pay in Federal taxes!
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One narrative applied to people like a poor white woman who managed a mobile home park. She worked long hours and barely got by. She didn’t see why she should pay taxes to subsidize “those people” who she thought were lazy. She would rather give up any programs that might help her, just to be sure that no “undeserving” people gotTheany.other narrative applied to the ever-growing number of white peo ple who lived on public assistance. They were often addicted to opioids and were living on disability payments. They righteously felt they deserved it. If “those people” get public assistance for being lazy, I should get it, too. They had Black people in mind. But they, too, were willing to give up their public assistance if it could be guaranteed that “those people” didn’t get any. Hochschild wrote the book for liber als to read in order to have empathy for these people. I admire her hard work and dedication to understanding. But it had the opposite effect on me. It just made me angry. I often meet Europeans in the U.S. who warn me that Europe is also “moving to the right.” I ask them if their right-wing candidates are trying to take away universal healthcare? No, of course not. Free public college? No. Good public transit? Never. Meaning that their “right wing” is to the left of ourButDemocrats!theirright wing has the same mission as our right wing: To keep out immigrants who might become “those people” who might take the social bene fits “we” have worked to create. Perhaps we can have nice things if we stop seeing “we” as separate from “those people”? People who may work even harder than we do?
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seaweed itself as the art, on a solid white watercolor paper, one piece of seaweed per paper. Her use of watercolor paper connects to the water element from which it comes. Each piece of seaweed on paper is carefully laid out in a natural way that displays its fiber and transparency, its roots, stems, and leaves – aka stipe, hold fast, and fronds, along with its natural color. The work is surrounded by elabo rate matting and framing from modern to gold filigree. She is working in a range of sizes from 3x4” to 11x14”. What would lend to the value of her seaweed art is to have the scientific and common name of each type of seaweed in the work, either on the front or back of the piece. One notes how its beauty comes around once removed from the beach fleas, pestilence, and odors usually surrounding it. After viewing the art, questions emerge, and allows the viewer to re-think about the common seaweed, the countless species of marine algae that grow in the sea. And fur ther thoughts lead to what is the impact of seaweed on the oceans, its surrounding habitat, what marine life does it nurture, its use as a food source, its benefit for the planet and our lives. According to a news report in Time Magazine in November 2020, “Seaweed can play a huge role in fighting climate change by absorbing carbon emissions, regenerating marine ecosystems, creating biofuel and renewable plastics as well as generating marine protein.” Seaweed is a protected natural hab itat in California. Harvesting it for “recreational use” is regulated by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. That guidance, along with other related information is found earth.avenuesmaterials,Thompson’susedKelp/Recreational-Harvestwildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Marine/here:Whatistheopportunity?Artcanbetofacilitateandeducate,andhereinartwiththeocean’snaturalliesthepotentialtocreatenewfortheenrichmentoflifeon
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I “John’snodded.family founded the bank,” Cyrus said. “He is going to invest and is plan ning to make introductions to other investors too. Between you and me, I think he wants a seat on the Board.” Cyrus sat back, smiling. “Let’s let him work for it.”
I took a deep breath. Making millionaires work for it was not a concept I was used to. “What is the new bank account for?” I asked. “The Miramar account will be ExOh’s funding account. The main operat ing account – through which Kai and I will run operations – is at Citibank in Hong Kong. Once the local account is established, you’ll link the two accounts so that we can transfer money from funding to operations.”
“You remember John Colton from dinner at our place?”
I flipped pages, my forehead registering questions so quickly they began to pour out in beads of nervous sweat. Cyrus reached across the table and placed his monstrous hand on my arm. “Do you realize what this means?” he asked. I shook my head, no. “I am making you the most important person in this organization. As the team emphasized on our call, our plans for ExOh are reliant on you. When we raise money from investors, they will wire that money to an account that you alone have established and control. You will be the only signatory. You will liaise with the stock exchange, with our local advisors, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It all runs through you. That is how
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The next morning, I again took the kids to school while Cricket swam before her work, then went to meet Cyrus at Merci. As with our first cof fee date, I arrived early, and Cyrus arrived late. Our orders were repeats – though I did allow myself a refill this time – and our conversation easy. This time there was no confusion over my desires and his objectives; I was here to receive my marching orders.
The first document registered ExOh Holdings Incorporated as a California Corporation and reassigned for the company’s tax identification number. The second document appointed me Chairman of the Board of Directors. The third document was a bank account application for ExOh with Miramar Bank and Trust. “Miramar Bank and Trust?” I asked.
“Uh. Sure.” I stuttered. Then he too was gone. Chapter 11 Cricket was asleep when I crawled into bed, giving me more time to com plete my mental tallying while the thoughts were fresh. I had been in so many organizations where even the divide and conquer tasks were done by committee; this literal version of the old trope was foreign. But whose fault was that? Cyrus seemed to be creating exactly what everyone else talked about. Noah ran sales, period. Kai ran finance, period. My initial assignment was to set up the com pany’s U.S. operation so that ExOh could use a liquid currency to raise money, period. The fact that this was novel only went to underscore how much lip service I had received in previous ill-fated posts. At one point in the darkness, I turned on the bedside lamp to scribble notes: ideas for Umed’s website reboot project, client recommendations for Noah, and a deep dive with Kai on finance software vendors. I retreated to the darkness, feeling better only to have one anxiety replaced with another. That list I had scribbled on the bedside notepad was a vestige of the old me: sticking my nose where it doesn’t belong, airing my judgments as if I’d been asked, demanding everyone else adhere to my standards. These were what had cost me previous chances to succeed. Cyrus was quite clearly designing a lean organization of experts that he entrusted to do their jobs. Who was I to waltz in and interfere with that? Well-intended as my suggestions might have been, this behavior was a wash, rinse, repeat of my prior workplace failures. I could not – I would not – do that. The first thing I did the next morning was crumple that list of notes and bury it in the bathroom trash can, deep under used dental floss and Q-tips, assuring that I would never attempt to retrieve it. The crumple weighed mere grams, but I felt pounds lighter. With a free day in front of me and no concrete understanding of what my job entailed, I volunteered to take the kids to school and let Cricket swim with the Masters. I hoped that this might be my new life: a better family man, around more, available more, happier. The kids groaned when they found out dad was taking them to school. No valet this day. But once we started walking, they warmed up; far more engaging than the monosyllabic kids who joined me on our last walk. No Flag Day ceremony this day, but I was still shocked by the number of parents who lingered around the school – sipping coffee and chatting – long after dropping off their children. Just as my insecurity was about to rear its jealous head, a series of rational counter-thoughts emerged. For all I knew, these parents might have the sort of ill-defined, chunky jobs that I had just signed onto. Perhaps they too worked for little-to-no cash and only the prom ise of shares of stock. I knew nothing about these people just as I was still learning about the realities of my own adventure in entrepreneurism. True or not, these thoughts filled me with a sense of kinship for my fellow MUS parents that I had never felt before. Perhaps, in some way, I belonged here after all. With my free day, I decided to tackle my gar-office, readying for what ever my work was to be. The garage was a single car shed with a manually operated sectional door. Built in the 1920s, it was completely impractical for parking an actual car — we tried once with Cricket’s twenty-three-year-old Toyota Land Cruiser, and it looked like a baby trying to reenter the birth canal – so we used the garage solely for storage. Inside, with the sectional door shut, it felt like a tomb, sending shivers up my spine. I quickly decided that mine would be an open-air gar-office. Like it or not, I would be sharing this space with the junk we had been storing here since moving in, so step one was to move everything out, cull ing where possible. By the time I had separated the keeps from the tosses, I had a nice collection for donation to the thrift store. Step two was to wage war on the spiders. I donned my straw lifeguard’s hat from Santa Barbara Surf Shop, a pair of Cricket’s swim goggles I had borrowed without permission, and gardening gloves, then grabbed a broom, steeling myself for the heebie-jeebies. When I reemerged from the garage after a spirited bout of jousting, I looked like Indiana Jones in that iconic opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The webs were defeated, but were there spider babies in the crevices wait ing to reclaim their homeland? After four cans of Raid Max Spider Killer, I had filled every joint and crack in the garage and inhaled enough fumes to take years off my life. I stumbled from the garage, took off my battle gear, and laid in the grass until my consciousness fully returned. With the air clear, I commenced step three: actual cleaning. A second round of sweeping the rafters brought down the dust-like rain. At lower levels, I used Cricket’s organic, no bad ingredients, you-can-drink-it-if-youwant, spray cleaner – comical after all the spider toxicant I had already inhaled – and roll after roll of paper towels. By the time I was finished, I was unrecognizably dirty, but the garage looked decent. Step four: I reorganized the remaining storage items along the most scarred of the garage’s walls and modified two shower curtain rods and several sheets to create a barrier between my professional self and the family’s toys. It was the garage equivalent of a mullet: business in the front, party in the back. Several of the items in our storage were fortuitous: a rectangular folding table and two old metal filing cabinets. The folding table was too wobbly on its own, but when mounted on top of the filing cabinets, it formed an excellent desk. A cheap floor lamp with a one-hundred-fifty-watt bulb lit the gar-office adequately, but woe unto anyone who stared directly into the lamp’s core. For a chair, I stole from the dining room; who needs dinner guests anyway? And finally, I installed a WiFi extender to up the wireless signal strength in the garage. With my laptop booted and working, I sat in the makeshift office chair and stared at my new gar-office surroundings. It would do, I concluded, but God help me and my back if this situation persisted for more than a year.
