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SB panel begins to ‘winnow’ council redistricting maps By KAITLYN SCHALLHORN NEWS-PRESS STAFF-WRITER

The Santa Barbara Independent Redistricting Commission made headway on its new map last week, beginning to narrow down the choices following input from city council members and the public. Iterations of about five maps were heavily discussed during Thursday’s meeting, and staff was directed to prepare a “matrix” of pros and cons for each before the next meeting scheduled for March 9. During Thursday’s meeting, many people expressed concern about the way Eucalyptus Hill was divided in the draft maps.

Residents and council members said they would prefer the Eucalyptus Hill area to remain intact in District 4 rather than have a narrow section of the area contained in District 1 as well. “I’d like to support the Eucalyptus Hill Association in that canyon,” said District 4 Councilmember Kristen Sneddon. “They’ve worked very hard and raised their own funds to mitigate fire in that canyon, and it’s all part of one neighborhood. Some of the discussed maps (such as Plan 105B) took a whole triangle of the neighborhood and included it into District 1. Others (such as Plan 101R) put just a Please see MAPS on A7

Navy SEALs fighting vaccine mandate secure victory but fight isn’t over By CASEY HARPER THE CENTER SQUARE

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People picnic at the Stow House during the City of Goleta’s 20th Birthday celebration at the Rancho La Patera & Stow House on Saturday.

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On Saturday, the city of Goleta celebrated its 20th birthday with a free community event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Rancho La Patera & Stow House. Throughout the day there were a minimum of 800 participants celebrating the city. Goleta is one of the youngest cities in California. “We all had apple cider and lemon bundtini cupcakes and sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to the city of Goleta and we all clapped 20 times. It was a lot of fun and celebratory and I think that’s what we all needed,” Kelly Hoover, the City of Goleta’s Community Relations Manager told the News-Press. The tribute took place at 2:30 p.m. and included remarks from Mayor Paula Perotte, First Mayor

Margaret Connell, Congressman Salud Carbajal, Senator Monique Limón, Santa Barbara County Supervisors Gregg Hart and Joan Hartman, Sheriff Bill Brown and the Goodland Coalition. “What is amazing about the city of Goleta is that it has only been 20 years and so much has been accomplished in that time. When the city started, there were people who thought we might not make it and be financially viable,” said Ms. Hoover. Live music was played by the Salt Martians (Bluegrass) and The Nombres (Rock and Country), with special performances from the Dos Pueblos High School Theatre Company, 2021 Junior Spirit of Fiesta, Savannah Hoover and Teen Star finalist Audrey Harmand. “We had a large signature frame that people signed as they Please see GOLETA on A6

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(The Center Square) – A group of Navy SEALs locked in a legal battle over vaccine mandates got another victory in their fight, which could go all the way to the Supreme Court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit this week denied a request from the Navy for an emergency stay of an injunction that prevented them from taking action against the SEALS in question. The SEALS filed for religious exemptions but were denied, and they say their requests were not given fair consideration. “The Navy has been extraordinarily successful in vaccinating service members, as at least 99.4% of whom are vaccinated,” said the appellate ruling. “But that general interest is nevertheless insufficient under [Religious Freedom Restoration Act]. The Navy must instead ‘scrutinize … the asserted harm of granting specific exemptions to particular religious claimants.’ The question, then, is not whether [the Navy has] a compelling interest in enforcing its [vaccination] policies generally, but whether it has such an interest in denying an exception to [each Plaintiff].” First Liberty Institute, the group representing the SEALS, welcomed the decision. “Events around the world remind us daily that there are those who seek to harm America. Our military should be welcoming service members, not forcing them out because of their religious beliefs,” said Mike Berry, Director of Military Affairs for First Liberty Institute. “The purge of religious servicemembers is not just devastating to morale, but it harms America’s national security. It’s time for our military to honor its constitutional obligations and grant religious accommodations for service members with sincere religious objections to the vaccine. We’re grateful the Fifth Circuit denied the Navy’s motion.” That ruling upheld an injunction issued by U.S. District Court for the Northern District

of Texas Judge Reed O’Connor in January. “The Navy servicemembers in this case seek to vindicate the very freedoms they have sacrificed so much to protect,” Judge O’Connor’s ruling reads. “The COVID-19 pandemic provides the government no license to abrogate those freedoms. There is no COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment. There is no military exclusion from our Constitution.” The decision comes amidst a weakening of COVID-19 mandates nationwide. Several Democratled states reversed their mask mandates in recent weeks. Last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the majority of Americans will no longer need to wear masks indoors. “We want to give people a break from things like mask wearing ...” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said in a press briefing. At the same time, the U.S. Supreme Court in January overturned President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate on private companies but upheld the mandate for certain health-care workers. “The question before us is not how to respond to the pandemic, but who holds the power to do so. The answer is clear: Under the law as it stands today, that power rests with the States and Congress, not OSHA,” justices wrote in the majority opinion. Now, the highest court may revisit the issue in the SEALs case. Judge O’Connor’s January ruling case suggests the Navy went too far. “No matter how remote the possibility, Plaintiffs could be compensated for their losses,” the ruling reads. “They could be reinstated with backpay, retroactively promoted, or reimbursed for lost benefits like medical insurance and the GI Bill. But because these injuries are inextricably intertwined with Plaintiffs’ loss of constitutional rights, this Court must conclude that Plaintiffs have suffered irreparable harm. Plaintiffs have suffered the more serious injury of infringement of their religious liberty rights under RFRA and the First Amendment . . .”

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Legal cases continue against detective Craig A. Case a total of $610,000 to Mr. Case after investing in The Islanders, Santa Barbara’s semi-professional basketball team. One of Mr. Case’s investors, Howard Schneider, told the Los Angeles Times, “Case lied to us and robbed all the investors. This is the most mismanaged, fraudulent, mismanaged thing I’ve ever seen in 28 years of business.” In 2016, Mr. Case borrowed $10,000 from Dario Pini, a Santa Barbara landlord who took him to court when the detective allegedly failed to repay. He also allegedly failed to repay a $40,000 loan to the late Archie McLaren, a local philanthropist and wine lover. One of Mr. Case’s dissatisfied clients posted this complaint on the Better Business Bureau website: “Craig took $1,500 from us up front to find a person we were looking for in the same city. He has not done any work, has produced no results, and has not responded to emails, phone calls and texts for over two months.” We are told there are other default judgments against Mr. Case from the 1990s and early 2000s in Ventura and San Luis Obispo Counties, whose court dockets are not available online. The website for casedetectiveagency.com is no longer operational though it appears that the Case Agency’s P.I. license (#7491) does not expire until the end of March 2023. Meanwhile, we asked the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office whether it is investigating the Constance Fearing complaint for any possible fraud violations. “We are aware of the Constance Fearing case and related media attention,” Deputy District Attorney Brian Cota told The Investigator, unwilling to confirm or deny his office has Mr. Case in its sights because “we cannot comment on whether or not we are investigating any particular individual.” We reached out to Mr. Case both by phone and email for comment. He did not respond.

STATE OF THE DIS-UNION (TRUE MEANING OF KEY EXCERPTS) “Last year COVID-19 kept us apart.” Meaning: I was too scared to take off my mask in the open air and too frightened to face the media except on rare occasions, after which I quickly departed, my tail between my legs. “The pandemic has been punishing.” Meaning: We needed to punish everyone with lockdowns, mask-wearing and mandated vaccinations in order to punish everyone who voted for Donald Trump. “So many families are living paycheck to paycheck, struggling to keep up with the rising cost of food, gas, housing, and so much more. I understand.”

Meaning: My old credit card buddies in Delaware, whose bidding I did for decades in D.C., are doing better than ever before as everyone goes deeper and deeper into credit card debt at exorbitantly high interest rates. “One of the first things I did as president was fight to pass the American Rescue Plan. Few pieces of legislation have done more in a critical moment in our history to lift us out of crisis. It delivered immediate economic relief for tens of millions of Americans.” Meaning: I caused rampant inflation. “Vice President Harris and I ran for office with a new economic vision for America.” Meaning: I haven’t had a new vision in 40 years, and I selected the obviously incompetent VP Harris so no one would insist I resign for not only having no vision but also due to my incessant screw-ups, such as lack of border enforcement, an energy policy that left our country dependent on Russia for oil and a humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan that left behind Americans in addition to hundreds of billions in armaments. “Because we know that when the middle class grows, the poor have a ladder up and the wealthy do very well.” Meaning: As always, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. “As I’ve told Xi Jinping, it is never a good bet to bet against the American people.” Meaning: Leave betting against the American people to greedy American corporate executives who sold out this country for over three decades (with government consent — I should know, I was there) by shifting domestic manufacturing to China, where the communist regime could exploit slave labor and use profits to build a strong military. “Companies are choosing to build new factories here, when just a few years ago, they would have built them overseas. That’s what is happening. Ford is investing $11 billion to build electric vehicles, creating 11,000 jobs across the country. GM is making the largest investment in its history — $7 billion to build electric vehicles, creating 4,000 jobs in Michigan. All told, we created 369,000 new manufacturing jobs in America just last year.” Meaning: Thank you, my predecessor, for starting this trend. “Inflation is robbing them of the gains they might otherwise feel. That’s why my top priority is getting prices under control.” Meaning: Your gains are already robbed. I’m powerless to do anything about inflation, which will continue to elevate under my watch as we continue to print more money out of thin

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air to squander on infrastructure programs we actually need, but most of the money ends up elsewhere, dramatically increasing our already out-ofcontrol deficit. “Seventeen Nobel laureates in economics say my plan will ease long-term inflationary pressures.” Meaning: I’m listening to the same stooges who got us into this mess. “Let’s make sure corporations and the wealthiest Americans start paying their fair share.” Meaning: I’m echoing the same mantra every president before me while remembering, to myself, the words of Kenneth Keating, former U.S. senator from New York: “Politics is the art of acquiring votes from the poor and money from the rich while convincing both you’re protecting each from the other.” “We’re going after the criminals who stole billions in relief money meant for small businesses and millions of Americans. And tonight, I’m announcing that the Justice Department will name a chief prosecutor for pandemic fraud.” Meaning: Truth is, the auditors have given up and gone home, but this makes me sound tough as we spend more money to pretend we’re doing something. “By the end of this year, the deficit will be down to less than half what it was before I took office.” Meaning: May I sell you a bridge? “I know some are talking about living with COVID-19. We will continue to combat the virus as we do other diseases. Stay protected with vaccines and treatments. We know how incredibly effective vaccines are. If you’re vaccinated and boosted, you have the highest degree of protection.” Meaning: I have a second bridge to sell you. “We will never give up on vaccinating more Americans. Now, I know parents with kids under 5 are eager to see a vaccine authorized for their children.” Meaning: In my dreams. “Our schools are open. Let’s keep it that way. Our kids need to be in school.” Meaning: I have a master’s in The Obvious though it took me a whole year of being president to remember this, along with other

cognitive failures. “We achieved this because we provided free vaccines, treatments, tests, and masks. Of course, continuing this costs money. I will soon send Congress a request.” Meaning: We want to print more money out of thin air to spend on things we no longer need. “The answer is not to defund the police. The answer is to FUND the police with the resources and training they need to protect our communities.” Meaning: We only wanted to defund the police when my predecessor was in the White House so that we could take additional delight in seeing rioters, looters and arsonists run rampage in U.S. cities. “I want you to know we are going to be OK.” Meaning: We are NOT going to be OK. “We are stronger today than we were a year ago. And we will be stronger a year from now than we

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or decades, he was the only gumshoe going, privy to marital squabbles and many other sensitive issues in Santa Barbara. And when you see photos of private investigator Craig A. Case, 75, he appears to be living the good life. But a history of court actions has raised the question of whether he’s been doing that on someone else’s tab. And for a very long time. One such someone is Constance Fearing, 94, allegedly conned out of $687,500 over a two-and–a half-year period (2018-21) to fuel Craig’s gourmet food and fine wine habit. When Ms. Fearing filed a lawsuit against Mr. Case for “willful and deliberate misconduct,” the gumshoe did not respond with any kind of defense. Thus, the court took an entry of default against Mr. Case. But Mr. Case now contests that ruling as “excusable neglect.” Excusable neglect? A lawyer familiar with the detective pointed out to The Investigator: “Mr. Case has a wellchronicled history of failing to respond to complaints.” This is actually a vast understatement. Mr. Case is no stranger to lawsuits. He has ratcheted up a number of default judgments over the past four decades. We have counted an astounding 26 court actions taken against Mr. Case going back over 40 years, since 1978, the year before he first acquired a license to operate as a private investigator. One recent victim allegedly screwed financially by Mr. Case told The Investigator: “I got a $5,000 award against him for failure to produce a commercial after he cashed the check. Peanuts compared to what else he has done but still maddening. The hard part was trying to locate him. Not sure how he has avoided more publicity or criminal charges.” (Happy to oblige with the former; we’ll get to the latter.) Peanuts compared to what else he has done? Well, let’s take a stroll down memory lane and see who else Mr. Case has defaulted on: In 1985, Santa Barbara Bank & Trust obtained a default judgment against Mr. Case for $72,195. In June 2017, Everest National Insurance Company v. Craig Case. Default judgment: $49,935.51. In October 2018, Roger K. Bower Trustee v. Craig Case. Default Judgment: $54,720.27. In December 2020, Capital One Bank (USA) v. Craig Case. Default judgment: $8,435.27. And while willfully avoiding service and court directives, this very lien-ed on detective was cajoling potential customers to entrust him with their confidential investigations. In 1990, seven investors lost

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Ukraine and Russia to resume peace talks on Monday By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

On Monday, Russia and Ukraine are set to resume peace talks, which will aim at negotiating a ceasefire, as well as safe passage for civilian evacuations which will take place on Monday, a Ukraine official said today. Davyd Arakhamia, head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s political party and a member of the Ukraine delegation, said that Monday would be the third round of peace talks. On Saturday, the evacuation of Mariupol, Ukraine, was halted. Russia continued shelling the area Saturday in violation of a cease-fire, according to the office of President Zelensky. Approximately two hours after the cease-fire began, the decision was made to halt the evacuations, following a rousing speech by Mr. Zelenskyy, which was video streamed to crowds of demonstrators on Friday evening in numerous major European cities while Russian forces have been stalled in their advance on Kyiv. On Sunday at 2 p.m., there will be a rally in support of Ukraine in Santa Barbara at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Garden. On Saturday, President Zelensky made a pitch to 300 American lawmakers during an hour long zoom call. “Mr. Zelensky made a desperate plea,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told the Associated Press. Secretary of State Anthony Bliken has warned that the crisis will likely get worse before it gets better. Congress is working on a $10 billion package of military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Sen.

Schumer told Mr. Zelensky that lawmakers hope to send it to Ukraine quickly. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that if a no-fly-zone is implemented over Ukraine, it would be treated as an act of war by Russia “Any movement in this direction will be considered by us as participation in an armed conflict by that country,” said President Putin, according to the Moscow Times. Russian troops are continuing to shell the cities that they have surrounded, and the number of Ukrainian refugees has grown to 1.45 million, according to a report by the AP. The U.N. has predicted that the number of refugees could reach 4 million, which would make this the biggest refugee crisis of the century. Most refugees have fled to Poland and other EU nations, and the bloc has granted refugees temporary protection and residency permits. However, some refugees have begun to make their way into other countries. More than 100,000 refugees have reached Slovakia, while many plan to continue making their way to the Czech Republic which has a significant Ukrainian population. Hundreds of refugees arrive in Berlin daily. In Italy, 10,000 refugees have arrived, with 40% of them being children. As Mr. Putin escalated warnings against NATO, Ukraine is requesting increased military assistance from the West. “The highest demand that we have is in fighter jets, attack aircraft, and air-defense systems,” said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, reported the Moscow Times.

