Santa Barbara News-Press: February 21, 2021

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Prehistoric Forest makes roaring return

Sheriff: Crime rates up, but threat ‘very limited’

By MITCHELL WHITE NEWS-PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Popular dinosaur exhibit now permanent at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Although certain jurisdictions experienced a significant percentage increase in crime in 2020, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown maintains that the threat to the average person remains “very limited.”

The Sheriff’s Office released its 2020 crime statistics on Thursday, which showed that serious offenses were up 18% compared to the year prior. Overall, Part 1 violent crime was up 7%, and Part 1 property crimes were up 20%, compared to 2019 for areas policed by the Sheriff’s Office, which includes unincorporated areas of the county and the cities of Buellton, Solvang, Goleta and Carpinteria.

Crime rates were up in Carpinteria (65%), Buellton (53%), Unincorporated areas (18%), Goleta (11%) and Solvang (10%).

This includes a 350% increase in

Visitors to the Prehistoric Forest were greeted by a Tyrannosaurus rex, who growled and moved its head and tail. The Prehistoric Forest is now a permanent outdoor exhibit at the museum.

Carbajal backs President Biden’s stimulus plan

By MADISON HIRNEISEN NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT

Tread lightly, there’s a dinosaur behind that tree!

In a wooded area behind the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, five life-like animatronic dinosaur figures are yet again evoking awe and wonder from visitors in the museum’s reinstalled exhibit, the Prehistoric Forest.

During the museum’s reopening Saturday, children shrieked while walking through the museum’s Jurassic Park-like forest, coming face to face with prehistoric species like the Tyrannosaurus rex and the Stegosaurus.

Audrey Grode, 7, and her sister Esme Grode, 5, visited the museum Saturday to see the dinosaurs up close, excited to see the life-like figures in action. As frequent museum visitors, the Grode sisters have seen the majority of the exhibits the museum has to offer, but the dinosaur exhibit is one of their favorites.

“It’s the funnest thing there is here,” Audrey told the News-Press.

Other young visitors were intimidated by the realistic dinosaurs at first, but became more comfortable after spending more time at the outdoor exhibit. Luna Weung, 5, was afraid of the towering T. rex figure when she saw Please see dinosaurs on A7

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U.S. Rep Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, held a virtual town hall on Thursday night to hear from his constituents, share information about the work being done at the federal level and to express his support and optimism for the Biden administration.

During the town hall, Rep. Carbajal said he was confident that the Biden administration “will do everything in their power” to help heal the nation, not only from the recent divisiveness but also from the COVID-19 pandemic that continues to impact the Central Coast, the nation and the world at large.

The congressman explained that the new administration has started to address the COVID-19 vaccine supply and distribution inadequacies experienced locally and throughout the country, while also developing a national plan to tackle the crisis.

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Emma Jones, 4, shrieks in excitement at the sight of a Tyrannosaurus rex (not pictured) while a Parasaurolophus looms in the background during the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s reopening Saturday.

On several occasions, Rep. Carbajal made it clear that he is in full support of President Joe Biden’s proposed American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion stimulus package aimed at speeding up the United States’ recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing recession.

The proposed plan is expected to include a $1,400 stimulus payment, extended unemployment funds, resources for small business, additional rental assistance and increased funding for food security programs. The plan also calls for $130 billion for K-12 schools to safely reopen.

“Solving the issues we face today will take a concerted and coordinated effort from federal, state and local governments,” he said. “If we expect state and local governments to provide for their struggling residents, Congress must ensure they are receiving Please see CARBAJAL on A6

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property crimes in the Buellton area, as well as a 91% increase in violent crimes in Carpinteria.

Though while the percentages “look pretty alarming,” Sheriff Brown said it’s important to take into account the number of crimes that occurred that caused the percentages to increase so rapidly.

“Like Carpinteria, for example, had a 65% increase in overall crime; a 91% increase in violent crime, but that was 10 additional (violent) crimes … it sounds as though the sky is falling but less than one additional crime per month shot the numbers up by that percentage,” he said. “So it’s really important to understand that and to look at both the percentage increase and the base number that you’re talking about as well.”

In 2020, there were seven more property crimes in the Buellton area compared to 2019.

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County reports two deaths, Forest Service extends Chuck’s Waterfront Grill 99 new cases of COVID-19 Red Cross to hold virtual volunteer fair

TSA looking for screening officers

officers screen hundreds of thousands of airline travelers ensuring they arrive at their destinations safely. We expect The Transportation Security GOLETA — The city of to screen a higher number Administration is launching Goleta has announced that the of travelers regularly by the recruitment efforts nationwide American Red Cross Central summer months and will need to fill more than 6,000 California region is holding a includes Montecito, Summerland reached 394.

By MADISON HIRNEISEN additional officers to support our Transportation Security Officer virtual volunteer fair Monday and Carpinteria, four new cases Santa Barbara reported the NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT critical mission.” full and part time positions by for residents to learn more were reported. Orcutt also highest number of new cases Benefits include paid summer 2021. about disaster response.

Saturday with a total of 30, reported four new cases Saturday.

The Santa Barbara County training, annual and sick leave, Locally, TSA is hiring at Red Cross is in need of bringing its total active case Isla Vista reported three new Public Health Department health care plans for full and airports in Santa Barbara, San volunteers to safely deliver number to 144. cases of COVID-19, and the Santa reported two COVID-19 deaths part time employees and a Luis Obispo and Santa Maria. critical services during the Santa Maria reported 25 new Ynez Valley reported two new and 99 new cases Saturday. generous retirement plan.

Based on the anticipated COVID-19 pandemic. cases bringing total One individual was between 50 trails cases. geographic region By JOSHThe GREGA CHRISTIAN WHITTLE Brekkies by Chomp, and Mortensen’s Danish Bakery. bara Front Country andSaturday, access roads.

TSA is committed to a diverse, seasonal travel trends in the The STAFF virtual volunteer fair NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER WS-PRESS WRITER cases to 143. and 69 years old,“What and thewe’re other seeingactive of nine COVID-19 cases are still initial lease for the Chuck’s and Endless a lot of folks are doing is equitable, and inclusive workSummonths ahead andThe the progress will provide information on All other areas across Santa individual wasthey’re between the pending. driving up alongside of the road and just gomer property is 10 years with four, five-year options environment and encourages to of COVID-19 vaccinations for the how to getrecreation involved insites the Red Barbara County reported less ageswill of 30 and 49 years old. Both A total of 84 are they first opened, More than 20 people years after Chuck’s Developed in California reing for hikes up there.

That’s ok.

There’s not an order extend the term of the lease. individuals of all backgrounds general public, TSA has launched mission to prevent than ten cases Saturday. In Goleta, Waterfront individuals underlying health receivingGrill treatment at local and The Endless Summer national Bar Caféefforts are to recruit inCross’s closed through May 15 and after the USDA For- had against hiking trails,” said Andew Madsen, U.S. ForMr. Petersen is inheriting the existing lease with to apply, including military new alleviate human suffering in officials reported eight new cases; hospitals due conditions of the deaths to COVID-19 closed.

On the morning of April 30 the waService issued an order extending the closuresand one veterans and remaining, persons withwith an employees in support of screening Service spokesman.in Lompoc, seven new cases were permanently only the four, five-year options the event of emergencies. was associatedest with an outbreak complications, including 20 in the terfront restaurant announced its closureoperations with a fareursday. disabilities.

Starting is $18.85 at approximately 430 “Wefacility. just want to make sure if people out they’re average seasonally adjusted base rent ofpay $23,585 per The organization will reported; in the go unincorporated at a congregate care Intensive Care Unit. per hour with opportunities for airports nationwide. well post on its Instagram account.

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These In the South County infectious. total number for your constant support. The memories will never be operation for a time, take The initial closure order went into effect March 26Theing to get in.” of the restaurant has upgrades rewarding federal career and announced for individuals seeking include: Disaster Action Unincorporated areas, which deaths in Santa Barbara County email: mhirneisen@newspress.com forgotten.” d was set to expire April 30.

As state and local responses to the coronavirus planned for around the fall. TSA’s According to mission the agenda, support critical part and full time opportunities. volunteers who assist Despite the current economic chaos due to“TSOs the COVt Team, applied to recreational use areas such as camp- pandemic continue to evolve, the Forest Service felt under Mr. Petersen’s business plan the second floor of of protecting our nation’s are a critical first line individuals and families by ID-19 pandemic, the prospect of Chuck’s and Endless unds, day usetosites and picnic areas. transportation defense in securing our nation’s will that the situation warranted a two week extension of the establishment be convertedsystems. into a traditional responding home fires; Summer ceasing operation dates back to before the out-air deli The order Mass was issued to discourage large gather- the closures, said Mr. Madsen.

To view opensoups, positions commercial transportation café focused on sandwiches, andlocally, salads, Disaster Care Team, visit TSA.gov/TSO and system,” said Melanie Harvey, break.

According to the agenda of a March 24 Santa Barsvolunteers of people and safe social distancing of whopromote support people “At the end of that they’ll evaluate and see where with a gourmet grocery area selling wine,enter beer,the and name of the city. acting of executive assistant bara City Council meeting in which assignment the prepackaged ying than six feet whomore are evacuated by aapart. disaster we’re at and whether or not we’re going to continue foods. For evenings, the second floor will administrator TSA’s security on Linden Avenue near the 101 to allow to helping reception, restaurant’s lease to a crews new operator was the first item, for nby the Santawith Barbara Ranger District, 12 camp- as we need it,” said Mr. Madsen. have a our full bar and aemail: dinner menu focusing on “adult gmccormick@newspress.com operations.

“Each day, transplant palm trees.

As and needed, the northbound registration, feeding, Chuck’s Endless Summer co-owner Steve Hyslop unds and picnic areassheltering will remain closed, includ“This order can be rescinded at any time. If local food and beverages.” and Fremont more; andcampground Disaster onramp at Linden Avenue will be closed between the and White Rock and health officials say it looks like the sky has101 cleared up3 p.m. informed the Waterfront Department of his desire to The restaurant’s ground floor is proposed to be simHealth Services, volunteers 9 a.m. and sell the establishment in August 2019. d Rock picnic areas. we can rescind the order tomorrow.

For right now, we ilar to Mr. Petersen’s Chomp restaurants. Its menu of who are licensed health care Crews will install underground storm drains Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department After and receiving department’s lease assignment burgers, fries, and shakes will cater to families, young The order Thursday does not add to theThe closures don’tthat want to extend it inmate out too died far. professionals that provide between Sheffield Drive North the Padaro Lane. reported Saturday a 30-year-old requirements, Hyslop began searching for a new adults, and retirees, and for evenings will be converted eady in place for Santa Barbara. While other arhands-on medical care for “We just attempt want to at make sure in the nextVegetation couple ofclearing will continueMr. in preparation after an apparent suicide the Main Jail. buyer and ultimately found it in businessman Aaron like theaffected Monterey Ranger District have closedAnthony people by disasters.

Crews have removed Michael was found unresponsive weeksRemijio as we monitor what’s going on that for we upcoming are tak- improvements. a “dinner type atmosphere.”

ARCA, Alicia:to81; of Goleta; died Feb. 13; arrangements by Coast Petersen, who operates a number of restaurants in Solilheads and forest roads, locals will still have acTo RSVP, visit redcross. old nests, installed visual deterrents and will use in his cell Friday during asteps routine Cities Cremations Ventura and Goleta. ingafternoon the appropriate along with our state and auditory deterrents to including discourageChomp, cormorant vang Thenesting Coffee House by Chomp, Elinor sorg/pacificcoastvolunteer to the many Santa Ynez or Valley and security Santa Barcheck.local He was “hanging from a bedsheet BENEDA, E.:jgrega@newspress.com 97; of Lompoc; died Feb. 16; arrangements by partners.” email: contact Jennifer Samaritan at within the construction area. he fashioned as a ligature in an apparent suicide Starbuck-Lind Mortuary. jennifer.samaritan@redcross.

Crews will also continue building footings, attempt,” Lt. Erik Raney, sheriff’s spokesman, said in CABEZAS, Jesus Amparo: 95; of Santa Barbara; died Feb. 12; org. The fair will take place installing rebar and pouring concrete for columns, a statement. arrangements by Starbuck-Lind Mortuary. from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on side supports and retaining walls for the new bridges Mr. Remijio was transported to Santa Barbara HERNANDEZ, Edward: 49; of Santa Barbara; died Feb. 17; Monday. in the median at the Sheffield Drive interchange.

Cottage Hospital, where he succumbed to his arrangements by Coast Cities Cremations Ventura and Goleta.

Over the next few weeks, in compliance with injuries.

— Grayce McCormick the California Department of Fish and Wildlife “Although this appears to be an apparent suicide, requirements related to bird nesting, crews will the Sheriff’s Office is conducting a thorough undertake pre-construction work to clear trees and investigation into the circumstances surrounding vegetation so that construction can begin on the this incident,” Lt. Raney said.

Padaro segment of the project. The project will add The Coroner’s Bureau will conduct further a new, third freeway lane in each direction and new investigation to determine the cause and manner of bridges over Toro and Arroyo Parida creeks. death.

Lane Undercrossing, the Mr. Remijio was booked into CountyCOUNTY Jail on Feb. AGESAt the South Padaro COUNTY CITIES COUNTY CASES CA. bridge and 18 for aUNINCORP. Ventura County warrant issued for failure to 0-17 21 on- and offramps AT A will be replaced. At the SOUTH 22 North Padaro Lane GLANCE Interchange, new on and offramp appearBARBARA on charges of driving 18-29 license 84 SANTA 57 on a suspended improvements will be built. There will also be three and driving under the influence.

CONFIRMED OVERALL 30-49 183 GOLETA 7 new sound walls built.

50-69 167 ISLA VISTA 1 — Mitchell White The majority of work will occur in the median and 70-PLUS 41 CASES OVERALL / THURS. GOLETA VLY/GAVIOTA 13 near the South Padaro/Santa Claus Lane on- and LOMPOC — The Lompoc ANNOUNCED THURSDAY SANTA YNEZ VALLEY 5 offramps.

City Council unanimously Following construction, 108 new oak trees will be LOMPOC 84 COUNTY STATUS voted at its regular meeting DEATHS OVERALL THURS. planted and the center median between/Santa Claus LOMPOC FED. PRISON 106 AT HOME 75 last week to move forward and North Padaro lanes will feature the Blue Star TESTS TO DATE SANTA MARIA 135 with amendments to the RECOVERED TOPas3an IN update COUNTIES CARPINTERIA — Several lane closures are Symbol376 and oak leaves to the Memorial ORCUTT 36 city’s latest zoning code in HOSPITALIZED 33 to commemorate LOS ANGELES planned this week as work continues on the Linden Oaks section World War I23,233 service. hopes of streamlining permit NORTH UNINCORP. INTENSIVE RIVERSIDE 4,031 and Casitas Pass Highway25 101 widening project inCARE UNIT Crews 12 will continue work on southbound 101 2021Ashleigh Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant, 117 117 W. W. Valerio Valerio Santa Santa Barbara RATE PER 100,000 requirements.

