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Tucker added two h ichael Young was just with Conor McKenn five years out of UCSB a double. when he won the job “We had quality a as the Opening Day everybody,” Pintard second baseman of the 2002 Texas played with a lot of Rangers. had everything from And then he lost his jersey to three home run number. good day.”

SUMMER SOLSTICE Veteran outfielder Carl Everett, The Foresters also obtained in a trade with the Boston Red Sox, wanted Young’s No. 2.

“They gave me a list of new numbers to choose from, and nothing looked terribly appealing,” SS U 9 ,, 22 002109 UN ND DAAYY, , AJ P URNI EL 21 3 $2.00 Young recalled.

Thousands State Street on Saturday afternoon, taking in hundreds of Butpacked then the perfect number dancers and more than a dozen floats as Santa Barbara kicked off summer in jumped out at him: 10. lifden “Cliff ” Purcell was blessed with the pluck of the Irish.

NEWS-PRESS EXCLUSIVE Vernon Wells, the buddy that Parade. Full coverage, A3. style with the annual Summer Solstice he’d rolled with throughout his He coached toughness in his athletes, much the way his grandfather bred his bullfirst three years in the Toronto dogs to ride herd over the family livestock in Ireland.

Blue Jays’ farm system – from But like any true Irishman, Cliff could turn sentimental the drop to of a St. at Catharine’s Hagerstown to golf cap.

By MARILYN MCMAHON obody relished Easter more than –my youngest Dunedin had been Easter birth NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER “I’m very emotional right now,” Purcell admitted daughter.as he wiped his No.eyes 10. following Caitlyn Eileen forward to the “So IChampionrolled withholSan Marcos High’s triumph at the 1997 CIF-Southern Sectionlooked Boys Golf provides o thank all front-line employees for their dedication during this iday-week ritual of coloring hard-boiled eggs with 10,” Young said. ships.

“It’s been our goal for a long time, and my personal goal since 1959 when I critical time, Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria reMom and then hunting for them in ourWells backyard “Vernon had on reminder started coaching. cently launched “Hurrahs for Heroes.” been best friend.”

Sunday morning. She’d ration themy chocolates and “The bells in the hospital’s impressive bell tower ring at noon daily That tell you candies that thewhat Easter Bunny left inwill herthe basket “I told them on the way down here that no matter happened, they’re onesto ‘that good everything you to show appreciation to the hospital staff and others in the North CounMark Patton ensure that they’d last for weeks.

I wanted to be with today.” need know about ty and San Luis Obispo County — first responders, grocery workers — She especially loved donning hertofavorite Easter things are still the former Gaucho again when the Royals 16 church years later for an alumni event that everyone working every day to care for He the wept patients as they recover from gathered dress for and then listening togolf a sermon shortstop.

As an old S U N D A Y , J U N E 2 3 , 2 0 1 9 $2.00 all illnesses, not just COVID-19,” said Flora Washburn, manager of the and surprised Purcell with San Marcos golf ’s Achievement Award. spoke of first howLifetime Jesus Christ’s Resurrection renewed saying goes, blood may make you happening in spiritual care department and one of the hospital chaplains. hope and love throughout the world.

“When it came to his players,” star alum George Downing said during related,the butpresentation, loyalty is what makes “Included are the family members who can’t visit their loved ones in It’s why Caitlyn, now married to Tim Goebel and a mother herself, was you family.

NEWS-PRESS EXCLUSIVE “there was nothing that Coach wouldn’t do.” this world.’ the hospital. They are doing a job, too.” thrilled when Dr. Carin Craig revealed the expected due date Young might as well have wornfor their Dr. Michael Clayton suggested the bell-ringing idea are to Sue Andersen, Those Royals now the ones tearful aschild: they April mourn passing of their old coach. third 13.last week’s that on his back.

Freshmen Michael Mc MRMC president and CEO, who turned it over to Mrs. Washburn and oth“I thought, ‘Wow, my other babies were early, there’s a chance I stayed with theso Rangers Cliff Purcell, who coached five sports over a 40-year career, was two 83. He named to the Basebal er staff members, Sara San Juan and Heidi Summers, to make it happen. could have her a day early on for Easter,’” sheseasons, said. “I even thought it’d be pretty a dozen as his “Our health care teams have done an amazing job of preparing for COVmentor on thesee 2002 club – All-Star cool because it’s one of my favorite holidays …PATTON It’s a time such hope Please onofB3 shortstop Alex Rodriguez – bolted a Please see HURRAH on A5 Please seemoney PATTON year later for the bigger andon A6 brighter lights of Yankee Stadium.

Young took over at short, and he stayed there long.

FORESTERS BASEBALL “Loyalty, that’s a two-way street when you play with a team for such a long time,” he said. “You

By NICK MAS experience really good times, DIRECTOR OF N and you butt heads occasionally, which is natural in a competitive The accolades con environment. in for the UCSB bas “I signed five-year contracts and thisTRIBUNE time itNEWS is fo with them twice, and I gave them ester manager Bill Pintard said. “We

By NICK MASUDA you will likely be ab everything I had on my end. I lost on the ballfield, but not as peoDIRECTOR OF NEWS LOSnext ANGELES — for the two seas played through injuries that might ple we didn’t.” trainer Jerry Holle sar Uyesaka Stadium have otherwise sat me down, but I The Foresters’ magic did run out Yes, the Santa Barbara Foresters ruled off theMichae Santa A Freshmen thought I owed them my best.

And seven-game winning streak came to once inside the lines, as a pair of erter a fourth horse in and Rodney Boone it went both ways, too.” an abrupt halt on Saturday evening, rors in the second inning allowed �������������� while racing or train The Rangers’ ultimate payback named to the Baseb the visiting Conejo Oaks to score five courtesy of the Conejo Oaks.

American Currenc �������������������� came in an announcement this Freshman times, a lead they’d never relinquish, But the entire squad was already suffered aAll-Ameri life-endin ������������������� week that they will retire Young’s with McGreevy land a firm winner even before a single beating Santa Barbara, 8-5. his left-front fetlock No. 10 during their Aug. 31 game first team over and the Boone The Foresters dropped to 11-4 pitch was thrown. running trai against the Seattle Mariners.

Both players had al The Foresters honored their of- overall and 9-4 in California Coastcording to Rick Arthu They’ll never let anyone take his ficial Hugs for Cubs kid for the sea- al Collegiate League play. named to the veterinarian forsame the C number again.

“We didn’t execute on a couple of son, Jill Mott, before the game — ing Board.Baseball It was the Collegiate “Of all the individual honors I’ve COURTESY PHOTOS KENNETH SONG / NEWS-PRESS with Mott lighting up while tossing critical pitches in key situations tothis meeting on the t Game. gotten, this one takes the cake,” Atas top, Cliff Purcell a football in 1959 , while, above, Purcell poses with championship day,”as Pintard said.coach “But wasn’t out the game’s first“Because pitch, well asgrieving I was and disabled, thethere story got told by others.

I wanted to tell myhis own story. The national media which sits between th McGreevy, an All-B Young said. “Only four others in San Marcos boys’ golf squad in 1997. a manto that think we wouldn’t spending the first pair innings in trying wereof like vultures getdidn’t interviews while I was in the hospital,” said Montecito debris flow survivor Kenneth andselection, infield area an team spen the history of the franchise (Nolan COURTESY PHOTO come back ainhome this game.

The the home dugout. Grand, who has been renting on Alameda Padre Serra since April. for racing.

It was th /hōp/ nounmenworking out of the bu Ryan, Ivan Rodriguez, Adrian “We might have lost the game, but fatality sinceERA the me Jill Mott, center, is the official Hugs for Cubs child this season and piling a 1.94 wi and former manager Johnny feeling of expectation and spent the first twoBeltre, we helped a little heart tonight,” ForPlease asee FORESTERS on B2 on Dec. 26. innings of Saturday’s game in the dugout.

MCMAHON Oates) have had their numbers desireBy forMARILYN a certain thing to happen.

NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER retired, so it really does mean a lot to me.

Today we take a moment to “I played here a long time, had hat started out as a story about a nature-inspired beauty and personal care �������������� a good time, and now I’m working showcase how people are providing ������������������ business in Carpinteria turned into a harrowing account never shared be������������������ the hope we need to plan Please see PATTON on B3 ������������������ �������������� fore

by Kenneth Grand, a survivor of the horrific debris flow in Montecito ���������������� for what is to come �������������������� ������������������������������ that took place in the early morning hours of Jan. 9, 2018. tomorrow. ������������������� ����������������������������� Just before ending an interview about Earth Science Naturals, which Mr. Grand has ������������������������������� ����������������������������� owned since 2002, he mentioned that there was an interesting side note if the News-Press �������������� ������ cared to�������������� hear it. ���� ������������� HORSE RACING Little����������� did we realize his connection to the debris flow — and that he is the husband of KENNETH SONG / NEWS-PRESS ����������� ������������� ��������������� Rebecca Riskin, who perished in the tragedy that took 23 lives.

It was the first time he �������������� “Because I was grieving and disabled, the story got told by others.

I wanted to tell my own story.

The national media �������� �������� were like vultures trying to get interviews while I was in the hospital,” said Montecito debris flow survivor Kenneth was willing to discuss in graphic detail exactly what happened to them that morning when ����������� Grand, ����������������������������� who has been renting a home on Alameda Padre Serra since April. the debris flow destroyed their home at Glen Oaks Drive, killing Ms. Riskin, a prominent �������������������������������� Realtor��������������������������������� in Montecito, and one of their two dogs, Georgia, a Yorkie-poo. Olive, a Maltipoo, ���������������������������������By MARILYN MCMAHON survived and lives with Mr. Grand. ���������������������������� NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE “Individuals who do not embrace ����������������������������� Why is he willing to relive the tragedy now? ����������������������������� the new rules and safety measures ������������������� LOS ANGELES — Hall of Fame hat started out asdisabled, a story about a nature-inspired beauty personal care �������������� that put horse and rider safety “Because I was grieving and the story got told by others.

I and wanted to tell my ���������������������������� ������������������ trainer Jerry Hollendorfer was COURTESY above place PHOTO One of Kenneth’s business in Carpinteria turned into a harrowing account never shared beown story.

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by Kenneth Grand, a survivor the horrific debris flowdied in terhas aoffourth horse in his care the hospital,” said Grand from the home he been renting since April onMontecito Alameda the company that owns Santa Anita with ���������������������������� filled of photos of ���������������� Kenneth Grand is seen while racing or training. ������������������������������ ������������������������������ and Golden in Albany,Riskin. that took place in the early morning hours of Jan. 9, 2018. his wife, Rebecca. hisGate lateFields, wife, Rebecca Padre Serra.

Before that, there were homes on the Mesa for a year and on San Roque. ������������������������������ ����������������������������� American Currency on Saturday Calif., said in a statement.

Just before anthat interview about Earth Science Naturals, which Mr.to Grand has ������������������������������� ������������������������������� Following isending the story Mr. Grand managed to write several months after his ordeal suffered a life-ending leg injury “We regret that Mr. Hollendor���������������������������������� ����������������������������� his left-front fetlock (ankle) while owned since 2002, he mentioned that there was an interesting side note if the News-Press fer’s record in recent months at and exclusively shared with the News-Press: �������������������������������� �������������� running over the training track, ac- both Santa Anita and Golden Gate ������ ������������������������������� cared to�������������� hear it. ���� ������������������������������� ������������� cording to Rick Arthur, chief equine Fields has become increasingly ��������������������������� Little����������� did we realize his connection to the debris flow —for and he is the husband of veterinarian thethat California Racchallenging and does not match the ����������� ������� ������������� ing Board.

It was the first fatality levelhe of safety and accountability we Rebecca Riskin, who��������������� perished in the tragedy that took 23 lives. It was the first time �������������������������� �������������� This is the story of the fire and floods that this resulted in Rebecca’s deathtrack, and my injury �������� meeting on the training ����������������������������� �������� was toofdiscuss in graphic detail exactlywhich what happened to them that morningdemand. when Effective immediately, Mr. and willing the�������������������������������� loss our home. �������������������������������������������� ����������� sits between the turf course Hollendorfer is no longer welcome �������������������������������� mudslide happenedtheir on Jan. 9 atat approximately 4 a.m.

We were not in used the “mandato���������������������������������������������� ����������������������������� theThe debris flow destroyed home Glen Oaks Drive, killing Ms.is Riskin, a prominent and infield area and not to stable, race or train his horses �������������������������������� �������������������������������������������� �������������������������������� ry” evacuation area, so weCOURTESY stayed home. gone through several weeks of fire evacPHOTO We had for racing.

It was the 30th horse at any of our facilities.” ���������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������� ��������������������������������� Realtor in Montecito, and one of their two dogs, Georgia, a Yorkie-poo.

Olive, a Maltipoo, uation both voluntary and we had come to trust the judgement fatality since the meeting opened Jill center,WHITTLE is the official Hugs forwarnings, Cubs child this season and and mandatory, ������������������������������ ����������������������������������������������� ��������������������������������� By TESS KENNY ByMott, CHRISTIAN of the public officials regarding safe zones. on ‘I want to survived and lives with Mr. Grand. �������������������������� Please see HORSE on B3 ����������������������������������������� ���������������������������� Dec. 26.STAFF WRITER spent the first two innings of Saturday’s game in the dugout.

NEWS-PRESS NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER ���������������������������� Geoff Gray and Dina Landi, were in the mandatory area, so they came to stay ���������������������������������������������� Our friends, ����������������������������� Why is he willing to relive the tragedy now? ������������������������������ ������������������������������������������������ with us����������������������������� in our guest house. Rebecca’s 25-year-old autistic daughter Julia was staying with relieveCOURTESY stress’: PHOTO hen Sara Rotman caught wind of the public health crisis, her ikki Homan never expected to work Tre Lune nearly twohad ������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������� ������������������� “Because Iatas was grieving and disabled, thejaw story got told by others.

I wanted tell my us that night, she oftenfor did since she surgery (which I believe was in to late July). ������������������������������� �������������������������������������������� ���������������������������� Kenneth Grand is airlifted by helicopter after a response was nothing short of extraordinary.

While suffering decades.

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Before that, there were homes on the Mesa for a year and on San Roque. ������������������������������ ��������������������������������������������� ������������������������������ “I don’t know one person in California that’s not losing sleep over what Coast Village Road favorite opened its doors, the general manager at the �������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������� ������������������������������� Following is the story that Mr. Grand managed to write several months after his ordeal determined ��������������������������� we’re experiencing,” said Ms. Rotman. “We’re so fortunate the governor time secured her a job with the main floor staff as a server. ����������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������� ������������������� exclusively shared with the News-Press: ������������������������������������������������ �������������������������������� T E R Y INS IDE us an essential business. Apart from supporting our business and Now well into her 17th year and at the restaurant, it’s become her home L O Tdeemed ������������������������ ��������������������������������������������� ������������������������������� Saturday’s SUPER LOTTO: 6-8-20-40-42 Meganumber: 24 Saturday’s DAILY 4: 6-5-0-6to bring her employees, it’s necessary medicine.” away from home.

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ester manager Bill Pintard said. “We lost on the ballfield, but not as people we didn’t.”

The Foresters’ magic did run out once inside the lines, as a pair of errors in the second inning allowed the visiting Conejo Oaks to score five times, a lead they’d never relinquish, beating Santa Barbara, 8-5.

The Foresters dropped to 11-4 overall and 9-4 in California Coastal Collegiate League play.

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Owner wants to help community ‘relieve stress’

and prompted to city’s Public Works Fire hydrant inmate staff tois respond and shut off the Lompoc county’s hydrant, said Battalion Chief Robsheered in crash ert Mercado, spokesman for the

fourth COVID-19 death; Cottageof surveyi North County at 78% on health needs county’s confirmed cases

SANTA BARBARA The top of a fire Santa Barbara City Fire Departhad to adapt to a new normal. This and incurable disease,” she said. had her own personal supply of hydrant was sheered off, spewing a ment. means covering their faces with “Cannabis is the thing that helps medicine. Since then, the horse Water service was restored after a Continued from A1 large amount of water onto the street anything they can find – like cut up me. Countless other Californians retreat-turned cannabis farm has time. Minor injuries were reported and down a storm drain, in a two-veWith a planting season from April bandanas as masks dwindle – main- use cannabis for stress relief, pain expanded to help others like Ms. hicle collision Friday morning in the in the crash, Battalion Chief Mercado said. through October, Busy Bee’s has had taining 6 feet apart of separation on reduction, inflammation reduction. Rotman.

100 block of East Pedregosa Street, SANTA BARBARA Cottage Health SANTAsustained BARBARA Cottage H “People like myself can’t take a Both vehicles minor to little choice but to continue growing the fields and keeping spray bottles There are literally millions using authorities said. and community partners are and community partners moderate damage.

The Santa Barof bleach handy for breakrooms. cannabis to treat their ailments.” gummy,” she said.

“They are panif they hope to release WellfoundBy NICK MASUDA holdPolice a sizable advantage ininvesoverThe collision occurred around 7: bara asking residents who receive a asking residents who rece Department is “Nothing in farming can be done Never a recreational user herself, icked about taking too much THC DIRECTOR OF NEWS ed Botanicals Fortunately, all cases, with 300 ofcall theto 385, or 40 a.m. involving a GMC Yukon and survey phone on calltime. to participate survey phone partic tigating the circumstances of the remotely,” said Ms. Rotman. “We Ms. Rotman turned to cannabis out for their comfort. Our products are that has yet to change, 78%. in aschedule community health needs as in a community health n Chevy Tahoe.

One of the vehicles colcollision. to give people accurate The Santa Barbara Counthe cannabis industry one have had to figure out how to space of necessity. In fact, when Ms. Rot- designed RAFAEL MALDONADO / NEWS-PRESS assessment, offidals remains said Frisaid Santaassessment, Maria hasoffidals 93 cases, lided with the hydrant and “caused out properly and find the right man and her husband purchased doses based on their needs and Public Health Department, of California’s few essential sectors. staff day. day. while the Lompoc an it totyexpel copious amounts of water” A two-car collision at 128 E. Pedregosa St. broke a fire hydrant that gushed water down the street.

—prison Mitchellhas White protective gear. We were keeping the farm in 2014, they did so hoping comfort.” along with the Bureau of Pris- additionalThe Apart from deciding dispensaries The survey is being conducted is being condu 81survey and Lompoc has Personally, Ms. Rotman is most ons, announced the fourth COV- 68. Orcutt should be understand treated something like faces covered before that became a to create a sanctuary. “to better the needs “tois better the n at 35,understand unincorporatrecommendation.

Before moving to Santa Barbara, comfortable with taking a small and strengthsGov. of the entireNewsom comand strengths of the entire ID-19-related death in the coun- ed North pharmacies, Gavin County has 18 and San“We spend everyday securing the most of Ms. Rotman’s career was daily dose of CBD, the non-psychomunity, and the many diverse andfive. the many div ty on Saturday, the latest being ta Ynezmunity, also kept recreational sales open, so Valley has groups it,”businesses Cottage Health groups within it,” Cottage H an inmate at the federal prison long as within cannabis adopt- proper safety equipment like the centered on the fast-paced fashion active component of cannabis and In the South County, Santa spokeswoman Maria Zate in spokeswoman Maria Zate sa hospitals. But maintaining the dis- and entertainment industry, where hemp. From there, she takes a comin Lompoc. ed safety measures like said curbside Barbara has 43, unincorporated a news release. a news release. tance is possible because we live on she formed the identity for countmensurate amount of THC based on According to the BOP, inmate South County pickup, delivery and distancing in has 21, Goleta Findings will help Cottage Findings will helpValCo a 65-acre farm.” less big-name brands like MTV, Vera her pain level that day, a regimen Oliver M. Boling, 66, died late ley/Gaviota has 12, Goleta retail stores. has six Health and community partners Health and community par Still, some practices have provWang and Tory Burch. that seems to be working well.

