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Roundabout Kick Off

The roundabout construction is set to begin with city officials and representatives coming out for the occurrence, page 53

Water is Life

King’s Queen – Esteemed

discusses the influence Coretta Scott King had on the civil rights legend,

Unity Shoppe provides groceries, clothes, and other life essentials for those who need them, page 32

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

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Under Pressured – When a building permit study reveals a faulty fire hydrant, questions of who is responsible for fixing it remain

Village Beat – Biltmore legal woes, Olive Mill Roundabout, Cottage Urgent Care opens, and MA meeting updates Editorial – Gwyn Lurie discusses the election results

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Montecito Miscellany – Feasting in the gardens, UCSB A&L performances, Riviera Luncheon for ACS, and more

The Optimist Daily – It’s not all work for bees: a new study reveals their playful side

On Entertainment – New theater director at SBHS, The Government Inspector is in town, a dance BASSH, plus others P.12

Letters to the Editor – Thoughts on this country, Repairing the World, inflation, and landlords Tide Guide

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MASTERSERIES AT THE LOBERO THEATRE

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2022, 7:30PM

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GRIMAUD, piano

Internationally acclaimed French pianist Hélène Grimaud returns to the Lobero stage for a transformative recital performance featuring Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Op.16, along with a selection of evanescent miniatures by Chopin, Debussy, Satie, and Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, which, in Grimaud’s own words, “conjure atmospheres of fragile reflection, a mirage of what was—or what could have been.”

Sponsor: Alison & Jan Bowlus Co-Sponsors: CAMA Women’s Board • Nancy & Byron K. Wood Concert Partners: Stephen Cloud • Raye Haskell Melville • Maureen & Les Shapiro

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Local News – It was a Bee-autiful Day in Montecito with the neighborhood coming out to help clean the town

Society Invites – The Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation has its 25th Annual Military Ball

Your Westmont – MLK scholar Clayborne Carson shares insight about Coretta Scott King and women’s soccer poised for another championship

Montecito Reads – Hollis works on his hack of the RemoteTokens and uncovering the Hong Kong ExOh account details

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Town – The fall season is more than just pumpkin spice. Taste these seasonal dishes from local eateries.

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Life Essence – Ophora Water brings water and oxygen together in a new (and patented) way for both the bottle and home

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Faulty Hydrant Causes a Fire Safety Conflagration on Padaro Lane

Unless you’re a dog, most of us never think about fire hydrants until you need one.

Such was the case when Robin Donaldson , an architect for a resi dential renovation project on Padaro Lane in Carpinteria, applied for a rou tine building permit with the city. His plans had already been approved by the California Coastal Commission and the project’s design was well in line with those of other nearby homes that had recently been built. But earlier this year, the Carpinteria Fire Department suddenly informed Donaldson that he needed to test the nearest fire hydrant for water pressure.

“We had made it through the whole permit process with the [California] Coastal Commission and everything and were about to pull the [building] permit,” Donaldson recalls. “Then the Fire Department out of the blue said we need you to go do a water flow test on the fire hydrant.”

Donaldson hired a contractor who specialized in the work and submitted the report. That’s when the Fire Department told him that the hydrant’s water pressure was too low to approve the new home project, and that if he wanted to build the home, he had to fix the issue with the hydrant. In Donaldson’s view, if the hydrant wasn’t working correctly, every nearby home was at risk if a fire were to occur. Wouldn’t the city – i.e. the Carpinteria Valley Water District, which is responsible for the water that flows into the faulty hydrant – want to immediately fix the problem on an emergency basis?

After all, the issue wasn’t really with the fire hydrant itself, as Donaldson ultimate ly learned from his communications with city officials. The actual problem was a 1950s-era, four-inch metal pipe that had

been installed by the Water District well before Padaro Lane had experienced its decades-long building boom. In fact, the ancient pipe is connected to a total of four hapless, unsafe fire hydrants along a section of Padaro Lane that now includes some 115 residential lots.

Wouldn’t the city – i.e. the Carpinteria Valley Water District, which is responsible for the water that flows into the faulty hydrant – want to immediately fix the problem on an emergency basis?

“You’d think the Water Department would leap into action with this unsafe situation,” Donaldson reasons. Instead, the Water District told Donaldson that his client – or barring that, all the other residents that were collectively serviced by the timeworn tube – would have to pay to replace the entire pipe.

“They said they are not responsible for the water supply to the hydrants, which is kind of an interesting position,” Donaldson says. “They are saying, ‘Tough: You have to pay for it. But we are not going to pay for it. We don’t have the money.’”

Just like that, Donaldson’s homebuilding project stopped dead in its tracks, the unfor tunate and untimely victim of confluence of factors that had been building for years. Once a sylvan expanse of rustic horse ranch es and quaint blufftop beach cottages, Padaro Lane is now populated with private gated communities and goliath oceanfront estates that are home to celebrities like George Lucas, Kevin Costner, and even, as of recent,

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Four fire hydrants along Padaro Lane have been found to be dangerously under-pressured but who is responsible for fixing them?

Village Beat

Biltmore Battle Rages On

by Kelly Mahan Herrick

As reported in last week’s MoJo online newsletter, the legal battle between Biltmore owner Ty Warner and hotel management company Four Seasons rages on, with Warner filing a petition at the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, asking that the Courts step in to appoint arbitrators to hear the dispute between the two sides.

Mr. Warner served notice to the Four Seasons in March 2021 terminating their long-term agreements at both the Four Seasons Santa Barbara and Four Seasons New York after accusing the Four Seasons of mismanagement of the hotel properties; he says the Four Seasons was in violation of its contractual and fiduciary duties, to the financial detriment of Mr. Warner. The filing states that the owner has invest ed hundreds of millions of dollars into the hotels to fund extensive renovations and perform ongoing maintenance, and to support day-to-day operations, and that the Four Seasons did not uphold its duties to maximize profits and minimize costs while operating the properties consistent

with the standard of world-class luxury hotels. The Four Seasons contested the termination of the agreements and has refused to vacate the properties.

An arbitration agreement between Mr. Warner and the Four Seasons provides that their dispute shall be resolved by a panel of three arbitrators. For more than five months, both sides have attempted to constitute the panel of arbitrators, and they have collectively exchanged eight lists of potential arbitrators and considered 65 different candidates. The parties have not reached an agreement on even one arbitra tor, let alone the three that are necessary to form the panel. “The parties are trapped in a selection process that has proven funda mentally unworkable and lacks any mech anism for breaking the existing deadlock,” reads the Court filing. “Without a panel in place, the parties cannot proceed with their arbitration and [Mr. Warner] cannot have [his] claims against Four Seasons heard and resolved on the merits.”

The Four Seasons Resort the Biltmore was shuttered at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has yet to

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Editorial And the Winner Is… Democracy

by Gwyn Lurie

There were many big winners in Tuesday’s election, most important ly: democracy and grace. It made my heart sing to watch defeated candidates, red and blue, gracefully acknowledge that things had not gone their way, this time. Who knew that we still had the human capacity for humility?

Beyond that biggest of wins… a few local highlights:

Much is still to be determined, including the almost dead-heat nail-biter that is L.A.’s mayoral race between developer and local hotelier Rick Caruso and Congresswoman Karen Bass. We’ll stay tuned for that one.

I was personally (beyond) heartened to see that voters around the country got a choice about choice and, like we did in California with Prop 1, universally came

Gwyn Lurie is CEO and Executive Editor of the Montecito Journal Media Group

THE SYMPHONY PRESENTS

Wisdom of the Water, Earth, Sky

Saturday, November 19, 2022 | 7:30 PM Sunday, November 20, 2022 | 3 PM

Honoring the past in an intersection of connection, community, and culture, this program o ers a symphonic and visual homage to our region’s centuries old Chumash heritage from local composer and preservationist Cody Westheimer. Paired with Robert Schumann’s romantic musical gift to his future wife, the Piano Concerto in A minor, featuring world-renowned pianist and Santa Barbara favorite, Alessio Bax; Jean Sibelius’ Valse Triste; and Mozart’s inimitable masterpiece, Symphony No. 40, this repertoire delivers a deeply moving and moody tribute.

REPERTOIRE

Cody Westheimer | Wisdom of the Water, Earth, Sky

Robert Schumann | Piano Concerto in A minor

Jean Sibelius | Valse Triste W. A. Mozart | Symphony No. 40 in G minor

Montecito Miscellany

Susan Spector, Melissa Patrino, and Keith Nevison (photo by Carly Otness)

Jenny McClure, Daniel Nash, and Maia Kikerpill (photo by Carly Otness)

by Richard Mineards

There were seedy goings on at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden when the 98-year-old 78-acre gem hosted its first Forage & Feast event for 64 guests, raising $60,000 for its conser vation and research programs.

The sunset soirée at the Pritzlaff Conservation Center featured creative culinary delights using native plants

from the garden from Chef Julian Martinez from the Santa Barbara restau rant Barbareño, with wine pairings from Wenzlau Vineyards including cactus pad aguachile, bluefin crudo and prickly pear, sagebrush ricotta dumplings and Catalina cherry sofrito, roasted quail with acorn gravy, rosehip and elderberry juice, with date buckwheat cake and wood mint mousse for dessert.

Beautifully decorated tables were named after the various Channel Islands clearly visible from the event aerie.

Steve Windhager, executive director of the garden, which has 5,200 members, said they hope to host the event three times a year using the various areas of the Mission Canyon site, while preparing for the popular locale’s centennial celebra tions in two years’ time.

Keith Nevison, new director of hor ticulture and operations, and Denise Knapp, director of conservation and

research, also brought guests including Janet Garufis, Sybil Rosen, Daniel Nash, Maia Kikerpill, Bill Murdoch, Charles and Eileen Read , Kathy Scroggs , Barry and Susan Spector , Valerie Hoffman, Mark Funk, Jennifer Zacharias, Jeremy Bassan, Chris and Marisa Parker , Hayden Gower and Sarah Berkus Gower, Blake Jones,

Hayden Gower, Sarah Berkus Gower, Jeremy Bassan, and Manuela Pelaez (photo by Carly Otness)

Rosewood Miramar Beach introduces AMA Sushi, a celebration of Japan’s Edomae tradition crafted with variety and skill on the American Riviera. AMA showcases always-fresh ingredients complemented by an extensive selection of wine, sake, and innovative cocktails.

New Study Reveals Bumblebees Play with Toys for Fun, Too

According to a new study, bumblebees don’t just work hard – they like to play, too. Scientists observed that the little insects enjoy rolling small wooden balls for no apparent reason other than for pleasure.

“As humans, we might believe that we are the smartest and perhaps the only creatures in the animal queendom capable of having feelings and subjective experi ence, but is this true?” posits Samadi Galpayage, a Ph.D. student at Queen Mary University of London, and the study’s primary author.

Recent data reveals that bees can experience both pleasant and negative emotion-like states. Typically, bees are given food rewards in studies to mea sure their abilities. In this new experiment, bees were given tiny balls and received no reward while they engaged with them, hopping on top of them and pushing them around.

Earlier studies involved training bumblebees to roll balls toward a target in exchange for a yummy treat. The researchers observed that bees would occasionally roll the balls outside of the experiment even though they weren’t getting rewarded for it.

“This observation gave rise to new questions: What are they doing? Why? Is this random or repeated? Which bees do this?” says Galpayage. “Since there was no incentive to roll these balls, as bees were not getting any food for doing so, the observation provided a testable hypothesis of whether this phenomenon was something like play.”

Rolling balls did not provide them with food, clear debris, or aid in mat ing in any of the studies. Moving the balls served no purpose other than to have fun.

“Mainly, we found that bees engaged in the ball rolling activity repeated ly despite the absence of an external incentive, such as getting food/mates/ shelter. Rather, the behavior was rewarding in itself, which is what play is,” Galpayage says.

They also discovered that bee play patterns changed with age, which par allels those of other young mammals. Younger bees were more involved with the balls than older bees, and males rolled balls for longer lengths of time than females.

“That bees may play is an important finding for science because it provides further evidence that an insect may experience something like pleasure,” says Galpayage. “Personally, I find this behavior fascinating because it tells us that bees, like many other animals, are more than little robotic beings, but have a richer behavior and life than we would have previously thought.”

On Entertainment New SBHS Director Shares the Gioia of Teaching Theater

by Steven Libowitz

Otto Layman’s celebrated tenure at the helm of Santa Barbara High School’s Theater depart ment spanned more than a quarter of a century and ushered in an era of big musical performances that rivaled professional productions.

His replacement, Justin Baldridge, started in fall 2020, and suffered from terrible timing, of course. A veteran of multiple Off-Broadway productions who had made his way back to California after COVID-19 closed down theaters, Baldridge had to spend more than his first year doing everything on Zoom, which made stepping into Layman’s giant shoes an even tougher task.

SBHS’s new theater director Gioia Marchese should have no such issues. Not only have two years passed since Layman’s departure, but Marchese has a leg up as a Santa Barbara-raised woman with lots of experience at a high school just 10 miles away.

A Montecito native who attended Cold Spring School, Santa Barbara Middle School, and Santa Barbara High School (before Layman’s time), Marchese started dancing at Montecito School of Ballet, then discovered theater in fourth grade through Clark Sayre, who had just returned from New York, who cast her in his first youth theater show. Marchese spent a summer in Sayre’s program and joined his first Young Playwrights workshop with Rod Lathim of Access Theater. She soon began learning choreography with Peter McCorkle on musicals including Godspell and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

“He basically took me under his wing as his assistant when I was in high school, hav ing me work with him on all the shows,” Marchese recalled. “Pretty soon, I started getting hired by other schools to choreo graph their shows. But I still wanted to act.”

Testing out of high school, Marchese moved to New York for acting school and spent more than a decade in roles around the region including repertory companies, then, tired of the struggle and looking ahead to a more sustainable career, returned to choreography and added directing. She started shuttling between the Big Apple and L.A., produc ing independent films and directing new plays in small theaters.

Then, 11 years ago, Sayre, at that point the DPHS theater director (he just retired this summer), asked her to help out with choreography for a show.

“I was between jobs, and already think ing about transitioning completely out of acting, so I thought, why not?” Marchese recalled. “I can come up there a couple days a week and just stay at my parents’ house.”

She never left.

“I found out that I really love teaching and directing high school theater students,” she explained. “I can relate to them because I had such a terrible time in high school. I really get where they’re at developmentally. And I create a safe space for them to be who they are and muddle through and find, through theater, a way to express them selves and interact with others.”

In a case of good timing, Marchese fin ished her teaching credential at Antioch just as the SBHS position became vacant. Now her initial objective is to rebuild the program and the training pieces as well as put her own stamp on the productions.

That starts Saturday night with Arthur Miller’s Tony award winning play The Crucible that uses the Salem Witch Trials to pillory the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s, which she’s co-directing with movement specialist Kyra Lehman.

“It wasn’t on my huge list of plays and musicals I came in wanting to do, but because of the political climate, it just popped into my head and I couldn’t push it

New SBHS theater director Gioia Marchese is launch ing her tenure with the poignant and relevant play, The Crucible

Letters to the Editor

Am I My Country’s Keeper?

Bible teaching on citizenship begins with five words that historians will write on the head stone of the United States when it dies. Cain asked, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

The downfall of decency and democra cy in our time is the failure of institutions and ordinary people to answer that ques tion in the affirmative.

Let’s start with the wealthy class. They refuse to budge in the matter of any fur ther taxation of income, corporations, or estates. They refuse to think of others as their wealth grows.

The government and its political lead ers refuse to compromise policy by work ing with the other party. They prefer to ride the black and white wave of wild popularity among their bases instead. They want power, not peace.

The education folks, from elementary to university, refuse to continue learning, thinking they know it all. They don’t. Others have plenty to teach them if they will listen.

Industry, business, and finance all want monopoly, not small and medium-sized business successes.

Ordinary folks don’t know their neigh bors, don’t care about their neighbors, won’t meet their neighbors, and won’t lift a finger to help their neighbors unless in an obvious catastrophe.

In America, we are not our brother’s keeper, and that is how we will die.

Kimball Shinkoskey

‘Repairing the World’ is a Must See

Thank you for your promotion of The Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival in the November 3 issue of the Montecito Journal. It was because of that I learned about and attended the documentary film, Repairing the World: Stories From the Tree of Life, at the New Vic Theatre.

It is a most timely and so very important movie. I liked your crisp and personal introduction. Rabbi Myers comes across as a hero, leader, and mensch in the truest Yiddish sense of the word. I was also impressed by the panel after the movie, partic ularly Oren Segal ’s very clear and poignant remarks as well as those by the brother of a victim of the Tree of Life massacre. Repairing the World offers hope and a way forward for ordinary people. It connects the dots of the horrible massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue with all aspects of its context as well as dangers ahead. The documentary shows people of good will in Pittsburgh coming together in community and committing to identi fying the steps and taking on the tasks with their children, in schools, and in the workplace to reduce the climate of prejudice, hate, fear, and intolerance giving rise to violence. I think it would be wonderful to see it offered on Prime Video or Netflix and reach a much larger audience.

I may have told you about my liv ing in Pittsburgh in the early ‘70s where I went to graduate school (Public and International Affairs) at the University of Pittsburgh, followed by my first professional job with the Pittsburgh Public Schools as a School Community Agent working on volun tary desegregation. A lot has changed since then in matters of race relations and education, some good and some bad. But who could have foreseen what today are rapidly increasing acts of domestic violence and terror against not just people of color or non-Chris tian faiths, but anyone who advocates for their inclusion, equal opportunity, and protection under the law? Or the massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018? Or the unthinkable January

6, 2021, mob attack at the Capitol targeting members of Congress?

As a history guy, I view this new normal of domestic violence and ter ror as a consequence of a once latent anti-civil rights movement that start ed in the 1960s, now having found its legs under Donald Trump , espe cially after Obama’s election. Barack Obama scared the heck out of people threatened by his progressive ideas and the boost his election gave to Blacks and minorities and people called lib erals, including the well-educated. At its core I see the not-so-cleverly dis guised belief that we should become a so-called Christian nation run by Caucasian males.

I also see a disturbing resemblance of what’s happening politically today in real time in our country to the 1930s progression of a democratic Germany to a dictatorship by a white racist male Nazi Party engaging in terror and vio lence led by Adolf Hitler. That may (hopefully) be a stretch, but today’s November 6 edition of The New York Times includes the first of a series by The Editorial Board “urging readers to understand the danger of extremist vio lence and possible solutions.” The arti cle identifies “four interrelated trends that the country needs to address: the impunity of organized paramili tary groups, the presence of extremists in law enforcement and the military, the global spread of extremist ideas, and the growing number of G.O.P. politicians who are using the threat of political violence not just to intimidate their opponents on the left but also to wrest control of the party from those Republicans who are committed to democratic norms.”

I hope, even as The New York Times editorial maintains that “the American public is gradually and alarmingly becoming inured to the presence of this violence,” we are not so far along in this downward Trump-G.O.P. led spiral that we can’t block and parry and avoid a loss of our democracy. The very last sentence of the November 6 editorial concludes that our already elected law

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“I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.” – Maya Angelou

makers “must take this threat seriously” and “use the tools they have to stop it.” Indeed they must, but there’s also the problem that too many Americans seem to have little to no idea of what’s hap pening, and too many who do but don’t care because they don’t feel threatened. On top of that too many Americans are not even registered to vote. We have an uphill climb. The tasks before us to save our democracy will take time.

