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Biking by the Numbers – Strong Towns SB counts the who’s, why’s, and where’s of bikers along State St. in this exclusive, P.10 Alcazar Accolades – Carpinteria’s historic theater turns 95 with the community coming out to celebrate – there was even cake, P.12

Mad Dogs Bike Bonanza

After some social media criticism, Mad Dogs & Englishmen launches a successful GoFundMe campaign and gives away 75 bikes to kids in need, page 6

Writers Strike Unite – Local members of the WGA form an informational picket line on State, and here’s why it matters, P.14

Entertainment Al Fresco – Summer is (finally) here and just in time for some outdoor concerts, movies, and more, P.24

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Village 4th – Here’s how to help, watch, and celebrate this year’s festivities as the parade rolls through the streets

Village Beat – MBAR to review the café plans for the upcoming RH outpost and Mad Dogs donates bikes to kids in need

Montecito Miscellany – The Natural History Museum’s wine soirée, a members’ art exhibition, Music Academy summer fun, and more miscellany

Strong Towns – Why, who, and what are bicyclists doing on State Street. Sully discusses STSB’s results in Part 2 of this three-part series.

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Village Vibe – Dr. Charlotte A. Gullap-Moore speaks on empowering the next generation of Montecitans

Our Town – Alcazar Theatre turns 95 and Casa del Herrero to host its first estate sale – and you can donate!

Writers Strike – The Writers Guild of America strike comes to Santa Barbara and author Peter Lance explains why it matters

It Takes a Food Desert – Summerland is a Food Desert. Summerland Farm is the community’s evolving, food-producing dynamo. That could all end.

The Giving List – Chowder Fest is coming back and you can help support it and the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County

This Week at MA – Osmo Vänskä talks Planets, the first Fellow competition, a music critic roundtable discussion, and others

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On Entertainment – Summer is here and between park concerts and garden movies, it’s time for some outdoor entertainment

Brilliant Thoughts – The only thing to be certain of is Ashleigh’s meandering thoughts will lead you on a journey

The Optimist Daily – Ready, set, lift off! It’s the new wave of electric flying taxis preparing to take flight.

Your Westmont – A new grant will fund research on the evolution of dwarfism in Channel Islands reptiles, and an alumna puts her communications skills to work

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Foraging Thyme – Raw, pickled, and even smashed, cucumbers are refreshing and delicious in all their forms

In Passing – Remembering the life, travels, and passions of Santa Barbara-born Byron Lyle Fairbrother

Calendar of Events – Sullivan Goss and Lotusland collaborate, CEC’s Environmental Hub opens, July 4th at the Sunken Gardens, and more

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

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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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Village 4th Here Comes the Parade!

by Sharon Byrne

It’s that time of year, when the sun finally breaks through the endless May-vember and the June Gloom. When American flags start unfurling, and people plan on getting together with family and friends to celebrate. Yes, it’s July 4th!

Because of the State Street promenade and other headaches, Santa Barbara will not be having a July 4th parade this year. But Montecito will, and it’s going to be terrific. We will roll through Montecito in a cavalcade of exciting vintage autos, schools, kids, community organizations, patriotic groups, and more. Entries have already started pouring in, and the line-up is getting impressive. We’ve heard Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse wants to be in our parade!

This year, someone new is coming into the parade, and we’re excited! The Miramar called and said they’d love to be in and enter their Jollies.

They’re going to fit right in, clearly, especially if they bring that cute Frenchy. This is part of a growing relationship between the Miramar and the Montecito community, and we sure like the direction it’s going. We support bringing back the swim platform, now laboring arduously through a myriad of County and coastal commission permitting processes. They’ve hosted some community meetings and meet-and-greets, and they’re going to do another one shortly. We love that they wanted to be in the parade,

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RH Restaurant Latest

by Kelly Mahan Herrick

This week, Montecito Board of Architectural Review will hear from representatives of RH, Inc., formerly Restoration Hardware, regarding a new location in Montecito’s Upper Village. The agenda item was continued from an MBAR meeting earlier this month.

RH reps are seeking conceptual review to add a café and wine bar inside of the nearly 7,000-square-foot retail space, which will be located in the historic Old Montecito Firehouse, which was most recently occupied by Lucca. The café, which will serve brunch and dinner, is one of over 15 eateries within RH outposts around the world. The café will require 1,352 square feet, which includes 740 square feet for the café/ wine bar and 612 square feet of outdoor dining space on an exterior patio.

Other tenant improvements include refreshing the hardscape and landscape and installing three swing doors to replace existing windows and doors. According to the MBAR agenda, 20 parking spaces will continue to be provided on-site.

The project has received much pushback from local residents, who lament the addition of a so-called “big box” business in the Upper Village. Those opposed to the project site parking and traffic concerns related to the opening of a new eatery.

We’ll have more on MBAR comments in a future edition. No word yet on an opening date. RH will be located at 1486 East Valley Road.

Mad Dogs & Englishmen Bike Giveaway

Last week, Mad Dogs & Englishmen hosted a simultaneous bike assembly session and giveaway of 75 bicycles to local Boys & Girls Club chapters at their locations in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Montecito, and for Trips for Kids in Mill Valley.

Kids from the local Boys & Girls Club and reps from Mad Dogs & Englishmen Bike Shop during the bike giveaway last week

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Montecito Miscellany

Dining Among the Natural History

by Richard Mineards

Oenophiles and gourmands were out in force at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History when the popular venue hosted the region’s premier food and wine event, attracting 1,400 supporters to the sprawling 17-acre Mission Creek campus, raising more than $200,000 for the museum’s programs and exhibits.

Around 200 VIP tickets, giving early access to special wine vintages and exhibits, were sold by last December, while the rest were gone in the spring, clearly indi-

cating the demand for the ever popular sold-out 35th annual festival.

“We are also very lucky with the weather,” says President Luke Swetland. “The June Gloom made way for blazing sunshine and blue skies. Mother Nature was looking over us.”

The fun fest featured more than 100 food and wine vendors, including Brander, Carr, Folded Hills, Foxen, Margerum, and La Lieff vineyards, and Loquita, Finch & Fork, and Rare Society.

As usual, the event offered a Designated Driver Program to help over-imbibers return home safely.

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Art in the Club

The Art Foundation of Santa Barbara took over the historic town club for its annual members’ art exhibition, which featured 45 works scattered throughout the venerable Chapala Street venue.

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speaker was British artist and gallery owner Ralph Waterhouse, who with his wife, Diane, recently opened a new gallery on Coast Village Road to complement their longtime locale in La Arcada,

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Strong Towns STSB Part 2: Results From the Bike Count Along State Street

was different on those days, and the times we stood outside were different, too. We only surveyed/counted bikes at one location (the intersection of State and Cota). We also only gave the survey to cyclists, not all users of the street. We were also only able to survey a fraction of the people biking (approximately 16 percent of cyclists who passed on the three surveying days); many did not stop for us or too many came by at once. However, the goal was to understand the demographics of people who use State Street for biking, and in that I believe we succeeded. In statistics, what we got is called a “representative survey,” meaning that it represents the views of the whole population, with room for margins of error. That means that in the future, the city should try to survey the population in more depth and over more time, though that doesn’t invalidate our results. I will also add that we are a completely volunteer organization, and I am grateful to Kira, Marie, and Tristen for standing outside for hours and flagging down cyclists for the survey.

by Sully Israel

At the last State Street Advisory Committee (SSAC) meeting, one of the biggest points of contention was cyclists on State. Members had lots of questions. Why are bikers there? Are they using it as a thoroughfare, or are they shopping on State? Is it just tourists or locals?

Both MIG, Inc., who’s been contracted by the city to create designs for State Street, as well as the city, didn’t seem to have any answers. That’s why members of Strong Towns Santa Barbara, a new local nonprofit, set out to get them.

We wrote a short, five-question survey to administer to cyclists on the street; the results can be seen below. Questions included why they were there, with the ability to choose from a range of answers including: shopping, eating, sightseeing, because it’s safer than other streets, meeting with friends, or just passing through (participants could choose more than one). We then asked their age (in decade

groups), their zip code, how often they bike there, and whether or not they want to see a dedicated space for bikes in the permanent designs.

We surveyed 131 cyclists and counted 965 bikes over 8.58 hours. Some of our results are surprising and challenge the claims made by some SSAC committee members as well as those of the general public.

Before I share those results, let me give a disclaimer: our methods and survey were far from perfect. We only administered the survey over three days and counted bikes over four. The weather

With that out of the way, let me share our findings. See image below.

Why Are You on State Street?

In the pie charts below, you can see the answer to perhaps the most important question we asked. On each day, shopping and eating made up between 26-32 percent of respondent activities. These activities correlate directly with spending money, so it’s safe to say that at least a third of people biking down State Street are adding to business revenue.

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Another important takeaway is how many people are sightseeing and cruising. State Street is one of the most beautiful main streets in America, and tourists and locals alike are coming here to view the sights. That means that if bikes were diverted to Anacapa or Chapala streets, as some have suggested, bike volume would surely decrease.

Perhaps the most important result is how many people told us they’re biking on State because they feel that it’s safer than the alternatives. Many studies have shown that the greatest factor contributing to Americans not biking is a lack of safe infrastructure and a perception of danger. The new State, with its complete lack of deadly automobiles, is the ideal place for cyclists who would be afraid to ride elsewhere, once again providing reason to not divert them to other streets.

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Our Town

Alcazar Theatre Celebrates 95th Anniversary

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Robin Karlsson for Alcazar Theatre)

by Joanne A Calitri

The Alcazar Theatre in Carpinteria is a center for performing arts and entertainment. It was founded 95 years ago, and on June 9 it held a celebration to commemorate the anniversary. Community members came to share in the birthday cake and performances by Cecilia James and BFD (Bob Montanes, John Finseth, and David Hekhouse). Emcees were Past Board President Karen Graf and John Palminteri

The historic theater received a Proclamation from the Carpinteria City Council on May 22, who unanimously approved a resolution honoring the 95th anniversary. Wade Nomura, Carpinteria City Council and former Mayor, said:

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“It was an honor presenting a Proclamation to The Alcazar Theatre on behalf of the Carpinteria City Council, recognizing this important milestone of 95 years and the many contributions it has made to the city. The Alcazar is an invaluable resource for the community. In addition to being a great venue for concerts, theatre, classes, and more, it has been used for important city events such as updates for the community when the Thomas Fire and mudslides occurred. The community’s support of The Alcazar was evident at the 95th

anniversary weekend celebrations, with so many attending Friday and Saturday night events. I am looking forward to the 100-year anniversary and many more years beyond.”

Oliver Prickett opened the theater in 1928. It was sold and renamed numerous times. Today it is a nonprofit organization with an all-volunteer staff. Current Board members are President & Co-Founder Asa Olsson, Vice-President & Co-Founder Michael Lazaro , Debbie Nomura , Michael

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Past Board President Karen Graf and John Palminteri were emcees for the evening (photo by Robin Karlsson for Alcazar Theatre)

Cecilia James has performed on the Alcazar stage for the past 13 years, since she was 11 years old (photo by Robin Karlsson for Alcazar Theatre)

Writers Strike

The WGA Strike Comes to Santa Barbara

and more limited “seasons.”

