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Dear Montecito –The Dirtriders are in IV,

Cramm, talks about her latest book, P.16 More Miscellany – Richard recounts a successful Van Gogh opening, Parisian soirées, and more, P.10

collecting food waste, and saving carbon, P.28 Entertained Yet? – 1st Thursdays are back! Plus magic, murder, and sunflowers are included in this week’s events, P.30

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BEFORE AND AFTER HOW HANDS ACROSS MONTECITO HAS HELPED HOMELESSNESS IN OUR TOWN AND HOW IT IS PROVIDING A POSSIBLE ROAD MAP FOR OTHER COMMUNITIES (STORY STARTS ON PAGE 9)

Lessons Learned

After a racially charged incident at a local school, school district officials weigh in on what can be done, page 5

Village Beat

No sound walls but new concerns at the latest MBAR hearing, and funding approved for Cold Spring School, page 6

Hot Water

The letters continue in the ongoing debate about the Montecito Hot Springs and surrounding estates, page 8

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Editorial – School officials discuss the recent events at Santa Barbara Junior High in an interview with Gwyn Lurie

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Brilliant Thoughts – Get out of my dreams and into my gorilla. Ashleigh talks primates and their mates.

Robert’s Big Questions – One love, one planet, one world government?

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Village Beat – Some unsightly aesthetics are causing concern at MBAR meetings; Cold Spring School Board votes to move forward on expansion project

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Letters to the Editor – Bryan Rosen is back with a response to the most recent Montecito Hot Springs letters Tide Guide

The Giving List – How California State University Channel Islands provides a full range of support to their students

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Dear Montecito – The IV Compost Collective and their Dirtriders are at the door for food waste

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Local News – Hands Across Montecito has spent the past year working with the community on homelessness

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Library Mojo – The Montecito Library invites kids to Stay and Play and stocks up on The Little Book of Montecito Writers

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Montecito Miscellany – Richard sees Through Vincent’s Eyes, courtesans, and even found a Mardi Gras mob

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Calendar of Events – Wylde Works’ Grand Opening, a new dimension of dance, and a little magic are all on the calendar

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Seen Around Town – Part II of a visit to the SB Cemetery and some of its longterm residents

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Nosh Town – In grief? Or know someone who is? A little food can help your loved ones…

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Local People – Olivia Seltzer first Cramm’d online and is now ready to Cramm This Book

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In Passing – Justin Bruce Forrester and John W. McIntyre are remembered

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On Entertainment – A Bisset En Rose, a single Lillian, and Ruby’s Choice for entertainment

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

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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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Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco – How the Marathon Began and Another Example of Courage for Modern Times The Optimist Daily – Bacteria and electrochemistry are going after carbon emissions

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Everything That Happens Everywhere Also Happens in Santa Barbara

by Gwyn Lurie

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hen I arrived at the Montecito Journal in 2019, my partner, Tim Buckley, said to me: “This might surprise you, but everything that happens everywhere else, also happens in here.”

Tim’s apocryphal and prescient message, however, made it no less shocking for me when I learned that on Wednesday, February 16, smack in the middle of Black History Month, three Santa Barbara Junior Wendy Sims-Moten High students began wrestling with one of their 8th grade peers, which devolved into an incident in which the three students held the boy down, called him the “n” word and a “monkey,” while a fourth student put his knee on the child’s neck, yelling “George Floyd.” I first got wind of this shocking incident from my horrified 17-year-old daughter who had learned of it through social media.

A message had been sent out by Santa Barbara Jr. High School Principal Arielle Curry regarding the incident, via ParentSquare – the district’s parent messaging portal – but only to members of the Junior High School community. The gist of the message: something ugly had happened in a classroom at the Junior High and it was being handled.

But apparently and understandably, for the victim’s parents and other concerned community members, the situation was not being handled well enough. And so they showed up at last Tuesday’s School Board meeting to express, each within the one and a half minutes of public comment they were allotted, their hurt, their anger, and their waning patience for change.

So why did it take the Santa Barbara Unified School District six days, and only after public outcry, to communicate with the greater community about this alleged hate crime and use of racial slurs inside a Santa Barbara Junior High School classroom?

As a former school board member, I am painfully aware that the rules and regulations and codes that govern public school districts are complicated. Often a response that reads as indifference, is something much more complicated. So I reached out to Santa Barbara Unified School District Superintendent Hilda Maldonado to understand what happened, her strategy for dealing with the incident, and perhaps for turning this sad moment into a learning one, not just for those directly involved, but for the greater community.

I also invited three other local education leaders to participate in the conversation: Wendy Sims-Moten, Santa Barbara Unified School District Board Member and Executive Director of First 5 Santa Barbara; Kalyan Balaven, Head of School at Dunn School and founder of the Inclusion Lab in Santa Barbara County; and Guy Walker, President of Wealth Management Strategies and Chair of The Endowment for Youth Foundation.

Some of my takeaways from this conversation are: what happened on February 16 was deeply disturbing and is not being taken lightly within the district. The ongoing work of bringing together our community over issues of racial equity and inclusion is not something that should be left just for tragic moments. Indeed, it is work that must be done every day. And granted, sometimes a thoughtful response to a shocking event can take some time to figure out. And surely, the responsibility for bringing about meaningful change cannot rest solely on the shoulders of our public-school leadership.

That being said, there is no getting around the fact that our public schools have a long-standing race problem, or perhaps you can call it an “integration” problem. The kids may all be in the same building but in many ways, they’re engaged in something akin to parallel play. This is not a new thing, and anyone with a kid in Santa Barbara’s public schools knows it.

Certain things are undeniable: Schools have the attention of our kids for more hours a day and more days a week than any other institution, organization, or entity, including the family. Maybe even more than their phones. And I think there’s a responsibility that comes with that. And so I admit to feeling disappointed that between the post George Floyd murder (almost two years ago) when the Santa Barbara School Board very publicly passed a resolution pledging to do annual anti-bias training with its staff and the incident that occurred at the Junior High just two weeks ago, the needle on bringing about greater understanding and empathy on issues of race seems to have moved very little.

So I wondered, was the staff ever trained? And if so, what were the results of that training? And how are the precepts of that training trickling down to the people that need it the most, the students?

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embers of the Highway 101 widening team through Montecito were in front of the Montecito Board of Architectural Review last week for the second time, reviewing aesthetic features of the project related to fencing, landscaping, and lighting.

The project, which will widen the freeway to three lanes in each direction between Sycamore Creek in the City of Santa Barbara up to Romero Creek in Montecito, includes the reconstruction of the freeway bridges over Cabrillo Boulevard plus a new southbound on-ramp, replaces bridges at Montecito, San Ysidro, Oak, and Romero creeks, and includes some operational and safety improvements on the highway and ramps throughout the Montecito corridor.

Because the previously-proposed sound walls have been removed from the scope of the project, the project team shared new design slides with MBAR members.

The last time MBAR saw the project was back in September 2021, when the team mainly focused on the interchanges at San Ysidro and Olive Mill, as well as landscaping. As we reported in February, the four proposed sound walls – three on the north side of the freeway between Olive Mill and the Romero Creek bridge, and one on the south side between Olive Mill and San Ysidro roads – have been removed from the project after County Flood Control required project reps to analyze if the sound walls would create a rise in flood waters, based on Recovery Mapping that was adopted in 2018 in response to the 1/9 Debris Flow. At a community meeting in February, Flood Control Engineering Manager Jon Frye said his department does not believe sound walls in the Montecito area would be appropriate, because of the way flood waters flow onto the freeway during significant rain events. During the 1/9 Debris Flow, it’s estimated that 8-10 feet of water made its way onto the freeway, mostly focused between Olive Mill and San Ysidro roads. The analysis showed that flood waters would increase if the sound walls were present.

With MBAR members tasked at providing feedback on the aesthetics of the project, and not necessarily the impact an increase of sound would have on the neighboring community, several members said the design of the freeway expansion was enhanced with the removal of the sound walls. The freeway will be surrounded by a black vinyl-clad chain link fence in most areas, with narrow roadway shrubs at the base and vines covering the fencing. In most areas of the northbound side, a short retaining wall built near the chain link fence will allow for narrow

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planters adjacent to the freeway, which will be planted by shrubs and trees where appropriate. On the southbound side of the freeway in front of the Rosewood Miramar, there is a proposed barrier and higher retaining wall, with the area in between filled with shrubs and ivy. Other plantings include skyline, enhancement, and infill plantings, most of which are drought tolerant.

With many members of the community lamenting about the lack of sound walls ever since the plans changed in February, it was surprising that there were no members of the public wishing to speak on the item at last week’s MBAR meeting. There was one letter from a Montecito resident, who called the decision to remove the sound walls from the project a “bait and switch” by Caltrans.

“Caltrans initially sold the community on the 101 Project with beautiful drawings that included the promise of concrete walls and intricate landscaping. We all bought in to the artwork and promises they set forth for a strong environmental softening of the project. It looked so good the community did not object,” read the letter. “Now, they claim the ‘sound’ walls cannot get federal funding and, therefore, they need to install chain link fencing… chain link? Really? The community that has sacrificed so much in the name of preservation is going to give it all up to chain link?,” it continued.

Project spokesperson Kirsten Ayars reminded the Board that the sound walls were not required as a sound mitigation measure as part of the project’s Environmental Impact Report. Noise in the area is expected to increase up to three decibels, with an average dishwasher creating 80 decibels, according to Ayars. “It’s not at a level that will require mitigation. That being said, we want to do everything we can to make it as nice a freeway as possible,” Ayars remarked. Other sound attenuating measures included a continually reinforced concrete pavement surface which has a longer lifespan than typical asphalt, offering a reduction in noise over the length of its lifespan. The pavement is jointed differently, under the lane lines rather than horizontally, which helps mitigate sound as tires make contact with the pavement.

MBAR comments about the fences and landscaping were mostly positive, save for one slide showing a vantage from the frontage road, North Jameson, northbound to Olive Mill, in which there is no room for plantings on either side of the freeway fencing. Sitting for her first MBAR meeting after being newly appointed to the board, Alida Aldrich said the rendering “hurts the soul.” She went on to say: “We in this community are used to almost living in a

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On Los Padres National Forest land, pipe taking hot water at Cliff Spring to estates below in Montecito

Mr. Emanuel wants to form his own “Bucket Brigade” made up of shareholders of the Montecito Creek Water Company.

He says it “would collectively cost… hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars” for the estates to hook up to the Montecito Water District. Plumbing supplies aren’t that costly – for example, PVC pipes are inexpensive and are laid all over Montecito to irrigate estates. Where does he get these figures from?

One pipe, much of it plastic, takes hot springs water down Hot Springs Canyon to the estates.

If a forest fire occurs, and the pipe is destroyed ...

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gain, Mr. Emanuel in his latest letter (February 24, 2022) puts words in my mouth that I never said. Regarding a shuttle, he says “... where is the pickup parking lot to be?

Bryan has suggested Mt. Carmel...” I never suggested the Mt. Carmel Church for a shuttle.

He goes on to say, “What we are not hearing from Bryan are plausible solutions to the parking problem...” and suggests that I “...map out a doable solution...” but neglects to mention how estate owners are threatening to sue the county over the county’s plan to put some parking spaces on Riven Rock Road (is Mr. Emanuel going to be their attorney?).

He states I neglected to mention the settlement reached in 2019 in which the Montecito Creek Water Company was required to do restoration of the creek bed. It’s true the company got in a lot of trouble and had to make payments

totaling $24,435. District Attorney Joyce Dudley said, “These violations threatened the health of our valuable natural resources...” Yet, here we are around three and a half years later, and there are still a lot of abandoned pipes in the creek.

Hopefully, the water company won’t have to pay additional penalties which will be passed on to Mr. Emanuel and other shareholders, but get right on it, in cleaning up the mess.

He states, “Bryan feels the responsibility should be placed on the shoulders of others.” I never made such a vague statement, but have made it clear that the water company should be responsible for cleaning up problems it created.

He suggests that perhaps the Bucket Brigade can be used as a template for the Hot Springs Trail. The Bucket Brigade was a group of volunteers who helped a lot after the mudslides of January 2018.

Why should a group like this clean up after the water company? – that is unless

Creek farther down. There happens to be an abandoned plastic pipe lying in a waterfall, with a lot of water pouring through it. This pipe could be hooked up to the main pipe. The good news is that this area is below where pipes tend to be vandalized.

As Hot Springs Creek always seems to be flowing, this could be an effective way to get water. Wouldn’t it be great if estates no longer had to get water that smells like sulfur?

And the unethical practice of usurping hot springs on public land would come to an end.

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One pipe, much of it plastic, takes hot springs water down Hot Springs Canyon to the estates. If a forest fire occurs, and the pipe is destroyed as it was in the Thomas Fire, will estate owners have enough water to be able to protect their assets? In any case, a gravity fed system doesn’t provide the water pressure needed to fight fires.

I’m informed that about twenty estates use the hot springs water. Estate owners are smart about protecting their properties, so it’s likely backup systems tied in with District Water are already in place. District water is at high pressure. Some of the estates may have one-inch pipes (great help for fighting fires) and sprinkler systems.

If Mr. Emanuel doesn’t have a backup system of District Water, it would be a good idea for him to put one in.

His neighborhood Bucket Brigade could assist him in digging ditches, laying pipes, and putting in faucets.

Here’s a possible win-win solution: The pipe could take water out of Hot Springs

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A Year Later: Hands Across Montecito The Model That Makes the Difference in Homelessness Where we were just one year ago

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n the spring of 2020, as the pandemic unfolded, Montecito neighbors started noticing a significant uptick in homeless individuals on Coast Village Road, traveling along the tracks, and encampments began mushrooming along the freeway. I contacted Luis Alvarado from Santa Barbara County’s Behavioral Wellness Homeless Outreach Team, and we started walking the tracks and outreaching. We found lots of people. Some were locals, ousted from the family home for drug use. Some were chronically homeless that had been here a long time, and some were from out of the area. Neighbors saw us doing outreach visits and started coming with us. Then the fire happened at the Santa Barbara Cemetery in July, and Montecito Fire realized we would see more arson fires unless we did something different. By this time, I had realized that Luis and I and a few neighborhood volunteers would not be enough. We were facing overwhelming odds.

