The November 8th General Election is just around the corner and education is on the ticket! After several forums with candidates, read on for our endorsements (page 5) or visit our Voter’s Guide to get a refresher course of what’s on the ballot this time (page 36)
With a personality as bright and colorful as her hair, Lady Leslie RidleyTree is remembered for her generous heart and the lasting impact she will have on this area, page 14
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paths planned for
recent crimes in the area, and
upcoming meeting on groundwater
Community Voices – Part one of two on water warnings and solutions for 2023 and beyond
Brilliant Thoughts – It’s good to look good to others, at least that’s what they say Ernie’s World – A trip through Dublin lands Ernie in a bit of a bloody mess
Far Flung Travel –The feathered friends taking island refuge when they’re feeling weathered
Calendar of Events – Light the Night at CAW, 1st Thursday happenings, Stearns turns 150, and more
Romantic Rio, tripping through the Bayou, some literacy love, and more miscellany
Montecito Miscellany
P.28 The Giving List – It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month but Sansum Clinic is delivering innovative breast cancer detection techniques year-round
News & Events Roundup – Girls Inc. hosts a Bloomington gala and upcoming blood drives in the area
out of the box, Flume smart meters, Carlos the Bear takes a walk, and other input Tide Guide
the Editor
Our Town – Incorporating scale, symbols, and mixed mediums, Ishi Glinsky’s exhibit brings a modern dialogue to Indigenous art
Local News – Insurance Commissioner Lara and FEMA discuss emergency preparedness at townhall meeting
In Passing – Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree is remembered by different community members and organizations she impacted
Montecito Reads – Cyrus woos at the Economic Summit but not everyone is as impressed by his charm
On Entertainment – Carmen Jones opens at ETC, the Lindy Hop is swinging through, and CAMA’s upcoming season
Reel Fun – The renowned but not to be revered Carnal Knowledge is coming to the Riviera
The Optimist Daily – Art and nature are not just good for your mind, they’re good for your health and doctors are starting to prescribe them
Voter’s Guide – Lose your sample ballot? We have you covered. Here’s the local candidate statements and propositions on the ticket.
Classifieds – Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales
Communicating Matters – Stop procrastinating and read these tips on the process of not putting things off
Local Business Directory – Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer
by Gwyn Lurie
This year the Montecito Journal co-hosted a handful of Zoom candidate forums, all involving local school board races for which Montecito residents will have a vote (the one exception is the SBUSD area #1 seat, for which a smaller portion of our readers will have the chance to weigh in).
This is not to say that there aren’t other important races and propositions on this November’s ballot, for some of which we have made endorsements. There most cer tainly are and we have identified them in these pages. And of course, we encourage every registered voter to vote!
We focused our forums this year on school board races because school boards, the heart of our democracy, have become ground zero for the culture wars and angry political discourse that plagues our nation. And it’s not surprising. Schools are primary partners in raising our children, it’s where our kids learn many of their values, and it’s a training ground for those who will control our nation’s future. In other words, school board races matter, big time.
There are a few things we consider when endorsing a candidate. First and foremost is character. Is this a person we trust to weigh in on sensitive and com plicated issues? Is this person a good listener? Do they have a growth mindset? Are they interested and conversant regarding the whole host of issues that face school board members or are they single-issue candidates? Ambition, often raised as a negative, doesn’t bother us. An elected official without ambition would be a problem. But ambition should be aimed at working on behalf of constituents, as it’s about public service not self-service.
Everyone we spoke with who works with Escobedo says the same thing: he always works hard, and he’s always prepared. Gabe Escobedo is a policy wonk who studies diligently and seems to think carefully about every decision that comes before him. The first in his family to go to college, Gabe nearly missed out on the college experience, if not for the fortuitous intervention of a school staff member, which may be why he’s spent the bulk of his adult life in a mentorship roll.
Due to redistricting, Area 1 is the first majority-minority dis trict in the history of SBUSD, and for the first time, voters can select a candidate who reflects not just the families of Area #1, but the students themselves. SBUSD is overwhelmingly Latino, and Gabe’s story is shared by countless students matriculating through our schools. Gabe may not be a parent, as some have criticized, but he’s young enough to remember what it was like to be in school, which was not that long ago.
On a personal note, Gabe seems to really listen to what people have to say, a rare quality these days, especially in politics. He strikes us as open-minded and willing to shift his perspective if given compelling evidence to do so. On a pure instinct level, Gabe strikes us as a good person with a huge heart and seems genuinely intent on making the world a better place. (Pollyanna as that may sound.)
Of the other candidates running for this seat, we were also impressed by candidate Dan La Berge, the leader of the Mothers’ Helpers nonprofit who seems to care very much about what’s going on in our public schools and has some meaningful experience to back up his positions; but still, we land on Gabe Escobedo, not only for his vast experience and knowledge in the public policy realm, but for the spirit of his campaign. We’re disappointed that close La Berge camp members have used
by Kelly Mahan Herrick
At this week’s Montecito Association Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting, the Committee heard from Santa Barbara County’s Alternative Transportation Manager Mark Friedlander and Public Works Director Chris Sneddon, who presented plans for two conceptual proj ects in Montecito as part of the County’s Active Transportation Plan.
The Active Transportation Plan (ATP) is part of the County’s One Climate Initiative, which includes action plans for housing, transportation, adaptation plans, and environmental justice in rela tion to climate change. A steering com mittee for the ATP set out last year to understand multi-modal transportation movement throughout the County and identify viable and implementable infra structure that improves access, equity, and mobility while reducing collisions and emissions. After identifying high priority areas, the group looked at locations such as schools, transit stops, and parks, and over laid it with data from collisions involving
pedestrians and cyclists who were killed or severely injured. Brainstorm sessions for improving multi-modal access were held throughout the county last year, includ ing in Lompoc, Cuyama Valley, Santa Maria Valley, South Coast North, Santa Ynez Valley, and the Santa Barbara South Coast. “All of this info provided us with a base layer of existing conditions, and ideas about what community members want to see in the future,” said Friedlander.
Friedlander said feedback from Montecito residents includes a gener al need and desire for better facilities like sidewalks, signage, and beacons.
“Residents desire active transportation facilities that provide connections to schools, recreation, and the coast, as well as the need for enhanced safety and traffic control along Highway 192,” he said.
While issues along Highway 192 will need to involve Caltrans, two other potential projects in lower Montecito have emerged from the public outreach and data collection: the Channel Drive Bike Boulevard and the Danielson Road/ South Jameson Lane Bike Boulevard.
The Channel Drive project would extend the Channel Dr. bike corridor from the
eastern end of the Class 1 path to Olive Mill/ Virginia Rd., and include traffic calming mea sures such as on-street markings, signage, etc.
A decomposed granite pathway along the south side of Channel Drive is also proposed, connect ing the existing Class 1 path with beach access.
The Danielson/South Jameson project would include a bike boulevard, bike lanes, and pedestrian path connecting Channel Drive with Eucalyptus Lane to create a safe, traffic-calmed east-west pedestrian and bike cor ridor. There would be improvements to cross walks by All Saints-bythe-Sea Church, includ ing a curb bulb-out on the west side of the cross walk to improve visibility around an existing tree.
Channel Drive in Montecito was identified as a priority site in which to improve pedestrian and bicycle access; a potential project in which to do so was presented earlier this week
Friedlander said a bicycle boulevard is not a dedicated bike lane, but instead a street with low traffic and speeds, designed to give bicycle travel priority with the use of signs, pavement markings, and traffic calming to discourage trips by cars and create safe and convenient bike routes.
Sneddon reiterated that the projects are both in very preliminary conceptual review and would likely not come to fruition until after the 101 construction is complete. The projects will be funded by federal, state, and local grant funds.
Purple reigned at CADA’s 35th annual Amethyst Ball: Romance in Rio at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum with 230 glamorously garbed, masked, and befeathered guests raising in excess of $300,000 for the 73-year-old nonprofit that fights alcoholism and drug abuse and has served more than 18,000 addicted youth and adults in that time. Emceed by the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone, the boffo bash featured aeri al artists and fire dancers from Santa Barbara with women’s co-chairs includ
ing Erin Graffy, Victoria Lindstrom, Diana MacFarlane, Dana Mazzetti, Holly Murphy, Susan Neuman, Anne Towbes, and Betsy Turner, with the men’s committee including Bob Bryant, Virgil Elings, Bob Fuladi, Peter Hilf, and Earl Minnis.
Among the hoard looking luscious in lilac while dancing to the throbbing Brazilian beats were Sheriff Bill Brown, former mayor Helene Schneider , David Edelman, Susan Keller, Steve Thompson, Rebecca Brand, John Daly, Janet Garufis, George and Laurie Leis, Rick Oshay and Teresa Kuskey Nowak, Hiroko Benko, Dario Furlati, Richard and Kirsten Cavendish Weston-
Standing: Richard Weston-Smith, Kirsten Cavendish Weston-Smith, Steve Thompson, Jeanine and Jay Wright; Seated: Maria Long, Mark Ismond, Mary Ellen Tiffany (photo by Priscilla)
Smith, Mary Ellen Tiffany, and Hilary Burkemper
The Santa Barbara Rescue Mission had a delightful change of venue for its 21st annual Road Trip to the Bayou with a move to the beach at Rancho Dos Pueblos rather than the main res
idence, which was being used as a set for a TV show.
More than 350 guests turned out for the sandy fête, co-chaired by Susan Hughes and Joan Wimberly , with ubiquitous radio host Catherine Remak as emcee, raising an impressive
Most people want to compart mentalize everything.
For example, I am a Democratic, Republican, Independent, or even a Green Party person.
More examples would be I am a liberal or a conservative.
I saw an interview with the actor Woody Harrelson
A good ole Texas boy.
He described himself as a Redneck hippie.
After careful consideration I have decided to break with this tradition of putting everything in a little box.
I am going to be a moderate liberal conservative on some issues.
And a moderate conservative liberal on others.
The only preface is the word moderate must come first.
Steve Marko
L.A. residents can now get a discount ed price on Wi-Fi-enabled Flume, which attaches to a customer’s water meter. The device allows Angelenos to track their at-home, real time water usage through an app available on smartphones and other devices. Flume can also help customers cre ate a water budget, and it features smart leak alerts that notify customers when unusual water use is detected. Flume monitors and analyzes both indoor and outdoor water use as well as the breakdown of water use by common fixtures and appliances such as toilets, showers, and washing machines. All this through a new pilot program estab lished by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The regular price tag for Flume is $199, but the DWP has discount ed it for its customers at $24.
When is this program coming to us from Montecito Water District? Fact is, we wouldn’t even need it, as years ago the district installed “smart meters” at each of
our homes, but here it is the end of 2022, and we customers still don’t have access to our data. And, with a drought that has no end in sight, we really need it. Now.
Diane GrahamWhat does a bear know? What does a bear have to say? What rights do bears have? Carlos thought, as he sat in his chair watching the evening news. So much entertaining news about disasters. Isn’t anyone taking the weather seriously?
Every animal Carlos knows is up in arms with the fires, the floods, the hurricanes, and the biggest breaking news is whatever Elon Musk is perpetrating!
He sighed and carefully weighed his frame of mind.
He was letting this get to him. Human apathy, complacency, and greed were bringing him down, so he decided to take a walk and practice mindful meditation, because it brought him back to his home, the earth. Walking, taking each step as a step towards positivity helped at times like this. The changes are making even the animals frantic, pushy, and rude, he thought, but he made an agreement to do whatever he could to bring a bit of love back into the world.
The night was clear with a brilliant full moon, and he walked, being thankful that he could.
Michael EdwardsWhen it comes to marijuana and its various byproducts, I don’t partake in any form. From where I stand, as a citizen of Carpinteria, and a longtime patron of businesses on Santa Claus Lane, it baffles me in regard to those in opposition to the opening of a dispensary. I’ve listened to the arguments opposing the dispensary, and I have found each and everyone to be
specious to say the least. Especially when it comes to parking. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, if parking is such an issue, then don’t allow any businesses to open on the east end of Santa Claus Lane, in fact, tear down that whole section, problem solved.
I heard arguments that a dispensary will have a negative effect on children. But let’s be honest here, Santa Claus Lane hasn’t been child oriented since the candy store closed. I like a good burger, but to consider Padaro Grill child-centric is cer tainly a stretch.
But what about “those types”? Are you talking about the Korean War veteran, or the retired entertainment lawyer recu perating from cancer treatment? Maybe those against the dispensary know some thing about people making six figures and who drive Teslas that the rest of us are not aware of.
Then there’s the potential for crime. Crime can happen anywhere anytime. But if you want to put a dent in the illegal marijuana market, one of the best ways is to make sure legal dispensaries are able to open and run their businesses as any other business would.
And finally, I have a sneaky suspi cion that if a Santa Barbara wine maker wanted to open up a tasting room, all of those voices we now hear against Roots would be mute, because nothing says safe like enjoying a glass or two of good Chardonnay with the 101 Southbound on-ramp a couple of hundred feet away.
Bryan MootzI have been following the controversy regarding the Parklets on CVR. As a retired retailer, I’d like to share my opinion.
Retail is down all over the country. I fear those who are complaining about the lack of parking on CVR have not taken this fact into consideration. I don’t believe the entire reason their sales are off is the lack of parking.
If you eliminate all the extra seating from the restaurants, you are eliminating viable customers from strolling the street who are likely to visit the retail shops
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and wouldn’t otherwise. Every retail area needs destination businesses… and the more seating you have, the more people will be on the street.
This traffic will be sorely missed by all retail establishments on CVR. Not to mention that taking away this extra revenue from the restaurants means fewer tax revenues, as well as damaging good, viable businesses.
Drive CVR, and you will see – there are spaces available – if not on one pass, certainly on two. Please don’t take the revenues or the good people traffic away from CVR. It will be disastrous for the restaurants, and, I fear, for the other retailers as well. Walking traffic is priceless… it’s hard to believe the retailers who are complaining are not considering this.
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I would like to offer some comments on my support for the proposed cannabis dispensary at 3823 Santa Claus Lane, as well as the cannabis industry.
I am a retired RN. I worked almost 30 years in an acute care County hospital serving the poorest, sickest and often, the most marginalized humans. Throughout my career, as I cared for a very diverse patient population, I worked with many medical professionals to learn how best to relieve pain, ameliorate discomfort, and promote well-being. The use and admin istration of Opioids and other agents such as Corticosteroids, Antidepressants, Anticonvulsants, and NSAIDs was and remains a much studied, ever-evolving pro cess. We all know of the illegal and danger ous use of these substances in our society and the misuse we now know occurred in the medical and pharmaceutical industries.
I cannot remember ever caring for a patient with issues related to the effects of cannabis use. I knew little of this herb at that time, but always felt we underestimat ed its value. Thankfully, we’re now legally able to study the vast medicinal benefits of this plant and utilize its properties as a safer, more effective healthcare alternative.
I have witnessed in the last few years, the vast and unwavering medicinal benefits of legal cannabis use among our population and on a personal basis. I support, whole heartedly, this new legal industry. I support the cultivation of cannabis products for both health-related issues and recreational use. I am thrilled with the progress being made and support our community as a forerunner in this legal industry.
It is imperative to offer a safe, clean, local space to obtain and learn about this versatile natural herb. Our adult commu nity needs and deserves a local dispensary, and the Roots Carpinteria location offers a logical partner for our wonderful grow ers and those of us who benefit from their work. Its beautiful surroundings, conve nient location, upscale design, and most importantly, stellar owners, all make for a perfect spot. Responsible, knowledgeable owners and staff will help to ensure safe, beneficial use of this amazing product.
Thank you for the opportunity to share my support.
Shirley StricklerThe three hens I took in after my neigh bor’s chicken enclosure was destroyed by a bear are enjoying their new home.
At first, my two hens pecked at them, but that behavior has stopped, and they’re all getting along.
They are protected by a flimsy electric fence (from Premiere One), not that expensive to purchase. Wild animals have been eyeing my hens but have needed to go next door to get a meal.
I found out about electric fences from Jeronimo who sells eggs and meat prod ucts at the Saturday Farmers Market. He
The three rescued chickens from my neighbor’s destroyed enclosure are on the left
informed me that despite having his farm in the midst of wild animal territory between Carpinteria and Ojai, the electric fenc es have been effective. My chicken coop doesn’t even need to be closed at night.
The four-foot-high electric fence unit I have and the solar unit that powers it aren’t that expensive. Chickens have more room to roam in such an enclosure than many of the cramped pens in our area.
The biggest problem with the electric fence is that one may forget to turn it back on after leaving the chicken enclosure.
Bryan RosenThis is America. I didn’t vote for Joe Biden, but he is MY President and I want ed him to do well. I genuinely hope that someone can convince me otherwise, but I have come to the conclusion that Biden is an absolute disaster as our President.
His policies have done considerable harm to our country. He recently bragged about bringing down oil prices, failing to note that he’s doing this by dangerously draining the nation’s strategic oil reserve. He won’t recog nize that we were energy independent when he took office and that he is now trying to get oil from countries that are not par ticularly friendly to us. (Joe, we have what we need right here.) He doesn’t appear to realize that we are going to need fossil fuels to produce items necessary for the green energy he envisions. He continually finds people to blame for problems he creates. For instance, we have “Putin’s inflation.” He has caused totally unnecessary misery and human disasters in Afghanistan and on our own southern border. He seems absolutely oblivious to our border situation. He and his border czar, VP Harris, have done nothing to solve our internal border crisis and the suf fering it is causing. His September 1 “Soul of the Nation” speech, which insulted many Americans, was simply awful.
I could go on, but letter length is understandably limited. My feeling: Joe Biden is a terrible President. You have every right to disagree with me. If you do, I hope you will make your views known. With upcoming elections, I think it is important that we voice our honest opinions and be respectful of those with whom we disagree. I’m happy this is pos sible in the good ‘ole U.S.A.
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by Joanne A Calitri
Iattended the opening of Ishi Glinsky’s solo exhibit titled Upon a Jagged Maze at the Art, Design & Architecture (ADA) Museum at UC Santa Barbara, sponsored by the ADA Museum’s Council. The exhibit is on view through January 22, 2023.
The 25 works from 2009 to 2022 were selected by museum Director Gabriel Ritter, PhD, and his Curatorial Research Fellow Kendall Lovely, with input from the artist. They are borrowed from the Forge Project, The Hammer Museum, and private collectors Roberto Cowan and Salima Boufelfel, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Karima Dennis, Ken Kajima, Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard, Sarah Hendler and Vinny Dotolo, Lisa Neimeth, Brett Robinson, Marc Selwyn, Sigit Nugroho, and Robert Shiell
In terms of exhibiting and curating Native American and Indigenous art to be other than a cultural educator, one asks, does it need a purpose so museums and guests can acknowledge it? Gerald Clarke Jr. , a Cahuilla sculp ture artist, said in the L.A. Times , “It’s a trap because the default setting for mainstream America is that the artist is the ambassador of the community, and that almost replaces the interest in the artist’s own creativity.” While L.A.-based Navajo multimedia film maker Pamela J. Peters said, “My work attempts to help deconstruct stereotyp ical depictions of Indians in films such as Pocahontas and The Lone Ranger that portray Indians as relics of a historical past. In my project Legacy of Exiled NDNZ and Indian Alley, I want to showcase an Indigenous aesthetic of ‘real’ Indians, as we are today… and how their tribal identities can not only exist, but also thrive in large urban
cities like Los Angeles.”
In Glinsky’s exhibit, we find art and the opportunity to be educated about issues he finds important and perhaps to drive social change. He is a self-taught sculptor, painter, and installation artist of Tohono O’odham and German descent, living and working in Los Angeles since 2006.
The layout of an exhibit can make or break it, and Ritter’s entrance placement of Glinksy’s Coral vs. King Snake Jacket (2019) [120x96x35 in.] finds true use of shock value via massive scale art as the centerpiece in a tiny space. All intrinsic psychological attributes to black leather motorcycle jackets work here – studs marking rebellion, patches with symbols of the American Indian Movement, and monogrammed messages like, “Yosemite means those who kill.”
Turning to the walls in the same room, we find Spitfire (2017) a sculpture of loomed beadwork where the beads are repurposed skateboard wheels he sourced from the coast of L.A. through Portland, Oregon – migration comes into play here, along with a nod to the Spitfire brand.
