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Village Beat – A debate building up over Miramonte Avenue property, P.9

Sharing the Light – Alan Ross reflects

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Get Chipping! – Chipping Program coming to a street near you, P.14

Montecito Moms – Annie Gray delivers

the giving list

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Righteous Reitman COMEDY COLOSSUS IVAN REITMAN’S LEGACY OF LAUGHTER AND KINDNESS TO ALL AROUND HIM WILL FOREVER BE REMEMBERED THROUGH HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND FILMS (STORY STARTS ON PAGE 5)

Celebrating Black History Congratulations to Dunn School 8th grader Husna Balaven for winning the Black History Month Art Contest. Her piece answers the contest’s question: Who is a person from African American History that you admire and is not covered by traditional curriculum?

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y work explores the way Malcolm spoke. I bolded a quote that stood out to me, and used pieces of a book about him, to represent how many more great things he has said. I like working with color and exploring different mediums and art styles. I chose to paint this picture of him because I think his ring stands out, as it is very iconic. I looked at the picture, drew it, then assigned a color to each shade of gray I saw. I like the way the colors work together with the paper and the font. Each part of this piece means a lot to me. I chose to paint Malcolm because he is a Black Muslim just like me. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered because he

strove for freedom, so why isn’t Malcolm?”

ALSO, JAMES JOYCE III TALKS REPARATIONS 101 AND A POSSIBLE PATH THROUGH OUR DIVISIONS (STORY ON PAGE 23)

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Editorial – A lifetime of lampoonery: The endless love and laughter of Ivan Reitman is remembered by Les Firestein and friends

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Montecito Miscellany – KCSB turns 60; a flock of hybrid Bentleys stampede the Polo Club; Montecito celebs tackle the Super Bowl

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etters to the Editor – The conversation around the hot springs continues to L swirl; a reckoning with our past; and more Tide Guide

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Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco – A Reason for Hope: On Conscience and Integrity

The Optimist Daily – Invitations and gift offers are helping redefine how we discuss consent and ethical sexual intimacy

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Community Voices – James Joyce III gives an overview of the history, possible actions, and legal framework of reparations

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Dear Montecito – Fatima Lopez is interviewed about the impact of The Key Class on her life and career

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In Passing – The joy and life of DeAnna Joy Wassom is remembered by her loved ones and peers

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Montecito Moms – From substitute teacher to floral arranger, Annie Gray brings her love of color and botanicals to each bouquet

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Village Beat – Updates from the latest MBAR meetings and Marie Ferris brings her bi-coastal style to Juniper on Coast Village Road

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Our Town – After being Ansel Adams’ assistant, Alan Ross is now Sharing the Light with him in this upcoming exhibit of their work

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Hot Topics – The annual Neighborhood Chipping Program is sweeping through Montecito and helping the community with fire resiliency around their own homes

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Calendar of Events – Jersey Boys, a winter high diver, and Spectral Frequencies can all be spotted in this week’s happenings

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On Entertainment – Iconic cinema composer Jeff Beal brings “Beethoven in Bloom”; Joel Murray stretches his improvisational muscle; plus more

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Seen Around Town – A visit to the Santa Barbara Cemetery unearths its history and the characters resting there (and those who aren’t)

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Brilliant Thoughts – Ashleigh Brilliant remarks on the poetic and operatic appeal of sad beauty

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Classifieds – Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales

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Giving List – Community Counseling and Education Center has become an even more needed organization through the struggles of the pandemic

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Mini Meta Crossword Puzzles Local Business Directory – Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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Editorial

Reitman Was Righteous

Ivan, Genevieve, and baby Jason Reitman on the set of Reitman’s Animal House

by Les Firestein

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reconnected with showbiz vets James Widdoes and Tim Matheson on the passing of Ivan Reitman, the prolific director and producer and founder of the wildly successful production company The Montecito Picture Company. All four of us (including Reitman) are connected through the National Lampoon, a magazine where I was once editor but which has long since ceased publication, its last CEO sentenced to 50 years in prison for fraud in 2012. It sounds like an end to National Lampoon written

by National Lampoon writers, I know.

But long before that, when I was a kid, the Lampoon made me want to be a writer and National Lampoon’s Animal House made me want to go to college – it also made me want to get into the entertainment business. At least three Montecitans were notably involved with Animal House: Actor and director Tim Matheson who played the subversive frat boy “Otter,” actor and director Jamie Widdoes who played “Hoover,” and the legendary producer and director Ivan Reitman for whom Animal House was his first (of many) monstrous hits.

Long after his acting days Jamie Widdoes raised his family up here (he was a Cate School dad) and Jamie still mostly resides here – when he’s not busy plying his trade down south as an extremely successful director of episodic television. After Reitman’s unexpected passing I asked Widdoes what Reitman was like and if he kept up with Reitman post-Animal House.

“I think Ivan had a remarkable talent for identifying what audiences would respond to and he was also absurdly prolific with major hit films spanning something like five decades. That’s a ridiculous run for show business.”

“But in addition to that, Ivan could not have been a nicer guy,” says Widdoes. “I always had an interest in the mechanics of filmmaking and Ivan was always patient, always willing to explain the wonky stuff to me, even though he had so much riding on Animal House. But that’s just who he was; it was truly his character.”

Widdoes continues, “Years later I was walking past the set of the Robert Redford movie Legal Eagles which was shooting in Manhattan. I’m thinking I don’t know if Ivan’s even going to remember me but he basically stopped filming to greet me and catch up and Robert Redford was looking at us like, ‘Who the F is this guy?’ That’s just the kind of person Ivan was. He always made time for people. Same thing when I knew him years later as a Cate School dad. Ivan never had a big head, was always kind and self-deprecating. He had a very atypical personality for someone with his kind of Hollywood success and I mean that in the best possible way.”

Actor-director Tim Matheson, who after Animal House went on to do Emmynominated work on the West Wing among other venues, remembers Reitman similarly as “the sweetest, gentlest soul.” Matheson recounts, “I never saw Ivan be rude or mean or hold a grudge against anyone. Even when people were less than exemplary with him. For example, we all knew he wanted to direct Animal House himself, but when John Landis got the gig, Ivan was all in supporting his director.”

Like Widdoes, Matheson (who put his kids through MUS, Dos Pueblos, and SBHS) remembers years later encountering Reitman by chance on a flight back to L.A. from Toronto. He recounts, “I believe Ivan was returning from the Toronto Film Festival where he had yet another huge hit on his hands – Juno – which he’d produced and which was directed by his son, Jason. I remember making the conscious decision not to chat him up even though he was across the aisle from me but

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KCSB Celebrates 60 Years on the Air

by Richard Mineards

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CSB-FM 91.9 Santa Barbara, the student-led community radio station located on the UCSB campus, is celebrating its 60th year on air.

KCSB is the oldest of all of the University of California radio stations and events are being planned to mark the occasion, including an annual fund drive this month and a programmer reunion in April.

Founder Bill Harrison, then a UCSB student, launched the station in his dorm room in 1962. Over the decades, the station migrated from closed circuit to FM and increased its signal strength.

Today its signal on 91.9 FM covers most of Santa Barbara County and portions of Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties. Most of the station’s on-air hosts are students, faculty, and staff, but also community volunteers.

Some of KCSB’s programs have been on air for years and have developed a sizable following of loyal listeners.

For the past several decades, the studios have been located at the base of the 175foot Storke Tower, the tallest building on the campus.

Flying High Horsepower of a very different kind was on display at the Santa Barbara Polo Club when four newly imported Bentley Flying Spur hybrid cars were trucked up from the O’Gara Coach Company in Westlake for three days for members to test drive.

The 536 horsepower cars, which have a top speed of 177 mph, run on both electricity and gas, retailing from between $200,000 and the low $300,000s.

The historic company, based in Crewe, U.K. was founded in 1919 and bought by the German auto giant Volkswagen in 1998.

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Zena Omar, general manager of KCSB radio, which is celebrating 60 years on air

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Response to Jon Emanuel’s Letter to the Editor in Support of Using Hot Springs Water to Irrigate Estates

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t’s interesting that one person getting water from the Montecito Creek Water Company, Mr. Jon Emanuel, and not the company itself, responded to my letter advocating return of the Montecito hot springs by the ruins (Cliff Spring and Barn Springs) to the people.

He claims I said things that are “factually incorrect,” yet he characterizes the Chumash in the following way: “Putting aside how many Chumash are currently desirous of driving their cars to Montecito… for the pleasure of enjoying a plunge in a hot springs as opposed to their jacuzzies in Santa Ynez” (even as he suggests the soak could be offered for free to them)...

It’s true the Santa Ynez band of Chumash is doing well today (this group experienced poverty until around 2004 when the enlarged casino was built) but most Chumash people aren’t from the Santa Ynez reservation, don’t have jacuzzies, and aren’t wealthy. There are thirteen other bands of the Chumash, including the Barbareño Chumash, the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation, the Cuyama Chumash, the Ventura Chumash, and the Los Angeles Chumash. It’s estimated 5,000 Chumash people are living today, and only about 250 reside on the Santa Ynez reservation (five percent).

Then Mr. Emanuel claims Hot Springs Trail is a “littered and graffiti strewn trail.” Actually, there’s only two places I’ve seen graffiti that’s not on water company structures, one on a sign saying “Private Property” on a dirt road near the trailhead, the other on a rock. As far as litter is concerned, there’s not much to be found except for numerous abandoned metal and plastic pipes, many lying right in the watershed. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife will verify the existence of these pipes.

When’s the last time he’s been on the trail?

The best solution would be for the

Montecito Creek Water Company to voluntarily remove all the abandoned pipes. This company can also contribute to the cost of repairing the trail from erosion damage caused by leaky pipes. Also, the pipe carrying hot spring water to the estates should be moved off the trail, and out of sight. Isn’t it the right thing to do for the water company to clean up its own mess? The cost of cleanup would be passed on to Mr. Emanuel and other users of the water. Will the residents getting the water be good environmental stewards and support a cleanup effort?

Where the hot springs water is distributed to estates on upper Hot Springs Road and Riven Rock Road pipes aren’t going down the middle of estate owners’ pathways. Most likely the pipes are buried to avoid an unsightly mess – Mr. Emanuel could enlighten us on how the pipes are laid out. Does he have old, broken pipes strewn all over his property?

Shouldn’t our public land get as much respect?

Mr. Emanuel claims I’m proposing a taking of residents’ water rights. I never said that. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the water company were to voluntarily sell the water rights at a fair price to aid in the restoration of the canyon? The fundraiser idea he suggested is excellent.

Perhaps the water company and restored hot springs could coexist with an outflow pipe from hot springs pools leading to residents’ estates. Indeed, the Montecito Creek Water Company, established on March 15, 1893, coexisted with hot springs resorts for years. It would be better for the ecology, however, if the hot springs water were to overflow into the creek.

He states that he doesn’t have a Montecito Water District meter for irrigation. As a matter of fact, his property doesn’t have a District water meter at all.

That’s because he and 25 other residents receive District water in bulk through the Riven Rock Mutual.

He writes “Bryan asserts that the estate owners don’t need the water. Why is that?” They don’t need the hot springs water because they can use the District water for irrigation like the rest of us.

He expresses concern about a new attraction exasperating the access problems. But it could be a win-win situation.

The parking and access problem could be solved in the next six months if the county would get moving on it (provide a reasonable amount of parking spaces, paint curbs red, and provide a shuttle).

After that is done the restored hot springs could be opened to the public.

Bryan Rosen

Reckoning With Our Past There are three beautiful things born exclusively in America – the Constitution, Jazz and Baseball. And yet someone in a group will be able to argue about past transgressions involving these no doubt. Lately, we have been experiencing a “war over history” and cultural divisions that spring up as statues are taken down and buildings renamed. It may be time to take a breath and reflect. Upon doing this one realizes heated arguments about this country’s history, are seldom based on facts (sadly most of us cannot pass the U.S. Citizenship history test) because the fights are not concerned with what happened so much as what we should feel about it. For instance, the real debate about the discovery of this country is whether the European discovery of America and everything that evolved since, including the founding of this U.S., should be celebrated or lamented. Historians past and present ask, “Is America exemplary and honorable” or the reverse? How that is answered is important because the more America slips from its ideals the more it needs to self-correct. Such arguments can become emotional, often involving past symbols, usually detached from practical issues.

People have been living in what we call California for over 12,000 years, many died or were pushed out. No one living in Santa Barbara plans on vacating their home due to the knowledge of dispossessed past residents from time immemorial. The point is how do we look to the future believing that America is exemplary and honorable in principle but sometimes regrettable in practice.

Other countries, less open and free than ours, take extraordinary measures to hide their past transgressions, one only needs to look at Putin’s encouragement of resurrecting esteem for Stalin. Our own history certainly discloses instances of betrayal of genuine American principles and our journey forward is not easy nor over. But history has also shown that we are a resilient country showing the capability of self-correcting and striving to honor our ideals. Facts of the past matter less than how we feel about our country going forward. The future of America is at stake. And, the world needs America, the Ukraine issue clearly illustrates that.