I may have told you about this, but on May 16, 2018, when I spoke briefly to 500 Black students, their families, and friends at the Urban League of Flint’s 36th Black Scholars Tribute, minutes before Mayor Karen Weaver gave a riveting address about the lead-poisoned water crisis in Flint, I closed with this:

“To all you Black scholars this evening, in this conflicted and dangerous world

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you already know too well about, may you continue with the courage and tenac ity of your forefathers and foremothers to become all that you can and exhibit the best of humanity. Study hard.”

Thanks again for your timely promo tion of the Tree of Life Synagogue docu mentary. Perhaps you will have a review of the actual documentary in the next issue of the Montecito Journal

Charles Bullwinkle Hamilton

Response to Rinaldo S. Brutoco: Edge of the Cliff Ahead

Sometimes, I think analysts give way too much thought and express multiple opinions to a fairly straightforward issue to push their personal political agenda. There are two key issues that have put the U.S. into this current mess, one of which has impacted Europe as well.

Biden’s policies which eliminated our oil independence has had as many dev astating consequences as an octopus has legs. Russia would not be in a position to ransom Ukraine’s freedom, threaten European oil supplies and there would have been no requirement for an infla tionary stimulus program, plus the global price of oil would have continued to be stable. Oil derivative prices have been one major source of inflation. Printing money is the other. Blaming anything else is

politicizing the obvious.

The other factor, one overlooked by Mr. Brutoco, which has substantially fueled the fire of an overheated econ omy, is the huge transfer of wealth from the over one million senior citi zens who died as a result of COVID. Almost every recent real estate pur chase that I have observed has been the result of a decedent’s transfer of wealth, not to mention the additional impact of the enhanced purchasing power of new goods and services from unexpected inheritance.

Applauding Biden’s inflationary moves to reverse the disastrous impact of his original poor decision is akin to George Washington watering the cherry tree after he cut it down.

On another note: Am I mistaken, as my memory sometimes takes a field trip on its own; but didn’t California voters approve a referendum (or other entitled government document) to keep Daylight Saving Time year-round? Why hasn’t this happened? Is there some kind of special interest group that benefits from the maddening necessity to elec tronically enter the never, never land of choosing the proper buttons on many of our clocks?

Is this what government without rep resentation truly means? If so, I want my money back, or whatever reverse com

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by Dora Foto

The success of Capital markets has been essential in stewarding the velocity of investor returns short and long term by allowing shares to be traded through the stock exchange. Private organizations turned IPO pose a strategic advan tage for the company by allowing access to financial opportunities, higher share valuation, investor exit opportunities, employee retention, and increase in liquidity as a public company, which is often evidenced through higher stock prices and market cap valuations.

Largely attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, the IPO market has declined significantly, globally as well as in the United States. Capital raising activity has swiftly descended at the end of 3Q22 given the continuation of macroeconomic uncertainties and geopolitical tension in Ukraine, US-China, Taiwan, and North Korea concerns causing volatility in the markets.

Undoubtedly, 2022 has become severely silent in the IPO market and is expected to trend through a challenging path forward into fiscal year 2023 as the Federal Reserve continues to embark on its goal of achieving the infamous Federal Reserve funds rate of 2% through the period of 4 years. Inflation is above trend and may continue to potentially increase above 4.4% projected in September by year end.

High Valuations, extended Low Interest Rates, and robust investor demand for equities has long been a testament of an “Active” IPO Market. As of 3Q22, the IPO market has experienced a sharp decline across the board, however, it is expected to gain momentum as the Fed’s key indicators point in the direction of price stability and robust labor market while keeping a keen eye on the 2% target rate.

I. Global IPO Market Outlook

Global IPO volume declined swiftly 70% YTD in 2022 with the market momentum of a total of 992 IPO deals decline from 1,773 IPOs YTD in 2021 (Figure 1). Technology sector leading the IPO volume in 3Q22 continued to lead in size, and numbers, however, did decline from 3Q21 from 631 IPOs ($126.43B in volume) in 2021 to only 218 IPOs ($31.7B in volume) in 2022 Year-over-Year. Following, was attributed to the automotive sector leading on proceeds with 176% reflecting a swift incline from just $6.15B in 2021 to $23.14B in 2022 Year-over-Year (Figure 2).

Major economies and financial markets in the Americas and EMEIA remain under pressure as quantitative tightening kicks into a higher gear. America’s exchanges experienced the harshest decline, recording only 116 deals raising US $7.5B YTD, a decrease of 94% in proceeds and 72% in volume Year-over-Year thus contradicting a record-breaking year in 2021. America’s IPO activity submerged to its lowest level in nearly 20 years.

EMEIA IPO activity fell by 49.9% and 48% by number and proceeds, respec tively. Europe sank over 70% in proceeds, but the Middle East continued to pivot favorably in large part attributed to its energy sector reflecting a $6.09B increase in proceeds in Q3 vs. $1.36B prior year (Figure 3). As the region has been some what impacted by inflation and geopolitical issues, Asia-Pacific exchanges have performed favorably, safe harboring five of the top 10 global IPOs YTD and has contributed 61% and 68.4% of the global share of IPOs and proceeds, respectively. Nonetheless, recording declines of 608 IPOs in 2022 vs. 816 IPOs in 2021 with 22% decline in proceeds YTD.

pensation I can get from being forced to endure such political arrogance.

How many thousands of missed appointments, late or early arrival times and Aaargh! moments occur every six months? To what benefit and for whom? My protesting, early morning, stubbed toes just want to know.

Probably in another five years or so, every modern time-keeping device will automatically make the adjust ment, while impatiently waiting for my sleep rhythm to catch up, or not. Unfortunately, my favorite time piece is an antique, wind-up, timecard reg ister-grandfather clock with the most beautiful, resonating tick (or maybe it is the tock that is so mellow) that requires substantial machinations to adjust. I could ignore the change of course; but I just can’t bear to see such a beautiful, practical work of art reflecting an incorrect hour for months, or then, even worse, to sit idle, never echoing its mellow call to peaceful repose.

I believe this lack of action in Sacramento qualifies as some sort of reverse election denial. Surely, I must be mistaken that my thoughtful vote doesn’t count for anything, or maybe not?

Ronald Hays

Not All Landlords

Santa Barbara Tenants Union and CAUSE rallied together recently to prop agate self-serving narratives about how all landlords are bad, gouge tenants, don’t maintain their properties, and don’t want tenants to know their rights. That couldn’t be further from the truth! It’s becoming more difficult to remain silent in the face of such lies.

They proclaimed, “The rents are too damn high!” But so are insurance, util ities, labor costs, construction mate rials, and taxes that property owners pay. Most landlords respond to ten ants’ maintenance requests; they follow

the tenant-protection laws. In fact, a group of mom-and-pop landlords wanted to attend S.B. Housing Day to inform tenants of their rights, but we couldn’t because we are not a nonprofit. Fortunately, the S.B. Rental Housing Mediation Program did a tenant’s rights presentation.

At the rally, a 20-year advocate for CAUSE retold a story of a mother liv ing in a studio with her three daughters who was being evicted and did not get their full security deposit back. How could CAUSE not know four people living in a studio could potentially be illegal overcrowding? In a multi-unit building, a landlord must pay tenant relocation expenses at 3x’s the rent for no-cause tenancy termination within S.B. city. Did they get that? California law states a tenant is entitled to 100 percent of their deposit if the tenant complied with the law. Did CAUSE help them file a claim to get 2x’s the security deposit, should they be on the right side of the law?

CAUSE is a well-funded, multimil lion dollar nonprofit. Are they using these funds to help tenants? They pay themselves over a million dollars per year in salaries, compensation, and employee benefits, according to their 2020 tax filing. CAUSE shares incom plete, one-sided information while keeping these communities in the dark of their actual legal rights and reme dies. The stories propagated by these supposed tenant-protection groups are the rare, extreme examples designed to elicit sympathy for their cause.

We’d love to know why CAUSE and the SBTU focus on telling horror sto ries instead of holding free community workshops with well-sourced informa tion to get the legal help tenants need and take steps against the very few bad actors. Why are they always demonizing all landlords? All of us are not terrible, worthy of a horror story!

Loy and John Beardsmore

IPO Market Watch

Life Essense

Ophora Puts the Nature Back into Water

by Zach Rosen

Oxygen and water. These two com ponents make up the essence of life and as far as we know, are the two necessities for being and staying alive. Of course, as air and water pollu tion continue to escalate throughout the world, finding clean sources of either is an endless pursuit for those hoping to lead a healthy life.

Mountain rivers, lakes, and springs used to be the epitome of pure water – naturally rich with oxygen and supportive minerals from the earth beneath them – but even these have now been found to be contaminated with microplastics and other foreign chemicals. From our water sources to even our organic beers, microplastics have splintered their way into every ecosystem around us with it being thought that people are consuming an average of five grams of microplastics a week, equivalent to about the weight of a credit card.

It was this set of challenges that Ken

Guoin and Christen Brown founded Ophora Water Technologies on. “[Ken] grew up on high mountain lakes and I grew up around streams, so we know the way that nature intended water to be. We know exactly how it is sup posed to taste. The energy you get from oxygen when it is actually in water. Because [oxygen] has decreased a lot on our planet – in the atmosphere and in our water. So that’s what inspired us,” says Brown.

Since starting in 2010, Guoin, Brown, and their team have engineered a 14-step water purification process (with four patents) that is designed to recreate the chemistry, oxygen levels, and taste of how water used to be found in nature. This includes filter ing it to the nano-level where pes ticides, pharmaceutical compounds, and microplastics are removed. Filter mediums can often contain plastics themselves, however Ophora incor porates organic coconut and walnut shell-based carbon substrates that are free of these materials.

“And then it’s built back up from

there,” adds Tony Pennington, Ophora’s lead engineer and operations manager. “So we do the ozonation, vortexing, the oxygenation restructuring, and organ ic minerals added back to the water. It’s shuffling. Very simple and powerful. There’s not a bunch of chaotic other chemicals and minerals. Just potassium, magnesium, calcium, and a little bit of sodium for electrons.”

Many reverse osmosis systems (com mon in households and bottled water) have been criticized for stripping away too much of the mineral content in water. Part of the Ophora system recre ates the hydrostatic and mineral processes found in nature, including a rose quartz stage, that reincorporates these vital min erals and alkalizes the water to an ideal pH balance of 8.0-8.5.

The system also considers bacteria, viruses, and other bio-contaminants with a UV light system incorporated into the post-filtration stages, along with the oxy genation stages that add the life-giving gas and help further protect the water from biological contaminants.

Because this is a water purification system, their engineers can custom design the filter mediums and set them up to process any water chem istry. “Source water doesn’t matter and that’s the beauty of our engineer ing – is we can go anywhere in the country and produce the same water,” states Guoin. While their offices are in

Carpinteria, the main bottling plant is in Dallas with a high-speed bottling plant set to come online soon in Palm Springs, sitting on the large Coachella Valley aquifer.

And the results are in, with Ophora winning the Best Tasting Water in the Purified Water category three times

My parents were leaving their home of 52 years to move into Casa Dorinda. We knew this would be a daunting logistical and emotional process. SB SOS were exceptional. Their efficient system, realistic pace, deep patience and empathy made for a seamless move. Our family is so grateful for their help. – Jennifer R.

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Influenced by the pictorialist movement of the early twentieth century, Edward S. Curtis set out to create a photo and ethnographic record of Indigenous peoples living in Western regions from the Mexican border to Alaskan shores. 100 years later, Native people still contend with “Indian” stereotypes that are consequences of Edward Curtis’s vision. This exhibit endeavors to present his breathtaking photogravures within the context of American colonialism.

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A Bee-autiful Day in the Montecito Neighborhood

Last Saturday, something amazing happened. The day was gorgeous and crisply cold. A deluge of caring Montecitans amassed in the Upper Village in front of Tecolote Book Shop. They chat ted with neighbors, over coffee and pastries provided by Andrea Eltinge Newquist and Jacqueline Duran. They donned neon yellow safety vests, picked up green trash pick-up sticks and orange trash bags, and fanned out into the community.

Another team, Hands Across Montecito, gathered at the Butterfly Lane tunnel, ready to clear abandoned camps and trash on the railroad tracks.

Were you there? If you missed it, this is Beautification Day, an annual Montecito tradition, always held on the first Saturday in November.

Our community sponsors this event, and this year’s theme was “Bee kind, nice, and happy. We’re a kind commu nity in Montecito.” Committee member Nina Terzian provided the theme, and the team enthusiastically embraced it. Marborg provided all the heavy equip ment. Montecito Village Grocery and San Ysidro Ranch supplied the lunch, cooked by the expert team at Montecito Fire. Montecito Water District brought

water, and Casa Dorinda provided soft drinks. Community sponsors provided the funding for event expenses, including the Hands Across Montecito team’s cleanout, which cleared 1.5 tons of trash from the area and employed six men currently expe riencing homelessness or recently housed.

Beautification Day is truly a commu nity-warming, all-hands event where Montecitans put our hands on this com munity with love, picking up trash and

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“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

Sponsored by Knight Real Estate Group of Village Properties, First Republic Bank, Kathleen Kalp and Jim Balsitis, Kelly and Tory Milazzo

Native People through the Lens of Edward S. Curtis

“Replastering a Paguate House,” 1925, Edward S. Curtis

by Sharon Byrne

Montecito Association Board member Leslie Lundgren, with History Committee’s Trish Davis, Marna Coday, and Dana Hansen

Hands Across Montecito team: Andrew Velikanje of Earthcomb, Juan Cardenas, Jennifer Perry, Lt. Butch Arnoldi, Ronald Warren, Andrea Hein, Charles Papke, and David Schrader

Montecito Village Grocery and San Ysidro Ranch supplied the lunch, cooked by the expert team at Montecito Fire

Heal the Ocean

Honorary Chair, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Heal the Ocean proudly salutes the generous Sponsors and Supporters who made our Journey into The Past Fantastic for our 2022 Imaginary Gala such a success! With your help, we raised over $227,000! We thank Julia Louis-Dreyfus again for being our Honorary Chair, hosting it all with such joy. We are deeply grateful to the following Sponsors and Supporters for our Journey to travel back to earlier, more pristine times.

Thank you, one and all!

2022 IMAGINARY GALA FANTASTIC SPONSORS

SEASTAR

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MEDUSAE

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GIANT SQUID

Thomas & Nancy Crawford Roy E. Crummer Foundation

Tomchin Family Foundation

ECHINODERM

Tom & Sheila Cullen

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Tom & Sheila Cullen David, Theresa & Summer Dolotta/ The Dolotta Family Charitable Foundation

The Radis Family

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Blair & Steve Raber Charles & Eileen Read Roxanna & Randy Solakian

Ray Link & Jill Taylor

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Phil & Leslie Bernstein/ Bernstein Family Fund

John & Caron Berryhill/ Agnes B. Kline Memorial Foundation/ in memory of Agnes B. Kline & Ford G. Kline Terri Carlson MD

Ani Casillas

Thomas Dabney & Darcie Dierenfield

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Charles Vinick & Susan Venable

Tracey Willfong/ Willfong-Singh Family Fund Jim Winter

Karen Yoon & Bruce Raph/ Town & Country Water Gardens Inc.

BARNACLE

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Cotty & Isabella Chubb

Edgar Eltrich

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SEA HORSE

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John Lyon Ron & Jeanie Sickafoose

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Eric & Kit Peterson

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Karla Shelton & Bruce Dobrin

Cath Webb

George & Judy Writer

SEA SHELL

Rosemary Alden

John Hankins

Sandy Mezzio

Tom & Deb Trauntvein

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Artwork: Sea Anemones by Ernst Haeckel (1904)

Society Invites Silver Anniversary for the Annual Military Ball

Let’s Reach

by Joanne A Calitri

The Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation held its 25th Annual Military Ball on Saturday, November 5, at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort ballroom.

Guests were greeted by a bagpiper as they checked in and proceeded to the cocktail reception and photo op. There were displays of military hats, along with photographs and art of military person nel, military fighter craft, and medals in the ballrooms, with some items for sale to support the foundation.

Every branch of the U.S. Military pres ent day through WWII was represented and in uniform. Attendees included the PCVF Board of Directors headed by LT. John Blankenship USN (former) and his wife Hazel; Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown; Col. Phil Conran USAF (ret.); Mike Conroy USN (former); Capt. Joe Danely US Army (former); BGen. Fred Lopez USMCR (ret.) with wife Anne and grandson Ryan Marsh; CDR Charles Huff USN (ret.); Lt. Col. Maureen Masson USAF (ret.); Sgt.

Dennis Merenbach US Army (former); Dana Newquist; LT. Steve Penner USN (former); Capt. Dennis Peterson USMC (former); Maj. Jose Ramirez USMC (ret.); and Lt. Col. Patricia Rumpza USAF (ret.). Also, Howard Hudson CPA; Stephen Anthony McMenamy Corps Sergeant Major and UK Ministry of Defence British Army; Brenda Blalock Realtor with Alan Porter; Jill Nida, Hospice of Santa Barbara, with Gary Simpson, owner of the Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center; Lynda Millner with WWII Veteran husband Don Seth; Victoria Hines; John Buster; and 2013 SB Yacht Club Commadore Francie Lufkin

Following dinner and music by The Replicas Band, the formal program commenced with a welcome from Blankenship, the Posting of the Colors by the UCSB ROTC Surfrider Battalion Color Guard, the Pledge of Allegiance led by Rumpza, the “U.S. National Anthem” and “America the Beautiful” sung by Sgt David Gonzales, SB Police Dept (retired), and the Invocation by Chaplain Jerry Gray USAF. A special tribute to

Guest speakers retired U.S. Navy Seals (from left) Marc Brakebill, Mike Charbonnet, and Steve Terlinden (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

The PCVF Board of Directors (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

Your Westmont

Mosher Talk Examines MLK’s Shared Legacy

Alarge, enthusiastic crowd in Westmont’s Global Leadership Center welcomed Clayborne Carson , the world-renowned and acclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. scholar

and director of the King Papers Project. He spoke about “The Lives and Shared Legacy of Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King Jr.,” as part of a Mosher Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership luncheon on November 4.

“Dr. Carson has dedicated his life and scholarship to the legacy of Dr. King,” said President Gayle D. Beebe .

“Growing up in a Quaker home, he was very much a hero within our family –within our religious tradition. To really be able to go into his life and work in a way that just brings a greater depth of appreciation and clarity has been a great gift. I feel indebted to Dr. Carson for illuminating so much of the legacy of Dr. King and really bringing his writings to life.”

Carson began his talk by sharing an intimate letter written by Coretta in 1952, a year before their marriage, inside a copy of Edward Bellamy’s 1888 book Looking Backward, a time-travel novel about the nation becoming a socialist utopia 100 years in the future.