Selectively and singularly the large-scale indigenous necklaces, Worn Red (2016), Sunset (2022), and the Giant Breastplate (2009), that adorn the right wall are in direct contrast to the smaller-than-lifesize scale of the sculptures titled Rain Warriors (2019), which sport long coats with symbols, a Nike logo, and carrying blankets, displayed in forward movement on AstroTurf stands in the left middle floor area. These warriors are further con tra balanced with four “woven” sculptures titled Tohono O’odham Basket (2013), Tray (2014), Copper Chain (2016), and White Basket (2017) comprised of oxidized wire displayed on a white wood floor palette. This entire grouping is “experience medi um” placement – a purposeful pairing of
We’ve worked with California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on a number of fronts: homeowner’s insurance (and the lack of it in California), claims, legislation, and pre paredness. Last week, he hosted quite the townhall on emergency preparedness, as part of the partnership the Department of Insurance has with the Governor’s emergen cy response and readiness agencies. We’ve been to a few of these townhalls, mostly focused on fire preparedness, and shared info with the community. This last session was far more informative, so kudos to the Insurance Commissioner for putting it on.
Here’s some of what we learned:
FEMA Presented on Floods and Mudslides
Over 90% of disasters involve some sort of flooding. Just one inch of water can lead to more than $25,000 in damage to your home. Our deepest sympathies right now are extended to people in Puerto Rico, Florida, and South Carolina dealing with flooding from Hurricane Ian. Most insurance policies do NOT cover flooding, however. In our area, floods, landslides, and debris flows are common after a fire.
To purchase flood insurance, call your insurance company or insurance agent, the same person who sells your home or auto insurance. If you need help finding a provider, go to FloodSmart.gov/floodinsurance-provider or call the National Flood Insurance Program at (877) 336-2627.
FEMA offers resources to stay informed during an incident. They have a FEMA app you can download to your phone. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association) also has an app. We test drove these apps, to find out more about what they offer. You’ll plug in your zip code, and they’ll send alerts if there is any activity in your area. You can also apply for disaster help, check your application, and find an emergency shelter. These would have been handy things to have in the Debris Flow of 2018. California regulations now require cell towers to have emergency power back up systems to prevent cell phone coverage outages such as we experienced in 2018.
FEMA offers a nice toolkit – the Emergency Financial First Aid Kit – on their website. It’s a good idea to have one of these pre-filled out. You’ll list things such as your account numbers, tax statements, insurance policies, car titles, and deeds to property if you’re keeping these in your home. These are the things everyone needs, along with passports and birth certificates, in the event of a disaster. Fill yours out and keep it with your Emergency Go-Bag in case you have to quickly evacuate in the event of an incident such as fire or earth quake. Then you’ll have all your key papers with you in those moments.
There’s a MyShake app for that too. It can send you early earthquake warnings, based on your location. It will show you any earthquakes that have happened near by and offer you the ability to report expe riences of shaking. It can send you alerts too, when a quake occurs near your area.
The California Earthquake Authority offers earthquake insurance, and the FAIR Plan for fire insurance is modeled off of it.
There are 1.1 million policyholders, with a $19 billion claim paying capacity. There are also grants available to mitigate potential earthquake damage to your home, so that you can better brace your property for an earthquake. Even better, they have a tool on their website so you can play with variables to your policy and premium, allowing you to tweak your coverage and see how much it will cost. You can do all this at their website: EarthquakeAuthority.com. Homes built before 1980 are more vulnerable to quakes because they were built before mod ern seismic building codes were in place.
This was a really good session, and we’re awfully glad we attended! Our thanks to all the agencies that put this on, and Insurance Commissioner Lara for hosting it. For more info, or to ask questions, email crob@insurance.ca.gov.
Facebook posts to disparage Escobedo for being a “career politician,” behind whom the “democratic machine” has blindly lined up. This is neither fair nor true. And certainly, this publication has proven itself, on more than one occasion, not to be a lemming of the local democratic machine. We reject such expedient simplification and petty distraction from what truly matters. We endorse Gabe Escobedo.
The Santa Barbara County Board of Education seems to be a misun derstood body. This was clear this past spring when candidate Christy Lozano challenged incumbent County Superintendent Susan Salcido , expressing a desire to change the county’s approach to pedagogy and school safety – nei ther of which are under the auspic es of the County Education Office or its Board of Trustees.
Santa Barbara’s County Education office oversees a 100-million-dollar budget and over 500 employees. Oversight on SB’s County Board of Education includes oversight of the County Ed Office budget as it applies to the juvenile court and community schools. It sets SBCEO board policies; approves the SBCEO Local Control and Accountability plan; serves as an appellate board with respect to inter-district
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The Westmont community mourns the passing of Lady Leslie RidleyTree , whose generosity made a profound impact on the college and touched the lives of many people and organizations in the Santa Barbara community. She personified what it means to be a true philanthropist.
“She’s one of the most remarkable human beings to walk the face of the Earth, and I loved being with her,” says President Gayle D. Beebe . “She could be serious, and she could be incredibly joyful and funny, all in the same con versation.
“Every time we were together, I would come away with a deeper appreciation for driving issues, a richer understanding of life, and a greater commitment to efforts that make life so worth living. She was always looking for the best in situ ations without ever glossing over the difficulties. She made every one of us better, both our lives, and our contribution.”
The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, named for her, opened in the heart of Westmont’s campus during the 2010-11 season. She donated 20 significant works of art to the college, including originals by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, seven paintings by Barbizon artists, and a large painting of Lord Paul and Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree by Bo Bartlett Ridley-Tree’s Corot collection, supplemented with selected loans of Corot’s art from museums and private collections, appeared in “Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot” in 2013 at the museum.
A 2016 exhibition on campus, “Barbizon, Realism, and Impressionism in France,” featured Ridley-Tree’s extensive collection.
Her generosity helped Westmont acquire the Westmont Downtown building, 26 West Anapamu Street, which underwent renovation and now houses Westmont’s Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program in partnership with Cottage Health. She also contributed a significant gift to fund nursing scholarships.
Just before 8 am Monday morning the third of October 2022, ninetyeight-year-old Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree breathed her last at her home in Birnam Wood, with her daughter Suzette at her side.
Leslie was a Lady in every sense of the word. Her late husband, Paul, was indeed the son of a Lord and he always referred to his wife as “Lady Leslie.”
She lived up to that honorary title in a hundred different ways. With her mane of bright red hair and elegant gowns, her smile that lit up a room, a laugh that was both genuine and kind, the placard she raised at every auc tion, and the helping hand read ily offered, Lady Leslie was the picture and living manifestation of the generosity she considered to be her humanitarian duty: to help those who needed help. “There’s a great big hole in the world,” she would say, “and there are needs to be filled – whether it’s in education or medicine or hunger – and you just have to share. It doesn’t mean,” she’d add, “that you have to give it all away and walk bare foot, but it does mean that you have to share; there’s that need, and you can’t look at it and walk by.”
And share she did.
It seemed that her – and Paul’s until his death in 2005 – generosity was limit less. A great number of local charities and nonprofits could always depend upon her to fill a table for an event; her legacy of giving includes Sansum Clinic, the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center, Cottage Hospital, the Ridley-Tree Education Center Art Camp, Westmont College’s Ridley-Tree Museum of Art and the 33 RidleyTree Nursing Program scholarships there, UCSB’s 40 KITP Graduate Science area scholarships for young people with disabilities, and SBCC’s 30 Single-ParentsReturning to Education scholarships. Other institutions at the receiving end of her generosity include the Santa Barbara Zoo, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and many others.
The “great big hole in the world” that now needs to be filled is that of the loss of Santa Barbara’s and Montecito’s dear, generous, gregarious, crimson-haired philan thropic wonder, our own Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree.
May she rest in peace and may her legacy live on forever.
Along with gifts to the Westmont Orchestra, she created the Ridley-Tree Vocal Scholarship to support students in the Westmont College Choir.
Beginning in 2008, she created the Ridley-Tree Endowed Scholarship, which provides financial assistance to students with an interest in studying art, history, music, or phi losophy.
The Lord and Lady Ridley-Tree Scholarship, which the Ridley-Tree Foundation creat ed in 2001, has provided financial aid to Westmont students for more than two decades.
“I will truly miss the joy that accompanied every meeting I had with her,” Beebe says. “She made me a better person and a more complete follower of God. She will always live in my memory as one of the most unique human beings I’ve ever known.”
Given its Route 66 theme, gleaming classic cars from the ‘50s dotted the locale as the nonprofit presented the Léni Fé Bland award to retired business owner Karl Willig, the longest serving chairman in Rescue Mission history,
who died earlier this year.
The funds raised allows the Mission to offer a successful 12-month residential drug and alcohol treatment program and provide emergency services for home less guests. More than 900 people have achieved recovery in the last 25 years.
The venerable Granada Theatre was almost packed to overflowing when Opera Santa Barbara staged a magnifi cent version of Puccini’s beloved master piece Tosca
Artistic director Kostis Protopapas conducted the orchestra on stage while stage director Layna Chianakas man aged the complexities of the spar tan production with film and still images superbly. Greek soprano Eleni Calenos excelled as the principal char acter with tenor Adam Diegel playing her artist beloved Mario Cavaradossi,
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Marybeth Carty has served on the Santa Barbara County School Board since April 2013 representing Trustee Area 1 and she understands well what the Board can and can’t do. She claims that this Board’s work is in her “DNA” and given her long tenure on the board and strong background in community service, we agree.
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helped implement expedited paths to rebuilding postTea and -Thomas Fires and after the debris flow. I fully understand the County planning system and know the personnel, so I can get things done!
• SAFETY & EVACUATION PLANNING: creating a comprehensive and rehearsed evacuation plan that takes into account new housing, freeway construction, road closures, and limited main arteries.
• IMPROVED RESPONSE TIMES: implementing a new dispatch system and establishing a 3rd fire station for undeserved areas.
• TWO WAY COMMUNICATIONS: soliciting constant community input on agency improvements and raising awareness about best fire-prevention practices at home.
• FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY: ensuring cost consciousness so that funds are available to continue hiring the best personnel and employing optimum firefighting and emergency medical response resources.
Carty, was named “Carpinterian of the Year” in 2001, is the Executive Director of the Natalie Orfalea Foundation, in large part devoted to “better learning.” Prior to this, Carty spent 15 years as the Community Partnership Manager for Venoco, Inc. directing the company’s charitable giving and philanthropic outreach. She also worked for the Carpinteria Unified School District for nine years administering grant-fund ed educational programs. She is a board member and past president of Partners in Education and Vice Chair of the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse’s Fighting Back Mentor Program Task Force.
We believe that Santa Barbara County Education Office has excellent leadership under Superintendent Susan Salcido and that Marybeth Carty, as a long-time board member, is an important part of that team.
Even Carty’s opponent, Rosanne Crawford, a self-professed “strong supporter” of County Superintendent Susan Salcido, claims that Salcido has been a good super intendent. And while a multitude of natural disasters and the COVID pandemic have had a profound impact on schools, Carty has and continues to be a strong and thoughtful leader on our County School Board, and we don’t see the wisdom in replacing her.
On another note, we also come down on the side of civility and integrity in public service.
In our recent candidate forum cohosted by MJ and Newsmakers we asked Ms. Crawford to explain the notorious message she left on the County’s answering machine last spring for Superintendent Salcido, imploring Salcido to attend a forum organized by The Coalition for Neighborhood Schools, of which Ms. Crawford is an active member. When asked to explain the substance and tone of her message, which we found offensive, Ms. Crawford denied threatening to use her relationships to harm Superintendent Salcido’s campaign if Salcido did not “pull up the panties and get with the program” and show up at the event.
We obtained a copy of the voice file of Ms. Crawford’s message, which indicates that Ms. Crawford was not entirely honest with us in her answer, in which she sharply denied threatening Superintendent Salcido.
Her precise words, taken directly from the voice file of her message were: “If Susan will not participate in a nonpartisan forum, I have no respect for a candidate like that, and I will in fact not only not support her, I will turn people against her and I have a lot of really influential circles in this town so please, please, pull up the panties and get with the program.”
Again, but we strongly believe that such tactics are the opposite of leadership and diplomacy. It is bullying, full stop. A student would get suspended for leaving such a message for any school administrator. We should expect more from our elected officials.
We endorse Marybeth Carty for SB County School Board and look forward to her continuing her hard work on behalf of the children and families in this county.
Dr. Charlotte Gullap-Moore is a licensed Nurse Practitioner and Professor at CSU Channel Islands. She has been a strong advocate for student achievement and equity for more than 20 years, both as an edu cator and as a member of local and state organizations. She consistently expresses her belief that Santa Barbara City College is capable of being the best Community College in California and has strong opinions on how to get us there. Gullap-Moore says that it is through strong leadership and an inclusive, collaborative approach that a college experience that meets the needs of every student can be created. We agree.
Dr. Gullap-Moore has spent two
Sheriff’s detectives are investigating the death of a 32-year-old woman that occurred last Thursday, September 29, at 5:35 am. Santa Barbara County Sheriff Deputies were dispatched to the 800block of East Mountain Drive for a report of woman heard screaming. The victim was later identified as Blanca Aguilera of Oxnard. When deputies arrived, they found Aguilera seriously injured, lying in the roadway. The vehicle that struck her had fled the area prior to deputies’ arrival. She was transported to an area hospital where she died of her injuries at approximately 7:45 pm.
According to Public Information Officer Raquel Zick, detectives believe Aguilera was intentionally struck by the driver of the vehicle and they are inves tigating this as a homicide. According to reports, Sheriff’s detectives know the identity of the suspect, who remains outstanding. The suspect and the victim were known to each other, and this is not a random attack.
According to social media reports, the woman was a single mother to three young children.
Sheriff’s detectives are also investigat ing an assault with a deadly weapon where the victim sustained serious injuries; the crime took place on Monday, October 3, at approximately 10:07 pm. Deputies responded with fire and medics to the 900 block of Channel Drive for a report of a medical emergency for an assault that had just occurred. Sheriff’s deputies and emergency call-takers spent approx imately 20 minutes coordinating efforts
to locate the victim amongst homeless encampments. Deputies eventually locat ed the adult male victim who had serious injuries to the upper torso. Deputies connected the victim with medics who transported him to an area hospital with serious injuries.
Sheriff’s detectives have been assigned to investigate this assault. The suspect remains outstanding, and the victim is expected to recover.
Anyone with information that would assist investigators in either case is asked to please contact the Sheriff’s Criminal Investigations Division by calling (805) 681- 4150. If you prefer to remain anon ymous, you can provide information by calling the tip line at (805) 681-4171 or online at SBSheriff.org.
The Montecito Groundwater Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency (Montecito GSA or Agency) will meet for its quarterly Board Meeting on Tuesday, October 11 at 9:30 am. Topics of discussion will include projects and actions which may be included in the Groundwater Sustainability Plan now and in the future. The meeting will be held in person at 583 San Ysidro Road, and may also be attended remotely using the teleconferencing information which will be posted on the agenda online at montecitogsa.com.
Locally, groundwater is heavily relied on for local residential, commercial, and agricultural use, particularly during periods of drought. The Montecito Groundwater Basin supplies water for numerous public and private wells, and the Montecito GSA’s mission is to ensure a reliable and sustainable groundwater supply for the community through effec tive basin management pursuant to the Sustainable Groundwater Management
Act. The Agency is tasked with preparing the State’s required Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) for the Montecito Groundwater Basin, which includes determining ways to avoid undesirable results that may occur without proper stewardship of the basin, such as seawater intrusion, lowering ground water levels, or depletion of groundwater storage. Data collection and increasing participation from private well owners and the pub lic at large are priorities for the Agency.
To date, the Agency has completed a draft version of Chapter 2, Plan Area and Basin Setting, providing a detailed description of the administrative and tech nical characteristics of the Montecito Basin. Chapter 2 has been reviewed during several Committee and Board meetings and is available on the Agency website for public review. Content for Chapter 3, Sustainable Management Criteria, has been reviewed at Committee and Board meetings, and the resulting draft will be posted as soon as it is complete. Initial findings, based on the limited avail able data, indicate that the Montecito Groundwater Basin is in a generally healthy condition, with no known unde sirable results occurring at this time.
San Ysidro Creek contributes to water supply in the Montecito Groundwater Basin
along with input from advisory commit tees and the public when determining which projects and management actions to include in the GSP.
To learn more about the Montecito GSA visit montecitogsa.com
Chapter 4, Projects and Management Actions to Achieve Sustainability Goal, is the focus of the upcoming Board meeting. Agency staff worked with con sultants to develop a draft list of Project and Management Actions that has been shared with advisory committees for their review. The Board will be reviewing consultant and staff recommendations
Kelly Mahan Herrick, also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond.
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in Santa Barbara and across the country. Her strong record of community service led her to an appointment as Chair of the Santa Barbara Community Development
Human Resource Committee. She is also a part-time faculty lecturer in the Goleta Extension Nursing Program.
Gullap-Moore has consistently advocated for education and healthcare-related leg islation at the state and federal level, particularly for bills that affect women, students, and protected classes.
Santa Barbara City College has a very interesting set up where the teachers essen tially govern themselves, and as a college professor herself, Gullap-Moore has a perspective that no one else currently on the board has. She can relate to the staff and faculty, and I suspect could be a conduit between their needs and the rest of the board.
In the wake of the George Floyd murder, a group of us met weekly to discuss the fallout from that tragic event and to create opportunities for ongoing, meaningful conversation and forward movement in our community. I found Dr. Gullap-Moore to be a great combination of strong-minded and open-minded, something I think Santa Barbara could use more of. I have no doubt that she will show up on the City College School Board in the same spirit.
Dr. Gullap-Moore’s opponent, Debi Stoker, with little or no discernable experience in the education realm, has engaged in the kind of flame-throwing that has no place here. In fact, we at the Montecito Journal fell victim to such antics when Stoker shared one of our email exchanges on one of her husband’s campaign emails, attacking the Montecito Journal for choosing to hold our candidates forum, in collaboration with Newsmakers, on Zoom. (Her husband, Mike Stoker, is a candidate for State Assembly and the self-proclaimed architect of the ignominious cultural low-point “lock her up” – one of the prominent scalpels creating the thousand cuts that are dividing our nation. I mean no insult to scalpels.) We are clear that this is the kind of ugly political stunt that pollutes the lives of those who are simply trying to understand what can didates stand for. When we would not accede to her demand for an in-person forum, Stoker chose not to participate. Such inflexible, my way or the highway attitude is not what we need on any of our school boards.
It is worth noting that in our recently held Zoom forum with Newsmakers, candi date Erika Paredes Kellis did not show up. Our endorsements go to:
Michael Marino , the current board president, has been serving in that capacity since 2018, during which time Cold Spring has become the top performing district in the county and has gone from deficit spending to amassing a healthy million-dollar (20%) reserve for the district. Marino is a huge booster for Cold Spring and its leadership and comes to the table with high standards not only for the district, but for the Board he leads. Marino places a high premium on working to improve school safety for an event he hopes will never come. Marino admits that the board can do a better job at communicating with the local community and has taken steps to rectify this by publishing a regular newsletter that goes out to parents and neighbors. Marino sees the districts strengths as, first and foremost, the teachers and the administration. He sees its weakness as not having enough money. He bemoans that the state has required a Transitional Kindergarten (TK) program as well as providing of meals for all students but has provided no funding for either. We appreciate Marino’s steadfast commitment to Cold Spring and we endorse his ongoing leadership at that school.
Jennifer Miller has served on the Cold Spring Board for eight years and is run ning for a third term. With one child still at Cold Spring, she remains passionate about what Cold Spring provides the children and families in the community.
What is the current outlook for California water in 2023?
Researchers tell us that our state is experiencing “the driest 22-year period in the last 1,200 years.” They warn: “Likely El Niño conditions are predicted to continue into 2023; prepare now for another dry year.”
Locally, the Montecito Water District’s (MWD) position remains strong, prin cipally because MWD showed vision and foresight in negotiating a controver sial long-term Water Supply Agreement with the City of Santa Barbara. Signed in September 2020, the agreement gives Montecito and Summerland water cus tomers an added margin of safety by procuring 1,430 AFY of new potable water, or about 35% of MWD’s current annual water supply needs for each of the next 50 years.
