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By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

First Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Church of Santa Barbara has raised more than $7,000 for humanitarian aid for the Ukrainian refugee crisis.

The church has done so through various efforts, including a Solidarity Concert for Ukraine, which raised more than $2,000 Tuesday evening at the church. More than 60 people attended Please see UKRAINE on A5

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Pastor Michael Smiyun said First Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Church of Santa Barbara is grateful for the community’s support for its efforts to help Ukrainians during the Russian invasion.

Christy Lozano to run for schools superintendent

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Laundry Project vounteer Gabriel Coria hands out free snacks at the Wash and Fun Laundromat in Santa Barbara, below, on Saturday as part of the Laundry Project.

By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

On Saturday, Current Initiatives washed tons of laundry free of charge for Santa Barbara residents at the Wash & Fun Laundromat in Santa Barbara. This was the second time that

Current Initiatives has hosted this project in Santa Barbara, the first time being in the fall of 2021. “It went really well, very busy, we had a little over 600 loads for 60 families today,” Jason Sowell, founder and CEO of Current Initiatives, told the News-Press.

Mr. Sowell started the Laundry Project in 2008, when he had his first experience at a laundromat while visiting some friends. Mr. Sowell grew up without having to use a laundromat, and so this experience interacting with the families there opened his eyes to Please see LAUNDRY on A5

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Santa Barbara teacher Christy Lozano has announced her candidacy for Santa Barbara County superintendent of schools. “Most people of Santa Barbara County know and understand how badly many of our schools are performing, particularly among the underserved and especially with our elementary school children,” Ms. Lozano told the News-Press in an email. “I want to change that.” She is running in the June 7 primary against the current county superintendent of schools, Dr. Susan Salcido, a Goleta resident who has filed to run for re-election. Friday was the deadline to file, and no one other than Ms. Lozano and Dr. Salcido has filed in the race, according to an unofficial list posted by the Santa Barbara County Elections Division at countyofsb.org. “I believe we deserve better leadership, and I believe I can provide that leadership,” Ms. Lozano said. “Leadership that provides genuine opportunities, especially for the underserved. Leadership that enriches and protects. Leadership that produces exceptional results, not just good intentions. “We cannot solve the pressing challenges in our educational system using the same thinking that created them,” Ms. Lozano

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said. “I have the experience necessary. I have been a local Santa Barbara teacher for 18 years, have worked with underserved students to overcome obstacles, accomplish goals, and helped them to become their best selves. I’ve taught elementary through high school,” she said. Ms. Lozano listed her experience as including 25 years of coaching and leadership roles such as teacher-incharge/elementary assistant principal, head coach, union representative and department chair. She served in the U.S. Air Force during the time of 9/11 and was stationed overseas in an Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron. Ms. Lozano has a bachelor’s in kinesiology from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and a master’s in educational leadership and an administrative service credential, both from California Lutheran University. “I care deeply about what and how things are taught in our schools,” Ms. Lozano told the News-Press. “And, perhaps most importantly, I’m the proud mother of a teenage daughter. “Let’s ensure our next generation is fully equipped with the skills, knowledge and character to thrive,” she said. “I’d be honored by your vote.”

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Meeting the last KGB chairman News-Press columnist Robert Eringer tells what happened during his FBI Counterintelligence mission in Moscow

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From left, CIA traitor Edward Lee Howard, Robert Eringer, KGB Col. Igor Prelin and KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov gather in January 1997 at Fairy Tale, a Moscow restaurant. Their dinner was six years after the end of the KGB but a little over three years before ex-KGB officer Vladimir Putin was elected the Russian president.

he Soviet KGB was born 68 years ago today. It is ironic that the last chairman of the KGB, a hardliner who so staunchly opposed Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost, should have become an unwitting FBI informant. But that is exactly what happened. I should know. I handled him myself. I first met Vladimir Kryuchkov, who died in November 2007 at the age of 83, when I was in Moscow in January 1997 to visit Edward Lee Howard, the CIA traitor who defected to Russia 12 years earlier. (Mr. Kryuchkov would have celebrated his 98th birthday two weeks ago.) Mr. Howard had been solicited by Mr. Kryuchkov to help him arrange publication in the West of his memoirs. Mr. Howard produced me. What both men did not know was that I was working undercover for FBI Counterintelligence. When we met, Mr. Kryuchkov was on the wrong side of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, having been one of the so-called “Gang of Eight” who tried to unseat Mr. Gorbachev in the attempted putsch of August 1991. Ironically, that event triggered the disintegration of the Soviet

Union, to which Mr. Kryuchkov had been so devoted during 24 years in the KGB, rising to chief of the First Directorate before becoming its chairman. It also landed him in prison for 18 months. You would never know looking at Mr. Kryuchkov that he was, for many years, one of the most powerful men in the Soviet Union. He had the cherubic face of a kindly uncle. Yet Mr. Kryuchkov personally ordered the execution of spies given up by CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames. Mr. Kryuchkov came to my Baltschug-Kempinski Hotel room on the southern bank of the Moscow River with Col. Igor Prelin, his former PR chief at the KGB and, at this juncture, executive director of their retired intelligence officers’ association. The former KGB chairman was dressed like a Communist Party apparatchik in a charcoal wool suit, white shirt, navy blue tie with a white vertical stripe and a woolen sweater vest. His round, apple-cheeked face was dominated by large spectacles with heavy amber-colored frames. A wisp of gray hair atop his bald pate stood up on end, as if trying to escape. Col. Prelin was dressed — comically, I thought — in black

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slacks, black silk shirt, black striped tie and burgundy shoes, with slicked-back hair. Al Capone meets Red Mafia.

SHOPPING LIST I explained to both men that Mr. Kryuchkov’s memoirs, as published in Russia two years before, would need “enhancement” with “new material” for any possible edition in the West. I therefore was equipped with a batch of questions — most of which had been devised by FBI analysts — known in spy parlance as a “shopping list.” Thus the ruse began with me trying to fill gaps in espionage cases that continued to cause consternation back in Washington,

D.C. Mr. Kryuchkov was as dry and dull as the book he had written in Russian. Therein lay the challenge for me to draw him out. After making the introduction, Edward Howard had left us to get on with “book enhancement” (he had his own job as a stockbroker to tend to), so it seemed natural to begin with the Ed Howard case. “Edward was of considerable operational interest to us,” Mr. Kryuchkov finally revealed, after plodding through a series of mundane comments. “He proved to be priceless, helping us solve a number of big problems. With Edward’s help, we uncovered deep-cover CIA agents in our country. We were also able to plug several information leaks, vital to the security of the U.S.S.R.” With these words, Mr. Kryuchkov confirmed allegations Mr. Howard had always denied (and would have been prosecuted for, had we renditioned him back to the United States, as we’d been planning!). Mr. Kryuchkov’s comments on Aldrich Ames were of equal interest. We learned, for instance, that the KGB knew its double agent was in trouble long before his arrest and that the Russians Please see INVESTIGATOR on A4

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SBIFF announces award-winning films By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The 2022 Santa Barbara International Film Festival presented by UGG has announced the award-winning films of the 37th edition of the festival. The awards were announced at a ceremony hosted by Maune Contemporary Gallery in Santa Barbara. The award-winning films were chosen by jury members Carlos Aguilar, Justine Bateman, Dupe Bosu, Julie Carmen, Annlee Ellingson, Tim Grierson, Beandrea July, Elizabeth Lo, Scott Mantz, Jose Novoa, Gil Robertson, Charles Solomon, Angie Wang, Steve Zahn, and Anthony & Annette Zerbe. “We are so thrilled to have had our slate of 200 films from 54 countries so well-received by festivalgoers. A few films even elicited standing ovations. We are very proud that filmmakers came from as far as Nepal, Iran and Uganda - and many countries in between - to attend with their films. We thank all the wonderful filmmakers and our enthusiastic Santa Barbara audience for making this such a joyful return to theaters, and a celebration of terrific world cinema,” commented SBIFF’s Programming Director Claudia Puig. The awards are as follows: Best Documentary Short Film Award: Jordan Matthew Horowitz’s “Lalito 10” Bruce Corwin Award – Best Live-Action Short Film: Marilyn Cooke’s “No Ghost in the Morgue” Bruce Corwin Award – Best Animated Short Film: Zacharias Kunuk’s “The Shaman’s apprentice” Best Documentary Award: Jon-Sesrie Goff’s “After Sherman” Jeffrey C. Barbakow Award – Best International Feature Film: Shawkat Amin Korki’s “The Exam” Best Middle Eastern/Israeli Film Award: Dina Amer’s “You Resemble Me” Best Nordic/Dutch Film Award: Marianne Blicher’s “Miss

Viborg” Nueva Vision Award for Spain/Latin America Cinema: Martín Barrenechea and Nicolás Branca’s “9” Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema: Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson’s “Scarborough” Social Justice Award for Documentary Film: Emma Macey-Storch’s “Geeta” ADL Stand Up Award: Jordan W. Barrow and Matt Edwards’s “Our Words Collide” The event also included a free ten-year anniversary screening of “Silver Linings Playbook,” followed by a Q&A with writer and director David O. Russell and editor Jay Cassidy, moderated by SBIFF Executive Director, Roger During. “The film for me was very personal, because in my family we have this … and Robert also had it in his family so he related to it, and Bradley and Jennifer were both gifted with a beautiful craziness themselves, so they related to it. I’ve had many people come up to me over the years who were grateful for the removal of the stigma,” said Mr. Russell. “His truth-ometer is very high and that was very helpful … He can really be hard on himself, on us, the cut, and that’s a great force to have around. His interest was not a couple of afternoons, his interest was weeks…that dedication we all grew to respect,” said Mr. Cassidy on working with Mr. Cooper. “I loved watching it right now! I was standing over there and I was crying and I was laughing…it just came out real nice and it’s a nice thing to look at and feel,” said Mr. Russell. The Santa Barbara International Film Festival joined Direct Relief to deliver aid in response to the Ukraine crisis. The fundraiser has raised over $92,000. Anyone interested in donating to help reach the goal of $100,000 can do so at www.SBIFF.org/ Ukraine. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

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Smoke rises from a brushfire at Hollister Ranch near Gaviota State Park on Saturday.