“Believing that Martin’s letter was too

Care for life

politically revealing, Coretta shielded from the prying eyes of scholars such as myself for almost a half a century,” Carson says. “Even after she selected me to edit and publish her husband’s book, this letter remained in her personal pos session. In fact, I heard rumors that there was this box of materials under her bed that she kept very close to her. I consid ered burglary.”

Her stance to keep the letters private softened after Carson gave Coretta a draft of Martin’s autobiography. “She looked at it and said, ‘Where am I in this?’” Carson recalls. “And I said, ‘Well, Martin had not really written about you very much.’”

Several weeks later a packet arrived at

by Scott Craig, photography by Brad Elliott

Clayborne Carson

Marcus ‘Goodie’ Goodloe and President Gayle D. Beebe ask questions to Clayborne Carson

some form of Kardashian. Vacation rentals along the charming, Eucalyptus tree-lined lane fetch up to $50,000 per month, while anyone looking to settle down would be well advised to have upwards of $10 to $20 million handy in cash. As buyers come and go, properties have flipped for double their value, while older homes have been constantly upgraded, more often than not by demolishing more modest structures and replacing them with brand new, bigger ones better suited to the tastes of the tony area’s new class of denizen.

All that had happened while the city’s water pipe, which connected to four hydrants along Padaro Lane including the one near Donaldson’s proposed project, lay unmolested – and more to the point, unimproved. Although similar home projects had been approved in recent years, Greg Fish, Carpinteria’s Fire Chief, who took the job in 2018, hadn’t been involved in them. His position was that the pipe – and the potentially dangerous fire preparedness issue on Padaro Lane that it entailed – had to be fixed before Donaldson’s project could be approved.

The issue all came down to water pres sure, or more accurately, a lack of it, in the four hydrants on Padaro Lane.

“With the Fire Department, there are certain things that have to exist,” Fish told the Journal. “A certain number of gallons have to be coming out of the

hydrant.” Specifically, the pipe has to allow 500 gallons per minute to flow out of a fire hydrant. “It wasn’t even close,” Fish said of the results of Donaldson’s test. “We want to be able to put a fire out, so we are not allowing anyone to do a remodel or reconstruction until we get to the point that the water coming out is high enough pressure.”

According to Robert McDonald, the Carpinteria Valley Water District’s general manager, the agency maintains a database of all hydrants in the city including flow rates and hydrant condition. “The water district maintains hydrants, paints, exercises, repairs and replaces them as they approach end of life,” he said. “As far as flow rate changes, the Water District also analyzes the distribution system using a computer model. Hydrant flow tests are used to calibrate the distribu tion system model.”

Several cities in California have begun pilot projects to study the effectiveness of so-called “smart” hydrants, which are capable of self-reporting leaks or flow prob lems. They are yet to be commonly used in California, despite the fact that much of the state is prone to dangerous forest fires. When asked about the last time the four hydrants on Padaro Lane had been tested, McDonald responded, “We don’t have the dates of testing pre-2016 in the database. The only hydrant we have flow test data with a date on or near Padaro

was done on 2-24-2022. In all we have test data for seven hydrants on Padaro Lane. We recently started recording the test date in the database. However, McDonald claimed, the 1,500-foot pipe connected to those hydrants shouldn’t be the entire city’s responsibility to update because it only services a specific group of homes along Padaro Lane, and the rest of Carpinteria’s residents shouldn’t have to pay for it.

“The odd thing about that is that you have Chief Fish saying it’s so dangerous he can’t allow any construction down there or replace an old house with a modern house, but at the same time they can sit on their hands and let neighbors stay there.”

– Robin Donaldson

“In this situation it’s kind of strange,” McDonald said. “They are not out of reach of the pipeline, but the pipeline cannot ser vice their needs.” McDonald said the sim plest solution would be for all the residents of Padaro Lane serviced by that pipe to vote on whether to create a special-assessment district, which would allow homeowners to make a one-time payment for a new pipe or have the cost broken down in fees owed over a period of time.

In an August 10, 2022, water dis trict board meeting earlier this year, McDonald estimated that replacing the pipe could cost between $2.5 and $3.5 million – a number that isn’t exactly music to the ears of Donaldson or his client. However, in his interview with the Journal, McDonald insisted he couldn’t say how much it would cost to fix the pipe, because answering that question accurately would itself cost money. “You have to replace half a mile of pipe with a bigger pipe to meet the fire codes and whatnot,” McDonald said. “It’s a costly endeavor.” He added that the process could potentially take a year to complete.

“Obviously these developers are anx ious to get these properties developed and don’t want to be stuck waiting for a special assessment district to be formed, probably on the order of a year,” he explained. “We don’t want to do some thing where people end up voting no. It would be a waste of money.”

So far, however, there’s little evidence that Padaro Lane residents want to pay to replace the pipe. Kaye Walters, com munications director for the Padaro Lane Association, which represents local home owners, told the Journal that she couldn’t speak about the pipe on behalf of the association because it had yet to meet to discuss it. But she said she had spoken to several local residents in an effort to learn

their position on the matter.

“We were told by the Carpinteria Valley Water District that the water pipe was installed in 1954,” Walters said. “So, if it is not up to modern-day safety codes, it is time for the Water District to replace it. There is no reason the residents of Padaro Lane should have to cover the costs by creating a ‘special assessment district.’ Replacing the 68-year-old pipe is a capital improvement and should be treated as such by the Carpinteria Valley Water District.”

A major complication – and potential financial nightmare – raised by the Padaro Lane pipe standoff is the issue of whether the four under-pressured fire hydrants might cause insurance companies to drop coverage for local residents. According to data from the California Department of Insurance, insurers have canceled plans for more than 348,000 residents in high fire-risk areas since 2015, including some 212,000 policies in 2020 alone.

As for Donaldson, he’s simply frustrat ed that his project happened to be the one to spark this standoff, which now stretch es several months, including a series of hearings where water officials refused to fix a pipe that the Fire Department was pointing out as manifestly unsafe.

“The odd thing about that is that you have Chief Fish saying it’s so dan gerous he can’t allow any construction down there or replace an old house with a modern house, but at the same time they can sit on their hands and let neighbors stay there,” he complained.

“It isn’t our fault,” he said of his client whose proposed project launched the red-tape-addled impasse. “If it is so unsafe, why are they not moving every one out of the neighborhood?”

On that point, Chief Fish agrees. The homes serviced by Padaro Lane’s bad pipe would be in significant danger if a fire were to occur. “It would not be good,” said Fish. “We’d have to figure out how to bring out water trucks. We would evacuate and protect the structures, but more than likely the structures would burn down to the ground.”

Fish added that while he’s working closely with McDonald and other water officials to find a solution as quickly as possible, the matter is ultimately out of his hands. “It’s the water department’s jurisdiction,” he said. “I am working with the water department to see if they can get this thing fixed. I am hoping they will, whether the homeowners pay for it or not. It’s all about making people safe at the end of the day.”

“A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.” – Maya Angelou

Nicholas Schou an award-winning investigative journalist and author of several books, including Orange Sunshine and Kill the Messenger.

Montecito Reads School Days and Night Hacks

by MJ Staff

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.” Hollis works on getting into the Hong Kong account as he balances the task with his other duties. Chapters 31 and 32 are available online at montecitojournal.net and the QR code below.

Of course, as the head-in-the-sand father, I was convinced all that was needed was more effort. What in this world had ever been accomplished without persistence in the face of obstacles, right? But Cricket believed the root cause might have nothing to do with effort; she thought Trip was dyslexic.

I did not want to consider this hypothesis. Dyslexia was considered a disability. Trip was not disabled, at least not in the way that term implied weakness. He was good at some things, less good at others. Why did we need to slap a label on him? Cricket listened to my appeal, patted me on the shoulder and handed me her copy of Sally Shaywitz’s book, Overcoming Dyslexia, knowing that I was powerless against science.

As Cricket and I walked Trip and Isabel to school on the first day, my heart was heavy with the realization that Trip – and we, as his support net work – had a long battle on our hands. It was not just dumb-old-dad that had to be won over, but teachers, administrators and – most crucial – Trip himself. Hard work lay ahead, and no one could do it for him.

Two hundred yards from school, Isabel gave Cricket a kiss on the cheek and me a wave, then took off. She was too old to be escorted in by her parents. Trip, meanwhile, squeezed my hand tighter. We knew that he had a fantastic teacher and a class of fourteen children including – as had been the case in first grade – Priscilla Wimby. With only four second-grade class rooms, the two of them in the same class had been a twenty-five percent probability, but Cricket had learned that Genevieve made a special request for the two kids to be together. Whether by chance or by choice, that wish had been granted.

I was disappointed but scared to let anyone know it. Cricket seemed fine, but far from excited. She had her own list of concerns about the Wimbys based solely on her intuitive people skills. I still had not men tioned Vlad or the RemoteTokens; ever the perfectionist, I was waiting until I was certain.

Montecito

by Michael Cox

Chapter 33

After untold hours stolen from workdays, evenings, and weekends, my hack was nearly finished and, by all indications, completely unde tected. In the movies, hackers sit down at a keyboard, let their finger fly like Mozart and, within seconds uncover a motherlode of data, often streaming across the screen like a tidal wave. Maybe some hacker somewhere works like this – there is no best-practices handbook or annual convention, after all – but not me. I like to think of hacking as an untimed laser maze escape room. If you go fast, you will make a mistake. But if you take time out of the equation, there is no challenge you cannot solve.

Complicating my progress, professional hacker was not my primary or even secondary profession. I was still Chief Executive Officer of ExOh, though more and more I felt like a traitor. And more importantly, I was a parent!

As August threatened to become September, the pesky job of par enting screamed for its share of my shrinking availability. This would be Isabel’s sixth-grade year – her final year at MUS – and Trip’s sec ond-grade year.

The move from first to second grade scared Trip for reasons that scared me. He had learned from his sister that the quantity of reading would triple and that – while technically, there was no homework – he would be expected to read for thirty minutes at home every night. This distinction made no sense to him; what was homework but work at home? I must admit, he had a point.

Cricket and I were anxious to see how second grade agreed with Trip, fearing that something might be off. He excelled in any subject that involved touching things; science and art were his favorites. But when it was time to crack a book, his confidence dissolved. Worse, our sweet, curious boy became defiant: hiding, running, shaking his head with closed lips as if I were trying to force feed him English peas. And while first and second graders are not known for penmanship, Trip’s was uncomfortably bad. He gripped the pencil like he was trying to choke it and scratched the page angrily. This was the same kid who drew masterful airplanes, boats, and dragons; why were e’s, m’s, and q’s such a challenge?

By the final bell announcing the start of the school day, Trip’s classroom was filled beyond the fire marshal’s guidelines. Fourteen children, the teacher, the teacher’s aide, and thirty-four parents. For the mathematically inclined, that might seem like too many parents, but you would be forget ting the compounding effect of divorce. Six of the lucky fourteen children had more than two parents attending the first day festivities which entailed awkwardly watching their second grader check out the room’s mascot (a frog), complaining about their seating assignment, making a mess of the arts and crafts cabinet, and – in the case of two children – crying as if being tortured. After nervously squeezing my hand the length of the walk to school, Trip now seemed excited and was happily recapping his summer with a few friends. He was seated in the same pod as Priscilla; an irony that gave further credence to the idea that their union had been requested by the Wimbys.

My uncertainty aside, Trip was thrilled by this. He called Priscilla his girlfriend, though he meant the term literally: a girl who was his friend. Apparently, the new moniker was paying off. Three minutes into the new school year, Priscilla presented Trip with a baby blue and red Rainbow Loom friendship bracelet with white perler beads intricately woven among the bands.

“Did you make this, Priscilla?” I asked, certain that I could not make such an object with a week of practice.

“Yep,” she said. “It’s just like mine.”

Trip and Priscilla held their wrists side by side for our examination.

“Impressive,” I said.

“Can Trip come riding horses with me this weekend?” Priscilla asked Cricket – even the eight-year-olds knew who was in charge.

“Please, mommy, please!” Trip cried.

Cricket hesitated, looking to me. She did not usually consult me on such matters; why was she in this case? Maybe it was just to see if any part of me flinched. For reasons I will never truly understand – but will forever regret – I simply shrugged.

“I don’t see why not,” Cricket said.

“Yeah!” both kids cheered in unison.

As room mother for the third year running, Cricket greeted the teacher, Ms. Johnson, and moved us to the opposite side of the room. She knew she would have Ms. Johnson’s ear plenty and felt it was important to allow others this chance. Shortly after us came Cyrus and Genevieve, only they planted themselves astride Ms. Johnson, forcing all subsequent parents to interrupt them to make their own introductions. It was an odd attention grab for two people who otherwise seemed to trust that they were the center of the universe.

“The desire to reach the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise and most possible.” – Maya Angelou

Scan here for Chapter 31 & 32

There was a definite frostiness in the Wimbys’ attitude toward us as well. When I saw Cyrus, I reflexively stuck out my hand. He responded with a quick head nod, ignoring my attempt at a handshake. No kiss from Genevieve, although she did wave. Cricket noticed it too. “Did you do something?” she asked, watching the Wimbys avoid eye contact while boxing out the other parents.

“They’re pissed at you for leaving the wine tasting early,” I said. She laughed, then stopped abruptly. “You’re kidding right?”

“Yes, I’m kidding,” I said. “If it is anything, I’m sure I did it.”

Ms. Johnson gave a couple of quick remarks then told the parents that it was time to leave. Second graders were big kids, we were told. The two crying kids were peeled from their parents’ legs and handed over to Ms. Johnson. The rest of us filed out with our heads down, a little embarrassed that we had made such a show of the first day of school and a little upset that we had been ushered out unceremoniously. Sometimes the kids grow up faster than the parents.

I held Cricket’s hand as we exited, pleased we had survived another first day without incident. As the last to file out, I expected that the socializa tion was over, but as usual, I was wrong. I made a turn to walk home and Cricket elbowed me. “Coffee hour,” she said.

“Oh, of course,” I said, reminding myself that no one in Montecito was on the clock. Even I now had a reasonable expectation of workday flexibility – unless, of course, I was in Hermosa Beach on a Sunday with my family.

We ambled over to the coffee and croissants provided by Renaud’s Patisserie then joined the mingling. I heard Cricket’s name called a few times and knew that she was in good company. I, on the other hand, felt the creep of the old familiar panic attack combined with the urge to get back to my work – and by work, I meant hacking.

When I finished my coffee and said hello to Cricket’s first pod of friends, I whispered into her ear, “Would you mind if I headed home?”

She patted my arm and gave me a thumbs up without turning her head from a friend who was busy describing their family’s twelve-week summer in Sun Valley.

Freed, I pivoted to leave and promptly bumped into Cyrus, once again stepping on his big toe.

“Watch it, Hollis,” he said, holding his coffee wide so that the sloshing liquid would not land on his crisply pressed shirt. Oh, what a difference time makes. The first time I stepped on Cyrus’s toe, he invited me to din ner. This time, he sounded like he wanted to punch me.

“Damn, I am a klutz,” I said. “Very sorry, Cyrus.”

He took a deep breath. “It’s fine, my friend.” he said. “You are leaving?”

“Yes, I uh …,” I paused, “I need to get back to work.” A plausible excuse, but I feared he could see right through me. Dishonesty was not my strength and further, seeing Cyrus’s face made me feel guilty for my treachery. I told myself that the point of my hack was to prove that Cyrus Wimby and ExOh Holdings were legitimate, not because I was hung up on becoming a crime fighter. But with every line of code stretching microme ters closer to the truth, I think I subconsciously knew that I was not going to exonerate Cyrus.

“Good,” he said, not seeming to notice the subtleties of my countenance. In fact, he was not really looking at me, he was looking over me. “I’m rid ing with Genevieve the rest of today,” he continued, “but we need to catch up. How is tomorrow morning?”

“Riding horses?” I asked.

“No, Hollis. Just riding around in the car.”

My forehead furrowed.

“Yes, Hollis. Horses.”

“Oh, sorry,” I apologized again. “A little slow on the uptake today.” This was true; I had been up till 3 am working on my hack and my body was not as resilient as it used to be. That said, I probably should have been able to figure out he meant riding horses without asking. “Trip told us that Priscilla invited him to join on a ride this weekend. Thank you. He is excited.”

“She did?” Cyrus said, shaking his head. “She did not have permission to make that invitation.”

“Oh,” I said. “Well, I am sure he will understand if you need to—”

“No,” Cyrus sighed. “We’ll make do.”

“Ok,” I said cautiously, “uh… thank you. That’s very generous.” I smiled through my frustration. I did not really care if Trip went horse riding or not. Truthfully, the whole thing made me feel like a charity case, and I wished Trip did not like riding so that we could cut the conversation off

with a gracious no thank you.

“It’s fine,” he said, waving away my thank you like a magnanimous King. “For tomorrow, I want you to brief me on what it would take to get ExOh’s stock upgraded to the NASDAQ exchange. We have some investor interest. Could mean big money.”

“Sure,” I said, as my brain recalibrated how I had planned to spend the remainder of the day. I had a least ten more hours of hacking in front of me and now this topic to research from scratch. But it was not like I could say, could you give me an extra day? I have something far more interesting on my plate. “You got it,” I assured him.

“Cyrus?” Genevieve said, at his elbow. “Oh, hello, Hollis.”

“Hi, Gen—”

“Cyrus, come with me,” Genevieve said, cutting me off. “There is some one I want you to meet.”

Without a goodbye, the two of them turned, but this time – before they could leave me – I was the one who was already gone.

Chapter 34

As I delicately unwound the final strands of the RemoteToken’s security web, my heart thrummed at the rate of a marathoner cruising to victory. This was my happy place, my fortress of solitude, my man cave, and my comfy slippers all wrapped into one. The computer made sense to me in ways other people never have. It was logical; it was consistent. It did not expect me to protect its feelings or tell it white lies. It registered commands and delivered results. The computer and I knew that when something went wrong, it was my fault, even if I did not know why it was my fault. There was no interpretation; there was only input and output.

When I communed with my computer, time ceased to follow its normal rules. Hours and minutes crawled and sprinted interchange ably. All bodily functions became optional. I could not tell you how many times I thought to myself, if I don’t pee now, I will wet my pants, only to fidget for another few hours before yielding to nature’s desperate plea.

I had not had this feeling in a very long time. If the RemoteToken securi ty web was Yosemite’s El Capitan, the CryptoWallet server had turned out to be a playground jungle gym. I had to pause several times to make notes of the unexpected laxness in their protocols which would one day come back to haunt them. One night, I even dreamt of presenting my findings to CryptoWallet’s founder, Clyde Bostich, and him being so overwhelmed with gratitude that he offered me my old job back. It was one of the best dreams I can recall.

Of course, when I woke to my non-paying job reality at 4:30 am the next morning, I was overwhelmed with sadness for what I had lost and why. I had been a talented worker with noble intentions. I had also behaved like a querulous child when things had not gone my way. In the end, I got what I deserved.

Now, I was working at a job I did not understand for a man I increas ingly did not trust and paying myself out of my own retirement savings. Meanwhile, CryptoWallet’s security weaknesses remained and, if not fixed, could spell the downfall of the company. My lack of diplomacy had result ed in a net loss for everyone.