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Lompoc City Council approves safe parking program

By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The Lompoc City Council voted this past week to approve a property lease to the New Beginnings Counseling Center for a new designated safe parking lot.

The property, at 428 N. I St., is intended to provide individuals experiencing vehicular homelessness a safe place to sleep, as part of the organization’s Safe Parking Program.

Santa Barbara County has 26 safe parking lots total, with 14 in Santa Barbara, five in Goleta and seven in unincorporated areas of the county, including one outside Lompoc, according to Cassie Roach, the program and senior case manager for the Safe Parking Program at NBCC. “We are hoping to be able to renovate the building on-site at this Lompoc lot to provide restroom access, showers, laundry and electric outlet access for charging devices,” Ms. Roach told the News-Press. “Case management services are largely provided inoffice to best coordinate with other agencies and community partners.

Most of our lots in South County have restroom access, but we refer clients to other resources for showers, laundry, etc.”

Lompoc accounts for 12% of the vehicular homeless population in Santa Barbara County. The

third highest is Goleta which accounts for 18%, and the highest is the city of Santa Barbara which accounts for 43%, according to the 2020 Point-in-Time Count, which is a countywide survey of those experiencing homelessness.

Most of the safe parking lots average at about six parking spaces, with the largest utilizing 15. This will hold true for the lot coming to Lompoc.

“We keep the space numbers low to allow for privacy and avoid any undue impact on the neighborhood,” Ms. Roach said.

NBCC staff members have a comprehensive intake process they complete with each client that uses the safe parking lots.

They develop a case management and housing plan for every client and lot monitors do rounds during overnight hours.

Clients must sign up for permits monthly to allow a case manager to contact them and check in to see if any additional resources or help is needed.

The goal of the lots is to provide a safe and monitored place for homeless individuals, who are also required to work with staff to transition back into permanent, stable housing. Over the 16-year span the parking program has operated, there have been no major issues reported in any of the lots, Ms. Roach said.

“Safe Parking actually increases

safety in the community by taking vulnerable folks off the street where they could be preyed upon and places them in a monitored lot,” she said. “The program is highly structured and holds clients accountable to program rules.

“We are mindful of lot locations and potential impact on the surrounding neighborhood. This is why we keep the number of spaces utilized in each lot low and why we have not advertised our South County lot locations.”

The lots’ overnight operating hours are 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., which Ms. Roach said prevents overlap with nearby school or daycare hours.

The 2020 Point-in-Time Count found that 51% of the county’s 1,221 unsheltered individuals are in vehicles, which is roughly 624 individuals. Ms. Roach said the counseling center has heard anecdotally that vehicular homelessness has increased since the pandemic began, so they therefore increased outreach, but none of the numbers have been updated since the start of the pandemic.

That being said, she shared that the Safe Parking Program hopes to increase the number of lots in Lompoc and the surrounding unincorporated areas, and implement some in Santa Maria.

Expansion efforts are also underway in South County.

“Our goal is to provide services

to the hundreds of individuals sleeping in their vehicles throughout the county and successfully transition them into permanent housing,” Ms. Roach said. “Our lots will positively impact the community by taking vulnerable and largely unreached individuals off the street and connecting them to services. We will provide a safe place for our clients to sleep and stabilize while we assist them in reintegrating back into the community.”

Next for the process is a permit required by Lompoc’s Zoning Code, and once NBCC gains that permit, the lot can be developed. City officials will then mitigate and address any impacts that could or would occur, according to Christie Alarcon, Lompoc’s community development director.

“We know that their intent is to operate a Safe Parking Program at the site and (we) are happy that there will be a safe option for vehicular homeless services in Lompoc that has not existed before,” Ms. Alarcon told the News-Press. “We are hopeful that those experiencing homelessness will be able to connect with services to get back into housing.

NBCC has a great track record and is not new to Safe Parking Program operations.” email: gmccormick@newspress.com

Goleta authorizes additional COVID-19 relief funds

By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

COVID-19 relief funds in the amount of $166,500 are on their way to Goleta residents and small businesses.

During Tuesday’s meeting, the Goleta City Council authorized $166,500 in additional funding toward programs to assist residents and businesses, which will be distributed by United Way of Santa Barbara County and the Santa Barbara Foundation through ongoing partnerships with the city.

United Way’s individual/family assistance grant program will receive $100,000 from Goleta. Grants of $1,000 for individuals and $2,000 for families are available for those experiencing a hardship related to the COVID-19 crisis.

Goleta previously gave $102,000 to this program, but there was a large unmet need

for additional funds. Funding will be directed to qualified applicants on the existing waitlist unless and until that list is exhausted.

The Santa Barbara Better Together Fund Small Business Grant Program, which is aimed at helping local businesses survive, was authorized to receive $66,500 from Goleta. The city previously contributed $150,000 to it.

“The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact our local residents and businesses.

While there are encouraging signs pointing to the beginnings of a recovery, there is still a long road ahead and this funding is intended to continue supporting our community via these proven assistance programs,” Goleta Mayor Paula Perotte said in a statement.

The council also approved and adopted the COVID-19 Economic Recovery Plan at its meeting, and directed staff to develop and issue a request for proposals for an Economic Development Strategic Plan.

The plan outlines COVID-19 relief and assistance aimed at individuals, small businesses and nonprofits, and highlights additional efforts proposed by staff and the Economic Development and Revitalization Committee to provide recovery resources to the Goleta community. The request for proposals for an Economic Development Strategic Plan has a scope which includes an emphasis on restoring Transient Occupancy Tax and Sales Tax revenues by evaluating the sources of Goleta overnight stays and building strategies that most benefit the businesses impacted by the pandemic.

In other business, the council adopted an urgency ordinance to update the city’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium to set the repayment period of deferred rent to Aug. 1, 2021 through Aug. 31, 2021 to match state law. email: gmccormick@newspress.com

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BORTOLAZZO, Rosetta

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of Rosetta Bortolazzo on February 15, 2021. And yet, it is with great joy and love that we also celebrate the life of Rosetta. She was 95 years old.

Rosetta Reginato was born in Paderno, Northern Italy on January 21, 1926. She grew up in Italy surrounded by mountains, fields and farms. It was there, when she was 27 years old, that she met the man who would become her husband, Antonio Bortolazzo. Antonio -”Tony” was from the neighboring town of Crespano del Grappa. They married on April 30, 1952 in the Basilica of San Antonio in Padova. Thereafter they moved to the United States where Tony had established himself as owner of the Italian Bakery in Santa Barbara as a well-known bread baker.

They lived behind the bakery on Olive Street for several years before moving to Alisos Street, where Rosetta would call home for 64 years until her death. She lost Tony in 1971 to cancer. She raised her two children while continuing to work as a housekeeper for several families in Montecito.

Rosetta maintained a very active and healthy lifestyle walking to the Santa Barbara shoreline daily! She was an active and faithful member of her beloved parish church Our Lady of Guadalupe - where she volunteered countless hours in many church activities.

She was also a proud member of the local Sons of Italy club and the Italian Catholic Federation-giving once again of her time and talents to the numerous fundraising activities of both organizations. Rosetta was the first to lend a hand to whoever needed it. She was also the family historian and truly loved sharing her experiences of the “Old Country.”

She is survived by her daughter Anna (Granddaughter Catherine/Corrado Franini, Great-Grandsons Louis and Julian of Oregon and Granddaughter Margaret/ Seth Hawthorne of Virginia) and son Tony/Jeanne(Grandson Connor/Alison and Granddaughter Bianca). Rosetta is also survived by several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents Erminia and Giosue’ Reginato, sisters Bianca Siben, Maria Bernardi, Bruna Lucchese, and Norma Gaetan-brothers Berto Reginato and Bruno Reginato.

Burial and graveside services will be private. Family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Rosetta’s name to Our Lady of Guadalupe Church.

CORTEZ, Refugio P. Refugio was born on July 15, 1927 in Michoacan, Mexico. From a young age, Refugio was hardworking and determined. In Mexico, while working at one of his first jobs, in a corner grocery store, he used magazines to learn how to read. He traveled to America and picked lemons in the orchards of California to take care of his wife, Angelina, and two sons back in Mexico. His time away from his loved ones was difficult, but he wanted to offer his family the best life possible.

In 1968 he was able to bring his entire family to live in Santa Barbara, California and they all became American citizens. In Santa Barbara, Refugio, worked for Marborg for over 30 years, and was one of their best and most beloved staff members.

Refugio bought his home in Santa Barbara, which will forever be a symbol of his legacy.

Because of his bravery his sons were able to live the American dream and prosper. Leo, his eldest son, owns his own small business locally and his youngest, Ernesto, became a Doctor in Long Beach, California. Refugio was extremely proud of his sons.

Refugio was devoted to his family and beyond that was humble, extremely kind, giving, and full of positivity. You could often see him smiling or giggling, which would instantly warm anyone’s heart. He will be greatly missed! However, his courageous life and the decisions he made changed the path of each and every member of the Cortez family.

Refugio passed away on February 5th, 2021 at the age 93 at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and reunited with his wife, Angelina Cortez, in heaven as well as their third son, Javier.

He lives on through his sons, Leo & Ernesto; his seven grandchildren; Alicia, Thomas, Lorena, Anavaleria, Andres, Angelica, Leonardo, his five great-grandchildren, whom he was fortunate to meet, as well as a huge extended family, all of whom love him dearly.

A private, small family funeral will be held at Santa Barbara Cemetery Association in February 2021.

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DAUCHOT, Dr. Paul J.

DONOVAN, Lisa Anne

Lisa Anne Donovan was born on December 22, 1960 and passed away on February 2, 2021 in her home surrounded by her loving family. She is survived by her husband Patrick Donovan, children Michael, Jason, Justin, Heather, Lawrence, and Samantha, grandchildren Caleb, Joseph, Isabelle, Titus, Gavin, Hailey, Keirra, Jayden, Cindy, Allianne, Paisley, Noah, Donovan, and Memphis, niece Cecelia, and parents Bill and Valerie Mitarotonda.

She was a beautiful and loving daughter, wife, mother, grandmother and friend who was taken from us too early.

Even though our hearts are saddened by this great loss, we are content in knowing she is no longer suffering.

Her battle with brain and lung cancer was a hard fight, nonetheless she did it with grace and beauty. She will always be remembered by those who knew her best as a smart, strong, courageous woman that spoke her mind with ease. She was a fence post for those in need and sounding board for others. Many who brought her into their confidence understood what a caring soul she was. She got to high-five God when she went skydiving and we could feel her smile the whole way down. Who knew in such a short laps of time she’d be holding His hand. Her love of country music was a soothing outlet for those long, hard days. She was able to enjoy many amazing concerts with her husband by her side. Her children and grandchildren were her driving force to a joyous life. She lived for her children and grandchildren with an undying passion to make them happy. She was a woman of many talents, from being a homemaker to working close with her father in his scrap company. One of her biggest career achievements was co-owning her own construction company with her husband Patrick. For the last several years she had worked at Walmart, where she worked diligently and established many friendships. She is gone, but will never be forgotten. To the world she was one woman, but to us she was the world. We love you to the moon and back, too much all the time and every day! We say goodbye to God’s angel, but we’ll see you again in heaven!

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Dr. Paul J. Dauchot, 85 years old, of Santa Barbara, passed away on January 14, 2021. He was born November 10, 1935 and married to Elise Emily Claeys in 1960.

He dedicated his professional life to the study, teaching, and practice of anesthesiology, and in 1972 moved with his wife and three sons—Luke, Michael, & Ignatius—to Cleveland, OH to pursue his calling to medical academia.

He ultimately became a tenured professor at Case Western Reserve University and practiced medicine at University Hospitals for nearly 25 years. and six grandchildren.

He is survived by his devoted wife of 60 years, his sons,

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to Covid research can be made to: NIAIDGIFTFUND@NIAID.NIH.GOV

LIGTENBERG, Verla

Verla passed away peacefully in her sleep February 7,2021, at the age of 97. Her daughters, Sheri Ligtenberg and Candy Ornee, are thankful for her rich, full life. She’s now in heaven reunited with Vern, her husband of 65 years, in the presence of the Lord. Vern and Verla’s family, including grandchildren, Jamie Gilliland and Danny Ornee, great-grandchildren, Alana, Kaden and Brooke, and many loving nephews and nieces honor Verla with prayers and good memories. Church pastors and friends from Goleta Community Covenant Church also miss and honor them. Vern and Verla, eternal sweethearts, met and married in Bellflower, CA in 1946, and after retiring, moved to their home in Santa Barbara in 1995 where Verla lived until the last 3 months of her life. We celebrate her and thank God for her!

JAHNKE, Betty Lou

Betty Lou Jahnke of Santa Barbara passed away quietly at home on January 23, 2021.

Betty was born to the late Percy Lewis Jones and Jeannette Jones, in Nanticoke, PA, on March 24, 1924.

Following high school, she graduated from Philadelphia Nursing School as a surgical nurse in 1945.

Betty married Edward John Jahnke, Jr in 1946 in Philadelphia PA. His career as a United States Army Physician took them on a circuitous route from Walter Reed Army Hospital to various locations before returning to Walter Reed in 1960. Following his retirement from the Army in 1967 they relocated to Santa Barbara where a new career and community became their home.

Betty is survived by her six children and their spouses, eighteen grandchildren, and fifteen great-grandchildren.

Betty was predeceased by her husband in 2012.

Her journey in life began in a humble rural setting where extended family were the web of life, and life was good.

That security was shaken when her father, a member of the Fire Department and very active in rescue efforts, after a major flood contracted Typhus and died shortly after. Betty was twelve. Her mother returned to work as a school teacher and Perc, her eldest brother, returned from college to help support the family. These events helped establish Betty’s fierce independence and her embrace of life.

Over the years, Betty wore many hats: daughter, student, wife, employee, mother, homemaker, leader, friend, the list goes on. With each one she experienced the blessings and challenges inherently involved and taught us the freedom of choice. This lesson was increasingly clear as she reached her ‘golden years’ where the frailty of her body became evident. She chose not to wallow but to embrace life. Each challenge acknowledged, wrestled with, and then accepted. She chose to be grateful.

Santa Barbara was the second half of her and Ed’s journey. BSF, Honeycomb, Hume Lake Christian Camp, various churches in town all became central to Betty. Once Ed retired from his second career, they traveled to Israel with Lon Solomon multiple times enjoying the privilege of seeing things face-to-face. Her favorite family celebration was her Christmas Eve Party. The scriptures read, communion served, and the “one-gift to open” rule observed.

On the 19th of January, we brought her home from the hospital. She was euphoric; so happy to be home and see her garden again. Home where all the family gatherings and parties with piñatas, food and silly hats transformed a structure into a place of belonging. She loved her “lunch bunch crowd” and her friend who drove her around town to admire flowering trees. She loved her family and those she drew in as adopted members. Her wish for all who knew her to know: God is good and she was content.

This family lost our beloved Richard L. “Dick” Scoby on January 18, 2021. He died peacefully at the age of 89.