Guests enjoy exhibitseemed at the Santa Friday.

In fact, the an industry to Barbara Museum of Natural and Islarecognize Vista remains at one. recognize the scope of population the scope of popul History. en to be less flexible. While initial Instead, her newly-acquired “I haven’t had a severe flare up Mr. Boling had been incarhave hit its stride just before the In terms of age brackets health concerns. health concerns. cerated in Lompoc since May 7, through Saturday, statewide shelter-in-place order seed germination, an integral part Buellton property offered Ms. Rot- for a while, probably since around here are The assessment will include The assessment willthe inc Continued from Page 2018, convicted for Sodomy and A1numbers: came into effect on March 19, with of preparing the cannabis crop, man a change of pace. And as an the holidays,” she said. “My condi2,500 telephone surveys, with 2,500 telephone surveys, Assault With a Deadly Weapon, many stores reporting some of their lends itself to distanced production, avid equestrian, she knew the open tion is well-managed through cancalls to randomly selected cellcalls randomly selected • 0-17: 13 to normal est inPetit getting back to normal because was never the planting process that follows re- space could house her horses. But nabis… I’ve never been a smoker. I Prison Breach, Larceny biggest sales since phonesdays andof landlines.

Allrecrearephones and landlines. Al • 18-29: 63 good enough for me.” quires much closer contact. soon after the purchase was made, take quite a high volume of CBD as and Armed Robbery.

He was tional marijuana became legal in sponses will be confidential, sponses will be confiden • 30-49: A representative of Rep. Salud 133 Carbajal, D-Santa Bar“Planting for all farm workers tions in Los Angeles.

Together, the Ms. Rotman found herself in debil- soft gels, edibles if I’m making them

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Since then, KENNY some businesses and information collected will and information collected • 50-69: 141 bara, also spoke at the event, and said, “We are here today does necessitate close quarters,” itating pain. myself because I like to control the NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER Getty, Japanese American Museum, not be connected to names or not be connected to nam tence. have noticed a continued increase • 70-plus: 35 because we refuse to be complicit in the abuse of children Skirball Cultural“Working Center and Autry said Ms. Rotman. together A trip to the emergency room dosage and tinctures. There’s alphone numbers. bephone numbers.

Calls wil According and to the BOPto , Mr. Bol-idly byOf in orders, includingCalls Busywill Bee’s. the 385 cases, 149 are rerefuse stand while our American identity is When you step inside a museum, Museum formed the Museums Margetting the seedlings from the seed and what turned out to be 11 years ways some THC, but I take as little gin the week of July and con-out gin the week of July 15 and ing had a long-term, pre-existing While having just15cleared covering at home, 170 have fully being used to commit human rights abuses.” you step into aSeptember. whole new world. trays. That’s Roundtable. tinue through tinue through September. very challenging.” of misdiagnoses left Ms. Rotman a as I can because I struggle with it medical condition. their inventory from 2019, Ms. Rot- keting The representative, arecovered, mother ofIn two children, held back 41 are in the hospital Timelines longlater forgotten come to Fifteen years later, the organizaIn addition, this summer addition, later this sum If adapting operations wasn’t victim of Crohn’s disease.

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“Public Health extends our to(14 manand hasunknown noticed an influx of intears while speaking thein crowd. the intensive carewill unit), 21 life names take on tion has grown to include institutions the collaborative will gather feedthe collaborative gather enough to tackle, the farm’s need toimmune disorder, which causes Modeling her brand after her deepest sympathies to the family terested callers over the last few After the Rev. Moore and representative, several oth-to arethe pending updates and tour four new from Palm Springs the way down inflammation of the digestive tract, own preferences, Ms. Rotman has backimportance. during a listening tour to hear back during a listening for additional staffall during planting and friends of the individual who their weeks, many of which sheawas surers followed to express against the centers Every museum unlocks piece of to Irvine. haveopposition died. from individuals and organizations from individuals and organiza season has given Ms. Rotman anoth- has no cure, and often puts patients designed Wellfounded Botanicals unfortunately passed,” said Sanprised hear along the border. the pasttobut thefrom. story never seems According to health-related the PHD, 49 museums) came together regarding health-related needs in to er“(Our regarding nee element to consider. To keep up in extreme discomfort. to include a relief tincture – or conPHOTOS The Public last protest in Santa Barbara thatCOURTESY addressed the ta Barbara County Health “To be honest, I thought the black be With additional healthcare workers have tested to face some of the problems we all thecomplete. community.

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The listening with their planned rate of producTo deal with the relentless pain, centrated herbal extract – tablets, facilities tookpositive. place awill year ago according to Mi-g Director Dr. detention Van Do-Reynoso. market would have taken a stronger visit, you leave more informed will include online surveys, groupyet face,” said Ms. Callabero. “For a lot The Santa Barbara Museum of Art include online surveys, tion, the farm has hired 24 contract Ms. Rotman’s doctors suggested tra- face serum, body balm and bath oil. chalto Lynch of IAC. more curious than before, itching “We continue actively partfoothold at this time,” she said.

“The of these places, whether their addiscussions, phone interviews, and discussions, phone interview workers,is who safe lodging ditionaloftreatments like communimorphine doing Each with a different CBD to The last speaker addressimpact the more than 100-strong for something extra. marketing and research that I knew weTHC had bara, Free-for-All opens up a toticeable the popularity of nerbut with Prison and State Leaddemand is still there. Customers mission small need or large, events like rector visits to various community-based visits toon various community-b crowdexposure was bilingual. taught the protestors the unity while the season runs barriers.” its course. and oxytocin, of which offered ratio, products provide custom- whole Luckily, SoCal Museums’ COVID-19, slewtoof opportunities.

Sudthe Museum of Art, which joined Socations for theboth Santa Barbara Mu- to get the involved. ership mitigate both She from last year are wantingFree-forto know Free-for-All removes organizations. organizations. clap, according her, represents a resistance moveAll aims to satisfy that itch. materi“There’s a housing issuefamilies for con- seum Ms. Rotman littleHistory, relief. noticed an ers“Santa with Barbara a controlled they denly, dayand trips andwhich, destinations Cal Museums inassessment 2011. of Natural issuchdosage asmallcominside outside of the facility to when we’ll be ready with The assessment collaborative The collabor Attracting anyone from by the numbers ment’s slow but steady beat that builds momentum over time.

On Jan. 25, the Santa Barbara previously overlooked seem with“We definitely see a spark in ad- M tract laborers,” said Ms. Rotman.

“Western medicine didn’t have can comfortably include in their opportunity to widen that impact in munity but so rich culturally,” includes Lompoc Valley Mediincludes Lompoc Valley with smaller kids to teenagers and to prevent further spread of the als. There’s a strong demand that A look athistory statewide, nationAfter explaining the symbolism and ofPlanned this clap, the Museum of Art,be Santa Barbara Mu- college missions during those particular “We contract laborFree-for-All during planting any good treatments, so we started continued daily routines.

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This publicity comes just in time days,” Katrina Carl, the muse“I was just scrolling through we’re a part of this network, and it season, so we’re working with the exploring other ways to get well,” And if doing so helps someone hood California Central Coast, hood California Central C upwards of 100,000 visitors in In addition to the death, the And although the social distanc• public InSanta California, there ta Barbara Historical Museum will previous The Santa Barbara Police Department was aware ofare the for the Museum of Natural History, um’s relations manager.

Facebook, and I saw something opens them up to see what else is Santa Barbara County Public Barbara County P contract company to make sure she said.

“We really hit a lot of roadlike it did Ms. Rotman, she knows years.

This time around, orPHD announced 11 Brian additional ing orders have slowed down their open their doors and invite visitors 30,811 confirmed cases, Santa with rally. Sgt. Miller said the department the which recently completed over $20 While events likemonitored Free-for-All Health Department, Santahas Bar-as- ganizers Health Department, one daygrowing a year when all out there.” to makesafely.” just as much about their guyshope can operate blocks.this We started all of our she’s done her job. confirmed cases, bringing the 1,148 operations, Ms. Rotman to attend free of charge.

Part of the situation but the protestors on the sidewalk and deaths, including 91Santa ononly Satmillion in renovations. For new visiinviteremained more interest, that’s bara Foundation, Santa Barbabara Foundation, Ba the museums in L.A. are free,” said People farther south may not be of an impact, if not more.

Beyond localized challenges, own food to control the symptoms…

“I want to relieve stress,” she county total to 385. sured customers products are comSoCal 15th annual Free-for-All, protested urday. tors and longtime patrons,peacefully. the mu- one part ra of the equation. Ms. Carl ra Neighborhood Clinics, and Neighborhood Clinics Locally, Briana Sapp Tivey, diMs. Sivey.

“It wasn’t until I started aware of museums in Santa Barsetbacks are stacking up at the naThen my husband suggested cannasaid.

“To take the edge off, not put SOE HAN THA / NEWS-PRESS the cases, three were ing soon – despiteare recent the institutions justsetbacks. three of • In the United there seumWith hopes tonew create a long lasting hopes that guests whoStates, come for the UCSB. UCSB. tional level, marched with the marijuana in- Barbara bis. themalong in a coma.” in the 0-17 age bracket, while sev- free “On the one hand, it’s been fanmore than 40 museums throughProtesters from the Santa County Courthouse and walked Anacapa Street to the plaza. email: stha@newspress.com impression. stay for whatbe they a areadmission 735,242 confirmed cases with Results will be availResults will dustry unable to tap into the feder“I wasn’t particularly interestThose interested in Ms. Rotman’s out California waiving en were in the to 18-29 ageSanta group. experience. tastic to continue to the operate,” said “We want people realize ableSouthern by the end of year at by and the end of the ye 33,903 able deaths 64,840 have al stimulus package or bank loans. ed in that. I didn’t know a lot, but upcoming line of products can visit admissions.

There were one apiece in the 30- fully Ms. Rotman.

Barbara is truly a biological hotspot,” cottagehealth.org. cottagehealth.org.

“I want them to come back,” recovered.

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tionships downThe the Santa coast, Barbathe orgabiomass is located, near the surface, CARPINTERIA nization uses cross-promotion and Mr. Peters’ next study will explore ra County Association of Governjoint events like Free-for-All to spark whether other marine animals conments released an update Friday museum interest. tribute to nitrogen levels in the kelp on next week’s work on the HighThis the and Museum ofPass Natuforest canopy. way 101:will Linden Casitas ral History’s project. third year with SoBecause sea otters forage for reef construction CalFrom Museums, and the Museum invertebrates and spend much of Monday through Wednes- of Art’s 10th. will be restriping lanes their time resting in the kelp forday crews “I’m happy that sosafety many Santa est, Mr. Peters suspects they act as and moving concrete barriBarbara locations joined us this ers to prepare forhave the next stages “a conveyor belt of nutrients,” directBy MITCHELL Special educators throughout year,” said Ms. WHITE Callabero.

“Thisreway, of work, according to a press ly supplying their waste and urine NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER the have also been using we can integrate some of the muselease from SBCAG. intodistrict the canopy. video conference platforms such ums that people go tohave every year with Highway 101 will alternatWhile the UCSB team’s collaborahile some new.” students will some that are brand as Zoom toUnited work States in collaboration, ing lane closures between Linden tors at the Geological continue to excel despite When SoCal Museums began, sharing ideasstudied and successes while and Bailard avenues.

One lane it Survey have otter activity at remote instruction ocincluded no more than a few maralso seeking solutions. will remain open. monthly intervals for 13 years, Mr. keting executives institucurring in schools the “Our told teachers are a hard-workFrom 8 p.m. to from 5 throughout a.m.four Monday Peters the News-Press that he A fountain flows at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. nation during the COVID-19 panthrough Wednesday, the northCOURTESY PHOTO ing, student-centered, and his team will observeand themexon demic, there is aatconcern among bound onramps Casitas Pass tremely flexible bunch,” John a “finer scale.”

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8 p.m. to 7 a.m.are PerhapsFrom the most vulnerable fied School District, told the Newstorists are reminded to move over and slow Mondayeducation through students, Wednesday special who Press. through “Those traits areconstruccrucial — Mitchell White down when driving highway the only southbound offramp atfor Ca-the not rely on schooling during this time as all of this is new tion zones. sitas Pass Road willthe be routine closed it lesson plans, but also the landscape around social For more and information, call 805-549-3318 or Several ramp closures are schedasCARPINTERIA needed. provides. distancing has evolved quickly.” visit www.dot.ca.gov. uled next week as work continues on the Highway Via Real is closed from Casitas In a time when no one can say Mr. Schettler noted that the “vast 101 Linden and Pass project.

Pass Road to theCasitas old northbound with certainty when we will return — Mitchell White majority” of students who receive From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.Local Monday, Highway 101 onramp. res-the northbound next year. to normalcy — or for that matter SANTA BARBARA A motorcyclist suffered major special education services have idents have one-way to be closed to alonramp at Casitas Pass access Road will math, all kinds of stuff. My fawhat normal will even mean inslope the paving injuries in a collision on State Route 154“You get to do literacy, been able to general educaContinued PageSaturday A1 Hales Lane on Via Real.

Pedeslow crews to finish staining the and from vorite part is recess or lunch.

Weaccess get to do foursquare,” coming months — teachers with near East Camino Cielo, authorities said. tion content, though said there triansbarrier. can useThe the southbound sidewalk on 101 onramp at safety she said.MONTECITO Cold Springs Trail will reopenare Santalearning Barbarawith County Firefun.

Department crews the Barbara Unified School tohaving ViaSanta Real, but people are asked Casitas Pass Road will be closed from 9program a.m. to 3 combines still students need more signifLikeday.

Nathan, Judith said her who favorite activity of the were dispatched thewhen area at 2:12 p.m.

District are their and nerve-wracking” alland attohow the quickly due toThe thecolmandates and icant support.

“We learned about owls they eat their to refrain from entering thepart con- toas needed p.m.

Monday 13doing through Wednesday for day wasThe the inflatable obstacle course. lision involved a motorcycle and passenger vehiofficial reopening is setour forteachers 9 a.m. at and the prey they cough up hairballs with the bones of their bring about consistency and conti- officials. same time.

Educators are well restrictions in place.

This concept struction area. similar work, according to Caltrans “We are In using “Everything we do at Fun is reallyDrive rootcle, said.fire Capt.

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The new southbound Highwaythrough aware thatsaid families are struggling canenjoys work well at the secondary lev- other From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday Friday, specialists consult with ed in teaching the kids teamwork andtoconfidence and was transported by ground Montecito. ing math.

101 onramp at Casitas Pass Road Derek Drew has been the northbound onramp atteaching Linden Avenue will dueThe financially to motorcyclist the pandemic el, as most students are ainbit more families and find out how to supworking together in a collaborative setting.

Allthe of deour ambulance to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.

Much of the trail has been closed since Nathan said the Olympic games are a highlight of is open and the temporary ramp be closed as needed as crews work on the new special education at San Marcos and some were already socio-eco- tech-saavy and others are more in- port their individual needs as best games are embedded in that, that teamwork mindset,” No other injuries were reported. bris flow on Jan. 9, 2018.

The trail was considered his at summer, a great opportunity to seedependent, old friendsMr. andDrew said. has been removed. sound wall.

This ramp will be closed the disadvantaged High School for the past 11not years. nomically before werestoration can,” he said Ms. Cabrera, “Anything wesaid. can dowas to get them wet Crews were joined on scene by personnel from unstable.

The work supported meet new people. offramp Linden same time as northbound onramp widespread at Casitas HeThe serves asthe aatmild to Avenue moderate closures and cancella“It’s sort of like office hours and “Many of our specialists and the Los Padres National Forest and California and dirty is perfect.” by the Montecito Trail Foundation, volunteers “Everyone knows each other,” he said. is closed forThe approximately sixatwith toLinden Pass Road.

101 offramp Avenue case manager, working mostly tions occurred. itisallows kids to ask questions and was therapists will be offering their Highway Patrol.

The CHP investigating.

Friday’s event sponsored by the Brain Balance and donations.

Nathan listed off a dozen new friends he made before nine months.

Drivers are asked will remain closed, said.instudents who are officials completely “Those kids, everybody’s figure out if they help with services through online platforms East Mountain Drive is still closed at Cold Center of Santa Barbara. he offkinds to tryofthe giant inflatable obstacle course, a need toStarting use the next of-ramps atcrews Reynolds week, will openreally Viaran Real cluded in general education classnervous about how they’re anything,” he said. “In doing so, very it to Springs Creek while a new bridge is being built, students who need them.”

“They are generous to lend their support to favorite at the event.

Avenue or Casitas Pass Road to between Casitas and Vallecito Ogan —allows Mitchell White es. He served as Pass a support teacher roads. doing,” Mr. Drew said. “That’s an kind of for some ofbut our kids the trailhead is accessible to and pedestrians. today and While we’re very grateful,” said Ms. Cainstruction learning is Many reachwill thebe beach and downtown Road closed between Linden Avenue andof the students have participated in Fun in the this event in senior English for a number of obvious drawback all this gowith certain accommodations to be continuing, there is a sense of unbrera. the past, butwith newcomers are quickly welcomed Carpinteria.

Pacific Village Drive to allow crews to Sun buildinthe — Staff report years and this year has made the ing able intoon.” the group. Judith Figueroa, 11, said thistoisgo herthrough first and pause and known that leaves some educators new roundabout and roadway improvements. shift to biology — which he joked One of Mr. Drew’s students has go back and try and figure out what email: cwhittle@newspress.com year in the program and said she wants to come back — Christian Whittle nervous about the long-term impliA local street detour will be available on State has been a challenge in itself. struggled socially over the years, they’re doing for any one assign- cations of remote learning. stories, photos, graphics, maps and Route 192. advertising. News-Press material is the “I’m kind of backtotoexpect schoolconstruction but now as a senior has been able ment.

Motorists aregoing advised “Someone used the metaphor of SANTA BARBARA The southbound Highway 101 property of Ampersand Publishing LLC. myself,” Mr. Drew said with a laugh. to acclimate himself, and joined “This is sort of forcing change crews on and near Linden Avenue and Casitas onramp at Turnpike Road remains closed due to ‘we’re building the plane as we fly Reproduction or nonpersonal usage for “I hadn’t a biology class traffic in together a group located of teachers that think will in a Pass Roadtaken with flagmen directing as crewswith Drew said. any purpose without written permission a sinkhole between theI onramp and work the well GUADALUPEit,’” TheMr. city of Guadalupe is holding a Vol. 164 No. 301 229 like 30on years.” every day lunch.

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I think work new sidewalks and safety barriers.

In for of the News- Press is expressly right shoulder of the southbound lanes.

“Itfrom was a super-quick with public workshop noon to 2 p.m.rollout today to soprohibited. Other material, including Mr. Drew holds addition, crews areindividualized trenching in preparation recently reached to a teacher there’s some silver linings in it, for onsome Theout sinkhole was initially discovered Dec. of thismobility stuff. Everybody licit input improving safety. is renews service stories, comics, for irrigation lines by the ramps at Casitas education programs, also101 known and was in tears. sure.”

27 and the ramp was closed to maintain public The meeting will be held at the city auditorium, ally nervous about making sureit. syndicated features and columns, may den Court.