And in some respects, here I was again, sticking my nose where it did not belong. I was certainly – as Trip’s teachers sometimes reported – off task, but my goal was to diffuse, not detonate. The mystery of ExOh’s finances and how Cyrus was running the business from this siloed Hong Kong bank account had been undermining my faith in him for months now. I needed to satiate my desire to understand so that I could go back to doing my job without that nagging voice in my head warning me that something was wrong. I just needed a look, a peek, really. That would be enough.

Losing CryptoWallet and gaining ExOh had burned one other thing into my DNA: I no longer desired titles, public accolades, prestige, or any of the other trappings of greatness. If it had ever been in the cards, I was now over it. Doing great work filled me with pride; unearned titles filled me with dread and paranoia. I longed to stay in the present moment: at one with my computer, on a mission of discovery. This I could do and do well, to mutual and universal satisfaction. I did not want or need to be CEO of anything.

And suddenly, without fanfare or fireworks, the escape room and all its

Gospel and Harpsichord Grooves

Exuberance and energy were the order of the night when the 20-year-old threetime Grammy-winning Soweto Gospel Choir sang at a concert at UCSB’s Campbell Hall, part of the popular Arts & Lectures program.

The singers, long associated with late South African president Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu , impressed with a variety of South African gospel, spirituals, reggae, and American popular music from the likes of Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Otis Redding, James Brown, and Curtis Mayfield.

The group, named after the south west township outside of Johannesburg,

also performed at London’s historic Westminster Abbey in 2014 at Mandela’s memorial service attended by Prince Harry and Tutu, and the FIFA World Cup soccer final in Cape Town in 2010.

A world-class group of 20 talented singers known for their ensemble flair and indomitable spirit.

Forty-eight hours later I was at the Music Academy’s Hahn Hall for an Arts & Lectures harpsichord concert by 31-year-old Frenchman Jean Rondeau, who played the full program of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

It was 100 luminous minutes of musical genius by Rondeau, who studied in Paris and London, and started playing the harp sichord when just six years of age. He also plays with a Baroque quartet, Nevermind.

In a word: Sublime.

Lunch on the Riviera

American Cancer Society hosted its second annual Riviera Luncheon at the

Hilton, attracting 80 guests and raising around $100,000.

The boffo bash, chaired by Denise Sanford , was emceed by Drew Wakefield with Dr. Daniel Greenwald of the UCLA Health Cancer Care Center in Santa Barbara, Karina Kulangara, associate vice president of research and development of Companion Diagnostics of Agilent Technologies, and Mike

Montecito|Santa Barbara

Jackie Carrera, and Jenny Kearns up to speed.

Vivian Sormani Handtmann, Jason Capili, Rachel Barner, Valerie Hoffman, and Doreen and John Kapustiak (photo by Carly Otness)

Janet Garufis and Steve Windhager (photo by Carly Otness)

Soweto Gospel Choir’s exuberance impresses

Jean Rondeau’s Bach worth its bite

by Ashleigh Brilliant

Some people (it is often said) have all the luck – implying that not much is left over for the rest of us. The British, with their love of ironical humor, have an expression wishing someone “the best of British luck,” suggesting that the recipient of the wish has not much chance. But, in the big picture, the Universe has its own odds. Insurance companies and gambling houses are both built on advance knowledge – not of the out come, but of the chances. Actuaries, who calculate risks, are professional odds-assessors.

But they are only the latest in a long line of sorcerers, witch doctors, ora cles, alchemists, tea leaf interpreters, Tarot card readers, and fortune tellers of all kinds, who, one way or anoth er, have made a career out of reading the future in terms of some aspect of the present. But divination by means of the entrails of dead animals was popular even among the supposedly civilized Romans. My edition of Roget’s Thesaurus lists no fewer than 88 “forms of divination,” most of them words ending in “mancy,” such as “stercoman cy,” which means divination by reading the seeds in bird excrement.

From earliest times, the interpretation of dreams has been seen as one form of insight into the future. The Bible is full of dream stories. One of the most notable, in the Book of Genesis, tells how Joseph saved Egypt, by correctly interpreting the dreams of Pharoah, leading to salutary precautions being taken against a coming famine.

This all makes interpreting the sig nificance of lines on your hand (palm istry) and of bumps on your head (phrenology) seem pretty tame. Of course, nobody really knows the future, because it hasn’t happened yet. When sometimes an unlikely event seems to have been accurately predicted by someone, people who hear about it are so amazed that they forget the countless other predictions which were totally wrong. In 1898, 14 years before the sinking of the Titanic, an American writer named Morgan Robertson pub lished a novel about a luxury liner named Titan which sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. There are so many similarities in the novel to what eventually happened that, after the Titanic disaster of 1912, Robertson was accused of being a “clairvoyant.” He denied having any such talent. But what makes the entire occurrence so remarkable is that an accurate “predic tion” of this kind is so rare.

I myself once – and only once – had

a dream which, at the time, I thought was prophetic, or, at least, “psychic.” In February, 1994, I dreamed that Dinah Shore had committed suicide – and I actually wrote it down, as I did occa sionally, if the dream was unusually vivid. Dinah Shore was a singer and had been a big celebrity. I was never particularly interested in her or her music, and couldn’t think why I should be dreaming about her. But, just a few hours later, I heard on the news that Dinah Shore had died.

It was apparently quite peaceful. She was surrounded by her family – with no indication of suicide. (I learned only later that she was 76, and had ovarian cancer.) Still, for some time, I went around feeling that I had had a psychic experience – until someone disillusioned me by making the point: “What about all the dreams you’ve had that didn’t ‘come true’?” And this is the way that most similarities can be exploded. The most powerful producer of supposedly true prophecies is a little thing called, COINCIDENCE.

Another way of prophesying correctly is by making your prediction ambiguous. One famous story which we owe to the Greek historian Herodotus, illustrates this lesson. Back in the 6th century BC, a man named Croesus, was the King of Lydia (now the western part of Turkey), which in those days was an empire so wealthy that a byword for prosperity was to be said to be “as rich as Croesus.” But Lydia was in danger from the expanding Persian empire to the East.

Uncertain whether or not to meet this threat militarily, Croesus sought advice from the famous Oracle at Delphi. Those priestesses sent back word that “If Croesus goes to war, he will destroy a great empire.”

Croesus optimistically assumed that the Persians would be the empire destroyed. He went to war, and was crushingly defeated, leading to the destruction of the Lydian empire.

To sum up my own attitude on this subject:

“In all likelihood, whatever will be will be.”

lasers were behind me. I was inside the RemoteToken server by way of CryptoWallet. I had previously set up an ExOh account on CryptoWallet, and now – with a bug inside RemoteToken – I could link Cyrus’s Hong Kong bank account and understand what had been withheld from me since I signed on to ExOh.

What was I expecting? To paraphrase U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, I would know it when I saw it. The transactions should be those of a business: revenues received, bills paid, the occasional influx transferred by me. I was not a forensic accountant, and I was not inter ested in becoming one. I just needed to see receipts from Bloomingdale’s, Selfridges, Galeries Lafayette, Burberry, Zara, and São Paulo Alpargatas and outflows to the litany of technology and sales consultants listed under me on ExOh’s homepage. That would be enough to satisfy the swirling hydra of acid in my stomach which no medicine or home rem edy could slay.

With the final keystrokes, ExOh’s CryptoWallet began to fill with transactions. In the movie version of this scene, I would be sitting in a dark room (check, it was 1 am and I was in my gar-office) and my glasses (sorry, I don’t wear glasses) would reflect my screen’s flashing pixels to a camera positioned behind my computer to capture the torrent of data and the look of discovery on my face. In real life, I figured this might take a while, so I stepped out of the gar-office to relieve myself in the garden while the data flowed. As per usual, I had been withholding my own torrent for at least an hour.

When I came back, my computer screen was oddly still. I suspected that my internet might have gone snoozing as these wee hours were prime time for system upgrades. But no, I was at full strength. So, I took my seat and scrolled.

Page down, down, down, up. Control-home. Control-end. Controlhome. Page down, down, down, up. Control-home.

That cannot be. I rubbed my eyes, suddenly feeling the exhaustion of twelve hours of sleep over three nights. Again, I paged up and down, top to bottom. This was the correct account – I recognized the transfers I had originated – but I could not make sense of what else unfurled on the screen before me.

There were no revenues. There were no expenses. Most importantly, there was no money; the account was empty.

Ashleigh Brilliant born England 1933, came to California in 1955, to Santa Barbara in 1973, to the Montecito Journal in 2016. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots,” now a series of 10,000. email: ashleigh@west. net. web: www.ash leighbrilliant.com.

Tune in next week for more Montecito

Michael Cox is a 2005 graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Wall Street refugee. Including Montecito, Michael has written three novels, each in various stages of the path to publication. He can be reached at mcox@alumni.gsb.stanford.edu.

The Giving List Unity Shoppe

by Steven Libowitz

The holiday season, as the Andy Williams song goes, is the most wonderful time of the year. But for some of the more disadvantaged

people in the South County, it can also be the most stressful. And for the Unity Shoppe – the 105-year-old nonprofit that serves as a unique lifeline for thousands of families by providing groceries, cloth ing, school supplies, job service support, and more while empowering them with

Unity Shoppe will be opening its doors early for holiday services this year, providing toys, groceries, clothing, and more to the community

choices and dignity – the holiday season is also its busiest time of year.

That’s why Unity Shoppe will be opening its doors early for holiday services this year. The rapidly rising costs of gas and basic food staples have created an unprecedented need for Unity’s programs. The organization has experienced a staggering 350 per cent increase in demand for services in the last three years and expects that number to continue to mushroom over the next two months. Expanding service hours ensures that critical pro grams are readily accessible to every one in need.

“More people in our community are having a hard time,” said Angela MillerBevan, Unity Shoppe’s new executive director. “Our goal is to make sure that we can provide for all the families, chil dren, seniors, homeless – everybody in our community that is needing help right now and through the end of the year. Fortunately, we are also very bless ed because Santa Barbara is also such a giving community, with so many orga nizations and people pulling for us and raising funds to keep us sustainable so that we can continue to do our work.”

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Jeff Bridges is a longtime Unity Shoppe supporter and will make an appearance at this year’s 36th Annual Holiday Celebration and Telethon on December 9

Dear Montecito

Future Leaders of America: Jose Martin

by Stella Haffner

Established in 1982, Future Leaders of America was a joint initiative by Santa Barbara and Oxnard County to address pressures facing Latinx youth. By providing programming to encourage edu cation and leadership, the founders created an environment where students learn what it means to effect change in their community.

Today, we’re speaking to up-and-com ing community leader Jose Martin . The 25-year-old discovered his passion for advocacy during his time at Future Leaders of America. Through their youthled program, he found a voice and is now working to give the same gift to others.

Q. How did you learn about Future Leaders of America?

A. I’m the youngest of four, and I actually got to know the program back in 2005, ten years before I actually finished high school, because all of my siblings were part of it.

How would you describe the program?

It’s a youth-led program. And while it might seem like there’s a lot of adults behind it, they’re just there to be resources. The youth are making the decisions and actually making the change. They’re the ones who are deciding what they want to see changed within the community.

What was it like starting in the program and becoming a part of those community activities?

It really helped me break out of my shell. Back before I started the program, I was a shy person. I did not want to talk to anyone. You wouldn’t have seen me doing interviews like this at all. I’ve really come a long way, where I feel comfortable talking to other people and letting them know what I do or how I can help them become a better organization. Because of Future Leaders of America, communica tion is something I like doing.

What types of projects did you work on as youth leaders?

As youth leaders, something we got started here in Santa Maria was aligning the A–G requirements with the grad uation requirements. It did take some time, it was ongoing even after I left high school, but it was something students were really passionate about. We were striving for equity, for everyone to be able to go to a four-year university after high school or do anything they want to.

Why were you drawn to this project?

Our graduation rate was good, but you wouldn’t see that many students straight after high school going to a four-year university or continuing into higher edu cation, so we really wanted to implement

that with students, letting them say: “This is possible. I can go to college and get a degree and better my future.”

What would you say you have learned from doing these types of projects that has stuck with you?

Advocacy. How to advocate. It made me feel good to make this change within my community and now that I do this in my work it makes me feel good that I can inspire younger generations to advocate for themselves.

Tell me about your job.

I am working for MOVE Santa Barbara County as the Education, Encouragement, and Advocacy Coordinator for North County Santa Barbara. I educate 2nd and 3rd graders on how to ride a bike, and I help the community learn how to advocate for safer streets. I’m educating the commu nity how to educate themselves.

For example, not a lot of people know how to properly speak at a city council meeting. Right now, I’ve been going to different types of organizations and teaching the youth, high schoolers, col lege students, and adults how to advocate for themselves in these situations.

What advice do you have for people who are interested in advocacy work?

I would say: Know what you’re going to be talking about and know what you’re going to be advocating for. The more knowledge that you have and the more people you have who can back you up, the more likely you’ll be able to succeed in your advocacy work.

From the shores of Scotland, Stella Haffner keeps her connection to her home in Montecito by bringing grads of local schools to the pages of the Montecito Journal

the offices of the King Papers Project with all the correspondence between the two. They reveal the raw emo tion of a young couple in love and Coretta, a highly educated, political ly active woman, wanting to main tain her career. “She was involved with civil rights activities, anti-war activities, and pacifism,” Carson says. “And she used the words of Horace Mann, who founded her alma mater Antioch College: ‘Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.’”

Martin emerged as a leading activist by learning from and working with others. “Martin thought about these ideas, but he didn’t have any sense of how to accomplish them,” Carson says. “Imagine Coretta, more than two years older than Martin, deal ing with a rather young, experienced minister who is idealistic but has no political experience.”

In 1965, Coretta had spoken at an anti-Vietnam War rally in Madison Square Garden. Later, Martin accompa nied her to Geneva, where she spoke at a women’s conference designed to end nuclear testing. “There, a reporter, who recognized Coretta, asked Martin: ‘Did you write her speech?’” Carson says. “She looks back and Martin, who, to his credit, says, ‘No, I think she ought to have written mine.’

“We have to credit her with carrying on his legacy, though they were togeth er for only 15 years. Martin could not have created a birthday for himself. He could not have created the memorial in Washington. So much of what we will celebrate in January is her making. This has become a shared legacy, and we should recognize that.”

This new insight was not lost on attendee Gregory Freeland, California Lutheran University professor of polit ical science. “We need to pay attention

to relationships because the men usual ly get most of the attention while the women may actually play a large role in their lives,” Freeland says. “We think MLK did it all himself, but that was not the case. I hope this new narrative inspires women to not give up.”

Top Seeded Warriors Host Soccer Tourney

Westmont women’s soccer (12-03 overall, 7-0-1 GSAC), ranked No. 16 in the NAIA, host the Golden State Athletic Conference Tournament Nov. 10-12 at Thorrington Field. The top-seeded Warriors, GSAC Regular Season Champions and undefeated in the regular season, will battle No. 5 seed The Master’s on Nov. 10 at 2 pm. The championship game is November 12 at 1 pm.

The Warriors are led by senior Reese Davidson, GSAC Women’s Soccer Player of the Year, and fellow AllConference players senior Taylie Scott of Maple Grove, Minnesota, senior Karly Kingsley of Elk Grove, and sophomore Andie Siegel of Costa Mesa. Davidson, from Rancho Santa Margarita, led the GSAC with 16 goals (nine in conference play) and had five multiple-goal games, including three hat tricks.

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou

Jose Martin participated in the Future Leaders of America and now uses those experiences to edu cate others on advocacy

Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

GSAC Women’s Soccer Player Reese Davidson

Notice Inviting Bids

PRODUCT WATER PUMP STATION UPGRADES Bid No. 4067

1. Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its Product Water Pump Station Upgrades Project (“Project”), by or before 8 December, 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 the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal.

Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

2. Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at Charles Meyer Desalination Plant 525 E Yanonali St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, and is described as follows: Demolition of existing pump header and concrete pads. Installation of two pumps, air compressors, surge protection system, piping, cable tray, all associated electrical work, control panels, and appurtenances.

2.2 Time for Final Completion. The Project must be fully completed within 480 calendar days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about 23 January 2023, but the anticipated start date is p rovided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.

2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is $3,200,000

3. License and Registration Requirements.

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

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

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

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

6. Prevailing Wage Requirements.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Subcontractor List. Each Subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a completed Subcontractor List form with its Bid Proposal, including the name, location of the place of business, Cali fornia 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. Not Used

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

12. Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on 10 November 2022, at 10:00 AM, at the El Estero Water Resources Conference Room, 520 E Yanonali St., Santa Barbara CA 93103, to acquaint all prospective bidders with the Contract Document s and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference may be disqualified from bidding. 13. Specific Brands. Pursuant to referenced provision(s) of Public Contract Code § 3400(c), City has found that the following specific brands are required for the following particular material(s),

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ramirez Plumbing, 314 W Can on Perdido #5, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Clarion Call Express, INC, 1401 21 ST St. Ste. R, Sacramento, CA, 95811. This statement was filed with the Coun ty Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 21, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220002590. Published November 9, 16, 23, 30, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Regen Coop, 506 S Sali nas, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Regenerative Land scape Alliance, LLC, 506 S Salinas, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the Coun ty Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 24, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220002599. Published November 2, 9, 16, 23, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cheddar Photo Booths, 37 Dear born Pl. #79, Goleta, CA 93117. Michael A Mendoza, 37 Dearborn Pl. #79, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara Coun ty on September 30, 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. Jo seph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220002441. Published October 26, November 2, 9, 16, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Sage, 2729 Puesta Del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Seana M Sears, 2729 Puesta Del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This state ment was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 14, 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. 2022-0002543. Published October 26, November 2, 9, 16, 2022

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 22CV03910. To all interested parties: Petitioner Sharon Lynn Alexander-Weir filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Sharyn Lynn Alexander-Weir . The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the mat ter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed October 19, 2022 by Narzralli Baksh. Hearing date: December 9, 2022 at 10 am in Dept. 4, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published October 26, November 2, 9, 16, 2022

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” – Maya Angelou

01 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CALLING FOR BIDS

1. OWNER: Montecito Union School District

2. PROJECT IDENTIFICATION NAME: 2223 1 Construction of Foundation for Modular Restroom

3. PROJECT LOCATION: 385 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108

4. PROJECT DESCRIPTION Installation of a concrete foundation and landing at the restroom building and repair of adjacent decomposed granite walk. Grading of the area around the building to provide drainage per plan and relocation of existing boulders on site. Completion of utility connections under a separate contract. Provide signage and door stops.

This project is anticipated to start approximately February 1, 2023 and is anticipated to be completed by May 21, 2023.

Concrete Foundation Summary: Construction of foundation for Modular Restroom Building (restroom building is fabricated and installed under a separate contract). This project includes the installation of a concrete landing at the restroom building and the repair of an adjacent decomposed granite walk. Grading of the area around the building to provide drainage per plan and relocation of existing boulders on site. Provide signage and door stops. Utility connections are also under a separate contract.