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South County road maintenance meeting scheduled On Thursday, March 24 from 7-8:30 p.m., the Santa Barbara County Public Works Department is holding a public workshop for the 2022-2023 Road Maintenance Annual Plan (RdMAP). This workshop will provide an opportunity for the public to give input on county road maintenance. The workshop will include coverage of road maintenance projects, the county approach to pavement preservation, current projects and

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RIED, Rick

of Santa Barbara, California Born September 18, 1956, Alhambra, California Died, February 2, 2022, Santa Barbara

On February 2 our hearts may have broken but heaven surely rejoiced, as golf carts lined the streets of gold to welcome Ricky home! Having gotten to play at some of the most prestigious courses on earth we can only imagine the glorious splendor and beauty of the greens he got to behold that day. His personal best of ﬁve holes in one, was no doubt shattered as he played a round on the heavenly greens with Mom, Dad and Uncle Chuck. We can almost imagine the angel choir cheering him on as he had truly the best game of his life. Well the best so far… He’s now in a place where no one grows old, time ceases to exist and days are spent worshiping the King and doing things that the soul loveth. Lots can be said about Rick Ried, but maybe the best is how he lived life to the utmost. He had the opportunity to attend concerts of some absolute legends. He had the pleasure and privilege to play the great game of golf all across the globe. But of all the grand things he saw and all the exotic places he visited, for him, nothing compared to a lunch from Domingo’s, enjoyed at the beach. This is maybe where he found the most tranquility. The mountains, sturdy behind him. The seemingly endless waves crashing in front of him. His heart suspended between heaven and earth. Life was good but the yearning to go home was greater. He was preceded in death and reunited in heaven with his parents, Walter and Nancy Ried. At his time of crossing he was at peace with himself, his family and his Lord. The morning of the 2nd, his faith was perfected as God’s overabundance of dying grace ﬁlled him, wrapped him in love and carried him home. He may have been the big brother, but as the only boy, his sisters doted on him like he was the baby of the family. They took great pride in “taking care of Rick” and providing him with a lifetime of love and support. Surviving sisters include Karen Ried, Carol Whitehouse and Kathy McClenathen (John). Nieces and nephews; Bobby, James, Wil, Joshua, Cady (Josh), and great niece Ellie. Other survivors include Danny Ostrander, Denise Keller and Mindy Ostrander Nash. Rick never met a stranger. People were drawn to his lively spirit and jolly nature. He will be missed but not forgotten. When looking at the mountains we’ll think about him. When we hear live music we’ll remember him. And when we’re at the beach we will absolutely feel him. To a life lived large; enjoy your rest and reward. A celebration of life will be held at a later date.

BARNES, Richard Gregory

Richard Gregory Barnes passed away peacefully on February 4, 2022. Gregory was born June 3, 1930 in San Francisco, CA and passed away in Goleta after living in the Santa Barbara area for 40 years. He is survived by sons Stephan, Nathan and Greg, II, daughter Shauna, 8 grandkids and 18 great-grandkids. Gregory graduated in 1949 in Eureka and joined the navy in 1950. He was on the Saint Paul and USS Hollister and was honorably discharged in 1956. Gregory then started a new life with wife Louise Alvene and had sons Stephan and Nathan. In 1960, he met his second love, Carlene Parnell and daughters Cindy and Shauna. In 1962 Greg, Jr. was born. In 1968 Gregory started Napa Casket Company. After a very successful 4 years, he donated it to Napa State Hospital to help it be self sufﬁcient. Gregory spent 40 years in Santa Barbara as a property manager. As a manager he had properties all over the area including La Cumbre Apartments and Tropical Garden Mobile Park from where he retired in 2016 when it was sold. Gregory was a 77-year Mason, Scottish Rite and Shriner, a 50-year Napa Grange member, 47-year Elk and 5-year Moose. Gregory spent time in Arizona as a child; also Hoover Dam, Fortuna, Ferndale and Eureka, where his parents passed away. Gregory then lived in Napa, Colusa and Sacramento, CA before returning to Santa Barbara. He is now at home with his Lord and Savior.

ROSE, Robert George

It is with solemn honor that the family of Robert “Bob” George Rose announces his passing in Santa Barbara on December 21, 2021 at the age of 85 years. He was surrounded by loving family and friends. Bob started his life in Sacramento, California. Son to hard working parents, he attended Sacramento State University where he studied accounting and business. His hobbies of snow/water skiing, engine building, and boat racing proved to be championship level with numerous placings and metals awarded to him in the western United States. His young career brought him to Santa Barbara in the mid-1960s to work with Sambo’s restaurants, where his business acumen and strong work ethic helped guide the early growth of that company. Bob was noticed and recruited by Santa Barbara business owner Dave Nancarrow (deceased) to help grow his restaurant concept as chief executive of Carrows from infancy of six locations to a national brand with a footprint of over 500 locations in the early 1970s. Bob ventured to successful starts of his own businesses in the early 1980s with numerous operations of new businesses in California. In the mid-1980s Bob purchased Harry’s Plaza Café and brought it to profitability through the mid-1990s. Concurrent with his ownership of Harry’s, Bob expanded another business concept of his in the Central Valley of California, allowing him to connect with numerous great people in that area who he loved so much and grew a small company that was the focus and bedrock of his mature business life. Over his life, Bob continued to engage in numerous interests that covered snow skiing at world class locations, boat racing in championship settings, acquiring his pilot’s license and flying his plane to business and pleasure destinations. Winter and Summer retreats to his property in Kirkwood, California with his wife and children were especially loved by him. Bob’s drive and productivity changed and lifted so many lives of the people he touched. Bob is survived by a loving family of his wife Stella Rose; his four children Randy and Margo Rose; Julie and Bob Walsmith; Ryan Rose; Amy Rose; and grandchildren Jeffrey and Hayley Martin. The Rose family extends their deepest gratitude to Dr. Dan Litten, Dr. Vishal Goyal and the teams of medical professionals at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital for their graciousness and warmth. Private services for the family were held February 17, 2022 at St. Raphael’s Church. In lieu of flowers donations in Bob’s memory may be made to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation.

ROBINSON, Barbara Parker

1927–2022 Died peacefully January 22, 2022 in Santa Barbara, California. Born in Santa Barbara into an old Army family, Barbara Parker Robinson was the eldest daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Henry Burr Parker (nee Emily Wilson). A graduate of Santa Barbara High School and Stephens College, she worked and traveled extensively for the State Department’s Ofﬁce of Foreign Buildings and was the architect of numerous houses in California, Washington, D.C. and Virginia. In 1962, she married Norborne T. N. Robinson III and settled down in Middleburg, Virginia where she had a daughter, Page. In 1977, A Bit of Eden, her novel about life in Virginia’s horse country, was published by Dutton. Barbara was a member of the Santa Barbara, Mexico City, and Washington, D.C., Junior Leagues, and in the 1970s served as vice chair of a maternity clinic for underserved women in Fauquier County, Virginia. She was a delegate at the 1988 Virginia Republican Convention. She was an avid reader and talented author, artist, designer, gardener, tennis and croquet player. She took up landscape painting in the 1990s and continued to write throughout her life. She loved parties, especially those with champagne and dancing, travel, and adventures of all sorts with her wide array of friends. Barbara returned to Santa Barbara in the in the late 1980s, and in 2001 she married Arthur Lloyd Huff, since deceased. Barbara is survived by her daughter, Page Robinson, of Washington, D.C., two sisters, Mrs. Milton Edward Bacon (Lee) of Santa Barbara, and Mrs. Thomas Peale Vail (Jean) of Durham, NC, two grandchildren, Carter Robinson Thomas and his wife Allie Buckner of Portland, Oregon, and Mary Page Thomas of Washington, D.C., and numerous nieces and nephews. The family is deeply grateful for the wonderful, caring staff at Casa Dorinda, where she lived for many years. Memorial contributions may be made to the Casa Dorinda Employee Emergency Fund (EEF). Attn: Philanthropy Dept., 300 Hot Springs Rd., Montecito, CA 93108. Please write check to Casa Dorinda with note in memo: EEF.

OBITUARIES

SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2022

WEIR, Elizabeth Lawton Dec 27, 1917 - Feb 28, 2022 104 years old

Betty was born and raised in New York City later living in Mallorca, Spain and then Bermuda and Philadelphia where she attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She moved to California in 1944 with her parents, Sarah & Samuel Welsh of Montecito, and married William Boyd Weir of San Francisco. They lived with their 2 children, Sally & Jack, on the Whittier Ranch in Hemet, eventually moving to Montecito. She loved living in the West and had a passion for camping and Jeeping in the desert, painting and photography, cars and cameras, caviar and champagne. Betty was one of a kind and had a naughty, unﬁltered sense of humor. She is survived by her daughter, Sally Fairbanks (Charles), grandchildren Linsley Adams (Jeff), Robin Norris (Diego), Alexis Rivera (Sabrine), great-grandchildren Skylar, Ashlyn, Max & Lucy. She was predeceased by her husband Boyd, her son Jack Weir, sister Natica Waterbury and brother Sam Welsh, Jr.

BERMUDES, Kevin Paul June 26, 1977-February 16, 2022

This world lost Kevin Paul Bermudes, affectionately known as “Bubba” and/or “BO” unexpectedly after a long battle with drug addiction. In November 2021, Kevin completed a drug addiction program in his new found home of San Diego. What caused him to spiral into a relapse, we will never know. We just hope and pray that Kevin has found his peace. Kevin’s addiction was a long, hard-fought battle. He was loved unconditionally and will be missed by all that knew him. Kevin was born and raised in Santa Barbara by parents Frank Bermudes and Barbara (Schroeder) Bermudes. Kevin was a sweet, shy boy with sun kissed skin and thick straight blonde hair always looking up to his older brother Brian. He was the one who never outgrew his little boy smile and was the one who could make you laugh with just a look. Close to his brother and cousins, he grew up camping, playing sports, taking road trips to watch the Dodgers, skiing in Mammoth and most of all spending summers at Hendry’s Beach “The Pit.” He attended Adams Elementary, La Colina Jr High and San Marcos High School. Kevin loved to cook. He attended the Hotel Restaurant Management (HRC) Program at Santa Barbara City College. He always put his skills to work at family birthdays (he was the designated ice cream scooper), holidays and the annual family Viva la Fiesta Celebrations. You could always ﬁnd “Bubba” behind the grill with a smile on his face. Kevin made the best Thanksgiving turkey gravy every year for his family. Besides cooking, Kevin had many other talents. He was a licensed contractor and owner of Coastline Decks & Fences since 2009. More recently he taught himself wood working and hand crafted beautiful wood bowls that he gave to family and friends to enjoy for years to come. Kevin will be remembered for his kindness and love of his family and his infectious laugh. Kevin is survived by his parents Frank and Barbara, brother Brian, his much loved niece and nephew Kaila and Lance Bermudes. Kevin is also survived by his maternal grandmother Gloria Felix (John), Auntie Linda Romero (Clarence), Uncles, Ed Schroeder (Happy), Ken and Richie Schroeder and Kermit Bermudes (Pauline). First cousins include Richie Romero (Katy), Renee Romero, Michele Lee (Curtis), Kristin Bleecker (Jordan) and step cousins, Jennifer Washburn (Rob), Tim Cooney (Lindsey) and Kara Crisp (Kevin). Kevin was especially grateful for the support he received from his second cousin Maryellen Schroeder and his former sister-in-law Hattie Elbek as he struggled with his demons. Kevin also leaves behind his godparents, Jim and Carol Santoro and numerous extended family and friends in California, New York, and Las Vegas. Kevin was predeceased by his maternal grandfather, Edward P Schroeder, paternal grandparents, Paul and Fairy Bermudes. Kevin was baptized, received the sacraments of First Holy Communion, Conﬁrmation and will now have his Celebration of Life Service at San Roque Catholic Church, 325 Argonne Circle, Santa Barbara on March 9, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. Please join us at Mulligans Cafe, 3500 McCaw Avenue, Santa Barbara immediately following the service to celebrate Kevin’s life. For those who wish to remember Kevin, his family suggests donations be made to the Cottage Residential Center at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation. Memorial gifts may be made online at https://www.cottagehealth.org/donate/; or mail to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation, P.O Box 689, 400 West Pueblo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0689; or call: (805)879-8980.

JANCO, Maurice

CRAVIOTTO, Carmen

February 27, 1930 - November 19, 2021.

Maria Carmen Ylincheta Arguedas Craviotto was born on Feb. 27, 1930, the third daughter to Sebastiana Ylincheta Arguedas and Perfecto Arguedas, two Basque immigrants. When Carmen was a baby, the family moved from Los Angeles to the Antelope Valley where her parents purchased a ranch and began farming alfalfa. Carmen spent her childhood on the ranch, driving tractors before school, caring for animals, and swimming in the reservoir with her sisters and cousins. After graduating from high school, Carmen went to Wright McMahon Secretarial School in Beverly Hills, then moved to Santa Barbara where she attended college and worked as a secretary at UCSB. Her dream was to continue to study to become a teacher of young children. During this time she met Daniel Craviotto through a mutual friend. They fell in love and married in 1954. Soon to follow were four children (Dan Jr., John, Cathleen, Eileen) and the joys and busyness of being a family. Carmen was a force of nature, a devoted wife and mother who dedicated her life to bringing joy and caring for her family and assisting in the management and accounting of the Craviotto businesses and investments. Carmen and Dan centered their busy lives on their large extended family. She hosted countless BBQs and extended family dinners effortlessly and was known for being an amazing cook. Later in life they traveled extensively, even going to Patagonia and Chile, a lifelong dream, in their late 70s. Carmen adored her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and found every moment she could to play with them and be with them. Carmen loved to be outside, walking on the beach or cultivating flowers and trees in her beautiful garden and later transforming the fruit into her famous apricot and other jams. She was a member of Community Covenant Church and cherished her longterm relationships and friends within her church community. Her husband Dan was the passion of her life until his death in 2011. She deeply mourned the heartbreaking loss of her son John in 2021. She was also preceded in death by her parents, her sisters Josephine Wheeler and Blanche Pitts. Carmen is remembered and dearly loved by the families of her children Dan (Carol Craviotto), her deceased son John (Lori Craviotto), Cathleen (Steve Leth), Eileen (Joseph Velasco), her grandchildren (Kristin, Michael, Brianna, Chris, Nicole, Gabriella, Zachary, Benjamin, Akela, Ixaka), and her great-grandchildren (Grace, Olive, Sylvia, Jonathan and McKenna). She will also be remembered dearly by her friends and her Community Covenant Church family. Carmen had a vibrant personality and was known for her love of life, her ability to find joy in everything and her love of having meaningful conversations with anyone she would meet. Her infectious smile, warm embrace, family barbecues, curiosity, and positive attitude will be deeply missed by those she leaves behind. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hospice of Santa Barbara.

HOFFMAN, Glenn

Glenn Hoffman, age 66, passed away at his home in the Villages in Dewey, AZ on February 20, 2022. Glenn was born in Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island on February 6, 1956, to Merrill and Arlene (Witkowski) Hoffman. Glenn went to San Marcos High School and later to Santa Barbara City College. Glenn was a locksmith and worked in the aerospace industry. He enjoyed bowling. Glenn is survived by his former spouse, Dorothy Haven Hoffman, daughter Shauna Marie Hoffman, grandchild Wyatt and sister and brother-in-law Linda and Daniel Najera. He was preceded in death by a daughter Veronica Glenda Hoffman. Arrangements entrusted to Sunrise Funeral Home of Prescott Valley, Arizona.