There, she one day mentioned told she would be Spirit until a few days bestrengthen lenge. www.newspress.com Pass Road. as IEPs, for 20 students. Because “He said he was Caltrans going to miss Drew explained safety. crewsitand aMr. contractor, Granite that 918special Obispo St. Community invited that kids get members what theyare need, butthat instead be protected by separate and that she was the first Spirit of Fiesta and fore the parade.

“She felt of hiding awaycopyrights and “You think, ‘I’m here to give the best I Caltrans has announced preconstruction acConstruction, immediately began developing a he serves as a co-teacher, he also Newspress.com is a local virtual a lot and it was a really important education can create a co-dependtrademarks.

Their presentation by the to provide input on conditions for walking, bicyContinued from Page A1 Continued from Page A1 I think in general it’s not going to a woman at the home overheard her.

That “My mom said something like, ‘You’re gojust favoring it, that exercise would help,” can,’ and you just make yourself strong,” tivities for the widening of Highway 101 in Carcommunity network providing information News- Press is with permission limited repair strategy, Jim Shivers, spokesman for Cal- and helps students in the classes he thing for him,” cling, transit, driving and beautifying the downMr. Drew said.

“We ency between teacher educareally be the same level ofParker educa-recalled. woman also happened to have a daughter ing to be Spirit of Fiesta.’

It was like three Ms. she said. about Santavery Barbara, in addition to the to one- time publication and does not pinteria, including that trans District 5,a said in a news release. town area and promote supports. very morning.

Shevegetation added thatclearing, her mother, She added set upwill awho Zoom lunch twice week, tor.

Now, students who need assistion as got whendevelopment, they were at looked was year’sCaltrans Spirit, and through her days before the big parade. … they Theybusiness sprung Ms. Parker back fondly on herwritten time release While being Spirit ofmorning.

Fiesta was fun whilet permit other use without online edition of the News-Press. begin the week of Jan. 19. Some of the key project Onthat Friday, began excavation work according to a news release. really just working to help an“I’m Italian immigrant and enthusiastic lover an Italian immigrant and en so we’reMs. allParker’s going toactivity get together tance are required to reach out for school each day, because there’s in Fiesta resumed. it on me and I didn’t have a dress.

I had to as Spirit and said dancing in the parade was it lasted, this giving of oneself to make othby the original rights holder. components include: new northbound and south- under an emergency contract. Construction is In March 2018, the city obtained a $206,450 susof Fiesta,kids, would have been thrilled see of Fiesta, would have been support behaviorally, and to and eat, just like we did at school, help, which could turn into a posiMember of the Audit Bureau of Circulations Parkerfrom attended the 13 audithat belonged to an adult, and but challenging.

Though not a major as- ers happy is what Ms. Parker still carries just not enough time tofun make that bound “peak-period carpool lanes” within the city Ms. planned 6 it a.m. to 5April p.m. days aborrow week a dress communities grant throughpect the Califorand The Associated Press her chosen. her chosen. helping them learn how to learn, to try and help himended through a16-year-old littive seven moving forward. tions that with Sophia that was atainable huge deal for a 12-year-old.” of the parade today, Ms. Parker said from that experience.

NEWSPAPER happen. of Carpinteria; new bridges over Franklin and and will include replacing the entire length of denia Department of Transportation to develop a bands used to be a prominent “I’m glad for mother’s sake, “I’m gladoffor my mother’ essentially,” he my said.

“You use tac-because tle bit.”

“I think that, in a way and for Cordero being named Spirit of Fiesta and Suddenly thrusting Ms. Parker into acthat military “You learn not to think yourself, you “This is just such crazy, crazy and Santa Monica creeks; new freeway onramps and teriorated corrugated steel pipe up to 40 feet be- mobility and revitalization plan. The draft plan it meant so much to her,” she said. it meant so much to her,” sh tics that support their own learning 10-year-old Paloma Valenzuela chosen as tivities seemed to be her mother’s nature. part of the event and that she even danced learn to think of other people…

You really Shifting to remote learning, also this period of time, is a good thing Periodicals Postage Paid at Santa unprecedented times.

And it’s hapofframps at Santa Monica Road, Carpinteria Av- low the surface. Weather permitting, the ramp will was presented to the for Citynot Council onwith Nov. one 26 and Though she spent manyneeds.” years away considered from Junior Though she spent many y Barbara, CA. Postmaster: Send Spirit.

Ms. Parker credits her mom only behind her.

Flamenco dancing to are a symbol for something and it just forces based on their individual flipping the classroom, where all of a sudden they’re repening all over the country.” enue and Reynolds Avenue; six new sound walls; reopen the week of Feb. 3, Mr. Shivers said. caninvolved be foundin atFiesta, www.ci.guadalupe.ca.us. address changes to the Santa Barbara allMr. Fiesta activities, Ms.few Parker’s involveall Fiesta activities, Ms. P Back in 1949 the choice of Spirit of Fiesgetting her but dancmilitary band music wasn’t easy and for a you out of your own little cubby hole, and that’s Drew said the past weeks is Monica not necessarily new, headed but edusponsible for their education,” Mr. Publishing LLC and intersection improvements at Santa Motorists south on the 101 may enRefreshments will be provided meeting.

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After Ms. Parker sufferedat the second she thought, “Oh no,P.O. thisBox isn’t posto anybody,” shefestival said. has “ have been “challenging and scary since cators have been forced to adjust Drew said.

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The representative, a mother of two children, held back “We kind of wanted to get a on camera, perfectly on cue,” Mr. afloat. bright and sunny day. mmer tears while “We’ve been through things be- speaking to the crowd.

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Mr. Durflinger said he was moved pandemic. I wanted to document it, clap, which, according to her, represents a resistance moverative Mr. Nimmer said he has been vid- by the stories, but was also reasbut I also wanted to do something over Zoom and used a combination ment’s slow but steady beat that builds momentum over time.

Mediin explaining the now to help people and to get in- of previously shot footage of the city eotaping storefronts around town sured to hear the confidence After the symbolism and history of this clap, the arentformation out. Since Facebook is a and aerial shots taken from a prop- while maintaining a safe distance community’s ability to weather crowdthe joined her and finished off the gathering.

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The Santa Barbara Police Department was aware of the Public Perhaps the most powerful in- the safety of the community. the city may revisit the series toSgt. fol- Brian Miller said the department monitored the I could do a series of short rally. a thought Barterview in the series is a segment “I also feel I am putting myself low-up with the people that were but the protestors remained on the sidewalk and situation videos,” Mr. Nimmer said.

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biomass is located, near the surface, Mr. Peters’ next study will explore whether other marine animals contribute to nitrogen levels in the kelp forest canopy.

Because sea otters forage for reef invertebrates and spend much of their time resting in the kelp forest, Mr. Peters suspects they act as “a conveyor belt of nutrients,” directly supplying their waste and urine into the canopy.

While the UCSB team’s collaborators at the United States Geological Survey have studied otter activity at monthly intervals for 13 years, Mr. Peters told the News-Press that he and his team will observe them on a “finer scale.”

That will entail recording how how their diet and the water temlong the animals stay in the kelp perature around them impact their forest canopy day to day, and using nitrogen output. models to estimate how much they According to the release, lobexcrete. Whereas the invertebrate sters along with sea stars have an study covered five coastal locations, “outsized effect in shaping the ecothe upcoming study will focus on an system” because of their predatory area just south of Point Conception. nature. Because their diets contain Sea otter populations in many oth- more protein than other inverteer Southern California waters are brates, they release more ammonistill lacking in numbers, so it was um and nitrogen-rich compounds in necessary to select an area with a their waste. consistently sizeable Theadapted crustaceans together Sansum Clinicpopulation is open to and has togather continue to serve our determine whether or not the crea- in dens during the day, which Mr. while managing the impact this novel coronavirus turespatients have a significant impact on Peters suspectsofmay result in more nutrient levels. herbivores moving into the reefs if pandemic.

Our primary care, specialty and urgent care providers “Sea otter populations are startthis leads tocare an increase in algae ing toare recover in Southern Califoraround the lobster dens. dedicated to helping you receive the healthcare you need. nia and that is a stable population,” Mr. Peters said he hopes to conMr. Peters said. clude the sea otter study by fall of In an effort to toobserving complysea with Public In addition otters, thisHealth year. requests, we are trying to reserve Mr. Peters will lead a study that takes in-clinic appointments forand patients need to be seen in person at this a closer look at spiny lobsters email:who jgrega@newspress.com

ednes- usiness shutting down due to lanes the COVID-19 outbreak has barri- halted Santa Barbara-based stages women’s accessory designer Caron ess reMiller’s normal wholesale to retail stores across the country. However, ernatthe standstill in hat and scarf sales inden e has lanedriven her to start making a product in high demand these days: Masks. onday After the first week of selling her northCOURTESY PHOTO new product, founder of kelp the growth involved the use of divers. s Pass The the UCSB study on named Caron Miller eeponymously will time. If you need to be seen, we are here for you. We are rescheduling esCollection as donated all of the money 7 earned, a.m. $3,000, to Hearts Therapeumany appointment types to Telehealth visits by video and phone so esday tic Equestrian Center. patients can see a doctor from the safety of their own homes. We can help at CaIn an interview with the Newslosed Press, Ms. Miller remarked that her you determine if a Telehealth visit is medically appropriate for you. brand of reusable masks is made asitas Please call (805) 681-7500 or visit telehealth.sansumclinic.org with three layers of fabric, reversbound ible, washable and meant to help al resnext year. take ess to pressure off the supply of dis“You get to do literacy, math, all kinds of stuff. My faposable masks.

She admitted Continued from Pagethat A1 Pedesvorite part is recess or lunch. We get to do foursquare,” when alk on her business first started getshe said. ting impacted by the coronavirus program combines learning with having fun. asked Like Nathan, Judith said her favorite activity of the “We learned about owls and how when they eat their she wasn’t all that intent epandemic, conday was the inflatable obstacle course. prey they cough up hairballs with the bones of their on getting into mask manufacturing.

“Everything we do at Fun In the Sun is really roothelike saidaexcitedly. ghway Initially, it prey,” seemed bandwag-He said he also enjoys studyCOURTESY PHOTO ed in teaching the kids teamwork and confidence and ing math.

Road on that enough fabric workers had Caron Miller has donated $3,000 to the Hearts Therapeutic Equestrain Center. All of our working together in a collaborative setting.

Nathan said the Olympic games are a highlight of ramp jumped onto. But that changed embedded in that, that teamwork mindset,” summer, a great opportunity to see old friends and games are when her his sister, a dispatch center inventory of fabric to make it them wet effect, all lessons at the equestrian said Ms. sary Cabrera, “Anything we can do to get meet new people. venue director in North Fort Myers, Flor- center have ceased and the annual happen, Ms. Miller will begin doing and dirty is perfect.”

“Everyone knows each other,” he said. six ida,toconvinced her to start. with masks what she Barn Dance Friday’s event wasjust sponsored bydid the with Brain Balance Nathan listed off a dozen new friends hefundraiser made beforeoriginally asked Ms. Miller recalled, “She asked hats and scarves, selling wholesale. scheduled for May 9 had to be canCenter of Santa Barbara. he ran off to try the giant inflatable obstacle course, a nolds me, ‘Why aren’t youatmaking masks, celled. Because Hearts’ sources“They she’s currentlytobackordered of Since are very generous lend their support to favorite the event. oad to Caron?

Y ou’re a designer.’” ontoday masks, the demand it is defihave evaporated due to the this event and we’re veryfor grateful,” said Ms. CaMany of the students haveincome participated in Fun in the ntown Urgent Care at 215 Pesetas Lane is open daily from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Now that she inpast, the but game of health COURTESY PHOTO Ms. Miller willbrera. con- nitely there. Ms. Miller told the Sun inis the newcomers arecrisis, quickly welcomed making protective Miller for unplanned medical conditions. into themasks, group.Ms. Judith Figueroa, this is her firstfrom her News-Press she is very moved that tinue11, tosaid donate portions Students in United Way’s Fun in the Sun Summer Program Olympics has made year it its in own in and the said email: cwhittle@newspress.com thesection program shesales wants comeas back Whittle compete in the pie-eating contest Friday at El Camino Elementary School. the stores that know of her products mask toto Hearts its animals Caron Miller Collection. After all, still require care. are interested in acquiring her latText #COVID to (805) 681-7500 for immediate information about precautions against the coronavirus “We’ve cancelled all the classes, est offering.

COVID-19 symptoms, Telehealth appointments, and more. are unlikely to change in the near but we still have 18 horses we need “They know my work and they future and wearing masks is expect- to maintain,” she said. know my designs and my fabrics, ed to be par for the course.

Though a small fraction of the and I’m touched that people are We are grateful for the generosity and appreciation from our “Now I’ve created a new division initial $3,000 she donated to Hearts calling me from around the councommunity, and for the love and support shown toward our healthcare of my collection because I believe came from her own pocket, a ma- try saying they want Caron Miller den Court. There, she one day mentioned told she would be Spirit until a few days be- strengthen it. lenge. we will all be wearing masks going jority of it came from retail stores masks,” she said. workers.

We away are taking many precautionary toI protect our that she was the first Spirit of Fiesta and fore the parade.

“She felt that instead of hiding and “You think, ‘I’m here to measures give the best forward,” she stated.

Those interested in purchasing across the country she sells “My wholea woman at the home overheard her. That mom said something like, ‘You’re go- just favoring it, that exercise would help,” can,’ and you just make yourself strong,” employees and our patients so we can continue to offer personalized For the past three years,also Ms. Millmasks from Ms. Miller contact saletoto.

Familiar with theing kind ofSpirit woman happened have a daughter to be of Fiesta.’

It was likecan three Ms. Parker recalled. she said. that herbeen mother, er has volunteering at Hearts her via email at caron@caronmilltherapy Hearts provides, those who was that year’s Spirit, and through her days before the big parade. … They sprung Ms. Parker looked back fondly her time While Fiesta was fundeserves. while careon with the peace of being mindSpirit ourofcommunity nthusiastic loverEquestrian Therapeutic Center, decided to help out by buying Ms. Parker’s activitystores in Fiesta resumed. it on me ander.com.

I didn’t have a dress. I had to as Spirit and said dancing in the parade was it lasted, this giving of oneself to make othnwhich thrilled to see offers therapeutic horseback email should specify somethe of April the masks in Ms.borrow Miller’s Ms. Parker attended 13 audia dress The that belonged to an adult, and the fun but challenging. Though not a major as- ers happy is what Ms. Parker still carries has been mission nearly 100 years and it remains the same today. riding to individuals with quantity of masks desired and the tions thatchronic ended with Sophia that was a huge deal for a 12-year-old.” pect of the This parade today, Ms.our Parker said for from that experience. first16-year-old batch. ’sphysical, sake, because cognitive, behavioral, Cordero being or named“People Spirit ofknow Fiesta andequine Suddenly thrustingaddress.

Ms. Parker into that military bands used to be a prominent “You learn not to think of yourself, you 20% of allaccontinabout ther- shipping he said.

10-year-old Valenzuela as tivities seemed be her nature. part of the event and that she even danced to think other people… You really emotional challenges.

These Paloma indi- apy uedto sales willmother’s be donated to Hearts and they chosen were touched and they To learnlearn more, visitofsansumclinic.org years away fromin age Junior Spirit. her mom for notCenter. only with one behind her. Flamenco dancing to are a symbol for something and it just forces viduals range from 4 years wanted to be participants,”Ms. Therapeutic Equestrian Ms.Parker Mill- credits Parker’s Back 1949 the choice old to involveover 90. Since theinimpacts er said.of Spirit of Fies- getting her involved in Fiesta, but danc- military band music wasn’t easy and for a you out of your own little cubby hole, and that’s “bloomed” since outbreak ta wasn’ttook as organized.

Spirits Junior the ingnecesin general.

After Ms. Parker suffered second she thought, “Oh no, this isn’t pos- very important to anybody,” she said. of the COVID-19 full email: jgrega@newspress.com Once sheand possesses d with Old Span- Spirits are now chosen a few months in ad- a broken leg that refused to properly heal, sible,” but she let “common sense” and her ement home Gar- vance of the event, but Ms. Parker wasn’t her mother placed her in dance lessons to “positive will” take over to meet the chal- email: jgrega@newspress.com

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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY NEWS Fire hydrant sheered in crash

and prompted to city’s Public Works staff to respond and shut off the hydrant, said Battalion Chief Robert Mercado, spokesman for the Santa Barbara City Fire Department.

Water service was restored after a time. Minor injuries were reported in the crash, Battalion Chief Mercado said.

Both vehicles sustained minor to moderate damage. The Santa Barbara Police Department is investigating the circumstances of the collision.

Santa Barbara artist selling silkscreen prints of Rolling Stones members Cottage surveying to benefit Direct Relief during COVID-19 crisis on health needs

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NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

SANTA BARBARA Cottage Health and community partners are artist whose work deals asking nresidents who receive a mainly with iconic people, survey phone call to participate Santa Barbara resident in a community health needs Russell Y oung is using his images assessment, offidals said Friof day.famous individuals to support Direct Relief is during COVID-19 The survey beingthe conducted pandemic. “to better understand the needs and strengthsTaglialatella of the entire comThrough Gallermunity, and many galleries diverse in ies, one of thethe primary groupshe within it,” Cottage Health in which exhibits with locations spokeswoman saidParis, in New York City,Maria PalmZate Beach, a news release. and Toronto, Mr. Young is particiFindings help Cottage pating in itswill charitable campaign Health and community partners Art for Relief by selling three silkrecognize the scope of population screen prints of The Rolling Stones health concerns. icons Jagger and RichTheMick assessment willKeith include ards, 10% of the moneywith raised 2,500with telephone surveys, going directly to theselected local nonprofit. calls to randomly cellThrough for Relief, phones andArt landlines.

All artists rewho pair will with be Taglialatella Gallersponses confidential, ies up their own charitable camandset information collected will not be with connected to they’d nameslike or to paigns artworks phone Calls will besell andnumbers. select a charity to support. gin the of July 15 Due to week the subjects ofand the conpieces tinueselling, throughMr. September. he’s Young named his In addition, later campaign “Start Methis Up”summer after The the collaborative will gather feedRolling Stones’ 1981 hit song.

In an back during a listening tour to hear interview with the News-Press, the from individuals and organizations British-born artist said Taglialatella regarding health-related needs in Galleries supports charitable the community.

Themany listening tour causes and frequently asks him to will include online surveys, group donate. discussions, phone interviews, and As the full effects of the COVID-19 visits to various community-based crisis started to be felt, Mr. Young organizations.

The assessment collaborative agreed that now was the perfect includes Lompoc Valley Meditime for him to participate in its cal Center, Planned philanthropic efforts. Parenthood California “They’re very Central generousCoast, people, Santa Barbara County to start with. When they Public said they Health Department, Santa Bar- in needed to do something special bara Foundation, Santa Barbathis time, I said, ‘Absolutely, yes,’” ra Neighborhood Clinics, and he recalled.

UCSB. The artist added is the Results will that be now availperfect time to get involved with able by the end of the year at raising money for Direct Relief cottagehealth.org. because the charity he normally works with, The Art of Elysium, — Christian Whittlehas

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A two-car collision at 128 E. Pedregosa St. broke a fire hydrant that gushed water down the street.

SANTA BARBARA The top of a fire hydrant was sheered off, spewing a large amount of water onto the street and down a storm drain, in a two-vehicle collision Friday morning in the 100 block of East Pedregosa Street, authorities said.