Apart from their insistence on smaller “rooms” – the cauldrons where these critically acclaimed series are created – and threats of using AI to spit out stories to be “polished” by show-runners, central to the strike is the issue of residuals, the “back end” that kept many writers afloat in the lean years, when the lion’s share of viewership came from broadcast television and cable. Now, in the streaming sphere, they don’t exist.

by Peter Lance

On Saturday, two of the great creative forces in my life came into conflict when I gathered with 12 veteran members of the Writers Guild of America West (WGA) for an informational picket line outside the Apple Store on State Street. Since 1987, when I bought my first Mac, all of the pages of investigative reporting I’ve written, every screen- or teleplay and, since 9/11, all of my books on counter-terrorism and true crime, have been created on devices born from the genius of Steve Jobs.

But this strike, now in its 59th day –my third strike since joining the Guild 36 years ago – threatens the very existence

of a profession that has filled screens (large and small) for a century with what Dashiell Hammett, through the voice of Humphrey Bogart, metaphorically called:

“The stuff that dreams are made of.”

Since our last 100-day work stoppage in 2007-08, the streaming space has grown exponentially. Instead of 22 hours a year of broadcast network one-hour dramas or 30-minute sitcoms, there are shorter, eight- to 10-hour seasons of binge-worthy series, consumed by viewers on a multitude of platforms.

But this time, instead of giving the hardworking members of “writers’ rooms” a pay scale in line with the billions of “clicks” that hit series on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple+, or Max now generate, the producers have demanded fewer writers

In fact, the WGA’s negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) broke down when the AMPTP refused to even counter our proposal for Streaming Residuals. They argued that because the delivery system has changed and (despite billions of “clicks”) there was no “back end.” At the same time, they were utterly opaque in revealing just how many billions of dollars they’re grossing – particularly worldwide.

Go to the credits on any major streaming series and you’ll see that it’s been translated into a dozen languages for the global market. As for the delivery system, consider this: if you go to a restaurant on Coast Village Road and sit down to a great meal, the ingredients cost the same and the food requires the identical skill to prepare as it would if you ordered online and the meal was delivered to your home via Grubhub or DoorDash.

But the AMPTP has been inflexible

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on this point, and it’s clear, even without internal data on their gross income, that the streamers can well afford to settle all of this tomorrow. A chart on my website (http:// peterlance.com/wordpress/?p=16789) on executive compensation (compiled by The Hollywood Reporter) shows that 11 of the top studio/streaming execs grossed a combined $324.2 million last year – nearly 1/3 of that by Netflix’s Reed Hastings, Ted Sarandos, and Greg Peters

In contrast, the total cost of WGA proposals that would end the strike immediately is $429 million a year, spread across the Guild’s 11,500 members – a number representing less than one percent of each studio’s revenue.

But the AMPTP’s insistence that writers’ income be reduced to that of gig workers, isn’t the biggest threat to the production of film and TV as you’ve come to know it. By dismantling “writers’ rooms” and insisting that WGA members spend fewer weeks in the writing, production, and post-production of series, they are disrupting the very apprentice system that allows a Staff Writer to graduate to Showrunner. Without it, the craft of producing for the small screen – traditionally a writer’s medium – could be lost.

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It Takes a Food Desert Summerland Farm

Faces its Moment of Reckoning

by Jeff Wing

Afarm is a lovely thing – a pastoral slice of heaven that restores the soul, reconnects the bewildered human to unbridled nature, and just incidentally pushes food out of the dirt. It is the darndest thing. “You see a lot of lettuce. We’ve got broccoli, cauliflower, kale...” Our gesturing tour guide today is the farmer. Her name is Leslie Person Ryan, and her farm – Summerland Farm – is headed for a cliff. Reader – remember the date July 1. This story concerns a threatened community farm, an activated citizen, a cadre of heroic financial supporters, and a Montecito Water District graciously doing everything it can to address a resource on which many have come to depend.

Summerland Farm is not a sprawling agribusiness. It lives at the end of a little street in its namesake town. You get out of your car, walk over a little rise, and there it is: 6.8 hopeful acres looking down on a painterly rolling valley through which a threadlike creek glints silver in the sun. From the elevated perspective of the

farm, the omnipresent ocean seems to rise up like a cornflower-blue slate.

Here’s the rub. Summerland is a Food Desert, which is a USDA classification denoting a community that has no easy access to… food. This jarring fact became apparent in the wake of the cataclysmic debris flow of January 9, 2018. Highway 101 services Summerland, and the flooding made that throughway impassable. For six surreal and eye-opening days, the community was effectively cut off from the county’s food supply chain. Summerland Farm’s origin story thus includes a hair-raising anecdote about locals besieged by flood waters squabbling over the remaining food in the town’s liquor store fridge. For real.

Summerland Farm is not a hobby, an eco-conceit, or a symbol. It is a food-producing plot of land for a community that learned the hard way they had no nutritional autonomy – no food security whatsoever. Today Summerland Farm delivers anonymously to locals who need food, has made their produce available to 1,800 struggling veterans in the region, and operates a food stand where chemical- and pesticide-free, regeneratively-sown produce can be purchased. Facts:

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the median age of a Summerland resident is 63, 36 percent of the community is low-income rentals, and the town’s last food market packed up and left in 2017.

As has been reported extensively in these pages, longtime CVR business owner Leslie Person Ryan of Coast Village Road’s Letter Perfect Stationery rose to Summerland’s food-insecure occasion, pulling others into her orbit. She contrived to lease the hilltop plot from Carpinteria Unified School District (CUSD) and having secured the lease began hurriedly planting – establishing a business she called Sweet Wheel Farm & Flowers.

When CUSD inevitably decided they wanted to sell the land Ryan had been leasing and farming, Ryan formed the Santa Barbara Agriculture and Farm Education Foundation (SBAFEF), a nonprofit around which a cadre of selfless donor orgs rallied to help formally purchase the land from the school district. SBAFEF’s multi-talented board is itself a gathering of skill

In addition to providing food security to Summerland, the farm serves as an educational vessel

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sets perfectly calibrated to the mission. A Minnesota-based foundation called the Manitou Fund put the foundation’s cash offer over the top with their extremely generous capstone contribution. After a ceremonial toss of confetti, Ryan, her supporters, and consultants got back to work looking at a worrying technical issue – getting enough water to the farm to keep it truly productive in perpetuity.

For a time, water was trucked up to the location in 500-gallon plastic tanks – an increasingly non-workable solution. “We needed a water miracle,” Ryan says of that period. Irrigation became the prosaic but grail-like answer to the farm’s water problem.

“One day we had a UC Davis hydrologist come up. He took one look at the place and said, ‘You need irrigation.’” Ryan looks at me with what I’ll call exasperated eyebrows. “I’m like ‘…look, please give me a different option!’” When a brainstorming fire official Food Desert Page 334

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These insights show that State is not being used as a “thoroughfare” as one of the SSAC members suggested. Cyclists on State are traveling to local businesses on the corridor, socializing, sightseeing, and feeling safe while they do so.

Where Are You From?

This question was meant to understand the balance of tourists vs. locals. It seems that most cyclists live within the same zip code as State Street, with the vast majority living in Santa Barbara.

How Old Are You?

Without getting too personal, we asked how old the cyclists were. The largest age group was 50-60, with ages 10-19 coming in second, and 30-40 not far behind. There were also cyclists under 10 and over 80. This spread shows that a variety of people are biking, not just teenagers.

How Often?

Our last question found that a third of users bike on State every day, with frequency decreasing in percent of answers.

Conclusion

While our survey was far from perfect, the conclusions are pertinent to the conversation surrounding the future of State Street. A bike culture, which includes people of all ages doing various activities from hanging out to commuting, has developed along this beautiful street. In line with many other studies on the subject, we found that cyclists spend money at local shops. These cyclists feel safe here, which is the most important aspect of moving people from their cars to bikes. With about two bikes per minute on average, this bike phenomenon should be celebrated and worked into the permanent plan for State Street.

Next week, I’ll address some of the concerns expressed by the SSAC, and explore how many of them can be addressed through smart urban design.

Until next time, Sully Israel

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This Week at MA

Osmo Goes Cosmos

by Steven Libowitz

Osmo Vänskä made his Music Academy debut back in 2005, when the Finnish-born and Grammy Award-winning longtime conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra coaxed the fellows-powered Academy Festival Orchestra (AFO) into delivering a marvelous Mahler’s “Symphony No. 5.” That would be the same 70-minute work that served as the musical centerpiece of Tár, the 2022 multi-Oscar nominated film starring Cate Blanchett as the fictional superstar conductor Lydia Tár.

by Steven Libowitz

You might wonder how a chowder festival has anything to do with providing free, high-quality legal services to low-income and other vulnerable residents in order to ensure equal access to justice. The answer is, not much, except that prior to the pandemic, the decade-old Santa Barbara Chowder Fest had become the single largest fundraiser for the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County.

First held in 2010 as a charity cook-off, the brainchild of a new board member who had connections to the food and restaurant world, the event grew into a “must attend” for the area’s best chefs and restaurateurs vying for bragging rights of “Best Chowder in Santa Barbara,” attracting ever larger numbers of attendees as the daytime bash brought in other food vendors also sharing tasty treats, added tastings from numerous local wineries and breweries, live music, and a silent auction.

Come to think of it, serving samples of soup and sipping beverages does a good job of playing against type for the Legal Aid Foundation, when you consider that needing a lawyer for a housing, domestic violence or other civil matter, and not being able to afford one is one of the more serious situations people can face. Something very casual on the opposite end of the spectrum made Chowder Fest stand out on the crowded benefit calendar.

“It’s such a fun event, for the chefs and for our guests,” said Jennifer Smith, Legal Aid’s Executive Director. “We didn’t want to do just another evening with a sit-down dinner or luncheon. Everyone likes that it’s not one of those stiff, stodgy galas but instead something more casual where people can mingle, try all the different chowders, and vote for their favorites.”

The good news is that after a fouryear pause for the pandemic – Legal Aid didn’t want to rush in and hit up its

restaurant and beverage sponsors who were just emerging from the shutdowns – the nonprofit is bringing back its signature event for 2023, slated for Sunday, October 15, at a new venue for Chowder Fest of Rancho La Patera & Stow House in Goleta. Smith is champing at the bit to champion Chowder Fest’s appeal to potential sponsors, donors, and attendees.

“We’re really excited to be able to gather with our community again after so long, and we’re really thrilled with going to the Stow House, which is such a great space,” she said. “It’s such a beautiful place with lots of room for people to roam and chat.”

There are lots of ways to support Chowder Fest, from donating items for the auction, to purchasing a regular ticket, or serving as an event sponsor, with levels that start at $500 and range up to $10,000, all of which include ever-increasing numbers of tickets as well as listings in pre-event media advertising, the event on-site program, and the postevent media thank-you ad.

Either way, said Smith, “It’s a great way to both have a good time and support a good cause.”

So what does $10,000, or $100 for that matter, buy?

In a word: Justice.

“Everybody knows you have a guaranteed right to counsel if you are charged with a crime, but that’s not true for civil cases,” Smith explained. “If you are facing an unjust eviction, or you’re a survivor of domestic violence and in need of a civil restraining order to protect yourself or your children, but can’t afford to hire your own attorney, our system doesn’t provide a free lawyer.”