J.W. Burk

Re: Neutrality in Perpetuity (Rowland Lane Anderson)

I appreciate and respect Mr. Anderson’s commitment to peace over war, but his examples regarding neutrality as they allegedly relate to Russia/Ukraine, have more holes than Swiss cheese. In World Wars I and II, Switzerland made their own decision to stay neutral. In the 1980’s, Costa Rica independently declared “permanent and unarmed” neutrality. If Ukraine wants to go down that road, the decision should also be theirs and theirs alone.

To claim that a neutral Ukraine “is all that Putin is asking for” is an extreme case of wishful thinking, at best. That’s like saying all Xi Jinping is asking for is a neutral Taiwan. In 2014, Putin took Crimea by sheer military force. Why would anyone believe that he’s now interested in neutrality for the rest of Ukraine?

Robert Baruch

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Specializing in Fine Homes • Concept to Completion A cottage on Miramonte Avenue in Montecito is slated for demolition as part of a proposed project to build a new, contemporary style home on the 0.25-acre property

by Kelly Mahan Herrick

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he Montecito Board of Architectural Review has had a full docket the last few months, hearing over 17 Montecito projects last week at a regular meeting, just one week after needing to call a special meeting in order to consider seven other projects.

The next two meetings are already booked with 13-14 projects each, while the ideal number at each meeting is 10.

The scope of these projects ranges from new trellises and placement of outdoor lighting fixtures, to new garages, pools, and additions, all the way to demolition of existing homes and building of completely new residential projects – as well as a small handful of commercial projects, like the YMCA remodel – in the Montecito Community Plan area.

While the majority of projects come to the Board without much neighbor feedback, a new residential project on Miramonte Avenue has brought many neighbors – and their attorneys – out to voice their dismay. The project was seen for conceptual review at a meeting back in December, with a second appearance for more conceptual review last week.

The proposed project includes the demolition of a small cottage on the property, followed by the building of a roughly 2,300-square-feet home on the 0.25-acre lot, which in the process of being merged with the adjacent property. There is also a pool and detached garage building proposed. Architect Brett Ettinger presented the plans, saying that the design of the home was intended to look as if it is actually two modest-size homes, separated by a floor-to-ceiling glass, low flat-roof element located between two 17 – 24 February 2022

taller structures, one of which houses the primary bedroom upstairs. The primary bedroom includes an outdoor deck, built on the flat-roof element, and a second story balcony. The garage building also includes a roof-top garden. The project is slated to be modern in its design, with heat-treated natural wood siding, old world historical stone, and deep window punches, Ettinger said. The height of the buildings does not exceed 28 feet, while the maximum height allowed is 35 feet.

Beth Collins, Attorney at Law, had submitted a 30-page comment letter on behalf of neighbors within close proximity to the property, who contend that the project is inconsistent with the Montecito Architectural Design Guidelines and Development Standards, and is inconsistent with good neighbor policies in part because of its modern, contemporary architectural style and its size, bulk, and scale. Other

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Through the Ape-Vine Montecito TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres’ gorilla compound in Rwanda is now open for business.

The 64-year-old comedienne’s section at the Fossey Gorilla Fund, dedicated to the protection of the great apes, was a present to Ellen from her actress wife, Portia de Rossi, for her 60th birthday four years ago.

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New Role for Lieff Montecito animal activist Gretchen Lieff, founder and president of the Lutah Maria Riggs Society, has been appointed a member of the county’s Historic Landmarks Advisory Commission.

The organization was created in 1965 to promote the preservation of historic buildings and structures.

“The county has such a rich history of architectural protection and preservation,” says Gretchen. “I’m honored to offer my services to support this important effort.”

New Partnership for Paltrow Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow is expanding her empire.

The Oscar-winner has signed a multiyear contract with Monogram, a luxury appliance brand synonymous with impeccable craftsmanship and historic design.

Appliances from the company, which manufactures in Selmer, Tennessee; Decatur, Alabama; Lafayette, Georgia; and Camden, South Carolina, have been in her homes in Los Angeles and our rarefied enclave.

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Alan Ross Live Event on Ansel Adams & Photography

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amed photographer and guru to students of the craft, Ansel Adams, is being celebrated at the Wildling Museum of Art & Nature in Solvang with an exhibit curated and hand printed by his former assistant and Master Photographer, Alan Ross, who, for the first time is showing his photographs side by side with Ansel’s at a museum. The exhibit is titled “Sharing the Light: Ansel Adams & Alan Ross” and is on display now through March 20. On view is: Adams’s classic works Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California c.1960 printed 1975, and Sierra Junipers, Upper Merced Basin, Yosemite National Park, California, c.1923, printed c. 1927 – both gelatin silver prints.

And tune in Sunday, February 20 at 2 pm for Ross’s live Zoom talk, “Ansel Adams: The Man Behind the Camera,” sponsored by Montecito Bank & Trust.

In our interview this week, Ross shared, “There is the reality of the lens, film, and exposure, and the reality as the photographer feels it.” He grew up in Sausalito, taught himself photography at age 12 using his dad’s Rolleicord camera with Zeiss lens, and learned darkroom from an 8th grade friend’s father. In high school he joined the Sierra Club, got a Nikkormat camera with a 50mm f:2 lens, and was an avid Adams follower. Changing his college major three times, from mechanical engineering to forestry, he finally settled in the Design Department at UC Berkeley where he set up his own photography degree. Under his mentor, Design Department Chair William Garnett, he met San Francisco commercial advertising photographer mogul and friend of Adams, Milton Halberstadt, where he landed an assistant job for three years. After Halberstadt closed his studio, Ross wrote to Adams looking for work. He invited him part-time to assist with his Yosemite workshops. This led to full-time assisting at his studio in Carmel for five years from 1974 to 1979 and near-monthly printing sessions there until Adams’s death in 1984. Ross lives in Santa Fe, doing photography, teaching, and writing, and continues to be the exclusive printer of Adams’s Yosemite Special Edition negatives, his assignment from Adams since 1975. He makes each print by hand from Adams’s original negatives using traditional darkroom techniques. Ross’s collectors include the Polaroid Corporation, Yale Museum of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.

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Historic 1977 photo of Ansel Adams and Alan Ross at the Point Lobos Workshops (photo by Michael Reidlinger)

Q. Let’s start with your gear list…

A. I love my fold-up Arca-Swiss F-Field 4x5 film camera, my Mamiya 6x7 Rangefinder Film Camera, and I modified my Canon Mirrorless EOSM6 for infrared. For lenses I tend to see a bit wider on the Arca and Mamiya, and have an 18 – 150mm zoom on the Canon. I use available light – meaning, whatever light is available!

How did the exhibition at the Wildling come about for you?

Photographer George Rose met me at my Yosemite workshop in early 2020 and proposed I should exhibit at the Wildling Museum. The idea of sharing the exhibit with Ansel was a wonderful opportunity to me. Due to the theme of the museum, they only wanted landscape-nature images, which eliminated a lot of my own work and of Ansel’s. My three most popular images back in the day were a Yosemite landscape, a still life of an onion, and a nude. I also do a lot of architectural studies. Subject matter is fair game to me.

What is your message to the viewers?

Sharing the beautiful things I see in the world, from landscapes to architecture and details of things. A photograph is the way I express how I feel about something.

To me it’s about how expressive black and white images can be, they are abstract reality, meaning, I can make the sky lighter or darker than it really is, and the image takes on a new mood. I can alter color relationships without anything looking “wrong.”

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Montecito Fire’s Annual Neighborhood Chipping Program Now Underway

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pringtime in Montecito – the hills are green, the weather is beginning to warm, and there’s a new buzz in town. It’s the buzz of a chipping machine shredding cut branches and brush into a million tiny bits.

Montecito Fire’s Neighborhood Chipping Program is back for its 13th year. It kicked off on Valentine’s Day and the 10-week program will run every other week through late June.

Over the coming weeks, you will notice roll-off containers in designated locations, piles of brush at the end of driveways, and our chipping crew turning those piles into chips.

Montecito Fire offers the Neighborhood Chipping Program to approximately 1,300 residents within the Very High Fire Severity Zone of the community. Reducing the volume of flammable vegetation creates more defensible and survivable space around a property and increases the entire community’s resiliency to wildfires.

The program is simple: We ask home-

owners to cut down overgrown vegetation within 100 feet of their home and stack it on the curb. Then, our chipping contractor will chip the vegetation on-site and haul it away to a local recycling facility.

Montecito Fire Chief Kevin Taylor says the community’s participation in the program has made Montecito a leader nationwide in wildfire preparedness.

“When one property has good defensible space, that home has a greater chance of survival in a wildfire,” Chief Taylor said. “Those chances multiply exponentially when every property in a neighborhood, or better yet, the whole community, takes steps to clear dry, dead, and excess vegetation.”

Additionally, a buffer of defensible space facilitates safer evacuation routes for everyone in an emergency and allows efficient access for firefighters to protect homes.

The Chipping Program is a labor love in Montecito Fire’s Prevention Bureau.

Our Wildland Fire Specialists, Maeve Juarez and Nic Elmquist, spend months preparing for this critical fire prevention project. Together, they organize, facilitate, and oversee the program.

The Neighborhood Chipping Program will take place every other week from now through late June

“The Neighborhood Chipping Program is my favorite time of the year!

We spend each week on foot walking the neighborhoods, chatting with folks as they walk their dogs, and we get the opportunity to educate our community on what really makes a difference in protecting homes and what we call the “home ignition zone,” Juarez said.

The home ignition zone is the 100+ feet around a structure. Often, that zone is the most important factor in determining a residence’s vulnerability and survivability to an approaching wildfire.

“We will never be able to prevent all fires that threaten homes and property. Instead, we must find ways to be prepared for wildfire. The Chipping Program is one great way to prepare.”

Elmquist said. “Maeve and I travel the United States responding to major wildfires every summer and it never fails that one of us comes back home saying how well-prepared Montecito is compared to other communities.”

The Chipping Program is a free service for residents, funded by the Montecito Fire Department’s annual Wildland Fire Prevention budget and the California Climate Investments Fire Prevention Grant Program.

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Composer Jeff Beal wrote every musical cue heard on the series, including the From Jaws to Gypsy, Jeff Beal is known for his main theme underpinned by a pulsing iconic compositions two-note bass line that evokes a similarly ominous opening to John Williams’ Barbara Symphony will perform the theme for Jaws, which also features a sin- five-movement piece (“Earth, Air, Fire, gle-minded beast.

Water, and (Re)birth”), accompanied by “I don’t think about verbal terms when projected photographs of the burn, the I’m writing, but now in hindsight, it’s heroism of first responders, and new really apt, because that baseline that never photographs of the foothill rebirth from changes and just plows through is like the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s phocharacter of Frank Underwood,” said Beal, tographic research collection, updated who actually composed the theme before from Beal’s own slide show curated from shooting began based on a few scripts and pictures and videos from the Ventura a creative meeting with director David Star that screened with the New West Fincher. “He’s going to steamroll his way, Symphony’s commissioned premiere. no matter what kind of human suffering “I wanted to explore what the land or misery has to happen for him to get does as it goes through these wrenching what he wants… It was a chance to use my cataclysmic events and how all of these art as a way to channel emotions including elements come together to fuel these huge the darkest recesses of human behavior.” fires,” said Beal, whose home wasn’t threatHouse of Cards – Beal also played all ened by Thomas but who endured several of the trumpet, piano, and guitar parts evacuations before and since, including himself and recorded the 17-piece string being forced to leave when the Woolsey ensemble in the living room of his Agoura Fire raged as he was winding up work on Hills home – was a career changer for the The Great Circle. “They [the elements] composer who’d played jazz as a young are like characters and I’m composing to man before finding favor in film scores. those forces to personify them in a way, His soundtrack works include comedic almost like method acting to bring about opuses for the detective series Monk, plus the emotions that can start as wonderment Pollock, Rome, Gypsy, Carnivale, Blackfish, and turn into something much more priUgly Betty, and many more along with mal… Nature is beautiful and magical, myriad documentaries including The but can also be incredibly terrifying and Biggest Little Farm, a more personal piece destructive as if the planet is trying to grab as the farm in question also lies in us and tell us to wake up. We have to learn Ventura County. The five-time Emmy- how to navigate the cycles of nature and winner has also created a large number of live in harmony with the earth.” classical and concert works ranging from Beal will be in town this weekend chamber music to symphonic opuses. for the Symphony’s two “Beethoven in Beal’s interest in nature and the orches- Bloom” concerts presented in partnertra come together in his 2019 work The ship with Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Great Circle, inspired by the devastation which also feature the ensemble’s princiwhen the Thomas Fire raged from Los pal harpist Michelle Temple in Jennifer Angeles to Montecito 18 months earlier Higdon’s Grammy-award winning Harp and the landscape’s rebirth, depicting Concerto and conclude with Beethoven’s in music nature’s primal elements and enduring power to survive. The Santa Appeal Page 194 194

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Rob Lowe and KEYT’s Mike Klan at a Super Bowl playoff game (photo credit: Dave Alley)

Robyn, who is editor of the community newsletter at the Santa Barbara Polo and Racquet Club where he also owns a condo, sent me a photo of a friend’s Pip! Pip! Mercedes license plate in the equally rarefied enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut.

