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Mission capital campaign exceeds expectations Santa Barbara Mission plans for further community engagement

First inmates transferred to Santa Maria’s Northern Branch Jail By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The Northern Branch Jail (NBJ) reached final completion in November 2021, but was not

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The Santa Barbara Mission’s “Restore and Renew” campaign has raised $2.25 million so far.

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board hopes to expand its reach further into those thousands who enjoy picnics on the lawn, strolls in the nearby A.C. Postel Rose Garden, summertime “Drinks at Dusk” events and, of course, Fiesta. “The biggest issue is helping people understand who we are, what goes on here and how we’re funded,” Father Dan Lackie, pastor of the Saint Barbara Parish, told the News-Press. The Santa Barbara Mission is not funded by the Catholic church, and it does not receive

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The Santa Barbara Mission’s “Restore and Renew” campaign is almost halfway over, and the outreach has garnered a $2.25 million payoff thus far. The executive board’s goal, when the campaign launched in September 2020, was $4 million. The mission, home to 17 Franciscan friars, is a gathering place for thousands more. With every day that passes in the threeyear fundraiser, the mission’s

government money, despite being a historic landmark. It raises 85% of its revenues through tourism: the gift shop, guided tours and the like. The remaining 15% comes from event rentals and rent from the Saint Barbara Parish. The COVID-19 pandemic shutdown inhibited revenue streams for months, at a cost of approximately $1.5 million. But the Santa Barbara Mission’s executive board would like to raise more to tackle a list of renovations. “If we hit our goal and can

continue to raise money, we certainly would,” Executive Director Monica Orozco said. “$4 million is just a drop in the bucket as far as the projects that need to be done.” The first renovation is roof repair. The mission sports its original tile roof, and the substrates need to be repaired. “If you own a home, you know you have to do a roof every few years. Now imagine your home is 200 years old and you’ve never replaced your roof,” Ms. Orozco Please see MISSION on A5

Inmates leave the Main Jail on their way to the Northern Branch Jail in Santa Maria.

First Shipment of ammunition arrives in Ukraine State Department orders U.S. Embassy officials to begin evacuating By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Kim Cantin sues over her son’s remains Suit names Sheriff’s Office By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR

Kim Cantin is suing the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office over possession of what she and a former UCSB anthropologist believe are the likely remains of her son Jack, who died during the Jan. 9, 2018 Montecito debris flow. In July, Dr. Danielle Kurin, then a UCSB anthropologist, said she was more than 90% confident that the remains, found in May 2021 within 1,000 yards from where the Cantin family’s home once stood on Hot Springs Road in Montecito, were those of Jack, 17. But on July 22, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said the Sheriff’s Office/Coroner investigators were continuing the missing person Please see LAWSUIT on A5

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On Friday, the first shipment of ammunition arrived at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, as directed by President Joe Biden, reported multiple news sources. The State Department is preparing to approve the evacuation of certain U.S. diplomats and their families from the embassy in Ukraine, as early as Monday. However, the approval of the final authorization has yet to come through. The ammunition shipment included “close to 200,000 pounds of lethal aid, including ammunition for the front line defenders of Ukraine,” reported NBC News and “demonstrates U.S. commitment to helping Ukraine bolster its defenses in the face of growing Russian aggression,” reported the embassy in a tweet. The $200 million package of military assistance to Ukraine was approved in December. The approval came amid growing concerns from Kyiv and Western allies of an impending

invasion of Ukraine by Russia. More than 100,000 Russian troops have amassed near Moscow at the Russian/Ukraine border in recent weeks. Despite President Vladimir Putin issuing several demands to the west, Russia denies any plans for an invasion. Pres. Putin’s demands include a prohibition on Ukrainian membership in NATO and withdrawal of most U.S. and allied military presence in Eastern Europe. The U.S. says that’s a nonstarter. “We have nothing to announce at this time. We conduct rigorous contingency planning, as we always do, in the event the security situation deteriorates. If there is a decision to change our posture with respect to American diplomats and their families, American citizens should not anticipate that there will be U.S. governmentsponsored evacuations. Currently, commercial flights are available to support departures,” a spokesperson for the State Department told ABC News. “Talks between (Secretary Please see uKRAINE on A7

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Sheriff’s Office teams with Vitalant on blood drive On Tuesday, the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office is partnering with Vitalant to host a blood drive from 12:305:30 p.m. Appointments can be scheduled at www.blood4life. org using the sponsor code 1493 or by phone at 805-542-8500. Donors should bring a photo I.D, eat well and drink plenty of water prior to donating blood. Donors must be at least 16 years old with no upper age limit. 16-year-olds must bring a signed Vitalant parental consent form which can be found online at vitalant.org. For eligibility questions call 877258-4825. - Katherine Zehnder

Courthouse docent training to start Feb. 12 “The Santa Barbara County Courthouse Docent Council is offering a new training class for prospective docents from the local community. Since the first public tours on Law Day, May 1, 1974, the Docent Council has encouraged and supported the cultural heritage and public appreciation of the Santa Barbara County

AIA Santa Barbara 2022 board retreat focuses on equity, diversity The annual retreat of the new 2022 board of the American Institute of Architects Santa Barbara (AIASB) chapter took place last weekend. During the retreat, chapter leaders formulated avenues to accomplish the AIASB’s mission of serving our members, as well as the professional

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Courthouse. This year, for the first time, the training will be offered via ZOOM. Beginning on Feb. 12, the class will meet for 10 Saturday mornings. The content of the class will focus on the artisans, architects and community leaders who were involved in the construction and operation of this iconic National Historic Landmark. For more information, contact Robert Ooley at robert@ooley. com. – Marilyn McMahon

world of architecture, and the community by promoting design excellence, professional development, education, and environmental and social equity. “Exemplary of the chapter’s mission to support diversity in the profession, including our efforts to overcome the continued minority of licensed female architects, AIASB is proud to announce that all officers of the 2022 Board are women for the first time in the chapter’s 92-year history,” said Alayna Fraser, AIA Santa Barbara’s 2022 President. - Katherine Zehnder

Highway 101 construction update

Draft Goleta district elections map on display Draft district election maps for Goleta are now available on DrawGoleta.org. People can now go to the website and pick the map or maps that you would like the Public Engagement Commission (PEC) to consider recommending to the Goleta City Council. People can also provide feedback on the maps at the website. The City of Goleta is encouraging its citizens to provide comments and feedback on each map at the website before noon on Wednesday, and comments will be provided to the PEC before their meeting at 6 p.m. During the meeting, PEC will review the maps and comments, so that they can make recommendations on district boundaries to the Goleta City Council. There are 51 different public maps and five additional demographer maps presented

for consideration and available for public review at drawgoleta. org/draft-maps. Beginning in November, the city will be divided into four districts. Voters in each district will vote for a city councilmember who lives in their district. Districting will determine how neighborhoods will be represented on the City Council. The public is encouraged to watch the PEC meeting on Wednesday. The agenda and staff report are available online at https://tinyurl.com/ 2dch5vtc. The virtual meeting can be watched live on Goleta TV Channel 19 or on the city’s website. Public comment about the agenda may also be sent to the Public Engagement Commission in advance of the meeting at jshaw@cityofgoleta. org. Draft maps are available at https://drawgoleta.org/draftmaps/. - Katherine Zehnder

Northbound Highway 101 On Sunday nights from 9 p.m.-7 a.m., the highway will be reduced to one lane from Route 150 to Sheffield Dr. with on- and offramps at Bailard Ave. and the N. Padaro Ln. off-ramp. On Monday-Thursday nights, from 8 p.m.-7 a.m., the highway will be reduced to one lane from Route 150 to Sheffield Dr. with on- and off-ramps at Bailard Ave. and the N. Padaro Ln. offramp. On Mondays-Thursdays, from 9 a.m.– 3 p.m., on- and off-ramps at Bailard Ave. are closed. On January 27, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., on- and off-ramps at Bailard Ave and the off-ramp at Casitas Pass Rd. will be closed. The on-ramp at Sheffield Dr. closed on January 11th for up to 6 months and is anticipated to reopen July 13. Until then, drivers can use the on-ramp at San Ysidro Rd.

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due to the current Covid outbreak at the Main Jail. On Saturday, 244 inmates were transferred from the main jail to the NBJ. Before being transferred, they were tested for Covid and supplied with N95s for the transport. “Seeing the Northern Branch Jail finally occupied is like watching a ship being launched from dry dock. There have been many challenges and delays during the construction process and due to the pandemic, but, because of the efforts of many people, the vessel is finally underway. Our communities will be safer, and the lives of many offenders will be changed for the better, as a result of this stateof-the-art facility. My thanks to everyone inside and outside the Sheriff’s Office who worked so hard to make this day possible, and to those who will now work within the facility providing care, safety and hope to others,” said Sheriff Bill Brown. Friends and family members of incarcerated individuals are encouraged to check SBSheriff. org, using the “Who’s In Custody” link, to determine if their friend or family member has been moved to the Northern Branch Jail. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, inmate visitation has been suspended indefinitely at both jail facilities. COURTESY IMAGE

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POOR PRINCESS CHARLENE OF MONACO… … remains captive in a Swiss asylum, committed to The Kusnacht Practice in Zurich two months ago by her husband, Prince Albert, to deal with “physical and psychological issues” stemming from Albert’s infidelities and illegitimate children (and an ongoing lawsuit

It has been reported in recent days that a) Prince Harry and Meghan desire to sell their $14.7 million Montecito estate (now priced at $27 million) and b) Harry misses his old lifestyle back in Blighty. We gather that the bureaucrats at Buckingham Palace have not yet explained to the petulant pair that exile is a one-way street, as it was a century ago with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Though, who knows, maybe the palace will relent — and permit Harry to come home and share new digs (perhaps a large doghouse) with his Uncle Andrew. But not for the moment, it seems. Because Harry is reportedly boycotting Britain due to the U.K. government’s stance over not providing him — ever since he bailed in 2020 — with Royalty and Special Protection officers when visiting his homeland (even though he has offered to pay the cost himself). “Harry cannot pick and choose,” says former royal protection chief, Dai Davies. “It was his prerogative to go to America.” But even after disavowing royal obligations, Harry apparently believes he has a legal right to insist on royal trappings — and to that end has initiated legal action against the U.K. government to change their bodyguard policy in his favor, bringing new embarrassment to his grandmother, the long-suffering Queen Elizabeth II, who is said to be in “despair” over Andrew’s legal predicament and Harry’s ongoing recalcitrance. This, of course, has caused a media uproar inside the U.K., with Harry’s fiercest critic, Piers Morgan, labeling him a “shameless, deluded, woefully entitled hypocrite.”

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PUTIN, POISED… … to invade Ukraine. The only hold-up, after diplomatic talks “non-started” (in fact, bombed), is the weather, which has been unseasonably warm, meaning a muddy battlefield for intruders. Although Russian tanks are lighter than those used by the U.S. Army (4550 tons compared to 65-75 tons), tank commanders would still risk getting bogged down unless and until a deep-freeze hardens the ground. This will all change early this week, with sub-freezing temperatures forecast and 127,000 Russian troops (according to

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… at the White House Wattle aren’t the only crooks with family members enjoying leadership positions inside The Swamp. Enter Paul Pelosi Jr. onto the Rolls of Dishonor for his widespread business connections to “a slew of fraudsters and convicted criminals,” according to an in-depth (U.K.) Daily Mail investigation into Mr. Pelosi’s get-rich-off-his-family-name shenanigans. It details at least five companies with which Mr. Pelosi is associated that were or are currently under investigation by federal or state agencies. One of them, Info U.S.A., is a data merchant that packaged a contact list specifically tailored to target “the gullible elderly” and marketed to scam artists who duly parted such folks from their money. Another entity, Natural Blue Resources, Inc., co-founded by Paul Jr, was run by James. E. Cohen and Joseph Corazzi, two convicted fraudsters. The Mail’s findings are substantial — and include the huge financial fortune ($100 million) amassed by the Pelosi family while House Speaker Nancy sits on committees to regulate the corporate world, from which she made millions from high-tech stocks during COVID. On another side of The Swamp, there is news of an upcoming memoir by Hunter Biden’s exwife, due to appear in June at a bookstore near you. “If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing” by Katherine Buhle is being touted by Crown Publishing Group as “a page-turning and heartbreaking account” of her ex-husband’s booze, drug and prostitute addictions. “I was the sicko,” Hunter wrote in a text to his deceased brother’s widow, discovered by Katherine on an iPad, “sleeping with my brother’s wife.”

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in Italy pertaining to the latest such claim, over which the prince has chosen to hide behind “Sovereign Immunity” instead of manning up, taking a paternity test and contesting the merits of the case). Charlene is still “months away” from recovery, Monaco’s Palace announced recently. (Donald Trump’s mantra “lock her up” appears to have made an impression on Albert.) It should come as no surprise that Albert’s only friend and contact-point within the British Royal Family is the now-disgraced Prince Andrew, whose interests, pursuits and prevarications are similar to Albert’s own. Or, as Prince Andrew himself whined in August 2019, “Albert gets to do whatever he wants but I get in trouble …”. A reader wrote asking our opinion on “the level of intelligence that has been used by the folks on Prince Andrew’s team.” Having operated intimately for five-and-a-half years within a royal court (Albert’s), I could answer without hesitation: The more lies he gets away with, the easier it becomes for him to lie about everything, large and small. Who among the sycophants that enrich themselves around Andrew and Albert have the courage to catch either prince in a lie and confront him with it? Not a one, not even lawyers. And without truth, intelligence is out the window.