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Hein, Eileen Read, Jane Olson, Kathy Washburn, Kath Lavidge, and Andrea Newquist; and Montecito Association President Megan Orloff. We met down at the beach, and I proposed we needed a formal outreach project to move people indoors. The team supported this approach, so I reached out to City Net, and we started a conversation about hiring them for Montecito.

We hoped to trial an approach: relentless, compassionate outreach that would offer connection to resources, but insist that if you wanted to continue to live unsheltered and engage in self-destructive behaviors, you need to find a neighborhood that doesn’t care as much as Montecito. We needed to raise $100,000 for the project, which would have a oneyear trial run, and we needed to hire City Net to do this outreach.

We gathered a heavy Montecito crew to do a census count in mid-September of 2020. We discovered 26 people living unsheltered in our area. We signed the contract, which prompted the county to sign one with City Net, and then the city of Santa Barbara followed suit by December.

City Net suggested we use county outreach workers for the Hands Across Montecito project, and deploy the funds we raised for solutions: rent, hotel rooms, train, or bus fare to reunite someone with family, etc.

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anta Barbara Museum of Art has joined the big leagues with the West Coast debut of Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources, featuring an astonishing 20 original works by the Dutch genius. The extraordinary show also features 55 works by artists he admired, including Claude Monet, Edgar

Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse and First Lady Janet Rowse attending Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources (photo by Priscilla)

Degas, Paul Gauguin, Camille Pissarro, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

The exhibition, creatively curated by the museum’s deputy director and chief curator Eik Kahng, is the first international loan exhibition following the museum’s $50 million renovation of the original 1912 Post Office building and a most fitting way to mark its 80th anniversary.

It covers all periods of Van Gogh’s brief ten-year career, including A Self-Portrait with Pipe created in 1886 and lent by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam where I last viewed it. Roses, an 1890 work from Washington’s National Gallery of Art, painted just a few brief months before his death, crowns the installation with its gorgeous pink, green, and white palette.

The exhibition is also the first to include 17 first-edition novels revered by Van Gogh, including works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Victor Hugo, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Art lovers turning out to experience the unique show, while snaffling the creative canapes and quaffing the Bollinger Champagne, included Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse, Wayne

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Funds spent: $68,000 Presently living unsheltered in

Montecito area (all within City of Santa Barbara boundary, Caltrans, or Union Pacific territory): 10 Housed: 6 In hotels: 0 (we placed 9 people in

hotels as a first step out of homelessness) Re-homed to family: 7 Left Montecito for another state: 1 Left Montecito for other area in Santa Barbara County: 5 Left Montecito, whereabouts unknown: 11 Incarcerated: 3 Institutionalized for mental disease: 1 Total served by Hands Across Montecito project: 44 We hired Andrew, the first person we housed, to do multiple camp cleanouts in Montecito. He hired some of our people in hotels to help with these cleanouts. Heal the Ocean has become an invaluable partner with Andrew and us in eradicating some of the environmental hazards in camps.

Andrew now works across the county.

When the team went out recently, the sheriffs, who always go with us on outreach, were stunned at how clear the area was.

Supervisor Hart, who attended our February board meeting for this project, said that this is the model. The community-based engagement and support that Montecito provided is the only thing that works. Hart said the Hands project is ambitious and aspirational, and the way we’re doing it is exactly what the county is trying to replicate. The county has made a lot of progress, with commitments that have finally come through from the state and federal governments during the pandemic.

We just housed two people last week, after working with them for more than a year now. They moved in on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, they went out with us at 5:30 am for the Point-In-Time count last week. They know some of the people still

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living unsheltered in our area and were able to convince one of them to accept our help. We counted 10 individuals living unsheltered in the Montecito area during the count. Only 1 individual remained from the original 26 we started with. Two campsites were in the edge of the county’s jurisdiction, but on Caltrans / Union Pacific right-of-way just east of Channel Drive, and the remaining sites were in the City of Santa Barbara’s area on Coast Village Circle, west of Channel Drive, and above Stella Mare’s.

For the first time ever, the area between the Miramar to Butterfly Lane along the tracks and beach was CLEAR.

We learned some big lessons: 1. Functional Zero is the way to go – When you aim for functional zero, where homelessness in your community becomes rare and is turned around quickly, you might not get to zero, but you’ll get a heck of a lot closer than if you just try to “manage the problem.”

2. You can’t win them all – Four of the people we have remaining unsheltered are very difficult cases, but they also probably represent the true size of the really intractable problems of those experiencing homelessness.

3. When the community decides to put its hands on a problem, amazing things can happen – Without the Hands team of 15 committed Montecito volunteers, none of this success would be possible.

4. No agency can solve this, but amazing partnerships can move mountains – Sheriffs, Montecito Fire, County Parks and Rec, Heal The Ocean, City Net, Behavioral Wellness, Caltrans, Marborg, and the County have helped us achieve these results.

We’ve had conversations with the City of Goleta and Caltrans on how to replicate this model, so stay tuned for more

exciting developments!

If you’d like to contribute to the Hands Across Montecito project or get involved, please see our website at montecitoassociation.org.

Sharon Byrne is the Executive Director of the Montecito Association

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Seen Around Town The Best Last Place Part 2 of 2

by Lynda Millner

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eorge Washington Smith was the architect of the Santa Barbara chapel along with Lutah Maria Riggs. It was one of his few public buildings along with the Lobero, the Little Town Club, and the News-Press building (Daily News) because he usually built homes or businesses. The concrete chapel dome is Tunisian and wasn’t painted or tiled until a friend of Smith’s, Henry Eichheim, had it tiled and dedicated to his wife. Both George Washington Smith and his wife are buried at the altar and just underneath them is Lutah.

They treated her like a daughter.

There was a huge controversy over the contemporary murals that Alfredo Ramos Martinez painted inside the chapel. He was the most influential of Mexican artists and was friends of Picasso, Monet, and Manet when he was in France for 14 years. He was a renowned teacher of art.

Henry Eichheim and Mary Greenough (Smith’s wife) had seen Martinez’s work

and commissioned him to do the murals in the Chapel. A number of people hated the murals, including some board members, but many others loved them.

The murals tell a story. From the domed chancel the face of Christ looks down between upraised hands. His face is knotted in suffering and knowledge. In the four sconces below him, angels hover, blond, lithe, serene. But across from the face of Christ, seen only from the inside of the chancel, are the penitents grieving his death.

As one leaves though, directly above the exit, Martinez placed the risen Christ. Within the architecture of the chapel Martinez reenacted the allegory of Christ from crucifixion to resurrection. Many think these murals are one of “the noblest and most impressive creations of its kind in or out of this country.” The murals took the artist more than a year to complete. His wife and daughter came with him daily while he worked. He was very devout and would sometimes pray for an hour before beginning that day’s

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The longtime cemetery manager Randy Thwing

work. These murals are unique in the whole world – luckily the critics lost out – and the work is still there. The chapel is usually open to the public. See what you think.

Some have thought of this cemetery as “a place of rest so attractive that people will want to come here to die.”

Another headline I liked in David Petry’s book was “American Troops Attack the Cemetery!” In March of 1942 the United States Army invaded the Santa Barbara Cemetery. They knocked the gate down and all the heavy equipment was headed up the hill. Imagine the cemetery manager’s shock when he saw the gates had been cut and were thrown wide open. A military encampment of tents was being erected and the soldiers were building campfires on the southwestern end of the bluffs.

The manager went to the commanding officer, second Lieutenant Perren, and asked, “Who gave you permission to come in here and set up camp? This is a private corporation.” The Lieutenant replied as though in a movie, “Don’t you know there’s a war on?” Manager Bryant responded, “Well yes, but I didn’t know we were the enemy.” The officer didn’t laugh but the soldiers did. Bryant took his case to a captain stationed nearby.

He agreed it was not proper and went to the camp giving a dressing down to the officer in charge, but nothing was done.

The camp remained for the next two years with 150 to 200 men stationed in the cemetery. Bryant installed a gate for them along the eastern perimeter to keep vehicles off the cemetery roads. The cemetery got stuck paying for the expenses.

Celebrities have flocked here for many years. These are just a few names of famous folk buried in the Santa Barbara Cemetery: Shah of Iran’s sister Princess

“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures.” – Democritus

Actor Ronald Colman’s curtained last stage

Shams Pahlavi; Pierpont Morgan Hamilton; Sambo’s Sam Battistone; Frederick Peabody, who built Peabody stadium; landscaper Ralph Kinton Stevens, who owned Lotusland, and his son Ralph Tallent Stevens; Fess Parker, who has a small coonskin cap engraved on his stone; W. W. Hollister; Isaac Sparks, who died in 1867 and had the first tombstone in the new cemetery; William Becker, who founded Motel 6; Dwight Murphy, who saved the palomino horse; actor Ronald Colman, who owned the San Ysidro Ranch; James Osborne Craig, who was the architect of El Paseo; Pearl Chase and her father and brother, who developed Hope Ranch; Herb Peterson, who invented the Egg McMuffin and has the golden arches engraved on his stone; Thomas More Storke, who owned the local newspaper; John Peck Stearns, who built the wharf; Dr. Samuel Bevier Brinkerhoff; Dr. Sansum, who was first in the United States to develop insulin for diabetes; and the list goes on.

Through the years, there have been several cemetery managers plus the always-present board, but many kudos go to the current one who has held the job for over 30 years, Randy Thwing.

Besides business as usual, he brought the cemetery into the digital age – a huge task. We are way ahead of larger facilities and Randy also keeps focused on the eroding bluffs, water issues, and the myriad details of running a cemetery. Some have thought of this cemetery as “a place of rest so attractive that people will want to come here to die.” There’s a wonderful ceremony on all military holidays complete with a choir, color guard, speeches, and a thrilling flyover.

This cemetery is truly the “Best Last

Place.”

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

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Olivia Seltzer, 18, at the Montecito Mercantile on February 16 for the signing of her book, Cramm This Book: So You Know WTF Is Going On in the World Today

by Carly Williams

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was twelve years old when I decided I needed to change the world.”

Olivia Seltzer, an 18-year-old Santa Barbara local, was shocked and scared by the results of the 2016 election and by what that meant for her and her peers.

While attending Santa Barbara Junior High, many of Seltzer’s friends came from families of undocumented immigrants.

“After the election, there was a lot of talk about the future of our country and the future of immigrants,” said Seltzer.

The main issue, she said, was that while there was a lot of talk about the election, none of her peers were actually reading or watching the news. “The news is created by and geared towards an older demographic,” she said, “which doesn’t give historical context to the younger generation.”

To solve this problem, Seltzer founded The Cramm, when she was just twelve years old. Many of the youth of today do not have the means or the background to follow the news, Seltzer says.

The Cramm is a daily newsletter and news platform written by Gen Z writers – for Gen Z readers. “I compile a crammed version of the daily news where I pull out the details that are actually relevant to people who are not news junkies,” said Seltzer.

This newsletter struck a nerve with the youth, reaching over one hundred countries on six continents daily, expanding far beyond Seltzer’s expectations.

In January 2017, Seltzer decided to play a deeper role in educating her generation on world affairs, leading her to write her first book: Cramm This Book: So You Know WTF Is Going On in the World Today.

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

Montecito Mercantile recently hosted a book signing with founder of The Cramm, Olivia Seltzer (right)

“Over the years of writing The Cramm, I realized that there is this assumption in the news that we have an understanding of the major events that have happened over the past century or so, but in reality, most of us don’t,” said Seltzer. Cramm this Book provides a deeper historical foundation to world events.

Fans and followers of Seltzer filled the Montecito Mercantile on February 16 for the signing of Cramm This Book, freshly released the day before. Fans ranging in age from Gen Z to Baby Boomers lined up outside the Mercantile to talk and celebrate the work of the young writer.

“The signing was incredible for me. I was so happy and excited to see so many people show up to get a signed copy of the book,” said Seltzer.

Broken up into four sections, Seltzer writes in a fresh and engaging manner, providing insight to subjects including the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, the origins of Black Lives Matter, background of the Me Too Movement, “deets” of the Cold War and historical context to the Arab Springs anti-government protests.

It’s hard to fit a background of history into a 273-page book, Seltzer said. “So I picked out what is essential for young people to know in order to best understand what is going on today and how we got there.”

Cramm This Book tells history in a way that speaks directly to Generation Z. Seltzer said, “I write how I would talk to my friends about the news and put that in written word. We can’t be expected to solve the world’s problems if we don’t actually understand them,” she said. So, Cramm this book so you know “WTF is

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Editorial (Continued from 5) According to Dr. Maldonado, “the anti-bias training will be taking place before the end of school year. This month we are dedicating time at each school staff meeting to discuss these incidents and identify how the adults will be looking out for students and handling any micro aggressions, hate language or violence, cyber bullying, and harassment.”

I asked Dr. Maldonado, how will they measure success?

“We will measure by students’ reporting safer school environments but ultimately by improved academic and social emotional outcomes. We know students can’t learn in any environment that feels threatening, where they feel they don’t belong or connect Guy Walker to adults and peers who they can trust.”

“This work is foundational to our core mission of ensuring that all students succeed,” says Dr. Maldonado.

On that, we agree. But at the moment, the very best grade I could give them is an incomplete.

The following conversation has been edited for length: Gwyn Lurie (GL): Hilda, there’s a lot of concern out there about an incident that happened at Santa Barbara Junior High School on February 16 that had some real racial and hate implications. To the extent you are at liberty to talk about it, can you tell us what happened and where the district is right now in dealing with it?

Hilda Maldonado (HM): Yes. Thank you for the opportunity to give you an update on this. The incident at Santa Barbara Junior High School came to the attention of the principal and myself in a late evening email from the family. It came in around 9:30, almost 10 pm, and it came after the parent questioned her son on what had happened to him... Immediately, the principal responded appropriately, by setting up a meeting with the family for the next morning.

Then began the investigation with the issues around supervision, what actually happened, by talking to the boys that were involved and also bringing the families together, to discuss the issues. At the end of that investigation, there was discipline taken for the boys who had caused this harm. There are also some actions that we’re taking with classroom supervision and how that even was allowed to happen.

GL: Santa Barbara is a small town and these things get out very quickly. So, the Junior High community was informed about this incident and that it was being handled. But the rest of the community wasn’t informed until after Tuesday’s School Board meeting where a dozen or so people showed up to express their concern. Is there a reason that this communication was limited to such a small audience initially?