Vegetation fire at Hollister Ranch On Saturday afternoon, a vegetation fire broke out at Hollister Ranch. The Santa Barbara County Fire Department responded with a full vegetation response to the reported 50-acre fire with structures threatened, reported Capt. Daniel Bertucelli PIO, for Santa Barbara County Fire Department. - Katherine Zehnder

Sheriff’s Office reinstates visitation at Main Jail The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office has announced the reinstatement of inmate visitation at the Main Jail. In-person visits had been suspended since September of 2021. As COVID19 conditions have improved throughout the county, in-person visits have been reinstated on a limited basis. Custody staff have been working with Wellpath healthcare partners

Lompoc’s State of the City slated for April 14 LOMPOC — The Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau and the city of Lompoc are inviting the public to the State of the City Luncheon. The luncheon will take place at 11:30 a.m. April 14 at the Dick DeWees Community and

and the Santa Barbara County Department of Public Health to safeguard the inmates and staff at the Main Jail from the COVID-19 pandemic. Visitors are required to confirm they do not have any COVID-19 symptoms, wear a mask when entering the facility, follow social distancing markers in the seating areas and respect the social distance of other visitors. Visitors will be able to remove their masks only when using the visiting phone. Visitors will be allowed inside in hourly intervals with all visits lasting no longer than 30 minutes.

Senior Center, 1120 W. Ocean Ave., Lompoc. Mayor Jenelle Osborne and City Manager Dean Albro will present the current state of the city as well as the highlights from the past year. The presentation will discuss the future of Lompoc Valley. The luncheon will be catered by Savory & Sweet Eats, with check-in beginning at 11:30 a.m. The program will start at noon. Cost for the luncheon is $30 for chamber

This will allow time for sanitizing before the next group. Visitors are expected to check in at the Main Jail lobby prior to the cut-off times, and are encouraged to do so early, so that waiting lists can be fairly maintained. Efforts have been made to maximize visiting opportunities while also maintaining safety for visitors and inmates. Custody staff anticipate there will be significant interest in visitations and would like to strongly encourage visitors to arrive early so they will not have to be turned away. - Katherine Zehnder

members and $40 for prospective members. Registration for the luncheon is due by April 4. To register, go to lompoc.chambermaster. com/events/details/state-of-the-city-lompoc2022-10880. The State of the City will also be recorded by TAP TV and available for viewing at www. cityoflompoc.com following the event. — Katherine Zehnder

PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY AND DIABETES WARNING! Santa Barbara, CA - Diabetes along with age, smoking, exposure to chemotherapy, post surgical and motor vehicle accidents are all risk factors for peripheral neuropathy. Diabetes is the largest cohort, making up nearly 60% of all peripheral neuropathy cases. Among diabetics, up to 50% have measurable evidence of peripheral neuropathy but no symptoms. Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy is the most common long term complication of Diabetes. This can progress from sensory complications to leg/foot ulcers and ultimately gangrene and amputation. Nerve fibers affected with neuropathy include large nerve fibers which are principally associated with numbness and small nerve fibers seen with pain and burning symptoms.

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Nearly 60% of Peripheral Neuropahty patients are Diabetics. ref: The foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy. June 2018

Peripheral neuropathy is a result of damage to the nerves often caus- The treatment to increase blood flow utilizes electronic cell signaling ing weakness, pain, numbness, tingling, and the most debilitating bal- delivering modulating energy wavelengths at both low and middle frequencies. The signaling improves cell-to-cell communication among ance problems. small nerve fibers. This damage is commonly caused by a lack of blood flow to the nerves The cell signaling therapy is like watering a tree. The treatment will alin the hands and feet which will cause the nerves to begin to slowly low the blood vessels to grow back around the peripheral nerves and degenerate due to lack of nutrient flow. provide them with the proper nutrients to heal and repair. It’s like adding water to a tree and seeing the roots grow deeper and deeper. As you can see in Figure 1, as the blood vessels that surround the nerves become diseased they shrivel up which causes the nerves to The amount of treatment needed to allow the nerves to fully recover not receive the nutrients to continue to survive. When these nerves varies from person to person and can only be determined after a debegin to “die” they cause you to have balance problems, pain, numb- tailed neurological and vascular evaluation. ness, tingling, burning, and many additional symptoms. # ' " & # '

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had actually discussed exfiltrating him (organizing his escape) from Washington (where he worked at CIA headquarters) to safety in Moscow, as the British had done when their spy Oleg Gordievsky got blown and needed to escape Moscow for a new life in the U.K. It had gone to the very top for approval — and President Yeltsin shot it down. Why? The Russian leader feared that such a tactic would jeopardize U.S. economic aid packages to Russia, which were all the rage back then. The key point, of course, was this: How did the KGB know Mr. Ames was in trouble? It added to the belief that another spy lurked in a senior position within the U.S. intelligence community — and eventually led to Robert Hanssen, a senior Counterintelligence official at the FBI. Mr. Kryuchkov believed that Mr. Ames’s motivation was not money — the usual means by which the KGB recruited American spies, according to Mr. Kryuchkov — but ideology. “Ames simply did not agree with the policies of the United States that multiplied their military power,” Mr. Kryuchkov had convinced himself. “He believed in the peaceful nature of the Soviet Union’s foreign relations.” Truth is, Mr. Ames was badgered into treason by his wife,

Rosario, for the money. The former KGB chairman told me that William Casey (President Ronald Reagan’s appointee) was the worst CIA director — “worst for us,” is what he meant — and that the Russians’ favorite was Admiral Stansfield Turner (President Jimmy Carter’s appointee). He also suggested that one particular DCI inadvertently revealed to him that Oleg Kalugin, the former KGB First Directorate chief, had cooperated with the CIA. Mr. Kryuchkov held Mr. Kalugin personally responsible for the death of Anatoly Shadrin, a former Russian naval commander who defected in 1959 and mysteriously disappeared in Vienna in 1975. Mr. Kryuchkov confirmed that the KGB indeed kidnapped Mr. Shadrin, but noted that Mr. Kalugin, who was on site in control of the operation, had his own agenda. “The result was a fiasco,” Mr. Kryuchkov confessed to me. “Shadrin, unconscious from chloroform, was pulled a thousand yards in the snow at the AustrianCzech border, then left to lay there for 20 minutes because a receiving car had gotten stuck. Shadrin died. Mr. Kalugin appeared satisfied by the outcome.” The former KGB chairman was less forthcoming on the case of Vitaly Yurchenko, sticking to regime propaganda: Mr. Yurchenko did not defect to the U.S., but was kidnapped by the CIA in Rome. When I called him on it

(“nobody believes that,” I said), Mr. Kryuchkov’s eyes turned steely cold as he drummed his left thumb on the arm of his chair. I filled six hours of cassette tape goading Mr. Kryuchkov into revelations. He wrote another 34 pages for me. All of which went straight to the FBI’s Russia experts for analysis. Mr. Kryuchkov’s book was never published in the West.

FAIRY TALE It got even more interesting that evening over dinner at a Moscow restaurant — Mr. Kryuchkov’s favorite — called Fairy Tale, where a whole section was cordoned off for us. We ate by candlelight and, over a bottle of Kindzmarauli, Stalin’s favorite red wine, Col. Prelin translated the former KGB chairman’s words and gloated about the imminent return of the old guard KGB to the Kremlin — and about where their stratagem would lead, as we dug into some kind of meat stew of unfathomable origin. “What will Washington think,” Col. Prelin said to me, “when the Soviet Union re-emerges?” Mr. Kryuchkov and his sidekick then forecast for my benefit that an “unknown name” would succeed Boris Yeltsin as president and that the KGB-in-Exile would rally and return to power. Not long after, ex-KGB officer Vladimir Putin emerged from obscurity — and immediately solidified his rule with the

support of his former KGB colleagues and his current intelligence services, the FSB, SVR and GRU. Mr. Kryuchkov attended Mr. Putin’s inauguration, and Mr. Putin, during his first year as president, showed his gratitude by attending Mr. Kryuchkov’s birthday party. A couple of years later (February 2000) during dinner at Royal China on Bayswater Road in London, Col. Prelin broached with me the new Russian plan to track down Russian intelligence officers who had betrayed The Motherland. And kill them. In this instance, Col. Prelin told me, over a bowl of wonton soup, that the SVR and FSB (the old KGB) desired to visit former KGB officer Oleg Kalugin at his residence in the U.S. — and murder him. I was incredulous as I sipped hot sake. “You’d like to kill Kalugin?” I wasn’t sure I’d heard right. “Of course,” Col. Prelin replied with the matter-of-factness of a cardiologist. “Do you know where he lives?” I asked. “Washington,” said Prelin. “Vienna. It is in Virginia, near Washington, no?” “Do you have his address?” “Of course,” replied Col. Prelin. “He lives with two daughters.” (Mr. Kalugin is still alive and is 87 years old. Although President Vladimir Putin will confidently strike out at KGB defectors in

Gas prices are highest in Democrat-led states By BETHANY BLANKLEY THE CENTER SQUARE CONTRIBUTOR

(The Center Square) – While all Americans are feeling the pain at the pump, some are paying more than others. Gas prices are highest in Democrat-led states, according to a list of average gas prices by state published by AAA. The top five states with the most expensive average cost of regular gasoline per gallon are led by Democratic governors and Democraticcontrolled legislatures. Of all Americans, Californians are paying the most. Some are posting pictures of pump prices on Twitter, including a gallon of regular gas reaching $6.95 in Beverly Hills. The average is $5.71 as of late Friday afternoon in the Democratic-led state. Gas prices are the highest they’ve ever been in California, up by well over $1 from a year ago. Matthew J. Peterson, president of New Founding Corp., based in Dallas, tweeted, “The great thing about California is that if you work for an hour at minimum wage you can buy two whole gallons of gas. Offer only valid for a limited time as gas prices may continue to rise. Higher taxes and utility costs than the national average may apply.” One reason why California gas is so

expensive is because more than a $1 goes to taxes. Unlike Florida and some other U.S. states, which moved to reduce and suspend gas taxes, California has yet to do so. Last November, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asked state lawmakers to cut state gas and fuel taxes by $1 billion to offset rising gas prices, well before prices got to where they are now. He also proposed a gas tax holiday in his “Freedom First” budget. Nevada, which has the second-highest average gas price of $4.92 a gallon, is also run by a Democratic governor and legislature. Hawaii, also led by a Democratic governor and state legislature, has the third-highest average gas price of $4.84 a gallon. The states with the next highest average gas prices per gallon, also led by Democrats, are Oregon ($4.74) and Washington ($4.73). By contrast, the five states with the lowest average cost of regular gasoline per gallon are all led by Republicans. Kansas has the lowest average price of regular gasoline per gallon of $3.82, with Missouri second-lowest at $3.85. Oklahoma, which has historically had low gasoline prices, has the third-lowest average price for regular gas at the pump of $3.87. North Dakota ($3.91) and Arkansas ($3.91) are next. Twenty-five Republican governors called on President Joe Biden to prioritize American