ENHOLM, John Randall

John Randall Enholm left this earth February 5th, in his sleep, after having just enjoyed an epic day with friends and family. John always considered Santa Barbara home but had relocated to Paso Robles about 5 years ago. He is gone too soon.

Maurice Janco, prominent Santa Barbara realtor, died peacefully at the age of 93 on February 21st under hospice care at Heritage House. He was born April 14, 1928 in Oklahoma City to Dr. Leon and Margaret (Mantinband) Janco. Maurice attended Central High School in Oklahoma City and matriculated to the University of Oklahoma where he earned a degree in Engineering Physics in 1949 and his Masters in Physics from the University of Michigan in 1950. He furthered his studies in Electrical Engineering at Penn State College, where he worked on the world’s largest water tunnel participating in research for the Navy on torpedo propulsion. He was a nuclear physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM where he was actively involved in testing hydrogen and atomic bombs. In 1953, this job took him to the Marshall Islands where they tested and took temperature measurements within hydrogen bomb explosions.

John was born in Washington D.C., January 22, 1959, but moved to Santa Barbara before starting school. Like any of us who were lucky enough to grow up in Santa Barbara in the ‘60s and ‘70s, he had a great childhood, attending Vieja Valley, La Colina and San Marcos High School. A gifted athlete and waterman, John excelled in youth sports and as an adult at surﬁng and tennis. The youngest of four brothers, his brothers like to think they had something to do with John’s success, but John did it “his way.”

He married Vinita Barker in 1961 and moved to Santa Barbara in 1964 where they raised their two daughters, Linda and Lisa. He worked at General Research Corporation in Goleta until 1970 when he entered the real estate profession.

John married the love of his life, Nancy Leslie, in 1989, in Cabo San Lucas, long before destination weddings became a thing. In John fashion, he met Kevin Costner in the bar and was invited to go deep sea ﬁshing the next day. He turned Kevin down not because he had wedding party responsibilities. That would not have deterred John (“Ah, Ah, I think we can get back in time.”). He turned him down because he had no idea who Kevin was.

Maurice was a very friendly and outgoing person. Perhaps that’s why the real estate profession suited him so well. He spent more than 40 years helping people buy and sell real estate. He was a jack of all trades. An inventor, pilot, mountain climber, avid skier, photographer, world traveler, and proliﬁc writer of letters to the editor of the local paper. He enjoyed watching Jeopardy and reading Scientiﬁc American magazine. He loved to tell jokes, read books, play gin rummy, and visit Chumash casino to play poker. On many mornings he could be found at Starbucks in Montecito socializing with his friends. Some of his favorite memories were taking road trips across the country, Vegas weekend trips and cruises with his grandson, Nathaniel. He is survived by his daughters Linda Vannier (Robert) and Lisa Janco, his grandchildren Nathaniel Jones (Helena), Parker Jones, Cassidy Jones, Christopher Vannier, Matthew Vannier, Sidney Bandy, and two great-grandchildren Victoria and Thomas. A memorial to celebrate his life is planned for April. Please contact the family for details.

HALLUM, John

John Hallum, loving father, grandfather, and friend passed away on February 6, 2022 at his home in Wausau, Wisconsin. John was adopted at birth by Martin “Bud” and Barbara Hallum in San Francisco, CA in 1953. He was raised in the Santa Ynez Valley and graduated from Santa Ynez Valley High School in 1971. After traveling and spending a few years in the Los Angeles area he settled back in the Santa Ynez Valley, working at Bardex Corp. in Santa Barbara for 33 years. In 2007, John moved to Wausau, WI and worked for Clover Industries before retiring in 2012. John’s number-one passion was music; the only thing he loved more than Pink Floyd were his daughters, Katlyn and Crystal. In addition to music, his other passions included baseball (until the 1994 strike), collecting baseball cards and coins, horticulture, and later in life the Green Bay Packers. John was blessed with incredible friends whom he shared many wild adventures and stories with. He will be missed by many. In recent years, John was reunited with his birth family who welcomed him lovingly. This completed a part of him he’d always wondered about. He really enjoyed learning about his biological history and meeting these new-found loved ones. He is preceded in death by his parents Bud and Barbara, his sister Marion, and his granddaughter Emma. He is survived by his daughters, Katlyn (Paul), Crystal (Thomas), grandchildren Abigail, Gavin, and was excitedly awaiting the arrival of his newest grandchild in June. A celebration of life will be held at 1pm on Saturday March 26th, 2022, at 2445 Jonata St., Los Olivos, California.

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John graduated from UC San Diego where he majored in history and played on the volleyball team. He preferred 2-man beach volleyball where his ability to jump and spike, almost anything, made him fun to watch. John studied history because he was fascinated by people. His studies provided an excuse for spending months in Europe, somehow borrowing a motorcycle and doing things like touring Normandy World War II sites, with the motorcycle owner’s daughter on the back.

The next chapter in John’s life was raising their 3 children in the art of enjoying life as much as he did. A San Marcos Royal letterman John was proud to see his oldest son play tennis for his alma mater. He then made the switch to green and gold becoming an active Santa Barbara Don’s booster. He was always there supporting his children in each of their chosen sports - tennis, football and diving. If a fundraising event needed a cook or a bartender John was there. He was most happy to see his family grow up with the children of his childhood friends and continue his traditions of friendship. John had a varied career, including a long stint in mortgage banking; but he was willing to work hard at almost anything. Most recently he was a painting estimator and supervised painting crews. This job was a perfect ﬁt. In addition to Nancy, John is survived by his mother, Wilma Grise and his brothers; Bob (Vicky Brademan), Bill (Jennie) and Jim (Cristin) and his stepsisters; Robin Stieber and Joan McGraw. He is also survived by his children; Travis, Russell and Nina and his brothers’ children; Allison Stalla (Zeid), Hayley Harper Swarbrick (Andrew), Casey Salas (Greg), Kyle Enholm and Malaina Enholm. John was pre-deceased by his father Robert W. Enholm, his stepmother Diane B. Enholm, his stepfather Richard F. Grise, M.D. and his stepbrother Robert C. Kohler III. John leaves many, many friends and relatives who miss him and his enthusiasm for most everything dearly. He lives on in their stories and memories. A celebration of life is planned for March 26th, in Santa Barbara. For more information contact billenholm@ gmail.com.

KELLIHER, Donald E. of Santa Barbara Dec 11, 1935 - Feb 12, 2022

It is with great sadness that we announce Don Kelliher passed away on February 12, 2022 from a sudden and brief illness at the age of 86. Don was born to Mayville “Doc” and Myrna Kelliher on December 11, 1935 in Santa Barbara, CA. Don attended Santa Barbara High School, alumni 1953 and UCSB 1959. Don excelled in his athletic career, following in his fathers footsteps at UCSB. He engaged in everything from high jumps, shot puts, javelin throws, Basketball, Football, Golf and Track and Field, all while achieving many championships. He was inducted into the Gaucho Hall of Fame for being the “Most Valuable Gaucho” and was named Track and Field Athlete of the year in 1958 at UCSB. He was stellar. Don had a strong career path ranging from teaching, coaching, dabbling in real estate and ultimately becoming a local General Contractor, Keystone Construction. He was a man who wore many hats and had many nicknames. Many just knew him as Don, but he was Papa or Papa Don to the grandkids. He was Dad to Craig, Chris and Ken, Grandpa to eleven grandkids and Great-Grandpa to three great-grandchildren. His grandkids were his everything. And he would say they were “AWESOME.” Don was a strong independent man who lived a simple life. He was hard headed and mindset in his ways sometimes, but he also had a heart of gold. He was always available when you needed him. His generosity and kindness would shine right through him. He was a creature of habit, you’d see him cruising the Mesa in his black truck, grabbing a cup of coffee through the drive thru, or just enjoying a conversation with those around him. But more often than not, you’d see him at the golf course. He loved the game of golf, it was one of his favorite passions. He was still determined to master his swing at the age of 86. He was a friend, father ﬁgure and a mentor to many, young and old. He created so many wonderful bonds with so many people. We will all miss the bright blue eyed, smiling man, wearing his signature look, Hawaiian shirts and khaki pants. So many friends and acquaintances have all shared such heartwarming stories about him, thank you. Our hearts are broken. He will deﬁnitely be missed. He was a classic. Thank you to the nurses at Cottage and Serenity House for his care. Thank you to all of his friends who have offered their support and condolences during this time. No services will be held at this time. In remembrance of Don, he would like everyone to just pay it forward.

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Warriors baseball gets road wins, improves to 20-2 By RON SMITH WESTMONT SPORTS WRITER

Westmont Baseball collected two more wins as the Warriors swept today’s doubleheader at William Jessup by scores of 7-5 and 12-7. With the wins, Westmont improves to 20-2 overall and 9-1 in Golden State Athletic Conference play. In the opening game, Westmont scored first when Robbie Haw drove a sacrifice fly into center field that scored Paul Mezurashi from third. Mezurashi had led off the inning with a triple to right center field. However, Jessup responded with three runs in the bottom half of the inning on a two-RBI single by Jorge Perez and a RBI single by Kawaiola Takemura. Westmont pulled within one run in the top of the fifth on three singles by Haw, Simon Reid and Thomas Rudinsky. Once again, Jessup responded in the bottom

half of the same inning, scoring on a solo home run by Dylan Cole to take a 4-2 lead. The Warriors tied the game at fourall in the top of the seventh. After Rudinsky walked to lead off the inning, he advanced to second on a wild pitch. He then scored when Josh Rego reached on an error. Daniel Patterson pinch ran for Rego and reached third on a passed ball. Parker O’Neil came up next and produced a sacrifice fly to center field to score Patterson. In the top of the eighth inning, Westmont added three more runs that proved to be the difference. With one away, Haw was hit by a pitch. He then took third on Brady Renck’s single down the right field line. When Reid singled through the left side, Haw scored and Renck took third. Bryce McFeely took over as the courtesy runner for Reid, then advanced to second when Rudinsky was walked to

load the bases. Rego drove in Renck from third with a single through the right side, leaving the bases full of Warriors. O’Neil then drove in the third run with his second sacrifice fly in as many innings. Jessup got one run in the bottom of the ninth to account for the final score when Dustin McElwain doubled down the right field line with a man on second, but it was not enough to prevent Westmont from claiming the win. Gabe Arteaga (1-1) was awarded the win for the Warriors after pitching three innings in relief. He allowed one run on one hit, struck out three and did not surrender a walk. Bryan Peck started on the mound for the Warriors and worked six innings. He allowed four runs on five hits, struck out nine and walked one. In game number two, Westmont put up three runs in the top of the first to take the early lead. Two runs came via an RBI

All-American Relay highlights Stellar Day Two By JACOB NORLING WESTMONT SPORTS WRITER

Day two of the NAIA Indoor National Championships gave Westmont Track and Field much to smile about by the day’s end. While Friday’s highlight was an All-American relay, several other performances allowed the Warriors to collectively hold their heads high. “It was a good day,” said Westmont head coach Russell Smelley. “They were more focused today and achieved what they knew they could.” Anneline Breytenbach started things off on the right foot for the Warriors when she competed in the women’s mile. Breytenbach competed in the first heat of the event, and finished the race in the middle of the pack with a time of 5:05.59. With the second heat still to come, Breytenbach was left to hold her breath while still trying to catch it, not knowing if she would get the opportunity to compete in the finals. Once the final heat finished, and the board lit up with the event’s finalists, Breytenbach saw her name. The sophomore earned the final spot, after finishing with the 10th best time in the preliminaries. Breytenbach will compete for All-American status in the women’s mile at 10:25 a.m. PDT on Saturday. “I felt excited going in, but my legs let me know they were tired after yesterday,” offered Breytenbach. “It’s stressful watching that second heat while just wondering what’s going to happen. Regardless, I knew I ran as hard as I could, but it definitely felt good seeing my name back up on the board.” Zola Sokhela and Adam King were the next Warriors to compete, this time in the men’s mile. King took part in the first heat, and finished the event in 4:18.36, which placed him 18th in the event. Sokhela took part in the second heat, and put on a show running alongside Oklahoma City’s Shimales Abebe. Sokhela took an early lead for the first half of the mile, then found himself running behind Abebe as the pack entered the final 400. Ultimately, Abebe came in a hair ahead of Sokhela with a time of 4:14.03. Sokhela finished the event in 4:14.17. Immediately upon crossing the finish line, the two competitors reached out for one another and shook hands, appreciating the greatness of one another. Both Sokhela and Abebe will compete for the National Championship in the men’s mile on Saturday at 10:35 a.m. PDT. “The mile is going to be a really good competition with the Oklahoma City guys,” offered Sokhela. “I look forward to it a lot. Abebe is fun to compete against. We’ve had many conversations before these races and I have a lot of respect for him.” In the afternoon, Abigail Hundley competed in the women’s 1000 meter run prelims, and Kari Anema took part in the 3000 meter prelims. For Hundley, the freshman finished in 14th place with a time of 3:04.76, and for Anema, also a freshman, she came in with a time of 10:31.17. A trio of Warriors took part in the men’s 1000 meter prelims, with Sokehla and Jason Peterson competing in the first heat, and Jack Vanden Heuvel competing in the second. Peterson came in with a time of 2:36.22, which was 20th amongst the two heats. Sokhela led his heat the entire way, finishing with a time of 2:27.48, and earning himself a place in Saturday’s finals. Vanden Heuvel’s 1000 was perhaps the most entertaining finish of the day, as the freshman literally put his body on the line in hopes of qualifying for the finals. Vanden Heuvel led for the first 600 meters of the race, before falling towards the middle of the pack during the final lap. Then, a burst of speed brought on by sheer will allowed Vanden Heuvel to once again run among the front of the pack. The Healdsburg native put his head down and charged through the finish with everything he had, and for the second time in as many days, this resulted in a hard fall at the finish line for Vanden Heuvel. Upon finishing the race, Vanden Heuvel got his feet caught up with another competitor, and dropped to the ground face first. While the athlete is sure to feel the consequences in the coming days, the pain quickly subsided when he got to his feet and saw the scoreboard.