Richard was born on October 27, 1931 in St. Francis, Kansas to Twila Schaefer and Lyle Scoby. His mother died when he was only four and his father was killed in action in WWII when Richard was thirteen. Richard was raised by his paternal grandparents and his two sisters, Connie and Jeannine, who have preceded him in death, were raised by their maternal grandparents. Since they were not raised together, the three of them made up for lost time by sharing many happy times together as they grew older. Richard’s grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Scoby, enjoyed raising their lively, happy, athletic grandson.

Richard loved sports and was proud to have lettered all 4 years in track, football and basketball while attending Atwood Community High School. He was very popular in high school and was Homecoming King when a senior.

After two years at Kansas State, he joined the Air Force.

He married Joanne Fikan in 1952 and from this union, were born his two children, Beverly S. Scoby and Richard B. Scoby. The young family was stationed in Anchorage, Alaska. While he was living in Alaska, he became interested in real estate and made it his profession. The family relocated to Santa Barbara in 1961. He made his living in real estate for 64 plus years.

Richard was a special man, who enjoyed sharing his stories. He enjoyed his many years playing golf, tennis and cards with his friends at La Cumbre. He loved skiing, socializing, dancing, watching old musicals on TV featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly....“Singing in the Rain” was one of his favorites. He would rush home from school as a young man to listen to Bob Crosby and the Bobcats on the radio. He loved to dance to Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and watch Gene Krupa play the drums, all of the Big Band era. He greatly enjoyed music. Throughout his life, he remembered his Atwood roots and special friendships which he maintained through the years; one friendship lasted 83 years. He returned many times for high school reunions and “Hot Times” celebrations with those friends.

Richard married Ronda in 1989. They would have been married 32 years in March of this year. Richard was known for his love of life, his positive attitude, his sense of humor, his generous service and contributions to this community. He felt blessed to have many friends and business associates in this community.

His face would light up at the sight of a “well done cheeseburger and fries” or a slice of pumpkin pie with extra whipped cream or a snickers bar headed his way.

Richard had a private burial at Santa Barbara Cemetery attended by his immediate family. We would like to thank Welch-Ryce-Haider for their help at a very difficult time for us and the nurses and staff at Cottage Hospital whom cared for him in his recent three-week stay.

Richard is survived by his loving wife, Ronda, his daughter Beverly S. Clark, his son Richard B. Scoby and his three grandchildren Richard J. Scoby, Lauren A. Clark and Nicholas A. Clark. We had hoped to enjoy his company, his stories and his special energy for more years ahead. He will be greatly missed and forever remain in our hearts. If you wish to make a donation in his memory, Richard appreciated the good works of The First Tee, Direct Relief, or to a charity of your choice. We would also like to extend our sincere appreciation for the kind cards and messages that we have received.

DELTOPIA

IN MEMORY JOHN GEYER

May 25, 1969- Feb. 17, 2010 A Man of God Called up in Love, Praise and Strength John 3:17 We love you and miss you everyday

Forever Loved

for Deltopia to implement the restrictions and dissuade partygoers from parking in the Goleta neighborhoods closest to Isla Vista.

The parking restrictions will run from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, depending on when the event is held. Staff is prepared to implement the same restrictions the following week, should the event take place later.

Boundaries of the restrictions are Cannon Green Drive to the west, Hollister Avenue to the north, Stroke Road to the east and Whittier Drive to the south.

This area includes an estimated 1,250 dwelling units representing approximately 4,000 residents.

Parking permits will be required to be taped to the inside of the vehicle’s driver’s side window during the restricted hours, and the affected streets will be posted in advance to allow towing consistent with the California Vehicle Code.

Four electronic message boards will also be deployed in several entrances to the university neighborhoods.

In addition, there will be outreach from the city including notifications, emails and texts.

Households will be mailed two

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parking permits.

Vehicles not adhering to the restrictions will be subject to ticketing and/or towing.

Raquel Zick, spokeswoman for the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office, told the NewsPress that it will be monitoring the situation as needed.

“We have scalable plans in place to respond accordingly,” she said.

“And of course, the public health order remains in effect, so we will be consistent with our COVID enforcement response, which has been aimed primarily at gaining voluntary compliance through education. However, we do have enforcement options.”

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There is no service planned. Betty was famous for sending cards. Instead of gifts consider sending a card to let someone know you are thinking of them.

Always Remembered

SCOBY, Richard L. “Dick”

Parking restrictions planned for Friday, Saturday nights

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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.

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Gauchos romp to 12th-straight win to break school record

By MARK PATTON NEWS-PRESS SENIOR WRITER

Cal State Bakersfield has been at its basketball-best on Saturday nights, but UCSB has been good all through 2021.

Miles Norris scored a careerhigh 27 points to give the Gauchos a school-record 12th consecutive victory with Saturday’s 63-44 victory at the Thunderdome.

Coach Joe Pasternack decided to address the record after hearing his players talk about it in the post-game locker room.

“All summer long we were having Zooms, we were on the tennis court, we were having meetings on preparing for this year, and we thought this team could be very special,” he said.

“But not once did we come up with, ‘We want to win this many games in a row.’

“We have so many bigger things we want to accomplish. I think this team can be very special. I just drew a mountain on the board.

Right now, we’re just climbing the mountain, and we’re like halfway to the top. We still have so many things we have to do as a program, as a team.”

UCSB (16-3, 10-2 Big West Conference) took a big step toward a regular-season championship, taking a two-game lead over UC Irvine with just two weekend double-headers remaining in the regular season. The second-place Anteaters (12-8, 8-4) lost 67-64 at Cal State Fullerton on Saturday.

The Gauchos’ winning streak breaks the school record set by the 1988-89 team when it started the season at 11-0. They also rewrote the school record with their 10thstraight league win.

UCSB has gone 12-0 since losing a pair of games to start league play at defending champion UC Irvine to end the 2020 calendar year.

Bakersfield (14-9, 8-6) had won six of its seven Saturday games coming into the contest.

The Gauchos, however, held the Roadrunners to just 37% shooting and out-rebounded them 28-26. The 44 points were the fewest that UCSB has allowed all season.

“I thought tonight, our guys did a really great job holding this team to 37% from the field,” Pasternack said. “But more importantly, all week, for five days straight since last Monday, all we talked about was winning the rebounding war.

“I mean, we have signs posted which say, ‘Hit-and-git, hit-andgit.’ And our guys did an amazing job for two nights in a row in outrebounding this team — they’re at the top in the country in rebounding.”

Devearl Ramsey got UCSB off to a good start, making a pair of three-pointers during the first two minutes. He took only two more shots all game. His backcourt mate JaQuori McLaughlin, the Big West’s third-leading scorers with a 16.8-point average, took only two shots all game.

They focused more on setting up their teammates. Ramsey had

eight assists and six rebounds while McLaughlin assisted seven baskets while getting five rebounds. All 20 of UCSB’s baskets came after an assist.

“I’ve never been part of a team that has such unselfishness,” Pasternack said. “When your best player is so unselfish, and your starting backcourt has 15 assists to just five turnovers — Devearl is third in the country and maybe now moved up to second in assistto-turnover ratio — that’s when you know you have a special, special team and can do special things.”

Norris was the main beneficiary, making 9-of-11 baskets including 4-of-5 from three-point range. The 27 points were the most by any Gaucho this season.

His first three got the Gaucho lead up to 14-2 after less than five minutes.

Amadou Sow scored twice inside the arc, but Norris and Ajare Sanni added two more threes to expand the lead to 27-12 after 13½ minutes.

Bakersfield got as close as 2716 before Norris turned the game into a slam-fest. He scored four straight baskets during a threeplus-minute span, dunking off a pair of fast-break passes by Ramsey.

Three of those field goals were set up by steals — the first by McLaughlin, the next by Ramsey, and the final one by Brandon Cyrus.

The Gauchos made six steals in the first half. McLaughlin scored his only points on two free throws with 1:20 left in the period.

UCSB took a 39-21 lead into halftime by out-shooting the Roadrunners 54.5% to 36.4% and out-rebounding them 14-12.

By the time Norris hit a three to start the second half, he had half of the Gauchos’ points in a 42-23 runaway.

“He had a chip on his shoulder, and I thought he played really, really well,” Pasternack said. “I actually told him right before the game that, ‘You need to play the way you did against Irvine on that Saturday.’ And he did an amazing job.

“Defensively, he did a terrific job — I was proud of him — on Justin Elder-Davis. He’s a really, really good player.”

UCSB pulled ahead by 20, 45-25, on a three by Sanni.

The Gauchos got out of control with three charging violations in a three-minute span. The Roadrunners took advantage with a 7-0 run. A corner three by Elder-Davis drew Bakersfield to within 45-32 with 13:26 still remaining.

But a jumper by Cyrus and a dunk by Sow off McLaughlin’s lob got the Gauchos rolling again.

UCSB got three more threes by Norris, Jay Nagle and Josh PierreLouis to finish off Roadrunners.

Next up is a Friday-Saturday double-header at UC Riverside, which holds down third place in the Big West at 5-3. email: mpatton@newspress.com

Will Bauer blow up the happy clubhouse at Dodger Stadium?

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revor Bauer may be a dynamite addition for the Los Angeles Dodgers, but there is a risk to playing with fireworks.

The gifted but grouchy righthander brings another powerful pitching arm to their arsenal when he reports to spring training this weekend. He also could destabilize the good chemistry that helped last year’s Dodgers win their first World Series championship since 1988.

As Adam Sandler once said, “Chemistry is good when you make love with it ... Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.”

Bauer cracked up during the heat of summer in 2019 when Cleveland manager Terry Francona removed him from a game at Kansas City. He stepped off the mound and heaved the baseball over the centerfield wall.

“Nice arm,” the Dodger apologist might think.

“Hot head,” the Dodger realist might think.

Bauer was appropriately contrite after that game.

“I’m an intense competitor and that fire is what drives me, and today it completely consumed me, took over,” he told reporters. “I just wanted to say I’m sorry for how I behaved. I’ll be better about it. It won’t happen again.”

He hasn’t tossed any more balls over the outfield wall. He has, however, tossed many more tantrums.

Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers president of baseball operations, tried to put as good a spin on the acquisition as Bauer applies to his curveball.

“The most important thing is

every teammate we talked to, all the feedback we got from every organization he was with, was not only incredibly positive in terms of the type of teammate he is, but also in terms of the impact that he makes on each organization,” he said.

But that long-winded assertion glossed over the confrontations that Bauer has had with everybody from agent Scott Boras, to commissioner Rob Manfred, to the entire Houston Astros organization. He’s even taken his bully pulpit onto social media platforms.

He sparred on Twitter with a college student after she called him her “least favorite person in sports.” Bauer responded over the next three days with at least 17 tweets, posting a photograph he found from her timeline which showed her drinking before she turned the legal age of 21.

The woman said she felt so harassed by Bauer and his followers that she “cried daily.”

Bauer has also waged Twitter wars with the media. It got so bad with one New York sports reporter that she got “death threats and Holocaust jokes in my mentions for months after he went after me.”

Friedman also apparently didn’t ask for a reference from New York Yankee pitcher Gerrit Cole, who famously feuded with Bauer when they were teammates at UCLA. They still refuse to talk about or even look at each other.

When USA Today asked former Bruin assistant coach Rick Vanderhook if they might ever kiss and make up, he replied, “I would have to say the odds of the earth burning up are better than that.”

So yeah, the Dodgers are playing with fireworks.

Friedman also must not have consulted former Arizona catcher Miguel Montero, who said Bauer “rubbed people the wrong way” when asked why he was traded away to the Cleveland Indians.

Bauer rubbed even harder on his way out the Diamondbacks’ door, releasing a rap song which

Cleveland manager Terry Francona confronts Trevor Bauer after the former Indians’ pitcher threw a baseball over the centerfield wall at Kansas City’s Kauffman Stadium.

O’Connor lifts Gauchos over Santa Clara

By MITCHELL WHITE NEWS-PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

McClain O’Connor collected his second three-RBI outing in as many games to help No. 8 UCSB earn its first win of the season on Saturday afternoon.

The Gauchos defeated visiting Santa Clara 9-6.

After falling behind 3-0 on Saturday, the Gauchos were able to get things going offensively in the fourth, loading the bases for Mason Eng. Eng ripped an RBI single, followed by a bases loaded walk drawn by Jason Willow.

O’Connor and Broc Mortensen followed with back-to-back RBIs of their own to give UCSB a 4-3 lead.

The Gauchos scored four more in the fifth courtesy of Eng, O’Connor and Mortensen. The three combined for seven of the team’s RBIs.

Michael McGreevy went five innings and allowed two earned runs and struck out five. Ryan Harvey, Carter Benbrook and Clayton Hall worked in relief and each allowed one earned run.

The two teams will meet again at 1 p.m. today. Rodney Boone will get the start against Santa Clara’s Matthew McGarry. No fans are permitted due to COVID-19 protocols.

WESTMONT 4, SAN DIEGO CHRISTIAN 2 WESTMONT 10, SAN DIEGO CHRISTIAN 1 The 13th ranked Warriors completed a four-game sweep on Saturday with a pair of victories over San Diego Christian.

In Game 1, Parker O’Neil’s tworun home run in the bottom of the sixth helped Westmont jump in front.

Robbie Haw was able to register

a strikeout with two men on base in the top of ninth to close out the win. Former Bishop Diego standout Gabe Arteage got the win, his second of the season, as he pitched six innings and allowed just one run and struck out seven.

In Game 2, Ryan Humphreys tossed a seven-inning complete game, allowing just one run on one hit. He struck out eight.

He was aided by a red-hot offense, as Westmont jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first and never looked back. Thomas Rudinski and Alex Stufft each drove in a pair in the win.

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ways on Saturday.

Stefanie Berberabe had a gamehigh 21 points on 10-14 shooting to go along with six assists and five rebounds. Sydney Brown added 17 points and Iyree Jarrett had 10 points and six assists.

UCSB women’s game canceled The Gauchos game against Cal State Bakersfield was canceled on Saturday.

Bakersfield paused all basketball operations as a result of university and department wide health and safety protocols, officials said.

UCSB has four scheduled contests in the regular season, a pair of games against UC Riverside next weekend and an away series at Cal Poly the following weekend. email: mwhite@newspress.com

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Trevor Bauer addresses the media after signing a three-year, $102-million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The gifted but grouchy righthander brings another powerful pitching arm to their arsenal when he reports to spring training this weekend.

He also could destabilize the good chemistry that helped last year’s Dodgers win their first World Series championship since 1988. attacked the club.

He endeared himself to few in Cleveland during the 2016 American League playoffs. He injured his pitching hand while playing with a drone and had to leave Game 3 of the ALCS after his stitches came apart during the first inning.

Bauer, an intensely cerebral athlete, said his detractors don’t take into account his “growth and maturation.”

“Is it possible that I was a bad teammate in 2012? Sure,” he said two seasons ago. “Is it also possible that I’m a good teammate in 2019? Sure.”

He is a master of his craft and as diligent a worker as has ever ascended a mound. Indians pitching coach Carl Willis once described him as “a pioneer,” noting that he used high-speed cameras, weighted-ball training, long toss, and precision pitch design before those techniques became popular.