Ukrainian intelligence) now amassed at their border. Consequently, the U.S. Intelligence community now anticipates an invasion at any moment — and British defense chiefs believe it will be full-blown with a Putin objective of taking the whole country, not just a slice (the Donbas region) as they did, in 2014, with Crimea. To that end, Russia is believed to be contriving a fake news social media campaign along with a “false flag” attack on its own proxy troops (within Ukraine) for fabricating the “provocation” they desire to “justify” invasion. That’s in addition to Russia recently situating two short-range ballistic missile delivery systems at the border and directing armored divisions to Belarus (within striking distance of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv) while ordering families of diplomats stationed in Ukraine home to Russia. This conflict isn’t about reunification, former UK MI6 official Ian McCredie told The Investigator, but about Russian President Vladmir Putin trying to save “his own skin and personal fortune,” now estimated at $200 billion, due to internal Russian “failures that have led to into economic and national decline. “Russia’s GDP is about $1.7 trillion,” adds Mr. McCredie, “lower than Italy’s and minuscule compared to the U.S. at over $20 trillion. There is not one single Russian company that has any sort of global presence to rival the likes of Coca-Cola, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Volkswagen, Samsung or Rolls Royce. Putin is an opportunist, a kleptomaniac, a thug and a mafia boss… preferring killing, poisoning and imprisoning anyone who dares to stand against him. Vladimir Putin is motivated only by survival.” Which is why Putin adversary Alexei Navalny, currently jailed (as a political prisoner) by the Putin regime (after they tried to assassinate him), urged President Joe Biden, in a letter to TIME magazine, to go after Mr. Putin’s personal wealth. “It’s really simple. You want to influence Putin, then influence his personal wealth. It’s right under your backside.” Instead, President Biden, at his self-delusional press conference four days ago in which he claimed to have “outperformed” every U.S. president, recklessly provided Mr. Putin a greenlight for a minor incursion, infuriating the Ukrainians and necessitating an egg-faced correction from White House functionaries. Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy summed it up this way: “Long before this… and his humiliating Afghan surrender, and his (refusal to impede) Putin’s Nordstream 2 gas pipeline, the Russian dictator knew what Americans are still learning to their horror: This President is no match for ruthless tyrants — and not just Ukraine, but the world, is likely soon to suffer greatly as a result.”

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In her Second Amended Complaint filed with Superior Court in Santa Barbara, Kathryn Zimmie accuses her former manydecade partner Ty Warner (along with his financial advisors) of fraud, and she seeks, as part of her Prayer for Relief, “to send this matter to the appropriate authorities for a criminal investigation.” Ms. Zimmie alleges that Mr. Warner, the Montecito tycoon, and his team misappropriated her identity to create a fictitious entity that she apparently knew nothing about, the purpose of which was to funnel funds “to deceive Zimmie and others.” These entity documents, Ms. Zimmie claims, contain her “inauthentic signature” — a euphemism, we gather, for forgery. “The purposes of The Enterprise” — Cleveland Design Consultants, a Delawareregistered LLC — “were to provide tax benefits to Defendant Warner” in addition to deceiving Ms. Zimmie into believing that she was being properly compensated for her design work on Ty’s behalf, the lawsuit alleges.

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nothing. Because when it came to extracting money from the U.S. Government for Paycheck Protection Program “loans” (free money) during COVID19 lockdowns, it is the lawyers who had the expertise and wherewithal to cash in more efficiently than most others. And they certainly did. Because while numerous small business owners without access to expert advice were provided with little or nothing to replace their losses — and in many cases lost their businesses as a result of oppressive COVID-19 lockdowns — a total of 14,363 law firms nationwide reaped more than $4 billion in aid from the federal government. $1.5 billion of this was in California alone, including five Santa Barbara law firms: • Mullen & Henzell LLP: $1,170,882 (40 employees). • Price, Postel & Parma LLP: $653,395.55 (26 employees). • Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld LLP: $388,451 (20 employees). • Rogers, Sheffield & Campbell LLP: $367,400 (14 employees). • Nie, Sterling, Hale & Miller LLP: $199,017 (0 employees). Does anyone audit these law firms to determine precisely in whose bank accounts these funds ultimately land? The Small Business Administration was supposed to audit all “loans” in excess of $2 million and “spot check” those that received lesser amounts. But guess what? Last July the SBA announced it will no longer conduct such loan reviews due to “money and time” concerns. Which means these law firms are free and clear from scrutiny. We reached out to the law partners at Santa Barbara law firms listed above with one simple question: “How were these funds allocated?” Not one of them answered. A local attorney who did not partake in The Big Grab told The Investigator, “Such BS. Who’s going to pay for all these free loans? Our kids.” Another member of Santa Barbara’s legal community told The Investigator, “The legal system did not slow down here during COVID, only the judicial side of things had to be adjusted. Taking free loans may have been highly inappropriate and should be accounted for. The American Bar Association code includes ‘moral turpitude’ — and this may run contrary to that principle. The California Bar Association should provide oversight and take a good look at this with a view to disbarring those unwilling to account for why, precisely, the funds were needed and who actually received them.”

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Will Biden declare victory over COVID in State of the Union? INVESTIGATOR

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rid of Boris are now holding their fire until the Sue Gray report (on whether he misled Parliament about parties at No. 10 Downing Street when everyone was supposed to be under lockdown) is released. If that is devastating then they will move against him. If not, they will hold off on the basis that Boris gaffes are like buses — there will always be another along in a minute.”

COVID CHICANERY (UPDATE) What killed Bob Saget at age 65? Orange County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office: “No signs of foul play or drug use in this case. His death is a mystery.” Bob Saget’s Dec. 13 clip on YouTube: “I got my booster shot… and I was hurting.” And what happens next? After determining Mr. Saget died of a heart attack (he was discovered with his left arm over his chest) or stroke — classic consequences of myocarditis, a CDC-declared potential side effect of the vaccine — official-dumb speculates that poor Bob … fell victim to COVID! (Which in a sense is true, if with an Orwellian newspeak spin…) The question that begs to be asked is this: What kind of country are we living in?

SURVEYS FROM HELL

Poll question in Calgary, Canada: “Should Alberta implement a tax on adults who are unvaccinated from COVID-19?” And speaking of surveys: We confirmed (as reported in our COVID column two Sundays ago) that Rasmussen, indeed, ran a survey with a slew of incendiary questions, including … Would you favor having state or federal governments confine citizens to their homes at all times, except for emergencies, if they refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine? (A third of respondents — mostly Democrats — “strongly” or “somewhat” favored this.) Other questions dealt with confining the non-vaccinated to “designated facilities” and to imposing financial penalties or imprisoning people who merely question the vaccine’s veracity! (In other words, if ever implemented, this columnist could be jailed.) And this one: Should we remove parents’ custody of their children if parents refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine? Dare we say, this survey stuff is sicker than COVID itself.

STATE OF DIS-UNION It is speculated that Joe Biden, in his State of the Union address (delayed until March 1), will do with COVID as he did with Afghanistan: Declare it over and move on as if victorious. This would be political, of course, but

It is speculated that Joe Biden, in his State of the Union address (delayed until March 1), will do with COVID as he did with Afghanistan: Declare it over and move on as if victorious.

the pandemic has indeed mutated into something with which humanity can co-exist without oppressive lockdowns (which were not necessary) and social distancing. And the fools among us need to hear that from an authoritative proponent of the illogical mainstream narrative (assuming “authoritative” even applies to the cognitively-confused Biden). Because the truth about the omicron variant is seeping out, even among those charged with keeping the false narrative alive: Almost all hospitalizations and deaths supposedly caused by omicron were in reality for other health reasons and pinned on COVID-19 as part of the so-called “pandemic of the unvaccinated” scare story that itself does not hold water because the vaccinated and boostered suffered most from omicron. An email from Hesu: “Your reporting is a breath of unmasked fresh air.” An email from Erin: “Thank you!! Thank you!! I got the vaccine and almost died within hours of it ... insane heart palpitations, couldn’t breathe, shingles, severe gut pain, weird bleeding, migraines, blue feet and hands, 105 fever, unreal trauma to my body. When I got the vaccine, I felt acid running from my left arm where I was shot to my chest over and over. It was like fire was burning in my arm to my chest for three days. This is why I am 100 percent sure this is from the vaccine. I am a very healthy 41-year-old who played division 1 basketball in college and I am still struggling from this vaccine. I got my shot in May. I am healing very slowly... and the worst part is I had COVID before this and lost my sense of smell for a day. I was forced to get this vaccine by my employer. This article from a regular media outlet is a huge step in healing for me… thank you soooo much!!!” This leaves us in no doubt our column has found the right home — kudos to this newspaper’s publishers and editor for

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Columnist Robert Eringer predicts that during his State of Union address in March, President Joe BIden will declare victory over COVID-19.

being willing to stand up to the powers that (shouldn’t) be. The ranks of those unafraid to speak and write the truth are growing as the falsehoods and propaganda implode on those who demand total submission to their blathering nonsense, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, a civil servant who — according to his own financial disclosure forms — has amassed a fortune of over $10 million, including investments in China.

to my daughter with encouragement to go there. We did not go there. Five months later my daughter gave birth to a beautiful boy. I cannot imagine how life would be without “The Dude” because I love him so much. I cannot imagine how I would feel today if I’d paid, to scratch from my daughter, from this world, my own flesh and blood. This happy boy. This affectionate soul adored by dogs. My very precious grandson. Please think twice, maybe three times, before scratching out a real living, breathing human soul.

NATIONAL SANCTITY OF LIFE DAY… … was yesterday. It is a little known spiritual day if one with momentous meaning. In March 2012, my 18-year-old daughter found herself 4-months pregnant. Her obstetrician scribbled the name and number of a late-term abortion clinic onto a notepad and handed the notation

Robert Eringer is a longtime Montecito author with vast experience in investigative journalism. He welcomes questions or comments at reringer@gmail. com.

LOCAL FIVE-DAY FORECAST ADRIANSEN, Phillip James Dec. 29, 1943 - Dec. 28, 2021

Phil was born in Chicago, Illinois to Leonard and Phyllis Adriansen. He was the oldest of seven children. Growing up he went to Portage Park Elementary, Carl Schurz High School, and did two years at the University of Illinois Navy Pier. Later he joined the Army and served in Korea. He trained as an MP and became an aide to the Commanding General. Phil was a gentle soul with a kind heart. You may remember him from his 40 years, working for United Airlines Santa Barbara or maybe he sold you a home while working for Fred Fredricks Reality. Perhaps you bowled with him on one of the many leagues he played for or he was that friendly worker at Nielsen’s Market asking if you needed help ﬁnding anything. However you knew Phil, with his 6’5” stature and friendly face, he was unforgettable, loved by all, and will be dearly missed. He is survived by his wife of 52 years Julanne, daughter Nicole Nielsen (Rodney), grandchildren Natalya and Andrew Nielsen. Julanne and Nicole would like to thank Central Coast Hospice and Dignity Health Hospice for all their love and special care during Phil’s ﬁnal months and days. In this time of COVID, no public memorial service will be held. Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers.

RIFFERO, John Henry 07/08/1915-12/28/2021

It is with heavy hearts that the patriarch for the Riffero family passed away at age 106 1/2 on his son’s 80th birthday. He died peacefully at home surrounded by family. John was a strong man who planned to live forever. He loved life and wanted to stay in charge to the last breath. He was a humble, faithful, proud, and stoic man able to handle whatever came his way. John was born in Renton Washington to Mauricio and Zefferina (Favro) Riffero on July 8, 1915. He and his older brother went to Bussoleno De Susa, Italy (near Torino) with their mother at age two until age nine when they returned to Santa Barbara in 1925 surviving the Big Earthquake. He attended Franklin Elementary, SBJH and graduated from SBHS in 1934-the first of 4 generations of Dons. John started out at the age of 15 as a gardener on a Montecito estate, then at age 18 he became a singing waiter at the Cafe Paris in Los Angeles. He returned to SB to take care of his ill mother and help his father with his younger brother, Steve. In 1936 John was the youngest man to pass the California Real Estate brokers license exam at the age of 21 opening his first office at the Granada building. He invested in real estate and took pride in maintaining his properties himself until the age of 100. His life was interrupted by the 2nd World War when he was sent to Nagasaki, Japan in the aftermath of the 2nd atomic bomb. Returning to SB, he continued his career in real estate and expanded into insurance sales as well as, working as a notary public. He volunteered and ushered at Our Lady of Sorrows Church until the age of 99. He also volunteered for many years at the Boys Club of Santa Barbara by helping with the annual fairs and Thanksgiving dinners. John lost his wife of 80 years, Emma M. Riffero, on February 17th, 2021 ten days before her 100 birthday and he held her hand to the end. He is also preceded in death by his two brothers: Richard J Riffero and Steve A Riffero. also Sister in Laws Norma Peters(Marc), Louise Golin (John) and brother in law, Guido Brun (Cora). He leaves behind his son, John H Riffero ll (Pamela) and his daughter, Norma Jean Leifer (Vincent). He is also survived by his 8 grandchildren: John H Riffero lll (Yun Hue), Rochelle Baiocchi (Joel), Erin Leifer (Brian Johnson), Ashley Leifer (Pauline Irawan), Leslie Kneafsey, Emma Leifer (Paul Henry), Autumn Lotus, and Erica Phillips and his 12 great-grandchildren: Justin Baiocchi, Christian Johnson, Aiden Kneafsey, Elena Johnson, Evryn Kneafsey, Madeline Kneafsey, Bryn and Tobin Irawan-Leifer, Arianna Riffero, Jasmine Gularte, Dakota Lotus and Lily Phillips. He also leaves behind his nephews Richard J. Riffero, Jr., Fred Golin, Michael Durbiano lll (Kathy) and Michael Brun, and nieces Deanne Peter-Pace (John), Marie Modler, and Gina Marie Brun Allred. The Family would like to thank the Meals on Wheels, VNA-Health, Eva and The International Caregivers Corp for all their help. We Especially Thank Vicky Jallores, his devoted caregiver. A Funeral mass is to be Monday January 24th at Out Lady of Sorrows Church, under Covid restrictions. Burial at Catholic Calvary Cemetery to follow. In lieu of flowers, you may donate to SB Meals on Wheels, Our Lady of Sorrows parish of SB, VNA- Health on 512 E Gutierrez St. or the United Boys and Girls Club of SB, Calif.

