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Four years later: Remembering the Montecito debris flow By KATHERINE ZEHNDER

give an invocation and firefighters will light 23 candles, in honor of the 23 lives lost in the debris flow, which will be followed by a moment of silence. Bells will also ring out 23 times from local churches and schools. As a beacon of community support and solidarity, a searchlight will be illuminated at Montecito Union School. Raising Our Light 2022 can be viewed via livestream on Zoom via Westmont College (https://westmont.zoom.us/j/96145574354), on the Westmont College YouTube Channel

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Today marks the fourth anniversary of the Montecito debris flow that cost 23 lives and caused great destruction on Jan. 9, 2018. A commemorative ceremony, “Raising Our Light,” will take place tonight at 6:30 p.m. The ceremony will be virtual and will be available for viewing on multiple platforms. Montecito Fire Chief Kevin Taylor will

(youtube.com/westmonttv), or on KEYT NewsChannel (www.keyt.com). Raising Our Light is a collaborative effort by the Montecito Community Partnership Team, including the Montecito Fire Protection District, Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade, Montecito Association, Montecito Journal, Montecito Union School District, Santa Barbara County Behavioral Wellness, Cold Spring School District, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church and Westmont Please see MONTECITO on A3

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Emergency personnel work to free then-14-year-old Lauren Cantin from a collapsed house after rain-induced mudflows ravaged parts of Montecito on January 9, 2018. The teen was trapped for several hours but was ultimately brought out of the wreckage alive.

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McKinley School hosts vaccination clinic By KATHERINE ZEHNDER News-Press Correspondent

On Saturday, McKinley School offered a vaccination clinic. All three vaccines and boosters were offered at the clinic. There were long waiting lines for the vaccine, with dozens of people waiting at a time. Participants ranged from young children to the elderly and included entire families. School children of all ages and grades were in attendance. The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department will be hosting vaccination clinics from Today through Jan. 15. Times and locations for the clinics are as follows. Today and Monday, the clinic will be at the Santa Maria Fair Park at the Park Plaza Building, 987 S. Thornburg Rd. in Santa Maria from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. On Tuesday, the clinic will be at Fairlawn Elementary School, 120 Mary Dr. in Santa Maria from 8:30-11:30 a.m. and Isla Vista Elementary School, 6875 El Colegio Rd. in Goleta from 4-7 p.m. On Wednesday, the clinic will be at Santa Barbara City College, 721 Cliff Dr. in Santa Barbara from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and at Adam Elementary School, 500 Windsor St., in Santa Maria from 4-7 p.m. Please see CLINIC on A6

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Volunteers prune the rose bushes at the A.C. Postel Memorial Rose Garden in Santa Barbara on Saturday.

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Rose Pruning Day made a triumphant return to the Santa Barbara Mission on Saturday. There were about 105 participants at this year’s event, a record number. Participants ranged in age from about 16 all the way up to the 70s. All participants wore masks and were socially distanced. “The timeless beauty of the roses is

There were about 105 participants at this year’s event, a record number. Participants ranged in age from about 16 all the way up to the 70s. nothing without the care and dedication from all of our volunteers. Every year, there are comments made about how magnificent the roses look when they bloom after each pruning, and every year we think they look better than the year before,” Ramiro Arroyo, Parks and

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Garden. The garden is located in the Mission Historical Park across from the Santa Barbara Mission and contains more than 1,500 rose bushes. Parks and Recreation staff and Rose Society members care for the rose bushes Please see GARDEN on A6

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Covid-19 vaccine shots were administered during a vaccination drive at McKinley Elementary School in Santa Barbara on Saturday.

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Recreation Department supervisor, said in a press release. The Rose Society and the Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation Department invited the community to participate in their annual rose pruning event at the A.C. Postel Memorial Rose

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TRAFFIC, CRIME AND FIRE BLOTTER Construction update On Monday, southbound Highway 101 north of Sheffield Dr. will be shifted onto new lanes. Northbound lanes will be moved onto new pavement on Tuesday.

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the southbound on-ramp at N. Padaro Ln. After the off-ramp at Sheffield Dr. reopens, work will progress towards Evans Ave. and the off-ramp at Evans Ave. is anticipated to close Jan. 23. Via Real between Greenwell Ave and N Padaro Ln During the week of January 17, flaggers will direct traffic on Via Real between 9 p.m.-6 a.m. Crews will install temporary safety barriers in preparation for upcoming sound wall work at Oceanview Park. Consecutive ramps in the same direction will not be closed at the same time to allow drivers to use a ramp before or after a closure. To view timelines, detours, and maps, please visit www.SBROADS.com and select the project segment. - Katherine Zehnder

New pedestrian hybrid beacon crosswalk on Calle Real Construction has been completed on the new pedestrian hybrid beacon (PHB) crosswalk on Calle Real. The PHB is located mid-block

Work has been completed on a new pedestrian hybrid beacon crosswalk on Calle Real between Encina Ln. and Kingston Ave.

A Goleta man was arrested after allegedly fleeing a traffic stop and leading officers on a chase to Lompoc.

between Encina Lane and Kingston Avenue in the Calle Real Shopping Center area. A PHB signal warns motorists that a pedestrian or cyclist is crossing the street. The user can activate the flashing lights with either the push of a button or “touchless” with the wave of a hand. Activation of the PHB requires motorists to stop so pedestrians and bicyclists can cross safely. Drivers are not required to stop when the signal is not activated. The PHB remains dark until activated and then displays a special sequence of lights. When activated the beacons flash yellow, then steady yellow and then red. During the red phase, drivers must remain stopped while users cross the street. Prior to turning dark again, the beacon alternates flashing red to allow drivers to stop then proceed when clear, as they would with a stop sign. Measure A funds the City’s Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon projects. - Katherine Zehnder

Suspect flees from deputies in Santa Barbara, apprehended in Lompoc Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man from Goleta that fled a traffic stop and was tracked to Lompoc. On Friday at approximately 2:35 p.m., deputies were dispatched to the 1000block of Via Regina to investigate a suspicious vehicle that appeared to be involved in possible drug sales. When deputies arrived on scene, they contacted a male driver and female passenger inside a black Jeep Cherokee. The driver allegedly gave deputies a false name and fled the traffic stop when asked to exit the vehicle. Deputies pursued the vehicle onto northbound Highway 101, until he reached a construction zone near El Capitan, where they terminated the pursuit in the interest of public safety. Deputies identified the driver as 33-year-old Alan Kilgore of Goleta. A records check of Mr. Kilgore revealed that he had outstanding warrants for his arrest. The California Highway Patrol was advised of the wanted vehicle and staged in the area of Highway 101 and Highway 1 where they initiated a traffic stop, and Mr. Kilgore failed to pull over. County Air Support tracked Mr. Kilgore’s vehicle through Lompoc as he continued to drive recklessly, at times on the wrong side of the road and running red lights with nobody pursuing him, until he came to a stop at the north end of Riverbend Park. Mr. Kilgore and the female passenger allegedly exited the black Jeep and forced the driver of a silver Honda Accord out of their vehicle and drove away with it. Deputies caught up to Mr. Kilgore driving with the female in the Honda in the lower parking lot of Riverbend Park. Deputies took Mr. Kilgore into custody at 5:22 p.m. and he was booked at the Main Jail. Charges and bail amounts are pending. There were no significant injuries to the carjacking victim, deputies, the suspect or his passenger. The adult female passenger was determined to be an unwilling participant and a suspected victim of kidnapping. Her identity is not available for release. - Katherine Zehnder

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Bishop Diego girls basketball falls to Foothill Tech Foothill Tech beat the Bishop Diego girls basketball team, 68-52. Leading scorers for Bishop Diego were Clara McDonald with 20 points and Annie McDonald with 14. Bishop Diego played a strong first half trailing 26-21, but the game was put out of reach in a second half that saw Foothill Tech score 42 points to Bishop

Diego’s 31. “They just wore us down in the 2nd half. Their post player hurt us on the boards and got us in some foul trouble. Sonia Mancuso was a spark off the bench. Clara (McDonald) continues to develop as an offensive threat. Annie (McDonald) made four 3’s. We fell behind in the 3rd quarter but battled back in the 4th before giving up a few cheap baskets at the end. I was proud of the no quit attitude of the ladies. It was just good to be out there after not playing since December 9th,” said Coach Jeff Burich. - Katherine Zehnder

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FAIRCHILD, Richard “Dick” Fayette

Richard “Dick” Fayette Fairchild passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family on December 17, 2021 at the age of 97. Dick was a man of Christian faith, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, friend, soldier, student, teacher, linguist, classical music lover, surveyor, gardener, mechanic, musician, singer, avocado farmer, target shooter, tennis player and ping pong enthusiast. Dick was born in Hilo, Hawaii on November 14, 1924 to parents Richard Fayette Fairchild Sr. and Gladys Shelbourne (Arnold) Fairchild. He had two siblings, Jeffrey Fairchild and Judith Fue, who preceded him in death. Their father was a career Army officer and the family moved frequently before settling on several acres of land in Montecito in 1943, where Dick planted an avocado orchard on the front acre. After high school, Dick enlisted in the Army. He served in Europe at the end of World War II and studied French at the Sorbonne. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1951 as a French major. Dick married Greta (Russell) Fairchild in 1958. They built a house that year in the avocado orchard, which is still home today. For ten years they lived in New Cuyama, where Richard taught many subjects at the high school level, including French and Spanish. Eventually he specialized in Math, returning to Santa Barbara to teach at San Marcos High School for many years. Dick was a longtime member of El Montecito Presbyterian Church and Choir. He co-founded the Santa Barbara Table Tennis Club in 1946, which continues to meet at the Carrillo Recreation Center. He is survived by his loving wife of 63 years, Greta Fairchild; their four children (Matt, Sara, Paul, and Andrew); 9 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren. His wife often referred to him as the original Boy Scout, and his children remember him for creating a world of stability and love for his family. He will be forever missed.

SAVARD, Jordan Daniel Remembering Jordan…

Jordan Daniel Savard entered Heaven on November 29, 2021. He was 34 years old. One of Jordan’s desires was for others to know the unwavering, unconditional, and powerful love of his Lord and Savior who carried him through the valleys and mountaintops of life, and who now turns the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life in Heaven. Jordan was FUN and had a gift of making people laugh. He had a mischievous grin, and a smile that melted your heart. You knew you would never be able to say “no” to anything he asked. Jordan was loving, warm and welcoming with a kind and gentle spirit. He had a way of making people feel at home, comfortable, unconditionally loved, and he always greeted them with a hug. He was appreciative, thankful, and openly expressed that gratitude. Jordan was protective and kind-hearted toward people who needed help. He loved the ocean and was an avid surfer. He enjoyed his aquarium and his pet fish “Jack.” Jordan was always up for adventure and having fun, but most of all, he had a strong faith rooted in Christ. Jordan was born in Orange County, California in 1987, the son of Jerry and Je’Ann Savard. He grew up in Lompoc, California and was homeschooled throughout high school. He attended Murrieta Bible College in San Diego, California and Maui, Hawaii. Jordan was employed at Sprouts Farmers Market in Santa Barbara, California. Jordan attended Calvary Chapel Lompoc Church. Jordan is predeceased by his father Jerry Savard, and his grandfather “Big” Jerry Savard. He was survived by his mother Je’Ann Savard Birdsell; his sister Julianne Savard; his step-father Sean Birdsell; his step-sister Rachel Birdsell; his grandparents, Roberta Savard, Jimmy and Patty Record (whom Jordan called “Opa” and “Oma”), 2 grandaunts, 2 granduncles, 5 aunts, 4 uncles and 28 cousins. Jordan’s Celebration of Life Memorial will be held on Saturday, January 15, 2022 at 1:00 pm at Calvary Chapel Lompoc Church located at 1600 Berkeley Drive, Lompoc, CA 93436. Memorial donations, in lieu of flowers, may be made to All Things Possible Ministries (victormarx.com). This is not a goodbye, Jordo, it’s a thank you for enriching all of our lives with your spectacular smiles and hugs and your huge heart. Thank you for teaching us about persevering in hardships and celebrating the victories. Thank you for your unending love and laughter and all of the cherished moments and memories you gave us. We will hold you close in our hearts and celebrate your extraordinary life…until we meet again.

HONDA, Lucille Yoshie (Kawate)

Lucille Yoshie Honda (Kawate), our beloved and devoted mother and grandmother, passed away on 1/5/2022 at age 96. She is now at home with our Lord Jesus Christ, living with him in paradise for eternity. Lucille was born on December 5, 1925 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Masaichi and Shinobu Kawate. She lived her early life in Emory, Utah, where her father was a Section Foreman for the Union Pacific Railroad, along with her older siblings Masae (Mary), Masao (Nelson)and Isami (Sam). After WWII, Lucille settled in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she met the love of her life, Kaoru (Bill) Honda, and they were married on April 17, 1954. Lucille is survived by her 3 sons, David, Paul, and Mark, and was predeceased by her husband Bill of 57 years, and eldest son, Clifford. She is also survived by: 2 daughtersin-law (Cynthia, Marie); 5 grandchildren (Natalie, Katelyn, David, William, and Daniel); and 2 great-grandchildren (Otto, Theo); as well as many nieces, nephews, and good friends. Lucille was a longtime member of Bethany Congregational Church in Santa Barbara for over 60 years. She spent most of her working career as a Paralegal working for the County of Santa Barbara’s Water Agency and County Counsel. Lucille lived a very healthy and active lifestyle, performing daily exercises and diet routines, even until the end. She was a dedicated and loving wife, mother and grandmother, and will be remembered for her love, kindness, gentleness, and generosity. A family service will be held in the near future. Donations in Lucille’s memory may be sent to Bethany Congregational Church, 556 North Hope Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

MILLS, Kendall Andrews, Jr.

Kendall Andrews Mills, Jr. passed away peacefully on the morning of December 29, 2021, five days after his 87th birthday. He was born in Saginaw, Michigan on December 24, 1934. His beloved wife of 63 years, Mary Lloyd Mills, passed away on August 4, 2020. Ken is survived by his three children, Bonnie, David, and Chris Mills and their spouses, Doug Eicher, Wanda Mills, and Mireille Mills, and their grandchildren Charles Dennis, Addison Mills, Taggart Mills, Tilly Mills, Marisol Mills, and Lautner Mills. A joyous person who always loved a good joke, Ken was much loved by all who knew him. He grew up in Saginaw as an only child surrounded by many cousins and friends with whom he stayed close over the years. He spent wonderful summers with his mother and her extended family at Higgins Lake in Michigan. His family heard many stories over the years about his exploits on the water and in the woods, playing with friends, learning to swim, boat, and canoe, and playing practical jokes. When he was older, he spent several summers working in the woods of Idaho and Minnesota cutting and clearing wood from the forests. He attended Cranbrook School in Detroit and then Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where as a senior he began dating his future wife, Lloyd. After graduation, he joined the U.S. Army and trained at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, California and was posted to Kassel, Germany for two years. He and Lloyd were married on July 1, 1957 and began their married life on an adventure in Monterey and Germany. They loved their time in Germany and were able to take advantage of weekends away for visits to other areas of Europe. Once he completed his military service, Ken moved with Lloyd and new daughter Bonnie back to Michigan. Ken returned to school, earning an MBA from the University of Michigan in 1961. In 1962, Ken’s work in sales brought him to Los Angeles, California. Settling in Pasadena, Ken continued his work in sales and investing and had two more children, David and Chris. In June of 1972, Ken and his family moved from Pasadena to Solvang, California. They wanted a change of pace for their family, to spend more time outdoors, and to get involved in the local community. Over the years, Ken was involved with many organizations, including the local Rotary, the Solvang Theaterfest, Santa Ynez High School, The Family School, Dunn School, Cottage Hospital Foundation, and the Santa Ynez Valley Foundation. Ken was known in the community for volunteering his time and being a generous supporter of many different causes. Ken enjoyed being involved in sports and physical activities. In high school and college, he played on many teams and later stayed active with tennis, golf, cycling, running, and walking. In the late 1980s, he and Lloyd developed a love of hiking, doing many trips throughout the Santa Barbara area, the Grand Canyon, Utah, and in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Over time they began leading their own trips to Austria and Switzerland to share their joy of the mountains with friends and others. They were happiest on these trips, sharing their passion for nature, challenging days on the trail, good food, and great conversations with friends. In lieu of cards or flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Ken’s memory to the Santa Ynez Valley Foundation, Cottage Hospital Foundation of Santa Ynez, or the Alzheimer’s Association, California Central Coast Chapter. The family would like to give thanks to the special friends and caregivers who made Ken’s life more comfortable and peaceful over the past two years. The family knows that your devotion and care of Ken brought joy to his last years.