Former UCSB ace Shane Bieber, who won last year’s American League Cy Young Award with the Indians, appreciated being his teammate.

“He thinks a little bit differently,” Bieber said. “The game is starting to change, and he’s ahead of the curve.”

But the Indians got their fill of Bauer’s different ways of thinking, trading him to the

Bieber rejoins team after COVID-19 quarantine Cleveland Indians ace Shane Bieber, who pitched UCSB to the College World Series in 2016, has rejoined the major league club after being quarantined with COVID-19.

Bieber reportedly dealt with “very, very mild symptoms” and wasn’t expected to remain away from the team for very long. It was announced Thursday that he tested positive for the virus, and he was in camp on Saturday.

Chris Antonetti, the Indians’ president of baseball operations, said Bieber, 25, had been working out at the team’s complex this winter.

He won the American League Cy Young Award last season

Cincinnati Reds midway through the 2019 season.

He won last year’s National League Cy Young Award, and then promptly signed a threeyear contract with the Dodgers for $102 million.

Is he worth the price and aggravation? The Dodgers’ starting rotation is already stacked with the likes of Clayton Kershaw, Walker Buehler, David Price, Julio Urias, Dustin May and Tony Gonsolin.

This might be just a knee-jerk reaction to San Diego’s off-season acquisitions of pitching aces Blake Snell, Yu Darvish and Joe Musgrove.

Dodger fans should be concerned about last week’s latest knee-jerk reaction.

When New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard tweeted a friendly jab at Bauer for not signing with his own club, the new Dodger blew it up into a full-out Twitter fit. He even researched Syndergaard’s Instagram account to point out the tiffs that he’s had with fans.

“Keep digging,” Syndergaard responded.

“See you at the bottom,” Bauer replied.

His new Dodger teammates just hope he doesn’t drag them there, too. email: mpatton@newspress.com

after leading the league in wins (8-1 record), ERA (1.63) and strikeouts (122) in 12 starts.

Bieber, who finished fourth in the A.L.’s MVP voting, has gone 34-14 over the past three seasons.

Cleveland manager Terry Francona said on Saturday his ace will resume a normal work schedule.

“He was actually able to throw a bullpen I think in his backyard when he was down,” said Francona, who is recovering from a staph infection in his toe.

“So he’s not behind. I do think that being in this environment is more conducive to better work, but we’ve all seen Biebs.

“He’s going to get it done wherever. That’s not an issue.”

The former Gaucho took part in non-throwing, fielding practice on his first day. The Indians will have their first fullsquad workout on Sunday.

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“The threat to the average person, in a community like Carpinteria or Goleta or Solvang or Buellton, is very limited,” he said. “And they are very safe cities; it’s just that we’ve seen this additional increase.”

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“I am heartened that the American Rescue Plan will right this wrong and provide critical resources to our local and state government.”

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The statistics are not further broken down to identify gangrelated crimes, though Sheriff Brown said that the Sheriff’s Office is working with the Board of Supervisors to try and identify funding for a data analyst. The Sheriff’s Office is also in the process of upgrading some of its systems.

Through its crime statistics, the Sheriff’s Office is trying to determine how the pandemic has impacted local crime rates.

“In other words, not only has (the pandemic) taken away some and provided other opportunities for crimes to be committed, but the level of accountability for people who are arrested for crimes or who are caught committing crimes and maybe not arrested … because of the COVID situation and the concern in the

jail for overcrowding and us being a congregate living facility and so forth, what impact is that having on crime as well?

“We don’t know the answer to that yet … we’re still trying to study that and trying to dig into that, but I can tell you that we’ve reduced our population significantly in the jail.”

As of Feb. 12, there were 639 inmates at the jail. On March 18, 2020, before local health orders took place, the jail was housing some 830 inmates. There are also 93 inmates who are currently awaiting placement, Sheriff Brown said.

He expects the “no bail rule,” which allowed people who were arrested for minor offenses to be quickly released without paying any bail, will remain in place for the near future.

“It’s been locally adopted, and just as a result of the pandemic and the situation … despite herculean efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we’ve had several outbreaks in the jail and inmates and staff alike, who have been impacted by it,” Sheriff Brown said. “So we have to keep the jail numbers down so that we can spread the inmates apart and distance them and all of that.”

The Northern Branch Jail, which includes a 376-bed jail facility that includes 32 beds for medical and mental health treatment, is expected to be “substantially completed” by this summer and will be able to help handle the local inmate population. email: mwhite@newspress.com

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Rep. Carbajal fielded a number of questions during the town hall, including protections for the western monarch butterfly, voting rights and election security and student loan forgiveness.

Rep. Carbajal is calling for more funding to protect the butterfly habitat, as well as increased measures to grow the habitat for the species. He has written letters to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife calling for more to be done, and said he is “hopeful that in the near future” the western monarch butterfly will be considered as an endangered species.

In regards to voting rights and election security, Rep. Carbajal pointed to a pair of House Resolutions — HR 1 and HR 4 — would play a key role in ensuring the American people have confidence in its voting system.

“You should know that … the elections we just had were some of the most reliable, effective elections we have had,” he said.

“Even Attorney General (Bill) Barr and others, all 50 states, have corroborated that our election systems have had the highest level of integrity and minimal to no fraud. I think what HR 1 will continue to do is make investments to give people even more confidence that our elections are fair and effective.”

HR 4, also known as the John Lewis Voter Rights Act, is expected to be introduced in the coming weeks and is aimed at making sure that no jurisdiction is putting up barriers preventing eligible and willing voters from casting their ballots.

On the topic of student loan forgiveness, Rep. Carbajal explained the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, and said he is hoping to make the program more robust. He also discussed the Degrees Not Debt Act, which provided more pell grants and financial aid packages to students for more affordability and accessibility.

Rep. Carbajal said he is looking forward to working with the Biden administration to cancel out parts of student loan debt that currently exist.

“President Biden has said that

he is willing to work to cancel … up to $10,000 for individuals who currently have student debt,” he said. “I think that is a great step forward that we’ll be seeing in the near future.”

Rep. Carbajal was also asked about HR 51, which would make Washington D.C. a state. The congressman explained that the nation’s capital is taxed like every other state, but has no representation.

“We don’t want United States citizens to be taxed and have no representation. If you’re taxing someone they should have the right to have representation,” he said.

Rep. Carbajal also pledged his support of expanding the commercial launch program at Vandenberg Air Force Base, which he said would help with national security as well as the local economy. He explained that the expansion would require “a number of infrastructure upgrades” and he has been working on the House Armed Services Committee to ensure the local Air Force base has the support and resources needed. email: mwhite@newspress.com

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it up close, but pointed at the Triceratops confidently and said “I’m not scared of that one.”

“I think it’s really great for the kids to be able to see (the dinosaurs),” Wynne Weung, Luna’s mother, told the News-Press. Ms. Weung visited the museum with her family Saturday and said her young son was scared because of how realistic the dinosaurs looked, so he decided to keep his distance.

The Prehistoric Forest, a fanfavorite among museum regulars, is now here to stay permanently.

The outdoor exhibit was a hit when it came to the museum in the summer of 2019, but because it was a traveling exhibit, the dinosaurs were only at the museum for a short season.

“When (the dinosaurs) left, we had so many disappointed visitors, particularly our youngest visitors, who would come back over and over again and ask ‘where are the dinosaurs,”’ Luke Swetland, president and CEO of the museum, told the News-Press. “So we said, you know, let’s figure out a way to bring them back. They’re here now, so we’re going to have a lot of happy kids for a lot of years to come.”

The animatronic figures, which growl and move their bodies, accurately reflect the most current research on what dinosaurs may have looked like and sounded like, Dr. Jonathan Hoffman, dibblee curator of Earth Science at the museum, said.

“One of the things we really wanted to do with this exhibit, starting with the first time it was here, was to really clue people in on what’s going on with current research,” Dr. Hoffman told the News-Press.

Fossil research among paleontologists is ongoing and ever changing, meaning current perceptions about what dinosaurs looked like could evolve in the future, Dr. Hoffman said.

Currently, researchers are pondering whether the T. rex could have had feathers, as fossil evidence from other species of tyrannosaurs shows feather impressions. However, paleontologists are largely divided over this issue and fossil evidence is yet to be found to prove that the

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Leo Sulzberg, left, and Emma Jones, both age 4, observe a Triceratops and its babies in the Prehistoric Forest. Leo covers his ears to block out the Triceratops’ loud sounds.

T. rex specifically had feathers, Dr. Hoffman said.

For now, Dr. Hoffman said the dinosaurs on display in the Prehistoric Forest are accurate depictions of the “hard evidence” scientists know for certain.

Though dinosaurs are ancient

creatures that went extinct eons ago, Dr. Hoffman emphasized that paleontology is still an “active and dynamic science.” In fact, Dr. Hoffman said one of the animatronic dinosaurs will be reassigned as a Euoplocephalus after he and his colleagues

discovered the dinosaur was a different species from what it was originally assigned.

“I think there’s a tendency to think of dinosaurs as kind of old and settled research, and nothing new going on, and quite the opposite is true,” Dr.

Hoffman said. “We’re in the midst of a real heyday for fossil discoveries, particularly for dinosaurs.”

While the museum cannot currently open its indoor exhibits, they plan to welcome guests at 25% capacity to enjoy

the Prehistoric Forest and another exhibit, “Dinorama: Miniatures Through the Mesozoic,” through April 25. To reserve museum tickets, visit sbnature.org. email: mhirneisen@newspress.com

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05",)# ./4)#%3 PUBLIC NOTICE UNCLAIMED MONIES FUND 1071 Treasurer/Tax Collector/Public Administrator Unclaimed Distribution Estate/Amount Koster, Barry Alan - $1,118.83; Watson, Harold - $2,104.56; Moore, Nicholas - $519.14; Clarkson, Charles Scott - $1,111.35; In accordance with Government Code 50050 and 50051, this money remaining in the Santa Barbara County Treasury on February 21, 2021, will become the property of Santa Barbara County on said date of April 22, 2021, unless a party of interest files a claim with the County Treasurer which must include the claimant’s name, address, amount of claim, and the grounds on which the claim is founded. The County Treasurer shall accept or reject the claim. If the claim is rejected by the County Treasurer, the party who submitted the claim may file a verified complaint seeking to recover all, or a designated part, of the money in a court of competent jurisdiction within the County of Santa Barbara, and copy thereof, together with the summons issued thereon, and within 30 days from notice of rejection, shall be served upon the County Treasurer, 105 East Anapamu St., Room 109, Santa Barbara, CA, in accordance with Government Code Section 50052.

Dated: February 21, 2021 HARRY E. HAGEN, CPA, CPFA, CPFO, CFIP, CGIP, ACPFIM Santa Barbara County Treasurer/Tax Collector/Public Administrator (805) 568-2490

Plans and specifications will be on file and available to view, download or purchase on, or as soon as possible, after the mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference through Cybercopy at http://www.cybercopyplanroom. com The deadline for pre-bid questions or clarification requests is March 10, 2021. All questions are to be in writing and directed to the Project Architect/Engineer, Robert Robles, Robert Robles Architecture, Inc. at rr@robertroblesarch.com CLEARLY MARK BID RESPONSE ENVELOPE WITH TIME/DATE OF BID OPENING AND PROJECT NAME. Bids so received shall be opened and publicly read aloud at the Santa Barbara Unified School District Administration Office, 720 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101. All bids shall be made on the forms provided in the specifications and each bid must conform to the Contract Documents. Each bid shall be accompanied by the bid security specified in the Instructions to Bidders.

The Project description is as follows: The Work of this project consists of alterations to the existing Main Building in order to provide upgrades that shall consist of, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Reroofing (full roofing replacement). 2. Patching and repairs, associated with and made necessary by the reroofing work. 3. Hazardous Materials Abatement. 4.

Mechanical, plumbing, and electrical work, associated with and made necessary by the reroofing work.

Contractor’ License required: B Prequalification of Bidders and E/M/P subcontractors: As a condition of bidding on this Project, and in accordance with the provisions of Public Contract Code section 20111.5 and 20111.6 all Bidders and all electrical, mechanical and plumbing subcontractors listed in the Bidder’s proposal must either be pre-qualified for at least five business days before the date of the opening of the bids or must submit a completed prequalification package by the deadline stated below. Bids not conforming to this requirement will not be accepted.

Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 20111.6(j) a list of prequalified general contractors and electrical, mechanical, and plumbing subcontractors will be made available by the District no later than March 23, 2021 at lgonzalez@sbunified.org Prequalification packages are available through the Cybercopy at http://www.cybercopyplanroom.com.

Pre-qualification questions must be directed to L.M. Sweaney at lynns11s@aol.com or leave a voice message at (909) 337-8302.

Prequalification packages must be submitted to L.M. Sweaney & Associates, 180 Grass Valley Rd., Lot 3, Lake Arrowhead, CA 92352 (UPS or FED-EX ONLY) (Voice Message: 909-337-8302) no later than March 10, 2021 [Note: Per PCC 2011.6 – must have submitted package at least 10 business days before bid opening, can specify earlier date]. FAXED PRE-QUALIFICATION APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1773 and 1773.2 of the Labor Code of the State of California, the District has obtained from the Director of Industrial Relations, the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work in the locality in which the work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of workman needed to execute the contract which is available for review at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/statistics_research.html. During the Work, the Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) will monitor compliance with prevailing wage rate requirements and enforce the Contractor’s prevailing wage rate obligations, with a copy of the same being on file with the clerk of the District’s governing board.

It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractor under him, to pay not less than the said specified rates to all workmen employed by them in the execution of the contract, and to comply with all prevailing wage requirements set forth in the Labor Code.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1771.1 of the Labor Code of the State of California, a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid or engage in the performance of any contract for this project unless; (1) currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5; or (2) expressly authorized to submit a bid by Section 1771.1 and provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. The successful Bidder will be required to post all job-site notices required by DIR regulations and other applicable law.

The successful bidder and its subcontractors will be required to follow the nondiscrimination requirements set forth in the General Conditions.

The District will be participating in the Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) Participation Goal Program pursuant to Education Code section 17076.11 and Public Contract Code section 10115.

No Bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the bid opening. The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids or to waive irregularities in any bid.

BY THE ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE SANTA BARBARA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT By: Steve Vizzolini, Director of Facilities and Modernizations Planning Department FEB 21, 28 / 2021 -- 56821

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Publish: February 21 & 28, 2021 FEB 21, 28 / 2021 -- 56662

DATE OF HEARING: MARCH 3, 2021 IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CALLING FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received for a bid opening by the Board of Education of the Santa Barbara Unified School District at the Administration Office, 724 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101 not later than: Bid opening will be held on March 24, 2021 at 1:00p.m. for La Colina Jr. High School 300 & 400 Building Roofing Replacement Project (“Project”).

A mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference will be conducted on March 1, 2021 beginning at 10:00a.m. Meet at 4025 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110 at the flagpole. Bids will not be accepted from contractors not attending the mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference. Prospective Bidders arriving after the above-designated starting time for a mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference shall be disqualified from submitting a bid for this project.