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BERRY, Keith Carlton

Keith C. Berry passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, December 28th, at the age of 82 surrounded by family and loved ones. Keith was born in Santa Barbara on December 24, 1939, to Robert and Naomi Berry. He attended Franklin Elementary, Santa Barbara Junior High and graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1957. After high school he enlisted and served in the US Navy stationed at a Pearl Harbor submarine base. He subsequently returned home to work with his father in his home cleaning business. Keith began his career in real estate in 1964, earning his license in 1970 and spent more than 50 years helping clients buy and sell homes in the Santa Barbara area. His career afforded him the ability to both spend time with his family and donate time and resources to multiple organizations in the community. Keith was passionate about supporting education and children through sports and local organizations. Keith is survived by children Rob C. Berry (Yolanda), Suzanne M. Ilgun (Koral), Taylor C. Berry, Danielle B. Heimlicher (Dave), Christopher C. Berry (Jenny); grandchildren Caitlin, Morgan, Marley, Sophia and Nathan; his former wife Pamela Hall and girlfriend Joyce. He is preceded in death by his parents and brother Bill as well as his wife Tina Craviotto Berry and son Byron C. Berry. A service will be held at 10:00 am on Friday, January 28th, at Calvary Chapel (1 N. Calle Cesar Chavez, Suite 21, Santa Barbara, CA 93103). Masks will be required. A private burial will follow. In lieu of ﬂowers please send donations to Bishop Diego High School or The Teddy Bear Foundation.

HIDALGO, Carlos Armando, Sr. 1959-2022

It is with heavy hearts that we announce that Carlos Hidalgo, “LOS,” our beloved Dad, Brother, Grandfather, Uncle, passed away on Jan. 13, 2022 at age 62. Carlos was born in Santa Barbara & was a lifelong Santa Barbarian. He graduated from SBHS in 1978, where he was a star football player for the Dons. Carlos’ passion was softball, whether being a star player, coaching, umpiring, or just being a fan. He loved to celebrate everything life gave him; hanging out with family & friends, BBQing, enjoying Fiesta & making tamales to share at XMAS. He would often be seen hanging out with the love of his life, granddaughter Lily, and his dog buddy Modelo. “MIJO”is preceded in death by his parents, Richard and Cuca Hidalgo. He leaves behind his mom, Rafaela Hernandez, sons Carlos, Jr & Anthony, granddaughter Lily, sisters, Araceli “Cheli” and Maria “Nena”, nieces Wendi, Ivonne & Laurie, & greatnieces and greatnephews that adored him. A celebration of Carlos’ life will be held at a later, safe date. Contact a family member for details. In lieu of ﬂowers please donate to a Hidalgo tradition, “Old Spanish Days Fiesta” www. Sbﬁesta.org/support or the Westside Neighborhood Clinic https://sbclinics.org/donate/ May the angels surround you with love.

UNTERSEHER, Gary June 28, 1933-January 4, 2022

Gary Unterseher life began June 28, 1933 in Sutton, Nebraska and ended January 4, 2022 in Solvang, California after a long illness. Gary lived a fabulous AllAmerican dream growing up in the small town of Sutton, Nebraska which he dearly loved. He attended Sutton High School and then Hastings College where he met his brideto-be Dorothy Cain Gjerloff whom he married in 1957 and celebrated sixty-four years of marriage. Gary served in the United States Army as a paratrooper with the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment as well as a sharpshooter on the Riﬂe Team. Upon returning home, they migrated to Santa Barbara, California in 1961 where he was a Master Plumber of ﬁfty years. Taught at Santa Barbara City College the Plumbing Apprenticeship Program and had his own Plumbing company very early on. Had worked with Ingalls Plumbing, R.P. Richards Plumbing and the Vandenberg Space program as a Foreman Supervisor. Retired in 1989 where he and Dottie moved to Las Vegas to golf daily...and he did! Returned to Solvang, California in 2014 where he lived until his death. Gary had a great passion for sports and was extremely competitive in many of them. An avid golfer, water skier and especially FOOTBALL. He played in the Mineral Bowl in college in 1957. Gary was very diligent about working out and staying in shape, all the way up to eighty-two years of age. He was all about; “The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” that was a real motto to Gary. He is survived by his wife Dorothy Unterseher, sister Joanne Simmons; sons Monte Unterseher, Mike Unterseher and daughter Judi (Leon) Turk; His four grandchildren; Lindsay (Tim) Troncone, Payton (William) Crumpler, Maddy Unterseher and Kyle Elder; great-grandchildren; Sawyer Rae Troncone and Ryder Troncone. A private memorial due to COVID-19.

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COASTAL

Pismo Beach 72/42

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Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Maricopa 64/41

Guadalupe 71/39

Santa Maria 71/39

Vandenberg 66/42

New Cuyama 65/32 Ventucopa 64/35

Los Alamos 73/37

Buellton 71/34

Solvang 71/34

Gaviota 65/45

SANTA BARBARA 69/41 Goleta 69/42

Carpinteria 66/47 Ventura 67/50

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

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67/37 64/42 83 in 1950 30 in 2007

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

0.00” 0.06” (2.90”) 8.89” (7.81”)

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

64/39/s 64/37/s 47/22/s 60/28/s 65/56/s 63/39/s 71/41/s 61/39/pc 64/37/s 74/50/s 41/15/s 62/36/s 67/44/s 66/37/s 62/43/s 71/46/s 71/47/s 77/52/s 73/49/s 68/33/s 62/35/s 70/48/s 62/46/s 66/41/s 74/41/s 71/48/s 43/15/s

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 63/32/s 68/40/s 68/38/s 69/42/s 67/38/s 72/33/s 65/41/s 65/48/s

50/32/s 34/17/c 21/12/sn 64/40/s 52/28/s 59/43/pc 73/49/pc 10/7/sn 34/22/pc 38/24/pc 68/46/pc 51/34/pc 38/23/pc 38/24/s 47/34/pc 40/26/pc

POINT ARENA TO POINT PINOS

Wind north-northwest 6-12 knots today. Waves 2 feet or less with a west-southwest swell 1-3 feet at 13 seconds. Visibility clear.

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO

Wind north-northwest 6-12 knots today. Waves 2 feet or less with a west-southwest swell 1-3 feet at 13 seconds. Visibility clear.

SANTA BARBARA HARBOR TIDES Date Time High Time Jan. 23 Jan. 24 Jan. 25

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AT BRADBURY DAM, LAKE CACHUMA 64/38/s 69/39/s 52/24/s 64/28/s 64/52/s 63/41/s 71/42/s 52/37/pc 63/38/s 73/49/s 49/15/s 62/36/s 65/44/s 64/38/s 61/44/s 69/47/s 63/47/s 78/52/s 72/51/s 66/34/s 61/36/pc 67/49/s 58/47/s 64/40/s 71/42/s 69/48/s 48/16/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 4-8 knots today. Waves less than a foot with a west-southwest swell 2-4 feet at 13 seconds. Visibility clear.

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LOCAL TEMPS Today Hi/Lo/W 65/32/s 69/42/s 70/38/s 72/42/s 71/39/s 71/34/s 66/42/s 67/50/s

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SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL

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At Lake Cachuma’s maximum level at the point at which water starts spilling over the dam holds 188,030 acre-feet. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, equivalent to the amount of water consumed annually by 10 people in an urban environment. Storage 93,345 acre-ft. Elevation 712.23 ft. Evaporation (past 24 hours) 6.1 acre-ft. Inflow 0.0 acre-ft. State inflow 13.3 acre-ft. Storage change from yest. -38 acre-ft. Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

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‘We overpassed the first year’s goals’ MISSION

Continued from Page A1 said. Brother Mark Schroeder, guardian of the Santa Barbara Mission, said work has begun on the roofs of two buildings. He’s confident the generosity of the community will provide for more. The public bathrooms should be updated and brought up to Americans with Disabilities Act standards, Ms. Orozco said. “To be able to update those and offer clean updated bathrooms to the community really speaks to our hospitality, and that’s important to us,” she said. The Santa Barbara Mission also wants to create a Chumash memorial. It has developed a relationship with some bands, and members of the board want to honor the tribe. Father Dan said the Mission has been trying to open dialogue about the offenses of the past. “I think a lot of us here feel that, ‘How do we honor those who’ve gone before us but also realize

that those who’ve gone before us were caught up in the colonial system?’ ” he said. The full list of desired repairs is featured at santabarbaramission. org/campaign. “In my eyes (the campaign) is going better than expected. We overpassed the first year’s goals,” Brother Mark said. Donations have come from community members, parishioners and grants, he said. But because the mission is a religious nonprofit, it is not eligible for many grants or government-funding opportunities. “I’m very grateful for anyone who donates anything,” regardless of the amount, Brother Mark said. The Santa Barbara Mission is one of 21 missions in California, and it’s one of only two in the state with Franciscan friars. The friars’ other missions fell into disrepair, Brother Mark said. To give, go to santabarbaramission.org/ways-togive. email: ahanshaw@newspress.com KENNETH SONG / NEWS-PRESS PHOTOS

Donations to the Santa Barbara Mission have come from community members, parishioners and grants.

Father, son died in Montecito debris flow LAWSUIT

Continued from Page A1 investigation and needed to see Dr. Kurin’s full report. On Saturday, the News-Press checked online information concerning a federal docket and saw that Ms. Cantin’s suit was filed Oct. 18 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The case was assigned to Judge Mark C. Scarsi. Mrs. Cantin, who told the News-Press last summer that she felt relief from the realization she could now bury her son, is represented by Santa Barbara attorney Barry Cappello. Jack and his father, Dave Cantin, were among the 23 people who died in the debris flow. Search crews couldn’t find Jack’s body after the debris flow, which set the stage for a three-year search. The Cantin family were at their Montecito home when the debris flow hit their house. In addition to Kim Cantin, Kim and Dave’s daughter Lauren survived the debris flow. The Montecito Fire

Department rescued Lauren, who was buried for several hours under mud, and first responders heard her cry for help through all the mud. Dave Cantin’s body was found at Hammond’s Creek near the mouth of Montecito Creek. Last summer Kim Cantin told the News-Press she felt relief over the discovery of Jack’s remains. “I’m just relieved (now),” the Santa Barbara resident said. “It’s obviously a tragedy. I’m always going to miss my husband and son, but I’m much more relieved and at peace knowing that his remains can be buried with dignity, and I can tuck him into a casket and bury him next to his dad.” Dr. Kurin resigned in January from UCSB, but said the resignation wasn’t related to the Cantin case. The News-Press reached out Saturday to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office for a comment about the suit, but had not heard back before going to press Saturday night. email: dmason@newspress.com

Kim Cantin, left, and her daughter Lauren stand in front of the family portrait at their home in Santa Barbara in 2019.

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Gauchos stun Pepperdine in five-set thriller By MICHAEL JORGENSON UCSB SPORTS WRITER

The UCSB men’s volleyball team earned its most impressive win so far in 2022 on Friday night, defeating No. 4 Pepperdine on the road in a five-set thriller and handing the Waves their first loss of the season. The scores were 24-26, 25-21, 25-22, 21-25, 15-7. Junior opposite Haotian Xia went for 15 kills and seven blocks. Only middle blocker Donovan Todorov had more blocks, going for a Gaucho season-high nine blocks to go along with five kills. Ryan Wilcox returned to the lineup following a one-match absence and tallied eight kills. Fellow outside butter Dayne Chalmers flirted with a doubledouble recording a team-best 11 digs and a season-high eight kills. Setter Patrick Paragas finished with 37 assists, seven digs and three blocks. For the first time this season, the Gauchos lost the opening set, despite opening up with a 12-8 lead. The Waves sealed the 26-24 win on a kill by Alex Gettinger. The second set provided more lead changes (6) and tied (12) than any other. UCSB held Pepperdine to just a .100 hitting percentage, compared to .269 for the Gauchos. After being tied 1818, the last five points the Waves would concede came on attacking or service errors.