Much of the rest of the state is in much worse shape. California needs a reliable 77 million acre-feet of pota ble water per year (AFY). 50% of that water or 38 million AFY, is used for environmental purposes such as “wild and scenic” river restoration, mostly in Northern California; maintenance of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; stream recharge; endangered species protection; and wetlands management.
California fish hatcheries have been degraded. A hotter and drier California increases the risk of catastrophic wild fires. Forest ecosystems are damaged. Communities that depend on ground water from private wells are facing lower water availability or dry wells.
Agriculture uses another 40% of the State’s water or some 31 million AFY to irrigate nine million acres of farmland that produce one-third of all the vege tables in the U.S., including 99% of all almonds, walnuts, and pistachios; nearly 95% of all broccoli and strawberries; 90% of all grapes and tomatoes; and 74% of all lettuce. In 2020, California gener ated nearly $50 billion in cash receipts from agriculture.
Agricultural users are being asked to limit irrigation, fallow farmland, lay off farmworkers, and curtail food production. The California Farm Bureau predicts that due to drought in 2022, 700,000 acres of farmland will be fallowed; more than 25,000 farm jobs lost; and $3.5 billion lost in cash receipts. To survive and feed the world, the most productive farmland
on the planet needs more fresh water, not less.
The final 10% of water is for urban industrial, commercial, and residential water use, or nearly eight million AFY. Governor Newsom has called for a vol untary reduction of 15% in urban water use, primarily by eliminating grass, flow ers, and shrubs that are not drought tolerant. A 10% reduction in urban use, primarily from landscape reduction, saves only 1% of the water used in California, a small pittance of the 77 million AFY California needs.
What has made California’s drought worse than usual in 2022?
The Colorado River supplies water to more than 40 million people in seven states –California, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico –and Mexico. California has by far the largest water entitlement of any state on the Colorado River at 4.4 million AFY. Reductions in Colorado River water allo cations of two to four million-acre feet are needed, but no state wants to surrender its 100-year water rights granted in 1922.
There is growing risk that both Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, and Lake Powell, the reservoir behind Glen Canyon Dam, are approaching “dead pool” status, below which the lake can no longer generate hydroelectricity or release water downstream. As of September 4, 2022, Lake Mead sat at 28% of capacity while Lake Powell has declined to 25%.
The over-promised and under-deliv ered State Water Project (SWP) remains the primary source of water for Southern California water users. Starting with snowmelt in the High Sierras, water stored in the Shasta Reservoir at the head of the Central Valley is pushed and pumped over 700 miles to Southern California through an elaborate system of canals, reservoirs, and lifts all the way to San Diego. An aging and inefficient SWP is the largest consumer of energy in the State of California; state water is pumped eight times and treated twice before reaching its final destination.
The state water system has a max capacity of 4.4 million AFY, but averages 2.4 million AFY delivered. In the last two years SWP deliveries have shrunk to 5%, or only 0.2 million AFY.
For the second straight year, SWP deliv
eries have plummeted in Montecito from a promised 3,300 AFY down to 165 AFY (5% of its promised allocation). The cost of State Water, with its fixed allocation of costs, has skyrocketed from a reasonable $1,332 per acre-foot for 3,300 AFY delivery to a whopping and unaffordable $25,825 per AFY when only 165 AFY is delivered to MWD. The same cost prohibitive SWP story is repeated in Goleta, Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, and all the other 29 water dis tricts that have contracted State Water. The State constructs, operates, and maintains the system, but the receiving agencies contractu ally agree to repay all associated capital and operating costs, regardless of the amount of state water they receive in any year.
The Governor has laid out five California water goals: (1) Expand water storage capacity by four million acre-feet of water per year (AFY); (2) Accelerate groundwater recharge; (3) Recycle and reuse 800,000 AFY of treated wastewater by 2030; (4) Conserve another 500,000 AFY in urban use by 2030; and (5) Desalinate brackish water. Newson added, “The time to get water projects approved is ridiculous. It’s comedic. It’s absurd.”
The current dream of water watch ers is to turn treated wastewater into groundwater replenishment, or into drinking water. The problem is cost –not just capital costs to upgrade plants, pipes, and pumps, but operating and maintenance costs. Without significant funding grants by the state to pay bil lions for advanced wastewater treatment plants, recycling options appear to be far too expensive, even costlier than desal per AFY.
Many wastewater treatment plants bor dering on the Pacific Ocean are seeking funding to turn treated municipal waste water into water that can be purified and injected into groundwater basins for further purification for indirect potable reuse (IPR), or when state regulations are published in late 2023 for direct potable reuse (DPR).
Thinking ahead, Montecito Water District (MWD) and Montecito Sanitary District (MSD) are jointly funding a Carollo Recycling Engineering Study to further evaluate options to recycle MSD’s approximate 560 AFY of waste water (a relatively small amount), either in partnership with Carpinteria and/or Santa Barbara for economies of scale, or by upgrading the Montecito Sanitary District plant to an advanced treatment facility that could treat water for direct potable reuse.
Early indications are that the recycling wastewater will be costly; that a combi nation of grants and loans will likely be required for pipes, pumps, and advanced treatment facilities; and that the timetable for wastewater reuse may be years away.
The City of Santa Barbara reopened its Charles E. Meyer desalination plant in May 2017 at a reactivated cost of $72 million, on top of the $34 million original cost shared with Montecito and Goleta. The plant delivers some 3,125 AF of desalinated water per year, or some 30% of the City’s annual demand of 10,000 AFY of potable water. Permits allow the plant to be expanded economically to 10,000 AFY in the event of extreme drought or local water emergencies, a wonderful safe guard for the city and its regional partners. The secret sauce for reduced cost was that permitting already existed from the previ ous desal plant.
In December 2015, after 14 years spent in the approval process, Poseidon opened the nation’s largest desal plant in North America in Carlsbad, California, at a cost of nearly $1 billion, more than twice the cost of the same plant built by the same company in Israel. Cost of water to local water agencies is about $2,500 per AFY. Newsom logically argues, “The state needs to find locations for seawater desalination that are cost effective and environmentally appropriate.”
However, despite support from Governor Newsom, in May 2022 the California Coastal Commission voted unanimously to end Poseidon’s 24-year regulatory approval search to build a $1.4 billion seawater desalination plant at Huntington Beach, California. Environmentalists labeled the plant a “boondoggle,” claiming it would privat ize seawater for profit and destroy signif icant marine life. They cited its vulnera bility to sea rise and the lack of binding contracts to sell the water to agencies at a predefined price.
If treating and delivering wastewater for reuse is too expensive and desalina tion of seawater is politically unaccept able to the environmental community, where does California go next to obtain a new source of water?
Next Week: Is There a Wet Miracle in California’s Future?
Mr. Hazard is a guest columnist of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club
Miller and Marino seem to be in close align ment on the strong state of the school and the work that still needs to be done. Miller sees Cold Spring’s strengths as its small class size, classroom aides, its specialist programs like art and music, and the teachers’ collaborative approach to teaching. The weaknesses, in her mind, reside in the district’s difficulty getting community support for district projects, name ly its lack of support of Cold Spring’s failed bond measure, intended to pay to renovate dilapidated classrooms being used for a grow ing student population.
Elke Kane would be a new name on the Board, but she would not be a new presence at School Board meetings. According to Elke, she has attended more board meetings than any other parent or community member! A child of Mexican immigrants whose first language was Spanish, Kane seems like a strong replacement for outgoing board member Eric Schiller . Well informed on the issues facing Cold Spring, Kane says she “likes to find collaborative and creative solutions to unique problems.” She says she wants to better understand the values reflected in the community members and wants people to see Cold Spring as a hub and heart of the community. For Kane, Cold Spring’s strengths lie in the district’s high student achievement and a nimble teaching staff and leadership team that is ever ready to meet the students ever-changing needs. The district’s weakness, according to Kane, has to do with the ongoing need for funding to support facilities and student safety in light of a growing student population. We found Kane’s enthusiasm and love for Cold Spring to be infectious and we think she’d be a wonderful addition to the current Board.
There are two open seats with three can didates running. In this case we endorse only one. Incumbent Peter van Duinwyk , with whom I served on Montecito Union School Board for four years, has my clear and unequivocal endorsement. I first learned about Peter a dozen years ago through his stellar rep utation on the Montecito Association and as a legendary history teacher and administrator in the Santa Barbara Unified public schools (Teacher of the Year 1998, Santa Barbara High School). In my former capacity as the President of the Montecito Union Board of Trustees I approached Peter, who at the time had grandchildren attending MUS, to encour age him to run for the MUS Board of Trustees. Luckily for the district he did, and so began my front row seat to Van Duinwyk as a leader. Always diligent, intelligent, and thoughtful, Van Duinwyk was a stellar member of the board. He asked good questions. And always managed, in my experience, to walk the line of being an independent thinker and a team player. On the Fire Board, according to leadership at the MFD, which has my full gratitude and respect, Peter is a very strong and experienced board mem ber that takes his commitment to the safety of our community seriously. Van Duinwyk is a long-serving member of the Finance Committee with an excep tional commitment to fiscal responsibility and deliberate in his role.
There are two other candidates running for a seat, both of whom seem to have good intentions and reasons to recommend them, but with Peter I have no doubt about the value he will continue to bring to this important board!
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Hearing begins at 9:00 A.M.
On October 19, 2022, the Montecito Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing and consider making a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors regarding proposed ordinance amendments to the County Coastal Zoning Ordinance and Montecito Land Use and Development Code. The amendments will revise the permitting and development standards for childcare facilities, exempt certain electric vehicle (EV) charging stations (including hydrogen fueling stations) from requiring a zoning permit, and include minor amendments to correct and clarify existing regulations and ensure that the regulations keep pace with current trends, policies, and State law. The Montecito Planning Commission will consider the following in order to recommend that the Board of Supervisors adopt the proposed amendments:
Adopt an ordinance (Case No. 22ORD-00000-00005) to amend the Santa Barbara County Coastal Zoning Ordinance, Article II, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the County Code.
Determine that ordinance Case No. 22ORD-00000-00005 is exempt from the provisions of CEQA pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) and 15265 of the State Guidelines for the Implementation of CEQA.
Adopt an ordinance (Case No. 22ORD-00000-00006) to amend the Santa Barbara County Montecito Land Use and Development Code (MLUDC), of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the County Code.
Determine that ordinance Case No. 22ORD-00000-00006 is exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the State Guidelines for the Implementation of CEQA.
The Montecito Planning Commission hearing begins at 9:00 A.M. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Montecito Planning Commission. The staff analysis of the proposal may be viewed at the Planning and Development Department website, located at https://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/hearings/mpc.sbc prior to the hearing. For further information about the project, please contact the planner, Corina Venegas, at cvenegas@countyofsb.org.
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baritone Wayne Tigges as Baron Scarpia and bass Colin Ramsey as Cesare Angelotti.
One hundred and twenty-two years after its debut in Rome, the three-act production featuring torture, murder, and suicide has lost none of its extraordi nary impact...
Gordon Guy , the late Executive Director of New House, a 67-year-old charity which has helped more than 25,000 men suffering from drug and
alcohol addiction, was honored at the sixth annual Heart of New House lunch at the Hilton with 200 guests raising around $75,000 for the organization.
Gordon died earlier this year after a valiant battle with cancer and his sister Wendy Goodenow flew in from her home in Hawaii to accept the award from new director Adam Burridge , who formerly worked at CADA, and board member Steve Olsen , who emceed the bash.
“Gordon played a crucial role in giving the men of New House their self-worth, respect, and dignity back,” said Burridge.
Adam Burridge and the men of New House (photo by Priscilla)
“The legacy Gordon left behind will live on in the men he helped.”
New House, which has a $1.2 million annual budget helping 100 residents in three homes in Santa Barbara, awarded $103,000 in scholarships last year.
Those turning out for the cause includ
“There is no must in art because art is free.” – Wassily Kandinsky
In Shakespeare’s classic monologue about “The Seven Ages of Man” (from As You Like It) he ascribes the fourth Age to a Soldier, who
in honor, sudden and quick in
the bubble reputation, even in the cannon’s mouth.”
That metaphorical bubble is a fitting image for the attractive but ephemeral concept of “looking good” to others in general, and particularly to those whom you want to impress – although, as Shakespeare suggests, this can be carried to an unhealthy extreme.
What other people think of us has much (perhaps too much) to do with what we think of ourselves. This explains, for example, why performers keep scrap books for favorable reviews of their work (or why I keep a collection of my own fan-mail).
But if this applies on a personal basis, “public opinion” has far more dramatic effect on the world stage. A “celebrity” may be celebrated for good reason, but can then undergo a startling reversal of esteem with equal justification. One particular example, in my opinion, is the life of Charles Lindbergh – “Lucky Lindy.” But it was much more than luck that made him the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic. And for several years after that exploit of 1927, he was, in the minds of people all over the world, the personification of modest heroism.
Then, in 1932, something tragic hap pened, to change his public image, and make him the object of pity, rather than of admiration. His first child, a 20-month-old baby, was kidnapped –actually taken from its cradle in the Lindbergh home – and never seen alive again, though supposedly held to ran som. Until that time, Lindbergh had been a very public figure, traveling all over the world, enjoying the adulation of crowds. But now he became a recluse, hard to reach and harder to interview.
Then came another change in his public persona. He visited Germany, where the Nazis were already in total control, and was welcomed as an aviator. He was very impressed by the German air force and came to believe that that country was unstoppable militarily. As war approached in Europe, he was one of those who felt that America must at all costs stay out of it. He became an outspoken leader of the movement called “America First.”
In the two years of war before Pearl Harbor, Americans were deeply divid ed, with the majority sympathizing
with the British, whose country was being pounded by German bombers. Lindbergh therefore became, in his own countrymen’s eyes, something of a cow ard and a traitor, while his wife, no doubt with his approval, wrote a book called The Wave of the Future, which seemed to suggest that, if America entered the war, it would be on the wrong side, and doomed to defeat. Democracy was finished, and the future belonged to the new authoritarian regimes then arising.
Lindbergh continued to speak publicly on behalf of America First, right up to December 7, 1941, thereby earning his own kind of infamy. But, once America had been attacked, Lindbergh, like most anti-war Americans, had a change of heart, and, before long, he was active ly participating in the war effort. He contributed his own skills, and actually served as an observation pilot in the South Pacific. Most of this was subject to wartime censorship, and the public was hardly aware of his activities.
Lindbergh lived to be 72, and engaged in many worthwhile activities, such as protecting the environment. But, although many forgave his earlier “unpa triotic” positions, the glamor of his “lone eagle” reputation never returned.
As a counterbalance to such a career, let me mention a French leader whose repu tation, after two centuries, is still in dis pute. His name was Napoleon Bonaparte, and he led his people for two decades through an amazing series of triumphs and disasters, without ever losing their loyalty. Although almost constantly at war, with various other powers forming coali tions against him, his numerous victories brought him glory as a military genius. Yet time and again, despite adventurous campaigns in Europe, and as far abroad as Egypt and Palestine, he suffered crush ing defeats, the most disastrous being his bold invasion of Russia, which led to his “Grand Army” being forced to retreat in wild disorder, in the dead of winter.
Yet no such debacle suppressed him for long, and he is, to this day, hon ored for his liberal reforms, such as the widely enforced legal system called the Napoleonic Code.
What a reputation!
The woman up the aisle from me was staring at the floor of the LUAS tram, now speeding toward Dublin. I followed her gaze and spotted the three large drops of blood she was fixed on. Would she call the police? Would Cassie Maddox and Rob Reilly of Dublin Murders television fame be the ones to investigate? Would I...
“Also, don’t miss the Book of Kells,” the woman squatting beside me said. “At Trinity College. You’ll need to get tickets in advance.”
“Okay,” I said.
She was writing all of her suggestions for things to do in Dublin on the back of a credit card receipt. Hers. Another clue no doubt that might put me...
“And, you’ll love Kilmainham Jail...”
“What?!”
“Great history there. Don’t miss the plaque in the courtyard with the names of all the men who were executed there.”
I looked wide-eyed over at Pat on the seat beside me. She was listening intently, nodding, and holding on to the last of her tissues in case there was more blood. At my feet, my camera bag was stained red.
It was our first full day in Ireland and we had walked from our home exchange to the Stillorgan stop to take the LUAS. Trouble was there were two trams going in opposite directions and we did not know which one to take. When the door had opened we asked a woman if this was the one we wanted. She said yes and Pat and I jumped on. The woman asked where we were from and how long we were staying and had we ever been here before and what did we plan on doing and maybe she could make some suggestions.
too glanced at the blood on the floor. He took out his iPhone and began texting.
“St. Stephen’s Green,” the woman said.
“We should go there?”
“Actually, it’s the next stop. Get off and walk up Grafton Street and you’ll get to Trinity College, which isn’t far from Temple Bar. Center of it all. Everyone escapes to Temple Bar.”
The tram stopped. Pat and I got out. The lady pointed up Grafton Street. I tried to look like Mr. Everyguy so she couldn’t pick me out of a lineup. “And don’t forget to go to the Guinness Storehouse,” she yelled after us.
“Maybe we can find a bandage,” I sug gested to Pat as we merged into a thick stream of people heading up and down the pedestrian street. I looked down and noticed blood stains on my sweater. It just kept getting better. We found a pharmacy and I bought a box of plasters. I used my other hand to pay. Outside I pulled off the tissues and dumped some water on my little finger. There was a chunk missing from it. I’m sure those Dublin detectives will find it and take it to the lab.
“You know, you didn’t do anything wrong,” Pat reminded me. “It was just an accident and it’s all your blood.”
Right. My blood, DNA, a tram full of witnesses who notoriously misremember things. I’m sure it’ll be fine.
“What should we do first?” Pat asked.
“Escape to Temple Bar,” I said. “Quickly.”
Ashleigh Brilliant born England 1933, came to California in 1955, to Santa Barbara in 1973, to the Montecito Journal in 2016. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots,” now a series of 10,000. email: ash leigh@west.net. web: www.ash leighbril liant.com.
I was listening intently when the doors whooshed shut and the tram lurched for ward. Unlike everyone else on the tram, I was not holding on. I was thrust back wards, off balance and headed for the floor. I grabbed at one of the straps hanging from the ceiling, slipped out of it and grabbed for the next one. Somehow I didn’t fall, though I probably looked like a backslash. I straightened and grabbed my violently swinging camera bag. Pat point ed out a couple of open seats. That’s when I noticed my camera bag was wet and sticky. I figured I must have set it down in something. Then I looked at my hand. It was covered in blood.
“Do you have a tissue I whispered?” as the nice woman came and squatted beside me and began her list. She was still going.
“Of course you’ll want to go to Dublin Castle.” She wrote this down. “Quite famous and still an official building today.”
The tram stopped. People got on. The doors whooshed shut and we lurched. There was a guy standing in front of us now. He
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.
by Steven Libowitz
October is Breast Cancer Awareness
Month, an annual effort to raise awareness about the impact of the disease on women, their families, and their communities. Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer in women in the United States, with approx imately one in eight women receiving the diagnosis at some point during their lifetime.
While everyone knows that, as with virtu ally any cancer, early detection is critical to successful treatment of breast cancer, when the disease is caught before it spreads, the five-year survival rate is 99 percent or greater.
What many people may not realize is that where a woman receives her breast screen ings, the level of technology available on site and the qualifications of the doctor who reads the results also makes a big difference.
Fortunately, people in Santa Barbara County have access to the highest quality breast imaging expertise and technology at Sansum Clinic, representing just one of the more than 50 specialties and service lines provided by Sansum, the largest inde pendent nonprofit healthcare organization between Los Angeles and the Bay Area that has been improving the overall health of its patients by providing the latest innovations in equipment, technology, procedures, and treatments for more than a century.
Sansum Clinic’s Imaging Department has been designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology (ACR) in recognition of its top-of-the-line technology and high
level of accuracy when detecting breast abnormalities before symptoms begin.
Sansum’s Winifred Leung, MD, is one of Santa Barbara’s only fellowship-trained breast radiologist, a doctor who specializes in breast imaging including 3D mammo grams, automated breast ultrasound, breast MRI, image-guided biopsy, and breast needle localization. Dr. Leung focuses her entire practice solely on breast imaging, affording her deep level of knowledge and expertise and the opportunity to stay cur rent on research in her field.