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MC ELHANNON, Dan June 28, 1937 – December 20, 2021

The gates of Heaven opened to welcome Dan “Mac” McElhannon of Los Alamos, California, on December 20th. Dan was born June 28, 1937, to Elmer & Ruth McElhannon in Salt Lake City, Utah, and died on December 20, 2021, in Arroyo Grande, California after complications from lung cancer treatment. He grew up in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas. After completing his tour of duty in the Air Force, he became a Greyhound Bus driver, retiring after 40 years of driving through many states. Dan enjoyed meeting and helping people, whether it was driving bus, being a church greeter, or just walking down the street at home. He enjoyed doing word search puzzles and was a fountain of information due to the many books he read. He always had a story to tell and could give driving directions to just about anywhere in the country. Although he never had any biological children, he acquired 6 from his 3 marriages, and treated each as his own. He built a relationship with each one, and never referred to any as a “step” child. He was proud of all of them. Dan was preceded in death by his parents, his brother Calvin McElhannon, and his daughter Vicki Martin Shelton. He is survived by his wife of 37 years, Sally McElhannon of Los Alamos, brother John McElhannon of Nampa, Idaho, sister Ruth Daniel of Griffin, Georgia, daughters Cheryl Hobbs of Lavaca, Arkansas, Nancy (Bill) Henderson of Santa Barbara, Sandy Tammietti of North Bend, Oregon, Linda Carlson of Tucson, Arizona, son Henry (Kathy) Tammietti of Santa Barbara, grandchildren Ashley, James, Joey, Davin, Chloe, Ciela, Clari, and 1 great-grandchild on the way, as well as numerous nieces and nephews all of whom he loved deeply. Services for Dan will be held on Saturday, January 29th at 11am at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Los Alamos, California, where he & Sally have lived for the last 22 years.

GOMEZ, Henry “Hank”

In the early morning hours of November 2, 2021 Henry “Hank” Gomez, a native son of Santa Barbara passed away in Henderson, Nevada where he had retired several years ago. Hank was born on September 25, 1930 to parents Carmen Reynoso and Pioquinto Gomez in Santa Barbara. He was predeceased by both his parents along with brothers Raymond Gomez, Richard Gomez, Rueben Gomez, and Robert Gomez as well as his sisters Angelina Gomez, and Esperanza Aceves. He is survived by sisters Gloria Phillips of Ojai, California and Lupe Unzueta of Oxnard, California. Hank attended local schools and graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1949 where he was involved in many sports and found his love for golf, which later led him to golfing for decades with the Los Paisanos. Post-graduation, he served in the US Army and was one of the 101st Airborne Division where he fought in the Korean War as a paratrooper. He also fought with the 187th Airborne RCT and received a purple heart. After his service he returned home and fulfilled his dream of working in a print shop. He married Eulalia “Lolly” Mendoza in 1953 and together they had five children: Angelina Hernandez (Manuel), Henry Jr (deceased), Elizabeth Shanen (Scott), Mark Gomez (Mary Beth) and Kathleen Gomez (deceased). His grandchildren include: Kathleen Papandrea, Robin Wood, Courtney Castanza, Pauleen Ceja, Megan Burger, Candis Church, Allyson Avila, Jay Shanen, Schuyler Shanen, Dylan Shanen, Steven Shanen, and Alia Shiefer. He also has more than two dozen great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. After Lolly’s passing he was blessed to have had a second life marrying Lucy Torres in 1987. Together with their daughter, Marissa they traveled and experienced life outside of Santa Barbara including Mexico and many other states where he was able to golf and make many new friends along the way. His family will remember him for his positive attitude towards life, openness to all people, incredible energy, and the 91 well-lived years he gave the world. He was deeply loved and will be greatly missed. Services will be held on January 22, 2022 at Calvary Cemetery at 10:00 a.m. followed by Celebration of Life at Tuckers Grove area 5. In lieu of flowers please consider donating to support his youngest grandson, Steven Shanen age 23 who is currently fighting a rare form of cancer: https://gofund.me/d33b016d or mail to: Steven Shanen 290 Brandon Dr. Goleta, Ca 93117.

HULSEBUSCH, Wanda December 23, 1934 - December 23, 2021

Our beautiful Mutti, and wife passed away suddenly but peacefully on December 23, 2021, in our home in Santa Barbara, California. The cause was heart failure. Wanda was born on December 23, 1934, in Trier Germany along the Mosel River, to Karl and Augusta Stuzer. She grew up surviving World War II. After World War II she began her apprenticeship in cosmetology at the age of 18. Wanda enjoyed an adventurous life, riding her DKW 200 cc Saduko motorcycle, swimming daily at Trier’s Schaumbad, fencing, and playing tennis. In 1959, Wanda crossed the Atlantic Ocean heading to New York City. There, she met her first husband Ralph H. Jakob. Together they drove across the USA, heading to California. Ralph and Wanda purchased their first home in beautiful Pismo Beach. Ralph and Wanda married inside a beautiful small chapel in Grover Beach. On August 1, 1960, Ralph and Wanda welcomed their first born, Julia. Six months later they purchased their second home in Santa Barbara. On December 7, 1962, their second child Jeffrey was born. Wanda enjoyed being a stay at home mother. Her deepest passions were her children, sewing and knitting clothing for her kids, cooking, church, and swimming to the buoys at East Beach. There were also many visits to Solvang, California. On January 25, 1990, Harald and Wanda married in Honolulu, on the island of Oahu. Together, hand-in-hand, they began the most wonderful life traveling the Cape Horn, Alaska, the Mediterranean, Greek Islands, St. Petersburg, Russia, Europe, and Africa. Wanda and Harold also sailed “The Eagle” around the Santa Barbara Channel Islands and Catalina Island with dear friends, Julia, and Angus. Wanda is survived by her husband, children, relatives across the globe, and many friends. Sleep in heavenly peace Mutti. Your loving husband, Julia, Bella, and Jeffrey.

GILMOUR, Melvin Eugene

Melvin Eugene Gilmour, Mel, as most called him, was also affectionately known by his family as Popy, Papa and Melby. He was loved by so many during his 97 years of life, especially by his wife, Betty Lou. After nearly 70 years of marriage, Mel’s beloved wife passed in June 2021. It was an unimaginable loss for Mel who was truly Betty’s guardian angel in life, and now, surely as well in heaven. Surrounded with love by his grown children, granddaughter and his devoted caregiver, Mel passed peacefully in his sleep on November 17, 2021. Born February 20, 1924, in Pasadena, California, Mel and his parents, Juanita and Basil Gilmour, moved to Santa Barbara in 1926. Mel attended Santa Barbara High School and went on to graduate from UCSB in 1944. Mel was quite musical and played the trumpet in the Santa Barbara High School band as well as with the Santa Barbara Quartet. Mel was an active member of the Boy Scouts, Troop 4 where he continued to share his musical talent playing the bugle as a Boy Scout and volunteered to play taps at military funerals around Santa Barbara. Mel went on to become and an Eagle Scout like his father and a member of The Order of the Arrow. He also took to mentoring young men and was looked upon as a supportive and caring Boy Scout leader for Troop 4. Mel met the love of his life, Betty Lou, on a blind date in 1950 and began their courtship when Betty was a student at Knapp College of Nursing in Santa Barbara. They were married January 20, 1952. Mel was well known and loved among the sailing and boating community of Santa Barbara. He co-owned the successful marine chandlery store, Starboard Marine, on lower State Street for over 15 years. Mel loved mentoring many young Starboard Marine employees helping them develop customer service and other life skills. Upon selling the store, Mel “retired” and worked for many years as a counselor at Zona Seca teaching safe driving classes to DUI offenders. Mel loved to paint and often had his paintings on display at the Goleta Public Library with the Goleta Valley Art Association. He started out painting still life using watercolor and eventually moved to a more abstract style of watercolor paintings, of which many were hung on the walls of their home as well as given to lucky family members and friends. He and Betty encouraged their kids to love the outdoors and enjoyed many family adventures, especially camping in Yosemite and Sequoia, and sailing. Mel was a devoted and immensely caring husband, a present and wise dad, a doting grandfather of four and a welcoming father-in-law. He could be quite sarcastic at times, but his dry wit was always accompanied with a twinkle in his eyes. This pairing was there to the very end, much to the family’s enjoyment and comfort. Mel is survived by his three children: Mark (Lisa) Gilmour of Los Angeles, Pam (Pete) Kennedy of, Washington, and Jennifer (Larry) Good of Santa Barbara. The family would like to thank Mel’s loving caregivers, Mila, Myla and Oksana as well as the nurses from Assisted Hospice Care for all their dedication and loving support. Mel will be deeply missed for his kindness, wit and welcoming ways by his family, and the many friends he met along his life’s journey. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that a donation be made in Mel’s honor, to Assisted Hospice Care, 115 E Micheltorena St, Suite 100, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. The family would also love to hear from you if you’d like to share any memories you have from knowing Mel. You can email your thoughts to: LG62081@gmail.com. There will be a private celebration honoring both Mel and Betty sometime this year.

HOESL, Margaret “Peggy” Eleanor (Haggerty)

Margaret “Peggy” Eleanor (Haggerty) Hoesl, age 81, passed away at her home in Benicia, CA, on Friday, December 17th, 2021. She was born January 8th,1940, in Santa Barbara, CA to John Joseph Haggerty and Brigid “Nan” Anna (Daly) Haggerty. Peggy attended Catholic schools in Santa Barbara, graduating from Santa Barbara Catholic High School in 1958. She went on to attend Santa Barbara City College, earning her Vocational Nursing License in 1962. Peggy married Gerald “Jerry” James Hoesl in February, 1967, at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in Santa Barbara, California. They went on to have two children, Vincent Hoesl, and Elaine (Hoesl) Bonini. She was preceded in death by her mother and father, and her sister, Winnifred (Haggerty) Elbert. She is survived by her brother John J. Haggerty, sister Nellie (Haggerty) Cavaletto, sister Patricia (Haggerty) Tangney, brother James “Jim” Haggerty, brother Timothy “Tim” Haggerty, her children Vincent Hoesl and Elaine (Hoesl) Bonini, and her grandchildren Luke Hoesl, and Chloe and Mario Bonini. Please visit the online tribute at www.passalacquafuneralchapel.com Passalacqua Funeral Chapel, 707-745-3130 www.passalacquafuneralchapel.com

JACKSON, Clementine

“I had an Interesting Life.” Clementine Anderson was born, January 25, 1926, to Pardee Anderson and Mary Jones of Shreveport Louisiana. She was affectionally known as “Clemmie.” Clemmie grew up in Shreveport where she was educated down through the years from elementary through business college. She moved to Santa Barbara for a better life and more employment opportunities. Osborne Gilbert Sr. and Clemmie married and gave birth to their three sons that she loved more than life itself: Osbourne “Chris” Gilbert Jr, John Floyd Gilbert and Ernest “Butch” Gilbert. Clemmie was later remarried to Tobi Jackson where she raised and nurtured stepchildren Tobi Jackson Jr., Lola Jackson; Audrey Hazelwood, Lee Jackson Sr. and granddaughter Kendra (Gilbert) Lester. Clemmie took full advantage of the employment opportunities that she acquired, most notably, Capitol Records and for the Employment Development Department (EDD) where she worked for over 25 years until she retired in October of 1990. At EDD, she was originally hired part-time as a switchboard operator. During her employment there, she competed against a man for a permanent full-time position which she attained; shattering racial and male dominant barriers. Her beauty, elegance and intelligence was noticed and allowed her to continue to excel. This was a testament to her hard work, professional demeanor and goal-oriented efforts. Clemmie was a strong and amazing woman whose generosity was felt from family, to family friends and throughout the community. Some would call her giving sacrificial but this was her love language of choice. Clemmie worked with youth, church and community programs where many benefitted. Over the course of her blessed long life, she was preceded in death by her beloved sons, her parents, her brother Johnny Anderson, cousins and many other family members whom she loved so dearly. She is survived by her 98-yearold cousin Beatrice Blake-Smith, daughter-in-law Pauline Gilbert, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; stepchildren, step-grandchildren, step-great-grandchildren, cousins and a host of nieces and nephews. Services will be held January 14, 2022 at 10:30am, at The Free Methodist Church located on 1435 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA. Immediately after the service, the interment at the Santa Barbara Cemetery, and to follow, the Repast at the Eagles Club at 923 Bath Street.

WENTINK, Warren

Born in Chicago, Illinois on Sept 22, 1932, Warren’s early years spoke volumes about the years ahead. At an early age he showed a knack for horticulture and mechanical engineering. During the war years he won the neighborhood Victory Garden contest four years in a row. He later said the secret to his amazing produce was following the milkman’s horse through alleys, shovel and bucket in hand. During his high school years he had a thriving cabinet shop in his basement, building and repairing cabinets and fixtures for local merchants. Following graduation from high school, Warren moved with his family to Los Angeles where he utilized his mechanical skills at North American Aviation, building parts for F-86 Sabre fighter jets. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1952 and easily passed all the tests for Officer Candidate School with the hopes of becoming a pilot only to find out, for the first time, he had 20-40 vision, which of course disqualified him from any further training. He was then assigned to England for one year and then to Davis Monthan Air base in Tucson, AZ as an in-flight hydraulic refueling specialist for four years. In 1956, while attending the University of Arizona, he worked part time at a gas station where he met his future wife, Marilyn Wiley. They were married later that year and went on to have four boys and one girl as well as enjoying their hobbies of gardening, antique collecting and antique car restoration. Their beautiful custom designed home and grounds were featured in Sunset magazine as well as other home and garden periodicals. After graduating in 1960 with a BS in City Planning and a Master’s degree in Education Administration, he felt if he were to properly learn to be a school teacher, teaching first graders would be, logically, the place to start. He applied to numerous Tucson public schools and found it odd and frustrating that he was turned down by all. A few weeks later one of his former professors told Warren he had heard through his contacts the district’s position; i.e.; surely parents would complain if they were to hire a male to teach the first grade. Warren hired an attorney and his lawsuit for unwarranted prejudice, defamation of character and the like made the local press. Shortly after he was contacted by the superintendent of a neighboring school district and offered a job. Thus,Warren become the first male, first grade teacher in the State of Arizona. He was a great success as a teacher and for years after he would bump into former students, now well into their teens who would greet him with an enthusiastic “Mr. Wentink! You were the best teacher I ever had.” In 1966 Warren developed, in conjunction with Montgomery Ward, a franchised chain of over 70 floral shops across the USA. A divorce in 1971 lead to a brief move to Santa Barbara followed by relocating to South Africa where in partnership with an orchid grower, he developed a 35-acre orchid greenhouse and residential operation, which was sold in 1974. Moving back to Santa Barbara in 1975, he acquired a franchise from the Rayne Water Corporation, known locally as Filter Chill Water Systems, and within 4 years had built it up to over 1,000 customers. Around 1979 he met his partner in later life, Patricia Phillips. Both avid gardeners and bicyclists, Warren and Patricia spent their time either traveling the world on group bicycling tours, or back home in Santa Barbara tending to their vegetable gardens and over 30 species of fruit trees, some quite exotic and rare to the Santa Barbara area. They were also known for their gourmet cooking and wonderful bridge parties on the front lawn. In 1980, Warren started Canyon Marketing, later known as Quest Central Coast, which specialized in brokering the purchase and sale of light manufacturing and service-oriented businesses. Retiring in 1999 gave Warren more time to tend his beloved gardens and tinker in his fully equipped garage where friends and visitors would walk in, usually with some broken object in hand that others said couldn’t be fixed. (Yes, he’d fix it.) and be stunned by his vast array of both common and highly specialized tools. One visitor was known to remark “You could build an airplane from scratch in here!” Organization involvements include: Santa Barbara Beautiful, Men’s Garden Club, Santa Barbara Rose Society, CA Rare Fruit Growers Assoc. and Downtown Rotary Club. Warren George Wentink remained active and vibrant with his usual wonderful sense of humor, until his life was finally ended by the ravages of dementia on Nov 7, 2021. He was preceded in death by Patricia Phillips (2014), two sons, Roger Dean Wentink (2007) and David Michael Wentink (1956) as well as his two sisters, Carole and Bonnie; surviving Warren are his first wife, Marilyn Wiley (McCrindle); children Julie Martin, David Wentink and Michael Wentink and grandchildren Chelsea, Trevor and Elizabeth and great-grandson, Riley, as well as in-laws Billy Martin and Carol Wentink and stepdaughters Donna Phillips and Kathleen (Tita) Erhard. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Warren’s name to either the Alzheimer’s Assoc, California Central Coast Chapter, or Warren’s beloved Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. He will be missed by friends and family dearly! And a special thanks to Warren’s close friends and neighbors for being so good to Warren. You know who you are. Every time any of your names were mentioned, or he knew you were coming over for a visit, his eyes would light up and a large smile would appear. His family thanks you from the bottom of their hearts.