That’s where Legal Aid steps in, providing access to an attorney for some of the most critical civil legal issues people may encounter, balancing the scales of justice for low-income individuals and

Like Lydia, Vänskä is a major fan of Mahler and can be somewhat of a perfectionist regarding his orchestra’s musicians. Also like the fictional Tár, he married the concertmaster of his primary orchestra – in his case, Erin Keefe, the virtuoso violinist who succeeded the Music Academy’s late faculty member Jorja Fleezanis in 2011.

But that’s where the similarities end. Because the most controversial thing from Vänskä’s past is serving as the public face of the most acrimonious labor dispute in American orchestral history, the lockout of the Minnesota Orchestra’s musicians that lasted 15 months in 2012-14. But Vänskä’s actions, which included resigning his post, only reportedly endeared him even more to the ensemble’s musicians, and the orchestra hired him back under his own terms after the stoppage ended.

Vänskä departed the Minnesota Orchestra for good last summer after 20 seasons as music director in favor of accepting only guest shots, including conducting a recent mini-tour by the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, featuring students at the prestigious school, which played the Granada for CAMA last May. All of which – the passion, the purpose, and the personality that included him frequently taking road trips on a motorcycle until he donated it for an auction to benefit the Minnesota Orchestra last fall – makes him a great addition to this year’s roster to take the podium at the Granada with the AFO on Saturday night.

“It’s fascinating and a great inspiration for me to be a part of these talented young musicians’ story as they prepare themselves to become professional and win jobs in great orchestras,” the 70-year-old Vänskä said. “When they learn to listen to each other, and to have to play as one with everyone in the orchestra, the better they become – not only as musicians, but better human beings for life, too.”

That growth will take place via a program of music that dates back only to the early 20th century – his first in town sans any works by Finnish composers – which opens with the Overture to Leonard Bernstein’s Candide (1956), then gets more modern with the West Coast premiere of Jessie Montgomery’s “Hymn for Everyone,” then closes with The Planets, Gustav Holst’s seven-movement orchestral suite aiming for capturing the astral properties of non-Earth planets in our solar system.

Vänskä called the Bernstein Overture, “not an easy piece to play, but it inspires the musicians and activates the audience in listening.” He termed Montgomery’s Hymn aptly titled in that “everyone can relate to it, and the music goes somewhere deep in your mind and your heart, and people feel like they can be part of the performance inside.”

Holst’s most popular work is of course a staple of the repertoire and one that audiences find easily accessible due to its cinematic nature. “It’s like one of the best movie scores,” Vänskä said, alluding to the fact that The Planets was a big influence on John Williams when he composed the original Star Wars themes. “It’s an ideal piece for the [fellows] to play because while the technical demands are huge, they know how it should sound, and it’s a chance to produce some beautiful music together.”

The conductor said he doesn’t have the same exacting standards for a student

Osmo Vänskä will deliver an astronomical show at the Granada featuring Holst’s The Planets and more

Come join Chowder Fest as a sponsor, donor, or just partake in the festivities and get your chowder on –any way, it still supports a good cause

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On Entertainment

Summer in Santa Barbara

Al Fresco Adventures Abound

by Steven Libowitz

Santa Barbara is by no means unique in taking advantage of the warmer temperature and sunny weather to bring music and movie entertainment to the masses in the great outdoors. But, at least for our size, we sure do have a plethora of places to put up performances, each with its own flavor. Read on for a round-up of our outdoor opportunities that are all free of charge.

Chase-ing the Blues Away

Concerts in the Park, the granddaddy of free music series, still hasn’t returned to its full two-month glory that went by the wayside even before the pandemic put a pause on the performances. But folks still come in droves for the danceable beats and waterfront vibes at the gently rolling hills of Chase Palm Park. There’s a huge dance “floor” (aka patchy grass patch) in front of the stage, and it’s the perfect place to bring the young ones; if they get bored, the playground and the beach are just steps away. Here’s the lineup for the four successive Thursdays in July: Paradise Kings make their CPP debut with swing-blues on July 6, followed by three perennial favorites in The Molly Ringwald Project (‘80s dance hits) on July 13, Captain Cardiac and the Coronaries (kitschy ‘50s & ‘60s rock ‘n’ roll) on July 20, and Mezcal Martini (Latin jazz) on July 27.

Visit https://sbparksandrec.santabarbaraca.gov/ activities/community-events/concerts-park

Wailing on the Wharf

Just a few blocks away from Chase Palm Park, and situated actually over the ocean, the Wharf Wednesdays concert series brings bands to Stearns Wharf once a month. Offering perhaps the most picturesque panoram -

ic view of Santa Barbara (Lizard’s Mouth lovers might disagree), the wharf hosts live music performances 6-8 pm on the first Wednesday of the month through October. Up next is the Double Wide Kings, featuring Granada Theatre executive director and Montecito philanthropist Palmer Jackson, Jr. , jamming on July 5, followed by Tequila Mockingbird on August 2, The Academy on September 6, and Down Mountain Lights on October 4.

Visit https://stearnswharf.org/events

Rockin’ Out at the Ranch

The tree-lined, lake breeze-cooled gorgeous grounds at Rancho La Patera & Stow House is the site for the terrific Music at the Ranch Tuesday night concert series that takes place every summer in the historic spot adjacent to Lake Los Carneros in Goleta. Family fun, frolicking festival-style, and dancing (albeit mostly on concrete) are all encouraged for the July 11 to August 22 events, as are picnics and, yes, even alcohol is allowed. Bring your own foodstuff and beverages or buy them from the food trucks (Sassafras, Mony’s, and Elubia’s alternate) and the historical society that runs the place. The Nombres kicked things off on July 11, with Out of the Blue, Tony Ybarra , Americana Cats, King Bee, Moneluv, and Down Mountain Lights to follow.

Details at https://goletahistory.org/music-at-theranch

UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Free Summer Cinema

Screenings Are Out of This World

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spired movies screened under the stars than at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Gardens? The free summer series of films focuses on sci-fi adventures, an intergalactic lineup that ranges from spinetingling alien encounters to family-friendly otherworldly antics. Programmers not only managed to balance a bunch of variables but also arrange the schedule to screen the movies in chronological order of their release.

“We figure out a theme that works, and then curate it to bring things where there is representation of all ages, sexualities, races, and different walks of life and other demographics,” said Meghan Bush, A&L’s Associate Director. “There’s a variety of different genres of sci-fi, too, not just spaceships or monsters, some that are PG and others that are R-rated, all great films across time periods from the 1970s to 2022.”

Of course, in the streaming era, the series is about much more than just watching a movie on a giant inflatable screen, which is why the Sunken Gardens is such a spectacular setting for the exceedingly popular get-togethers that begin in the evening, with the screenings starting just after dark every Friday night through August 25, save for August 4 due to Fiesta.

“It’s about the experience, and it has been a big community event right from when it first started,” Bush said. “It’s beloved. When we brought it back after the pandemic last year, there was an overwhelmingly positive response, with just thousands of people coming each week, so we’re so happy to keep doing it.”

The 2023 series launches on July 7 with the Spielberg classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind and closes with Nope, so start putting together picnic ideas and gather up your friends plus breathable blankets and low-back chairs (so as not to kill the grass or block fellow filmgoers’ view), and mosey on down for the movies.

Details at https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

Prepare to picnic and sink into a chair for this year’s Sunken Gardens screenings

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Avery , Jennie Reinish , Kymberlee Weil, and Philip Moreno

Live performances over the years have included Kenny Loggins , Alan Parsons , Michael McDonald , Dishwalla, Shaky Zimmerman , and Glen Phillips . The theater has movie premieres with director talks, holds classes on improv and drama, and is a resource to the community for events and school performances.

In reflecting on the theater’s mission, Lazaro shared, “We are enhancing every aspect of our theater to make the most memorable experience and sourcing locally. We are working on a greening platform to sustain as we move towards our 100th year, building and cultivating local talent and partnerships to join us on that journey!”

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Casa del Herrero Announces 1st Annual Montecito Estate Sale

Casa del Herrero has formally announced, by way of this news report, its first annual Estate Treasures Sale, to assist in funding the notable nonprofit organization. The event committee Chair Beth Esrey with Board of Trustees President Heather Biles and a team of volunteers are planning out all the details as we speak. Items for sale include timeless antiques, fine furniture, tableware, silverware, crystal, art, fine linens, rugs, collectable books, home décor, and more – curated just for the local Montecito community. Did I hear a huge retail therapy welcome?!

The team is taking donations 10 am – 2 pm every Friday from now through September at the Casa, and by appointment. All items will be checked for appropriateness for the sale, and if accepted, logged in and photographed for their social media updates and inventory. Pricing experts and curators are in the mix, and the goal is to advantageously price items to sell, and to not have any inventory at the end of the sale. The estate sale is slated for Saturday, October 7, with a ticketed fundraiser Preview Party the week before. There will be a nominal ticket price for the actual estate sale.

To find out more, I sat down at the Casa with Esrey, Biles, and Operations Manager Rosie Rafferty on Wednesday. We first viewed some treasures in the garage area [see photo]. They shared that donations for the sale have overflowed the Casa garages. They are renting two storage units and will be getting a pod in the parking area to accommodate more incoming goodies. Notable donations are arriving, the first from Jami Voulgaris, owner of Rooms & Gardens in the Upper Village. Esrey said, “We reached out to Jami to help on the committee with pricing and she volunteered right

away. She then shared that she had items in a warehouse to donate to us as well.”

As the Casa is too small to host the estate sale, the team is canvasing the local area to find a great location to have the event. Ideally, they’d like to keep it in Montecito. The Preview Party will be at the Casa, however, and a catalog will be available to view and purchase items for sale.

Although what looks at first blush to Montecitans as a nod to the Women’s Auxiliary of the Music Academy’s May Madness sale, which officially ended around 2016-17, we find that this is not the case. Biles explained, “We were doing some much-needed inventory and cleaning of our storage areas on the property and found many treasures that had been given to the Casa in the past ten years that are not part of the collection or inventory, and are taking up needed space. We decided these items would be ideal for an estate sale. In the Bay Area we call it a White Elephant Sale, and there is the Martha Stewart Estate Sale in the Hamptons. We were tossing it around and decided to do a community-wide estate sale. The Casa only has two events annually to raise funding, and now we can add this event as a resource for us. I’m new to the area (seven years) and Beth just moved here in January, so we had never heard of May Madness before. We actually found out about it when we contacted the Music Academy as a possible venue to hold the estate sale, and it’s exciting to know that their event was a big part of the community and missed!”

Esrey added, “It’s easy to say we want to reduce, reuse, and recycle, and what Casa is doing with our sale – and the Music Academy did with theirs – is put that in the hands of the community to now do and be a part of. It is important. It is not as sexy as a black-tie event, but it is really necessary. The Casa is a house, a neighborhood, a legacy, and a family. And it is so Montecito, and that is why people come here – because of community.”

For updates, stay tuned and check the website and Instagram!

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“Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.” – Ronald Reagan

Nancy Bradbury, Diana and Clyde Freeman, Kit Brown, Curtis and Diane Lopez, and Christy Schofield enjoy a slice of cake under the theatre marquee (photo by Robin Karlsson for Alcazar Theatre)

With Casa del Herrero estate sale donations are Rosie Rafferty, Heather Biles, and Beth Esrey (photo by Joanne A Calitri)

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and welcome them in.