Plans and specifications will be on file and available to view, download or purchase on, or as soon as possible, after the mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference through Cybercopy at http://www.cybercopyplanroom. com The deadline for pre-bid questions or clarification requests is March 10, 2021. All questions are to be in writing and directed to the Project Architect/Engineer, Robert Robles, Robert Robles Architecture, Inc. at rr@robertroblesarch.com CLEARLY MARK BID RESPONSE ENVELOPE WITH TIME/DATE OF BID OPENING AND PROJECT NAME. Bids so received shall be opened and publicly read aloud at the Santa Barbara Unified School District Administration Office, 720 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101. All bids shall be made on the forms provided in the specifications and each bid must conform to the Contract Documents. Each bid shall be accompanied by the bid security specified in the Instructions to Bidders.

The Project description is as follows: The Work of this project consists of alterations to the existing Buildings # 300 and #400 in order to provide upgrades that shall consist of, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Reroofing (full roofing replacement).

2. Patching and repairs, associated with and made necessary by the reroofing work. 3. Hazardous Materials Abatement. 4. Mechanical, plumbing, and electrical work, associated with and made necessary by the reroofing work.

Contractor’ License required: B Prequalification of Bidders and E/M/P subcontractors: As a condition of bidding on this Project, and in accordance with the provisions of Public Contract Code section 20111.5 and 20111.6 all Bidders and all electrical, mechanical and plumbing subcontractors listed in the Bidder’s proposal must either be pre-qualified for at least five business days before the date of the opening of the bids or must submit a completed prequalification package by the deadline stated below. Bids not conforming to this requirement will not be accepted.

Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 20111.6(j) a list of prequalified general contractors and electrical, mechanical, and plumbing subcontractors will be made available by the District no later than March 23, 2021 at lgonzalez@sbunified.org Prequalification packages are available through the Cybercopy at http://www.cybercopyplanroom.com. Prequalification questions must be directed to L.M. Sweaney at lynns11s@aol.com or leave a voice message at (909) 337-8302.

Prequalification packages must be submitted to L.M. Sweaney & Associates, 180 Grass Valley Rd., Lot 3, Lake Arrowhead, CA 92352 (UPS or FED-EX ONLY) (Voice Message: 909-337-8302) no later than March 10, 2021 [Note: Per PCC 2011.6 – must have submitted package at least 10 business days before bid opening, can specify earlier date]. FAXED PRE-QUALIFICATION APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1773 and 1773.2 of the Labor Code of the State of California, the District has obtained from the Director of Industrial Relations, the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work in the locality in which the work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of workman needed to execute the contract which is available for review at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/statistics_research.html. During the Work, the Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) will monitor compliance with prevailing wage rate requirements and enforce the Contractor’s prevailing wage rate obligations, with a copy of the same being on file with the clerk of the District’s governing board.

It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractor under him, to pay not less than the said specified rates to all workmen employed by them in the execution of the contract, and to comply with all prevailing wage requirements set forth in the Labor Code.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1771.1 of the Labor Code of the State of California, a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid or engage in the performance of any contract for this project unless; (1) currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5; or (2) expressly authorized to submit a bid by Section 1771.1 and provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

The successful Bidder will be required to post all job-site notices required by DIR regulations and other applicable law.

The successful bidder and its subcontractors will be required to follow the nondiscrimination requirements set forth in the General Conditions.

The District will be participating in the Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) Participation Goal Program pursuant to Education Code section 17076.11 and Public Contract Code section 10115.

No Bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the bid opening. The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids or to waive irregularities in any bid.

BY THE ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE SANTA BARBARA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT By: Steve Vizzolini, Director of Facilities and Modernizations Planning Department FEB 21, 28 / 2021 -- 56820

Based on guidance from the California Department of Public Health and the California Governor’s Stay at Home Executive Order N-33-20, issued on March 19, 2020, to protect the health and wellbeing of all Californian’s and to establish consistency across the state in order to slow the spread of COVID-19, the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission hearings will no longer provide inperson participation.

We have established alternative methods of participation in the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission hearings, pursuant to the California Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20, issued on March 17, 2020, which states: • •

Providing an opportunity to “observe and address the meeting telephonically or otherwise electronically,” alone, meets the participation requirement; and “Such a body need not make available any physical location from which members of the public may observe the meeting and offer public comment.”

The following alternative methods of participation are available to the public: 1. You may observe the live stream of the County Planning Commission meetings on (1) Local Cable Channel 20, (2) online at: http://www.countyofsb.org/ceo/csbtv/livestream.sbc; or (3) YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/CSBTV20 2. If you wish to make a general public comment or to comment on a specific agenda item, the following methods are available: •

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Distribution to the County Planning Commission - Submit your comment via email prior to 12:00 p.m. on the Monday prior to the Commission hearing. Please submit your comment to the Recording Secretary at dvillalo@countyofsb.org. Your comment will be placed into the record and distributed appropriately.

Video and Teleconference Public Participation – To participate via Zoom, please preregister for the meeting using the below link.

When: March 3, 2021 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Topic: County Planning Commission 03/03/2021 Register in advance for this webinar: https://countyofsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k_ViLZh4TV2Qf8SKQjnbQA

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

OR PARTICIPATE VIA TELEPHONE: Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 213 338 8477 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 720 928 9299 or +1 971 247 1195 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 602 753 0140 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 470 250 9358 or +1 646 518 9805 or +1 651 372 8299 or +1 786 635 1003 or +1 929 205 6099 or +1 267 831 0333 or +1 301 715 8592 or 877 853 5257 (Toll Free) or 888 475 4499 (Toll Free) or 833 548 0276 (Toll Free) or 833 548 0282 (Toll Free) Webinar ID: 975 3642 5904 The Commission’s rules on hearings and public comment, unless otherwise directed by the Chair, remain applicable to each of the participation methods listed above.

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

Maps and/or staff analysis of the proposals may be reviewed at https://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/hearings/cpc.sbc a week before the hearing or by appointment by calling (805) 568-2000.

If you challenge the project(s) 20APL-00000-00030, 20APL-00000-00031, or 20APL-00000-00032 in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Planning Commission prior to the public hearing.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the Hearing Support Staff (805) 568-2000. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable the Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements.

20APL-00000-00030 20APL-00000-000031 20APL-00000-00032

Williams Appeal of Director Denial of Williams Accessory Dwelling Units

Exempt, CEQA Guidelines Section 15270(b)

Isla Vista

Alex Tuttle, Supervising Planner (805) 884-6844 Delaney Roney, Planner (805) 568-2033

Hearing on the request of property owners George and Karen Williams, to consider the appeals, Case Nos. 20APL-00000-00030, 20APL-00000-00031, and 20APL-00000-00032, of the Director’s denial of 20CDP-00000-00060, 20CDP-00000-00061, and 20CDP-00000-00062 for the conversion of three garages into Accessory Dwelling Unit’s (ADUs), in compliance with Section 35-182 of Article II, the Coastal Zoning Ordinance. The applications involve Assessor Parcel Numbers 075-223-025, -024, and -023, located at 6513, 6515, and 6517 Del Playa Drive respectively in the Goleta Community Plan area (Isla Vista), Third Supervisorial District.

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION RECORDING SECRETARY (568-2000) FEB 21 / 2021 -- 56824

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COURTESY PHOTOS

A condor at the Santa Barbara Zoo flies in its habitat. Before the zoo and its partners stepped in, condors were extinct in the wild.

Can-do attitude for condors Book highlights work of Santa Barbara Zoo conservationists

By ANNELISE HANSHAW NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

‘C

ondor Comeback”

by New York Times bestselling author Sy Montgomery features the conservation efforts of the Santa Barbara Zoo and the work of Dr. Estelle Sandhaus, the zoo’s director of conservation and science. “(Ms. Montgomery) is a really experiential writer. When she writes these books, her process is really writing an adventure,” Dr. Sandhaus told the News-Press.

“Condor Comeback” (HMH Books for Young Readers, $18.99) describes a myriad of locations, such as those where the bunker zookeepers feed the condors, sneaking meals through tunnels so the birds won’t see the human behind the wall.

Then Ms. Montgomery transports readers to the backcountry where condors nest.

“Everything we do is what she’s weaving into the story,” Dr. Sandhaus said. “She is an incredibly sharp intelligent woman but also has this wideeyed wonder. When she tells this story, she has a way that children can relate to and be captivated by.”

“Condor Comeback” is optimized for kids ages 10 to 12 but can be enjoyed by more.

Wildlife photography by Tianne Strombeck zooms in on the textures of the large, dramatic birds.

“I’m hoping that kids will see that there are so many ways a person can contribute to conservation work and saving a

Dr. Estelle Sandhaus, director of conservation and science at the Santa Barbara Zoo, watches a condor nest.

FYI “Condor Comeback” (HMH Books for Young Readers, $18.99) is available at amazon.com.

To learn more about the Santa Barbara Zoo and its efforts for condors, go to sbzoo.org/conservation/california-condor-recovery-program.

species,” Dr. Sandhaus said.

The book shows a variety of key players, including the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, which has maintained an ancient connection to condors. But Ms. Montgomery mainly follows the adventures of Santa Barbara Zoo staff.

“The Santa Barbara Zoo is not a huge zoo, but its commitment to conservation — especially of species practically in its

backyard, like the California Condor and the Channel Island foxes — packs an enormous punch,” Ms. Montgomery said.

Before conservation efforts by the Santa Barbara Zoo and other organizations, California condors were extinct in the wild.

Now Dr. Sandhaus occasionally sees a condor not yet marked and recorded by zoos.

She said one of the reasons the Santa Barbara Zoo focuses a lot

of efforts on saving condors is because they were “brought to the brink of extinction by human action.”

She estimates that half of condors the zoo has confirmed deceased died from lead poisoning.

Condors benefit from hunting because they eat the carcasses left by hunters, but lead ammunition causes many deaths.

The zoo tries to educate visitors about this problem.

“We are seeing traction in our communities of folks embracing non lead ammunition. Once we get a handle on that, we’ll be in a pretty good place,” Dr. Sandhaus said.

The second problem is small bits of trash she calls “microtrash.” Condors pick up the trash thinking its bone or shells and feed it to chicks, which causes fatalities.

“Only two things really threaten condors today, and both are in our hands: lead bullets and plastic microtrash. Get rid of these, and our skies can be graced with the majestic birds forever,” Ms. Montgomery said.

Condors reproduce slowly, so conservationists value every chick. In one scene of the book, Ms. Montgomery and researchers spend hours observing a nest.

Technology like GPS trackers helps staff confirm the condors are alive, and they wait for critical moments. While watching the chick, the team saw the young condor take one of its first flights.

“My heart took flight with that fledgling,” Ms. Montgomery said.

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Sy Montgomery, author of “Condor Comeback,” holds a condor.

Researchers tag and study this vulnerable species as part of conservation efforts.

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Katie Hale, of London, and Christina Iverson, of Ames, Iowa, are stay-at-home moms. Katie is also co-founder of a community organization that recycles children’s books. They connected online after Katie read about Christina’s first Times puzzle and reached out for mentoring. This is Christina’s seventh crossword for the paper. It is Katie’s debut. — W.S.

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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1 Unloading point 5 Trait for a ballerina 10 ‘‘Wanna hear a secret?’’ preceder 14 Not much 18 The ‘‘O’’ of OWN 20 Portrayer of Captain Davies in ‘‘Roots’’ 21 Bind with rope 22 Abacus column 23 Helpful 24 Accept payment from Batman?

27 Eponymous Irish city 29 ____ pickle 30 Counterparts of faunas 31 Cause for celebration at a pachyderm sanctuary?

36 ____ lecithin (chocolate additive) 37 What most pens can’t do 38 Jane portrayer in 1981’s ‘‘Tarzan, the Ape Man’’ 41 Worry about, informally 45 Flip (out) 46 Rock band that you might think would always be an opening act, with ‘‘the’’?

48 Ex-Giants QB Manning 49 Finish scooping out a big stir-fry?

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54 Signal approval 55 Inexplicably missing, say 56 Brontë who wrote ‘‘Agnes Grey’’ 57 Target of permethrin cream 58 Not very convincing 60 Highly skilled 61 Rare race outcome 63 Unimaginative birthday gift 64 Is stertorous 65 Puritan’s goal in 17th-century Salem?

69 Changes topics in a debate, perhaps 73 Scrapes (out) 74 The Rose Bowl, e.g.

79 Czar who co-ruled with Peter I 80 Goes head to head 81 Indiana athlete 83 Sunburn soother 84 Specialist publication, for short 85 Monopolize 86 Something a Parmesan vendor might offer?

89 Unflappable state of mind 90 Baron Cohen of film 92 One of all fours?

93 Container words 94 2019 film whose title means ‘‘to the stars’’ 96 A dance and a dip 98 Cartoondom’s Olive ____ 100 What a stoner actor smoked during rehearsal?

107 Beginning and end of ‘‘America’’ 109 ‘‘Ha-ha!’’

110 Noise heard during the London Blitz 111 Domain for Jameson and Maker’s Mark?

116 Curl target, informally 117 Manual alternative 118 Soul singer Bridges 119 Bank investment?

120 Spanish dagger or Adam’s needle is a variety of it 121 New York football team, informally 122 Apt rhyme for ‘‘crude’’ and ‘‘rude’’ 123 It may need to be broken to move 124 Lucretia ____, abolitionist and women’s rights advocate

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This is a great day to hang out with friends and mend any strained relationships.

TAURUS — This week Venus in Aquarius squares Mars in your sign, creating tension between your reputation and your love life. Is an office romance going sour? Is your self-image getting tarnished? Yikes!

GEMINI — Venus in Aquarius squares Mars in Taurus this week, creating some serious tension between new ideas and gut feelings.

An old pain in your heart could make its way to the surface.

CANCER — You can gain a new perspective on life when the sun enters Pisces on Thursday. The sun will be in your philosophy sector for the next few weeks, making you more curious and compassionate.

LEO — This week you get a bit of a break when Mercury goes direct in your sector of partnerships over the. Communication between you and your partner becomes easier, with much less bickering. Focus on keeping the peace, using logic to end any fights that start.

VIRGO — Venus in Aquarius squares Mars in Taurus this week and you’re torn between experimenting and doing things the “safe” way. Being a little adventurous is great, but if you aren’t into it, it could lead to an awkward night.

LIBRA — Be careful when Venus in Aquarius squares Mars in Taurus on Friday. There could be trouble in paradise. Something you thought was a simple fling could backfire when the other person catches feelings.

SCORPIO — This week brings stress when Venus in Aquarius squares Mars in Taurus, causing drama between your partner and your family. This will be the last time you’ll be torn between family and your personal romantic choices.

SAGITTARIUS — The sun enters Pisces on this week, and it will be in your family sector for the next four weeks. You may feel the need to help family members and take on the caretaker role for your loved ones.

