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sustainability City of Goleta earns second place in energy challenge

By MITCHELL WHITE NEWS-PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

The city of Goleta received second place in the Sustainable States Community Energy Challenge.

The competition, held in August 2020, included 30 communities from five states that were examined by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy for their efforts to make homes and buildings more energy efficient, to scale up the use of renewable energy, and to ensure community involvement in developing equitable clean-energy policies, according to a news release.

Goleta earned points in all categories, including for the city council adopted 100% communitywide renewable energy by 2030 and 50% renewable energy at municipal facilities by 2025 goals, as well as its green building policies, LED street

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Rebekah Tang, center, and her daughters Kylie, left, and Kaitlyn sort food donations during a Waypoint Church food bank drive in Santa Barbara on Saturday.

Waypoint Church SB family starts Saturday food drives to help Foodbank

By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

With COVID cases on the rise, the Tang family saw a window of opportunity to help the community: Saturday mornings.

Because Foodbank of Santa Barbara County only accepts donations on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Santa Barbara location and 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Santa Maria, the Tangs decided to keep the ball rolling and allow community members to drop off donations on the weekend.

Chris and Rebekah Tang, along with their daughters, Kaitlyn and Kylie, held a drive-up food drive at Waypoint Church SB, 3942 La Colina Road, from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday to catch those who don’t have time to donate during the week.

“Because of COVID and everything, we thought, ‘What can we do?’” Rebekah Tang told the NewsPress Saturday morning. “The thing is that the food bank is closed on the weekends, but they always need something. They always need food.”

As the women’s minister for Waypoint Church SB, along with her husband who’s the minister, the Tangs typically hold a service day for the Please see food drives on A3

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Local winemaker receives top award Alma Rosa winemaker named 2020 Winemaker of the Year

By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Food donations displayed during the Waypoint Church food bank drive in Santa Barbara.

Another Santa Barbara County winemaker has been recognized as 2020 Winemaker of the Year — this time representing Buellton.

Tony Biagi, consulting winemaker for Alma Rosa Winery, a leading producer from the Sta. Rita Hills, was named 2020 Winemaker of the Year by Antonio Galloni, founder of Vinous Media.

Mr. Biagi built his career consulting some of the top wineries in Napa and Sonoma, and co-owns Hourglass and Patria wines. His clients have included Clos du Val, Sinegal, Amici,

Lasseter and The Vineyardist.

“Tony Biagi is not only gifted as a winemaker, he also has a talent for mentoring young, emerging winemakers,” Mr. Galloni said.

“Biagi has provided guidance, but always pushed his protégés into the spotlight and given them all the credit. In today’s world, that is exceedingly rare.

“In a relatively new role as winemaker at The Vineyardist, Biagi has ushered in small but noticeable refinements to wines that were already superb.”

Alma Rosa Winery makes wines that are emblematic of the Sta. Rita Hills’ special terroir, which Please see winemaker on A7

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“The City of Goleta is honored to be recognized for promoting sustainability in our local government operations and in the community,” Goleta Mayor Paula Perotte said in a statement. “We are fortunate to have outstanding City staff who are dedicated to delivering on our sustainability commitments.

“We envision our current and future city to be a cleaner, greener Goleta for all residents, and we will continue to strive today and tomorrow for a better future.”

Goleta’s sustainability coordinator added that the city hopes to learn from other cities across the country to promote “a more equitable and sustainable community.”

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Santa Barbara County reports three Forest Service extends Chuck’s new COVID-19 deaths, 612 new cases Waterfront Grill state-wide campsite and Endless Summer Bar and picnic area closures Cafe close permanently

By MITCHELL WHITE

NEWS-PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department reported three additional COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, bringing the total number of deaths associated with the virus to 231.WHITTLE CHRISTIAN All three were 70 or older. Two WS-PRESS STAFFdecedents WRITER had underlying health conditions and lived in Santa Maria, and one was the citywill reDeveloped recreation sites infrom California of Santa Barbara. None of the deaths were inassociated closed through May 15 at after the USDA Forwith outbreaks a congregate Service issued an order extending the closures facility, officials said. ursday.

Some 612 new cases were reported on The order was issuedthe forcounty’s the entire Pacific SouthSaturday, bringing total number confirmed 24,149. OfForests, those, 2,811 stofRegion and cases its 18toNational which inremain active. des the Los Padres National Forest.

The city of Santa Maria reported 192 new The initial closure order went into effect March 26 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, bringing its total d was set to expire April 30. to 8,547. Of those, 858 remain active. t applied to of recreational use reported areas such asnew campThe city Santa Barbara 113 unds, day use sites and picnic areas. cases, and now has 4,163 total cases, including The was issued to discourage large gather659order that remain active. s of people and promote safe social distancing of ying more than six feet apart. n the Santa Barbara Ranger District, 12 campunds and picnic areas will remain closed, includthe Fremont campground and White Rock and d Rock picnic areas.

The order Thursday does not add to the closures eady in place for Santa Barbara. While other arlike the Monterey Ranger District have closed ilheads and forest roads, locals will still have acs to the many Santa Ynez Valley and Santa Bar-

As of Saturday, Santa Barbara County’s The city of Lompoc reported 51 new cases.

ICU availability was at 5.9%. The Southern The city now has 2,467 total cases, 273 of which California region’s ICU availability remains at remain active.

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Other totals from Saturday included: Orcutt, The public health department issued an 36 new cases (1,325 total, 161 active); South update on its vaccination efforts on Saturday, County unincorporated area of Montecito, estimating that more than 32,000 residents Summerland and city of Carpinteria, 34 qualify for By theJOSH first vaccine new cases (894 total, 183 active); city of roads.

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On the morning of April 30 the wa- only the four, five-year options remaining, with an County vaccine-specific information, Casmalia, Garey, Cuyama, New Cuyama, and est Service spokesman. terfront restaurant its closure with a fare- average seasonally adjusted base rent of $23,585 per the department created a new announced email the city Guadalupe, 23 new cases (954 total, “Weof just want to make sure if people go out they’re well post on its Instagram account. subscriber list.

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Crews will work on temporary safety pavement for new lanes and ramps near widening project in Carpinteria.

NICK MASUDA NEWS-PRESS barriers, replace damaged guardrail, fence Reynolds Avenue.

Crews/will also pourGRAPHIC From 9 p.m. tonight to 5 a.m. Monday, one environmentally-sensitive areas, remove concrete for improvements at the intersection northbound lane will be closed from Bailard old cormorant nests and install “visual of Carpinteria and Reynolds avenues. Crews Avenue to North Padaro Lane. The closure deterrents to encourage nesting outside of the will be finishing up activities so ramps can will also include the onramps and offramps at construction zone, and install underground reopen later this month, at which point work South Padaro and Santa Claus lanes. Similar storm drains,� officials said. will progress to the southbound offramp at intermittent overnight closures are planned Crews will also continue excavating near Carpinteria Avenue. Crews will begin clearing Monday through Thursday, according to the Sheffield Drive interchange and installing vegetation on the northbound side for the next Caltrans officials. shoring piles to support the construction zone. stage of work.

From 10 p.m. tonight to 7 a.m. Monday, one In addition, work on the side support for the southbound lane will be closed from Santa Work continues on the bridge supports at new southbound bridge and retaining walls Claus Lane to Linden Avenue. The closure will Franklin and Santa Moncia creeks. will continue. also include the offramps at South Padaro and Work is also continuing along southbound Work is also ongoing for the Evans Avenue Santa Claus lanes.

101 between Carpinteria and Santa Ynez undercrossing. This includes removal of an From 8 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. Monday through avenues. Crews will excavate and install old utility line and continued excavation and Friday, one southbound lane will be closed underground supports for new wall sections, installation of underground supports between from Sheffield Drive to Linden Avenue, as well and work will then progress to building the WS-PRESS STAFF REPORT the 101 bridges for the new upcoming bridge. as the onramps and offramps at Evans and wall footings and rebar installation.

Daytime noise is expected over the next two Wallace avenues.

Crews will also be paving the southbound n aThe dramatic change after a weeks. southbound onramp at Sheffield Drive areas between the freeway lanes and ramps Over the next five weeks, in compliance with near Bailard Avenue. On Via Real near the will be closed the duration dnesday night for memo from theof the project, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife mobile home parks, crews will repave roadway with anPolice anticipated reopening ifornia Chiefs Associa-date set for requirements related to bird nesting, crews The offramp at Sheffield areas and remove an existing bump on the n 2023. indicated that Gov. NewsomDrive will be closed for up toall 16 beaches months and roadway. Flaggers will direct traffic as needed. uld be closing andcould reopen by will undertake pre-construction work to clear trees and vegetation so that construction can the end of 2021.

A landscaping contractor is working on te parks, the governor indicated begin on the Padaro segment of the project.

The onramp and offramp at Reynolds new irrigation lines and is planting along t Avenue only beaches Orange will beinclosed upCounty to 16 weeks, but could The project will add a new, third freeway lane southbound Highway 101 between Linden uld be suffering thatoffate. reopen by the end the month. The offramp in each direction and new bridges over Toro Avenue and Casitas Pass Road.

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Feb. 1 after a student tested positive for COVID-19. wsom The announcement was made Wednesday in a message posted to Facebook by district Superintendent Scott Cory. “This student was on campus, not symptomatic, for two anta Barbara County, days of in-person instruction,� Mr. Cory said. “As a result y ofthe numbers the number of staff exposures that occurred, it is not possible effectively coverPubthe classrooms of impacted The Santato Barbara County staff that are required to quarantine for fourteen days KENNETH SONG / NEWS-PRESS Health Department announced per confirmed the protocol set forth by SantaThe Barbara County weather willPublic be sunny and in the 70s this weekend along the South Coast. new COVID-19 cases

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Thursday, bringing the county’s “All staff and students that were in close contact with the are confirmed COVID-19 positive. alaffected to 495. student have been notified.� er than in person.

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In-person instruction will not resume until Feb. 2. All * 153 are acute care patients; 220 quire hospital admission. wathletic just 75. conditioning sessions are canceled via email.for the same KENNETH SONG / NEWS-PRESS Adults who wish to be married acute care beds remain available. time period, Mr. Cory said.

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A sign points to the entrance for a Waypoint Church food bank drive in Santa Barbara on Saturday.

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community in January, and saw a need for food.

“If this is good, we’re planning on doing it every month, because I think the weekends are kind of better for people,” Mrs. Tang said. “It (the food bank) is only open from 8 to 3, so even if they’re working from home, that’s kind of tough, especially with kids in school.

“So we’re hoping this will be just a simple thing to support the community.”

On Saturday, about two dozen residents donated to the food

drive.

All donors have to do is drive up to the table in front of the church and hand their bags to the Tang family.

Acceptable food donations are the same as the food bank’s recommendations, including: whole grains, such as brown or wild rice, whole grain cereals, whole grain breads, whole wheat or brown rice flour, quinoa, buckwheat, barley, cornmeal and corn or whole wheat tortillas; canned, low-sodium soups, stews, chili and canned tuna or salmon; plant-based proteins, such as peanuts, almonds, nuts, nut butters, dried lentils, beans or peas, canned black beans, kidney beans, garbanzo

beans, low-sodium vegetarian chili, sunflower, pumpkin or sesame seeds; canned fruits and vegetables, fruit juice or water or dried fruit; fresh produce; and/or coffee/tea, dried spices and olive or organic canola oils. Donors can also make monetary donations on the website.

The Tangs will then deliver the food to the Foodbank on Tuesday after Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Foodbank volunteers and staff will distribute it accordingly.

“I think that there’s a lot of food insecurity, even in a very fancy place like Santa Barbara,” Mrs. Tang said. “I work with students at UCSB and they are still struggling with food. It’s not like rent has gotten cheaper or anything has

changed.

“I think this is a practical way to really support our neighborhood and show love to our neighbors, and whether people say that they need it or not, the fact that it’s going to be available is good.

That’s our goal.”

She added that COVID-19 restrictions make it difficult to help in the ways they typically do, such as going door-to-door.

“There’s so many things we want to do, but at least this will provide the locations food so people can get food,” Mrs. Tang said. “I hope this will at least bring some encouragement to the neighborhoods. That will be the end goal for me.”

To learn more about the Foodbank and ways to donate, visit foodbanksbc.org. To learn more about Waypoint Church SB, visit waypointsb.com. email: gmccormick@newspress.com

SANTA BARBARA — Local nonprofit Mental Wellness Center has announced that Julie Kessler Solomon has been named new chair of the board, while also announcing the addition of two other board members.

Ms. Kessler Solomon, a former marketing executive, is a realtor with Compass in Santa Barbara.

Through her work with the National Alliance for Mental Health Santa Barbara chapter, she developed a passion about improving the conditions for mental health in the community.