Your July 4th Parade Committee has been busily planning the parade and after-party. This year’s Grand Marshal, Mindy Denson , is right in the middle in the red jacket. (See image on page 5)

July 4th Parade Committee:

Firefighter Justin Pickens – MFPD

Trish Davis – Montecito Association

Firefighter / Paramedic Andy Rupp – MFPD

Nina Terzian

Firefighter / Paramedic Trevor Burch - MFPD

Jacqueline Duran

Firefighter Evan Hamaker – MFPD

Dana Hansen – Montecito Association

Firefighter / Paramedic Dustin Barthel

Mindy Denson – Montecito Association Board, Events Chair, and Grand Marshal

Firefighter Steve Cochran

Sharon Byrne – Montecito Association Executive Director

Dana Newquist – Parade Line-Up Master

Battalion Chief Ben Hauser – MFPD

Lt. Butch Arnoldi – Office of the Sheriff Conner Rehage

Not shown: Montecito Association Board Member Andrea Newquist, Mike Edwards, and Patty Zuckerman

It must be said that we could not do this without our public safety partners. They keep everyone safe along the route, so we owe a huge thank you to MFPD, the Sheriffs, and CHP.

We’re going to depart at 11:30 am from Manning Park. We’ll head down San Ysidro and take a right on North Jameson. We’ll go through Coast Village Road and up Hot Springs to Casa Dorinda. Then we’ll take a right on East Valley and the route ends at the San Ysidro intersection with East Valley.

Here’s what you should do: Enter the Parade!

We still have a few slots available. If you’d like to enter, please go to www. montecitoassociation.org.

Pick a spot on the route to watch. Best spots:

1. MUS and Manning Park area. Plenty of room to gather and send off the parade.

2. All along the trail on San Ysidro to North Jameson.

3. San Leandro and San Ysidro. We usually see large crowds of neighbors there.

4. Anywhere on the trail on North Jameson between San Ysidro and Coast Village.

5. All along Coast Village Road, especially the north side and in the median.

6. In front of Casa Dorinda.

7. In front of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel.

8. On the sidewalk in front of El Montecito Church, the Montecito Association office, the Hardware store, and gas station.

Get your 4th finery and flags ready.

Noisemakers too. We like excitement! We love to honk and wave and yell “Happy 4th!” We love to see you in your red, white, and blue finery and hear you shout “Happy 4th!” right back!

Put out lawn or deck chairs along the route and make yourself comfortable.

We go at a slow pace, so you won’t miss anything.

Sponsor the parade.

It takes a Village to pull this off, and we do have expenses from the parade we must cover. All sponsors of the parade are invited to the after-party, along with parade entrants. If you’d like to sponsor the parade, please go to www.montecitoassociation.org or call us at (805) 969-2026.

We’re excited to see you on July 4th!

Sharon Byrne is the Executive Director of the Montecito Association

This year’s parade route

Who would want to miss this?

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founded in 1989.

Ralph started life as a graphic designer in the U.K.’s scenic Lake District, beloved by the Victorian children’s author Beatrix Potter, who bought innumerable farms in the area over her lifetime, donating them to the National Trust on her death to avoid them being developed.

His wildlife paintings led to international recognition, including being featured on BBC television. In the late ‘80s, he became inspired by the California landscape with its beautiful light, changing his focus to a much broader vista encompassing the whole landscape in plein air works.

His art, painted locally as well as in Tuscany and Nantucket, was shown to the 100 guests, including members of the Montecito Bank & Trust MClub, at a reception and dinner in the garden, including a Spanish Days poster and several large murals he was commissioned to paint for Santa Barbara Bank & Trust.

Ralph, 79, is a founding member of the Santa Barbara Art Dealers Association and chairman of the California Art Club, Central Coast chapter.

Among the supporters turning out to admire the works were Andrea Newquist,

Simon Williams, Luke Swetland, Anne Luther, James and Erin Graffy de Garcia, Palmer and Susan Jackson, Brendon Twigden, Dirk Brandts and Maria McCall, Hiroko Benko, Frank McGinity, Katherine Murray-Morse, and foundation president Keith Moore, who was recently elected to the board of trustees of the San Francisco-based 173-year-old Society of California Pioneers.

Boat Bought

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who bought Bill and Sandi Nicholson’s Solana estate in Montecito, has just splashed out $67.6 million on a 267foot superyacht, formerly owned by a Russian oligarch.

Schmidt, 68, snapped up the coveted vessel Alfa Nero, winning a lucrative auction on the Caribbean island of Antigua.

The yacht was seized from fertilizer mogul Andrey Guryev last year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It boasts the first-ever swimming pool that converts into a helipad.

It was notably built by Oceanco, the Dutch shipyard that constructed the $500 million 417-foot schooner Kofu,

the world’s longest sailing yacht, currently being enjoyed by Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez in the Mediterranean.

Built in 2007, the vessel was initially listed for sale in 2009 for a titanic tag of $190 million.

It can host 12 guests and up to 26 crew members, with the master bedroom filling the entire front of the top deck.

Schmidt is worth around $20 billion, according to Forbes

Art in the Castle

It was quite the celebrity turnout when the Santa Barbara Museum of Art launched its latest exhibition The Private Universe of James Castle, which runs through September 17.

With more than 90 works, the show features many of the most beautiful and accomplished drawings created by the extraordinarily gifted, profoundly deaf, self-taught artist, many of them from the collection of the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation.

His daughter, seven-time Emmy

winning actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, attended the bustling opening bash along with her filmmaker husband Brad Hall and their two sons, singer-songwriter Henry and actor Charlie, with veteran beloved comedienne Carol Burnett and her husband Brian Miller joining in on the festivities.

The exhibition highlights the artist’s remarkable technical skills and attempts to foster a better understanding of his evocative and unconventional images, particularly his landscapes and architectural interior scenes.

Among the art aficionados turning out were Robert and Christine Emmons, Janet Garufis, Penny Jenkins, Richard and Melanie De Schutter, Kandy LuriaBudgor, Nick and Rosemary Mutton, Larry Feinberg and Starr Siegele, Luke Swetland, Joan Tapper, Mark Whitehurst and Kerry Methner, Robert Castle, and Peter and Karen Brill

Quadruple the Fun and Laughs

The second week of the Music Academy’s Summer Festival lineup goes from strength to strength.

Hahn Hall on the 10-acre Miraflores campus was the venue for the String Quartet showcase featuring the Vela Quartet – violinists Aaron You-Xin Li and Harin Kang, violist Vincenzo Keawe Calcagno, and cellist Hamzah Zaidi –kicking off the highly entertaining concert with works by Smetana and Bartok.

Quatuor Genial – violinists PoYu Lee and Oliver Leitner, violist Torron Pfeffer, and cellist Calire Park – followed with works by Bartók and Beethoven.

Quatuor des Reves – violinists Beau Henson and Whitney Takata, violist Kenneth Fujii, and cellist Miles Tatsuo Goosby – wrapped up the show with works by Frank and Dvořák.

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“Liberty is the breath of life to nations.” – George Bernard Shaw

Josh Cohen and IT Director Joseph Price with his sons Kyle and Mac and wife Leeza Price (photo by Priscilla)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus celebrating with Larry Feinberg, her sons Henry and Charlie, husband Brad Hall, and Dan Bucatinsky (photo by Priscilla)

SBMA Director Larry Feinberg with Carol Burnett and Brian Miller (photo by Priscilla)

Joan and Palmer Jackson Sr. (seated) with Robert Williams, Palmer Jackson Jr., Keith Moore, and Carolyn Williams (photo by Priscilla)

Beverly Cavalier, Keith Moore, Linda Rosso, and John Doordan (photo by Priscilla)

Maria McCall, Nancy NewquistNolan, Claire Waterhouse, Ralph Waterhouse, Diane Waterhouse, and Katherine Morse (photo by Priscilla)

Just 24 hours later, Mosher guest artist Anthony McGill, comedian Kimberly Clark, and pianist Kyle P. Walker provided an evening of comedy, conversation, and the clarinet with McGill, a 2020 Avery Fisher recipient and the first African American principal member of the New York Philharmonic, and Clark, also a clarinetist, reminiscing about growing up as people of color honoring the power of a music education.

The creative program featured American music, including works by Bernstein and Hailstork.

Next it was the Lobero Theatre when mezzo-soprano Marianne Ruel sang Brahms with violist Joshua Kail and pianist Tamar Sanikidze before the Takács

Quartet, who also performed during the festival’s first week, played a string sextet Tchaikovsky work “Souvenir de Florence” with Madeleine Pintoff on viola and Sarah Chong on cello.

The concert concluded with works by Parsi, Torroba, and Chapi sung by soprano Ana María Martínez accompanied by pianist John Churchill

The week ended gloriously with the Academy Festival Orchestra, conducted by Frenchman Stéphane Denève, performing Symphonie Fantastique with works by Berlioz, sung by mezzo-soprano and Lehrer Vocal Institute co-chair Sasha Cooke, a two-time Grammy winner who

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Starting off with a gaggle of quartets (photo by Zach Mendez)

Brilliant Thoughts Sure Enough

by Ashleigh Brilliant

Assuming I understand it correctly – a very big assumption – if anything certain can be derived from the intellectual achievements of the past century, it is that nothing is certain. In fact, there is even a “Law of Uncertainty” – which sounds like a contradiction in terms, but which is apparently now accepted by all good physicists. I won’t even attempt to state it here, except to say that it seems to me a reverse of the message of Frank Sinatra’s song about “Love and Marriage,” which was that “You can’t have one without the other.” In this case, what you can have are the position and the momentum of a particle – but you can’t have both at the same time. Since everything that exists consists of particles, that makes the entire Universe a mass of uncertainties.

That may not scare you – although within little more than a decade after the declaration of this “Law,” it somehow made possible the development of the atomic bomb.

But it leaves us poor critters – whatever we are – wondering just how to live, while sliding down a big question mark. And in particular – at least in the short term – what can we consider more or less certain? Yes, we’ve all heard about death and taxes – an expression that’s often attributed to Benjamin Franklin, though he did not originate it. (So, if you always thought he did, there goes a certainty in itself.)

But much more certain – according to all the most popular songs – is LOVE, of which the only true kind lasts forever. But that word –“forever” – has, for me anyway, lost some of its pizzazz, since it started to be used by the U.S. Postal Service on their stamps, in what I would call a very misleading way – as if anything issued by a bureaucracy could be guaranteed to last past the next election.

Maybe we will have to stop using that word, or even thinking in those terms, in favor of something a little simpler. There is available, as an alternative, the idea of being “permanent,” which any dictionary will tell you means “long-lasting,” but on an indefinite basis. “Forever” never ends. “Permanent” does. You just don’t know when – but not soon. “Permanent Press” should last the life of the garment; and a “Permanent Marker” should make a mark that lasts as long as whatever you make the mark on.

But probably the most popular use

of that term has been in connection with human hair. An enormous number of people, mostly women, all over the world, have been dissatisfied with the natural condition of their hair, and, since the start of the last century, this has given rise to an enormous industry, offering methods, devices, and products to change it, in particular to create curls or “waves.” Hence the term “permanent wave,” often shortened to “perm,” connoting a duration of months. (Ironically people born with un-straight hair of different kinds have, for just as long, sought ways of straightening it.)

But isn’t there anything we can be really sure of anymore? Four centuries ago, it was René Descartes who left with us the immortal words which probably say it all as well as it can ever be said: “I think, therefore I am.” The only thing anybody can ever be truly certain about in this world is that they are alive. When they stop knowing that, they cease to exist.