The collision occurred around 7: 40 a.m. involving a GMC Yukon and Chevy Tahoe. One of the vehicles collided with the hydrant and “caused it to expel copious amounts of water”

— Mitchell White

Variety of speakers took part in demonstration PROTEST

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estfunds in getting back to normal because normal was never Russell Young, above left, is using his historic photos of the Rolling Stones, including Mick Jagger, below, and Keith Richards, top right, to raise for Direct Relief.

good enough for me.”

A representative of Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barceased its regular activities. Under and Joe Iurato. According to Mr. Diana Ross. Throughout ‘90s,at hethe event, to thisand day,said, using diamond to bara, alsothe spoke “We are heredust today normal circumstances, the nonprof- Young, the two have each raised specialized in helming music videenhance his prints. because we refuse to be complicit in the abuse of children it has its artist volunteers hold art around $10,000 and he has a goal os, directing over 100.

Mr.while Young said of this method, and refuse to stand idly by our American identity“It is workshops at hospitals for its child to raise at least as much as they Come the 2000s, Mr. used Youngtostarted adds a layer glamor. It adds a tacbeing commit human rightsofabuses.” patients, some who are terminally have. The three pieces with which the practice of screenprinting, a pro- a tile, three-dimensional aspect the The representative, mother of two children, heldto back ill. Of course, the social distancing he hopes to raise this sum include cess of pulling ink through screen topainting.” tears whileaspeaking the crowd. demanded during the COVID-19 a silkscreen print of Mr. Jagger gothat he likened toAfter the technique of and Asthe he representative, and other artists sell their the Rev. Moore several othexpressworks their opposition against centers pandemic renders this impossible ing for $9,500, another print of the putting a designers onfollowed a T-shirt.toWhile through Art for the Relief, Mr. along Mr. theY border. for the time being. singer with diamond dust going for discussing his career, oung told Young hopes the campaign will acThehis lastwork protest Barbara the Art for Relief allows its partic- $14,750, and a diamond dust print of the News-Press that con-in Santa complish a twinthat goaladdressed of financially facilities place a year ago according to Miipating artists to decide which Mr. Richards going for $17,000. veys “fame anddetention shame,” the lattertook supporting both anti-coronavirus Lynch of IAC. charity they want to support, so Mr. Though his body of work depicts of which he putchal on full display with efforts and the participating artists.

The last speaker address morehave thanfound 100-strong Young sought advice around Santa a range of famous people that in“Pig Portraits,” an exhibition he to After all,the many their crowd wasthe bilingual. taughtimpacted the protestors thehealth unity Barbara regarding which organiza- cludes Hollywood icons like Clint did in Los Angeles during early She business amid the clap, which, according to her, represents a resistance movetion was best to support amid the Eastwood and Marilyn Monroe, Mr. 2000s. crisis and the physical galleries ment’s slow but steady beat that builds momentum over time. coronavirus situation. Most of the Young’s printings of The Rolling Featuring silkscreen prints of they maintain are expensive pieces After explaining the symbolism and history of this clap, the replies he got named Direct Relief, Stones members represent a coniconic individuals’ of real estate. crowdmugshots, joined herMr. and finished off the gathering. and Mr. Young decided they’d be a tinuation of a long career he had Young envisionedThe the exhibit as the Police TheDepartment artist remarked that of when Santa Barbara was aware the good choice because they don’t let capturing rock and roll stars in phoflipside of the work he did in the he first heard about Art for Relief, it rally. Sgt. Brian Miller said the department monitored the petty politics get in the way of doing tographs. previous decade.

Whereas asthe a phoimmediately seemed a win-win situation but protestors remained on thelike sidewalk and good.

He got his big break as a photographer and music videopeacefully. director endeavor that would help everyone protested SOE HAN THAhe / NEWS-PRESS “They don’t really worry about tographer when he shot the album made his subjects look more involved.

Protesters marched the Santa and walked along Anacapa Street to the plaza. politics.

They just getfrom on with life Barbara cover ofCounty singer Courthouse George Michael’s beautiful than email: they stha@newspress.com really were, “It was very easy to say yes and it and helping people, which is re- 1987 record “Faith,” and continued with “Pig Portraits’’ he was showing seemed to benefit everybody,” Mr. freshing,” he said. his career photographing legendthem at low points.

Young said.

Other artists participating in Art ary artists like Bruce Springsteen, The exhibition also featured a for Relief include Mr. Brainwash The Smiths, Bob Dylan, REM, and technique the artist has continued email: jgrega@newspress.com

Researcher suspects sea otters act as ‘a conveyor belt of nutrients’ OTTERS

That will entail recording how long the animals stay in the kelp forest canopy day to day, and using models to estimate how much they excrete. Whereas the invertebrate study covered five coastal locations, the upcoming study will focus on an area just south of Point Conception.

Sea otter populations in many other Southern California waters are still lacking in numbers, so it was necessary to select an area with a consistently sizeable population to determine whether or not the creatures have a significant impact on nutrient levels.

“Sea otter populations are starting to recover in Southern California and that is a stable population,” Mr. Peters said.

In addition to observing sea otters, Mr. Peters will lead a study that takes a closer look at spiny lobsters and

how their diet and the water temperature around them impact their nitrogen output.

According to the release, lobsters along with sea stars have an “outsized effect in shaping the ecosystem” because of their predatory nature. Because their diets contain more protein than other invertebrates, they release more ammonium and nitrogen-rich compounds in their waste.

The crustaceans gather together in dens during the day, which Mr. Peters suspects may result in more herbivores moving into the reefs if this leads to an increase in algae around the lobster dens.

Mr. Peters said he hopes to conclude the sea otter study by fall of this year.

‘Helping to maintain that social connection’ biomass is located, near the surface, Drink sharing Mr. Peters’ next study will exploreapp offering digital gift cards whether other marine animals contribute nitrogen levels in the kelp fortobars, breweries and wineries forest canopy.

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CARPINTERIA The Santa Barbara County Association of Governments released an update Friday on next week’s work on the Highway 101: Linden and Casitas Pass sea otters forage for reef construction project.

ByBecause PAUL GONZALEZ invertebrates spend much of From Monday through WednesNEWS-PRESS STAFFand WRITER at Sansum Clinic their time resting in the kelp forday crews will be restriping lanes est, Mr. they as and moving concrete safety barrihePeters Get Ysuspects our Drink Onact moers to prepare for the next stages “a conveyor belt of nutrients,” directbile app helps users grab a of work, according to a press rely supplying their waste and beer, cocktail or glass ofurine wine lease from SBCAG. into the canopy. for their buddies, wherever they Highway 101 will have alternatWhile the UCSB team’s collaboraare. Since people can’t go out for a ing lane closures between Linden tors at the United States Geological As we manage the impact of this coronavirus pandemic, the health drink because of the coronavirus and Bailard avenues. One lane Survey have studied otter activity at outbreak, GYDO isfor helping venues will remain open. and safety of Ridley-Tree Cancer Center’s patients and our staff is monthly intervals 13 years, Mr. compensate by providing a digital From 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday Peters told the News-Press that he of utmost importance to us. gift card platform. through Wednesday, the northCOURTESY PHOTO and his team will observe them on Founder Ryan Williams said all bound onramps at Casitas Pass a “finer scale.”

The UCSB study on kelp growth involved the use of divers. email: jgrega@newspress.com We know those Road and Linden Avenue will facing cancer have unique concerns. This is why we venues have to do to launch their have alternating as gift cards is sign-up for GYDO. The haveclosures taken precautionary measures like screening everyone at our needed. From 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. only registration requirement is an entrance, limiting visitors, providing masks and protective gear for our Monday through Wednesday active Facebook business page. the southbound offramp at Ca- employing additional cleaning services and enacting “Once somebody has downloadteam members, sitas Pass Road will be closed ed the mobile application, they can as needed. hygiene and social distancing guidelines, so we can continue to offer send a designated amount to any Via Real is closed from Casitas the personalized cancer care and the peace of mind our patients venue. The venue gets the funds imPass Road to the old northbound mediately. Obviously with the whole deserve.

This is our mission and it remains the same today. next year.

Highway 101 onramp.

Local resshelter-in-place it’s not exactly easy idents have one-way access to “You get to do literacy, math, all kinds ofvenues,” stuff. MyMr. fathe respective Continued from Page A1 Hales Lane onOur Via Real.

Pedes- are conducting many Telehealth virtual visits byvorite part is recesstoorvisit oncologists lunch.

We get to do foursquare,” Williams said. trians can use the sidewalk on she said. andasked video while patients stay safelywith at home.

Your provider He explained that when the program combines learning having fun.

Via Real, but phone people are Like Nathan, Judith said her favorite activity of the “We learned about owls and how when they eat their venues started to close, the GYDO to refrain from entering the concan determine if a Telehealth visit is medically-appropriate for you. obstacle course. prey they cough up hairballs with the bones of their day was the inflatable struction area. team began brainstorming ways to “Everything we do at Fun In the Sun is really rootprey,” he said excitedly. He said he also enjoys studyThe new southbound Highway support the venues facing financial ed in teaching the kids teamwork and confidence and ing math.

101 onramp at Casitas Pass Road challenges. setting. All of our Nathan said the Olympic games are a highlight of working together in a“Icollaborative is open and the temporary ramp either buy myselfmindset,” a digital incan that, that teamwork his summer, a great opportunity to see old friends and games are embedded has been removed. gift card we andcan redeem it at a later to university in Los Angeles. One said Ms. Cabrera, “Anything do to get them wet Rincon Brewery. meet new people.

The offramp at Linden Avenue date or, even better, I can buy my GYDO launched last November time we were at Island Brewing and dirty is perfect.”

“Everyone knows each other,” he said. is closed for approximately six to friend a digitalbygift That might from their offices in Carpinteria. Company and it was his birthday.

Friday’s event was sponsored thecard.

Brain Balance Nathan listed off a dozen new friends he made before nine months. Drivers are asked mean maybe it’s your birthday and Mr. Williams said the local beer and We were FaceTiming our family in he ran off to try the giant inflatable obstacle course, a Center of Santa Barbara. to use the of-ramps at Reynolds I might buy digital gift card “They are very generous to you lendatheir support to wine scene has embraced their ser- South Africa and they were wishfavorite at the event.

Avenue or Casitas Pass Road to from one of the wineries or brewering him a happy 21st birthday, but this event today and we’re very grateful,” said Ms. Ca- vice.

Many of the students have participated in Fun in the reach the beach and downtown ies that have joined GYDO instead COURTESY PHOTO “With all this COVID-19 happen- there was nothing more they could Sun in the past, but newcomers are quickly welcomed brera.

Carpinteria. of say a box of chocolates or bou- Students into the group. Judith Figueroa, 11, said this is her first ing, making the change do.

Wouldn’t it haveOlympics been so cool if in United Way’sand Fun incorin the Sun Summer Program quet of flowers,” Mr. Williams said. year in the program and said she wants to come back email: cwhittle@newspress.com — Christian Whittle compete the pie-eating contest Friday at El Camino Elementary School. porating in the gift card process has they could buy him a drink at Island He continued that the gift card, enabled friends to still maintain Brewing Company? That sort of got purchaser and the venue need to be that emotional social connection the creative juices flowing,” Mr. WilRidley-Tree Cancer Center and its compassionate team remains on GYDO to send the gift card, but with one another. We like to be liams said. the recipient of the gift does not. If able to go out, socialize with our He explained that, on a normal dedicated to guiding and supporting our patients. Our commitment to the recipient is on GYDO the gift friends and family. That’s not real- night out, users can log into GYDO operate as the premier regional resource for the diagnosis, management will show up in their app, if they ly possible, but at least we can buy and order a friend a drink from an not they will receive a scanna(jug) online menu provided in the venand prevention of cancer is as secure andone steadfast as ever.told she would be Spiritare den Court.

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and prompted to city’s Public Works staff to respond and shut off the hydrant, said Battalion Chief Robert Mercado, spokesman for the SANTA BARBARA The top of a fire Santa Barbara City Fire Departhydrant was sheered off, spewing a ment.

Water service was restored after a large amount of water onto the street and down a storm drain, in a two-ve- time. Minor injuries were reported in the crash, ChieftoMersleep at all. Friday morning in the but I was justBattalion lucky enough get hicle collision cadoball said.

“I just couldn’t sleep, I was in so the near the goal and put it 100 block of East Pedregosa Street, BothBecerril vehiclessaid. sustained minor to much pain. Isaid. got up in the middle of away,” authorities moderate damage.

The Santa BartheThe night and I tried to doaround anything “It felt like a storybook senior collision occurred 7: bara Police Department is invesI40 could but nothing worked.

It was a.m. involving a GMC Yukon and moment.” tigating the circumstances of the the most pain One I ever feltvehicles in my life,” At the time, Becerril really Chevy Tahoe. of the col- collision.

Becerril said.

RAFAEL MALDONADO / NEWS-PRESS lided with the hydrant and “caused thought his playing career was over.

Days later, he noticed entire He knew he wanted—toMitchell go to college, it to expel copious amountshis of water” A two-car collision at 128 E. Pedregosa St. broke a fire hydrant that gushed water down the street.

White body was hurting, prompting Bec- but the schools he was looking at erril to go to the doctor. There, he didn’t really have an opportunity was diagnosed with rheumatoid ar- there to continue his playing career. thritis. After that, he stopped playLuckily, Westmont showed up at ing soccer for a month and thought the right time. he was done with the sport entirely.

“At first, I wasn’t sure if I wanted “I really just couldn’t take it,” to keep playing or not but once I Becerril recalled. thought about not playing soccer, it Luckily, Becerril was able to get hurt, I mean it is a big part of me. help from a specialist, who pre- I’ve been playing my whole life so scribed him specific medications I thought it would be nice if I could from Page A1 that made the Continued pain much more continue,” Becerril said. manageable, allowing him to get “And now, to be able to play but est in getting back to normal because normal was never back on the pitch. also have the privilege to have my good enough for me.”

The Chargers were happy to have parents come watch me, it’s amazA representative of Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barhim, too, as his 12 goals ledspoke the team bara, also at the ing.” event, and said, “We are here today and he helped lead DP to a thirdBecerril hopes to be the first in because we refuse to be complicit in the abuse of children place finish in the Channel League, his graduate college. and refuse to stand idly byfamily whileto our American identity is earning a spot in the CIF-SS 2 human With rights the current being used to Div. commit abuses.” coronavirus KENNETH SONG / NEWS-PRESS playoffs. pandemic, his likely The representative, a mother of twoparents children, heldwon’t back Aldo Becerril was beloved by his teammates, singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to him this past season.

In DP’s first round matchspeaking at Va- to bethe able to see him walk for his high tears while crowd. lencia, nothing went at the But, hopefully in Afterright the Rev. Mooreschool and thediploma. representative, several others followed to expressfour theiryears, opposition against the centers fell behind they can see him with a leading to him being one of the last lege,” Becerril said.

Becerril didn’t just make the start. The Chargers the started border. a Bachelor’s degree.

Pueblos Once he arrived at Dos Pueblos ones during sprints — a memory he varsity team his freshman year, he 2-0. Then Dos along The assisting last protest Barbara that addressed the onin Santa “I am just speechless.

As a brothHigh, however, he saw an oppor- recalls fondly. played serious minutes. As he kept rally, with Becerril detention facilities took place a year ago according to Mithe team’s first goal.

The Chargers er, as a first generation sibling, you Still, he never got discouraged. tunity. And, in his sophomore year, improving, so too did his team.

Lynch ofby IAC. match at 2-2 the just want to give the best example thanks to the AVID program, Bec- He just kept playing and playing During his first two seasons, DP then tied up thechal The last speaker to to address the more your siblings andthan I am100-strong glad I can erril began believing college was a and playing. went 15-16-11. In Becerril’s final break. crowd was bilingual.

She taught the protestors the unity Becerril then fired a shot 20 mindo that for them and my parents,” “I feel like something that distinviable option for him. two years, the Chargers were much clap, which, according to her, represents a resistance move“I started actually saying ‘okay, I guishes me from other players was stronger, finishing with a combined utes into the second half to give DP Becerril said. ment’s slow but steady beat that builds momentum over time. a 3-2 lead.

“I am just very thankful for everycan actually work for this right now.’ the fact that I was very hardwork- record of 32-17-4.

After explaining the symbolism and history of this clap, the Still, Valencia fought back, forc- one who was put into my life and You know, as a kid I never thought ing, and if I wanted something I was As for his own play, Becerril becrowd joined her and finished off the gathering. there, the sen- Police actually believed in andofsupabout college, I didn’t even really gonna go get it,” Becceril said. came one of the best scorers in the ing overtime. Once The Santa Barbara Department wasme aware the of his moment, ported me.

I’m surprised with Soon thereafter, in his freshman Channel League. His junior year, ior made the most know what it was. As I got older, I rally. Sgt. Brian Miller said the department monitoredhow the goal send far I’ve come but I’m sidewalk just grateful realized going was something I defi- year at DP, he tried out and joined Becerril scored 15 goals, leading knocking in a golden situation buttothe protestors remained on the and the Chargers to the secondpeacefully. round of that everything turned out the way the varsity soccer team. nitely needed to do,” Becerril said. the Chargers. protested / NEWS-PRESS playoffs. it did. It’s all thanks to them and “I was surprised. I mean making As a sophomore, Becerril began He was even more excitedSOE forHAN his THAthe would stha@newspress.com go on to lose it’s what keeps me going and I am Protesters marched from Santa Barbara County Courthouse and along Streetittoalmost the plaza. The Chargersemail: varsity for four years was really bigwalked doing the best he could inthe school. senior yearAnacapa — even though in the quarterfinals. grateful they believe in me and I am Outside of the classroom, however, for me and being able to play at the didn’t happen.

“I remember being in overtime, I ready for this new chapter.” his heart still belonged to the pitch. varsity level for years was really, reOver summer of 2019, Becerril When he was a kid, Becerril re- ally tough and competitive but I like noted an ache in his shoulder. One was already cramping up and I felt membered being a bit overweight, those challenges,” Becerril said. night, it was so bad, he couldn’t like my legs couldn’t go anymore, email: jmercado@newspress.com

Fire hydrant sheered in crash

‘Never did I imagine I would go to college’: Soccer opens up special opportunity for Aldo Becerril at Westmont College Cottage surveying on health needs

By JORGE MERCADO

NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

SANTA BARBARA Cottage Health and community partners are hristmas morning is a special askingday residents receive a for mostwho people. survey phone call to participate The warm feeling of love in a community health needs in the air and the eccentric feeling assessment, offidals said Friof opening presents cannot be repday. licated on anyisother quite like The survey beingday conducted Dec. 25. understand the needs “to better For Aldo Becerril, remembers and strengths of thehe entire comhis first Christmas present like it munity, and the many diverse was yesterday. groups within it,” Cottage Health spokeswoman Maria Zatepicture said in of “There’s a little baby a news release. me opening my first actual ChristFindings will Cottage mas present. It washelp a pair of soccer Health and community partners cleats. That’s the way everything recognizeBecerril the scope of population started,” said. health concerns.

When he was 6 years old, and The assessment will include with a fresh pair of kicks, Becerril 2,500 telephone surveys, with took soccer pitch for the first calls the to randomly selected celltime.

Since then, he hasn’t come phones and landlines. All re-off it. sponses will be confidential, Anytime he hascollected a free moment, and information will he out on a field,to practicing and notisbe connected names or getting phone better. numbers. Calls will beThat what gin the dedication week of Julyis15 and helped continuebecome throughone September. him of the best loaddition, later this summer calInhigh school players in Santa the collaborative willearned gather feedBarbara, and what him a back during a listening tour to hearcachance to continue his playing fromat individuals and organizations reer the next level, committing to regarding health-related Westmont College for theneeds next in four the community. The listening tour years. will include online surveys, group “Honestly,phone I interviews, never thought discussions, and this would have happened.