I know the community well and vividly remember attending a caviar and champagne-driven party thrown by Indianborn tycoon Ravi Tikoo, who owned the world’s largest oil tanker, the 477,000ton Globtik Tokyo, at the time, when he owned 14-bedroom Dunnellen Hall on Round Hill Road, the highest point in Fairfield County.

The bash was thrown to celebrate the birthday of his teenage son Vikram, with one of the presents including a gift-wrapped Lamborghini, complete with bow.

An avowed Anglophile, Tikoo – he also owned a London home in achingly trendy Bishops Avenue, Hampstead, which he sold to King Khaled of Saudi Arabia in 1976 – wanted to play cricket after tea. A call was placed to Lillywhites in London, then purveyors of sports equipment to the Royal Family, and the gear was put on the Concorde from Heathrow to Kennedy – given he was a regular passenger on the supersonic plane – and his chauffeured Rolls-Royce picked it up enabling us to participate in a match just hours later.

Tikoo later sold the 23,000 square-foot 28-room Jacobean-style home, complete with two Olympic-sized swimming pools, to real estate tycoon Harry Helmsley and

his notorious wife, Leona, for $11 million in 1983. He had bought it in 1974 for $3 million, then the highest priced property in the area.

Vikram went on to marry a relative of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of the Republic of India.

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So Long, Natalie After five years in our rarefied enclave actress, Natalie Portman has sold her four-bedroom, five-bath 3,991 squarefoot 2008-built home for $8 million.

The Oscar winner and her husband, dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, paid $6.5 million for the 10.39-acre estate in 2017.

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Mike Myers brought back his iconic Austin Powers villain Dr. Evil in an amusing new Super Bowl ad for General Motors with his franchise co-star, Montecito actor Rob Lowe.

Rob, 57, an acolyte to Myers, 58, as Number Two, cuts a dapper figure in a suit and eyepatch.

The commercial also stars Seth Green and Mindy Sterling.

Rob was at a Super Bowl playoff game in the Big Orange the other day and bumped into KEYT-TV’s sports anchor Mike Klan, as my picture attests.

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by Ashleigh Brilliant

the newly dead athlete being admiringly received (in Heaven?), still bearing on his head the flowery symbols of his victories.

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hy do we like watching the sun set? Is it the beauty of changing colors and shapes?

Or is it rather the emotional impact of experiencing the passage of time, the ending of another day of our lives? These two closely interwoven themes, the sad and the beautiful, permeate our culture.

Three of my favorite pieces of music all happen to be overtures. All begin sadly, but end in gloriously rousing finales. One is Rossini’s overture to the opera William Tell, about that legendary Swiss hero, a work with which many of us first became familiar as the opening and background music of the Western epic, The Lone Ranger.

The second is Offenbach’s overture to the comic opera, Orpheus in the Underworld, which, after some very sad passages, climaxes surprisingly in the famous and notorious “Can-Can.” I was so enchanted by this coup de théâtre that I wanted to write my own words for it – but was puzzled by the name “Can-Can.” What did it mean?

What was it referring to? Not until my wife went away on an extended trip, leaving me to feed our three cats from those little CANS of cat-food, did I get my unique inspiration, resulting in my “Pussy-Cat Feeding Song,” (which I will still perform at the drop of a hat – or a cat) hoping thereby to share a little of Offenbach’s lasting fame.

My third favorite piece is perhaps a little less well known. It is called “The Light Cavalry Overture,” and was written for an opera which, but for the overture, has been completely forgotten. The author was an Austrian named Franz von Suppé and he himself has been immortalized only by this one piece. The opening part is extremely sad (and – you may not believe this – there is just one note in it which, every time I hear it, strikes some very sensitive region in me, and almost brings me to tears). But then, to finish up, we are suddenly transported into the exhilarating mood of a galloping cavalry romp.

But when it comes to the beauty of sadness or the sadness of beauty, Poetry is probably the ideal vehicle. And, of all the poets, here again I have three favorites.

The first, whom I have often quoted, is A. E. Housman, whose fame primarily rests on one slim volume called A Shropshire Lad, which was immensely popular in the early 20th century.

One poem in that book is called “To An Athlete Dying Young.” In a few brief stanzas, it celebrates the joys of earthly achievement and contrasts them with the harsh reality of death. I particularly like the closing lines, which imagine

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And round that early-laurelled head/ Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead, And find unwithered on its curls/ The garland briefer than a girl’s.

What particularly moves me is that very last line, which evokes the sadness of all fading beauty. Often, when I see a beautiful young woman, I can’t help thinking of that “garland briefer than a girl’s.”

Another British poet, one whose short life ended on a battlefield in World War I, often contrasted the pleasures of love with the horrors of life and death in the trenches. His poem “Greater Love” begins with this stark contrast: Red lips are not so red / As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

And in another poem, comparing ordinary funerary practices at home with their total absence on the front lines, he can offer only that The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall.

My third favorite poet is myself – and I modestly suggest that you will indeed find among my published Thoughts many which convey the sadness of beauty, and vice versa. For example, there are these: Aren’t we lucky to have such a beautiful world to suffer in.

Sometimes life is such a beautiful road, I almost stop wondering where it leads.

What’s built in the sand soon gets washed away – that’s why making it beautiful is so important.

But, since we began with the Sun, it might be fitting to end with another celestial object – the Moon. To countless generations, the Moon has symbolized unattainable beauty. Then it actually was attained – and found to be cold, bare, and lifeless – echoing that sad old precept: Be careful what you wish for – you

might get it.

Ashleigh Brilliant born England 1933, came to California in 1955, to Santa Barbara in 1973, to the Montecito Journal in 2016.

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Classical Corner: Cam Pac Returns

After a three-month hiatus – Camerata Pacifica scheduled no shows in December for the holidays and canceled January’s over Omicron’s omnipresence – the chamber music ensemble is back at Hahn Hall on Friday, February 18, with one of the most modern programs in memory. Percussionist Ji Hye Jung, violinist Kristin Lee, clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester, and pianist Molly Morkoski performing works created in the 2000s by living composers save for the opener, an intriguing bill that beckons listeners to broaden their horizons by hearing composers whose names they don’t recognize. The slate boasts Lou Harrison’s “Varied Trio,” Andy Akiho’s “Stop Speaking,” Thierry De Mey’s “Silence Must Be,” Mark Applebaum’s “Aphasia,” Christopher Cerrone’s “Double Happiness,” and Kevin Puts’ “And Legions Will Rise.” Details at (805) 884-8410 or www.cameratapacifica.org.

CAMA’s Freebie French Classic

Jordi Savall, the master of the viola da gamba whose work as a conductor, composer, researcher, and recording artist has made him one of the principal architects of the ongoing revaluation of early music, is coming to town with a sextet to perform the soundtrack for the award winning 1991 French film Tous les matins du monde (All the Mornings of the World) at the Lobero on March 2. What better way to whet the appetite for the concert than a screening of the film, which stars Gerard Depardieu as the eminent elder French composer Marin Marais looking back at his young life, and won seven

César Awards (France’s Oscars) including Best Picture and one for Savall’s soundtrack. Admission is free for the 3 pm screening on Sunday, February 20.

Italian pianist-composer Antonio Artese, a 1985 first-prize winner of the Rachmaninov International Piano Competition who has founded a plethora of music festivals in Italy, holds dual diplomas in music from the Conservatorio “Santa Cecilia” in Rome and UCSB (where he was a student of Peter Yazbeck and Paul Berkowitz). Artese returns to town for a one-night-only performance exploring the space where jazz and opera intertwine as the pianist’s largely improvised program will be based on both popular jazz and opera themes. Artese will be joined by local classical-jazz crossover artists Jim Connolly (double bass) and Luis Muñoz (drums/percussion) on February 22 at the Lobero. Call (805) 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com.

Murray Meditates on Mastering Improv

Joel Murray has been in the “bullpen” for the long-running improv TV series Whose Line Is It Anyway? for almost a decade, but the actor and youngest brother of Bill Murray and Brian DoyleMurray has never actually appeared on an episode.

But Murray has had many memorable moments elsewhere on television, including on Mad Men where he portrayed Freddy Rumsen, the invariably imbibing senior copywriter who was forced out of the 1960s advertising firm after drunkenly urinating in his pants and then passing out right before an important meeting.

“That was a great job,” recalled Murray, a veteran of over 250 sitcom episodes including Love and War, Dharma and Greg, Mike and Molly, and Two and a Half Men. “The level of detail was insane, and everybody was so good that you showed up at the top of your game too. It was a show where people went to work and hung out for like six

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On the other hand, Murray has also migrated back to improv, perhaps the polar opposite of the set of Mad Men where creator-writer Matthew Weiner never wanted an actor to even consider uttering anything other than what was on the page. After growing up in the Murray household where being the one to make their father do a spit-take at the dinner table won the day’s family bragging rights, Joel followed Bill and Brian in training at Chicago’s Second City, studying under the legendary Del Close at the improv breeding grounds for so many future stars.

Murray was a founding member of the Improv Olympics and is a veteran of improv theaters in Los Angeles and elsewhere. And while TV’s Whose Line has yet to come calling, Murray has averaged 100 dates a year with the stage touring version after he replaced Chip Esten in the improv-comedy troupe Whose Live Anyway? where he performs alongside 30-year friend Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, and Jeff B. Davis. They’ll perform at the Lobero on February 21.

So what draws him to improv?

“Well, I like not having to memorize any lines,” Murray said. “It’s a different muscle to be able to just come up with something in a moment, even if I still get butterflies every time we’re about to go on stage.”

Murray has mastered the ability to maneuver whatever situation and scenario arises on stage based on suggestions from the audience to flesh out a game and whatever direction his colleagues take. It’s a skill that has been honed over the decades of practice.

“The secret is listening to what the other guys are saying, rather than trying to figure out your next witty line,” he said. “And you have to learn to throw out the first thing that comes into your head because that’s going to be a cheap joke, and throw out the next one too, because it’s what the guy at the water cooler might say. You got

to go with the third. But because we’re so fast-paced you’ve got to train your mind to think of the third thing first, get through that Rolodex of ideas quicker.

“The fact that I can go out with four guys and a piano player and do a show in front of 1,500 people every night is what separates me from the people who aren’t getting my job.”

Locals Only SOhO’s schedule this week showcases a bunch of Santa Barbara-based acts covering a huge swath of genres. Soul Majestic, which seamlessly segues from roots reggae to R&B and folk-rock, headlines on Friday, February 19, followed the next night by M.O.B. Quintet, an all-star ensemble that performs an eclectic blend of Euro-Brazil progressive jazz and fusion from the 1970s ECM era. Zoe Guess, Victoria Vox, and Neil Erickson comprise the next installment in SOhO’s singer-songwriter series on February 22 before Glen Phillips, the frontman for Toad the Wet Sprocket and perhaps the greatest singer-songwriter in Santa Barbara’s history, returns to the club the next night. Then Thursday, February 24, brings another all-star outfit in The Shape Shifters, a high-quality quartet whose guests this time around include Miriam Dance, Jonathan McEuen, Lois Mahalia, Sharon Hendrix, Morganfield Burnett, and Jackson Gillies. Tickets and info at (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.

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CCEC is a space where all members of the Santa Barbara community can access quality mental health services

Community Counseling and Education Center

CCEC provides counseling, support groups, workshops, and more for families and individuals

by Steven Libowitz

“W

hat a difference a day makes, 24 little hours,” Dinah Washington sang in 1959. “What a difference a day made, and the difference is you.”

Washington, of course, was singing about romantic love. But for Santa Barbara’s Community Counseling and Education Center (CCEC), one day can make a huge difference in others’ lives too.

One Day is the name of CCEC’s initiative that invites individuals to donate just a single day’s wages – which represents less than half of one percent – to help the nonprofit offer compassionate support for struggling community members.

Sarah Marin, CCEC’s director of operations, came up with the idea just a year after she and partner Mariela Marin, the organization’s executive director, took over running the now 38-year-old organization when co-founders Patricia Cooper and

Jaclyn Henretig retired in 2017.

“I was taking a walk around the neighborhood and it just hit me,” Sarah Marin recalled. “I did the math (dividing a year into 260 weekdays) and realized that one day came out to 0.38 percent, whatever your wages are. That made even a bigger sum seem like a pretty easy pill to swallow, and even easier when you think about how every dollar that you donate to CCEC really makes a difference.”

Even more so now, when the pandemic has exacerbated everyday issues such as managing a life transition, grieving a loss, facing challenges in a relationship, or other issues that CCEC helps its clients to process and handle via confidential and affordable counseling services for individuals, couples, children, teens, and families. Now CCEC’s resources in finding healthy, healing ways to cope, providing tools for communication, and identifying and halting self-defeating coping mechanisms are in far greater demand.