But we do still have the expression – “Sure as Shooting” – implying the reliability of firearms, a sentiment even today prevalent in a large segment of the American population. But we also speak of a “Flash in the Pan,” which is not widely known also to be firearms related. Most people who hear or use it probably think it comes from the Gold Rush era, when sifting water from a stream in a pan might or might not produce some genuine specks of gold – the “flash,” of course, being misleading, and giving rise to false hopes. But this expression actually goes back much farther than that, to the time when muskets had to be loaded and fired by means of igniting gunpowder in an adjoining “pan.” If the attempt for some reason proved faulty, then, instead of a shot being fired, it had merely produced a “flash” in that pan.

So, how much certainty are we left with about anything? Somehow we have enough (most of us, usually) to get out of bed. Isn’t that enough?

did suggest a stopgap irrigation solution, a similarly engaged Montecito Water District humanely got behind it. It was a new day.

Water began trickling into the fields, pristine produce sprang from the rich soil, and Summerlanders, some of whose families had grown desperate, were at last provided home-grown, healthy food – much of it surreptitiously delivered at no charge. The flowing water was metered by the district and wholly paid for by Summerland Farm. There was just one problem – the stopgap solution existed in a policy gray area regarding the use of a fire hydrant for other than firefighting purposes. A passerby visually noted the eccentric solution and for reasons of their own duly reported the situation to the beleaguered Montecito Water District, who were then obliged by the circumstances to concoct an ultimatum: figure out an alternative in six weeks. The stopgap water solution gets shut off on July 1.

This effort – which goes by the name Save Summerland Farm – has drawn the attention of local philanthropic legend Palmer Jackson Jr. “The Ann Jackson Family Foundation feels fortunate to be able to respond to urgent community requests,” Jackson says, “and here in Santa Barbara we’re surrounded by nonprofit entrepreneurs who are coming up with great ideas all the time. Clearly, Leslie Person Ryan is one of those entrepreneurs. I met Leslie two weeks ago and was struck by her passion and drive – and by the foundation’s accomplishments. I told her story to our foundation board, and we decided to make a grant. I’ve also been in touch with friends in the philanthropic community. We’re getting closer to reaching the goal, and I really hope others will climb aboard and help Summerland Farm over the finish line.” Mr. Jackson’s predilection for superlative veggies may have informed his participation. “Have you ever tried their produce? It’s unbelievable!”

Showing us around, Ryan’s close-cropped hair, black t-shirt, aviator shades, and work boots give her a decidedly hipster flair – an impression mitigated by the fine layer of topsoil that covers her like flour. “This is a biodiverse farm,” she says. “The birds will eat the grasshoppers, the snake will eat the gophers –” Did she say snake? “So you may see Steve the snake. We had a class here from Cate School,” she says. “One of the girls went back to the van to get a drink and I heard her suddenly yell out ‘STEEEEVE!’” (This was not a cry of alarm). “All these Cate kids came happily running from all over the farm to see Steve. It was really cool.”

tices and fiercely-wielded common sense. This is not tie-dyed wishing on a star, but a buildable tomorrow.

As for today – “Nobody knows this,” Ryan says, “but following the debris flow we had 1,600 people trapped here without food. Yes, we had people arguing over the food at the liquor store here.”

Per the norm, it comes down to greenbacks. Through no fault of their own, the empathetic Montecito Water District is between a rock and a wet place, and have necessarily spelled out their terms. Summerland Farm needs to show up with $218K by July 1st. That figure will fund the two-inch piping, meter, and backflow hardware; the alternative infrastructure needed to properly irrigate the pointedly water-efficient farm. Ryan has several downstream initiatives in queue that will beautify the farm space, innovate water collection, and even accommodate cyclists ogling the local majesty. But first the farm needs actual rescue.

The farm’s mission includes feeding the underserved and the medically fragile –and otherwise ending Summerland’s food insecurity. At this writing, the Summerland community’s beating heart is a closed-loop farm that robustly uses regenerative practices and is fueled by its own recycled nutrients. Reader, please consider becoming part of this movement to keep our lovely Summerland food secure. In so doing, your name will be “writ in water,” to borrow from poet John Keats. On July 1, the current H2O solution ends. In the absence of complete funding for the proposed alternative, the farm will have no water – the one missing ingredient no farm can survive.

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.

That is, Summerland Farm is also a teaching outfit. “We had three horticulture classes that came from San Marcos High School last month,” Ryan says. “We’ve got elementary students coming out to learn, and all the kids understand what it’s like to grow without pesticides and herbicides. It tastes totally different!” Few things motivate a youngster like a palatable snack. Community cornucopia? Yeah. But Summerland Farm is also a bastion of training for the NextGen cohort we are counting on to redress our globally broken food system with their learned prac-

Jeff can be reached at jeffwingg@gmail.com.

Jeff Wing is a journalist, raconteur, autodidact, and polysyllable enthusiast. A longtime resident of SB, he takes great delight in chronicling the lesser known facets of this gaudy jewel by the sea.

The SBAFEF preparing 1,800 meals for veterans with Summerland Farm’s own produce (Courtesy photo)

Electric Taxis Take Flight: The greener future of urban air travel

Aquiet electric aircraft resembling a bug-like creature glides above the iconic Eiffel Tower and the zinc-grey rooftops of Paris in a stunning spectacle. The Paris area intends to exhibit a small fleet of electric flying taxis during the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, clearing the way for a future that the aviation industry promises is just around the corner.

While flying nonpolluting electric taxis have long been a pipe dream, the moment has arrived for this vision to come true. The German business Volocopter, directed by former Airbus executive Dirk Hoke, is at the vanguard of this movement. Their goal is to have French President Emmanuel Macron as their first passenger, representing Europe’s commitment to urban air mobility innovation.

Although the first flights of these electric taxis are big milestones, there are still substantial challenges ahead. Battery technology restrictions now limit their range and passenger capacity, making them only suited for short distances. Furthermore, advances in airspace management are required to ensure safe and effective operations. Companies such as Archer Aviation Inc., which plans flights between Manhattan and Newark, are developing airspace solutions using artificial intelligence and machine learning, so that flying taxis aren’t at risk of crashing into each other or other objects present in the airways.

Despite some aviation analysts’ skepticism, the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) business is ready for expansion. According to Morgan Stanley, developments in battery and propulsion technologies could value the sector at one trillion dollars by 2040 and nine trillion by 2050. While widespread deployment may take years due to regulatory obstacles, early adopters of flying taxis at events such as the Olympics in Paris and Los Angeles are likely to stimulate further use.

As Paris prepares to host the Olympic Games in 2024, the city’s lofty goals are gaining flight. Electric taxis are intended to transform urban transportation by providing a more sustainable and efficient alternative to ground transportation.

While obstacles remain, the eVTOL sector is motivated by a vision of a future in which flying taxis crisscross major cities, decreasing traffic congestion and carbon emissions. For now, the world awaits the first flights of these electric marvels that will change the way we navigate our cities.

Your Westmont Large Grant Funds Study of Reptile Dwarfism

by Scott Craig

Westmont biologist Amanda Sparkman (’03) and her research collaborators have won a two-million-dollar, fouryear grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue investigating the evolution of dwarfism in Channel Islands National Park reptiles.

The study focuses on five species, including the gopher snake, western yellow-bellied racer, southern alligator lizard, western fence lizard, and side-blotched lizard; three are dwarf, two are not.

Dwarfism and gigantism have evolved on islands throughout the world. The researchers compare the island species with their mainland counterparts from Santa Barbara to San Mateo County. Initial testing has revealed differences between the two, including lower levels of blood glucose in island reptiles. The research will explore the molecular and physiological basis for the convergent

evolution of dwarfism, as well as how dwarfism might affect other traits, such as reproduction, growth rate, and survival.

The NSF’s Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded Sparkman, associate professor of biology and environmental studies minor co-adviser, more than $680,000. Collaborators Tonia Schwartz and Melody Russell (Auburn University) and David Miller (Penn State University) received the remainder of the funds.

The grant will cover laboratory work and travel expenses and pay for student researchers and a research technician. “Westmont students will continue to gain experience in finding, capturing, handling, processing, and ultra-sounding reptiles, as well as analyzing data and presenting our work,” Sparkman says. Westmont student-researchers will work and interact with graduate and post-doctoral students from Auburn and Penn State.

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“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” – Abraham Lincoln

Students take measurements of a gopher snake (photo by Eirini Pajak)

Southern alligator lizard (photo by Eirini Pajak)

A gopher snake checks its measurements (photo by Eirini Pajak)

Foraging Thyme The Cucumber

by Melissa Petitto

Santa Barbara, it’s sunny and finally summer and all I want are cooling foods. The Farmers Market is bursting with produce, but what jumped out this week is the cucumber. Its many varietals with English, Kirby, and Persian being the ones easiest to find. They each have their specific usage but can easily be substituted for the others. Growing up, my Jewish grandfather and I would make Kirby cucumbers into half sour and full sour pickles. They definitely hold a special place in my heart. The Persian cucumber is one of my daughter’s and my favorite beach snacks, sprinkled with Maldon sea salt and taken to the beach. The result is crisp, salty, and lightly pickled. The English, and the one we are using in the kitchen today, is longer, seedier, and very common.

Cucumbers are a great hydrating food. They are also high in Vitamin K, which is awesome for supporting bone health. Cucumbers are a high antioxidant, flavonoid, and tannin food, which help to reduce the risk of chronic disease and blocks harmful free radicals. When the peel of the cucumber is eaten, they provide dietary fiber, which is great for keeping us regular and improving gut health.

The recipe we will be making today is a traditional Chinese smashed cucumber. You can easily find the ingredients at your local Asian market or online. The spice content is up to you, but I love these super spicy! And the crispy shallots are found in your specialty market as well.

Asian Smashed Cucumber Salad with Crispy Shallots (Sides)

Yield: 4 Servings

2 English cucumbers

6 garlic cloves, smashed

2 tablespoons Chinese Black vinegar

2 tablespoons light soy sauce

1 teaspoon raw sugar

1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil

1 teaspoon kosher salt

1 tablespoon crispy chili oil, such as Momofuku brand

Directions:

1. Wash the cucumber. Cut off the two ends and smash with the side of a large kitchen knife, then cut diagonally into bite size pieces. Transfer to a medium bowl.

2. Mix in the smashed garlic, black vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, and salt. Toss to coat.

3. To serve, top with the crispy shallots.

There are many varieties of cucumber, each with its own usage, but all of them healthy and delicious (photo by Stephen Ausmus, USDA ARS; Public Domain)

Melissa Petitto, R.D., is an executive chef and co-founder at Thymeless My Chef SB, was a celebrity personal chef for 16 years, just finished her 10th cookbook, and is an expert on nutrition and wellness.

After receiving negative feedback for gifting a bike to the child of celebrity residents, the shop has so far raised over $10K to purchase 75 new bikes to gift to those in need

The gesture was conceived after Jennifer Blevins, owner of Mad Dogs & Englishmen, was criticized on social media for gifting a bike to Archie, son of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, who turned four years old last month. Blevins started a GoFundMe page to raise funds in order to gift the bikes to children in need.