Cyrus came prepared too. He slid a pile of papers across the bistro table. I looked down at the thick stack of papers which appeared to be appli cations in the process of completion.
“My Visa situation is quite the frustration,” he explained. “As the rest of the team explained on our call the other night, establishing a United States beachhead is imperative if we want to make ExOh all it can be. But unfor tunately, I cannot get a local business license. I cannot get a bank account. I cannot file company documents with the regulatory authorities.” He smiled. “But you can.”
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25 August – 1 September 2022Montecito JOURNAL28 by Anne Brode O ngoing social and political dis cord undermine our peace of mind. They also take a toll on physical wellbeing. This shows up for me as a churning gut and layer of fatigue behind the eyes. Others might feel agi tation, low energy, headaches, tension, and dry mouth. No matter how it manifests, living through stressful times challenges our ability to focus during the day and relax/repair at night. When the new normal feels so dis tressing, it’s more important than ever to know how to relax and feel better. I thought this would be the perfect time to interview stress management expert Tina Lerner for a little inspiration and guidance.
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A: The ‘stress response’ is powerful chemistry that prepares our bodies to fight or flee. This serves a purpose when we’re actually in physical danger. Unfortunately, our bodies are not able to discriminate between something we are concerned about, such as disturbing world news, or an actual present physi cal threat. What I commonly see in my clients is the ‘habit’ of being in a con tinual physical survival stress response. This has a profound negative effect on our emotional and physical wellbeing.
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• Notice how you’re breathing makes your hands rise and fall with your inhale and exhale.
I recommend creating a daily breath practice. Taking a very short amount of time (two to three minutes) each day to focus on breathing instead of continually focusing on what’s creating stress. Research shows that adding a small action consistently, such as focus ing on your body as you breathe for a couple of minutes, is more effective over time than waiting for the perfect 10- to 20-minute opportunity to stop andHere’sbreathe.aneasy breathing technique to try right now:
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What are some of the long-term stress issues you’re seeing right now? Most of the people I see are challenged by an emotional or physical issue such as anxiety, depression, overwhelm, insom nia, fear, feeling helpless, heart palpita tions, high blood pressure, headaches, pain, irritable bowel disease, claustropho bia. They are often referred to me by their doctor or other healthcare practitioner.
• As you pay attention to your body breathing, notice the subtle sensations of your body expanding and contracting with each breath.
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• Sit in a relaxed posture; it’s OK to lean on the back of a chair or even lie down in bed.
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What are some ways you help people address these problems at the Biofeedback Institute? Using state-of-the-art biofeedback technology, it’s easy to measure heart rhythm, respiration, and other phys iology and display the results on a computer screen in an easy-to-under stand format. Based on this informa tion, using science-based techniques, I design individualized programs to lower stress and anxiety to help people feel more at ease and in control. With practice, a client learns how to actually alter brain activity, blood pressure, muscle tension, heart rate/rhythm, and breath patterns. This process interrupts the habitual stress cycle. Can you offer a bit of coaching right now to help us experience how mind and body can work together to reduce stress?
It’s often difficult to ‘change our minds and look at the bright side’ when we are in a reactive stress response. Our bodies are informing our minds, ‘You are in danger!’ One of my often-used phrases is, “To be healthy we need to spend some time out of our minds.” So, my first recommendation is to bring your attention to your body and feel what it feels like as you take in and release a breath. Focus on the physical experience and simply observe your body breathing. We can’t just stop our minds from thinking but, when you manage to focus attention on your breathing for a minute or two, you will turn down the habitual stress response and potentially feel more at ease. Then, your mind’s constant chatter has less of a negative impact. One client told me when he is paying attention to his breathing, he pictures all of his habitual worrisome thoughts floating above him in envelopes and because he is more relaxed, he has more freedom to choose whether to open and investigate a thought or just let it float by. With so much going on out in the world, it feels important to stay current with what’s happening. How can I do this without get ting stressed out?
• Put one hand on your belly and the other on your chest, over your heart. And then take in a breath.
unhealthy often adds another layer of stress. People are afraid that they will ‘worry themselves sick.’
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Indeed, the season’s nine programs from October to June range from open ing night’s collaboration with State Street Ballet, The Choral Society, Quire of Voyces, and, for the first time, Music Academy’s Sing! children’s chorus per forming fan-favorite Carmina Burana, to famed pieces by Beethoven paired with the West Coast premiere of Ella Milch-Sheriff’s staged monodrama
The Eternal Stranger, based on a dream by Beethoven with an actor from Ensemble Theatre Company, and a new adapta tion of a score by film composer Elmer Bernstein created by his son and a tribute to the current film music star John Williams. Two world premieres include Jazz at Lincoln Center’s saxo phonist Ted Nash’s Transformation for Symphony Orchestra and Narrator, based on the composer’s personal journey and featuring Nash and his trio as solo ists, while local Cody Westheimer ’s Wisdom of the Sky, Water, Earth pays symphonic and visual homage to the region’s Chumash heritage. The season closes with An Evening with Sinatra with singer-pianist Tony DeSare performing songs associated with Ol’ Blue Eyes in a rare symphonic setting, a second, more pops-style approach to go along with the annual New Year’s Eve concert.
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Nir Kabaretti has directed the Santa Barbara Symphony for 16 years (photo by Zach Mendez)
E very year in recent times, the Santa Barbara Symphony announces a new season that’s about expand ing its audience while keeping core fans as well as strengthening community connections. But this year feels differ ent. Maybe it’s residue of having had to pivot to persevere during the pandemic or the impact of a recent five-year com mitment from the triumvirate atop the artistic, administrative, and board of directors solidifying the approach.
“It’s about coming up with programs
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A new season of collaboration and music has been announced for the SB Symphony’s 70th anniversary (photo by Zach Mendez)
Pairing globally recognized guest art ists and familiar composers with a bevy of collaborations with music creators with unique ties to the community, the Symphony has come up with an enviable 70th anniversary season that spreads its tentacles deep into the fabric of Santa “ThereBarbara.arealot of different param eters for me to put together a sea son,” said Music and Artistic Director Nir Kabaretti, who has been at the Symphony’s helm for 16 years. “There needs to be a balance between what people want to hear and what our musi cians want to play, performing American music, configuring concerts that let us collaborate with other organizations in town, and premiering new music and playing old favorites.”
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Humboldt Canyon sprout from its cracks and fissures, getting a foothold and germinating amongst all the multi-colored lichen seemingly tat tooed all across the gritty rocks.
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I decided to turn my attention to other photographic subjects in Scorpion Canyon. After a couple months, I kind of forgot about that family of island foxes.
There are lots of side canyons within Scorpion Canyon, all of them stunning and some challenging to climb out of. The rock is very weather-beaten. It’s ancient, and being volcanic rock, it is very porous. It’s extremely crumbly and can break away at any time. However, it’s that porous rock that allows so much of the island flora to
This year though, there was a welcomed surprise in Humboldt Canyon. A family of island foxes had a proper den right in the middle of the pathway leading to the densest bushel of Humboldt lilies. They had made the effort and dug out their den underneath a good-sized boulder in the side creek. Two island fox pups, both the size of the palm of my hand, peeked out from inside their den. Their mother nursed them on the matted grasses outside the opening. Soon, their father arrived, both pups frantically wagging their stubby tails as he approached. After nursing, the mother vanished from view, hunkering down in the lemonade berry bush 10 feet across the den site. There was a dark, narrow corridor inside the den, as the pups peered outward. Curiosity got the better of them though. I sat quietly and motionless. One pup was more inquis itive than the other. Ten feet from their side canyon home, they crept out into the open as they began to wrestle with each other. Just before dark, I decided to follow their dad. I was curious to see where his territorial boundaries were. The eastern fringe of his territory spanned the entire lower half of Scorpion Canyon. I followed him there, where he drank from a pool of water. He then disappeared in another side canyon as it grew too dark to see. I came back early the next morning and later in the afternoon, but there was no activ ity of any kind at the den site. Island fox par ents are known to move their pups around, so I wasn’t surprised when I didn’t see them.