I am visits to various community-based shocked myself,” Becerril told the organizations.

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The assessment collaborative “HavingLompoc the privilege to play and includes Valley Medistay town, especially a realcal in Center, Planned with Parently good school and to get Coast, this eduhood California Central Santa Barbara County I’m Public cation, I’m just grateful. grateHealth Santa Barful that IDepartment, was given this opportunity baraI’m Foundation, Santa Barbaand just very happy.” raFor Neighborhood Clinics, and most of his childhood, BecerUCSB. ril admitted he never really thought will be availheResults would attend university. able by the end of the year at “I lived in Isla Vista my whole cottagehealth.org. life, in the same apartment. Never did I imagine— that I wouldWhittle go to colChristian

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Work continues on Highway HURRAH 101 widening Continued from A1 CARPINTERIA The Santa BarbaID-19, and we want to take time to ra County Association of Governthank said Andersen. mentsthem,” released anMs. update Friday“In addition, we have partnered with on next week’s work on the Highlocal organizations and churches way 101: Linden and Casitas Pass that can offerproject. daily prayer, a ringconstruction ingFrom of bells, a moment ofWednespause and Monday through well-wishes to anyone who needs day crews will be restriping lanesan and movingof concrete safety barrioutpouring support while endurersthis to prepare for the next stages ing pandemic.” ofAmong work, according to a press rethe churches participatlease SBCAG. ing arefrom St. Mary of the Assumption Highway 101 will have Catholic Church and St.alternatLouis de ing lane closures between Linden Montfort Church in Santa Maria and Bailard avenues. One lane and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church will remain open. and Old Mission San Luis Obispo in From 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday San Luis Obispo. through Wednesday, the north“Afteronramps the bellsatpeal for Pass several bound Casitas minutes, theLinden sound of clapping is ofRoad and Avenue will ten heard throughout the hospital,” have alternating closures as said Mrs. Washburn.

“The needed.

From 8 p.m. to response 7 a.m. from everyone has been amazing.

Monday through Wednesday the southbound Many have neverofframp heard at theCahossitas bells Pass Road will be and closed pital ring before, we’ll as needed. keep ringing them until this crisis Via Real is closed from Casitas is over.”

Pass Roadthe to the old northbound Among special heroes at the Highway 101 onramp. hospital are membersLocal of theresMedidents have one-way access to ically Vulnerable Pediatric (MVP) Hales Lane on Via Real. PedesCoordination for infants trians can useProgram the sidewalk on and children with special medical Via Real, but people are asked needs in Santa Maria and to refrain from entering the Arroyo conGrande. struction area.

They have been working with the The new southbound Highway Foodbank ofatSanta Barbara Coun101 onramp Casitas Pass Road ty to deliver boxes of food ramp to their is open and the temporary has been removed. homes.

The offramp at Linden “Talley Family Farms Avenue of Arroyo is closeddonated for approximately sixfresh to Grande 12 boxes of nine months.

Drivers asked produce to provide forare these famto usetothe of-ramps Reynolds ilies assist with at meeting basic Avenue or Casitas PassRasmussen, Road to needs,” said Susan reach the beach and downtown manager of the MVP program which

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Variety of speakers took part in demonstration PROTEST

Researcher suspects sea otters act as ‘a conveyor belt of nutrients’ OTTERS

began in 2018.

Continued from Page A1 “Dr. Paul Parker, a pediatric hospitalist, wrote the grant that providbiomass is located, near the surface, ed the funding for the program,” Mr. Peters’ next study will explore said Mrs. Rasmussen. whether other marine animals con“Its purpose is to help families tribute to nitrogen levels in the kelp with infants and children with speforest canopy. cial medical needs overcome obstaBecause sea otters forage for reef cles and challenges. invertebrates and spend much of “The more stable the family is their time resting in the kelp forin the home, the better the outest, Mr. Peters suspects they act as come. When there is a child with “a conveyor belt of nutrients,” directspecial needs, it is very complex, ly supplying their waste and urine SANTA BARBARA into the canopy. especially in this area which is 324 W. Montecito St While the UCSB team’s collaborarural and a four-hour drive to any tors at the United States Geological children’s hospital. It all makes a Survey have studied otter activity at difference.” monthly intervals for 13 years, Mr. MVP staff are delivering the food Peters told the News-Press that he on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

COURTESY PHOTO and his team will observe them on “We began March 30 and will cona “finer scale.”

The UCSB study on kelp growth involved the use of divers. tinue as long as we can,” said Mrs. Rasmussen, adding that there are approximately 100 families in the program.

“We partner with other organizations and agencies like CenCal Health, California Children’s Services and Santa Barbara County Public Health.”

A key component in the MVP pronext year.

“You get to do literacy, math, all kinds of stuff. My fagram are the five bilingual promotoContinued from Page A1 vorite part is recess or lunch. We get to do foursquare,” ras. she said.

“Promotoras are Hispanic/Latino program combines learning with having fun.

Like Nathan, Judith said her favorite activity of the community members who receive “We learned about owls and how when they eat their specialized training providewith ba- the bones of their day was the inflatable obstacle course. prey they cough up to hairballs “Everything we do at Fun In the Sun is really rootsic health education in the prey,” he said excitedly.

Hecommusaid he also enjoys studyed in teaching the kids teamwork and confidence and nity without being a professional ing math. health caresaid worker,” she explained.

Nathan the Olympic games are a highlight of working together in a collaborative setting. All of our his summer, a greatisopportunity “Patty Herrera manager to of see old friends and games are embedded in that, that teamwork mindset,” said Ms. Cabrera, “Anything we can do to get them wet meetteam new people. the that includes Elizabeth and dirty is perfect.”

“Everyone knows Beatriz each other,” he said.

Chavez De Perez, Hosp, Friday’s event was sponsored by the Brain Balance Nathan listed off a dozen new friends he made before Letitia Sanchez and Irene Castro. he ran offmy topersonal try the giant inflatable obstacle course, a Center of Santa Barbara.

They are heroes.”

That will entail recording how long the animals stay in the kelp forest canopy day to day, and using models to estimate how much they excrete. Whereas the invertebrate study covered five coastal locations, the upcoming study will focus on an area just south of Point Conception.

Sea otter populations in many other Southern California waters are still lacking in numbers, so it was necessary to select an area with a consistently sizeable population to determine whether or not the creatures have a significant impact on nutrient levels.

“Sea otter populations are starting to recover in Southern California and that is a stable population,” Mr. Peters said.

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According to the release, lobsters along with sea stars have an “outsized effect in shaping the ecosystem” because of their predatory nature. Because their diets contain more protein than other invertebrates, they release more ammonium and nitrogen-rich compounds in their waste.

The crustaceans gather together in dens during the day, which Mr. Peters suspects may result in more GOLETA herbivores moving into Ave the reefs if 5757 Hollister this leads to an increase in algae around the lobster dens.

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den Court. There, she one day mentioned that she was the first Spirit of Fiesta and Continued from Page A1 a woman at the home overheard her. That woman also happened to have a daughter very morning. She added that her mother, who was that year’s Spirit, and through her an Italian immigrant and enthusiastic lover Ms. Parker’s activity in Fiesta resumed. of Fiesta, would have been thrilled to see Ms. Parker attended the April 13 audiher chosen. tions that ended with 16-year-old Sophia “I’m glad for my mother’s sake, because Cordero being named Spirit of Fiesta and it meant so much to her,” she said.

10-year-old Paloma Valenzuela chosen as Though she spent many years away from Junior Spirit.

Medically Vulnerable Pediatric Coordination Program staff — Elizabeth Chavez all Fiesta activities, Ms. Parker’s involveBack in 1949 the choice of Spirit of FiesDe Perez, left, and manager Susan Rasmussen — stand by produce donated ment with the festival has “bloomed” since ta wasn’t as organized. Spirits and Junior by Talley Family Farms of Arroyo Grande.

2013, when she reconnected with Old Span- Spirits are now chosen a few months in ad-

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“She felt that instead of hiding away and “You think, ‘I’m here to give the best I “My mom said something like, ‘You’re go- just favoring it, that exercise would help,” can,’ and you just make yourself strong,” ing to be Spirit of Fiesta.’ It was like three Ms. Parker recalled. she said. days before the big parade. … They sprung Ms. Parker looked back fondly on her time While being Spirit of Fiesta was fun while it on me and I didn’t have a dress. I had to as Spirit and said dancing in the parade was it lasted, this giving of oneself to make othborrow a dress that belonged to an adult, and fun but challenging. Though not a major as- ers happy is what Ms. Parker still carries that was a huge deal for a 12-year-old.” pect of the parade today, Ms. Parker said from that experience.

Suddenly thrusting Ms. Parker into ac- that military bands used to be a prominent “You learn not to think of yourself, you tivities seemed to be her mother’s nature. part of the event and that she even danced learn to think of other people… You really Ms. Parker credits her mom for not only with one behind her. Flamenco dancing to are a symbol for something and it just forces (LIMIT 2)and for a you out of your own little cubby hole, and that’s getting her involved in Fiesta, but danc- military band music wasn’t easy ing in general. After Ms. Parker suffered second she thought, “Oh no, this isn’t pos- very important to anybody,” she said. a broken leg that refused to properly heal, sible,” but she let “common sense” and her LIMITED TO STOCK ON HAND • PRICES EFFECTIVE 7 FULL DAYS FROM APRIL 16TH THROUGH APRIL 22ND, 2020 vance of the event, but Ms. Parker wasn’t her mother placed her in dance lessons to “positive will” take over to meet the chal- email: jgrega@newspress.com

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The best of days, however, was also coming during the worst of times to have a baby. The COVID-19 pandemic has now killed SANTA BARBARA Cottage Health hundreds of thousands all over the and community partners are world.

Caitlynwho refused to “go asking But residents receive a down that path” of allowing fear survey phone call to participate to her pregnancy matter in dictate a community healthnoneeds how dire the situation assessment, offidals became. said FriShe had come to that mindset day. many Jan. 22 — Theweeks surveyearlier, is beingon conducted “to better understand theher needs the day she came up with new and strengths of the entire combaby’s name: Olive Rita Goebel. munity, diverse It wasand the the daymany her 2-year-old groups within Cottage Health son, Levi, hadit,” undergone his latspokeswoman Maria said in est heart scan: TheZate cardiologist a news release. reported that Levi would need Findings will help Cottage surgery later this year.

Health and community partners “I got home, put the boys down recognize the scope of population for a concerns. nap, and wandered into health the kitchen to stuffwill my face with The assessment include snacks and chocolate,” Caitlyn re2,500 telephone surveys, with called.

“Then I froze up and comcalls to randomly selected cellpletely it.landlines.

I started crying like phoneslost and All rea baby.” will be confidential, sponses and information willat She eventually collected looked down not be connected names and or her swollen belly, to however, phone numbers.

Calls will bethe name “Olive” popped into gin the week of had July no 15 and her head.

She ideaconwhy tinue through September.

— it wasn’t high on their list of In addition, later this summer baby names. It prompted her to the collaborative will gather feedsit down and read the devotional back during a listening tour to hear for that day of Jan. 22: Psalm 52:8. from individuals and organizations What it said stunned her:needs in regarding health-related I am like Olive tour Tree the“But community.

Thean listening flourishing in the house of God; will include online surveys, group I trust in God’s unfailing love forevdiscussions, phone interviews, and er and visits toever.” various community-based After Caitlyn’s two little boys organizations.

The assessment collaborative awoke from their naps, Levi ran includes Lompoc pulled Valleyout Medito the refrigerator, a jar calolives, Center, Planned “Eww, Parentof and declared, icky hood California Central Coast, Mommy!”

Santa Barbara “Honestly, I hadCounty no cluePublic we even Health Department, SantaCaitlyn Barhad olives in the house,” bara Foundation, Santa Barbasaid. ra Neighborhood Clinics, and The name Olive took root even UCSB. deeper that will night when Caitlyn Results be availopened Bible able byup thethe end of that the had yearonce at belonged to my late mother, Rita. cottagehealth.org.

“I saw that grandma had under— Christian lined that same exact oliveWhittle tree Bible verse I read earlier that day,” she said. “It was confirmed. Olive may not have been our most favorite baby name at the time, but there’s no other name for our girl and I absolutely love it now.”

When she was askedBarbato list CARPINTERIA The Santa her baby’s possible names the ra County Association of Governnext day, a friend said, “Olive ments released an update Fridayis so next sweet because like on week’s workitonsounds the Highyou’re saying, ‘I love.’ way 101: Linden and Casitas Pass construction project.

“Then I realized that when Olive From Monday through Wednesgets in trouble and I yell out, ‘Olive day crews will be restriping lanes Rita!’ it will sound like I’m yelling, and moving concrete safety ‘I love Rita!’”

Caitlyn said.barri“That ers to prepare for the next stages will make me smile and keep from of work,mad according to a press restaying at my girl. lease from SBCAG. “Rita was my grandma’s name Highway 101 will have alternat— my most favorite person in the ing lane closures between Linden world.” and Bailard avenues. One lane Caitlyn refused will remain open. to reveal that name to 8us andtoher three sisters From p.m.

5 a.m.

Monday when weWednesday, held a familythe Zoom conthrough northferenceonramps late in the afternoon bound at Casitas Passof Easterand Sunday.

Road Linden Avenue will have alternating closures “There’s a good story behindas it,” needed.

From 8 p.m. to say.

7 a.m. was all that Caitlyn would Monday Wednesday She didthrough admit to feeling disapthe southbound offramp Capointed that Easter had at arrived sitas Pass Road will closed with no baby.

But allbe she really as needed. wanted, she added, was a healthy Via Real is closed from Casitas baby.

Pass Road to the old northbound The coronavirus had taken a Highway 101 onramp. Local restoll on have her family.

Her husband idents one-way access to had shut down the kitchen for Hales Lane on Via Real. Pedeshis catering business, “Neighbor trians can use the sidewalk on Tim’s BBQ,” of the risk Via Real, butbecause people are asked

Cottage surveying on health needs

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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY NEWS Fire hydrant sheered in crash

and prompted to city’s Public Works staff to respond and shut off the hydrant, said Battalion Chief Robert Mercado, spokesman for the Santa Barbara City Fire Department.

Water service was restored after a time. Minor injuries were reported in the crash, Battalion Chief Mercado said.

Both vehicles sustained minor to moderate damage. The Santa Barbara Police Department is investigating the circumstances of the collision.

he might bring home to mom and baby. He’s hoping to restart it later this month.

SANTA BARBARA The top of a fire “My doctor was telling us that hydrant was sheered off, spewing a if Tim had any symptoms of a felarge amount of water onto the street ver or even a cold, he wouldn’t be and down a storm drain, in a two-veallowed in the labor or delivery hicle collision Friday morning in the room,” Caitlyn said. “The cater100 block of East Pedregosa Street, ing side of the business is where authorities said. we get most of our income, and The collision occurred around 7: nobody’s holding events now, an40 a.m. involving a GMC Yukon and yway.

Chevy Tahoe. One of the vehicles col“But Tim was also developing a RAFAEL MALDONADO / NEWS-PRESS lided with the hydrant and “caused pickup and collision delivery service, it to expel copious amounts of water” A two-car at 128 E.and Pedregosa St. broke a fire hydrant that gushed water down the street.

— Mitchell White he shut that down, too.”

The doctor also told Caitlyn that if she or the baby got sick, “they’d have to isolate me from her ... That would’ve been awful.”

My wife Theresa, who had been present for the births of our other 10 grandchildren, was barred from the delivery room altogether. The new COVID-19 protocol at Cottage Hospital allowed just one Continued from Page A1 person of support.

“I was sad about that, because est in getting back to normal because normal was never Mom was so encouraging during good enough for me.” my other two births,” she said, A representative of Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Bar“but I was even more sad for her.” bara, also spoke at the event, and said, “We are here today Caitlyn had also “given up on” because we refuse to be complicit in the abuse of children the idea of having her baby on and refuse to stand idly by while our American identity is Easter. The contractions, however, being used to commit human rights abuses.” started barely minutes after our The representative, a mother of two children, held back Zoom conference, at around 5:45 tears while speaking to the crowd. p.m.

After the Rev. Moore and the representative, several othWe rushed to their house and ers followed to express their opposition against the centers got Levi and Graham so Caitlyn along the border. and Tim could head for the hosThe last protest in Santa Barbara that addressed the detention facilities took place a year ago according to Mipital. chal Lynch of IAC. “They took our temperature in The last speaker to address the more than 100-strong the courtyard before we went in crowd was bilingual. She taught the protestors the unity and asked a few health questions, clap, which, according to her, represents a resistance movelike, ‘Have you had a fever? Have ment’s slow but steady beat that builds momentum over time. you been exposed to anyone with After explaining the symbolism and history of this clap, the the coronavirus? Have you had a crowd joined her and finished off the gathering. cough?’” Caitlyn said. “They did The Santa Barbara Police Department was aware of the that twice before we even checked rally. Sgt. Brian Miller said the department monitored the in. situation but the protestors remained on the sidewalk and “Tim had to wear a mask during protested peacefully. the delivery, and so did the doctor SOE HAN THA / NEWS-PRESS and all the nurses.

Butfrom otherthe than Protesters marched Santa Barbara County Courthouse and walked along Anacapa Street to the plaza. email: stha@newspress.com that, it didn’t seem any different than when I delivered Graham there.”

The delivery went hard but fast. Even her first contractions at home were strong.

“I went into the bedroom at first That will entail recording how how their diet and the water temto hide the pain from the kids, but long the animals stay in the kelp perature around them impact their they knew,” Caitlyn said. “They Continued from Page A1 forest canopy day to day, and using nitrogen output. told me, ‘Mommy, it’s going to be models to estimate how much they According to the release, lobOK.’ They said I should get my wabiomass is located, near the surface, excrete. Whereas the invertebrate sters along with sea stars have an ter.

Mr. Peters’ next study will explore study covered five coastal locations, “outsized effect in shaping the eco“The nurses had me push right whether other marine animals con- the upcoming study will focus on an system” because of their predatory when we got there. I was already tribute to nitrogen levels in the kelp area just south of Point Conception. nature. Because their diets contain nine centimeters. Olive was kind forest canopy.

Sea otter populations in many oth- more protein than other inverteof stuck in my pelvis bone. I had Because sea otters forage for reef er Southern California waters are brates, they release more ammoniinvertebrates and spend much of still lacking in numbers, so it was um and nitrogen-rich compounds in to push for over an hour. That was their time resting in the kelp for- necessary to select an area with a their waste. really hard.” est, Mr. Peters suspects they act as consistently sizeable population to At one point, Caitlyn said, “I The crustaceans gather together “a conveyor belt of nutrients,” direct- determine whether or not the crea- in dens during the day, which Mr. can’t do this!” But Tim got her to ly supplying their waste and urine tures have a significant impact on Peters suspects may result in more laugh when he gestured at the feinto the canopy. nutrient levels. herbivores moving into the reefs if male doctor and nurses and said, While the UCSB team’s collabora“Sea otter populations are start- this leads to an increase in algae “Actually, I’m the only one here tors at the United States Geological ing to recover in Southern Califor- around the lobster dens. who really can’t do this.”

By NICK MASUDA Survey have studied otter activity at nia and that is a stable population,” Mr. Peters said he hopes to conSHARE Soon thereafter, less than three NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER monthly intervals for 13 years, Mr. Mr. Peters said. clude the sea otter studyART! by fall of hours after the first contraction, YOUR Peters told the News-Press that he In addition to observing sea otters, this year.