Vanden Heuvel finished the 1000 meter race in 2:29.28, meaning on Saturday at 12:35 p.m. PDT, he will compete alongside Sokhela in the finals. “Today’s fall definitely felt better than yesterday’s,” said a grinning Vanden Heuvel. “I came out in the lead there for the first 600, which wasn’t my plan or in my best interest. However, it was awesome to be in that spot. When they did pass me, it was important to assert myself and stay on their shoulders.” While Abby Rumohr narrowly missed AllAmerican status in the women’s pole vault, the sophomore won the day in the eyes of her coach and her peers, after breaking her own personal record on multiple occasions. Rumohr cleared the first two marks (3.32m, 3.42m) with relative ease on her first attempts. Then, she stared down elimination after being unable to clear 3.47m (11-4.5) on her first two attempts. Rumohr shared a word with Coach Tim FitzSimons before gathering herself for one final attempt. Then, on her third attempt at 3.47m, Rumohr flew beyond the bar and landed while clenching her fists in celebration. “I was so excited,” smiled Rumohr. “Something wakes up in you when it’s the third attempt. You have to treat every single bar like it’s that third attempt, but your brain knows and treats it differently than any of the other bars.” Rumohr set a new personal record on her next attempt, clearing 3.52m (11-6.5) without grazing the bar. Then came the 3.57m (11-8.5) mark. On her second attempt, Rumohr successfully cleared the bar herself, but as she dismounted, her pole caught the bar and dislodged it at the final second. Rumohr was unable to clear the bar on her final attempt, but nonetheless, she was greeted with high fives and hugs by her companions in cardinal. “I’m really proud of myself,” expressed Rumohr. “I’ve been waiting a long time for this and feel like my time has finally come. I’m disappointed I wasn’t able to get All-American, but I have to rejoice in the success I had today.” “Abby Rumohr is probably the story of the day,” offered Smelley. “She set three personal bests at different poles, and competed like a champion. Kudos to her.” The day came to a close with the men’s 4x800 relay finals. Last night, the relay team consisted of Andres Leon, Peterson, King, and Sokhela. Tonight, in order to allow Sokhela to be best prepared for Saturday’s individual finals, Smelley and the Warriors opted to run without their bonafide anchor. Before the race, King and company shared their desire to come in ahead of at least one opponent, in hopes of doing more than just banking of an eightplace All-American finish. Tonight, Ben Bodine ran with the first baton and handed it off to John Baker. Then, Baker handed it off to Leon, who put their hopes in the hands of King, who was Friday night’s anchor. Ultimately, the relay team finished the event in 7:52.35, which was 0:00.32 faster than the eighthplace team. Bodine, Baker, Leon, and King earned NAIA AllAmerican honors with a seventh place finish in the 4x800 relay. “I felt good, but man, my legs felt heavy after the previous races,” said King. “Andres had a great leg and caught us back up, putting us within striking distance. Honestly, I thought I was going to drop (the eighth-place finisher) sooner, but he stuck right there until the end. “Physically, the race hurt, but being AllAmericans makes it all worth it.” “Beating that team was a nice achievement for those guys,” said Smelley. “They ran the same time they did at outdoors, with a variety of guys you wouldn’t have picked at the start of the year. It was great.” Saturday will bring a close to the NAIA Indoor National Championships, with Westmont having several chances to revisit the podium as they did on Friday. Links to live coverage are available on the Westmont Athletics website. Jacob Norling is the sports information assistant at Westmont College. email: sports@newspress.com

single by Rego and one on a RBI double by O’Neil. An RBI single by McElwain in the bottom of the second made it a 3-1 game before Westmont added another run in the top of the fourth on an RBI single by Haw. Jessup scored in the bottom of the fifth to make the score 4-2. What followed next was a very long sixth inning in which each team scored five runs. Westmont’s first run was the result of a bunt single by Haw that scored Luke Tillitt and brought Finn Snyder home. Later in the inning, Rego singled up the middle with the bases loaded to score Tillitt and Haw. O’Neil, then, singled to center field, driving in McFeely and advancing Rego to third. An RBI single by Ryan Desaegher allowed Rego to score. Jessup’s five runs in the bottom half of the inning came on a two-RBI home run by Cole and a three-RBI home run

by Kevin Gutierrez. That made the score 9-7 after six innings of play in the seveninning game. In the top of the seventh, the Warriors added three insurance runs. Reid’s bat provided the first run when he drove in Tillitt with a single to right. Rudinsky then homered to left field to drive in Reid and put the final tallies on the scoreboard. Starter Eric Oseguera started the game and earned the win. In five innings of work, he allowed two runs on three hits, struck out three and walked one. Oseguera is now 5-0 on the season. The two teams will go back at it again tomorrow in a doubleheader starting at 11:00 a.m. Ron Smith is the sports information director at Westmont College. email: sports@newspress.com

Vaqueros put up runs in doubleheader in sweep of LA Harbor By MICHAEL JORGENSON SBCC SPORTS WRITER

SANTA BARBARA – The SBCC softball team had one of its best offensive days of the year, scoring 18 runs in Friday’s doubleheader at Pershing Park, defeating LA Harbor 8-3 and 10-9.

GAME ONE The Vaqueros never trailed in the first game of the day, as they put up four runs over the first two innings and never looked back. SBCC didn’t need a hit in the bottom of the first to open the scoring. Catcher Naveah Freitas and pitcher Lauren Indermuehle opened their days with walks on the first two at bats. Two separate wild pitches would send Freitas home from second to put the Vaqueros up 1-0. After LA Harbor tied the game with a run in the second, the Vaqueros quickly answered. Freitas hit a two-run single, scoring runs by Linnéa Sandahi and Mckinnzie Grossini, both of whom singled to begin the inning. Freitas later scored on yet another wild pitch to make it 4-1. Left fielder Sarah Hammonds hit a triple in the bottom of the third and would score on an RBI fielder’s choice by Grossini. The following inning, Indermuehle made it 6-2 after stealing second and scoring on an LA Harbor error. The Vaqueros got their final two runs of the game in the bottom of the sixth. Indermuehle tied Freitas for team-high honors with her second run on another error. Hammonds hit an RBI single to bring home Natalie Depasquale, giving SBCC its largest lead of the day, 8-2. The defense finished things off from there, giving up just one more run in the top of the seventh. Indermuehle earned her second win of the year after tossing all seven innings and striking out four batters.

GAME TWO The second game of the day was a shootout that went down to the last at bat, as both teams finished with 13 hits. It was SBCC’s highest hit total in its last 12 games and second-highest of the season. Freitas continued her big day with a game-high four hits to go along with two RBI. She had two of SBCC’s four doubles. Hammonds split time in center field and at pitcher, going for three hits, three RBI and a save. The Vaqueros took a 3-1 lead through two innings. Depasquale scored on an RBI single to center field by Hammonds in the first. In the second, Melanie Barth hit a double down the left field line to score a run from Jade Leoffler. Barth then put up a run herself on a Freitas double, making it 3-1. After giving up five runs in the top of the third, Santa Barbara struck right back with one of its best offensive innings of the year, scoring seven runs on six hits. Hammonds hit a double to bring in a run from Depasquale. She was the first of four batters with an RBI in the third, as Paige Powell, Leoffler, Freitas, and Indermuehle all joined her. The Vaqueros made it all the way back around the lineup for another RBI hit from Hammonds. LA Harbor made it interesting with three unanswered runs

before heading into the top of the seventh down 10-9. However, the visitors were held to just one hit, as the tying run was left on second base by the time the final out was put away. Powell got the win after giving up three hits and two runs in 2.2 innings.

SBCC returns to the road next week for its conference opener at Oxnard on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. Michael Jorgenson works in communications/media relations at Santa Barbara City College. email: sports@newspress.com

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Guadalupe 60/35

Santa Maria 60/36

Vandenberg 58/39

New Cuyama 56/28 Ventucopa 51/26

Los Alamos 64/32

Buellton 63/30

Solvang 65/29

Gaviota 62/41

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Carpinteria 62/40 Ventura 60/42

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Trace 0.01” (0.56”) 8.93” (13.17”)

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Wind from the northwest at 7-14 knots today. Wind waves 4-7 feet with a west swell 4-8 feet at 7-second intervals. Visibility clear.

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Wind from the west-northwest at 7-14 knots today. Wind waves 3-6 feet with a west swell 3-6 feet at 6-second intervals. Visibility clear.

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At Lake Cachuma’s maximum level at the point at which water starts spilling over the dam holds 188,030 acre-feet. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, equivalent to the amount of water consumed annually by 10 people in an urban environment. Storage 91,289 acre-ft. Elevation 711.13 ft. Evaporation (past 24 hours) 20.0 acre-ft. Inflow 12.3 acre-ft. State inflow 7.6 acre-ft. Storage change from yest. -75 acre-ft. Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

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Gauchos tennis shut out BYU to open four-match homestand By DANIEL MESSINGER UCSB SPORTS WRITER

The UC Santa Barbara men’s tennis team earned a 4-0 shutout win over BYU Friday afternoon at the Arnhold Tennis Center. The win is the third in the last

UCSB women’s tennis wins over Texas Tech By DANIEL MESSINGER UCSB SPORTS WRITER

The No. 29 UC Santa Barbara women’s tennis team earned two big singles victories over ranked opponents on their way to a 5-2 win over No. 34 Texas Tech on Friday afternoon. Shakhnoza Khatamova and Camille Kiss beat the No. 16 and No. 62 singles players, respectively as the Gauchos (7-5) won the sixth out of their last seven matches. The Gauchos snatched the doubles point, winning on courts one and two. On court one, Shakhnoza Khatamova and Elizaveta Volodko downed Margarita Skriabina and Cristina Tiglea 6-2 and Amelia Honer and Kira Reuter bested Kailey Evans and Metka Komac 6-4 on court two. Moving onto singles, Khatamova earned a huge win, dominating No. 16 Skriabina 6-1, 6-1. The Lady Raiders made it 2-1 when Tiglea beat Reuter 6-3, 6-3 in the number six matchup. Volodko put Santa Barbara on the verge of clinching the match with a 6-1, 7-6(2) win on court two to make it 3-1. Honer secured the win, beating Kailey Evans 6-0, 7-5 in the number four slot. Camille Kiss also beat a ranked opponent, coming back to beat No. 62 Avelina Sayfetdinova 3-6, 6-4, 6-3. Texas Tech wrapped up the match by earning their second point, as Metka Komac defeated Filippa BruuSyversen 4-6, 6-3, 7-5. The Gauchos remain in Texas to face TCU Sunday at 9:30 A.M. PST.

four matches four the Gauchos (8-4), who have only allowed two points in that span. Phillip Jordan and Kai Brady earned a quick 6-1 doubles win over Jack Barnett and Tennyson Whiting on court one to open the match. Pablo Masjuan and Gianluca Brunkow then secured the

doubles point for Santa Barbara with a 7-5 win against Matheus Ferreira Leite. In singles, Stefano Tsorotiotis handedly defeated Ferreira Leite on court three, winning 6-2, 6-1, making it 2-1 in favor of the Gauchos. The next matchup to finish was court

six where Alejandro Vedri took down Alex Lin 6-1, 6-2. The match wrapped up when Phillip Jordan clinched Santa Barbara’s fourth point with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Jack Barnett on court one. The Gauchos are back in action

tomorrow, taking on Santa Clara at 1:00 P.M. at the Arnhold Tennis Center. Daniel Messinger writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

Gauchos baseball drops game one to Oregon By DANIEL MOEBUS-BOWLES UCSB SPORTS WRITER

No. 26 UCSB Baseball dropped its series opener at Oregon 3-2 Friday night at PK Park. Second-basemen Zander Darby collected two solo-home runs to account for both of the Gauchos’ runs. Cory Lewis earned his third-straight Friday start going six full innings and allowing just one run on five hits. Darby finished 2-for-3 with a walk collecting his first multi-homerun game of

Gauchos stumble at Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate Tournament By DANIEL MOEBUS-BOWLES UCSB SPORTS WRITER

The UCSB Men’s Golf team struggled at Wyoming’s Desert Intercollegiate Tournament this week playing against a field of tough opponents. The Gauchos finished 19th out of 20 teams. UCSB turned in a card of 299-300-303 for a team total of 902 (+38). Johnny Bush was the top Gaucho enjoying a solid second round and totaling 75-71-73 for a 219 (+3) on the tournament, which was good for T-35th. Blake McGovern was next, finishing T-66th carding rounds of 76-75-73 for a 224 (+8). UCSB’s next tournament, the UC San Diego Invitational, is set for March 21-22 down in La Costa, Calif. at the La Costa Country Club.

Daniel Messinger writes about sports for UCSB.

Daniel Moebus-Bowles writes about sports for UCSB.

email: sports@newspress.com

his career. Nick Vogt collected UCSB’s other hit making his return to the lineup for the first time since opening week. A walk by Willow extends his on-base streak to 15 games, but the senior’s hitting streak came to an end. Darby broke the scoreless tie in the top of the fourth as the second baseman stepped to the plate with two outs and took the first ball he saw over the wall in left center to put his team up 1-0. Darby made it 2-0 in the top of the

seventh as the lead-off hitter, this time taking a 3-0 ball over the center field wall. The Ducks were quick to answer with a RBI groundout in the bottom half of the inning and added another in the bottom of the eighth to tie the game 2-2. The top of the ninth saw Christian Kirtley draw a walk and pinch-hitter Bryce Willits reach first after a fielder’s choice on a sac bunt. Pinch running for Kirtley was John Newman Jr., who made his way to third on a wild pitch, but never

traveled the final 90 feet as the Ducks got out of the jam. The first pitch of the bottom of the 9th was taken deep by Oregon’s Gavin Grant for the walk off victory. UCSB returns to PK Park tomorrow for a doubleheader with the Ducks. Game one is set to start at 2:00 PM. Daniel Moebus-Bowles writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

‘A magical day celebrating the city of Goleta’ GOLETA

Continued from Page A1 entered and it was full halfway through the day, it will be put up at city hall to keep forever,” said Ms. Hoover. Other activities included a photo station, free tractor rides by the Ranch Yard and train rides next door at the Goleta Train Depot. There was also an area available for petting barnyard animals, which was a very popular location. “We are all looking towards the next 20 and how to continue on this positive path and to keep moving the city forward in a positive way. We are proud of the great decisions that have been made and the progress we have made so far. We want to keep the city involved and engaged and keep the momentum going,” said Ms. Hoover. Food was provided by AR Catering and Elubia’s Kitchen. Limited edition 20 Year specialty swag was sold and there was also a giveaway. The grande finale took place at 3:15 p.m. and was the premiere of the special 20-minute, 20 Year Reflections Video, which showed on three screens. “We are so appreciative to the Goleta Valley Historical Society for partnering with us to put on this memorable celebration,” said Ms. Hoover.

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Free train rides were offered at the Goleta Depot during the city of Goleta’s 20th Birthday celebration on Saturday.

Staff was available in the “Community Information” area to provide updates and answer questions. There were representatives from the City Clerk’s Office, Community Relations, Environmental Services, Goleta Valley Library, Parks & Open Space, Parks & Recreation and Public Works available. “It was an incredible event. We were thrilled with the turnout. We had a short

little sprinkle passing through and some wind gusts, but the weather held up for us. People brought a great attitude along with chairs and blankets. They settled in for a great day of listening to music, and a birthday tribute to Goleta. It was a magical day celebrating the city of Goleta and I wish it wasn’t over,” said Ms. Hoover. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

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Current SB map has population deviation of more than 20% MAPS

Continued from Page A1 snake-like sliver into District 1. Demographer Daniel Phillips said he would draft versions of maps 101R, 102R, 103R, 104, 105A and 105B that would keep the Eucalyptus Hill neighborhood together with the change not expected to impact the rest of the map in a major way. The current Santa Barbara map has a population deviation of more than 20% — which Mr. Phillips said would almost certainly make it “presumptively unconstitutional.” Population deviation refers to the difference in population sizes among districts. Mr. Phillips has said districts should stick to a deviation of less than 10%. One issue to be considered by the commission as maps are drawn is the Latino citizen votingage population (CVAP) in Districts 1 and 3. While most of the plans up for discussion Thursday had District 1 with 50-51% Latino CVAP, District 3 is where it varied. Iterations of Plans 101-103 had the Latino CVAP at 40-41%. Iterations of Plans 104-105 had the Latino CVAP at 45-46%, in line with the current estimate. Iterations of Plans 104-105 took East Beach out of District 1 and put it in either District 2, District 4 or a combination of the two. Councilmember Alejandra Gutierrez said she would prefer to

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Commission chair Melinda Johnson said Thursday’s meeting was the “largest outpouring of in-person interest” yet. see East Beach stay in District 1, noting that community fit more with her district than the others. “The beaches and parks in my district are the backyards to a lot of the homes in my district because they don’t have the luxury to live in homes with outside areas,” Councilmember Alejandra Gutierrez said. “It’s very compacted.” District 3 Councilmember Oscar Gutierrez said Plan 105B would stop his district at West Mission Street; whereas, it currently comes further up Modoc Road. That area, which would be drawn into District 6 under that plan, contains apartment complexes with undocumented Latinos, he said. His ideal map would take Plan 105B but add the waterfront area such as in Plan 101R and extend his district further north like in Plan 102R. Some other notable considerations of the plans: Plan 101R: Every district except for District 6 would have a piece of the coast, and every district except for District 2 would have a piece of State Street. District 5 and 6 would remain virtually unchanged while District 2 would give up ground in order to allow District 3 to include West Beach. The total population deviation is 6.5%.