5. BID DEADLINE: Bids are due on December 8 not later than 2:00 p.m.

6. PLACE AND METHOD OF BID RECEIPT: All bids must be made using the District provided bid forms and must be completed, sealed and turned in by the deadline. Bid packet will be provided at the job walk. Bids may be turned in by personal delivery, courier, or mailed via United States Postal Service and addressed to Montecito Union School District, 385 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. ATTN: Virginia Alvarez

7 PLACE PLANS ARE ON FILE: Montecito Union School District, Business Department, Second Floor, 385 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108, www.tricoblue.com

8 ALTERNATES: If alternate bids are called for, the contract will be awarded to the lowest bid price on the base contract without consideration of the prices on the additive or deductive items.

9 MANDATORY JOB WALK: Meet at Montecito Union School Office on Monday November 14, 2022 at 9:30 a.m sharp Attendance at the entire job walk is mandatory and failure to attend the entire job walk may result in your bid being rejected as non responsive. Contact OWNER for details on required job walks and related documentation.

10 This is a prevailing wage project. OWNER has ascertained the general prevailing rate of per diem wages in the locality in which this work is to be performed for each craft or type of worker needed to execute this contract. These rates are on file at OWNER’s office, and a copy may be obtained upon request, or at www.dir.ca.gov Contractor shall post a copy of these rates at the job site. ALL PROJECTS OVER $1,000 ARE SUBJECT TO PREVAILING WAGE MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT BY THE LABOR COMMISSIONER.

It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded (CONTRACTOR), and upon any SUBCONTRACTOR, to pay not less than the specified rates to all workers employed by them in the execution of the contract.

11 A Payment Bond for contracts over $25,000 and a Performance Bond for all contracts will be required prior to commencement of work. These bonds shall be in the amounts and form called for in the Contract Documents.

12 Pursuant to the provisions of Public Contract Code Section 22300, CONTRACTOR may substitute certain securities for any funds withheld by OWNER to ensure CONTRACTOR’s performance under the contract. At the request and expense of CONTRACTOR, securities equivalent to any amount withheld shall be deposited, at the discretion of OWNER, with either OWNER or a state or federally chartered bank as the escrow agent, who shall then pay any funds otherwise subject to retention to CONTRACTOR. Upon satisfactory completion of the contract, the securities shall be returned to CONTRACTOR.

Securities eligible for investment shall include those listed in Government Code Section 16430, bank and savings and loan certificates of deposit, interest bearing demand deposit accounts, standby letters of credit, or any other security mutually agreed to by CONTRACTOR and OWNER. CONTRACTOR shall be the beneficial owner of any securities substituted for funds withheld and shall receive any interest on them. The escrow agreement shall be in the form indicated in the Contract Documents.

13 To bid on or perform the work stated in this Notice, CONTRACTOR must possess a valid and active contractor's license of the following classification(s) C 8 No CONTRACTOR or subcontractor shall be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of § 4104 of the Public Contract Code, for a public works project (submitted on or after March 1, 2015) unless currently registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5 No CONTRACTOR or subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project (awarded after April 1, 2015) unless registered with the DIR DIR’s web registration portal is: www.dir.ca.gov/Public Works/Contractors.html

14 CONTRACTOR and all subcontractors must furnish electronic certified payroll records (eCPR) to the Labor Commissioner monthly in PDF format. Registration at www.dir.ca.gov/Public Works/Certified Payroll Reporting.html is required to use the eCPR system.

The following notice is given as required by Labor Code Section 1771.5(b)(1): CONTRACTOR and any subcontractors are required to review and comply with the provisions of the California Labor Code, Part 7, Chapter 1, beginning with Section 1720, as more fully discussed in the Contract Documents. These sections contain specific requirements concerning, for example, determination and payment of prevailing wages, retention, inspection, and auditing payroll records, use of apprentices, payment of overtime compensation, securing workers’ compensation insurance, and various criminal penalties or fines which may be imposed for violations of the requirements of the chapter. Submission of a bid constitutes CONTRACTOR’s representation that CONTRACTOR has thoroughly reviewed these requirements.

15 OWNER will retain 5% of the amount of any progress payments.

16 This Project does not require prequalification pursuant to AB 1565 of all general contractors and all mechanical, electrical and plumbing subcontractors

17. BID PACKET will be provided at the job walk to attendees.

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Those words about the organization she now leads aren’t just lip service for Miller-Bevan. In fact, her fam ily once was a Unity Shoppe client, as she was raised in town by a single mother in a low-income family who regularly visited Unity Shoppe to provide enough food for the family.

As an adult, after stints in advertising for local pub lications, Miller-Bevan embarked on a career of giving back and now boasts 20 years of experience in man agement, volunteer leadership, and development with Santa Barbara nonprofits including everything from Fiesta and Fairview Gardens to the American Heart Association and the Braille Institute.

It’s a bit like going full circle to now serving as ED at Unity Shoppe, a position she took on during the summer in a months-long transition from Tom Reed , who is mentoring Miller-Bevan until his offi cial retirement at the end of the year after 20 years at the organization.

“Most nonprofits do not have the opportunity to do something like this, because most executive directors don’t last longer than five years,” she said. “For me to be able to come in and learn from him has been amazing. Now I have the opportunity to take that history of an organization that’s been going for over 100 years and step in to doing everything I can to make it even more sustainable for the next 100 years.”

To that end, Unity Shoppe has amped up its food drives from Carpinteria to Goleta, and launched toy drives through Toys for Tots to make sure its free stores are well stocked for the holiday season when the demand is anticipated to be significantly higher than the average year due to the economy and inflation.

“We get lots of donations of non-perishable food, but it’s our goal to provide well-rounded meals for families and things like milk, eggs, chicken, and vege tables we have to purchase to provide for our clients,” Miller-Bevan said. “Some of those items have doubled or tripled in price, and the number of families who need our help is also going up because even work ing-class people in Santa Barbara are paying 50 to 75 percent of their paychecks for rent. So we’re going full bore right now.”

That includes putting the finishing touches on the Unity Shoppe’s 36th Annual Holiday Celebration and Telethon, the organization’s primary fundrais ing event that this year has the catchy theme of “Unity in the Community.” The event will be held on December 9 at the Kenny Loggins Event Center on Sola Street and aired live on KEYT with appear ances by longtime Unity supporters Loggins, Brad Paisley , Michael McDonald , Jeff Bridges , and other celebrities. Money raised from the telethon will be used to run the Client Service Center, and other programs, to purchase significantly increased quantities of healthy and fresh perishable foods and other non-perishable foods for Santa Barbara County residents.

Once the calendar flips to 2023, Miller-Bevan will be launching a bold new initiative to expand the nonprof it’s reach in the county.

“Our new goal is to actively try to work with other organizations to move into North County to provide services up there the way we do in South County,” she said, launching a new era that may last centuries in the other half of the county.

Unity Shoppe, Inc.

1401 Chapala Street unityshoppe.org (805) 965-4122

Angela Miller-Bevan, Executive Director

Body Wise

Harmony: A Way to Heal Discord

by Ann Brode

After another discordant election sea son, it’s time to heal the rifts and find ways to live together in loving community. As simple as it may sound, singing together helps us come togeth er. To explore this further, I recently sat down with therapist and singer-songwriter Marilee Gordon to ask about her experi ence using music as an avenue for personal and communal healing. Here are tidbits from our inspiring conversation.

Marilee’s relationship with music has been both formative and informative. From an early age, she treasured the joy of singing together at family gatherings. It wasn’t long before she picked up a guitar and started writing her own songs. And, she’s been playing music, writing songs, and getting others to sing along ever since. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Marilee used her musical exper tise to help people discover the inherent therapeutic value of singing along. I asked her to describe how this came about.

“I’ve done harmony singing with lots of groups, from 12 to 85 years old. Singing is a

lot about listening. If someone says, ‘I can’t sing,’ I simply put them next to someone who can, tell them to listen carefully and match what they hear. I developed this tech nique when I was in grad school and had a job as social service worker at a nursing home. I’d often bring my guitar and round people up to sing the songs my grandmother taught me. Even people who didn’t speak much, pitched in and sang along. Because music and emotions are so closely tied, what started out being recreational often ended up being therapeutic. These were all old-timer, no nonsense folks and the music opened them up, softened them up. As moods lifted and memories rekindled, soon they were

teaching me “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary.”

Later, Marilee worked with middle school kids to help them negotiate the social challenges of cliques and bullying. She was hoping that teaching them to sing in harmony might help them be nicer to each other. Sure enough, it worked, and the group ended up staying together as friends for the next thirty-plus years.

For several summers, Marilee and I designed retreats for professional caregivers with the express purpose to nurture and teach self-nurturing practices. Immersed in the simplicity of Nature at her ranch in Wyoming’s Absaroka Mountains, par ticipants were able to calm down and focus on self-care. Bodywork, art, exercise, meditation, ceremony, and music offered therapeutic ways to connect with a sense of self and each other. One of the highlights of our time together was learning how our individual voices could come together to create a harmonious whole. Near the end of the retreat, Marilee asked us to write a few words from the heart. She, then, used these words to compose an original song and teach it to the group. Singing “our song” was a way to personalize what we’d learned about being in harmony – with ourselves, each other, and the natural world. Then, we could bring it home.

Because music is so deeply rooted in our physical and emotional experience, it offers a powerful resource for healing. Listening to and singing along give us ways to process a wide range of feelings – from joy to sor row, regret to compassion. Have you ever heard a piece of music and felt emotion flood to the surface? This is a therapeutic moment. In addition, streaming a song and singing along can be cathartic and humming softly can be calming. If you pay attention to a song stuck in your head, the lyrics just might have something to tell you. Or, like Marilee, you might have a happy playlist that elevates your mood, a sad play list that’s comforting, and some songs you never want to hear again.

In general, singing brings on a natural high. It lowers blood pressure, increases endorphins, and decreases stress hormones. Studies have shown that when people sing together it brings them together – psycho logically and physiologically. Did you know that the hearts of people singing together

get in sync and begin to beat in unison? This aligns with Marilee’s comment that singing therapeutically isn’t about perform ing, it’s about coming from the heart. When she’s singing in a choir or chanting OM in yoga class, she hears it happen in the quality of tone emanating from and through all the voices singing in unison. Singing solo, she channels it to help her dogs sleep or comfort loved ones.

From her experience working with middle school kids, contentious siblings, and people from differing backgrounds, Marilee believes that music can be a trans formative agent to bring us all together. Musing on this, she concluded our inter view with this bit of poetic inspiration: “You know, in a sense, it’s like shades of green in the natural world all go together. We’re all different people, different shades of green. And, if everyone sings together it becomes a beautiful painting.”

Marilee Gordon LCSW is a longtime marriage and family counsellor in Jackson Hole, residing in Wilson, Wyoming, and Montecito. She is a singer/songwriter, performer, and author of the children’s book, Moosey Ate My Peas.

Ann Brode writes about living consciously in the body. She is the author of the book A Guide to Body Wisdom Visit bodywisdomforlife.com for more information.

Marilee Gordon singing at a retreat last summer in Wyoming

Marilee and her granddaughter singing in harmony

Figure 1: Global IPOs Bookrunner Rankings Year-onYear

Significant IPO proceeds generated by the Auto/Truck sector in 2022 YTD, were attributed to two key deals (Figure 4):

– South Korea – Battery for EVs Manufacturer LG Energy ($10.7B)

– German Porsche luxury automobile manufacturer ($7.9B)

II. U.S. IPO Market Outlook

The U.S. saw the lowest Q3 IPO proceeds in over five years in 2022, 37 IPOs raised $3.2B. New Traditional IPO deals have sharply declined from 82 IPO deals in 3Q21 to only 5 IPO deals in 3Q22.

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) were a large component of the IPO surge in 2021 with a total of 88 IPO deals in 2021, to reflect a bear market with continued downward trend of only 6 SPAC IPOs in 3Q 2022. This is largely attribut ed to lack of Private Investment in Public Equity financing. As such, many of these transactions will seek retirement to ensure a return to their shareholders.

The US IPO market is sharply muted when comparing 1Q21 activity of $121.7B in pro ceeds vs. $10.85B in proceeds as of 1Q22 followed by a grave decline in 3Q22 of just $2.6B.

Year to Date, more than 60% of IPOs have been withdrawn largely accredited to the current market and uncertainty that lies ahead.

From a sector standpoint, Finance continues to lead in IPO activity as well as vol ume with $11.81B in 2022 YTD followed by Healthcare sector leading with proceeds of $2.23B in 2022 YTD. Finance sector has sharply declined when compared to $124.8B proceeds from 2021 YTD.

In 3Q22, U.S. gained momentum solely from one deal in the Finance sector attributed to the AIG spin-off (Corebridge Financial Inc.) which accounted for 50% of U.S. IPO proceeds of $1.7B.

The U.S. has set the lowest activity since 2003, mainly due to inflationary concerns as the Federal Reserve seeks to engineer an economic slowdown to achieve the 2% rate over a period of time thus creating a concerning macroeconomic backdrop for investors and shareholders.

III. IPO Watch – 2023 and Beyond

The majority of IPOs have been backed by Private Equity (PE) firms who are reflecting a rather inactive pipeline YTD and are surely preparing an exit strategy for the majority of their seasoned companies via M&A or IPO, once the market returns.

Investors will continue to focus on high growth IPO candidates who maintain strong liquidity and cash flow as a strategic and competitive advantage. Inventors will likely keep a watchful eye on commodity price stability, positive earnings reports, and reductions in volatility for the IPO market to reopen.

Inflation is at an all-time high followed by rising interest rates thus adversely affect ing the global equity market. Geopolitical tensions and the pandemic led to more market uncertainty and volatility by welcoming headwinds for risk assets as 2022 comes to a close.

It is highly predictable, in the Americas, IPO pipelines are waiting for the market to reopen in 2023 as we expect interest rates to decline. EMEIAs IPO window con tinues to toughen with respect market conditions causing the IPO outlook to likely remain at a stalemate. As for APAC, activity remains robust in the background as companies assess their options for 2023 although, wise to bear in mind numbers have declined YTD.

Overall, IPO candidates looking to go public will likely come to realize valuation will be significantly lower when compared to the heights to 2021 however, there is significant optimism in the IPO market and activity likely to commence its upward trend in 2023.

Investors will likely seek out options in promising sectors (Green energy; technolo gy; Biopharma; Auto/Energy-Globally), aiming outside of SPAC transactions at least short-term and closely monitor commodity pricing.

Key Themes investors will likely seek out to ensure the IPO markets has re-opened include:

- Ensuring volatility is stabilized by monitoring VIX (at 20 level)

- Ensure stabilization of equity markets with index performance

- Resilience in post-IPO performance (keen focus on Cash/Liquidity)

- Closely aligned valuations between investors and issuers

- Ensuring evidence of stability through macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainties.

Dora Foto, Director of Internal Audit, plays an instrumental role in enhancing quality service to shareholders by reinforcing trust and assurance as she assists organizations in navigating through the lifecycle of pre-IPO readiness, all the way through the offering process and beyond by providing expertise in capital markets alternatives and IPO market trends.

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On Entertainment (Continued from 10)

out,” she said. “We are in this time of mass hysteria again, with people not trusting facts, but just choosing a side, pointing fingers and getting so incensed and angry and violent in their opinions that they’re not able to hear rational thoughts. Here we are again: Same thing. Different costumes.”

It’s a pretty heady and heavy drama to dive into for her SBHS debut, but Marchese is ready for the task, as well as spring’s musical, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and whatever comes after, she said.

“I was a good actor, but I didn’t have the ambition and thick enough skin. But right away with teaching I realized that everything I’ve been learning this whole time wasn’t about me being an actor. It’s actually been so that I can teach acting. That’s really where my gift is.”

(The Marchese era at SBHS launches November 12-19 at SBHS auditorium. Visit sbhstheatre.com for details.)

The Absurdity of It All

self-serving politicians.” Visit theaterdance. ucsb.edu.

Dance BASSH Back at the New Vic

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Jumping from high school to college, and from a harrowing drama to an absurdist comedy, there’s also UCSB Theater’s offer ing of a long weekend of The Government Inspector at the Hatlen Theater on campus November 16-20. UCSB faculty member Michael Bernard, whose tenure in town following 10 years as Associate Artistic Director of the 52nd Street Project in New York City includes acting appearances with the Lit Moon Theater Company, Elements Theater Collective, and SBCC Theatre Group, directs from a script adapt ed by Jeffrey Hatcher from the original by Nikolai Gogol. Bernard said he’s attempting to find honesty in the absurdity of the play, and wants audiences to connect with “the farcical, slapstick-filled and wildly satirical play, frothing with contemporary-feeling characters, musical interludes, and witty dialogue that deftly captures the realities of

BASSH is an evening mashup of dance in many forms including some ballroom boogies by Jatila van der Veen and Vasily Golovin (pictured)

If the local dance showcase/smorgas bord BASSH ever wanted to update its acronym-formed name to more accurately reflect the range of styles covered, the new moniker would be way too long and unwieldy and definitely more than one wordplay syllable. That’s because the revue founded and formerly directed by the veter an dance teacher/performer Derrick Curtis originally presented mostly ballroom, Argentine tango, swing, salsa, and hip-hop in its early days at SOhO and Center Stage. But recent years have seen a vast expansion in the style palette to encompass Brazilian, Latin fusion, belly dancing, aerials, Chinese classical, flamenco, and many others.

But the mission and the magic remain the same: to serve as a showcase for local studios, choreographers, and dancers to create pieces and perform in front of an enthusiastic audience, all in service of both reflecting and expanding Santa Barbara’s dance community, through encouraging viewers to become future participants.

That would apply to Jatila van der Veen, who first performed at BASSH in 2004 and now serves as a co-producer and this year’s artistic director in the absence of Curtis who is recovering from illness.

“I love performing and being involved with the local community,” she said. “And I love BASSH as a platform to reach people and encourage them to dance and study dancing.”

This year, van der Veen has choreo graphed the opening number, a huge five-segment circus-themed piece spanning myriad styles that will also serve to intro duce some of the dancers appearing later. She’ll join partner and BASSH veteran Vasily Golovin as well in two subsequent ballroom numbers they co-created. The 24 numbers that comprise the program – pared

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.” – Maya Angelou

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Patrick Barlow

DIRECTED BY Jamie Torcellini

SANTA

The Government Inspector offers a lighthearted look at self-serving politicians (photo by Jeff Liang)

Jake Shimabukuro

Christmas in Hawai'i

Thu, Dec 1 / 7 PM / Granada Theatre “If everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place.”

Aux for All An Inclusive Future for the Auxiliary

by Zach Rosen

y favorite thing is having all the fellows show up to a rehearsal and not know what’s going to happen,” Artistic and Creative Director James Darrah told me this summer in an interview during the lead up for Hahn Hall 1922-2022: An Original Cabaret. He continued, “It also helps high light where you can push and everyone has different skills and experiences… How are you going to be an artist in the next 20 years that has something important to say? Especially opera, which is really good at silo ing people away into categories.”

The one-night show was a culmination of a 10-day intensive between Darrah and the group of fellows from their Summer program. Later as I sat in on one of the cabaret rehearsals, watching fellow Alex Mathews sing a buttery baritone tune, Darrah entered the room, stating, “Okay, let’s do it just like that. But again. And this time I want everyone, and I mean everyone, to stand around the piano,” as he waved his arm out to the room, meeting eyes with each person, including

myself. Before I knew it, I was standing around the Steinway, listening to fellows break into song just feet away from me.