UCSB won the set 25-21. The Gauchos took their momentum into set three and jumped out to a 4-0 lead. UCSB’s advantage grew as large as six points a number of times throughout. The Gauchos never trailed until a setclinching ace from freshman Geste Bianchi. UCSB won the set 25-22. After a 6-3 UCSB lead to open the fourth set, the Waves got back on track, taking the lead with five unanswered. Pepperdine’s offense remained hot the rest of the set, as the home side hit at a .560 clip the rest of the way for its largest win of the night: 25-21. Reaching a fifth set for the second time this season, the Gauchos flipped the script this time around. UCSB’s offense simply couldn’t be stopped, as it pounded away for seven kills on just nine attempts (.778). Pepperdine scored to come within one point at 7-6, but Xia started an 8-1 run to end the match. Over the course of that spurt, Pepperdine had four attacking errors while Xia recorded three kills to seal the deal. The set ended with UCSB’s’ 157 victory. The Gauchos are back at home this week to face Penn State on Friday and Ohio State on Saturday. Michael Jorgenson writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

California beats UCSB in women’s tennis By DANIEL MESSINGER UCSB SPORTS WRITER

The UCSB women’s tennis team (0-1) fell 6-1 to No. 9 California (10) in their season opening dual match Friday afternoon. The match was the first at the new Arnhold Tennis Center. While the Gauchos seized the doubles point to kick off the day, the Golden Bears wore down Santa

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Barbara in the singles portion of the match. In doubles, Shakhnoza Khatamova and Elizaveta Volodko beat the no. 27-ranked doubles team of Jessica Alsola and Erin Richardson 6-2 on court one. After the Golden Bears took the number two doubles matchup 7-5, Camille Kiss and Filippa Bruu-Syversen sealed the doubles point for Santa Barbara with a 7-6 (3) tiebreaker

win. Singles didn’t go the Gauchos’ way as they lost some closely contested matches. Volodko stayed with No. 108 Valentina Ivanov all match, but ultimately fell in the 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3), losing a third-set tiebreaker. Kiss also stayed close to her ranked opponent, taking No. 110 Alsola to three sets but ended up on the wrong end of a 3-6, 6-1, 6-3

match. In the most entertaining match of the day, Khatamova dropped a back-and-forth 6-4, 7-6 (4), 7-5 match to Cal’s Haley Giavara. The Golden Bears also took the other three singles matchups. Daniel Messinger writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

UCSB wins water polo season opener By MICHAEL JORGENSON UCSB SPORTS WRITER

The No. 18 UC Santa Barbara women’s water polo team began its 2022 season on Friday, welcoming 11 visiting schools to Campus Pool for day one of the 2022 UCSB Winter Invite. The Gauchos opened the day with a 19-7 win over Ottawa, Ariz., before falling to No. 16 San Jose State 15-7 to close things out. The Spirit struck first with a power play goal less than two minutes in, but their time holding the lead would be short-lived. Utility Caitlyn Snyder opened the scoring for the Gauchos’ season at the 3:59 mark of the first. Attackers Nina Munson and Sarah Owens scored next as the Gauchos extended it to a 5-0 run before the end of the opening period. UCSB’s lead grew to as large as 15 in the fourth quarter, as the Gauchos improved to 7-1 in their season-opening games under head coach Serela Kay. Munson and Owens ended their first outings of 2022 with three goals apiece to lead the team. Leigh Lyter, Drew Halvorson, Imani Clemons and Cami

Mras all scored twice. UCSB went on to lose to San Jose State 5-17. Closing the day against the Spartans, UCSB took some punches early as San Jose State got out to a 4-0 lead less than four minutes in. Halvorson put the home side on the board with a goal at the 4:13 mark, but the Gauchos went into the second trailing 5-1. A huge shift in momentum came next, as Caitlyn Snyder scored three unanswered goals before halftime, calmly firing perfectly placed left-handed shots past goalkeeper Elaina Davey and hearing it from the Gaucho faithful. SJSU’s Cila David scored one of her game-high five goals with two seconds before halftime, making it a 75 game in favor of the visitors at the break. Unfortunately for the Gauchos, it was the Spartans who won the decisive third frame, outscoring UCSB 5-1 in the period to seal the win. Michael Jorgenson writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

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Destiny Okonkwo tallied a career-high 24 points and pulled down 10 rebounds to notch the first double-double of her collegiate career. The sophomore post went nine of 13 from the field and added six free throws to help lead the No. 5-ranked Westmont Warriors (15-3, 8-2 GSAC) to a 74-56 Golden State Athletic Conference win Thursday over Ottawa of Arizona (5-12, 2-8). “Destiny has been on the verge of having a game like this for a while,” said Westmont head women’s basketball coach Kirsten Moore. “She is gaining in confidence and seeing what she can do out there. She’s been such a great presence for us on defense with her strength and activity. To see her starting to get that confidence on the offensive end is awesome and will continue to help give our team balance.” Westmont struggled in odd numbered quarters but took control of even number periods. Westmont fell behind 12-7, six minutes into the opening frame, but rallied with jumpers by

Westmont shot 66.7% from the field in the fourth quarter (eight of 12), and shot 78.6& from the charity stripe (11 of 14) to outpace Ottawa 27-15 to secure the win. Okonkwo and Gabriella Stoll (eight points, seven rebounds, four steals) and a free throw from Kaitlin Larson (seven points, four rebounds) to tie the score at 12 with 2:40 to play in the quarter. Neither team scored until OUAZ’s Sedona Anderson (11 points, four rebounds) knocked down a jumper with 20 seconds to go, giving the Spirit a 14-12 lead at the end of the first 10 minutes of play. Larson produced a jumper to start off the second period and tie the score at 14. However, Marlee Johnson connected on a three to put the Spirit back on top 17-14. With just over seven minutes before intermission, Stefanie Berberabe (16 points,

five rebounds, four assists, three steals) recorded a field goal and sparked an 11-1 Warrior run, giving Westmont a 25-18 advantage. Two field goals by Okonkwo, and one each by Laila Sainz (seven points, five rebounds) and Stoll filled out the run. Westmont outscored Ottawa 207 in the second quarter and held a 32-21 lead at halftime. Okonkwo extended the Warrior lead to 13 (34-21) to start the quarter, but the Spirit outscored the warriors 20-15 in the period to cut Westmont’s advantage to six (47-41) headed into the final frame. Westmont shot 66.7% from the Please see WESTMONT on A7

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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS ASSISTANT Bren School of Environmental Science & Management

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MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER Department of Music

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and other leaves and releases for compliance with the campus, university, and federal policies and procedures. Reviews and closely analyzes annual faculty FTE requests for CoE departments and programs, identifying areas of projected growth, attrition, interdisciplinary commonalities and shared opportunities between departments and programs. Works with Dean to determine priorities and develop strategies for the long-term planning relating to faculty recruitment, and writes College FTE plan and works closely with Dean on Council on Planning & Budget Report. Responsible for all aspects of staff personnel, including recruitment, development of job descriptions, ensuring performance evaluations are completed, and labor relations issues are resolved. Analyzes all temporary academic personnel actions submitted by departments to the Dean’s Office assuring compliance with campus and bargaining unit policies and procedures. Serves as a committee member/resource for inter- and intra-college faculty recruitment, and is CoE’s liaison with Academic Personnel, Affirmative Action Office, Human Resources, and Office of International Students and Scholars. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $61,200 - $93,200/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 2/4/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 29978

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Work with donor prospects to optimize philanthropy to benefit UC Santa Barbara and to support GGSE. ADD primarily focuses on giving from individuals and foundations to promote fundraising priorities in support of the overall schoolfundraising strategy. Fundraising efforts, as defined by the Dean and the GGSE Assistant Dean of Development (DD), are devoted primarily to the Gevirtz School, with an emphasis on fundraising priorities connected to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Social Justice, and GGSE’s role in furthering UCSB’s campus efforts as a Minority Serving Institution and a Hispanic Serving Institution ADD will raise money for priorities as set annually by the Dean and DD. ADD will identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward individual prospects and associated family foundations, with a focus on major gifts of $25,000+ including targeted solicitations to foundations and corporate sponsors. Additional focus will be on annual strategy to close new and renewing annual gifts up to $25,000, and to build a major gift and estate gift pipeline. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent combination of education and experience. Demonstrated interpersonal skills to establish and maintain good working relationships with diverse groups, including colleagues, faculty, staff, donors, and students. Strong organizational and time management skills and meticulous attention to detail, the ability to set, negotiate, and meet priorities and produce high-quality work under multiple deadlines and priorities. Proven success in leading a creative venture or program. Experience with social media. Proven success in managing events at various scales and generating positive outcomes. Broad knowledge of the principles and practices of university fundraising and stewardship best practice. Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record. Satisfactory conviction history background check. May be required to work some evenings and weekends. $67,500 - 75,000/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 28174

CALM Currently Hiring for Bathroom Renovation Project

CALM’s mission is to prevent childhood trauma, heal children and families and build resilient communities throughout Santa Barbara County. CALM has received grant money to renovate two restrooms in its offices, located at 1236 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara. One restroom will be remodel of an existing one to be a fully accessible single toilet and lavatory. The second will be a remodel of a small non-accessible restroom, including the replacement of plumbing fixtures, accessories, and interior finishes. This project is funded by grants from both the City of Santa Barbara and County of Santa Barbara, and is a prevailing wage project based on Federal Davis-Bacon wages at time of construction. The project will be in 2 phases. The first phase will be the demolition of the larger restroom to determine the sub structure and rough plumbing / electrical layouts to create a plan for the upgraded accessible restroom. The scope of the work will be developed through an onsite visit to the facility. This will be a stand-alone bid so that the design team can create a plan for the remodel. The second phase will be to complete the remodel of both restrooms based on approved plans, and again will be a separate bid.

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4701 Foothill Road Cannabis Cultivation Development Plan and Coastal Development Permit Carpinteria Joe Dargel, Supervising Planner (805) 568-3573 Gwen Beyeler, Planner (805) 934-6269

Hearing on the request of Eduard Van Wingerden, Applicant and Owner, to consider the following: a) Development Plan (DVP) (Case No. 19DVP-00000-00016) to allow over 20,000 square feet (sq. ft.) of structural development including two existing permitted greenhouses, legalization of as-built structures including an office, irrigation room, boiler room additions, restroom building, storage buildings, and water tanks, five new water tanks, 1,300 cubic yards (CY) of cut and 300 CY of fill, and a request for a setback modification in compliance with Sections 35-102F (CA – Carpinteria Agricultural Overlay District), 35-174 (Development Plans), and 35-169 (Coastal Development Permits) of the Coastal Zoning Ordinance (Article II). b) Coastal Development Permit (CDP) (Case No. 19CDP-00000-00017) to allow 10.74 acres of nursery and mixed-light cannabis cultivation within an existing permitted greenhouse, legalization of as-built structures including an office, irrigation room, boiler room additions, restroom building, storage buildings, and water tanks, five new water tanks, and 1,300 CY of cut and 300 CY of fill in compliance in compliance with Sections 35-169 (Coastal Development Permits) and 35-144U (Cannabis Regulations) of Article II. c) State CEQA Guidelines Section 15168(c)(4) Checklist for Commercial Cannabis Land Use Entitlement and Licensing Applications, which determines that all of the environmental impacts of the Proposed Project are within the scope of the project covered by the PEIR for the Cannabis Land Use Ordinance and Licensing Program. No additional cumulative impacts have been identified, and no new environmental document is required under Section 15162. The applications involve Assessor Parcel Numbers (APNs) 004-003-008 and 004-005-002, located at 4701 Foothill Road and 1495 Sterling Avenue in the Carpinteria Area, within the Carpinteria Agricultural Overlay District, First Supervisorial District. SANTA BARBARA COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION RECORDING SECRETARY (568-2000) JAN 23 / 2021 -- 57907

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A new business, peasants DELI & MARKET, will offer classic and not-so-classic deli sandwiches filled with artisanal-cured and smoked meats served on specially commissioned sesame French rolls.

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At top, a new business, peasants DELI & MARKET, is located at 473 Atterdag Road in Solvang. Above, “Most of my memories of my dad revolve around food, and some of the best of those were from the times he’d take me to hole-in-the-wall delis all over Los Angeles,” said Chef Michael Cherney, seen here with his wife Sarah Cherney. They own peasants DELI & MARKET.

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ichael Cherney and his wife, Sarah Cherney, owners of peasants FEAST in Solvang, have expansion plans in place for the growing hospitality group with the opening of peasants DELI & MARKET, also in downtown Solvang. The new space is located at 473 Atterdag Road, across the lane from the duo’s first restaurant, peasants FEAST. “Most of my memories of my dad revolve around food, and some of the best of those were from the times he’d take me to hole-in-thewall delis all over Los Angeles,” Chef Cherney told the NewsPress. “We’d sit out on the curb to eat whatever that day’s haul might have been; peasants DELI & MARKET is my re-creation of those memories, right down to the scant sidewalk seating in front of the shop.” The new business will offer classic and not-so-classic deli sandwiches filled with artisanalcured and smoked meats served on specially commissioned sesame

French rolls from a Santa Ynez Valley bakery, Bob’s Well Bread. “We’re not sure if Thursday, our target date for the grand opening, will stick,” said Chef Cherney. “The bakeries from which we will source bread, both in the Santa Ynez Valley, are having problems with staff shortages, due to COVID, and there are supply chain and other issues. This is obviously a huge and common problem in the restaurant industry at the moment.” A focal point of peasants DELI will be a sizable leg of 5J Jamón Ibérico Bellota Cinco Jotas, a rarely found Spanish import, considered the finest cured ham in the world. Chef Cherney’s renowned and Instagram-famous pastrami smoked salmon will be on the menu, as well as house-roasted Kobe roast beef sandwiches; an Italian sandwich version, “The Godfather,” with Alle-Pia coppa, Barolo and Sopressa salami, and La Quercia prosciutto; houseroasted turkey breast; veggie options; and, eventually, Cherney’s house-made porchetta sandwich, all finished with house dressings and condiments. Chef Cherney is also considering

the menu addition of his housecured and smoked, thick-cut, maple-glazed bacon. In addition to the sandwich menu and the Jamón Ibérico, peasants DELI & MARKET will hand slice other assorted meats, which will be available à la carte. Shelving will line one wall of peasants DELI & MARKET, displaying rows of provisions available for purchase. They include olive oil and fig balsamic vinegar, made for peasants DELI by local crafter Global Gardens; jars of peasants PICKLES; handmade, fresh pasta; and various dressings and condiments used at the deli, including its proprietary Italian dressing and Sunrise Organic Farms Bulgarian carrot pepper hot sauce. Also available in the market section of the deli will be Conservas Ortiz tuna belly, boquerones like those found on peasants FEAST’s Copenhagen Caesar salad, and Spanish mussels in escabeche from La Brújula, with rotating pâté eventually joining the line-up (e.g., rabbit, duck, etc.). Over the past couple of months, the peasants FEAST crew has Please see PEASANTS on B4

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Nurse wins award for extraordinary care By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

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Sarah Read began working in 2019 at the Lompoc Valley Medical Center and has primarily been in the Medical-Surgical ward.