Plan 102R: District 3 would move away from State Street so it is completely west of the freeway. It would encompass the whole Westside and Lower West areas. District 1 would also shift away from State Street, but to the east, and take in Laguna. District 4 and District 5 would be essentially unchanged. The total population deviation is 8%. Plan 103R: District 6 would shift south and include waterfront, from around the East Mesa area to West Beach to East Beach. District 5 would shift east to include all of northwestern Santa Barbara while District 2 would shift west to take in all of southwestern Santa Barbara. The total population deviation is 9.6%. Plan 104: District 2 would shift east to take in East Beach and Coast Village Road while also keeping West Mesa and East Mesa. District 3 would include lower State Street and part of downtown as well as extend into Bel Air. District 6 would cross the freeway to include the area between Modoc Road and Highway 101. The total population deviation is 7.8%. Plan 105A: District 5 would remain nearly the same, but District 6 would expand into the upper Eastside and cross the freeway to reach Modoc Road. District 3 would shift east to

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SR. LAB MECHANICIAN Dean College of Engineering

Responsible for fabrication and maintenance services using standard and complex machinery to support research and instruction in the College of Engineering Machine Shop. Supervises student use of the Machine Shop with emphasis on safety and proper equipment use. Facilitates ME 12S which is a beginning Machine Shop class. Assists with maintaining shop equipment. Reqs: Some knowledge of the tools related to the design, development, and fabrication of scientific/ electronic equipment. Experience working with shop tools and services used in this job. Ability to communicate effectively. Ability to work in a collaborative manner. Ability to prioritize work assignments. Ability to organize work effectively. Note: Satisfactory completion of a conviction history background check. $31.87 - $35.83/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 3/10/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 31805

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Conduct investigations of reports under the Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy and the nondiscrimination policies, assist with interim protections and accommodations and connect parties with local support resources. Maintains experienced knowledge of relevant federal and state laws, university policies, local campus procedures, department case history and political environments relevant to Title IX. Advises campus departments and individuals on complaint and investigation policies, procedures and best practices. Conducts extensive research on state and federal laws regarding discrimination, sexual violence, and sexual harassment laws and regulations. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area or equivalent experience/ training. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse. Mandated reporting requirements of Dependent Adult Abuse. UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. Satisfactory conviction history background check. $67,500 - $86,050/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Afﬁrmative Action Employer, and all qualiﬁed applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 31320.

ACADEMIC BUSINESS OFFICER College of Engineering

Serves as the Business Officer for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Directs and supervises administrative affairs, financial affairs, student affairs, technical support, academic and staff personnel, and resource and space management for the department. Provides high-level management support and consultation to the Chair on all aspects of the operations of the department. Develops short and long-term operational plans, and ensures that the department meets applicable policies, procedures and audit requirements. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/ training. Excellent ability to establish metrics for department and employee goals. Excellent interpersonal skills to effectively lead, motivate and influence others and to develop and maintain high standards of customer service. Excellent project management skills. Note: Satisfactory completion of a conviction history background check. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience with consideration of University salary setting guidelines. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 3/16/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 31260

FINANCIAL AND ACADEMIC PERSONNEL ANALYST Phelps Administrative Support Center

Responsible for financial matters and academic personnel processes for the departments and programs that the PASC serves. Manages payroll reconciliation and audits general ledgers. Projects and monitors expenditures across all funding sources. Advises faculty on policies regarding budgets. Serves as primary UCPath initiator for all staff and selected academic appointments including requesting position control numbers and initiating the funding entry. Ensures proper employee and supervisor set-up in Kronos online timekeeping system. Is responsible for the visa aspects for visiting scholars. From preliminary analysis, extensive communication with applicants and OISS, to submission of documents, ensuring accurate tracking of status and follow-through. Coordinates annual summer research additional compensation. Provides administrative back-up and possesses the ability to work under pressure of deadlines. Serves as back-up for academic personnel actions for permanent faculty and continuing lecturers including faculty retention, merits, and promotions, lecturer reviews, leave requests, and retirements. Maintains a broad knowledge and functional understanding of all academic personnel policies and procedures. Provides consultation and advice to the department Chair and faculty regarding academic personnel policies. Collaborates on financial matters and academic recruitment cases, meeting Affirmative Action guidelines, and ensuring that overall general procedures are followed. Serves as back-up to the Financial and Academic Personnel Manager. Responsible for overseeing department events. Reqs: BA/BS degree in related area or equivalent training and/or experience. Note: Satisfactory completion of conviction history background check. $24.62 - $27.96/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 3/18/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 32120

HR & PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR Associated Students

Serves as primary departmental UCPath initiator for all student staff new hires, concurrent, and rehires. Responsible for onboarding all student staff hires and assisting with onboarding new career staff. Prepares and processes all employment forms for approximately 300 student non-academic employees and 25 academic employees under the Graduate Student Association leadership. Prepares employment requisitions, assembles search committees, trains committees on University employment guidelines, interview procedures and applicant evaluation. Reviews interview questions; leads search committee through the process to ensure adherence with campus employment policies. Designs and monitors orientation process for career and student staff. Department Timekeeper responsibilities. Responsible for ensuring approval by employees and supervisors by established deadlines for bi-weekly and monthly pay cycles. Monitors, audits, and compares timecards to the Leave accrual system; initiates corrections and adjustments. Advises career staff and approximately 300 students on University policies and procedures on payroll, benefits, vacation, sick and compensatory time, travel, and employment. Ensures internal, campus, state and federal regulations are followed. Provides resources for department supervisors in key areas of Human Resources including A.S. employee orientation, benefits and workers compensation. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree Human Resources/ Business Administration or equivalent combination of education and experience. 1+ years experience in payroll administration. 1+ years experience in employment guidelines, interview procedures and applicant evaluation. Knowledge of USCIS I-9 employee citizenship and visa requirements, lawful permanent resident and alien authorized to work in the U.S. Notes: Satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check. Campus Security Authority. $24.62 - $28.81/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 31114

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Responsible for the management of new building projects from design through the construction phase. In addition, the Assistant Dean is in charge of architectural design and management of major facility renovations within current space assigned to the College of Engineering: Harold Frank Hall, Engineering II, Engineering Sciences Building, BioEngineering Building, Materials Research Lab, Physical Sciences-North, Arts, Ellison, Phelps, Buildings, 406, 489, and 570, and various trailers located throughout the campus. Develops short and long-term space plans and coordinates the implementation of these plans by working closely with the faculty. Works directly with the COE Departments on their faculty recruitments as it relates to their research space, renovation scope, and estimated schedule and costs. Assists the Development Office with feasibility studies and estimates as it relates to donorfunded construction initiatives. The Assistant Dean is knowledgeable of state code pertaining to fire and safety requirements; has experience in research laboratory design and requirements and in the use of AutoCAD or similar programs. The Assistant Dean is the College’s representative and liaison with the campus’ Environmental Health & Safety Office. Addresses prevention, policy, and procedures issues at the College level in this area. Reqs: License to practice in at least one of the following professions: architecture, engineering, urban design, city planning, or landscape architecture. Certificate to practice in at least one of the following professions: architecture, engineering, urban design, city planning or landscape architecture. Bachelor’s Degree and/or equivalent experience/ training in architecture, engineering, urban design, city planning, or landscape architecture. Note: Satisfactory completion of a conviction history background check. $89,000 - $146,000/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 3/16/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 31316

ACCOUNT SPECIALIST 3 Controller

Involves accounting functions such as analyzing, monitoring, preparing and reconciling financial information to reflect the condition of the organization and provide financial and other statistical data to control operations. May also involve the preparation of financial reports to meet internal and external reporting requirements. May include activities relating to developing, implementing and monitoring accounting systems, policies and procedures. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree and/or equivalent experience/ training. 1-3 years performing accounting analyst, professional accounting, accounting systems or auditing duties at a level of responsibility equivalent to Accounting Analyst. Proven ability to effectively present information verbally and in writing. Thorough knowledge of financial transactions and systems, as well as related policy, accounting, and regulatory compliance requirements. 1-3 years general accounting and/or AR/AP experience, fund accounting knowledge, or equivalent combination of education, training and experience. 1-3 years of Computer proficiency is required. Word processing, spreadsheet, and computerized accounting system experience are essential to this position.1-3 years Advanced excel knowledge and experience (macros, vlookups, pivot tables). 1-3 years advanced excel skills as well as experience working with large data projects, data sets, and data extraction. Notes: This is a 3year contract position with the possibility of extension. Satisfactory criminal history background check. $63,955 - $69,525/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 3/10/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 31734

EXTRA MURAL FUNDS (EMF) ACCOUNTANT CTLR – Business & Financial Services

Manages all of Extra Mural Funds collections of delinquent receivables, aging of receivables, and all of the Accounts Receivable balance sheet accounts for UCSB contract and grants portfolio totaling over $200M in total expenditures for the fiscal year 2021. These duties require broad job knowledge and a complete and thorough analysis of problems and issues of diverse scope to independently determine solutions on a daily basis. This position is responsible for the administering of UCSB’s Department of Defense, Army, Local, and Other Government award portfolios. ($12.5 million in annual expenditures and over 65 active awards at the end of the fiscal year 2021). Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training. Demonstrated ability to effectively present information verbally and in writing. Knowledge of analytical procedures used in accounting projects of moderate scope with the ability to apply more advanced accounting concepts to complete work assignments. Working knowledge of financial transactions and systems, as well as related policy, accounting, and regulatory compliance requirements. Working knowledge of common desktop/web applications. 1-3 years of Accounting/ Finance Experience. Notes: Satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check. Limited vacation time during peak periods. $27.14 - $28.80/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 3/16/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 32061

ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST 2 Business & Financial Services

Involves accounting functions such as analyzing, monitoring, preparing and reconciling financial information to reflect the condition of the organization and provide financial and other statistical data to control operations. Also may involve preparation of financial reports to meet internal and external reporting requirements. May include activities relating to developing, implementing and monitoring accounting systems, policies, and procedures. Reqs: Associate degree in related area or Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/ training. Knowledge of accounting functions and assignments. Ability to apply more advanced accounting concepts to complete work assignments. Demonstrated ability to effectively present information verbally and in writing. Working knowledge of financial transactions and systems, as well as related policy, accounting, and regulatory compliance requirements. Working knowledge of common desktop/web applications. Knowledge of analytical procedures used in accounting projects of moderate scope. Notes: This is a 3-year contract position with the possibility of extension. Satisfactory criminal history background check $27.14 - $28.80/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 3/10/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 31751

FINANCE ANALYST Humanities Administrative Support Center

Administers all financial activities for the Department of Religious Studies. Processes monthly review and reconciliation of ledgers, provides timely reporting, identifies and initiates corrective actions, and ensures compliance with University, Federal, and State accounting policies and procedures on all transactions. In collaboration with management, establishes best practices for procurement, payroll, record retention, and accounts payable functions. Funds administered include a variety of state operating funds, gifts, endowments, fellowships, and grants. Requires considerable initiative, multi-tasking, communication, attention to detail, and problem-solving abilities. Must possess a strong knowledge of UC and departmental policies and procedures as they relate to financial services. Advises faculty on policies and procedures that govern the full range of accounting processes, gift and award administration, and academic and staff payroll. Processes gifts and monitors endowment accounts. Responsible for assisting faculty with logistical arrangements and all financial aspects of conferences, colloquiums, seminars, and events. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/ training. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $24.62 - $26.85/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 3/9/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 31785

ACADEMIC PERSONNEL COORDINATOR HSSB Admin Support Center

Responsible for administrative coordination and processing of academic merit and promotion cases, faculty recruitment and appointment cases, recruiting and hiring temporary faculty and other essential Academic Personnel duties, including payroll. All duties require confidentiality, diplomacy, sound judgment, analytical and decisionmaking skills. Duties also include keeping abreast of Academic Personnel Manual and Red Binder policies and procedures, and ensuring that all cases and recruitments are in compliance. Works in conjunction with the Office of International Studies and Scholars in processing Visa documentation as required and serves as primary contact for visiting scholars. Utilizes detailed knowledge of relevant policies and procedures from the campus Office of Research in preparing postdoctoral and other research appointments. Works in conjunction with faculty, department Chairs and Manager on facilitating special leave requests. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $24.61 - $25.77/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 30722

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Underwater world of Santa Barbara Channel becomes focus of Sea Center exhibit By MARILYN MCMAHON

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fter six months of work, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center on Stearns Wharf is reopening Saturday with a refreshed upstairs exhibit and infrastructure upgrades. Titled “Dive In: Our Changing Channel,” the reinterpreted upstairs space will guide visitors through the underwater world of the Santa Barbara Channel while highlighting its unique marine residents and diverse habitats. “Guests will encounter favorite Sea Center animals like moon jellies, a two-spot octopus, a California moray and Flag rockfish.

At left, Two-spot octopus. At right, California moray, a type of eel.

Giant Pacific seahorses in an exhibit now enriched with more information about the ecology of kelp forests, rocky reefs and seagrass meadows,” said Frank Hein, director of exhibits. “We think the public will be excited and surprised to explore the underwater secrets of the Santa Barbara Channel and discover how dramatically what we can’t see impacts the ecology of our entire region. “The new interpretation emphasizes how the geography of the coast and channel affects relationships between animals, habitats and humans. Guests can model the depths of the channel using an interactive augmented reality sandbox,” he said. The reopening marks a new

phase in the Sea Center’s long history of bringing marine science and nature education to Stearns Wharf. This year is the 150th anniversary of the wharf, which was a working industrial pier before the 1973 fire transformed its future. At that time, the city of Santa Barbara’s new plan for the wharf included space for nonprofit use, and the Sea Center was founded in 1986. “Since its earliest days, the Sea Center has taken a strong and consistent approach of drawing on the expertise of museum scientists and Sea Center staff to share information about our marine ecosystems as part of a very real effort to protect the exceptional resources of our near shore Please see SEACENTER on B4

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‘Vincent’ to be performed at Santa Barbara Museum of Art SANTA BARBARA — Award-winning actor Charles Pasternak will star in the oneman play “Vincent” March 20 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. There will be two performances, at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., at the museum’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., in Santa Barbara. “Vincent” is a critically lauded one-man play, written by Emmy-nominated actor Leonard Nimoy. The “Star Trek” actor played the character in a touring show. “Vincent” paints a thoughtful, imaginary scenario about one of the most famous names in the art world, Vincent van Gogh. Based on excerpts from the hundreds of letters exchanged between the artist and his brother Theo, this version of the intimately scaled play features Charles Pasternak, awardwinning actor and designated artistic director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare, in the dual roles of Vincent and Theo. Tickets cost $10 for museum members and $15 for nonmembers. To purchase, go to tickets.sbma.net. — Katherine Zehnder

