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ometimes unprecedented times can give organizations COURTESY OF ISAAC HERNANDEZ HERRERO the push they need to reinvent themselves. Santa Maria On Friday, after years of flirting withHigh the graduate concept Bryan Barriga and looking to take COVID-19 head on, the Goleta Chamber of Commerce and the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce announced a merger, creating a singular entity representing the bulk of the South Coast. Kristen Miller, the president and CEO of the Goleta Chamber, told the News-Press that it is a dream come true. “It’s the culmination of a lot of COURTESY OF ISAAC HERNANDEZ HERRERO work, and it’s personally a cul- Santa Maria High graduate Bryan mination of a dream,” said Ms. Barriga Miller, who will run the merged organizations. “The more I worked with the Goleta board, the more we all By MITCHELL WHITE realized the regional nature NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER of the work that we are doing. Boundaries exist only in govryan Barriga admits PHOTO he COURTESY ernment, not in business. The the typical Miller,have president & CEO more that we push public pol- Kristendidn’t childhood experience. icy, we needed to be collective of the Goleta Chamber of When he was Bryan’s father was Commerce, will4,run the merged in our marketing efforts. When diagnosed with Meniere’s disease, chamber announced Friday. it comes to all issues — housing, a disorder of the inner ear, and has transportation, whatever — we been unable to work ever since. At 7, needed to be working far more his mother and younger sister were closely together than we have ever deported had before.” to Mexico. Ms. Miller was particularly pleased“I that when she broke the think it just drove me,” Bryan By MITCHELL WHITE news to people in the community, told no one seemed to be surthe News-Press during a recent NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER phone interview. “I knew that I needprised. ed to have a better ryan Barriga hepar“They’d tell me, ‘that seems right,’ and that tells future meadmits allfor I my entsof and Icommunity,” justhave wanted help them didn’t theto typical need to know, we will have the support the Ms. out. They’ve done soexperience. much for me just childhood Miller said.
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A home listed by Berkshire Harthaway at 340 Los than 30 colWith temperatures near 90 on the South Coast, hundreds of people took to Butterfly Beach in Santa Barbara on Friday. County officials He applied toE. more “You can’t believe what it took to put in A brief resident of Santa Barbara when of men and women behind them, took their leges, such as Ivy League schools I can’t even imagine what Olivos St. in Santa Barbara. have issued warning beaches parks if crowds get toothree largestatues, or socialsodistancing is not followed. hecounty was young, Mr. and Barber has made sevfirst steps onathe moon.that they will shut down Harvard and Yale. 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