His goal was to create the genuine intimacy a cabaret cast would have and a warmth that would bring the fellows closer, as well as the audience. As Darrah, Musical Director Craig Terry, and the fellows later wooed and enchanted the crowd at the cabaret, this inclusivity and closeness paid off in the performances, making the audience feel as if they were part of the show. The cabaret’s fusing of technology, stereotype-bending perfor mances, and playful eye towards the past foretold the change recently made from the Music Academy’s Auxiliary group.

In October, the Auxiliary announced a new rendition of the group, proclaim ing themselves now as “Aux for All” – a non-gendered, all-inclusive new title to reflect the modern times, but also the direction the Music Academy has been going for a while now.

“[The cabaret] really does speak to this Auxiliary idea because not only is that group of fellows representative of our goal as an Auxiliary – really representing the diversity of the fellows, the diversity

of the community programs, the teaching artists, and the audience – but also the music,” says Auxiliary Governance Chair and Music Academy Board Member Mally Chakola. “Because music is for all,” she later adds.

Originally founded in 1954 as the Women’s Auxiliary, this group was tradi tionally women supporters that operated as one of the fundraising arms for the Music Academy, raising millions of dol lars to help support the MA’s mission and many programs.

As Chakola puts it, “We existed for many years around the shops and the rack and so that was really about bringing women at the time to a physical place. And it was about selling something and that money going to the Music Academy. Now, what we’re becoming is much more dynamic, much more integrated. We still are doing similar things, but we’re doing them in new ways.”

As the Auxiliary heads into its future, fundraising will still be part of their aim, but the group plans to do this in a much more interactive way where fundraising is simply a fun outcome of the experience. “One of the things that is really changing is the type of meetings that we’re hosting. In the past they were daytime, sleepy, heavy administrative meetings. Now,

we’ve moved into a format that is a worldclass performance by an alum of the Music Academy, and typically these are really innovative, groundbreaking performances – electric violin or the playing of a cello in a way that makes it sound like burning and fire – really diverse and unique ways to introduce instruments,” says Chakola.

They will also be putting an emphasis on how the Auxiliary supports the Music Academy – and not just through financial

The summer fellows joining in around the piano at the rehearsal to create a sense of intimacy

Set in 1922, the cabaret fused innovative projections and lighting that reflect the forward-thinking nature of the Music Academy (photo by Zach Mendez)

Nosh Town

Santa Barbara Chefs Embrace the Bounty of the Season

by Claudia Schou

Blue skies, swaying palm trees, and warm weather make our city the perfect setting for California Dreamin’, but diners can still find hearty winter dishes on the menus of many of Santa Barbara’s best eateries.

Game birds, root vegetables, chest nuts, truffles, and other seasonal ingre dients are among the rich cornucopia of flavors awaiting diners. “You can’t think of winter and not picture a bowl of hot butternut squash soup,” said Chef Adam Sanacore , who helms the kitchen at Local in Montecito with co-executive chef Jason Carter . “Ours

[with chilies] is a very nostalgic dish that is enhanced by subtle Mexican flavors. It is very much a Santa Barbarastyle take on a classic.”

Sanacore is a Long Island transplant with a penchant for Italian cooking. Carter spent years in Texas learning the art of Tex-Mex barbecue. Together they pack an arsenal of flavorful comfort fare that pleases diners’ palates. Their winter menu is inspired by flavors native Santa Barbarans associate with fall: braised beef, squash, citrus, chile, and spices.

The duo’s repertoire of daily specials is peppered with such dishes as roasted but ternut squash soup ($14), lightly spiced with cardamom and cumin, garnished

with a fragrant chile sauce, queso fresco, and toasted pepitas; and braised beef short ribs, glazed with butter and sage-in fused honey, and presented with frisée, red watercress, pomegranate seeds, and crispy purple kale chips ($55).

“Braised meat is the ultimate comfort food during fall and winter months because of the depth of flavor and versatility with seasoning,” Carter said. For dessert, Local offers charred cin namon and orange Panna Cotta ($14) with pistachio crumb, orange zest, and fried sage.

Meanwhile, executive chef/owner Julian Martinez is introducing a vari ety of daily specials inspired by early Californians at Barbareño.

Acorns, avocado, beef tri-tip, eucalyp tus, pinquito beans, quail, sea urchin, spot prawns, and red oak firewood smoke are just a few ingredients diners will expe rience with Barbareño’s locally-sourced winter menu.

During dinner hours you might find him in the kitchen preparing tagliatelle with acorns, Wolf Ranch mushrooms, charred oak broth, and fresh herbs ($26). For Uni Carbonara ($25), he tosses house-made squid ink capellini pasta with egg yolk, locally sourced raw sea urchin, chili sauce, and citrus juice. He then adds ‘nduja, Fiscalini San Joaquin Gold cheese, and a touch of fennel pollen to finish.

Savory and sweet, Barbareño’s ricot ta-stuffed dumplings ($23) are bathed in a strawberry masala sauce and gar nished with braised pine nuts, fresh herbs, and nigella seeds. It’s not simply delicious, it’s contributing to a cause: Barbareño is donating $2 of every order of dumplings to the Wilderness Youth Project.

For dessert, Martinez devises a mousse-like blood orange semifreddo cake dressed in blueberry caramel and

Local’s winter offerings include roasted butternut squash soup served with chile sauce, queso fresco, and toasted pepitas, as well as these braised beef short ribs topped with pomegranate seeds and crispy purple kale chips

Barbareño Chef/Owner Julian Martinez created a Winter menu and wrote a cookbook inspired by local culture and ingredients, such as this acorn tagliatelle dish with charred oak broth, Wolf Ranch mush rooms, and wild herbs

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The Trail of History The

Great Allegheny Passage

by Hattie Beresford

An impressive fountain sprays high into the sky at the point where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers converge to form the Ohio River. The waters from the fountain come from yet a third river that runs underground to add its own effluence to la belle rivière. Here, at this historic confluence in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is Mile 148.8 of the Great Allegheny Passage, the rail trail bicycle path which ends at Cumberland, Maryland.

A major site of the colonial wars between the French and English and their respective Native American allies for control of terri tory west of the Appalachian Mountains, the Point saw the French construct Fort Duquesne in 1754. When the English cap tured it in 1758, the name changed to that of the British statesman in charge of the war effort and became Fort Pitt. Today, Point State Park commemorates and interprets these historic events. And, as always, we are on the trail of history.

And so it is, that on a cold morning after celebratory fireworks had opened hockey season for the Penguins, we arrive at the bicycle rental shop to begin a five-day journey through the blazing fall colors of Western Pennsylvania on the former railbeds of the Baltimore and Ohio (B & 0), Western Maryland

(WM), and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie (P&LE) railroads. The crushed limestone path will take us along three rivers – the Monongahela, the Youghiogheny, and the Casselman – through four tunnels, over 12 impressive viaducts and bridges, and past dozens of farming and former coal and steel towns that have come to depend on the popular bicycle traffic to augment their economic base.

My cousin from Holland, Tanja, has flown west to meet us for the adventure, just as we have flown east. We have

From left: the author Hattie Beresford, Tanja van den Elsken, and Michael Beresford get their bicycles for the GAP adven ture

Point State Park lies at the tip of Pittsburgh where the Monongahela and the Allegheny rivers join an underground third river which fuels the waters of the fountain and form the Ohio River. The home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the former and locally much-lamented Heinz Field, now called Acrisure Stadium, stands in the background.

The historic Hot Metal Bridge crosses the Monongahela River and we continue riding east on its south side

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Watling, director of technical operations for Agilent in Carpinteria – which has 400 employees, part of 16,000 staffers globally –, as speakers.

Lisa Morris, a former student at UN Las Vegas, also spoke movingly about being diagnosed with cervical and ovari an cancer in 1996 at the age of 22, with the cancer returning nine years later. She is now cancer-free.

“We are happy to be back after doing virtual events during the pandem ic,” enthused Sanford. “We got all this together in just four months!”

Among the supporters were Stephanie Petlow, Warren Butler, Gregg Hart, and Fritz and Gretchen Olenberger.

“If we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

Morning Routine

Riven Rock royal Meghan Markle has shared an insight into her “whirl wind” morning routine on her latest Spotify podcast.

The former actress, 41, just recorded her seventh show for her Archetype series and revealed what mornings are like for her and Prince Harry at their $14 million Montecito estate.

The tony twosome start by looking after their youngsters, Archie and Lilibet, pre paring their son’s school lunch box, feeding their three dogs and making breakfast for the family, which is “very important” to her.

“I’m sure it will get more chaotic as they get older,” says Markle. “But for me, it’s you know, good to hear the kids. I’m always up with Lily, getting her down stairs, and then helping an hour later when Archie’s up.

“I make breakfast for all three of them. It’s very important to me. I love doing it. For me it just feels like a great way to start the morning.”

Some Favorite Things

Former TV titan Oprah Winfrey has just revealed her 26th annual Favorite Things List just in time for Christmas.

It features 104 presents with items ranging from luxe loungewear to beauty products, and tech and kitchen gadgets.

“This year we’re celebrating small busi nesses – think family-run, local makers, and women-founded,” says Oprah.

One of the more expensive gifts is a De’Longhi eco espresso machine at $900 with Peepers Specs at $29, one of the most economical purchases.

Home for Sale

Oscar winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow ’s 7,000-square-foot former

The luncheon had about 80 guests and raised around $100,000 (photo by Priscilla)

The American Cancer Society hosted its second annual Riviera Luncheon at the Hilton (photo by Priscilla)

Alex Castillo, Denise Sanford, and Gregg Hart (photo by Priscilla)

Karina Kulangara and Mike Watling (photo by Priscilla)

white chocolate ($12) and a mango and herb semifreddo lemon hop cake with lavender and pine nuts ($12.50).

The history of foods and local cul ture appear in a new cookbook called Barbareño: Cuisine of California’s Central Coast. It’s a compilation of more than 300 recipes by Martinez with photogra phy by Carter Hiyama. The cookbook retails for $41.99, and can be purchased at Chaucer’s, the Book Den, Bart’s Books, or online at barbareno.com.

Other chefs, such as executive chef Luca Crestanelli and sous-chef Francesco Crestanelli of SY Kitchen in Santa Ynez, look forward to bringing back seasonal favorites. These are just a few of the fall/ winter dishes that have been added to SY Kitchen’s menu: grilled salmon with a puttanesca sauce and grilled asparagus ($47); spaghetti with littleneck clams, saffron, asparagus ($29); braised lamb shank served with polenta ($50); and a

fire-roasted pizza with burrata, mozzarel la, and shaved black truffles ($45).

Truffles – a savory fungi with distinct aromatics and an earthy flavor – are a popular seasonal tradition at Ca’Dario, where chef and owner Dario Furlati sources white truffles from Piemonte and black truffles from Umbria.

“A white truffle has a delicate and sub tle flavor with a slight scent of mushroom while black truffles are more earthy and pungent,” Furlati said.

New to Ca’Dario’s winter menu: fet tuccine served with chestnuts in a creamy pumpkin sauce as well as SY Valley quail with polenta and porcini mushrooms.

At bouchon, executive chef Nate Van Etten said he thrives on the natural flavors of winter for his culinary inspi ration – such as persimmons and pears, as well as beets, leeks, turnips, and other root vegetables.

Van Etten, who previously honed his

culinary skills at Petit Valentien in down town’s La Arcada, uses these ingredients – along with a bevy of fresh herbs – to tempt diners with delectable purées and savory sauces.

Try the grilled rack of lamb served with parmesan herb risotto, wild mush rooms, kale, and cipollini onions and porcini jus ($40); maple-glazed duck breast with confit of thigh served with a succotash of sweet corn, fava beans, leeks, applewood-smoked bacon, and butternut squash, dressed in a portthyme demi-glace ($38), or the pep per-crusted venison loin with caramel ized onion, grilled radicchio, and corn alongside a red pepper purée ($38). Served seared and rare, this meat seems to melt in your mouth.

Among the winter-inspired specials at bouchon: heirloom tomato salad with lemon-herbed burrata, basil, wild fennel, roasted tomato oil, and white balsamic reduction ($22); a warm pecan and goat cheese tart made with herbed chévre, baby frisée, Fuyu per simmon, pomegranate, aged balsamic drizzle ($20); and a trio of sea scallops, seared and chilled, served with carpac cio, cucumber, citrus, fresh watercress, exotic wild mushrooms and shelled fava beans; and paella “risotto” style with chorizo, asparagus, and parsley coulis (market value).

For dessert, Van Etten presents a warm peach galette with stone fruit compote,

peach semifreddo, and a drizzle of euca lyptus honey ($15).

On Tuesdays and Saturdays, you might find Van Etten at the farmers market leading a small group of food lovers through the aisles, introducing them to delicious novelty foods such as finger-shaped caviar limes or toffee almond butter. Later in the day, they return to Bouchon to taste the ingredi ents showcased in a special meal. The farmers market tour includes a threecourse dinner with wine pairings for $150 per person.

“It’s exciting as a chef to transition from the rush of summer into a slower pace,” Van Etten said. “The calm of fall and winter allows time to devel op new recipe ideas. It’s out with the summer tomatoes and onto aromatic braised foods that I personally love to cook.”

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Loves Flannery O’Connor and Breakfast with The Beatles. Formerly at California Apparel News, Orange County Register, and L.A. Times Community News.

The dynamic chef siblings Luca and Francesco Crestanelli brought back a savory lamb shank for SY Kitchen’s winter menu

Fettuccine served with chestnut pumpkin sauce and SY Valley quail with polenta at Ca’Dario

Pepper-crusted venison with caramelized onion and red pepper purée and an heirloom tomato salad with lemon-herbed burrata, basil, and wild fennel at bouchon

arranged to have our luggage transferred to our pre-arranged accommodations in four trail towns, so we will travel with only our needs for the day, which include layers of warm clothing. It’s cold, 39 degrees; but we expect it to warm up to 68.

We mount our bikes, and the journey begins. We pedal east along the Eliza Furnace Trail, named for a series of blast furnaces that once occupied the banks of the Monongahela River, to cross over Hot Metal Bridge. This historic bridge

was used to move hot iron from the blast furnaces on the north side of the river to the open hearths on the south side.

Homestead to West Newton

The next bit of history is only five miles away and we stop to take in the remains of the Homestead Steel Plant. It was here that one of the most violent strikes in American history took place. Henry Clay Frick, chairman and chief executive of Carnegie Steel, locked out striking workers who objected to a pay cut. Violence ensued when Frick called

in 300 Pinkerton agents to protect strike breakers he had hired. Over a dozen people were killed and others brutal ly beaten. Eventually the governor of Pennsylvania sent 8,500 National Guard forces to restore order. Today, a small park surrounding the old pump house of the former plant offers interpretive signs and beautiful views of the Monongahela River where an excursion boat peacefully makes its way up the tree-lined river.

We are traveling east so we are count ing down the miles to zero. At mile 134, we cross the 1890 steel arch bridge to McKeesport. Here we leave the Monongahela and transfer to the route along the unpronounceable Youghiogheny River. The locals just call it the “Yawk.”

Along the Yough, the landscape becomes more peaceful and the towns less bustling. Glimpses of the river through the autum nal trees and the crunch of the limestone create a serene mood as we make our way past Boston, the Dravo Cemetery, and Buena Vista enroute to West Newton at mile 114.1. The town boasts a bike shop, bakery, restaurants, and a new distillery, but we are weary and head to our cozy and lovely accommodations in one of the Victorian houses that are part of the Bright Morning B & B complex.

West Newton to Ohiopyle

In the cuts along the trail, seams of coal can still be seen

bed, one can still see large seams of coal embedded in the rock. Coal mining being dangerous work, the worst mining disaster in Pennsylvania’s history took place nearby in Van Meter when 239 coal miners were killed in a massive explosion. As a result, the federal government was moved to create the U.S. Bureau of Mines to try to prevent these kinds of accidents.

A short ride the following day takes us over two bridges before we reach the train station turned visitor’s center at Ohiopyle, formerly known as Falls City. It’s Columbus Day and the little resort

Near the train station and just off the trail, the Bright Morning Bed & Breakfast complex of converted houses make for a lovely, comfortable over night stay

Old photographs show this area denuded of trees, but today the woods have returned and excursion boats navigate its waters

The next day’s ride takes us past the reconstructed West Newton train station and museum enroute to Connellsville, with its historic churches and an array of restaurants and lodging, many of which are closed this late in the season. We ride past evidence of the famous Connellsville Coalfield, where 1/9th of the country’s coal mining was taking place in 1910. At one time, over 40,000 beehive and rectangular ovens lit up Connellville’s sky with an orange/reddish glow.

At the cuts made to accommodate the gentle grade necessary for the former rail

During the summer months, many riders use the campgrounds along the trail for their overnight accom modations. We ran across a few hardy souls still camping.

The name Ohiopyle means “frothing waters. The town was formerly named Falls City and the first 28 miles of the GAP were created in the state park, often by volunteer labor and with donated materials.

“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.” – Maya Angelou

The remains of the infamous Homestead Steel Plant are now a park with interpretive signs regarding its history

West Newton and the GAP

We crisscrossed the Youghioheny River on iron bridges

When views of the river open up, it’s mandatory to stop and take a photo

childhood home in Santa Monica is on the market for $17.5 million.

Paltrow, 50, was about four years old when her parents, director Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner pur chased the 1913 six-bedroom, six-anda-half-bath house on nearly half an acre in 1976.

It also has a two-story guest house and three-car garage.

She was 12 when her family moved from California to New York in 1984.

Popularity Contest

Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle rank near the bottom along with his disgraced uncle Prince Andrew in a new Royal Family popularity poll.

A total of 1,095 British adults were asked to rate them along with other mem bers of the family in a national survey.

Prince William, Harry’s older broth er, got 69 percent “favorable” with his wife Kate, Princess of Wales, getting 67 percent, topping the poll.

Anne, Princess Royal, got 64 percent and her brother, King Charles, 54 percent.

A third of Britons ranked the Duke of Sussex as “unfavorable” and almost half – 44 per cent – said the same of Meghan.

The duo have, however, gained in pop ularity despite their public “sniping” of other royals in high profile interviews from their self-imposed exile in Montecito.

Condo Available

Montecito comedienne Carol Burnett has put her Los Angeles condo on the market for $4.2 million.

Remodeled in 2011, the three-bed room, two-and-a-half-bathroom condo in The Wilshire boasts spectacular views of the Santa Monica Mountains from every window.

The unit, which has a private elevator and parking for three cars, is just a short walk from the oh-so tony L.A. Country Club.

New Owner for Bacara

The Ritz-Carlton Bacara has just been sold for $529 million to the New York conglomerate Brookfield Properties.

Built in 2000 for $222 million, the Goleta property has 311 guest rooms and 49 premium suites, three restau rants, four bars, and a 42,000-squarefoot spa with 78 acres of beachfront.

Singer Nick Carter and Lauren Kitt, Fergie and Josh Duhamel, Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler, Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli, and actor Charlie Sheen’s daughter Cassandra Estevez, all celebrat ed their weddings at the hostelry.