“In response to some criticism we received for gifting a bike to a child of means, we decided to launch a bike giveaway to give a child’s bike to a child in need, and this has prompted many of our supporters to reach out to us to ask how they can donate to support this cause, and also how they can support our small business,” writes Blevins on the GoFundMe page. “This got me thinking. Why stop with one bike? Let’s give as many bikes as we can to as many kids as we can, in honor of the birthday boy! Let’s maximize this unique opportunity to share the love and do more good in the world.”

Blevins said the initial goal of $1,000

was quickly reached, so she upped the goal. With nearly $10,000 raised to date, the goal is now $20,000. “We have been blown away by the outpouring of kindness and generosity, and this positive momentum has been really inspiring!” writes Blevins about the donations pouring in. “100 percent of all donations will be used to purchase new bikes for underprivileged children. Hoping we can take all of this attention and momentum and channel it into doing something impactful and good!”

Blevins added that she will not be increasing the goal again, but any additional donations raised will go toward buying additional bikes, with the goal to donate at least 100 Specialized bikes in total. “All bikes are being purchased with the funds raised by our supporters at our wholesale pricing, as well as a donation from us. The bikes are an in-kind donation valued at $22,500 and are the same model gifted to little Archie for his birthday. Supporters of the shop and this charitable mission to do something good for underprivileged kids have donated over $10,000 to date,” she said.

Twenty-five of the bikes were presented to representatives of the local Boys & Girls Club chapter here in Montecito. To donate to the cause, go to the GoFundMe page, #lovewins bikes for kids, at: https://gofund. me/12e9a722.

Mad Dogs & Englishmen Bike Shop is located at 1080 Coast Village Road.

families, seniors, people with disabilities, and other disadvantaged people.

“Our system is designed and functions best when parties on both sides have an attorney, but unfortunately, too often people have to go at it alone,” Smith said. “That’s not right, and that’s why we’re here.”

Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County has offices in Santa Barbara, Lompoc, and Santa Maria with in-house attorneys, and is also contracted to staff the court self-help centers known as the Legal Resource Centers to help those who don’t qualify for its services or are able to self-navigate the system with guidance to understand the process.

Providing help to prevent evictions through having an attorney as an advocate plays a critical role in a time of such a challenging rental market, Smith said.

“It promotes stability, which is so important now as there is such a shortage of housing. And even where an eviction can’t be prevented, we can facilitate negotiation and mediation, and work with our community partners to make a softer landing, all to prevent the catastrophic impact that causes the slip and slide into homelessness. That may not be well understood in the community.”

LAFSBC also helped craft the new City and County ordinances tightening up the rules about so-called “renovictions,” Smith said. It’s another avenue

In Passing

Byron

Byron Lyle Fairbrother was born at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to Edwin Henry Fairbrother and Randi Tangvall Fairbrother. He had a heart attack while sailing in San Diego. Their team won last year’s race. He learned to sail as a youngster at the Santa Barbara Yacht Club. At least he passed doing something he loved.

He treasured his childhood memories growing up in Montecito when few properties had entrance gates, and it was a quiet, unpretentious community with fields to explore. His life was enriched by hiking and camping with his dad in state and national parks and remote areas. He was in tune with nature. In addition, his interests included cycling and skiing. He graduated from Cal Poly in Crop Sciences and worked for several agricultural companies in Mexico and the Central Valley spending most of his time focused on strawberries. He nurtured plants and liked to see things grow.

toward balancing the scales.

“Lawmakers and other leaders have turned to us because of our expertise in these areas of law that can get complicated. They reach out to us for our insight and our input as they work to craft the policy decisions so that they have an understanding of what is happening on the ground, and what could be helpful, just as they might also call on the rental property association or others for feedback.”

Besides housing and domestic violence services, other areas of focus for Legal Aid concern elder abuse, financial abuse/ exploitation of seniors, and immigration assistance for victims of crimes – all issues where victims might otherwise go without an advocate.

“Legal Aid can really change lives,” Smith said. “Maybe it’s not a basic need like food or medicine to sustain ourselves, but if you’re encountering a legal problem, and we’re able to provide an advocate, it can make a huge difference.”

Food for thought and perhaps reason enough to chow down on chowder on October 15 to support the cause.

Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County Jennifer Smith, Executive Director (805) 963-6754

https://lafsbc.org

He will be remembered for his excellent Holiday Turkey, his quiet demeanor, and playing a good game of Parcheesi. He took pleasure in helping others. He traveled to England, Japan, and France, and had hoped to do more when his time on this earth ran out. It is with great sadness that we mourn his all too soon passing.

He was preceded in death by his father and is survived by his wife Kelly Fairbrother, daughter Leah (Koby Glick), and granddaughter Annora, his mother, brother Russell and sister Kaia.

Lyle Fairbrother : September 22, 1958 – March 17, 2023

Byron Lyle Fairbrother with his daughter Leah

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.

has performed with more than 80 symphonies worldwide.

She is a graduate of the Music Academy and the New York’s Juilliard School, while Denève is music director of the St. Louis Symphony and former chief conductor of the Brussels Philharmonic.

The concert was in memory of regular first-concert conductor Larry Rachleff, who died last August at the age of 67 after a long battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was music director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra for 21 years.

Local House Sold

Automotive industry mogul Dave Cantin and his wife, Dina Manzo, widely known for starring in The Real Housewives of New Jersey, have splashed out nearly $16 million for a five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath home in our rarefied enclave.

Originally built in 1994, the Tuscanstyle home on 0.76 acres was designed by local architect Marc Appleton and last sold in late 2020 for $4.8 million.

The buyer was Lin Snider, widow of the late Philadelphia billionaire Ed Snider, who totally revamped the 6,000-squarefoot house.

Dina Cantin, 51, first came to public attention in 2007 when she appeared on VH1’s My Fabulous Wedding

More Paperwork

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have suffered another setback.

The tony twosome have had their trademark application for their podcast

name rejected, according to records.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had their application for exclusive rights to “Archetypes” – the name chosen by Meghan for their podcast – refused by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office because of the “likelihood of confusion” with an existing brand.

They sought exclusive use of the name in categories like “downloadable audio recordings” and “podcast for anything concerning the cultural treatment of women and stereotypes facing women.”

But it was refused due to an existing trademark by Arizona-based firm Archetypes LLC, which sought exclusive use in 2015 for a series of books and articles about “nutrition, fitness, sexuality, psychological self-improvement,” and more.

The couple’s L.A.-based attorney, Marjorie Witter Norman, has applied for another three months in which to finesse the Archetypes application.

It comes after it was announced the Spotify podcast Archetypes would not be renewed for a second season as the audio company begins to make changes and revamp its output.

Sun Setting on ‘Yellowstone’

Taylor Sheridan, creator of the hit TV series Yellowstone, says there are “ongoing discussions” with Kevin Costner to film the final episodes of the show.

The Carpinteria actor, 68, shocked fans when reports surfaced in May that he’d decided to leave the show after five

successful seasons.

Paramount confirmed the drama will end following the second half of the fifth season and there were concerns the Oscar winner could walk away before wrapping up the final episodes amid reports of a feud with Sheridan.

But Sheridan has revealed they are in discussions with Costner to film the last scenes with his character and said that scripts had not been completed yet, according to the Hollywood Reporter

It comes after the actor’s estranged wife Christine Baumgartner filed for divorce on May 2 after 18 years of marriage and three children together citing “irreconcilable differences.”

She is now seeking nearly $250,000 in child support per month.

Stay tuned...

New Members on Board

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum has three new board members –Don Barthelmess, Tom Elliott, and Chad Makela

The 21-member board provides oversight to the stewardship of the harborside organization, and the tony triumvirate brings a unique skill set and experience to the role.

Sightings

Former TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres masticating at Tre Lune... Former TV talk show host James Corden getting his java jolt at Pierre Lafond... Actor Michael Keaton in Paris for the tennis French Open.

Pip! Pip!

From musings on the Royals to celebrity real estate deals, Richard Mineards is our man on the society scene and has been for more than 15 years

Anthony McGill playing a tune and setting the tone (photo by Zach Mendez)

A round of applause to Stéphane Denève and Sasha Cooke (photo by Zach Mendez)

Don Barthelmess (Courtesy photo)

Tom Elliott (Courtesy photo)

Chad Makela (Courtesy photo)

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

In the Board of Supervisors’ Hearing Room

105 E. Anapamu St, 4th Floor, Santa Barbara, CA

The meeting starts at 9:00 a.m.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on July 11, 2023, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing to consider Case Nos. 23APL-00015 through 23APL-00018 and 23APL-00020, appeals of the Montecito Planning Commission’s April 5, 2023, approval of the Coral Casino Amendment Project (Case Nos. 22AMD-0000000005 and 22CDP-00000-00079). The five appeals were filed by Kim Seefeld, Suzanne Duca, Douglas Large, Lucinda Lester Owen, and Mark Trilling, respectively. The proposal is to consider approval of an amendment to the Biltmore Hotel and Coral Casino Development Plan (DVP; 03DVP-00000-00002) to modify Condition Nos. 3 and 22 of the DVP Conditions of Approval in compliance with Sections 35-174.10.2 and 35-169 of the Article II Coastal Zoning Ordinance. Condition No. 3 will be modified to reduce the maximum number of permitted Biltmore Hotel guestrooms/keys to 192. Condition No. 22 will be modified to allow limited public use of the existing second floor Coral Casino Restaurant, reduce the Coral Casino monthly membership allowance for members of reciprocal clubs, eliminate the Coral Casino seasonal membership allowance for Biltmore Hotel guests, and eliminate the Coral Casino regular use allowance for registered overnight Biltmore Hotel guests. Additionally, use of the existing 2,050-sq. ft. event/meeting room at the Biltmore Hotel (currently identified as the La Marina banquet room) will be limited to non-dining entertainment and other activities for hotel guests only. The Amendment does not involve any new structural development or exterior alterations to existing development, and no additional services or access will be required. The property will continue to be served by the Montecito Water District, the Montecito Sanitary District, and the Montecito Fire Protection District. Access is provided from Channel Drive. The proposed project is located on a 19.28-acre property, zoned C-V and shown as Assessor's Parcel Numbers 009-352-009, 009-354-001, 009-351-012 and 009353-015, located at 1260 and 1281 Channel Drive in the Coastal Zone of the Montecito Community Plan Area, First Supervisorial District.

For additional information on the project, please contact the planner Alia Vosburg at avosburg@countyofsb.org or via phone at (805) 934-6259

For current methods of public participation for the meeting of July 11, 2023 please see page two (2) of the posted Agenda. The posted agenda will be available on Thursday prior to the above referenced meeting for a more specific time for this item. However, the order of the agenda may be rearranged or the item may be continued.

Please see the posted agenda and staff reports available on the Thursday prior to the meeting at http://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx under the hearing date or contact the Clerk of the Board at (805) 5682240 for alternative options.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors by 4:00 PM on Friday before the Board meeting. For information about these services please contact the Clerk of the Board at (805) 568-2240.

If you challenge this project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Board of Supervisors prior to the public hearing. G.C. Section 65009, 6066, and 6062a.

Witness my hand and seal this 6th day of June 2023.