Celebration of Life RAUL NAVARRO

There will be a celebration of life for Raul Navarro Saturday January 15 at St. Barbara Parish at 10:00 am. In lieu of flowers, make a donation to St. Barbara Parish in Raul Navarro’s name.

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COVID chicanery (part 2): More on the serious side effects of the vaccines

arlos Tejada, the 49year-old deputy Asia editor at The New York Times — a guardian of the mainstream narrative on COVID-19 and much else — suffered a heart attack and died a day after boostering up with a Moderna vaccination. This follows a series of athletes (including four soccer players) around the globe falling dead from heart attacks soon after a booster. Sadly, Mr. Tejada leaves behind a wife and two children. As we pointed out in November, myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle leading to chest pain, abnormal heartbeat and shortness of breath — is officially recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a vaccine side effect. The U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (a branch of the National Institutes for Health) defines myocarditis as “an inflammatory process of the heart muscle. It weakens your heart so your body doesn’t get enough blood. Clots can form in your heart, leading to a stroke or heart attack.” But only in Japan (just recently) have labels been placed on vaccine serums warning about myocarditis. This follows the Japanese deployment of ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Their results are astonishing; a zero-death rate. Yet the U.S. continues to drag its feet on ivermectin and other therapeutics due to its vaccine propaganda push. (The U.S. doesn’t just restrict and hinder, it also seeks to identify and punish doctors who prescribe ivermectin. Go figure.) And speaking of The New York Times: The newspaper reported that Vladimir Putin has no plans to introduce vaccine mandates to his country. Uh, does this mean Russia is now freer than the U.S.? It certainly makes you wonder, especially when the ex-chief scientist for Pfizer, Dr. Michael Yeadon, says: “This system (the COVID vaccine) is being put in place using lies, and it is being put in place using lies for some purpose, and I believe that purpose is complete totalitarian control.” (More on this later in the column.) The New York Times also reported “COVID rarely leads to problems in younger children, according to two CDC reports.” Bollocks, says Steve Kirsch, who writes extensively on COVID and believes the Times purposely misinterpreted these CDC studies. Because what they actually show is this: “Myocarditis rates in boys (who take the vaccine) are at least six times normal.” And the unborn may be the most at risk, according to Canadian figures on stillbirths among fully vaccinated women. Scary enough. But it gets worse. After Dr. Mel Bruchet of Vancouver, B.C., called attention to the inordinate number of stillbirths by filing a complaint against Canadian government officials, a situation was contrived to commit him to a psych ward and force-fed anti-psychotic meds —a technique used by the former Soviet Union to discredit dissidents. Add to that a study just published by The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology confirming that the COVID vaccine alters menstrual cycles.

VAERS A new game devised by those monitoring COVID vaccine manufacturers is called “How Bad is My Batch?” Because 1 in every 200 batches of vaccine serum is tainted with harmful ingredients, according to the CDC’s own Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). “Some batches,” says Craig Paardecooper of Kingston University London, “are 50 times worse than others.” New independent studies continue to confirm that 150,000 Americans have already died from vaccine side effects. “Pfizer vaccine will cause more deaths than COVID itself,” predicts Dr. Peter McCullough. Thus far, VAERS conservatively reports 21,002 deaths nationwide from the vaccine. (Compare that to 9,248 from ALL OTHER vaccines over the last 31 years and even this false figure is still mind boggling.) Furthermore, VAERS, by Dec. 24, received over one million “reports” on the vaccine, broken down as follows: • Deaths: 21,002 (as above). • Hospitalizations: 110,609. • Urgent Care: 109,245. • Doctor Office Visits: 156,456. • Anaphylaxis (life-threatening allergic reaction): 8,673. • Bell’s Palsy: 12,532. Thus, when any healthy 50something dies suddenly from a heart attack, like fitness- fanatic Canadian filmmaker Jean-

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Marc Vallee, who dropped dead over Christmas, you have to ask yourself: When did he get jabbed? Steve Kirsch, again, on how to tell if someone famous died from the vaccine: • Person was recently vaccinated. • The company that the person worked for enforces vaccinations with threat of job loss. • Person is young with no health conditions. • The cause of death is not revealed or unknown. • The mainstream media narrative uses words like “unexpected” or “sudden” or “abrupt.” • When did movie director Peter Bogdanovich, who died 10 days ago (he was 82), get jabbed? Little wonder that vaccinemaker Pfizer wants to withhold (meaning, hide) its documents from the American public for 75 years. And the courts are siding with them! Writes Aaron Siri, a lawyer working on the case to compel public access to Pfizer studies: “The federal government gives Pfizer billions in taxpayer money + makes Americans take its product + won’t let Americans sue for harm + shields disclosure of its licensure documents = 1984.” Good news: District Court Judge Mark Pittman, a federal judge in Texas, just ruled that 75 years doesn’t cut it. He wants the Food and Drug Administration to release 400,000 pages of data in eight months at the rate of 55,000 pages per month. New studies show that you’re more likely to catch the omicron variant if you are vaccinated with a booster than if you’re not; that 95% of those who have fallen ill with omicron are vaccinated. (Question: Was the vaccine’s true purpose to ensure that everyone caught omicron for the antibodies that might result from herd immunity? You have to ask because you sure can’t trust the government or Big Pharma anymore.) Dr. Joseph Mercola offers some reasoning behind this: “The COVID jab reprograms your innate and adaptive immune systems, causing immune depletion.” Moreover, it has been estimated that a full third of hospitalized persons with omicron were admitted for other reasons, such as broken legs or appendicitis. Hence, don’t be frightened or intimidated by (purposely) misleading statistics. Meanwhile, the Conejo Guardian has reported additional nurses from Ventura hospitals speaking out. Here’s Sam, an ICU nurse at Ventura County Medical Center: “I’m tired of all the B.S. that’s going on. It’s crazy how nobody questions things anymore.” He said that when a 38-yearold female arrived with a blood flow problem to her brain, “they were searching for everything under the sun and documenting this in the chart, but nowhere do you see if she was vaccinated or not. One thing the vaccine causes is thrombosis, clotting. Here you have a 38-year-old who was double-vaccinated, and she’s having strokes they can’t explain. None of the doctors relate it to the vaccine. It’s garbage. It’s absolute garbage.” Let’s shift from the ICU to insurance companies, whose actuaries base life insurance premiums on death statistics. Scott Davison, CEO of a centuryold Indianapolis insurance company, says, “We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business.” Deaths are up 40% among people aged 18-64, he says, “and most of the claims of death are NOT classified as COVID-19 deaths.” Yet the World Health Organization in November posted on its Facebook page: “Most people have mild or no side effects following COVID-19 vaccination.” The post attracted a whopping 45,000 negative comments that begged to differ, including these: • Gerald Rogers: “This is what propaganda looks like.” • Nicole De Graff: “Long term heart damage, paralysis, blood clots and death are not mild?”

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RASMUSSEN REPORTS OVERSTEPPING? A reader wrote The Investigator after receiving a call from survey company Rasmussen (Caller ID: 732.776.9777, Rasmussen LLC headquarters in Asbury Park, N.J.) and taking part in a survey she found quite disturbing. • What did the respondent think of forcing the unvaccinated to wear tracking devices? • What did the respondent think of quarantining the unvaccinated to special facilities? • What did the respondent think of removing children of the unvaccinated? “Just being asked these questions was chilling,” wrote our shocked reader. “They didn’t materialize out of thin air.” The Investigator phoned Rasmussen headquarters to confirm that they are conducting such a survey with these questions.

ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER As COVID-19 continues to mutate and weaken (as viruses naturally do) and spread with cold-to-flu-like symptoms (and little more), a new pandemic has taken the country by storm. It is called Illness Anxiety Disorder. No joke. IAD really exists. The Mayo Clinic defines this mental malady as “worrying excessively that you are or may become seriously ill. You may experience extreme anxiety that body sensations, such as muscle twitching or fatigue, are associated with a specific, serious illness. This excessive anxiety — rather than the physical symptoms itself — results in severe distress that can disrupt your life.” Big Pharma will thrive — yet again — in a new tidal wave of prescriptions for Xanax and/or SSRI antidepressants during the weeks and months ahead. (As if our populace doesn’t already have enough of these: 39.3 million Americans are on tranquilizers; 37 million on SSRIs.) Even worse, schools have been instilling our children with fear — and, according to some reports, lowering their IQs (certainly, their social skills) through schooling at home through Zoom. Our saddest IAD sufferer is the wretched soul you see behind the wheel of a car: no other passengers, windows wound up tight … wearing a mask. Shrink time! Our own theory is that COVID19 is attracted to fear, which translates to this: Those who suffer from IAD are more likely to cultivate COVID than those who don’t, on the basis — as believed in some quarters — that fear depletes the immune system. Or, as Florence Scovel Shinn put it almost 100 years ago in her book “The Game of Life and How to Play It”: “One can only contract germs while vibrating at the same rate as the germs, and fear drags men down to the level of the germ.”

So there. Even more interesting than IAD — certainly, more ominous — is a societal psychological condition called “mass formation,” otherwise known as mass hypnosis, which is when a population willingly sacrifices its freedom. First step is isolation of the masses and a lack of social bonding. (Think lockdowns.) Second step is a feeling of the meaningless of life. That job you were doing that seemed so important you had to turn up for work every day? And now seems purposeless? (Again, think lockdowns.) Third step is, well, IAD, as above. Fourth step is frustration and aggression derived from Steps 13… (Look around you…) All four steps together equal an invitation to join Mass Formation Hypnosis — and totalitarianism — based on buying into, accepting, then participating in an illogical narrative, “even if it’s utterly absurd,” says Mattias Desmet, a clinical society professor at Ghent University. “The reason they buy into the narrative is because it leads to this new social bond.” “Through the process of mass formation,” continues Professor Desmet, “they switch from the very painful condition of social isolation to the opposite state of maximal connectedness that exists in a crowd. That leads up to a mental intoxication, which is the real reason people stick to the narrative, why people are willing to go along with the narrative, even though it is utterly wrong and even if they lose everything that is important to them, personally.” Or, put another way, by 19thcentury French psychologist and crowd specialist Gustave Le Bron:“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from the evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.” (Think Hitler and what became Nazi Germany in the 1930s.) That would, of course, lead to the division that now exists between the believers of the narrative and the non-believers, the fearful versus the fearless. The question isn’t whether or not this is truly going on. There should be no doubt. The real question is this: Was it willfully premeditated — or has mass formation hypnosis formed through happenstance? Whichever the case, society’s addiction to the current illogical mainstream narrative does not bode well for the future of our democracy. Robert Eringer is a longtime Montecito author with vast experience in investigative journalism. He welcomes questions or comments at reringer@gmail. com.

LOCAL FIVE-DAY FORECAST TODAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

Mostly sunny

Mostly cloudy

Mostly sunny

Sunshine and patchy clouds

INLAND

65 40

65 37

72 40

69 38

65 36

63 43

65 40

67 45

66 44

63 45

COASTAL

Pismo Beach 63/44

COASTAL

Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Maricopa 63/44

Guadalupe 63/43

Santa Maria 65/41

Vandenberg 61/46

New Cuyama 64/36 Ventucopa 63/41

Los Alamos 66/40

Buellton 64/41

Solvang 64/40

Gaviota 60/48

SANTA BARBARA 63/43 Goleta 63/44

Carpinteria 63/49 Ventura 67/54

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

62/41 64/41 82 in 1941 28 in 1989

PRECIPITATION 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. Month to date (normal) Season to date (normal)

0.00” 0.00” (1.05”) 8.83” (5.96”)

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

62/40/s 62/35/s 47/23/s 51/19/s 61/54/pc 56/40/pc 72/45/s 59/46/pc 60/38/s 71/51/s 37/10/s 57/38/s 64/47/pc 56/41/pc 56/43/pc 68/51/s 67/51/s 74/52/s 71/49/s 65/38/s 55/37/s 66/50/s 55/46/pc 62/44/pc 66/42/s 67/49/s 40/13/s

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 59/34/c 65/41/c 64/40/c 67/44/c 65/39/c 65/37/c 62/43/c 63/52/c

60/37/r 41/25/c 26/8/pc 52/31/c 38/21/pc 72/46/t 79/70/sh 5/-9/s 40/27/r 43/29/i 73/51/s 48/35/pc 35/17/c 39/19/s 46/33/pc 45/29/i

POINT ARENA TO POINT PINOS

Wind north-northeast at 3-6 knots today. Wind waves 2 feet or less with a west swell 1-3 feet at 14-second intervals. Visibility clear.

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO

Wind north-northeast at 3-6 knots today. Wind waves 2 feet or less with a west swell 1-3 feet at 14-second intervals. Visibility clear.

SANTA BARBARA HARBOR TIDES Date Time High Time Jan. 9 Jan. 10 Jan. 11

3:24 a.m. 3:17 p.m. 4:12 a.m. 5:06 p.m. 4:56 a.m. 6:47 p.m.

4.6’ 3.1’ 4.8’ 2.8’ 5.0’ 2.8’

LAKE LEVELS

Low

10:07 a.m. 9:09 p.m. 11:29 a.m. 10:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m. 10:50 p.m.

1.8’ 1.3’ 1.3’ 1.8’ 0.7’ 2.2’

AT BRADBURY DAM, LAKE CACHUMA 60/39/c 61/36/c 48/25/c 50/20/c 62/56/c 57/39/pc 68/51/c 58/43/pc 59/37/c 70/54/c 41/14/c 57/38/pc 64/46/pc 60/38/pc 58/42/pc 65/51/c 66/50/c 73/53/c 69/53/c 65/32/pc 55/38/pc 66/52/c 57/44/pc 62/42/pc 68/42/c 66/52/c 41/12/c

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 south-southeast at 4-8 knots today. Wind waves 2 feet or less with a west swell 2-4 feet at 14-second intervals. Visibility clear.

TIDES

LOCAL TEMPS Today Hi/Lo/W 64/36/s 63/44/s 64/43/pc 63/44/s 65/41/s 65/40/s 61/46/pc 67/54/s

MARINE FORECAST

SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL

51/29/s 30/9/pc 14/-1/s 55/33/s 50/27/s 59/37/pc 80/68/t 4/-5/s 29/16/pc 34/18/s 73/56/pc 44/40/c 39/18/s 39/22/s 43/41/c 38/21/s

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 93,420 acre-ft. Elevation 712.27 ft. Evaporation (past 24 hours) 4.1 acre-ft. Inflow 0.0 acre-ft. State inflow 13.2 acre-ft. Storage change from yest. -38 acre-ft. Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

SUN AND MOON Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset

First

Full

Jan 9

Jan 17

Today 7:06 a.m. 5:07 p.m. 11:49 a.m. none

WORLD CITIES

Last

Jan 25

Mon. 7:06 a.m. 5:08 p.m. 12:16 p.m. 12:45 a.m.

New

Jan 31

Today Mon. City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Beijing 38/22/pc 39/12/s Berlin 37/29/sh 35/24/pc Cairo 62/50/s 62/51/s Cancun 81/70/pc 81/70/t London 45/38/pc 47/45/c Mexico City 72/43/pc 68/47/pc Montreal 35/8/sn 12/-11/s New Delhi 62/47/pc 62/45/pc Paris 44/37/sh 44/31/pc Rio de Janeiro 77/71/t 77/73/t Rome 52/39/sh 52/41/pc Sydney 75/72/t 81/72/t Tokyo 53/42/pc 50/42/pc W-weather, s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

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‘The atmosphere was perfect’ GARDEN

Continued from Page A1 throughout the year. “The atmosphere was perfect. There was a lot of energy and everyone was happy to be out,” Mr. Arroyo told the News-Press. The roses have been pruned back all the way to the stalks. “Participants were having fun, and they were very enthusiastic about the situation,” said Mr. Arroyo. There were moments of silent concentration on pruning the bushes, intermingled with moments of laughter, lively conversation and camaraderie. “People would take breaks and socialize and then they would get back to it. People were trying to learn from each other. There were even some demonstrations. It was a little bit of everything,” said Mr. Arroyo. The event helped to bring the community together and lift spirits during a difficult time in the pandemic. “They understand that it is a community garden. A lot of what you see is the result of active volunteers out in the garden tending the roses. They didn’t just come to learn, they came because it was part of the community,” said Mr. Arroyo. For those wanting to prune their own roses at home, Mr. Arroyo advises: “Don’t be afraid to prune them. Roses are resilient and very forgiving.” A list of tips can be picked up at the Parks and

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A record number of volunteers take part in Rose Pruning Day at the A.C. Postel Memorial Rose Garden in Santa Barbara on Saturday.