CAPRICORN — Venus in Aquarius squares Mars in Taurus, creating a conflict between saving money and having a good time. Your heart says yes, but your wallet says no. Look for ways to have fun that are free or cheap, Capricorn.

AQUARIUS — Family influences may affect your self-confidence when Jupiter in your sign squares Uranus in Taurus on Wednesday. While it might be tempting to challenge tradition and plead your case, it wouldn’t be wise because they have the upper hand for now. Focus on keeping the peace instead.

PISCES — A small setback could occur this week when Venus in Aquarius squares Mars in Taurus on Friday, creating a struggle around how you feel. When you merely need some privacy and space, you could come across as cold and aloof to loved ones.

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PAF to host awards competition The Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation will host its annual awards competition this year with COVID-19 protocols in place, giving local musicians the opportunity to showcase their talents while staying safe.

Since the foundation’s creation in 1982, the organization has hosted an annual competition to provide financial awards to talented vocalists and musicians in Santa Barbara County. During this year’s competition, the foundation will provide $25,000 in awards to finalists of the selective

competition.

During a typical year, musicians would participate in a rigorous inperson audition process followed by a live performance, but due to COVID-19, this year’s audition process will be held online.

Vocalists and musicians can upload a video of their performance by April 2. Judges will virtually adjudicate each performance to determine this year’s finalists. Selected finalists will then be invited to perform live for a judges-only audience April 25 at Hahn Hall at the Music Academy

of the West in Montecito.

In compliance with COVID-19 guidelines, the theater will be sanitized and aired out between each performance, social distancing will be enforced at all times and masks will be worn when possible.

To enter the 2021 competition, musicians must live in Santa Barbara County or study with a Santa Barbara County teacher, must be under the age of 30 and must have performed less than five times in past PASF competitions.

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can’t compete in the same discipline.

The competition is also closed to college-level music faculty.

The registration deadline for the competition is March 5, and musicians will have until April 2 to submit their audition video.

Results will be announced via email for participants in midApril.

To register for this year’s competition, visit pasfsb.org/ audition.

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San Ysidro Ranch gets five-star rating MONTECITO — San Ysidro Ranch has received a five-star rating from Forbes Travel Guide.

“San Ysidro Ranch is a special place where one can indulge the senses and invigorate the soul,” owner Ty Warner said in a statement. “It is a slice of heaven unlike anywhere else in the world.

The ranch prides itself on the history, the beauty and the spirit

of this special property. We all have worked diligently during the pandemic to ensure public safety and make it a relaxing experience for our guests.”

Garden walks, yoga with an ocean view, lawn games, luxurious pampering treatments, adventurous hiking and picnics under gnarled oak trees are popular pastimes.

Visitors can stroll through the landscaped grounds in privacy on 550 acres conducive to social distancing, San Ysidro Ranch noted in a news release. The herbaceous gardens and lantern-lit hanging gourds in the loquat trees are reminiscent of countryside villas in Provence, France.

The award-winning Stonehouse Restaurant and Plow & Angel are

open for outdoor dining, or guests may dine in their cottage.

Forty-one vine-covered cottages are spread across the lush hillsides of the property, which was originally established as a citrus farm in the early 1800s.

For more information, visit www. sanysidroranch.com.

— Gerry Fall

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It has 12 veterinarians on staff, including board-certified specialists in oncology, surgery and internal medicine.

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I look forward to working together with SAGE to care for the many wonderful pets we are fortunate enough to help.” said Dr. Wells, owner and medical director of Advanced Veterinary Specialists.

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“We’re excited to expand to Santa Barbara and welcome the AVS team to the SAGE family,” said Gina Del Vecchio, SAGE’s CEO. “Dr. Wells and her team have created an impressive multispecialty practice, and everyone on their team is dedicated in the pursuit of providing the best veterinary medicine available through unparalleled collaboration.”

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during a book tour. She stopped at the Santa Barbara Zoo and met the personality-filled condors.

“I think she just really fell in love with the bird, the program and it kind of formed from that initial visit,” Dr. Sandhaus said.

Thus “Condor Comeback” was hatched.

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She will have a conversation with Victor Rios, UCSB sociology professor and associate dean of social sciences followed by a Q&A. The virtual conversation will be held at 5 p.m. March 4.

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A Q&A will follow her presentation as well, moderated

by Kim Yasuda, Chair of the UCSB Department of Art, and the virtual talk will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday.

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Dr. Jemison is an engineer, physician and former NASA astronaut. She made history when she climbed aboard the space

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The Henry Bagish Overlook provides a beautiful view of Santa Barbara City College’s west campus with clear skies on Tuesday. Inset, the Henry Bagish Overlook, “Hank’s Hill,” honors Professor Henry Bagish, who taught for 52 years at SBCC, and died in 2004.

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The Henry Bagish Overlook, otherwise known as “Hank’s Hill,” provides a beautiful view of this section of campus and the brilliant blue ocean in the background.

The memorial honors former sociology and anthropology professor Henry Bagish, who died from heart failure in 2004. He taught at City College for 52 years before his retirement, and his students referred to him as more of a legend than a professor.

Dr. Bagish began at City College when it was located in two wooden buildings on Santa Barbara Street, with only 153 students.

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on President Donald Trump’s awarding of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush. Yes, Rush has been a stalwart Trump supporter, but this is not just political. I have given this a lot of thought, and as preposterous as this sounds to his detractors, Rush richly deserves this award — if it is truly intended to honor those who have served the cause of American freedom.

For the cause of American freedom, after all, is what Rush is about. It is the essence of what he articulates and promotes.

People, especially our soldiers, serve the cause in various ways.

But Rush advances it in a different way, and one that should not be undervalued. He helps keep the spirit of liberty alive. He helps

he power failure during the big storm in Texas on Monday should remind Santa Barbara of the dangers of depending upon only one source of energy, that being electric.

Our city is moving in the direction of all electric power and avoiding new natural gas infrastructure. Sounds like a tall order: the plan for having local electricity supply be carbon free by October 2030.

The city’s pushing hard for this policy, which dictates that new construction be allelectric, all the while ignoring the huge supply of natural gas “naturally” available and cleanly accessible right here within the state of California.

Why is natural gas the whipping boy?

Because natural gas gets in the way of the city’s “plans to dominate the power grid with electricity solely provided by a city-run entity.”

It has been said often because it is true: “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” (Lord Acton, a British politician, said that in the 19th century.)

We hope our leaders in Santa Barbara are taking note of the 4 million people in Texas who were without power last week.

Due to freezing temperatures, the state’s wind turbines and solar panels failed.

Texas’s power system struggled to keep up with the demand for electric-based heating.

In the middle of this pandemonium, the backup generators for the vaccines’ temperature-controlled storage failed. Frantic calls were made to summon “arms” for vaccination to avoid wasting 8,400 vaccines.

Our city’s plan includes its ownership of the electric power in the form of Santa Barbara Clean Energy. That ownership model did not work so well in Florida, when the power system became obsolete. Again, is there expertise within the city to manage any version of a power company?

Remember, the city paid $100,000 to an outside consultant to instruct Public Works how to manage scheduling of street repair and filling potholes.

Santa Barbara City Council recently held virtual workshops for Reach Code Hearings to provide background, propose code changes and work on an all-electric code language.

The workshops were recorded and available for viewing later.

Best check the city website (www.santabarbaraca.gov).

We request the city replay the hearings on the City TV Channel 18.

To combat climate change, Bill Gates said synthetic beef is part of the answer. During an interview with MIT while he discussed his book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” he said, “I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef. You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over time” (with more chemicals and additives, of course). “... You can sort of change the (behavior of) people or use regulation to totally shift the demand.”

During the interview, Mr. Gates also said one of the difficulties of selling the public on fake beef would be political, referring to legislation that protects the consumer. It would require “synthetic meat” to have a warning label stating the meat isn’t the real thing.

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Adams Elementary School in Santa Barbara is among those waiting to reopen. Dr. Susan Salcido, Santa Barbara County superintendent of schools, noted the county’s larger districts require more time, staff and resources to meet the requirements for reopening safely.

Questions about reopening schools Santa Barbara County superintendent offers some answers

Editor’s note: Dr. Susan Salcido is the Santa Barbara County superintendent of schools.

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housands of students in Santa Barbara County have not been on a campus since March 2020, and too many families are weary with concern for their children’s wellbeing.

All youth deserve equitable opportunities to thrive; they need routines that involve peers, interaction, play and belonging.

They need their talented teachers to foster those in-class relationships that bring joy, inspiration, and motivation for students and teachers alike.

Online learning, which has proven to be successful for many, does not fulfill our collective mission to guarantee equity and access for all.

The path to reopening schools for in-person instruction has been

steeped in the most dynamic to open now, or as soon as they challenges imaginable. get permission to do so. Others Despite the hurdles, many are pursuing additional state smaller schools and districts in or federal funding to secure Santa Barbara County reopened required resources for reopening in-person instruction as early as and/or are awaiting improved last fall. local health and safety Smaller should not be data to reflect their confused with simple, community’s readiness for as these school teams reopening. worked tirelessly to Many community address innumerable members have asked details and implement about the state of all safety practices and reopening schools in protocols in order to Santa Barbara County.

Dr. Susan reopen and remain open.

The information below Salcido However, reopening a is intended to provide school for 100 students up-to-date information is considerably different about state and countythan reopening a district with level processes and decisions that 20 schools of more than 16,000 impact local schools and their students. The larger the schools reopening efforts. and districts, the more time, Opening timelines and school staff and financial resources are schedules are determined locally, needed to meet the requirements with each district, charter school necessary to reopen. and private school communicating Several school districts in directly with their staff and Santa Barbara County are ready families.

What role does the Santa Barbara County Education Office/Office of the County Superintendent of Schools play in approving districts and schools to reopen for in-person instruction?

SBCEO is in constant, daily contact with the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, works closely with the public districts and charter schools, and frequently communicates with private schools, childcare and early learning networks, and school nurses and health staff. SBCEO has continuously advocated on behalf of all Santa Barbara County schools, actively urging state and local legislators to provide equitable, realistic paths forward and provide vaccines for education and childcare employees to support safe school environments.

SBCEO has the authority to reopen only the schools and programs we directly operate,

including court and community schools, special education programs and preschools. We do not have the authority to reopen districts, charter schools or private schools within Santa Barbara County.

What will it mean for elementary schools when case rates in Santa Barbara County decrease to a rate of 25 per 100,000?

As of Tuesday, Santa Barbara County was in the purple tier with an adjusted case rate of 27 per 100,000, down from 36 per 100,000 from the week prior and a test positivity rate of 8.2%, down from 10.2%. Public Health officials are optimistic that we will drop below 25 soon.

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Rush Limbaugh: A loving brother, friend to Americans Editor’s note: David Limbaugh wrote the following column in February 2020, just after his brother’s diagnosis. He will have more to say about his brother’s passing next week.

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am uniquely blessed to be Rush Limbaugh’s brother in ways too numerous to count, and I am blessed to be in the special position of witnessing firsthand the outpouring of love and prayers from his family, friends and fans.

His wife, Kathryn, has been amazing and a rock throughout.

I could fill a book with the wellwishes I’ve received. I sent Rush a link to my “mentions” column on Twitter so he could scroll through it and see for himself what he means to so many people.

These tender expressions

of goodwill are uplifting and and its founding ideas, were still spiritually affirming. God is at commonly held. work, and however this plays out, He has been depicted as a God is good, something Rush has bombastic shock jock who barely been saying repeatedly in the last believes his own words and simply few weeks, despite his exploits his talents to difficult circumstances. enrich himself. In fact, Many of the messages he has been a calming he has received have voice of good cheer, brought him to tears, humor and optimism — a which is not typical for respite from the message him. These are sobering of negativity and moral times. chaos emanating from When Rush began his David Limbaugh liberal America every day. nationally syndicated Many have praised radio show, the liberal Rush for saving AM talk media monopolized television radio and creating a professional news, and his show became an genre in which he would have no oasis and a lifeline for millions peers — and that’s true. But what who felt their voices had been moves me more, as his brother, ignored. He gave them a sense is something I fear people don’t of community, as they came to sufficiently appreciate. realize that the principles they He has been the tip of the believed in, their love for America spear for political conservatism.

No one has done more to bring conservatism into the mainstream of American life, and he’s paid a heavy price for it — but he never complains.

He has been the left’s favorite target for hate and abuse for decades, opening myriad pathways for thousands of other conservatives to bring their talents and share their message with likeminded Americans. Had Rush not absorbed that mistreatment and kept charging forward with contagious optimism, there is no telling where we would be right now.

No matter how fiercely the haters try, they can’t bring him down — they can’t even slow his charge — and more importantly, they cannot wipe the cheer from his face.

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Community issues of paramount importance

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ere are some community that a couple of issues the master-planned communities Coalition can actually enhance our of Labor, quality of life. That is, the vast Agriculture majority of the land in this and Business, the nonprofit, county is zoned agriculture; nonpartisan organization I thereby it is off limits to work for, is tracking on behalf development. The truth is, of our community. developing some of this land 1. The redistricting of county that is not truly suitable for supervisorial boundaries. agriculture due to water, soil This is for all the marbles, as and gradient restraints, would drawing political boundaries be a better option than living is how politicians choose their in an urban jungle. voters.

I am not a fan of this The recently formed mandate because the state commission in charge of dumps the requirements on redistricting is already local communities without facing an issue that lifting a finger to help serves to threaten them deal with the the independence impacts of the same. of the commission.

Two of the biggest That is, Democratic impacts have to do Party operatives have with traffic and put intense public water. And the pressure, replete state will neither with a disinformation send any money to Andy Caldwell campaign and accommodate the skullduggery, on the traffic on our streets commission seeking to induce and freeways, nor will it them to hire an attorney of allocate more water to serve their choosing to guide the the development. This will put process. a tremendous strain on both This effort deleteriously urban and agricultural uses of affects the political and water. partisan independence of the 4. The war on oil and gas is commission. What’s more, manyfold. First, as it pertains the attorney of their choosing to domestic production, there is actually not qualified to are many restrictions on serve via the provisions of the permits for new oil and gas ordinance that governs the projects, as well as, existing process. operations. Second, as it 2. Continued advocacy to pertains to consumption, reopen our economy vis a vis there are several different the COVID lockdown. In my 30- ways the industry and its year career as a government reliable and affordable supply watchdog, this has been the chains are being undermined single biggest government and eviscerated. overreach and debacle we have This includes the ever witnessed. greenhouse gas regs and It affected our economy carbon auction credits in and well-being across this state that will make the board, not to mention production and consumption increasing our national debt less and less affordable over by 25%, and it completely time. Additionally, there is decimated the separation the impending ban on gas and and balance of powers in diesel engine vehicles. government. Moreover, it is Finally, community choice the dominant issue on the energy programs serve to county supervisors’ agenda reject natural gas electricity every week, taking up one to generation for existing homes two hours of their time and and businesses, and then attention. there are the bans against 3. Known as the Regional natural gas hookups in new Needs Housing Assessment, construction. this state mandate, which The problem here is that has serious teeth, will we simply don’t have the require local jurisdictions electricity supplies to go all to prove they have created electric across the spectrum the capacity, via planning/ and we never will. Renewable permit allocations, to build energy, in the form of wind 24,000 housing units in Santa and solar, takes up inordinate Barbara County. The majority amounts of land, and they do of these units are slated to be not reliably produce 24/7. Just built in the south county due ask a Texan. to the jobs/housing imbalance.