During her time with NAMI, she taught in its Family to Family program for seven years, according to a news release.

Ms. Kessler Solomon is on the NAMI steering and public policy committees. She has also held board leadership positions with Phoenix of Santa Barbara, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and Women’s Economic Ventures. She also has served as a planning commissioner for the city of Goleta and as a member of the Santa Barbara Human Services Commission. She is also a current member of the Santa Barbara Women’s Fund, according to a news release.

“This is a pivotal moment for mental health; never before has there been such strong recognition of the value good mental health plays in the vitality of our community,” Ms. Kessler Solomon said in a news release. “The Mental Wellness Center provides a completely unique array of resources; outreach, education, advocacy, housing — and on a daily basis — meals for those who would otherwise go without.

“We have an outstanding staff and board and look forward to increasing and extending our services to younger people as one of our principal goals for 2021.”

In addition, Eric Jackson and LaRisa Chambers will be joining the center’s board of directors.

Mr. Jackson is a UCSB graduate and holds an MBA from the University of La Verne with an emphasis in information technology. He works in the software industry and teaches technology courses at the Santa Barbara City College School of Extended Learning.

Ms. Chambers moved to Santa Barbara last year and serves as

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From top, LaRisa Chambers, Eric Jackson and Julie Kessler Solomon

the senior gift officer for Cottage Health. She graduated from the University of Kansas and worked for the American Cancer Society and KU Endowment. While living in Lawrence, Kansas, she served on many nonprofit and community boards, including the Endowment Board of the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center.

The Mental Wellness Center is a nonprofit organization that works to raise awareness around mental health by providing supportive programming, education, and housing in Santa Barbara.

To learn more about the Mental Wellness Center, visit mentalwellnesscenter.org.

For questions or to donate to the Mental Wellness Center, please contact Amanda Conroy, Development & Marketing Director, at aconroy@ mentalwellnesscenter.org.

— Mitchell White

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New Beginnings to offer clinical training SANTA BARBARA — New Beginnings Counseling Center, in partnership with the UCSB Counseling and Psychological Services, is offering clinical training from via Zoom next month.

The training, set for 10 a.m. to noon on Feb. 8, will feature Sherisa Dahlgren, LMFT. The session, titled “Secondary Trauma Street: Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout in the Mental Health Setting,” is $40 and meets the requirements for two hours of continuing education for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, LCSWs, and psychologists.

To purchase a ticket to attend, visit https://bit. ly/38Hy3HG. The training is designed for professionals in the helping professions who may encounter high levels of exposure to trauma in their day-to-day work.

The workshop aims to analyze the various forms of secondary traumatic stress, such as vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout, and explore ways to prevent over-exposure while optimizing each professional’s health and well-being. Participants will also learn how to identify signs and symptoms of secondary trauma stress, learn preventative measures for mitigating risk to trauma exposure in the workplace, and much more.

“Now more than ever, our community’s mental health and social work professionals are susceptible to secondary traumatic stress,” Paula Strauss, interim clinical director, said in a statement.

“Learning how to more effectively process the trauma experienced during client encounters will help mental health and social work professionals improve their own mental health, as well as the level of care they can provide to their clients.”

Ms. Dahlgren is an innovative creator of evidenced informed holistic treatment modalities for PTSD. She holds specific expertise in integrating arts and holistic modalities into the healing of primary and secondary trauma. Through her consulting firm, Inherent Wellbeing, she provides experiential training on wellness strategies to address vicarious trauma, serves as interim executive capacity for organizations in transition, designs and implements resiliency based clinical approaches to PTSD,

and creates sustainable work practices in underresourced environments.

— Mitchell White

Applications available for permits to sell safe and sane fireworks LOMPOC — The Lompoc City Fire Department has started accepting applications from qualified Lompoc-based nonprofit groups to be entered into this year’s lottery for an opportunity to sell safe and sane fireworks.

Permits to sell the fireworks will be limited to six sale stands and locations in the city. Permits will be issued only to organizations and established nonprofits within city limits. All qualified groups will be selected by lottery, with first priority given to new applicants, according to a news release.

Applications are available on the city’s website, www. cityoflompoc.com. Hard copies are also available at Lompoc Fire Station No. 1, at 115 S. G St. From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. If an organization elects to submit a hard-copy application, it must be picked up in-person by an adult representative of the applying organization, officials said.

Applications must be filed by 5 p.m. on Feb. 1. Applicants will be notified by Feb. 15 if their application did not meet the requirements for consideration.

The lottery for determining which qualifying nonprofit organizations will receive firework sale permits is set to take place on Feb. 25. All nonprofit organizations whose applications have been selected will have until March 31 to submit the required information.

Nonprofit groups granted a permit in 2020 are not typically eligible for the 2021 lottery, but can still apply. Last year’s nonprofit groups will be considered for an alternate position and entered into the lottery in the event there are fewer than six new applicants accepted and approved.

Questions from the public about the process may be directed to 805-875-8063.

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2021

MAYNEZ, Robert Ayala & Alice Charlene (Kirkwood)

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God Rest in Peace. Amen It pains our family beyond natural understanding to announce the passing of our Beautiful Parents, Alice Charlene Maynez (Kirkwood) and Robert Ayala Maynez.

Joined in marriage of 65 years and ever so deeply in love, neither one could bear to be apart from the other.

Now they are eternally together, hand in hand, bathed in the everlasting Light of Love and Grace.

They are survived by their Daughter Ana Marie (Danny), Son Robert Jr., Son David (Ana), Son Joseph, and Son Michael John, as well as their 13 grandchildren, 17 greatgrandchildren, and 4 great-great-grandchildren.

They had a tremendous impact on all those that loved them and whom they loved.

They will forever be missed and never be forgotten.

We love and Miss you Mom & Dad, Grandma & Papa A private family memorial will be held for Alice and Robert on a later date TBD

WENDEL, Frederick Richard

Alfred Daniel Eliason (07/26/1934 – 12/28/2020) last of his generation, was the youngest of three brothers. A firstgeneration American, he was born in Mount Kisco, to a Swedish family recently settled in Bedford, New York.

Family and friends describe him as a “gentleman’s gentleman.” He was a gracious host who delighted in making family and friends feel welcome. Friends remember his consistently kind nature, intelligence, and good humor.

A steadfast provider, Dan was deeply devoted to his family. He was also dedicated to his work at Raytheon which spanned over 25 years, with specialization in radar guidance systems. He travelled domestically and internationally for work and pleasure.

After moving out West, it remained a lifelong priority for him to keep close contact with his family on the East Coast, taking his wife and children to visit whenever possible.

Alfred Daniel Eliason is survived by his wife of 62 years, Bette J. Eliason; son Alfred Daniel Eliason Jr, who resides in France with his wife, Tanya Renee Monier, their children, Dima Anneliese and Antonia Maurine; daughter Christina Lauranne Eliason, who lives with her husband, Richard Lloyd, in Santa Barbara; as well as his beloved nieces, nephews, and family on the East Coast.

SIMONSEN, Donald Lynn June 8, 1947 - December 28, 2020

After a brief battle with bile duct cancer, our beloved Lynn entered his heavenly home on December 28th. Donald Lynn Simonsen was born on June 8, 1947 to Donald Abbott Simonsen and Frances M. Simonsen in Glendale, CA. He grew up in La Canada, graduating from La Canada high school in 1965. He attended Biola University, graduating in 1969. While there, he fell in love with Carol Jean Brunner. They married in 1969. They moved to Santa Barbara, where they raised their four children: Andrew, Corie, Stacey, and Robert. They were active members of St. Athanasius Orthodox Church and Lynn formed many dear and lasting friendships there. Sadly, Carol’s life on earth ended in 1991.

Lynn was a real estate developer and home builder, and he worked with his father for many years. He moved to Santa Maria in 1993 to manage their Guadalupe project. In 1994 he met Joan Gross at a YMCA aerobics class. They were married in 1996 and Lynn became stepdad to Erica and Christoph Gross. Lynn and Joan became active in Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Orcutt.

Lynn had a great sense of humor and always made me laugh. He was an avid reader and very knowledgeable, but he was quiet and humble. He would rather hear your opinions than share his. He loved playing golf and looked forward to days with his golf buddies. After he retired he became quite a good cook. But more than anything, Lynn loved spending time with his family. The best days were holidays and birthdays spent with his family. As one friend said to me, “If there were more Lynns in the world, the world would be a better place.” He was the love of my life, and I will cherish my memories of him forever.

Lynn was preceded in death by his father Donald. He is survived by his mother Frances, his wife Joan, his brother Daniel (Jody), along with his children Andrew Simonsen (Alyssa), Corie Sieck (Brian), Stacey Newman, Robert Simonsen (Leah), Erica Kerrin (Steve), and Christoph Gross. He is also survived by nine grandchildren and one greatgranddaughter. A memory garden in Lynn’s honor will be established at Gloria Dei. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: Gloria Dei Lutheran Church 4380 Orcutt Rd. Orcutt, CA 93455 Please write “memory garden” on the memo line Due to covid, there will be a small family celebration of life for Lynn at Gloria Dei on January 23. It will be available for viewing shortly thereafter on the church’s website at gloria-dei-elcasm.org

SULLINS, Betty Betty Ann (Cooper) Sullins, 94, went home to be with the Lord December 28, 2020. She was born July 28, 1926 in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Earl W. and Jessie L. (Rogers) Cooper. Betty had one sister, Ellen, who was five years older than her, who died in 1996.

Betty graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1944, while also dutifully employed at the Civil Service Commission. This was during the war in 1942 when Betty, being only 16, attended school from 8am-12pm and then reported at 2pm to work until 5pm in downtown Washington, DC. Many evenings and weekends she loved to work alongside her father in the family business of Cooper & Cooper Professional Stenographers. She worked in several positions at agencies of the federal government, including the Navy for the Journal of Medicine and for the FDA in the Food Division.

Meanwhile she took additional work part-time with the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (AOAC Intl.). She took great pride in her final government job at GSA where in Payroll she made sure 26,000 employees got paid on time, before retiring after 27 years at the age of 55. Betty went on to be Operations Manager of the kitchen at Florida Bible College, then worked as a secretary at Columbia Bible College, putting her daughters through their college education. In essence she never stopped working as she found many ways to organize, assist and work until her death. She modeled to all a great work ethic with an enthusiastic attitude.

In 1946 Betty married Van Buren Sullins, who died in 1972. She is survived by six children: James “Jim” Sullins, Donald “Paul” Sullins, David Sullins, Patricia Larson, Steve Sullins, and Laura Rajavuori, and 12 grandchildren.

Betty had a passion for helping missionaries around the world. In 1991 she started Mission Nannys, an organization that focuses on sending people to help with missionary children’s education and their domestic responsibilities to enable them to focus on the mission work. Over 26 years Mission Nannys sent 300 people and it is still in operation today. She was always very involved in her church throughout her lifetime, including running children’s church programs and the church library that included sending 720 boxes of books overseas to help schools. She penned and published her own book, Mission Nannys (Christian Faith Publishing: June 2020. Available on Amazon.). She participated as a missionary herself by serving as a Team Leader for Teen Missions International on four different summer teams. Betty lived out JOY (Jesus, Others,Yourself) in that order. She loved to help others and organize projects, often with a pun and a laugh. Her children all knew her as a loving, dedicated and sacrificial mom. She loved spending time with family, especially making time to spend with her grandchildren. Betty has left an indelible imprint with all fortunate enough to have crossed her path. She will be greatly missed.

Interment will be by private ceremony at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C. A memorial service is planned at Santa Barbara Community Church on July 28, 2021 at 11:00 AM. For more information please contact Laura Rajavuori at bettys.memorial@ reiprop.com.

I was so distraught when the majestic oak died and was taken down two years ago. I had chosen that particular grave site because I knew the grand tree would stand over you, shielding you from the sun in summer months.

Your grave had been marked by Nature herself. Indeed, many’s the time I’d leave a bouquet of acorns, leaves, and bits of the trunk to decorate your stone. Safely secured in its crevices along the upper reaches of the trunk, were the acorns “squirreled away” for the winter months – hundreds of them. And the woodpeckers, I’d marvel to hear them above me, peck-peck-pecking in search of insects.

And then a few months later -- the groundskeeper planted a sapling just where your old oak had stood, a beautifully shaped young tree. As the young oak established herself, I’d bring water every visit, and then trace my fingers along her trunk to feel its texture.

When an invasion of white moths attacked the cemetery last summer, I’d shake the little tree of the moths and pluck off the caterpillars. I won that battle. Our sapling never lost her leaves like the other, older oaks. As suddenly as the invaders had come, they were gone.

Someday I will join you. And then as the oak grows, her roots will entwine this common grave. Her trunk will again provide niches for animals to store the fallen acorns. The branches will host woodpeckers, doves, and the occasional red-tailed hawk.