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SB Public Health extends hours for COVID-19 PCR testing

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Dozens of people stood in line to receive a vaccine or a booster shot during a vaccination drive at McKinley Elementary School in Santa Barbara on Saturday.

CLINIC

Continued from Page A1 On Thursday, the Clinic will be held at David Sanchez Elementary School 804 Liberty St. in Santa Maria from 1-7 p.m. On Friday, the clinic will be held at Santa Ynez Tribal Hall, 100 Via Juana Ln, in Santa Ynez from 4-7 p.m. To view the full vaccination clinic schedule

go to: https://publichealthsbc.org/wp-content/ uploads/2022/01/January-2022-MVP-CalendarENG.pdf. The Santa Barbara Public Health Department has extended the hours for Covid-19 PCR testing. Testing occurs in the Santa Barbara testing trailer at 267 Camino del Remedio. The testing trailer will be open 7:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday until Jan. 22. To make an appointment, go to http://PublicHealth

SBC.org/testing. Results are available in 24-48 hours. L.A. County has seen its highest rate of transmission in the last week with more than 20,000 confirmed cases. This is the highest number of cases in a week since the pandemic began. Hospitalization to 3,200 currently hospitalized, and over 20% of those getting tested are Covid positive. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

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California bill would keep courts from exposing immigration status By MADISON HIRNEISEN THE CENTER SQUARE

(The Center Square) – Hoping to expand protections for undocumented immigrants in court, a California legislator introduced a bill this week that would permanently protect a person’s immigration status in public court records. Senate Bill 836 expands on provisions of an existing bill, SB 785, which was signed into law by former Gov. Jerry Brown in 2018. The existing legislation protects a person’s immigration status in open court unless a presiding judge determines it’s relevant to a case. The initial bill had a sunset date of Jan. 1, 2022, so Sen. Scott Wiener, the author of SB 785, introduced SB 836 on Friday to remove the sunset date and guarantee a person’s immigration status is permanently protected in cases where it is not deemed relevant. “Our justice system will only work when people can come forward to testify without fearing retribution,” Sen. Wiener said in a statement. “When a person’s immigration status is irrelevant, exposing it is wrong, and it harms the integrity of our courts. No one should have to fear deportation when coming forward about a crime they’ve experienced or witnessed. “SB 836 will ensure that undocumented

immigrants continue to have protection in our courts from unnecessary exposure of their immigration status.” Expanding the legislation permanently would mean attorneys could not question a witness about their immigration status unless a judge determined relevance. Sen. Wiener said before these protections were put in place by SB 785, there were “numerous documented examples” of defense attorneys exposing the immigration status of witnesses even when it was not relevant to the case. Proponents of the bill said the legislation would help maintain access to justice for all state residents, regardless of immigration status. “By preventing unnecessary disclosures of a person’s immigration status in open court, SB 836 enables residents to exercise their rights without fearing their immigration status will be weaponized against them as a tool of intimidation,” Marisa Díaz, senior staff attorney with Legal Aid at Work, said in a statement. “This benefits all Californians and our justice system at large.” Before SB 785 was signed into law, California Chief Justice Tani G. CantilSakauye wrote a letter to former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly in 2017 to express concern about circulating reports of immigration agents “stalking

undocumented immigrants in our courthouses to make arrests.” “Our courthouses serve as a vital forum for ensuring access to justice and protecting public safety,” Justice Cantil-Sakauye wrote. “Courthouses should not be used as bait in the necessary enforcement of our country’s immigration laws.” Mr. Sessions and Mr. Kelly responded to the letter, calling the justice’s concerns “particularly troubling,” but claimed California enacted statutes that “specifically prohibit or hinder ICE from enforcing immigration law” by “denying requests by ICE officers and agents to enter prisons and jails to make arrests.” “As a result, ICE officers and agents are required to locate and arrest these aliens in public places, rather than in secure jail facilities where the risk of injury to the public, the alien, and the officer is significantly increased because the alien can more readily access a weapon, resist arrest, or flee,” the letter said. More than a year after this exchange between state and federal officials, federal data revealed that immigration agents were arresting more undocumented immigrants without a criminal record under the Trump administration compared to previous administrations, according to reports from USA Today.

Biden tours Marshall fire burn scar with members of Colorado delegation By ROBERT DAVIS THE CENTER SQUARE CONTRIBUTOR

(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden and members of Colorado’s congressional delegation on Friday toured the burn scar of the devastating Marshall fire in Boulder County. Pres. Biden was accompanied by First Lady Jill Biden as well as U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., and Rep. Joe Neguse, DColo. The group met with families that were impacted by the fire and some of the first responders from Boulder and Louisville. “It’s amazing what people do

during a crisis,” Pres. Biden said during an address, referencing the efforts of residents and first responders who helped others even as some of their own homes burned. Pres. Biden also pledged continued support for the community, saying, “We’re here with you. We’re not going to go away; the federal government is not going to go away.” The Marshall fire started on Dec. 30 and quickly spread as a windstorm moved through the area with gusts reaching as high as 100 miles per hour. Gov. Jared Polis declared a state of emergency after the fire began, which allowed the state to access

federal disaster relief funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). According to the Boulder Office of Disaster Management, more than 1,000 homes were destroyed in the blaze. The total damage of residential homes is estimated at more than $513 million, making it the most destructive fire in state history. FEMA is distributing more than $269,000 in cash to people whose homes were destroyed in the blaze, according to the agency’s website. Democratic leaders in Colorado’s General Assembly thanked President Biden for touring the burn scar and showing

support for the victims of the fire. “This fire took so much from so many, and as we begin the long process of rebuilding we are deeply grateful to everyone who has stepped up to help as we recover,” Senate President Leroy Garcia, D-Pueblo, said in a statement. “As the President and First Lady saw firsthand today, Coloradans are tough, and I know we will bounce back from this tragedy stronger and more resilient than before.” House Majority Leader Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder, said the city will need to “lean on its federal partners” during the recovery period, which could take months or even years, he added.

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Shoppers walk at the Santa Barbara Farmers Market on State Street in Downtown Santa Barbara on August 17.

Legislator proposes to suspend sales tax on face masks, at-home COVID-19 tests By MADISON HIRNEISEN THE CENTER SQUARE

(The Center Square) – With cases of COVID-19 on the rise in California once again, a state lawmaker announced legislation on Thursday that would suspend sales tax on purchases of face masks and at-home tests through 2025. The proposal, introduced by Assemblyman Marc Levine, DMarin County, aims to make high-quality face masks, such as N-95s and KN-95s, and athome tests more affordable for the public to purchase. The proposal comes as thousands are scrambling to find athome tests and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is suggesting members of the public upgrade their face masks.

Santa Barbara, CA - The most common method your doctor will recommend to treat your neuropathy is with prescription drugs that may temporarily reduce your symptoms. These drugs have names such as Gabapentin, Lyrica, Cymbalta, and Neurontin, and are primarily antidepressant or anti-seizure drugs. These drugs may cause you to feel uncomfortable and have a variety of harmful side effects. The main problem is that your doctor has told you to just live with the problem or try the drugs which you don’t like taking because they make you feel uncomfortable. There is now a facility right here in Santa Barbara that offers you new hope without taking those endless drugs with serious side effects. (see the special neuropathy severity consultation at the end of this article).

“Why on earth are we taxing face masks and at home COVID test kits in California?” Assemblyman Levine said in a statement. “With COVID-19 cases surging in California, we need to do all we can to reduce financial barriers to keep Californians safe and healthy. This legislation will reduce the cost of essential tools needed to stop this pandemic and make it easier for every Californian to protect themselves and their loved ones from COVID-19.” The legislation is expected to be heard in the State Assembly in the coming weeks. As of Thursday, California averaged 36,282 COVID-19 cases per day and a test positivity rate of 21.4% – the highest recorded throughout the pandemic.

In order to effectively treat your neuropathy, three factors must be determined. 1. What is the underlying cause? 2. How much nerve damage has been sustained?* 3. How much treatment will your condition require? Don’t Hesitate to Act Now! Peripheral Neuropathy is a progressive condition and once you have sustained 85% nerve loss, there is likely nothing we can do for you.

The treatment that is provided at Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic has three main goals: The treatment to increase blood flow utilizes electronic cell signaling delivering modulating energy wavelengths at both low and middle frequencies. The signaling improves cell-to-cell communication among Peripheral neuropathy is a result of damage to the nerves often caus- small nerve fibers. ing weakness, pain, numbness, tingling, and the most debilitating balThe cell signaling therapy is like watering a tree. The treatment will alance problems. low the blood vessels to grow back around the peripheral nerves and This damage is commonly caused by a lack of blood flow to the nerves provide them with the proper nutrients to heal and repair. It’s like addin the hands and feet which will cause the nerves to begin to slowly ing water to a tree and seeing the roots grow deeper and deeper. degenerate due to lack of nutrient flow. The amount of treatment needed to allow the nerves to fully recover As you can see in Figure 1, as the blood vessels that surround the varies from person to person and can only be determined after a denerves become diseased they shrivel up which causes the nerves to tailed neurological and vascular evaluation. not receive the nutrients to continue to survive. When these nerves As long as you have not sustained at least 85% begin to “die” they cause you to have balance problems, pain, numbnerve damage there is hope! ness, tingling, burning, and many additional symptoms.

Figure 2: The blood vessels will grow back around the nerves much like a plant’s roots grow when watered.

Charles Sciutto Lac along with Dr. Teri Bilhartz, DO at Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic, will do a neuropathy severity consultation to review peripheral neuropathy history, symptoms and discuss plan of treatment. This consultation will be free of charge and will help determine if our therapy protocol may be a good fit for your needs. Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic will be offering this neuropathy severity consultation free of charge from now until January 31, 2022.

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Bid opening will be held on February 9, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. for Washington Elementary School Roofing Replacement Project (“Project”). A mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference will be conducted on January 19, 2022 beginning at 11:30 a.m. Meet at Washington Elementary School, 290 Lighthouse Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93109 in the parking lot in front of Admin. Office. Bids will not be accepted from contractors not attending the mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference. Prospective Bidders arriving after the abovedesignated starting time for a mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference shall be disqualified from submitting a bid for this project. Plans and specifications will be on file and available to view, download or purchase on, or as soon as possible, after the mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference through Cybercopy at http://www. cybercopyplanroom.com The deadline for pre-bid questions or clarification requests is February 2, 2022. All questions are to be in writing and directed to the Project Architect/Engineer, Robert Robles, Robert Robles Architecture, Inc. at rr@robertroblesarch.com CLEARLY MARK BID RESPONSE ENVELOPE WITH TIME/DATE OF BID OPENING AND PROJECT NAME. Bids so received shall be opened and publicly read aloud at the Santa Barbara Unified School District Administration Office, 720 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101. All bids shall be made on the forms provided in the specifications and each bid must conform to the Contract Documents. Each bid shall be accompanied by the bid security specified in the Instructions to Bidders. The Project description is as follows: The work of the project consists of alterations to the existing school buildings A, B, C, D, E and F that shall consist of but are not limited to the following: 1. Reroofing (full roofing replacement). 2. Replacement of skylights made necessary by the reroofing work. 3. Rough carpentry, patching & repairs associated with and made necessary by the reroofing work. 4. Incidental electrical work, associated with and made necessary by the reroofing work. Contractor’ License required: B Prequalification of Bidders and E/M/P subcontractors: As a condition of bidding on this Project, and in accordance with the provisions of Public Contract Code section 20111.5 and 20111.6 all Bidders and all electrical, mechanical and plumbing subcontractors listed in the Bidder’s proposal must either be pre-qualified for at least five business days before the date of the opening of the bids or must submit a completed prequalification package by the deadline stated below. Bids not conforming to this requirement will not be accepted. Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 20111.6(j) a list of prequalified general contractors and electrical, mechanical, and plumbing subcontractors will be made available by the District no later than February 2, 2022 at lgonzalez@sbunified.org Prequalification packages are available through the Cybercopy at http://www.cybercopyplanroom. com. Pre-qualification questions must be directed to L.M. Sweaney at lynns11s@aol.com or leave a voice message at (909) 337-8302. Prequalification packages must be submitted to L.M. Sweaney & Associates, 180 Grass Valley Rd., Lot 3, Lake Arrowhead, CA 92352 (UPS or FED-EX ONLY) (Voice Message: 909-337-8302) no later than January 26, 2022, [Note: Per PCC 2011.6 – must have submitted package at least 10 business days before bid opening, can specify earlier date]. FAXED PRE-QUALIFICATION APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1773 and 1773.2 of the Labor Code of the State of California, the District has obtained from the Director of Industrial Relations, the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work in the locality in which the work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of workman needed to execute the contract which is available for review at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/statistics_research.html. During the Work, the Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) will monitor compliance with prevailing wage rate requirements and enforce the Contractor’s prevailing wage rate obligations, with a copy of the same being on file with the clerk of the District’s governing board. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractor under him, to pay not less than the said specified rates to all workmen employed by them in the execution of the contract, and to comply with all prevailing wage requirements set forth in the Labor Code. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1771.1 of the Labor Code of the State of California, a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid or engage in the performance of any contract for this project unless; (1) currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5; or (2) expressly authorized to submit a bid by Section 1771.1 and provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. The successful Bidder will be required to post all job-site notices required by DIR regulations and other applicable law. The successful bidder and its subcontractors will be required to follow the nondiscrimination requirements set forth in the General Conditions. The District will be participating in the Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) Participation Goal Program pursuant to Education Code section 17076.11 and Public Contract Code section 10115. No Bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the bid opening. The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids or to waive irregularities in any bid. BY THE ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE SANTA BARBARA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT By: José Jiménez, Interim Director of Facilities and Modernization Planning Department JAN 9, 16 / 2022 -- 57819

Each bid shall be accompanied by the security referred to in the contract documents and by the list of proposed subcontractors. No bidder may withdraw his bid check for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the opening of bids. A California State Contractor’s License B is required to bid on and perform the work required.

Pursuant to Santa Barbara City College’s Covid-19 immunization resolution, which was passed by the Board of Trustees on August 5, 2021, all Contractor employees, partners, subcontractors, and vendors who work or provide services at Santa Barbara City College are required to provide verification that they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 when entering an SBCC building or must have otherwise obtained an approved Covid-19 immunization exemption. Further, all Contractor employees, partners, subcontractors, and vendors coming onto an SBCC property must wear face coverings in indoor settings, except when eating or drinking, and must adhere to social distance requirements in accordance with CDC recommendations. If awarded this contract, Contractor acknowledges that it will be required to comply, and will comply, with campus COVID-19 policy and with all applicable campus health and safety practices. *Fully vaccinated means that a person either has the first dose of a one-dose regimen or their second dose of a two-dose regimen. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1773 and 1773.2 of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Santa Barbara Community College District has obtained from the Director of Industrial Relations, the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work in the locality in which the work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of workman needed to execute the contract with a copy of the same being on file at the office of the Vice President of Business Services, Santa Barbara Community College District. It shall be mandatory upon the Contractor to whom the contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractor under him, to pay not less than the said specified rates to all workmen employed by them in the execution of the contract. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1771.1 of the Labor Code of the State of California, a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid or engage in the performance of any contract for this project unless; (1) currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5; or (2) expressly authorized to submit a bid by Section 1771.1 and provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. The successful bidder will be required to post all job-site notices required by DIR regulations and other applicable law.