An early morning run through the Scorpion CanyonLoop 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
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BY DANA WHITE by Chuck Graham It’s a secretive side canyon cloaked in unique island and California flora on the southeast fringe of Santa Cruz Island. However, this narrow, craggy draw needs to wait for the month of May to arrive before one can truly soak in all its island splendor. Over the years it’s proven to be one of the prettier, more colorful canyons on the southeast end of the isle. Mainly it’s due to the brilliant Humboldt lilies blooming in profusion. Through countless millenniums, wind and water have carved and cut these fortified volcanic cliffs, crags, and weathered grottos.
Sometimes those early morning trail runs on the island produce some sweet surprises in various forms. Fresh out of the tent, the Scorpion Canyon Loop Trail is always a guaranteed leg burner. Once past the lower and upper campgrounds, the trail narrows, first over the dry creek bed, and then mean dering gradually into the meat of the canyon. After that lone creek-crossing, it’s about a half-mile further before it ascends south ward. It’s here where the trail leaves the canyon, ascending and bending south ward into a steep, narrow, rocky route. It was here on August 8, 2022, where the island delivered another surprise. Two, 2-month-old island fox pups were playing with their dad in the middle of the trail. I momentarily startled them, but they quickly settled and grew curious and playful. Heads bobbing up and down, both pups approached within a few feet, and then play fully dove back into a tunnel of coyote bush. It’s very possible this was the same family of foxes from Humboldt Canyon. I continued running for just 10 strides, when I peered over my shoulder to discover both pups hot on my heels. I stopped and crouched down with one pup only an arm’s-length away. One of their parents sat nearby, and then all three vanished in the brush. It was a great way to start the steep est portion of Scorpion Canyon Loop Trail. After seeing them it didn’t feel as steep as I loped toward another epic island sunrise.
The hike begins in Scorpion Canyon, and as the sounds of the ocean fade, I quick ly walked up the seasonal arroyo, its sin gle-track trail paralleling the winding creek bed. From there, the trail gradually ascends southeast up the side of Scorpion Canyon, but just as it begins to do so, I jumped offtrail and continued up the boulder-choked canyon scrambling over fallen trees with island flora brightening the volcanic canyon walls. Blue dicks, California fuchsia, Santa Cruz Island liveforever, golden yarrow, fra grant silver lupine, Santa Cruz Island silver lotus (one of my favorites), ironwood trees, and prevalent island morning glory were still blooming and holding tough in anoth er episode of extreme drought conditions. The islands like everywhere else need rain, but the islands enjoy fog drip, the largest water input across the chain. It keeps the island flora moist for a longer period. Birdsong is prevalent throughout this island, off-trail hike. Endemic island scrub jays, raucous ravens, spotted towhees, Bewick wrens, and song spar rows offer a melodious symphony that carries throughout the honeycombed can yon with natural acoustics varying with each bend in the creek bed.
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Prolific travel writer Frank McGinity publishes new Irish tome
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Prince Harry and his former actress wife Meghan Markle are winging to the U.K. next month to attend several charity events, including the One Young World Summit in Manchester on September 5. The tony twosome will also head to Germany for the Invictus Games Miscellany
As Frank says: “Whether or not Irish blood runs thick in your veins, if you seek a richer understanding of the multicultural tapestry of our nation, read on and marvel at the unique influence of the Emerald Isle.”
Miscellany (Continued from 8) Angels surround ing Rona Barrett are Scott Groff, Anne Towbes, and Kohanya Groff (photo by Priscilla)
Among the guests, listening to the piano and guitar music of Eric Waldo and Quinn Rollins, were Anne Towbes, who had particularly fond memories of the venue as it was the first home she shared with her late husband, Montecito Bank & Trust founder Michael Towbes, Judi Weisbart, Daniel McNee, Juliana Minsky , D’Arcy Cornwall , Tony Morris, and Dana Hansen
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In addition, the book highlights the renowned and lesser-known Irish immi grants who impacted the American expe rience in California and beyond, such as John MacKay, who fled the famine in Ireland, escaped the slums of New York City, hiked a hundred miles across the Sierras and became one of the richest gold miners in the West. There’s also the stories of Nicolás Den, who saved the Santa Barbara Mission from being secularized and sold off by the Mexican government, and the San Patricio Battalion soldiers, who desert ed the U.S. Army in 1846 to join with Mexico and fight against the tide of American expansionism.
Reading Up on Irish Roots Montecito globetrotting accountant Frank McGinity has just published his latest 246-page work chronicling nearly 40 years of the California branch of the American Irish Historical Society from its creation in 1983 through the first quarter of the 21st century. Riven Rock-based founder Frank says his work serves not only as a historical document of the many events held by the branch in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, but as a repository of speech and article exploring the lives of famous Irishmen and women throughout history.
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Hunter, who joined the Westmont faculty in 2000, graduated from the University of Illinois and earned a Master of Science and a doctorate in mathemat ics at the University of Virginia. Warioba, a second-year doctoral stu dent in medical physics at the University of Chicago, uses his love for math in the statistical analysis of a study that exam ines resting state functional connectivity in MRI stroke models. After earning a doctorate, he plans to pursue either a clinical career or one in academia.
“We describe how to summarize pop ulation data in terms of smooth, two-di mensional surfaces,” Hunter says. “These surfaces give us ways of identifying neighborhood boundaries and visualiz ing segregation patterns. Our hope is that this work will inspire other mathematical investigations into topics that address important questions.”
The Service of Commitment, a formal ceremony with robed professors who welcome students to the Westmont com munity, takes place Friday, August 26, from 3:30-5 pm beginning in Murchison Gym. Bagpipe fanfare, a longstanding Westmont tradition, will lead new stu dents on their First Walk through the Formal Gardens to Kerrwood Lawn,
A Westmont professor and recent grad uate won the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award from the Mathematical Association of America, the world’s largest community of mathematicians, students, and enthusiasts.
Six students have taken advantage of generous scholarships from the Santa Barbara Education Foundation’s Program for Effective Access to College (PEAC) and Santa Barbara Mission ScholarsWestmontProgram.awarded four-year academic scholarships ranging from $15,000 to $41,514 each year to more than 95 per cent of entering new students.
Twenty-one students, including four internationals, have spent two or more years abroad. The new students represent 15 countries and 34 U.S. states. The Tri-Counties are well represented with 71 students coming from Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties. The most popular majors for new stu dents are kinesiology, economics and business, psychology and communication studies.Westmont’s new nursing program enrolls its second cohort this fall with 20 new students. They’ll join the existing cohort of eight who began last January. Both cohorts attend classes at Westmont Downtown. The program is a 16-month Accelerated Bachelor of Science in NursingFamiliesprogram.willmove their students into residence halls throughout the day August 25 greeted personally by President Gayle D. Beebe at the entrance of campus.
Sixty-two high-achieving, first-year students select ed as Augustinian Scholars have received scholarships, ranging from $25,000 up to 85 percent of tuition. Students of color comprise 43 percent of the incoming new class and the number of first-generation students has grown exponentially.
While less than a third of students sub mitted test scores, the average SAT score rose to a middle range of 1210-1430. The average GPA rose to 4.0 with a mid dle range of 3.68-4.39, also the highest recorded GPA in school history.
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David J. Hunter, professor of mathemat ics, and Chisondi Warioba (’21), born in Tanzania and a triple major in chemistry, physics, and biology, were honored for their paper, “Segregation Surfaces,” which uses mathematics, open source software, and data to reveal trends and patterns of segregation in U.S. cities.
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New students will make their First Walk through the Formal Gardens to Kerrwood Lawn August 26 (photo by Brad Elliott)
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A bout 320 first-year students and a record-setting 70 transfers begin arriving at Westmont for Orientation (August 25-28) and the start of the fall semester (August 29).
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“As someone who speaks English as a second language, the ability to describe the world we live in with such universal descriptors will always take my breath away,” Warioba says. “It’s an honor to contribute to this field and an even great er honor to be recognized as a recipient of this year’s Allendoerfer Award.” The research offers several approaches to measuring segregation using ideas developed by social scientists and con cepts from multivariable calculus. The article highlights how undergraduate data analysis and mathematical tech niques can lend insight into how we quantify segregation patterns.
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Tonight’s special 35th anniversary screening presented by LISTEN – a small, independent, ‘80s lifestyle brand that calls Carpinteria home – brings North Shore back to the beautiful Arlington Theatre, a frequent surf film hub, with stars Philbin, Matt Adler (Rick Kane), Nia Peeples (Kiani), and others on hand, plus contests, prizes, and more. Proceeds benefit the Hui O He’e Nalu nonprofit that educates, coordinates, preserves, and provides assistance to facilitate the advancement of Hawaiian activities and culture.