HM: The only reason is that, typically, we inform the community that’s closest to the issue of a case like this. Every school that has things happen usually reaches out within that nucleus. I think the learning moment, for me as a superintendent, is exactly what you just said in your question, which is how quickly things go beyond that smaller community. So, I think that’s something for us to learn from and take forward.

Sims-Moten (SM): Can I just add to that? First, certainly, it is a learning moment about, how do we make sure that we are clear on our processes and policies to the greater community? So, when something happens, people are aware of what processes are taking place and they’re clear on the facts versus the feelings about what’s going on.

In this case, as Dr. Maldonado has said, how are we going to clearly communicate in this moment? How do we learn better to clearly articulate what it is that we’re doing? But there are certain processes that we have to go through that are not necessarily understood by the broader community.

I think it’s critical, going forward, that we clearly communicate to not only our parents and our students but to everybody, to the community, about the processes that we must go through. So you don’t have the assumptions, you don’t have the emotions that are driving this. Rightful emotions, but so it’s clear what the processes are expected to be...

So, going forward, how do we handle situations that can get really inflamed really fast?

You think you have it in your circle, but I guarantee you, by the time you think you have it in your circle, it’s already outside the circle.

GL: In the ParentSquare email you sent out, you talk about wanting to take this moment and address it in a broader way to the community. What does that look like? Kal, you talk a lot about inclusion and what that means. Can you talk about that in the context of an event like this?

Kalyan Balaven (KB): Sure. In any moment of disconnection or trauma, incidents like this are opportunities to build community. This incident is a piece of information. But the actions afterward, in terms of inclusion, need to be mindset, behavior, and culture, right?

If those things don’t shift, then inclusion isn’t happening.

You can look at the budget. “Oh, we increased financial aid. We’re starting to look at

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this or we’re doing these programs.” But, how are you shifting the mindset? How are you shifting behaviors and, ultimately, the culture of a space to be more inclusive? That’s really at the heart of everything.

Guy Walker (GW): For me, it really is two major issues. One is the families that are involved. Districts will always have an interest in protecting the rights and privacies of those families. So almost instinctually, it’s almost like the only people we want involved in these conversations are the people who were directly impacted. But, because it’s a public institution, the thing that you said earlier, the word starts getting out.

Now, the conversation is really a different conversation. That different conversation is the systemic issues that are manifested, if you will, through this specific incident. Then, there’s just all this stuff, these guard rails that school districts are stuck in. Where it’s like, why can’t you just tell us what happened?

Then, you have the constituency of the board and what’s going on there. So, there’s a bunch of stuff going on. I think that protecting the families involved has got to be the priority. They need to resolve that in mediation or whatever that’s going to be.

The second piece is, we have yet again an opportunity to look at this issue. The question is, how can we as a community not get caught overly rushing the solution? I mean the bigger solution. In my role with Endowment for Youth, Black youth is part of our focus and our advocacy. And so yeah, I want to make sure that family is getting justice and so forth and so on, but I view that as a separate, distinct issue from this bigger systemic problem, that I think we need to be very thoughtful about.

I would personally counsel the school district to try to position themselves in a way that they are not rushing to come up with something to try to satisfy the broader community, but I think there have to be some definite steps. People coming to the table. I know Hilda’s expressed, and Wendy (Sims-Moten) has always been there, that this is a community conversation, and navigating and walking through that has got to be strategic, methodical, and transparent.

GL: Let’s take the framework you just set up, Guy. There are two things. There’s justice for the child and the family who have been hurt by these actions, and then there’s, how do we bring about real change in the wake of this unfortunate event?

SM: Like you said Kal, you cannot connect or build trust in the middle of a crisis and hope that it goes through... This is not a conversation for a moment in time. Because we are sitting here once again, talking about what we can do. And we have not done it obviously well enough to educate everybody, because these kids, when you look at these black and brown kids, we need to get the message, “Hey, quit fighting each other and join together and fight what in society keeps holding you down.”

As a school board we are limited to some degree, but we’re not limited in terms of bringing this community together to talk about these things, to share these limitations about what we can and cannot say so it doesn’t feel like we’re hiding something. It’s about being transparent and being vulnerable. That was so hurtful. I mean, it is not about me, but I just need to say this as a parent... That was hurtful.

Some folks in the community want to make it about their agenda, and it doesn’t allow us to keep focused on the main thing. This conversation has to be about the hurt that happened to this child. And everything else is secondary. Because if we were really working on the secondary, perhaps we wouldn’t be having these same issues... So there are going to be uncomfortable conversations. I say, go get a pillow or a seat, whatever you need to do, and sit, because we have got to get through this conversation. And we have to model what we want our students to be. And what better place to do it than in the school setting.

HM: I want to thank Kal and Wendy for that, because I think the question you’re asking, Gwyn, “What are you going to do about it?” puts all the onus on the school system to solve the bigger societal, generational issues that have existed. We are doing something about it. We are working with the families. I just had a meeting with another family here that reminded me of the pain that this is opening up for parents, who themselves as former students, have suffered. This is triggering not just what they are feeling for their own children and as a mother myself, but what we don’t want our kids to experience that some of us have experienced. And so, there’s generational pain that’s happening here, that as a school system, we need to be able to address.

The lack of skill sets that we currently have as leaders around being able to talk to these boys about, “What does this really mean and why isn’t this acceptable, and what are the feelings that you’re experiencing?” which they’re not going to process in the principal’s office. And so, I think that there are these systems and processes that we have in place, and yes, we can talk to all those kids the next day in an assembly or in our classrooms and say, “Don’t do that,” but it’s a longer arc of solutions that is about relationship-building.

There are skill sets for the adults that care for those kids to have those very difficult, painful conversations that will lead to transformation when we have those trusting relationships. They do not happen in the suspension meeting. They do not happen in the initial investigation meeting. They happen over time.

GL: I understand it’s not fair to expect the school district to fix historical, systemic, deep issues.

But my question is, what are your conversations like right now in terms of engaging in not just restorative justice in this situation, but in ways to educate and bring other students into the conversation about why this matters?

KB: It kind of ties two conversations together, I think. I’m going to use the analogy of seismic activity. In California, there’s seismic activity happening right now. We’re not

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really feeling it, but eventually, there’s an earthquake, a tremor, or a volcanic explosion. This was a volcanic explosion, and it reminds us that we’re living amidst seismic activity. In fact, it reminds us of previous seismic activity that we’ve experienced, all the tremors we’ve experienced in our lives, but the volcano exploded, and it impacted certain families within the vicinity of the explosion.

And so the district needs to deal with the justice piece in relationship to the family, and that requires anonymity and secrecy; but restoration for everyone else experiencing it requires transparency. And so everyone else in the system that is experiencing this, and is triggered by this, also needs some Kalyan Balaven learning; and so to be proactive with that is something that can’t be rushed. But that’s not asking for prolonging this indefinitely.

Mindfully, let’s say, “What are the thematic triggers for us in relationship to this?” And not just the racial elements. Are there patriarchal elements woven in here? Are there elements of class woven in? Are there elements of different regions and parts of Santa Barbara? Let’s really have the conversation, but have it with the part of the community that we can’t address, that is not within our purview... the families are not in our purview, right? Parents are not in our purview. So how do we bring parents and families together in a community dialogue that helps uplift the community and helps the community to understand and see itself as connected to the broader seismic activity that we need to address as a community.

GL: To take that analogy one step further, when you have an earthquake that’s a seven or eight on the Richter scale, you then need to figure out how to rebuild in a safer way. And how to retrofit the buildings that already exist. So how do we give these kids a safer foundation so that the next time there’s an earthquake, they’re not destroyed? Because there will be other earthquakes.

SM: Yeah. It is – how do we do that? I mean, obviously, I’m at First Five and I’m about making sure in those first early years, we’re working on initiatives about being ready, including racial equity, diversity, inclusion at this early age, because that is the foundation. Because your foundation of care and concern for all should not crack during an earthquake.

There are many ways that we engage with our community, particularly our parents... and I know that we’ve gotten away from assemblies but that’s a crucial piece... Post COVID we need to reconnect, reconstruct, do everything, and then empathize.

So I would say to Hilda’s point about the boys coming together, my immediate concern was the care for the young man who this happened to. And my next concern was for those who did this. When we’re talking to those kids, having them see each other, like, what would that have been like for you to be there?

I don’t even like the word victim and perpetrator. These are junior high students, these are kids. That’s exactly what they are in terms of that and how do we use those opportunities to communicate, connect, to strengthen, all those. Take our time and don’t be selfish, like we got to run in and give you everything we know to let you know that we’re taking care of this, when in fact we need to start with care and concern and owning the part about, like I said, we understand how you feel... You can’t communicate in the middle of a crisis.

GL: Hilda, you and I spoke a year and a half ago about how this community, and the schools in particular, are too segregated, which certainly is a good breeding ground for something like this to happen. What would you like to see be borne out of this crisis?

HM: Last week, I spent much of my time meeting with high school students who gave me lots of great advice as youth will around this issue... They themselves said this is not a short-term problem. We need to go back to our core values, and not just speak of our core values, but actually live them. And they said we need to look for opportunities where we can be kinder.

I also spent time meeting with secondary principals. We talked about what they are seeing. How are we handling these issues? How do you disrupt racism when you see it in schools? We talked about that with elementary school principals as well, and with some of our safety administrators. We’ve committed to some actions beginning right now. And we talked about going back to the resolution that this board passed where they did ask us to do annual anti-bias training with all our staff. But that’s just the very tip of the iceberg, foundational conversations with all staff members in our schools about that, as well as having some in the classroom or school-wide assemblies to talk to children about what we expect and don’t tolerate in schools around these issues, with an understanding that there’s a longer arc. I’m also in conversation with folks like Guy and others to put together some Town Hall meetings where we can bring the community in.

And then there’s the fourth piece, around how we help parents. How do you talk to your kids about when they see racism in schools, anywhere from the littles all the way to the seniors; developmentally appropriate ways that we can help parents understand how to have those conversations with your kids about racism and racial slurs, cyber bullying, harassment, not just for the kids who are experiencing it, but also when other students see it, how do they 3 – 10 March 2022

interrupt those acts and become allies to students who may be experiencing this?

But this is stuff that will take time to figure out including what parents need. It’s not a recipe with three ingredients. It needs to be thought through including knowing how to deal with the pain that gets released when we have these difficult conversations. And the teachers in our district, what are they experiencing? And the counselors, all the different employees. There’s a lot to manage here and I’m going to be looking to partner with others in this space that have a lot more expertise and have the skills to do that work with me. By skills I mean the ability to hold space for others and it begins with each person having to face their personal self-awareness reflection.

GW: One thing that’s interesting to me that’s a recurring theme in this conversation, is people calling in and saying, “What are you going to do?” And I think it’s not the right question. The question is: what are we going to do? We put the school districts on an island, so to speak. And part of this dialogue is about how do we all start doing more?

What are we going to do? As opposed to, what is the school district going to do?

I do think they have a leadership role they need to take... but what I would hope would happen is that there needs to be awareness in the community of this issue. Again, how you navigate, not dealing so much with the specific families because I think that’s an internal conversation, but I think the community being aware that this is an ongoing issue, that Santa Barbara Unified School District is taking a lead and partnering up with others in the community to address this much larger issue.

SM: Can I just add to that, that we have these conversations around the impetus of an incident. We have to have it in the quiet moments. In those quiet moments, I think about the equity. I’m just going to call it what it is, the equity meeting that the County had. It’s been radio silence since that point. You can’t just focus on the moment that’s driving you there. In those quiet moments, you still have to have the conversation. You still have to be engaging. And quite frankly, with the African American community being so small, the visibility always seems to be around something negative.

So my hope is that as we move forward, taking this again as a learning moment, again, to make it better, how do we better engage this community? But to really change things, I think it’s going to take losing some friends, losing some things. It’s going to take having some difficult conversations. ...I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that we do whatever we need to do as leaders in the difficult times that we have ahead of us. And to gain the trust, if you will, of the community and of our students and this family, for sure.

HM: Wendy, I really like where you’re going with this thought. Because the other thing that came up for me with this conversation as I met with different parents, is that this greater community dialogue is going to make some people uncomfortable. But to sit with and observe someone’s lived experience and pain that may be generational is what we all need to do – and it takes time and thought and it’s difficult and makes us want to rush to solutions. But if we are not willing to really look at it, then it will be hard to build the trust and the relationships that we need for this community.

KB: On the idea of reacting to issues that come up that trigger pain and trauma, processing is important. And the way we do it is important. If we construct something in the moment to react to, often times it feels like I’m punishing the other side. Or I’m punishing whatever triggered that trauma in the first place. Right? And sometimes people look at that like, “I don’t want to participate in that conversation. Why do I want to participate in a conversation that makes me feel guilty by hearing about that painful, traumatic situation?”

Because most of the programs that are put forth are only about that.

GL: The thing about Santa Barbara is that it’s small enough to create real change and big enough for it to make a difference. So, Kal, I love that you call your program the Inclusion Lab. Because Santa Barbara is a perfect lab for working toward inclusion and changing the way we think about community.

GW: Well, Gwyn, I just want to thank you for initiating this conversation. And certainly, as we do this, we become more intentional about moving the ball. And I think one of the things that the district may explore, is how we further these partnerships within the district and outside of the district so that it is an ongoing dialogue.

GL: Hilda, is there anything else you want people to understand in terms of your leadership in this moment? And can you tell us, how is the child to whom this happened? Is he doing okay, and is the family okay?

HM: It would be wrong for me to characterize it as the child is doing okay. Because ... while he may be thinking a certain way right now, as a 12- or 13-year-old boy, maybe when he’s 25, he will think differently about it. Unfortunately, these are things that stay with you forever.

What I would like the public to know is that I’m working with a group of leaders inter- Gwyn Lurie is CEO nally who are deeply committed to thinking and Executive Editor of differently and work differently around these the Montecito Journal issues. And that’s work that was done before Media Group I got here that needs to be elevated. And as Wendy said, it’s not something that we stop doing. It’s something that must become the

fabric of how we do the work here.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT On Entertainment Bisset en Rose

Jacqueline Bisset stars in Loren and Rose

by Steven Libowitz

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here’s something appealing about seeing an aging actress playing an aging actress discussing acting, movies, and life in a movie. Not in the least because it’s still exceedingly difficult for actresses “of a certain age” – even in our era of more awareness – to find meaty roles.