Mona Miyasato

CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Sheila de la Guerra, Deputy Clerk

Published June 28, 2023

Montecito

Journal

PUBLIC NOTICE

Montecito Fire Protection District

in the Matter of the Preliminary Budget for Fiscal Year 202324 Health and Safety Code Section 13893

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the preliminary budget of the Montecito Fire Protection District for fiscal year 2023-24 was adopted by the Board of Directors of said District on June 26, 2023, and is available for inspection Monday through Friday, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. at the Montecito Fire Protection District, 595 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, California.

NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that on September 25, 2023 at 2:00 p.m., the Board of Directors will meet at the Montecito Fire Protection District 595 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, California, for the purpose of adopting the District's final budget at which time and place any person may appear and be heard regarding any item in the budget or regarding the addition of other items.

This Notice shall be published in accordance with California Health & Safety Code Section 13893.

By order of the Board of Directors of the Montecito Fire Protection District, State of California, this 26th day of June, 2023

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NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Jadrima, 234 Ocean View Avenue, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Julie L. Hall, 234 Ocean View Avenue, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 2, 2023. 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. 2023-0001409. Published June 14, 21, 28, July 5, 2023

from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice. Other California statues and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court.

Attorney for petitioner: Linn Shulte-Sasse, 3756 Grand Avenue, Suite 302, Oakland, CA 94610. (510)5948483. Decedent died on 10/12/2022 at 1500 Duarte Road, Duarte, California. Filed June 7, 2023, by Nicole Barnard, Deputy. Published June 21, 28, July 5, 12, 2023.

Sylvia Easton, Secretary

Published June 29 and July 6, 2023

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NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Inland Equine Medical Center, 2765 Corral De Quati Road, Los Olivos, CA 93441. Chris Pankau, D.V.M., 2765 Corral De Quati Road, Los Olivos, CA 93441. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 22, 2023. 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. 2023-0001566. Published June 28, July 5, July 12, 19, 2023

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NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Kids Live Safe, 3905 State St STE 7228, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Scalable Commerce LLC, 3905 State St STE 7228, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 21, 2023. 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. 2023-0001559. Published June 28, July 5, July 12, 19, 2023

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NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: D&G Market, 1002 North H St., Lompoc, CA 93436. D&G Stores INC, 1002 North H St., Lompoc, CA 93436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 14, 2023. 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. 20230001520. Published June 21, 28, July 5, July 12, 2023

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NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Seas Below, 2155 Ortega Hill #28, Summerland, CA 93067. Barbara K Popp, 2155 Ortega Hill #28, Summerland, CA 93067. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 24, 2023. 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. 2023-0001103. Published June 14, 21, 28, July 5, 2023

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: Suzanne McCarroll. To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Suzanne McCarroll, a Petition for Probate has been filed by Michael McCarroll in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara. The Petition for Probate requests that Michael McCarroll be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: September 7, 2023, at 9 am in Dept. 5, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file your written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court with the later date of either four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, or 60 days

Plaintiff’s Claim and ORDER to Go to Small Claims Court: CASE No. 23CV02189. Notice to Defendant: Joseph Foster : You are being sued by Plaintiff: Thomas Casabianca. You and the plaintiff must go to court on the trial date listed below. If you cannot go to court, you may lose the case. If you lose, the court can order you’re your wages, money, or property to be taken to pay this claim. Bring witnesses, receipts, and any evidence you need to prove your case. The plaintiff claims the defendant owes $2,250. Court date: July 28, 2023, at 9 am in Dept 5, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Filed 6/13/2023 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Published June 21, 28, July 5, 12, 2023.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 23CV02271. To all interested parties: Petitioner Rodolfo M. Valencia Jr filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Rudy Valencia Jr . The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed May 30, 2023 by Norma Willoughby. Hearing date: July 26, 2023 at 8:30 am in Dept. SM3, 312-C East Cook St, Santa Maria, CA 93454. Published June 14, 21, 28, July 5, 2023.

“Through this work, we hope to provide data and insight into these reptile populations that will aid in their conservation and management,” she says.

Using Her Communication Skills for Public Service

community,” she says. “Working with 15,000 families was an eye-opening and rewarding experience.”

She has led communication teams during some of the region’s most disastrous moments, including the Covid-19 pandemic and the Thomas Fire, which forced the closure of schools for the first time ever.

Unhealthy smoke forced the closure, and the subsequent Montecito debris flow claimed the lives of two Santa Barbara Unified students. “It takes a toll on your soul,” she says. “People need to be informed to find healing. Westmont helped create a strong foundation for moments of service during difficult times.”

Lauren is involved with major projects affecting the region, communicating about the Highway 101 expansion, and the construction of roundabouts in Montecito.

Recently, she worked on a public-outreach campaign in Isla Vista, Guadalupe, and the Santa Ynez Valley to understand housing priorities and develop innovative solutions for building affordable housing. SBCAG received more than five million dollars for creative pilot projects such as a 3D-printed house.

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orchestra as he might for one of the world’s top ensembles where he has guested.

“I’m not setting a goal, but if everyone is inspired, the result will be much better. I’m sure that we are going to play a great concert, but we’ll just start to work and practice, and we will see how high it will go.”

And that goes for the audience, too, he said.

“Hopefully we will all be sharing and feeling something together and that’s the great power of music. After a good concert, life might be just a little bit easier for everybody.”

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In 2004, Lauren Bianchi Klemann (’04) traveled to the Middle East with former Westmont professor Bruce Fisk A graduating senior, she wanted to visit places such as Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan. “It fed my soul,” she says.

“The experience combined my passions: looking at political and religious landscapes. Exploring physical history and the political landscape from a Christian perspective shaped my priorities and how I communicate with people, communities, and culture.”

Since then, Lauren has led a life of volunteerism and public service while raising a nine-year-old daughter with her husband, Daniel Klemann. She works as the government affairs and public information manager for the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG), which oversees regional transportation and housing planning.

After Lauren graduated from college, she began serving with the American Red Cross. “Westmont’s liberal arts education helps students find the nexus of making a difference in people’s lives while earning a paycheck,” she says.

She worked in volunteer services and public affairs when Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans and during several Southern California fires. “I was trying to help by giving those affected accurate information during traumatizing events,” she says.

Her journey then led her to Ventura County, where she served as chief of staff for Ventura County supervisor Kathy Long for more than a decade. Then she moved to Goleta and accepted another dream job as public information officer for the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

“Talk about learning the heart of a

Lauren also helped market the EZ Bike Project, which allowed residents to try out electric cargo bikes, cruisers, city bikes, and folding bikes to reduce traffic and air pollution. “We’re trying to get folks to switch to different ways of commuting,” she says. “What better place to do that than in Santa Barbara County?” The demonstration project succeeded and became a statewide and national model.

“At SBCAG, we tackle issues that cross jurisdictional boundaries – which is what a liberal arts education is designed for – to make connections, interact, and solve problems,” she says.

Active in the community, Lauren serves on the board of the Santa Barbara Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications, which recently honored her as the 2022 Member of the Year. A past president of the Public Relations Society of America – California Gold Coast Chapter and a National and Community Service AmeriCorps volunteer, she advised the California YMCA Youth and Government Program for nearly a decade.

“I try to make a difference and empower people to celebrate our community,” she says. “My Westmont education helped me mature and evolve in my Christian faith. It continues to inform every choice I make and how I interact with the world.”

Friday, June 30: The official Music Academy calendar pitches today’s solo piano competition as something akin to reality TV shows such as American Idol, but there are a few differences. It takes place over a single day, the audience doesn’t get to vote, and the judges’ deliberations are private and confidential. On the other hand, the stakes are pretty darn high, as the winner’s package includes not only a cash prize but also recital opportunities, including starring in the annual concert back at Hahn Hall next year, where the pianist will play a recital that includes a piece commissioned for them. And the judges are an impressive panel, comprised of Canadian star Angela Cheng, who has appeared as a recitalist, soloist, or chamber musician at virtually every important hall around the world; Aleck Karis, who as the pianist of the new music ensemble Speculum Musicae has participated in more than 100 premieres; and composer-pianist Anthony Cheung, whose music has been commissioned and performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain, the New York Philharmonic, and many others. (He’ll create a new piece for the competition winner.) With just six pianists performing over a full five-hour event, including lunch break, the judges, and audience, will have a lot of listening to love. (11 am; Hahn Hall; $40)... “Savor the nature. Then the music,” suggests one of today’s Academy listings, which seems like an apt description of the appeal of the first Picnic Concert of the season. Long a staple of the summer, the popular events invite guests to enjoy a pre-concert picnic pretty much anywhere in the public spaces of the gorgeous gardens at Miraflores, then head inside Hahn for a wide-ranging assortment of chamber music from the fellows, who choose their own works for the program and put together their own ensembles, rehearsal schedules, and coaching. (7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $40)

Monday, July 3: Tonight’s Teaching Artists Showcase features four sonorous sonatas pairing pianos with other instruments including oboe, bass, cello, and another piano, and starring seven of the summer’s stellar faculty members (pianist Natasha Kislenko , familiar to locals as the principal pianist of the Santa Barbara Symphony and a UCSB faculty member, gets double duty). Works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, de Falla, and Hindemith are featured, with the latter’s “Sonata for Double Bass and Piano” perhaps the most poignant as it will be performed by longtime MA (and current Westmont College faculty) double bassist Nico Abondolo in memory of his late mother Maria Abondolo , a visual artist who was commissioned to design the California Mission Medal Series as well as many murals in private homes. (7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $40) Nico Abondolo will also conduct the first of his three master classes of the summer on Wednesday, July 5. (3:30 pm; Weinman Hall; $10)

Wednesday, July 5: No fewer than 28 fellows are performing in tonight’s Chamber Nights Series concert, the Academy’s effort to re-enact a less formal version of the private performances for nobility in elegant salons many decades ago. That’s 20 percent-plus of the entire enrollment this summer, a generous sampling that includes brass, woodwinds, strings, piano, and even voice with works by century-spanning composers Tower, Ravel, Poulenc, and Mozart. With what we imagine are some complicated bandstand changes, it’s a good thing the performance is preceded by a wine reception. (7:30 pm; Lehman Hall; $45)

Thursday, July 6: In a first for the Music Academy, there’s a Mosher Guest Artist this summer who won’t be performing or composing any music. But Alex Ross , the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996, has a great deal of insight and influence on how classical music is received and is evolving, even as arts criticism has become a threatened medium, with many major newspapers eliminating the position. Ross – MacArthur (Genius Award) Fellowship winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist – will lead a roundtable discussion about the role of the critic with fellow scribes Joshua Kosman , who has covered classical music in the Bay Area for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1988, and Carolina A. Miranda , a Los Angeles Times columnist focused on art and design, who previously produced cultural stories for Time , ARTnews , Architect , Art in America , Fast Company , NPR’s All Things Considered , and PRI’s Studio 360 . (3:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $10)

Osmo Vänskä and the AFO will perform at the Granada at 7:30 pm on Saturday, July 1

Lauren Bianchi Klemann (photo by Brad Elliott)

Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Calendar of Events

by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, JUNE 30

World Wide Wallace – Maybe it’s the fact that comedian Trevor Wallace grew up in Camarillo, the Ventura County city memorably made famous by Frank Zappa in his sexually satirical song “Camarillo Brillo” on the brilliant 1973 album OverNite Sensation, that propelled him to launch his career via making fun of stuff. Of course, it’s also his youth (Wallace has not yet turned 30) that had him doing viral comedy videos satirizing such brands as Zumiez, AirPods, and White Claw Hard Seltzer – the latter led to a line of t-shirts that read “Ain’t No Laws When You’re Drinking Claws,” which elicited a humorless cease and desist order from the beverage company – and the more modern method of podcasts, including Stiff Socks. Still, standup comedy is also part of his schtick, and Wallace has toured comedy clubs and colleges across the country and won numerous awards. How will the 29-year-old respond to his environment when he lands at the legendary 150-year-old former opera house Lobero Theatre? Only one way to know.