Guffaws with Gabriel – The corpulent comedian Gabriel Iglesias – also known as Fluffy, the nickname he acquired after his mother’s retort when the young Gabriel called himself “fat” in front of her – has become one of the most successful comics in recent American history. His stand-up specials for Comedy Central and Netflix have been huge hits, he starred in his own Netflix sitcom Mr. Iglesias, played Tobias in the 2012 movie Magic Mike and its 2015 sequel, and appeared in numerous other live-action and animated TV shows and films, and his YouTube videos have amassed more than a billion views. Iglesias, who has sold out such large venues as Madison Square Garden in New York and Staples Center in Los Angeles, continues to tour the world, still spinning jokes in his usually sold-out stand-up shows.
WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Highway 246, Santa Ynez COST: $69-$99 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or chumashcasino.com
WHEN: 6-9 pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. COST: $15 INFO: (805) 963-4408/ thearlingtontheatre.com or axs.com/venues/2330
WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Libbey Bowl, 210 S. Signal Ave., Ojai COST: $49-$125 INFO: (888) 645-5006 or libbeybowl.org/calendar Pride at the Beach – Pacific Pride Foundation’s annual festival celebrating the local LGBTQ+ individuals and community as a new location of the oceanside field at Chase Palm Park and an increased focus on access, inclusion, and belonging, ensuring all members of the community can participate fully, with ASL translation, Spanish interpretation, and more spaces for everyone. The all-day event opens with an empowering rally before launching a full line up of live entertainment, family-friendly activities, delicious local food, and much more. Headliner Cece Peniston has performed all over the world via a series of ‘90s chart-topping Billboard Pop/Dance hits that include “Keep On Walking,” “We Got A Love Thing,” “I’m Not Over You,” and “Finally.” Maria
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
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WHEN: 8:30 pm WHERE: Sunken Garden, 1100 Anacapa St. COST: free INFO: ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 751 Paseo Nuevo, at the intersection of Chapala and De la Guerra streets COST: $25 general, $35 VIP, which includes table seating close to the stage and a free cocktail prepared especially for the performance
Surf’s Still Up – In 1987, North Shore was one of the first feature-length surf movies from a big studio, and while the film’s box office numbers when Universal released it were un derwhelming, time proved the film’s populari ty as it became a worldwide cult classic. North Shore’s status as one of the most beloved and quoted Hollywood surf movies of all time has over the decades provided many mainstream movie watchers their first look at Hawaiian surf culture and the growing popularity of the then-new extreme style of surfing. It’s not an exaggeration to suggest that the movie in spired thousands of young people to become surfers, board shapers, and artists, or even just move to the coast to live the beach life, while fans have proudly exchanged favorite one-liners and have even named kids and pets after their favorite characters. Locals appearing in the movie include world champion Shaun Tomson, the longtime Montecito resident, and John Philbin, who portrayed Turtle and is an alumni of UCSB.
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Final Feature of ‘Hot Fun’ Films – As if the entire slate of free films in this year’s UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Summer Cinema series Hot Fun in the Summertime wasn’t already fun enough, now you can add wordplay to the wonders as the series concludes tonight with In the Heights at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Garden. De scend to the lawn to lap up the 2021 film adapta tion of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical, which follows a similar plot in telling the story of a single street corner in the predominant ly Dominican Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City, where every member of the community pursues their own dreams for a better life. While the movie didn’t make back its bud get at the box office, critics loved it, with both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic giving it top marks. As always, filmgoers may start setting up at noon on the day of the screening and need to respect the lawn and others by using only permeable blankets and only chairs that are both low-backed and low to the ground. Musical entertainment and prizes from KLITE Morning Show hosts Gary and Catherine provide the pre-screening activities.
Drag Revue and Cabaret Encore – Apparently three shows last month featuring our local Les Femmes Fatales at the Center Stage Theater – aka the Pride (pun intended) of Santa Barbara, the envy of the cabaret world, the jewel of the American Riviera –just wasn’t enough. So the revue and cabaret familiar to fans of the French Festival, notched up for an adult audience, is coming back with a single encore show, once again promising an evening filled with bawdy, burlesque, illusion, intrigue, and… a plethora of wig tape. The show is presented by BellaDonna and Miss Kitty and hosted by Jim Sirianni, longtime local radio voice and Center Stage staple. Part of the pro ceeds benefit the black box theater upstairs in Paseo Nuevo. Mon dieu!
WHEN: 8 pm tonight & tomorrow by Steven Libowitz
Feinstein – who founded the Great American Songbook Foundation back in 2007 to not only celebrate the art form but also preserve the music through educational programs and classes – is also a songwriter in his own right, including collaborations with Santa Barbara’s own Alan and Marilyn Bergman . Feinstein’s latest is a tribute to his former mentor, as Gershwin Country finds him reimagining Gershwin favorites through the contempo rary lens of country music through duets with Dolly Parton , Alison Krauss , Rosanne Cash , and Montecito’s own Brad Paisley
Ambassador Around the World – Michael Feinstein , the so-called “Ambas sador of the Great American Songbook,” has ridden his love for the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz stan dards dating back to the early 20th century to heights across media and around the world. His recordings have earned five Grammy nominations, his PBS-TV specials similarly garner Emmy nods, and his concerts have taken place at iconic venues including The White House, Buckingham Palace, Holly wood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, and Sydney Opera House. Now we can add Libbey Bowl, site of the prestigious annual Ojai Festival, to the list of places where the singer captures the heart and soul of classic stateside songs from the cat alogs of Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, and others.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 25
Montecito Mansions and Movies – The fabled estates of Montecito have long fascinated both locals and visitors, both for the celebrity of their residents and the beauty of the spaces.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 30 Awash in Island Sounds –female musicians in generations, acclaimed for her originality in song composition as well as her spellbindingly soulful vocals. Also a poet and ukulele player, Fuga quickly found success with her debut album, ed the prestigious Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award for Most Promising Artist. She’s collaborated with Ziggy Marley global music circuit and performed on the stages of Good Morning America Garden, The Sydney Opera House Forecourt, and the White House. Fuga’s second album, appreciation2021’s of living in Hawaii and all the beauty it possesses with her dedication to inspiring positive social change rooted in per severance and hope boosted by guest appearances from Johnson, and J Boog. SOhO, long a stateside stopover for Hawaiian musicians heading out on mainland tours, features Fuga in its main room tonight.
WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $25 INFO: (805) 962-7776 or sohosb.com
Now, popular and prolific local author Betsy J. Green has penned a behind-the-scenes peek at a relatively unknown aspect of the history of Montecito mansions and grounds, namely the era when a multitude of silent movies were filmed on the estates. Movies & Million-Dollar Mansions: Silent movies made in Montecito, CA traces the history of the 19 Hollywood mov ie studios plus two from Santa Barbara that filmed more than 60 silent films here, includ ing The Lure of the Mask, where the Crocker-Sperry Ranch known as “Las Fuentes” and now the site of the Birnam Wood Golf Club served as a stand-in for scenes in Europe. The chapter for each movie contains a lively synopsis, behind-the-scenes info, plus photos from the movies and the million-dollar mansions. Join Green – a former editor at Reader’s Digest and World Book Encyclopedia who now specializes in writing about local history and pens Independent’s “The Great House Detective” column – for a trip back in time as she talks about “Movies & Million-Dollar Mansions” as part of Chaucer’s Books local authors series. WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center COST: free INFO: (805) 682-6787 or chaucersbooks.com
WHEN: 11 am – 7 pm WHERE: Chase Palm Park, 236 E. Cabrillo Blvd. COST: free INFO: pacificpridefoundation.org/events/pacific-pride-festival
Come see one of the most exceptional displays of minerals and gems ever presented in our region. More than an assembly of specimens, Rare Earth will be rich in story, cultural heritage, global connections, and compelling discussions about how we assign value to natural beauty. 2559 Puesta del Sol Santa Barbara, CA 93105 805-682-4711 sbnature.org
chi Arcoiris, Harout, and LA Boheme dance groups, Soul Machine, and Vivian Storm Experience are among the other acts, while the festival also features areas focused on the Arts, Outdoors, Generations, and Spirituality, including a space for on-site weddings. A Justice Action Center provides education and interaction with local social and environmental justice groups, part of more than 30 community organizations participating, as well as a health hub where attendees can receive information about how to prevent HIV, COVID-19, monkeypox, and more. Meanwhile, a series of pre- and post-fest events in clude Pride Karaoke at Crush Bar on August 25, a Comedy is a Drag show at the Wildcat, plus the Pride Kickoff Party at Backstage on August 26, and the Pride After Party at the Wildcat tonight.
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25 August – 1 September 2022Montecito JOURNAL38 “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston Churchill
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“We are flexible when the need arises, though, and lately we’ve focused on the array of new challenges that we have faced, from fires and the debris flow to the pandemic.”