In line with the American College of Radiology (ACR) guidelines, Sansum Clinic recommends yearly 3D mammography for women with average risk, starting at age 40. With October marking another opportunity to observe Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it’s a good time to note that mammography is considered safe and effective, even during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
And there’s no reason why cancer screenings for women can’t be completely stress-free or perhaps even a pleasant experience, Dr. Leung says.
“Breast imaging should be like going for a dental checkup, nothing scary,” she says. “I liken it to looking for a small cav ity before it requires a big filling.”
Sophisticated imaging technology can locate cancer in its earliest stages, when it is very treatable Dr. Leung says, noting that Sansum’s advanced machines means fewer false-positives and less chance of having to call women back for more tests or possibly unnecessary biopsies.
Sansum wants to remind people that women with higher-than-average risk may
wish to begin mammography before age 40, or may need additional breast screening such as an MRI, based on personal and family history – decisions that should be made in a discussion of individual risk factors with a primary care doctor. Again, October is also a good time to remember that women should also become familiar with their breasts to be able to identify any future changes, with the awareness that breast disease symptoms often include a hard lump underneath the nipple, nipple retraction or nipple bleeding –symptoms that can also occur in men.
If cancer is diagnosed, the imaging often guides treatment decisions and can monitor a patient’s response to different therapies. Dr. Leung has full confidence in referring her patients to Ridley-Tree Cancer Center at Sansum Clinic, and closely coordinates with Ridley-Tree oncologists and surgeons. Indeed, the multidisciplinary team there was one of the reasons she decided to join Sansum Clinic.
“Breast radiology is a highly-collabora tive discipline, and this approach works best for the care of the women and men with breast cancer and benign breast disease,” she explained. “This approach works best for the care of the woman whether they are healthy and careful about prevention, or if they have breast cancer. You find this at big academic centers for a reason. We know what to do and the resources are right here in this town.”
Dr. Leung also currently chairs the Santa Barbara Breast Care Alliance, an accredited group of breast cancer experts who use a team approach to care for those with breast health concerns.
“It’s mothers, it’s daughters, it’s family. It’s the best of radiology combined with women,” she said. “That is why I love it.”
For the past century, Sansum Clinic has incorpo rated the latest innovations in equipment, tech nology, procedures, and treatments
While Sansum already boasts top-of-theline technology and, in Dr. Leung, one of Santa Barbara’s only fellowship-trained breast radiologist, the clinic isn’t content with standing pat, given that increased investment has a direct impact on cancer detection and health, explained Jill Fonte, Sansum Clinic’s Public Information Officer.
To that end, an upgraded Breast Imaging Center is in development, scheduled to open within the next year, she said.
“We are very proud of our Imaging Department, which provides the full spectrum of state-of-the-art breast imag ing services to our community at the highest standards of the imaging profes sion,” she said. “And we’re excited to be able to upgrade the center.”
Donations to help support the effort are always appreciated, said Dru Hartley, Sansum Clinic’s Director of Philanthropy.
“The generous support we receive from the community is what truly enables us to provide the highest-quality of care for the tens of thousands of patients who come to us for breast imaging each year,” she said.
For more information on breast cancer screenings, or to schedule an appoint ment, visit breastimaging.sansumclinic. org or call (805) 681-7671.
Sansum Clinic Foundation sansumclinic.org (805) 681-7726
Dru A. Hartley, Director of Philanthropy
Arguably, no local elected official has had a stronger and more directly positive impact on the lives of Central Coast residents than Salud Carbajal
He won us over after a dozen years as our 1st District County Supervisor, with his legendarily strong constituent services, and he continues to do so, even after five and a half years, as Santa Barbara’s representative from the 24th Congressional District.
Unlike many Congressional Representatives, Carbajal’s local presence remains strong, even as he spends a good deal of his time in D.C.
While Carbajal understands exactly where we are as a country and as a democracy, and just how real the threats are that we face, he remains a glass-half-full kind of guy whose optimism and commitment to moving important bills forward through hard won bipartisan efforts, are reflected in his legislative victories during his three terms in Congress.
His work can be seen and felt in the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, which brought forward the infrastructure bill, bringing 60 million dollars over five years for transit here in the district. That includes roads, broadband, public transit, bridges, waterworks, and water recycling. He’s deeply involved in the Climate Solutions Caucus, the For Country Caucus, made up of bipartisan Veterans in Congress, and worked hard to pass the Clean Coastal Act to stop future offshore oil drilling.
Carbajal identifies his top four legislative priorities as: 1) To provide economic opportunities and prosperity to his constituents and Americans across the country. 2) The climate change crisis and the need to address it from multiple standpoints as we have drought, fires, and rising sea levels and its impact on our public health. 3) To improve access and affordability of our healthcare system, prescription drugs, and healthcare premiums. And 4) To make sure our K-12 education system and higher education is more accessible, doubling financial aid, and minimizing student loan debt. Carbajal understand that strengthening our K through 12 education system is key to rebuilding a middle class in our country. Bottom line, he’s been an accessible, hardworking, effective representative, and a good listener. We proudly endorse Carbajal’s return to Congress for a 4th term!
We endorse 2nd District County Supervisor Gregg Hart for State Assembly. Hart’s opponent, Mike Stoker (a former County Supervisor and Trump’s West Coast EPA Administrator), is famous for coining the phrase “lock her up.” We believe that such divisive and mean-spirited political shenanigans should have no place in Santa Barbara’s leadership.
A native Santa Barbaran, Supervisor Hart is a consummate Democratic insider whose service on the Santa Barbara Planning Commission, the Santa Barbara City Council from 1986-1994, and most recently as the 2nd District County Supervisor have prepared
him to represent the Central Coast in the state legislature. As Chair of the Board of Supervisors, Hart showed strong leadership during the COVID crisis working with County Public Health to hold reg ular press conferences to keep Santa Barbara residents in the loop on the ever-changing, mind-spinning myr iad of rules and regulations around masking, vaccination eligibility, business closures, etc. And his local focus on homelessness and trans portation bodes well for his advo cacy on these fronts in Sacramento. Hart is a sophisticated career politi cian with a preternatural affinity for understanding complicated policy matters and will no doubt hit the ground running in Sacramento.
The defining relation ship between the County and the State is money, and in Sacramento – yank begets bank – and Gregg Hart’s got yank in spades. We’re hopeful that despite his many years in politics, Hart will bring a fresh perspec tive to this new job and break out of some old habits of looking inside a used box for solutions to new and ever-escalating challenges faced by the people of the Central Coast.
[The following statement was sent to us by Joan Hartmann and Gregg Hart, and we could not agree more wholeheartedly, or say it better ourselves.]
This past June, the Conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nearly 50-year, precedent-setting 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that established the constitutional right to privacy including the right to an abortion. In response, legislators from both political parties in the California Legislature moved to add Proposition 1 to the upcoming November 8 ballot. The Supreme Court’s action returned abortion to states to regulate. Prop 1 is a constitutional amendment that would codify the right to reproductive freedom in the California constitution. Even in California, we need a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom and we urge you to vote YES on Prop 1.
In accordance with an overwhelming majority of Americans, we unequivocally believe that private and personal medical decisions should remain between patients and their health care providers, and that doctors and nurses should not be threatened with legal or criminal penalties for providing basic health care to patients. Whether, when, and who to have a child with are the most intimate and personal decisions people make, and the government should not insert itself into such choices.
California has long been recognized as a state supportive of reproductive rights with strong individual privacy protections. Our state legalized abortion prior to Roe with the Therapeutic Abortion Act signed into law by Governor Ronald Reagan in 1967. But the right to obtain an abortion is not explicitly enshrined in our state constitution, rather it exists in statute. In overturning Roe, Justice Samuel Alito opined that the right to privacy does not exist within the U.S. constitutional frame work. Given that so many of our basic rights, freedoms, and individual liberties are predicated on the right to privacy – now under activist judicial threat – we must act to enshrine basic rights into our state constitution to help ensure that they cannot be taken away from us. In California only a majority of voters – not legislators – can amend our state constitution.
Passage of Prop 1 means that politicians, now or in the future, cannot deny or inter fere with reproductive freedoms without a majority vote of the people of California. This very state constitutional mechanism is what the voters of Kansas valiantly rallied to protect earlier this summer when anti-abortion activists tried to usurp the power of regulating abortion out of the state constitution and put it into the hands of zealous conservative politicians, with the goal of outlawing abortion. Voters overwhelmingly rejected this effort and abortion remains legal in Kansas.
Abortion is a personal decision and people should be able to make private medical decisions with their health care providers without political interference.
Prior to Roe, abortion was illegal throughout much of the country. The dismantling of Roe leaves the U.S. with a chaotic web of rules and regulations, which zealous conservative politicians will continue to work to erode. Many seek to outlaw abortion altogether. But across the U.S., voters are revolting and turning out in unprecedented
numbers to protect abortion at the ballot box. Recognizing this, extreme GOP Senator Lindsey Graham introduced leg islation for a nationwide abortion ban in the Senate last month.
More than a dozen states already have full abortion bans in place, forcing thou sands of pregnant individuals to travel to California, including to the Central Coast, for care. Our state is a symbol of compassion, hope, and progress and we have a moral obligation to help people access the basic health care they need.
Prop 1 protects the most vulnerable. Research suggests that the health of preg nant individuals is put at risk without the right to choose whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term or choose to safely end a pregnancy. The U.S. already has the highest maternal death rate among industrialized nations globally. Maternal deaths are disproportionately concen trated among people with low incomes and among people of color – with Black Americans three times more likely to die during childbirth than white Americans.
Currently, one in four of those who can become pregnant in the U.S. will obtain an abortion by the age of 45 and a majority of those in the U.S. who obtain abortions have already given birth. Studies show that the choice to plan, delay, and space births greatly increases U.S. women’s opportunities, workforce participation and wages, and attainment of a college education. Individuals should retain the freedom to decide how to best live their lives and plan their families.
As political leaders, we must do all we can to protect and advance the rights of those who we represent, this includes ensuring abortion is legal and accessible and that important health care decisions are left to individuals and their health care providers. We can achieve this by voting YES on Prop 1.
– Joan Hartmann and Gregg HartThe views and opinions expressed are those of Joan Hartmann and Gregg Hart as individuals and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the entities they repre sent. For identification purposes only, Joan Hartmann is elected to the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors representing the Third District and Gregg Hart is elect ed to the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors representing the Second District and is a current candidate for the State Assembly, District 37.
Gwyn Lurie is CEO and Executive Editor of the Montecito
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Take a sneak peek of Montecito by Michael Cox in this ongoing serialization of his yet-to-be-published book. This fictional story is inspired by “tales of true crime THAT HAPPENED HERE.” After some tense moments, Hollis and Cyrus prepare for the Central Coast Economic Summit. Chapter 23 is avail able online at montecitojournal.net and the QR code below.
the short straw and trudged off to retrieve cocktails for the group. It was here, holding court, that I found Cyrus. I had not watched him operate a large audience before, but he was just as magnetic as he was in small groups. Towering over most in attendance with his brown skin, electric smile, and a laugh amped higher than normal; the crowd’s eyes gravitated to him no matter where they were meant to focus.
I, meanwhile, ventured from one corner of the ballroom to another, doing my best to appear purposeful in my movements so my aloneness would not draw attention. For someone who is a tad uncomfortable around other humans, humans in crowds made me want to lock myself in a closet. This is where I felt my fog issues most acutely. I was confident that I had absolutely nothing interesting or exciting to say to any of these people; it was a well-earned confidence.
The bar was one of the stops on my ‘round-the-ballroom circuit. I was drinking soda water and lime in a whiskey tumbler, making it look like a vodka soda. And by that measure, I should have been falling down drunk as I was on my fifth. The bar was, of course, offering Entre Nous wine exclusively. While I had my uncertainties, I was also wowed by Cyrus. He lured and seduced in ways I could not have conceived.
Chapter 24
Cyrus may have been certain that a flood of investor money was on the horizon, but I was suddenly an anxious bean counter. It felt like the company’s obligations were soon to outstrip its assets. If Cyrus were to be proven right, the tap would turn at the Central California Economic Summit.
The Summit was an annual three-day boondoggle snuggled next to the 4th of July, organized to bring hundreds of bankers, investors, and economists to America’s Riviera for our version of summer. In contrast to most of the country, Santa Barbara’s summertime temperatures set tled into the low-to-mid 70s, even with the sun in full blaze. This yearround pleasantness seeded the we live in paradise snobbery that civic planners were anxious to perpetuate.
The Summit’s keynote dinner was held at Montecito’s famous Coral Casino. The Coral, as the locals call it, was a luxurious beach club tangen tial to the Four Seasons Biltmore. The Coral’s glamor was in its bygone day’s simplicity. In cahoots, Cyrus had chosen to dress for the business casual event in a tuxedo. And not just any tuxedo, but the sort that Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. would have approved. An elegant, throwback tux; he looked like he needed a cigar and a champagne coupe.
Set on a perch overlooking Butterfly Beach, the centerpiece of the Coral was an Olympic-sized swimming pool around which Montecito and Santa Barbara’s grandest have luxuriated for decades. Olympic swimming pools – fifty-meter pools – are rarities to begin with; they are incredibly expensive to build and maintain and, let’s face it, unnecessary; most people are too lazy to swim half that distance. But planting one of these glorious pools right next to the Pacific Ocean – effectively on the beach – feels almost obscene. And in keeping with the obscenity, the initiation fee for new members of the Coral was nearly a quarter-million dollars.
As the story goes, the Coral’s pool is technically fifty meters plus one foot. Why? When the club was under construction, some inaugural members got themselves wound up over the idea of turning the Coral into a commercial venture; one that could host swimming competitions, inviting the sport of swimming’s great unwashed inside. To quash that dream, another member – one with his finger in the construction –secretly changed the blueprints for the pool, adding an extra foot. The switcharoo was not discovered until construction was complete and irrevocable. With the pool’s length beyond regulation, there would be no public swimming events at the Coral. Welcome to Montecito; please show yourself out.
Guests entered the Coral’s ballroom through a glass-lined courtyard staring down at the Pacific and Butterfly Beach. People tended to con gregate at this wall, standing slack jawed while one of their party drew
The Summit had chosen Cyrus because he and ExOh were a local eco nomic novelty. The County counted Tourism and Real Estate as its two biggest industries. Gaining momentum behind these granddaddies, soft ware and technology startups were sprouting, spurred on by the amazing engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. But Cyrus – with his New Zealand and Saudi Arabian roots and background in the oil industry – and ExOh – with its focus on the old-as-Magellan business of global trade – were a rainbow unicorn. The Summit simply had to hear from him.
And of course, as my social opposite, Cyrus loved the stage. I had offered to translate the notes of my PowerPoint presentation into a draft speech; this sent him into a roiling belly laugh. Genevieve would write his speech, he assured me, and it would be fantastic.
The speech was to be delivered between the salad and entrée courses. Much of it was familiar to me or anyone who had been invited to enjoy dinner at the Wimby house. But he was so smooth on stage that previously spoken words held greater gravitas: ExOh was not just facilitating trade, it was freeing the world.
As the CEO of ExOh, I was anxious for Cyrus to set his hat on the stage and start dancing for money. The wire to VIP Partners – aka Cyrus – and another three-million-dollar wire to Hong Kong had the Miramar bank account below one million for the first time since fundraising began. This made me nervous in the same way that draining my own savings account made me nervous: just because.
“This may be the biggest financial opportunity since Bill Gates decided to license the c-prompt,” Cyrus said, bringing his speech to a rousing con clusion. “A back door to one-point-five billion shoppers who do not know what it is like to easily purchase something made in the U.S. of A. I wake up each day pinching myself.”
Heads wagged around the room. He had them right where he wanted them.
“And the best part is the scalability of the business. It is and was cash flow positive from the first day. I have already raised every penny of equity I will ever need…”
I leaned so far forward that my head nearly clanked my water glass. What is he saying? I wanted to stand and waive my white napkin in protest.
“… Many of you are already shareholders. Congratulations to you! Our stock restarted trading just over two months ago and, already, it has nearly quadrupled. As wonderful as that is, it is just the beginning of our stock’s ascent. ExOh’s business plan is now fully funded and ready to take on Amazon and Alibaba …”
No, no, no! We need more money! I dropped my forehead into my hands, massaging both temples.
“In fact, we at ExOh are already considering our legacy; a legacy that begins today.” He moved from the podium to the center of the stage, advancing his slide show beyond what seemed to be its finale. The next slide read, The ExOh Global Relief Charities.
My title might have been Chief Executive Officer of ExOh, but I was a pure observer at this point.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, the ExOh Global Relief Charities will pro vide monetary support to counteract human atrocities around the world. Initially, we will focus on the plight of Syrian refugees…”
I looked around the room; not a single person was on their phone.
“ExOh Holdings Incorporated will match all donations to the ExOh Global Relief Charities five-to-one! Our goal today is to raise two-hundred thousand dollars from the Summit and match that with one million dollars from ExOh. Who is with me?”
“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
Salvador Dali
There was a rousing round of applause that made me cringe. I was not a veteran of the fundraiser circuit but I was uncomfortably familiar with the mechanism Cyrus was about to launch: the paddle-raise auction. Montecito Union Elementary School’s annual fundraiser ended in much the same way: an auction that begins with, who here today is willing to commit fifty thousand dollars to this worthy cause? and painstakingly descends to a version of, if you haven’t raised your hand at this point, just give us one hundred dollars so you can show your face at Pierre Lafond.
Within ten excruciating minutes of cajoling, clapping, and paddle rais ing, Cyrus had raised two-hundred-twenty-five thousand dollars from this generous crowd.
“I am blown away by your spirit of giving,” he said. “I want to introduce you all to ExOh’s Chief Executive Officer, Hollis Crawford; Hollis will you stand please?”
I reluctantly stood and a spotlight found me. I squinted and shaded my face.
“Hollis and I will be oceanside after dessert to get your contact infor mation and accept your generosity on behalf of ExOh Global Relief Charities.”
Cyrus took his seat at the table front-and-center of the stage and the Coral’s waitstaff promptly delivered plates of what can be best described as above-average conference food to everyone. I pushed mine around – my stomach was practicing its contortionist’s routine – gnawing only on the dinner roll which was too bland to cause issues. For dessert, a pale version of Genevieve’s Key Lime pie mocked me. I took a small taste, hoping for a bit of the old magic. It was good, but not transcendent; I pushed it away as well.
As soon as the first Summit attendee stood from dessert, I hopped into the oceanside lobby, hoping to get Cyrus’s ear before any of the ExOh Global Relief Charities donors showed up. But it did not happen. Cyrus mingled in the ballroom as a circle grew around me.
A large man with a boisterous Texas accent, cowboy hat, and bolero nominated himself as the group’s spokesperson and cut to the chase: “Who do we make the checks out to?” he asked.
“Excellent question,” I said.
At the conclusion of the Summit event at the Coral, a group of wealthy investors cornered Cyrus and Genevieve, demanding a chance to squeeze their way into ExOh’s apparently closed capital raise. No, no, he demurred.
Yes, yes, they insisted. After his arm was sufficiently twisted, Genevieve stepped in, offering to host the group of anxious investors for a 4th of July party at their home. Her offer was greeted with hoots of celebration, as if she were a mother who had finally relented to her children’s pleas for ice cream.
Terrific, I thought, standing on the outside of Cyrus’s circle as the impromptu Independence Day celebration was planned. I had been so distracted of late, that it had not occurred to me that one of my favorite holidays was just around the corner. Hearing of Cyrus’s party made me nostalgic for the Crawford’s own 4th of July tradition. We would spend our day in and out of the waves at Miramar Beach, then hop on our bicycles and head to a second beach, East Beach (beach hopping is an important aspect of life in Montecito). There, we would spread out on blankets, eat to-go from Mony’s, and watch the fireworks launched from boats off Stearns Wharf. Occasionally it was freezing cold – near sixty degrees in Montecito speak –or foggy, but it did not matter. Even when the fireworks looked more like cloud-to-cloud lightning than fireflies, it was a day to savor.
I was still smiling at the thought when Cyrus began to list what he would need from me in order to host the party. My smile faded. “If you don’t mind,” I said, “we have a 4th of July family tradition of our own. Unfortunately, I’m not going to be able to make your party.”