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Frank Reed Webb passed into the arms of his Lord on March 6, 2022. He was born on April 10, 1941, in Glendale, California to Jack and Becky Webb. He graduated from Glendale High School in 1959. After one year of fooling around at Glendale College, his parents decided he should do his two years of service in the Navy as part of a reserve program. He served on the USS Marshall and traveled the Pacific Ocean, making many interesting stops and learning many lessons. When discharged, he went back to Glendale College with a renewed commitment to his education and future. After graduation, he transferred to Los Angeles State University. He received his CPA certification after his apprenticeship at the Brentwood office of Arthur Young and Company. He later earned an Executive MBA at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He married the love of his life, Carol Jennings, in 1965. Over the next eight years, they had three children: Michael, Wendy, and Holly. Frank’s chosen career was in cable television. He started at H&B American when cable television was basically an antenna service on top of a hill. Over the next sixty years, cable television became a very sophisticated business, and Frank was involved in starting business in California, New York, Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, and Maryland. When cable television had spread across the United States, Frank was hired to help bring cable television to Hong Kong, Yorkshire, England, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Warsaw, Poland. His family was along for the ride and loved the excitement of the projects he was involved in and the adventure of living in very interesting and diverse locations. Upon his retirement, Frank and Carol returned to Southern California and after two years moved first to Summerland, California, and then to Carpinteria, California. They both spent over ten years working at H&R Block as tax preparers where they enjoyed working with coworkers who became friends and clients they enjoyed seeing year after year. Frank leaves behind a wife that thinks he hung the moon, his three children, his daughter-in-law Irene, his five lovely grandchildren Evelyn, Charlotte, Haley, Steven, and Anderson, his brother Richard, and sister-in-law Linda, as well as many loving friends. His family believes his biggest gift to the lives of those who knew him was his sense of humor. He kept all of us laughing and has chosen for his grave marker, “There will be more laughter in heaven,” which we think is most appropriate. Rest In peace, Frank Reed, until we meet again. The funeral will be held at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Santa Barbara at 1:00 on Saturday, March 12, 2022. All are welcome with a reception following at our home.

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energy independence. In their joint statement, they called on President Biden “to reverse his policies and restore America’s energy independence for our citizens as well as our allies abroad. “By removing his bans on new oil and gas development on federal lands, building the Keystone XL pipeline, and reinstating regulatory reforms to streamline energy permitting, we can protect our national energy security and sell to our friends rather than buy from our enemies,” they wrote. “Family budgets have already been stretched thin following record inflation. People in our states cannot afford another spike at the gas pump,” they added. In Texas ($4.01), Gov. Greg Abbott said, “Instead of begging other countries for oil, Biden can stop hindering the U.S. energy sector. Texas can easily produce enough oil to reduce gas prices if his administration would get out of the way. Don’t make us dependent on foreign sources of energy.” Governors from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming signed the letter.

GANTZ, Blanche (Ratner)

aka “Mrs. Dance” Blanche passed away peacefully on February 19, 2022, in Santa Barbara, just three months before her 101st birthday. She lived a full, high-energy life ﬁlled with love and joy from family, friends, music, and dance. Born in Brooklyn, NY, she spent her childhood years singing and dancing in the Catskills. At age 9 her family moved to Detroit where she became a professional tap dancer. Her passion for dance was re-ignited when asked to start a dance program for the Oak Park, MI, schools. News spread to neighboring suburbs and she was soon teaching thousands of children over the next 30 years. She retired to Florida and found herself teaching seniors. She and husband, Harry, moved to Santa Barbara 16 years ago to be near their daughter. Following Harry’s death, Blanche enjoyed nine years at Vista del Monte where she received wonderful, compassionate care, especially during her last few years. Blanche was predeceased by her husband Harry Gantz, sister Mollie Nucian, and parents Nathan and Becky Ratner. She is survived by her daughter Joan RosenbergDent and Thomas L. Dent (Santa Barbara), daughter Linda Amoore (Tasmania), ﬁve grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Contributions can be made in her honor to Vista del Monte/Front Porch Communities Foundation, 3775 Modoc Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93105 (www.frontporch.net/philanthropy). Burial followed a private ceremony in Detroit, MI.

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the U.K., he has been reluctant to conduct such assassinations on U.S. soil.) Nearly seven years later, the Russian FSB — under direct orders from President Putin — would murder Russian KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko by inserting polonium-210 into his tea at a central London hotel — and contaminate parts of London with radioactive poison. And a few years after that came the Kremlin’s attempted murder of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, with a deadly nerve agent, on British soil. Since then, Mr. Putin invaded Georgia in 2008 and, in 2014, Crimea, which he seized and annexed, amid other Russian ploys to bring former Soviet republics back into Moscow’s orbit. And now his full-on invasion of Ukraine.

THE RETURN OF STALINISM But back to the former KGB chairman, who personified why the Soviet Union failed. He truly believed in Stalinist doctrine and the cumbersome apparatchik system, telling me “the happiest day in my life was in 1952, when I realized Stalin was standing 30 meters from me inside Lenin’s Mausoleum.” Mr. Kryuchkov blamed the disintegration of his country on Mr. Gorbachev and the CIA (one in the same, to his mind). But ultimately, it was Mr. Kryuchkov’s inability — as a diehard

bureaucrat — to understand the needs of his nation’s people that compelled him to sign onto a frivolous, almost farcical attempt to oust Mr. Gorbachev from power, leading to Mr. Yeltsin’s boozefueled rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union, which Mr. Putin endeavors to recreate. Mr. Putin hates the U.S. and the U.K. with a passion because he believes their intelligence services, through people close to Mr. Gorbachev, engineered the disintegration of the country he served as a KGB officer. I asked Mr. Kryuchkov what he wanted his epitaph to say. He replied, “Just my name, date of birth and date of death.” An unimaginative bureaucrat to the end, Mr. Kryuchkov viewed even himself as just another statistic. I opt for this instead: “Here lies a dogmatic KGB chairman who was tricked into passing secrets to his archenemy, the Americans.” Yup, the KGB was born 68 years ago today. And it died on Dec. 3, 1991. A crying shame it did not stay dead and buried but returned from the grave to haunt the world 30 years later through one of its psychopathic ex-officers, today bringing a nightmarish hell to millions. Robert Eringer is a longtime Montecito author with vast experience in investigative journalism. He welcomes questions or comments at reringer@gmail. com.

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MONDAY

TUESDAY

Partly sunny and Brilliant sunshine beautiful INLAND

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

Variably cloudy; pleasant

INLAND

Sunny and nice

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80 40

77 43

78 40

80 39

68 45

69 47

74 48

73 46

70 47

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Pismo Beach 68/45

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Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Maricopa 68/46

Guadalupe 65/41

Santa Maria 66/41

Vandenberg 63/45

New Cuyama 66/36 Ventucopa 63/36

Los Alamos 72/38

Buellton 71/37

Solvang 73/36

Gaviota 67/46

SANTA BARBARA 68/45 Goleta 74/43

Carpinteria 68/48 Ventura 66/50

AIR QUALITY KEY Good Moderate

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

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71/38 66/46 82 in 2007 34 in 1950

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0.00” 0.01” (1.36”) 8.93” (13.97”)

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POINT ARENA TO POINT PINOS

Wind northwest 7-14 knots today. Waves 3-5 feet with a west-southwest swell 4-7 feet at 11 seconds. Visibility clear.

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO

Wind northwest 7-14 knots today. Waves 3-5 feet with a west-southwest swell 4-7 feet at 11 seconds. Visibility clear.

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Wind from the west-northwest at 8-16 knots today. Wind waves 3-6 feet with a west swell 3-6 feet at 5-second intervals. Visibility clear.

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MARINE FORECAST

SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL

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At Lake Cachuma’s maximum level at the point at which water starts spilling over the dam holds 188,030 acre-feet. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, equivalent to the amount of water consumed annually by 10 people in an urban environment. Storage 90,863 acre-ft. Elevation 710.90 ft. Evaporation (past 24 hours) 16.4 acre-ft. Inflow 14.7 acre-ft. State inflow 12.3 acre-ft. Storage change from yest. +0 acre-ft. Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

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Electric vehicles out of reach for some as mechanics, builders expect higher costs By GREG BISHOP THE CENTER SQUARE

(The Center Square) – With the pain at the pump ongoing and no sign of it subsiding, some say the governor’s suggestion that more people buy electric vehicles is “tone deaf.” Amid ongoing record inflation and record gas prices, Gov. J.B. Pritzker saw a silver lining this week. “It might be that people will more likely choose when they’re going to buy a new car to go to electric, because it’s much,

much less expensive over the long haul of ownership,” Gov. Pritzker said. He wants Illinois to be a leader in electric vehicle production. State Sen. Neil Anderson, R-Andalusia, said the governor is out of touch with what’s happening on the ground. “Tone deaf is not a strong enough word for that statement,” Sen. Anderson said. “The single parent that has a 10, 20-year-old vehicle, that’s trying to scrape money together to get to work, talking about them buying, on the low end, a $60,000 electric vehicle is

ridiculous.” Kevin Johnson, owner of Johnson and Johnson Auto Service Center in Springfield, said people are already trying to repair older vehicles to make them last as long as possible as inflation continues to impact personal finances. Increased EVs will mean increased costs for independent mechanics to get the tools and necessary training, something Mr. Johnson said will further increase costs on consumers. “Some of those tuitions for that could

be a couple thousand dollars for each employee,” Mr. Johnson told The Center Square. “That’s something out of my pocket that I have to pass on to the consumer to train these guys.” For the building trades, Dean Graven with the Home Builders Association of Illinois said fuel is needed for everything from drying drywall to transporting and stacking trusses. He said going electric is unrealistic. “We don’t have eclectic inloaders, we don’t have electric cranes, we don’t

have those,” Mr. Graven told The Center Square. “The technology may be here in 50 years. It’s not here now so it’s just not something that’s going to be solved very quickly.” According to AAA, gas prices across Illinois Friday ranged from $4.12 in White County near Indiana and Kentucky to $4.73 in Cook County. The average price of diesel in Illinois is $4.95. A year ago, the average for regular gas in Illinois was $2.98. For diesel last year, the average was $3.08.