25 August – 1 September 2022 Montecito JOURNAL 39 will create a community where families, schools and churches are connected to parks, beaches and businesses on one Montecito Neighborhood Trail Network — A community where people feel safe to walk and bike and get to know their neighbors along the beautiful, tree-lined roads of Montecito. WALK MONTECITO! SBBUCKETBRIGADE.ORG/WALK-MONTECITO CAMPAIGN CHAIRS Geoff Slaff • Michael Smith EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE David Jackson • Greg Tebbe • Geoff Slaff • Michael Smith • Lisa Aviani • Abe Powell Bucket Brigade DONATE TODAY AND HELP LEAVE THE LEGACY OF A WALKABLE MONTECITO FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. 805-568-9700 ⋅ lisaa@sbbucketbrigade.org ⋅ PO Box 50640 Santa Barbara CA 93150 THIS COMMUNITY UPLIFT PROJECT IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY Zegar Family Foundation • Ann Jackson Family Foundation • Christina Kirby and Josh Kulkin • The Muller Family • Eric and Wendy Schmidt • Geoff Slaff and Dale Zurawski • Anonymous - 2 • Brittingham Family Foundation • Audacious Foundation • Sharon Bradford/WWW Foundation • Tony and Kyra Rogers • Jackie & Jeff Schaffer • Bryan and Eva Schreier • Nati & Michael Smith and Anne Smith Towbes • Anonymous - 1 • Jane Copeland • Brook and Jasper Eiler • Mitchell and Lisa Green • Gerd and Peter Jordano • Teresa Kastle • Mitchell Family • Kelly Mooney and Scott Henningson • Santa Barbara Foundation • Daphne and Greg Tebbe • Kristin and Karl Weis • Anonymous - 3 • Stefanie and David Jackson • Mark and Sally Egan Foundation • Steve Hanson Landscaping • Montecito Bank & Trust • Naila and Peter Lewis • Lizzie and Brent Peus • Jim and Marsha Prudden • Matt Riley • Justine Roddick • The Winston Family • Ashish and Leslie Bhutani • Kim Cantin • Carolyn and Andrew Fitzgerald • Lilina S. Hahn • Ron and Andrea Hein • Charles C. Read and Eileen White Read • Kenny Slaught • Patricia and Eric Swenson • Linda Weinman
A Fond Farewell Lynda Millner has represented Montecito Journal at myriad nonprofit events all over the Santa Barbara area for almost as long as Montecito Journal has been around, which is 27 years and counting: the paper was launched in the summer of 1995 and Lynda joined us shortly thereafter. She announced her retirement from “Seen Around Town” in last week’s issue and I for one (and I am no doubt speaking for all MJ fans and contributors) will miss the diligent coverage she has given to so many wor thy events and the people who attend and put them on. Lynda always made sure to highlight the honorees and the chairs first and foremost, and then the ardent backers and attendees, and rarely if ever got her facts wrong.
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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.
For more about this project, visit www. sbroads.com. The project will be in front of the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission in November.
An additional comment was also added, asking that the freeway bridges be constructed to accommodate a 100-year storm event to ensure that the proposed bridges will not be a limiting factor that prevents sound walls from being built in theInfuture.place of the sound walls, a black coated chain link fencing, planted with vines and landscaping, is proposed; Caltrans has agreed to provide landscape maintenance for five years after the proj ect is built. At the request of MPC chair Ron Pulice, Ayars reported that neighbor hood chatter related to removal of the southbound on-ramp at Posilipo is not considered part of this project. While the entrance at Posilipo will be enhanced during construction, neighbor discus sions hoping for the entrance’s removal are happening outside of the scope of the project, and any project to consider removal of the entrance would require significant planning and public input.
“I had always liked to dress up and wear fancy clothes, much to my mother’s chagrin,” she says in expla nation of her love and desire to attend and cover so many memorable out ings. Consequently, Lynda Millner was always dressed as elegantly as those in attendance.Asforher longevity, Ms. Millner proudly maintains that she “never missed a deadline” and laughs when she recounts that she began writing her column so long ago she did it on a yellow legal pad and “ended up with my husband, Don, turning it in on a laptop computer.”
After lengthy deliberations and after questioning why the MPC is not the final decision-making body for the proj ect instead of the County Planning Commission, Commissioners formulat ed a handful of recommendations to be sent to the Planning Commission. They stated that if the new watershed study that is being undertaken allows for sound walls, Caltrans shall construct sound walls that will accommodate the passage of water, and that Caltrans shall include the sound walls in their funding request. They also stated that the project shall be designed and constructed such that future sound walls can be accom modated (i.e. the footings for sound walls shall be installed). Also related to the sound walls, the Commission asked that if sound walls are not constructed as part of the project, the four-foot wall extending from a retaining wall in front of the Miramar Resort on the south side of the freeway shall be modified or removed to avoid sound reflectivity.
Other recommendations included asking that the Olive Mill roundabout be operational prior to the construction on the freeway; tree removal be min imized and on-site replanting shall be prioritized; and reclaimed water shall be used for dust mitigation for highway con struction and landscaping shall be irrigat ed with recycled water, where feasible.
Approximately 800 cyclists participat ing in the Santa Barbara Triathlon will use portions of the state highway sys tem in Santa Barbara, Montecito, and Carpinteria this Saturday, August 27, between the hours of 7 am and 12:30 pm in the following locations: US 101 Overcrossing at San Ysidro Road, State Route 150 between State Route 192 and Gobernador Canyon Road, and State Route 192 between Sheffield Drive and State Route 150. The cyclists will be riding near moving traffic so no road closures are planned. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) will be present to ensure the safety of motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians. For information on traffic updates on Caltrans projects in Santa Barbara County, residents may call the District 5 Public Affairs Office at (805) 549-3237 or visit the website at: caltrans-near-me/district-5.https://dot.ca.gov/
When Montecito Journal was found ed (on a dime and a prayer) it could hardly afford to pay its contributors what they earned and deserved, so I, as then-owner of a restaurant in La Cumbre Plaza (Café Au Lait), “paid” Lynda with a coupon for a free meal at my family’s restaurant. Lynda accepted her gustatory wages with good grace and humor.
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columnist Lynda Millner and husband, Don Seth, made a great team in producing Montecito Journal’ s “Seen Around Town” for many years (photo by Priscilla) and freeway construction in the most efficient way possible. Public comment on the project includ ed three speakers: Bruce MacKenzie, who brought up the issue of increased air pollution in nearby neighborhoods, now that the sound walls have been removed from the project; Scott Smigel, who said he was encouraged by the meaty conver sation, and has concerns about the map ping used to omit the sound walls; and Sharon Byrne, Executive Director of the Montecito Association, who praised the Commission for their questions and con cerns, and asked them to continue to be mindful that many in the community are concerned about the lack of sound walls.
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vivacious Victoria Hines. Other Montecito-based attendees included Peter Kevoian, his moth er Annalise, Bob and Mary Gates (along with their visiting family from Bakersfield), and Dana and Andrea Newquist If you think you might have enjoyed cruising on the Pacific off the California coast with a group of friends listening to Broadway favorites with the sun setting behind the near by Figueroa Mountains as your vessel slowly pulled back into port, you’d probably have savored being among the hundred or so guests you’d have shared the moment with. If you did miss it, plan on joining them next August. If Opera is your thing, this year’s Opera Cruise is scheduled for the full-moon night of Saturday, September 10 from 6 pm to 8 pm. Dinner is always included and there’s usually more than one can eat, so come hungry.