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Notice is hereby given that the Community Services Department, Parks Division, County of Santa Barbara will receive bids for: COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA Cachuma Lake Marina Restroom ADA Access 2225 Highway 154 Santa Barbara, CA 93105 Project No. 8670 MANDATORY JOB WALK: 2:00 P.M., Thursday, January 20, 2022 BID OPENING DATE: 3:00 P.M., Wednesday, February 9, 2022 CONSTRUCTION COST ESTIMATE: $125,000 PROJECT LOCATION: Cachuma Lake Recreation Area, 2225 Highway 154, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, Marina Parking Lot (GPS coordinates: 34.578249, -119.957373). MANDATORY JOB WALK: There will be a MANDATORY job walk noted above at the project site. Only those prime contractors attending the job walk shall be qualified to bid the work. EXAMINATION OF SITE: Each bidder shall examine the site of work before bidding and shall be responsible for having acquired full knowledge of the job and of all problems affecting it. No variations or allowances from the contract sum will be made because of lack of such examination. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Contractor shall demolish the existing concrete accessways to the marina area restroom, and install a new concrete ramp, stairway, handrails, and associated improvements for ADA accessibility, including widening and replacing the existing restroom doors and doorways. CONTRACTOR’S LICENSE: The CONTRACTOR shall possess a Class A license at the time this Contract is awarded.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CALLING FOR BIDS

The Deadline for questions is January 19, 2022, by 1:00 p.m. All questions are to be addressed to Lundgren Management (wilfredo.celedon@lundgren.net; sarah.silva@lundgren.net), utilizing the Pre-Bid RFI form provided in the contract documents. Questions and responses will be issued back to all plan holders by way of Addendum.

The District reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any irregularities or informalities in any bids or in the bidding.

PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CALLING FOR BIDS

A non-mandatory pre-bid conference and job walk will be held at the Project site, located at 721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA, 93103, at 10:00 a.m. on January 11, 2022. Job Walk will commence from the BC Front Entrance Patio. Parking is available in lot 4C, permit required. Prospective bidders attending the non-mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference must wear face masks and adhere to physical distancing requirements.

Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received for a bid opening by the Board of Education of the Santa Barbara Unified School District at the Administration Office, 724 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101 not later than: Bid opening will be held on February 9, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. for Franklin Elementary School Covered Walkway Roofing Replacement Project (“Project”). A mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference will be conducted on January 19, 2022 beginning at 10:00 a.m. Meet at Franklin Elementary School, 1111 E Mason Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 in the parking lot in front of Admin. Office. Bids will not be accepted from contractors not attending the mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference. Prospective Bidders arriving after the abovedesignated starting time for a mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference shall be disqualified from submitting a bid for this project. Plans and specifications will be on file and available to view, download or purchase on, or as soon as possible, after the mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference through Cybercopy at http://www. cybercopyplanroom.com The deadline for pre-bid questions or clarification requests is February 2, 2022. All questions are to be in writing and directed to the Project Architect/Engineer, Robert Robles, Robert Robles Architecture, Inc. at rr@robertroblesarch.com CLEARLY MARK BID RESPONSE ENVELOPE WITH TIME/DATE OF BID OPENING AND PROJECT NAME. Bids so received shall be opened and publicly read aloud at the Santa Barbara Unified School District Administration Office, 720 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101. All bids shall be made on the forms provided in the specifications and each bid must conform to the Contract Documents. Each bid shall be accompanied by the bid security specified in the Instructions to Bidders. The Project description is as follows: The Work of this project consists of alterations to the existing Main Building in order to provide upgrades that shall consist of, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Reroofing (full roofing replacement). 2. Patching and repairs, associated with and made necessary by the reroofing work. 3. Hazardous Materials Abatement. 4. Mechanical, plumbing, and electrical work, associated with and made necessary by the reroofing work. Contractor’ License required: B or C-39 Prequalification of Bidders and E/M/P subcontractors: As a condition of bidding on this Project, and in accordance with the provisions of Public Contract Code section 20111.5 and 20111.6 all Bidders and all electrical, mechanical and plumbing subcontractors listed in the Bidder’s proposal must either be pre-qualified for at least five business days before the date of the opening of the bids or must submit a completed prequalification package by the deadline stated below. Bids not conforming to this requirement will not be accepted. Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 20111.6(j) a list of prequalified general contractors and electrical, mechanical, and plumbing subcontractors will be made available by the District no later than February 2, 2022 at lgonzalez@sbunified.org Prequalification packages are available through the Cybercopy at http://www.cybercopyplanroom. com. Pre-qualification questions must be directed to L.M. Sweaney at lynns11s@aol.com or leave a voice message at (909) 337-8302. Prequalification packages must be submitted to L.M. Sweaney & Associates, 180 Grass Valley Rd., Lot 3, Lake Arrowhead, CA 92352 (UPS or FED-EX ONLY) (Voice Message: 909-337-8302) no later than January 26, 2022 [Note: Per PCC 2011.6 – must have submitted package at least 10 business days before bid opening, can specify earlier date]. FAXED PRE-QUALIFICATION APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1773 and 1773.2 of the Labor Code of the State of California, the District has obtained from the Director of Industrial Relations, the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work in the locality in which the work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of workman needed to execute the contract which is available for review at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/statistics_research.html. During the Work, the Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) will monitor compliance with prevailing wage rate requirements and enforce the Contractor’s prevailing wage rate obligations, with a copy of the same being on file with the clerk of the District’s governing board. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractor under him, to pay not less than the said specified rates to all workmen employed by them in the execution of the contract, and to comply with all prevailing wage requirements set forth in the Labor Code. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1771.1 of the Labor Code of the State of California, a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid or engage in the performance of any contract for this project unless; (1) currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5; or (2) expressly authorized to submit a bid by Section 1771.1 and provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. The successful Bidder will be required to post all job-site notices required by DIR regulations and other applicable law. The successful bidder and its subcontractors will be required to follow the nondiscrimination requirements set forth in the General Conditions. The District will be participating in the Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) Participation Goal Program pursuant to Education Code section 17076.11 and Public Contract Code section 10115. No Bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the bid opening. The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids or to waive irregularities in any bid. BY THE ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE SANTA BARBARA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT By: José Jiménez, Interim Director of Facilities and Modernizations Planning Department JAN 9, 16 / 2022 -- 57818

QUESTIONS: All questions should be addressed to the Community Services Dept. Parks Capital Division Manager, Jill Van Wie, via e-mail: jvanwie@countyofsb.org . BID DOCUMENTS: To request the plans, specifications and proposal forms for bidding this project please contact Jill Van Wie, Capital Division Manager; (805) 568-2470; e-mail: jvanwie@countyofsb. org. BID SUBMITTAL INSTRUCTIONS: Each bid shall be in accordance with the plans and specifications approved by the Community Services Department. The bid shall be sealed and received at the Community Services Administration office located at 123 E. Anapamu Street, 2nd Floor, Santa Barbara, California, 93101, on or before 3:00 P.M., Wednesday, February 9, 2022, at which time each bid will be opened. The Official Time will be determined by the Community Services Bid Clock, located at the address indicated above. SUBSTITUTION OF SECURITIES: Pursuant to Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code and the project specifications, the CONTRACTOR may substitute securities or request that the County make payment of retentions to an escrow agent for any money held by the COUNTY to ensure contract performance. PREVAILING WAGES: Bidders are hereby notified that that all work performed under this agreement is subject to the Davis-Bacon Federal minimum wage rates and prevailing wage rates pursuant to the California Labor Code. Pursuant to Section 110 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and Section 1770, et. seq. of the California Labor Code, the contractor and all subcontractors shall not pay less than the prevailing rate of per diem wages as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor and by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. If there is a difference between the Federal Minimum Wages and the General Prevailing Wage Determinations as predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the contractor shall pay not less than the higher wage rate. The applicable Davis-Bacon Federal wage decisions are included in the bid documents. Copies of the prevailing rate of per diem wages pursuant to the California Labor Code are on file at the County Department of Community Services Parks Division and are available to any interested party on request. In addition: • No contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 [with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code section 1771.1(a)]. • No contractor or subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. • This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: The work to be performed under this contract is on a project assisted under a program providing direct federal financial assistance from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and subject to 24 CFR 85.36(e). The County hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged, minority and women’s business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, religious creed, sex, or national origin in consideration for an award. Minority- and women-owned and operated businesses are encouraged to apply. SECTION 3: The work to be performed under this contract is funded by federal financial assistance from the HUD, Community Development Block Grant Program, and is subject to the requirements of Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, as amended, 12 USC 1701u. Section 3 requires that to the greatest extent feasible opportunities for training and employment be given to low and moderate income persons residing within the project area and that the contracts for work in connection with the project be awarded to qualified business concerns. Regulations for implementing the Section 3 clause are contained in 24 CFR 135, as amended and are attached as Exhibit A to the Project Special Conditions. CONFLICT OF INTEREST: In the procurement of supplies, equipment, construction, and services by sub-recipients, the conflict of interest provisions in (State LCA – 24 CFR 85.36 and Non-Profit Organizations – 24 CFR 84.4), OMB Circular A-110, and 24 CFR 540.611, respectively, shall apply. No employee, officer or agent of the sub-recipient shall participate in selection, or in the award or administration of a contract supported by Federal funds if a conflict of interest, real or apparent, would be involved. WITHDRAWAL OF BIDS: The COUNTY reserves the right to reject any and or all bids or waive any informality in a bid. No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the opening thereof. BID SELECTION: The COUNTY reserves the right to select any one or any combination of bids, whichever is in the best interest of the COUNTY. CONSTRUCTION TIME: The successful CONTRACTOR shall complete all work called for under the Contract Documents no later than March 30, 2022. LIQUIDATED DAMAGES: The liquidated damages will be One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150) per day for project delays that are determined to be attributable to the CONTRACTOR. JAN 9 / 2022 -57821

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“We can do little things to make life pleasant for ourselves and other people,” longtime TV star Betty White told the News-Press in 2000, adding, “I loved playing Rose on ‘The Golden Girls.’ Rose was not dumb — she was just terminally naive — and she was always positive about life.”

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Betty White News-Press staff writer Marilyn McMahon says talking with the star was like conversing with a friend

Editor’s note: News-Press staff writer Marilyn McMahon interviewed Betty White in 2000 in advance of the longtime star’s appearance at a scholarship luncheon for Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara. The News-Press is reprinting the story in honor of Ms. White, who died Dec. 31 at age 99. Her 100th birthday would have been on Jan. 17. At the time of this story, Ms. White was 78 years old and had a role on the CBS sitcom “Ladies Man,” whose stars included future “Big Bang Theory” actress Kaley Cuoco (who grew up in Camarillo). Ms. White’s other TV credits varied from “Boston Legal” to “Hot in Cleveland,” in addition to her classic roles on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Golden Girls.” By MARILYN MCMAHON

NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

t could have been a scene from the hit TV series, “The Golden Girls.” There I was sitting at my kitchen table, wearing a bathrobe, sipping my morning coffee and talking to actress Betty White, who portrayed Rose on the NBC comedy. When the 30-minute telephone interview was over, I felt as if I had just had a delightful conversation with a friend. Ms. White apologized for scheduling the early morning interview, but it was the only time she had available. Long past the age at which most people retire, Ms. White was working full time in a new TV series, serving on the board of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association and was appointed by Mayor Richard Riordan to the Los Angeles Zoo Commission.

Despite her hectic agenda, Ms. White is coming to Santa Barbara to speak at the 15th annual spring scholarship luncheon for Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara. "Practice Kindness" is Ms. White's topic. "It sounds corny, but we live on such a hard edge these days that I think we are losing our humanity. We are tense, brusque and rude. We focus on the negative," she told the News-Press. "But life doesn't have to be this way. We have a choice. We can do little things to make life pleasant for ourselves and other people." Like what? "Well, take driving," said Ms. White. "We're not going to get there one second faster if we keep on switching lanes. I have a heavy foot when I'm driving, but when push comes to shove, I let the other guy in. This takes no effort, and it leaves me with a good feeling and probably him, too.

Still, it's no big thing, and it may prevent a road rage situation." Ms. White also believes that the practice of kindness should be extended to animals. She said she rarely declines an invitation to talk about animal health and well-being, but she stressed that she is not an animal activist. "I think my love for animals goes back to the womb," she said. "I love nature in all forms, and my appreciation for it increases with time. My three pets are sitting here looking up at me right now." Ms. White shares her home with Panda, a Shih Tzu; Kitta, a golden retriever; and Bobcat, a Himalayan cat. "I had to wait eight months to get Kitta, a career change dog from the Guide Dogs for the Blind," she said. In addition to her work with the Los Angeles Zoo, Ms. White served for three years as president of the Morris Animal Foundation, a national research group dedicated to improving the health of companion animals. She received the American Veterinary Medical Association's Humane Award in 1982. Ms. White also wrote "Betty White's Pet Love," which explains how animals take care of us. In 1970-71, she created, wrote and hosted a syndicated TV animal series, "The Pet Set." During a career that began soon after she graduated from Beverly Hills High School, Ms. White has won numerous awards for her work in radio, television and film. Her portrayal of Sue Ann Nivens, the conniving man-hungry gourmet with a cooking program, on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," brought two Emmys for supporting actress in 1974-75 and 1975-76. Ms. White was nominated seven times for best actress in a comedy series for "The Golden Girls," winning the Emmy the first season in 1985. She also was named best guest actress in a comedy series in

1996 for her work on "The John Larroquette Show," bringing her total Emmys to six. The American Comedy Awards gave her the Funniest Female Award in 1987 and Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990. In 1995, she was inducted into the Television Academy's Hall of Fame. Which of her many roles has she enjoyed most? "I loved playing Rose on 'The Golden Girls.' Rose was not dumb — she was just terminally naive — and she was always positive about life," said Ms. White. "I also loved the show because I was totally involved with it. I enjoyed playing Sue Ann because Mary Tyler Moore and I are good friends, but my appearances were sporadic. Do you know that reruns of 'Golden Girls' have been on for three years, sometimes six times a day? Some fans know the lines better than I do." Ms. White has no intention of retiring from a career of more than 60 years. "To what? I'm having too much fun," she said. "In fact, my favorite role is the one I'm playing currently on the new CBS series, 'Ladies Man,' on Monday nights." The series stars Alfred Molina as Jimmy Stiles, a "well-meaning, if somewhat bumbling man," surrounded by women. Ms. White, who plays his mother, describes herself as "a bit of a swinger with my own agenda. I'm open to adventure, and I don't care if my activities interfere with their lives. I'm having more fun than I've ever had in the business." Not coy about revealing her age, Ms. White said she is 78. "I've never tried to fool anybody," she said. "How could I? All you have to do is turn on 'Entertainment Tonight' and hear "Happy Birthday, Betty White, 78 today.' " email: mmcmahon@newspress. com

This was Betty White earlier in her career. Her earliest shows included the 1950s series “Life with Elizabeth.”

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9 things to do while you’re waiting When you have some extra time on your hands — not enough to really go anywhere or paint a room, but just several minutes or at most half an hour — you may wish you could be productive rather than just kill time. Here are a few things you can do while waiting to leave the house, or waiting for that call or email, or when you just have a few extra minutes that you don’t want to waste. Read a little. Be it a book, the paper, a blog, or a magazine. Ten minutes of reading a day makes a difference in how you process information. You can get used to not reading, so please remember to use and treasure this amazing gift we have. Floss and brush your teeth. Twice a day is good, and thrice is better. It only takes five minutes, and you will feel refreshed afterward. It’s a great little pick-me-up, and, yes, it makes you healthier. There is a connection between oral health and heart health. Freshen up. If you’d like a refresher, but you don’t have time for a shower, try washing your face. It will give you a lift and can help reduce your anxiety. If

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task would be done. Review your social media accounts. A few minutes is all it takes, and this is a good use of time if you’re waiting to do something else. Spending hours on social media is not really social, so please manage your time on the Internet. If it’s the way you choose to relax or communicate with friends, that’s perfectly fine, but that takes way longer than five to thirty minutes. Throw out old paperwork. If you have files, envelopes, or opened letters on your desk, it’s probably because you don’t have time to attack the whole desk-cleaning process, or you’re intimidated by it. Start by just doing it in five- to 20-minute chunks, while you’re waiting. Doing this will keep your desk cleaner. Reach out to an old friend. Send a text or an email to someone who is in your

life but with whom you have not communicated in a while (other than liking their posts on Facebook). Getting in touch will make both of you feel better, and that time will serve you well because we all need old friends in our lives. Pet your pets and loved ones. If someone or something (with a tail) is around, you can spend a few extra minutes giving him, her, or it some extra attention. Petting the dog or cat helps us to relax, lowers our blood pressure, and makes us feel more secure and so does a nice long hug. Not a bad way to spend some time. Five to 10 minutes is enough time to change your clothes or change your life, depending on what you choose to do. We haven’t got enough time to waste, so try to enhance your life in those extra minutes.

Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D., is an award-winning therapist and humanitarian. He is also a columnist, the author of seven books and a blogger for PsychologyToday.com with nearly 27 million readers. Reach him at barton@bartongoldsmith.com.

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Family-to-Family course to focus on mental health By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The Family-to-Family course is a free, eight-session education program designed to help family members support their loved

ones living with mental health disorders. The program, which begins Feb. 2, is intended to help family members understand and access local resources, all while taking care of themselves.

The course will cover information on illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression and other mental health conditions. It is offered by the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s

largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for those affected by disorders. The class is taught by trained teachers who are also family members and who know what it is like to have a loved one struggling with a mental health disorder. Family-to-Family’s North County presentation will be online via Zoom, and the South County presentation will be in a classroom setting, following all Santa Barbara County Public Health Department’s

COVID-19 protocols. Registration is required. To register, email these contacts: — Northern Santa Barbara County on Zoom: Maria Perez, family support specialist, mperez@t-mha.org. — Southern Santa Barbara County in person: Ramona Winner, family advocate, rwinner@mentalwellnesscenter. org. The Transitions Mental Health Association, NAMI’s partner in the North County, is a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating stigma

and promoting recovery/wellness for people living with mental illness in San Luis Obispo County and northern Santa Barbara County by promoting work, housing, community and family support services. The Mental Wellness Center, NAMI’s partner in South County, is a nonprofit that works to raise awareness around mental health by providing supportive programming, education and housing in Santa Barbara. email: mmcmahon@newspress.com

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and yards with free bulky items collections. Starting this spring, it is expanding to a community cleanup program that will also host Saturday morning cleanup events every other month in neighborhoods throughout the city. The cleanup events can be tailored for each neighborhood to fit what that area needs. Neighborhood captains will take the lead on cleanup events around town. They will help

coordinate, organize and run their local cleanups and can be individuals, organizations or community groups. Later this month, the city will hold its first neighborhood captains meeting to review the captains’ packet instructions, coordinate logistics and brainstorm ideas to make this program successful. — Marilyn McMahon

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Columnist Henry Schulte said President Joe Biden is preaching what Dr. Anthony Fauci tells him to say.

his column was Mr. Trump. It was the Democrats sparked by an email who turned a microscopic I received regarding bacterium into a political weapon last week’s the likes this country column over has never seen. They how I could used the virus as their make a virus political. campaign message. They It was a sincere used the virus to control question, but nonetheless, cities. They used the I was a bit surprised. virus to gain power. They When the Democrats use the virus to destroy realized they could lose businesses. They used Henry the 2020 election, they the virus for their own Schulte needed something to personal gain. run on. They couldn’t do So, to be asked how The author it based on any kind of I could make a virus platform; they didn’t have lives in Solvang political was the wrong one. “But hey, we got the question. How could virus. People are stupid, the Democrats turn the we can blame it on Trump. If we country upside for the last two repeat it often enough that he’s years using a bug? responsible for killing people, it Let me be clear, when I speak just might work.” of China, I’m not speaking of It was the Democrats who then the good people of the country. launched their “virus campaign” They’re innocent and are to blame everything COVID-19 on controlled by the Chinese

Communist Party. Same is true for the people of North Korea, Iran and all the other dictatorships. But to give any slack to China for not making virus political only demonstrates the amount of brainwashing going on and how easily so many Americans are willing to turn against their own country. China made numerous attempts to deflect how COVID-19 started. They finger pointed to the wet markets, the pangolin, the American military. They lied about everything from day one and used the World Health Organization to lie for them as well. Big Tech buried all the stories they could. Our media kept steering away from language that said it was the Wuhan virus. Why would our own media try to run cover for China when hundreds of thousands of their own family and neighbors

were dying from a virus that no one questioned came from China? Whose side are they really on? If even half of what Robert Kennedy Jr. says in his book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” is true, then there needs to be some hell to pay. Dr. Fauci and the politicians, in collusion with the pharmaceutical companies, are all complicit in the largest mass murder event in American history. Mr. Kennedy makes a lot of claims but backs them with facts, doctors and information on what other countries are doing and have done in the saving of human life that didn’t involve a vaccine or politics. The organizations who we are all supposed to trust with our lives, also appear to be complicit in this massively corrupt effort to keep life-saying options out of the hands of doctors and away from the people and continue pushing a vaccine that’s not working.

One of the deadliest actions the Democrats and Dr. Fauci did was when Mr. Trump supported the beneficial use of hydroxychloroquine, they launched a campaign claiming it was dangerous and that it didn’t work. There’s way too much corruption involved to cover in a weekly column, but if true, Dr. Fauci, the pharmaceutical companies, our own FDA, the media as always and politicians who know nothing, managed to bury a therapeutic that apparently could have saved as many 75% of those who died from COVID. If true, that’s staggering. But don’t plan on filing any lawsuits. Big Pharma and Dr. Fauci protected themselves a long time ago from being held accountable. Hydroxychloroquine and Please see SCHULTE on C4

How Victor Hugo saved Notre Dame de Paris

istorically, it is would have been carted away to often just one man form the base of another, newer, or woman with building. determination and Notre Dame’s elegant façade, talent who its finely crafted doors, the can change the world. famous bell, the arches, THE POWER And that was the case the stained-glass windows, OF PRINT with Victor Hugo and all would disappear. The Notre Dame de Paris. majesty of this structure Without Hugo would be a thing of the past, possessing both celebrated, if at all, as a prodigious talent and marvel of its age, but gone an indefatigable spirit, like the Colossus of Rhodes there would be no Notre and other ancient Wonders Dame to marvel at today. James Buckley of the World that survive The cathedral would only as memories. have been torn down some time in But a young writer (29 years the 1830s. Its foundational stones dating back to the Roman era Please see BUCKLEY on C4

oming into the new day, a New Year, a new mayor. The citizens of Santa Barbara face a unique challenge and are on the precipice of opportunity to protect its vital interest, its people and its landscape. This cannot happen solely through the yo-yo of the current political climate. Locally, speaking of new year, new things — Dale Francisco, the former city council member, is now hosting “Voices of Santa Barbara”on KZSB, AM 1290, the NewsPress radio station. It plays live 10 a.m. Wednesdays, with taped repeats at 8 p.m. Wednesdays and 10 a.m. Sundays. Last Wednesday’s program focused on energy sources of solar, coal, nuclear and natural gas, and their impact on the environment. A lack of human energy has caused several of our favorite local haunts to cut their normal hours of operation because not enough people want to work. Not due to COVID, but we suspect due to COVID checks. We will miss happy hour and dinners at the Mesa Café and Monday night football at the Brewhouse. We hope things will open when the employees are stimulated enough to go back to work. Now we see the tragic loss of Santa Barbara Arts in La Arcada Court. Have we not said all along that State Street as a promenade closed to traffic would benefit only one facet of business along our traditional downtown corridor? Take a stroll through that unique court sometime soon. It rivals anything you would see in Paris or London. Santa Barbara Arts owner Lynn Adams said that business changed when the pandemic hit, and State Street closed to vehicular traffic. The service provided to the community is immeasurable: Giving locally made jewelry, art and crafts a yearlong outlet — now lost. Thanks to the lack of vision by the present city government. Carmel and other seaside towns reopened their streets, understanding the climate that allows for many businesses to thrive. Please wake up, Santa Barbara, before our town is gone, replaced with something nondescript and ugly. Street vendors stand in front of brick and mortar, even in front of Joe’s Cafe, just like carnies in a carnival. No sales tax. Meanwhile, at 2 p.m. Tuesday, our new mayor, Randy Rowse, will be sworn in with the returning Santa Barbara City Council incumbents on the steps of City Hall instead of Chambers, again, due to COVID. Will this stimulate the city officials to update the city’s website? The photo of the city officials is sorely outdated, and most of the players have been retired. Statewide, did you know that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 770 new laws that came into effect in 2022? California laws are divided into 29 codes/ categories. As of Nov 3, 2020, California had 395,600 regulatory restrictions/ laws on the books. The average number among other states is 103,400. Gov. Newsom’s 770 additional laws in one year, raises the question: Why does California have three times the number of laws than the average of all other 50 states? Although Gov. Newsom did the signing of so many bills this year, remember these 770 laws came from our elected state senators and assembly members. So when Gov. Newsom is gone from office, these same elected bodies can continue to bring us mountains

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Columnist James Buckley is impressed with writer Victor Hugo’s support of Notre Dame de Paris.

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When prophets visited Harvard

ife really does points the way to true freedom imitate art in for those who have fallen into the case of two forms of slavery that are all the men who visited more abject for masquerading Harvard: Aleksandr as liberation.” Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet In 1999, Mr. Heston warned novelist, and Charlton Harvard about the Heston, the actor. culture war in America, As it turns out, in which, with Orwellian these two men spoke fervor, certain accepted to Harvard during thoughts and speech the birth years of the are mandated. He millennial generation spoke to them from and what they had to Martin Gross’s book, Andy Caldwell say was nothing less “The End of Sanity”: than prophetic. “blatantly irrational In 1978, as behavior is rapidly described in Robert P. being established as the George’s paper “Solzhenitsyn’s norm in almost every area Prophecy” (Mr. George was of human behavior .... new then a graduate student at customs and rules, and antiHarvard and now he is a law intellectual theories twisted professor at Princeton), Mr. on us and foisted on us from Solzhenitsyn warned America every direction … .turning as we were just beginning the mind mushy when it of our slide into oblivion comes to separating truth characterized by a loss of faith from falsehood and right from in our country, its institutions, wrong”. its principles, its culture, and Mr. Heston warned that its way of life. society telling us what to think Mr. Solzhenitsyn viewed has evolved into telling us what the weakness of the West’s to say and that telling us what willingness to stand up to to do would not be far behind. Soviet aggression as the fruit Accordingly, he charged of materialism, consumerism, “the best and the brightest,” self-indulgent individualism, that if their generation that emotivism and narcissism. We comprised the most socially had become too focused on conformed and politically rights rather than obligations. silenced generation since We had come to embrace a Concord Bridge continued to false idea of liberty, conceiving validate and abide by these of it as doing as one pleases, trends, then they were, by rather than the freedom to their grandfather’s standards, fulfill one’s human potential cowards. Hence, he urged and honor one’s conscientious them to disobey the trends. duties to God and neighbor. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, At the heart of this moral of course. Nonviolently, confusion and collapse was a absolutely. loss of faith and the virtue of But when told how to think courage. or what to say or how to Mr. George goes on to say behave, don’t. Disobey the that in another speech several social protocol that stifles and years later, Mr. Solzhenitsyn stigmatizes personal freedom. went further in his analysis, He urged them to “disavow indicating that the moral cultural correctness with decline in the West had massive disobedience of rogue behind it the same factors authority, social directives that produced the horrors of and onerous laws that weaken communism, that having to personal freedom. So that do with the title of his address this nation may long endure, “Men have forgotten God.” I urge you to follow the Specifically, they worship hallowed footsteps of the great themselves, deify their own disobediences of history that desires, fall into an idolatry of freed exiles, founded religions, self, after which a catastrophe defeated tyrants, and yes, always ensues. in the hands of an aroused His prescription to remedy rabble in arms and a few great our otherwise fatal ailment? men, by God’s grace, built this What has been forgotten can country.” be remembered. Do I hear an amen? “Remember God to a world that has forgotten him,” Mr. Andy Caldwell is the COLAB Solzhenitsyn said. “By the executive director and host of example of your lives, as well “The Andy Caldwell Show,” as by the words of your mouths, airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays on you must be the salt and light KZSB AM 1290, the News-Press that repairs what is broken and radio station.

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Schools in Santa Barbara County and elsewhere in California are awaiting at-home COVID-19 test kits.

hicken Little was a fluffy yellow chick who lived on a small farm with many other animals where she happily searched for grubs and grass shoots under the old oak tree. One day as she was scratching in the dirt, an acorn fell on her head. “Oh no,” she said. “The sky is falling. I must go warn everyone.” So she hurried to the duck and said, “The sky is falling.” Next she saw the barn cat. “The sky is falling.” She rushed to warn everyone and finally saw the wise old owl, woke him from his nap and said, “The sky is falling.” But he said, “No, it was just an acorn.” During these last 50 years, we have heard many “sky is falling” messages. Acid rain was falling, which terrified children in rainy places like Seattle. Aerosol cans were causing a hole in the ozone layer up above, and we were in great danger. Then the climate was getting colder, and we were going to perish from frostbite. Oh, and the earth was overpopulated, and we were all going to starve to death. Then when we didn’t freeze, we had global warming, and the icebergs were going to melt and no more polar bears. That wasn’t successful so now we have

climate change, which has been happening since the beginning of time. Now we have COVID, which we were told would kill us all, but it mutated and became more contagious and less deadly. But we are still to live in fear of it. It is time to overcome the fear mongers and reclaim our lives, trusting in the Creator’s master plans. He has kept life going for a long time, and we can see his loving care all around us, if we but look. Gretchen Kieding Solvang

Congress, remember your oaths

am 76 years old. I tell you this to acknowledge that I have lived through a lot of history in America. I always felt safe because of laws and their keepers. I admit that I have taken our government for granted, thinking that responsible and respectful men and women felt a duty in serving our country and would always be there to safeguard the nation. More than one year ago on Jan. 6, 2021, those safeguards were derailed by the very people who said, “I do solemnly (or affirm) that I will support and defend the

Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God”. This oath is required by the Constitution; the wording is prescribed by law. An oath is a solemn promise about your behavior or your actions. Sadly, going into the first few months of this new year 2021, many in Congress are no longer remembering their oaths. Truthfulness and integrity have silently left the building, and the lives of 350 million American citizens being able to rely on a strong and united government has been shaken and put into question. The strength of our democracy seems to be eroding before our eyes. So once again I ask, “Why don’t oaths matter anymore?” But more importantly, those oaths are only as strong as the people who have sworn to uphold them! While I applaud the work of the January 6 Committee, I really shouldn’t because they are just doing their job, right? A group of congressmen and congresswomen who are living each day honoring their oath of office by taking this action! This shouldn’t be looked at

as anything other than normal! This is their job, it’s what they signed up for and what they took an oath to do! Law and order is what keeps our society safe and functioning! Going forward into 2022, I wish nothing but the best always and in all ways for our country. Roberta Silsbury Goleta

Could less air travel help?

an climate chaos when combined with COVID-19 reduce air travel and eliminate part of the large contribution it makes to climate change? While I sympathize with travelers stranded due to the thousands of flight cancellations, it does give me hope for my sons’ future. Ironically, the same extreme climate events that are causing the chaos at airports were disproportionately caused by air travel. Now COVID-19 and its mutants spread throughout the world by air travel combined with the storms to reduce air travel. Is there a natural process going on here? Rowland Lane Anderson Santa Barbara

Honesty leads to lower property taxes Editor’s note: John Hendrickson serves as policy director for Iowans for Tax Relief Foundation, and Dave Trabert is the chief executive officer of the Kansas Policy Institute and author of “What Was Really the Matter with the Kansas Tax Plan.” The Center Square, a nonprofit dedicated to journalism, provided this commentary to the News-Press.

owans are growing more frustrated with high property taxes. A majority of Iowans, 63.4%, believe that property taxes are too

high. The concern over property taxes surpasses the ruralurban divide and political party identification. Taxpayers are often left wondering why they never see property tax relief or why their inquiries about high taxation go unanswered. Policymakers have an opportunity to finally address high property taxes and deliver tax relief by implementing a Truth-in-Taxation law. Utah and Kansas serve as the gold standard for taxpayer friendly Truth-in-Taxation laws. Kansas, which passed its law in 2021, is already seeing amazing results.