That’s partly why the veteran British star Jacqueline Bisset jumped at the chance to portray Rose in Loren and Rose, an indie film written and directed by Russell Brown (The Blue Tooth Virgin, Search Engines) that will have its world premiere at the Santa Barbara

International Film Festival on March 3 and 5. Rose, an iconic actress who has had her share of challenges, bonds over a series of lunches with a promising young filmmaker (played by Kelly Blatz), forming a type of mentoring relationship over the course of a year.

“When I read the script, I was really stunned how much it had of the experience of … going through this long-winded journey of life in this business, with all the ups and downs, the humiliations and ultimately the tenderness one has towards this business,” Bisset said in a three-way Zoom chat with Brown. “One doesn’t get an opportunity to do scripts like this very often. [It’s] so well written and it’s such a joy to say those words. It’s

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an intimate story [that] reflects so much of what I’ve felt and thought about being in this business.”

For writer-director Brown, the story grew out of his own experiences in the movie world, which is a bit further along than the character of Loren’s.

“I have had so many amazing mentors over the course of my career, actors, other directors who’ve taken me under their wing,” he said. “One of the great pleasures of being around people like that is that they tell you their stories.

I wanted to capture what it felt like to be in those conversations. It’s a special thing, when you’re a young filmmaker starting off, to have the opportunity to sit with someone like Jacqueline and talk about their life and experiences and watch them weave these stories and get their wisdom. Showing that relationship was the jumping off point.

“I’m not really sure where the autobiography [ends] and when the fantasy begins.”

For Bisset, taking on the character wasn’t a large creative leap, either, at least not from the original mentoring position.

“As an actress, I’ve felt that I’ve got so much to give,” she said. “So much knowledge from over the years, [working] with some of the greats. I started with Polanski, which is already a trip in itself. Of course, you don’t know what it is until you look at it years later. But occasionally, even at the time, I’d meet somebody in my own work life and I’d think, they’ve got talent and should be encouraged. But they have no real sense of it. They just have that urge towards life in the business. So you can pass it on… And Russell was very intuitive and [his words] also mixed with my life and with the disappointments. So very interesting.”

That’s strong praise from Bisset, who started her film career in 1965, enjoyed early roles in The Detective opposite Frank Sinatra, Bullitt with Steve McQueen, and The Sweet Ride within three years, and appeared in François Truffaut’s 1973 masterpiece Day for Night in 1973. That was four years before she became a star on her own via 1977’s The Deep aided by exploitively sexist promotional posters featuring Bisset in a clinging wet white T-shirt that set off a craze.

“I was very embarrassed and very, very angry,” she said. “It wasn’t a cinematic moment, just out of left field rubbish and it ended up in Playboy of all places.

I never wanted to do any of that, but it was thrust upon me anyway. But in retrospect, the adventure and the fear that I went through made me grow.”

Indeed, Bisset hasn’t stopped acting in more than 55 years, appearing in well over 80 movies and TV shows, most recently in 2021 in the Amazon Prime

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.” – Lao Tsu

film Birds of Paradise.

Still, Loren and Rose finds Bisset with more screen time in a single project than she’s enjoyed in many years.

“I’m really proud of the movie,” Brown said. “And I think people are gonna go crazy over her performance. I can’t wait to see that happen [in Santa Barbara].

I’m excited to watch it unfold.”

Oscar Goes to Santa Barbara Academy Award aficionados and other Oscarologists will have a field day at SBIFF ‘22 all within the fest’s first few days. All five nominated directors (including Steven Spielberg!) appear at the Arlington on March 3, followed

by Kristen Stewart on March 4, the now nine-strong Virtuosos Award in the wake of the Writers’ (with eight of the 10 nominees) and Producers’ (representing all 10 nominees’ films) panel on “Super Saturday” March 5, and the new Animation Panel (yes, with all five directors up for the Oscar) preceding nominees Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis on March 6. That’s a total of some 37 nominees in four days. Add-in the four more nominated actors getting tributes in town plus the 10 Oscar hopefuls participating in the Artisans Awards, for a total eclipsing 50, it would seem tuning into the actual Academy Award telecast next month could be superfluous.

Double Dose of Docs Deserving a Drop In Roger Corman: The Pope of Pop Cinema chronicles the career of the so-called “King of B-Movies” who produced 400 films spanning noir, western, sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. Corman tells his own story in the Bertrand Tessier doc woven with interviews with the directors he trained and inspired including Ron Howard, Joe Dante, and the late Peter Bogdanovich.

Former pro skateboarder and surfer turned director Stacy Peralta (Dogtown and Z-Boys) dives into The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez with the world premiere of the story of the influential surfer known as “Mr. Pipeline” for his calm demeanor in the tube… Two-time Golden Globe-winner (and one-time Montecito resident) Jane Seymour stars as the title character in Ruby’s Choice who, after accidentally burning down her house, moves into her daughter’s home and shares a bedroom with her teenage granddaughter, leading the three generations of strong Australian women to learn to navigate Ruby’s dementia as a difficult decision looms.

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IDEAS CORNER:

On Money, Politics and other Trivial Matters

Perspectives

How the Marathon Began

And Another Example of Courage for Modern Times

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

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he first battle of the Greco-Persian wars occurred in 490 B.C. in the town of Marathon, Greece. With Persians attacking cities all along the Greek mainland, and as Athenians braced for their own attack, Athenian General Miltiades took command of a civilian army and marched to Marathon to meet the Persian army. Using superior battle tactics (Miltiades unexpectedly weakened his center and reinforced his flanks), the Greeks won a surprise victory. According to legend, a messenger named Pheidippides ran nonstop from Marathon to Athens to report the victory but dropped dead immediately after announcing the good news.

That 25-mile journey from Marathon to Athens inspired the organizers of the first modern Olympics in 1896 to create the 26.2-mile running race that we call “the marathon.”

The Boston Marathon (the world’s oldest continuous marathon) first ran on April 19, 1897, was likewise inspired.

And so it is that the modern marathon race is really the story of one man’s run, a selfless act of heroism to alert his Athenian neighbors of the Persian defeat, lest a fast Persian ship beat him there and spread false news of an opposite result. He didn’t run for money or glory. He was a pure amateur in the best civilian tradition. Pheidippides’s story is one of sacrifice in the teeth of a violent war that Athens did not seek but could not avoid.

The tale of Marathon is book-ended by another story of Greek bravery of outlandish proportions that occurred a decade later – the Battle of Thermopylae.

As this column is being written, the City of Kyiv (Kiev in the West) has withstood five days of a massive Russian invasion by aerial bombardment, tanks, armored troop carriers, and tens of thousands of soldiers. No one ever thought the vastly out-numbered force of Ukrainians supported by domestic guerilla fighters fighting street by street, could hold the Russians back for even a day when they attacked from Belarus. Yet, they have.

At the Battle of Thermopylae, like the modern-day Ukrainians, a much smaller Greek army of 7,000 men under the Spartan King Leonidas stood their ground against a Persian army of 300,000. Like the Athenian general Miltiades before him, King Leonidas developed a superior strategy to save his native Sparta. He correctly concluded that a very small force could hold the Persians in a mountain pass that was only a couple of dozen yards wide. It turned out he was right for several days.

Unfortunately, a Greek traitor revealed a way to “end run” the Greek army, and the Persians set off to overwhelm the Greek force. Once Leonidas realized he’d been betrayed and was being outflanked, he sent the main army into retreat and held the Persians back with 300 of his personal bodyguards and some militarily unsophisticated slaves captured by the Spartans in earlier campaigns. This tiny force resolved to hold off the Persian hordes as long as possible, in their case facing almost certain death, to give the main Greek army time to retreat. For that reason, the Battle of Thermopylae is celebrated as “an example of heroic persistence against seemingly impossible odds.” Which brings us back to modern day Ukraine, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, like the Greek generals Miltiades and Leonidas, has been facing overwhelming odds.

Ukraine’s been under pressure since 2014 when Russian forces forcibly seized Crimea and invaded the Donbas region of Ukraine with the intention of destabilizing the government at that time. It didn’t work. The civilian conflict in the Donbas has now waged for eight years without Ukraine retreating or submitting to Russian blackmail. It has strengthened the Ukrainians’ resolve to fight to defend their country and has even been a source of intense motivation for Ukraine to build its own military over those eight years. Like the Greeks, Zelensky has prepared for street-by-street combat which is precisely what is happening as we go to press. No one is more surprised than Vladimir Putin. He thought Kyiv would fall in a day. It didn’t.

The Ukrainian army is better disciplined than Putin imagined, and the Ukrainian civilians are fighting in massive numbers shoulder to shoulder with their military. They are fighting for their homes, for their country, and for their future freedom. Putin is a thug and a killer. It must be hard for him to understand, as it was for the Persians so long ago, that free men and women can resist an overwhelming force with just a little bit of luck, great strategy, and a support network that the rest of the world is beginning to supply.

The West, particularly the U.S. and leading European countries, should have done far more to provide Ukraine with the defensive weaponry it desperately needs. That help has only just

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“Eating” and Electrifying Carbon Away This bacteria “eats” carbon emissions and makes useful chemicals

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cientists at LanzaTech in Illinois have engineered some exciting new bacteria that transforms carbon dioxide into ethanol and isopropanol, compounds used in paint remover and hand sanitizer. Michael Köpke and his colleagues went on a hunt for strains of the ethanol-producing bacterium, Clostridium autoethanogenum, to identify enzymes that would allow the microbes to create acetone (used to make paint and nail polish remover) and combined the genes for these enzymes into one organism.

Then, they repeated this process for isopropanol, which is used as a disinfectant.

The result was an engineered bacteria that ferments carbon dioxide from the air to make these useful chemicals. “You can imagine the process similar to brewing beer,” explains Köpke. “But instead of using a yeast strain that eats sugar to make alcohol, we have a microbe that can eat carbon dioxide.” If Köpke and his team’s engineered bacterium is widely adopted, then there could be a 160 percent drop in greenhouse gas emissions the researchers say. The team hopes that their findings can offer a blueprint for more chemicals to be produced in a carbon-negative way.

This startup uses electrochemistry to capture carbon

A tricky part of carbon capture technology is the energy required to pull it off.

Verdox is a startup that tackles carbon capture through electrochemistry. Their method of pulling CO2 out of the air involves no heat, unlike other technologies. What they do instead is put stacks of electrodes together, run specific voltages of electricity through them, and attract and bind CO2 molecules into the system. With different voltages, they can also detach the CO2 molecules and then store them for other purposes. The proposed Verdox system is scalable and offers many possibilities. To collect more CO2, all that needs to be done is to add more stacks of electrodes, avoiding costly redesigns for larger jobs. The system also does well extracting a variety of CO2 concentrations, meaning that industries can use it to reduce their emissions, or systems can be set up to pull CO2 right out of the air.

Approaching this problem with the principles of electrochemistry and organic chemistry, Verdox’s system can pull CO2 molecules out of the air with much more precision and efficiency. And it can do this for a lot less money and energy. This startup has already received tens of millions in funding and plans to put multiple projects

in place at several companies by the end of 2022. begun arriving in significant quantities, to provide the anti-tank weapons (the Ukrainians have been using Molotov cocktails to stop tanks!), and other ground to air weaponry required to slow an invading army of 190,000 Russians, fighter jets, and support vehicles.

Putin could not possibly understand why Ukrainian civilians would be fighting so hard against what he believed to be overwhelming odds because, as a dictator, he cannot begin to fathom the power of deeply held democratic values. Hence his massive miscalculation.

He finally agreed to the beginning of peace talks. Let’s hope those talks are successful, and Putin finds a way to save face so he can retreat before he himself becomes a political casualty in his own country. Over 6,000 Russian demonstrators have taken to the streets to protest the war at great personal peril. Many more Russians are rooting for the Ukrainians to withstand Putin’s autocratic whims. As are we.

So, we can thank President Zelensky for strategically holding off long enough to shame European leaders into supporting really crippling sanctions. Having major Russian banks, and the Russian central bank, cut off from all SWIFT foreign exchange transactions is a powerful message. That will cause Russia to collapse within a year—or provide just the incentive the Russian people need to “retire” Putin once and for all.

We can also thank Zelensky for reminding Americans, particularly the pro-Russian commentators like Hannity on Fox why we don’t want an autocracy here in the U.S. Just maybe, the Republicans will gain the courage Ukrainians are displaying to finally resist the

autocratic Cult of Trump.

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

“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.” – John Stuart Mill

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Brilliant Thoughts

Robert’s Big Questions

by Ashleigh Brilliant

by Robert Bernstein

Gorilla My Dreams

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n November 25, 1864, in a famous speech at Oxford University, the British statesman Benjamin Disraeli addressed himself to a matter which had been convulsing intellectual society since the 1859 publication of Charles Darwin’s book, On the Origin of Species. As Disraeli put it: “The question is this – is man an ape or an angel?” His answer to the question, as widely reported, was “I am on the side of the angels.” (Punch magazine subsequently featured a cartoon showing Disraeli admiring himself in a mirror, after having sprouted fulllength angels’ wings.)

In one form or another, the problem of man’s relationship to his simian fellow-creatures has been beguiling us ever since. On one thing, at least, there seems to be general agreement: we are all Primates – which means that we’re all mammals of a certain kind, distinguishable by having flexible hands and feet, each with five digits. This includes the creatures we call apes, monkeys, gorillas, chimpanzees, lemurs, and, of course, us.

Popular culture seems to be fascinated by this topic, going back at least as far as Tarzan, aka Tarzan of the Apes, who was created in 1912 by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) and, in terms of longevity and adaptability, was one of the most successful characters ever imagined by an American writer. And yet, of all the scores of adaptations of this story of a human and his relationship with African apes, only one enduring four-word quotation seems to have emerged: “Me Tarzan – you Jane.” That product of the age of cinema and sound was in itself a travesty, since the original Tarzan was a cultured and educated English nobleman.

Burroughs himself, though a native Midwesterner, was fond of Southern California, eventually settling in an area of suburban Los Angeles, not far from Hollywood, where his movies were being made. There he established what began as “Tarzana Ranch” and eventually became the community of Tarzana.