Cyrus nodded, threw a paternal arm over my shoulders, and whispered, “I’m not asking.”
To salve the wounds of our upset family plans, he volunteered Genevieve to take Cricket, Isabel, and Trip horse riding with her and Priscilla that morning. While the rest of my family was excited for the opportunity to ride, I read it as more interruption of the sacred traditions that bind blood-relatives into the long narrative of family.
With my morning free, I filled my holiday with the mundane. I got my Subaru washed at the Chevron on Coast Village Road so it would feel less self-conscious in the crowd of Range Rovers and Porsches at the Wimby house. I bought three mature tomato plants from La Sumida Nursery and planted them in our backyard. Knowing that my evening picnic at East Beach would not happen, I treated myself to an adobada burrito from Mony’s and ate every last bite, ever-growing stomach pain be damned. When we arrived at the Wimby home, the driveway gates were yawning.
Instead of winding back to find my own parking spot, red-vested valets were waiting to whisk my thankfully clean car away. The greeter who had worked every prior Wimby party – the one every parent would have loved as a babysitter – had been replaced with a blonde in a black dress so short it might have fit her when she was twelve years old. She looked stolen straight from Hugh Hefner’s grotto.
Cricket took a glass and said her thanks, but when she turned to me, there was curiosity in her eyes. It was not the buxom blonde; Cricket was always pointing out pretty women to me, admiring some facet of their beauty. She was not intimidated or bothered by any sense of competition. It was the upped ante that she recognized and the meaning behind it that she ques tioned. The Wimbys’ parties were always big; this was exponentially bigger. Why? We continued into the party with the observation unvoiced.
As at the Summit, Cyrus was surrounded by a gaggle of out-of-towners with money to burn. I recognized the Texan – same hat, new bolero – and several of the others, but I decided not to invade the circle. There was nothing I could add to Cyrus’s spiel.
Instead, I walked the party, hand in hand with Cricket. She paused to say hello several times, but she too seemed content to be with me alone. In a month, she would compete in the Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier, a two-mile open ocean swim from Hermosa Beach to Manhattan Beach. The endless training had turned her always fit body into a loaded spring. She had eyes on her personal best time, recorded during her All-American, senior year of college. If she failed to break that old mark, it would not be for lack of effort.
I on the other hand was beginning to look like the disappearing man. I had by this point lost eleven pounds since I began working for Cyrus and ExOh, and the dark gar-office was draining the remaining color from my skin. Increasingly, we looked like a May-December marriage even though I was technically the younger spouse by three months.
But that did not matter this night. I was so proud to be holding her hand; to call her mine. If I had to suffer with my own demons of discom fort to finally do good by my family, so be it. I would have gladly paid a higher price if asked.
Genevieve too was holding court. When she spotted Cricket, she waved her over, but Cricket gave my hand an extra squeeze and stayed by my side. Genevieve was not willing to give up; she broke from her circle, gave Cricket a two-kiss hello, and forcibly pulled her from my grip.
She could steal the flesh but not the memory.
This evening, the pizza oven was churning out massive skillets of paella, individualized into miniature Chinese food containers. I cannot count how many bottles of Entre Nous were consumed, but the cash raised from recycling the empties would have been its own charitable contribution.
Reluctantly, I made my way back to Cyrus’s court, which now filled the library room. Huff Monroe, the Texan who was standing shoul der-to-shoulder with Cyrus, was jovially sloshing wine as he listened to Cyrus’s stories, which had journeyed beyond ExOh to other global con quests. Several times, Cyrus made a show of saying, “Genevieve isn’t here, is she?” scanning the room for his gorgeous wife, then tucking in to tell a quieter story to which most of the room was not privy. It did not matter to me, but I could tell others on the outer rings desperately wanted to be closer; to be the ear into which those salacious details were delivered. Everyone seemed to want a piece of Cyrus.
Several more times, I heard Cyrus publicly declare ExOh’s fundraising closed. More quietly, I heard him say that he would only accept more cash if the investors had the ability to “move the needle,” a phrase equivalent to, make me an offer I cannot refuse.
As before, I was superfluous. Perhaps this should have bothered me, but it did not. I knew my strengths and salesmanship was not on the list.
At some point, the servers switched from paella to muffin-sized pecan pies. They smelled wonderful; I passed.
The light dimmed, and I finally found Cricket again, this time separate from Genevieve, though still the hub of several conversations. I gave her elbow a slight pinch; she turned and gave me a kiss.
“Let’s sneak out of here and rescue the kids,” I whispered.
“Can we?” she whispered back.
I looked over my shoulder at Cyrus, still regaling the crowd. “I think he can handle it.”
“You’re on,” she said. “Besides… we need to talk.”
I cocked my head curiously as we moved to leave. She was too busy waving, nodding, and smiling to notice.
The valets were sitting on their hands when we came out the front door. My Subaru was easy to find – it was the only one at the party – and we
People have been bewitched and beguiled by the story of Carmen as consistently as the fiery gypsy seduces the brave men she encounters. Bizet’s opera remains wildly popular worldwide, almost 150 years since it premiered in Paris, and countless adapta tions in dance have spun the tale through musical movement.
Even Oscar Hammerstein fell under Carmen ’s spell, as the famed play wright-lyricist turned the tale into the Broadway musical Carmen Jones in 1943, writing new lyrics for Bizet’s clas sic music and updating the story to a World War II-era setting at a parachute factory in the South that featured an all-Black cast.
The show ran in New York for nearly two years but has scarcely been revived since. Now, Ensemble Theatre Company is opening its 44th season with Carmen Jones, a new smaller-scale production of the piece, helmed by ETC’s Artistic Director Jonathan Fox. Ten actors, many with multiple roles, are augmented by an eight-piece orchestra in delivering the exhilarating if tragic tale.
“Directing a different version of Carmen 20 years ago was one of my favorite experiences in theater ever, and I just love the music, so I’m thrilled to be doing Oscar Hammerstein’s version, which is a different kind of musical,” Fox said. “He did a terrific job trans forming it to the South during The Great Migration, finding the lyrics in the vernacular while capitalizing on the beauty of the music.”
Going with a smaller scale show not only fits ETC’s New Vic, but also provides a more intimate entry to the story, he said.
“There’s an energy and dynamic approach and you can really focus on the central figures. It really brings out the heart of the story.”
Just as ETC’s Carmen Jones represents the musical’s belated Santa Barbara debut, each of the four other more con
temporary works in the company’s 202223 season are also new to town, includ ing a comedic version of A Christmas Carol; Selling Kabul, a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Finalist; the climate calamity drama The Children; and the cooking comedy Seared.
Fox said the mix of comedy and drama should not only surprise and delight but also at times challenge the audience.
“These are compelling stories of the moment, with fascinating characters told in unusual ways,” he said. “It’s not going to be easy to predict what will happen.”
Carmen Jones plays October 6-23 at The New Vic. Visit etcsb.org or call (805) 965-5400.
Thanks largely to Jonathan & Sylvia, who taught lessons and hosted biweekly swing dances at the Carrillo Ballroom for decades before the pandemic paused presentations, Santa Barbara locals have a thriving swing dance scene that features several styles in the part nered dance, including the Lindy Hop. The pair even brought the late Lindy co-founder Frankie Manning to town several times in the 1990s, 60 years after he helped popularize the lively fast-paced style danced to big band jazz that got its name a few years after Charles Lindbergh “hopped” across the Atlantic.
But you don’t have to be part of Santa Barbara swing scene to enjoy Sw!ng Out, which goes far beyond how the dance has previously shown up in musicals as nostalgia or novelty. Instead, the show’s dozen swing-dance champions backed by live music from Eyal Vilner’s 10-piece band reverently celebrate the history of Lindy while simultaneously modernizing it in a production that serves as both a theatrical dance presentation and a touring version of a typical night in New York’s swing scene.
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State Street Ballet, William Soleau, Choreographer
SB Choral Society,
Anne Wasserman
Quire of Voyces
Kreitzer
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Music Academy’s Sing! children’s chorus
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70th Anniversary Season Sponsor:
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Also referred to as a congressman or congresswoman, each representative is elected to a two-year term serving the people of a specific congressional district. Among other duties, representatives introduce bills and resolutions, offer amendments, and serve on commit tees. (Source: house.gov)
Occupation: Pediatric Heart Surgeon
I am running for Congress because I believe our country has lost its way.
This Administration’s policies have caused the highest inflation in 40 years, suffocat ed businesses with overregulation, increased crime and attacks on police, doubled gas prices, encouraged immigrants to stream across open borders, and failed our children’s education; the list of problems is endless.
As a pediatric heart surgeon, I’ve spent 40 years practicing and studying medicine, all to help people live better lives. I’m also a small business owner. As your congress man, I will take the real-life problem-solving approach I learned as a doctor and busi ness owner to Washington, D.C. to provide real solutions, not more politics.
I want to reduce spending and cut federal regulations to lower inflation and let businesses flourish. Bring back public safety by supporting law enforcement, give parents more school choice, stop government mismanagement of COVID19, and solve our energy shortage by increasing domestic energy production from all sources.
I will bring common sense, accountability, and real-life experience to Congress, instead of empty political talking points. I want to help end government that is too big, too intrusive, and utterly irresponsible with your money.
That is why, in this era of political evasion and posturing, I offer a written commit ment that clearly states my positions, no fine print. (drbradallen.com/contract)
If you have finally had enough of career bureaucratic politicians, and want a leader that brings real-life commonsense solutions, then I humbly ask for your vote.
For more information, please visit drbradallen.com. Thank you.
I’m Salud Carbajal, and as your Representative in Congress, I have continued to advance our Central Coast priorities and deliver for our communities.
I grew up in Ventura County, where my father worked as a farmworker. I attended UCSB while working two jobs to become the first in my family to graduate from a university. I proudly served in the Marine Corps Reserves and as a Santa Barbara County Supervisor. My wife, Gina, and I raised our family here, and now our grand children are growing up in this community.
In Congress, I’ve focused on solving challenges facing Central Coast families by passing laws that will curb inflation, lower your costs, and create good-paying jobs. I’ve worked to bring home million-dollar investments to expand access to public tran sit, high-speed internet, and clean drinking water.
I’m proud to have spearheaded efforts to bring long overdue reforms to gun safety laws, expand veterans’ health benefits, and reduce the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs. I’m fighting for climate solutions that will tackle wild fire and drought responses. And I will always protect reproductive rights and marriage equality.
I would be honored to continue working for you in Congress. For more informa tion, please visit SaludCarbajal.com.
I kindly ask for your vote. Thank you.
The California State Assembly is the lower chamber of the California State Legislature. Alongside the California State Senate, it forms the legislative branch of the California state government and works alongside the governor of California to create laws and establish a state budget. Legislative authority and responsibilities of the California State Assembly include passing bills on public policy matters, setting levels for state spend ing, raising and lowering taxes, and voting to uphold or override gubernatorial vetoes. (Source: Ballotpedia)
Occupation: Santa Barbara County Supervisor
Gregg Hart is a Santa Barbara County Supervisor, representing the 2nd Supervisorial District. He grew up in Santa Barbara, attended local public schools, and graduated from SBCC and UCSB.
Gregg Hart began his professional career as a legislative assistant for State Assemblymember Jack O’Connell and went on to become the original manager of the Santa Barbara County Association of Government’s (SBCAG) Traffic Solutions program, promoting local green and sustainable transportation options. Later, he served as the Deputy Executive Director for SBCAG, supporting regional efforts to widen the 101 freeway and improve bus and passenger rail service throughout Santa Barbara County.
For more than 20 years, Gregg Hart owned and operated Transitions Preschool, a local, family business dedicated to early-childhood education and quality child care. Starting in 1995, Gregg was elected to four terms on the Santa Barbara City Council. In 2018, he won a seat on the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. He has served the Santa Barbara community for more than 30 years – as a Planning Commissioner, City Council Member, California Coastal Commissioner, and pres ently as the 2nd District County Supervisor.
As an Assemblymember, Gregg Hart will put the needs of Santa Barbara County and southern San Luis Obispo County front and center in Sacramento. Gregg’s top legislative priorities will be to focus on equity, criminal justice reform, environmen tal protections, education, economic opportunity, and practical initiatives to tackle homelessness and the affordable housing crisis.
Occupation: Small Businessman
Thursday, October 13, at 5:30 p.m. Community Arts Workshop (CAW) 631 Garden Street Sponsored by the Westmont Foundation
California is headed down the wrong track. Inflation is at a 40-year high; housing, gas, and groceries are too expensive; and wages have remained flat for too many. All the while, career politicians continue to attack Prop 13 taxpayer protections and push
pro-criminal
funding for law
These politicians are taking California in the wrong direction for parents, law enforcement, small businesses, farmers, and taxpayers. They’re even pushing policies that make water and energy a scarcity.
It’s time for a new direction for California!
For 40 years, I have lived, worked, and raised a family right here on the Central Coast. In addition to owning and operating my own small business, I have always answered the call for public service when asked by Presidents or Governors. As a former County Supervisor, Deputy Secretary of State, Chair of the Agriculture Labor Relations Board and Southwest Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, I have stepped up to the plate and got the job done.
Like any California small business owner, I have never been one to run away from a challenge. As your next Assemblyman, I’ll bring the same small business mentality to Sacramento to tackle California’s issues head-on.
The question for you in this election couldn’t be simpler. If you think inflation is bad and California is headed in the wrong direction we need a proven leader, not a career politician. Join me as we chart a new course for California. Please visit StokerforAssembly.com to learn more.
(2 Candidates, 1 Seat)
The majority of California’s county offices of education are governed by a locally elected county board of education and operated by a locally elected, non-voting, county superin tendent. In accordance with the California Education Code and other regulations, the Santa Barbara County Board of Education sets SBCEO board policy, approves the SBCEO budget, approves the SBCEO Local Control and Accountability Plan, and serves as an appeals board for inter-district transfer requests, student expulsions, and charter school applications. The local SBCEO is one of 58 county offices in California. (Source: sbceo.org and theccbe.org; edited for clarity and space)
Occupation: Executive Director, Natalie Orfalea Foundation
I am running for reelection on the Santa Barbara County Board of Education, on which I have proudly served since 2013. I firmly believe that public education is the cornerstone of democracy; along with upholding the right of everyone to receive a free K-12 education in our nation, the responsibility falls to elected school board officials to ensure that the schools in the communities in which we serve are prepared to meet the diverse needs of all students. This includes provid ing the necessary support for students, teachers, and districts while recognizing the disparate needs that surface between districts, and working collaboratively to address sustainable solutions.
I am a 45-year resident of Carpinteria where my husband and I raised our two children. We now get to enjoy watching our two grandchildren grow just several doors away. I have dedicated my adult life to the pursuit of community strength ening, with a child-centered focus. I have worked to support the nonprofit sector for over 20 years, currently serve as the Executive Director of the Natalie Orfalea Foundation and held a management position in corporate philanthropy for 15 years prior. I administered and directed educational programs in the Carpinteria Unified School District for 10 years and have volunteered in Santa Barbara County schools for over 40 years. I attended UCSB and Antioch University and earned a BA in Psychology, and serve on numerous nonprofit boards that support youth, education, community action, and coalition building. Public education is transformational, and I am committed to the task of continuous improvement in our system.
www.Marybethcarty.net
Occupation: Former Radiation Protection Specialist State of Ca Dept of Health Services
I am invested in our community with grown children and young grandchildren.
I will bring fresh ideas and positive change to our struggling schools. We must do better. The Santa Barbara public schools have failed our students, particularly the
most challenged.
The test scores show a lack of consistency in results with some schools above the state average and most below average in both English and math.
A deficiency our Grand Jury noted was the lack of any standardized testing between our schools. This needs to change. We need better tools to evaluate learning to choose effective programs. The foundation for success in education is English and math.
I will work to bring the focus back to basics. Literacy is key.
Entry level, vocational jobs and higher education all require good skills in these areas.
My diverse background and professional career which included teaching as well as owning a small educationally focused business for 30 years allows me to be effective with all educational backgrounds and cultures.
For more information and some articles I have written on education visit RC4schools.com.
Please vote for Rosanne Crawford on or before November 8th for Santa Barbara County Board of Education Trustee Area 1. savesbschools@gmail.com
(2 Candidates, 1 Seat)
Board members directly represent the people of the SBCC District (Carpinteria to Goleta) in determining board general policies and making decisions, which govern the total operations of the entire District and Santa Barbara City College.
The seven members of the Santa Barbara Community College District Board of Trustees are elected by District voters for four-year terms and represent areas within the District.
Debi Stoker
Occupation: Mother/Small Businesswoman
My name is Debi Stoker. I am a mother and small businesswoman, and I want to be your next Trustee on the Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees.
The discord I have seen at City College over the past several years has led me to stand up and run for Trustee.
The current administration put the interests of school bureaucrats and the unions over the interests of our local students. They have adopted policies that give preference to foreign exchange students before our local students. This is so wrong.
At one time our City College and its library was the gem of the community college system nationwide. Today, shamefully it has fallen in the ranks. With your help, we will restore our City College to the level it once was.
Recently my daughter graduated from City College with unfulfilled promises. My son, a Sergeant in the U.S. Army, is currently enrolled for fall term to finish his edu cation and advance his career.
I may not be able to change things in time to help my son, but we can make positive changes that will benefit the next generation of local City College students.
I am Debi Stoker, and I would be honored to have your support.
Occupation: Nurse Practitioner/Professor
I am running for Santa Barbara City College Board Trustee District #1 because through my professional and volunteer experience, I have learned the kind of lead ership and advocacy skills that will help us take SBCC into a new generation. As Trustee, I will support sustainable policies and ensure equitable access for all students. I want to foster a community college that supports our students and meets their needs as they come through our system.
I am a product of a community college, subsequently transferring and receiving a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science, and recently a Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of San Francisco. As a member of our nation’s largest and most trusted healthcare profession, I have over two decades in the workforce as a Registered Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, entrepreneur, and faculty at California State University –
Picturesque Godric Grove in Elings Park was the venue for the Santa Barbara Education Foundation’s second annual Love of Literacy lunch with 130 guests raising more than $30,000 for the cause.
Keynote speaker, county supervisor Gregg Hart, whose mother was a teacher and father a librarian, expressed his love of literature, reading 60 books during his summer vacations.
“It’s in my DNA,” he exclaimed. “But not everyone comes to that with the same ability.”
David Gergen Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders are Made
Tue, Oct 11 / 7:30 PM Granada Theatre
Former White House adviser and CNN analyst David Gergen traces the journeys of iconic leaders from Winston Churchill to John Lewis to Greta Thunberg.
Event Sponsor: Sara Miller McCune
Sat, Oct 15 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
Ranging in age from 11 to 17, The Linda Lindas are ascending rock’s new feminist front, sharing the stage with indie heroes like Best Coast, Money Mark and Bikini Kill and shredding through songs about identity, friendship, power and cats. Presented in association with Girls Rock Santa Barbara
Wed, Oct 19 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
One of the premier Indian dance groups performing today, the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble’s captivating performances have earned them a spot on The New York Times’ Best Dance of the Year list two years in a row.”
Wed, Oct 12 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
stars of the circus world.” The List (U.K.)
Pulsating with tension and infused with dark humor, this distinctive production brings Stravinsky’s seminal Rite of Spring to the circus stage.
in Conversation with Rory Kennedy
Sun, Oct 16 / 7:30 PM
Arlington Theatre
Explore the courage, ambition and talent that push a person to greatness in an evening with big-wave surfer, renowned innovator and American icon Laird Hamilton.
Thu, Oct 27 / 8 PM
UCSB Campbell Hall
Latin Grammy Award winner and international sensation Carla Morrison is renowned for her raw, emotional retellings of heartbreak and loss.
Channel Islands.
I am proud of my public service and have represented several nonprofits and non-partisan organizations, advocated for legislative bills at the state and federal levels, and annually allocated thousands of dollars of block grant federal funds. As a nurse, I will bring an empathetic ear and an experienced eye to all decisions on campus and in the community and would be honored to have your vote as SBCC Board Trustee.
www.voteyes4moore.com
(3 Candidates, 1 Seat)
The Board of Education is the educational policy-making body for the District. To effec tively meet the District’s challenges, the Board and Superintendent must function together as a leadership team. To ensure unity among team members, effective operating procedures, or protocols, must be in place. There are general protocols and those that are specific for the Board and for the Superintendent.