Even more than its bilingual counseling

staff of 20 associate therapists and graduate student trainees working under the guidance and supervision of experienced clinical staff can handle.

“Oh, our waitlist is so long,” Marin said. “It’s so full that right now we are not even scheduling intakes until March, and then it’s at least another 10 weeks before you will actually see a therapist.”

What makes the numbers even more shocking, Marin said, is that almost everyone is willing to endure the wait, no matter how long.

“We placed someone yesterday who had been on the waitlist for two years,” she said, adding that the client didn’t have the resources to even afford CCEC’s heavily-discounted rate for services. “That’s how great the need is. The mental health impact of COVID is very, very, very real.”

While it’s no surprise that the pandemic has only exacerbated the gap between the demand and the availability of therapists, Marin said, the unexpected and saddest aspect is the increase in the number of children needing support. Every day parents call in to request support for their kinds who have increased levels of anxiety, feelings of isolation, depression, and not even wanting to go to school even though classes have been back in session for a while, Marin said.

“That’s a huge trend that we did not see before the pandemic. Kids were maybe ten percent of the folks who were coming into our offices two years ago. In the last few weeks, it’s been seven out of ten.

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“Love is a promise delivered already broken.” – Steve Martin

We’re seeing kids as young as seven with adult levels of anxiety and agoraphobia who are afraid of being out in the world.

It’s heartbreaking.”

The increase in anxiety and other issues has only cemented CCEC’s parallel missions of supplying services while simultaneously shepherding its graduate student trainees into careers as highly effective counselors and therapists – the E in CCEC’s Community Counseling and Education Center’s full name.

“We’re providing top-notch care while the students are being developed into incredible heart-centered, client-centered clinicians,” Marin said. “So our focus is also on the skills for them to be the cream of the crop of clinicians in our area.”

To that end, CCEC endeavors to fill out its staff with a range of therapists with an ambit of approaches, interests, and areas of focus to better match clients with a counselor that will be most effective for them.

“As a community agency, it’s important to have a clinical director who is really attuned to both the clients’ needs and which therapist might work the best for them,” Marin said.

In her first couple of years as director of operations, Marin upgraded CCEC’s technological support that formed an avenue to quickly pivot when the pandemic shut down in-person visits.

“We put in an infrastructure that allowed us to pivot to telehealth within a week,” she said. “Within seven days, all of our clinicians were trained in telehealth and we were able to transition to digital records and payments within a week. That really saved us in 2020.”

Now Marin and CCEC are hoping that the community will keep stepping up too, saving just 0.4 percent of a year’s earnings to support the Center’s community-based services.

Choose your own TV show or song to serve as a reminder: One Day at a Time.

Any Day Now. A Day in the Life.

The titles don’t matter. The dollars do.

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IDEAS CORNER: On Money, Politics and other Trivial Matters Perspectives

A Reason for Hope On Conscience and Integrity

Rethinking “Consent”

Extending a sexy invitation

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

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n the political swamp that has ensnared our democratic republic a glimmer of something we haven’t seen for almost six years is on the horizon: the emergence of a fissure in the Republican party, which has lately been in the grips of Mr. Trump’s remarkably single-handed control as it morphed into the Cult of Trump. Finally, over 160 present and former leaders of the Republican party have said “Enough!”

It is remarkable that it didn’t come sooner, in either the first or second impeachment trial, or even in a thoughtful critique of Trump’s more outlandish antics and pronouncements. Still, it is cause for celebration is that it is finally emerging, and we are seeing the beginning stages of the Republican Party looking for an “off ramp” from the Cult highway in order to become, once again, the “Grand Old Party.” It may be too little, and it may be too late, but at least the conversation has begun.

In our two-party political system, which this column has vigorously argued in the past should become a multiparty political system, a small band of far-right revolutionaries has hijacked the national agenda. They’ve accomplished this by sabotaging the primary chances of respectable candidates with questionable candidates who constantly up-the-ante with rhetoric that encourages the misogynistic, racist, anti-Semitic, authoritarian, neo-Nazi fringe in order to garner primary victories.

In a multiparty society, those primaries would matter much less since any candidate that far from the mainstream would attract, at most, the fringy-est thirty percent of radical right-wing voters who hold those views. The seventy percent remaining would find a candidate of their choosing amongst a variety of options. A multiparty democracy would end the incessant warfare of that radical fringe attempting to “take down” the opposition party, and a return to active primary discussions over which national policies should be pursued.

Alas, we have a system so rigged to favor a two-party system that we’ll have to console ourselves with this speculation: can the Republican Party abandon its status as “the Party of no,” return to its historically conservative roots, and become a force within a positive national debate? The answer, at last, just might be “yes.”

The “hope” now emerging stems from the radical action of the National Republican Committee (“RNC”) taking the patently absurd, devoid of any meaningful purpose, action to censure Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their participation, as Congresspeople, on the Select Committee to Investigate the January Sixth attack on the United States Capitol. Forget the fact that Cheney voted 93 percent of the time with Trump and that Kinzinger has a similarly conservative background, because this censure was not about any conservative principle. It was a naked power move by Trump Cultists to purge the Party of anyone who does not explicitly swear allegiance to Trump and his “Big Lie.” As one RNC member, Sam Eliopoulos, a Cheyenne businessman and Republican running for a seat in the Wyoming State House, told The New York Times in explaining the take-down of Liz Cheney, “She speaks about her conscience, but you weren’t elected to do what you think is right…”

More outrageous than even that is the depiction of the investigation into the January sixth insurrection as the equivalent of a Democratic party-led witch hunt persecuting innocent citizens doing their civic duty. Here are the frightening words that the RNC used as their lever to convict the two Republican members of Congress and deny them all party donations going forward: “Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger crossed a line. They chose to join Nancy Pelosi in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse that had nothing to do with violence at the Capitol (emphasis supplied).”

What???? “Legitimate political discourse”???

Here’s what Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had to say on February 9 in response to the RNC action: “We all were here. We saw what happened. It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next (emphasis supplied).”

What a contrast in positions! McConnell, who deftly orchestrated Trump’s acquittal in both Impeachment Trials, has finally seen the handwriting on the wall. He must break formally with Trump in the party if he wants to save his party, and his chances to regain the Majority Leader title. Although I would have preferred that he acted far sooner to corral the Trump Cult, better late than never.

Within four days, we heard from those 160 former and current Republican officials

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onsidering the many layers involved in communicating sexual desires and boundaries, the word consent undeniably falls short. Instead, Rebecca Kulka, a senior research senior at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and philosophy professor at Georgetown University, offers two different words that can be used: invitations and gift offers.

When someone is trying to establish intimacy with someone new, an invitation sets the scene for good and ethical sexual experiences much better than a request.

The one extending the invitation isn’t just opening up a neutral possibility, they are making it clear that sex would be welcome and wanted.

The nature of an invitation as welcoming without being demanding is key in the realm of ethical sexual intimacy. Generally, if we extend a sexual invitation and it is accepted, we feel pleased. However, it’s safe to say that most people don’t want someone to agree to engage in sexual activity as a favor or because they feel bad for us – this is more like conceding to a request.

Understanding participants in sexual interactions as inviters and invitees renders consent and refusal inappropriate responses within this new framework, and makes it clear that “the consent model distorts our understanding how a great deal of sex is initiated, including in particular pleasurable, ethical sex.”

Extending an invitation is often how people initiate sexual encounters with someone that they are just getting to know.

Offering a sexy gift The difference between an invitation and gift-giving is that “gift-giving is… essentially reciprocal… which is part of every gift-giving system despite cultural variations.

Gifts need to be reciprocated, and this is part of how they sustain relationships.”

This is what makes offering a sexual gift inappropriate in the early stages of getting to know someone, because you probably don’t have enough information about them to know what would please them, and you also aren’t in a position to impose an obligation to reciprocate on them. “But generous offers of sexual gifts, designed first and foremost to please one’s partner rather than to directly satisfy one’s own sexual desires,” Kulka says, “are a normal part of an ongoing healthy relationship.”

The two suggested replacements for consent and refusal that Kulka offers, we believe, better embody the true complexity and mutuality of sexual relationships.

Sex should be, after all, something that we do together in communion, and not

something that we do to each other. endorsing McConnell’s position. This is the first “push back” the party has given Trump since he glided down that golden escalator and pushed every traditional Republican candidate off the stage through bluster, bullying, and showmanship.

And the breaks are still coming. On February fourth, former Vice President Pence, a Trump “toady” if ever there was one, declared that Trump “was wrong” (a sentiment he had never before in his life expressed, even after Trump-inspired insurrectionists sought him out for hanging) about Pence’s ability to throw the election to Trump.

Of course, Trump roared back by making a confession of guilt for what he instructed Pence to illegally do with this statement: “He could have overturned the election!” That was the plan all along, from when it was first hatched in the summer of 2020!

Speculation that Pence is setting himself up to run against Trump in 2024 only makes his comments all the more interesting. Cheney, Kitzinger, McConnell, Pence, and those 160 who have sided with them are finally saying that they are willing to risk Trump’s mafia-style-control over the primary process in order to take their party back.

Democrats, Independents, and traditional Republicans should all wish them well. For so long as we are chained to a two-party system, we absolutely require a vigorous debate where the traditional Republican voice, and its conscience once again, is actively engaged.

Here’s to hoping the majority of the Republicans rediscover their roots and historical

mission and rebrand as “Independent Republicans – the party of Lincoln.”

Rinaldo S. Brutoco, an entrepreneur, is the founding president and CEO of the Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy and a co-founder of JUST Capital

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Community Voices Reparations 101: A Path Through Our Division

by James Joyce III

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t was towards the end of Black History Month in 2019. Coffee with a Black Guy (CWABG) was hosting our first community conversation in a yearlong collaboration with the Lois and Walter Capps Project (now the Common Table Foundation). More people were gathered for this event than any of the previously convened conversations since launching the initiative in the summer of 2016 when just seven people attended that first session. On that sunny Saturday in February 2019, we had 107 people who had walked through registration.

As curious attendees mingled, many nervously, I made my final preparation before launching into the town hallstyle community conversation about race.

Unsure of where the topic might go with a crowd of this size, I paced in my powder blue slacks with the comforting sounds of A Tribe Called Quest bumping through the speakers at the Sandbox, a coworking space on Santa Barbara’s lower east side.

“Can I kick it?” asks Q-Tip, ATCQ’s main producer and rapper.

“Yes, you can!” the other members of the group refrain.

The call and response goes back and forth several times before his verse begins.

I took a sip from my coffee mug and I kicked off the conversation with a welcome, a few introductions, and a shout out to the event sponsors. In that introduction, I shared that Coffee with a Black Guy is an interactive experience and an opportunity to share in an open forum for healthy and respectful conversation. I laid out a few guiding principles before opening it up to the audience to ask whatever questions may be on their minds.

Without hesitation a woman situated to my right towards the windowed part of the crowd had a question to get things rolling. She wanted to know what my thoughts were on reparations given that, at the time, Democratic presidential primary candidate Marianne Williamson had announced that reparations for Black Americans would be a major part of her platform.

As the woman formed her question, my stomach dropped. My mind raced and perspiration began to bead in the pits of my arms and drip down the sides of my torso. I had no working knowledge of this Williamson candidate at the time – in my mind it was Hillary and Bernie, in that order. Still unsure of how to respond, I took a deep breath and in that, it came to mind that I did know a thing or two about the topic and could use that to 17 – 24 February 2022

address the root of the woman’s question.

She wanted to know how I felt about the idea of reparations.

From previous interactions and observations, I knew that the topic can elicit a visceral reaction from some people, but I understood that to generally derive from ignorance. We as a nation and society had largely been discouraged from even having the conversation in earnest, so I approached my response as I do with these conversations, rooted in the philosophy of the Public Service Announcements from my formative years, The More You Know.

I carefully explained to the woman and crowd, that it is my belief that reparations contain the idea of atoning for past mistakes or wrongs and some level of compensation or restitution for those past wrongs. The concept of reparations that the CWABG attendee was referencing was that associated with chattel slavery. For the wrongs of the United States’ economic foundation being built on the backs of enslaved Africans and their descendants and in recognition of the continued systems to maintain economic and social stratification. I pointed out that this country that I was indoctrinated into pledging my allegiance to was built on the backs of my ancestors.

For that reason, I think reparations (for Black Americans) are a good idea and necessary.

Furthermore, in my response to the woman’s question, for the 107 plus people assembled and online, I shared the context of H.R. 40, which is the Congressional Reparations Study Bill championed by the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America and has been introduced by Representatives John Conyers and Sheila Jackson Lee every Congress since 1989. I was nine when the proposal was first introduced.

In 2021, for the first time in three decades the legislative proposal passed out of committee and is positioned for a vote on the floor of Congress.

Ultimately, when we start to have the conversation about reparations in a seri-

ous way, we have to come to the understanding that we can’t go back and change the past, as we grew up saying for a’many a’things – it is what it is. But then the question becomes: How do we get over the emotions and the pinned-up anger about the past? Picking the scab back off and healing that wound is a good place to find the root of our division and fix the issue from there.