WHEN: 7 pm

WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St.

COST: $30.50-$76.50

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

SATURDAY, JULY 1

Blossoms in Ojai – The Gin Blossoms’ indelibly upbeat jangle-pop sound evolved during radio’s strange transition between hair bands and grunge music superstars, which probably helped their hometown Phoenix New Times choose them as the city’s best rock band. When College Music Journal dubbed them the “Best Unsigned Band in America,” the band signed a record deal with A&M. In 1993, their debut album – which, despite its title New Miserable Experience, involves no dreary shoegazing at all – after a re-release propelled The Gin Blossoms to occupy the pop charts for almost three years with the singles “Hey Jealousy,” “Allison Road,” “Until I Fall Away,” “Mrs. Rita,” and “Found Out About You.” Boosted by frequent MTV video rotation and multi crossover hits in four different radio formats, New Miserable Experience went on to more than five million copies. The Blossoms remained 1990s’ radio mainstays with such singles as “Til I Hear It from You,” “Follow You Down,” and “As Long as It Matters.” The hits have been much more sporadic since then, but principal original singer-songwriter-guitarists Robin Wilson and Jesse Valenzuela still front the Blossoms and their jangly pop sound remains timeless, particularly pleasing in an outdoor venue in Ojai. One Hundred Paces, an indie rock band from Ventura, opens the concert.

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Licsko’s Landscapes Leaving –Adam Licsko’s colorful landscapes explore the relationships within the natural world, capturing the contrasts that occur all around us in colors, shapes, sizes, and textures. His works emphasize the contrast between hard-lines and gentleness in dayscapes and nightscapes, including the venue of vineyards, and his brush finds the extremes between light and shadow, cool and warm colors, beauty and its opposite, and imagination and realism. In each of his vivid oil paintings, Licsko alternates between minute imagery, such as thousands of blades of grass, and large swaths of color blocking, making it easy to get lost in his luscious landscapes that evoke the long views of the countryside. Silo118 Gallery in the Funk Zone, the “smallest, tallest gallery in Santa Barbara,” hosts Licsko’s premiere Santa Barbara exhibition.

WHEN: Through July 4

WHERE: 118 Gray Ave.

COST: free

INFO: (301) 379-4669 or www.silo118.com

FRIDAY, JUNE 30

Where the Wild Things Grow –Sullivan Goss is getting together with Ganna Walska Lotusland for a contemporary artistic collaboration between the gallery and the gardens. The exhibition “Where the Wild Things Grow” will showcase works by more than 25 local and regional artists that have been inspired by the rare specimens and unique atmosphere of Lotusland’s cultivated landscape. Meredith Brooks Abbott, Phoebe Brunner, Patricia Chidlaw, Rick Garcia, Inga Guzyte, Angela Perko, Hank Pitcher, and Joan Rosenberg-Dent are among artists employing everything from formal realism to more abstract and unconventional media in works on paper, sculpture, and paintings. Each is bringing a contemporary eye to the tradition of botanical art, pairing nature’s endless diversity of design down to only essential shapes with a focus more on color and design than botanical accuracy. A portion of the proceeds from sales of the artwork will be donated to Lotusland, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary of being open to the public.

WHEN: Today through July 24 (Opening reception 5-8 pm during 1st Thursday on July 6)

WHERE: 11 East Anapamu St.

COST: free

INFO: (805) 730-1460 or www.sullivangoss.com

WHEN: 7 pm

WHERE: Libbey Bowl, 210 S. Signal Ave., Ojai COST: $58-$98

INFO: (805) 272-3881 / https://libbeybowl.org or https://wheremusicmeetsthesoul.com/libbey-bowl-ojai

TUESDAY, JULY 4

Patriotic Pops – Enjoy pop tunes, family favorites, and patriotic classics, plus special guest performers, at Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation’s festive annual Independence Day concert at Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Gardens. The yearly hour-long concert features Vandenberg Space Force Base Honor Guard and Santa Barbara’s community-based Prime Time Band, plus Polynesian dancers from Hula Anyone in the festive 4th of July event featuring all-American music and activities. Arrive early to claim a spot on the grass in the sunshine or limited shade, and feel free to bring a picnic to enjoy on a blanket and/or low-backed beach chairs. Sunscreen and hats are recommended wherever you choose to sit.

WHEN: 5 pm

WHERE: Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Gardens, 1100 Anacapa Street COST: free INFO: (805) 259-4394 or www.pcvf.org/4t-of-july-concert

WEDNESDAY, JULY 5

Toad Leaps to Libbey – Santa Barbara’s most enduring and popular pop band Toad the Wet Sprocket has been back out on the road since May 31, and has two more California swings before winding up the 40-city cross-country tour promoting All You Want (Bonus Edition), a remastered re-release of the band’s greatest hits album that includes the tantalizingly-titled new track “Best of Me (2023).” But Ojai is the closest to home the heady and danceable heroes will be playing this time around. (Not that we’re complaining – we regularly get to hear plenty of both Toad and singer-songwriter-guitarist Glen Phillips at various venues around town over the years.)

But it’s also probably well worth the trip to the mountain village to hear three-quarters of the original lineup formed in the late ‘80s at San Marcos High deliver classic hits as well as deep cut favorites from the band’s extensive catalog.

WHEN: 7 pm

WHERE: Libbey Bowl, 210 S. Signal Ave., Ojai

COST: $38-$88

INFO: (805) 272-3881 / https://libbeybowl.org or https://wheremusicmeetsthesoul.com/libbey-bowl-ojai

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“America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination.”

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RTC’s Summer Ed Season – Rubicon Theatre Company’s 2023 summer theater program is designed for students ages five to 25, comprising four immersive programs that offer a unique opportunity for young performers to train with professional artists. The youngsters then get to share their talent and work with the public in fully-produced shows that will be performed indoors in a return to the Rubicon stage in Ventura for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. Titled “Love Conquers All,” the new season is helmed by RTC’s new Education Director Joseph Fuqua, a professional actor with Broadway and national credits who was also Rubicon’s first company member and the founder of RTC’s Fearless Shakespeare. The youth performances kick off with Disney’s 101 Dalmatians Kids, the fur-raising adventure based on the classic animated film, performed by students ages five to 11 in the Stinky Feet Theatre Camp directed by Patti Strickland. Fearless Shakespeare Intensive’s Henry V takes place July 14-15, The Addams Family Young@Part from the Kids’ Musical Theater Camp runs July 28-30, and the Tony Award-winning Pippin is performed by the older students’ workshop.

WHEN: 2 & 5 pm today

WHERE: Rubicon Theatre Company, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura

COST: $20 adults, $10 children

INFO: (805) 667-2900 or www.rubicontheatre.org

THURSDAY, JULY 6

Environmental Hub Enters – The Community Environmental Council’s Environmental Hub is a 10,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art collaborative space for climate action and community right on State Street in downtown Santa Barbara that is designed to be an epicenter for community activism, education, entrepreneurship, media, and art. The latter part alone is reason enough for CEC to be holding the grand opening of the Central Coast’s first such space with a public party as part of Downtown Santa Barbara’s 1st Thursday Art Walk. The event will also serve as the official opening of Return of the Western Monarch Butterfly: A Photographic Exhibit and Scientific Roadmap for Protecting this Endangered Species by resident artist Elizabeth Weber. Enjoy a ribbon-cutting ceremony, refreshments, and more.

WHEN: 5-8 pm

WHERE: 1219 State St.

COST: free

INFO: (805) 963-0583 or https://cecsb.org/environmental-hub

THURSDAY, JULY 6

‘The Earthquake Child’ – Santa Ynez Valley-based author Elayne Klasson’s novel The Earthquake Child is the story of an adoption, told through the voices of the adoptee, his desperate young birth mother, and his loving but grieving adoptive mother. How to explain Joshua’s behavior becomes an all-consuming question for his adoptive family: Is it his genetic inheritance of substance abuse and generational poverty that causes him to act out, run away, and eventually become involved with drugs? Is it the losses he’s experienced in his adoptive family? Or is it the very fact of adoption itself – the trauma of being cleaved from his gestational mother to be raised by a family unrelated to him by blood, culture, or biology? The Earthquake Child takes a lingering look at what makes our children who they are in the same manner as her debut novel Love Is a Rebellious Bird, a tale of a 60-year love affair, examining the age-old question of why we love the people we do and exploring how someone special always holds a place in our hearts. Klasson, who is an adoptive mother herself, will read from and sign copies of The Earthquake Child this evening.

WHEN: 6 pm

WHERE: Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center

COST: free

INFO: (805) 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com

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Donate to the Parrot Pantry!

At SB Bird Sanctuary, backyard farmer’s bounty is our birds best bowl of food! The flock goes bananas for your apples, oranges & other homegrown fruits & veggies.

Volunteers

Do you have a special talent or skill? Do you need community service hours? The flock at SB Bird Sanctuary could always use some extra love and socialization. Call us and let’s talk about how you can help. (805) 969-1944

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

K-9 PALS need volunteers to be foster parents for our dogs while they are waiting for their forever homes.

For more information

info@k-9pals.org or 805-570-0415

“From every mountainside, let freedom ring.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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ByPeteMuller&FrankLongo

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± 1.17 acres • $4,400,000

Kotlyar Estate Group, 805.565.4014

01426886

$3,450,000

Rachael Douglas, 805.318.0900

LIC# 02024147

$1,295,000

Deborah Samuel, 805.570.6680

LIC# 02119798

Kotlyar Estate Group, 805.565.4014 LIC# 01426886

1903 COYOTE CIR, MONTECITO 3BD/3BA • $3,750,000 Sina Omidi, 805.689.7700 LIC# 01944430 251 CLOYDON CIR, MONTECITO 2BD/2BA; ±0.23 acres • $2,295,000 Bryan R Uhrig, 805.331.3191 LIC# 01467861

2070 E VALLEY RD, MONTECITO 3BD/2BA;

Marsha

LIC#

2567 BANNER AVE, SUMMERLAND 4BD/3BA •

6196 VERDURA AVE, GOLETA 4BD/2BA •

900 TORO CANYON RD, MONTECITO 3BD/3BA; ±5 acres • $5,295,000 Josiah Hamilton, 805.284.8835 LIC# 01415235

1260 NORTHRIDGE RD, SANTA BARBARA 3BD/2BA • $3,495,000 Anderson / Hurst, 805.618.8747 / 805.680.8216 LIC# 01903215 / 00826530

1810 LOMA ST, SANTA BARBARA 3BD/2BA; ±0.12 acres • $2,295,000 Mary Whitney, 805.689.0915 LIC# 01144746

1820 SANTA MONICA RD, CARPINTERIA ±2,862 acres • $29,000,000 Kerry Mormann & Associates, 805.682.3242 LIC# 00598625

3675 FOOTHILL RD, CARPINTERIA 3BD/4BA; ±29 acres • $20,500,000 Yolanda Van Wingerden, 805.570.4965 LIC# 01308141