Olive Rita Goebel — all seven ast week, we all celebrated withteam a bitwill of coloring fun, someCOURTESY PHOTOEaster Please tag both @ and his observe them on Mr. Peters will lead a study that takes pounds and nine ounces of her — involved thing that reader Mary Ellen Kestel took to heart with the beautifula closer look at spiny lobsters and email: jgrega@newspress.com a “finer scale.”

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Like Nathan, Judith said her favorite activity of the “We learned about owls and how when they eat their to refrain from entering the conday was the inflatable obstacle course. prey they cough up hairballs with the bones of their struction area.

“Everything we do at Fun In the Sun is really rootprey,” he said excitedly. He said he also enjoys studyThe new southbound Highway ed in teaching the kids teamwork and confidence and ing math.

101 onramp at Casitas Pass Road collaborative of our landlordssetting. that areAll going to ute. I want to do something,’” said items there for people so you can Nathan said the Olympic games are a highlight of working together intoahave is open and the temporary ramp games are embedded in that, that teamwork mindset,” his summer, a great opportunity to see old friends and work with them.

I didn’t want them Ms. Homan. “To be able to do some- reduce your footprint in town and has been removed.

Continued from A1 said Ms. Cabrera, “Anything can to get themthat wet thing for these people feels good.” meet new people. to panic. Iwe feel fordo these people not go to the grocery store but go to The offramp at Linden Avenue and dirty is perfect.”

“Everyone knows each other,” he said. is closed for approximately sixto.” to have children, have babies on the Without a list of regular custom- Joe’s instead to get what you need. environment like that to come Friday’s event was sponsored by the Balance ers to draw from, Ms. Homan has That way he also has the opportuNathan listed off a dozen new friends he made before nine asked way, and I wanted to Brain do something.”

Themonths. simpleDrivers family are atmosphere Center of Santa Barbara. he ran off to try the giant inflatable obstacle course, a to use the of-ramps at Reynolds Ms. Homan admits she’s not the been promoting the fund through nity to put some people back on the is something Ms. Homan said Tre “They are very generous to lend their support to favorite at the event.

Avenue or Casitas Road to most tech-savvy person out there, her Facebook and Instagram ac- payroll,” said Ms. Homan.

Lune tries hard to Pass convey to everywe’re very grateful,” said Ms. CaMany of the students have participated in Fun in the this event today and reach the beach and downtown but found setting up a fundraiser counts. She’s also promoting other In the meantime, COURTESY Ms. Homan is one that comes through the door, Sun in the past, but newcomers are quickly welcomed brera.

PHOTO Carpinteria. through GoFundMe simple enough. GoFundMe efforts around town, spreading the word and sharing staff included. into the group. Judith Figueroa, 11, said this is her first Students in United Way’s Fun in the Sun Summer Program Olympics Found at https://bit.ly/2XCjwYK, like the Los Arroyos Employee Re- each donation on social media, and “This job — helped me Whittle raise my year in the program and said she wants to come back email: cwhittle@newspress.com Christian compete in the pie-eating contest Friday at El Camino Elementary School. the campaign has already raised lief Fund and an employee led ef- said employees have been grateful children and be self-sufficient. $4,850, with only 11 donors contrib- fort for Arigato Sushi. to see the support demonstrated so They’re my second family. We’ve all uting towards the $50,000 goal.

“We’re all in this together. We all far. raised our kids together and grown “We talked to the kitchen man- need to help each other out. We’re “It’s meaningful. It shows that together here,” said Ms. Homan. agers and the people that are back in for some tough times right here, their community is supporting She said she’s become the “house there and they said, ‘We’re here. and the more we do to support each them. It’s really important because mom,” so when the coronavirus We’re making money. Give it to other the better off we’re all going there’s a huge discrepancy between pandemic hit and Tre Lune had den Court. There, she one day mentioned told she would be Spiritthose until who a fewaren’t days bestrengthen working,’so we’veit. to be. Plus it feels great to put lenge. cash the haves and the have nots,” said to cut hours and staff, Ms. Homan that she was the first Spirit of Fiesta and fore the parade. felt thatinto instead of hiding away and “You Ms. think, ‘I’m here to give the best I distributed it amongst the“She 23 people somebody’s hand that needs it,” Homan. found it only natural to rally support Continued from Page A1 a woman at the home overheard her.

That “My mom said something like, ‘You’re gojust favoring it, that exercise would help,” can,’ and you just yourselfYou strong,” today that are not working.

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“We’re inmake Montecito. have for her fellow employees through a woman also happened to have a daughter ingSONG to be Spirit of Fiesta.’

It was like three manager, Ms. Parker recalled. she said.

KENNETH / NEWS-PRESS ed myself, the general and In addition to the GoFundMe, people living paycheck to paycheck GoFundMe campaign. very morning. She added that her mother, who was that year’s Spirit, and through her days before the big parade. … They sprung Parker back fondly on her time Whilethat being of Fiesta was fun while Owner Gene Montesano at his Tre Lune restaurant in Montecito. the staff that is here right Ms. now,” said looked Ms. Homan is working with Owner areSpirit serving multi-gazillionaires orderimmigrant to survive and the shut-down anIn Italian enthusiastic lover Ms. Parker’s activity in Fiesta resumed. it on me and I didn’t have a dress. I had to as Spirit and said dancing in the parade was it lasted, this giving of oneself to make othMs. Homan.

Gene Montesano, who also owns living here, and they’re supporting orders, Trewould Lune has had to cut staff to see of Fiesta, have been thrilled Ms. Parker attendedwith the April 13 audi- and borrow a dress thatif belonged to an adult, and fun but challenging. Though not a major as- ers happy is what Ms. Parker still carries tem becomes overburdened the restaurant hand out cash On Wednesday morning, Ms. HoLucky’s, Joe’s Cafe, and D’Angelo’s them.

They’re giving, and it’s really down to 10, and is now open from 3 her chosen. tions that ended with 16-year-old Sophia that was a huge deal for a 12-year-old.” pect of the parade today, Ms. Parker said from that experience. millions seeking the same, Ms. Ho- I could,” said Ms. Homan. man was able to put a few hundred Bread, to “accommodate the new wonderful for our staff to see that p.m. to 8glad p.m., taking orders for to-gobecause “I’m for my mother’s sake, Cordero being named Spirit of Fiesta and Suddenly thrusting Ms. Parker into ac- that military bands used to be a prominent “You learn not to think of yourself, you compelled to findValenzuela them “There employees dollars in thenature. hands of each normal” and new ways tolearn uti- tosupport. ou know, we serve them, it meant so much to her,” she said.at man was and curbside pickup only starting 10-year-old Paloma chosen are as some tivities seemed that to be her mother’s partemployof the event and that shefind even danced think of Y other people…

You really support.Junior Spirit. can’t even apply for unemployeemom that is unable to work during lize their access to bulk orders anda symbol and now they’re serving and it’s a Though she spent many years away from noon.

Ms. Parker credits her for not only with one the behind her.

Flamenco dancing to are for something and itusjust forces “I felt helpless. can’tthe sew.

I can’t ment,ofand they getting need cash. are in COVID-19 crisis. get people back to work and beautiful allSeeing Fiesta activities, Ms.employees Parker’s involveBack in I1949 choice of Spirit FiesherBills involved Fiesta, but danc- military band music wasn’t easy and for a paid. her fellow you out of your ownthing.” little cubby hole, and that’s sew youtaa wasn’t mask. From my pocket, I coming in everying day.

Some of Ms.“IParker had customers meshe andthought, “He’s about ment with thedesperate, festival has “bloomed” as organized.

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After sufferedtexting second “Ohthinking no, this isn’t pos-opening very important to anybody,” she said. hurting and waiting for since can’t do it.

I would sit out in front of these people aren’t lucky enough 2013, when she reconnected with Old Spancalling me saying, ‘I want to contribJoe’s as a grocer to have Spirits are now chosen a few months in ada broken leg that refused to properly heal, sible,” but she let “common sense” and hergrocery email: cwhittle@newspress.com unemployment benefits as the sysish Days through her retirement home Gar- vance of the event, but Ms. Parker wasn’t her mother placed her in dance lessons to “positive will” take over to meet the chal- email: jgrega@newspress.com

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Who is Affected? Any owner or operator of a petroleum refinery that is located within the District.

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The Planning Commission hearing begins at 9:00 a.m. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Planning Commission. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to appear and speak in support or in opposition to the projects. Written comments are also welcome. All letters should be addressed to the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93101. Letters, with nine copies, and computer materials, e.g. PowerPoint presentations, should be filed with the secretary of the Planning Commission no later than 12:00 P.M. on the Monday before the Planning Commission hearing. The decision to accept late materials will be at the discretion of the Planning Commission.

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In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the Hearing Support Staff (805) 568-2000. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable the Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements. * This is a partial listing of the items to be heard at the Planning Commission Hearing of April 29, 2020.

Previously noticed Case No. 19APL-00000-00005 (Caswell Appeal of Accessory Structures) was continued to this hearing from the hearing of February 26, 2020. See previous notice for full descriptions of these items. If you have any questions, call Planning and Development at (805) 5682000.

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CRUZ, Esperanza “Hope”

Esperanza “Hope” Cruz, a long standing resident & beloved member of the Santa Barbara community, peacefully passed away on Wednesday, the 8th of April, at the age of 81, from complications due to Parkinson’s Disease. She was surrounded by her loved ones in her quiet home, and in the hearts and minds of those who held her dear.

On September 7th, 1938, Esperanza was born to Martin & Joanna Davalos in Fort Worth, Texas, and soon moved home to Big Spring, Texas, to be raised alongside her four siblings. She would come to find the activities which brought her joy throughout her life, namely sewing, embroidery, quilting, and cooking. She caught the eye of Humberto “Bert” Cruz as early as elementary school. Hope and Bert’s relationship blossomed into a wonderful, 63-year-long marriage. They relocated to California to raise their first daughter and seek further employment.

Esperanza held multiple jobs in shoe sales, before finding a career as a cable inspector at The Raytheon Company. She dutifully worked there for 32 years before making the decision to retire to both pursue her hobbies, and to make sure her children and grandchildren were as well cared for as possible. During her retirement, Hope also volunteered at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital where her phenomenal sewing talent was able to be shared with the patients there.

In addition to her parents, Esperanza was predeceased by a brother, Martin Davalos Jr. Surviving in addition to her husband, Humberto Cruz, are her daughter Deanna Meyers and her husband, James, of Goleta; daughter Lena Henson and her husband Bryant, of Santa Barbara; son Rey Cruz, of Santa Barbara; four grandchildren: Rachel Meyers, Michelle Meyers, Kaitlin Cruz, and Brayden Henson; older brother, Joseph Anaya of Fort Stockton; sister Consuelo “Connie” Iribarren of Lancaster, and sister Jo Ann Shinavar of Oxnard; as well as many nieces, nephews, and other extended family members.

Esperanza’s Celebration of Life is set to be announced at a later date due to current world events. The family would like to thank VNA Hospice Services, Food From the Heart, and all their friends and family for their support in these difficult times.

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SCHULTZ, William Christian “BILL” Jr. December 2, 1932 to March 27, 2020

He has resided in Alaska, Annapolis (Both as a child and as a Midshipman), Hawaii (during the bombing of Pearl Harbor), San Diego, and Lompoc.

Pilot Surfer Skier Diver Navy Veteran Aerospace Engineer Basketball player Basketball Coach Dog lover Friend Reader Golfer ELK Music lover Student SDSU Aztecs, USC, UCSB, Annapolis Fraternity-SAE Educator United States Power Squadron Commander Sail boat captain Travel Adventurer Husband to wife, Tonya Father to Cheryl, husband Mike, grandfather to daughter Kendall, husband Tyler, great grandfather to sons Jack and Clark, Grandfather to Rachel, husband Danny Father to Sandra; husband Bruce, grandfather to daughter Sydney American Patriot Chocolate lover A life well lived and filled with love.

Please share a celebration of life with us as soon as we can safely gather.

YAMADA, Shoji “Sho”

Shoji (Sho) Yamada was born March 4, 1927 in Santa Barbara, CA and passed away on March 12, 2020. He was predeceased by his parents Sutezo and Hisao Yamada, half-brother Masato, brothers Fukuo and Akira, and sisters Harumi, Tomoko and Kunie Yanagi.

Sho attended Santa Barbara Junior High School and graduated from Santa Barbara High School and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. During WWII, he and his family were interned at Gila River Camp, Arizona.

After the war, Sho enlisted in the Army and served as a gun crewman. He worked for Rockwell International for over 33 years as a Development Liaison Engineer, Shuttle Orbiter Division.

Sho was a member of the Buddhist Church of Santa Barbara.

Sho is survived by his sister-in-law Winifred Yamada and many nieces and nephews.

A memorial service will be held at a later date.

McMULLIN, James Taylor James (Jim or “Jimmy”) Taylor McMullin passed away suddenly of an arrhythmia heart attack April 8, 2020 in his chair at home. Jim was a local boy, born in Utah but came to Santa Barbara when he was 4 years old. He was the son of Carma Taylor & Floyd H. McMullin, a Civil Engineer who helped design the Bradbury Dam at Lake Cachuma. Jim was a Wilson Wildcat & one of “Van’s boys.” He also attended Harding, La Cumbre JHS, and SBHS (Class of ‘60) where he formed many friendships that are still close to this day. After retiring he enjoyed staying in touch with “Class of ‘60” and other friends, spending many Tuesday mornings at the Breakwater Cafe sharing their stories.

In 1972 Jim married the love of his life, Barbara. They made a great team, even though he worked and played with an intensity that was sometimes hard to keep up with. Jim’s spirit really soared in the mountains, he was a true outdoorsman who loved hunting & stream fishing.

He was an avid mountain biker, loved the desert, offroading with cars, motorcycles, and ocean fishing on his boat exploring the Coast and the Channel Islands.

Jim became a licensed General Contractor in 1976 forming McMullin Construction, a successful independent general construction firm. Jim was a talented builder who gave extraordinary service to his clients many of whom became lifelong friends. He was very organized, a leader in all he accomplished. He built custom homes, completed residential, commercial/industrial remodels & developed small condominium projects.

It didn’t matter to Jim if you were a laborer, supplier, subcontractor, architect or owner, he treated everyone equally. Jim gave & received the deep respect of those he worked with, especially Luis Valerio, his loyal foreman who became a close friend. Jim was always there to offer help or give valuable advice to someone if they needed it & he was greatly appreciated by those who received his generous assistance. Jim lived life on his own terms: he did not deviate from his strong belief that being very honest, straightforward, telling it “like it is” and that his handshake was his bond.

In his later years Jim solidified his Faith by returning to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, his family religion. He became very involved in Family Search, tracing the lineage for many families, including his own. Through his “Indexing” efforts, where the Church is digitalizing old census & birth records, he was able to reunite many people with their ancestors. Jim was ordained to the Melchizedek Priest hood as an Elder & was set apart as a Family History/Temple Consultant.

Jim is survived by his loving wife and life-partner, Barbara, & his brother, Floyd “Taylor” McMullin. Those also grieving his untimely death are Barbara’s family, his many cousins throughout the country, and friends across the spectrum of life.

Jim will rest in peace at the Santa Barbara Cemetery. Due to the Corona Virus, a memorial service and celebration of life will take place this summer. This tribute will be on the Welch-Ryce-Haider Website: www.wrhsb.com for anyone wishes to leave a “Jimmy Story.”

SUAREZ, Clio

It is with great sadness that the family of Clio Suarez announces his passing. Clio Suarez, who was born on August 3, 1933 a “fiesta baby” in Santa Barbara, CA, passed away on April 8, 2020 at the age of 86.

Clio loved life and life loved him back. His heart was full of love for everyone; a strong and proud man, he did it his way and the proper way with integrity, dignity and respect.

Clio is survived by his son, Mark Craig Suarez (Whitni) and two daughters Debra Helen Hansen (Torben) and Kayle Ann Girvin (Mike), four grandchildren Rebecca Jolene Jaqua (Jason), Kristi Nicole Nelson (Zack), Mark Craig Suarez Jr. and Lindsey Marie Suarez, two great-grandchildren Dakota Jaqua and Callie Jaqua, and his three brothers Henry Suarez, Lupe Suarez and Steve Suarez. He is also survived by many cousins, nephews, and nieces.

Clio was preceded in passing to heaven by the love of his life, Harriet “Hattie” Suarez, his father Buonfilio Suarez and mother Helen Suarez, his brothers James Bailey, Dickie Suarez and sister Norma Villa.

Clio’s passion in life was his family, first and foremost. His family was truly the center of his life, as he thoroughly enjoyed spending time with his children and grandchildren by attending their activities, camping in the Eastern Sierras and at the Rincon. Clio also enjoyed golf, backyard barbeques, going to the Santa Barbara Elks Lodge where he was a member, spending time with his dog “Buddy,” socializing with friends, and he loved music and from a young age, enjoying and playing the alto saxophone.

Clio began his career early in his late teens working in the grocery industry. He began at Safeway, then eventually headed for greater ambitions to Jordano’s Grocery Store where he was manager. In high demand because he had a knack for the grocery industry inside and out as well as a love and perception of people, he took a bigger leap to become District Sales Manager for the California’s Central District for Bradshaw & Associates, and then the Quaker Oats Company. As years passed, he retired to enjoy traveling with his wife, his family and golf.

Family members wish to thank everyone for bringing joy and love into his life, including his neighbors and Cottage Hospital for their kindness, compassion, and loving care.

Sadly, due to the conditions beyond our control and COVD-19 government mandates, any and all services are prohibited. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date when COVD-19 has passed and is behind us.

Words cannot begin to measure the depth of our love and loss of our beloved Clio, who had such a huge giving, loving heart. Heaven will shine brighter with our beloved Clio.

Love sparkles like the sun shining on the waves of the deep blue sea, we love and miss you Dad-Grandpa!

In Clio’s memory, donations may be made to the Santa Barbara Special Olympics, LA or St. Jude Children’s Hospitals, Santa Barbara County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association, or the Santa Barbara Police Officers’ Association.

CLARK, Curt 1/29/38 – 3/21/20

Curt Clark, 82, a former resident of Santa Barbara, passed away in Bellingham, Washington on March 21 after a short illness.

He is survived by his wife, Jenny, daughter Emily Bennett, twin brother Bill, Yolanda Clark, Cousin Phil Halsey, nephew Jason Halsey (Kerri), stepson John Shull and three grandsons, Michael Dart, Zackery Bennett and Conner Shull.

Curt, born in Erie Pennsylvania in 1938, was the son of Walter and Helen Clark. He attended Syracuse University on a swimming and water polo scholarship and graduated from Bradley University in Illinois. After graduation, he worked for Westinghouse before starting his own business in Princeton, Illinois Princeton Wholesale Electrical Supply Company. While living in Princeton, he also bought a farm and became a successful farmer.

He wanted to be on the ocean, so after moving to Santa Barbara in the mid ‘80s, Curt bought a fishing boat and became a commercial fisherman. After fishing for several years, he was hired by Chevron to assist in the removal of oil rig platforms. After the oil rigs were removed, he was asked to design and deploy buoys over the remaining shell mounds to protect ocean-going traffic. Throughout his many careers, he never lost interest in trying something new. In 2011, Curt moved to Bellingham, Washington, bought another boat and spent years cruising among the San Juan Islands with family and friends.

Curt had a wonderful sense of humor, never lost his love of boats and the water, was fiercely loyal to his many friends around the country, protective of the people closest to him and did not suffer tools gladly.