Registered nurse Sarah Read was named the January 2022 recipient of Lompoc Valley Medical Center’s DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. Ms. Read, who has been a nurse since 2017, was recognized during a ceremony Thursday. A nomination testimonial said she “exemplifies what a nurse should be.” The prestigious international award is part of the DAISY Foundation’s mission to recognize the extraordinary, compassionate nursing care provided to patients and families every day. The nonprofit DAISY Foundation was established in memory of J. Patrick Barnes by members of his family and honors nurses for making a profound difference in the lives of their patients and patient families. Mr. Barnes died in 1999 at age 33 from complications caused by ITP, or Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, an auto-immune disease. DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System. The foundation was inspired by the care Mr. Barnes and his family received from nurses while he was ill. LVMC nominations are reviewed by an internal committee of representatives from nursing, non-nursing and non-clinical departments. Ms. Read began working at LVMC in 2019 and has primarily been in the MedicalSurgical ward. She is now transitioning to a job in the PAC-U or Post-Anesthesia Care Unit. She previously worked for a dozen years in veterinary medicine before deciding to become a nurse. “She is an amazing team player, great coworker, excellent employee, and most of all, one of the kindest, caring, compassionate nurses I have known,” one nomination stated.

Ms. Read earned her associate of arts degree at the College of Southern Maryland and her bachelor of science in nursing at Stevenson University in Maryland. “To be joining the caliber of nurses who have won this award before is an amazing honor for me,” said Ms. Read, whose grandmother, uncle and aunt were all nurses. “You always wonder about associations, so this is like the best of the best. You’re recognized for everything, every single contribution. Nothing was ignored; everything was analyzed.” She said to see everyone come together to award her the DAISY gives her the feeling that she is valued for her work, which “means the most to me.” She said she enjoys her job at LVMC and loves how she has gotten to know all her coworkers. “We can all work together on our strengths,” Ms. Read said. “This hospital has a way of bringing in people who are open to learning and experiencing new things, new technology, new ways of doing things. Everyone works together so well … Everybody’s working hard.” Ms. Read, who was called an “amazing team player” in her nomination, has received numerous compliments from the community for her care. “She is truly an asset to this hospital and a role model to nursing,” the nomination stated. In addition to a certificate, Ms. Read received a DAISY Award pin and a sculpture called “A Healer’s Touch,” hand-carved by artists of the Shona Tribe in Zimbabwe. More information about the award is available at daisyfoundation.org. To nominate a nurse at LVMC, Lompoc Health or the Comprehensive Care Center, see the nomination form at lompocvmc.com under the Resources tab and Patient Feedback link. email: mmcmahon@newspress.com

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Carpinteria Museum Marketplace postponed due to COVID-19 CARPINTERIA — The Carpinteria Valley Museum of History will postpone its monthly Museum Marketplace, slated for this Saturday, until Feb. 26. “The recent surge in COVID omicron infections in Carpinteria and beyond has forced us to reschedule the event out of concern for public health,” said David Griggs, the museum’s

director. “After shutting down over the holidays, we were really anxious to get up and running again, but protection of our volunteers and the general public is more important at this time.” The popular monthly market is an important fundraiser for the historical museum’s operations and features up to 65 vendors with bargains in antiques,

collectibles, hand-crafted gifts, plants and vintage goods of every description. “We hope to see everyone back in February, but in the meantime, get vaccinated and wear your masks,” Mr. Griggs said. For more information, go to carpinteriahistoricalmuseum.org. — Marilyn McMahon

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SANTA BARBARA — Ottmar Liebert and his band Luna Negra will perform at 8:30 p.m. Feb. 14 at SOhO, 1221 State St. Doors open at 7. Born in Cologne, Germany, Mr. Liebert began playing guitar at 11. After pursuing his dreams of

playing rock music in Boston, he settled in Santa Fe, N.M., where he returned to his acoustic guitar and began to define his musical style. His music is a mix of Spanish, MExican and World elements. He started his first incarnation of his band, Luna Negra, in 1989

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JAMS to present reggae concert to benefit scholarship fund SANTA BARBARA — Jasmine’s Alternative Music School is presenting a reggae concert to benefit its scholarship fund at 6 p.m. Saturday at SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. Featured will be three local favorites – Cornerstone, One2Tree and King Zero. Tickets, which are $25, are available at www.sohosb.com. The goal of JAMS is to educate, inspire and heal through participatory musical

experiences for all ages in a creative and caring environment. One of the programs is JAMS Teen Night, which takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. Fridays at the JAMS studio, 631½ N. Milpas St. JAMS’s programs are free and open to all teenagers, who will have the opportunity to meet other young musicians, play music together, have fun and potentially form bands. All participants have a chance to play, choosing from the many instruments available. Call

JAMS at 805-252-0562 or visit www.jamsmusic.org for more information. “Music transforms lives and creates community among all ages. Learning and playing music provides a much needed social and creative environment, along with a sense of belonging,” said Nancy Earle, JAMS executive director. We’re looking forward to continuing to serve the Santa Barbara community.” — Marilyn McMahon

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At top and center, a focal point of peasants DELI will be a sizable leg of 5J Jamón Ibérico Bellota Cinco Jotas, a rarely found Spanish import, considered the finest cured ham in the world. Above, balsamic vinegar and olive oil are among the products at peasants DELI & MARKET.

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been running “pop-ups” in the peasants DELI & MARKET space, announced via social media. Future plans for the new deli space, once the beer and wine license is in place, are weekly social hours, from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday. New peasants DELI & MARKET initiatives and updates will be announced on the team’s social media accounts: @peasantsDELI and @peasantsFEAST. The Cherneys’ debut restaurant, peasants FEAST, originally opened for business just two weeks after the start of the March 2020 pandemic shutdowns. “With years of planning, hopes, dreams and sacrifice leading up to opening our first restaurant, yet facing complete uncertainty, Sarah and I pushed forward with the peasants FEAST opening, modifying and adapting our initial business model to meet the changing community needs,” said Chef Cherney.

FYI Located at 487 Atterdag Road in Solvang, peasants FEAST is open for take-away service and indoor or outdoor patio dining from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays. For information, call 805-686-4555. Initial opening hours for the deli counter at peasants DELI & MARKET, 473 Atterdag Road, will be 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (or until sold out) Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, with market hours to extend a bit later. For information, call 805-691-9649.or visit www.peasantsdeli.com.

The restaurant began by providing the newly homebound Santa Ynez Valley with farm-fresh menu items prepared for takeaway to be enjoyed at home or on the road. One of the restaurant opening’s pandemic-forced tweaks was the elimination of a Jamón Ibérico station, which was meant to be an interior dining room centerpiece. “It’s funny how things play out. Not only did we survive the past nearly two years, now we’re actually

expanding our family business, complete with that ham as a foodie focus,” said Chef Cherney. The couple brought more than three decades of restaurant experience to peasants FEAST, with time spent in Michelinstarred Ortolan in Los Angeles and L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon in Las Vegas, and with Sides Hardware and Shoes and Firestone Walker Brewing Company in Santa Ynez Valley. The Cherneys’ initial intent for peasants FEAST was for the restaurant to serve as a gathering place for friends and families, but the pandemic’s different plans made the couple master their to-go game, only recently allowing them to seat guests in the indoor dining area. “We really wanted to entertain a bit more, but the organic growth and pace of peasants FEAST’s business didn’t give us a chance to do so,” said Ms. Cherney. “The DELI is an opportunity to slow our pace and to welcome guests in a more intimate setting,” email: mmcmahon@newspress.com

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ANDY CALDWELL: The greed of government/ C2

SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 2022

DID YOU KNOW? Bonnie Donovan

Big Brother really is watching us

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OSHA: Law or politics?

he question of whether the Occupational Safety and Health Act was empowered to enforce the law or politics was recently decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. I admit surprise that Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor disagreed with the decision that I predicted in my News-Press column on Sept. 25. Why did I write a piece on what to me was a long-settled issue? Because it was in September that communications from White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain indicated that the administration thought it could end-run Congress by using OSHA to enforce their nation-wide vaccine mandate. Why was I certain of the Supreme Court ruling against the mandate for businesses in the private sector? The background of my analysis began in 1969 when Neil Armstrong’s walking on the moon inspired me to switch from “what are my current career choices” to “what would I like them to be?” About all I knew was that I wanted to be responsible for making my own decisions and contributing to our free enterprise system. I had seen that during case studies there always reached a point where the actions depended on legal questions, which meant

that far too many times lawyers OSHA was required to publish were the decision makers. potential regulations in order After Mr. Armstrong, I asked: to receive, and consider, input Why not me? from industry before issuing final I will say there were risks in regulations. Understanding the turning down attractive offers from rules before you act was one of the Macdonald Douglas and reasons I pursued a law Dow Chemical based on degree. my math and management Why didn’t OSHA degrees. My wife’s parents follow the approach accusing me of being a of the Chief of Staff “professional student” in September? This raised the question: Why administration’s choice not? for secretary of labor, the I was able to negotiate former mayor of Boston the University of and head of the Building Brent E. Tennessee’s offer of an and Trades Council, Zepke instructorship in statistics Marty Walsh, took office The author to fund law school instead on March 23. However, it lives in Santa was not until Nov. 5 that of the intended Ph.D in Barbara. management science. Doug Parker became Subsequently teaching the head of OSHA. Two a case study course days later, OSHA used its reinforced my opinion that lawyers emergency regulations to bypass were decision makers. This was the public notice requirement reinforced in initial cases under and require the 84 million who OSHA when the judge dismissed worked for employers of 100 or the case against my client more employees to require their because of my argument that the employees be vaccinated, and Occupational Safety and Health those not vaccinated wear masks at Act did not have jurisdiction. work and be tested weekly. Congress indicated the The significance of the jurisdiction of OSHA by placing regulations and their taking effect its administration under the in January 2022 caused the courts U.S. Department of Labor to to escalate their rulings. And it “assure safe and healthy working led the U.S. Supreme Court to stay conditions” — in other words, “the the implementation until after the workplace.” court’s emergency hearing in early Congress also provided that January.

Before the hearing, Justice Sotomayor published her opinion that the vaccine requirements should be upheld. Such opinions prior to the hearing are grounds to have the judge removed from that case if they choose not to recuse themselves from taking part in the decision. Ironically this applies to all judges except the iustices on the Supreme Court, who are on their honor to decide for themselves. Justice Sotomayor did not recuse herself. After arguments, Justices John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito held that OSHA empowers “the Secretary to issue workplace safety standards, not broad public health care measures” and rejected the OSHA regulations. These justices held the “COVID-19 can, and is, spread at home, in schools, during sporting events and everywhere else people gather. That kind of universal risk is no different from the dayto-day dangers that all face from all types of dangers from crime to air pollution, or any number of communicable diseases.” Who could disagree with this application for a law whose purpose is safety and health in the workplace? The Clinton and Obama nominees Justices Breyer and

Kagan and the aforementioned Justice Sotomayor did disagree through a dissent based not on legal reasons but because “extraordinary times lead to extraordinary measures.” If even this retired University of Tennessee grad and corporate counsel predicted the ruling of the six justices that OSHA did not have jurisdiction, and even the well-qualified other three justices could not state a legal reason for the vaccine requirements: Why was the mandate selected by Ron Klain — a Harvard law grad, a former law clerk for Justice Byron White, former chief of staff for vice presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden, and the current White House chief of staff? The six justices’ holding reinforces my spontaneous decision on that fateful day in July 1969 to “dream big” and study the rule of law in order to make decisions pursuant to it. Brent E Zepke is an attorney, arbitrator and author who lives in Santa Barbara. Formerly he taught at six universities and numerous professional conferences. He is the author of six books: One HeartTwo Lives, Legal Guide to Human Resources, Business Statistics, Labor Law, Products and the Consumer, and Law for NonLawyers.

Joe Biden: Who Is this guy?