In 2018, Santa Barbara Unified School District voted to transition from at-large elec tions to trustee-area elections in accordance with the California Voting Rights Act. The act took effect on January 1, 2003. It prohibits the use of “at-large” elections when such an election system: “imparts the ability of a protected class to elect candidates of its choice or its ability to influence the outcome of an election....” (Elections Code 14027) (Source: sbunified.org)
Occupation: Retired Educator
Hello, my name is Efigenia Banales. I’ve been a resident of S.B. over 30 years. I have worked at the elementary and secondary levels as an educator, as well as worked to support school administration for the SBUSD for 25 years.
It’s imperative that children get the best education possible in order to ensure a suc cessful future. Santa Barbara Unified School District deserves a balanced and strong leadership who understand the needs of all students.
I want to work with educators to develop a dynamic and robust curriculum to enhance the skills students receive in our district which will have real world impact on their success post-graduation.
I’m highly motivated to continue supporting our children, our future generations with the participation and support of their parents, district personnel, and commu nity.
Let’s set the bar high as one of the steps to grow into people. Let’s work together, let’s work as a team.
Occupation: Student Affairs Professional
I am a proud public servant and committed to the students of Santa Barbara. As a first-generation college graduate, I know how precious a good education can be. I worked hard – earned my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees – and have spent the last decade of my career working in higher education supporting hundreds of students every academic year. I understand the challenges students face and know what it takes to help our students achieve: increase literacy and parental involvement while ensur ing our District’s stable fiscal future.
Understanding government is the key to effective change, and I understand local government. I currently serve the City of Santa Barbara as the Chair of the Planning Commission and recently as the Chair of the Community Formation Commission. Through my work, I have been an effective leader who asks tough questions, demands answers, and understands how to build coalitions to accomplish the change we need.
I know and care for District 1, it’s a vital area of Santa Barbara that deserves a ded icated community advocate. I will bring forward-thinking leadership and will fight for first-rate quality at every level of our district. That’s why I’m running for school board and I ask for your vote.
www.gabeescobedo.com
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Dan La Berge is the Executive Director of Mothers’ Helpers. A seasoned orga nizational leader with experience in small business and nonprofit management. Demonstrated ability to identify effective solutions to intractable problems, turn around struggling organizations, and tactically deploy limited resources to achieve substantive outcomes. Most effective in teams of talented individuals in mission-driv en organizations.
(4 Candidates, 3 seats)
Cold Spring School is a TK-6 public school that serves approximately 194 students in a small classroom setting. The Cold Spring School District Governing Board meets on the second Monday of each month in the school auditorium at 6 pm, unless otherwise noted. General session meetings are open for public attendance.
Jennifer Miller currently serves as Vice President on the Board of Trustees for Cold Spring School. Prior to this, Jennifer Miller Cold Spring School served as President of the Board of Trustees for four years.
As a volunteer, she believes in the goal of the Cold Spring School Board Mission Statement which is “to provide a quality educational program in a secure family atmo sphere, which fosters a balance of academic achievement, healthy personal develop ment, social and environmental responsibility, and enthusiasm for lifelong learning.”
Her passion for quality education derives from the personal experience of having three children, each with different learning styles and learning needs.
jennifermillercoldspringschool.com
I am a current Cold Spring School parent, attorney, and long-time advocate of quality education, with a deep understanding of how important a school board is to a healthy community. For five years, I have had the privilege of supporting our school through the many, unprecedented challenges the District has navigated. I have embraced leadership opportunities as a CSS Foundation officer, Parent Club member, and classroom volunteer. My commitment to education extends beyond our district boundaries, through pro bono work with nonprofit organizations and as Secretary of the Santa Barbara Education Foundation.
Cold Spring is one of California’s highest performing districts, which has strength ened our community, benefited our children, and led to increased property values year over year. Effective leadership, transparent communication, and creative and collaborative solutions that focus on the students will continue to be essential as CSS implements state mandated Universal Transitional Kindergarten and Universal Meals, while addressing increasing enrollment and aging infrastructure.
Please join parents, teachers, and community members in supporting me, Elke Kane, for Cold Spring School Board. www.CSSBoard2022.com
I have been a parent at Cold Spring School since 2018. I am running for the school board because I think some people have allowed a culture of conflict to damage the community and have demonstrated that they are blind to the financial state of the district and the concerns of their constituents.
As a Board member I will have the courage to represent the voices of the parents, staff, and community members who don’t feel safe with or represented by the current leadership, and I will hold the administration accountable for every dollar that they plan to spend. I believe it is a conflict of interest to have the Chief Business Officer also serving as Legal Counsel, so I will push to get independent legal counsel for the District to ensure that the District operates legally and ethically.
As a Latina mother, I think the District should be teaching Spanish to help our chil dren thrive. My professional background is as a financial auditor in Peru; this coupled with my experience in Early Childhood Education in California will serve the district as it embarks on tackling the challenges of the coming years.
Michael Marino is an incumbent candidate and the current Board President of the Cold Spring School District. There was no official Candidate Statement filed. According to LinkedIn, Marino is the Managing Director of Marino Legal CLE since 2009.
(3 Candidates, 2 Seats)
The Montecito Fire Protection District is a progressive organization committed to the protection of people, property, and the environment. As part of the community, they exist to provide professional and timely service through preparation for, response to, and recovery from emergencies. The Board of Directors is responsible for governing the Montecito Fire Protection District. The Board currently consists of five Members, each of which serves a four-year term. (Source: montecitofire.com)
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” – Pablo Picasso
Almost everyone procrastinates. We usually do it to avoid a task that’s unpleasant or daunting. Some things are broad and require lots of time and effort, and may involve changing long-held behaviors or beliefs. Others are very specific one-time jobs. When procrastinating starts to interfere with our quality of life by causing us to feel worried, guilty, lazy, panicky, or irresponsible, then it’s time to get on with it.
Think taxes, a difficult phone call, or following through on a promise you made in haste or through obligation.
Taking action is based on good plan ning. With many tasks, the initial preparation can take as little as five or 10 minutes. More complex actions will take some more thought. There are some easy steps to get out of the quicksand of procrastination and reap numerous benefits, which include improved productivity, enhanced mood, less stress, better relationships, a sense of accomplishment, and feeling more successful in life.
Step 1. Identify the challenge
Start by writing down the specific task or tasks you’ve been putting off. It could be having a difficult conver sation with a family member, dealing with a bad habit, or finally scheduling that appointment you’ve been avoiding. Writing down what you are putting off helps you focus on prioritizing what needs to be done. So, make your
list and then pick out the job that is most important.
Step 2. Pinpoint and deal with your emotions
What’s preventing you from diving into this task? It’s typically one or more of three core emotions. Perhaps you’re intimidated by all the time and sacrifice (fear). Or you’re resentful about hav ing to do this when you think it’s not necessary (anger). Or you’re bummed that you are trashing yourself so heav ily for being unmotivated (sadness). This step helps you see the act of drag ging your heels for what it truly is –an emotional reaction.
It’s helpful to know that emotions – sadness, anger, and fear – are just pure energy in your body. Look at the word “emotion.” It’s energy (e) in motion. Take some time in private to express those emotions constructively. By crying to express sadness, punching or yelling into a pillow or stomping around to release the anger, or doing exaggerated shivering for the fear, give yourself permission to express the emotion.
Be sure that while you are doing this important step, you don’t indulge your sabotaging thoughts. Just make sounds. In that way, the energy dissipates and you won’t feel stuck. It’s like letting steam out of a pressure cooker.
Step 3. Get your head on straight
There are two parts to this process. First, start by getting clear on your goal for the task. Good planning is the foun dation of success for most any project. It’s helpful to write it down so you have it for ready reference. For example, “ I
want to get this off my plate. ” Or “ I feel better when I exercise regularly. ” Having a clear and precise idea of your goal will keep you oriented and help you to stay motivated.
Second, identify sabotaging thoughts that are hanging in the wings, ready to pounce in a weak moment. Then come up with a couple of truths to contradict them. For example, if you continually tell yourself “I’ll never be able to learn all this,” you might instead say to yourself, “I can do this” or “If others can learn it, so can I.” That’s a plain and simple truth. To neutralize your frustration at having to do this task, you might say, “I’m doing this for me.”
When procrastinating starts to interfere with our quality of life by causing us to feel worried, guilty, lazy, panicky, or irresponsible, then it’s time to get on with it.
Break your goal into a series of small, doable steps. You’ve envisioned the task, dealt with the emotions holding you back, and fixed your destructive thinking. Completing the job requires figuring out a reasonable step-by-step game plan and deciding when you’ll begin, and if it involves another person or persons, get clear on what you want to communicate. Write your plan down.
Once you have an outline, step back and imagine obstacles that are likely to
pop up along the way. For every sce nario, have a tactic ready to help you stick to your plan. You may also want to find someone to support your efforts and with whom you can check in on a regular basis.
When you’ve completed your prepara tion, it’s time to tackle the job you’ve put off. Beware: you might meet with resis tance in the form of excuses, bad moods, and discouragement. Meet resistance with tenacity and continue to deal with any emotions that surface. Throughout the process, it’s important to repeat your truths and remember your goal. Say them over and over until they’re set in your mind. “I can do this. I’ll feel better when I handle this.” Any time you are tempted to procrastinate, remember your goal.
If you abandon your good intentions, do the above, then double check to see if you need to modify your plan. Now, once again, you’ll be fortified to step onto the battlefield of life.
Getting through a daunting task is incredibly satisfying. Praise each small accomplishment along the way. You’ll feel proud and virtuous when you com plete each positive step. Doing what you’re avoiding will simplify your life. You’ll feel more energetic. You’ll sleep better at night.
Jude Bijou , MA, MFT, is a psychotherapist, educator, and workshop leader. Her theory of Attitude Reconstruction evolved over the course of 40 years working with clients as a licensed marriage and family therapist and is the subject of her multi-award-winning book, Attitude Reconstruction: A Blueprint for Building a Better Life.
While some of the show is choreo graphed, Sw!ng Out also captures the spontaneity of the Lindy as an improvi satory space with the dancers making choices of steps depending on partner, music, and mood, often ignoring tradi tional gender roles, and even switching between lead and follow.
“We haven’t really altered the Lindy Hop for the stage… It’s a naturally sort of performative dance,” explained Caleb Teicher, the swing and tap dance spe cialist who conceived, choreographed, and directs the show. “It’s just represen tative of the contemporary scene, with a non-narrative arc that’s like a journey through the Lindy Hop these days. There are lots of shades and emotions, colors and feelings that we’re evoking. You expe rience something happening in a very palpable way.”
What Teicher, who remains deeply involved in New York’s Lindy scene, hopes is happening is an indoctrination into swing for the uninitiated that may prove infectious.
“We let them see just how good the dancing is and how it relates to the music so easily and effectively,” he said. “You see the types of relationships that develop and the connections that Lindy dancers build with each other, and get a sense of the way that people collect around the dance in a really natural way.”
But the audience isn’t just observing. After intermission at the Sw!ng Out event at the Granada on October 8, everyone is invited on stage to partici pate in the hour-long jam session with the performers and the band – no expe rience necessary.
“For people who already love swing dancing, our show is like a Mecca,” Teicher said. “Some in the swing scene have seen our show a dozen times. But we also want people who know nothing about swing dancing to feel the show, and suddenly get why people are so crazy about it.”
Sw!ng Out performs at the Granada at 8 pm on October 8th. Members of the cast will also lead free swing work shops at 7:30 pm on October 7th at the Carrillo Ballroom prior to the revived swing dance session with band Flattop
Tom & His Jump Cats. Info at (805) 899-2222/granadasb.org or (805) 8933535/ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, whose history dates back to just one year after CAMA hosted its first concert with the brand-new Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1919, reached interna tional fame under British conductor Sir Simon Rattle, who was recently in town himself to lead the London Symphony Orchestra at the Granada Theatre for the Music Academy’s 75th anniversary in March. CAMA kicks off Season 104 at the Granada on October 10, led by the charismatic Lithuanian conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, who previously served as assistant conductor at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The circle gets completed by the soloist, the 23-year-old British cello sensation Sheku Kanneh-Mason who has per formed for UCSB A&L as recently as last March, in recital with his sister Isata Kanneh-Mason on piano in April. Sheku, who will solo on Elgar’s “Cello Concerto in E Minor,” also has a Montecito connec tion, having become a household name after performing at the 2018 wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who now live in the village.
But Kanneh-Mason has been a kinetic force since becoming the first Black musi cian to claim the BBC Young Musician Competition back in 2016. The October 10 concert is part of CAMA’s continuing efforts to highlight performers and com posers from marginalized communities.
“It’s refreshing to have a classical music concert where a woman is the conductor and a Black man is the soloist, not white males being the center,” said Justin Weaver, CAMA’s director of operations, adding that the cellist is serving as “the face of the move ment for diversity,” an evolution Weaver said is long overdue. “The diversity of people per forming and enjoying classical music right now is astounding, but it’s important to rec ognize that what’s changed is not that there’s
Artistic and Music Director, Heiichiro Ohyama Musical Advisor, Benjamin Beilman
This long-anticipated homecoming concert features local legend Heiichiro Ohyama and three handpicked classical music luminaries – Benjamin Beilman (violin), Lucille Chung (piano), and Edward Arron (cello) – performing selected works by Dvořák and Fauré.
Occupation: Rescue Member, Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue
The job of this board is to work with Montecito’s Fire Department to help set budget priorities and steer resources so that the agency can provide the best possible emergency services to all Montecito residents.
I have been a full-time resident of Montecito for the last 17 years. I previously served on the Executive Committee of the Los Padres Chapter of the Sierra Club and currently serve on the Board of Directors of Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue. Prior to that I held senior marketing positions at technology companies like Apple Computer.
I am the candidate best qualified to serve on the Board because of my previous back ground in technology and communications, and my experience with Search and Rescue.
Over the next few years, emergency services in our community will be facing a series of important technology and communications transitions: a new countywide dispatching system, new digital radio communications, technology-based evacuation planning, and more. Electing someone to the board with strong technical, communications, and emer gency response backgrounds will be critical to Montecito Fire navigating these transitions.
We in Montecito are fortunate to have a staff of highly trained and dedicated pro fessionals protecting us. I would be honored to receive your vote for Montecito Fire Protection District Board of Directors.
I am a graduate of Stanford University and UCLA School of Law. I have lived in Montecito with my family for 28 years, and I have been deeply involved in the commu nity for my entire residency. I served on the Montecito Association for almost 10 years, and I chaired the land use committee. From 2012 to 2016 I served on the Montecito Fire Protection District Board, and since 2016 I have been a Montecito Planning Commissioner. I wish to return to the Fire Board to use my knowledge of and experi ence with local concerns, planning, and public safety to benefit the entire community.
Peter van Duinwyk is an incumbent candidate and the current Vice President of the Montecito Fire Protection District Board of Directors. There was no official Candidate Statement filed, however our endorsement for Van Duinwyk can be found on page 25.
Constitutional right to reproductive freedom. Legislative constitutional amendment.
Amends California Constitution to expressly include an individual’s fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which includes the fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and the fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives. This amendment does not narrow or limit the existing rights to privacy and equal protec tion under the California Constitution.
Fiscal Impact: No direct fiscal effect because reproductive rights already are pro tected by state law.
Allows in-person roulette, dice games, sports wagering on tribal lands. Initiative consti tutional amendment and statute.
Also allows: sports wagering at certain horseracing tracks; private lawsuits to enforce certain gambling laws. Directs revenues to General Fund, problem-gambling pro grams, enforcement.
Fiscal Impact: Increased state revenues, possibly reaching tens of millions of dol lars annually. Some of these revenues would support increased state regulatory and enforcement costs that could reach the low tens of millions of dollars annually.
Allows online and mobile sports wagering outside tribal lands. Initiative constitutional amendment and statute.
Allows Indian tribes and affiliated businesses to operate online/mobile sports wager ing outside tribal lands. Directs revenues to regulatory costs, homelessness programs, nonparticipating tribes.
Fiscal Impact: Increased state revenues, possibly in the hundreds of millions of dollars but not likely to exceed $500 million annually. Some revenues would support state regulatory costs, possibly reaching the mid-tens of millions of dol lars annually.
Provides additional funding for arts and music education in public schools. Initiative statute.
Provides additional funding from state General Fund for arts and music education in all K-12 public schools (including charter schools).
Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs of about $1 billion annually, beginning next year, for arts education in public schools.
Requires on-site licensed medical professional at kidney dialysis clinics and establishes other state requirements. Initiative statute.
Requires physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant on site during treatment. Requires clinics to: disclose physicians’ ownership interests; report infection data.
Fiscal Impact: Increased state and local government costs likely in the tens of mil lions of dollars annually.
Provides funding for programs to reduce air pollution and prevent wildfires by increasing tax on personal income over $2 million. Initiative statute.
Allocates tax revenues to zero-emission vehicle purchase incentives, vehicle charging stations, and wildfire prevention.
Fiscal Impact: Increased state tax revenue ranging from $3.5 billion to $5 billion annually, with the new funding used to support zero-emission vehicle programs and wildfire response and prevention activities.
Referendum on 2020 law that would prohibit the retail sale of certain flavored tobacco products.
A “Yes” vote approves, and a “No” vote rejects, a 2020 law prohibiting retail sale of certain flavored tobacco products.
Fiscal Impact: Decreased state tobacco tax revenues ranging from tens of millions of dollars annually to around $100 million annually.
by Chuck Graham
The translucent, salty ocean droplets rolled off its velvety sheen feathers, glistening like crystal clear marbles as it streamed off the back of a wayward Pacific Loon.
It was early summer 2022. Typically, not a time to catch a glimpse of a seabird that should’ve been well north, maybe even as far north as Alaska to nest and rear its brood. Nevertheless, there it was about 50 feet east off the bow of my kayak near Scorpion Anchorage on Santa Cruz Island, the largest isle in the Channel Islands National Park.
However, that’s one of the many beau ties of the Channel Islands and specifi cally its Northern Chain. It’s a haven for tired, weather-beaten birds that get blown off course during their arduous migratory routes. The Santa Barbara Channel can be a cruel, unforgiving pelagic locale for migrating birds.
Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel islands deliver a reli able reprieve from sometimes unpre dictable weather. So, when leading kayak tours at the Channel Islands National Park, I always keep an eye out (and ears open) for anything out of the ordinary. I can pretty much count on California brown pelicans, black oys tercatchers, and pelagic and Brandt’s cormorants. They are there year-round along with ever-present western gulls and raucous ravens.
During fall and spring migrations, myself and a few other guides are on a heightened alert for birds taking a break on “the Galapagos Islands of the North.” It’s a fitting moniker for one of the most biodiverse chain of islands in the world. Over the years, the list of migrants amongst the guides continues to grow. It gets a little exciting during those
migrations when something other than the norm touches down in the Scorpion Anchorage/Canyon region. Some of my favorite birds must not only be seen, but also photographed. It makes it that much sweeter.
Some of those avian species include mountain bluebird, red-naped sapsuck er, ovenbird, burrowing owl, American redstart, western tanager, sage thrasher, black-throated blue warbler, red-breasted nuthatch, bobolink, wandering tattler, yellow-rumped warbler, Canadian goose, surfbird, short-eared owl, and an array of sparrows, just to name a few.
All my shots of the Pacific loon were from a kayak. It must’ve enjoyed its time in the Scorpion Anchorage region because it stuck around for the first three weeks of June. Back in the fall of 2018, three Pacific loons showed up in the same region. They didn’t hang around nearly as long as this lone loon, and this solitary seabird was more approachable.
Every time I paddled to go look for it, I was expecting it to have finally moved on, that innate tug drawing it northbound to “the Last Frontier.” On the flip side, I was also stoked to see it
each occasion. It frequented a secluded little cove and a small pocket beach just west of Scorpion Rock. Each time I kayaked there it appeared to be relish ing in its stay.
Waves of varying size constantly collide there between Scorpion Rock and Santa Cruz Island, swell from the northwest and the southeast converging to create a permanent, shallow sandbar. There is a lot of ebb and flow there, and during those three weeks that sandbar became its reliable hunting grounds, crabs and small fish were always on the menu.