The luxury property has had a number of owners over the years and in May was among 25 hotels sold by the Watermark Lodging Trust to Brookfield Asset Management for $3.8 billion in an allcash transaction.

Evelyn Sullivan Receives Dorothy Shea Award

from last year’s 36 that ran for three hours at the Marjorie Luke as the producers want ed everyone to have a chance to reconnect when the show returned after pausing for the pandemic – are largely created for the two BASSH performances and include the 2022 Zermeño Dance Academy Flamenco Company, Somos Familia Latin-Hip Hop Fusion Company, and a tropical percussive band performing for the final bows. Who knows? After taking in one of the pair of shows being performed at the New Vic November 11 and 12, you might find yourself feeling the same way Van der Veen does.

“Dancing is my life,” she said. “I do phys ics for a living, but I dance to stay alive.”

People and Pages

Bob Corritore for a return visit with the Santa Barbara Blues Society on November 12. The front men, who will be accompa nied by Rick Reed on bass and Dave Kida on drums, have recorded three well-regard ed albums together including The Gypsy Woman Told Me, which prompted one reviewer to praise the disc as “Chicago blues performed by those who lived the life, even when it was not the popular thing to do.” Groove to the blues as SBBS returns to the Carrillo Recreation Center down town in a show that boasts free snacks, beverages, an outdoor patio, and a large, spring-loaded dance floor. Santa Barbara native nationally-touring blues guitar ist Cameron Nichoson opens the show. Visit SBBlues.org.

Evelyn “Evie” Sullivan is the recip ient of the 2022 Dorothy Shea Award from the Breast Cancer Resource Center of Santa Barbara, the great est recognition by the organization of a volunteer.

The award is named for Dorothy Shea, who was a founding mother and gave the BCRC its start by providing a home rent free for several years, to meet and support women facing breast cancer.

As the center commemorates its 25th anniversary, Sullivan is recognized as a “Founding Mother,” treasurer, self-titled “Volunteer for Life,” and tireless cham pion of BCRC and individuals facing breast cancer.

Sheryl Zimmerman on Board

Local author Monte Schulz has just pub lished Metropolis, his sixth prose fiction novel and a dystopian narrative of love in a time of war and moral disintegration. Schulz, whose father was beloved Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, a longtime friend of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, helped resurrect the conference as its director sev eral years ago. He’ll talk about Metropolis and more at Chaucer’s Books on November 15… Nigella Lawson, who has become an unstoppable and empowering force in the world of food since publishing her first cookbook, How to Eat in 1998 – the first of a dozen bestsellers – converses with KCRW Good Food host Evan Kleiman on November 12 at the Granada Theatre.

Notes Around Town: A Primer on the Blues

Dean of Chicago Blues guitar John Primer, the former guitarist in the bands of the legendary Muddy Waters and Magic Slim and a two-time winner of the presti gious Blues Music Award (BMA) from the Blues Foundation, joins Grammy nominat ed/BMA award winning harmonica player

Elsewhere on November 12, Carpinteria’s Alcazar Theatre hosts “Forever Young,” it’s fourth annual Neil Young Birthday Celebration starring Shakey Zimmerman, the Phil Cody Band featuring members and special guests Pat Nevins, David Cowan, Phil Cody, Chris Ulep, Bryan “Smitty” Smith, Roger Len Smith, Henry Parker, Jody Salino, Karina Dawn Line, and Andy Steuer. That’s the same night Poor Man’s Whiskey returns to SOhO… The Woody DeMarco Quartet featur ing Kim Richmond plays Santa Barbara Jazz Society’s monthly gig at SOhO on November 13, just across the street from the Arlington Theatre, where country band Whiskey Meyers performs that night.

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

Sheryl Zimmerman, a distinguished professor of social work and public health, has joined the board of the Dream Foundation.

Evelyn Sullivan receives the Dorothy Shea Award

Sheryl Zimmerman joins Dream Foundation board

Robert’s Big Questions

What is Freedom?

by Robert Bernstein

President Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) delivered his famous “Four Freedoms” speech 11 months before Pearl Harbor took us into WWII. These four freedoms?

Freedom of speech; Freedom of worship; Freedom from want; Freedom from fear.

This mural of the Four Freedoms (pic tured) used to be on the County Human Resources Department. Note that the first two are negative freedoms, whereas the last two are affirmative freedoms.

Freedom of speech and worship just require the government to refrain from interfering in these acts. But freedom from want is an invitation for govern ment to guarantee that every person’s minimum life needs be met.

FDR’s list was meant to apply to the entire world. Hence “freedom from fear” was meant to include government inter vention to protect people from tyranny and outside aggression.

These Four Freedoms were later included in the Universal Declaration of

Human Rights. However, the last two were never included in our own U.S. Constitution. Most modern constitu tions do include these affirmative rights.

The Philippines Constitution of 1987 includes an entire section on health care, housing, and basic nutrition as a right.

What does it mean to be “free” if one does not have one’s basic needs met?

“Free Enterprise” works best when inno vators don’t have to worry about their basic needs.

Libertarianism has roots back to 18th century Europe. But in modern times it is a uniquely American idea of freedom. In principle it makes obvious sense: If my behavior doesn’t hurt anyone else, leave me alone. But the devil is in the details. Is any behavior completely free of affecting others?

If too many people drive, how does this affect pedestrians and bicyclists? One car clogs traffic as much as an entire busload of people. And if too many people drive, it drains people from transit and worsens transit schedules.

Libertarians oppose regulation as an infringement on their freedom. Do they oppose traffic signals?

The flip side of Libertarianism is that

libertarians don’t want to pay to support other people. More accurately, they may be OK donating for such sup port, but they don’t want to be “forced” to pay such sup port through taxes. “Taxation is theft” is their motto.

This ignores “market fail ures.” I discussed this in two earlier articles with regard to housing and the Climate Crisis. Markets on their own do not care if people have no housing, food, or health care. Markets don’t care if a person with no money to spend in the mar ket, simply dies.

Some Libertarian philos ophy is not economic. It is about people wanting free ly to engage in prostitution or drug use as a buyer or seller. These people might traditionally be considered “liberal” and such views have been adopted in more liberal European countries.

But a strong thread of Libertarianism in the U.S. is at the core of the modern Republican Party. It is all about rejecting regulation and what they consider to be subsidies. Of course, these Republicans are happy to spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year subsidizing their pet industries like fossil fuels, private motor vehicles, Big Pharma, and Big Agribusiness. They also support regulat ing women’s reproductive rights.

FDR was correct: We cannot be free if we lack the basics of life. And markets only work if everyone has enough money to participate in them. Libertarian econ omist Milton Friedman advocated for a universal basic income in the form of a “negative income tax.” He acknowl edged that this was the only way for a Libertarian market system to work.

The Climate Crisis is the largest mar ket failure facing the world today. Tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of people around the world are facing losing their homes to flooding and/or fires due to the Climate Crisis.

What about their freedom to live in peace? Many millions more are faced with losing their jobs and/or food sources from the Climate Crisis.

Our “freedom” to burn fossil fuels and cut down forests very much harms other people and restricts their most basic free doms. Can we agree that any meaningful freedom has to include affirmative rights? And that this must include taxation and government action to secure these most basic rights and freedoms?

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

“I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.” – Maya Angelou

Robert

The Four Freedoms mural previously found on the County Human Resources Department

The Olive Mill Roundabout project was kicked off last week by a number of stakeholders and gov ernment officials

reopen in over two and a half years. Warner maintains that he has no plans to sell any of his Montecito properties, which include the Biltmore, the Coral Casino, Montecito Club, and the San Ysidro Ranch. He told the Journal last year that he is using the property closure as an opportunity to rein vest in the beloved resort.

The petition was filed on October 31, 2022. We’ll have more on the future of the Biltmore as this story unfolds.

Olive Mill Roundabout Kicks Off

On Friday, November 4, community leaders and elected officials celebrated the kick-off for the Olive Mill Roundabout project. Construction will begin late November and go through summer 2023.

The roundabout will improve traffic flow at the intersection at Olive Mill Road, Coast Village Road, North Jameson Lane, the northbound Highway 101 off-ramp at Olive Mill Road, and the southbound Highway 101 on-ramp at Olive Mill Road. “We know that this intersection has need ed to be updated for many years. The var ious streets and freeway ramps that inter sect it have made it a challenge that I’ve heard about from Central Coast residents all the way back to when I was a County Supervisor for this area,” said Congressman Salud Carbajal

The roundabout features improvements for motorists with a single-lane traffic cir cle designed to be utilized at 20 mph. Bicyclists will be able to either take the lane or dismount and use the crosswalks on the mountain side. Pedestrians will have enhanced crosswalks, median islands between each direction of travel, new land scaping, and new signs and lighting. “Our City staff have been working for years to get a roundabout design that fits within three different jurisdictions – the City, County, and Caltrans. It is no small feat and will serve our community for many decades to come,” said Santa Barbara Mayor and SBCAG Director Randy Rowse

Construction on the Olive Mill Roundabout will begin late November. Crews will close the northbound off-

ramp at Olive Mill Road and the south bound on-ramp at Olive Mill Road to allow space for the contractor to work and to reduce the amount of traffic moving through the construction area. Expect to see initial safety fencing and grading on the southeast corner near the closed ramps. Throughout construction drivers will have access through the intersection. There will be flaggers and night work as needed, and delays are anticipated between five to 10 minutes throughout construction.

The roundabout is being built in coordination with the Highway 101: Carpinteria to Santa Barbara project undertaken by Caltrans and SBCAG in cooperation with local agencies to add a new HOV lane in each direction between Carpinteria and Santa Barbara (10.9 miles). The project will improve bridges, interchanges, and on- and off-ramps. The Carpinteria segment has been built, and the Padaro and Summerland segments are under construction. The Highway 101: Carpinteria to Santa Barbara proj ect is funded from SB1, state and federal dollars, and Measure A. Funding applica tions are being submitted to complete the remaining corridor segments by 2028.

The public is encouraged to find more information and sign up for biweekly construction updates on the project’s website at SBROADS.com, or by call ing (805) 845-5112, or emailing info@ SBROADS.com.

The Olive Mill Roundabout is a $9 million project funded by regional fund ing programmed by SBCAG.

Urgent Care Opens on Coast Village Road

Just as the roundabout construction gears up, a new business has opened on the prominent corner: Cottage Health opened its newest Cottage Urgent Care Center at 1298 Coast Village Road in Montecito this past Monday, with the goal of providing complete care within 45 minutes. The new Urgent Care Center is open from 8 am to 8 pm, 365 days a year. Cottage providers staffing the Urgent

Care Center include a licensed advanced practice provider (nurse practitioner or physician assistant), a radiology techni cian, and clinical concierges. Conditions treated include scrapes and minor cuts, minor burns, sprains, allergies, earache, urinary tract infection, skin conditions, rash, poison oak, cold and flu symptoms, COVID testing, and other minor ail ments and injuries. Patients who require attention for more serious medical con ditions may be referred to a local emer gency department or physician. Available services onsite include X-rays and physical exams for student sports participation.

Cottage Urgent Care in Montecito joins 14 other Cottage Urgent Care locations in Santa Barbara, Goleta, Buellton, Orcutt, Santa Maria, and San Luis Obispo, as well as Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo, and Point Hueneme.

Walk-ins are welcome and online appointments are available. For more information and appointments, visit cottagehealth.org/urgentcare. The Urgent Care is located at 1298 Coast Village Road.

Montecito Association Meets

At this month’s Montecito Association Board meeting earlier this week, Lieutenant Butch Arnoldi reported on two storm related issues in Montecito: a washed-up sailboat at Channel Drive and a downed oak tree on East Mountain Drive. As of press time, the storm earlier this week produced three inches of rain in the foothills and one to two inches locally.

Fire Chief Kevin Taylor reported that the rain is great for fire conditions, and that sand and sandbags will be available later in the rainy season. Montecito Water District GM Nick Turner said the recent rain satu rated the soil and that irrigation should be turned off for two to three weeks.

Lieutenant Arnoldi also listed the crimes in Montecito in the last month, which included a residential burglary on Toro

Canyon Road, an overdose of a transient individual in the Upper Village, vehicular trespass on the 800-block of Hot Springs; a traffic collision and possible DUI on the 500-block of Toro Canyon, minors in possession of alcohol on Ortega Hill, tractor stolen from construction site on the 900-block of Hot Springs, tools stolen from vehicle on Channel Drive, and a commercial burglary in the Upper Village.

Anthony Ranii with Montecito Union School reported that the school has added additional security measures on campus, including adding 10 more cameras (for a total of 28), upgrading fences and gates, add ing to additional “Knox boxes” which allow access for first responders in the event of an emergency, and internet safety upgrades.

During the Conference Agenda, rep resentatives from grassroots group Our Neighborhood Voices were on the call, giv ing an update on a ballot initiative aimed for 2024 that would amend the California constitution to prevent new laws that over ride local zoning and planning jurisdiction, such as Senate Bill 9, which passed last year. “This is all supposed to create more afford able housing, but it’s really been a give away to, and driven by, developers,” said Montecito Association Executive Director Sharon Byrne, who has been working behind the scenes on this issue.

The thousands of neighborhood lead ers in California behind this initiative believe that more housing is needed that is affordable for middle- and lower-in come Californians, but that by taking control away from local jurisdictions, it allows developers to build lots of expen sive, vacant housing units that very few Californians can afford.

To learn more, visit ourneighborhood voices.com. We’ll have more on this initiative as it unfolds.

Lastly at the meeting, Byrne reported that $16,000 was raised at Beautification Day last weekend. It was a successful day of litter pickup and celebrating the beau ty of Montecito.

For more information, visit montecito association.org.

Beautification Day was a great success, with over $16,000 raised and lots of litter picked up

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.

A rendering of the Olive Mill Roundabout

Cottage Urgent Care has opened on Coast Village Road

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She will work closely with staff, serve as a valuable advisor to program services, and bring awareness of end-of-life, palli ative care, and long-term care organiza tions based on her extensive knowledge and networking.

Zimmerman co-directs the program on aging, disability, and long-term care at the Cecil G. Sheps Center of Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She also works closely with the National Institute on Aging, the Alzheimer’s Association, and other organizations con ducting research and putting the findings into practice.

Gael Greene Remembered

On a personal note I remember Gael Greene, an erstwhile colleague from my days as an editor at New York Magazine in the ‘80s, who just died in Manhattan, aged 88.

Gael was restaurant critic for the week ly glossy for four decades and brought a mixture of sass and sexuality to her colorful columns on the city’s bustling eatery scene.

Always in disguise, Gael set the stan dard for brilliant, sensuous, and bitchy food writing. She also appeared as a judge on Bravo’s Top Chef Masters from 2009 to 2011.

But the one thing she was most proud of was launching the charity Citymealson-Wheels with legendary cookbook writer and teacher James Beard, which today pays for more than two million meals annually.

A great character who changed the world of restaurant criticism for ever.

Sightings

Rocker Adam Levine in a pedal cart with daughters Dusty , 6, and Gio , 4, at Pierre Lafond... Sean Parker , founder of Napster and first presi dent of Facebook, block booking the Rosewood Miramar in its entirety for three days... Rob Lowe watching the

L.A. Dodgers with fellow actor Jason Bateman .

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

means – such as their Compeer Program, which is a personal favorite of Chakola’s and one she describes as “life changing” for herself and her family. She adds, “The Compeer Program takes place when the Summer Festival is going on. We have fellows coming from all over the world and families or individuals have an opportunity to team up, or do it on their own, and be a host – the fellows are not staying with them, or living with them, they’re not providing them their meals – but they’re acting as an ambassador for the town of Santa Barbara.” These ambassadors get to host a fellow or two, showing them around the area and helping them feel connected to the community.

This week there is a chance for the whole community to experience the new approach of the Auxiliary with a free kick-off concert to launch their five-day fundraising Online Auction. The concert will be held this Wednesday, November 16, from 4-6 pm at Weinman Hall and will feature MA alums and invigorating electroacoustic duo, ARKAI, along with a raffle to win an e-bike. The auction will go until Saturday, November 20, and each day will bring new surprises with daily raffles and local offerings like wine tastings, private concerts, and spa treatments. The auction is the largest fundraiser the Auxiliary will be hosting this year and will go to support the Sing! Choir along with the MA’s mission and other programs, including the summer fellows’ full scholarships. Visit musicacademy.org/auction for early registration and musicacademy.org/volunteer/auxiliary to join the group and help make more musical magic like this happen.

down on the side of support for women’s reproductive rights.

Locally, congratulations to Congressman Salud Carbajal, who has many air miles still ahead of him as he continues to traverse the country between his hometown Santa Barbara and our nation’s capital, fighting the good fight for all of us on the Central Coast and beyond. Why in the world our Forefathers decided that members of Congress would have to run for office every two years, on a perpetual fundrais ing and campaigning loop, I’ll never know. I suspect if they’d been Foremothers, they’d have had more sense!

In Santa Barbara County, a complicated game of musical chairs has ended with County Supervisor Gregg Hart dancing off to Sacramento to serve in the State Assembly with reelected Governor Gavin Newsom – leaving his BOS District 2 seat in the capable hands of School Board Member Laura Capps Gabe Escobedo will, in turn, waltz onto Santa Barbara Unified School Board rep resenting District 1, the first ever “minority-majority” district in Santa Barbara Unified’s history.

As for Montecito, we have a new member on the Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees in local resident Charlotte Gullap-Moore . Incumbent Marybeth Carty will continue her hard work on the Santa Barbara County Board of Education, and Peter van Duinwyk will return to warm his seat on the Montecito Fire board, joined by self-identified “techie” new comer Steve Dougherty . Meanwhile, two Cold Spring School District School Board incumbents, Board Chair Michael Marino and Board Member Jennifer Miller , despite years of controversy with some vocal community critics, have been given the nod to keep calm and carry on. They will be joined on the Board by parent and newcomer, Elke Kane .

Now attention turns back to the looming question facing Georgia, which will likely turn into the most expensive U.S. Senate race in the history of the world. Oh, and to important existential questions like: did we really need to give up the much-loved and lucrative Coast Village Road parklets for just a scant number of parking spaces?

2022 Puzzle 11: “No End in Sight” Solution

November’s MMMM challenged solvers to find a hit song from the ’70s. The puzzle’s title “No End in Sight” provides the main clue to the puzzle’s solution. The grid contains nine entries that are also words (with unrelated meanings) if the letters “END” are appended. For example, OFF can transform into OFFEND, and GODS into GODSEND.

Each of the nine words formed in this manner can also be clued using the clue of a different grid entry. For example, OFFEND can be clued as [Aggrieve], which is also the clue for WRONG, and GODSEND can be clued by [Blessing], which is also the clue for FAVOR. One more step remains.

The clue for the puzzle’s final Down entry, OFF, [Like a faucet that has been turned all the way clockwise, say], suggests looking at the new nine words in a clockwise order. Doing this, and taking the first letters of the new entries, gives S O F A R A W A Y, or So Far Away, one of Carole King’s big hits, and this month’s meta answer.

The full END less list and corresponding words are shown above. A big thanks to Tamara Brenner for creating both this list and an appropriately illustrated grid that shows how to do this more clearly than my explanation!