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Columnist James Buckley writes that Joe “Biden apparently can and will read anything put in front of him, regardless of the source and, actually, regardless of what the words mean.”

e know “drop boxes” installed by PURELY that a Mr. Democrat activists in the POLITICAL Joe (with a haste and confusion of probable the COVID-19 pandemic. real Regardless of the name of Joseph) Biden circumstances that got is currently president him here, Mr. Biden’s our of the United States, “president,” so let’s take apparently elected by an at least a short look at the overwhelming number man. James Buckley of absolutely clueless Joe Biden graduated individuals who’d always from Syracuse University dreamed of installing College of Law in 1968. a masked-up basement dweller He claimed to have graduated with no apparent agenda, and “near the top” of his class. He was an equally unqualified running 76th in a class of 85. “mate.” He also received an “F” after Supporters of Joe and Kamala it was revealed that five pages spent a good part of 2020 leading “written” by law student Joe Biden up to what is jokingly referred to came directly — word for word — as “Election Day,” filling in “mailout of a previously published law in” ballots, to later be conveniently review article. dropped into thousands of In his 1987 run for the unsecured and unmonitored presidency, he was accused of and

admitted to having plagiarized a speech given by British Labour Party Leader Neil Kinnock. Mr. Biden, over the years, has “borrowed” (unattributed) phrases from both Robert and John F. Kennedy, along with various other political leaders. Mr. Biden claimed that he earned “three degrees” in college. (He earned one). He claimed to have attended college on “a full scholarship,” which was untrue, and that he had “marched in the civil rights movement,” which was also untrue. Mr. Biden was instrumental in keeping Robert Bork off the Supreme Court with tactics so underhanded that the term “Borking” has come into common usage. As for Mr. Biden being “moderate,” “civil” or

“compromising,” we can visit him in, say, 2012, speaking to a mostly African-American audience in Danville, Va. Referring to presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Republicans in general, he famously charged, if elected, “They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.” The manager of a custard shop in Milwaukee (2010) suggested that if Mr. Biden promised to cut taxes, he’d give him a free dessert. “Why don’t you say something nice instead of being a smartass?” Joe Biden responded. To a young woman who asked Mr. Biden about the Iowa caucuses during a campaign stop: “You ever been to a caucus? ... No, you haven’t. You’re a lying dog-faced Please see BUCKLEY on C4

id You Know that the federal government can track your activities and speech without you knowing? Back in the early 1990s I had guests from Germany, and during their visit we had deep conversations about Hitler. I was positive that never ever again could someone like him come to power. I thought that the world learned from the evil events in Germany in the 1930s. Well, today some 30 years later I realize how naïve I was! President Joe Biden plans to use the Pretrial Services Agency of the District of Columbia (an agency for tracking parolees) to register and track those who request religious exemptions to vaccine mandates. The Federal Register states that the new system will be effective upon publication on Feb. 10! Hardly enough time for the Supreme Court to intervene, as has been proposed. That only allows a public comment period of 28 days. Why the rush since other federal agencies’ public comment periods often last months? This is probably the most alarming indicator of the governments’ overreach during this never-ending pandemic. This obscure agency, founded in 1997, is now being rebranded as a tracking agency for people who object to the vaccine mandate. Seriously? The sinister overtones are shocking. And in less than two years, since the COVID lockdowns of America began. Once the federal government has established the principle that it is legal for the government to track down people who oppose vaccine mandates, it is a small step to add people to this tracking process to build a list of others who oppose government-backed policies. This has already started in Virginia with the FBI being assigned to investigate parents who objected to racially-divisive dogma being taught to their children. Is this a page out of Hitler’s playbook? The PSA will process the religious request of every federal employee, volunteer, intern or contractor who falls under the mandate and requests a religious exemption. The records may include employees’ religious affiliation, date of birth, job title, home address, age and where they work, and notes on their requests. From the first moments of the Hitler regime in 1933, IBM used its exclusive punch card technology and its global monopoly on information technology to organize, systematize and accelerate Hitler’s anti-Jewish program, step by step facilitating the tightening noose. People and asset registration were only one of the many uses Nazi Germany found for high-speed data sorters. Food allocation was organized around databases, allowing Germany to starve the Jews. Slave labor was identified, tracked, and managed largely through punch cards. Punch cards even made the trains run on time and cataloged their human cargo. Is anybody paying attention to history? You don’t even have to go to the archives for this. It happened only 80 years ago. Popular social media platforms can track you, censor you and delete you from using their services, if they disagree with your expressed point of view, and they do. Cookies that are used in every website appear on your computer when you access those websites. They are used to track all your internet surfing. Please see DONOVAN on C4

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In a letter to the News-Press, nonprofits across Santa Barbara County and elsewhere condemned the recent vandalism directed at Corazon del Pueblo in Santa Maria and quoted the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

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Greed and plunder at your service!

he brilliant assets. French economist The traffic fees (not to Frederic Bastiat mention park fees, school warned: “When fees, etc.) charged by Santa plunder becomes Barbara County under this a way of life for a group of program are nothing less men in a society, over the than obscene. course of time they create The two main communities for themselves a legal system subject to the highest level that authorizes it and a moral of plunder are Goleta code that glorifies it.” (technically “Noleta”) and Accordingly, after Orcutt. The fees for South California voters passed County are typically orders of Prop. 13 to limit the annual magnitude higher than those huge increases in property charged in Orcutt, but not taxes, governments always. started imposing fees Getting to the heart for virtually every of why these fees service rendered, should be considered including new plunder, do realize development and that when somebody construction. All the wants to open a while, government childcare center, they Andy Caldwell salaries and pensions themselves may in grew at alarming fact have no children. rates. Hence, building a Currently, the cost of childcare center does not salaries, benefits and add children to a community. pensions of government Nevertheless, the traffic fee workers absorbs as much for a new childcare center is as 60-90% of revenues of $767 per child in Noleta and local governments. That $3,424 per child in Orcutt. means public servants are The fee per pump to spending most tax monies construct a new gas station in on themselves! The end Orcutt is $30,468. In Noleta, result? The price of nearly the fee is $118,822 per pump. everything, including The cost for a 24-hour new construction and convenience store in Orcutt? development, is inflated by $99,547 per 1,000 square feet. millions of dollars as these In Noleta, the fee is $429,205 fees are passed down to per 1,000 square feet. The fee consumers. for a bank with a drive-thru Should we condone in Orcutt is $51,997 per 1,000 tacking on charges to new square feet. In Noleta, the fee development because our is $698,381 per 1,000 square government fell behind feet. in expanding roadway Hence, consumers pay capacity, developing new redundant traffic fees as parks, bike paths and other each trip they take is charged like amenities? hould a against them so to speak, by community demand that fees that are assessed to new developers cumulatively, or development as it pertains to in some cases, singularly, pay the place they work, where millions of dollars to mitigate they live, where they shop, both existing and future where they buy gas, their kids deficits in a community? day care center, the park they Frederic Bastiat asked, frequent, etc., etc. “How is legal plunder to be These fees are, of course, identified? Quite simply. See so exorbitant, the county is if the law takes from some robbing us of amenities and persons what belongs to them services while it robs itself of and gives it to other persons new property tax and sales to whom it does not belong. tax revenues that would See if the law benefits one otherwise accrue from new citizen at the expense of development. another by doing what the Having checked the fees citizen himself cannot do in other communities on the without committing a crime.” Central Coast, it is safe to say That, my friends, is your the county of Santa Barbara introduction to AB 1600 is the greediest government fees, a state bill passed to be found. many years ago that allows local governments to charge Andy Caldwell is the COLAB fees to new developers to executive director and host of mitigate the impacts of “The Andy Caldwell Show,” new (and, in all actuality, airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays existing!) development on a on KZSB AM 1290, the Newscommunity’s resources and Press radio station.

Arts nonprofits condemn vandalism against Corazon del Pueblo

he undersigned arts and cultural organizations from around the tri-county area are appalled by the recent vandalism and racist stereotypes against Corazon del Pueblo in Santa Maria. We are writing this on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday and were reminded of this quote of his, “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” As nonprofits, we are all dedicated to serving our communities, and that also means supporting each other. The vandalism and racism directed toward Corazon del Pueblo is an act of hate that we condemn, and one we hope the entire community rejects. We feel we must declare our support because, as Dr. King also said, “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” We, the undersigned, will not be silent and will continue our own work to be allies for each other and all parts of our community, knowing that working together for positive change is the only sustainable path forward. In peace and solidarity, Stacey Otte-Demangate, Executive Director, Wildling Museum of Art and Nature. Lisa Potter, Director of Operations, Goleta Valley Historical Society. Greg Gorga, Executive Director, Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. Esther Jacobsen Bates, Executive Director, Elverhøj Museum of History & Art. Marco Pinter, Executive Director, Museum of Sensory & Movement Experiences. Judy Larson, Executive Director, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. Lisa Renken, Director, Lompoc Museum.

Gabriel Ritter, Executive Director, Art, Design and Architecture Museum at UCSB. John Connelly, Director, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College. Steve Windhager, Executive Director, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Alexandra Terry, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara. Michael Shanklin, Executive Director, kidSTREAM. Larry Feinberg, Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Director and CEO, Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Adri Howe, Executive Director, Channel Islands Maritime Museum. Robin Gose, President and CEO, MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation. Luke Swetland, President and CEO, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Anne Peterson, Executive Director, Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation. Dacia Harwood, Executive Director, Santa Barbara Historical Museum. Monica Orozco, Executive Director, Old Mission Santa Barbara and Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library. Laura-Susan Thomas, Director, Foxworthy Gallery, Alan Hancock College. Alexis Elias, Interim Executive Director, Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center. Rebecca Anderson, Executive Director, Ganna Walska Lotusland. Barbara Tejada, Board Chair and Acting Director, Chumash Indian Museum.

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Police reforms needed

Re: Robert Eringer’s Jan. 16 News-Press column, “Trial date approaches for suit over Cameron Ely’s death.”

would like to thank Robert Eringer in last Sunday’s NewsPress for doing a good job of making the Black Lives Matter arguments regarding the police’s excessive use of force. Except, this time the victim was an unarmed, privileged young white male in an upscale, mostly white neighborhood. Black males are similarly victimized by police departments throughout the country on a regular basis. Like BLM, Mr. Eringer is also calling for accountability and justice for the victims. It also sounds as if he wants a weeding out of bad cops, retraining of the police departments in general, and a funding of the police departments to include more sensitive, less lethal approaches in these tense situations; all BLM territory. This crap can happen to anybody and certainly points up the need for the police departments in this country to take a hard, long look at themselves and make the needed reforms. Russ Cross Solvang

Denying voters their due protection

Avant, widow of prominent music executive, Clarence Avant, was fatally shot in her Beverly Hills mansion. The 29-year-old suspected killer has a long criminal record. He was out on parole. A week later, holiday partygoers at a Pacific Palisades mansion were robbed and threatened at gunpoint. “I’m feeling disturbed, violated that people were in our house with guns,” said the shocked homeowner who did not want to give her name or show her face on camera for fear of retribution. She couldn’t believe that this could happen in Pacific Palisades. The Kupfer family lives in Pacific Palisades. I would get no thrill telling our daughter “I told you so.” Please see CORNER on C4

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As a San Marcos High School student, Cameron Ely played on the Royals football team. Cameron Ely, 30, the son of “Tarzan” star Ron Ely, was fatally shot Oct. 15, 2019 in Ron Ely’s home in Hope Ranch by Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies who said Cameron announced he had a gun and lunged forward. Deputies, who later discovered Cameron was unarmed, believed he was the prime suspect in his mother Valerie Ely’s death. Ron Ely and his daughters filed a suit in July 2020 against Santa Barbara County and the four sheriff’s deputies — Desiree Thome, Jeremy Rogers, Phillip Farley and John Gruttaduario. The suit is set to go to trial Feb. 22 in the federal District Court in Los Angeles. On Oct. 5, 2020, the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office, which investigated the shooting, found it was a “justifiable homicide under Penal Code 196(2).”

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Memo from Montecito: Where grandparents now live in fear

ne night two summers The mob never did get to Pacific ago, when a mob of Palisades, but Santa Monica has Antifa and Black Lives become a no-man’s land of the Matters were making homeless on sidewalks covered their rowdy, angry with feces and syringes as Los way from Santa Monica to Angeles politicians — Pacific Palisades, I called especially Mayor Eric Calla Jones our daughter in Pacific Garcetti and District Corner Palisades and suggested Attorney George Gascón she, her French, — do their utmost to The author filmmaker husband and destroy this part of the lives in three young boys take California dream. Montecito Pacific Coast Highway to One morning, when us in Montecito. Antifa I watched on “Fox & and BLM were blocking the Friends” as Brianna Kupfer’s northbound lanes of Highway dad, Todd, talked about his 101. Our daughter thought I was beautiful, accomplished 24-yearexaggerating and said they would old daughter, who was stabbed stay put. senselessly Jan. 13 at an upscale A month later, the family fled to L.A. furniture store, I joined the France, where the schools were outraged millions who wonder if going to finish Zooming and open life in the Golden State will ever classrooms. Last weekend, the regain its sanity. Even if the state family landed in Australia where will survive. they hope to start a new life. In December, Jacqueline

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t’s challenging writing a weekly column and not repeating yourself on occasion. But as I’ve written before, many things need repeating. Therefore, I raise the question again, what is the most important thing that separates the United States from the rest of the world? Fair elections. And what is the one thing the Democrats are scrambling to destroy? Fair elections. For the blinded, the argument that the present system prevents the disenfranchised from voting is pure gobbledygook. You know it and the left knows it. It’s purely a continuation of the big lie that we’re a racist, white privileged country, and we need more equity. Try and get someone to define equity. Try and get someone to explain systematic racism. Buzz phrases and words designed to shut you up. Because if you dare question it, well, you’re a racist. They have no other argument and thereby the racist assertion has become nothing but white noise. Last Sunday there was a fantastic article about critical race theory in the News-Press. It was factual, to the point and defined clearly without personal attacks just how bad the push of racism upon our children has grown. Based upon the information the article provided, there is no logical way any educator or liberal thinker could dispute that there’s a single darn good thing about teaching racism and division to kids. But that doesn’t matter to ideologues. By indoctrinating racist philosophy early on, the white “privileged” kids will be filled with guilt and the children of color will hate the white privileged kids and their voting will eventually reflect that. This is such a wrong direction and a terrible depiction of who Americans are, or were, if this is allowed to continue. It’s a long-term movement and its long-term goal is to change the character of the country. The Democrats are trying to make this latest attempt (actually they’ve been trying for years) at voter overhaul, asserting that the lower wage earners are unable to vote because they can’t prove who they are. They can’t get to the polls. That they’re continuously oppressed by you white folks. And yes, you’re racist for not going along. It’s a baseless argument to say that you’re deprived of voting because you don’t have an ID. If you can’t get an ID of some sort, you likely never cared or needed one. But if you are a working productive person of society (a voter), you’ve had to have some form of ID. And IDs are color blind. Again, the argument against IDs is pure political bull crap. The Dems are fighting hard to contain their laughter, pushing their plan to make certain they can stay in office forever and remodel their office because they’re never going anywhere. As mentioned last week, if the Democrats don’t like the rules, they’ll just change them, such as trying to get rid of the filibuster. And what if they do manage to change how the government has functioned for 250 years? What if the Republicans tried it? The Democrats and media would lose their collective minds shouting, “It’s unAmerican!” It’s ironic how the Democrats are pushing for no ID to vote, but in many places it’s required to prove who we are when showing our vaccine cards to

omestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County urges our community and our elected officials to support the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act with critical enhancements and no rollbacks. VAWA saves lives, supports families and needs to be reauthorized. Around the country, one in five women has been raped in her lifetime, one in three women will experience domestic violence, and an average of more than three women are murdered by their partners every day. COVID is increasing the prevalence of gender-based violence. At Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County, we have been working with individuals and families affected by genderbased violence since 1977. Our emergency shelters safely house over 400 people every year and through client-centered programming — provide a path to an abuse-free life. We know first-hand how important it is to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. It is crucial that we know where our elected officials stand when it comes to preventing genderbased violence and protecting survivors. Every current member of Congress should publicly declare their support for the reauthorization of VAWA with key enhancements and no rollbacks. It’s time to hold Congress accountable for helping to make sure all survivors are safe and free from violence and fear. We call on Sen. Alex Padilla to support victims and survivors by co-sponsoring Sens. Dianne Feinstein’s, Joni Ernst’s, Dick Durbin’s and Lisa Murkowski’s upcoming VAWA reauthorization bill and voting for it on the floor. We hope you will join us in