One of my favorite moments pho tographing that lone Pacific loon was following its repetitive dives while I paddled nearby. After each extended dive it would rear up extending its neck skyward, spread its dark wings, and shake off droplets of water. I also enjoyed its stunning emerald-green neck when the sun hit it just right. On days of great water clarity, I could see it 20 feet down knifing through the water, wings tucked in, and propelled by its webbed feet.
Each time I left it, it felt like it would be the last. Maybe I went to Alaska before it did. I left on June 16, 2022. I saw lots of birds there in the far north
east of the state, and as we approached the Beaufort Sea well above the Arctic Circle by raft, I kept an eye out for any Pacific loons. I didn’t see any on that two-week excursion and wondered if that loon was still there enjoying that scenic cove on the southeast fringe of Santa Cruz Island.
When I returned to Scorpion Anchorage the first week of July, some of the guides informed me of all things island fauna during my two weeks away. And of course, the conversation includ ed that Pacific loon. They all told me it moved on right after I departed. We both headed north, except for me; I felt that innate tug to return south.
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
U.S. 191 STATE STREET UNDERCROSSING PROJECT ATPSB1L 5007(084) Bid No. 3964
1. Bid Submission The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its U.S. 101 State Street Undercrossing Project (“Project”), by or before October 20, 2022, at 3:00 p.m., through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly... The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.
If any Addendum issued by City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from City’s PlanetBids portal.
2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located on State Street between Gutierrez Street and Yanonali Avenue, and is described as follows: Removal, realignment and replacement of on concrete hardscape sidewalks with new safety lighting and fencing.
2.2 Time for Final Completion. The Project must be fully completed within 360 working days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about January 2023, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.
2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is $4,800,000.
3. License and Registration Requirements.
3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A.
3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perfor m public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.
4. Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: http://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959 A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884 6155.
5 Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of 5% of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that within ten days after City issues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other submittals required by the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award
6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.
6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and are available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one half.
6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code § 1771.4.
7 Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bonds, each for 100% of the Contract Price, as further specified in the Contract Documents.
8 Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code § 22300.
9 Subcontractor List. Each Subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a completed Subcontractor List form with its Bid Proposal, including the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the base bid price) for each Subcontractor that will perform Work or service or fabricate or install Work for the prime contractor in excess of one half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.
10. Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for more detailed information before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions
Contract Documents, as defined
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NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Solar-Link, 27 West Anapamu Street, #454, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Evolution Sustainable In dustries, Incorporated, 27 West Anapamu Street, #454, Santa Bar bara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San ta Barbara County on September 16, 2022. This statement expires
five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original state ment on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0002309. Pub lished October 5, 12, 19, 26, 2022
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business
as: Solar-Link; Solar-Link Crowd Funding; Solar Farmers of Amer ica; Solar Scouts; Fan Funded, 27 West Anapamu Street, #454, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Evo lution Sustainable Industries, Incorporated, 27 West Anapamu Street, #454, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 16, 2022. This statement expires
five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original state ment on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0002309. Pub lished October 5, 12, 19, 26, 2022
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as:
“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness.” – John Lubbock
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AN AMENDED AND RESTATED POWER PURCHASE AND LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR THE COGENERATION PLANT AT THE EL ESTERO WATER RESOURCES CENTER BETWEEN THE CITY AND CALIFORNIA POWER PARTNERS
The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a special meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on September 27, 2022.
The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.
(Seal)
/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager
ORDINANCE NO. 6084
STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) )
COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. )
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on September 20, 2022 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on September 27, 2022 by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Randy Rowse
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTENTIONS: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my Hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on September 28, 2022.
/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager
I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on September 28, 2022.
/s/ Randy Rowse Mayor
Published October 5, 2022 Montecito Journal
IGEEKS SB, 522 West Canon Per dido, 44, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Christian C Martinez, 522 West Canon Perdido, 44, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 23, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on
file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0002370. Published Sep tember 28, October 5, 12, 19, 2022
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Thyne Talent Agency, 205 East Carrillo Street, Suite 100, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. John J Thyne, 205 East Carrillo Street,
The California State Legislature recently passed, and the Governor signed, Assembly Bill (AB) 361, which amends the Government Code to allow Brown Act bodies to continue to meet remotely after September 30, 2021, if there is a proclaimed state of emergency and the State or local officials recommend measures to promote social distancing. Based on the proclaimed state of emergency and the Santa Barbara County Public Health Officer’s recommended social distancing, the Montecito Planning Commission meeting will not provide in person participation at this hearing.
The following alternative methods of participation are available to the public. If you wish to make a general public comment or to comment on a specific agenda item, the following methods are available:
1. You may observe the live stream of the Montecito Planning Commission meetings on (1) Local Cable Channel 20, (2) online at: http://www.countyofsb.org/ceo/csbtv/livestream.sbc; or (3) YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/CSBTV20
2. If you wish to make a general public comment or to comment on a specific agenda item, the following methods are available:
• Distribution to the Montecito Planning Commission Submit your comment via email prior to 12:00 p.m. on the Friday prior to the Commission hearing. Please submit your comment to the Recording Secretary at dvillalo@countyofsb.org. Your comment will be placed into the record and distributed appropriately.
• Video and Teleconference Public Participation To participate via Zoom, please pre register for the meeting using the below link.
When: October 19, 2022 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Montecito Planning Commission 10/19/2022 Register in advance for this webinar: https://countyofsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k8jQCVmQQ7Ga9qdiinsckw
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The Montecito Planning Commission hearing begins at 9:00 a.m. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Montecito Planning Commission. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to speak in support or in opposition to the projects. Written comments are also welcome. All letters should be addressed to the Montecito Planning Commission, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93101. Letters, with nine copies, and computer materials, e.g. PowerPoint presentations, should be filed with the secretary of the Planning Commission no later than 12:00 P.M. on the Friday before the Montecito Planning Commission hearing. The decision to accept late materials will be at the discretion of the Montecito Planning Commission.
Maps and/or staff analysis of the proposals may be reviewed at https://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/hearings/mpc.sbc or by appointment by calling (805) 568 2000.
If you challenge the project 21PMC 00000 00008, 21CDH 00000 00023, 21DVP 00000 00021, 21CDH 00000 00031, 22ORD 00000 00005 or 22ORD 00000 00006 in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Montecito Planning Commission prior to the public hearing.
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the Hearing Support Staff (805) 568 2000. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable the Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements.
* This is a partial listing of the items to be heard at the Montecito Planning Commission Hearing of October 19, 2022.
21CDH 00000 00023
Exempt, CEQA Guidelines Section 15303 (e)
Horn Pool 128 Santa Elena
Alex Tuttle, Supervising Planner (805) 884 6844
Veronica King, Planner (805) 568 2513
Hearing on the request of Jeff and Gretchen Horn, property owners, to consider Case No. 21CDH 00000 00023 for a Coastal Development Permit in compliance with Section 35 169 of the Article II Coastal Zoning Ordinance, on property zoned Single Family Residential (20 R 1), to allow the installation of a swimming pool, inset spa, and a sports court; and to determine that the project is exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15303(e) [New Construction or Conversion of Small Structures] of the State Guidelines for Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The application involves Assessor Parcel No. 009 244 004, located at 128 Santa Elena Lane, in the Montecito Community Plan area, First Supervisorial District.
ORDINANCE NO. 6083
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING A LOAN AGREEMENT TO
THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA, IN THE AMOUNT OF $940,000 TO BE SECURED BY A DEED OF TRUST FOR THE ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY LOCATED AT 602 AND 619 KENTIA AVENUE, AND THE AFFORDABILITY CONTROL COVENANT IMPOSED ON REAL PROPERTY, AND AUTHORIZE THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE SUCH AGREEMENTS AND RELATED DOCUMENTS, AS NECESSARY
The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a special meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on September 27, 2022.
The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.
/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager
ORDINANCE NO. 6083
STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) )
COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on September 20, 2022 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on September 27, 2022 by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Randy Rowse
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
21DVP 00000 00021 New Single Family Dwelling
1355 Oak Creek Canyon Rd. 93 EIR 03 and Addenda Nicole Lieu, Supervising Planner (805) 884 8068 Kathleen Volpi, Planner (805) 568 2033
Hearing on the request of OCC Lot 2 LLC to consider Case No.21DVP 00000 00021 for approval of a Final Development Plan in compliance with Section 35.472.080 of the Montecito Land Use and Development Code (MLUDC), on property located within the Resource Management Zone (RMZ 40), to develop a new single family dwelling and associated accessory development; and to accept the previously adopted EIR (93 EIR 03) and Addenda (dated July 1993 and March 2003) as adequate environmental review for Case No. 21DVP 00000 00021 pursuant to Section 15162 of the State Guidelines for Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act. The application involves Assessor Parcel
located
Creek Canyon
the Montecito
Highway
First Supervisorial
Supervising Planner
Schmuckal, Planner
Jameson Lane
Hearing on the request of the Airline Highway Fund, LLC for approval of a Coastal Development Permit, Case No. 21CDH 00000 00031, in compliance with Section 35 169
ABSTENTIONS: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on September 28, 2022.
/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager
I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on September 28, 2022.
/s/ Randy Rowse Mayor
Unite to Light the Night – The Santa Barbara nonprofit whose mission is to provide clean, affordable light and energy to improve the health, education, and prosperity of the billion people across the globe who live without electricity, has created an exciting three-night exhibition-fundraiser that will, ahem, shed some light on the Community Arts Workshop, aka the home of the Solstice workshop. Merging art, culture, community, and social impact into a multi-sensory experience, the eve nings feature more than 40 interactive art works, including projections, sculptures, paintings, and photography, with each night spotlighting a unique artistic program. Tonight’s Glow Gala is an elevated social affair with a plated dinner and music from Isla View. Tomorrow’s Bright Bash boasts DJs SkyPounce and MacIntyre bringing the beats for a dance party that also features an interactive light show, perfor mances by flow artists, and an open bar and eats. Saturday’s free event is aimed at bringing more light and creativity to our community and features art workshops for youth and adults and an immersive art exhibition, with food and drink available.
WHEN: 6-10 pm each evening
WHERE: CAW, 631 Garden Street COST: $275+ tonight; $100 tomorrow; free Saturday INFO: (805) 617-0590 or unitetolight.org/lightthenight.html
Pollock Premieres – The state-of-the-art theater at UCSB’s Carsey-Wolf Cen ter resumes in-person programming this week with screenings introducing an increased international focus. Diversity in Cannes: A Celebration of Global Black Women in Film, on Oct. 6, features founder Yolonda Brinkley and filmmaker Wendy Eley Jackson in an evening of conversation and short films directed by
1st Thursday Forays – A semi-random sampling of offerings in the monthly art-and-culture walk reveals denim fashionista Ace Rivington’s retail store (1106 State Street, La Arcada) joining the 1st Thursday fold with a show featuring works by pen-and-ink artist Cade Cantello, whose de signs will also adorn special T-shirts, plus drinks courtesy of The Good Lion… Through Many Windows: A World Reimagined at the Faulkner Gallery (40 E. Anapamu) ties into the library’s current S.B. Reads book The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, where local artists were able to envision their own world or another future, possible world, catastrophic or otherwise, and answer the question “What if?”... Santa Barbara Historical Museum (136 E. De La Guerra) stays true to its mission in its new show, Memories of Mountain Drive: Santa Barbara’s Bohemian Community, which employs works of art, photographs, and written and recorded personal reminis cences to share the story of the enclave of free spirits that formed in the foothills in the ‘40s… Don’t Quit Your Daydream is the intriguing title for a solo exhibi tion of St. Louis-based artist Ted Collier at Maune Contemporary (1309 State)… On the entertainment front, Santa Paula Latin fusion band Davis St. brings the rhythms to the 800 block of State, Pop-Up Opera in the galleries returns to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1130 State), SBIFF Education Center (1330 State) hosts Joey Szalkiewicz’s Sonder, which explores three experiences of home lessness in a nuanced urban environment, and the Ukraine Fest, which we wrote about extensively last issue, occupies the plaza in front of the Granada Theatre (1200 block of State) before Kyiv-based DakhaBrakha perform inside at 8 pm.
WHEN: 5-8 pm
WHERE: Lower State Street and side streets
If These Walls Could Talk – Santa Barbara can’t really claim Jakob Dylan as a native son, as the youngest of Bob Dylan’s kids was born in Green wich Village, although he was mostly raised in Los Angeles. But ever since the now 52-year-old Dylan and his producer, longtime friend, former manager, and former president of Capitol Re cords Andrew Slater brought their loving Laurel Canyon documentary Echo in the Canyon to the Lobero for the 2018 SBIFF, capping off its latter screening with a live four-song set featuring the film’s house band – a show that still reverberates in the halls and the hearts of those who were there – it seems like he belongs here in one of our treasured venues. Looks like he feels that way too, as Dylan is bringing his latest version of The Wallflowers, his on-and-off again band for more than three decades, back to the Lobero for a full concert on barely a year since a previous show there that came in the wake of his brilliant 2021 release Exit Wounds – The Wallflowers’ first album in nine years and one that takes stock of the massive changes in society since 2017. It doesn’t hurt that despite record inflation, tickets cost exactly what they did last year.
WHEN: 7:30 pm
WHERE: 33 E. Canon Perdido St.
COST: $57 & $67 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or lobero.com
black women… Pollock then screens a two-day mini-fest of films by the influen tial Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, with musical comedy The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha showing tonight, and its sequel, The Kingdom of Diamonds, tomorrow, the latter followed by a roundtable discussion.
WHEN: All events at 7 pm
WHERE: Pollock Theater, UCSB campus COST: free (reservations recommended) INFO: (805) 893-5903 or carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock
Stearns’ Sesquicentennial – Nowadays, Stearns Wharf is largely thought of as a tourist attraction, a great place for visitors and locals alike to watch boats go by, check out the mountain views, fish off the end of the pier, or simply take a sunset or evening stroll along the wooden planks to marvel at Santa Barbara’s unique beauty. But Stearns Wharf also brought dramatic change to the town when it was built by its namesake 150 years ago, opening the then-pueblo with no roads or railroad through town to large-scale commerce and trade and making Santa Barbara accessible to the rest of the world. (Thanks, I think?) Over the years, Stearns Wharf has survived storms, fires, and all sorts of other threats to re main a mainstay in the city’s scene, and today its merchants wind up months of anniversary events by hosting a day-long celebration to mark the milestone. In addition to the usual wares and food fare available, family-friendly special events include free rides on the water taxi Little Toot, a scavenger hunt, face painting, performances by Tequila Mockingbird, Doublewide Kings, and singers from Opera Santa Barbara, chowder tasting, a Yacht Club fleet parade, and a fireworks show right after sunset – in what amounts to a pier-less event.
WHEN: 11 am-7:15 pm
WHERE: 217 Stearns Wharf, at the intersection of State and Cabrillo COST: free INFO: (805) 698-5600 or stearnswharf.org
Circa & Stravinsky – Several Cirque du Soleil/modern European-style companies have come to town over the years, mostly from the Montreal area and usual ly featuring a theme of their own devising. Tonight, the ambitious Australian ensemble Circa makes its Santa Barbara debut with a production from artistic director Yaron Lifschitz that brings Stravinsky’s seminal Rite of Spring to the circus stage. Ten acrobats from the critically-acclaimed Aussie company deliver Lifschitz’s interpretation that confronts humanity’s interconnectivity, our inherent
“Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind.”
John Lubbock
Fiddling Around: Half a Century of Holding Steady – A bunch of years ago the Santa Barbara OldTime Fiddlers’ Festival dropped its moniker as a convention in deference to clarifying that you don’t have to actually play an instrument to attend. Fortunately, the fest kept the “Old-Time” as pect, and has actually reinstituted its requirement that everything played on its competition stages must have originated primarily in rural south eastern America “at a time when the only way to hear or learn music was from a musician within hearing distance.” Yes, that would be the hand-me-down style from history before recording devices, and the Fiddle Fest remains one of very few places around where you can hear that kind of music all day long, parking yourself in front of the competition stage for the duration to dive into the depths of Americana, or pick up a tip or two during the workshops. Even the impressive list of players on the performance stage gravitate toward the actual old-time stuff, although the lineup that includes festival founder Peter Feldmann, Bruce Molsky, and David Bragger, among others, certainly broad ens their repertoire. It’s not that the fest folks don’t find worth in other types of American music, avant-garde acoustic music, Irish, jazz, bluegrass, etc. – you just can’t win a competition playing. Either way, you can hear everything from centuries-old folk tunes to interpretations of Grateful Dead songs at the myriad jam sessions all around the gorgeous grounds of the Stow House and Rancho Patera as the Goleta Valley Historical Society hosts the milestone 50th annual event. Low-rise folding chairs, blankets, and picnics are welcome.
WHEN: 10 am-5 pm
WHERE: 304 N. Los Carneros Road, Goleta COST: $15 online in advance, $20 at the door, $5 students, free for children under 12 INFO: (805) 681-7216 or fiddlersfestival.org
sexual desire, and relationship with divinity with physical strength, raw emotion, and poetic tenderness. Igor would undoubtedly approve.
WHEN: 8 pm
WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus
COST: $30-$45
INFO: (805) 893-3535 or ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
Manifesting Manhattan in ‘Humanity’ – Nebula Dance Lab’s evening-length work is a loose adaptation of Charles Dickens’ short story “The Child’s Story,” a tale of a youth experiencing changing worlds that choreographer Chloe Rob erts turned into a metaphorical journey of the main character through the thematic neighborhoods of New York City. Each location is illustrated through movement, music, and multimedia projections, turning the stage at the Lobero into a visceral if somewhat virtual tour of Manhattan. The adaptation changed the character from a young boy to a 20-something woman who, rather than traveling through time, encounters these neighborhoods that have their own vibe and culture, all of which are expressed through the different styles of dance, enticing her, as in the Dickens’ story, to become present in that moment. Nebula’s “company language” of contemporary ballet is augmented with tap, aerials, and even a Bob Fosse-style Broadway mu sical ensemble as the protagonist and cohort visits the financial district, Green wich Village, Central Park, Little Italy, and Grand Central Station, among other neighborhoods. Tonight’s performance of the piece is a reprise, just shy of a year since its premiere, which proved to be peppy and a whole lot of fun.
WHEN: 8 pm
WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St.
COST: $26-$56
INFO: (805) 963-0761 or lobero.com
works that imply the commercialization of fine art, like Warhol, times the issues of Indigenous peoples. Also in the exhib it were mentions to his works on canvas, ledger art, and cartoon character series re-referenced, such as Snoopy the Red Baron titled, Geronimo (2021).
The themes, scale, symbols, and medi ums used here are a directed homage to Indigenous issues not to be glossed over as history’s past. They are anointed with unapologetic, undeniable, and notably lampoon messages from the artist – do you recognize the Indigenous paint col ors, the nuance of pop-culture x meme, what the Raining Warriors (2019) are saying; what is ledger art; does it provide catharsis and healing or does it serve the story-telling journey of the artist?
Read on Robert Hughes! Glinsky pro vides a brief reveal in our email interview:
Q. How do you interpret your messages in the art are being received?
A. The intention with my work overall is to open doors for viewers, or continue conversations if you may be aware, of some of the things addressed within the respective piece. I hope to inform and educate, and hope this comes across or is received in a positive manner. Generally, each of the works within Upon a Jagged Maze speak to a specific issue, depending on the medium choice or context they are created in. These are either movements that are presented in and throughout, such works as Coral vs. King Snake Jacket, or what I consider to be unsung art movements in Native American History. Throughout the show, each work has label texts speaking to the nuance and historical references of each piece, which Kendall Lovely, Gabe Ritter, and myself worked on to provide a sense of historical and personal context for the viewer. In addi tion, by the works selected for this exhibit, the idea was to create a presentation that told the story of steps I’ve taken through the years, touching on certain points and different mediums that I have worked within. Hopefully people can visit the exhibit and experience this for themselves.
When you create, is your focus on your Indigenous or German heritage?
Being both Indigenous and of German descent, the two halves of myself are inseparable – the content of the work aside – I bring a lot from my
From left: Gabe Ritter, Daina Ramey Berry, and David Marshall (photo by Joanne A Calitri)
were quickly on our way.
“So—” I began, halting at her raised hand.