The current federal policy proposal to create a commission to study reparations for descendants of enslaved Americans harkens back to 40 acres, and eventually the mule, that were part of the early efforts in 1865 to provide some sort of restitution to formerly enslaved Black people for the wrongs of slavery. The most notable historical reference to this is in Union General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15, issued on January 16, 1865.

The common response I hear in opposition to the idea of reparations is that it would be seen as a “free handout” and “I never owned slaves,” or a variety of deflectory comments. However, I challenge those with that response to think through what it could look like or how it could work. If there were an Office for Black American research, for lack of a better name, that was a government office that hired the best researchers, anthropologists, and other specialists to do the research when a Black American comes to them to initiate the process. Once an individual’s lineage is traced and documented to be a descendent of slavery, they would then be given economic options that they could choose, such as a direct cash payment, land ownership, home ownership, and student loan debt relief.

Although the topic of reparations has only recently reemerged with federal policy potential, there are people, organizations, and coalitions that have been advocating for reparations for years and their work has largely informed my understanding and ideas on the topic. Those grassroots efforts have helped advance the idea in California to the point that in 2020, the state became the first in the nation to address the issue through Assembly Bill 3121, a bill created by then-Assemblymember Shirley Weber to establish a task force to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans. The nine-member task force of both gubernatorial and legislative appointees began meeting in 2021 with a goal of engaging communities as they

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If this all seems to be a lot, it is, and can be, but avoiding the conversation, I believe, only creates more division. What helps is to talk about it. It has been my belief that in addition to the financial reparations, there should also be educational components for both the general community and the recipients of the reparations.

The community education that is being so vehemently fought through attacks on “Critical Race Theory,” helps set a foundation of understanding that leads to atonement and avoids resentment.

I see Coffee with a Black Guy conversations as part of that. It is a topic that has repeatedly come up in conversations over the years as something that people would like to know more about. To that end, for the next community offering, Coffee with a Black Guy will be hosting an introductory community conversation on reparations. This virtual community conversation will take place on Thursday, February 24 at 6 pm. For this “CWABG Presents Reparations 101, a Community Conversation,” I will be joined in conversation by Kamilah Moore, the reparatory justice scholar and attorney who chairs the CA Reparations Task Force; Laura Pitter, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s U.S. Program; and Mekhi Mitchell, diversity and equity advocate for the UCSB Office of Black Student Development who will share some of his senior research thesis project to help frame the community conversation.

To learn more and register, visit www.cwabg.com.

James Joyce III is Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Coffee with a Black Guy, a former award-winning journalist, and runnerup in the 2021 Santa Barbara mayoral election

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They joined a host of other celebrities at the match, won 23-20 by the L.A. Rams against the Cincinnati Bengals, including Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, Matt Damon, Sean Penn, Mark Wahlberg, LeBron James, Charlize Theron, Will Ferrell, Justin Bieber and Ryan Reynolds.

Oscar-nominated Montecito composer Barry DeVorzon was delighted at halftime when singer Mary J. Blige sang his song “No More Drama.” “She knocked it out of the park!” gushed Barry.

The Queen Has Spoken Queen Elizabeth’s proclamation for her Platinum Jubilee later this year marking 70 years on the British throne, was a masterstroke of ingenuity.

The announcement confirmed that Prince Charles’ wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, would become Queen Consort on the death of his mother.

In just a single sentence the monarch gave her very public approval, safeguarding a seamless and trouble-free transition of the throne for the future.

It is a long way from the time of Princess Diana’s untimely death in 1997 when Camilla was considered a pariah by the British public.

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Sadly, however, all that has been heard from Charles’ youngest son, Prince Harry, and his former actress

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Rest in Peace, Ivan On a personal note, I remember Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, who has died at the age of 75 at his Montecito home, formerly part of the legendary 70-acre El Mirador estate near Westmont College.

Reitman first made his mark producing the irreverent college fraternity film National Lampoon’s Animal House with John Belushi in 1978.

A year later the Czech-born Reitman made his directorial debut with Bill Murray in his first starring role in the summer camp comedy Meatballs.

But he truly made his mark on Hollywood history with Ghostbusters in 1984 with Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, and Rick Moranis, which grossed almost $300 million worldwide.

His Golden Globe-winning son, Jason Reitman, 44, followed in his footsteps with films including Juno, Thank You for Smoking, and Up in the Air.

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Village (Continued from 9) concerns include a lack of privacy for neighbors, an encroachment on views, and fears about outdoor lighting and sound emitting from the balcony and rooftop decks. There is also concern about fire access on the narrow street, as well as issues with how cars parking on the property will turn around with sufficient space.

While the majority of projects come to the Board without much neighbor feedback, a new residential project on Miramonte Avenue has brought many neighbors –and their attorneys – out to voice their dismay.

Sarah Bronstad, speaking on behalf of Collins, said that many neighbors felt uncomfortable voicing their concerns publicly, after the property owner of the project issued a cease and desist letter

following the December MBAR meeting. One neighbor, who used to own the property many years ago, said the project looks too massive for the neighborhood. “It looks like two giant buildings on a skinny little property,” he added.

Fifteen neighbors have signed a letter to protest the building of the project; many of the neighbors impacted by the project have also spoken out against the YMCA remodel, which is on the adjacent property to Miramonte Avenue.

Ettinger reported that the plans have been conceptually approved by the Montecito Fire Protection District, after concessions were made by the property owner, who agreed to give up several feet of his property to widen the fire lane that accesses his home as well as two additional properties. He added that since the December meeting, the project has been scaled back in size in an effort to compromise with the neighbors. “We tried hard to listen to the concerns about privacy and views,” Ettinger said.

MBAR members gave mostly positive remarks about the architectural style of the project, but encouraged compromise with the neighbors by perhaps lowering roof lines, removing the rooftop garden area on the garage, and shrinking the floor area ratio. Ettinger said he would consider the comments thoughtfully with his client, and story poles reflecting a revised project would be erected before the next MBAR meeting.

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Juniper owner Marie Ferris is now carrying fine jewelry from Zofia Day

The Montecito Board of Architectural Review meets two Thursdays per month via Zoom. The eight-person board includes Chair John Watson, Vice-Chair David Mendro, Supervising Planner Kimberley McCarthy, and board members Bill Wolf, Claire Gottsdanker, Don Sharpe, Thiep Cung, and Alida Aldrich, as well as Secretary Sharon Foster. For more information on this project as well as others making their way through the planning pipeline, visit www.countyofsb.org/plndev/hearings/ mbar.sbc.

Juniper on Coast Village Road

Unique women’s clothing and accessory boutique Juniper is tucked between Sakana and Occhiali in Coast Village Walk, with owner Marie Ferris offering an array of luxury clothing lines not found in other stores. “I love pieces that are unexpected and unique,” Ferris told us during a recent visit to the shop. “My style is soft and feminine with an edge.”

Ferris, who originally hails from the East Coast, moved to Montecito in 2017 to open the store after operating a successful boutique in Southern California for over 16 years. The Montecito store was once located in the Upper Village

before moving to Coast Village Road last summer. Ferris is no stranger to retail. Her well-known Del Mar shop Matti D was named after her kids (Matti and Danielle), and became a leading Southern California boutique, known for sophisticated style, careful curation, unique offerings, and personal styling services. Ferris sold the shop in 2016, and once in Montecito, decided to open a new venture.

Juniper offers one-of-a-kind jewelry, and designer belts and handbags (including hand-painted vintage Louis Vuitton), as well as an array of contemporary clothing including dresses, denim, leather jackets, woven silk blouses, luxury graphic tees, cashmere sweaters, and special occasion outfits.

Each piece is carefully curated, and Ferris says she chooses pieces based on design, not designer. A few of the designers she may carry at any time: Nour Hammour, Bleecker, Whiting & Davis bags, Cinq à Sept, Zofia Day jewelry, and more. Juniper carries a mix of domestic and European designer offerings, and Ferris is available for styling for any occasion, as well as closet organization. She also has Currey & Co. chandeliers available for sale in the shop. “I sell the things I love,” she laughed.

Juniper caters to all ages, and Ferris says her clientele appreciates her ability to mix laid back, California style, with the edgy, hip styles of New York and other metropolitan cities. Juniper is located in the space formerly occupied by Antoinette, which closed in November

2020 after 44 years in business.

The store is open Monday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm, and closed Sundays. For more information, visit 1046 Coast Village Road, Suite J, or email juni permontecito@gmail.com.

Kelly Mahan Herrick, also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond.

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ember-resistant vents.

“Defensible space is a holistic approach that requires several efforts. The Chipping Program is one piece of the equation.

Hardening your home is another,” Juarez said. “We were very successful last year with the program to retrofit vents at local homes and we’re excited to offer it to our residents again.”

We are currently accepting vent retrofit applications on montecitofire.com.

“It’s a team effort to make keep Montecito resilient,” Juarez said. “We are thankful to be part of a team of community members who are always willing to do their part to be prepared for wildfire.”

sequestration in healthy wildland habitats.

The Department was successful in receiving the grant funding due in large part to the strong community support of the Neighborhood Chipping Program.

“In my five years with Montecito Fire, I have yet to meet a property owner in Montecito who isn’t ready and willing to do their part to protect our community as a whole,” Juarez said. “That’s what makes Montecito unique – everyone is committed to preparing for wildfire, together.”

What to Know A few weeks prior to your neighborhood’s chipping week, you will receive a postcard from Montecito Fire outlining the program and directions to participate. Alternatively, you can find all the information online at montecitofire.com by clicking on the Neighborhood Chipping Program tab.

We have a new resource on our website that’s bringing our more-than-decade-oldprogram into the digital age.

“The program is evolving as the community continues to increase participation,” Juarez said. “This year we have added an interactive map that allows property owners to type in their address and the map will show them if their neighborhood is within the program and if so, the dates we will be chipping in their neighborhood.”

A few best practices to participate in the program:

Get your overgrowth organized and help make Montecito a more fire resilient area

– Stack cuttings at the edge of a passable road with all the cut ends facing the roadway. This helps our chipping crew to process the piles safely and efficiently.

– Not all vegetation can be chipped!

Roll-off containers are strategically placed in neighborhoods to dispose of vines, leaves, grass, succulents, palm fronds, firewood, and small trimmings that cannot go through the chipping machine. You can find the roll-off locations on the Interactive Neighborhood Chipping Map. These containers are only for Montecito residents to dispose of non-chippable materials.

For new community members in Montecito who may be unfamiliar

with the Chipping Program, Elmquist encourages residents to contact the fire department to schedule a complimentary Defensible Space Survey.

“Defensible Space Surveys allow us to walk the property with the homeowner and make specific recommendations on what areas should be prioritized to improve defensible space, what the options are, and how we can help them,” Elmquist said.

Building on the Neighborhood Chipping Program, Montecito Fire will offer our Home Hardening Assistance Program for the second year. It provides funding for eligible applications to harden their homes by upgrading to

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young age that this wasn’t fair and felt that, as social workers, we should be finding people who are really interested, people who aren’t in it for the money. As a foster care child, you already feel like people don’t care about you. I want to better the foster care system, find kids good homes, hopefully ones that are permanent.

Learning Life Skills from The Key Class

by Stella Haffner

“M

y parents don’t work in an office, and they never went through interviews. So they wouldn’t be able to teach me this type of stuff,” says Fatima Lopez. A first generation American and the first in her family to attend college, Fatima reminds me that details such as how to conduct yourself at an interview aren’t always passed down in the osmosis-like process many of us in Montecito are surely used to.

As I face my own college graduation and explore the space of this column, I find myself looking for ways to highlight education initiatives here in Santa Barbara.

Two weeks ago we heard from Kai Etz – alum of The Key Class, a local program designed to give students essential skills for success. This week, I’m hoping to take us in a further investigation of this course with an interview from Fatima Lopez.

Q. Do you remember how you first learned about The Key Class?

A. It all started when I lived at Housing Authority. I learned about it, and while it sounded interesting, I thought it

might just be the same old stuff we learn in school. But I attended the class and realized: “Wait. I don’t know this.”

I ended up taking two different courses from The Key Class while I was at Housing Authority and then another one with my AVID class. I actually have taken it three times now. I was so happy to have access to the information, so I just kept taking it and taking it.

“I want to better the foster care system, find kids good homes, hopefully ones that are permanent.”

– Fatima Lopez

What did you learn in The Key Class that has stuck with you?

They taught us basic manners, how to apply for a job, how to make a resumé.

The course I took at Housing Authority also covered checking, mortgages, finances. I really learned a lot from that class.

But I think the social stuff stuck with me

Fatima Lopez

the most. Learning to go out of my way to talk to new people, give a firm handshake. These are things that seem obvious, but you wouldn’t necessarily know.

Have you gotten an opportunity to use these skills?