Love, Celeste

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He served his country in the Air Force Reserve, and spent his career working in defense of his nation with Raytheon conducting vital, secret, military work.

Fond of music and dance, Dan once performed in a local production of “Oklahoma” at the Lobero Theater. Later, he was an active supporter of the newly formed State Street Ballet, and seldom missed an opportunity to pour wine at fundraisers and receptions.

May 20, 1942 – January 17, 1999

Born: 9/21/1925 Fremont, NE. Died: 01/02/2021 Santa Barbara, CA.

ELIASON, Alfred Daniel

Dan graduated from M.I.T., where he was member of the rowing crew and choir. Determined to head West, he stopped to visit a friend in Dallas, Texas, where he met a fashion model, Bette Jean Jarrell. Dan and Bette married in Palo Alto, California in 1959. The couple made their home in California, ultimately settling in Santa Barbara in 1967.

FRANK McCONNELL

FAUSKEE, LaRayne “Penny”

Glamour and Class.

Infinite sass.

When appropriate, kick-your-a**.

Now, raise a glass!

From a young age, Dan learned the building trade from his father, Johan Alfred Eliasson, an accomplished carpenter foreman who built Frank Lloyd Wright homes, among others. Like his father, Dan could build or fix anything, from pouring concrete foundations to crafting fine furniture.

In Memory

Frederick Richard Wendel died at his home in Lander, WY on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 following a lengthy illness. He was born on August 28, 1934 in Santa Barbara to Fred E. Wendel and Laura Louise (Weil). He was a graduate of Santa Barbara High, served in the US Air Force and was a SB County Deputy Sheriff for 25 years. Fred retired and moved to Lander, WY in 1989. He is survived by his wife, Mary (of 62 years), his four children and their families, and his sister, Marion Kirbey and her family. Online condolences can be sent to hudsonsfuneralhome.com

SEBANZ, Robert J.

Robert J. Sebanz, age 92 of Two Rivers, WI peacefully entered eternal life on the evening of Wednesday, January 6th, 2021.

Robert was born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin on June 3, 1928 to Anton and Evelyn (Wiltgen) Sebanz. He completed grade school at St. Luke’s Catholic School and graduated Washington High School (Class of 1946) of Two Rivers; then attended the University of Wisconsin in Manitowoc and graduated from Fond du Lac College. A WWII veteran, Robert served his country as a member of the U.S. Army Ordinance in Japan.

Robert worked for General Motors Defense Electronics Division in Milwaukee, WI – held various financial positions including chief financial manager of the Apollo Guidance Program; then was transferred to the Defense Research Labs in Santa Barbara, California, where he held the position of Director of Pricing and Analysis covering financial management of all Defense and Commercial Programs. This included the F-16 Fire Control System, which entailed assisting in creating a European Co-Producer in Denmark. Later, he was assigned to assist in setting up a joint venture on a classified program in the San Jose area and was subsequently transferred there as financial manager of the joint venture.

He was a member of St. Peter the Fisherman Catholic Parish in Two Rivers; an active member of the VFW and the American Legion in Gulf Shores, AL; and the Two Rivers Elks Lodge #1380, serving as Secretary for many years. He also enjoyed touring the country in a motor home with his wife; wintering in Gulf Shores, AL, where he served as Secretary of the Wisconsin SnoBird Club; and going to Cedar Lake, WI. Robert “Bob” was an avid golfer and bowler; he also enjoyed horseshoes and swimming. He was loved and will be missed deeply.

Besides Mary, his wife of 48 years, he is survived by four daughters: Laura Sebanz, Manitowoc, WI; Victoria (Bryan) Zee, Lancaster, CA; Kathryn (Kevin) Ramer, Cary, NC; and Karen Rudberg, Simi Valley, CA. He is also survived by three stepchildren: Janice Gauthier, Belleville, TX; Judith (John) Parker, Santa Barbara, CA, and James (Barbara) Gauthier, Green Bay, WI. Additional survivors include four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, along with other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Anton and Evelyn Sebanz; sister, Beatrice Malley; and stepdaughter, Kathleen (Al) Reinert.

A private Life Celebration will be held for Bob at a later date.

Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.dejamartin.com.

Deja & Martin Funeral Chapels of Two Rivers, Wisconsin is assisting the Sebanz family with funeral arrangements.

WALKER, Terry

Teresa “Terry” Lee Walker died peacefully December 20, 2020 from Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 77 in the care of Vista Del Monte. She was born July 10, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Edward and Dorothy Lee. Terry was raised within an observant Catholic family along with an older brother, Edward Lee and a younger sister, Christy Lee Wyatt. One of her fondest memories was going to daily Mass with her father from a very young age and she remained a deeply religious person throughout her life.

Upon graduating from High School Terry entered the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart religious order in Santa Barbara, California. She remained there for seven years, graduating from Immaculate Heart College in 1968. While she left the community primarily because of a longing to marry and have children, she was also in the wave of the exodus of the order from the Catholic Church. The Vatican II reforms had encouraged the sisters to enter the world in greater service, which they heartily did. When these new guidelines were then rescinded, they decided not to go backward and ultimately became a lay community.

Terry was profoundly influenced by the integrity, embodied spirituality and devotion to service of this community of women. Those qualities remained a core part of her character for the rest of her life.

Shortly after leaving the order Terry met and married David Walker. They moved to Santa Barbara when Terry was pregnant with her first child, Michele, followed by her second child, Josh. She is survived by her older brother, Edward and younger sister, Christy, her daughter, Michele, son-in-law Chris, and grandsons, Jesse and Sam. She is also survived by her son Josh, daughter-in-law Gretchen and grandchildren Charlie and Maggie. Whatever Terry took on she did 110%; being the best parent and grandparent she knew how to be was a big part of her life and sense of purpose.

Terry had a rich and fulfilling career as both a teacher and a consultant. She loved consulting, especially to the local non-profit community such as La Casa de Maria, the Rape Crises Center, The Adoption Center, to name a few. Teaching was her first passion and a true calling. In her 34-year teaching career she taught elementary, junior high and college level. She taught locally at Marymount School, Vieja Valley Elementary and her last ten years at Main and Aliso Schools in Carpinteria. She took very seriously the idea that it was her job to love, nurture and support the children in her charge to be all they could be. She was cherished by her students as “tough but fair” and remained a child advocate for life.

When Terry retired in 2014, she took up volunteering in the community. She volunteered in the classroom three days a week and mentored young teachers. She ushered at the Granada Theater, and welcomed people off the ships in Santa Barbara Harbor.

She was very involved at her church, Trinity Episcopal, serving on the vestry, stewardship committee, prayer ministry, and all-round welcoming.

Terry was a force of nature, deeply passionate about life, learning, family, and friendship. She was gregarious, welcoming, profoundly generous and giving of herself, her time, her expertise, and her resources. She was a life-long athlete and proudly swam 6 days a week, no matter where she was, ocean, pools, lakes, and upon retirement, at the YMCA. She was always in motion and walked everywhere. Those in her orbit felt lucky to know her and be part of her life. She fulfilled a genuine Ministry of Presence. She showed up . . . always. She was a good and faithful servant and leaves a big space in our hearts. She will be sorely missed.

Saturday, January 30th 2:00 pm Pacific Time. Trinity Episcopal Church will host an online virtual Zoom gathering: Storytelling and Prayers in honor of Terry Walker. Visit the Trinity website for the link to join the service: www.trinitysb.org Current plans are to offer a celebration of life in Terry’s memory after the pandemic restrictions are lifted.

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Maricopa 68/44

Guadalupe 80/48

Santa Maria 81/45

Vandenberg 75/49

New Cuyama 68/40 Ventucopa 73/53

Los Alamos 80/45

Lompoc 72/48 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021

Buellton 78/46

Solvang 78/43

Gaviota 77/48

SANTA BARBARA 76/45 Goleta 78/47

Carpinteria 78/51 Ventura 79/55

AIR QUALITY KEY Good Moderate

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

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Santa Barbara through 6 p.m. yesterday

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

87/42 64/41 87 in 2021 24 in 2007

PRECIPITATION 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest.

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

0.00” 0.00” (1.91”) 1.95” (7.21”)

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

69/44/s 73/41/s 58/26/s 71/38/s 75/61/s 73/49/pc 83/46/s 58/41/c 68/46/s 85/55/s 63/29/s 67/45/pc 71/48/pc 70/46/pc 69/49/pc 82/48/s 79/52/s 84/53/s 87/55/s 76/39/s 70/48/pc 78/52/s 67/50/pc 74/46/pc 83/46/s 80/54/s 55/29/s

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 66/36/pc 70/45/pc 72/44/s 68/45/s 73/45/s 72/42/s 65/47/s 68/55/pc

49/33/pc 44/35/pc 34/25/sn 60/37/s 48/29/s 68/40/s 68/57/pc 27/17/c 44/35/pc 47/32/pc 76/45/s 53/39/pc 35/30/sn 45/29/pc 51/40/c 50/34/pc

POINT ARENA TO POINT PINOS

Wind from the north at 4-8 knots today. Wind waves 1-3 feet with a west swell 3-5 feet at 15-second intervals. Visibility clear.

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO

Wind from the north at 4-8 knots today. Wind waves 1-3 feet with a west swell 3-5 feet at 15-second intervals. Visibility clear.

SANTA BARBARA HARBOR TIDES Date Time High Time Jan. 17 Jan. 18 Jan. 19

12:58 a.m.

11:49 a.m.

1:41 a.m.

12:38 p.m.

2:27 a.m.

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7:25 p.m.

8:39 a.m.

8:01 p.m.

2.3’ 0.1’ 2.3’ 0.7’ 2.2’ 1.2’

AT BRADBURY DAM, LAKE CACHUMA 66/42/pc 69/43/pc 50/19/pc 59/33/s 65/51/pc 73/50/s 74/50/s 61/37/s 67/42/s 73/53/pc 51/25/pc 70/46/s 69/48/s 70/48/s 72/53/s 76/59/pc 72/55/pc 79/54/pc 77/56/pc 73/38/s 70/48/s 70/54/s 71/53/s 73/48/s 75/47/s 70/55/pc 42/22/s

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

Wind west-northwest 4-8 knots today. Waves 2-4 feet with a west-northwest swell 4-8 feet at 16 seconds. Visibility clear.

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LOCAL TEMPS Today Hi/Lo/W 68/40/s 78/47/s 78/46/s 78/47/s 81/45/s 83/47/s 75/49/s 79/55/s

MARINE FORECAST

SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL

50/31/s 44/27/pc 30/18/c 65/51/s 38/19/sf 69/57/pc 73/55/c 22/4/c 45/32/pc 45/31/pc 74/56/s 51/34/c 43/29/c 37/25/pc 47/36/pc 47/31/pc

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 123,709 acre-ft.

Elevation 726.91 ft.

Evaporation (past 24 hours) 15.9 acre-ft.

Inflow 19.8 acre-ft.

State inflow 0.0 acre-ft.

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Gauchos fall to Tritons on road

Gauchos race past UC San Diego, 84-53

By MARK PATTON NEWS-PRESS SENIOR WRITER

UCSB has danced around the Saturday Night Fever of the coronavirus all basketball season. It has lost no games to the opponent named COVID-19.

But this weekend, it also dodged the Saturday Night Fizzle that comes with playing doubleheaders, executing its most complete game of the year to rout UC San Diego 84-53 and sweep their two-game series at the Thunderdome.

“Our guys did as well of a job in the second game of back-to-back games as we have all season,” UCSB coach Joe Pasternack said. “We did a great job of just being mentally locked in, and not worrying about the first game, because the first game means absolutely nothing to the second game.

“Every game has a life of its own.”

The Gauchos (8-3, 4-2 Big West Conference) had enough life in their legs to out-shoot the Tritons (2-3, 0-2) 54.8% to 35.8% and out-rebound them 42-25.

“We know the second game is going to be tougher,” senior guard JaQuori McLaughlin said. “We just wanted to be locked in, watch film, do our stuff right before the game and have everybody ready.”

McLaughlin’s complete game was on display: 11 points on 5-for-6 shooting, six assists and five rebounds in 24 minutes of action. Junior forward Amadou Sow led UCSB with his secondstraight double-double of 14 points and 13 rebounds in just 20 minutes.

“From a rebounding standpoint, that’s where we haven’t been very good, and the past two games we’ve dominated the boards,” Pasternack said. “Amadou has gotten two straight

double-doubles, and in 20 minutes got 13 rebounds. That’s who he has to be.”

But this Saturday Night’s Fever was also a rapture of the deep. UCSB’s bench out-scored San Diego’s 41-28. All 12 Gauchos scored.

“We have a highly competitive environment with a lot of really good players, and practices are really competitive,” Pasternack said.

“Everybody who got a chance to get in tonight did a great job.