Tarzana now has a population of about 40,000, which includes 10% Iranians, and 9% Russians – but, to the best of my knowledge, no apes.

The year 1933, in which I myself happen to have been born, also saw the birth of another legendary cinematic simian, whom the whole world has come to love and loathe as “King Kong.” This gigantic gorilla-like creature was large and strong enough to hold a full-grown woman in the palm of one hand. That woman, with whom the monster became emo3 – 10 March 2022

tionally involved, was played by actress Fay Wray, who – although she lived to be nearly 100 – never outlived her popular image as the screaming victim of King Kong. Kong himself, however, in a triumph of early special effects, after scaling the Empire State Building in search of her, is gunned down by a squadron of warplanes. The heroine, of course, survives, to become the subject of Kong’s epitaph, which is ranked as one of the most famous closing lines in all movie history.

Another aspect of our multi-faceted relationship with our fellow-primates – and this one is non-fictional – concerns the musical profession, inasmuch as street-entertainers operating what were known as barrel organs may be called professional musicians. And what concerns us here is that these performers (many of whom were of European, and especially Italian, origin) were generally accompanied by a live monkey. The monkey would naturally attract attention and could also collect money proffered by the audience.

These sidewalk shows, while delighting some, were to many others so much a source of displeasure that they were actually banned by the City of New York in 1935 — not out of any concern for the monkeys, but allegedly because of such issues as noise and interference with traffic.

There have of course been many other forms of entertainment featuring the relationship and inter-action between us and our primate relatives – most notably the Planet of the Apes series, which all began with a 1963 novel by the French writer Pierre Boulle (who also wrote The Bridge on the River Kwai). The central question is one of species-superiority.

But there is another question which does not seem to have been so intensively explored – and that is one of aesthetics. Let’s face it: to most humans, apes, and all other members of our evolutionary family are, compared with us, simply UGLY. It is that idea which gives potency to the last words of King Kong (uttered by the man who captured and exploited him): “Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes – It was

beauty killed the beast.”

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

Time for World Government?

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s I write this, Putin is brutally attacking Ukraine. Do these things really still happen in the 21st century? Is it finally time to put an end to such unilateral behavior with a world government?

The idea goes back to ancient times, when it was largely promoted by powerful emperors who wanted to expand their range of power. But it has also been embraced by Utopian visionaries like H.G. Wells and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. Roddenberry’s Federation of Planets was a Galactic version of this world government.

Such a government would be consensual and exist with the support of member states. In the long march of history, it would seem to be inevitable.

Humans have gone from small family and tribal groups on to local kingdoms and city-states and then on to modern countries like China, India, and the U.S. on the scale of hundreds of millions of people. If we can have a nation of a billion people, how much of a leap is it to eight billion?

Many governments already consist of very diverse units that have different languages, religions, values, and even currencies. Italy only became a country in 1861 and the European Union was established in 1993. The European Union did not abolish national governments. But it allowed more uniform regulation and trade. There is always a trade-off in such an alliance and England infamously left the EU in a chaotic Brexit decision.

Not all EU countries share a common Euro currency and there can be advantages to that independence. Greece discovered this the hard way when it could not devalue its currency, being stuck with the Euro.

The United Nations was an attempt to achieve a balance between national sovereignty and world government. But the UN has no enforcement power of its own. They can order sanctions or forces, but they have to come from member nations.

And the Security Council member countries have veto power over any decision. This is a serious problem, since the most powerful countries are on the Security Council and it is those countries that are most in need of accountability!

The International Court of Justice (also known as the World Court) is supposed to provide some of this accountability.

In the 1980s Reagan was waging an illegal war against Nicaragua using terrorist attacks, mining harbors, and economic blockades. Nicaragua sued the U.S. and won a multibillion-dollar judgment. But Reagan ordered the U.S. to withdraw

from the World Court and refused to pay the judgment.

Unfortunately, there is an entire industry of paranoid conspiracy theories about world government. Republican President George Bush Sr. talked of the “New World Order” and it terrified people across the political spectrum. Those on the nationalist right saw it as the U.S. giving up its sovereignty. Whereas those concerned with global justice feared this meant the U.S. was going to dominate that Order.

Government is not supposed to be a top-down source of tyranny. Ideally, it is a tool used by ordinary people to achieve goals that otherwise would be impossible. We set up governments and pay taxes with the goal of building public infrastructure and investing in education and research that no private organization could fund. Governments provide universal protection with fire departments and law enforcement. Civilized governments provide universal health care as well. And act to head off the Climate Crisis. Because these are market failures in a “free market.”

Without a world government with enforcement powers, how does the world stop a bully like Putin? China has claimed some of the Spratly Islands already claimed by several other countries. China has already taken over Tibet and threatens to take over Taiwan.

Nuclear weapons threaten everyone on the planet. Why should any single country have such weapons?

But the Climate Crisis towers over these conflicts. Who is going to demand that the biggest polluters stop altering the planet’s atmosphere? This is the biggest bullying case of all: The wealthiest and most powerful countries threaten the poorest.

Can we agree that there is a benefit to giving up some of our sovereignty in exchange for having a peaceful and sustainable future? A world government is a tool that actually empowers us as individuals in a way that is otherwise impossible. A country that bullies other countries is also a country that bullies its own citizens. Can we agree that a world government can end that bullying and

give everyone an equal voice?

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

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Pop Goes the Movies There are no fewer than four feature length documentaries on pop and rock artists slated to screen during SBIFF ‘22, including, in decreasing order of fame, José Feliciano: Behind This Guitar, Peter Case: A Million Miles Away, and Fanny: The Right to Rock imperfect, before Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over winds up the fest on Closing Night. It’s heartening to see this category continue to climb at SBIFF, as behind-the-scenes histories are a time-honored tradition.

For complete screening schedules, film descriptions, panel and tribute information, and tickets, visit www.sbiff.org

Ensemble Goes Solo for Rare Bird ‘Lillian’

While film lovers will be flocking to Santa Barbara over the next 10 days to watch scores of world premieres and welcome widely loved movie stars in the Arlington and other cinemas, the Ensemble Theatre will be staging a premiere of its own just across Victoria Street in the New Vic, one that also boasts the local debut of a much beloved star of stage and screen.

ETC is presenting the one-person play Lillian starring Nancy Travis (Last Man Standing, The Kominsky Method, Three Men and a Baby, among many others). Playwright David Cale wrote the performance piece about a bookish middle-aged British woman who falls for a wild and cocky man only a bit more than half her age, and finds her life turned upside down by the whirlwind adventure. Cale himself portrayed Lillian in New York and then toured it briefly, to great critical acclaim.

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Murder on the Orient Express at SBCC’s Garvin Theatre

Nancy Travis showcases her talents in the one-person play, Lillian

New York Times: “Lillian is a luminous embodiment of the ineffable in life, a reminder that even the most mundane existence is shaped by currents beyond comprehension... It’s an immensely appealing work that finds an ordering poetry in the seemingly banal.”

San Francisco Chronicle: “Lillian is funny, honest, unfinished, and wonderfully alive.”

Variety: “Cale … provides humor with a droll, rather than funny, edge, and the sentimentality, never mawkish, has the sweet, wistful quality of a Noel Coward encounter.”

Cale even earned an Obie Award for his work. Then the play promptly disappeared for more than two decades.

“I tried, but I could not find anything on any other production either,” said ETC’s Executive Artistic Director Jonathan Fox, who will helm the play’s March 3-12 run. What’s more, the licensing company would only grant rights if Lillian was played by a woman, Fox said.

“When I first read the play, I thought it was such a sweet, charming, and intriguing story that was very cleverly

and beautifully written, but I didn’t even realize David Cale had performed it. But once I found out, I had already thought it probably would be a deeper experience with a woman.”

Enter Travis, a veteran actress equally at home on stage or in front of cameras, who will take on all of the different characters created by Cale from her own experience, with almost no reference material beyond the script and an excerpt from an NPR clip of Cale in the role.

According to Fox, Travis will knock it out of the park, and audiences will love not only her performance but the deceptive simplicity of the play and its synchronicity with our era. “It’s been a tough year and a half, and this play really is a story about someone who is open to and able to embrace whatever life brings,” he said. “It’s about resilience.”

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‘Murder’ at the Garvin Ken Ludwig’s stage version of Murder on the Orient Express was written at the request of the Agatha Christie Estate, so the classic Christie mystery – which was also adapted into a hit movie – was in good hands when it premiered in March 2017 at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton. Five years later, The Theatre Group at SBCC brings the show to Santa Barbara as part of its 75th anniversary season. Ludwig, who won the Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year for The Game’s Afoot, not to mention Tonys for Lend Me a Tenor and Crazy For You, has given his version of Murder all the glamour, intrigue, and suspense of Dame Agatha’s celebrated novel, with memorable characters, thrilling plot turns, and a healthy dose of humor. Department chair Katie Laris directs a cast featuring a few of the company faves including Leesa Beck, Justin Davanzo, Emma-Jane Huerta, Dalina Klan, Haley Klan, Sanford Jackson, McKenna Kline, Will Muse, Mircea Oprea, Jenna Scanlon, Tiffany Story, Matthew Tavianini, Johnny Waaler, and Raymond Wallenthin. Performances run March 2-19 in the Garvin Theatre on SBCC West Campus.

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alifornia State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) has served as a landing spot for underrepresented minorities and/or the economically disadvantaged since its founding 20 years ago on the former site of Camarillo State Mental Hospital, which closed five years earlier. The statewide CSU website boasts at the top of its diversity page the fact that nearly one-third of CSU students are the first in their families to attend college.

Thirty-three percent is an impressive figure, no doubt, but one that’s dwarfed by the Channel Islands campus, where more than 62 percent of the students are the first of their family to get to college. That’s partly why the CSU system is educating the most ethnically, economically, and academically diverse student body in the nation, coming from the belief that higher education transforms lives and serves the common good of society. Students learn

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“Some of those non-tuition costs can really catch students off-guard,” said J. Jacob Jenkins, Ph.D., co-Campus Coordinator of CSUCI’s Affordable Learning Solutions (aka, OpenCI).

“They’re just not prepared for the expenses of textbooks, and transportation, food, and things like that really add up. Our initiatives help address those non-tuition costs that contribute to upward social mobility and help students stay enrolled and on course to graduate.”

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and other necessary course materials as well as such basic needs as food and housing, it’s no surprise that classwork tends to suffer.

Jenkins said he’s seen first-hand how issues in these areas can accumulate and spiral, and how a helping hand can make a huge difference.

“I had a student come by my office a couple years ago, who was doing just great during class, a natural leader with an uplifting personality who was very engaged. But she was failing because she wasn’t turning in her reading assignments and quizzes,” recalled Jenkins, who is also Associate Professor of Organizational Communication at the Channel Islands campus and shares coordination of OpenCI with Jaime Hannans, an Associate Professor of Nursing. “After talking with her for a moment, she admitted she hadn’t bought the textbook yet. I pushed back on that and said we need to make sure she got the book.

Then she mentioned something along the lines of that she hadn’t had much sleep the night before because a cop kept knocking on the windshield of her car telling her to move.”

That really put things in perspective, Jenkins said, noting that when you’re not sure how and when you’re going to sleep, studying falls a little lower on the list of needs. His pride in having redesigned the course so that the required textbook and other materials dropped from $150 to just $34 went right by the wayside.

“I was just starting this gig as the campus coordinator for the textbook affordability initiative, and I thought I was doing a good job. But for her, it might as well have been $1,000 or $10,000.”

Jenkins scrounged up a textbook right there on the spot, made some accommodations for the reading quizzes, and pointed her in the right direction for emergency help with housing and food costs. The upshot is that the student ended up not only graduating on time 18 months later, but also served on student government and attended a school convocation where she shared her story.

“That’s why I’m so passionate about student equity and access, which ties together with our basic needs efforts,” Jenkins said. “That’s where my real heart is. And why I’m as passionate about textbook affordability and other non-tuition costs as anything else.”

CSUCI introduced its zero-textbook-cost undergraduate majors (aka “Z-Majors”), which encompass several disciplines, the first in the entire CSU system.

To date, the OpenCI’s accomplishments have resulted in over $7.2 million in student savings spread over 60,000 student enrollments, and 1,600 courses impacted.

A full 30 percent of CSUCI’s 490 faculty members have committed to redesigning their courses with no/low-cost materials and all of the participating CSUCI faculty surveyed have rated their new materials as being “equal to” or “better than” their previous materials. The program earned the 2021 “Open Research Award” from Open

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Over 62 percent of CSUCI students are the first in their family to attend college

Education Global for the campus-wide study entitled “Textbook Broke: Textbook Affordability as a Social Justice Issue.”

“There really is something special going on here in the way that faculty have come together and become student centered in the way they are thinking about access,” Jenkins said. “They understand the equity issue not just to low income, but first-generation college students and racial, ethnic minorities.”

Of course, books and course materials are just one of many needs among students at Channel Islands, which is Santa Barbara and Ventura counties’ designated Cal State University campus. Recent research indicated that upwards of one in 10 students reported being housing insecure over the prior six months, while more than 40 percent said they had experienced food insecurity, Jenkins said.

Enter Ekho Your Heart, a fund within the CSUCI Foundation to assist CSUCI students as well as staff and faculty who are experiencing a temporary financial hardship due to a crisis or disaster. The initiative, named for CSUCI’s dolphin mascot, is intended to provide financial support for those with the greatest need. CSUCI also has a food pantry, as well as “Hot Meal” diner cards that students can swipe to pay for a meal in the cafeteria so they can join their peers without standing out.

“We’re working on a study right now with statistics to back up that [these programs] positively correlate to such things as taking more units each semester, to likelihood to graduate and even feeling at home and being plugged into campus. There are a lot of positive impacts that particularly benefit historically unserved students.”

Donations to CSUCI can be earmarked directly for Ekho Your Heart or otherwise directed toward areas of need, where they can have an exponential impact on students’ path to success.

“It’s all about reducing non-tuition costs and other student equity issues that are barriers to graduation,” Jenkins said.

“That’s how you change your family tree, change that cycle [of poverty], change the

trajectory of your future.”