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The Hammered Hearts Foundation sprung out of Dru’s painful divorce from a 27-year-long marriage. After the divorce, a couple friends took her to Israel. While visiting religious sites something caught her eye – an odd rock by her feet. The rock looked like it was hammered into the shape of a heart. When she picked it up, she experienced what she described as a “God moment.” Shortly after her return to the U.S., she got a flat tire. While getting it fixed at the dealer ship, she had another “God moment.” It brought her attention to the fact that for her, getting a flat tire was just an inconvenience, but for many women going through hard times, get ting a flat tire is catastrophic. “They can’t get to work, they can’t afford a new tire, and they can’t get their kids to school,” Dru remarked.
by Sofia Fouroohi-Martin D esigner, speaker, author, and philanthropist Dru Hammer is bringing druville to town. Her new brand shows the 30-plus years of design experience under her belt through clothing and jewelry as well as acrylic trays and melamine tableware. The brand gets its name from her two sons – growing up they would joke about living in “Whoville” because of the bright colors in her design projects and in their house. “I just see life in color,” Dru said. Dru grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When she was in middle school her fam ily bought a vacation home in Florida. While in Florida, she discovered Lilly Pulitzer and immediately fell in love with her florescent floral designs. She returned to Oklahoma with a suitcase full of new Lilly Pulitzer clothes, excited to wear her new wardrobe to school. “It was a dramatic change from Wranglers and cowboy boots,” Dru said. Dru cites Lilly Pulitzer as her biggest creative inspiration. The druville products feature lively colors and whimsical designs. When Dru created her brand earlier this year, she was able to trademark all 11 of her original designs. Dru, who believes laughter is the best medicine, has given her products witty names. One acrylic tray is named “the struggle is real” and features an orange and pink design that looks like a scale. The back reads: “scale: struggle is real… for real.”In 2012, Dru start ed the Hammered Heart Foundation to help “hearts that have been hammered by life,” focusing on women and girls in need. The foundation has worked with chari ties such as youthatproceedsandpassionmeIeversheallycharity.proceedsFoundation,HammeredlyDruvilleMercyDreamCenter,Childhelp,andMinistries.worksdirectalongsidetheHeartswiththegoingto“Iliketogivenationaswellaslocally,”confessed,“wherIhavethepop-upstelltheowner,‘Letknowwhatyourisingivingwewillgivethetothecharitymeansthemosttoasourthank-you
DruThesaid.druville pop-up tour began in the Hamptons on July 15 and ends in Palm Beach, Florida on December 5, stopping in Montecito on August 26 and 27 along the way. The druville pop-up will be held at Legacy, which is located at 1137 Coast Village Road. Dru hopes to open a store in Palm Beach in the near future. For more information, visit https://druville.com.
Designer, speaker, author, and philanthropist Dru Hammer
Dru had the heart stone cast in three different golds, silver, and pavé dia monds. She has been donating the pavé diamond hearts to different charities and ministries. “They usually have me come speak at these events, where they sell the heart for four to five times more than the cost of manufacturing,” Dru said. Druville now sells these hammered hearts as necklaces in silver, gold, and pavé diamond. To help as many “hammered hearts” as possible, druville manufactures many products within the U.S., and also works with a manufacturing company in Guatemala that helps women who have escaped human trafficking. Dru’s favorite pieces in the druville collection are the lucite bracelets, which come in a variety of colors and have inspirational words on them. In the near future, she plans to launch polka-dot pants in a range of colors. The biggest part of druville is getting to hear the opinions of the women purchasing the products. “I love to see what women love, some of them like certain patterns over others… it’s really fun to do these pop-ups because I get to meet these women and they get to hear my story and why I’m doing it,”
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“Just like with the block party, it’s a real family event but with a great beach vibe,” Karayan said, noting that there will be plenty of multiple award-winning fish tacos and seafood burritos from Spencer Makenzie’s, the restaurant he titled after his kids’ first names. Cornhole, by the way, got its name because the canvas bags were originally filled with corn, not beans, although things have evolved and now the top bags are stuffed with silicone beads so the whole thing is washable. The tournament even has its logo adorning the official bags from more than a dozen sponsors for the Throw Down.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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Steven Libowitz has covered a plethora of topics for the Journal since 1997, and now leads our extensive arts and entertainment coverage that fit our musical DNA, and things that the visiting orchestras aren’t able to do, like having singers, or dancing, or clips of films and videos, and spoken word,” Kabaretti said. Maybe the biggest parameter is being versatile.”
Throw Down Cornhole Festival Invades Ventura
“We had bands play all day long, but I thought adding a small cornhole tournament could keep people around even longer,” said Karayan, who had been introduced to the game where the goal is to toss a bean bag through a hole on a slanted board back in his partying days at Lake Nacimiento. “We had 32 players, and a total prize of $100. No big deal.”
Kabaretti will talk about the new sea son in a free preview event on September 1 at the Lobero Theatre that is open to not only subscribers but also the gen eral public for the first time. He and a few guests will delve into details about the concerts, community collaborations, and thinking behind the selections with some behind-the-scenes stories and anecdotes. A string quartet comprised of Santa Barbara Symphony musicians will also perform a few selections that are thematically or musically connected to the concerts.
It turns out that Karayan was on the cusp of capitalizing on a coming phenomenon as cornhole exploded in popularity across the country just as he was turning his street fair into the Throw Down Cornhole Festival.
Don’t expect to see its founder on the podium. Karayan calls himself a passionate fan of the game, but not a potential champion.
Spencer Makenzie’s 12th annual three-day Throw Down Cornhole Festival takes place August 26-28 at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, 10 West Harbor Boulevard. Tickets cost $25 per day or $40 for the weekend, and children 12 and under are free. forthethrowdowncornholetournament.comVisitmoreinformation.
The cornhole competition began as a fun addition to a block party before growing into a three-day event
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When he brought cornhole to Ventura 12 years ago, John Karayan just thought he was adding a bit of fun to the second year of the annual sum mer block party he organized on the street in front of Spencer Makenzie’s, his popular casual dining seafood restaurant near downtown Ventura.
The Throw Down Cornhole Festival in Ventura is now the largest tournament of its kind in the world
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“Very few people knew what corn hole was out here in California back then. Ours was pretty much the first organized tournament of any size in the West,” Karayan recalled. “But then I added some more prize money for the second year, and by the third, word was spreading, and a professional team from Arizona came out and won it. It’s just grown exponentially every year, and now people fly in from all over the country and beyond.” Now, a dozen years later, the Throw Down is a very big deal, a three-day event held at Surfer’s Point in Seaside Park adjacent to the Ventura County Fairgrounds that has grown to be the world’s largest cornhole tournament. This year’s event offers an unprece dented $350,000 in cash prizes to the winners from among the more than 2,000 entrants composed of the sport’s best players, who collectively hail from 48 states as well as Canada, Mexico, England, and Sweden. This year also marks the first time the competition will be televised, as CBS Sports is set to broadcast live Friday night’s eighth stop on the American Cornhole League’s Pro Shootout tour, while ESPN will tape the entire weekend and air the tourna ment in the following weeks.
After sunset, the Throw Down returns to its block party roots as the bags and board fade into the background while music takes over the space. Headlining this year’s festival is Spotify fan favor ite Sunny Ledfurd in his first West Coast appearance, and there are sets from Ventura County acts A.D.D, Rey Fresco, Mandex, and Morie & the Heavy Hitters, among others.
“I love the game and I’m decent and competitive, but I’m not great,” he said. “But it’s just so fun to go watch these guys who play on an incredibly high level. And the cool thing about it is anybody can be good at it. You don’t have to be a great athlete to be compet itive. There are 10-year-old kids that are phenomenal players and beat adults all theThetime.”great thing about this weekend’s Throw Down Cornhole Festival is that it isn’t only for the pros, Karayan said. Anybody can enter any of the events as long as space remains, and anyone, including those who may have only seen cornhole in a park or backyard party, can play for free on the open-tothe-public courts amid the competition but without the high stakes. Players can also join low-entry-fee non-tour nament cash blind draw games to try their luck, or buy tickets for the chance to launch giant bean bags 150 feet at an oversized cornhole board in an event called Cornhole Trebuchet.
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“We want to offer it to the commu nity at large so people can hear about the background and what inspired us to program the concerts,” Kabaretti explained.However, an after-party with libations and nibbles is open only to subscribers, a number the Symphony hopes might increase as people learn more about the season, Kabaretti said. “I hope that when they hear a little bit more they’ll think, ‘Oh that is so cool. I think it would be exciting to be a part of the entire season.’”
Visit thesymphony.org for details of the September 1 event and the 2022-23 season. It’s in the Bag:
“It’s a great experience for everyone, from players of all levels to people who just want to hang out and watch the best players in the world and have a good time by the beach,” Karayan said.
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Hundreds of exchanges between the two cities have already occurred, and more programs are in planning stages for the future. Despite distance, the relation ship brings the two communities together and strengthens them simultaneously. While only a handful of individuals have participated in the exchange, its impact touches all people. How do we achieve a world of peace and tolerance? Through “people from different countries getting to know each other personally and devel oping friendships that last,” says Lilly. For more information about the Santa Barbara-Kotor Sister City relationship, visit sbkotorsistercity.com.