“Destin Barnes came into the game and did a really nice job. Josh (PierreLouis) came in and did a really great job. Jay Nagle hadn’t played a lot and he hit two big threes for us. I’m proud of how our whole team responded.”

UCSB actually stumbled at the start, committing three turnovers in the first three minutes. McLaughlin helped his team get its footing, finding Sow on a flash to the basket for a layup. He added a basket of his own on an up-and-under move.

Devearl Ramsey added a threepointer to the early seven-point run, putting the Gauchos ahead 9-6. They never trailed again.

They lobbed passes over San Diego’s zone defense for three alley-oop dunks in as many minutes. Robinson Idehen slammed home the first one. Miles Norris jammed the next two.

Norris added back-to-back threes, scoring all 10 of his points in a matter of less than four minutes to increase UCSB’s lead to 31-13.

Pasternack kept rotating players into the game to keep the defense fresh.

The Gauchos hounded the Tritons into missing 13 of their last 15 shots of the first half. They shot just 25.9% in the first half.

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UCSB’s Amadou Sow goes up for a shot during the Gauchos Saturday win over UC San Diego. Sow finished with his second straight double-double, scoring 14 points and grabbing 13 rebounds.

NFL DIVISIONAL ROUND

Rams sent packing in playoff loss to Green Bay

By MITCHELL WHITE

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Next week’s championship game will be Green Bay’s first at Lambeau since 2007, when it lost to the New York Giants, 23-20, in overtime.

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Green Bay 38, Los Angeles 18

The Green Bay Packers reached the NFC championship game for the fourth time in the last seven seasons with their victory of the Rams on Saturday at Lambeau Field.

As has been the case for the better part of the past decade, the Packers were led by Aaron Rodgers, who will be playing in the NFC championship game at home for the first time in his Hall of Fame-caliber career.

Rodgers threw two touchdowns and also ran for a score in Saturday’s divisional playoff win.

The Packers played in front of nearly 8,500 fans, which included the first paying spectators of the season.

The small pack of cheese heads provided plenty of noise, as the Packers built an early lead for much of the first half.

“It’s special. There’s absolutely nothing like it,” Rodgers said, according to the Associated Press. “We have really missed that part of this experience. To run out of the tunnel tonight with fans was unbelievable.

It’s hard to explain how much the presence means on the field and just having that energy from the crowd.”

Green Bay took a 19-10 advantage into the half, and opened the second half strong. Aaron Jones’ 60-yard scamper set up a rushing touchdown a few plays later to make it a two-score game. The Rams responded, as rookie running back Cam Akers found the end zone on the ensuing drive. Following a successful two-point conversion, the score was 25-18.

Rodgers found Allen Lazard for a 58-yard touchdown reception with 6:52 left to round out the scoring and secure the win.

Rodgers completed 23 of his 36 pass attempts for 296 yards, while Jones ran for 99 yards and a score on 14 carries.

For the Rams, Jared Goff went 21-27 passing for 174 yards and a touchdown. Akers ran for 90 yards and a

A Kansas City victory would mean the game would be hosted at Arrowhead Stadium. email: mwhite@newspress.com

Buffalo 17, Baltimore 3

In the words of the great Chris Berman, “Nobody circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills.”

Those sentiments by the long-time ESPN broadcaster proved true on Saturday night, as Buffalo advanced to the AFC championship game in a rout over Baltimore.

Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen completed 23 of his 37 pass attempts for 206 yards and a touchdown in the victory. Stefon Diggs, who led the NFL in receiving yards in the regular season, pulled in eight passes for 106 yard and a score.

The Ravens moved the ball down the field on their opening drive, though the typically-reliable leg of Justin Tucker proved no match for the swirling winds of upstate New York. Tucker hit the upright on a pair of field goal attempts in the first half, allowing the Bills defense to gain confidence in the process.

The team’s exchanged field goals in the first half, as the score was 3-3 at the break.

Allen found Diggs for a two-yard touchdown with 3:36 left in the third to make it 10-3.

With under a minute to go in the third, Baltimore was knocking on the door to tie the game, but the Bills had other plans.

Taron Johnson intercepted Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson in the end zone, and took the ball 101 yards back for a touchdown to make it 17-3 in favor of Buffalo. The long return tied with George Teague’s 101-yard touchdown in 1993, who was playing for Green Bay against the Detroit Lions.

Jackson suffered a concussion on the final play of the third quarter and did not return.

Tyler Huntley replaced Jackson, and drove Baltimore into the red zone, though Baltimore turned the ball over on downs with 2:41 left.

The Bills will await the winner of the Browns-Chiefs today to find out who they will play next week. If Cleveland wins, the Bills will host the AFC title game.

Today’s Games Cleveland at Kansas City, 12:05 p.m.

The AFC top-seeded Chiefs will look to defend home-field advantage and reach the AFC title game as they square off with a Browns team coming off a 48-37 win at Pittsburgh a week ago, the team’s first playoff victory since 1994.

Patrick Mahomes orchestrated the NFL’s No. 1 overall offense and top passing offense, accompanied by a receiving corps that features an embarrassment of speed with star Tyreek Hill, as well as All-Pro tight end Travis Kelce.

The Browns will look to play the role of spoiler once again as they take on the reigning NFL champions.

Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 3:40 p.m.

Chances are if there is a passing record in question, one of the signal callers involved in this matchup holds it.

Tom Brady and the Bucs will look to defeat Drew Brees and the Saints for the first time this season.

New Orleans got the best of Tampa in the team’s previous two matchups this season, including a 38-3 shellacking at the Bucs home field in Week 9.

Tampa comes into the game winners of five in a row, but it has only beaten one winning team this season.

Brees and the Saints will look to return to the NFC title game in what may be his final playing season.

The winner of this game will visit Green Bay next week for a chance to reach the Super Bowl.

— Mitchell White

The UCSB women’s basketball team squandered a seven-point, fourth-quarter advantage on Saturday, falling to the UC San Diego Tritons, 73-71.

UCSB (2-7 overall, 2-3 in Big West) trailed by eight points at the break, but outscored the hosts 20-9 in the third period to take a three-point lead into the fourth.

Taylor Mole’s jumper with 6:49 remaining gave UCSB a 60-55 advantage. The Tritons (2-1, 2-1 in Big West) would knock down a number of foul shots to draw within one, 60-59, before Doris Jones converted a layup with 4:46 remaining to make it 64-59.

Jones struck again with 3:25 left to make it 66-59, though the lead would not hold.

San Diego’s Sydney Brown nailed a three pointer on the ensuing possession to make it 66-62.

Layla Ybarra-Harvey’s layup with 2:49 left made it 66-64 in favor of UCSB. Anya Choice split a pair from the line with less than two-and-a-half minutes to go to make it 67-64. A layup by Tyla Turner cut the lead to one, though Mole was able to hit from deep to make it 69-66 with 1:27 left.

Turner would convert again on a layup for the Tritons to cut into the lead, but Mole continued to provide the offensive punch. Her layup with 37 seconds left made it 71-68 in favor of UCSB. San Diego’s Aishah Brown made it 71-70, though after a timeout, UCSB’s Danae Miller turned the ball over.

Turner was unable to convert on a jumper, though Brown secured the board and knocked down her first attempt from the line. Tied at 71 with 22 seconds left, Brown would miss the second, but got the offensive board and was able to call a timeout. Turner’s jumper with five seconds left gave the Tritons the lead, 73-71.

Choice’s three-point attempt at the buzzer was no good, allowing San Diego to come away with the win.

UCSB shot 44% from the field, though made just three of its 11 attempts from three-point range.

The Tritons held the rebounding edge, 38-31, though the Gauchos outscored the hosts 38-38 in the paint.

Turner led all scorers with 24 points on 9-18 shooting. She added seven rebounds and five assists.

Parker Montgomery added 14 points, while Brown contributed 12 points and five rebounds off the bench.

For UCSB, Mole led the way with 22 points, making eight of her 10 attempts from the field. She added six rebounds and two steals.

Choice finished with 18 points, while Jones added 13 points and eight rebounds. Miller was held scoreless, missing all five of her shot attempts. She still contributed, however, adding six assists and three steals.

The Gauchos won’t return to play until Jan. 29, when they take on UC Davis. email: mwhite@newspress.com

Warriors overcome cold third quarter, storm back to defeat Cougars

By MITCHELL WHITE NEWS-PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

The Westmont women’s basketball team overcame a cold-shooting third quarter to defeat Azusa Pacific on Saturday, 66-62, at Murchison Gymnasium.

The Warriors (1-1) had been sidelined for five weeks before Saturday’s matchup with the Cougars, though that rust certainly didn’t show in the early going.

After taking an 18-16 lead after the first quarter, Westmont outscored Azusa 18-8 in the second quarter to take a 12-point lead into the break.

The Cougars dominated the third quarter, outscoring the hosts 21-4 in the

period. Wesmont shot just 4.2% from the field in the third, including 11% from distance.

Those woes would not continue, however, as the team bounced back to shoot a scorching 62.5% from the field and 75% from deep to complete the comeback.

Tied at 50, Sydney Brown’s jumper with 6:15 left gave Westmont a two-point lead, 52-50. Moments later, Iyree Jarrett knocked down a triple to make it 55-52, but the Cougars continued to fight.

Laura Pranger’s triple with just under four minutes left brought the score to 5655 in favor of the hosts, before Stefanie Berberabe’s triple with 3:06 left put Westmont ahead 58-55.

Molly Whitmore converted an and-one with 2:33 left, followed by a jumper by Berberabe to make it 60-58.

Kaitlin Larson converted a steal with just under two minutes left, as Jarrett found Berberabe for the layup to make it 62-58. Berberabe added a steal 30 seconds later, taking it the other way and converting another layup to make it a sixpoint game, 64-58.

Kelly Heimburger’s layup for Azusa made it 64-62 with 25 seconds left, but Jarrett was able to calmly knock down a pair at the charity stripe to secure the win.

For the Cougars, Kayla Shaw led the way with 21 points. Pranger added 18 points and 11 rebounds, with Whitmore

The Warriors (1-1) had been sidelined for five weeks before Saturday’s matchup with the Cougars. contributing 13 points in the loss.

For the Warriors, Berberabe finished with 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds to go along with five assists.

Jarrett finished with eight points and nine dimes, while Larson scored five points and grabbed 13 rebounds. Lauren Tsuneishi led the way with 21, all coming from beyond the arc. She made seven of her 16 attempts from downtown in the

game.

As a team, Westmont shot just 30.4% from the field, compared to 42.1% for the Cougars.

The women will be back in action on Jan. 26 when they take on Simpson at Murchison Gymnasium. No fans are allowed due to COVID-19 protocols. email: mwhite@newspress.com

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JANUARY 27, 2021

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Eventually, Goleta Beautiful, a civic organization, obtained rights to the abandoned building which was moved in 1981 to nearby Lake Los Carneros County Park.

The building was rehabilitated, restored and reopened in 1982.

A new train station opened nearby in 1998.

he Goleta Depot, a train station building constructed by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1901, was part of the completion of the Coast Route linking Los Angeles and San Francisco. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the California Register of Historical Resources and is the centerpiece of the South Coast Railroad

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Hearing on the request of Mary O’Gorman, Appellant, to consider Case No. 20APL-00000-00029, an appeal of the Director’s approval of Case No. 19AMD-00000-00013, in compliance with Section 35-182 (Appeals) of Chapter 35.82.080 of the County Land Use and Development Code (LUDC). The project includes a request for an Amendment to Final Development Plan Case No. 15DVP-00000-00003. The Amendment requests the authorization to change the number of tenants in the existing commercial building from three to four tenants, which matches the number of tenants originally approved in the 2016 Final Development Plan, and also includes a change of use, and to be excused from undergrounding the existing overhead fiber optic line fronting the project site along Turnpike Road as authorized by Board Resolution 87-344.

No exterior changes or expansion in footprint/square footage of the commercial building will occur.

The increase from three to four tenants will be achieved by bifurcating ground floor Suite 102 (2,513 gross square feet), which is currently designated for professional office use. Ground floor Suite 102 revised square footage will total 1,301 gross square feet and the newly created ground floor Suite 103 will total 1,212 gross square feet. The proposed change of use would designate ground floor Suite 102 for food service use and ground floor Suite 103 for medical professional. No changes will occur to existing ground floor Suite 101 (2,020 gross square foot Starbucks coffee shop) and existing second floor Suite 201 (4,087 gross square foot office professional).

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Access will be provided off of Calle Real. The property is a 0.67-acre parcel zoned C-2 and shown as Assessor’s Parcel Number 067-230-032, located at 4791 Calle Real in the Eastern Goleta Valley Community Plan Area, Second Supervisorial District.

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Pasternack: Second half was ‘our best half of the year defensively’ UCSB

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San Diego made just 2-of-14 three-pointers during the first half.