Instead of collecting big in Utah. increases from valuation changes, According to the Lincoln local officials must vote on and Institute of Land Policy, the take responsibility for the entire owner of a commercial property tax increase they impose. Each in Des Moines valued at $1 million year, the mill rate is reduced so pays about $41,000 in property that the new valuations deliver tax; that same property in Salt the same dollar amount of Lake City only pays $14,000. The property tax revenue owner of a $150,000 home to local governments. in rural Hampton pays If they want more, they over $2,800 but that same John must notify taxpayers of Hendrickson and home in rural Utah pays a their intent in a mailing, little over $1,000. Dave Trabert hold a hearing to get Too often, local public feedback. Then governments claim a they must vote for the windfall from increased entire tax increase they impose. assessments, and the taxpayer is More than half of all cities, left wondering why their tax bill counties, townships, school is higher. When questioned, local districts and special tax districts government officials argue that in Kansas decided to not increase they are not to blame because property tax this year. Now that they have not increased property they must be honest about tax tax rates. Too often blame is increases, officials presiding over shifted to assessors and the true 1,900 local government entities culprit in driving high property suddenly decided they could taxes is local government provide services a little more spending. Truth-in-Taxation efficiently. That’s the power of corrects the “honesty gap” and honesty and transparency. forces local governments to justify There are no exceptions and why they need to increase taxes no loopholes in the Kansas law. for higher spending. Local officials must go on record Prior to the passage of Truth-invoting for a property tax increase Taxation, Kansas had a property if they want one. tax “lid,” which was intended Iowa taxpayers would save to control spending and tax hundreds of millions of dollars increases, but too many budget over time, just like taxpayers lines were exempt, which made

it inconsequential. Now, the new law prohibits backdoor increases from valuation and does not allow any exceptions or loopholes. This even includes new growth. In 2019, Iowa passed a property tax transparency and accountability measure, which was unfortunately referred to as a Truth-in-Taxation law. This law was a good reform, but in the most charitable form it could be considered a weak version of Truth-in-Taxation. The law only slightly improved transparency, while creating a low threshold for counties and cities to surpass the 2% soft budget cap. School districts were also exempt, which are the leading driver of property tax bills. Truth-in-Taxation applies to all local taxing authorities in Kansas and Utah. For too long, property taxpayers have been ignored. It is time to restore honesty to the property tax process. Local officials will offer up a lot of objections to Truth in Taxation, but they are surely at least as capable as officials in Kansas, and they can make this work if they want. Ask them this: Why shouldn’t you have to be honest about the entire property tax increase you impose?

Classes resume during a time of navigation and gratitude

s schools across Santa Barbara County reopen following the winter break and prepare for a successful return, I wanted to take a moment to reconnect with our community. We are welcoming our students back at a time when surging COVID-19 case rates have created new layers of uncertainty and concern for our schools. From interpreting new COVID-19 guidance to addressing increased testing needs, we find ourselves navigating through challenges, yet again. At the same time, we are filled with gratitude that our students are able to return to school in person, which, for the majority of students, is the best and safest place for them to be. Although full in-person status could be compromised in the future by increasing COVID-19 cases, as of today, all Santa Barbara County schools are returning from winter break to in-person instruction. We are equally grateful for our teachers and school staff as they continue to educate and care for our students. As I visit classrooms and programs, my appreciation for our education community grows exponentially. School teams collaborate to deliver innovative, meaningful, personalized instruction for their students. Staff connect youth

and families with invaluable clarity and consistency as possible and available mental wellness so that we can communicate with support in and out of schools. our school communities clearly Early childhood educators read and accurately. books to infants, assist children Here is an example of a new as they count dollars earned update and how it impacts in their imaginary schools: The CDPH spaces, and transform provided updated energetic classrooms COVID-19 guidance on Dec. into quiet zones by 30. This guidance calls singing a special song. for reducing isolation and Thank you, educators quarantine time periods and school teams, for from 10 to 5 days for the the monumental effort general public, excluding and energy you put into health care personnel. building relationships, Dr. Susan Salcido The guidance currently educating our children, only partially applies to Santa Barbara TK-12 school settings. and supporting our County communities by tending To be clear, the updated to the health, safety and Superintendent COVID-19 guidance does of Schools well-being of all youth not yet apply to any TKand students. 12 school employees. For The Santa Barbara TK-12 students, only the County Education Office isolation guidance applies at this continues to convene regular time. Further, guidance for youth and frequent meetings with settings outside of school, and school leaders from across the including preschool, is expected county and Santa Barbara County to be updated by public health in Public Health officials to review the coming days. and outline COVID-19 safety Cal/OSHA regulates school guidelines. employee policies and the CDPH Given the multiple agencies Schools Guidance provides that provide updates like the recommendations for student United States Food and Drug isolation and quarantine periods. Administration, the California Local public health officers also Division of Occupational Safety make decisions for counties based and Health, the Centers for on those regulations. For these Disease Control and Prevention, reasons, schools rely on updates the California Department of from Cal/OSHA, CDPH and local Public Health and SBCPH, it is public health officials before critical that we have as much changing existing policies

in schools. In addition to keeping track of the changing policies for handling positive COVID-19 cases and close contacts for students and staff, we are also mindful of the need and demand for COVID-19 tests. SBCEO is pleased to have partnered with Aptitude Clinical Diagnostics — a local COVID-19 testing provider founded by three Ph.D. graduates from UCSB who are serving dozens of local public and private schools, colleges, universities, government agencies, preschools and childcare centers across Santa Barbara County. Even with in-county testing opportunities for schools, we still have an increased need to access rapid tests. SBCEO is expected to receive a shipment of at-home, rapid test kits for distribution to all county TK-12 public school districts in the coming days. According to this announcement by the Governor’s Office (gov.ca.gov/newsroom/) each TK-12 student will receive 1-2 test kits (excluding districts that previously received test kits and/or have other direct sources for at-home test kits). Preschool and childcare centers have also been provided with information about how they may request test kits at no cost from the CA State COVID-19 Testing Task Force. In addition to the tests set to Please see SALCIDO on C4

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Associated Press = Associated Propaganda

f nothing else, the past two years have demonstrated with blazing clarity how the ruling elites live by one set of rules and impose an entirely separate set of rules on the unfavored, ostracized, dispossessed and deplatformed. As a member of the print, broadcast and internet media for the past 30 years, I cannot emphasize enough how complicit so-called mainstream journalists are in perpetuating such double standards and stoking hatred of dissidents. The Fourth Estate will spare no one — not even the dead — in its ruthless pursuit of absolute power over political narratives. Let us consider a widely disseminated hit piece by Associated Press investigative reporter Michael Biesecker published on Jan. 3. Here’s the bias-laden title that reads more like an MSNBC op-ed whine than a straight news headline: “Ashli Babbitt a Martyr? Her Past Tells a More Complex Story.” Ashli Babbitt, as you may know, is the 35-year-old Air Force veteran and Trump supporter shot and killed by a Capitol police officer one year ago last week during the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C. The fetid

article under the fetid headline is performative show of its victim-blaming at its rock-bottom commitment to fighting bias. lowest. “We must be fair,” its online So what exactly is the “more statement on “news values and complex story” that the onceprinciples” asserts. “Whenever venerable AP wire we portray someone in a service believes is negative light, we must so important for the make a real effort to obtain public to know? Ms. a response from that Babbitt was involved person.” in a complicated Just to reiterate: personal love triangle, Ashli Babbitt is dead. had “bad blood” with She is unable to defend her husband’s exherself against the Michelle Malkin clearly calculated and wife, faced “numerous misdemeanors” related anniversary-timed to a traffic encounter sliming and smearing with the ex, and then was — wait by “investigative reporter” for it, it’s buried deep down in the Biesecker. That doesn’t seem to article — acquitted by a judge of have bothered the AP ethics gurus all the criminal charges. one bit. That’s it. Mr. Biesecker’s bio touts his The rest of Mr. Biesecker’s status as a “2019 Pulitzer finalist,” steaming pile of vile is padded but his trashy piece of trash with disgruntled attacks against trashing Ashli Babbitt doesn’t Ms. Babbitt by the still-seething even rise to the level of People ex-wife, plus extended point-andmagazine or TMZ. It’s pure sputter condemnations by the manure. “investigative reporter” against Look: We all know if Ashli Ms. Babbitt’s ideological stands Babbitt had been black and had and internet posts, topped off by been shot and killed at a Defund resentful references to the fact the Police rally, the AP (which I’ve that President Donald Trump long said stands for Associated and countless American citizens Propaganda) would be ramming remain stalwart in their defense the martyr narrative down our of Ms. Babbitt’s memory. throats instead of debunking The AP makes a grand it. But because Ms. Babbitt and

countless thousands like her were white Trump supporters, we’ve been bombarded with agitprop about how every single Jan. 6 protester was engaged in “riot,” “siege” or “insurrection” and whose “underlying grievance” about election integrity — to borrow AP’s own simp words for BLM and antifa’s agendas — is relentlessly framed as a dangerous “conspiracy theory” and “misinformation” instead of a legitimate concern. I remind you that it was the AP that issued “stylebook” guidelines four months after BLM and antifa set America on fire after the George Floyd incident ordering its journalists not to use the term “riot” to describe the mayhem because it “suggests uncontrolled chaos and pandemonium” instead of focusing on the “underlying grievance” of black protesters against the system. The AP pooh-bahs advised their minions to employ the kinder, gentler euphemism “unrest” to describe “a condition of angry discontent and protest verging on revolt.” I will also remind you that a year ago this week, the AP published a false story that thenPresident Donald Trump had pressed a lead Georgia elections investigator to “find the fraud”

and promised he would make the investigator a “national hero.” The AP was forced to acknowledge that a “recording of the call made public two months later revealed that Trump did not say either” and that it had “erroneously reported” the untruth. The retraction came two months after the original lie was manufactured. Conspiracy theories and misinformation, anyone? The power of the AP to deceive, defame and destroy cannot be understated. The organization, more than 170 years old, brags in its ethics statement that “more than half the world’s population sees AP news content on any given day.” Holier than thou as they commit their evil deeds, these propagandists pledge to report the news “accurately and honestly” while spitting on the graves of patriots. Ashli Babbitt, your sacrifice will not be forgotten. Your honor will be defended. Michelle Malkin’s email address is michellemalkinInvestigates@ protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com. Copyright 2021 by Creators.com.

Positive developments and human challenges in 2022

OVID-19 scare stories In that earlier time, for the vast continue, sensationally mass of employed people there spurred by media, even was no alternative to going to as we collectively reopen work, in literal terms, in a group and return to a more normal location. If you failed to show up, existence. To provide context, you would be out of a job. The TV talking heads often extraordinary computer Arthur I. mention the devastating and telecommunications Cyr Spanish Flu pandemic revolutions that permit of 1918. remote work were just The author is beginning, and public The reference ignores a Wisconsin health challenges over health problems in any professor the intervening decades. case were regarded with In fact, pandemics have stoicism. plagued the world’s The good news is we populations throughout time, are so secure today that anything including the 20th century. less is a shock. The bad news During 1957-1958, the Asian is we have become extremely Flu was a major public health vulnerable to fear. problem. The pandemic Extraordinary prosperity originated in China, as the permits the extraordinary misnamed Spanish Flu of 1918 measures taken to combat the probably did as well. COVID-19 pandemic, and other The Hong Kong flu came ills once regarded as unavoidable. to the United States in 1968, Greg Ip of The Wall Street spread by several hundred Journal is particularly insightful thousand mostly young men regarding this important in our military rotating home, neglected dimension, along with generally after one-year duty the Brookings Institution, the tours in Vietnam during our long World Bank and others. war. The disease spread rapidly. As recently as 1980, Like many, President Lyndon approximately one-half of the B. Johnson became seriously ill population on the planet lived in and hospitalized, for a time in “extreme poverty.” The World intensive care. Bank defines that condition as Mercifully, young people below $1.90 per day valued in appear to be relatively immune to 2011 dollars, an estimate that COVID-19. That was not the case endeavors to include drastically with these earlier pandemics. different cost and price structures Yet generally, there were no in various countries and regions. mass isolations, detailed severe Less than that amount prevents restrictions or media fear essential conditions of human life. mongering. That is not news. Through the People viewed disease as an long sweep of human history, the unfortunate part of life. After vast majority of the population all, the Salk Vaccine to defeat the lived in undernourished, often horror of polio had only become dangerous environments. That available in 1955. The last case reality drove powerful reform of smallpox in the U.S. was also movements, some of them recent: 1949. extreme, violent and destructive.

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Destitution no longer is the norm. Under 10% of the world’s population is now in extreme poverty, though there are serious disruptions. COVID-19, climate change and armed conflict are among current challenges. The long-term downward trend nevertheless continues. As this implies, the poorest parts of the globe are successfully playing economic catch-up. The influential, respected Brookings

Institution in Washington D.C. currently is devoting instructive in-depth attention to the “Africa Growth Initiative.” Related to economic progress and development, democracy is becoming the desired way of life for the world’s population overall, not just the privileged few. As recently as three decades ago, the people of Latin America lived almost uniformly in authoritarian regimes. Today, Cuba’s

dictatorship is isolated. Nonetheless, fear remains an infectious public menace. If unchecked, fear can kill individuals, institutions and eventually civilization. Arthur I. Cyr is the author of “After the Cold War” (NYU and Palgrave/ Macmillan). He is also director of the Clausen Center at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisc., where he is a Clausen Distinguished Professor.

We are living during an American oligarchy

o observe that the left and its cheerleading media have treated the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot as a solemn occasion would be to understate the point. For the left, the (actually) mostly peaceful demonstrations of that day, which for a small percentage of demonstrators did entail illegal trespassing of the Capitol, represented a watershed moment in the history of our “democracy.” Jan. 6 was the day, the narrative goes, where “deplorable” Trumpians attempted to effectuate an “insurrection” and a “coup,” seeking to “overturn” the results of the perfect and pristine 2020 presidential election. The lead-up to the one-year Jan. 6 anniversary was endlessly promoted by our insular and self-congratulatory Washington press corps as something akin to the one-year anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. The imbecilic and senile dolt who is our commander in chief dedicated his Jan. 6, 2022, remarks to excoriating his predecessor for that predecessor’s alleged incitement of an “insurrection.” Defying

parody, a candlelight vigil was the institutional media cheers held at the National Mall — “in on not one but two baseless and remembrance of the attack on our mind-numbing presidential democracy that occurred on Jan. impeachments based on nothing 6, 2021.” more than frothing partisan In fairness, it is true fealty to the oligarchs’ that modern America no preferred political tribe, Josh Hammer longer meets a threshold the Democratic Party. definition of “democracy.” American oligarchy is But the left is wrong as to when the nation’s fourthwhy. largest newspaper, the America in the year 2022 New York Post, runs on the eve is not a nation bedeviled by of a monumental presidential a great scourge of right-wing election a prominent piece of political violence, but it is a investigative journalism about the nation bedeviled by a monolithic oligarchs’ preferred candidate’s and intellectually homogenous troubled son’s shameless overseas oligarchy that seeks to subjugate venality — only to see that piece of dissenting “deplorables” by any journalism wiped clean from the means necessary. Consider some Big Tech platforms and the Post examples. locked out of its very own Twitter American oligarchy is when account. American oligarchy is a duly elected president of the when neoliberal purists from United States is stymied from the left, center and right unite to day one by cynical ruling class thwart any meaningful attempt at fabulists concocting a false story antitrust enforcement against Big about that president’s alleged Tech, permitting the Birkenstockcollusion with a foreign power, wearing C-suite dweebs who based on the primary “evidence” control our digital public square of a salacious and unverified to bowdlerize that public square “dossier” created in conjunction of any “deplorable” dissent from with the defeated opponent’s regime rule. presidential campaign. American oligarchy is when American oligarchy is when White House press secretary

Jen Psaki and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg collude, in naked fashion, to purge Facebook of any discourse skeptical of the recent crowning regime achievement, ineffectual COVID-19 “vaccines.” American oligarchy is when White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeffrey Zients, echoing the rhetoric of a Maoist “social credit system,” rebukes “the unvaccinated” for “looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm.” American oligarchy is when myriad states take advantage of a pandemic to pass massive changes to electoral regulations by executive fiat, and thus in violation of the U.S. Constitution, in such a manner as to not-socoincidentally benefit the regime’s favored political party. American oligarchy is when even the most anodyne of post2020 election attempts to undo the ad hoc electoral changes of 2020, such as Georgia’s quite moderate voting law, are unfairly maligned by political oligarchs as “Jim Crow on steroids” and viciously opposed by Big Business oligarchs

all too happy to boycott states that legislate on behalf of cultural or electoral sanity. American oligarchy is the spawning of a two-tier “biomedical security state” in which dissenters from the ruling class’ preferred narrative on COVID-19 vaccines, mandates and lockdowns are punished via woke consternation, fired from their jobs, kicked off the digital public square and physically dragged out of convenience stores by police. American oligarchy is when the uniparty regime’s foot soldiers, the Antifa and Black Lives Matter hooligans who savaged American urban corridors during 2020’s “1619 Riots,” are let off scot-free, while Jan. 6 trespassers without any previous criminal history are subjected to solitary confinement. The left is correct to bewail the sordid and fallen state of “our democracy.” It just has no idea why. To find out more about Josh Hammer and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators. com. Copyright 2022 by Creators.com.