Privacy concerns raised over proliferation of license plate cameras By KEVIN BESSLER THE CENTER SQUARE

(The Center Square) – As Illinois police departments lobby city councils on the importance of cameras to combat crime, some are raising concerns about the right to privacy. The American Civil Liberties Unions has released a report on Flock Safety, a company that sells license plate reading camera systems to taxing bodies. The ACLU report looks at how the technology is building a form of mass surveillance never seen before in American life. Flock systems have been installed in 1,400 cities across the country and photograph more than a billion vehicles every month. Its ambition is to expand to “every single city in America.” “We are concerned about all of this massive influx of technology over the last year or so and the question of what really happens to it and ultimately utilized,” said Ed Yohnka, director of communications and public policy with ACLU of Illinois. Champaign and Peoria are using the technology. In Springfield, taxpayers are paying $415,000 for 83 cameras to be installed in certain areas of the city. Bloomington city leaders this month voted to install the license plate cameras despite opposition from the Central Illinois chapter of the ACLU. Mr. Yohnka said company officials are using fear as a way to sell their products. “The marketers of these systems are telling local leaders that they can adopt these systems in order to fight a recent spike in gun violence,” Mr. Yohnka said. “There’s actually no evidence that it works that way or that it will help in terms of that.” The report notes if Flock cameras become as widespread and densely placed as the company hopes, law enforcement will gain the ability to know the detailed movements of virtually any vehicle for as far in the past as the data is held. “The risk of abuse by government is all too real,” the report says. “Unfortunately, this country has a long tradition, extending up to the present, of law enforcement targeting people not because they’re suspected of criminal activity but because of their political or religious beliefs or race. There are also many documented instances of individual officers abusing police databases.” In some communities, there is an agreement that images captured by the cameras remain in the system for 30 days before automatically being deleted by the company. The systems aren’t just being implemented by police agencies across the state. Flock Safety sales representative Dan Murdoch told leaders in Springfield in December that more than half their business is with the private sector like big-box retailers, homeowners’ associations and other places. “Rivers Casinos just put in a dozen of these cameras,” Mr. Murdoch said. “Des Plaines has access to those for free.” Mr. Murdoch said the systems are also integrated with FBI, Illinois State Police, stolen vehicle databases, Amber or Silver alert lists and other systems. Mr. Yohnka said it is important that there are a set of rules put in place before a city decides to install the cameras. “What is really required here is that communities and local law enforcement put in place very strict privacy policies in advance before ever adopting these kinds of systems,” Mr. Yohnka said.

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Laundry Project volunteer Joshua Ochoa pays for a customer’s wash by inserting coins into a laundry machine at the Wash and Fun Laundromat in Santa Barbara on Saturday.

Organizers would like to run at least two SB events per year LAUNDRY

Continued from Page A1 the reality that many families face on a weekly basis of buying groceries or washing their clothes. The Laundry Project is designed to bolster the wellbeing of the community by easing the financial burden of laundry for families that are forced to choose between feeding their children and cleaning their clothes. Clean laundry is more than an ongoing financial burden for many lower income Santa Barbara families. Jushi Holdings, Inc. is the partnering sponsor with volunteers from Beyond/ Hello assisting with laundry services. This is the second Laundry Project event in Santa Barbara since Current Initiatives and Jushi partnered to provide clean laundry to the community. “Santa Barbara is not lower-income, but every city has families that fall into that category … especially post-pandemic with skyrocketing gas prices. Some families forgo lunch or dinner, so that they can wash their kids’ clothes and send them to school,” said Mr. Sowell. The Laundry Project brings renewed hope to thousands of people nationwide by providing the funds and cleaning products necessary to wash and dry laundry for anyone in need by creating a caring space at the laundromat. Since 2008, the Laundry Project has washed more than 219,000 loads of laundry for over 21,000 families, in 840 laundry service projects nationwide. Contributions from the community

are always appreciated and donations of detergent, quarters (rolls of $10), garbage bags, coloring books, crayons, fabric softener and laundry baskets are continuously needed. Current Initiatives has plans to continue hosting this event in Santa Barbara. “Our goal is at least twice a year. We would like to get to once a quarter,” said Mr. Sowell. The Laundry project has taken place in about 15 different states and 50 cities since 2008. The headquarters are in

Tampa, Fla., but the project has taken place in major cities such as Las Vegas Des Moines, Iowa., Austin, Tex., Chicago, Ill., Cleveland, Ohio, Philadelphia, Pen., Seattle, Wash., New York, NY, Albuquerque, NM, and Nashville, Tenn., among many others. While many of the cities themselves are not low income, there is still a percentage of the population that is low income. Also similar to Tampa, FL, there may be low-income pockets of the population in high-income neighborhoods, Mr. Sowell explained. Current Initiatives is a 501(c)(3) not-

for-profit organization incorporated in Florida that started with young adults committed to educating others on current social initiatives and then mobilizing them to bring about change. “We are always looking for volunteers and more people to be involved so that we can continue to do this for as many people as we can as often as we can,” said Mr. Sowell. If you would like to volunteer you can go to www.laundrybycurrent.org. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

‘Reaching out to those who are hurting in any way we possibly can’ UKRAINE

Continued from Page A1 the concert, Pastor Michael Smiyum told the News-Press in an email. After the concert, words of encouragement were shared by Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce Dudley and 1st

District Supervisor Das Williams, reiterating the importance of “reaching out to those who are hurting in any way we possibly can.” The evening ended with a closing prayer from Pastor Smiyun. The music for the evening was performed by UCSB students, with planning and guidance provided by Alexandra Birch from the

UCSB Department of Music. The concert is among the church’s ongoing fundraising efforts. “We are grateful for the strong support the Ukrainian community has received in these difficult moments from the people of Santa Barbara,” Pastor Smiyun said. “It is more than we expected or ever imagined.

“We have started working with churches in Europe to deliver much needed medical supplies and food to the people in the Ukraine who are migrating from eastern Ukraine to western Ukraine,” said Pastor Smiyun. Pastor Smiyun said that the church is under the understanding that the U.S. is

not taking in refugees from Ukraine, hit hard by the Russian invasion. “However, we do hope and pray that the doors may be opened, and we as a community would be more than happy to receive those who are fleeing from the devastated destruction, which is materializing in the country of our birth,” said Pastor

Smiyun. If you wish to contribute to the fundraising efforts, you can write a check to the church, indicating in the memo line that it is for the Ukrainian refugee fund. For more information, call the church at 805-708-9810. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

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Gaucho men fall to LBSU on last-second heartbreaker By MICHAEL JORGENSON UCSB SPORTS WRITER

The No. 5 UCSB men’s basketball team’s hopes of repeating as Big West champions came to a stunning end Friday night at The Dollar Loan Center, as Jadon Jones’ deep buzzer beating three gave Long Beach State a 67-64 win to send the conference’s No. 1 seed to the championship game. The Gauchos (17-11) held the lead for more than 30 minutes of game time and never trailed by more than three points. They took a 6460 advantage with 1:23 remaining after four straight points from redshirt junior guard Ajare Sanni. The Beach (20-11) scored on the next two possessions. Big West Player of the Year Colin Slater knocked down a pair of free throws and LBSU forced a turnover which led to Aboubacar Traore’s game-tying dunk with 36 seconds left. Freshman guard Ajay Mitchell missed the potential go-ahead jumper with 12 seconds left and Long Beach dribbled the clock down to just 1.3 seconds before calling a timeout. On the final inbound, the three LBSU players that were closest to the ball were all covered. After setting a screen at the top of the key, Jones popped out late to receive the pass and got a clean look from about 27 feet out, swishing home the final shot of the night. It was a standout performance for forward Miles Norris, who got UCSB out to a good start

scoring 10 of his team-high 15 points (6/14 FG) in the first half. He also led the Gauchos with seven rebounds and was an efficient 3-of-6 from beyond-the-arc. Starting for the first time since January, Sanni stepped up to match Norris with 15 points of his own. He also had six assists, his most ever in a Gaucho uniform. On the heels of one of his best performances of the season, senior Amadou Sow was held to five points (2/6 FG) and six boards. He finishes his Gaucho career as the program’s third alltime leading rebounder (860) and tied with Michael Bryson for No. 6 all-time in points (1,620). Neither team looked particularly sharp off the opening tip, but a Norris block led to a fast break three from Sanni to open the scoring at the 17:31 mark. Norris added to his strong start with a huge one-handed jam three minutes later, starting a 12-0 UCSB spurt capped by another Sanni triple to give UCSB a 19-10 lead. Senior forward Jay Nagle provided some good minutes off the bench, stopping an LBSU run with a three of his own and rising high on the defensive glass leading to a Calvin Wishart trey. The Gauchos pushed their lead into double-digits, but the Beach scored the final six points to head into halftime trailing 37-32. Santa Barbara came out stagnant to start the second half as Long Beach extended to a 14-2 run, taking a 38-37 lead several minutes in. Sanni made some big plays to swing the

momentum back UCSB’s way, taking a charge, beating his man off the dribble for back-to-back layups, stealing an inbound pass and feeding Norris to put the Gauchos up by five. Colin Slater refused to let the game get away from the Beach, getting to the line with regularity as he put in 22 of his 30 points in the second half alone. After shooting 50 percent (15/30 FG) from the field and 46.2 percent (6/13 3FG) on threes in the first half, the Gauchos were held to 40.7 percent overall and 1-of-8 (.125) from deep over the final 20 minutes. LBSU scored the final seven points of the game. UCSB ends the year with a 49.4 team shooting percentage, good for No. 3 in program history. Forward Robinson Idehen (6 points, 3/4 FG) set the new single-season record connecting on 67.4 percent of his field goal attempts this year. He also finished ninth all-time in blocks (79). The Gauchos’ +8.0 average scoring margin ranks fourth all-time, while their +4.1 rebounding margin is tied for 10th. Big West Freshman of the Year Ajay Mitchell made his mark on the UCSB record book as well, finishing sixth in points (312), third in points per game (11.6), second in assists (101) and eighth in field goal percentage (.531) among Gaucho freshmen. Michael Jorgenson writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

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The UC Santa Barbara softball team opened the SB Spring Break Bash – its fourth and final home tournament of the season – with a 10-1, five-inning thrashing of Sacred Heart before falling to Princeton 3-1.