“It was our best half of the year defensively,” Pasternack said. “They do a great job — he’s a very good coach. They shoot the ball, and the three-point shot is a great equalizer, but I thought we did a really great job of challenging their threes.”

UCSB hit a pair of threes in the last minute of the first half alone. Nagle’s buzzer-beating bomb gave it a 42-18 lead. Ten Gauchos scored in the first half, leading to shooting percentages of 57.1% overall and 46.2% from three. UCSB also doubledup San Diego in first-half rebounds, 22-11.

The Gauchos missed their first three shots of the second half but then made six of their next seven. Sow rebounded the lone miss for a putback as the margin grew to 28 points with 15:37

Santa Barbara sets another record-high The scorching temperatures certainly didn’t subside on Saturday.

For the second-time in the past three days, the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport reached record-breaking heat. A high of 87 degrees was recorded at

still remaining.

UCSB drove a stake into the Tritons in the following minutes, surging to a 68-35 lead on scoring drives by Barnes, McLaughlin, Sanni, Sow, and two in a row by Pierre-Louis.

Pierre-Louis, who sat out the Cal State Fullerton double-header with a foot injury, made all six of his shots and scored 10 of his 12 points in the second half.

“Josh has been hurt and we made an effort to get him better,” Pasternack said. “He was hurt in the Irvine games and wasn’t himself. Sitting out a couple of weeks really helped get him back going.”

Pierre-Louis put a stamp on the rout with a rousing, driving dunk in the closing seconds. But Pasternack said the “mental to the physical was four to one” during Saturday’s romp.

“That’s a coach (Bobby) Knight phrase,” said the Gaucho coach, who served as a student manager for Knight at Indiana. “We really believe in that because this isn’t about physical right now.

“This was about what was going to be our mental approach to the game.” email: mpatton@newspress.com

the local airport, breaking the previous record of 84 degrees set in 2014, according to the National Weather Service in Oxnard.

Santa Barbara broke its daily high on Thursday and tied its daily record-high on Friday, as Southern California continued to feel the brunt of the recent heatwave.

Multiple records were set on Saturday, including: downtown Los Angeles, 93 degrees (breaks

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JaQuori McLaughlin, right, drives to the basket as Amadou Sow trails.

McLaughlin finished with 11 points, six assists and five rebounds in 24 minutes of action.

the record of 86 degrees set in 1976); Camarillo, 93 degrees (previous record was 87 degrees set in 1961); the Oxnard weather service office, 89 degrees (previous record was 86 degrees set in 1961); and Woodland Hills, 86 degrees (previous record was 85 degrees set in 2011).

Today’s high is forecast for 84 degrees, which could reach the record of 85 degrees set in 2014.

A cool down is expected early

next week, with conditions in the mid 70s, according to the weather service.

A high surf advisory will be in place through 10 p.m.

Tuesday for South Coast beaches, as waves set up to 9 feet are possible on Monday.

The largest surf is expected across exposed west-facing beaches, according to the weather service.

— Mitchell White

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One of the events of Underwater Parks Day included a virtual animal encounter and tour of the Sea Center, where viewers joined the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s Lead Aquarist, Nora Frank, as she fed the “Channel Tank” at the Sea Center.

Sea Center holds virtual Underwater Park Day celebrating marine protected areas

By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Community members of all ages were called to virtually celebrate Underwater Parks Day, learning about marine protected areas and their importance in Santa Barbara’s ocean waters.

The purpose of MPAs is to protect and restore biodiversity, conserve historical artifacts and allow protected habitats for feeding, mating and spawning.

One of the events of Underwater Parks Day included a virtual animal encounter and tour of the Sea Center, where viewers joined the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s Lead Aquarist, Nora Frank, as she fed the “Channel Tank” at the Sea Center.

The Channel Tank represents all the local animals that can be found along Santa Barbara’s coast line, the Channel Islands and within the channel.

Aquarists feed the fish three times a week with clams, squid and mackerel. The tank holds 1,200 gallons and holds 13 local fish species.

“One of my favorite species in here is the Garibaldi, the bright orange traffic cone with fins,” Ms. Frank said. “That is the California State Marine Fish.

They’re pretty easy to spot.”

Sea Center aquarists and marine scientists highlighted the local animals that have been found in Santa Barbara’s MPAs, including: Horn Sharks, Swell Sharks, California Spiny Lobsters, Giant Sea Bass, Blacksmith, Kelp Bass, Anemones, Purple Sea Urchins, Endangered White Abalone, California Scorpionfish, Giant Kelpfish, Opaleye, Moon Jellies, Rockfish, California Moray Eel, Red Rock Shrimp, Two-Spot Octopus, Eccentric Sand Dollar, Spanish Shawl, Nudibranch, Blue-Banded Goby and more.

Viewers were able to submit questions to Ms. Frank as she fed the animals.

Other events within the celebration included an informative video on the importance of MPAs; a pledge to protect the MPAs with an ocean-themed reusable canvas tote filled with beach cleanup supplies; an art project about the Garibaldi; takeout from Rincon Brewery and a virtual dive into local underwater marine parks with Santa Barbara Channelkeeper; and an Art Meets Science workshop.

To learn more about the Sea Center and local marine life, visit https://sbnature.org/visit/sea-center/. email: gmccormick@newspress.com

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The winery was founded in 2005

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by Bob and Barb Zorich in 2014.

The founders opened a tasting room in the heart of Buellton and assembled an industry-leading management and winemaking team, with the long-term vision of elevating the winery and estate to express the best of the appellation.

They have also developed 38 acres of vineyards across five noncontiguous sites on their 628-acre estate. The first wines from the new vineyard were produced from the 2019 vintage.

“We believe the Sta. Rita Hills, and particularly Alma Rosa’s estate, will one day be recognized among a select few spots in the world capable of producing truly great Chardonnay and Pinot Noir,” Mr. Zorich said in a statement.

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“We found that even quite small cities and towns can take meaningful action to cut energy waste and reduce carbon emissions,” David Ribeiro, director of local policy at ACEEE, said in a statement. “A number of critical tools to fight climate change — and to do so in an equitable way — are things that have to be set locally. From the largest cities to the smallest ones, they’re all going to need to step up further.

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Hearing – To consider a Petition for a Regular Variance from District Rule 206, Part 70 Permit to Operate 15136, Conditions 9.C.2.b.iv and 9.C.2.b., submitted on November 19, 2020, for the enclosed ground are.

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The current enclosed ground are is required to operate at all times when landďŹ ll gas is routed to the are system. In addition, the enclosed ground are is not allowed downtime in excess of one hour. After experiencing a breakdown exceeding one hour, the Petitioner requested Variance coverage until the equipment ceases operation due to new control equipment being brought online.

The Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) will be receiving comments on the 2021 Federal Transportation Improvement Program (FTIP) at a public hearing scheduled for:

The Petitioner operates the equipment described in the Petition at the Tajiguas LandďŹ ll located approximately 26 miles west of the City of Santa Barbara. The Regular Variance, if granted, will allow the Petitioner enforcement relief from February 3, 2021 through June 30, 2021, or the date the equipment ceases operation, whichever occurs ďŹ rst. The maximum estimated excess emissions from the granting of this Variance are 30.19 lbs/hr.

Date: Time: Location:

Interim Variance Order 2020-19-I was granted on December 10, 2020, by Hearing Board Member Terence Dressler. Said order remains in effect from November 19, 2020 through February 16, 2021, or the date a decision is made on the Regular Variance, or the date the equipment ceases operation, whichever occurs ďŹ rst.

Case No. 2021-01-RE (Permit Revocation) –

California Asphalt Production, Inc.; a California Corporation 1660 Sinton Road Santa Maria, CA 93458

Hearing – To consider a petition by the Air Pollution Control OfďŹ cer of the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District submitted on January 12, 2021, for issuance of an Order of Revocation for Permit to Operate 8259-R11, Permit to Operate 11651-R4, Permit to Operate 15241, Permit to Operate 15361, and Authority to Construct 15342 pursuant to Health and Safety Code sections 42307 and 42309(e)(4).

California Asphalt Production, Inc. is the holder of said permits to operate and authority to construct of the air pollution emitting equipment located at 1660 Sinton Road, Santa Maria, CA 93458. Respondent has failed to pay properly assessed fees and penalties pursuant to state law and District Rule 210.V(A)(1) and (2).

Case No. 2020-04-R (Regular Variance) –

Beacon West Energy Group, LLC 1145 Eugenia Place #101 Carpinteria, CA 93013

Hearing – To consider a Petition for a Regular Variance from District Rules 331 and 206, Part 70 Permit to Operate 9109-R4, Conditions 9.C.1.b.v, 9.C.1.b.vi, 9.C.1.b.vii, 9.C.1.c.i, 9.C.2, 9.C.14, and 9.C.15, submitted on January 8, 2021, for maintenance, monitoring and source testing requirements.

The Petitioner recently assumed oversight of Platform Houchin operations after being abandoned for approximately 1 year. As a result, the conditions on the Platform have signiďŹ cantly deteriorated creating an unsafe work environment. The Platform is not operational and is idle at this time, awaiting Platform decommissioning.

Due to the unsafe work condition and/or inoperable equipment, the Petitioner is unable to conduct required maintenance, monitoring and source testing as required. As a result, the Petitioner requested variance coverage.

The Petitioner operates the equipment described in the Petition at Platform Houchin, located on offshore lease tract OCS-P-166, approximately 7 miles southeast from the City of Santa Barbara. The Regular Variance, if granted, will allow the Petitioner enforcement relief from the date the decision is made on the Regular Variance, through January 7, 2022 or the date compliance is achieved, whichever occurs ďŹ rst.

At this time, excess emissions with the granting of this variance are unknown.

As of the date of this publication, Interim Variance Order 2021-02-I has not yet been heard. However, if granted, said order would remain in effect from January 8, 2021 through April 7, 2021, or the date a decision is made on this Regular Variance, or the date compliance is achieved whichever occurs ďŹ rst.

Case No. 2020-05-R (Regular Variance) –

Beacon West Energy Group, LLC 1145 Eugenia Place #101 Carpinteria, CA 93013

Hearing – To consider a Petition for a Regular Variance from District Rules 331 and 206, Part 70 Permit to Operate 9108-R4, Conditions 9.C.1.b.v, 9.C.1.b.vi, 9.C.1.b.vii, 9.C.1.c.i, 9.C.2, 9.C.14, and 9.C.15, submitted on January 8, 2021, for maintenance, monitoring and source testing requirements.

The Petitioner recently assumed oversight of Platform Hogan operations after being abandoned for approximately 1 year. As a result, the conditions on the Platform have signiďŹ cantly deteriorated creating an unsafe work environment. The Platform is not operational and idle at this time, awaiting Platform decommissioning.

Due to the unsafe work condition and/or inoperable equipment, the Petitioner is unable to conduct required maintenance, monitoring and source testing as required. As a result, the Petitioner requested variance coverage.

The Petitioner operates the equipment described in the Petition at Platform Hogan, located on offshore lease tract OCS-P-166, approximately 8 miles southeast from the City of Santa Barbara. The Regular Variance, if granted, will allow the Petitioner enforcement relief from the date the decision is made on the Regular Variance, through January 7, 2022, or the date compliance is achieved, whichever occurs ďŹ rst. At this time, excess emissions with the granting of this variance are unknown.

As of the date of this publication, Interim Variance Order 2021-03-I has not yet been heard. However, if granted, said order would remain in effect from January 8, 2021 through April 7, 2021, or the date a decision is made on the Regular Variance, or the date compliance is achieved, whichever occurs ďŹ rst.

Said Petitions are on ďŹ le with the Clerk of the APCD Hearing Board and available for public inspection.

Interested persons may submit written evidence, arguments concerning this matter, or make arrangements to view said Petitions before the hearing by contacting the Hearing Board Clerk at: variance@sbcapcd.org, or 260 North San Antonio Rd., Suite A, Santa Barbara, California 93110.

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The FTIP identifies federally funded surface transportation projects in Santa Barbara County that are proposed for implementation within the next 4 to 5 years. The 2021 FTIP is posted on the SBCAG website at www.sbcag.org/2021ftip.html.

Written comments can be submitted to SBCAG by mail or email no later than 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 20, 2021. Mail comments to SBCAG at 260 North San Antonio Road, Suite B, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Comments may also be emailed to info@sbcag.org. The 2021 FTIP is scheduled for adoption by the SBCAG Board of Directors on February 18, 2021.

The public comment period will begin on January 18, 2021.

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Like many others during the pandemic, she shops online to stay safe. Her reliance on hearty description is amplified.

Some of the technology classes at the Braille Institute address shopping and using platforms like Instacart. Some of the workshops are in Spanish as well. email: ahanshaw@newspress.com

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2021

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Lake Cachuma’s water level remains high enough for boats and a lot of fish.