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Dear Montecito

The Isla Vista Compost Collective

by Stella Haffner

W

hen I first heard the term “Dirtrider,” I imagined something á la Mel Gibson in Mad Max. But far from being chrome and oil junkies as we might associate with the apocalyptic franchise, Dirtriders are the lean, green worker bees of the Isla Vista Compost Collective.

Founded in 2017, the Isla Vista Compost Collective (IVCC) started as a student project with the hope of making composting easy, free, and accessible to all Isla Vista residents. The green initiative is now a fully functional compost pick-up service, with five years in operation and big accomplishments to boast. In 2021 alone, the IVCC diverted over 20,000-pounds of food waste from the landfill — an amount equivalent to offsetting nearly 16,000 miles worth of CO2 emission from your car. Today, the IVCC is setting its ambitions to address all steps of the food loop from growing produce, distributing fresh, organic food, and decomposing it into healthy soil.

To find out more about the initiative, pick up some facts about composting, and receive an introduction to the idea of “food sovereignty,” I spoke to the dedicated hands behind the IVCC. At the helm of my all-green learning experience was Chloe McKerr, current UCSB undergraduate and student Operations Manager of the IVCC. Q. You collect food waste from 130 houses in Isla Vista, and you divert it from the landfill by compositing it. What does your next step look like?

A. We are looking into distributing our compost. In the near future, we would like to give people our finished compost, so they can use it and incorporate it into their own gardens and use that healthy

soil to cultivate their own foods to produce a circular economy with our foods.

We want to keep it in the community rather than going to grocery stores, so our goal is to be both the starting and the finishing point. We help people start growing their food, and we put it back into the soil when it’s ready — it’s the cycle of food.

You maintain your own compost pile to decompose the food, but how do you know when it’s done?

Typically, weeks after the pile has maintained a hot temperature, the pile will start to cool down and reduce in size. It develops a deep earthy scent and becomes more crumbly in texture as the food has decomposed. Right now, we’re in the process of trying to buy a testing kit, so we’ll look at mineral content, ratio of nitrogen in the compost, test for pH level, everything to make sure we’re handing out a good product.

Who oversees the compost pile maintenance?

Our Dirtriders. They’re the backbone of our operations. I used to be a Dirtrider. It was some stinky work, but it was some awesome work. I think it’s really about knowing what you’re doing and knowing how you’re benefiting the environment and the community that keeps you going.

How did you get the name “Dirtrider”?

Our founder Jacob Bider wanted them to be known as Dirtriders instead of compost collectors. He had this idea of us riding our bikes around the community, and I think he wanted it to be a familiar symbol, someone you knew.

We ride around in pretty recognizable orange, yellow, and green colors with our logo on the back of our cargo trailers, picking up the compost from each of

A Dirtrider with one of their colorful, distinctive cargo trailers

our participant houses. Aside from the food scrap work, our Dirtriders are also in charge of creating a good relationship with our participants and community members. They’re available by text to ask questions about composting, and overall they serve as good friends to the community.

Is it true this service is completely free?

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to affordable and healthy food.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Isla Vista Compost Collective, you can visit their website at islavistacompost.com. If you currently live in Isla Vista or know someone who does and would like to donate your non-perishables to Food on Wheels, you can reach out to IVCC’s Instagram @ivcompostcollective, and they will pick up your donations directly from your door.

In your mission statement you talk about the ideas of food justice and food sovereignty.

Can you tell me what this means to your operation?

We believe that people have the right to know where their food is grown and what went into its production. When we rely on big name grocery stores, we don’t have access to this information, and we just have to accept the price they’re going to sell it to us – no matter the country of origin or the working conditions. Food sovereignty is a community having full

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by Kim Crail

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pring is almost here and the Montecito Library is keen to bring back some weekly programs for younger children! Our answer? Stay and Play, an outdoor opportunity for little ones to play and their grownups to chill. No rushing to get anywhere at a certain time or abrupt transitions, just a wide window of time to visit the library and play outside. This program is meant for ages zero to five and emphasizes the importance of play in children’s early development. It is supported by a grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, administered in California by the State Librarian.

While we have done traditional storytimes in the past, Stay and Play encourages grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors, caregivers, and parents to get down on the ground and play with their little ones, using a rotating selection of developmental toys provided by the Library. Staff will be playing with the kids, too, and incorporating books here and there in a more informal way. This weekly program is meant to create community between the grownups with a special emphasis on welcoming the Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN) network of people that care for 40-80% of infants and young children in California. It takes a village, as parents and caregivers well know.

Oh, and there will be coffee! Feel free to drop in for Stay and Play with your little ones Tuesday mornings, outside of the library, any time between 9 and 10:30 am, starting March 8.

The Little Book of Montecito Writers Local author and emphatic public library supporter Steven Gilbar has donated copies of his new book, The Little Book of Montecito Writers: Mini-Biographies of Authors with Connections to Montecito, California, to help raise money for the Montecito Library. Gilbar generously 3 – 10 March 2022

donated his time in the fall, giving two lectures on “Literary Montecito,” which are archived on the SBPLibrary YouTube channel. He also edited Library Book: Writers on Libraries in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Santa Barbara Central Library.

Gilbar’s book is available for $15 and includes over 60 authors, including T.C. Boyle, Sue Grafton, Fannie Flagg, Steve Martin, Thomas Sanchez, Douglas Adams, Ross Macdonald, Brett Halliday, and William Peter Blatty. All proceeds benefit Montecito Library. There is a launch at Tecolote on Saturday, March 19 at 3 pm, with many of the authors attending.

Black Gold Split A big announcement was made last month that Santa Barbara Public Library will be leaving the Black Gold Cooperative Library System, a group of member libraries along the Central Coast. If you are interested in learning more, information about the decision is available on the Santa Barbara Public Library website (SBPLibrary. org). Questions or comments can be sent via email to Library Administration (LibraryAdmin@santabarbaraca.gov) or, as always, Montecito Library staff will do our best to field any concerns.

As a small branch, our community of voracious readers will notice that we are now sharing library items only with Central, Carpinteria, and Eastside libraries, while our digital content remains the same.

If you are looking for particular titles, authors, or subjects that you are not finding, please let our staff know; we have some tricks up our sleeves to provide solutions.

Namely, the grant-funded Zipbooks program is back (you heard?), allowing for patrons to request up to five items per month to be directly shipped to you. Santa Barbara Central Library is also beefing up its collection budget to fill in gaps.

Montecito staff take customer service seriously and will use all of the arrows in our quiver to get your needs met.

March Events ibrary Van at Cold Spring School – L Thursday, 3/3, 3:30-5:30 pm Stay & Play (up to age 5) – Tuesday, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29 – drop in 9-10:30 am Storywalk at Lower Manning Park – Wednesday, 3/9, 2-3:30 pm Montecito Book Club: Minor Feelings

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Calendar of Events

SATURDAY, MARCH 5

by Steven Libowitz THURSDAY, MARCH 3 1st Thursday – COVID cases are coming down. Masks are coming off. Spring is just around the corner. So maybe it’s perfect timing for “Sunflowers on State,” a new public art installation featuring larger-than-life sculptures located at various locations along State Street, in the mode of the annual Pianos on State. The sunflowers were fabricated by The Environment Makers and painted by students from six local junior high and high schools in art or multimedia programs. A special ribbon-cutting ceremony by the sunflower sculpture in front of Old Navy at 1137 State launches the installation… Also new to 1st Thursday in March: Wylde Works (609 State St.), whose grand opening party features a book launch for Can You Imagine?, a new illustrated children’s book by Sydney and Dylan Wylde, who are also the owners of the honey-based brews tasting room. Also on tonight’s fare is storytelling by local yarn spinner Michael Katz, love grooves music by the David Segall Band, with specialty and curious drinks… Also, Workzones (351 Paseo Nuevo, 2nd floor) hosts Warrior Collection Hair Art Show by Underground Hair Artists – boasting a live demonstration of how a hair collection is produced from inception, featuring hair techniques using hair pieces and wigs, braids and dreads, and make up applications to achieve the look on six model ‘Warriors.’ (Also on Zoom)... Elsewhere, State Street stalwart Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1130 State) makes it a ‘Starry Night’ for the first 1st Thursday since the opening of the much-anticipated Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources exhibit. Studio artists from Opera Santa Barbara perform pop-up style in the museum galleries presenting works inspired by the new Van Gogh show… Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery (11 East Anapamu) opens tandem solo exhibitions for kinetic sculptor Ken Bortolazzo and the estate of Michael Dvortcsak featuring his iconic work from the 1980s… And Christ Presbyterian Church (36 East Victoria) boasts local artist Bart Tarman’s installation “The Healing Power of Sea and Summit,” works that emanate from walking the 500mile Camino de Santiago from France to Northern Spain, which he will discuss in short talks throughout the evening. WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and side streets COST: free INFO: (805) 962-2098 or www.downtownsb.org/ events/1st-thursday Slumber Party – In a tale not all that dissimilar from the one they’ll perform on stage, State Street Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty awakens from a two-year slumber called COVID that prevented the company’s modern take on the fairytale from

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Dance Dimensions – In the two years since the UCSB Dance Company’s last full, in-person performance in public, not only has the world been changed by the COVID pandemic, but America also began to address its reckoning with racism and other inequities. Which gives this weekend’s comeback program, Rebound, meaning beyond the double entendre. As the student company’s artistic director Delila Moseley, in keeping with the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access direction of the UC, has invited a diverse group of choreographers to create or re-stage works for the company. Guest Artist Yusha-Marie Sorzano draws on her Caribbean heritage for a new contemporary work; alumni Derion Loman and partner Madison Olandt have co-choreographed Group Autogenics; and faculty member Nancy Colahan re-sets the series of poignant solos she choreographed from her living room last year as Pandemic Dances. The repertory also includes a re-staging of Mazurkas by José Limón, long a company favorite, re-constructed by Professor Emerita Alice Condodina, plus a short piece called Ride by Joshua Manculich.

WHEN: 7 pm Thursday, March 3, and Friday, March 4.

WHERE: UCSB Ballet Studio COST: $15 general, $11 children & seniors INFO: (805) 893-2064 or www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu

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Oh, oh, oh, It’s Magic – It’s Magic, an allstar magic show with an ever-changing lineup that gave rise to Milt Larsen’s Magic Castle and, in turn, a touring show that launched in the 1980s, is back at the Lobero after a pandemic-induced hiatus. This year’s roster is, as always, composed of internationally recognized award winners from the Magic Castle, Las Vegas, corporate events, and exotic showrooms around the world. Kids, families, and magic-lovers of all ages will marvel at the feats performed by Christopher Hart (who played Thing in The Addams Family movies), “The International Man of Mystery” David Goldrake, world-touring illusionists Jody Baran & Kathleen, high-tech magic specialist Dan Birch, and two-time Magic Castle “Parlour Magician of the Year” Tom Ogden. If only any of them could make SARS-CoV-2 disappear from the face of the Earth.

WHEN: 2 & 6:30 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $34-$85 general, $20-$25 kids 12 and under INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

making its world premiere debut at the Granada Theatre. The show is the newest story ballet in the company’s Family Series repertoire, and romantically reflects the cycle of the seasons, an allegory of life itself. Set to Tchaikovsky’s celebrated score that will be performed by Opera San Luis Obispo Grand Orchestra, the choreography by an all-female team of Marina Fliagina, Cecily MacDougall, and Megan Philipp – based on the original by Marius Petipa – showcases classical and modern elements while also altering details of the classic ballet version to offer a message of women’s self-empowerment. (A stranger kissing an unconscious woman has different connotations post-#MeToo, for example.)

The production also features innovative sets and puppetry, including a 15-foottall wearable dragon designed by artist Christina McCarthy, who created other mythical beasts for UCSB Opera’s The Magic Flute that ran last weekend. State Street Ballet’s professional track trainees, as well as students from State Street Ballet Academy (formerly Gustafson Dance), join the ensemble’s professional dancers to fill the 86 character roles in the classic story of Princess Aurora and her handsome prince. WHEN: 7:30 pm Saturday, March 5, 2 pm Sunday, March 6 WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $26-$106 INFO: (805) 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org SUNDAY, MARCH 6 Supertramp’s Six-String Sensation – Carl Verheyen has been one of L.A.’s elite “first call” session players for four decades, contributing to hundreds of records, movie soundtracks, and television shows. The former member of Supertramp is also a vocalist, songwriter, arranger, producer, and educator with a taste across the musical spectrum. Tonight’s acoustic blues show from SB Acoustic teams Verheyen – who Guitar Magazine named among its “Top 10 Guitar Players in the World” – with fellow L.A. studio fixture Dave Marotta, who plays 4- and 5-string, fretless, and piccolo basses, and well-traveled percussionist John Madar whose credits list number would top the number of beats in the Ramones’ entire catalog. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $64 with dinner, $22 ticket only INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com TUESDAY, MARCH 8 Memphis Jookin’ at the G – Dance sensation Lil Buck conceived, choreographed, and stars in Memphis Jookin’: The Show as an ode to the birthplace of the singular dance style that has kinetically captured worldwide acclaim. The evening-length piece chronicles how the art form grew from local street dance first known as “Gangsta Walking” in the mid 1980s, which remained underground through the mid-2000s, to an international phenomenon, as Lil Buck fronts an ensemble of 10 highly-skilled dancers and a DJ to transport audiences to the streets and the clubs where the style originated. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $46-$61 INFO: (805) 899-2222 / www.grana

dasb.org or (805) 893-3535 / www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” – Edmund Burke

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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

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 Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Journalist

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

Silkroad Ensemble Home Within

Kinan Azmeh, composer, clarinet Kevork Mourad, live illustrations, visuals Thu, Mar 31 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $30 / FREE for UCSB students Includes an at-home viewing option

Major Sponsor: Jody & John Arnhold

(805) 893-3535 www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu Granada event tickets can also be purchased at: (805) 899-2222 | www.GranadaSB.org 3 – 10 March 2022

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Smart Envios, 2917 De La Vina, A, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Anastasia Dudina, 2917 De La Vina, A, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 10, 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. 2022-0000398.