“First, your wallet,” she said with a hand-it-over wag of her fingers. “I need cash for the babysitter. Quick: what’s four times fourteen?”
I fished out my wallet and tossed it into her lap, laughing. My wife was whip smart, but she did not fill her brain with rote math facts. Instead, she disguised her questions as quizzes for me. “Fifty-six,” I answered.
She counted out the bills while I drove, both curious and anxious to learn what we needed to discuss.
“That was over the top, don’t you think?” she finally said, the money folded discretely into her palm as if she were planning to grease a bouncer.
“What was over the top?”
“That display.”
“The party?”
Mother’s German side to my practice, including simply being an artist overall.
Please comment on your use of scale.
Scale is meant to bring attention to, or create, new monuments to Indigenous movements. For Raining Warriors, the scale is different from the oversized work of Coral vs. Kingsnake, but many of the techniques to create both remain the same and each deals with Indigenous identity. This isn’t specific to one move ment, but scale is used as a means to bring the viewer in, and once they are present, the further context of the piece can be shared and potentially further engaged with. Scale has been a contin ued presence in my work going back to the earliest piece in the show from 2009. Scale is employed depending on the work being created and each piece is executed deliberately.
Your projects for 2023?
I have a few things I will be focusing on for 2023, new sculptures and paintings mostly. I am excited to continue working towards this. Looking forward to my solo show at Chris Sharp Gallery in late Spring 2023. The other project I am working on hasn’t been announced yet. I am consid ering taking on interns in the near future, but no plans to teach.
Guests at the opening included the newly appointed Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts Daina Ramey Berry, PhD; artist Toni Scott; Beth Rudin DeWoody with her hus band, Firooz Zahedi; MSW UCSB Director of Development Academic Programs Sudi Staub; and UCSB Vice Chancellor David Marshall
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“Yes, Hollis,” she sighed, “the party.”
“It was like all the others,” I said, “maybe a little bit… more.”
She guffawed. “Everything about the Wimbys is more. This was gratu itously more.”
“It’s the Fourth of July,” I argued, my spine stiffening. Even as I pushed back, I knew: Cricket had picked up the scent of the same inconsistencies plaguing me.
She shook her head dismissively. “No,” she said. “Something was different.”
I squinched my face. “Come on,” I said. “I think it was pretty much in line with all—”
“Why do they try so hard, Hollis?” she interrupted. “Why do two people that beautiful and that rich work so hard to win friends and backers? It doesn’t make sense.”
“Well,” I stammered. As usual – possessing only half the information – Cricket was two steps ahead of me, distilling the randomness into its underlying essence. I decided to attempt feeding her the excuses I had chewed myself. “Technically, they are still new to Montecito,” I began. “And Cyrus is raising money for ExOh, so he has to be in sell mode all the time. And…” I stopped at the resumption of her declining head shakes.
“That’s not it,” she said. “To be fair, I thought those same things the first half-dozen times we went to their house, but not this time. There was…,” her voice trailed off as I turned onto our street, only a quarter mile from home. “It seems crazy to say this, because – I mean – look at them. They have everything. But tonight, there was a sense of…”
I knew what she was going to say, and I closed my eyes in dread; admit tedly, an ill-advised move while driving a car.
“… desperation,” she concluded.
I nudged my Subaru next to the diminutive hedge fronting our house and shut off the engine. While I did not trust myself, I leaned on Cricket like a flashlight in a dark cave. Yet, even as she gave voice to my private concerns, I did not want to hear them. The moment I acknowledged these doubts as legitimate, our ExOh lottery ticket – currently worth four-million dollars –would disappear. Did I really want to be that guy? The one who walked away from millions over a couple of inconsistencies and a hunch.
I had to face it: the hand I now held was the best one I was going to get. I could not bear to repeat the mistake I had made with CryptoWallet. It was going to be a successful company and I had managed to get kicked out of the band just before the first album went gold. This one had to – it just had to – work.
I placed a gentle hand on Cricket’s knee and employed the time-honored words of centuries worth of stalling husbands: “Can we talk about this later?”
“Fireworks?” she frowned with arched eyebrows.
“I hear there might be some,” I said, unbuckling my seatbelt and hop ping from the car before she could object.
We burst through the front door just as both kids emerged from their respective showers ready for bed. Judging by their wide eyes, you would have thought we were springing them from jail. We paid the babysitter and hustled the pajama-clad kids into the car for a final sprint to the beach.
Luckily, it was a fog-free night, meaning we did not need to make it all the way to East Beach to guarantee a view of the show. With that in mind, we found street parking on Hill Road just behind the Four Seasons Biltmore and dashed over its grounds and through its lobby – Isabel riding on my back, Trip riding on Cricket’s. With seconds to spare, we found two spots on the elevated concrete wall looming over Butterfly Beach and wedged our kids in. Trip turned to me – his dog-headed security blanket clutched in his hands –and said, “I can’t believe we made it, dad,” just as the first salvo of fireworks burst above the Santa Barbara Harbor.
I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me.”
Anais
Scott Seph, Bruce Worster, Stephanie Washburn, and her son Cyrus (photo by Priscilla)
house Butterfly Wood after the multitude of Monarch butterflies that roosted in the trees surrounding the house.”
Robert was elevated into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects for his distinctive accom plishments as County Architect of Santa Barbara in 2015.
His new work is available through Tabby Cat Books and Amazon, and other locations in due course.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been moved to the bottom of the Royal Family’s website alongside Prince Andrew
Links taking readers to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had previously been placed halfway down the page – below other senior royals and above others.
But the webpage was updated after the death of Queen Elizabeth last month, with the Riven Rock twosome having now been moved below the likes of Princess Alexandra, and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, relatives of the late King George V.
It comes as King Charles is widely reported to be planning a “slimmed down” monarchy during this reign, believing the public does not want to pay to an ever-expanding Royal Family.
Winfrey may be returning to acting. Oprah, 68, has performed in a number of movies, while also juggling her talk show host career.
She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance in the 1985 drama The Color Purple and starred in other films like The Butler in 2013 and Selma the following year.
Oprah’s last major acting role came four years ago in Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time in 2018.
Now Oprah tells Variety: “If something perfect came along,” adding, “I actually know something perfect is coming. I kind of know what it is.”
Stay tuned...
Sarah Stretz is the new Chief Development Officer at the Santa Barbara City College Foundation.
Stretz, who attended Santa Barbara High School and earned a BA in English from UCLA, began working in adver tising sales in the Big Orange at TV networks A&E, the History Channel, the Weather Channel, CBS, and Fox.
During her tenure in the TV indus try, she worked with national corpora tions such as Walmart, Lexus, Honda, Starbucks, and Wendy’s.
board member, spoke, along with Hilda Maldonado , superintendent; Stanley Munro, assistant superintendent of ele mentary education; Rita Newhouse Czegledi, Santa Barbara High School education and literacy specialist; and Eva Zackrison, a SB High student.
Among the supporters noshing on the food provided by Lazy Acres, Jersey Mike’s, and San Marcos High culinary arts were Laura Capps, Geoff Green, Dean Noble , Nina Dunbar , Anais Pellegrini, and Lois Phillips.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art was socially gridlocked when it launched its latest exhibition, The Architecture of Collage: Marshall Brown
The comprehensive presentation includes 24 artworks, including six recent acquisitions by SBMA, loans from the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, and a private collector.
In addition, an original etching by the Enlightenment-era architect and print maker, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, from the museum’s collection is included in the show to illustrate the importance of Le Career d’Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons) as a prompt for Brown’s most recent collages.
Brown teaches architecture at Princeton University and over the past
decade has built up a body of work that challenges preconceived ideas about the creative process and what counts as originality.
Among the artsy crowd checking out the works were Penny Jenkins, Larry Feinberg, Doug and Debra Joseph, Joel and Christine Nachman, Arno and Danner Schefler, Starr Siegele, Susan Bradley, and Kyle and Linda Butterwick
Award-winning Santa Barbara architect Robert Ooley has just published his first book, Butterfly Wood, about legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairiestyle Montecito home, the only example of his career on the Left Coast.
The 4,500-square-foot redwood treasure is located in our rarefied enclave at the corner of Hot Springs and Summit roads.
“Here we find a perfect example of this building type that fits its landscape and blends into its surrounding as if meant to be there from the beginning of time,” writes Robert.
“This story weaves together the fam ily that wanted a coastal retreat from the hot California interior of the San Joaquin Valley, a world-renowned embat tled architect, and the house they made together... We realize it was Emily Stewart who loved the natural beauty of the site, as its architect would, and named the
While his old Carpinteria beach house is on the market for $16.5 million, for mer TV talk show host Conan O’Brien has splashed out $23 million for another oceanside property nearby. Built in 1963, the Cape-style home is 3,476 square feet with four bedrooms and four bathrooms on 1.2 acres.
Larry David ’s French-Normandy style house, bought earlier this year for $5.7 million, has just sold for $6.9 million. The 1929-built George Washington Smith designed property has 2,858 square feet with four bed rooms and four and a half bathrooms of one fifth of an acre in the Hedgerow neighborhood.
Montecito winemaker and animal activist Gretchen Lieff, who just opened her first tasting room in the Funk Zone, put the locale to good use when she hosted a birthday bash for her globetrot ting medical equipment executive fiancé Miles Hartfeld, just back from currying business in India.
Turning out to wish the birthday boy well were Robert Adams, Connie Percy, Hillary Hauser, Kostas Protopapas, Gregg and Dagmar Boswell, Cheryl Doty and John Gerngross, and Rob Hambleton
Oprah
She also oversaw station compliance for political campaigns on the local and national level as well as marketing and advertising campaigns for locally-owned businesses.
For nearly seven years Stretz was devel opment director at the Music Academy where she oversaw foundations corporate partnerships.
She was instrumental in bringing the Miraflores institution’s gala back to the famous property where it has become a wildly popular event.
Donald Trump’s ex Marla Maples, actor Laurence Fishburne, and former TV anchor Maria Shriver at a concert at the Music Academy’s Hahn Hall... TV producer Christopher Lloyd noshing at Lucky’s... Actor Andy Garcia checking out the Ritz-Carlton Bacara.
Pip! Pip! Be safe, wear a mask when necessary, and get vaccinated.
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
suddenly great musicians from marginalized communities, but that it’s becoming nor malized to simply present the concerts.”
Next up for CAMA in its 2022-23 International Series performances at the Granada Theatre and Masterseries recitals at the Lobero is the Juilliard String Quartet –whose second violinist Ronald Copes joined the esteemed quartet straight out of a faculty position at UCSB and is now the senior mem ber – launching the Lobero lineup. Pianist Hélène Grimaud (December 7, Lobero); the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Riccardo Muti (January 25, Granada); the Czech Republic’s Filharmonie Brno, under the direction of Dennis Russell Davies (February 13, Granada); the Romero Guitar Quartet (March 4, Lobero); violin ist Augustin Hadelich (April 24, Lobero); the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Osmo Vänskä (May 18, Granada); and the annual visit from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, with Gustavo Dudamel (May 28, Granada) round out the CAMA season.
But booking big names that far out strip the offering of most similarly-sized cities is nothing new for CAMA, which continues to burnish its reputation by bringing the best in the business to town more than a century in.
“We’ve been sticking to a mission that has enriched the community culturally
for a long time,” Weaver said. “It’s a great season to come back to the theater. We’re just so grateful to be able to continue to present the finest orchestras and chamber music that much larger cities would also be thrilled to have.”
Visit camasb.org or call (805) 966-4324.
Johnny Irion, whose family with wife Sarah Lee Guthrie (Arlo’s daughter) called Montecito home for a few years before they all relocated full time back to the Berkshires, became something of a local legend back when he lived here. Reviving his rock roots following the folk duet he shared with Guthrie, Irion formed his classic rock group U.S. Elevator that fea tured lots of local talent performing origi nal songs that were instantly recognizable even though they were brand new. The band played residencies at the Biltmore Hotel bar and the Funk Zone’s Seven Bar, both coincidentally now defunct, but largely fell by the wayside when Irion left for Back East. Now, we’re told, they’re getting together for a one-off at SOhO on October 9, which might turn out to the can’t-miss club gig of the season.
Elsewhere, Phish founder Trey Anastasio’s solo project performs at the Arlington on October 7; Aussie electron ica trio Rufus Du Sol rocks out the Santa Barbara Bowl on October 8, the same night rapper Shwayze shows up at SOhO; Latin pop/R&B singer-songwriter Prince Royce plays at Arlington October 9; and the Santa Barbara Folk Orchestra fiddles, strums, and plucks its way through a pair of bluegrass-themed concerts at the Presidio Chapel (October 8) and Casa de la Guerra (October 9).
Steven Libowitz has covered a plethora of topics for the Journal since 1997, and now leads our extensive arts and entertainment coverage
by MJ Staff
Community members were draped in elegance for the Girls Inc. of Carpinteria gala, Bloomington: A Jane Austen Era Affair, held on Saturday, September 24 at the Girls Inc. campus on Foothill Road. This year’s event honored “the diamond of the season,” Carpinteria resident Kevin Baird, for his dedication to local girls through his many years of support of the organization. Baird, who is the founder and president of Baird Wealth Strategy Group, was first introduced to Girls Inc. of Carpinteria by Ralph and Betty Brown more than 30 years ago, and soon after was asked to serve on the Board of Directors. Over the years he has attended and supported count less events for Girls Inc. in addition to spreading awareness of the nonprofit’s mission to other community members. Baird recently re-joined the Board and just completed another six-year term.
This year’s gala featured a gourmet dinner catered by The Food Liaison, hosted bar, and silent and live auctions. All funds raised directly supported Girls Inc. of Carpinteria’s programs and ser vices to inspire girls to be strong, smart, and bold. Bloomington 2022 title spon sors included: S & S Seed, CARP Growers, and Chevron.
For more information about Girls Inc. Carpinteria, call (805) 684-6364 or visit girlsinc-carp.org.
V italant will be holding a blood drive in the area for a much-needed contribution from the community due to blood supply falling nearly 50% from the beginning of the summer.
There’s a call for all blood types, espe cially type O, the most commonly transfused, with O-negative being used when urgency is needed and the practi tioner does not have time to determine blood type, or O-positive that is used for Rh-positive blood types. This blood drive coincides with Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. Cancer patients use nearly one-quarter of the nation’s blood supply as a result of undergoing surgery and chemothera py that may require red blood cell or platelet transfusions. Visit Vitalant.org to review current FDA donor guide lines and make an appointment.
Thursday, October 6, Goleta, Deckers Outdoor, 6601 Hollister Avenue, 9 am – 12:30 pm
Thursday, October 13, Buellton , Buellton Medical Center, 195 West Highway 246, 11 am – 5 pm Friday, October 14, Carpinteria , Carpinteria Rotary Foundation, 1335 Vallecito Place, 3 pm – 7 pm
Tuesday, October 18, Goleta , Camino Real Center, 7046 Marketplace Drive, 1:30 pm – 6 pm
Tuesday, October 25, Santa Barbara, Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State Street, 10 am – 1:30 pm Sunday, October 30, Santa Barbara , Our Lady of Sorrows, 1419 Anacapa St., 10 am – 2:15 pm Sunday, October 30, Los Alamos, Los Alamos Valley Men’s Club, 429 Leslie Street, 11 am – 3 pm
Donors can also give at the Santa Barbara donation center located at 4213 State Street.
Who has Doc Brown’s number? He lives around here, right? We could use his DeLorean right about now, ‘cause we’re taking a ride back to the ‘70s!
ture of arrogance and insecurity. But doesn’t arrogance so often stem from insecurity? Well-adjusted people grow out of it. Key words: “well” and “adjusted.”
As the years go on, it becomes clear that Nicholson and Garfunkel’s charac ters are unable to connect with women in any meaningful way. They refuse to see them as complex people with their own wants, desires, and needs. Their once juvenile charm quickly reveals itself for what it is: chauvinism and misogyny. The rug is pulled out from under us, and what was a harmless romantic comedy turns into a character study of miserable, chronically dissatisfied men who refuse to take accountability for themselves.
In Brussels, those who are struggling with mental health issues such as stress, depres sion, or anxiety will be offered an unorthodox and innovative treatment: museum prescriptions.
Now through the end of the month, psychiatrists at one of the city’s main hospitals can prescribe patients a trip to one or more of Brussels’ cultural institutions for free –and they can even bring up to three friends or family members.
Brussels’ deputy mayor for culture, Delphine Houba, thinks this is a first for Europe. First, she told the Observer, “I want everybody back in our cultural institu tions… but we know that, even before COVID, for some people it [was] not easy to open the door of a museum, they don’t feel at ease, they don’t think that it’s for them. And I really want to show that cultural venues are for everybody.”
This week at the Riviera is a 4K Restoration of Mike Nichols’ 1971 film, Carnal Knowledge starring Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen, and Ann-Margret. Really, how could we not give precious page space to ‘70s Jack Nicholson, a decade which saw some of his most iconic and career-defining works. We’re talking Chinatown, Antonioni’s The Passenger, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and The Shining. Okay, The Shining came out in 1980, but it was filmed in the late ‘70s, so for the sake of the spooky season, we’re including it! Not to mention Carnal Knowledge might have tipped off Kubrick that Nicholson had a predisposition to play insane, mean characters.
Carnal Knowledge opens with the classic “Moonlight Serenade,” priming us for what we can only expect is a romantic comedy. We hear two men waxing poetic about the type of women they’d love to know, and importantly for them, shack up with. It’s a balance between sensitive and the typical crude remarks you might expect from some college kids. It’s immature. There’s a mix
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“You give off such bad vibrations,” Art tells Jack. Which is a polite way to say, “Jack, you’re a terrible jerk.” Hey Art, you’re no peach either.
This film had toxic masculinity’s number decades before the phrase hit the cultural lexicon, and it’s hard not to make the connection between Nicholson’s Jonathan, and men who make social networking apps to rate women. We’ve come so far, and yet…
To add insult to injury, there’s a cameo by Carol Kane and she doesn’t utter a word. A real travesty in my book! But I digress…
So, whether you’ve already seen the flick, want to see it for the first time on the big screen, or simply need a break from bingeing monster movies, now’s your chance! But be forewarned, watch ing unchecked male ego run rampant is a horror in and of itself…
Carnal Knowledge is playing at the Riviera October 14 - 20
The second objective, she explained, is to provide medical professionals with “a new tool in the healing process.”
Dr. Johan Newell, a psychiatrist at participant hospital Brugmann University Hospital, emphasized that visits to the museum were optional additions to other treat ments like medicine, psychotherapy, individual or group therapy, physical activity, a good diet, and relaxation techniques.
Health care providers in four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario) can now prescribe time in nature, and even a Parks Canada Discovery Pass, to their patients to help improve their overall health through the country’s national nature prescription program, A Prescription for Nature (PaRx).
Gardening, taking walks in a local park or forest, and hiking can all be con sidered nature therapy, however, the more biodiversity, water, and “sweeping views of green space,” the better, says the Canadian news journal Business in Vancouver (BIV).
The Parks Canada Discovery Pass costs $72.25 for an adult and allows entry to over 80 national parks, marine conservation areas, and historic sites for a period of one year. Those living in proximity to the areas covered by the pass will be given priority. However, the program also plans to reduce transportation barriers so that those who are new to Canada or live in inner-city neighborhoods can also have easier access to natural areas.
Christopher Matteo Connor is a writer and film maker. When he isn’t writing, watching movies, and working on projects, you can be sure he’s somewhere enjoying a big slice of vegan pizza.
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On top of relieving mental health issues, time in nature can also reduce chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and lung disease.
The PaRx program will soon be available in every province and territory across the nation by the end of the year.
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CASE No. 20CCAD00678. To Lisa Megan Sela and all persons claiming to be the father or mother of Maria Luisa Sela. By order of this Court you are hereby cited and may appear before the Judge Presiding in Department 419 of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, located at Chil dren’s Court 201 Centre Plaza Drive, Monterey Park, CA 91754 on Novem ber 14, 2022 at 9 am of that day, then and there to show cause, if any you have, why said person should not be declared free from the control of his/ her (their) parental rights according to the petition on file herein. You are here by notified of the provisions of Family Code 7860 which provide the judge shall advise the minor and the parents, if present, of the right to have counsel present. The Court may appoint coun
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