Pete always does a cover version related to the meta answer (usually with his band, the Kindred Souls) You can watch the video and see this month’s full write up here: https://pmxwords.com/nov2022solution

The rehearsals paid off with the cabaret cast exuding a genuine warmth and love for one another and the audience (photo by Zach Mendez)

Food for the soul and food for the body, Ohiopyle’s “little libraries” take care of both

town with its 20,633-acre State Park is packed with families. Ironically, a lot of places, like the visitor’s center and several restaurants, are closed. The area offers hiking trails and river rafting and glorious views of the cascades. The first 28 miles of the GAP were created here in 1978.

Ohiopyle to Meyersdale

The next day, a cold, icy mist shrouds the little town, and the colorful, busy burg of yesterday is obscured in black and white. We have 42 miles to go to Meyersdale and I bow out. Though my Dutch cousin and husband are determined to ride the whole thing, I pay $22 for a shuttle for me and my bike to get to the next town where I imagine a cozy café and a warm cup of coffee and bran muffin await me at the River’s Edge Café and Bed and Breakfast in Confluence.

It is not to be. I find the café closed for the season. The nice young man who has driven me here, now drives me all around the town looking for a coffee place. It’s not a big town and we exhaust the possibilities quickly. Nothing for it but to wait for Tanja and Michael to emerge from the misty soup as I stand abandoned and shivering on the trail next to the very charming, but closed, Lucky Dog Café. A half hour later, they arrive, and I join them for the next 30 miles to Meyersdale (Mile 31.9), our last night on the trail before

reaching Cumberland and Mile 0.

We are now riding along the Casselman River beneath and between the trees of the hardwood forest which has become increasing brilliant in tones of red, yellow, and orange. At times we ride through a shower of leaves and the crunch of the carpeted trail is audible. Crossing a peninsula created by the river, we traverse a bridge, pass through the Pinkerton Tunnel and cross anoth er bridge over the river. Long aban doned, this tunnel was reopened for trail use in 2015. As we approach Meyersdale, we pass over the spectac ular 1,908-feet-long Salisbury Viaduct

before

For our last night on the trail, we had chosen the beautiful Gilded Age mansion of the Levi Deal Bed & Breakfast. Bicycle friendly, this elegant B&B offered a host of amenities from plush robes to fireplaces, beautiful fur nishings, and commodious modern bathrooms. The common areas were gorgeous and inviting. Breakfast was a knockout. We were picked up for dinner by the husband of the owner of the White House Restaurant and delivered home after a wonderful meal.

The 3,294-footlong Big Savage Tunnel reopened in 2003 especially for the GAP

The view of the Casselman River as I waited for my companions to appear out of the mist

The crunch of the falling leaves accompanied us on our rides

Montecito

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou

arriving at the train station in Meyersdale with its Western Maryland Railway Caboose.

The overlook of the cascades in the new park across from the town of Ohiopyle

The Pinkerton tunnel was one of several to be nego tiated

We couldn’t believe that beautiful autumnal forest had caught fire!

The Mason-Dixon Line, which officially deter mined the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, was used to refer to the division line between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North during the years before the Civil War

which was reopened in late 2003.

Two and a half miles later we reach the famous Mason-Dixon Line, the line which put to rest the violent border conflicts between settlers of Maryland and Pennsylvania. Named for the team of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the line was surveyed between 1763 and 1767. In later years, it became known as the dividing line between slave states and free states.

Since our shuttle is to pick us up in Cumberland at 2 pm, we must put “pedal to the metal,” or at least keep pedaling, but now, at least, it is all downhill. Unfortunately, we must rush past Frostburg, stopping only when we see what appears to be a fire breaking out on the hillside across the ravine from us. As the black smoke contin ues through the woods across the way, we realize it’s a steam train. It disap pears from view and the next thing we know it has curved around and is now right next to us on the rail tracks we’ve been riding beside. It’s the excur sion train from Cumberland heading for Frostburg.

We continue our rush down the mountain and will have dropped 1,772 feet by the time we reach Cumberland. Regardless, we barely make it in time to be greeted by our shuttle driver and settle in for the two-and-a-half-hour trip back to Pittsburgh. Our adventure has come to an abrupt end, but we are reminded of the great gift that rail trails are to the people of the United States and the com munities which they serve.

(Probably the best French onion soup I’ve ever had.)

And then on the last day, after 8.2 more miles uphill, we reach the Eastern Continental Divide. Waters flowing west enter the Gulf of Mexico. Waters flowing east enter the Atlantic Ocean. A few miles farther, we enter the Big Savage Tunnel and the reason we were given lamps to light the way. The tun nel lives up to its name; it is 3,294 feet long. Abandoned in 1975, the Allegheny Trail Alliance worked to gather funds to renovate the tunnel,

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

“The Missing Man” was presented by UCSB Cadet Daniel Keefe, which hon ored all military missing in action and prisoners of war, and “Taps” was played on bugle by Hudson.

Guest speakers were retired U.S. Navy Seals Marc Brakebill, Mike Charbonnet, and Steve Terlinden, who together formed a nonprofit organization in 2019 to raise funding for military out reach programs called Beyond the Teams, comprised of former U.S. Navy Seals and like-minded individuals. The program provides an annual athletic challenge with an action plan to unite, heal, and give back to communities, and has raised over $170,000. Their individual speeches emphasized the importance for support programming for military returning to civilian life, in all aspects – from phys ical and mental health needs to jobs. Each also shared about their service and current projects as civilians. Brakebill emphasized that the three pillars to tran sition from the military to civilian life are family, community, and a sense of pur pose. Terlinden added, find your family, your cause, and support those that need it. They received a standing ovation from the guests. Following their speeches, Blankenship concluded the event with the recognition of each military division by its theme song and having those pres ent stand to be acknowledged for their

service. Guests were then invited to open dancing and more conversation sharing.

Pierre Claeyssens [b.1908 Belgium] founded the Military Ball in 1996 to pay tribute to the U.S. Armed Forces and acknowledge what they give in support of the freedoms of the US. He co-founded The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation with Ailene Wood, which supports nonprofits in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties via grants, now headed by his daughter Noelle Claeyssens Burkey.

The Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation, founded in 2003 by John W. Blankenship with a personal gift from Pierre Claeyssens, honors and sup ports all local personnel currently on active duty or have honorably served in the United States military.

411: pcvf.org

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BGen Fred Lopez and wife Anne with grandson Ryan Marsh, Brenda Blalock, and Alan Porter (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

WWII veteran at 95 years young is Don Seth (seat ed) with (from left) wife Lynda Millner, Jill Nida, and Gary Simpson (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

Stephen Anthony McMenamy, Corps Sergeant Major and UK Ministry of Defence British Army (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

The excursion train between Frostburg and Cumberland caught us by surprise

debris. It’s the day when you see up close what makes this community great, and it’s not the gated exclusive estates or celebs. It’s the neighbors and friends who support the community and keep it beautiful.

This was the first post-COVID Beautification Day, and that made it extra poignant. We hugged neighbors, happy to see them for the first time in two years. We listened to live music provided by Maitland Ward and Ron Pierce. We talked with each other. We ate hot dogs, and cupcakes provided by Occhiali. We honored Citizens of the Year Kathi King and Mike Clark.

It was like old times, but new, and better. This year, more youth than ever joined in the cleanup. They might not be able to vote, but our kids can cer tainly shape this community, now and for the future.

It was also just in time – a beautiful sunshine and blue skies perfect kind of day, right before the rain.

Thank YOU, Montecito, and our terrific Beautification Day Committee, for the most beautiful, heartfelt Beeautification Day ever!

(2018, 2021, 2022) at the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting, commonly called the “Olympics of Water.” Their “hyper-oxygenated” bottled water is available in 750 mL or half-gallon glass containers, and are being shipped around the world and have become a popular choice at high-end natural food stores like Erewhon.

Due to their system being reliant on its engineering and not necessarily the water source, one of their most popular offerings is the point-of-use systems that can be installed in homes, offices, or anywhere there is access to a water line. This includes the BioRenew setup that is installed under the counter like any other home water filtration device.

The Bio-Quantum system is a best seller and operates like the water cool ers so often centered around the office banter. Of course there are some key differences than a standard five-gal lon water cooler setup. The device is installed directly to a water line, mean ing that there is no need to arrange deliveries or store large water jugs onsite, helping free up office space or scheduling hassles. Any of their water systems are designed for longevity and ease of use, with filters only needing to be changed annually.

The home systems produce water with a 10 parts per million (ppm) level of oxygen (compared to the two to four ppm for tap water) while the bottled water uses a more elaborate setup to bring the oxygen levels up to 40 ppm, the bottling lines incorpo rating oxygen meters to test the gas content in real time.

While these Bio-Quantum and Bio-Renew systems are popular mod els, Ophora also offers a full filtration

setup that can be plumbed direct ly into the home water piping, or an Ultra Estate Model that features large-scale setup for estates and com mercial properties like hotels or even a spa.

On that note, with the skin being the largest organ of the human body and notable for its regulation and uptake of oxygen, pool and spa set ups are one of Ophora’s burgeon ing specialties. Many residential and commercial spas, pools, and saunas are still relying on municipal water sources that bring all of the chlorine and other chemicals that come with these sources. The Ophora spa set ups allow the relaxer to soak in the Ophora water, free of these contami nates and benefitting from the higher oxygen levels.

“We’ve discovered through testing you can actually absorb more oxygen in 20 minutes sitting in our hot tub than you can drinking it. Actually, soaking in it is more powerful than drinking, when you combine the two it takes it over the top.”

Fortunately with Ophora’s line of offer ings, one can enjoy both soaking and drinking – ideally while toasting water and oxygen – the essence of life.

Rosen is the Managing Editor of the Montecito Journal. He also enjoys working with beer, art, and life.

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

Sharon Byrne is Executive Director of the Montecito Association

Our Beautification Committee Chair, Houghton Hyatt, even threw a few in!

More kids joined in the cleanup than ever before!

MA Board Member Nina Terzian, Penny Bianchi, and Marborg’s Kathy Koeper

Mike Clark and Nick Turner with Montecito Water District

We rode around in Dana Newquist’s historic fire engine to pick up trash bags

The Bio-Quantum systems are their most pop ular and a suitable replacement for the regular water cooler

Ophora also designs a range of full filtration setups that can be scaled for homes, estates, or commercial properties

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Calendar of Events

by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11

Yada, Yada, Yada – It’s almost unfathomable to notice that come next May, it will be a quarter-century since Seinfeld left the airwaves – or rather ventured off into syndica tion, where you can pretty much watch episodes all day long. Or that the sitcom con sidered one of the best of all time is only the second most successful one Montecito resident Julia Louis-Dreyfus has starred in, as Veep brought her even more accolades and propelled her to a record as the most decorated Primetime Emmy Award winner of all time. The comedian Seinfeld was created by and named after hasn’t done too poorly, either, as Jerry has his highly acclaimed web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and recent Emmy-nominated Netflix projects 23 Hours to Kill and Jerry Before Seinfeld. It’s the latter one that gives rise to Seinfeld the stand-up, as the man has re ally stepped away from the stage with a microphone for very long stretches. Seinfeld is back on tour and will visit his regular Santa Barbara venue, The Arlington, for two shows that should tickle the funny bone and bring back warm memories.

WHEN: 7 & 9:30 pm

WHERE: 1317 State St.

COST: $65-$185

INFO: (805) 963-4408 / thearlingtontheatre.com or axs.com/venues/2330

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12

Have a Little Faith – There’s nothing revelatory about the country/roots inflected guitar-wielding musicians Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt touring together. The pair of seasoned singer-songwriters have been performing together, on and off, for decades, complementing one another’s emotional ponderings and lyrical sensibilities and often adding harmonies and guitar parts to both favorite songs and more obscure ones. Together, they have accumulated 26 Grammy nominations – Lovett has taken home four – and nearly 40 studio albums released, spawning countless hits and radio staples as well as attracting cover versions. What makes tonight’s concert compelling is that Lovett and Hiatt don’t ever phone it in. Rather their chemistry, borne of the reverence they hold for each other’s songwriter prowess, has continued to expand over the years as they continue to explore their genre-bending catalogs that traverses country, swing, jazz, folk, and gospel. You might even think of it as a thing called love.

WHEN: 8 pm

WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Highway 246, Santa Ynez COST: $59-$94

INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or chumashcasino.com

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER

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Veterans Day Ceremony – Dozens of American flags will decorate the driveway at the Santa Bar bara Cemetery this morning to lead the way to the main flagpole for the Santa Barbara Commu nity Veterans Day Ceremony. Hosted by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1649 and Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation, the open-air event starts at the stroke of 11 am with a flyover by The Condor Squadron followed by presentations and per formances by the UCSB Color Guard, Gold Coast Pipe & Drum Band, David Gonzales and the Santa Barbara Choral Society, The Prime Time Band, and local guest speakers. The celebration takes note of the service of all U.S. mil itary veterans and coincides with such worldwide holidays as Armistice Day and Remembrance Day that mark the anniversary of the end of World War I in other countries. In honor of the dedication, service, and bravery of local men and women who served in the four branches of the U.S. armed forces, American flags will also mark the graves of fellow citizens who gave their lives in the service of our country.

WHEN: 11 am

WHERE: Santa Barbara Cemetery, 901 Channel Drive

COST: free

INFO: pcvf.org/veterans-day-ceremony

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Reinhardt Redux – The Django Festival

All Stars, a group of renowned French jazz musicians specializing in the music of the legendary gypsy-jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, do their best to evoke Paris in the 1920s and ‘30s when Rein hardt’s driving, swinging style became known as hot jazz and energized the city. The group has thrilled audiences in major venues across North America including the Kennedy Center, New York’s Birdland Jazz Club and Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Jazz Festi val, and the Newport Jazz Festival. Now led by Gypsy guitar great Samson Schmitt, a modern-day virtuoso who has stepped into the crucial lead guitar role long held by his father, Dorado Schmitt, the cohesive All Stars also features Pierre Blanchard (violin, in the role made famous by Stephane Grappelli), Ludovic Beier (accordion), Philippe “Doudou” Cuillerier (rhythm guitar/vocals) and Antonio Licusati (bass). But what sets this group apart from the growing legion of imitators joining the burgeoning rebirth of Gypsy jazz is how they honor the traditions while adding their own interpretations, arrangements, and original compositions with unrivaled virtuosity, making it a bridge to our current times.

WHEN: 7:30 pm

WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $39 & $49

INFO: (805) 963-0761 or lobero.com

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13

Silky Smooth: The World May Know Soprano – Jana McIntyre is a George London Foundation top prize winner and Metropolitan Opera National Council grand finalist whose credits include roles with Opera Grand Rapids, Arizona Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Tulsa Opera, and the Lyric Opera of Chica go. Here in her native Montecito, though, some might recall McIntyre as the girl who sang instead of recited poetry during graduation from first grade at Crane Country Day School, and later starred in several Otto Layman -directed musicals at SBHS. More recently, the soprano praised for a “dancer’s grace, mercurial wit, and vibrant soprano tone” made her onstage Opera Santa Barbara debut in the title role of Handel’s Semele at the Lobero last January. Today she returns as Giulia in Rossini’s 1812 bel canto comedy La Scala di Seta (The Silk Ladder) showing off her versatility in the work full of misunder standings, plotting, eavesdropping, and eventual happy ending in OSB’s new production, which sets the plot in a tailor shop in the 1930s and is designed and directed by Joshua Shaw (OSB’s The Barber of Seville in 2018 and Don Pasquale in 2021).

WHEN: 2:30 pm

WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $99-$179 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or lobero.com

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15

How About a Little (Gil)More? – Bummed about missing the Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt singer-songwriter show at the Chumash Casino last Saturday? Or better yet, still wanting more after taking in the popular pairing? Here’s two more opportunities to catch another couple of country-leaning sing er-songwriters who’ve been playing the trade for decades, as Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore are headed to nearby venues on successive nights. Following a nine-city California run in early summer, the roots music leg ends are out on the road again sharing songs from Downey to Lubbock, their critically acclaimed collaborative album titled after their respective places of origin, as well as highlights of their respective individual repertories. Alvin, of course, was a co-founder of L.A.’s country-punk heroes The Blasters back in the 1970s – the group was at the Lobero earlier this year – before going on to find his groove and a hard-edge country-folk roots singer-songwriter who has fronted a few bands of his own. Gilmore’s half-century-plus career is headlined by his “high lonesome” voice that has more twang than a pedal

“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” – Maya Angelou

We the People in Dance –Multiple Tony Award-winning choreographer-dancer Bill T. Jones’ newest work What Problem? is perhaps his most personal piece to date. Weav ing together dance, music, and text excerpts from seminal works such as Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, Jones explores the intersection of sexual politics, gender identity, class struggles, racism, and immigration. The new work from Jones, who has also received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, the National Medal of Arts, and the Kennedy Center Honors Award, exemplifies the artist’s ability to visualize the human condition through choreography and dance, here through the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. What Problem?, whose title refers to the 1903 The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, also features live music, with movement performed in part by local community members.

WHEN: 8 pm

WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street

COST: $36-$66

INFO: (805) 899-2222 / granadasb.org or (805) 893-3535 / ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

steel guitar coupled with an oft times-mystical approach to creating poetic lyrics – which have had writers creating such genres as Sagebrush Soul, Zen Country and Western Beat to describe it. Gilmore’s legendary band The Flat landers, formed with the great Joe Ely and Butch Hancock , has been credited as fathers of the Alt-country movement. Catch the smart pairing of driving Americana with dart-to-the-heart songs at the Ventura Music Hall tonight, or the Maverick Saloon in Santa Ynez as part of Tales from the Tavern tomorrow. WHEN: 8 pm

WHERE: Ventura Music Hall, 1888 E. Thompson Blvd., Ventura COST: $28

INFO: (805) 667-8802 or venturamusichall.com/events

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16

WHEN: 7 pm

WHERE: The Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto Street, Santa Ynez COST: $38

INFO: (805) 688-0383 or talesfromthetavern.com

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16

Her Aim is True – Canadian folk-based singer-songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist Allison Russell first won stateside acclaim 20 years ago as a member of the Canadian roots group Po’ Girl formed with Tr ish Klein, formerly of alt-country outfit the Be Good Tanyas. In 2012, Russell launched Birds of Chicago, a duo with her husband and creative partner JT Nero, cementing her reputation for an uncanny ability to filter jazz, country, blues, and even klezmer through folk and roots music delivered on every thing from guitar to banjo and clarinet. Kindred spirit Rhiannon Giddens – who will serve as music director of next June’s Ojai Music Festival – then recruited Russell to join the banjo-based/race-conscious group Our Native Daughters, who proudly revealed ancestral tales and the impact on today’s Black experience. Last year, Russell synthesized all of her earlier work in her breakout solo debut, Outside Child, a disc full of poignant personal tales that includes her history of abuse as a child in a manner both courageous and joyous. The album received three nominations each for Grammy Awards and Americana Music Association awards, and landed at No. 2 on The New York Times’ best albums of the year. We might not hear a more original, truthful, and daring artist all year.

WHEN: 8 pm

WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus COST: $30 & $45

INFO: (805) 893-3535 or ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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