Published March 2, 9, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: UV MY AIR, 27 W Anapamu St Suite 226, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Outdoor Adventures INC., 27 W Anapamu St Suite 226, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 2, 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. 2022-0000313. Published February 23, March 2, 9, 16, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: La Lieff Wines; La Lieff, 935 Arcady Road, Montecito, CA 93108. Lieff Wines LLC, 935 Arcady Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 16, 2022.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2022-0000446. Published February 23, March 2, 9, 16, 2022 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

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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. 2022-0000330. Published February 9, 16, 23, March 2, 2022 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 copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN No. 2022-0000195. 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 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. 2022-0000228. Published February 9, 16, 23, March 2, 2022

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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. 2022-0000242. Published February 9, 16, 23, March 2, 2022

INVITATION FOR BIDS 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: BID NO. 5945 DUE DATE & TIME: MARCH 16, 2022 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. LITTER AND WASTE REMOVAL SERVICES 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.

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. 2022-0000256. Published February 9, 16, 23, March 2, 2022

If further information is needed, contact Jennifer Disney Dixon, Buyer II at (805) 564-5356 or email: jdisney@santabarbaraca.gov A pre-bid meeting will not be held.

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.

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 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

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.

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 City of Santa Barbara as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements. _______________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

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

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

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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.

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Village Beat (Continued from 6) forest. This is hard on us.” Other MBAR members concurred with her sentiments, and asked project reps to revisit the area and come up with a plan that addresses the lack of landscaping.

It is expected that the project will be back in front of MBAR in March, reviewing corridor-wide elements including median barriers, guardrails, contrast surface treatments, and overhead signage.

Due to the addition of another lane of the freeway, the median area through Montecito will get smaller, which will impact the landscaping and mature trees in the median. The freeway bridges will feature a muted façade, arches, and timber railing on the barriers, to add to the design aesthetics; the design also includes natural materials such as cobblestones, Santa Barbara sandstone, and native plantings.

The project will also be in front of Montecito Planning Commission later in the spring, where it’s expected that members of the public will voice their concern over the removal of the sound walls.

For more information about the freeway widening project, contact the project team at (805) 845-5112 or info@sbroads.com or visit the project website at www.SBROADS.com.

Cold Spring Project Moves Forward At a special board meeting earlier this week, the Cold Spring School Board voted 4-1 to approve moving forward with a short-term loan to help fund the school’s upcoming and long-awaited expansion project. The acquisition of the loan – and the financial position of the school in general – has been the subject of some community fodder on social media over the past few weeks and months. “It does not cost taxpayers anything for us to get this loan,” emphasized CSS Superintendent Dr. Amy Alzina. “It’s a very common practice in the education sector and it’s a way for us to bridge these funds temporarily so we can put a shovel to the ground now.”

As we reported last week, in response to increasing enrollment numbers and dwindling classroom space, the Cold Spring School Facilities Task Force has recommended to the Board to construct a new permanent building in two phases, beginning with two classrooms in Phase 1 followed by a third classroom and administration/office area in Phase 2. The new classrooms will be built near the two old portable classrooms at the entrance to the school, and the first phase will cost about $1.6M, $1M of which will be pulled from facility reserves. Phase 2 of the project will cost an additional $2M, and will include one additional classroom, plus administrative offices, becoming the entrance to campus as desired in the school’s master plan. The second phase of the project will be built where the portable classrooms are currently; it’s 3 – 10 March 2022

likely the second phase will require a bond measure. The pared down project comes after a failed $7.8M bond measure in 2020, which would have paid for a larger, more extensive master plan update.

Two parents at Monday’s Board meeting spoke in favor of the project, including Cold Spring School Foundation President Holly Kane, who said the Foundation is a partner with the school on this project, and is in full support of the expansion. “Our mission is still to continue to work in partnership with the Foundation to raise all the money needed for this project by the end of the year,” Dr. Alzina told us. “We want to pay it off as soon as possible. My goal is to get it off the books by the end of the year.” There were no community members present at the public, in-person board meeting.

Dr. Alzina says the loan is necessary in order to get construction going as soon as possible, as waiting until the additional money is raised could potentially cost the school more money as construction costs rise. The Foundation has recently raised about $150K towards the project, with a big fundraising push – including an in-person gala – planned for later this spring.

While the loan is being processed, design plans for the project are still being reviewed by the Department of School Architects. It’s expected that the plans will be completed this week, and then the project can go out to bid. Construction is expected to begin in the next two months.

“The longer we wait on this, the more it costs,” Dr. Alzina reiterated. “This project will allow us not only to serve the students at this school, but we can become a learning hub for teachers to learn best practices, and become a resource to other communities and other small school districts,” she said.

For more information, visit www.coldspringschool.net.

The Montecito Journal would like to provide a clarification on The Giving List article published in the February 10-17 issue (#28/6) on the Clean Coalition. The solar array installed at Montecito Union School is not a microgrid. Microgrids are able to be used as backup power storage by storing energy in a battery bank. The MUS solar array does not store power onsite, instead, it feeds excess power back into the SCE grid during the daytime.

The solar array at MUS was built and

installed by Ameresco.

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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Grieving, Family-Style

by Claudia Schou

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n hard times, delivering comfort in a pan is a family tradition When death comes knocking, my Italian family goes to the kitchen.

As early as I can remember, whenever a family member was infirm or passed away, an imaginary bell would ring and someone – usually a family elder – would go into the kitchen cupboard, pull out a baking pan and proceed to cook up a wholesome, comforting meal.

These meals typically included a simple pasta dish or two, usually made with sauce that was cooked over the course of an entire day and then stored in the refrigerator in a recycled container.

Nothing complicated or involving multiple preparation steps – the opposite of gifting someone a box of Hello Fresh. It arrived complete, and completely delicious. That small gesture of removing the burden of meal planning was meaningful in so many ways.

Comfort meals usually included a baked pasta such as a meaty lasagna, rich with olive oil, or my favorite, my Nonni’s breaded and grilled eggplant served alongside a ragu Bolognese made with ground beef and veal and aromatic vegetables slowly cooked down and served with freshly grated parmesan.

There was always a plate of meatballs on the table.

I was at work when my cousin Richelle texted me a note that my Aunt Mattia’s husband passed away a few weeks ago.

In her 70s, Aunt Mattia is the glue that holds the family together. Her parents, Nancy and Joe, moved from Brooklyn to San Bernardino in the 1960s, and a decade later my grandparents, my mother, my sister, and I followed. We lived a few miles away and got together for social occasions and holidays. Their family became ours and it was very large, made up of Corbos, Rubinos, Pataris, and Collettis, with a seemingly endless supply of aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Aunt Nancy’s cooking provided a familiar feeling of comfort. She welcomed family and friends into her home with hot and bubbly lasagna, rigatoni with marinara sauce and ricotta, and doughy, deep-dish pizza margherita.

Her pasta dishes were simple – and heavy. On Sicilian tables, meatballs are traditionally served with a hearty stewlike sauce that will take your mind off your worries and seize your taste buds.

Sometimes, when we visited, I’d wander into the kitchen and sit at a bistro table in the corner and watch her cook. I loved her pastina (tiny star shaped pasta) with butter and whole

milk sprinkled with parmesan. When I emptied my bowl, she’d often point over to an aluminum tray on the kitchen counter filled with home-baked anise and almond biscotti.

And if you were sick or someone in your family passed away, she’d cook something ambrosial in her kitchen, change out of her house dress, put on some lipstick and jewelry, and drive it over to your home.

One year, when I was in my early twenties, my mother, my uncle, and my grandfather passed away within months of each other. Each time, my Aunt Nancy visited my grandmother with a large tin pan of food under her arm.

“This is just a little …” she’d say, never needing to finish her sentence.

Even though most of my relatives are no longer here, their spirits linger in my kitchen.

A few days after hearing from Richelle, I asked if I could arrange a visit with Aunt Mattia at her home in Torrance for the following weekend, adding that I would make it brief. For all of the years of being the recipient of grieving meals I was at a loss as to what I should prepare for my aunt and cousin.

Aunt Mattia’s paternal grandmother was my mother’s grandfather’s sister.

Both were Collettis, so I thought I’d start with our shared Sicilian roots.

And anyone who knows anything about Sicilian-Americans knows their true loves are homemade meatballs and sweets.

For the meatballs, I chose a pignoli (pine nut) and golden raisin recipe.

These Sicilian-inspired meatballs are a combination of sweet and savory, best served with a small side of spaghetti and a bottle of red wine. I found the recipe on epicurious.com. The recipe calls for two pounds of ground beef, but I opted for a pound of ground beef and a pound of ground pork, which blends well with soaked Italian bread, fresh garlic, Pecorino Romano cheese and flat leaf parsley. This recipe calls for baking the meatballs, which allows them to retain their moisture and gently braise. Their finish is a bit crunchier when fried in a pan, but equally delicious. Top them with tomato sauce and more Pecorino and you’ve got a classic dish.

For something sweet, I took my cue from Claudia Roden’s orange and almond cake recipe given to me by my friend, Sybille.

My first attempt resulted in a pot of singed navel oranges, because I underestimated how quickly the boiling water evaporated. The recipe calls for boiling oranges for two hours and then emulsifying them in a food processor before

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Darryl Zupancik, Marta Babson, Melanie and Richard De Schutter, and Henrietta Fure (photo by Priscilla)

and Sharol Siemens, David and Sharon Bradford, Nick and Rosemary Mutton, David and Ann Gersh, Michael and Kimberly Hayes, Belle Hahn, George Konstantinow, Robert and Valerie Montgomery, Larry Feinberg and Starr Siegele, actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Gail Wasserman, Mary Dorra, Robyn Geddes, Anne Towbes, and Ginni Dreier.

The exhibition runs through May 22 so Go Van Gogh!

Courtesan and the City Award winning author and documentarian Leslie Zemeckis is premiering her latest work: a 45-minute documentary, Grandes Horizontales – an in-depth look at the culture of the courtesan – at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Leslie, wife of Back to the Future film director Robert Zemeckis and a Journal contributor, has had a number of successful documentaries in the past including Bound by Flesh, Behind the Burly Q, and Mabel, Mabel, Tiger Trainer.

Her latest work, which she wrote and directed, delves deeply into the sex and decadence of the Second Empire, around the time of Napoleon III between 1852 and 1870, considered the most decadent period in French history.

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“I mean, if we are talking about courtesans, let’s see the beauty and the nudity.

These women were icons, celebrities, fashionistas.”

Leslie shot the documentary in Santa Barbara and Paris over several years.

“But I really took a deep dive into the research. I’m also writing something in book form and I wanted to get it right. I hired some women who look quite similar to the real women I’m talking about.

We are in five festivals and counting. It’s very sexy!”

Of that I have absolutely no doubt...

Ranch to TV Elizabeth Poett, a seventh-generation cattle rancher, has turned her culinary skills into a TV show. Elizabeth, owner of Santa Barbara’s 14,000-acre Rancho San Julian, is launching a new six-episode series Ranch to Table on Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Network on March 20.

The property has been in her family since 1837 and is one of the oldest cattle ranches in California.

She began Rancho San Julian Beef, a business selling her family’s grass-fed meat at farmers markets in the area, and in 2017 she launched The Ranch Table and began hosting cookery classes at the ranch’s historic adobe and its surrounding gardens and orchards.

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Heidi Maune, Jim and Ingrid Shack, and Ramsey Maune in front of “Piscana” by Esteban Ocampo Giraldo (photo by Priscilla)

Elizabeth, who is married to local rancher Austin Campbell and has two young sons, says she is passionate about preserving the land, growing healthy and humanely-raised food, while bringing friends and family together for joyful celebrations.

She developed her culinary talents while working alongside her mother, Marianne Partridge, preparing meals for large neighborhood roundups, small family picnics, and weddings at the ranch.

Elizabeth was bicoastal living in New York and Los Angeles, but in 2007 moved back to the ranch full time.

Watch out Martha Stewart!

Gallery à la Maune Maune Contemporary, a new art gallery, has opened on State Street next to the Arlington Theatre. It is the second location for owners Ramsey and Heidi Maune, who opened their first gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, four years ago.

“It has been a longtime dream of ours to open a gallery here,” Heidi told me at the opening night bash. “I attended UCSB and my parents have been living here for over thirty years.

“Connecting with the community is important to us and we feel very lucky to have found such a wonderful spot in the town’s ARTS District.”

For its opening exhibit the gallery is highlighting works from 17 contemporary artists from eight different countries as a way to showcase the breadth and diversity of its offerings.

They include paintings by Alex Katz, who is having a retrospective at the Guggenheim in Manhattan later this year, Julie Torres whose work is in the permanent collection of New York’s

Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Kenny Scharf, known for his participation in Manhattan’s East Village art scene during the 1980s.

Art lovers attending the bash included Sean and Francie McCarthy, Steve and Caroline Thompson, Patrice Serrano, Colette Cosentino, and Carlos and Leslie Lopez.

A Mardi Mob Baubles, bangles, and beads proliferated at La Arcada Plaza when Teresa Kuskey Nowak’s energized La Boheme dancers threw a Mardi Gras party with the 1114 Sports Bar as Ground Zero for the colorful, pulsating bash.

Given everybody had been emask-ulated after the pandemic mandate for wearing face coverings ended last month (February), many of the celebrants chose

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to don them again, although a great deal more exotic, for the beano which started at the Brasil Arts Cafe on State Street, a tiara’s toss from the Granada, and wound its way to the charming plaza near the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. An eclectic group of entertainers kept everyone in the Mardi Gras spirit, including the Santa Barbara Trombone Society, ubiquitous DJ Darla Bea, saxophonist Brandon Ragan, Spencer the Gardener, drag queen Bella Donna, fire dancers, and samba from Baheyya El-Ghazal.

Drew Wakefield emceed the fun fest with members of the multitudinous Mardi mob including Rick Oshay, Chris and Mindy Denson, Stephanie Petlow, Lisa Osborne, Rick Carter, Bonnie Carroll, Adam McKaig, Kathy Martin, and former KEYT reporter Kacey Drescher.

It was all too gloriously camp for words...

Dotard Tamale Duet Tunisian artist Gerald Incandela celebrated the 20th anniversary of his half century in exotic style at the Summerland aerie he shares with his longtime companion George Schoellkopf.

More than 50 guests attended the sunset soiree on the new terrace of their estate with Montino Bourbon playing a dotard (an Indian stringed instrument) with Joss Jaffe on bongos.