A pristine Lake Cachuma

A few years ago, you could walk across parts of Lake Cachuma.

But conditions have improved since those drought-ridden days. The lake is at 64 percent capacity, according to the Santa Barbara County Flood Control District.

And that’s plenty of water for boats and a lot of fish.

News-Press Photo Editor Rafael Maldonado recently checked out the lake, which is again a picture-perfect sight from State Route 154.

— Dave Mason

At top, a visitor prepares to launch his boat. Above, Wayne Smith, a retired military person living in Lompoc, fishes the lake two to three times from his boat. He said he regularly catches his limits of five trout and releases all of the bass in a lake with plenty of fish.

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At top, visitors enjoy the lake’s serenity. Center, Bradbury Dam graces Lake Cachuma. Above, a bridge adds a picturesque point at the lake.

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I touted a stock called “Ants” in the ’90s, and it went up and up. I told friends about it. Some of them took the ride up with me. One day, it made me a millionaire!

I told my friends, “Don’t sell.” I didn’t sell. The next day I was a 3/4 millionaire. The next day I was a 1/10 millionaire — and so on.

Fortunately, not all of my friends listened to me about not selling.

One friend got a new Mercedes out of the deal.

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means we might actually have to the home. I kid you not. But it gets change our mind! If I give up better. The company this story now, wouldn’t that was branching out into be an admission that I was transforming fish skins being stupid all the time I into clothing, using some believed it? magical treatment or Woody Allen process, I guess. I bought demonstrated this very some stock! clearly in one of his jokes: But then, I thought it A man leaned too far over a over and got out of the Frank balcony railing and fell to the stock. I told a friend, Sanitate floor below. who bought it on my He wasn’t badly injured, so suggestion, to sell.

The author he got up, went back up to the He said, “No, I looked lives in Santa balcony and fell out again on into it, and I’m going to Barbara purpose! When questioned, stay with it.” How stupid he said that he didn’t want he was, not to recognize people to think that the first the stupidity of holding time he fell was an accident. on to a stock I thought was brilliant Yet we go through life holding two weeks earlier! on to a lot of ideas and beliefs, even Why do people hang on to a story when we start to get clues or inklings or belief that, with time, begins to that they are fishy, not totally true. look more and more fishy?

Tip: Not everything we were told Answer: because to question it

by our parents, siblings, friends, neighbors, school chums, educators, city, state, country, political party, religion, media and the internet is necessarily true.

When we were in the womb and infants, it was OK to soak everything in because we had no choice. It is the way we are constructed.

But as we grow up, the ability to think critically develops as well.

It includes the “wait a minute” response, which pulls us back when something new doesn’t quite fit with something we already know, or think we know.

Do we always go with what we “know” instead of inquiring into what is new?

I love to say stupid things to my preschool grandchildren to see if they can catch me at it. (My wife catches me frequently.)

Why do we keep falling out of the

balcony over and over? Why do we hold on to old ideas — or ants or fish skin stocks — when more and more evidence says: Perhaps you should question this?

I think fear is the underlying reason: “I have known this for eight months or eight years or 80 years.

If I question it now, it means that a lot of my other beliefs connected with this may be faulty as well.”

Questioning a belief may be the shaking of the foundations.

If one brick falls, then the whole structure may fall. It’s scary!

That’s why we prefer not to question.

The new year is a good time to take stock, both of our stock portfolios and our political portfolios. What little piece of your political party story is maybe starting to smell just a little fishy to you?

Recall Gov. Gavin Newsom

urrently, there is a statewide effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, an action that has only succeeded one time in the history of California when Gov. Gray Davis was given the unceremonious boot by the state’s voters.

Recently, the campaign to recall Gov. Newsom surpassed one million votes, only 500,000 voters shy of getting it on the ballot sometime later this year.

I did my civic duty by enthusiastically downloading the petition and mailing it to the assigned address. Although I was happy to spend the few minutes completing the petition, I am under no illusions it’s going to solve the massive problems this state currently faces.

Unfortunately, my faith in my fellow Californians is not very

To be honest, I could write a high at the moment. I fully expect doctoral thesis about all of Gov. they will replace Gov. Newsom, Newsom’s failures. Whether it is if he is recalled, with someone the burgeoning homeless problem, equally incompetent. exploding crime rates, the But first, before I lack of affordable housing elaborate on why I am Lou or one of the highest so pessimistic the voters Segal poverty rates in the will do the right thing, it country, Gov. Newsom has may be illuminating to The author list the manifold reasons lives in Santa managed to make almost everything he’s touched why he may be the worst Barbara worse than even many governor in the U.S., and of his detractors thought that’s saying something. possible.

Under Gov. Newsom’s tenure, The only thing preventing him we have had to endure rolling from utterly destroying California blackouts, massive lines at motor are a few high-tech companies vehicle offices, billions of dollars minting new millionaires every of unemployment checks sent to day. prisoners around the country The stock market has kept while thousands of unemployed California’s coffers full, giving Californians are still waiting for Gov. Newsom ample opportunity their benefits, and a haphazard to waste billions of dollars for all and ineffective response to the special interests that happily massive wildfires throughout the pull his puppet strings. Just ask state.

the teachers’ unions, if you don’t believe me. Did I mention the state has one of the worst public education systems in the country?

If I had stopped here, there would be more than enough reason to recall Gov. Newsom, but the coup de grâce has to be his insane and arbitrary edicts in response to the pandemic.

If you don’t believe me, just ask the thousands of small business owners in the retail industry who are slowly twisting in the wind until their final demise.

Despite there being no evidence that restaurant patios or retail establishments, like hair salons, are spreading the virus, these courageous owners are on a roller-coaster ride of changing rules, without any warning or explanation from state Please see segal on C4

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Columnist Lou Segal writes that the state has had to endure too much during Gov. Gavin Newsom’s tenure.

fter another three-week vacation, Mayor Cathy Murillo finally addressed the citizens of Santa Barbara at last Tuesday’s City Council meeting.

The recent gang murders certainly did not top the list.

Instead she chose to focus on the terrible event at our nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6.

She claimed that people of Santa Barbara have fear and concern about their safety after what happened at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. However, it appears that the people of Santa Barbara are more concerned about the gang killings she dismissed as simply “an outbreak of youth violence.”

The citizens of Santa Barbara are concerned about what happened in D.C. as much as anyone else in the country. However, the real threat of violence is happening right here, and that is a real and present concern.

She went on to say (changed the subject?), “As we begin 2021 and (face) significant challenges with COVID, be assured the city is doing everything they can do to stop the virus.”

As California is rated now third to the last of all states to administer the vaccine, how are our local elected officials doing everything they can do to stop the virus? How does the mayor make that assertion during the City Council meeting?

Why not concentrate on inoculating the public instead of testing for COVID? Could the same professionals who are testing for COVID, be giving vaccine injections?

The mayor and City Council have made it perfectly clear of their intention to continue conducting their meetings, not by their agenda, but by the demands of special interests groups.

Again the mayor conducted four and half hours of interviews for the Community Formation Commission. This panel exists only to choose who will be on the Civilian Police Review Board.

This formation commission will consist of 13 board members with two alternatives for a total of 15.

After discussing the panel, Mayor Murillo opened the meeting for public comment.

Tuesday’s meeting ran for nine hours. The interview process is not over, but will continue at 6 p.m. Jan. 26 and the final choice will be on Feb. 2.

Again this is the commission that picks the review board.

This four and a half-hour delay is a tactic designed to wear down the constituents by delaying the topics of most concern, in this case, the transient issues and the allelectric ordinance.

Speaking of public comments, the first speaker said they were desperate for help from the City. The transients are now camped next to their home in District 4 (Riviera and the edge of Montecito).

Due to the accumulation of garbage, the homeless now have caused an infestation of rats, mice and roaches.

In fact, this long-time resident woke to a rat on his pillow, although the property has always been maintained with an exterminator. We find it hard to believe that City Council’s constituent’s concerns voiced during public comment took a back seat Please see donovan on C4

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guest OPINION

The unenviable price of liberty

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ast May, an attack fire as they seek to impeach on the White President Trump for the sole House forced purpose of preventing him President Donald from running for office again.

Trump to retreat Moreover, radical Dems to a bunker. Meanwhile, scores want to rid Congress of of Secret Service agents were GOP stalwarts ostensibly injured, including for exercising their when the rioters threw constitutional duty Molotov cocktails. to investigate the Was this assault any election results. less egregious than The most ominous what happened on sign of all? Upwards Capitol Hill on Jan. 6? of 30% of Democrats When Black Lives believe the election Andy Caldwell Matter and Antifa was wrought with foment riots, mayhem fraud, but they and murder throughout are neither protesting nor America, lefties will either demanding inquiry. legitimize their actions, such The left and the global as when Chris Cuomo argued, elite have assumed President “Who said protests have to be Trump is their problem and peaceful?” whatever it takes to rid the Or they will deny anything nation of him, the ends justify wrong happened at all. the means. Or so they think.

For example, the mayor Thomas Jefferson spiked the of Seattle (and Congress) Declaration of Independence glossed over the attacks on a with a prophetic warning, federal court building and the specifically, “when a long train attempt to burn police officers of abuses and usurpations, alive when they were forcibly pursuing invariably the same trapped in their station.

Object evinces a design to Nothing to see here, folks; it is reduce them under absolute just a summer of love.

Despotism, it is their right, it Of course, I don’t raise is their duty, to throw off such these questions to suggest Government, and to provide that two wrongs make a right. new Guards for their future I unequivocally condemn security.” violence.

Several years later, he Mobs are not an extension of elaborated further, “And freedom; they are antithetical what country can preserve to freedom. Hearts and its liberties if their rulers are minds are not won by way of not warned from time to time intimidation or violence, nor is that their people preserve the liberty the child of force and spirit of resistance? The tree coercion. As France learned of liberty must be refreshed the hard way, “revolutions eat from time to time with the their children.” blood of patriots and tyrants.

Moreover, the reality is It is its natural manure.” the attack on the Capitol Warned from time to obfuscated the GOP’s efforts time. That is what I believe to launch an inquiry into we witnessed last week, a election integrity. warning. The left in America I also denounce the rhetoric believes it can foment to portray what happened as intimidation, violence and an attempted coup. destruction to destabilize The reason the vast America while pursuing majority of the law-abiding the Great Reset, without people descended on our remonstrance, while it counts nation’s capital was to save, on conservatives to be passive. not overthrow, our republic But to the degree the by entirely peaceful means. left keeps trampling upon Nevertheless, a minority the rights, patriotism and of those present wrongly interests of 75 million resorted to violence and Americans and their mayhem. representatives — not to Some of those who stormed mention the 18 states that the building did so because joined Texas in challenging they believe an election was the election results — we stolen and that neither party could, unfortunately, find truly gives a damn. ourselves in the throes of a Others, namely Antifa, very uncivil war. were there as part of a false flag operation to stoke and Andy Caldwell is the executive provoke mayhem and carnage. director of COLAB and the host Not to be deterred, Speaker of The Andy Caldwell Show Nancy Pelosi and company weekdays from 3-5 p.m. on are throwing more fuel on the News-Press Radio AM 1290.

letters to the news-press Vaccinate more people

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ov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged Jan. 13 on NBC News that California is sitting on over 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine while the state ranks 46th in getting the vaccine into arms.

The governor’s hometown newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, announced the same day that in the Bay Area, per Gov. Newsom’s new directive, mass vaccinations will cover anyone 65 and older. This moves us beyond the medical personnel-only tier to a much broader level to finally get the vaccination out to where it can do some good.

Despite there being pockets of vaccine available in Santa Barbara as of Jan. 14, including at Lompoc Valley Medical Center and at Sav-on Drug locations, the Santa Barbara County Health Department denies releasing it beyond the initial tier, completely in contradiction of Gov. Newsom’s directive, as repeated on the website maintained by the state for COVID instructions (covid19. ca.gov).

There are further details when you call Santa Barbara County’s 211 Hotline and ask for clarification.

Although the county admits Gov. Newsom has changed the rules, the county also admits it has no flexibility to respond to his changes.

The county has no scheduling process in place.

The county cannot reliably state where anyone who is eligible can be vaccinated. The county doesn’t know when its own rules will be adjusted. They don’t know how many doses to order to meet the needs of the new group. They suggested taking the issue up with the elected Board of Supervisors.

If other counties can assist with Gov. Newsom’s call for assistance in improving California’s vaccination record, one has to wonder who is sleeping at the wheel in Santa Barbara. This is one of those questions that makes for good investigative journalism.

David Kohler Lompoc

Congress ignores fraudulent election

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f course, the Washington, D.C., violence was unacceptable.

That was verbally dispelled by President Donald Trump. He told the followers to “go home in peace.”