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Blundering billionaire more right than wrong

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m not mad that some venture capital mogul (whom I’d never heard of before) said this week on a podcast (which I’d also never heard of before) that “Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs.” I am, however, mildly (but not surprisingly) annoyed that this blundering billionaire backed down so quickly in the face of exactly the kind of virtue-signaling bloviators whom he so rightfully criticized in the first place. Chamath Palihapitiya, who is apparently a former AOL and Facebook executive and founder of a Palo Alto investment firm called Social Capital, outraged the perpetually outraged mob by dismissing his co-host Jason Calacanis’ praise for the Biden administration’s “very strong” support of Muslim Uyghurs in China. Mr. Palihapitiya retorted that “Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs, OK? You bring it up because you really care, and I think it’s nice that you care, the rest of us don’t care. I’m just telling you ... a very hard, ugly truth. Of all the things I care about, yes, it is below my line.” Mr. Palihapitiya then listed his own priority list of Official Things One Should Care More

About, including “climate change” I also agree wholeheartedly and America’s “health care with this: “So until we actually infrastructure.” clean up our own house, the idea Social media scolds and that we step outside our borders, busybodies went ape-shizzle over with us morally virtue-signaling Mr. Palihapitiya’s comments. The about someone else’s human rights Golden Warriors basketball team, record, is deplorable.” of which Mr. Palihapitiya Our own country is an is a 2% owner, disavowed anarcho-tyrannical basket him. One woke NBA case. Major metropolitan player blamed him police departments are for being a genocide run by eunuchs. District facilitator. attorneys’ offices are held GOP Sen. Tom Cotton hostage by George Sorosof Arkansas demanded subsidized criminalthat the Warriors “force” coddlers. Michelle Malkin Palihapitiya to “sell his White people are interest” in the team. deplatformed and Radio host Hugh Hewitt drummed off university compared Mr. Palihapitiya to campuses for defending white someone engaged in “Holocaust people smeared by Black Lives denial.” Matter. Government agencies (in Take a deep breath, all you cahoots with left-wing character hyperventilating hyenas. assassination operations) are Mr. Palihapitiya never “denied” blacklisting young nationalists anything. and their supporters (white and He simply said that at this time nonwhite); preventing them from and place in history he couldn’t boarding planes, banking, renting get himself to care as much about Airbnbs, livestreaming, sharing the plight of the Uygurs (Uighurs, music playlists and even ordering Uyghurs, whatever) as other things food online. and other people. He also said Parents have been dragged off something I’ve long emphasized planes and out of school board as a matter of basic America First meetings for defending their principles: children’s right to breathe. “Not until we can take care of Hundreds of thousands of ourselves will I prioritize them workers have lost their jobs for over us.” refusing to submit to experimental

COVID-19 jabs and junk-science testing. Trump supporters have rotted away in solitary confinement over their attendance at the Jan. 6 election integrity rally in the Capitol. This week: — A 24-year-old UCLA grad student was stabbed to death by a black assailant in broad daylight at a high-end furniture store. — A 40-year-old Asian woman was pushed off a subway platform to her death by a revolving-door black serial criminal in New York City, where skyrocketing black-onwhite and black-on-Asian violence is covered up by bleeding-heart corruptocrats and their corporate media propagandists. — A 70-year-old nurse was brutally murdered by a homeless sociopath in L.A. on her way to work. No, I’m not apologetic now and never have been in the least for putting the health, safety and welfare of Americans in America over the conditions of others outside our borders. Neither should Mr. Palihapitiya, but he has already folded like a set of accordian blinds. “In re-listening to this week’s podcast, I recognize that I come across as lacking empathy. I acknowledge that entirely. As a

refugee, my family fled a country with its own set of human rights issues so this is something that is very much a part of my lived experience. To be clear, my belief is that human rights matter, whether in China, the United States, or elsewhere. Full stop.” Oh, stop quivering like a Jell-O pudding cup. Not everything and everyone can matter equally in a world of limited resources and energy. Sovereignty matters. Full stop. You’re a billionaire with nothing to lose, Mr. Moneybags. If you’re going to be a truth-telling, politically incorrect maverick who goes “All In” (the name of Mr. Palihapitiya’s podcast show), don’t end up groveling pitifully on your knees, for heaven’s sake. Take it from the little brown woman with a big mouth who has gone all in for three decades in the public square: Man up, own your words and thoughts, and never back down when the bellowers bellow for your head.

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Texas. First, reports that Malik Faisal Akram’s antisemitic hostagetaking had disrupted Beth Israel’s livestreamed Shabbat services proved more prescient than those reporters perhaps realized. Orthodox Judaism does not permit electronic streaming on the Sabbath, and it was revealed that Beth Israel is a Reform synagogue. This is relevant because Reform Judaism is not merely theologically liberal in the extreme, discarding the binding authority of Jewish law and placing an obtuse focus on the concept of “tikkun olam” (“repair of the world”), but is so uniformly politically progressive as to be a de facto wing of the Democratic Party itself. Sure enough, Itamar Gelbman,

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micron spreads. The media say, “Governments must act!” Many have, bringing back mask mandates and closing schools. Do these rules work? No. My new video shows why Florida’s approach is better. Gov. Ron DeSantis ended pandemic restrictions last spring and refuses to impose new ones. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result,” he said. Lockdown states let “hysteria drive them to do really damaging things.” The media hate him for saying things like that. “Some governors are putting their own political gain ahead of children’s lives,” said CNN anchor Don Lemon. If you watch most TV news, you’d think the rules, bans and shutdowns really save lives. Florida killed people because Florida didn’t impose tougher rules, we’re told. “Florida leads the nation in new COVID cases,” says Action News in Tampa. “Florida has the worst rate of coronavirus anywhere in the country!” rants “The Young Turks” host Cenk Uygur. But it’s not true. Florida has had fewer deaths than 16 other states. Mississippi, Arizona, Alabama and New Jersey had the most deaths per capita. New York, where most TV anchors and I live, had the sixth most deaths. Florida did better even though Florida has more highrisk old people. Please see STOSSEL on C4

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the accuser, not the accused. “Burden” is a heavy word! But it emphasizes the point. If the accused was the one who had to prove that he was innocent, anybody in the world could keep accusing me of anything they wanted to. There are 60 trillion things I am not doing every second.

Millions of cases could be filed against millions of people! The accuser is the one who has to come up with evidence that the accused did something illegal. This is not just a casual discussion. These two distinctions are very vital because of the question that seems to be

distressing millions of voters: Was the last election “stolen” from the former president or not? Has he or his representatives brought this to court? How would one find this out? I know a place: Google! So I Googled: “Republican court challenges to 2020 election.” Many of the

references that came up are old because most of these cases were resolved before Jan. 6 of last year. The report from USA Today seemed the most comprehensive, although it was a year old. It says: “The president and his allies Please see SANITATE on C4

Why was Malik Faisal Akram ever on U.S. soil? here are many lessons to be drawn from the Jan. 15 hostage crisis at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville,

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Is the burden of proof on the accused?

man in Seattle accused me of stealing money from his neighbor. A woman in Shreveport also accused me of taking property from one of her neighbors. Now I have to defend myself! I apologize. I’m just making all this up. But the point behind it is valid. Can anybody make false accusations about anybody they want to? Of course not. We have a court system that is pretty good at protecting us from this. There are some big flaws in the system, but this is not one of them. Even though I made up the first paragraph, two judicial principles behind it are good and really need to be upheld. They are: 1. You don’t have the right to accuse somebody unless they directly harmed you. In other words, you can’t file a lawsuit because somebody did something wrong to somebody else. The person or persons who have been wronged have to file the suit. Otherwise, everybody could file suits on behalf of anybody else from Seattle to Shreveport and so on. 2. The one who makes the accusation has to prove that the accusation is true. It’s not the accused person’s job to prove it isn’t true. For example, it’s not my job in the two fake instances I gave above to prove I didn’t do it. It’s the accusers’ job to prove that I did it. In other words, the answer to the question in the title of this article is: No. The burden of proof is on

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a conservative former congregant But when black nationalists of at Beth Israel, wrote a viral the antisemitic “Black Hebrew Facebook post divulging that Israelites” cult killed innocents the rabbi had denounced Israel in Jersey City, N.J., and took a as an “apartheid state” and machete to a Chanukah gathering precluded congregants in Monsey, N.Y., just a from concealed carrying. few weeks after, the This is by now old hat to comparative media ponder, but still: At a time silence was deafening. of rising antisemitism In Colleyville, the at home and abroad, culprit was a British when will liberal Jews national of Pakistani ever learn to protect Muslim background. He themselves? spouted “Protocols of Josh Hammer Second, the attack the Elders of Zion”-style reaffirmed the sordid conspiratorial nonsense reality that, when Jews and was attempting to are targeted in America, elites free the viciously antisemitic will dwell on the attackers’ Aafia Siddiqui, otherwise known identity. as “Lady al-Qaeda.” When white supremacists Nonetheless, defying parody, committed atrocities at the Tree FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh DeSarno initially asserted, “We and the Chabad of Poway, Calif., are continuing to work to find a they faced unanimous nationwide motive.” The corporate media condemnation. The New York and even federal law enforcement Times even published a victory have their narratives to peddle; lap op-ed from the Chabad rabbi. we Jews just want to be protected.

Third, it is well past time to stop treating the Council on American-Islamic Relations with anything other than ridicule and contempt. The evidence is incontrovertible that CAIR was founded in 1994 as a Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas-tied outfit. The United Arab Emirates, one of the U.S.’s greatest Sunni Arab allies, formally designated CAIR a terrorist organization in 2014. And CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terror financing case in Department of Justice history. Here, the Colleyville attack transpired in the aftermath of a vile speech in which Zahra Billoo, head of CAIR’s San Francisco branch, called even “polite Zionists” and those in “Zionist synagogues” the “enemies” of Islam. CAIR has also held numerous rallies for Ms. Siddiqui’s release, helping to gin up the kind of hysteria that might lead

a delusional British Pakistani Muslim to take some random Jews hostage as a “bargaining chip” of sorts to somehow free a locked-up Jew-hating al-Qaeda sympathizer. How much more evidence of CAIR’s misdeeds do we need before shunning the group once and for all? Finally, there is the alwaysthorny issue of immigration, which has been the leastdiscussed Colleyville lesson to date. It is a shameful failure of U.S. immigration policy that a man such as Mr. Akram, who was apparently so unassimilated into Western civilization that he deemed it prudent to take a gaggle of Texas Jews hostage as “leverage” to somehow free an entirely unrelated terrorist (one conjures up images here of how Mr. Akram must have actually believed in an “Elders”-style Please see HAMMER on C4

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Fewer rules allow people to build better lives for themselves STOSSEL

Continued from Page C3 What’s going on? The media rarely just lies. Most simply cite Florida when deaths are high and ignore the state when deaths fall. They deceive by omission. Florida’s good numbers just don’t fit the reporters’ biases. But even some pro-lockdown politicians know that less regulated Florida is no more dangerous than other states. After Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez, D-New York, complained that “anti-shutdown people” are “spreading COVID all over the place,” she was filmed partying in Florida. Two days after Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-California, sneered that “Republican liars ... prolonged” the pandemic ... “your vacation canceled,” he was photographed in Miami. Gov. DeSantis laughs about

this. “If I had a dollar for every lockdown politician who decided to escape to Florida over the last two years, I’d be a pretty doggone wealthy man.” Fewer rules allow people to build better lives for themselves. Lack of shutdowns is one reason Florida’s unemployment rate is 4.5%, well below New York’s 6.6%. Does this mean shutdowns and mask mandates are useless — and less regulated Florida has the answer? No. We can’t say that. There’s no clear pattern. Yes, strict mandate states like New York, New Jersey and Michigan have some of the worst death counts, but California had strict mandates and fewer deaths. The one clear trend: Lockdowns don’t stop COVID-19, but they do destroy opportunity. California’s unemployment is the highest in America. Florida did some bad things. Gov. DeSantis should pay more

attention to his own pro-freedom speeches. Last year, he decreed that even private companies may not require customers or workers to be vaccinated. Governor? They’re private companies! They should have the right to make their own decisions. It’s usually the totalitarian left that won’t let people set their own rules. Aside from that nastiness, Florida’s COVID-19 policies are among the most sensible. Since lockdowns won’t stop the virus, we must learn to live with it. Thanks to vaccines and new drugs that reduce COVID-19’s effects, now most of us can. “We don’t have to upend human life in our quest to eliminate COVID ... which can’t happen anyway,” says economist Don Boudreaux. Giving up these laws is not “admitting defeat” but “admitting reality. We learn to live with COVID in the same way that we

learn to live with many other pathogens. ... One day, every one of us is going to be done in by something.” That’s why I will vacation in Florida this week. I’ll wear a mask if I’m in a crowd, but most of the time I won’t. It’s a joy to breathe freely. I might catch omicron. But since I’m vaccinated and fit, I probably won’t die. I might even gain immunities that protect me in the future. And anyway, “All of us will be done in by something.” I choose to live free. John Stossel is creator of Stossel TV and author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www. creators.com. Copyright 2022 BY JFS Productions Inc.