UCSB vs. SACRED HEART In the first game of the day, the Gauchos (7-15) put up 10 runs on 13 hits to win their fourth straight game. It was the fifth straight game with doubledigit hits for UCSB, something it hasn’t done since 2016. The first three batters in the lineup – Maci Fines, Madelyn McNally and Ally Nodohara – all finished with three hits and three runs. Nodohara and senior Rayna Cohen both had three RBI as well. That set a new season-high for Cohen, while Nodohara accomplished it for her team-leading third time. Santa Barbara pounced on Sacred Heart (3-10) with three runs in each of the first two innings. The Gauchos’ first five batters all reached to begin the game. Fines started things off with a triple to right and scored on McNally’s single to left on the next at bat. McNally then scored on a double to center by Nodohara, who made it 3-0 on a single by Cohen. The Pioneers opened the second with a solo home run, but that would be their only scoring play of the game. The Gauchos responded with eight hits over the next two innings. Fines scored on a Nodohara double. McNally scored on a single by catcher Teah Thies. Nodohara made it a 6-1 game on a sacrifice fly by Tyler Goldstein. The Gauchos kept their foot on the pedal with their

biggest inning in the fourth, scoring four more times. Fines got another multi-base hit, bringing Chloe Stewart home on a double to right. She then made it home herself as Nodohara hit another single. Cohen would knock a two-run double into center field to bring in McNally and Nodohara. With a 10-1 lead heading into the fourth, UCSB’s defense would get it done from there. Pitcher Alyssa Molina (2-4) struck out five batters and gave up just three hits in four innings. Junior Lexy Mills kept SHU without another run in the final inning.

UCSB vs. PRINCETON Against Princeton in game two, the Gauchos enjoyed a 7-4 hit advantage, but couldn’t put up the runs in a 3-1 defeat. Neither team scored until the sixth, when the Tigers (3-8) capitalized on Gaucho errors to score three unearned runs. UCSB finally got on the board in the bottom half of the inning. Cohen led off with a single to center field and was replaced by pinch runner Lauren Lewis. Theis and Goldstein followed with two more singles to load the bases. Korie Thomas tallied an RBI on a groundout to bring in a run from Lewis. Unfortunately for the Gauchos, that was their only run of the game. Camryn Snyder (5-7) pitched all seven innings, finishing one strikeout shy of a season-high with seven. The Gauchos will play host to South Dakota State tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. before closing their final weekend of non-conference play with two more games on Sunday. All three games will be streamed on ESPN+. Michael Jorgenson writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

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UCSB women’s water polo secures first Big West win By MICHAEL JORGENSON UCSB SPORTS WRITER

The No. 16 UCSB women’s water polo team earned its first Big West win of 2022 on Friday, using a stellar defensive day to defeat No. 24 CSUN 10-7 on the road. The Gauchos improve to 11-8 on the season and 1-1 in conference play, while dropping the Matadors to 8-9 overall, 0-3 Big West. UCSB got out to a great start with four first quarter goals coming from four different Gauchos. Juju Amaral put away her first of three for the day at the 6:04 mark to open the day’s scoring. Santa Barbara ended the opening period on a 3-0 run with goals from Sarah Owens, Nina Munson and Caitlyn Snyder. However, CSUN would dominate the second, going on a 4-1 run of its own to tie things at 5-5 heading into halftime. The Gauchos took the lead back by scoring the first two goals of the second half. Snyder notched

her second straight three-goal outing a little over a minute into the third. Amaral then made it 7-5 on a power play 74 seconds later. Soon after that, she would seal her first hat trick of the year to put UCSB up 8-6. The Matadors pulled within one once again early in the fourth, as Dorottya Telek’s goal made it 8-7 in favor of the Gauchos. However, UCSB would secure the final two goals of the day, as Munson and Owens scored in quick succession to seal the 10-7 win. Freshman goalkeeper Taylor McEvilly (4-5) set new seasonhighs with nine saves on a .563 save percentage. The seven goals allowed were tied for the second-fewest of the season for UCSB. The Gauchos will have a week off before heading to Hawaii for a Friday, Mar. 25 meeting against the No. 5 Rainbow Wahine. Michael Jorgenson writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

Gauchos close out UCSB Invite with several strong performances By DANIEL MOEBUSBOWLES UCSB SPORTS WRITER

The UCSB Invite continued on the Pauley Track, with the Gauchos running their final laps and making their finishing marks on Friday evening. The Gauchos would finish off with various sprint and distance events as well as competitive throws and jumps. Junior Chase Tarr would dominate in the javelin, throwing an astounding 64.73m on his third attempt. In a trifecta of events, junior Gabriela Sanchez would place second in the discus, shot put and hammer throw. Junior Graham Michiels Please see TRACK on A7

Fourth straight win for UCSB baseball By DANIEL MOEBUSBOWLES UCSB SPORTS WRITER

Make it four-straight wins for No. 30 UCSB Baseball, which topped UC San Diego in a neutral game matchup 96 Friday night. The Gauchos traveled down to Lake Elsinore Diamond to top the Tritons in the first of a two-game series. Cory Lewis (2-0) tossed five innings of one-run ball as one unearned run scored under his watch. He struck out six in the win. Ryan Harvey once again closed things out defensively retiring all three batters in the ninth for his fourth save of the season. On the offensive end, Bryce Willits went 3-for-5 with a double, a home run, and four RBI. Nick Vogt collected four RBI as well going 1-for-2 with a basesclearing triple and two walks. The Tritons struck first in the bottom of the second scoring on a wild pitch to take a 1-0 lead, but the Gauchos answered quickly with a huge outing top of the third. Six runs would come across in the inning, as Vogt roped a bases-loaded triple to left center to give his team a 3-1 lead on the fourth AB of the inning. Kyle Johnson made it 41 on an RBI single that scored Vogt and Willits, ending the scoring efforts with a two-run homer over the right field wall. The eighth run of the game came in the top of the seventh, with Willits slapping a single up the middle mound to score Vogt and extend the lead 8-1. Three Triton runs scored in the bottom of the seventh and the Gauchos answered with a Vogt sac-fly in the top of the eighth to make it 9-4. Two more UCSD runs came across in the eighth, but UCSB got away with the 9-6 win. UCSB will play UCSD again tomorrow at 4 p.m. at Lake Elsinore Diamond. Daniel Moebus-Bowles writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

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SY beach volleyball sweeps Laguna Blanca The Santa Ynez High School girls beach volleyball team beat Laguna Blanca 3-0 on Friday at Laguna Blanca. The Pirates’ No. 1 team of Jayda Henrey and Gianna Pecile won 22-20, 21-15. Kaki Allen and Sadie Lishman took the No. 2 match, 21-14, 21-12 and Hannah Allen and Cailin Glover won the No. 3 match 21-5, 2112. “We had a tough loss on Thursday against a strong serving Santa Barbara team. As a result, we struggled to stay in system.” said Santa Ynez head coach Melissa

SY finds success at Central Coast Spring Classic Santa Ynez High’s track and field squad performed well on Day 1 of Arroyo Grande’s Central Coast Spring Classic on Friday. Only two Pirates ran, with Kate Mazza finishing first in the 1600m and second in the 800m and Zachary Liljenquist finishing fifth in the 800m.

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The No. 5 UCSB men’s volleyball team kept on rolling Friday night at CSUN, downing the Matadors in three sets for the second straight night, 25-20, 25-17, 25-23. The Gauchos (14-4, 3-0) have yet to drop a set in March, winning all 12 sets they have played. They are now out to their first ever 3-0 start to Big West play and have made it two straight years with a 9-match win streak. For the fifth straight time, junior outside hitter Ryan Wilcox led UCSB in kills (18). He hit above .600 for the second straight match, setting a new career-high in kills per set (6.0). It was the fourth time in his four-year Gaucho career that he has averaged at least five kills per set. Junior opposite Haotian Xia went for 11 kills, registering first double-digit since January. He also added two aces and two blocks. Speaking of blocks – a category in which UCSB ranks third nationally – the Gauchos had another big night, led by middle blocker Donovan Todorov’s five. Outside hitter Dayne Chalmers finished with four, while Brandon Hicks and Patrick Paragas went for two apiece. Chalmers also had a strong night at the service line, equaling Xia for match-high honors with two aces.

Santa Barbara trailed 14-13 in the first set, but would dominate the rest of the way. Three straight blocks involving different combinations of Gauchos started a 5-1 run, capped by a Xia ace to go up 23-18. Wilcox put away seven of his 18 kills in the opening game including the final point. UCSB hit at a .577 clip as a team. The Gauchos got out to a 4-1 lead in set two and never looked back. Back-to-back aces from Chalmers gave them an early 12-5 advantage. UCSB’s lead grew as large as nine points. Hicks set up Paragas for a kill to make it 22-13 and the set eventually ended on a CSUN service error. Neither team led by more than two points in the closest set of the night. Wilcox saved his best for last, posting a massive eight-kill total (.727) to help close things out. His final kill put the Gauchos up 24-23 and Todorov and Xia combined for the match-sealing block on the following point. UCSB won’t play again until heading south to face No. 2 Long Beach State on Friday, Mar. 25. The two teams will have a rematch the following night at Rob Gym. Both matches are scheduled for 7:00 p.m. start times.

Laguna Blanca boys volleyball swept Santa Ynez on Friday, winning 25-15, 25-17 and 25-22. Thomas Couvillion led the way for Laguna Blanca, recording 11 kills, four digs and three aces. Ganden Walker and Drew Levinson contributed seven and five kills, respectively. “Our pin hitters had a great night tonight offensively, putting the ball away on both the right and left sides,” said Laguna Blanca Coach Kat Niksto. “It was a fun competitive match with both sides playing all-out volleyball.”

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The Santa Ynez Pirates faced off against Santa Barbara on Friday, collecting 17 hits on their way to a 14-6 victory. The high-scoring game was full of offensive standouts for the Pirates. Cierra Cloud reached base all four times she came to the plate, finishing a homer shy of the cycle and driving in two. Giszelle Hrehor belted a three-run dinger and a double on her way to a five RBI night, while Riley Vannasap and Lily Martinez contributed three hits apiece. Kylee Johnson and Sydney Gills added two extra base hits each, while Johnson and Georgia Jensen each swiped two bases. Vannasap was the pitcher in the matchup, going the distance with eight strikeouts for the win.