The options we have are Andy Caldwell is the executive “sprawl” or extremely highdirector of COLAB and host density, highrise, stack-andof “The Andy Caldwell Radio pack housing.

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irst of all, I’d like to thank your paper for printing my article.

By now, you are aware that most U.S. newspapers lean to the left, so hats off to the Santa Barbara News-Press for appearing to remain neutral.

As a logophile, one of my favorite words is pusillanimous, but I find myself using it all too frequently to describe our current leaders.

They don’t stand up for our creator, liberty, the Constitution, family values and essentially all our forefathers believed that was important in a Republic. We have lost our way; just take a look at dear old California. Thirty-plus years ago our finances were in order, our schools were tops and we felt good about the future.

Trump’s impeachment trial brought into question

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n the second impeachment trial, Mr. Trump’s lead lawyer barely concealed his client’s racism, sexism and anti-Semitism.

He directed special vitriol toward Vice President Kamala Harris and House Manager Jamie Raskin.

Attorney Michael van der Veen endlessly repeated visual images of Mrs. Harris, essentially

depicting a woman gone rogue, and portrayed U.S. Rep. Raskin, a Jewish man, as morally and professionally bankrupt.

The defense played Mr. Trump’s video image of Vice President Harris encouraging partisans to “fight” many more times than images of others.

The former president’s counsel accused Rep. Raskin of being a liar, engaging in “impeachment lust,” being “intellectually dishonest” and arguing like “a first-year law student.” Counsel denigrated him as a criminal who “manufactured and doctored evidence,” and engaged in “prosecutorial misconduct.”

Kimball Shinkoskey Former Goleta resident Editor’s note: The writer now lives in Woods Cross, Utah.

Stop killing kangaroos for soccer shoes Editor’s note: Wayne Pacelle is president of the Center for a Humane Economy and a two-time New York Times bestselling author.

now Congressmen Carbajal and Fitzpatrick, have said this wildlife killing must end. Their plight came into sharper focus after the calamitous fires that killed more than three billion wild animals in ere’s a startling Australia more than a year ago. statistic for While addressing climate consumers of change won’t be easy, stopping the athletic footwear: There are more than commercial killing of kangaroos two million kangaroos killed every is. Between them, Nike, Adidas, Mizuno, Pantofola d’Oro, New year in their native habitats in Balance, Puma, Umbro and Australia for their “kicks.”

More precisely, for soccer shoes. Lotto make a total of 72 models of kangaroo-skin soccer U.S. Reps, Salud shoes. (Diadora stopped Carbajal, D-Santa Wayne using kangaroo skins at Barbara, and Pacelle the end of 2020.)

Brian Fitzpatrick, Shooters kill the animals at R-Pennsylvania, last week teamed night, using spotlights and nightup to introduce legislation in Congress to ban trade in kangaroo vision technology. When the shooters kill the females, they parts in the U.S. doom hundreds of thousands of In introducing the Kangaroo joeys or baby kangaroos. The Protection Act, Rep. Carbajal dependent young, without their noted that commercial shooters slain mothers able to protect them amass this body count of “wild or to carry them to safety, die kangaroos a year to profit from from bludgeoning, decapitation or the trade in their skins, despite starvation. the availability of alternative In fact, this is the largest fabrics that are of similar or better land-based commercial wildlife quality.”

The practice of selling kangaroo slaughter on the planet — 10 times skin shoes is legal in 49 states. But larger than the infamous seal hunts in Atlantic Canada. not in California.

And imagine this. During The Center for a Humane Australia’s wildfires, while the Economy released a report last world was donating to rescue year that documents scores of ongoing violations of California’s ban animals, shooters were killing wild kangaroos to supply shoe on selling body parts of 22 species manufacturers. Even right now, as of kangaroos and wallabies (CA rescued kangaroos and joeys are Penal Code 653o). being released from shelters back California lawmakers, and

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into their native habitat, they risk being shot for soccer shoes.

The kangaroo leather soccer shoe was an innovation in the 1960s. Now with high tech synthetics and fabrics that perform better, it’s archaic as a matter of performance, comfort and ethics.

The killing of kangaroos occurs on a continent nearly the size of the U.S., but with less than 1/10th of the population — in fact, California has one-and-half times as many people as Australia. The continent has vast areas with a sparse human presence where kangaroos and other marsupials and other distinctive wildlife can flourish, as they have for millennia.

It’s people who have changed the narrative, demonizing the gentle and inoffensive kangaroos.

The kangaroo-killing industry comes to the debate with the presumption that the native grasses are there for domesticated cattle and sheep, fences are there to keep out wildlife, foreign markets are there to enable economic gain, and firearms are there to have the final say.

We must move on from the idea of killing wildlife for parts and profit. No longer do we tolerate the mass killing of seals or buffalo or elk in our country for global trading in their hides or fur. We should do our part to close off our markets to this kind of running massacre.

n the liberal political atmosphere of today’s media, academia and federal bureaucracy, American corporations of all sizes are under attack.

The media’s actions denigrate the very financial structure of America, based on the corporation, as a soulless entity and recommends strong controls by the soulless government bureaucracies responsible to no one.

In rebuttal, the corporation with its free enterprise and private property rights is the foundation of the American government and society as envisioned by the founders of this country.

It is the “for profit” Justin corporations Ruhge that provide The author all of our lives in Lompoc American standards of living and make us all a stronger nation for it.

Corporations provide the majority of jobs and benefits in this country.

The profits of corporations provide investment funds for new jobs and retirement funds for all of us. Government, nonprofit corporations and unions rely on corporations for all of their funding. It is the corporations that are the drivers of American wealth. Workers are paid by the corporations, not by unions who just take their funds from them in dues.

Over the past 100 years, we have all seen the rise and fall of communism, promoted by unions and leftwing liberals.

Government is not capable of generating funds to make us wealthy. Only capitalism, in the form of corporations, is.

The world has discarded communism, but recent liberal thinkers still champion it. There is never more disparity in equality than in the fiefdoms reign of government officials over their employees and nongovernment employees.

All human organizations are flawed, like government and nonprofits, but the best result so far is based on the human drive to promote self and achieve wealth. This is best done through the corporation.

Look around, corporations share their vast wealth in many ways through charities, which help support every aspect of American society nonprofits like PBS, for example.

Ayn Rand, in her many books, also denigrated by the liberal left, promoted the corporation in the 1950s, when communism in the world was running rampant, and showed just how government and unions are undermining our freedoms to produce wealth. “Atlas Shrugged,” the movie based on her 1957 book, being shown in many theaters, illustrates these issues clearly.

Today’s federal government, headed by socialist civil servants, is again threatening the freedom of the American people to act freely by imposing reckless and endless rules by arbitrary government bureaucracy — stealth communism.

The 1930s saw the rise of communism and fascism in the U.S. and the world in general, which led to all the wars of that period.

The U.S. is repeating itself again in this anti-wall street movement.

This is what is really frightening, not corporations.

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etermining whether decisions impact “you or me” is one way to view the political hierarchy recently displayed by the man now occupying the White House.

He’s the “man behind Door No. 2,” based on his campaign of mystery from behind his basement door. Maybe his relatively “noncampaigning” was a blessing as those who know Joe know that waiting for him to tell the truth is like “waiting for Godot” in Samuel Beckett’s play of the same name.

Decades ago, Joe Biden established his character by lying, politely called plagiarizing, when substituting a British politician’s childhood for his own forced him to abandon his first presidential campaign.

In a strange way you have to give him credit for sticking to his character as during this campaign, he, again, lied about

his background, this time saying their agreement to block any he had a double major in college, stories about Hunter Biden during an academic scholarship, a high the 60 days prior to the election. standing in his law school class But you really can’t blame ole Joe, and met his wife Jill on a blind any more than you can blame a pit date when the clear evidence bull for his actions once others put is they started their intimate him in the pit. relationship while she was Mr. Biden’s one major campaign married to the owner of theme was that he had in Dr. B.E. the Stone Balloon bar in his pocket a better plan Zepke Newark, Del. than Donald Trump for While it appears to handling the virus. Alas, The author be no reason, besides another lie as in the first lives in Santa days after inauguration habit, to lie about such Barbara irrelevant things, he he said it would have to did have reason to lie run its course except about his involvement with his at Guantanamo, which he son Hunter’s business despite prioritized. He did pull out of his testimony from business partners, pocket a version of the “name videos, photos and Hunter’s game” by issuing an order that emails proving he not only knew, federal memos are prohibited but participated in and profited from using the phrase “China from these activities with the virus.”

Ukraine and China.

This was despite the help by Indeed, Facebook, Google Pfizer announcing the Monday and Twitter believed these after the election that it had the connections as they confirmed vaccine in September but after

discussing with executives at Facebook and Google, decided that to prevent helping Mr. Trump, they would wait until after the election to announce it. Same for Moderna. CNN said anything about the number who died during that time period?

It seems the drug industry was angry at Mr. Trump’s executive order imposing a Most Favored Nations requirement on them, meaning they could not charge U.S. citizens any more than they charged those in other countries.

Will President Biden reverse this?

The day after inauguration, the owner of Amazon and the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, announced he would help with distribution. Both New York and California reduced restrictions on businesses despite significant increases in COVID. California refused to supply their data to the feds and the New York attorney general found significant under

reporting of COVID deaths in nursing homes (fraud?).

President Biden protected his house, the White House, with a huge fence while stopping the construction of a fence, aka the Wall, that protects the houses of “you or me.”

He did, however, continue the “name game” with an order that federal memos can no longer use the phrase “illegal alien.” Mr. Trump was criticized for clearing a path through protestors to walk a block from White House to church; President Biden cleared the entire area of all protectors.

Hear any media complaints?

Mr. Biden has stationed 5,000 National Guard troops around his house until sometime in March.

How many did he support being assigned to the businesses and homes of “you or me” during the riots in Democratic-controlled Please see zepke on C4

DRAWING BOARD

John Stossel

Today’s social media can do real damage

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love my digital devices, but people keep telling me to worry more about my privacy.

“Encrypt your emails!”

“Drop Google and use search engines like DuckDuckGo that don’t track us!”

I probably should. But I don’t. I’m lazy, and I “like” that web companies know me and show me things I’m interested in. I “like” that they display “restaurants near me.”

“You do not understand the way that that system is being used against you,” says whistleblower Edward Snowden in my new video. Mr. Snowden is in exile in Russia because he revealed how the NSA spied on us and lied about it. He says I should care more about what companies like Google and Facebook know. But why?

“I figure that teenage boy across the street could be picking up stuff I send,” I say.

“The cork’s out of the bottle!

What difference does it make (if media companies have it)?”

Mr. Snowden replies, “They’re trying to shape ... what you believe.”

I don’t feel very threatened.

Amazon and Facebook want my money, and to get my money in a free market, a company must give me what I want. That’s a good thing.

“When we talk about the free market,” says Mr. Snowden, “We presume ... open competition ... I don’t believe this.”

He may be right. Perhaps big internet companies are now monopolies, so dominant that we can’t leave them if we don’t like what they do. But the “experts” also called IBM, AOL and Myspace monopolies, “immune to competition.”

Whoops.

Still, today’s social media companies are powerful enough to do real damage.

“Facebook ran their own psychological studies on the current population to see if they could make you angry,” says Mr. Snowden. They succeeded!

Mr. Snowden fears what else companies will do with that power. “It is going to be for their advantage. It is going to be to shape laws; it is going to be to shape elections.”

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Housing backers start facing post-pandemic reality

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he mysterious blindness that apparently affected California’s top legislative housing advocates all through 2020 seems to have abated a little. They and leading housing advocacy groups appear at last to accept that the coronavirus plague changed things — a lot.

It’s true those lawmakers still insist on pushing bills to make California cities of all sizes and shapes far denser than ever. But some at last appear willing to admit that things have changed in the last year.

No legislator will say a housing solution is at hand, but one new bill’s very presence in the Legislature shows an awareness that was missing last year.

That bill is for the moment called Senate Bill 6, part of a housing package introduced in the state Senate within moments of the current session’s opening.

Specific terms of SB6 are not yet spelled out; the measure for the moment is basically a blank, but with a stated purpose.

That is to make it mandatory

for cities and counties to allow prefer working remotely — and rezoning when office buildings that they are more productive are converted to residential or that way. How does this affect mixed-use. housing? Simple: Building This bill exists because of owners sizing up their situation the mass exodus of are realizing “normal” businesses from offices market conditions across California, a won’t return. Many are flood tide that started responding with quiet in mid-March 2020, plans to convert existing when the COVID-19 office space into housing. pandemic grew so It’s part of a trend that menacing that even the also sees rents dropping largest companies sent precipitately (down more Thomas D. almost all employees than 20% in San Francisco Elias home to work. over the last year) while Since then, surveys home prices in exurban The author is a longtime indicate the changes areas like Sonoma County observer of will largely become and northern San Diego California permanent. Companies County are on the rise. politics. have cut expenses With distance working greatly by reducing now the vogue, whiteoffice space, some even paying collar workers can live almost for the privilege (Pinterest paid a anywhere they can afford. reported $89 million to get out of Proximity to their offices has a lease in San Francisco, Twitter become irrelevant. forked over even more to escape This is fine with advocates of some of its obligations). low-cost housing and helping the Firms from Dropbox to Merrill homeless, so long as new laws Lynch have sent workers home by include a requirement for plenty the hundreds of thousands. of affordable units.

Multiple studies show about The new reality, said David two-thirds of those employees Zisser, associate director of

the advocacy group Housing California, “intrigues us. We don’t think single-family housing or market rate prices are evil.”

He added, “But those alone don’t serve people who are neediest.”

So he favors a by-right zoning bill that might encourage creating long-term housing for the homeless on some floors, high-end condominiums on others, with floors for offices also included. Buildings might rejigger elevators so that some run only to residential floors, others to office areas.

Cities would be crazy to resist a rezoning measure like this. After all, if office towers and other commercial spaces go vacant, building values and property taxes plummet. But if building owners reconfigure structures for mixed use, those same structures can remain cash cows for owners and local governments.

At the same time, Housing California and other advocates favor accelerating government purchases of motels and hotels to house the currently homeless, even if some will never want to

move in. The history of homeless folks responding to getting housed is that the majority prefer indoor living.

What better time than now to buy up hotel properties, while many are shut down and being eyed for possible redevelopment into market-rate housing?

Still, housing advocates in the Legislature and elsewhere have not given up pushing for more new construction. But they’re starting at last to recognize they can get more units faster by using the billions of square feet that have already become vacant or are about to.

That’s major progress toward political recognition of the obvious California housing solution.

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

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At this time, the Public Health Department is proactively collaborating with districts and schools that have submitted school safety plans to ensure they are ready and approved as soon as possible.