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African Women Rising has announced three new appointments to the organization’s board of directors. The new appointees — Bonita Birungi, Walter Okidi Ladwar and Kristin McWilliams — will help to guide the mission of the 15-yearold no-profit. AWR was founded and operates primarily in Uganda with the mission of empowering women in post-war areas by teaching technical skills and offering long-term support for success via education, regenerative agriculture and microfinance programs. “We are now at a point in our organization where we have established programs that we believe could benefit more people as well as other nonprofit agencies. Adding board members who have the professional skills we need to broaden our impact aligns with the strategic vision of our organization. The caliber and experience of these new board members is a testament to the critical work and impact AWR is having in Uganda. We are thrilled to welcome Kristin who brings a wealth of volunteer experience, and Bonita and Walter who represent our first Ugandan board members, validating and strengthening our commitment to this region,” noted Linda Eckerbom Cole, executive director and founder. AWR’s programs offer onthe-ground solutions and opportunities for extremely marginalized people. The organization focuses on women because, according to the nonprofit, women carry the heaviest post-conflict burden and are central to the daily work of repairing fractured communities. The organization asserts that when women are actively involved in decision-making, be it postwar reconstruction or small-scale civic action, their voices ensure that vital societal priorities are upheld. Today, AWR is working

with 15,000 women and reaching more than 90,000 dependents and children. Bonita Birungi is a native of Uganda who has devoted her career and service to education, public healthmand the wellbeing of children. Ms. Bonita holds master’s degrees in both early childhood development and public health, completing studies in the U.K. and U.S. She began her career as a teacher in Uganda and then went on to serve as program manager and later technical adviser for Save the Children. She currently works as the director of programs for ELMA Philanthropies’ East Africa division. ELMA Philanthropies invests globally in organizations with an emphasis on improving the lives of children in Africa. “I am extremely passionate and deeply committed to contributing to the development of women and girls, and am so excited to join AWR as their work not only impacts women in the program but also affects the generations of women who follow,” Ms. Bonita said. “As a woman, as an individual, as a native of Uganda, and as someone who appreciates the hard work of development, I am honored to be part of an organization that truly invests in local leaders and directs funds to local communities; this is what truly makes a difference in changing lives.” Walter Okidi Ladwar has been practicing law for 27 years and is a partner with Ladwar, Oneka, and Co. Advocates, based in Gulu, Uganda. He received his law degree from Makerere University, Uganda’s largest and oldest institution of higher learning. His law firm specializes in land matters, community interests, and human rights. He has served as a legal adviser to Africa Women Rising for the last three years, and as a friend to the organization for more than a decade, making introductions and inroads in his native Uganda, on behalf of the nonprofit. “I know what human rights means to these communities and

I am very happy to join the board of Africa Women Rising, as this will allow me to more directly help rural women. The majority of women in this region have little or no education and lack the knowledge to protect their interests. Africa Women Rising empowers them to make a living so that they can safeguard their land, take their children to school and care for their families,” said Mr. Ladwar. Kristin McWilliams is a realestate agent with Coldwell Banker in Santa Barbara and formerly served as sales and marketing director at Islands Publishing Company. In this role, she traveled the globe which inspired her volunteer commitment to international aid. Ms. McWilliams played a significant role in the impact of Direct Relief Women, which provides maternal and child health services around the world. She was the founding cochair of Direct Relief’s annual Mother’s Day event, co-chaired the Leadership Team, and cochaired International Women’s Day for many years. Under Ms. McWilliam’s leadership, Direct Relief Women raised more than $1 million, helped to leverage several multi-million-dollar grants, provided fistula dignity kits to hundreds of women and helped to develop the international standard for midwife kits which was adapted by the International Federation of Midwifery. Ms. McWilliams also traveled to Haiti to see Direct Relief’s impact firsthand. She graduated from the University of Washington with a political science degree. “I have been attending Africa Women Rising events for more than a decade and am grateful for the opportunity to now contribute on a deeper level,” said Ms. McWilliams. “Africa Women Rising is empowering women and changing lives, and I am honored to work alongside such a dedicated, altruistic board.” email: kzehnder@newspress.com

Cosplay Kart Racing Competition planned in Santa Maria SANTA MARIA — The Santa Maria’s Task Force on Youth Safety invites teens in grades 7-12 to design, build and race a cosplay kart at the first annual Cosplay Kart Racing Competition. The event will take place Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Rotary Centennial Park, 2625 South College Drive, Santa Maria. The Cosplay Karts Racing Competition is intended to foster teens’ creative expression, camaraderie and ingenuity in a

fun and supervised setting. Teens will need to form a team of up to four participants to compete. Prizes will be awarded to the teams with the fastest race time, best kart design and most creative costumes. Pre-registration is required, as space is limited. The registration forms are available at the Abel Maldonado Community Youth Center, 600 S. McClelland St., and at the Santa Maria Recreation and Parks Department administrative

office, 615 S. McClelland St. The deadline to register is 7 p.m. March 17. Building supplies and tools will be provided at the event. Teams may not use pre-constructed materials or personal equipment to build the cosplay karts. To request a digital registration form, call the Recreation and Parks Department at 805-9250951, ext. 2260. — Katherine Zehnder

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world. It’s really hard to track those types of little details that are weaving that mindset into their brains. So kids are learning that it’s better to shut up and not do anything about a bully? Right. I’ve seen it firsthand. There was a big clumsy kid — let’s call him Guy — on my track team who was super excited about going to the track meet;. It was the first thing he felt like he could do well. There was a kid who would whap him on the neck. He’d smack him, smack him, smack him like Chinese water torture. Guy said something to the teacher, but the teacher didn’t do anything. So finally, he just grabbed the kid who’d been whacking him by the hair, and boom, hit him a few times. So I see Guy sitting in the office the day before the track meet. I’m like, “What happened?”

id You Know? was forwarded a letter from Dr. Thomas Cole, of Analytics 805. It indicates that the Santa Barbara County Grand Jury has issued a report showing that the previous city administration has been sitting on unfunded pension liabilities of $386,111,684, while overspending in a number of areas. Dr. Cole’s letter summarized: “Reading through the recent Grand Jury report on Santa Barbara City pensions. It shows the city has unfunded pensions of $386,111,684. “Considering the city’s current total 2022 budget is $391,968,325, which includes salaries $116,321,484 and benefits of $62,527,103 paid every year,” Dr. Cole wrote. “It seems Santa Barbara needs to go on a spending diet. Jenny Craig times $386 million... “We might ask how much is $386M. To illustrate, we did a survey of commercial buildings on State Street from Gutierrez Street to Canon Perdido. That turns out to be 718,000 (square feet) of buildings, restaurants … The average price to buy or sell these properties is $550/ sf. Thus; 718,000 sf x $550/sf is $394 million. The same amount as the city’s unfunded pension liability... “The city would literally have to sell the first four blocks of State Street from Gutierrez to Canon Perdido to pay the unfunded part of retired city employee pensions,” Dr. Cole wrote. “While the city of Santa Barbara’s unfunded pension liability is $386,111,684, the county of SB’s unfunded liability is $1,103,795,000. The total unfunded liability for eight cities plus the county is $1,778,825,376. So the county’s unfunded pension liability is greater than that of all the SB cities combined. “New City Sustainability & Resilience Program unfunded $36M per year — 28 affordable housing units $30M — Global warming lines across town, Hotels for homeless... Ask yourself: How many more blocks of State Street shall we give away to our spendthrift city government?” DYK believes: It is time for the new mayor and council to control spending and to save money toward paying down the debt liability before it becomes an issue of urgent action. The Grand Jury noted the city of Santa Barbara was one of three they deemed to be at higher long-term risk than the others. We were under the impression that Sacramento had decreed that these huge underfunding of government retirement obligations had to be corrected. Is that not so? Two other immediate cost savings come to mind. Cancel the $200,000 survey to determine how much more stringently members of the city council can control residential rents, beyond the controls already imposed by the state government. Reject the overbearing police oversight commission proposals that will cost the city and the police department well over one million dollars a year in a completely unnecessary enlargement of the city bureaucracy of $670,200 per year and perhaps another million a year in interference with police department management operations and procedures. These Grand Jury conclusions are a great tool for Mayor Randy Rowse and

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Columnist Arthur I. Cyr noted polls show President Vladimir Putin’s popularity is declining in Russia.

resident Vladimir largely imaginary enemies Putin of Russia to increase his international has drastically visibility. However, his significant miscalculated in accomplishments remain launching a full-scale essentially domestic in nature. military invasion of Ukraine. Restoring order and stability in In effect, he has returned Russia at the turn of the century is combat and killing to a region notable, indeed remarkable. This largely free of those burdens since followed true anarchy in Russia the Balkan wars of the 1990s. following the collapse of the Soviet The Russian military Union. Mr. Putin’s tenure can occupy Ukraine, but in power in Moscow Arthur I. the cost will be heavy has now surpassed two Cyr in dimensions that go decades. beyond the tragic loss In 2014, Russia seized of life. The likelihood of Crimea and the eastern actually establishing permanent portion of Ukraine. Crimea control over this independent had been part of Russia until nation is nil. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev Ukraine’s military is fighting transferred the peninsula to the hard against the invaders. authority of Ukraine in 1954. This reflects generally strong Ukraine became independent anti-Russian sentiments and from Moscow following the commitment to independence, in Russian Revolution that began the western part of the nation. in 1917. After World War II, the President Putin uses public Soviet Union absorbed the nation. posturing and threats against Independence was regained

following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The invasion of eastern Ukraine by Russia’s army, after months of substantial aid to rebel forces, drastically undercut stability in Eastern Europe. The U.S., Europe, and the international community must resist this, while trying to avoid wider war with Russia. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, followed by the disintegration of the Soviet bloc and then the Soviet Union, represent historic strategic victory for the West. The end of the Cold War confirmed the policy of deterrence termed “containment.” Instant editorial commentaries on Russia’s war against Ukraine often emphasize the end of the post-Cold War order. That may be true in the most literal sense, but not strategically. Containment, Please see CYR on C4

Crime and punishment at Santa Barbara Unified Editor’s note: This is the second part of columnist James Buckley’s conversation with a Santa Barbara Unified School District teacher.

hristy Lozano has worked within the Santa Barbara Unified School District for nearly 15 years. She has put her longevity and pension plan in jeopardy by speaking out strongly against what is currently labeled a “Culturally Responsive Curriculum.” Because of what she describes as a punitive response from the current school board to her very vocal opposition to the curriculum, she has announced her candidacy for the school board. The following is the second part (of three) of an edited transcript of our lengthy conversation covering the contents of the curriculum that she considers insidious.

Q. Last week, we outlined some message like that, wouldn’t they? suggested reading material for Yes, it’s just teaching them to children from age 4 to 10 and older take turns, and to listen to each that you found objectionable. Based other. The Culturally Responsive upon that list, do you believe it is Curriculum brings a negativity important to introduce sex, gender to those relational skills. There misalignment or homosexuality to are those books, like the book in anyone in this age group? which two male penguins PURELY A. No, not at all. want a baby and can’t POLITICAL Can you give me an have one, so a zookeeper example then, of the type of steals an egg from a subject you believe would female penguin and gives be more appropriate? it to the two males. Sure. You can talk If two dads want to about relationships and go together somewhere, friendships. When a fine. But don’t steal second-grade teacher someone’s kid. That’s was having trouble with teaching stealing, James Buckley friendships, for example, teaching kidnapping. I came in and did a little What’s insidious is that workshop with the class. I the focus is on the dads’ talked about how you’re supposed plight, and not on the mother to be treating each other, but in who’s just had her baby stolen. kid terms, so that they get the You lose focus on the bad behavior concept of, “Am I adding to this that caused the poor creature to person or am I taking away?” lose her egg. The kids are learning Most kids would respond to a the absolutely wrong lesson from

this kind of book. What about bullying? Isn’t it important to teach children not to bully? Sure. Some of these books talk about being bullied. But what I’ve noticed, often, is the bully is not the one that ... I don’t know how to say this. I’ve listened to the story, and they’re talking about a kid who wants to be called Pinky being bullied. But he’s actually the one doing the bullying. So it’s very confusing to the kids, because their (take-away) is, “Oh, I’m not allowed to say anything to Pinky, because that would be considered bullying.” But maybe if they just say, “Hey, I don’t agree with that,” Pinky gets upset and punches them. Why should they get punched for saying they don’t agree with that? Who is the bully? Pinky is actually the bully. But they are messing with their minds. They’re causing a lot of confusion, and it’s kind of an upside-down

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ussian President is something altogether Vladimir Putin different. As California and claims he Alaska oil and gas production invaded Ukraine has declined primarily by because the way of prohibitive fiat, we nation was threatening to haven’t weaned ourselves off join NATO, which means oil. We simply imported more Ukraine was in violation petroleum products from of a treaty requiring it to places like Russia. be a neutral buffer state Back in the year 2000, between the rest of Europe America only imported 72,000 and Russia. Nonetheless, Mr. barrels of petroleum products Putin’s ultimate ambition is per day (oil and other to reconstitute the former unfinished oils that America Soviet empire, as he believes refined into gasoline, diesel, the greatest tragedy of the and jet fuel) from Russia. 20th century was the Today we import dissolution of the nearly 10 times that Soviet empire, not much, some 250 World War II. million barrels a Alternatively, year that will deposit innumerable climate some $25 billion per alarmists claim year into President climate change Putin’s pockets! Andy Caldwell presents a worse fate Last year alone, than World War II. California imported That begs the 15,477,000 barrels of question, is climate change oil from Russia, some 42,000 worse than a new European barrels a day. war? Alternatively, ExxonMobil’s According to John Kerry, operation here in Santa President Joe Biden’s climate Barbara County at full change czar, the answer to production produced about that question is yes. This 30,000 barrels per day. has to do with the belief that Therefore, if our county climate change represents an supervisors at their hearing existential threat to mankind on March 8, allowed this — i.e., an extinction event — plant back to full production, whereas the war in Ukraine its production alone could simply portends a nuclear replace 70% of Russia’s crude war, if you believe President oil imports to California, Putin’s promise to use tactical thereby cutting off Mr. Putin nukes on the battlefield, if from billions of dollars to necessary. That’s all! fund his brutal schemes of Hence, the left’s primary empire. foreign policy focus, since The resulting purchase the days of the Obama dollars and jobs would stay administration (absent the in California, and these U.S. Trump interlude!) has been dollars would not be spent climate change, not world directly for a war in Ukraine. peace, via a stabilizing, strong (Remember there are no American presence and sanctions currently in place influence in global affairs. to prevent foreign currency The one thing that could from going to Russia for oil stop Russia, which the late and gas sales because the U.S. Sen. John McCain described and Europe don’t want the as a gas station masquerading heat and electricity turned as a country? off in Europe.) There is also America must become the carbon footprint to think energy independent again, about. including exporting oil and Russia has dirtier gas to Europe to cut off Mr. production than California. Putin’s main supply of cash, Then there is the ecological which is oil and gas. impact of tankers Our local contribution to transporting the oil from this effort? Santa Barbara Russia to California. County supervisors must For the literal love of grant ExxonMobil the permits mankind, let’s think globally needed to resume operations and act locally in real terms locally at the supervisors’ for world peace, because March 8 hearing. Because the the world does not run on, ugly truth of the matter, no or wage wars, for the rights matter how inconvenient, is and returns of windmills and that California is importing solar panels! oil from Russia rather than producing what we need right Andy Caldwell is the COLAB here, right now. executive director and host of America’s ecowarriors “The Andy Caldwell Show,” pretend that they want airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays to move us off fossil fuels on KZSB AM 1290, the Newsimmediately, but the truth Press radio station.

onald Trump has proven to be criminally corrupt and dangerously ignorant at a level unseen in U.S. history. One need look no further than his assessment of his hero and mentor’s invasion of the sovereign and democratic nation of Ukraine. In Mr. Trump’s own words, “Putin is smart. He’s taken over a country for $2 worth of sanctions. I’d say that’s pretty smart.” He then claims the Russian aggression was caused by “a rigged election in the U.S. in 2020.” Never mind his 60-plus losses in court on this subject. It’s all about him and the “Big Lie.” Get it? On the home front, then President Donald Trump tore up, shredded, chewed up, ate and flushed official White House documents in violation of the Presidential Records Act of 1978. In addition, the National Archives and Records Administration has retrieved 15 boxes of records illegally transported from the White House to Mar-a- Lago during Mr. Trump’s last days in office. How many more stolen boxes are in Mr. Trump’s possession has yet to be determined. Many were clearly marked “Classified” or “Top Secret”? The fact that Donald Trump was the most corrupt U.S. president since Warren G. Harding has been well documented by David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner in their Pulitzer Prizewinning series in the New York Times, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in their book “Peril,” and by Mary Trump (his niece), in her book “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.” Also, Mr. Trump’s former

accountants at Mazars USA have said that a decade’s worth of his financial records “should no longer be relied upon.” This con man is, figuratively speaking, both Bonnie and Clyde. Mr. Trump was clearly the most ignorant president since ... well, ever! He said COVID-19 was a hoax and would “disappear like a miracle” if people would shoot bleach into their veins! This delirious dotard also irritated the proverbial oyster and produced the “pearl of wisdom” that if we simply did less COVID testing, we would have fewer cases. Yet, Trumpistas continue to question the mental state of our current president, while genuflecting at the feet of a man whose I.Q. barely registers as a whole number.