The family wished to thank Bellingham Hospice for the outstanding care given to Curt.

A private memorial service to celebrate Curt’s life will be held later in Bellingham, Washington.

JESSUP, Hubert

Hubert Jessup, a pioneer in Boston television, passed away on February 17, 2020, in Santa Barbara, California, with his wife of 52 years, Marie Steventon Jessup, by his side. Jessup, who was 73, grew up in Ivanhoe CA, lived most of his adult life in Massachusetts, and returned to live in Santa Barbara in 2013. He was a graduate of University of California Santa Barbara and Harvard Divinity School. Before moving to Harvard, he served as junior fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, and helped research the origins of the New Testament with the late Bishop James Pike. Bishop Pike officiated at Hubert and Marie’s wedding in the gardens of Santa Barbara’s El Encanto Hotel.

Jessup will be most remembered for creating three innovative and award-winning television series for ABC Boston affiliate WCVB-TV: New Heaven/New Earth; The Baxters’; and Park Street Under.

On New Heaven, Jessup merged programs on religion and social conscience, presented award-winning programs on Thoreau and the poetry of Thomas Merton; and interviewed the Dalai Lama; Dorothy Day; Baba Ram Das; Sioux Medicine Man, Lame Deer; Harvard Theologian, Peter Gomes; and labor activist, Cesar Chavez. Jessup’s work with Chavez deepened his own experience with non-violent protest advancing social and economic justice in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley where he grew up.

In 1978, Jessup was awarded an Emmy by the New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) for his creation of The Baxters’. For The Baxters’, the best-known original program produced by WCVB in the ‘70s, Jessup created a unique format: an original performance in the first half, while the second half featured a dialogue between audience and panelists about the show and the issues it explored. The Baxters’ began as a local program in 1977 and was purchased after two years by Norman Lear, who took the show to Hollywood and sold it into first-run syndication for the 1979-1980 season. Jessup created New Heaven/New Earth and the Baxters’ to provide people new ways to explore the meaning of their lives.. “…

Broadcasting should make audiences examine and challenge their beliefs, not merely reaffirm them,” he often said. Jessup created and produced ‘Park Street Under,’ the first locally-produced situation comedy set in a downstairs bar. With well-known actors playing quintessentially Boston characters, the show won a reputation for being winningly attuned to the tastes and sensibilities of the city, right from its debut in 1979. Industry insiders consider Park Street Under to be the inspiration behind hit NBC sit-com, Cheers.

From 1982-1984 he hosted his own radio show on Boston’s WHDH Radio. A Boston Globe review in 1984 observed, “At a time when the airwaves are clogged with banality, Jessup is a voice of intellect, liberalism, sensitivity and fairness.”

Jessup served as both President of the New England Chapter and as a National Trustee of NATAS, where he was instrumental in creating and implementing its media literacy project, Creating Critical Viewers, a high school curriculum using the top educational leaders in the country.

From 1985-1996, Jessup worked as the General Manager of BNN, Boston Community Access and Programing Foundation, the first of its kind in the country.

Jessup also taught at many area colleges including, Harvard Divinity School, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Boston University. He later served as an executive at Los Angeles media think tank, Media Scope, researching the effects of smoking, violence and alcohol in television programming.

After joining the Greater Boston Track Club at age 42, he ran 11 Boston Marathons, often training by running to work in Boston from his home in Newton Highlands.

A wonderful husband and father, he leaves sons Ethan (daughter-in-law Sara Schaeffner) and Micah (daughter-in-law Laura Duncan); two grandsons, Luka and Kaleb; and his sister, Arvilla Boswell. And he leaves his beloved wife, Marie.

A memorial service will be held June 20th, 2020 at 2:00 pm at All Saints Parish, Brookline, MA 02445. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to: ATTN: Park Donation, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, 47050 Generals Highway, Three Rivers, CA 93271, where he loved to backpack and hike with his family.

RANDOPOULO, Eleni

Eleni Randopoulo, 94, mother, grandmother and great grandmother, died April 10, 2020 in Ojai, CA. Born August 20, 1925 in Alexandria, Egypt, to Daniel and Despina Capaday, was raised in the vibrant Greek Community of Alexandria, where she met and married Thanasi Randopoulos. Together they had 3 children Anthoula, Daniel, and Dimitri. After her husband’s death she moved to Athens, Greece in 1972 and later to CA. She was president of the Soroptimist’s Club in Athens, a scholar, athlete, an award-winning bridge player, accomplished artist, and published author. Best of all she was a mother, grandmother, great grandmother and our family’s guiding light.

She is survived by her children Anthoula, Daniel (Candy), grandchildren, Patrick (Diana), Barbara (Rich), Thanasi (Tessa), and Christina (Stuart) and her great grandchildren Nicole, Carter, Jacob, Elizabeth, Sienna, George, and her loving nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents, sisters Marianthe and Angeliki, her husband Thanasi, her baby Dimitri, and her great-granddaughter Jolea Eleni.

Her smile, faith, compassion, and love of life will always be in our hearts.

Due to the pandemic, service will be held for immediate family only, at Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, 575 Santa Rosa Rd, Camarillo, CA 93012 on Wednesday April 15.

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Camarillo, or Help of Ojai. Funeral Directors, Chapman Funeral Homes (855)628-0447

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LOCAL FIVE-DAY FORECAST TODAY

MONDAY

Times of sun and clouds

Mostly cloudy

INLAND

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

Partly sunny and Mostly sunny and Sunshine and nice pleasant breezy

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70 46

75 49

85 54

84 48

64 51

69 52

72 53

77 58

77 55

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Maricopa 73/55

Guadalupe 62/51

Santa Maria 65/51

Vandenberg 60/51

New Cuyama 68/46 Ventucopa 62/45

Los Alamos 65/49

Lompoc 61/49 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2020

Buellton 63/48

Solvang 64/48

Gaviota 62/51

SANTA BARBARA 64/51 Goleta 64/51

Carpinteria 62/52 Ventura 62/53

AIR QUALITY KEY Good Moderate

Source: airnow.gov Unhealthy for SG Very Unhealthy Unhealthy Not Available

ALMANAC

Santa Barbara through 6 p.m. yesterday

TEMPERATURE High/low Normal high/low Record high Record low

64/55 68/48 79 in 2016 37 in 1968

PRECIPITATION 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest.

Month to date (normal) Season to date (normal)

0.00” 2.06” (0.70”) 11.48” (16.77”)

City Cuyama Goleta Lompoc Pismo Beach Santa Maria Santa Ynez Vandenberg Ventura

STATE CITIES Bakersfield Barstow Big Bear Bishop Catalina Concord Escondido Eureka Fresno Los Angeles Mammoth Lakes Modesto Monterey Napa Oakland Ojai Oxnard Palm Springs Pasadena Paso Robles Sacramento San Diego San Francisco San Jose San Luis Obispo Santa Monica Tahoe Valley

74/55/pc 79/56/pc 55/32/pc 72/40/pc 56/49/c 68/51/c 67/52/pc 56/44/c 75/53/pc 66/55/pc 53/28/pc 75/51/pc 63/53/c 67/46/c 66/53/c 63/48/c 63/54/pc 84/59/pc 63/53/pc 68/48/c 72/49/pc 68/59/pc 64/51/c 69/52/c 64/50/c 63/54/pc 51/28/sh

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 67/41/c 68/52/c 64/48/c 60/46/c 65/47/c 70/46/c 60/50/c 65/53/c

64/56/r 60/45/s 58/35/pc 77/54/c 59/33/pc 83/59/t 90/79/pc 50/37/pc 62/48/s 64/49/pc 84/61/s 67/46/pc 63/40/c 62/43/pc 63/46/pc 67/51/pc

POINT ARENA TO POINT PINOS

Wind northwest 6-12 knots today. Waves 2 feet or less with a south-southwest swell 2-4 feet at 20 seconds. Visibility clear.

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO

Wind northwest 6-12 knots today. Waves 2 feet or less with a south-southwest swell 2-4 feet at 20 seconds. Visibility clear.

SANTA BARBARA HARBOR TIDES Date Time High Time April 19 April 20 April 21

8:28 a.m.

9:04 p.m.

9:05 a.m.

9:24 p.m.

9:41 a.m.

9:44 p.m.

LAKE LEVELS

4.4’ 4.6’ 4.3’ 4.8’ 4.2’ 5.0’

Low

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2:46 p.m.

3:10 a.m.

3:10 p.m.

3:40 a.m.

3:31 p.m.

1.3’ 0.3’ 0.9’ 0.5’ 0.6’ 0.8’

AT BRADBURY DAM, LAKE CACHUMA 73/52/c 77/55/pc 53/30/pc 66/43/c 57/51/c 65/50/c 67/52/c 55/44/c 71/50/sh 67/54/c 48/29/sh 69/49/sh 61/53/c 64/45/c 61/52/c 67/47/c 65/53/c 84/59/pc 66/51/c 68/44/c 68/48/c 67/60/c 60/51/c 64/51/c 63/46/c 65/53/c 49/30/r

NATIONAL CITIES Atlanta Boston Chicago Dallas Denver Houston Miami Minneapolis New York City Philadelphia Phoenix Portland, Ore. St. Louis Salt Lake City Seattle Washington, D.C.

Wind west 6-12 knots today. Wind waves 1-3 feet with a west-northwest swell 2-4 feet at 15-second intervals. Visibility clear.

TIDES

LOCAL TEMPS Today Hi/Lo/W 68/46/pc 64/51/pc 64/51/c 59/49/c 65/51/c 70/48/c 60/51/c 62/53/pc

MARINE FORECAST

SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL

72/51/pc 51/37/c 61/38/pc 75/59/s 62/38/pc 86/60/pc 95/79/pc 55/29/pc 57/45/pc 59/44/pc 87/60/s 72/46/pc 65/48/pc 65/46/pc 67/47/pc 62/48/r

At Lake Cachuma’s maximum level at the point at which water starts spilling over the dam holds 188,030 acre-feet. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, equivalent to the amount of water consumed annually by 10 people in an urban environment.

Storage 156,027 acre-ft.

Elevation 740.10 ft.

Evaporation (past 24 hours) 16.0 acre-ft.

Inflow 319.0 acre-ft.

State inflow 0.0 acre-ft.

Storage change from yest. +213 acre-ft.

Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

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7:35 p.m.

5:04 a.m.

4:43 p.m.

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5:31 a.m.

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SU N DAY, A PR I L 19, 2 02 0

Artists at home share their creativity through local Digital Arts Festival

By DAVE MASON

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NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

OVID-19 hasn’t stopped the arts.

The proof is the Digital Arts Festival.

That’s Center Stage Theater’s online alternative for artists and their audiences. The Santa Barbara theater’s festival started April 6.

Center Stage Theater’s Jim Sirianni interviews artist in segments that are added at

7 p.m. daily. There are also links to performances and videos.

To find all this material, go to centerstagetheater.org and click on its Digital Arts Festival blog.

Artists have been announced through May 2. After each artist is introduced, the material remains on the site.

Center Stage Theater executive director Teri Ball said the interviews give viewers an insight into the artists and their creative process.

“We’re creating an opportunity

for artists to reach an audience right now and we’re finding out what they’re doing during the shutdown,” Ms. Ball told the News-Press.

“As someone who has worked as an arts administrator for 30 years, I love watching the process,” she said. “I’d rather sit in a rehearsal than a final performance. To me, this is a really cool opportunity to share that part of the process with everybody else.”

She said viewers are enjoying the opportunity to learn about

artists.

They vary from dancers to musicians to people working in theater and the visual arts.

Ms. Ball noted artists are equally excited with the ability to connect with audiences at a time when everyone is staying at home.

The News-Press interviewed several of the Digital Arts Festival artists to learn more about their lives, creations, proudest moments and biggest dreams.

Email: dmason@newspress.com COURTESY NITA JUNE

Mommy Tonk

“Let’s keep working together,” DogStar Theater Company founder Nita June said about surviving the COVID-19 pandemic.

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hannon Noel and Stacie Burrows were strangers until they made each other laugh.

Now longtime buddies, they haven’t stopped laughing since.

They met when they were among the women giving monologues during “Expressing Motherhood,” a show about a decade ago in a Los Angeles theater.

“She (Ms. Noel) delivers the funniest monologue that I have ever heard. I’m on the floor laughing, and I’m thinking, ‘This may be weird, but this new person I’ve never met before is going to be my best friend, and we’re going to work together,’ ” Mrs. Burrows, 47, said.

They were both mothers who grew up in church choirs in the South. They brought that experience and their love for comedy when they started Mommy Tonk. The duo joined the Digital Arts Festival on April 14.

The musical duo performs funny songs about family life. “Mommy Tonk” is a play on the words honkey-tonk, a country music genre. Ms. Noel plays the guitar; Mrs. Burrows, the piano. They’re often backed up by a male fiddle group called the Assless Chaps.

“We’re a couple, irreverent mothers,” said Ms. Noel, 46, a former Santa Barbara resident.

“You can get away with saying a lot if you say it sweetly. So if you’re using four-letter words or colorful language, all is forgiven if it’s developed or delivered in a nice, sweet harmony.

“One of my favorite quotes about our singing is from Stacie’s dad: ‘Well, that’s the prettiest, filthiest music I ever did hear,’ ” Ms. Noel said.

Ms. Noel and Mrs. Burrows, who live on opposite ends of Los Angeles, have performed at Center Stage Theater. Their songs vary from “Got to Go to Target” to “Let’s All Get Divorced and Go Drinking.”

“We have a song about other mothers, ‘Mom Crush,’ ” said Ms.

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This is the cover of “Nailed It,” Mommy Tonk’s 2016 album. The duo consists of Stacie Burrows, left, and Shannon Noel.

Noel, a Louisville, Ky., native with two sons: Booker, 11, and Riley, 9. “It’s about our attraction to the other mothers and our slight jealousies of them.”

Mrs. Burrows, a Houston native with two sons, 15-year-old James and 12-year-old Charlie, said their audiences feature moms who can relate to their songs. “We might be comedians, we might be musicians, but we’re definitely therapists because when moms come to our show, they can exhale and say, ‘I’m not alone.’

“This is a universal thing we’re all going through. We love our husbands, we love our families, but oh my goodness gracious, the minute they open the gates, we’re running away,” Mrs. Burrows said.

“We’ll come back, but we may run away for a few days.”

Both women noted they’re happily married, Mrs. Burrows to Desmond Burrows and Ms. Noel to John Webb.

Mommy Tonk has recorded one album,”Nailed It” (2016).

IMPACT OF COVID-19: “Well, listen, we’re sad because we had to cancel every gig we had,” Mrs. Burrows said. The duo had planned tours

along the East and California coasts and a return to Center Stage Theater.

But the duo is continuing to create music.

LATEST PROJECT: The women cowrote and have performed a song about their lives at home during the pandemic, called “Never Been This Close,” a song about couples in quarantine. The lyrics of the funny song include: “Never been this close to leaving you.”

The song’s video, which you’ll find on YouTube, includes Ms. Noel dressing up with a beard in her alter ego of Daddy Tonk. The character reminds Ms. Burrows of country singer Charlie Daniels (pictured).

Ms. Noel edited together the video of them singing at their separate homes.

PROUDEST MOMENT: Ms. Noel points to a performance before cowboys in a restaurant in the small town of Harlingen, Texas.

The women were afraid they were doomed.

“A lot of our songs are not necessarily super, super friendly to husbands, although we mean it with love. There are times in the

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show when we’re dressing up as these men too,” Ms. Noel said.

“They (the cowboys) started heckling us,” she said. “We heckled back to them.”

The concert went better than expected. “It was one of the best shows we’ve ever done,” Ms. Noel said. “The cowboys were standing up, dancing in the aisles, hooting and hollering. They could not get enough of us.”

BIGGEST DREAM: A comedy special on Netflix or HBO. LIFE AFTER COVID-19: “Once things get back to normal, we’ll be able to resume our plans and bring our strange type of joy” in concerts, said Ms. Burrows.

Nita June

ita June, who was featured April 10 at the festival, grew up in Boulder, Colo., with a love of the arts as a musician, singer and painter.

The 39-year-old Santa Barbara resident earned her bachelor’s in theater arts and English in 2003 at Barnard College in New York City and her master’s of fine arts in contemporary performance in 2009 at Naropa University in Boulder.

“I believe the process of theater making is a process of finding the true essence of the characters,” she said.

Ms. June, who teaches drama as part of the guest faculty at Westmont College, started DogStar Theater Company in 2016 in Santa Barbara.

“I founded this company based on the principles of collaboration and shared creativity,” said Ms. June, the company’s creative director. “I really wanted to create a company where the actors, other directors and designers could all have a space that was safe to share their voice and their ideas.”

IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE ARTS: Ms. June said she was disappointed that DogStar Theater Company couldn’t perform “The Electric Baby,” which was scheduled at Center Stage Theater. But she said the troupe will present the play after the pandemic.

Because of the coronavirus, the “fairytale for adults” about the magical power of a baby in a glowing bassinet will become even more relevant, Ms. June said.

“It’s a story of love, of overcoming challenges. I think it’s going to be even more well-received after going through all this.”

LATEST PROJECT: Ms. June and her friend, Sara Rademacher, collaborated to start The Outlet Project, which allows individuals to connect through online writing and performances. See theoutproject.art.

“It’s not just for artists and performers. We welcome everybody,” Ms. June said.

Ms. June pointed out the value of online efforts such as Center Stage Theater’s Digital Arts Festival in recruiting artists who have hesitated to perform in public. “You don’t have to be onstage under the spotlight in front of an audience.

This is a way to share in a safe space in a safe manner.”

PROUDEST MOMENT: Ms. June said her best moment came when she directed “Cyrano de Bergerac,” the 1897 play by Edmond Rostand that became a 1950 film adaptation starring Jose Ferrer (pictured).

One of her mentors watched the performance at a Los Angeles performing arts high school, Highland Hall, and came up to Ms. June, then 26, afterward.

“He came up to me with tears in his eyes and gave me the biggest hug and whispered in my ears, ‘You are so good at this!’ ” Ms. June said.

“And I just burst, crying, just to be seen with a mentor in that fashion.

And I still keep that way with me.”

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Jose Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac

BIGGEST DREAM: Ms. June said she would love for DogStar Theater Company to be fully funded for an entire season.

LIFE DURING COVID-19: “Let’s all keep working together,” Ms. June said. “We are stronger when we are together. This is the motto we’ve heard from the (Montecito) mudslides.”

Robin Bisio and Ali Rybczyk

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more carefree times.

The Santa Barbara filmmaker and choreographer collaborated with Laguna Beach painter Ali Rybczyk to create a movie showing dancer Amanda Keller.

It’s called “California du Sud: 34.3964 N and 119.7068 W,” and the numbers are the coordinates of Shoreline Park. The movie was filmed in early February at the Santa Barbara site. Ms. Bisio provided the direction and choreography, and Ms. Rybczyk was the videographer.

A link to “California du Sud” appeared April 6 on the Center Stage Theater blog, PHOTOS COURTESY CENTER STAGE THEATER the first day of the Digital Arts Festival.

Robin Bisio, a Santa Barbara filmmaker and Ms. Keller is dancing in the film, which choreographer, said the arts are helping people was shot in early February before the during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 pandemic.

“I think it’s a tonic. It’s fresh airs, flowers, dancing, the kind of medicine we need now,” Ms. Bisio said. “The world is a very different place now. The film is like a time capsule.”

“Ali brought over flowers and oranges,” Ms. Bisio said. “She looked in my closet and found a dress she wanted her dancer to wear.”

Ms. Bisio said Ms. Keller performed her dancing as a “very natural frolic.”