Yes. So I’m in my first year in college. I actually really thought I wouldn’t make it here. But I had people like John [Daly] to support me, I had Gateway, a tutoring program where they help you with your application. They told me which scholarships I could apply to, especially since money was a big factor for my family. Of course, when I was applying for college, I had to do a bunch of interviews, especially for the scholarships. I had to take into account all the things I’d learned at The Key Class like coming in on time, having eye contact, making sure to do research before you go into the meetings so they know that you’re interested. These are all the things I learned that helped get me into college, and now I get to major in psychology and hopefully use it to become a social worker.

How old were you when you were in foster care?

I was seven. I feel like that experience – everything happens for a reason. And I’m hoping to do better. I feel more empathy for other people in foster care because I went through it myself. I wasn’t even sure I’d make it this far, but I had a bunch of people helping me. It was hard, but I made it. And now, majoring in psychology, I’ll have a chance to help other kids get better homes.

Through the donation of material resources, we help keep organizations like The Unity Shoppe and local homeless warming centers in operation. But it is important to remember that people aren’t only deprived of a bed or food but also of mental nourishment – the soft skills that enforce a very high barrier to entry in the job market and in education.

Access to these soft skills is often most limited for generational pioneers like Fatima. The programs mentioned in this interview – AVID, Gateway, and of course, The Key Class – are all programs that focus on alleviating educational disparity. By supporting programs like these, that empower young students to overcome social, educational, and resource deprivation, we are helping make that essential

support and guidance available.

To learn more visit www.thekeyclass.com

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

Can you tell me more about your interest in social work?

When I was little, I was in foster care.

I was able to see how the system worked with my foster parents and felt like they were just doing it for the money; they didn’t really care for kids. I realized at a

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DeAnna Joy Wassom Timeless. Ageless. Gone too soon!

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eAnna peacefully passed on the morning of January 30. Her partner of 18 years, Michaela Morgan, was by her side, and their “baby” fox terrier Chanel was at her feet.

I have lost the love of my life…

We never talked about her passing as we focused on living and celebrating the daily “wins” no matter how small they were. We were just so happy being together and having this time.

We were true partners during the good and hard times of our 18 precious years together.

I would’ve kept soldiering on for her… but she chose her moment to leave this “human holiday.”

I know I must live for now.

In time she will be standing waiting to embrace me.

I look forward to that day.

For now, she wants me to continue living on without her physically here.

We have always said to each other “I love you to the moon and back… both being moon birth signs my comfort comes now from nightly looking up at the moon humming Bruno Mars… “I’m talking to the moon…you’re on the other side… talking to me too.”

We loved traveling… Paris a favorite and planned a trip to Lucca, Italy in May. We ran out of time.

I am so grateful for the last eight months.

My Girl is just Gone Too Soon!

Loved, admired, and adored, DeAnna was the “joy” brought into every room! She was a force of nature... standing at 5’11”... and that was without her Manolos.

DeAnna was a female icon in the tech world, a maven of marketing for Software.

com, Openwave, Sonos, and HERBL. She truly loved her work and those who worked with her. Even during her last eight months of cancer treatment, she continued to work as HERBL’s Chief Marketing Officer with her beloved team cheering her on.

Loved, admired, and adored, DeAnna Joy Wassom was the “joy” brought into every room!

DeAnna was born in Sac City, Iowa to George and Maebeth Wassom. Her parents were natives of Sac City and met in grade school. Their firstborn child, who looked just like her “Daddy,” was the “joy” of their lives. That “joy” is what DeAnna brought into her world, surrounding everyone in its wake... whether at work, hiking, playing with the dogs, slalom waterskiing with her family in Iowa, rolling the dice at the craps table, or dancing to “September.”

Growing up in Iowa, her father worked for Gamaco, a concrete construction equipment company. So, DeAnna had summer jobs driving cement trucks to job sites. She attended Iowa State gaining two degrees in Design and Marketing.

DeAnna moved to Boulder, Colorado where she was hired by (now local) Tom Cullen to be Director of Marketing for a startup called Radish. When Tom relocated to Santa Barbara, he recommended DeAnna for a job at Metacreations.

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looked back. Another Tom introduction, this time to John MacFarlane, led to a long career at Software.com and Openwave.

Then came Sonos. Cue the music.

DeAnna joined a small but mighty team of seven in 2004 to create a revolutionary music system. She became Head of Global Marketing and over the course of 13 years traveled to Europe, China, and all over the United States. She loved every minute of her work. Her joy at Sonos was the music – always streaming – and the teams of people she worked with that were like family.

Always looking for adventure and challenge, DeAnna wanted to bring her marketing expertise to the newly legalized marijuana business. She became HERBL’s first CMO in 2019 and found another team of people that she just loved working with.

DeAnna lives on in the memories of those who had the pleasure to be her friend and colleague: “DeAnna seemed larger than life 30 years ago when she walked through my door saying she wanted to get into Tech.

Did she ever get into Tech! She was a force of nature that helped realize the dreams of three startups with good ideas to bring those innovations to the world. People often wondered why we seemed bigger than we were – we had a larger than life legend on our team.” – Tom “DeAnna will still be felt gently tapping on the trajectory of my life. Still inspiring, still caring, still loyal, and still loving. I didn’t know it at the time, but my life would get better because of her. That was the thing about DeAnna. She made our lives better.

And she will always do that for me.” – Mark

“I am gently remembering all the wonderful times we all had together... the essence of DeAnna and the smokey sexy voice of hers... and being a tall drink of water... she was a force to be reckoned with... she was driven without a huge ego... she was ambitious but supportive of everyone’s wishes. She was a lover of the arts as well as caviar and champagne... she knew how to hit a golf ball and she was very self-aware and I always felt that she was an active listener, such an unusual quality.” – Mary “I met DeAnna when I was 17, which means I’ve known her for almost 2/3 of the time I’ve been alive. She worked hard and played hard. A bad ass on both sides of the fence. My life was better for having known her. I sure miss her.” – Graham “DeAnna was the greatest boss I ever had.

She was also a genuine friend who made me feel supported every day and taught me how to kick ass at life. I’m humbled I even got a slice of her world, as everyone wanted to be a part of it. Stevie Nicks blasting, girl boots rocking, and razor-sharp intelligence are how she is lighted in my mind forever. I look forward to being as much like her as possible.” – Sam DeAnna is survived by her partner Michaela, Chanel their puppy, and her family: Sonya & LaDon Johnson, Ed & Wendy Wassom, nephews Corbin Johnson (Ada & Lucca), Foster Johnson (Morgan), Rabin Walters (Laura), and Garrett Wassom.

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Ivan with Tim Matheson (“Otter”) on the set of National Lampoon’s Animal House

James Widdoes and Tim Matheson in National Lampoon’s Animal House

basically Ivan pulled out his ear buds and wanted to reconnect and we spent the entire flight back talking and reminiscing. I also remember, years later, being on a Zoom with Ivan and he was in this really poorly illuminated room. Turns out he was doing the Zoom from a closet – because he didn’t want to wake his wife.

The comfort and well-being of others was always a priority to him. That’s why all the best talent loved working with him.”

Ivan Reitman lived in Montecito’s storied El Mirador estate and was a huge philanthropist to our local community. And while Reitman himself was such a light in the world, his family history included some real darkness as his parents were both Holocaust survivors.

I asked Matheson (who owned the Lampoon when I worked there) why he thought Reitman was so uncharacteristically nice. Tim said, “I think because he’s a true Canadian. Aren’t Canadians the nicest, kindest people there are? Maybe it’s the cold that makes Canadians want Les Firestein writes about to be warm.”

Whatever the reason, Reitman’s spirit architecture and design for lives on in the millions who were touched the Montecito Journal. Thirty by his creative and philanthropic works, years ago, at The National and the thousands who benefitted locally Lampoon, Les predicted from Reitman’s generosity of spirit. He that Donald Trump will be deeply missed, although sequels would conquer North and remakes of his films will surely live on America. You can

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Any takeaways from being with Ansel?

He wasn’t the techno fanatic people think. He was a musician; testing film for him was like playing scales, and he did not want to play the wrong note. What struck me was how many ordinary photos he took, which did not bother him; he learned what to do and what not to do. He was very open about things and liked to experiment. It was a comforting realization for me. Ansel was very human; he loved being around people. He made some marvelous-feeling portraits, and abstract studies of objects. He wasn’t photographing the reality in front of the lens, he was photographing the emotion that scene arose in him, the crux of his creative experience – sharing the mood.

Fondest memories of working with Ansel?

When I worked for Ansel, he put the light on the paper himself [exposed the prints in the enlarger] and I did the print baths. To him, printing was like painting with light. When he’d burn and dodge (darken or lighten) areas on the printing paper, it was like watching a ballet. As Ansel liked to say, “The negative is the score and the print is the performance,” that it’s perfectly alright to express different things with the same image.

He did not have a darkroom exposure timer, he was a musician and used a metronome to time his exposures. We would do twenty 16x 20 prints in the morning, doing five to six prints at a time. To this day, I use a metronome in the darkroom.

When I’m printing “Moon” and “Half Dome” and “Thunderstorm Yosemite

Valley” from his original negs, it’s like getting together with an old friend in the darkroom, he’s right there with me.

I consider myself his last field assistant.

When he did his last portfolio, “Portfolio VII,” he wanted to include an original out of the camera Polaroid in each portfolio, 115 copies. We spent the better part of a year looking for art together and setting up photographs. After Ansel passed, I hiked up to Mount Ansel Adams with some colleagues and left a tribute cannister filled with his memorabilia hidden behind some boulders.

What is your advice for photographers?

I’d say do it because you love it, and stick with it; you never know when that one door will open.

Advice for creativity?

- As Ralph Putzker, Chair of the San Francisco State University Art Department said, “When in doubt plagiarize, don’t call it your own, but if you want to learn a certain technique, try to get inside the head the person who did it, try it to get the technique you want to use.” To be inspired by somebody is wonderful.

- Don’t get carried away with thinking you’ve got to have a certain Golden Ratio, do it because you have something you want to share.

- To take from Mark Twain’s essay “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses”: “Eschew Surplusage,” aka if you don’t need it, don’t include it.

- Ask yourself why you are taking this photo.

- The lens on your camera has nothing to do with the structure of the photograph; it’s where the lens is. Changing a lens on a camera only changes how much you see; it’s not changing the structure of what you see.

Think about the whole scene you are photographing, don’t just use a lens to zoom in one small section and miss the rest.

- Be a professional photographer, be on top of your equipment and technique, working professionally – you’ve got to

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Montecito Moms Annie Gray: Flower Power

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ometimes you just want flowers. Not for a holiday. Not for a birthday. Not for a wedding – just because.

Why? Because flowers are pretty! Who doesn’t love a bright bouquet sitting on your table or by your bed at night?

And Annie Gray is a Montecito mom who knows a thing or two about flowers.

“I love flowers. I love pulling together a color palette and mixing in texture to create something that makes my heart and eyes happy.”

Gray has been harnessing her floral design with her boutique business of flower arranging and styling. She doesn’t advertise or have a website – if you want her – you just call her!

“It started so organically. I have always enjoyed making arrangements and giv-

Gray Family: Annie, Will, Charlie, and Elsa

ing small bouquets to friends for their birthdays. Then it morphed into helping with some school fundraisers and the next thing I knew, I was creating bridal bouquets and centerpieces for weddings.”

“I love that my business is small and personal. If I know who the flowers are going to, and why, there is a major connection while I am designing and arranging.”

– Annie Gray Gray grew up on the Monterey Peninsula and attributes the lush landscape and coastal sunsets to her appreciation of color and texture that she uses in her floral design.

“I love that my business is small and personal. If I know who the flowers are going to, and why, there is a major connection while I am designing and arranging.”

Gray has spent the past few years working part-time as a substitute teacher at All Saints-by-the-Sea Preschool, and working with flowers was just a hobby. It wasn’t until her skillset was called upon for Montecito Union School (where her kids, Charlie, 11, and Elsa, 9, attend) gala a few years back that she realized she could do more with her favorite flora and fauna.

“I literally set up shop in my garage.

It definitely helps to keeps costs down

Annie Gray at work on a floral arch for a September wedding on Padaro Beach

when you are working from home and arranging flowers in your kitchen and backyard!”

From there, she has done several boutique events and a few larger weddings, but she always keeps an eye on costs.

“I try to always get flowers locally at the Farmers Market. If I need more or have to plan ahead for a larger event, then I use a wholesale company from Oxnard or Carpinteria.”

And part of knowing costs is knowing what is in season. “You can always get flowers imported but it might not feel natural and it will cost a fortune. I love ranunculus and peonies, but they are only available once or twice a year. So it’s important to choose flowers based on what is growing local and what is in season.”

While Gray said COVID made get-

ting flowers a challenge, she didn’t let it stop her from helping to make one bride’s wedding day vision a reality: “I was doing a beachside wedding in September and the bride wanted white roses. I had ordered them, but then there was a major flower shortage in September. It felt like everyone was getting married and everyone wanted white roses! There was a production shortage, lack of labor, and poor weather in South America… all of this meant the bride might not get her perfect wedding day flowers. Fortunately, thanks to lots of planning and a great team, I was able to get everything we needed to make the day beautiful.”