First he voted against outrageous spending bills that would have bankrupted America. Second, he stood up to President Joe Biden’s feckless, corrupt green new deal energy policies. Recently, after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, Sen. Manchin called on President Biden to ramp up America’s energy supplies and become energy independent. And then he asked the crucial question of the day. Why is America still buying energy from Russia and Iran? So yes, Joe Manchin is an American hero. Unlike most Democrat politicians, he is doing what is best for America and Its citizens. Don Thorn Carpinteria

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he headline (of a letter to the News-Press, Feb. 27) reads “Trump admires Putin.” What’s wrong with that? If a boxer does not admire his foe, he will not prepare himself to fight his level best. Donald Trump views Vladimir Putin as a strong leader. Can we say the same about Joe Biden? I think not. If Mr. Trump were still president, Mr. Putin would not have invaded Ukraine. President Putin respected President Trump and knew he would face dire circumstances if he did under Mr. Trump what he is doing under Mr. Biden. And that, in a nutshell, is the difference between having a strong leader and having a weak leader.

Gov. Kim Reynolds presented the Republican Party’s response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.

his campaign “On the economy, the contrast is more than a couldn’t be more stark. While contest between Democrats in D.C. are spending two men. It is more trillions, sending inflation soaring, than a contest Republican leaders around the between two parties. It is a contest country are balancing budgets between two philosophies of and cutting taxes. Because we government,” President Herbert know that money spent on Main Hoover said in describing his Street is better than money spent differences with then Gov. on bureaucracy,” noted Gov., Franklin D. Roosevelt. Reynolds. Gov. Kim Reynolds, just as At the direction of Gov. with President Hoover, offered Reynolds, Iowa hasn’t just focused a different philosophy on keeping more money John of government during on Main Street while Hendrickson her televised response ignoring the federal debt, to President Joe Biden’s but Iowa has returned $95 The author State of the Union million of unnecessary is with the address. COVID-19 funding to the Iowans for The Republican federal government. Tax Relief governor offered a clear Last week, the governor Foundation conservative policy ensured more money contrast to President will remain on Main Biden’s progressive liberalism. Street when she signed a historic On the national stage, she shared tax reform measure into law. Iowa’s story of how conservative This new bill will create a 3.9% values protect and advance both individual flat income tax rate freedom and economic liberty. by 2026, gradually lower the Since assuming office in 2017, corporate tax rate to 5.5%, and Gov. Reynolds has advanced a eliminate all taxes on retirement policy agenda rooted in limited income. This is a significant progovernment and the protection growth tax reform measure that of traditional conservative will lower taxes for all Iowans values. Gov. Reynolds and the while creating economic growth Republican-led legislature have and more opportunities. consistently passed prudent Even before the pandemic, budgets while delivering three Iowa’s economy was growing, and separate rounds of tax cuts. the budget was in surplus. When Iowa voters have given elected the pandemic hit our shores in officials a mandate to continue early 2020, Gov. Reynolds kept down this path, re-electing Gov. Iowa’s economy open, which Reynolds in 2018, and maintaining resulted in a quick economic conservative majorities in the recovery. As a result of her fiscal Iowa House and Senate. conservatism, Gov. Reynolds even

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received an “A” grade from the CATO Institute’s Fiscal Policy Report Card. Heading into this year’s legislative session, Iowa was projected to have a $1.2 billion budget surplus, continuing a trend of economic growth coupled with spending restraint, demonstrating that prosperity isn’t achieved by more taxes and more spending. In her speech, Gov. Reynolds talked about a “pro-parent” and “pro-family” revolution occurring across the nation. In Iowa and across the country, parents are growing frustrated about the radical curriculums and inappropriate books being taught in schools. “Republicans believe that parents matter. It was true before the pandemic and has never been more important to say out loud: Parents Matter. They have a right to know, and to have a say in, what their kids are being taught,” stated Gov. Reynolds. The governor is currently advocating for greater transparency and accountability in school curriculum and library resources. Throughout the pandemic, Gov. Reynolds also understood the importance of keeping schools open, and Iowa became the first state to ensure that all students could attend class in-person. Gov. Reynolds is also fighting for more parental choice in education. Last year, the legislature expanded education freedom in Iowa

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t’s difficult to address the ongoing war in Ukraine in a timely fashion because of its fluid nature. And when you write a column five days out, by the time it’s in the paper, things likely have dramatically changed. So let’s tackle what we’re faced with every single day right now. The primary job of president of the United States is fairly basic: Keep America safe. His official constitutional duties are as follows: (1) chief of state, (2) chief executive, (3) chief administrator, (4) chief diplomat, (5) commander-inchief, (6) chief legislator, (7) political party chief and (8) chief citizen. Head of state refers to the president as the head of the government. He is the symbol of all the people. As I’m writing this, my wife has President Joe Biden on TV in the other room giving his propaganda speech. I heard him say he calls it building a better America. So how many Americans today feel Joe Biden has been building a better America and is serving as the symbol of the American people? Apparently about 60% don’t. How many of you feel President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have your back and are trying everything they can to keep America safe? Again, apparently not too many because a recent poll had that same 60% plus those surveyed admit that if Donald Trump were still president, Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine. The left, including the crazy “leaders” of Canada, believe calling someone a Trump supporter as a derogatory term is supposed to hurt. They still don’t get it. Millions upon millions of Americans wear it as a badge of honor. I’ve said it before, it isn’t necessarily Donald Trump the man we wear that badge for, but the symbolism. Mr. Trump stood for making America his priority. Keep her citizens safe. Create jobs for Americans so people could prosper. Put all evil nations on notice if you step out of line; he would immediately let them know we’re still in charge. To ward off the socialist movement determined to spread its disease across America. To maintain our sovereignty by keeping our borders secure. Which should now include Canada because we don’t need any more San Francisco-like thinkers moving south any more than we need fentanyl moving north. Both can kill you. Since Mr. Putin launched his invasion, the consequences of what President Biden did in his first 24 hours in office has come back to bite us big time. He destroyed our energy independence. And how ironic the very man, Mr. Putin, who the world really hates right now, is the same man Mr. Biden had begged to help bail him out of his energy blunder. Mr. Trump made America self-sufficient, and overnight we went from a position of strength to depending on the very communist country the Democrats blame for all our ills. The same person President Biden and his backroom handlers claimed, without merit, Mr. Trump was in bed with, apparently President Biden has now found that bed. Shake your head in disbelief. A more irresponsible move by a president, who’s supposed to be the symbol of all the people, couldn’t have ever been made. I don’t think he mentioned that in his speech. Let’s step out again on the limb of conspiracy. The gang

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OP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy returned from a congressional junket to Israel this week and immediately surrendered to the woke corporate media and leftist smear merchants. Is this the kind of America Last “leadership” that grassroots conservatives want if Republicans take back Congress in November? The Bakersfield Republican told a CNN reporter Monday that it was “appalling and wrong” for Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., to speak to the annual America First Political Action Conference, or AFPAC. I have personally addressed and supported AFPAC since its inception in 2019. It is the authentic alternative to the moldy, Swamprun Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, from which a rising generation of staunch immigration restrictionists and conservative Christians are banned and blacklisted (including me) — while drag queens, foreign sponsors, and Big Tech titans

Google and Facebook have been Back Idaho” demanded that welcomed by CPAC with open populist America First Lt. Gov. arms. Janice McGeachin resign for Decrepit GOP Senate Minority addressing AFPAC by video. Leader Mitch McConnell echoed Lt. Gov. McGeachin (who has the liberal outrage mob over my endorsement for governor) AFPAC. He railed against “white retorted, “Not a chance!” and supremacists” and “antisemitism,” condemned “guilt-by-association” which now encompasses games. investigating billionaire On Monday afternoon, globalist George Soros, the Republicancriticizing powerful dominated state Senate bankers and opposing in Arizona issued a unlimited foreign aid to “censure” of populist Israel. (With Southern America First state Poverty Law CenterSen. Wendy Rogers for parroting GOP friends like similarly addressing Michelle Malkin AFPAC by video. The this, who needs left-wing Facebook, Twitter, Google, eunuchs had nothing Chase Bank and Airbnb to to say about the actual ban us?) violent bomb threats that were GOP elites and CNN gatekeepers called into the hotel that hosted want to censure Reps. Greene and our conference. Instead, they Gosar for daring to address the hysterically accused Sen. Rogers large and growing movement of for “threatening” violence passionate patriots who care about because she demanded that “highthe sovereignty of our families, level criminals” responsible for churches and country above all COVID-19 vaccine injuries and others. deaths face consequences for In Idaho, a liberal Republican their actions — and that convicted big-business group called “Take traitors be forced to face the

gallows. Sen. Rogers rightly refuses to fold and tweeted after the vote: “Those lying saying I was calling for violence are false. I was calling for justice and I still do.” Now, Arizona state GOP weenies want to strip Sen. Rogers of her committee assignments, just like traitor Kevin McCarthy did to former GOP Rep. Steve King of Iowa after The New York Times character assassins deceitfully painted him as a “white supremacist” for decrying those who have turned the phrase “Western civilization” into hate speech. As Rep. King, who spoke to AFPAC last year and attended this year, told me Monday: “The only freedom of speech McCarthy respects is that which supports McCarthy ... He has an avaricious lust for power.” Texas GOP Rep. Dan “Two Minutes Hate” Crenshaw, whom my young friends in the America First movement exposed as an anti-free speech, pro-red flag law, double-talking phony on

college campuses in 2019, supplied CNN with more ammunition. He attacked AFPAC’s founder, 23-yearold internet entrepreneur and nationalist activist Nick Fuentes, as “one of the worst human beings I’ve ever come across.” “I (expletive deleted) hate Nick Fuentes,” Mr. Crenshaw (last seen bullying a Texas schoolgirl who challenged his blasphemous comments about Jesus) fumed to CNN. “Everybody should know they’re supposed to hate Nick Fuentes.” And they call us the “haters”? Over the weekend, the indefatigable Fuentes and his remarkable team of 100-plus AFPAC volunteers hosted more than 1,200 American patriots — mostly young, mostly Christian and mostly, but not all, white men — in Orlando. The livestream, carried on Mr. Fuentes’ independent platform, Cozy.tv, which he created after being banned by every major Silicon Valley company, garnered 10,400-plus concurrent views and Please see MALKIN on A4

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Joe Biden’s actions on his first day in the White House made no sense

he sun sinking indicated Jan. 20, 2021, was drawing to a close. But what a day it had been! At precisely noon, the leadership of the world’s greatest power was passed to Joseph R. Biden Jr. through an Inauguration. The tradition for installing a new president began with George Washington on April 30, 1789. In 1793, Washington’s second inauguration began the tradition of the date being March 4. In 1937, the date was switched to Jan. 20, except when it falls on a Sunday. The location has remained the nation’s capital as it moved from New York to Philadelphia and finally the District of Columbia. On Jan. 20, 2021, Joe Biden Brent E. became the Zepke 46th president The author to swear to “preserve, serve lives in Santa Barbara. and protect the Constitution,” whose preamble is: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Prosperity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” After being sworn-in, President Joe Biden began signing executive orders. EOs do not require congressional approval because they are supposed to only direct the employees of the executive branch. Really? How many of the ones signed on Inauguration Day impact all of us “non-employees” (except by paying taxes) of the federal government? EOs 13985-18989 and 13991 indicated the president’s priorities by starting with advancing racial equity rather than equal opportunity, and permitting transgender individuals to participate in women’s sports by extending to sexual orientation and gender identity the same protections it extends to women and counting illegal immigrants in deciding where the congressional representatives will be elected. Promotes the general welfare? Mr. Biden’s priorities continued with providing an “unified and effective response to COVID-19:” Unified? The red states remained open with no masks while the blue ones and Congress only dropped masks just before the State of the Union. Effective? More deaths from COVID in 2021 than 2020 despite having the Trump vaccines? “Global leadership on health and security?” When the U.S. armed the Afghan terrorists, Russia invaded Ukraine, North Korea tests nuclear bombs, China threatens Taiwan and Iran is getting close to have nuclear bombs and a system capable of delivering them to the U.S.? EO 13990 was designed to protect public health and restore science to tackle the climate crisis by canceling the Keystone Pipeline and restricting the

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Columnist Brent E. Zepke questions the logic behind President Joe Biden’s executive orders on his first day in office.

production of oil and natural gas in the U.S. In doing so, it guaranteed the increased cost of everything — inflation. Did this exceed the scope of only impacting employees of the executive branch? Did it protect your health? Do you think climate is a crisis but the events at the southern border are not? Has science “tackled” the climate crisis by causing the U.S. to shift from a creditor nation exporting oil to a debtor nation borrowing from China to buy oil from Russia (currently $700 million a

day)? Does this “provide for the common defense?” Doesn’t less efficient drilling in Russia and OPEC impact our climate? EO 13992 revoked seven of President Donald Trump’s executive orders that required budgets for federal agencies, eliminated useless committees, reduced regulations, limited enforcement to actual rules rather than guidance documents, provided notice of regulations before enforcing them, and reduced costs, without stating any facts to support their

eliminations. It is estimated that the increased regulations in 2021 cost $200 billion. Did reversing these Trump EOs help or hinder the principles enumerated in the preamble? After signings five EOs increasing the scope of government and spending, and eight EOs canceling Trump’s EOs that reduced the scope of government and spending, the new president’s “Coup de grace” — “an action that serves as the culmination of a bad or deteriorating situation” — for

Inauguration Day was signing EO 13993. EO 13993, Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities, stated, “The policy of my administration is to protect national and border security, address the humanitarian challenges at the southern border, and ensure public health and safety.” How did the executive order propose to do this? By halting the construction of the protective wall by terminating the national emergency declaration that funded it? By reversing President Donald Trump’s restrictions on U.S. passport holders from seven Muslim-majority countries (although many simply fly to Mexico and walk in)? By extending deferrals of deportation with a safe haven in the U.S. (at what point does “deferral” become synonymous with “cancel?”)? By fortifying DACA? How did these improve national and border security? Fences for the White House but not residents along the border? The results were that the vacuum in the management of our southern borders was filled by the Mexican cartels, who then started charging in dollars and personal services, particularly young females, that together with their profits from smuggling in Chinese Fentanyl were projected at $100 million a week. This newly found riches enabled the cartels to threaten, bribe or eliminate any resistance including the Mexican government that had been assisting the U.S. under a Trump agreement: until President Biden ended it. The U.S. Border Patrol became providers of services, such as food, medical and babysitting, for the 7,000/day from 170 countries permitted by the cartels to enter our country, that the administration called “different” from those to whom their vaccine, masks and distance restrictions applied. Doesn’t this make a joke of EO 13987, signed a few minutes before, that pretended to “provide an effective response to COVID?” Isn’t opening our southern border the exact opposite of establishing justice, domestic tranquility, a common defense, the general welfare, or the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our prosperity? Finally, on Jan. 20, 2021, with the signing pen having completed its role as a “smoking gun,” meaning “creating incontrovertible evidence,” it was placed back into its holder, and the president could retire for his first night after taking the presidential oath of office, perhaps with thoughts of his tomorrow. And what a day that would be! Brent E. Zepke is an attorney, arbitrator and author who lives in Santa Barbara. Formerly he taught at six universities and numerous professional conferences. He is the author of six books: “One Heart-Two Lives,” “Legal Guide to Human Resources,” “Business Statistics,” “Labor Law,” “Products and the Consumer” and “Law for NonLawyers.”