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by Audrey Biles Over 6,500 miles separate Santa Barbara and Kotor, but the work of the Santa Barbara-Kotor Sister City Committee allows for an engaged and mutually-enriching relationship between that seaside community and ours. Sister-City International, founded by Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, was created to promote international peace and col laboration. With over 1,800 partnerships between U.S. and international cities, the program connects communities in six continents through economic, education al, environmental, and cultural programs. Rather than leaving international diplo macy to the government, Sister Cities inspire interpersonal connection amongst citizens through areas of shared skill and common interest. Santa Barbara has seven Sister City relationships, including Dingle, Ireland; Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; San Juan Metro Manila, Philippines; Toba City, Japan; Weihai, People’s Republic of China; and Kotor, Montenegro. Kotor is a small city within 16th centu ry walls, known for its medieval architec ture and UNESCO World Heritage Site status. Hidden in the Bay of Kotor, the city’s four kilometers are rich in history and culture. The Santa Barbara-Kotor relationship focuses on cultural exchanges between young people, with particular strength in three areas: Music, Culinary Art, and Water Polo. The program allows members of the Santa Barbara commu nity to visit Kotor, expanding their own lives while simultaneously enriching the lives of those they meet. By facilitating friendships that span continents, the pro gram makes our world smaller and brings people together. In order to establish the relationship, the Santa Barbara Sister City Committee met with the mayor of Kotor to identify
Prevlaka Fortress at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor. Prevlaka lies on Croatian territory (photo by Bengt Nyman) ent countries. They were exposed to new languages and cultures, while also gain ing experience in a professional kitchen. Despite a demanding work schedule, the two were able to spend days off travel ing with their colleagues. They formed friendships and grew close, often relying on Google translate for communication. In Marcelo’s words, “It was a family.” Constantly encountering new people and new ways of life required an open mind, something they were both able to bring home. Just as Marcelo and Ava speak fondly of their time in Montenegro, the Regent enjoyed having them, too. The hotel was so impressed by their work that another student from Santa Barbara was invited to return this year.
Food Files Continents Through Cooking areas of commonality appropriate for an exchange. Goran Milić, committee mem ber and Kotor native, felt a particular con nection to the city’s disadvantaged youth. His mother worked at an orphanage when Goran was a child, instilling an apprecia tion for the many challenges that under privileged young people face. As a chef and restaurant owner, he felt passionately that auditory and speech impairments were not obstacles for working in a kitchen. “It’s tough over there to get employment. It’s particularly tough when you’re a teenager. It’s really tough if you are a teenager with hearing problems,” says George Lilly, chairman of the Santa Barbara-Kotor Sister City Committee. In 2009, Goran traveled to Kotor and spent two weeks at the Resource Center for Persons with Speech and Hearing Impairments. He spent his time teaching culinary skills to young students in order to give them the necessary skills for posi tions at Kotor’s resorts and restaurants. He brought three particularly promising students back to the U.S., where they interned at his restaurant and gained work experience. At the conclusion of the two-month program, the students returned to Kotor and began restaurant jobs. The program was a huge success; not only were the students employed, but they turned out to be very good in the kitchen. “The restaurants told us, ‘If you’ve got more, bring them,’” says Lilly. Randy Bublitz, former chair of the SBCC Culinary Program, taught the course the following year, and the Goran Milić Culinary Academy was established. While the internship oppor tunity is only available to a limited number of students, all participants have been able to take something from their time at the program. “If two or three students are now gainfully employed, we’re successful. We’ve gone way beyond that,” says Lilly. While affording education and oppor tunity in Kotor, the relationship also makes a meaningful impact in Santa Barbara. In 2018, the culinary school welcomed its first two students from Santa Barbara. Following their time at the school, they received internships at Milić’s restaurant and later found employment at acclaimed California restaurants. During the summer of 2021, SBCC students Ava Engle and Marcelo Chacon worked as interns at the Regent Hotel in Porto Montenegro. Neither knew very much about Kotor, but they were intrigued by the opportunity and applied through the city college. “The running joke in my family is that Kotor is somewhere in Europe,” Ava said. Residing in apartments provided by the hotel, Ava and Marcelo lived with roommates from many differ
The couple’s 19-year-old daughter Anna Pedraza also showed her flamenco skills during the gastronomic events. This year’s Spirit of Fiesta Tara Mata was also presented with a trip to Spain for her dancing abilities. Among the mob of masticators were Riley and Dacia Harwood, Fritz and Gretchen Olenberger, Erin Graffy and James Garcia, George and Laurie Leis, Rick Oshay and Teresa Kuskey Nowak, Hilary Burkemper, and Francisco and Maria Cabrera
Guests Scott Musser, Cristina Beltran Musser, Lina Beltran, and John-Paul Beltran (photo by Priscilla)
Two of Madrid’s top chefs, hus band-wife team Santiago Pedraza and Carmen Carro of Taberna Pedraza, winged in from Spain for the occasion of the multi-course feast, including fish, braised beef, steak, and pork accompa nied by Spanish wines, beer, and sangria.
Dr. Rebecca Aldoretta is the new Director of Veterinary Services at the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network. She has vast experience in veterinary care, including wildlife and exotic pet medicine, companion animal general practice, and emergency medicine. After earning her veterinary degree from Kansas State University in 2015, she worked all over the U.S. including Miami, Chicago, and Las Vegas. Aldoretta recently completed a spe cialty intern program in zoo exotics and wildlife medicine at the Atlantic Veterinary College in Prince Edward Island, Canada. She likes hiking, reading, and spending time with her German Shepherd Maya.
Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow is going to be a guest panelist on the ABC show Shark Tank. The Goop found er, 49, will appear on season 14 along with Emma Grede, British co-founder of Good American and founding partner of Skims, Tony Xu, co-founder and COO of DoorDash, and Peter Jones from the BBC show Dragon’s Den on which the U.S. show is based.
On a personal note, my thoughts are with writer Sir Salman Rushdie, 75, as he recovers after being stabbed repeatedly by an Iranian sympathizer as he was about to speak at the Chautauqua Institute literary festival in upstate New York. It follows the fatwa issued by Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 after his 1988 novel Satanic Verses I met Rushdie in 2012 at a boffo bash at Los Suenos, the Montecito estate of Robert Lieff and his then wife, Gretchen On receiving the invitation, I quipped to Gretchen: “I trust it’s going to be a fatwa-free zone!”
New Home Available Billionaire Larry Ellison, who owns a number of homes in our Eden by the Beach, has listed his Palm Beach, Florida, property for a hefty $145 million. The tech tycoon purchased the sprawl ing 15,500-square-foot Tuscan-style estate, located in the exclusive Seminole Landing neighborhood, for $80 million last year.
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Dusseldorf 2023 One Year to Go event, before returning to England for the WellChild Awards on September 8. The Sussexi may also meet with Harry’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, who will have returned to Windsor Castle from her Balmoral Castle, Scotland, retreat. Their home, Frogmore Cottage, is just a tiara’s toss or two from the historic pile.
Sightings Actor Ryan Gosling checking out Whole Foods... NCIS: Los Angeles actor Chris O’Donnell, an old friend from my sailing days at the Tarratine Club in Dark Harbor, Maine, getting his Java jolt at Pierre Lafond.... Billionaire candy heiress Jacqueline Mars and family living it up at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara. Pip! Pip! Be safe, wear a mask when necessary, and get vaccinated.
Thoughts for Salman Rushdie
Dietary concerns went out the win dow when the Santa Barbara Historical Museum was the venue for a 14-course dinner for 40 guests as part of a gastro nomic evening of Spanish cuisine hosted by the Consul of Tourism Affairs in Los Angeles, local California missions honcho David Bolton, and Gonzalo Sarmiento
From musings on the Royals to celebrity real estate deals, Richard Mineards is our man on the society scene and has been for more than a decade Host David Bolton with his mother Donna Long, Consul of Tourism of Spain bySarmientoandRodriguezJavierMañas,hostGonzalo(photoPriscilla)
25 August – 1 September 2022Montecito JOURNAL44 “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
Javier Rodriguez Mañas with 2022 Old Spanish Days Spirit of Fiesta Tara Mata (photo by Priscilla)
It is the third largest oceanfront parcel in Palm Beach County with 520 foot of ocean frontage. It has seven bedrooms and 14 baths on 7.35 acres.
From Madrid, Spain, are Taberna Pedraza chefs, Santiago Pedraza and Carmen Carro, with host David Bolton (photo by Priscilla)
Harry also took time to make a threeday solo visit to Mozambique, staying at the Vilanculos Beach Lodge, where he met with conservationist and philanthro pists supporting Africa’s parks.
An Evening of Cuisine at the Historical Museum
Working Man Julia Louis-Dreyfus ’s youngest son, Charlie, 25, is costarring on the HBOMax show Sex Lives of College Girls. Charlie is joining the show’s sec ond season as an Essex College stu dent. Additionally, he will also be in a Sweethearts movie, as well as the Big Shot series, according to Deadline. “That’s my boy!” the Montecito-based Veep alumni, 61, gushed on Instagram. Paltrow on the Panel
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Columnist Richard Mineards with writer Salman Rushdie
In June the Oracle founder purchased an even larger property spanning 63,000 square feet in nearby Manalapan for $173 million from internet entrepreneur Jim Clark The transaction was the largest sale ever in the Sunshine State. Ellison, 78, also owns several proper ties in Malibu and the entire Hawaiian island of Lanai.