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The Dos Pueblos High School baseball

The Dos Pueblos softball team unloaded on Cabrillo on Friday, cruising to a 9-0 victory and improving its record to 5-0 in league play and 9-3 overall. Riley Monroe contributed a stellar 4-5 performance, driving in four, while Bella Nuno went 3-5 with a double and a triple. Pitcher Georgia Wilson hurled a complete game victory, giving up only four hits on the day. “This was probably our best game of the year,” said Coach Mike Gerken. “We played very cleanly on defense today and we got great at-bats up and down the order and our base running got us a couple extra runs. Jessica Reveles was so smooth at short today and once again, our outfielders tracked down a lot of well hit balls. Mia made a great throw home to Riley to end the 6th. Credit to Riley for holding on to the ball on a pretty solid

Rogers. “After the loss, we discussed the importance of staying focused on “our” game, taking care of the little things, making adjustments quickly and playing a more cerebral game. The girls’ applied the above and took care of business with a strong finish to the week, defeating Laguna Blanca at all 3 positions in straight sets. I am proud of how the girls’ came together and rebounded for the win.”

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The Santa Barbara High baseball team scored three runs in the bottom of the 7th to steal a 7-6 win from Santa Ynez on Friday. The Dons’ victory came on a walk-off single by Michael Firestone in the bottom of the 7th, capping off a gritty rally composed of singles and aggressive baserunning. “The heart was back, the energy was back and hopefully they can build on this,” said Santa Barbara coach Steve Schuck. Tucker Dilbeck started the game for the Dons, settling down after a rough first inning to pitch four frames in the contest. Jackie Holland came on in relief, providing three strong innings and collecting the win. The pitchers were victims of spotty defense, with three errors allowing the Pirates a lead of 6-2 before the Santa Barbara comeback began. Offensive contributors for the Dons included Vince Gamberdell, who collected a pair of hits and reached base three time, as well as Kai Mault and Cal Wipf, who each contributed a hit and a walk. Mault also stole two bases. Pitching for Santa Ynez was Jackson Cloud, who pitched into the 7th allowing only two runs on three hits and striking out seven. He also contributed on offense, going 2-3 with a run. Seth Ruiz also contributed a two-RBI double to the Santa Ynez effort. Both teams now boast a 3-2 record in league play.

team creamed Cabrillo on Friday, cruising to a 9-0 victory and improving its record to 3-2 in league play and 5-5 overall. It was a huge day for pitcher Ryan Speshyock, who struck out 12 in only five innings while also going 2-3 with three RBIs at the plate. Speshyock didn’t supply Dos Pueblos’ only two-way performance of the game, as Dylon Bailey drove in two and scored three on a 3-3 performance at the plate while also striking out two batters in a scoreless inning of relief. Bailey also stole two bases in the contest. Other contributors included Joe Talarico, 2-4 with two runs, and Joe Molina, who contributed an RBI single.

On a night when offense was in short supply, Westmont women’s basketball (26-4) found a way to advance in the NAIA Women’s Basketball National Championship Opening Round Tournament. The Warriors, who are a number one seeded in the overall 64-team tournament, defeated Westcliff (14-12) by a score of 62-47. “We definitely struggled to get into an offensive rhythm today,” said Westmont head coach Kirsten Moore. “It is in those times we have to keep relying on our defense and that came through for us tonight. That is what ended up getting us a little bit of momentum in the second half, creating some back-to-back turnovers, and loosing things up on the offensive end.” Westmont’s defense was especially productive on the boards, where they collected 53 rebounds to 39 for Westcliff. “It was a team effort on both ends of the floor,” noted Moore. “We did a great job on the boards. With us not shooting the ball very well, getting 22 offensive rebounds was a key for us.” Sydney Brown notched a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds while also posting three assists. Stefanie Berberabe added another 11 points, nine rebounds and four assists and Gabriella Stoll contributed 10 points and eight rebounds. The game remained tight throughout the first half with neither team gaining more than a six-point advantage. At halftime, Westmont held just a slim two-point lead (28-26). Westmont began to pull away in the third quarter. Up 33-30 with seven minutes showing on the clock, the Warriors began a 15-2 run to go up 48-32. During that stretch, six different Warriors scored from the field with only one (Brown) contributing more than one bucket. Entering the fourth quarter with a 12-point lead (48-36), Westmont went on a 9-0 run to go up 57-46. Stoll hit a pair of threes to get the Warrior run going. With less than six minutes to play, Westcliff was unable to overcome the 21point deficit. “We earned the right to play one more game and we will get dialed in on a game plan and hopefully come out with an attacking mindset tomorrow,” offered Moore. “I was really excited about the fan turnout, given that it was spring break,” noted Moore. “We had some students stay around and had a great turnout from the community, for which I was really grateful. I hope people come out tomorrow and support us. It is a huge game for the opportunity to go back to Sioux City and the final site.” Tomorrow at six o’clock, the Warriors will host Science and Arts of Oklahoma (23-9) who won the second semifinal game. The Drovers defeated the Bulldogs of Montana Western (15-14) to earn the right to match-up with the Warriors in what will be Westmont’s final home game of the year. The team that prevails in Murchison Gymnasium tomorrow night will join the winners of the other 15 Opening Round Tournaments in Sioux City, Iowa to play the remaining game in the championship bracket beginning on March 17.

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Warriors baseball moves to 24-2 following Friday sweep By JACOB NORLING WESTMONT SPORTS WRITER

Westmont baseball has transitioned from being viewed as a club with a hot start, to now being seen as a top-10 team in the NAIA. After winning a pair of games against #23 Arizona Christian (18-10, 7-5 GSAC), #7 Westmont (24-2, 13-1 GSAC) continued to put their best foot

forward in 2022. In game one, Bryan Peck continued to lobby for the label of “ace” when he fired eight innings of one-run ball to lead the club to a 10-1 victory. Then, in game two, Eric Oseguera moved to 60 following five innings of onerun ball. Following Oseguera’s departure, six huge outs from the Westmont bullpen secured a 3-1 Please see BASEBALL on A8

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Continued from Page A6 would take the high jump with a final mark of 6’08.50.” Sophomore Brendan Fong would complete a single lap in 48.65 to place first in the 400m. In the 100m dash, the other sophomore Justin Fong would place similarly, crossing the finish line in an amazing 10.93 for a photo finish. Towards the end of the night, sophomore Lauren

made it to the stand in the 5000m, coming in third with a time of 17:09.45. The Gauchos were the primary competitors for the men’s 3000m steeplechase with senior Nick Randazzo taking first place with a time of 9:04.22. The men and women’s track teams will take on the Aztec Invite in a two-day competition starting Friday, March 25 at the San Diego State Track. Daniel Moebus-Bowles writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

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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. Monitors, audits, and compares timecards to 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. Calculates and provides supervisors with overall payroll reports and projections as needed in tracking budgets. Provides payroll financial documentation for the annual payroll audit that details each budgeted area within Associated Students. Oversees the department key and security system. 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

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 on-line 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 retentions, 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

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Provides employee & labor relations guidance to all levels of the organization, resolving highly complex issues in creative and effective ways. Serves as an experienced consultant and subject matter expert on all employee & labor relations matters and advises management on effective performance management steps, including corrective action and progressive discipline. Provides complex analytical support and functions as management advocate for grievances and complaint resolution processes as well as hearings, arbitrations and unfair practice charge matters. Provides expert guidance on unique personnel issues/ problems without precedent or structure and develops/ recommends best practice solutions to resolve those issues. Represents the campus to the Office of the President on system wide bargaining negotiation strategy and positions. Reqs: Juris Doctor (JD) Degree and experience as an attorney. Advanced organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills. Advanced knowledge of employee relations function and other subject areas of human resources. Demonstrated experience with conflict resolution. Advanced knowledge of organization policies and procedures. Advanced knowledge of union/labor contracts. Advanced knowledge of labor/ employment law, including applicable state and federal laws, court decisions regarding employment-related matters and techniques of labor negotiations. Advanced level skills necessary to bargain and represent the University’s interest in union negotiations and in complex/ sensitive dispute forums. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check required. Occasion travel. Two positions are available. $75,000 - $95,000/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 30597

MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS FACILITY SUPERVISOR Materials Research Laboratory

Responsible for the training, maintenance, operation and research in electron microscopy, focused ion beam, atomic force microscopes and other advanced techniques. Along with another Research and Development Engineer 4, is responsible for the supervision of the microscopy and microanalysis facility which serves more than 300 users annually and over 40 faculty research groups. Reqs: advanced degree in related area and or equivalent experience/ training. Strong background in research microscopy related to higher education. High level of expertise in two of the following and basic familiarity of the others: Atomic Force Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy. Ability to supervise a busy facility, maintain high-end research equipment and provide feedback and training to users on microscopy and microanalysis. Advanced communication skills, both written and verbal, to convey complex information in a clear and concise manner. Ability to work in a highly collaborative manner, assess complex challenges and recommend effective solutions. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $98,300 - $125,000/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 3/24/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 32551

ASSISTANT DEAN FOR BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AND SPACE MANAGEMENT College of Engineering

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. 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 donor-funded 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

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win. “I’d say today was one of the most complete doubleheaders we’ve played this season,” said Westmont head coach Robert Ruiz. “We know it’s going to take everything we’ve got to be competitive against these guys. They’re a very good team with a strong offense and a lot of good components on the mound. “I was really proud of the way our guys took the field today after a long road trip yesterday.” In game one, Westmont put together one of their most complete wins of the season. In the top of the second inning, Justin Rodriguez opened the scoring when he turned on a ball and saw it creep over the 340” sign down the left field line. It was the junior’s third home run of the season, and he did not have to wait long to add to that total a couple times. The Warriors added another run in the top of the third when Brady Renck battled down 12 in the count, and hooked a ball inside the first base line for an RBI triple, scoring Ryan Desaegher. An inning later, Finn Snyder came up in a big spot with runners at second and third and two outs. Snyder punched a ball up the middle, passed the diving ACU second baseman and into center. Rodriguez and Parker O’Neil brought home runs three and four for the Warriors. With the way Peck was throwing the ball, the game almost felt out of reach. The highlight of his day came in the top of the fifth, when the Firestorm tested the righthander’s grit. After a one-out single, the Firestorm were gifted an opportunity when Renck committed a throwing error, putting runners at the corners with one out. With a chance to get the Firestorm back in the game, Daniel Durazo bounced a ball right at Renck once again. On this occasion, a perfect feed from Renck to Robbie Haw started an inning-ending 4-6-3 double play to keep the Firestorm off the board. Peck, as excited as he’s appeared in a Westmont uniform, pounded his glove and screamed his way back into the Westmont dugout. The Warriors immediately added insult to injury when they added another pair in the next half-inning. First, Rodrigues collected another RBI with a base hit to right, and then, a perfectly placed safety squeeze from Desaegher brought home run number six. In the bottom of the sixth, ACU got on the board with a sacrifice fly. Then, in the top of the seventh, Rodriguez lifted his second home run of the day, this time with a man on base. While his first long ball of the day was a line drive in the corner, the second was a mammoth shot, high in the air to left that was gone the moment it left Rodriguez’ bat. The Simi Valley native admired his blast while remaining posed in his follow-through, before calmly dropping the bat and beginning his victory lap. In the top of the eighth, Westmont added another pair on run-scoring singles from Thomas Rudinsky and Josh Rego. In the bottom half of the eighth, Peck induced a strikeout, fly out, and groundout to cap off a career-high eight innings of onerun ball. Peck threw 101 pitches, struck out six, and induced 12 groundouts in his tone-setting outing. The freshman earned his fifth win of the season, remaining undefeated in as many decisions. “Peck was fantastic,” stated Ruiz. “I was really pleased with the demeanor he took the mound with today. He knew he was facing a very good team and that it was a big game for us. He got hit a line drive early, in the shin, and not only recovered from that, but threw five more innings. “He was about as good as he’s been all year today.” Daniel Patterson retired the side in order in the ninth, securing Westmont’s 23rd win in 25 tries. In game two, Rodriguez came out for an encore when he opened the scoring in the top of the second. On a full count offering, Rodriguez saw a hanging breaking ball and belted it out