“It’s kind of a natural state, with running on the beach,” Ms. Bisio said.

“Ali and I and the dancer, we made it up as we went along,” she said.‘ “It was very, very spontaneous, very much unlike anything I had done,” Ms. Bisio said.

The music in the film is “Cheer Up My Brother” by HNNY. Ms. Bisio, a San Francisco native, earned two English degrees — a bachelor’s at UCSB and a master’s at UC Berkeley. Ms. Bisio, who studied dance in high school, became further interested when she lived at age 19 in Paris. As a student at Paris-Sorbonne University, she watched students dance elsewhere.

“I kept with the English major thing and kept dance on the side,” said Ms. Bisio, who received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Dance from the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance in 2010. She has a 29-yearold daughter.

Ms. Rybczyk enjoys painting portraits, including those that she creates on the spot at live arts events. According to her biography on the Digital Arts Festival website, “Ali captures the essence of what makes you, you.”

PROUDEST MOMENT: “Being close to the earth and listening to the earth and doing the dances that we do,” Ms. Bisio said.

“It’s the connection the artist has with the earth itself.”

BIGGEST DREAM: “The idea of an installation that celebrates the landscape and the community has been high on my list,” she said.

SURVIVING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: “I think the arts are so helpful, the singing on Zoom, the tenor (Andrea Bocelli) at the Milan church on Easter,” Ms. Bisio said.

“Art is what our souls need to feed on.

It’s good for artists to see how much their work is appreciated.”

Ali Rybczyk, a Laguna Beach artist, collaborated with Ms. Bisio on the film “California du Sud: 34.3964 N and 119.7068 W.”

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TAURUS — Key insights might inspire you to dig deeper and perhaps connect with someone who can help you find the healing you seek at the week progresses.

GEMINI — This week, your friendships and other social connections can be the key to opportunities that might not have shown up otherwise. It’s who you know that counts.

CANCER — Do you need to get someone on board with a plan? Don’t beat around the bush. Instead, present the facts as openly and honestly as possible and things can swing your way.

LEO — You might be ready for bigger challenges this week, and perhaps a chance to reflect can allow you to see your situation in perspective.

VIRGO — Are you eager to take a budding romance further? If you’re in too much of a hurry, you could end this before it has a chance to begin. Patience is the key here.

LIBRA — This week, you might need to make a family-related decision. If you and your partner are at loggerheads, a compromise may be the only way out.

SCORPIO — More positive transits could see you making forward strides, particularly with home, family issues, and financial resources. With some clever negotiation, you may be able to arrange for extra funds.

SAGITTARIUS — The start of this week could pose a dilemma that may not be easy to resolve. Is it really worth shelling out your hard-earned cash for an experience that might be positive but hardly qualifies as an investment.

CAPRICORN — This week might see you eager to kick-start a new phase that could influence your lifestyle. This might mean investing in equipment so you can eat more healthfully at home. It looks like it could be very worthwhile.

AQUARIUS — This week is very much a time to tune in and listen to those intuitive nudges. Doing so could leave you in no doubt as to what to do next. Put more emphasis on your goals and key plans and how you can accomplish them.

PISCES — The early part of this week could see you eager to impress your friends. Whether you take out an expensive membership or show up at an event after a complete makeover, consider your motives.

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Hardworking dad needs help relating to his young daughter

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ear Abby: My husband works full-time, and when he gets home, and also on weekends, he’s “exhausted” and needs to relax. He’s in bed by 8 every night, and on the weekends, if we don’t have something planned, he lies in bed all day napping and watching TV. However, when he realizes he has a weekend day free (meaning I’m taking our 6-yearold daughter someplace he doesn’t need to be), he all of a sudden “finds” the energy to make golf plans, go on outings with friends, etc. If I make plans to hire a baby sitter and it’s Abigail just us going Van Buren out, he has the energy and looks forward to it. It’s as if he is happiest when he doesn’t have to be with our child.

He does give her some attention, but it’s just in spurts, and then he’s off again to watch TV. I’m tired of asking him to make plans with her or spend time with her. I feel like a nag for something I feel he should want to do. Any advice?

— Like a Single Parent in New Hampshire Dear Single Parent: You married a man who may have no clue how to be a parent and doesn’t know how to relate to a little girl. Children aren’t stupid. They know when someone enjoys them and when someone doesn’t.

The effect of his lack of interest will have an impact on how your daughter feels about herself when she’s older.

She will ask herself why her father acts the way he does and blame herself for it. (Aren’t I smart enough? Aren’t I pretty enough?)

Consider going with your husband to a psychologist who can provide him with some insight — as well as suggestions — about how to better relate to his daughter, because it isn’t too late to make some changes that could benefit both of them.

Dear Abby: I need some outside advice. I just found out that my mother has breast cancer. That is hard enough, but I also found out that she has known for the last 18 months and decided to not take any measures to fight it.

My sisters say we should respect her decision and give her as much support as we can, but I can’t help but want to push her to fight this. She said she doesn’t want the pain of surgery and possibly chemotherapy.

I need someone to help me understand what to do. Please.

— Needs Some Help in Texas Dear Needs Some Help: I don’t know at what stage your mother’s cancer was at the time of her diagnosis and whether she got a second opinion and counseling. After 18 months of not being treated, I also don’t know at what stage it may be now. It may have been too late then — or it may be too late now.

If she made her decision under the assumption that there would be no pain if she skipped the surgery/chemo, she was incorrect. There is pain either way, although with heavy medication it may be controlled.

I do think you should support her decision and make the best of the time you have together.

Your sisters are right — she will need your support as her disease progresses. My heart goes out to all of you. Please accept my sympathy.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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i, Carolyn: I wonder if you can help me sort out the hurt and anger I have come to feel in some of my friendships. I find myself often being the initiator for getting together with my peers.

In general I’m a leader type, confident, extroverted. I typically reach out first when I want to see someone or talk.

But I get tired of my role as the initiator. So then I go quiet, sometimes for many weeks, and ... don’t hear from some of my friends, then miss them, want to see them, and ... I cave, and initiate coffee, drinks at my house, or a walk.

Nearly always my overtures are reciprocated; I believe they are genuinely glad to hear from me.

I don’t do most social media, so I understand I am choosing not to be as present in those ways.

Even though I am a happily married woman with (not small) children, I may simply crave more friend time than my peer group. Or maybe I just go after what I want or need, not a bad thing. One of my single friends jokingly refers to me as her “other single friend” because I do my own thing, not just the couples/family stuff.

Do I just suck it up and accept that I’m the initiator?

— Initiator Initiator: Yes. This is your skill, your strength, your contribution to your friendships.

Your friends contribute, too, in ways that reflect their strengths — because if they gave you nothing, then you wouldn’t miss them and keep them as your friends, right?

Maybe you’re fortunate to count a great listener among your people.

Maybe there’s one who never initiates but always shows up — for you, for others, for

anyone. With an appetizer.

Maybe there’s one who can always be counted on to organize the group gift.

Maybe you have one or two who are utterly unreliable except in their ability to make you laugh or open your eyes to a perspective that would otherwise never have occurred to you.

Maybe there are a few who never fail to stay late and help clean up.

Maybe you have an optimist to lift you up. Maybe you have a pessimist who gets that things don’t always happen for a reason.

Maybe this is starting to sound like we’re casting for a new boy band, and I’m OK with that.

Anyway.

So, yes, even though your complaint is valid, you suck it up — though embracing the current distribution of labor among your companions would be even better.

It’s fair and understandable to want your friends, just once in a long while even, to give you what you so reliably give to them.

And if you think it would be of any use, then by all means confide in one or three of them that you’d like someone to pinch-hit for you occasionally on making plans ... or, seriously, call you sometimes. Maybe there’s no objection, only inertia, all they need is a nudge.

But it’s also more reliable to find solutions built from your status quo. That includes acknowledging that your friends don’t always give you what you want but that you do still want what they give. Getting more of it might just mean adding more extroverts to your roster of friends.

Email Carolyn at tellme@washpost.com or chat with her online at 9 a.m. each Friday at www.washingtonpost.com.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2020

Re-open our economy

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recently shared a chart (I love charts and I have lots and lots of them) with the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors this past Monday, which was about 150 years ago. The chart showed the loss of jobs in the private sector relative to the public sector. The data was taken from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

And it tells a disturbing story.

My friend and colleague Andy Caldwell also spoke on this issue of comparable job losses between the private sector and public sector during the county’s budget workshop. Andy asked the Supervisors is every government job essential? Answer: Of course not. And yet, there’s been no net loss of public sector jobs due to COVID-19, at least not according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Look, as many of you know from my writings over these past several years, it is not my mission in life to promote the elimination of jobs. I preach the gospel of prosperity, the morality of prosperity to be more precise. But I will say this, if the government forced shutdown of our economy — which I consider to be the worst self-inflicted injury in the history of mankind — is being imposed on us by people in the government sector who aren’t

sharing the pain of their own arrangements to allow for policy prescriptions, well, that’s appropriate social distancing. going to be seen by the public as This isn’t rocket science. We fundamentally unfair. should trust local businesses to I’m not going to beat around the do what is necessary to protect bush here. I believe it is time to rethe health of their customers and open our economy. The economic their employees. These businesses damage being imposed on tens of are owned and operated by our millions of Americans families, friends and isn’t justified by the data neighbors. We know they relied on to delay the rewill do what is right. And opening of our economy. if they don’t, nobody will We have flattened the choose to do business with curve in California and them. in Santa Barbara County Everybody on Earth by our social distancing understands the wisdom and sheltering-atof social distancing. As a Joe Armendariz behavior, it has reached home. Our hospitals are no longer at risk of critical mass. being overwhelmed by It has been said by Coronavirus victims. And that was many already that every business the primary reason for the social is essential to someone. Just distancing and forced shutdown like every government job is order. Or so they told us. Well, apparently essential to every mission accomplished. It worked. politician. That’s fine. But the Re-open the economy. brutal truth is every job is, in Here’s what I suggested to our fact, essential to the person who county supervisors. Sheriff Bill holds that job. And so the people Brown and District Attorney of Santa Barbara County should Joyce Dudley, should be asked be allowed to go back to work. to appear in front of the Board They should be allowed to earn of Supervisors. They should be the money they desperately need asked, if not directed outright, to pay rent, a mortgage, a car to not cite anyone in Santa payment, insurance, groceries, Barbara County who re-opens utilities, etc. their business, provided that I understand the decision to business has made the reasonable do what I am suggesting is above

the “pay grade” of our county supervisors. They should do it anyway. I believe a vast majority of the people will be on the side of those who understand the imperative of re-opening our economy.

This week’s budget workshop was perhaps one of the most preposterous budget hearings I’ve witnessed. The gap between what county staff knows and what they showed the supervisors in terms of the budget impacts from this coronavirus, is immeasurable.

I believe a better use of their time and staff resources would have been to hold an emergency hearing to put together a bold plan of action to re-open businesses in Santa Barbara County ASAP. Also, expediting the approval of languishing permits, as well as guaranteeing whatever other county approvals are necessary to get Santa Barbara County’s economy up and running again.

This is a Nike moment for our County Board of Supervisors. Just Do It! And force the Governor to stop you.

Joe Armendariz is the executive director of the Santa Barbara County Taxpayers Association

DRAWING BOARD

GUEST OPINION

Governor Newsom must give up control

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here is a petition circulating throughout the county asking local elected officials to consider deferring their own salaries until the coronavirus shut down is abated.

Moreover, the petition requests that all highly paid administrators, who earn between $200,000$350,000 a year, consider taking a 30 percent reduction in pay.

To say this petition floated like a lead balloon would be an understatement.

Nonetheless, the reason citizens are floating this petition is because government in general is not feeling the pain of the private sector in this shutdown, at least not yet. For example, Santa Barbara County, the largest local government entity by orders of magnitude ($1.2 billion annual budget and 4,000 employees) has apparently not deemed one single employee as “non-essential.”

That is not to say, I want government employees to be laid off any more than I want the private sector to suffer a similar fate. After all, I am of the firm opinion that it would have been easier from the start for most of us

to social distance at work rather possible. First and foremost, than at home in lieu of crashing the real data, versus computer our economy. That is, most people models, indicates that California have their own workstation/ successfully “flattened the curve” cubicle/office wherein they don’t before Governor Newsom ordered have to share much of anything, businesses to close and us to meaning it wouldn’t be that stay home. What that means in difficult or onerous to practical terms is that the wipe things down as governor no longer has the necessary and distance legitimate Constitutional accordingly. Meanwhile, authority to keep the state at home, all bets are in lock down. Namely, his off because we are Constitutional authority is cramming people into based upon a compelling a confined space which governmental purpose involves the potential that must be as narrowly Andy Caldwell for increased virus construed as possible. transmission via the Now that our hospitals constant touching and have surge capacity and sharing of virtually everything. the trends of the virus have Another reason to consider more than flattened, Newsom laying off government employees is constitutionally required to at this time has to do with the huge relinquish control back to county impending financial loss in tax health authorities. These local revenues via the downturn in the authorities answer to county economy and subsequent pension supervisors who can fine tune losses in the stock market. If we their approach to their particular don’t lay off the “non-essential” situation. That is, a one-size-fits all government employees now, we shut down of the state is no longer may be forced to lay off vitally warranted or legally justified. important personnel (police, fire Furthermore, this shutdown and health) later on. could inflict an economic Here is why we can and must meltdown exceeding that of the reopen our economy as soon as Great Depression. As reported in

the Federalist, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce conducted a nationwide survey which revealed that one in four businesses are less than two months away from permanent closure. Furthermore, one in 10 businesses reported they were under one month away from closing their doors for good. In other words, we are facing an unmitigated, unprecedented and unwarranted economic disaster.

Finally, Congress has plans to spend another $2 trillion that they don’t have, on the impact of the coronavirus shutdown, when nothing short of opening our economy will do. Please contact the governor’s office and urge him to relinquish control. In America, the people are the sovereigns, treat us accordingly as adult free citizens. We alone can provide for ourselves and we can only do so sans government’s heavy-handed and completely indiscriminate, destructive, and overwrought control.

Andy Caldwell is the executive director of COLAB and the host of The Andy Caldwell Show weekdays from 3-5 p.m. on News-Press Radio AM 1290.

United we stand.

Divided we fall.

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y fellow because we are in each other’s Americans, lives. Those who truly know Our nation is me know with certainty that I at war. It’s not a would never dream of saying kinetic war with that I hate someone because troops and guns and bombs. It is they don’t see things the way a war against an unseen enemy.

I do, or are registered with a Throughout my career, I’ve certain political party, or voted supported wartime efforts to for a certain political candidate. combat an enemy. I’ve supported What has made America great is the warfighters, going to the that we have diversity of thought, combat zones of Afghanistan and experiences, and perspectives, Iraq, spending time “boots on and that we have engaged in civil the ground” with the troops to discourse together — sometimes determine how we [the collective heated — but respected one National Security enterprise] another nonetheless. could best support them, and However, there is a sinister coming back home and working undercurrent that seeks to divide to affect positive change on their us and has been working toward behalf. The warfighters risk that end for years if not decades. their lives to defend our freedom It has renounced civil discourse and I am humbled and declared for their selfless political correctness Michele Weslander Quaid service. as paramount, I’ve also dictating what terms/ The author lives in supported the topics are acceptable Santa Barbara. national decisionand what are not. makers, collecting It has stymied that data, compiling information, critical dialog, to our detriment building presentations, and as a nation. It has also tried to sometimes delivering the divide us as a people. It has told briefings. When we are at war, us that what matters is our ethic the entire defense industrial origin, our gender, or the color base is engaged in some way, as of our skin — in stark contrast to is the intelligence community what Martin Luther King, Jr., had and it’s industry partners. There dreamed of (and I paraphrase), are the faces you see who give that we would “live in a nation public briefings, and then there where [we] will not be judged are the countless thousands of by the color of [our] skin but by faces of people who are working the content of [our] character.” I behind the scenes. refused to be labeled based on Regardless, everyone who is attributes I was born with and a part of this effort is working cannot control. I want to be seen crazy hours, with high stress for who I am as a person, my and little if any sleep, and the character and my contributions longer this drags on, the more to society — not stereotyped as exhausted they get. Combat one of these attributes — and mode is not sustainable — it I believe many of my fellow takes a toll. I don’t know how the Americans feel the same way. warfighters do it for extended America is a melting pot and periods of time, but I imagine that is part of what makes us that is why they have mastered great. Americans are known as the “combat nap.” incredible innovators — look at On the CCPvirus / CoronaVirus all of the technical advances that / COVID-19 front, the warhave been “made in the USA’’ fighters aren’t in camouflage. and that now benefit the world.

They are in medical attire, Americans are also known as though some also wear camo being altruistic — we have come — witness all of the medical to one another’s and other’s professionals in the military aid, and are the most generous supporting this crisis response. people and nation in the world.

There is a massive support We are far from perfect — network — logistics, supplies, perfect is unattainable — but transport, etc. — that we don’t as wartime President Abraham see, but they enable the frontLincoln said, “We shall nobly line responders — the doctors, save or meanly lose the last best the nurses, etc. — to do their hope of earth.” jobs. To the people fighting this Thinking back to the terrorist war now, we owe you a debt of attacks of 9/11/2001, in a way, gratitude. I can only imagine the days, weeks, and months how exhausted you are and I after the terrorist attacks were pray that God will protect your a special time in America. health and give you the strength People became aware of those to carry on your valiant efforts around them that they may never with so many depending on have truly seen before, and you. Thank you for your selfless they set aside their differences service. and worked together toward a We must all realize that common cause, helping each there is, in fact, another war in other along the way. There is America — one that has been no better example of this than going on subversively for some how the people of New York City time, and that it threatens to came together. It was beautiful destroy us as a people and as to see. After the terrorist attacks, a nation if we are not careful. their number one identity That enemy is trying to turn us was something they shared in against each other. It is trying to common — they were all New instill hate for those who do not Yorkers. On a broader scale, see things the way we do, whom we were reminded that despite we perceive to be different from our differences, we were all us. It is attempting to distract us Americans. We can be like that from the things that matter by again. We need to be like that preoccupying us with things that now. don’t.

This burden has been on my To anyone reading this who heart for some time, and after has been my friend over the watching the full White House years, you know that you are my Coronavirus Task Force briefing friend not because we see eyethis evening with my 11-year-old to-eye on everything, or because daughter — learning about the we look alike — far from it. We efforts, hearing the good news, are friends because we share sensing hope, and seeing the core values. Some of you are exhaustion in everyone’s faces my battle buddies — we’ve been — I felt compelled to write this through different types of combat to you, my fellow Americans. I together, all for a cause greater hope that we will all renew our than ourselves and that is why, commitment to look past our when beaten down, we picked differences and see what we have ourselves up and kept going. We in common and work together trusted each other and we each toward shared goals, which did our part to accomplish what include combating the enemies some considered “impossible,” that seek to divide us and kill us. and the warfighters, American I wish you all good health and citizens, and our allies are better safety, and a new appreciation off because of our efforts. Some for your blessings, which include of those dear friends — who have the dear people in your lives. been friends over my 25+ year May we all have a renewed sense career — have political views of pride in being Americans that are radically different from and a renewed commitment to mine, but I do not love them any see the good in each other and less because of it. They have to celebrate our differences been to my house, and they have that make us stronger together. shared in the special events of United We Stand. Divided We my life. Together, we have had Fall. discussions and lively debates.

We have agreed to disagree on Michele Weslander Quaid is the some things, but who we are as founder and president of Sunesis individuals has been enhanced Nexus.

SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2020