I and the peaceful protesters and the country listening to Fox News and News Max heard him say that.

Jan. 6 was critical in that there was great hope that the fraudulent election votes of six states would be overturned because there is considerable evidence/proof.

The tens of thousands who showed up Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C., were conservatives (elderly and otherwise) who have always been peaceful.

When the politicians inside the Capitol did not vote to reject the outcomes of six states with their proven, fraudulent results, the conservatives (myself included) were very dejected.

Then protesters walked to the Capitol, and there are reports Antifa, a violent organization of radical liberals/Marxists, were mixed into the thousands of peaceful protesters. The violence began and had disastrous results.

Some blame President Trump.

(Who else?) But I read his tweets and heard him denouncing the violence.

The very best president we ever had, who attempted to clean out the Swamp for four years, had been the object of abuse by Democrats and the media every day he has been in office.

So I believe the protesters had no alternative because no one has

been listening to them, and the corruption continues.

When did our beloved country accept rigged results of a presidential election?

In a few days, a very liberal and corrupt Joe Biden will be the president and will do everything he can to eradicate the accomplishments of President Trump.

Henry Bland Ojai

Let’s not mix pandemic with politics

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recent front-page editorial in the News Press brought to mind the first line of the famous Kipling poem: “If you can keep your head when those all about you are losing theirs. ...” The modern response is, “Perhaps you just don’t understand the situation.”

The editorial complained about how bureaucrats, thanks to the pandemic, are ruining the economy with restaurant and bar closings and taking away citizens’ rights by demanding we wear masks and stay six feet apart, and stop getting haircuts. Not once in the article did the writer use the words doctors or health or virus.

It’s all about the money.

The writer must know that Gov. Gavin Newsom, when he set limits on public exposure to COVID-19, was following the advice of doctors, virologists and public health experts. But in the editorial, they weren’t mentioned once. Well, the writer did mention how hydroxychloroquine was prescribed by Dr. Donald J. Trump.

No, it was all about politics: Republicans good, Democrats bad.

Period.

Bill Livingstone Goleta

Trump deserves our support

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e must continue to support President Donald Trump now as we have for the past four years.

He has every right to encourage his supporters to rally peacefully before Congress to support and promote important Republican issues now.

When the president was at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to treat his case of COVID-19, his supporters rallied peacefully for three days while he was being treated. In the past four years, millions of American patriots all over the U.S. have rallied for President Trump on local street corners, on boats, on cars, on trucks, on motorcycles and at the airports where the president arrived in Air Force One. None of these rallies were anything but peaceful and well run as were the Tea Party rallies before them.

At times, we were challenged by rogue agitators, but we always maintained our calm.

In the past year we have seen local peaceful rallies and demonstrations for various causes, turned into riots by imported and paid agitators to impose chaos on all aspects of the scenes, and cause millions of dollars of damage to property and loss of lives.

This is just what happened in Washington, D.C. We citizens are peaceful and respectful. But our rally was usurped by these paid rogue infiltrators who formed a chaotic scene, and the media and Democrats tried to blame it all on President Trump. This is not his doing.

The president is a true American patriot and has done more in four years to improve the lives of the average American citizens and to

stabilize the foreign world than any president before him. He is the political “Einstein” of the business and financial world.

He deserves our support and praise and not mean actions by the Congress for something he did not inspire or had any control over. Even the Capitol Police were surprised.

But to all of our detriments, the seldom seen and uninformed American voters have elected a political “Humpty Dumpty” and animal of the deep swamp in Washington, the very senior 78year-old Joe Biden with growing dementia.

Who will save us now?

Justin M. Ruhge Lompoc

White House needs spiritual cleansing

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ear President-elect Biden and First Lady, Dr.Jill Biden, I am certain that I am not alone in my concern about the tremendous negative energy that has permeated the White House during the Trump presidency.

I feel compelled to write and strongly suggest that you contact either a priest or practitioner of feng shui and inquire about the possibility of having a cleansing of this negative energy from your new home. Many others in positions of power have realized that energy is very powerful. A cleansing is important — especially after what has transpired within that space during the last four years.

I hope and pray that you will be able to begin the healing process in our country, but having an energetic (spiritual) cleansing of the White House will go a long way in facilitating that result.

I, and all people of goodwill, wish you success and protection during your presidency.

Donna Marcove Santa Barbara

Wrong site for highdensity building

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n Jan. 8, the South County Board of Architectural Review had a hearing webinar for a 24-unit studio project on a .54acre parcel at 80 N. Patterson Ave. This project is being submitted for processing under SB 35, which circumvents traditional review to approve high-density housing.

Living directly behind the proposed building, we were aware that there were plans to build an office building on this small parcel.

And we all approved them. Now to our surprise, we are facing this crowded two-story, 24-unit building on a very small, .54 acre parcel.

We feel that we and other neighbors were blindsided with this change of plans. This proposed overcrowded building is not fit for this small parcel right at the off-ramp of the north101 freeway into very busy Patterson Avenue, where traffic is already a nightmare.

From plans, we saw that there are only 19 parking spaces for 24 units available for tenants and guests and 24-bike storage.

Will the rest of the tenants park on our streets where many families with small children live?

There will also be outside seating areas in back of the building.

The second story will be looking into our and other neighbors’ bedroom windows and pool areas.

We will lose our privacy.

I understand that low incomeearning housing is needed.

However, this proposed small dangerous corner is wrong for this high-density parcel.

Renate Quebec Santa Barbara

old Spring School has a well-deserved reputation for being one of the best public elementary schools in California.

Year after year, we have earned high honors for student achievement, family engagement, innovative instruction and effective administration.

Our students are given an exceptional foundation for life-long learning, and they excel in junior high, high school and beyond.

Cold Spring School is a strong community asset that enhances the quality of life and economic vitality in our neighborhoods and brings tremendous value to the residents and property owners it serves. Cold Spring is a small school with a big reputation.

This pattern of success is being impugned by a few community critics whose attacks on district leaders rely on unsubstantiated allegations and misrepresentation of facts.

These individuals are using false information to malign the integrity of district administrators, cast doubts about the fiscal practices of CSS and disrupt the educational focus of the district.

Oversight and implementation of the Cold Spring School Measure C facilities bond has complied with management best practices, all state laws and regulations, and generally accepted accounting principles.

To falsely claim, without a shred of evidence, that a forensic audit is needed to “uncover” alleged mistakes and errors is insulting, unnecessary and an affront to the many community leaders who have worked tirelessly over the years to enhance our excellent school district.

All Measure C funds and developer fees have been used appropriately with transparency to advance the educational quality of the CSS learning experience.

But please don’t just take my word for it. The facts are posted on our district website (www. coldspringschool.net) for everyone to see. These critics have had full access to this information all along. They just choose to disregard it.

Cold Spring School’s teachers, staff and administration work tirelessly to ensure that our children are receiving the highest quality education in a safe and secure environment.

However, what truly makes a Cold Spring education so special is the promotion of respect and kindness toward one another above all else.

As we reflect recent national events and the three-year anniversary of the Jan. 9 debris flow right here in Montecito, I hope that our community can learn a lesson from our children and renew our unity of purpose and start treating each other with more respect and kindness.

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Amnesia of the anarcho-tyrannists

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s it just me or has the entire universe of establishment media, politics and Hollywood forgotten that this country has endured an entire year of relentless violent anarcho tyranny?

Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters set businesses and churches ablaze, smashed state capitols and laid siege to federal courthouses. They permanently destroyed precious statues and symbols of America’s heritage.

They assaulted elderly people, stalked and menaced bystanders, taunted and terrorized law enforcement. And they committed murder — dozens of times — in the name of social justice while the powers that be sat idly by.

How conveniently they have all forgotten the grief of Ann Dorn, widow of retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn, who was

slain by George Floyd vigilantes month, it’s not an insurrection. looting a pawn shop he was It’s a First Amendment guarding on June 2, 2020. celebration.

Ann Dorn condemned the When they take over U.S. violence during a speech to the senators’ offices, like they did Republican National Convention during the 2018 Kavanaugh last summer and recounted how confirmation hearings, it’s she relives “that horror in not sedition. It’s my mind every single day. “democracy.”

My hope is that having you When they feel relive it with me now will like blocking traffic help shake this country and shutting down from this nightmare we’re highways, the police witnessing in our cities” don’t arrest them. They and “bring about positive, protect them. peaceful change.”

And when Michelle Malkin Ms. Dorn’s plea went they occupy U.S. unheeded. Why? Because Immigration and riots and invasive protest Customs Enforcement are the primary means by which facilities and vandalize federal the left operates and has always courthouses — while obstructing operated. homeland security operations, When they take over shining lasers in cops’ eyes to government buildings, like 40,000 blind them and hurling bricks at Democratic union workers did them to maim them — it’s not a when they stormed Wisconsin’s crime. It’s “peaceful protest.” state capitol in 2011 for nearly a This is not “whataboutism.”

It’s an absolutely necessary and vital backdrop as we seek to make sense of what happened last week in our nation’s Capitol. (And isn’t it the left that always urges us to identify “root causes” when their thugs cross the line?)

Law-abiding Americans are angry and frustrated precisely because the law has not been equally applied.

Whether we’re talking about lockdown rules or mob rules or election rules, the elites and their allies live by one set of rules and govern by another. Hundreds of thousands of peaceful Donald Trump supporters are being smeared by pundits and politicians who have downplayed left-wing lawlessness from Day One of the Trump presidency.

Those who protest this injustice are being purged from social media and the public square at warp speed: • Some 70,000 dissidents on

Twitter were summarily purged after being tarred as dangerous conspiracy theorists on Monday.

• Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed Trump supporter who was gunned down

by Capitol police last week, has been ruthlessly defamed by bluecheckmarked celebrities on Twitter and labeled a domestic terrorist.

• MAGA moms and their children are being dragged off airplanes by federal jackboots for attending the Jan. 6 rally, while antifa and BLM advocates gloat.

• “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander and his colleagues have been wiped off Silicon Valley platforms, along with conservative social media company Parler, libertarian Ron Paul, “War Room” host Steve Bannon, “America First” host Nick Fuentes, “Red Elephants” Please see malkin on C4

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John Stossel

Teachers unions fail science

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s your child’s school open now?

Probably not — because teachers unions say that reopening would “put their health and safety at risk.”

They keep schools closed by lobbying and protesting. “If I die from catching COVID-19 from being forced back into Pinellas County Schools, you can drop my dead body right here!” shouts one demonstrator in my new video.

But schools rarely spread COVID-19. Studies on tens of thousands of people found “no consistent relationship between in-person K-12 schooling and the spread of the coronavirus.”

Even Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, encouraged schools to reopen, saying “close the bars and keep the schools open.”

Heritage Foundation education researcher Lindsey Burke points out that studies in 191 countries find “no consistent link between reopening schools and increased rates of COVID transmission.”

She says schools aren’t COVID-19 hotspots.

“But it’s logical that they would be,” I push back. “Kids are bunched together.”

“Positivity rates in schools are generally below those in the broader community,” she says.

Closed schools hurt lowincome students most because they have fewer learning alternatives. The privileged get around union restrictions.

Almost all of California’s government-run schools are closed, but Gov. Gavin Newsom sends his kids to a private school that has stayed open.

“Choice for me, but not for thee!” quipped Ms. Burke.

Kids blocked from attending school suffer more than academic losses, she added.

“Kids are social animals. A lack of their ability to interact in person, see their friends, see their teachers, is really having an impact.”

That’s not a good enough reason to open schools, say the unions. In my video, one San Antonio teacher argues: Please see stossel on C4

Have your say

Ethnic studies battle continues despite improvements

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ith just two months before the legal deadline for the state Board of Education to decide on a new ethnic studies curriculum for all California public schools, new concepts have been introduced into the latest proposal and new people added to those who might be studied.

Still, old prejudices figure to be reinforced.

Among the new individuals to be studied for sure, if this program is adopted, are some that few would object to: Former state Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, one-time Hawaii Congresswoman Patsy Mink, American Indian Movement founder Madonna Thunder Hawk, former President Barack Obama and the late former Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, the first black presidential candidate. Among the new peoples: Irish- and Jewish-Americans, via new units on anti-Semitism and Sephardic (Middle Eastern) Jewry.

Things get more controversial with other persons on the suggested list teachers would have the option of adding: One-time Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, self-proclaimed “lifetime

Communist” Angela Davis, congods including Texcatlipoca, supvicted murderer Mumia Abuposedly the originator of human Jamal, the vocally anti-Semitsacrifice and other problematic ic Arab-American leader Linda practices.