Gray loves the challenge of a large event, but says the smaller arrangements are always sweet. “I made little wrist corsages for girls for a daddy-daughter dance and it was so fun. I picked ribbons to match their dresses and it was something unique that made them feel special. That is what flowers do – they just make any occasion feel more special!”

And what’s Gray’s idea of a special day in Montecito? “Well, my husband (local architect Will Gray) grew up in Montecito and so we love spending the day with family and friends. A perfect day would include a jog along the water, a meal at The Nugget in Summerland, and then getting cozy with our kids by our fire at night!”

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ORDINANCE NO. 6056 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ADOPTING THE 2021-2022 SALARY PLAN APPLICABLE TO UNREPRESENTED MANAGERS

SANTA BARBARA GOLF CLUB INVITATION FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received at the Santa Barbara Golf Club on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for:

AND PROFESSIONAL ATTORNEYS (EXCEPT THE CITY

DUE DATE & TIME: March 9, 2022 UNTIL 5:00 P.M.

ADMINISTRATOR AND THE CITY ATTORNEY) AND THE 2021- 2022 SALARY PLAN APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN

Maintenance Roof and Cart Barn Project

UNREPRESENTED SAFETY MANAGERS

Scope of Work: Maintenance Roof and Cart Barn Beam Project The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on February 8, 2022.

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

(Seal) /s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 6056 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on February 1, 2022 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on February 8, 2022, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

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

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on February 9, 2022.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on February 9, 2022.

/s/ Randy Rowse Mayor Published February 16, 2022 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hlavaty Dental Arts, 737 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Hlavaty DDS, Inc., 737 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 3, 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. 2022-0000337. Published February 16, 23, March 2, 9, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Infinite Potential Institute LLC; Infinite Potential Institute; Wuttke Institute; Wuttke’s Infinite Potential Institute; Wuttke Infinite Potential Institute, 212 Cottage Grove Ave Ste A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Infinite Potential Institute LLC, 212 Cottage Grove Ave Ste A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 3, 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. 20220000330. Published February 9, 16, 23, March 2, 2022

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Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the Santa Barbara Golf Club and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained through email by contacting Santa Barbara Golf Club at 408-482-4156 or mpennington@lagunasecagolf.com The Santa Barbara Golf Club has been contracted to run the City of Santa Barbara’s municipal golf course and is required to use all City of Santa Barbara purchasing guidelines. Those guidelines are available at the following City website: www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp or by contacting the Purchasing Office at (805) 564-5349.

FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code.

BONDING In accordance with Civil Code § 9550, if the bid exceeds $25,000.00, the Successful Bidder shall furnish within ten (10) consecutive calendar days after written Notice of Award, a Payment Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the total amount of the bid.

LIVING WAGE Any service purchase order contract issued as a result of this request for bids or quotes may be subject to the City’s Living Wage Ordinance No 5384, SBMC 9.128 and its implementing regulations. If there is a difference between the City’s Living Wage rate and Prevailing Wage rates for similar classifications of labor, the contractor and his subcontractors shall pay no less than the highest wage rate.

PREVAILING WAGE, APPRENTICES, PENALTIES, & CERTIFIED PAYROLL In accordance with the provisions of Labor Code § 1773.2, the Contractor is responsible for determining the correct prevailing wage rates. However, the City will provide wage information for projects subject to Federal Davis Bacon requirements. The Director of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rates of wages and employer payments for health, welfare, vacation, pensions and similar purposes applicable, which is on file in the State of California Office of Industrial Relations. The contractor shall post a copy of these prevailing wage rates at the site of the project. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and its subcontractors hired to pay not less than the said prevailing rates of wages to all workers employed by him in the execution of the contract (Labor Code § 1770 et seq.).

Prevailing wage rates are available at http://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/PWD/index.htm It is the duty of the contractor and subcontractors to employ registered apprentices and to comply with all aspects of Labor Code § 1777.5.

There are penalties required for contractor’s/subcontractor’s failure to pay prevailing wages and for failure to employ apprentices, including forfeitures and debarment under Labor Code §§ 1775, 1776, 1777.1, 1777.7 and 1813.

Under Labor Code § 1776, contractors and subcontractors are required to keep accurate payroll records. The prime contractor is responsible for submittal of their payrolls and those of their subcontractors as one package. Payroll records shall be certified and made available for inspection at all reasonable hours at the principal office of the contractor/subcontractor pursuant to Labor Code § 1776.

The contractor and all subcontractors under the direct contractor shall furnish certified payroll records directly to the Labor Compliance Unit and to the department named in the Purchase Order/Contract at least monthly, and within ten (10) days of any request from any request from the City or the Labor Commissioner in accordance with Section 16461 of the California Code of Regulations. Payroll records shall be furnished in a format prescribed by section 16401 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, with use of the current version of DIR's “Public Works Payroll Reporting Form” (A-1-131) and “Statement of Employer Payments” (DLSE Form PW26) constituting presumptive compliance with this requirement, provided the forms are filled out accurately and completely. In lieu of paper forms, the Compliance Monitoring Unit may provide for and require the electronic submission of certified payroll reports. The provisions of Article 2 and 3, Division 2, Chapter 1 of the Labor Code, State of California, are made by this reference a part of this quotation or bid.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently licensed to perform the work and registered pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5 without limitation or exception. It is not a violation of this section for an unlicensed contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

CERTIFICATIONS In accordance with California Public Contracting Code § 3300, the City requires the Contractor to possess a valid California C-39 Roofing license at time the bids are opened and to continue to hold during the term of the contract all licenses and certifications required to perform the work specified herein.

CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE Contractor must submit to the contracted department within ten (10) calendar days of an order, AND PRIOR TO START OF WORK, certificates of Insurance naming the Santa Barbara Golf Club as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements.

Published: February 16 and 23, 2022 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) has (have) abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): Islay Events, 318 Rosario Drive #B, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

Jeremy Cable, 318 Rosario Drive #B, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was originally filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 22, 2019. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL), filed January 21, 2022. Original

FBN No. 2019-0002910. FBN 2022-0000180.

Published February 9, 16, 23, March 2, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Islay Events, 318 Rosario Drive #B, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. JC Event Design INC, 318 Rosario Drive #B, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 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

“Let us just say: I was deeply unhappy, but I didn’t know it, because I was so happy all the time.” – Steve Martin

copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220000195. Published February 9, 16, 23, March 2, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RM Targoni Finish Carpentry, 55 Encinal Way, Ventura, CA 93001. Richard M Targoni, 55 Encinal Way, Ventura, CA 93001. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 27, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA – GENERAL SERVICES DIVISION PO BOX 1990, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93102-1990

01-NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CALLING FOR BIDS 1.

2.

3.

OWNER: Montecito Union School District PROJECT IDENTIFICATION NAME: 2122-4 Buildings D and E Renovation and Site PROJECT LOCATION: 385 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108

Work for Temporary Classrooms

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until the date and time indicated below at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for:

PROJECT DESCRIPTION 1. Site work for eight temporary classrooms

BID NO. 5944

2. Buildings D and E Renovation: General: These items need to be done throughout both Buildings D and E • Bring up to code: fire alarm, fire sprinklers, electrical, plumbing, sewer, HVAC/air conditioning, and restrooms need to be expanded to improve accessibility • ADA bring up to code, improving paths of travel, adjusting thresholds.

• Hazardous materials abatement, including the removal of lead & asbestos • Windows and doors: bring up to current code (separate project) Building D Only • Installing Two Elevators • Main Level, south side (Four grade classrooms) • Main Level, north side (music room, copy room, room 6) • Lower Level (art and one of the music rooms) • Staff Break Room • School Offices (nurse, principal, reception area, assistant principal) • Auditorium, District Office • Building Exterior Building E Only • Kindergarten classrooms • First grade classrooms START DATE, TBD, this project is anticipated to start soon after the end of the current school year, end of June 2022.

5.

DUE DATE & TIME: MARCH 9, 2022 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. INDUSTRIAL TRASH CONTAINERS Scope: The City is requesting bids for new industrial trash and recycling containers for City Parks.

Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted.

If further information is needed, contact Caroline Ortega, Buyer at (805) 564-5351 or email: COrtega@santabarbaraca.gov The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.

BID DEADLINE: Bids are due on March 15, 2022 no later than 2:00 p.m.

6.

PLACE AND METHOD OF BID RECEIPT: All Bids must be sealed. 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: Leo Perez 7.

INVITATION FOR BIDS

PLACE PLANS ARE ON FILE: Detail scope of work: 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 Front Office by the stairs, on February 23 2022 at 10:00 a.m.. 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.

The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. _______________________ Published: February 16, 2022 William Hornung, C.P.M. Montecito Journal General Services Manager

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) B 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 available at www.tricoblue.com and provided at the job walk to attendees.

Advertisement Dates: February 9, 16, 2022, Montecito Journal

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Leo Perez 805-319-6835

PUBLIC NOTICE OF PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENT TO THE MONTECITO UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT (Pursuant to Education Code §5092)

The Board of Trustees of the Montecito Union School District announced that the resignation of Trustee Mr. Chad Chase from the District’s Board of Education effective on January 19, 2022 created one vacant position on the District’s Board of Education.

The Board of Trustees voted at a Special Meeting held on February 8, 2022 to make a provisional appointment of Mrs. Kim Crail to fill this vacancy. Unless a petition calling for a special election, containing a sufficient number of signatures, is filed in the Office of the Santa Barbara County Superintendent of Schools within 30 days of the date of the provisional appointment, it shall become an effective appointment.

Board of Trustees of the Montecito Union School District Mr. Peter van Duinwyk Board Vice-President February 9, 2022 Published February 16, 2022 Montecito Journal

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. 20220000228. Published February 9, 16, 23, March 2, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Marmar Group LLC 1187 Coast Village Road Ste L, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Marmar Group LLC, 1187 Coast Village Road Ste L, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 27, 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. 20220000242. Published February 9, 16, 23, March 2, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Toma Restaurant and Bar, 1187 Coast Village Road Ste L, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Marmar Group LLC, 1187 Coast Village Road Ste L, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 28, 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. 20220000256. Published February 9, 16, 23, March 2, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Back Porch Fresh Flowers & Gifts, 4850 S Bradley Rd, Suite D1, Orcutt, CA 93455. Huong Hopp, 1127 Gorge Dr., Orcutt, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 11, 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. 2022-0000072. Published February 9, 16, 23, March 2, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 27Labs; Solid Oak Software, 1727 State St., Suite #445, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Brian Milburn, 1727 State St., Suite #445, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 5, 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. 2022-0000026. Published February 2, 9, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Westlake Cabins, 815 Alston Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Judith Bell, 815 Alston Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 25, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2022-0000212. Published February 2, 9, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 1284 Account, 1284 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Teresa McWilliams, 1542 Ramona Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 20, 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. 20220000174. Published January 26, February 2, 9, 16, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Evoke Design Studio, 638 W Ortega St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Evoke Design Inc, 638 W Ortega St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 6, 2022.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20220000032. Published January 26, February 2, 9, 16, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 21CV04154. To all interested parties: Petitioner Roberta Lynn van Gelder filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Robbie Roberta Lynn van Gelder. 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 matter 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 January 27, 2022 by Narzralli Baksh. Hearing date: March 8, 2022 at 10 am in Dept. 3, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 2/9, 2/16, 2/23, 3/2

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Calendar of Events

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22-SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27

by Steven Libowitz THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17 The Song remains the Same – For more than a decade, the married North Carolina Americana-bluegrass duo featuring Emily Frantz (fiddle, vocals) and Andrew Marlin (multi-instruments, singer-songwriter) carved out a considerable and loyal following under their play-on-words band name Mandolin Orange. But after six albums full of disarmingly subtle and meditative music full of kindness and collective wisdom, the duo-led group has renamed itself Watchhouse, which was the name of a cabin two miles offshore on the Chesapeake Bay with no electricity or phone service, which Marlin visited as a teen with a friend’s family. It’s meant to evoke the concept of people simply being together – “...somewhere in their mind that they only allowed their closest friends and their most intimate thoughts to go [which is] where this music comes from,” Marlin told an interviewer. But with no explanation it might be just as opaque as Orange. No matter. The duo’s new album, which echoes the band’s new name, still rings with honest home-spun tales and heavenly harmonies with an elevated sense of hope due to the birth of their daughter back in 2018.

Sacramento-based singer-songwriter Tré Burt opens.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $49 & $59 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 VMF Sneak Peek – The intrepid Ventura Music Festival has undergone a number of changes over its history dating back to its founding in the mid-1990s that helped put the county beyond Ojai on the classical cultural map with concerts in various intimate venues. By its third year, Karyl Lynn Burns had signed on for two years as executive director, leaving to found Rubicon Theatre Company, and by 1999 such big names as Chanticleer, Christopher O’Riley, and The Romeros graced the stages. Contemporary jazz via David Benoit debuted in 2002, while fiddler Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing Trio further expanded the format a year later.