“I have to give some credit to our defense. We turned quite a few double plays today and overall made big plays when it was critical.” Robert Ruiz, Westmont head coach of the park to straight-away left. With his third home run of the day, Rodriguez started the series 5-6, with three home runs, five RBIs, and four runs scored. “Justin had a fantastic day,” reflected Ruiz. “It’s really good to see him get going and he was able to play some outfield today too. All around, it was a big day for him. To have that kind of production of your seven-hole deepens your lineup and gives us a chance to win every time we play.” In the third inning, Renck continued his bounce back season with a home run down the right field line. The junior’s teamleading seventh home run of the season gave the club a 2-0 lead. In the fourth, Finn Snyder came up with another big hit when he served a ball to the wall in left center field. Rego came all the way around from first on the two-out run-scoring triple from Snyder, his second three-bagger of the year. Like they did against Peck in game one, ACU’s first real threat came against Oseguera in the bottom of the fifth. Oseguera surrendered just one hit during the first four innings of play, before giving up a pair of singles in the fifth. With two on, two out, and a full count offering, Oseguera induced a ground ball to Renck at second and confidently strolled to the dugout before Renck’s throw ended the threat. After Oseguera walked a man to begin the sixth, Ruiz handed the ball to Gabe Arteaga, who has been one of Westmont’s most dominant relievers in 2022. Arteaga hit the batter he saw, putting him in even deeper water. Then, a chopper to O’Neil at third started a perfectly choreographed 5-4-3 double play for the first-two outs. ACU got a run on a two-out single, but more importantly, the damage was limited thanks to the double play and a strikeout. Oseguera’s final line was five innings, one earned run, two strikeouts, and two walks. Most notably, Oseguera becomes the first Warrior to collect his sixth win, as he too, remains undefeated in as many decisions. “Osey was fantastic today, again,” offered Ruiz. “He gave us five competitive innings, and then Gabe came in and pitched us out of a jam. “I have to give some credit to our defense. We turned quite a few double plays today and overall made big plays when it was critical. You have to be able to make big plays to win games against teams of this caliber.” After the Warriors went down quietly in the top of the seventh, bullpen ace Carlos Moreno took the mound for the bottom half. All it took was nine pitches to secure his second save of the season, and Westmont’s 24th win of the year. “We preserved the entire bullpen; every guy is able to go tomorrow,” noted Ruiz. “With the caliber of the offense we are facing, that is huge.” The Warriors look to win the series today as they play another pair of games against the Firestorm. First pitch of game one is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. MST/10:00 a.m. PST. Links to live coverage will be available on the Westmont Athletics website. “I know Arizona Christian is going to come back strong tomorrow,” said Ruiz. “It’s going to take everything we have to win this series. It’s Brad and Chad day, and we’ll be ready.” Jacob Norling is the sports information assistant at Westmont College. email: sports@newspress.com

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‘A Portrait of the Artist’ Work of enigmatic heiress on display at Historical Museum

By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

any have been captivated by the stories of copper heiress Huguette Clark and Bellosguardo, her famed summer home on East Cabrillo Boulevard in Santa Barbara, but few realize she was a talented artist. The first exhibition of her artwork since 1931 is now on view at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. It is presented in collaboration with the Bellosguardo Foundation. Never before publicly seen images from Mrs. Clark’s recently rediscovered personal photo album are also displayed, giving glimpses of her work in her art studio and from her private life at her Bellosguardo estate along with ephemera from the scrapbooks. “Huguette Marcelle Clark: A Portrait of the Artist” is on exhibit through June 22. Trained by renowned portraitest Tadeusz (Tade) Styka, Mrs. Clark built a deep body of work throughout her long life. Included are self-portraits, portraits, a still life and images of a Japanese geisha and a Spanish dancer, among others. Mr. Styka’s portrait of Mrs. Clark is also on

view. “We wanted to show the breadth of Huguette Clark’s talent,” said Dacia Harwood, director of the Historical Museum at 136 E. De la Guerra St. “She lived a fascinating life, and we’ve learned more about her time in our community while preparing this exhibition. “As a residual beneficiary of the Clark estate, the Bellosguardo Foundation received an extensive collection of her paintings. Several of the works selected, all oils, were conserved in anticipation of the exhibition.” When Bill Dedman received a call at his home in Westport, Conn., inviting him to speak Wednesday at the event, he accepted with alacrity. He had visited Santa Barbara in 2013 to talk about his newly published biography, “Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and Spending of a Great Fortune,” which he co-authored with Paul Clark Newell Jr., whose father was a first cousin to Mrs. Clark. “Paul, who died in 2016 at the age of 80, had a close relationship with Huguette. I got to know her through writing this book with him,” said Mr. Dedman during a phone interview from his home. “I wish I had seen more of her paintings, which reveal another facet of her fascinating life, about which there is a great deal of

misinformation.” The biggest surprise he learned while writing the book was that, contrary to Mrs. Clark’s reputation as a mysterious recluse, “she was a woman of confidence who was comfortable in her own skin. Not only was she a talented artist, read widely, played the violin early on and collected Stradivariuses, she spoke three languages and corresponded with family and friends. The paintings help give us a sense of what she was like as a person, a whole new perspective on her – intelligent, artistic, creative, inspiring. “Paul said that for almost 10 years, beginning in 1994, he was in touch with her by phone and correspondence. Huguette was lucid, alert, articulate and intelligent. She may have been isolated, but she was very aware of the outside world. She read The New York Times daily,” said Mr. Dedman, noting that the heiress chose to live in a hospital room while her mansions in Manhattan, Connecticut and Santa Barbara remained empty. Although Mrs. Clark, who died in May 2011, two weeks before her 105th birthday in New York City, never visited Bellosguardo after 1963, she employed a staff that kept the house and grounds in pristine condition. “Her choices are not what I

would make if I inherited $400 million. This didn’t make her crazy or mentally incompetent, as relatives tried to prove when they contested her will,” Mr. Dedman said. “The choices were just peculiar.” Then an investigative reporter for NBC News, Mr. Dedman had no idea who Huguette Clark was when he began house hunting in Connecticut because his wife, Pam Belluck, a health and science reporter for The New York Times, was transferred from Boston to New York city. “When I couldn’t find anything in our price range, I started looking at places that we definitely could not afford just for the fun of it. The most expensive was Le Beau Chateau in the tony town of New Canaan, Conn. It had been reduced from $35 million to $24 million,” recalled Mr. Dedman. “I found out it was owned by Huguette Clark, who hadn’t lived in it since 1951. That’s when I became curious,” said Mr. Dedman, who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism in 1989 for stories he wrote for The Atlanta JournalConstitution about racial discrimination in mortgage lending. Bellosguardo, the 23-acre Please see DEDMAN on B4

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for a few hours, but the pain comes back as soon as you wake up. So what can you do? The pain won’t go away on its own—ignoring it won’t help—so the only choice you really have is to deal with it. And you have a lot of choices as to how to deal with it. I suggest trying a little bit of everything to see what works best. Here are some options. Pick the methods that work for you and interchange them when necessary. Let yourself cry. Therapists will tell you that this normal human action is one of the most healing things you can do to release your inner pain. So when you feel the tears come up, just let them out, as long as you are in an appropriate setting. It may be helpful to have a friend with you or on the other end of the phone. That being said, some people prefer and get more out of crying alone. Share your pain. Even if you are a private person, sharing your pain

is something that will make your journey to healing easier. When someone is there to validate and comfort you—when that awful feeling comes over your entire body—a hand on your shoulder or a warm embrace can be a godsend. If you don’t have anyone, seek out the help of a licensed counselor. Find ways to release on your own. You have to do some work on your own to release the pain and make what you’re going through as easy as possible. Journaling helps me, as does visualization. You may prefer prayer or long walks. It doesn’t matter what methods you pick as long as they relieve some of the pressure. Remember that the world is still turning. Yes, life will go on and nothing is permanent. It’s helpful to remember that this pain is a passing phase and that you will get to the next level in your life. This is how growth works. We

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Lompoc Aquatic Center and are hired within 30 days of successfully completing the course. Pre-registration is required and can be done by calling the Lompoc Parks and Recreation Division at 805-875-8100, or registration can be completed online at apm.activecommunities.com/ lompocrecreation. Since the class is presented in a blended-learning format, a valid email address is required at registration. Participants will receive an email with information on how to access the online component of the course. email: mmcmahon@newspress. com

Shelters seek homes for pets Local animal shelters and their nonprofit partners are looking for homes for pets. For more information, go to these websites: • Animal Services-Lompoc, countyofsb.org/phd/animal/home. sbc. • Animal Shelter Assistance Program in Goleta, asapcats.org. ASAP is kitty corner to Santa Barbara County Animal Services. • Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter in Goleta, bunssb.org. BUNS is based at Santa Barbara County Animal Services. • Companion Animal Placement