Districts not yet open, with approved safety plans on file with the health department, are Buellton Union School District, Goleta Union School District, Lompoc Unified School District, Santa Barbara Unified School District, Orcutt Union School District and Vista Del Mar Union School District. Adelante Charter School and Cuyama Joint Unified School District are working closely with the health department on their plans and are awaiting final approval.

When can middle schools, junior highs and high schools reopen for in-person instruction in Santa Barbara County?

According to the state Department of Public Health, schools serving grades 7-12 are required to wait until the county is in the red tier for five days.

Any school that reopened to in-person instruction in the fall may remain open. And all schools, TK-12, may serve small groups of students (e.g., special education supports, athletic cohorts).

Can a district, charter school or private school apply to open right now?

Last week, the California Department of Public Health created a “Safety Review Process” to create very specific circumstances under which districts could request approval to open now, even with an adjusted case rate higher than 25. The Safety Review Process information continues to

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Families are waiting for Harding University Partnership School and others in the Santa Barbara Unified School District to reopen. The district and the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department sent a letter to the California Department of Public Health, urging the state to allow the district to reopen elementary schools immediately.

emerge, and it is not yet clear if any districts in Santa Barbara County qualify in these limited categories. CDPH will approve or deny requests sent in through this process.

Additionally, the SBCPHD and Santa Barbara Unified School District sent a joint letter to the state, urging CDPH to permit Santa Barbara Unified to open its elementary schools immediately.

This is an independent process, separate from the Safety Review Process noted above. SBCPHD and additional local districts, including Goleta Union School

District, are working together to request CDPH allow their districts to reopen through this joint process. SBCPHD and districts are awaiting responses from CDPH. When will vaccines be available for education and childcare staff in Santa Barbara County?

The county Public Health Department announced that individuals 65 and older are now able to receive vaccines in Santa Barbara County. Education and childcare employees, along with other sectors in the same tier, will follow once more vaccines become

available.

Prioritizing and protecting individuals 65 and older, who are most vulnerable to severe illness from COVID-19, is critical.

However, there must be a way to begin providing vaccines for education and childcare employees now, as these are the very people we are asking to serve in the schools we seek to reopen and remain open.

At the very least, let’s begin the process of providing vaccines to education and childcare staff who serve groups of youth in person now. This includes special education teachers and staff who serve medically fragile students, custodial staff who clean and disinfect populated areas throughout our open schools, food service staff who make and serve thousands of breakfasts and lunches, and bus drivers who drive groups of students multiple times each day. As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasized in their report published days ago, we all must do what we can to support schools so they can open and remain open.

While working to support Santa Barbara County schools, I envision individuals from all corners of our county including parents, grandparents, students and teachers who have written, called, emailed and texted to share individual concerns and circumstances since March 2020.

While I’m the county superintendent of schools, I am also the mom of two children attending public schools still in distance learning and am married to an educator who is teaching online until school reopens to inperson instruction.

Every action and decision impacts real people and lives of those we know and love. As we all move forward together, our team at SBCEO and I are fully invested and committed to supporting and advocating for all our county’s children, students, families, educators and school staff as schools reopen and stay open to the fullest and safest extent possible.

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Continued from Page C3 cities, such as Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland? Applying the “you or me” theory, those Democrats reduced law enforcement and prosecuted no law breakers while increasing their own security at the expense of taxpayers.

In Minneapolis, it was the city council charging the city for their own private security. In Seattle, the occupancy by CHOP (the Capitol Hill Organized Protest) of Capitol Hill was not stopped until the day after some members dared to visit the home of the mayor. The police chief ordered

troops to guard her house while they gave jurisdiction to my daughter’s former home on Capitol Hill to CHOP. Portland is too bizarre to summarize, but it is worth mentioning that it was accusing Mr. Trump when he provided security for the 23 people trapped in the federal court house as Antifa tried to burn them alive. Indeed, this violence continued even during the latest impeachment hearings when the attacks of a police facility did not lead to a single arrest.

Consider the differences in the rioters hitting the capitol.

No mention of the D.C. mayor rejecting Mr. Trump’s offer

of National Guard before the riots. No mention of Speaker Nancy Pelosi failing, as head of the Capitol Police, to heed the warnings of the FBI of potential riots.

However, unlike the rioters in Democratic-controlled cities, these rioters actually threatened politicians, instead of “you or me,” so they had to be prosecuted.

Politicians lost no compensation and the government will rebuild.

How about all the “you or me” who lost their jobs and the means to support themselves in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, et al?

Mr. Biden has prioritized, over a stimulus, orders for ICE to release everyone they hold in custody,

an estimated 12,000 criminals a month; close privately run federal prisons when the lack of room means judges will be set free; and stop restrictions on admittance from terrorists countries. While he builds “Fort White House,” what about “you or me?”

This administration has already overwhelmed any of my attempts to keep up with the destruction, so I will conclude with a short doctor-to-doctor message to Dr. Jill Biden, who has an educational doctorate. I wish you well and am glad that you will not have to deal with the heating and cooling costs for Fort White House that will follow your husband’s “War on Fossil Fuels.”

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sustain the ideas that have made America the freest, strongest and most prosperous nation in history, and a glorious blessing to the world. And sustaining these ideas is indispensable to sustaining our liberties.

Rush’s detractors don’t hate Rush because of the type of person he is. They have no idea.

They hate him for what he stands for, and because he has been so effective at promoting ideas they find repugnant. I see it every day. Their hatred is actually transferred hostility for all those who reject their rejection of the American dream. They would not comprehend the showering of love that I’ve personally witnessed since Rush announced his diagnosis. Here’s a heartwarming sampling.

A text from a Democratic friend: “So my buddy called me. He and 50 others are going on a fast to pray for your brother and another person in their group. They did it before for a person in their group and he is cancer free. You guys sure have a lot of people that love you and your family. Awesome.”

Someone tweeted me: “Prayers for you and your family. We are surrounding Rush with prayers of healing and comfort. Everyone was crying when he received his medal. He has done so much to open Americans’ eyes to the truth.

God bless.”

Another tweet: “First time I heard Rush in the ‘80s I thought: I am not alone in my thinking.”

Another: “I was so thrilled to see him receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has worked so hard to educate millions of us that it was well earned. Rush is so important to me. I was crushed to hear the news. I love him very much, as do so many.”

Radio host Chris Stigall wrote: “The thing he does better than any other broadcaster I know is connect. That has always been the thing his haters understood, even if they couldn’t articulate it. He formed a bond and a trust that cannot be broken. ...

Rush Limbaugh connects with good cheer, warmth, sincerity, a sense of humor and a sense of the everyman no one else fully possesses or can stylistically equal. Despite his fame and wealth over a 30-plus year career, Rush Limbaugh never became cynical, or hateful, or condescending or mean-spirited.

He loves his country and the people who make it work so very much. It leaps from the speakers every day.”

Bob Lonsberry, another radio broadcaster, wrote: “I love Rush Limbaugh. That’s what I realized yesterday when I heard. ... In that moment I was sickened and saddened and blindsided. It wasn’t news, it was personal, and it wasn’t about the legend who created and sustains the industry in which I work, it was about the joyous voice that’s been part of my life for more than 30 years. ...

It is impossible to calculate the good he has done for America as the leading voice in defense of our nation’s principles of liberty and in opposition to the doctrines of

chaos and oppression. ... And he is always optimistic. ... With Rush, there is always a path forward, and a sense that it’s going to work out. ... no matter how the media characterizes him, he is a happy man. He doesn’t bring people down, he lifts them up. ... But is he first and foremost a friend to countless Americans? That’s how it looks to me. And that’s how it feels to me. The news yesterday wasn’t about a prominent person, it was about a personal friend.

And I’m not the only one. There are tens of millions just like me. Who have found comfort, friendship and validation in a man on the radio. And yesterday hit us hard.”

Exactly. When I read or hear the haters talking about Rush, his show, his message, his soul, I realize I inhabit a different universe than them.

They distort who he is, what he says, what he stands for, the kind of person he is. Their antipathy is disturbing. They actually wish him physical, emotional and spiritual harm. “I’m rooting for the cancer.”

“I won’t be happy until he’s until he’s screaming in agony 24/7.”

Lovely. As passionate as I am about my own political beliefs, I never wish harm on those who disagree. If anyone needs prayers, it is them — and I mean that sincerely.

Rush has inspired so many people like this one: “But the main thing I wanted to tell you is that you really did make me who I am now. ... You MADE me. Because of you, I was able to completely change careers. ... I love what I’m doing now — and, I hope I’m

making a difference. I owe all of this — every bit of it — to you. So thank you — for that, and for all you taught me over 36 years and counting.”

I have to say that while I’ve always known Rush is strong, I’ve never seen anything like how he has handled his diagnosis. He has honestly shown no concern for himself. His overriding concern is for his audience, his family and his friends. He is determined not to let any of us down. He seems more concerned about how this news will impact me than how it is affecting him. I am not exaggerating. He has shown more grace and class in this time than I would have thought possible. I couldn’t be prouder of him — and I’m even prouder that he is my brother.

No one knows what the outcome of this will be, but through it all, we must remain positive and optimistic. That matters. And we must draw closer to God. You Rush fans and well-wishers can’t begin to understand how much you mean to Rush and to us.

Your prayers are more comforting and more important than we can describe. God bless Rush, and God bless every one of you.

David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is “Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win.” Follow him on Twitter @ davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the www.creators.com.

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Continued from Page C1 Mr. Gates said, “There are all these bills that say it’s got to be called, basically, lab garbage to be sold. They don’t want us to use the beef label.”

That’s because it’s not beef!

The billionaire admitted that beef producers in the United States, a country he thinks should be sold synthetic beef, are better at reducing the emissions associated with beef production than poorer nations.

“For Africa and other poor countries, we’ll have to use animal genetics to dramatically raise the amount of beef per emissions for them,” Mr. Gates said. “Weirdly, the U.S. livestock, because they’re so productive, the emissions per pound of beef are dramatically less than emissions per pound in Africa.”

Watch the 1973 movie “Soylent Green”: It’s life in the year 2022.

Connect the dots.

And one more word on Benevolent Bill. He has decided the world needs a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine for the mutant strains. Sounds like the beef he wants to feed the world, and the genetic modification vaccines he wants to give Africa’s cows.

Did you know Bill Gates is the largest owner of farmland in the United States of America? If he cancels the cows, what form of cheese and milk will we be offered? Will we get used to that too?

Santa Barbara County Association of Governments received the Regional Housing Needs Allocation from the California Department of Housing and Community Development. SBCAG voted to accept the assigned housing numbers demanded by the state.

These 24,856 housing units are 15% lower than the previous number of 29,313.

The reduction is due to conversations regarding the accuracy of date and comparing regions related to overcrowding and cost burden.

This housing allotment is divided between Santa Barbara County’s eight cities and unincorporated areas.

Say the numbers were divided eight ways. Each would be responsible for building 3,170 housing units.

However, Santa Barbara, per its latest occupancy update from April 2020, has built 1,288 units out of the 4,100 housing units allocated to the city in 2015.

Per the state’s program, Santa Barbara still has a balance of 2,812 housing units that are required to be built.

Added to the possible new allocation of 3,170 housing units required by the state for 20232031, if they were to carry over numbers, the total balance due is 5,982 housing units.

That is a big number for a little town between the mountains and the ocean.

And Goleta and Carpinteria are assigned their own numbers!

However, these allotments are

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Continued from Page C3 Twitter and Google say they won’t do that, although there’s evidence they already have; Facebook hid the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden.

The companies also promise to protect our privacy. They say they don’t just give information to the government. But they do. Our government routinely “forces” them to turn it over.

“Why is it so much worse that our government has it?” I ask Mr. Snowden.

“Google can sell you a different pair of shoes on the basis of what it knows about you ... but they can’t put you in jail,” he replies. “They can’t bomb you.

The government can.”

It is creepy that former Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”

Mr. Snowden points out that this suggests “that we should have to constrain our intellectual curiosity ... because we could someday be judged on it… (But) who decides what is normal, what’s acceptable ...?! In a free society, we are allowed to be different.”

Good point.

Mr. Snowden advises people to encrypt their phones.

“Your phone tries to reach this other person, wherever they are in the world. It has to go through the Starbucks that you’re

not divided equally, as they are based on jobs/housing imbalance, infill development and promoting fair housing for all income levels.

It also depends on who fights how hard for their area.

With the number of people leaving California, it begs the question: Is this amount of housing necessary in these fragile coastal areas where sealevel rise is a concern. A total of 650,000 people left in 2020; 653,000 left in 2019.

Mayor Cathy Murillo is our representative at SBCAG. Let us hope she considers for the future, the necessity of protecting and preserving the reason Santa Barbara is Santa Barbara.

De la Guerra Plaza is in the crosshairs of the city planners and their darlings for an updated renovation. (This time it’s RRM and planner Susan Ellidge, who were already paid $300,000 for drawings). Too bad the likes of renowned Santa Barbara architect Lutah Riggs, who designed Lobero Theatre, and landscape architect Lockwood de Forest (Lotusland) are not here to direct the efforts.

Instead, the plan includes a splash pad for kids!

Not only is that feature contrary to preserving the historical look of Santa Barbara in the middle of El Pueblo Viejo, it is contemporary, trendy, serving only a few, and will not age well and requires additional upkeep and liability.

The wading pool at Los Baños del Mar has already been approved to be remodeled as a “Splash Pad,” which is where it belongs — at the beach with family and kids in beach attire, not a downtown historical Plaza. This is not Rome’s Trevi Fountain, nor would that ever be contemporized.

This is Santa Barbara and deserves as much respect as any world-class city.

People who have the means to live anywhere live here, for a reason. Thankfully, most of the members of the Historic Landmarks Commission are calling for a more traditional look.

We urge the commissioners not to capitulate and accept any element that would cause the late and honorable Pearl Chase or Kellam de Forest to roll over in their graves.

For the love and respect for all who have come before and sacrificed their time and money fighting to preserve the look and feel, contributing to the ambiance of Santa Barbara, let us not let them down.

The project will go back to HLC. Please stay tuned and speak your piece.

We will end with another quote from Sir Winston Churchill.

“There is nothing government can give you that it hasn’t taken from you in the first place.”

Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section. sitting at, through an internet service provider, through a data center. At any one of these points, anybody sitting on that line can snatch a copy of the conversation.”

WhatsApp won customers by offering encryption that prevents that. “An encrypted message cannot be unlocked without a mathematical key,” explains Mr. Snowden. “That defeats mass surveillance.”

But then Facebook bought WhatsApp, and later Facebook announced it will share WhatsApp data. Customers fled.

“Fewer and fewer people use plain voice (and) plain SMS,” says Mr. Snowden. “Now they’re using encrypted messages like the Signal messenger.”

That makes it harder for government, and companies, to learn so much about us.

“Everywhere you go, everything you do, everyone you interact with and everything you are interested in is being collected and recorded and analyzed and assessed. We don’t know how that is being applied yet, but we do know once they have this information, we can’t take it back from them.”

DuckDuckGo, anyone?

John Stossel is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators. com.

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