In 2004 the festival dropped Chamber from its name and Nuvi Mehta became artistic director, a role he still holds today. VMF has explored all sorts of genres in the succeeding years, with such diverse artists as folksinger Judy Collins, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and cellist Lynn Harrell sharing headlining roles just in 2014 alone, although the venue list shrunk to a single performing arts center.

Now, after two tough years due to the pandemic, VMF has booked a two-weekend revival for July, with the artists and schedule to be announced at a special SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Addressing Ansel: ‘The Man Behind the Camera’ – The Wildling Museum’s exhibition “Sharing the Light: Ansel Adams & Alan Ross” has been hanging since late October in the Solvang gallery, where visitors can explore the American West through the lenses of the legendary landscape photographer and his former longtime assistant who later became an internationally-acclaimed photographer in his own right. The exhibition highlights the careers of both photographers, who were close friends and colleagues. But while the exhibit is worth zooming up the 101 (or San Marcos Pass) to view in person, you’ll merely have to log on to Zoom for today’s special virtual program by Ross, marking what would have been Adams’ 120th birthday. ”Ansel Adams: The Man Behind the Camera ‘’ delves beyond Adams’ striking images and exacting technique to reveal who he was as a person, how he worked, and what motivated him. Ross will employ his own pictures of Adams working in the field, in the darkroom, and at home as well as personal notes and letters from master to apprentice, plus anecdotes and recollections from his nearly six years as Adams’ full-time photographic assistant.

WHEN: 2 pm WHERE: Zoom (register at https://wildlingmuseum.org/ news/2022-ansel-adams-presentation) COST: $5 suggested donation INFO: https://wildlingmuseum.org

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Aussie Apparitions Abound – UCSB’s Theatre Department debuts a work by one of its own, presenting graduate student Jo Palazuelos-Krukowski’s Spectral Frequencies. The author – who worked as a producer for The Moth and a consultant at the Royal Shakespeare Company – will also direct the ghostly tapestry of Australian radio dramas that comprise a wondrous amalgam of scary stories showcasing the island continent’s rich legacy of 20th century aural horror tales brought to life for the stage.

WHEN: Eight total performances including a special 10 pm show on February 25 WHERE: UCSB Performing Arts Theatre COST: $17 general, $13 children & seniors ($2 more at the door) INFO: (805) 893-2064 or www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu

Public Preview for its 27th season, entitled “Onward!” A reception and the reveal precede a special musical performance from Mehta on violin and keyboardist Bevan Manson to prime the ear for this summer’s festival.

WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: Museum of Ventura County, 100 E. Main St. COST: free INFO: https://venturamu sicfestival.org/public-preview TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Valli Boy Broadway Tour Returns – Much as the band itself shocked the pop world, it would have been hard to predict the worldwide success of Jersey Boys when the musical sharing the behind-the-scenes story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons first hit Broadway back in 2005. But just as radio and fans just couldn’t get enough of such songs as “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like A Man,” “Rag Doll,” “Let’s Hang On,” “Dawn,” and “Working My Way Back To You” in the 1960s, and “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night),” “Who Loves You,” and others in the 1970s, audiences still haven’t stopped lapping up Jersey Boys, as the musical played for more than 11 years in New York and nine in London, capturing Broadway’s Tony, London’s Olivier, and Australia’s Helpmann Awards for Best New Musical, and continues to successfully tour the world. No doubt it helps that Four Seasons keyboardist/vocalist wrote the show’s music with lyrics by Bob Crewe, his partner in a string of Top 10 singles by the band, or that Oscar winner Marshall Brickman co-wrote the book with two-time Tony winner Des McAnuff directing the cleverly-staged play-it-to-the-hilt show... But it’s Frankie’s famous falsetto and the still-compelling four-part harmonies of the Four Seasons’ songs juxtaposed with the anything-but-harmonious relationships of its members off stage that continues to make the musical a must-see for music-lovers of all ages.

WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 1214 State Street COST: $61-$131 INFO: (805) 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org BANFF is Back – Although the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour went by the wayside last winter thanks to the pandemic, the best of the outdoorsy fest’s films are heading our way once again for the 30th time. A perennial fan favorite that invariably sold out the cavernous Arlington Theatre for two days each year (in the before times), the BANFF tour features some of the world’s best films and videos of the year covering mountain subjects, extreme sports, the environment, and the people who live in the hills in exotic locations around the world. A different program of films screens each night, including such intriguing entries as Always Higher, tracing international high diver competitor Lysanne Richard’s attempt at a 22-meter-high dive in the dead of winter over a frozen lake, and Izembek, which documents the wildlife and wilderness of Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge before a four-decade effort to build a road through it comes to fruition. This year’s fest features some of the longest short films in its history, with two clocking in at more than 45 minutes, and while others run for under 600 seconds. The 2022 edition also boasts an appearance by Roman Baratiak, A&L’s Associate Director Emeritus, who started and ran A&L’s film program for decades before retiring a few years back.

WHEN: 7:30 pm both nights WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. COST: $21.50 general, $15 youth 18 and under INFO: (805) 893-3535/www.

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“The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.” – Steve Martin

17 – 24 February 2022

Roxane Gay Roxane with One N Fri, Feb 25 / 7:30 PM / Granada Theatre Tickets start at $20 / FREE for UCSB students Includes an at-home viewing option

A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

Hunger Book Discussion: Feb 23

The author of celebrated books including Bad Feminist, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body and Difficult Women, Roxane Gay critiques the ebb and flow of modern culture with wit and ferocity.

Justice for All Lead Sponsors: Marcy Carsey, Connie Frank & Evan Thompson, Zegar Family Foundation, and Anonymous

Erik Larson

in Conversation with Pico Iyer Wed, Mar 2 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $25 / $10 UCSB students Includes an at-home viewing option A master of narrative non-fiction, Erik Larson’s many bestsellers include Thunderstruck, Dead Wake, Isaac’s Storm and National Book Award finalist The Devil in the White City.

Speaking with Pico Series Sponsors: Dori Pierson Carter & Chris Carter, Siri & Bob Marshall, and Laura & Kevin O’Connor Supporting Sponsor: Beth Chamberlin Endowment

Andrea Elliott Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City Wed, Mar 9 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall $20 / FREE for UCSB students Includes an at-home viewing option Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Andrea Elliott examines homelessness and the dire state of poverty in America in Invisible Child, her five-part NYT series and bestselling book.

Justice for All Lead Sponsors: Marcy Carsey, Connie Frank & Evan Thompson, Zegar Family Foundation, and Anonymous

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Seen Around Town The Best Last Place Part 1 of 2

by Lynda Millner

O

ne of my favorite places to walk is the Santa Barbara Cemetery.

It’s green with gorgeous views and lots of history. It’s the “The Best Last Place” according to David Petry, who wrote an everything you want to know book about the Santa Barbara Cemetery.

Many prominent folks and movie stars think so too. Even President Reagan and Nancy. They bought the biggest and most expensive plot in 1982; 500 square feet in a prime location overlooking the ocean in the Sunset Section. The Cemetery board set a price of $250,000 plus a $50,000 endowment. Their attorney countered asking for a smaller lot at a lower cost. Manager Cavalier contacted other cemeteries with celebrities about what they needed to do.

Forest Lawn Memorial Park encouraged Santa Barbara to exclude press or cameramen at any state funeral and to rope off contiguous areas to protect current burials. Walt Disney was

interred prior to notifying the press.

Marty Feldman’s service ended at church instead of graveside. John Wayne’s interment happened at 6 am, but the gravesite was a secret. Five different graves were opened with ornate flowers for decoys and the cemetery was locked to all except employees during the service. Later the public was kept 100 yards away. Other cemeteries said to exclude busses and increase insurance for the ledger stones and bronze gates proposed for the actor.

Finally, five months later, the Reagans did sign a contract. They would pay $18,690 down. The ledger stones arrived without names and were placed in the cemetery maintenance building for storage. All this happened during Reagan’s presidency and the cemetery braced for the onslaught should Reagan actually be buried here. Four years later the manager read that Reagan had requested a Stanford burial site for himself and Nancy and that the burial crypt be located next to the Reagan Library. It was said that initially he wanted to be buried at the Ranch, but Nancy nixed that plan.

The Cemetery Chapel

Soon Reagan’s lawyer notified the Santa Barbara Cemetery that they wanted to sell the plot back. The board agreed and came out ahead with $11,945 in interest and the sale of the ledger stones plus no hassle over interring a revered president.

As we know, they are buried in Simi Valley at the Presidential Library.

Prohibition was enacted two months after the WWI Armistice in 1919 and not repealed until 1933. Someone found a unique use for the Duryea Mausoleum.

It was used as a signal house for the rum runners trying to land their stash on East Beach. A sentry put a signal lamp up inside and lit it if the coast was clear.

Here are some interesting stats and dates. The Santa Barbara Cemetery was opened in 1869 and has over 40,000 graves. In the olden days they used to face every grave to the east to await resurrection. In the 1800s people died in their homes but by mid-century more died in hospitals hence the funeral parlor and embalming. Cremation began

in 1870 at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

In 1909 cars finally won out over horses and were allowed in the cemetery. After every major windstorm, it costs $25,000 to clean up the debris. Forest Lawn was the first cemetery in the United States to

build a church on the grounds.

An upright stone when today most are flat

A community staple for decades, Lynda Millner has helped the Journal, since 1995, keep its connection to the hundreds of events going on throughout the year

The second date isn’t on there yet; instead, it says “Stay Tuned”

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“I believe in equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.” – Steve Martin

17 – 24 February 2022

Celebrating 30 Years in Santa Barbara Two Nights!

Two Amazing Programs!

Tue, Feb 22 & Wed, Feb 23 7:30 PM / Arlington Theatre $18 / $14 UCSB students and youth (18 & under) An Arlington facility fee will be added to each ticket price.

Vaccination requirements apply, regardless of age.

Special Appearance by Roman Baratiak, A&L Associate Director Emeritus

Major Sponsor: Justin Brooks Fisher Foundation The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is presented by Rab, Buff and Banff & Lake Louise Tourism and is sponsored by Lowe Alpine, Oboz Footwear, YETI Coolers, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Kicking Horse Coffee, The Lake Louise Ski Resort & Summer Gondola, and World Expeditions

Nashville-based Singer-songwriter

Jason Isbell

and the 400 Unit with special guest Shawn Colvin Sat, Feb 26 / 8 PM / Arlington Theatre Tickets start at $45 / $25 UCSB students An Arlington facility fee will be added to each ticket price

Whether solo, with former band the Drive-By Truckers or fronting the 400 Unit, four-time Grammy winner Jason Isbell shows his Alabama soul as he drifts between rock, country and roots.

Street Dance Phenomenon

Memphis Jookin’: The Show Featuring Lil Buck Tue, Mar 8 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre Tickets start at $40 / $15 UCSB students Includes an at-home viewing option A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

An ode to the birthplace of the singular dance style known as Memphis Jookin’, this eveninglength show stars renowned dance artist Lil Buck alongside ten highly-skilled dancers and a DJ.

Major Sponsors: Jody & John Arnhold, Marcia & John Mike Cohen, and Sara Miller McCune Dance Series Sponsors: Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Bob Feinberg, Audrey & Timothy O. Fisher, Barbara Stupay, and Sheila Wald

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JOURNAL

Mini Meta newspaper

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Contributing Editor | Kelly Mahan Herrick Copy Editor | Lily Buckley Harbin Arts and Entertainment | Steven Libowitz Editors -At-Large | A nn Louise Bardach Contributors | Scott Craig, Julia Rodgers, Ashleigh Brilliant, Sigrid Toye, Kim Crail, Tom Farr, Stella Haffner, Pauline O’Connor, Mark Ashton Hunt, Dalina Michaels, Sharon Byrne, Gretchen Lieff, Robert Bernstein, Christina Favuzzi, Bob Roebuck, Leslie Zemeckis Gossip | Richard Mineards History | Hattie Beresford Humor | Ernie Witham Our Town | Joanne A. Calitri Society | Lynda Millner Travel | Jerry Dunn, Leslie Westbrook Food & Wine | Claudia Schou, Gabe Saglie Account Managers | S ue Brooks, Tanis Nelson Office Manager | Jessikah Moran

Last Week’s Solution:

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

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5 Like the smell of burning rubber 7 1970s spinoff series 8 Expressed dislike 9 Abbreviated interview?

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Down 1 Speechlessness 2 Croaky vocal quality 3 Stories about Olympians, perhaps 4 When the minute hand completes its first revolution of the day 5 Rhythmic pauses

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LUCKY’S

steaks /chops /seafood /cocktails

With Grateful Hearts Dear Lucky’s and Tre Lune Customers, On behalf of our staff, we would like to say thank you for your continued support and generosity this holiday season.

We are honored to serve our beautiful community while helping to create memorable moments for you and your families.

We cherish our valued friendships we have made throughout the years.

It’s the special people like you that make Montecito the most wonderful place.

Wishing you all the healthiest and happiest new year.

Lucky’s and Tre Lune Family