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Reason to honk with joy Montecito Motor Classic gets into gear in Carpinteria
Jobs report: 194,000 jobs added in September By MADISON HIRNEISEN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
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Terry Pillow is on the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club field in Carpinteria with his 1956 Jaguar XK140. The field will be full of cars Sunday for the Montecito Motor Classic.
By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR
Before she became a car enthusiast, Dolores Johnson’s eyes were on the sky. “I’ve been in aviation for 40 years,” Mrs. Johnson, who’s worked as an executive, told the News-Press this week. “My husband (the late Roger Johnson) was a race car driver, and he used to take me out to all the races. “He loved the thrill of it,” Mrs. Johnson said. “He loved fast cars, fast motorcycles, fast boats, fast airplanes. He raced all of them except for airplanes. He loved anything with speed.” Mrs. Johnson’s involvement with cars went into full gear 10 years ago. “I was asked to help put on a (car) show with the Elks. I said, ‘Sure.’ I knew some car people,” the Santa Barbara resident said. “It turned into what is today.” And that would be the Montecito Motor Classic, which this year will feature everything from — Mrs. Johnson effortlessly lists the years, makes and models — a 1937 Ford Tudor, which is a humpback sedan out of Carpinteria, to an apple red 1967 red Mustang from Oxnard. Don’t forget the red 1932 Ford Roadster from Goleta with an Edelbrock engine. It’ll be there too. “I love all the cars,” said Mrs. Johnson, founder and executive director of the Montecito Motor Classic. She started it in 2011, and it’s kept growing. For the record, her dream car is a 1955 Thunderbird, and that’s in this year’s Montecito Motor Classic, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club, 3375 Foothill Road, Carpinteria. Mrs. Johnson expects around 4,000 car enthusiasts to show up. It’s the first Montecito Motor Classic since 2019. Last year’s event was canceled because of the pandemic. “Everyone’s so excited to put this on this year,” Mrs. Johnson said. “We’ve grown
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30 percent with over 200 cars. People are coming from California, Arizona, everywhere. It’s wonderful!” This year’s honoree is Mark Stehrenerger, an internationally acclaimed automotive designer. One part of the event will feature artists. Boutiques will be in a second area. And the third area will feature cars from two Oxnard museums, Mullin Automotive Museum and the Murphy Auto Museum. Mrs. Johnson said Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, which is known for its Hollywood cars, life-size Hot Wheels and classic early 20th-century autos, isn’t participating. But the Petersen Museum was an early supporter of the Montecito Motor Classic. In fact, the museum’s Terry Karges suggested the name. Some of the proceeds from Sunday’s event go to the Santa Barbara Police Activities League. Over the years, the show has raised more than a half million to benefit the Santa Barbara Police Foundation, At Ease Foundation and currently SBPAL. The Montecito Motor Classic categories vary from European, which includes certain years of Porsche, to Italian classics, Ferraris (Mrs. Johnson loves ’em), British classics, American classics, hot rods, motorcycles, you name it. “We have some beautiful Jaguars,” Mrs. Johnson said. Known for its cool factors is the 1990 Toyota Sera, coming to the show from Lompoc. “Sera” is Italian for “evening.” And the Sera was known for its ambience, right down to — or rather, up to — its mostly glass roof. Plus it had the butterfly doors that tilted up and forward, something that fans like. It was manufactured and marketed by Toyota from 1990 to 1996. “We have the Lola coming from Palm Spring,” Mrs. Johnson said. That’s a British racing car. Please see CAR SHOW on A4
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Deputies perform rescue under Cold Spring Bridge Incident is an example of the Sheriff’s Office’s efforts for treatment for someone in a mental health crisis By MADISON HIRNEISEN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
Dolores Johnson, founder and executive director of the Montecito Motor Classic, exits from an aqua 1955 Ford Thunderbird, which she borrowed for this photo shoot. She described it as her “dream car.”
Deputies from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office helped rescue a person who was found climbing on the hillside under Cold Spring Bridge on Thursday afternoon. Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to the area near Cold Spring Bridge after receiving reports that someone was “running through the brush” and “behaving erratically” below the structure, Raquel Zick, the Sheriff’s Office public information officer, said. The deputies responded alongside members of the Sheriff’s Co-Response Team, the county’s Search and Rescue team, the Santa Barbara County Fire Department and AMR. After about two hours, the patient was rescued without injury from the hillside around 1 p.m. Thursday and was connected with mental health services, Ms. Zick said. Thursday’s rescue is an example of the Sheriff’s Office’s efforts to divert someone who is experiencing a crisis away from incarceration and connect them with mental health services when possible. Please see RESCUE on A4
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The U.S. created jobs at a slower pace than expected in September according to a report released Friday from the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics showing that just 194,000 jobs were created last month. The 194,000 nonfarm payroll employment increase last month fell short of the Dow Jones estimate of 500,000 jobs, according to national reports. Friday’s report also showed that the unemployment rate fell to 4.8% in September, which is better than the expected rate of 5.1% and the lowest rate recorded since February 2020. According to Friday’s report, leisure and hospitality (+74,000), professional and business services (+60,000) and retail trade (+56,000) industries led job creation last month, adding over 190,000 jobs combined. Increases were also reported in the transportation and warehousing industry (+47,000), as well as in the information (+32,000), social assistance (+30,000) and manufacturing industries (+26,000). The total private payroll increase was over 317,000 jobs. These gains were offset, however, by the loss of 123,000 jobs under government payroll. Local government education, state government education and private education had the highest losses last month, according to Friday’s report. In response to the jobs report, President Joe Biden delivered enthusiastic comments from the White House on Friday, encouraging the American people that the report signifies that “consistent, steady progress” is still being made. During his remarks, the president drew attention to the fact that the unemployment rate is down for Black (7.9%) and Hispanic Americans (6.3%) and that the 496,000 decrease in long-term unemployment is the second-largest single-month decline in history. “The monthly totals bounce around, but if you take a look at the trend, it’s solid,” Mr. Biden said Friday. Please see JOBS on A2
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