John Stossel

My dream State of the Union

resident Joe Biden gave his State of the Union Address last week. Here’s what I wish President Biden said: “Russia’s unwarranted invasion of Ukraine reminds us why it’s crucial that America’s military remains strong and focused on defense, not distractions like gender equity. “I stand with the people of Ukraine, and I will help them where I can, but America will not enter this war. “My predecessors involved us in wars all over the world. Today, America posts soldiers in 80 countries: 25,000 in South Korea, 30,000 in Germany, 50,000 in Japan ... “I will bring those troops home. Those countries can pay for their own defense. I promise I will deploy America’s soldiers only if there is a direct threat to America’s interests. “Avoiding war was one of the things my predecessor got right. “Former President Donald Trump said he would ‘bring our troops back home.’ I followed through, and we now are out of Afghanistan. I didn’t plan the exit well, but at least we finally left. “Turning to my governance at home, I have a lot to apologize for. Two years into the pandemic, I finally understand how much I got wrong. “I said we wouldn’t mandate vaccines. My press secretary assured reporters, ‘That’s not the role of the federal government.’ “But just a few weeks later, I mandated vaccines for most employees. “I said, ‘This is not about freedom or personal choice.’ But that’s nonsense. It was exactly about freedom and choice. Fortunately, the Supreme Court struck down my mandate. “My government made endless mistakes. “For a year, our Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintained outdoor mask rules. That’s absurd. It’s almost impossible to contract COVID-19 outdoors. I think bureaucrats do things like that Please see STOSSEL on C4

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Government has no money of its own STOSSEL

Continued from Page C3 because they like bossing you around. “I’ll stop that. “Next, during the pandemic, both Trump and I liked sending you money. ‘I’m sure people will be very happy to get a big, fat, beautiful check,’ said Trump. I said, ‘85% of American households will have gotten a $1,400 rescue check.’ “But government has no money of its own, so that money wasn’t a gift; it’s taken from you. Then Washington, D.C., took a cut, and we handed out the rest like we’re Santa Claus. “I’m not Santa. I promise, I’ll

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by reducing barriers to open enrollment and expanding charter schools. Gov. Reynolds continues to push for education reforms that will allow greater choice for parents in providing the best educational opportunity for their children. Most important of all, during her response to President Biden, Gov. Reynolds summarized what a great silent majority of Americans are feeling at this time.

stop giving away all this money! The national debt is already an unsustainable $30 trillion. There’s no way I can pay that back. In fact, my reckless spending made the problem worse. I once even said, cluelessly, that my big spending would reduce inflation. Inflation then hit a 40-year high. “But I’ve learned from my mistakes! Starting today, I will cut irresponsible spending. “I will cut useless cabinet departments, like Housing and Urban Development, Labor and Agriculture. Agriculture employs almost 100,000 people. Why? Independent farmers grow the food. I’ve been in Washington 50 years, and I still don’t know what most of my bureaucrats do. “I’ll get rid of the Department

of Education, too. Why does it even exist? Education is a local responsibility. It’s none of the federal government’s business! It’s none of my business. “We don’t need a Commerce Department. After all, commerce just happens. I’ll get rid of those bureaucrats and sell the buildings. “I’ll get rid of the Drug Enforcement Administration, too. We don’t need it because I’ll end the destructive War on Drugs. We all have a right to do what we want with our own bodies. Even if we didn’t, law enforcement is a local police responsibility. “If we got rid of harmful laws and departments, we could focus on what the government should do: Keep us safe and free. “In closing, I pledge to follow

our Constitution. It puts limits on what I can do. Trump once claimed that Article II gave him the power to do whatever he wanted. But that’s nonsense. “We have limited powers. “I can’t do whatever I want. “And from now on, I promise I will do less. “In fact, if I do my job right, you should barely know I’m here.”

“Americans are tired of a political class trying to remake this country into a place where an elite few tell everyone else what they can and cannot say. What they can and cannot believe,” stated Gov. Reynolds. Gov. Reynolds is on the frontlines fighting to stop progressive, liberal, woke, policies. Whether it is fighting against vaccine mandates and other federal overreaches, Gov. Reynolds has always stood with freedom even when it is unpopular. A cultural revolution is occurring, and it is threatening

to destroy traditional values. “But it’s the American people who are waiting to exhale. Waiting for the insanity to stop,” noted Gov. Reynolds. “If we, as elected leaders, are doing our job, then the government is working well but operating in the background. It’s supporting the ingenuity and spirit of our people, not drowning them out. It’s keeping them safe, not restricting their freedom,” stated Gov. Reynolds. Gov. Reynolds demonstrated to the nation that conservatism works and Iowa is a place where

freedom and opportunity are flourishing. She reminded Americans that government is not the solution. A public policy strategy that wants citizens to thrive must be built on the foundation of protecting both economic liberty and the values that have made the United States exceptional.

John Stossel is creator of Stossel TV and author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www. creators.com. Copyright 2022 BY JFS Productions Inc.

John Hendrickson is policy director of Iowans for Tax Relief Foundation. This story was provided to the News-Press by The Center Square, a nonprofit dedicated to journalism.

Did you know waste is not only in the city — the waste is also in our schools? DONOVAN

Continued from Page C1 other council members to start the process of reigning in spending. The taxpayers need action quickly, in advance of any more financial commitments that are beyond the functional spending to run the city. Here is another cost-effective solution to the issue of police oversight that will not require the creation of another bureaucracy overhead and will avoid spending another approximately $600,000 a year in new salaries plus additional city costs in retirement benefits and medical coverages. As chief executive of the city, the mayor can create an executive board, the Police Oversight Board that meets monthly. The board would be chaired by the mayor, and the two executive officers also on the board would be the city administrator and the chief of police. Non-city inspectors of the process would be one or two members or past members of the

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Santa Barbara County Grand Jury and a member of the Santa Barbara Attorney’s Office. When necessary, members of the public will be invited to participate or testify on specific subjects to aid the Oversight Committee in understanding specific questions or issues. The starting point could be a review of all the eight complaints about police actions that occurred in 2021. This would include all details of the actions involved that led to each complaint and all steps taken by the police leadership to resolve the complaints and all actions taken in regard to the individual police personnel involved. It would be a starting point to set objectives for the future. It would include a definition of lessons learned and the steps taken to address any systemic or general application of lessons learned to the police employees in general, including training of police officers. This process would be repeated and revised as necessary, to address new issues and define

new training needs or procedures within the police department through monthly meetings among the entire team and work assignments decided by the commission members. Did You Know waste is not only in the city — the waste is also in our schools? The rot has set in from bottom to top in our staterun education. It runs from political indoctrination “in divisive, racial stereotypes and in gender deviations from the norm from the earliest grades to grade 12. Meanwhile, throughout all grades, at least 40% of students fail to meet grade-level standards in English and Math. The result is many undereducated students graduating from high schools, who borrow money to enter colleges in which they are ill-prepared to earn a useful degree.” Student debt is now $1.73 trillion and rising fast. The enormity of student loan debt can be understood more clearly by comparing it to existing credit card debt which varies between $807 billion and $910 billion over 506 million credit card

accounts. Accompanying all this is the opulence of salaries and benefits paid to exalted university presidents and the unlimited perks given to tenured professors who have forgotten how to teach. We’ll end today with the sick pay raise given to Chancellor Henry T. Yang at UCSB. Did you know 16 members of the University of California Board of Regents approved pay raises for all nine UC chancellors? Chancellor Yang, who currently makes $451,362 per year, received a 28.4% raise and will now make $579,750 per year beginning this month for the 2022-23 academic year. Is the UC system retirementfunded? This is all on top of his free, very large house overlooking the lagoon on the UCSB campus. Oh, we will have more on schools next week. Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

The mid-term writing is on the wall

Continued from Page C2 who are pressuring the White House are extreme, extreme liberals who pretend they hate oil and the “climate crisis” it’s causing. With gas over $5 and heading higher, the mindset of this group has been searching for years for ways to get people out of cars in the name of all that’s good (of course they’re all still riding around in giant black SUV’s every day). These foolish, foolish people are too narrow minded to drill down and put themselves inside the cities and neighborhoods of those who barely survived two years of a pandemic and are now finding themselves unable to afford groceries because of President Biden’s self-

inflicted insanely high inflation, compounded further by paying the exorbitant prices for fuel. This incompetent line of thinking certainly isn’t keeping America safe, and Mr. Biden is not performing as the “symbol of all the people” as the job description of the president is defined. Even his whacko leftist crowd isn’t happy with him for trying to move a little to the middle. The midterm writing is on the wall. Strength. Power. Intelligence. Leadership. We used to have that, and it wasn’t that long ago. We’re stumbling. Canada, hopefully temporarily, became a dictatorship overnight, and because of that I for one don’t see why we should reward them the Keystone pipeline anytime soon. Of course, as a nation we suffer and it’s terrible so many

lost their jobs, but once we start drilling again and rebuilding our oil output to make us self-reliant, those jobs will come back. And once we close down the southern border, we can create a powerful and strong border security force to keep us safe from the malevolent dangers entering our country untethered. And for all of you with racist minds, I’m not talking about the families who we all hear are supposedly seeking a better life. No, we are going to be paying a huge price for the biggest, most dangerous blunder America has ever allowed to happen in modern history. We’re already seeing the effects of drugs, guns and human trafficking. What we don’t see are those murderous creatures who hate everything America stands for who have been given an E ticket to

begin planning our downfall. If we can survive President Biden, President Putin, terrorists, nuclear proliferation and the divisive plague permeating our landscape, hopefully we can find a real leader someday who will stand up for ALL the people. That he or she will perform their duties to keep America safe and stop this incessant nonsense we’re dealing with every day. At this point I would be happy to toss out the nomenclature of Democrats, Republicans and any other title and replace it as I’ve said before with a Common Sense Party. The sludge in the swamp has gotten so thick we need the mother of all honey pots to pump it out. Henry Schulte welcomes questions or comments at hschulteopinions@ gmail.com.

in fact, was the application of traditional realism regarding power realities, especially the military significance of the nation-state. President Putin generally plays his strategic cards well. However, his hand remains weak. The Russian economy is vulnerable, dependent on petroleum, plagued with corruption. Opinion polls in Russia show Mr. Putin’s popularity declining. External power plays clearly are in part a response. The very existence of serious opinion polls provides empirical evidence of just how profoundly Russia has changed since the era of Soviet totalitarianism. Before today’s pervasive electronic media, totalitarian dictators in Nazi Germany, the communist Soviet Union and other nations could effectively isolate their populations. Power holders substituted propaganda for facts and reality. Such control is no longer possible. Russia’s aggression has energized NATO, dramatically. The war has transformed the

new German government. Caution is gone, replaced by aid to Ukraine and military modernization. Russia’s fear of Germany makes this move especially significant. Poland, in NATO since 1999, now leads in the collective effort to provide arms to bordering Ukraine. U.S. officials are confident and clear in condemning President Putin’s violation of both international law and practical norms of behavior. The global economy permits effective penalties and sanctions against Russia, including the rich elite. The ruling clique is becoming isolated. Communism once seemed on the offensive. Russia today is structurally defensive. The world has changed. To learn more, see John Mearsheimer’s “The Great Delusion.” Arthur I. Cyr is author of “After the Cold War - American Foreign Policy, Europe and Asia” (NYU Press and Palgrave/Macmillan). He is also the director of the Clausen Center at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisc., and a Clausen Distinguished Professor. He welcomes questions and comments at acyr@carthage.edu.

Teachers are taught ... to ignore as much as possible BUCKLEY

Continued from Page C1 He tells me, so I decided to go to bat for him. I spoke to the teacher, and then I went and talked to the principal. I said, “Listen, he was telling people that he needed help, and nobody was listening.” So I said, “If you do anything to him, you better do much worse to the kid that was whacking him every single day for the last month. The track team is all Guy has. If you suspend him from that activity, that’s going to be detrimental to him, especially because he was defending himself. This other boy was smacking him every single day. I’m not telling you what to do, Mrs. Principal. But please, take this into consideration.” So what happened? She let him go to the track meet, but I think she suspended him too. I don’t know what she did to the other boy. Is there another approach, other than suspending and/or punishing each child equally? Well, teachers are taught ... to ignore as much as possible, because there is not really discipline in the schools, but there has to be discipline and there have to be consequences. And, the punishment should fit

the crime. Can you give me an example of a punishment that fits the crime? There was a boy who took a girl’s vocabulary book and flushed it down the toilet. So what did he get to do? He got to rewrite her vocabulary words at recess time. He was going to sit there for a week until he got them rewritten. That seems like a pretty good consequence to me. I had a boy pull the fire alarm, and I said, “Oh, OK, now we’re going to walk around, and you’re going to apologize to every class for wasting their class time for making us go out on the blacktop.” He took a big swallow, but it wasn’t too humiliating. It was a restorative approach to fixing the problem that he caused. Guess what? Nobody ever pulled the fire alarm again, because it didn’t just teach him, it taught all the other kids that this is what you have to do if you pull the fire alarm. That’s actually how you run a really good school because the kids know you mean what you say. James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes questions or comments at jimb@ substack.com.

Nationalists of any color are not haters MALKIN

Continued from Page C3 3,000-plus new subscribers. The 2022 AFPAC lineup included nine current or former government officials and two sitting members of Congress. In his keynote speech, America’s Sheriff and Maricopa County law enforcement legend Joe Arpaio recounted the decadeslong political witch hunt against him for detaining and deporting thousands of illegal aliens. Defiant as ever at 89, Mr. Arpaio told me he was unbowed by the firestorm over AFPAC. “I’ll talk to anyone.” Free speech activist, Florida 11th congressional district candidate and early AFPAC supporter Laura Loomer told me that “Kevin McCarthy’s condemnation of a nationalist, conservative, pro-America conference is yet another reason why he should never be speaker of the House.” She added that “the old guard of the failed GOP establishment” is “taking the party and America backwards with their calls for increased cancel culture and political censorship.” Indeed, podcaster and Daily Veracity founder Vince James, who has spoken at every AFPAC, told me: “When all the worst

Republicans attack you, it shows you’re a threat to them ... It’s an honor to be disavowed by such feckless liberals posing as conservatives.” Black pastor and longtime broadcaster Jesse Lee Peterson galvanized the AFPAC crowd with a rousing defense of America’s founders. Rejecting Black Lives Matter, monument destruction and the martyrdom of George Floyd, Mr. Peterson asserted unapologetically: “White people built America, and we need to remember that.” Stating facts like these will earn you the fear-mongering label of “white nationalist,” even if you’re not white! Nationalists of any color are not haters, but lovers of their precious homeland. Just two simple words, embraced by a swelling red tide of conservative dissidents, will put the baying America Last mob in their place in the face of all the shunning, censuring, lying and clucking: So. What. Michelle Malkin’s email address is michellemalkinInvestigates@ protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com. Copyright 2022 by Creators.com.