Among those quaffing the champagne and noshing on tamales were Allan Glaser, Larry Feinberg and Starr Siegele, Robyn Geddes, Barbara Woods, Kendall Conrad and David Cameron, Peter Frankfurt, Anne and Nick Fuchs, and Sharon and David Bradford.

Plays on the Field Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman, 55, who owns a condo just a tiara’s toss from the Montecito Inn, is leaving his longtime role as a commentator for Fox Sports.

He has just signed a five-year $90 million deal to join sports giant ESPN as a lead commentator on Monday Night Football.

Aikman, who played 12 seasons for the Cowboys, was also being courted by Amazon.

His new contract equals that of his Dallas Cowboys successor Tony Romo, 41, who signed a ten-year $180 million deal with CBS after playing 14 seasons with the Texas team.

Across Lacrosse College lacrosse players were out in force at the Santa Barbara Polo Club.

The Santa Barbara Shootout, organized

by Cal Coast Sports Ventures, featured 35 teams playing on six fields at the lush equestrian facility.

Players came from across the nation for the hotly contested event, including Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Texas, Oregon, the Air Force Academy, Virginia, Stanford, and UCSB. “It was a great turnout,” says executive Paul Ramsey. “It’s nice to be back after the pandemic.”

It’s a Jersey Thing It was an evening of literally high note when the American Theatre Guild staged the Tony and Grammy-winning production Jersey Boys at the Granada.

The extremely well-staged and entertaining show recounts the story of falsetto singer Frankie Valli and his group The Four Seasons, from their start as ‘50s lounge singers in New Jersey to being enrolled in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame.

The 2004 jukebox musical featured a host of their Top Ten hits, including “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You,” and “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night).”

The actors Eric Chambliss, Matt Faucher, Devon Goffman, and particularly Jon Hacker as Valli, who starred in the Broadway production, were superb.

Royal Hideaways & Parisian Soirées Prince Harry has renewed his lease on Frogmore Cottage, just a short drive from his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, at Windsor Castle.

The lease on the 221-year-old property, next to the impressive mausoleum where Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, rest in magnificence for eternity, was due to run out on March 31.

Prince Andrew’s daughter, Princess Eugenie – who recently attended the Super Bowl with Prince Charles’ son in L.A. – has lived in the property just yards from the Long Walk with her husband, Jack Brooksbank, and their son, August, since the Sussexi bought their nine-acre estate in Riven Rock 18 months ago.

The tony twosome paid back the $3 million-plus it cost to renovate the property, which was the home of Victoria’s Indian manservant, Abdul Karim, known as the Munshi, in 1877 for the last 24 years of her long reign. Five years ago, director Stephen Frears made the charming film Victoria & Abdul about their unusual relationship, with Dame Judi Dench reprising her role as the monarch.

Rocker John Mellencamp’s Santa Barbara hideaway has been snapped up for $3.6 million. The rustic aerie was originally listed for $4.5 million but was reduced to $3.8 million in January.

The 1980-built 1,800 square foot home has three bedrooms and two bathrooms within its white adobe walls.

One of the most charming homes in Paris, the Hotel Lambert on Ile SaintLouis, has just been bought by telecommunications billionaire Xavier Niel for $227 million from Prince Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani of Qatar. The Arabian royal spent $147 million restoring the 43,000 square foot property to its former magnificence.

I attended a couple of very opulent soirées there in the ‘80s when an apartment on the ground floor was owned

by Alexis, Baron de Redé, a prominent banker, aristocrat, aesthete and collector, who I had met through the late German Prince Johannes von Thurn und Taxis.

He renovated the historic 17th century property in the city’s fourth arrondissement and became known for the opulent costume balls he used to host, including the legendary Oriental Ball in December, 1969, for 400 guests. Many of his lavish bashes featured costumes by famous designers, including Nina Ricci and a young Yves St. Laurent, with the Duchess of Windsor as a judge.

De Rede, who died in 2004 aged 82, became known as “the best host in Europe,” running a home akin to a small 18th century court.

Al-Thani bought the magnificent home from banker Baron Guy de Rothschild for $90 million in 2007. It dates back to 1640 and was designed by one of King Louis XIV’s most beloved architects, Louis Le Vau, a brainchild of Versailles. The baron persuaded Rothschild to purchase the Hotel Lambert with his effervescent wife Marie-Helene, who died in 1996. He kept his apartment and shared the house

for the rest of his very glamorous life.

A regular member on the International Best Dressed list, he is buried at Père Lachaise, fittingly enough near Jacob Epstein’s tomb for Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, which since 2011 has been surrounded by a glass barrier to prevent ardent fans kissing it and eroding the marble.

Fond memories...

Charlie Huiner on Board Charlie Huiner, an accomplished medical technology entrepreneur, and executive with almost two decades of leadership experience in the healthcare sector, has joined the board of directors of the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara.

Huiner currently serves as president and CEO of Modulim, a medical imaging company headquartered in Irvine.

Previously, he held leadership roles at three Santa Barbara-based companies – Chief Operating Officer at Sientra, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at InTouch Health, and Director of Corporate Development and Strategy at Inamed Corp. Huiner earned his bachelor’s degree at Williams College and an MBA in finance and marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Sightings Warbler Katy Perry with her daughter, Daisy Dove, at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden... Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at the NAACP Awards in L.A... Oprah Winfrey’s beau, Stedman Graham, back from vacation in Maui, picking up his Montecito Journal at Pierre Lafond Pip! Pip! Be safe, wear a mask when

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In Passing

Justin Bruce Forrester

John W. McIntyre Justin Bruce Forrester

J

ustin Bruce Forrester was born in Santa Barbara, California, on July 16, 1999 and passed away in Santa Barbara on February 22, 2022 at the young age of 22. Justin was a fun-loving and good-hearted young man who had family and many friends who loved and adored him. Justin attended Montecito Union School where he met and kept most of his dearest friends. During his short life, Justin had many interests and adventures.

Justin most enjoyed spending time with his friends and community in Santa Barbara. He was a great known football player and baseball player. But he was the most passionate about basketball and regularly attended Kobe Bryant basketball camps. He might have loved Kobe Bryant more than his family! He enjoyed the finer things in life such as dining at his favorite places and designer clothing. Everyone loved to be around Justin because he made them laugh and feel welcomed. Every day with Justin was an adventure and a day to remember.

Justin began riding his ATV at age two and quickly advanced to motorcycles.

He loved living on the ranch and he witnessed the birth of several mares. Justin loved the free air of country living and also the fine living at the country club in Las Vegas with his father.

Justin is survived by his devoted and loving Mother Stephanie Arellanes Forrester, his kind and loving Father Karl Clare Forrester, Maternal Grandmother Carolyn Stewart, Paternal Grandfather Eduardo Steven Arellanes, proceeded in death by his Maternal Grandmother, Gretchen Adeline Forrester, Paternal Grandfather Roger Eugene Forrester and Paternal Grandmother, Jane Gager Forrester. Justin has many aunts and uncles: Kevin and Kimmy Forrester, Keith and Surmarie Forrester, Brian Wold, Maryanne and Thomas Christianson, Great Aunt Virginia Wold, Great Aunt Gene and Helen Schnandel, Adele and Joseph Luttrell, Susie and Gerrit Vanderkooij, Allison Arellanes, Bruce and Tina Stewart, Ryan Arellanes, Marissa Arellanes and Megan Arellanes; Great Uncle William and Aunt Joan Oakley and Great Aunt Allison and Uncle John Wells.

Justin has several cousins who he loved so much: Cara and Craig Abrahams, Rosie and Nick Riera, Joey Luttrell, Travis Stewart, Tamara Stewart, Adrian Vanderkooij, Caroline Vanderkooij, Cody and Amy Forrester, Courtney and Chuck Coolidge.

A Memorial Service will be held at the Santa Barbara Mission Church on March 10th at 11:00 am. A reception will follow at the Mission Rose Garden.

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n Monday, January 3, 2022, the world lost a thoughtful, principled, energetic, loyal, and loving man. John W. McIntyre’s passing will be felt by the many people whose lives he touched, but none more than his adoring wife and three admiring daughters who were by his side at their forever home in the hills of Santa Barbara.

John’s was truly a life well lived: full of purpose, innovation, adventure, and love. A voracious student of the mind and a principled thinker, John was a man dedicated to reason, to the individual pursuit of happiness, and to the many deep friendships and loving relationships he developed throughout his life. He was an entrepreneur, self-made man, natural leader, dedicated teammate, courageous explorer (pilot, mountaineer, diver), intentional father, and loving husband.

John was born on March 3, 1954 in the Panama Canal Zone during his father’s military service and raised in Hannibal, Missouri, just a half-mile from the Mighty Mississippi River. As a kid, he was known for his athleticism, intelligence, and integrity; all attributes that he would continue to refine throughout his life. He attended Pettibone Grade School and Hannibal Jr. High before moving to Ventura, California, where he attended Anacapa Jr. High and Buena High School. He graduated from Walnut High School in Diamond Bar, where he excelled in basketball, track, and football, receiving many accolades including being named a Hall of Fame Athlete in track and an All-State football player. John attended the U.S. Air Force Academy, Mt. San Antonio College (“Mt. SAC”), and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City (“the U”), where he was voted MVP as a wide-receiver and graduated with his MBA. John treasured his years at the U and remained a longtime supporter of both the David Eccles School of Business and the Utah football program.

John went on to receive his C.P.A. as a management consultant in the Los Angeles Office of Ernst & Whinney.

John always knew he wanted to start his own business – in 1984, he co-founded Health Care microsystems, Inc. (HCm), a consulting technology firm.

HCm became one of the largest providers of healthcare-related decision support software and management support services in the U.S. with clients globally.

After much success, John decided to sell the company to dedicate more time to raising his three daughters.

John had a successful career of business ownership, management, personal investing, and consulting. Always eager to continue learning and contributing to his community, he brought his vast experience to serve on the boards

“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.” – St. Augustine

John W. McIntyre

of several local and national organizations including Research Corporation Technologies (Chairman), the Los Angeles Philanthropic Foundation (President and Lifetime Director), HMS Holdings Corp. (President and Director), the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, and Crane Country Day School. Consistent with his ardor for education, John also served as Chairman of the board for the Center of Entrepreneurship & Engineering Management at UCSB, and was a former Fellow and Associate Professor at UCLA with both the College of Public Health and the Anderson Graduate School of Management.

Curious, rugged, and sentimental, John was not only successful, but also a force for good. He is remembered through his many lasting friendships and meaningful relationships. His life inspired those he knew and his passing is deeply mourned by those he loved. We are all better for having known John W. McIntyre.

John’s spirit lives on through his wife, Lana McIntyre (Lentz), his three daughters, Jana, Jillian, and Jacquelyn, his father, John D. McIntyre, his two sisters, Kathy Jo Bos and Sara (Larry) Dozier, and their families. He is preceded in death by his mother, Shirley, and his brother in-law, Gerry Bos. A celebration of his life will be held on March 12, 2022 at 10 am at Crane Country Day School in Santa Barbara.

Everyone who was touched by John is welcome to attend. To leave an online memory or condolence, please visit www. mcdermottcrockett.com and find John’s page under ‘Obituaries.’

Please consider a memorial gift to the UCLA Sarcoma Program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation, Attn: Melissa Brody, 8-950 Factor Bldg, Box 951780, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1780; (310) 206-0675; www.cancer.ucla.edu/donate

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Nosh (Continued from 33 33)) adding eggs, almond meal and sugar.

On my second try I baked the cake too long and scorched the top. On the third attempt, I kept a close eye on the time and removed the cake when it was golden brown. The result was moist and delicious with a subtle citrus taste that would pair well with fresh fruit such as blueberries or apricots.

My delivery of food inspired by our ancestors was welcomed with love and appreciation. As we sat masked on the outdoor patio on a hot Southern California day, we reminisced about family recipes, the kind that bring comfort and warm the soul.

Pignoli and Golden Raisin Meatballs Yield: 6 servings, 18 to 20 meatballs Ingredients: 4 slices bread (2 cups, packed) 1 pound ground beef (80% lean) 1 pound ground pork 3 cloves garlic, minced 1/4 cup finely chopped flat-leaf parsley 1/4 cup grated Pecorino Romano, plus about 1 cup for serving 1/4 cup raisins 1/4 cup pine nuts 1 1/2 teaspoons fine sea salt 15 turns white pepper 4 large eggs 1/2 cup dried breadcrumbs For the Fresh Tomato Sauce: 4-5 vine ripe tomatoes, quartered 4-5 cloves of garlic, chopped 1 sweet onion, thinly sliced 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes 3 tablespoon olive oil 6-7 fresh basil leaves

Directions: Heat the oven to 325°F. Put the fresh bread in a bowl, cover it with water, and let it soak for a minute or so. Pour off the water and wring out the bread, then crumble and tear it into tiny pieces.

Combine the bread with all the remaining ingredients except the tomato sauce in a medium mixing bowl, adding them in the order they are listed. Add the dried breadcrumbs last to adjust for wetness: the mixture should be moist wet, not sloppy wet.

Shape the meat mixture into handball-sized meatballs and space them evenly on a baking sheet.

Bake for 25 to 30 minutes. The meatballs will be firm but still juicy and gently yielding when cooked through. (At this point, you can cool the meatballs and hold them in the refrigerator for as long as a couple of days or freeze them for the future.)

Meanwhile, heat the tomato sauce in a sauté pan large enough to accommodate the meatballs comfortably.

Dump the meatballs into the pan of sauce and nudge the heat up ever so slightly. Simmer the meatballs for half an hour or so (this isn’t one of those cases where longer is better) so they can soak up some sauce. Keep them there until it’s time to eat.

Serve three meatballs per person in a healthy helping of the red sauce and hit everybody’s portion — never the pan — with a fluffy mountain of grated cheese.

Reserve the leftover tomato sauce (it will be super delicious) and use it anywhere tomato sauce is called for.

My imperfect but utterly delicious Orange and Almond Cake

Directions: Wash the oranges, place in a saucepan, cover them with water and simmer them for 2 hours. Cool, cut them open and remove the seeds. Puree the oranges, including the peel, in a food processor.

Heat oven to 400°F. Beat the eggs in a food processor or large bowl. Add the remaining ingredients, including the orange puree, and mix thoroughly. Pour into a buttered and floured cake pan,

with a removable base if possible.

Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cool in the pan before turning out.

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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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