Rebecca Aldoretta, new director of veterinary ser vices with the SB Wildlife Care Network
It was not until he had driven off that I realized he had once again left me with the bill.
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much I trust you, my friend. I’m putting it all in your hands.” I was bowled over by the confidence he had in me. I was also scared. This was virgin territory, and deep in the back of my head, a voice whispered words I did not want to hear. This doesn’t make sense, the voice said. Walk away. Find yourself a keyboard job and go write some code; that’s what you know how to do. This killjoy voice infuriated me. Did it not realize what I was up against? Did it think I was getting other job offers hand over fist, espe cially ones with multi-million-dol lar payout possibilities that could change the course of my family’s lives and – in one saving grace – fix all I had fouled? The voice did not. And for that reason, I desperately and defiantly dismissed the voice as sanctimonious, irrational babble. “Once the bank account is estab lished,” Cyrus continued, “we’ll be open to receive investor funds. And I must tell you,” he paused, leaning in closer, “the reaction from your fellow Montecito residents has been through the roof. It’s truly hum bling.” He put a hand to his heart and shook his head. “I’ll take care of it,” I pledged. “Good,” Cyrus said. “I also need you to line up a Certified Public Accountant capable of getting the shell company’s financials in order…” I started scribbling notes as he spoke faster and faster; my handwrit ing looking more like hieroglyphics than cursive English. “…and a lawyer willing to attest to the accuracy of those filings so that trading can resume…” My automatic pencil finished one stick of lead, requiring about fifty clicks to get the next piece loaded. Cyrus kept talking. “…and of course, we’ll need to update the company’s name to ExOh and get our new ticker registered.” I broke the lead. More clicking. “Did you get all of that?” he asked. “Yeeeessss,” I said, slowly still scribbling. “You said this was already a publicly-listed company, right?” “Well,” Cyrus said, hands high, “it will be Over the Counter, OTC. On the Pink Sheets to start but let us not advertise that. The headline is pub licly traded, not trades on the Pink Sheets, you understand? Besides, we’ll have this fixed in a year when we shift the stock to the NASDAQ.” “Ok,” I said, writing, do not adver tise Pink Sheets in the margin of my notebook. The five words looked back at me ominously. I did not know what the Pink Sheets were, and I was uncomfortable being told to keep our presence on them hush-hush. The name – Pink Sheets – sounded like a lingerie catalogue; that’s how ill-in formed I was. My inner grumpy old man began to raise his cane to voice these concerns, but I grabbed his arm. The problem was I did not know; the problem was me. I needed to do some research. There was no need to overreact based on my own ignorance. “That is it, my friend,” Cyrus said. “Can you handle it?” I looked at the stack of papers and my notebook. It was all new to me. I had much to learn. But once I understood, I was sure I could handle it. More to the point, I had to handle it: this was my job. “Consider it done,” I declared. “Terrific,” Cyrus said, beaming just as his jacket pocket vibrated with an incoming call. His face turned surprised, then serious when he saw the caller ID. “Apologies, Hollis, but I must take this,” he said, standing so abruptly that his chair nearly toppled backward. He hit the receive button, wedged the phone between his ear and shoulder, and scooped up his remaining papers. “Vlad, my friend,” I heard him say as he walked away. “I was just about to call you.”
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25 August – 1 September 2022 Montecito JOURNAL 45 “CATHARTIC AND ILLUMINATING” The Daily Beast “EVERY BRILLIANT THING FINDS A PERFECT BALANCE BETWEEN CONVEYING THE STRUGGLES OF LIFE AND CELEBRATING ALL THAT IS SWEET IN IT.” The Independent “The“CATHARTIC(London)ANDILLUMINATING”DailyBeast EVERY BRILLIANT THING FINDS A PERFECT BETWEEN CONVEYING THE STRUGGLES OF LIFE AND CELEBRATING ALL THAT IS SWEET IN IT.” The Independent (London) Every Brilliant Thing Annual Benefit Performance, September 24th Preview Performance - September 23rd or Matinee - September 25th For more information, please contact development@sbnbcc.org or at 805.963.7777 ext. 112 performed by Jonny Donahoe at Center Stage Theater “[A] HEART-WRENCHING, HILARI OUS PLAY… ONE OF THE FUNNIEST PLAYS YOU’LL EVER SEE ABOUT DEPRESSION – AND POSSIBLY ONE OF THE FUNNIEST PLAYS YOU’LL EVER SEE” The “…VERYGuardianCHARMING… OFFERS SENTIMENTALITY TheMOSTLY–“YOU’LL“THETheYOURSHAME…GUARANTEEDSENTIMENTALITY“…VERYEVEROFDEPRESSIONPLAYSOUS“[A]TheMOSTLY–“YOU’LL“THETheYOURSHAME…GUARANTEEDWITHOUTTOKEEPEYESBRIMMING…NewYorkTimesOLDCRITICALCLICHÉ–LAUGH,YOU’LLCRY”VERYMUCHAPPLIES.BUTYOU’LLLAUGH”LosAngelesTimesHEART-WRENCHING,HILARI-PLAY…ONEOFTHEFUNNIESTYOU’LLEVERSEEABOUT–ANDPOSSIBLYONETHEFUNNIESTPLAYSYOU’LLSEE”TheGuardianCHARMING…OFFERSWITHOUTTOKEEPEYESBRIMMING…NewYorkTimesOLDCRITICALCLICHÉ–LAUGH,YOU’LLCRY”VERYMUCHAPPLIES.BUTYOU’LLLAUGH”LosAngelesTimes TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Experience interactive theatre-in-the-round with British comedian Jonny Donahoe, reprising his critically-acclaimed starring role in the off-broadway play adapted by HBO. Proceeds from all performances will go directly to support New Beginnings so that our services can be accessible to everyone. 90% of all proceeds go directly to program activities. 90% of every ticket you purchase will go to support our clients’ mental wellness, including our veteran, homeless and low income clients throughout Santa Barbara County.
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25 August – 1 September 2022 Montecito JOURNAL 47
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@BHHSCALIFORNIA conditions,measurements,includingdataallofaccuracyguaranteenotdoBHHSCPandLLCAffiliatesBHHaffiliate.HathawayBerkshireaCompanyInsuranceColumbiaofmarksserviceregisteredaresymbolBHHStheandBHHSLLC.AffiliatesBHHofsystemfranchisetheofmemberais(BHHSCP)PropertiesCaliforniaHomeServicesHathawayBerkshire2022© information.thatofaccuracytheverifyindependentlytoadvisedisBuyerMLS.orbrokerbyverifiedbenotwillandsourcesvariousfromobtainedisInformationproperty.offeaturesand TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR TODAY at bhhscalifornia.com 838 KNAPP DR, MONTECITO 4BD/4½BA; ±3.92 acres • $22,500,000 Marsha Kotlyar Estate Group, 805.565.4014 LIC# 01426886 502 PICACHO LN, MONTECITO 4BD/4½BA • $7,750,000 Marsha Kotlyar Estate Group, 805.565.4014 LIC# 01426886 239 RAMETTO RD, MONTECITO 3BD/2BA • $3,200,000 Daniel Encell, 805.565.4896 LIC# 00976141 4347 MARINA DR, SANTA BARBARA 6BD/7½BA • $21,500,000 Cristal Clarke, 805.886.9378 LIC# 00968247 1460 CALZADA AVE, SANTA YNEZ 4BD/4BA; ±9.78 acres • $7,100,000 Joe Ramos, 805.680.6849 LIC# 02040488 29 SEAVIEW DR, MONTECITO 2BD/2BA; MontecitoShoresCondo.com • $3,175,000 Kathleen Winter, 805.451.4663 LIC# 01022891 1439 IRVINE LN, MONTECITO 5BD/6½BA; ±1.41 acre • $12,200,000 Deborah Samuel, 805.570.6680 LIC# 02119798 2215 EDGEWATER WY, SANTA BARBARA 1BD/1BA • $3,950,000 Daniel Encell, 805.565.4896 LIC# 00976141 2926 FOOTHILL RD, SANTA BARBARA 5BD/4BA; ±.23 acre • $1,865,000 Kathy Hughes / Kathy Spieler, 805.448.4881 LIC# 00521702 3675 FOOTHILL RD, CARPINTERIA 3BD/4BA; ±29 acres • $20,500,000 Yolanda Van Wingerden, 805.570.4965 LIC# 01308141 161 LOUREYRO RD, SANTA BARBARA 5BD/3BA + 1BD/1BA GH; ±.44 acre • $3,995,000 Marsha Kotlyar Estate Group, 805.565.4014 LIC# 01426886 512 LA MARINA, SANTA BARBARA 3BD/2BA; ±.21 acre • $2,195,000 Andrea Ruhge, 805.895.5862 LIC# 01965484