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Moving forward

ndependents are now America’s largest group of voters. After George W. Bush’s presidency, fewer people called themselves Republicans. After Barack Obama’s, fewer called themselves Democrats. How will these independents vote? Andrew Yang hopes they’ll vote for him. In my latest video, the former Democrat explains why he’s started a new party, the Forward Party. “Our country is polarized and getting worse all the time ... seeing each other as mortal enemies ... I’m committed to doing everything I can to help change it.” He’s written a book about that, “Forward.” Compared with most politicians, Mr. Yang is refreshing. He opposes censoring people for what they say. And Mr. Yang says other things presidential candidates don’t say, like: “Running for president requires traits that make you a terrible leader. You make false promises (and) regularly claim powers you do not have.” He cites worker retraining as an example. Governments keep funding expensive job training — the federal government alone has 43 retraining programs, but they almost never work. Many promise computer-coding jobs, but Mr. Yang points out, “If you actually go to a town that had the plant close, you find no one working as a coder. ... People walk out with valueless certificates and no job.” Unfortunately, Mr. Yang’s plan to help people, a universal basic income, may be even worse. Mr. Yang would simply give every adult $1,000 a month. But the United States is already going bankrupt, and a UBI would give more of your tax money even to people who don’t need it. Mr. Yang’s UBI wouldn’t even replace existing welfare Please see STOSSEL on C4

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Is the CDC following science or a business model? DONOVAN

Continued from Page C1 of restrictions, which nobody has the time to read nor understand, but by which we may be subjected. This accounts in large part for the grand California exodus, which is happening for the first time in its history. And what is all this about a housing shortage? It is nonsense and it is untrue. Read the article in last week’s editions of the News-Press about the reporting from U-Haul that could not meet the demand of outgoing Californians in 2021. The article states that “the U-Haul Growth Index is an effective gauge of how well cities are both attracting and maintaining residents.” The government, both local and statewide, can make all the claims it wants to create a false sense of housing need. The statistics point otherwise. The truth is that a concerted effort exists to pack people into downtown corridors. Certainly, the excuse is to put people near work. What work? What businesses exist in the downtown area besides retail and restaurant? When you add this to all the other reasons people are leaving California, why isn’t there more outrage among those who remain? What about all these narrative changes from one day to the other, being decided by whomever wields control of the platform? Recall March 16, 2020: We were all willing to stay home for two weeks and eat brownies and watch television, while we sacrificed our freedom to flatten the curve. Back then, anyone who tested positive or had been

exposed, was isolated for 14 Days. Then it changed to 10 days. Almost two years later, it is five days of quarantine. We heard that Delta Airlines complained to the CDC that with a long quarantine the airline industry could not function. Then it changed to five days. Is that following the science? Or a business model? Tell us the narrative does not fit the checkbook. Their checkbook. Think about it. If not for a shorter isolation period, not enough employees would be available to staff the airlines. Last week, California adopted the CDC’s new quarantine guidelines of five days. And everyone, vaccinated or not, must wear a mask through Feb. 15 under the state mandate. We agree that science should be corrected as more information is discovered. However, without a control group, how can the comparisons be made, monitored and recorded of the experimental group? The idea that the pharmaceutical companies have requested to release the results in 75 years, when most people today will not be alive to see the results, is nonsense. Translation: We aren’t held responsible to anyone nor to any standards. There it is again, no accountability. The mantra of our modern society. But a whole lot of control on our way of life, to flatten a curve and to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed for a virus that every month a new variant warrants more control by the people not elected but mandating you from the TV screen. Is it not obvious what is going on? Could the amount of people now infected with omicron lead

us to herd immunity? Omicron is said to be very transmissible. Which brings us again to the question of why our leaders are allowing immigrants crossing our borders to be flown to the interiors of our nation without any COVID-19 testing, or protocols. It’s a given that COVID and its variants all came from other countries. After all, nothing is made in America anymore. So are we intentionally letting this virus be spread, which infects our economy, our populace and our way of life? Private individual choice is the driving force for our forefathers who created this country. Most of the immigrants that are coming here are leaving a socialist or communist country, run by dictators, despots etc. But what do 90% of them do as soon as they arrive? They sign up for all the government services that control the human spirit in exchange for a modicum of what? The perception of security? They get subsidized government housing, food, medical care, schooling. Then we even provide translators for convenience. Meanwhile this overbearing, overreaching government control is not what formed this country, nor is it what made us what we are — and remain — a beacon for the free world. No one can deny, the results of our social and personal neglect of spiritual engagement over the past 40 or 50 years is showing itself in every aspect of our world as we know it. The Judeo-Christian ethos carried us only so far, and now it is stretched so thinly that we can no longer depend upon common decency to rule. Without going into all that the

world is showing us to prove the point, it may be time for each of us to take stock and up the ante on our spiritual practices. As the proverb says, desperate times call for desperate means. We have been complacent and comfortable post-World War II. If we do not turn to something beyond politics, we may lose our way of life entirely. In the current climate, we cannot convince the “other side” to cooperate and to get things done for the greater good of society. Four years of progress followed by four years of dismantling that progress. Let’s face it, it is our obedience to God that will set us free from the negative forces in our world, allow us to make good decisions, and make our lives fruitful and beautiful again.This would be the time to return to the source of the values, and decency, inspiration, strength and courage. Attend your traditional places of worship — churches and synagogues — and re-connect with the traditions and values that perhaps were wrung out of you during the college years. It was a remarkably effective way, those college years, of destroying and tampering down the morality and faith that our forefathers fought so hard to retain for us. “We stand like a race with shrunken muscles, staring helplessly at the weights our forefathers lifted easily.” — Henry James Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

International attention kept cathedral standing

BUCKLEY

Continued from Page C1 old by the time his book was published), listening to public officials discussing what to do with the 226-foot-high double hulks of stones desecrating Ile de la Cité — the very place where the city of Paris was born – after having been ransacked during the French revolution of 1789 and left in tatters for the decades following, decided that just wouldn’t do. Victor Hugo, a rising literary presence, objected to the Parisian officials’ plans to tear down the structure and pleaded publicly — and eloquently — against the plan, which nevertheless proceeded apace despite his pleas. Determined to save the noble structure, Hugo began writing what he called “Notre Dame de Paris” — and what most people now know as “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” — in earnest. Having already spent a couple years writing it, and in a desperate race against time, he barricaded himself in his Paris apartment (which was less than half-a-mile from Notre Dame) for four months as he finished his novel. “Notre Dame de Paris” was released in 1831. (The title was changed to “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” in 1833.) And it became at first a publishing phenomenon in Paris and then all of France, and soon after an enormous international best seller. The book was translated into more than a dozen languages, and its success signaled the arrival of Victor Hugo as one of France’s most accomplished authors (who went on to write the equally influential classic, “Les Misérables,” published in 1862). “Notre Dame de Paris” was such a sensation all over the Western world, that tourists from Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and elsewhere flocked to Paris, seemingly for one

purpose: to visit the renowned cathedral. The international outpouring of interest in Notre Dame turned the argument of what to do with its remains by Paris officials completely around: They not only agreed not to tear the structure down, but also determined to rebuild it to its former glory. As reconstruction plans got underway, Paris officials took a vote to decide who would be put in charge of the reconstruction. Our young author, Mr. Victor Hugo, was selected. To call his novel a “tour de force” would be an understatement. His words, his affection, his passion saved his beloved mistress, and Notre Dame was on its way to becoming one of the most visited buildings in the world. One cannot tour Notre Dame this year or next, as a fire destroyed much of the interior in the spring of 2019 while the building, coincidentally, was undergoing extensive renovation. The work is supposed to be completed by the start of the Paris Olympics, scheduled to begin in the spring of 2024. In the meantime, there is one way to “visit” Notre Dame even now: By scheduling an archeological tour of the crypt, an underground museum dedicated to the original construction of the cathedral (built between 1163 and 1345), located under the square directly in front of Notre Dame’s two towers. In the crypt, you’ll not only examine the original Roman foundational stones and read of the history of the church, you’ll also be intrigued with the preserved historical record (via newspapers of the day and other such memorabilia) of the efforts to preserve and enhance Notre Dame after the intervention of Victor Hugo and his marvelous novel. Be sure to take advantage of the Oculus 3-D 360-degree virtual tour upon arrival at the crypt. There are only three pairs of

these glasses, and it’s first-come, first-served. Regardless of the length of the wait, you must not miss this extraordinary experience. Seated on a swiveling chair and then putting the heavy glasses on, one is exported to the inside of the cathedral. You’ll visit various apses, the main hall, come face to face with the two massive organs (surprisingly saved from mobs who tore out most pipe organs in French churches to turn the metal into bullets), the historic stainedglass windows, exquisite statuary, flying buttresses and all. As you go up, you’ll find yourself inside looking down at the center hall from a small balcony near the ceiling of the church. Next, you’ll go on the roof and will stand next to various gargoyles and sculptures. The view of the surrounding city of Paris is exhilarating, and the experience is so real that when I found myself standing on some unsteady boards left behind by carpenters, I feared falling off the top of the six-story structure if I took another step forward. Once that “tour” is over, you’ll be back in the crypt, where you’ll read about Hugo’s efforts to save Notre Dame in newspaper reports of the era. You’ll learn too that many things had been destroyed and/or stolen over the years, for example, a number of the original gargoyles sculpted to guard the outside of the structure (and to direct water away from the building) had been lost to history. Architects dutifully reproduced some of the statuary described by Hugo that the writer had reimagined. In a sculpture of Jesus and his Apostles, St. Thomas (the doubting Thomas) is the figure at the far-right end, facing away from all the others. Thomas’s face, it is noted, is the face of one of the architects who worked to memorialize himself. You should also know that “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” does contain a rather graphic erotic scene, one that is so graphic I had no idea one could print such

licentious material in the 1830s. And, as for Notre Dame, Hugo’s descriptions of the cathedral of Our Lady of Paris are also sensuous. His words read as if he is describing an alluring older woman. He calls his Grande Dame “beautiful” and professes his undying love. He laments that “it is difficult not to sigh, not to wax indignant, before the numberless degradations and mutilations which time and men have both caused the venerable monument to suffer.” He calls her “this aged queen of our cathedrals,” and proceeds with a detailed intimate description of her charms: “The three portals hollowed out in an arch; the broidered and dentated cordon of the eight and twenty royal niches; the immense central rose window… the frail and lofty gallery of trefoil arcades… its fine, slender columns.” To Victor Hugo, Notre Dame is “a vast symphony in stone… a divine creation.” He lambastes the various “architects” who, over the years, have defaced and insulted the proud lady, calling their changes “a thousand barbarisms.” By now we are in the middle of his novel, and he’s spent nearly half of the first 300 pages or so lavishly describing Notre Dame’s charms. I won’t spoil the ending, but you should know that the plot thickens and quickens just after a tryst between Esmerelda and Captain Phoebus. The tale is propelled forward from that point on as if by some omnipotent demigod (or by a young author locked in his apartment in a desperate attempt to finish his book before the object of his devotion is devoured by man and history). Avé Maria, indeed. For information and to purchase tickets for the archeological crypt tour, go to: www.crypte.paris.fr. James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes questions or comments at jimb@ substack.com.

Rising cases may bring return to remote learning SALCIDO

Continued from Page C2 arrive at SBCEO, we are seeking additional tests for private schools, preschools, school employees, as well as future test kit deliveries after this one is complete. Further information from SBCPH regarding COVID-19 testing may be found at publichealthsbc.org/testing.

In response to frequently asked questions related to booster eligibility for youth, California currently awaits approval from state officials for boosters for youth ages 12-15. (The FDA and CDC have each completed its approval process and support the boosters.) In California, youth 16 and older currently may receive a booster. SBCPH resources regarding vaccines and boosters may be

found at publichealthsbc.org/vaccine. In Santa Barbara County, as much as we all are committed to keeping schools open, rising COVID-19 cases may impact our ability to fully operate all programs and schools in-person. There may be a need to shift to remote learning for some classes or schools at some point in the future. While remaining optimistic, we will also need to

be adaptable as circumstances will continue to change in the days and weeks ahead. To our county’s families, community members, and partners, thank you for caring so deeply about the health and well-being of our youth and school employees, and for continuing to unite in strong support of our schools. Best wishes to all for a happy and healthy 2022.

‘There has never been a political weapon more powerful than COVID-19’ SCHULTE

Continued from Page C1 Ivermectin have been around for decades and apparently doctors, the world over, found it overwhelmingly successful in treating COVID-19. Yet Dr. Fauci, Big Pharma and so many others were going to have none of that. Considering how Dr. Fauci and the rest had the gall to dispose of all the available HDC and IVM, and eradicate a lifesaving therapeutic from American soil, they should be locked away in Guantanamo. Most Americans weren’t even aware of what was and is still going on. All we hear is get vaccinated, get vaccinated while there’s more and more mask wearing and triple vaxxers are getting sick. What’s the point in getting vaccinated when it doesn’t work? That is the point. Prior to the omicron variant, the populace were controlled by fear to take the jab. Pfizer and the others had a point man to make that it stayed that way, and President Joe Biden kept preaching what Dr. Fauci told him to say. You don’t hear anything

anywhere in Robert Kennedy Jr.’s book. No one in the media or the left even remotely references it for any reason. We’re fed what they want to feed us, and any dissension continues to be immediately shut down. You question anything other than getting the vaccine, it’s instant black ball from Twitter and Facebook. Could the lives of your parents, your sisters, your brothers, your children have been prevented if politics, greed and corruption did not play a role in the pandemic? It has been politics all the way propagated by the left. We the people are supposedly just too stupid to understand and must be told what the “truth” is. The truth is, we’ve never been told the truth. Not once. COVID is the gift that keeps on giving — to the Democrats. There has never been a political weapon more powerful than COVID-19 and the democrats loaded that gun on day one. Henry Schulte welcomes any and all feedback: hschulteopinions@ gmail.com.

‘More choices are a good thing’

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Syndicated columnist John Stossel analyzes a rising number of independent voters.

STOSSEL

Continued from Page C3 programs (Charles Murray’s proposal), so a drug user could just snort up $1,000 and apply for more handouts. His plan would encourage lazy people to stay lazy. People like me, when I was young. I say to Mr. Yang, “I wouldn’t have overcome my stuttering and worked as hard as I did if I had free money. Not having it ... drove me.” “I’m a data guy,” he replies, claiming more people would start businesses. “If you have that fallback, it makes you more likely to take a risk.” But at what cost? Already, we see an effect of the government’s reckless stimulus handouts: Inflation is the highest in 40 years. Mr. Yang’s UBI would give away four times that every year. A better Forward Party proposal is automatic tax filing. “We waste so much time figuring out our taxes,” Mr. Yang complains. “It’s stupid.” True. In some countries, the government just sends you a bill or refund. You can dispute the results, but if you don’t, you can file taxes in less than a minute. The reason the U.S. does not have automatic filing, says Mr. Yang, is because “Intuit is making too much money off TurboTax. It lobbied (actually, H&R Block and others lobbied, too) and said, no, no, no! (You) can’t do it automatically!” Mr. Yang says other sensible things that Democratic politicians rarely say. During the heat of last year’s anti-police anger, activists screamed at him

because he opposed defunding the police. He stood his ground. Mr. Yang’s run businesses, so he doesn’t say stupid anticapitalist things. But often, he acts like a typical politician. At the Democratic National Convention, he gushed over Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. “You’re just sucking up!” I tell him. “I was willing to do or say whatever I thought would help get Trump out,” Mr. Yang replies. Why? “Trump was erratic,” says Mr. Yang, “not leading in a positive direction.” I’m glad Yang is around, with a new party. More choices are a good thing. Mr. Yang is a decent man who brings up some fresh ideas. Unfortunately, many of Mr. Yang’s ideas are bad. He calls climate change an “existential threat.” He wants every gun owner to re-register every five years. He wants to ban assault weapons but can’t define them. He promotes governmentfunded journalism. But at the end of our interview, we agreed about one thing: “We can see very clearly the way our country is going,” Yang concludes. “We deserve better than this.” John Stossel is creator of Stossel TV and author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www. creators.com. Copyright 2021 by JFS Productions Inc.