The underlying problem isn’t lack of housing, or money for social programs

DONOVAN

Continued from Page C1 Most of the cookies themselves don’t do harm. But they can be hijacked on your computer by criminals, or by the government. Have you noticed how when you Google a website, for say a dining table, or a car that for about four weeks, you receive daily advertisements on your tablet, computer or phone for examples of the product you searched for? Somewhere there is an accessible database on your individual activities and preferences that can be tracked and used. The Biden administration and the tech giants are building a tracking system far more sophisticated than what Hitler had. You do know what cookies are, right? Back to California and why people are leaving: Gov. Gavin Newsom has allocated another

$60 million dollars for three counties — Santa Barbara, Santa Clara and Kern — to create 267 housing units for the homeless. Why Santa Barbara County? Who asked for this money? Why not San Bernardino County, Los Angeles or Orange County? In March 2021, Santa Barbara County had 2,194 people designated as “homeless.” Approximately 90 homeless people in each of those counties, including Santa Barbara. will be housed for $20 million. The vast majority of the homeless are victims of substance abuse, mental illness or both. Instead of approaching this issue with housing and employing wrapped around individual services for the homeless, why are we not using this money to fight the drug trafficking, by closing our borders, which allows the proliferation of these lethal drugs that prey upon the most vulnerable members of our society

and destroy their lives? Instead, we put people into housing which is an expensive Band-Aid. We, as a culture, refuse to demand that our monies are spent to close our borders to illegal movement and protect our citizens and our way of life. A recently published book entitled “San Fran-Sicko” on research into homelessness was written by Michael Shellenberger. It should be required reading for anyone connected to addressing homelessness, mental illness and drug addiction on the streets of cities and towns in California. Here is a quote from the cover. “Shellenberger had lived in San Francisco for about 30 years. During that time, he had advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing, and alternatives to jail or prison. But as homeless encampments spread and overdoses skyrocketed, Shellenberger decided to take a

much closer look at the problem.” “What he discovered shocked him. The problems had grown worse, not in spite of, but because of progressive policies. San Francisco and other West Coast cities, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland had gone beyond merely tolerating homelessness, drug dealing and crime, to actively enabling them. “He concluded that the underlying problem isn’t lack of housing, or money for social programs. The real problem is an ideology that designates some people by identity or experience, as victims entitled to destructive behaviors. “The result is an undermining of the values that make cities, and civilization itself, possible.” Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

Voter IDs are not a threat to democracy BUCKLEY

Continued from Page C1 pony soldier.” “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,” said Mr. Biden during a radio interview with Charlamagne Tha God, an African-American radio talk-show host. Mr. Biden apparently can and will read anything put in front of him, regardless of the source and, actually, regardless of what the words mean. No one really knows who this guy is; I’m not sure he knows who he is. Mr. Biden is, however, the guy the media-Democrat Partydeep-state crowd chose as its patsy candidate to replace the effective but disruptive Donald Trump.

The above-mentioned cabal worked around state legislatures in battleground states enacting “emergency” procedures, such as the installation of thousands of unmonitored “drop boxes” where unverified and untraceable mailin ballots could be dropped off at any time of the day or night. “Emergency” procedures gave them the ability to “harvest” votes of an unlimited number of unrelated persons and in some cases more than a month to do so. Additionally, in some states, mailin ballots were to be counted even if mailed after election day. So Democrat power brokers, through the thorough manipulation of election rules in critical states, secured victory for their man. I can’t pretend to be an objective observer. I thought Mr. Trump was an excellent president,

despite his many faults. The press and social media did all it could to suppress positive news about the president and to magnify the bad, including posting its “COVID-19 Death Clock” on every cable TV channel, all the time, and a myriad of other tactics designed to demonize Mr. Trump and to canonize Mr. Biden. Their tactics succeeded. They won. But now that the Republican Party has figured out exactly how the Democrats did it and have tried to bring a minimum of order back to the polling booths, Democrats don’t want to give up what to them is a clear advantage: the ability to cheat undetected. They will do and/or say anything to prevent that from happening. So don’t be fooled into believing there is some “threat” to democracy by requiring voter ID, matching signatures, chain

of custody requirements, or other commonsense methods of insuring voter integrity. You won’t be on the side of George Wallace (a longtime Democrat), or Bull Connor (another Democrat) or Democrat Jefferson Davis. You’ll be on the side of righting a terrible wrong by resisting the call to endorse the cynically named Freedom to Vote Act. And, to Joe Biden, we say, “Enough, sir. Enjoy your stint as president of the United States, on becoming the equivalent to the ineffective and inarticulate Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. Eat your porridge, stay out of trouble, and, oh, don’t forget to smile, whisper and threaten on cue.”

Continued from Page C3 filed 62 lawsuits in state and federal courts seeking to overturn election results in states the president lost, according to Marc Elias, a Democratic election lawyer who is tracking the outcomes. . .. Out of the 62 lawsuits filed challenging the presidential election, 61 have failed, according to Elias.” I didn’t review all of the other 35,299,999 entries Google came up with. I did look at several, none

of which claimed that he won the election. Wikipedia has a summary of the lawsuits. These 62 lawsuits followed the 2 principles above: “Principle 1” – You can’t accuse somebody unless they directly harmed you: “The Supreme Court refused to let Texas challenge the election results in four battleground states critical to Trump’s defeat. The court said Texas did not demonstrate “a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections.” In other words, Texas can’t make a charge

LETTERS

Continued from Page C2 COVID-19 and employers who are demanding that their employees do so should know that this is a point-in-time test. This means that the results are based on the moment that the test is taken — period. It doesn’t mean that a person is COVID-free for any point beyond the negative result. Next is the suggestion that N95 dust/fog filter masks (respirators) should be used by the public. In employer settings, the federal OSHA says, “Using a respirator may place a physiological burden on employees that varies with the type of respirator worn, the job and workplace conditions in which the respirator is used, and the medical status of the employee. Accordingly, this paragraph specifies the minimum requirements for medical evaluation that employers must implement to determine the employee’s ability to use a respirator.” Fit testing is also required to assure that the

against Pennsylvania unless it harmed Texas. I don’t know how many cases were dismissed on Principle 2: Insufficient or no evidence. I suspect many or all of them didn’t fulfill the “burden of proof.” The accuser has to produce some evidence that a crime was committed by the other person. Evidence is “facts.” Simply making a claim doesn’t give you a right to go to trial. Many of the other 61 cases may not even have gone to trial, if the accuser didn’t provide sufficient evidence to the judge to call a

respirator will protect the user by filtering out contaminants of concern. A properly fitted N95 mask restricts the passage of fresh air, and that’s why a respirator physical is important to assure that the wearer won’t suffer any adverse health issues associated with using the respirator. How many of you outside of the workplace who are currently using the N-5 mask have either had it fit-tested or had a respirator physical prior to using it? I am guessing none.

Do as they say, not as they do

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Ron Fink Lompoc

m not a college grad nor am I rocket scientist, but my common sense seems to outsmart those who for two years have been telling us: Wear a mask, stay 6 feet apart, get vaccinated — and the list goes on. But not one reporter has come out and said

CORNER

Continued from Page C2 The family arrived at Sydney airport as Novak Djokovic was being escorted by immigration officials to a plane for Serbia. Our daughter and her husband have probably gotten the news about the outrageous decision that might ruin the tennis star’s career, via their phones. Thanks to FaceTime, I know they are very glad to have had the proper visas for living and working in Australia. They have already noticed that you have to have negative COVID-19 test info on your phone to enter most places, even real estate offices. It was a big decision for our family to leave their native lands for Down Under. Luckily, our son-in-law has skills that are needed for the burgeoning Australian film industry. Many in Hollywood have decided to make films in Australia because Los Angeles and its suburbs have simply become so dangerous to live or work in. As our family left for Australia, I wanted to tell them that they can always come back to Montecito and be safe and

educated. But I would have been lying. Lying because of Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades have become as disgusting and dangerous as San Francisco, it’s only time before Montecito, a second home to many Hollywood celebrities, becomes a target for the outrageous criminality and filth that has taken over California. Critical race theory has also invaded the schools in Montecito and parents — even some of those who are still proud progressives — hopefully are waking up from their woke stupor to this dangerous indoctrination. I want my children and grandchildren to be safe, educated properly and flourish because that’s what loving, informed parents and grandparents want. President Joe Biden’s latest blunder to create a new FBI division to keep tabs on the nonvaccinated — one can only guess what else smells awfully like the police state tactics of Australia. Our family might just be trading one police state for another, if it were to return home. And I’m not exaggerating.

Akram had an extensive rap sheet HAMMER

Continued from Page C3 “Supreme Jewish Council” with the power to “free” Siddiqui), was able to enter U.S. soil. As a British national, Mr. Akram was the benefit of the U.S. Visa Waiver Program. As CBS News reported: “His entrance into the U.S. was approved by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Electronic System for Travel Authorization ... at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Tourism visas are not required for British travelers planning to stay in the United States for less than three months.” Mr. Akram had an extensive rap sheet back in the U.K. and had been previously investigated by MI5, the British security service, for possible jihadi radicalization. Yet he did not appear on any U.S. terror watch lists and appears to have sailed right through the lax rules in place for the Visa Waiver Program. That he was able to do so points to a longer-running problem, which is the failure of American authorities to sufficiently vet

every single person attempting to step on our soil. As the 9/11 Commission’s report on terrorist travel wrote back in 2004: “It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country ... Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy.” As easy as it usually still is to obtain a U.S. visa, it is that much easier to get here via the Visa Waiver Program. That program should now be heavily scrutinized, have any and all of its loopholes tightened and quite possibly be abolished in its entirety. There is no clearer and more straightforward way to preventing more Malik Faisal Akrams from entering the country. To find out more about Josh Hammer and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit twww. creators.com. Copyright 2022 by Creators.com.

James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes questions or comments at jimb@ substack.com.

Repeating accusations doesn’t make them true SANITATE

I want my children and grandchildren to be safe

trial. Repeating an accusation in the media over and over again doesn’t make it true. The courts decide. I believe in law and order. I believe in the courts and the court system. I also believe that the courts and how our government runs need a great many reforms. Regardless, we should live within the laws until we change them lawfully. I am happy the courts follow these two principles. I am surely happy I don’t have to go to Seattle and Shreveport to defend myself against any false accusations.

the millions of illegals who have the blessing of President Joe Biden to cross the border are unvetted, are not wearing masks and arrive with countless diseases to be spread all over these United States. And we are the ones told to wear masks in and outdoors, not to gather in groups. Yet we see our “leaders” — Gov. Gavin Newsom, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Biden and some other politicians — gathering in large groups, not wearing face masks and not standing 6 feet apart. This is a case of “Do as I say, not as I do.” And yet we are the ones who can lose jobs for not getting vaccinated. I thought we were one nation with one set of rules to be governed for all. Well, another new year and the same old rules that don’t apply to the selected few. Just put this in your pipe and smoke it next election. Can we, as a group stand together and change the tide? Points to ponder. Anita Dwyer Lompoc

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If you think your vote is now pointless, then we’re done SCHULTE

Continued from Page C2 go to a concert, a football game or in liberal states, out to dinne. Keep in the mind this rule only applies to legal citizens. Illegals are exempt. “An audit of Texas voter rolls identified nearly 12,000 noncitizens suspected of illegally registering to vote and nearly 600 cases in which ballots may have been cast in the name of a dead resident or by a voter who may also have voted in another state.” — Education News. That is but one discovery in one portion of one state. Considering how corrupt our election process appears to have become, you can be damn well be sure there are hundreds of thousands more illegals registered (the plan), and that’s not taking into account the deceased voters from the grave. In the meantime, the voter rolls are growing at the border every day. I’m surprised Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t set up registration booths. Oh, that’s right, the border czar doesn’t visit the border. Instead she flies to Honduras on another meaningless gambit. I just don’t understand why

anyone, regardless what political affiliation you are, would want there to be the slightest doubt about the integrity of our elections. If it goes in your favor this time, it may not the next. It’s critical we all feel the election process is as solid as it can possibly be. Nothing is perfect, but it needs to be as close as we can get it. Rather than trying to make it laxer, we should be shoring it up and making it more fool-proof. When citizens — and I mean American citizens — go to the polls, we’re doing so because we want to be convinced our vote carries some weight. We want to know that it counts. In California, for example, if you’re a conservative Republican our votes haven’t counted in decades. If that translates to a national level like the Democrats are setting up to do, and if you think your vote is now pointless, then we’re done. The left wins. Game over. Let’s not be intimidated that the rules need to be changed just because we’re being fed it’s somehow racist to not go along (enough with the racist crap). The time is over, and we need to push back against the madness. It’s way past time that the political wind starts blowing the other way.