Sarsour and Emiliano Zapata, Most of this will satisfy edufounder of an early 20th-centucators from the Critical Ethnic ry agrarian revolutionStudies Association, ary movement that still dedicated to teaching influences governance in about the prevalence of Mexico. white supremacy, racial One thing these indiprivilege and oppresviduals have in common: sion in American hisAll are or were figures on tory. But there’s noththe left. There’s no room ing here about more for American conservaestablishment minorThomas D. tives here, no one like the ity group members, Elias black Republican Sen. Tim like scientist Booker T. Scott of South Carolina or Washington.

The author newly-elected Republican This is deliberate, is a longtime congresswomen Michelle as made plain by state observer of California Steel and Young Kim of Schools Supt. Tony politics.

Orange County, both KoreThurmond. an-Americans.

Last August he said There are also no Irish or Jews, the curriculum “needs … fidelor Indians or Armenians on the ity to the four ethnic groups that list of individuals to be studied launched the (critical ethnic studfor sure, no Chinese-Americans, ies) movement” during a 1968 no immigrant business leaders student strike at San Francisco like the founders of Zoom, Google State University: African-Ameriand other seminal California cans, Hispanic Americans, Asian companies. That makes the list Americans and Pacific Islanders highly partisan, allowing the and American Indians. He did right to plausibly label it a propanot explain why the new curricganda instrument. ulum must stay faithful to ideas There is also an objectionable, conceived more than 50 years ago though optional, lesson on Aztec by emotionally heated students

lacking solid academic credentials.

The planned curriculum would also introduce some new concepts, bound to bring loud protests. Most prominent of those is the idea of “racial privilege,” introduced by Mr. Thurmond’s staff rather than by the generally leftist members of the state Education Department’s Instructional Quality Commission, designer of the first two versions of the curriculum.

This segment of the program would feature a unit on Irishand Jewish-Americans “redefining themselves as white and American” and thus gaining alleged racial privilege they may not previously have had. Never mind that both Irish and Jewish immigrants faced massive discrimination upon arriving in America, overcoming college admission quotas, ethnic and religious exclusions in rental leases, and land convenants by dint of hard work and academic effort.

The implication is that other Caucasian immigrant groups like German-Americans, Italian-Americans and Hungarian refugees arrived with white privilege, no matter how difficult their lives may really have been.

Meanwhile, Jews — who maintained their identify for millenia in the face of hundreds of massacres even before the Holocaust — would be portrayed as striving to shuck their longtime identity to present themselves as white, just to get ahead.

This concept is only very marginally accurate, at best, and should have been laughed off, but now appears on its way into public school curricula. What’s more, the California program figures to be copied in other states.

In short, the newest version of the proposed ethnic studies program may be improved, but still contains gaping holes, questionable subject matter, plus some bigotry.

Which means it needs still more improvement before anyone dreams of adopting it.

Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@ aol.com. His book, “The Burzynski Breakthrough, The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It,” is now available in a soft cover fourth edition. For more of Mr. Elias’ columns, visit www. californiafocus.net.

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Imagine spending thousands of dollars buying equipment to provide safe outdoor dining or services only to have the rug pulled out from under you at the last second.

To add insult to injury, while these owners and their employees are suffering immeasurably, our governor is breaking all his own rules by dining inside at one of the most expensive restaurants in the state with paid lobbyists.

When given the opportunity to apologize, he prevaricates by claiming the dinner was outside.

What Gov. Newsom and many of the people in the state — who lack even an elementary understanding of how to operate a business — fail to realize is that when this pandemic comes to an end, there may not be a functioning economy in California.

And don’t get me started about the abysmally low vaccination

distribution numbers in the state or closing our public schools, particularly K-6, for a year and a half or the increasing suicide rates in the state, especially among our young people. And don’t forget this is the same governor who sends his kids to an open in-person private school.

So why am I so gloomy if the recall effort succeeds?

Because I have no faith my fellow Californians will select a competent replacement.

For reasons I can’t fathom, too many voters are like automatons, voting for whomever the Democratic machine selects. Maybe it’s because many voters work in the public sector, receive generous government pensions, are dependent on public welfare or supported by rich parents, so that their fate is not tied to the vagaries of the economy.

Regardless, it’s time to put Gov. Newsom out to pasture.

Although I don’t expect anything to change anytime soon, I am willing to be surprised. C’mon California, do the right thing just once.

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As the mail goes, so goes a nation

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used to joke with my husband, Richard, that when Swiss postmen stopped delivering the mail twice daily, it would be time to leave Switzerland.

The twice-daily postal deliveries stopped in 1988, when Post, Telephone & Telegraph became Swiss Post, a private/ public entity was formed to address new communication challenges.

By then we’d moved to the States, via Belgium, where we often joked about the strikes that frequently paralyzed that nation. Sometimes our mail would be delivered three days late; sometimes, packages would be lost. Apparently BPost has not improved its service.

Fifty years ago, Richard and I met in Switzerland. We were married two years later in Pully, a small Swiss village on the shores of Lac Léman.

Our two daughters were born there and educated in excellent local schools. When Christmas was coming, the girls looked forward to writing letters to Santa Claus and receiving a note and a small gift of stamps in return from the PTT. Swiss Post carries on the tradition.

Over the 15 years we lived in Switzerland, we fell in love with the country, its culture and traditional values. We all thrived on Switzerland’s common sense

approach to life and its emphasis at the PTT museum in Luzern on individual rights. I wrote that praised the reliability of the stories about the PTT beginning Swiss mail and how important with Willi Addar, the last Swiss Swiss postmen were to village mounted mailman, who delivered life. the mail on horseback to snowFor the past week, our mail bound chalets in Lauenen, a tiny, has been delivered later and beyond quaint and quiet village later each day, if it gets delivered not far from Gstaad. at all. Everyone on our street The PTT offered Willi a is self-quarantined, and we’ve snowmobile, but he declined. had no way to find out what was He wanted to stay happening with the mail. in a warm saddle Finally, yesterday we saw Calla Jones and protect the calm our neighbor.

Corner environment. My story He told us the mailman made the Swissair had come down with The author Gazette, the airline’s coronavirus, the post lives in inflight magazine. office was scrambling to Montecito Another of my postal find a replacement, and stories got international we should wear gloves attention in the International to open our mail. We asked him Herald Tribune, for whom I was if he knew the last name of our its features correspondent. postman so we could send him It was the discovery in 1978 of a get well card. He didn’t and 26 perfectly preserved letters, seemed astonished that we’d even encased in a PTT sack, that had want to know his full name. This made its way down a glacier from mailman always sends us a thank the 1950 crash of an Air India you note for the Christmas dollars flight into Mt. Blanc while en we give him. This year we didn’t route from Calcutta to Geneva. get one.

The PTT delivered the pristine We moved to Montecito a letters to companies still in dozen years ago. The village business. There was only one of reminded us of some of the the private mail recipients still blessings we’d had in Switzerland alive — an 86-year old doctor who and other villages and towns had worked with Mother Teresa we’ve lived in over the years — in Calcutta. gorgeous gardens and vistas, The letter was hand delivered enchanting architecture, privacy by the doctor’s local postman and a voice in village life. and featured on Swiss TV. Both We could never have guessed became subjects of an exhibit that we’d be living in a one-

party state with such unwieldy pension funds and venom-laced political rhetoric that takes pride of place over local and common sense. That doesn’t care to know the name of the one person in a neighborhood who links us during an unprecedented national crisis.

So far, more than 1,200 out of 600,000 USPS employees have contracted the virus and 30 have died. There are stories circulating that many USPS workers work under unsanitary conditions and that masks, gloves and hand sanitizers are still in short supply.

President Donald Trump called the U.S. Postal Service “a joke” and threatened to not fund the country’s largest employer if it doesn’t quadruple the cost for mailing packages to reverse decades of red ink. But the self-destruction of our bloated, bureaucratic postal service is no laughing matter.

Perhaps President-elect Joe Biden should form a Post Office Task Force of business leaders to study how the Swiss were able to develop a postal system that combined government and the private sector into a pristine, profitable entity that was still able deliver the daily mail during this pandemic.

Maybe then Americans can tell their children and grandchildren next year that there really is Santa Claus.

to interviews for a Formation Commission, and that this constituent was not allowed to speak until four and a half hours later.

Six hours later, the most important agenda item, “The Electric-Only For New Construction,” was up for presentation by the city staff.

Next, Public Outreach will be conducted before final approval. Kudos to the true environmentalist, Hillary Hauser with Heal the Ocean, who circumvented the governmental red tape and got an abandoned homeless camp on the beach cleaned up before high tide carried it to the ocean.

We also hear of people canceling their business relationships, with media entities, subscriptions and banks.

For instance, Facebook, Paypal, Twitter, What’s App, and some have even forewarned their banks they will move their money if the bank follows the cancel culture. Cancel Culture works both ways.

Just as Facebook, Twitter and other media platforms are censoring the public’s opinion if it does not agree with their message, we hear that people are losing their jobs, their insurance (AIG) and of advertisements of Pro-America products banned from Facebook, etc. CounterCancel is also a viable response.

An update on Did You Know?’s PRA request regarding voting problems from November 2019: Remember City Council members Jordan, Friedman and Harmon directed the City

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Continued from Page C3 “We understand that in-person learning is more effective than online teaching, but that’s not the question. The question is what is safest.”

“But that’s really not at the heart of why unions are trying to keep schools closed,” said Burke.

“It’s really a question of politics.”

Definitely. Union demands include all sorts of things unrelated to teacher safety. The Los Angeles union demands include defunding the police, a moratorium on charter schools, higher taxes on the wealthy and

“Medicare for All.” “The Oregon Education Association ... said they wanted the state to halt any transfers to virtual charter schools,” Burke noted. “There’s clearly no health issue in a virtual setting.”

It’s revealing that governmentrun schools fight to stay closed, while most businesses — private schools, restaurants, hair salons, gyms, etc. — fight to be allowed to open.

Why is that? Ms. Burke pointed out that government schools “receive funding regardless of whether or not they reopen.”

So union workers get paid even when they don’t work. Not working seems to be a big union

goal.

At one point, Los Angeles teachers even secured a contract saying that they only are “required to provide instruction ... four hours per day” and they will “not be required to teach classes using live video conferencing.”

Nice non-work if you can get it.

Yet the teachers unions keep winning. They will win more now that Democrats control the federal government. Congress’ last stimulus package forbids any funds to be used to expand school choice: no “vouchers, tuition tax credit programs, education savings accounts, scholarship programs or tuition assistance

programs.”

So students lose. Parents lose.

Taxpayers lose. America loses.

Unions win.

We asked 21 teachers unions to respond to the criticisms in this column. Not one would.

Their behavior reveals their true interest: power and money.

Students come third.

John Stossel, a former ABC News and Fox Business Channel anchor, is 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.

Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

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‘Government schools receive funding regardless of whether or not they reopen’

Attorney’s office to fulfill the Public Records Request of July 2020.

On Nov. 2, 2020, the City Attorney’s Office noticed us the documents would be supplied within six to eight weeks.

Jan. 2 is eight weeks, and there are still no documents from the city. DYK also contacted Santa Barbara County election official Joe Holland regarding discrepancies in voter’s addresses with no return communication.

Be aware of the crime in your neighborhood by signing up for communitycrimemaps@ lexisnexisrisk.com. The site provides a Daily Neighborhood Watch Report, some of it is not reported on television.

Be alert, as our COVID19 numbers rise, so does our emotional tension. However, be also aware of the dialogue from an unnamed infectious disease specialist at Cottage Hospital who said that though she was relieved the vaccines had arrived that “this changes nothing.” She explained that, “though the vaccine may keep some people from getting infected, it would not guarantee that a vaccinated person can’t still carry and transmit the virus to others!”

We agree with columnist Andy Caldwell who recently said that our government’s claims of being able to make us safe and secure must not come at the expense of our liberties, livelihoods or common sense.

host Vince James, cartoonist Ben Garrison, Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton, election fraud researcher Ron Watkins, Gen. Michael Flynn, and lawyers Sidney Powell and Lin Wood.

• Trump faces yet another phony impeachment attack despite his explicit call for supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

Meanwhile, actual convicted domestic terrorists like Black Liberation Army assassin Assata Shakur, Weather Underground killers Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, and May 19th Communist Organizer Susan Rosenberg (a left-wing weapons supplier and insurrectionist pardoned

by Bill Clinton and now a board member of the umbrella group overseeing Black Lives Matter) are deified by the media,

Hollywood and academia.

Maxine Waters has been cribbing Martin Luther King Jr.’s line about riots being the “language of the unheard” ever since she danced on the ashes of the L.A. riots with Bloods and Crips.

Liberal magazine Slate declared just six months ago in defense of antifa and BLM anarcho tyrannists that “nonviolence is an important tool for protest, but so is violence.”

There simply cannot be peace and civil order in such a dysfunctional country of double standards and stifled dissent. It is dishonest and harmful to our republic to pretend otherwise.

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 the Creators Syndicate website at www. creators.com.