Assistance, lompoccapa.org and facebook.com/capaoflompoc. CAPA works regularly with Animal Services-Lompoc. • K-9 Placement & Assistance League, k-9pals.org. K-9 PALS works regularly with Santa Barbara County Animal Services. • Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation, sbcanimalcare. org. (The foundation works regularly with the Santa Maria Animal Center.) • Santa Barbara County Animal Services in Goleta: countyofsb.org/ phd/animal/home.sbc. • Santa Barbara Humane (with

campuses in Goleta and Santa Maria), sbhumane.org. • Santa Maria Animal Center, countyofsb.org/phd/animal/home. sbc. The center is part of Santa Barbara County Animal Services. • Santa Ynez Valley Humane Society/DAWG in Buellton, syvhumane.org. • Shadow’s Fund (a pet sanctuary in Lompoc), shadowsfund.org. • Volunteers for Inter-Valley Animals in Lompoc: vivashelter. org. — Dave Mason

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oceanfront estate was redesigned and rebuilt after the 1925 earthquake by Anna Clark, widow of Senator William Andrews Clark. Their daughter Huguette bequeathed the property to the Bellosguardo Foundation with the goal of transforming it into the focal point for art and culture in Santa Barbara and beyond. Ms. Clark painted throughout her time in Santa Barbara, first at Meridian Studio on East De la Guerra Street, located next to the Historical Museum, and then in her studio at the estate. She was also married there in a

FYI Bill Dedman, co-author of “Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and Spending of a Great Fortune” (Ballantine Books, 2013), will speak at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, 136 E. De la Guerra St. Admission is $20 for the general public and $15 for museum members. Reservations are required. For more information about his talk and the exhibit, “Huguette Marcelle Clark: A Portrait of the Artist,” visit www. sbhistorical.org.

small wedding on Aug. 28, 1928, to William Gower. “The marriage was brief. It

lasted only nine months, and after the Reno divorce, the heiress reclaimed her maiden name, but kept the title of Mrs., perhaps indicating she was no longer in the market for a husband,” according to Mr. Dedman. In his talk, he plans to discuss an update on the current status of the property. “There is a lot of misinformation about its use. Bellosguardo was not left to the city of Santa Barbara. It is a private property left to a private foundation, which is waiting to get a permit from the city to allow tours and events like Ganna Walska Lotusland,” he said. email: mmcmahon@newspress. com

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DID YOU KNOW? Bonnie Donovan

Elected officials miss the big picture

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Gas exceeded $6 a gallon Thursday at Chevron and Mobil stations in Goleta. On Friday, the average price in Santa Barbara County was $5.71 a gallon, according to the American Automobile Association.

Here are the facts about oil

President Biden ends energy independence achieved by President Trump

would like to present some facts about energy here, of which most people are likely unaware. They have not been reported by our media, so very few people understand these things. But they are very important things to understand if we are to know the truth. 1) President Donald Trump actually made this country “energy independent” (i.e. net energy exporters) for the first time in 75 years. It simply had not happened previously. When he left office, our production had risen to 17 million barrels a day, and gasoline was $2 per gallon. I’d been watching these numbers for many years, and I was very impressed (and

he following is the third and final installment of a lengthy conversation with Santa Barbara Unified School District teacher Christy Lozano. Q. Last week and the week before, you and I discussed how and why certain books and reading material that seem highly inappropriate for young children, especially those in pre-K to third grade (I would add any child still in elementary school up to sixth grade), have become part of the curriculum. So how does material such as Black Lives Matter — conceived and promulgated by avowed Marxists — and critical race theory end up as part of an elementary education? We know who created this, yet it’s been entirely adopted by the administrative set. And the teachers go along with including this stuff in their teaching

happy) with President Trump’s presidential edict, production was success with increasing domestic significantly decreased. A simple production, thereby decreasing fact, generally not reported. prices. A welcome fact. 3) The fact is that Russian 2) President Joe Biden, in his President Vladimir Putin did not first week in office, did several invade Ukraine while Mr. Trump things that reversed the Trump was president. I think that he success. The net result feared Mr. Trump, who Stan was that our energy was strong and sometimes Bernstein production went from unpredictable — both 17 millions of barrels good things when dealing The author per day, down to 11 with a man like Mr. lives in million barrels a day — a Putin. He waited for Mr. Buellton significant decrease. Trump to leave office, Of course, everyone then carried through was aware that gasoline prices on his long-held plan to invade doubled during President Biden’s Ukraine (when a relatively weak first year in office, to $4 per man had been elected president). gallon. But I don’t think people That’s easy to see as a fact unless knew that was a direct result of his we think of Mr. Biden as a strong executive orders, which decreased leader and Mr. Trump as a weak production. The fact is that by leader. But that would just be the

“R” and “D” thing talking, and I’m not referring to politics here. Just facts. 4) The fact is that electric vehicles are powered by coal, oil and natural gas. While that is obvious to many, as that’s what produces the electricity that powers electric vehicles, most people just don’t “get it.” They think that because there is no tailpipe, there is no pollution — as if the massive power plants that produce the electricity that powers the vehicles by using fossil fuels, are pollution-free. They’re not. EVs may, in fact, be responsible for producing overall more carbon pollution than gas-powered vehicles, when we take into account the massive problems

All lives really do matter

protocol because they teach to more balanced … what they’re given. How do you (For the record, Encyclopedia combat that? Britannica describes critical A. I do think there is a problem race theory as “an intellectual there, and I think that problem movement and a framework of needs to be acknowledged, but in legal analysis according to which a healthy way. Maybe we do need (1) race is a culturally invented to have a more diverse category used to oppress curriculum. So how people of color and (2) the PURELY about we just have law and legal institutions POLITICAL honest education? in the United States are For example, when inherently racist insofar as I went to Washington, they function to create and D.C. on a trip, we maintain social, political, visited Monticello, and economic inequalities Thomas Jefferson’s between white and nonwhite house in Virginia. people.” There we learned that (And, this – rather than, James Buckley he was not only a slave say, equal justice under the owner, but that he law, for example – is what also had slave babies is being taught throughout with one of his slaves, a young lady educational institutions in named Sally Hemings. We can talk the United States, including about that; it’s not a bright spot in elementary, junior high, his career. It’s wrong. Maybe there high school and colleges and has been just a presentation of one universities at every level.) side, so maybe making it a little bit Q. Well, it does seem to me that

one could point out the negative aspects of many of the founders of our country and their attitude towards slavery, and use that as an example. Though, one should also point out that Sarah “Sally” Hemings was the biracial halfsister of Thomas Jefferson’s wife, Martha, who had died six years before Mr. Jefferson and Ms. Hemings traveled to France when Mr. Jefferson was minister to France, and she was his 14-yearold domestic servant (both Martha and Sally were fathered by a man named John Wayles). That a president of the United States openly co-habited with a slave woman and had children with her also says a lot about our founding. A. OK, there should be acknowledgements of what he did that were good, and that there were some things that were not so good. Like all of us, Jefferson was very human. Going back to the idea of

with production and disposal of lithium-Ion batteries. 5) The fact is that this country is strongly divided. The problem is that when the media doesn’t present the basic facts (such as the ones I’ve stated here, which have never been widely reported), then it’s very difficult for people to know the truth. The fact is that the vast majority of our media leans to the left. I think most people understand that. But if the media were more balanced, I don’t know whether people would be better informed, because of the lack of facts being reported by both “sides.” 6) We see people still walking around with cloth masks on, Please see BERNSTEIN on C4

(disparity in treatment and outcomes), I’ve seen programs within the school in which a certain demographic is left out. The way that they trap kids in school, they’ll put the browns here, and the white kids here. That has existed for as long as I’ve been in the Santa Barbara Unified. That needs to change. Q. OK, you’re an administrator or a teacher, and you see the disparity, and you want to address and redress that disparity, do you have a suggestion as to how to do that? A. Goals are motivating; goals that kids can accomplish help them, help motivate them. Working together with classmates can also motivate students. Most of all, though, I think you have to pay attention, but it’s hard to pay attention if you have 31 kids. So sometimes class size Please see BUCKLEY on C4

id You Know? is a group of people from different backgrounds and affiliations who feel that it is important for common people to have a voice about what is going on in California, Santa Barbara County and the city of Santa Barbara, in particular. We now have come to the time when we need to comment on serious matters occurring outside our state, which will have profound impacts on all of us in this seemingly safe and pleasant land of California. Events in Europe are spiraling out of control with the brutal, mass, invasion of Ukraine by the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin. This is no longer the piecemeal expansion of Russia that the West, including America, ignored, and permitted when Russian armies invaded Georgia and Russian auxiliary troops annexed Crimea. This is the full-scale scorched earth, invasion of a sovereign nation. A country that is a democracy led by a hero, who was elected to clean up the corruption left behind by the, previously, communist oligarchs, who prospered under the Russian communist control of Ukraine. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is selling America right out from under us, as he negotiates to buy energy from the dictators in Venezuela and Iran. The United Arab Emirates refused his call. The pathetic truth is that our elected officials, both local and county, show us time and again their inability to grasp the bigger picture. To show wise leadership. Look at what this Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors has just decided concerning the Exxon-Mobil proposal to truck oil locally. The board squashed the deal because of “unmitigable safety impacts.” Supervisor Joan Hartmann asked, “Is this the direction we want to go when we are facing a climate crisis. ... It’s detrimental to the health and safety of the neighborhoods.” Supervisor Das Williams said that what he doesn’t validate “is our driving habits as a society.” What? There is a war going on, and for President Biden to tell us to expect sacrifices for even higher gas prices, by banning the 3-8% of the oil the US buys from Russia, makes no economic sense. We should tiptoe around, when we already have enough natural resources of our own, to regain our energy independence? Pointedly obvious, if as a country, we buy energy from countries that make war; we are not thinking strategically. Whatever the numbers, gas prices are skyrocketing, and our officials hide behind clutched hands, such as Goleta Mayor Paul Perotte, who said, “The potential ramifications, (oil spills) could have on the environment.” We can’t assure safety on our roads by transporting oil on our highways, yet we understand, we have thousands of truckers traveling up and down Highway 101 right now loaded with gas, oil, jet fuel, diesel, and rocket fuel from Los Angeles to the Central Coast. What do the politicians think war does to the environment? We are at war, contrary to what the United Nations has decreed we are allowed to say. Tragically, it is our own government that is at war with the American public and working class who bear the burden of the elected official’s Please see DONOVAN on C4

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LETTERS TO THE NEWS-PRESS Henry Schulte

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Wendy McCaw Arthur von Wiesenberger

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to. I just wrote back my opinion about their opinion. It was a good, but tedious, way to have a conversation. Overall, however, I quit teaching because I felt that I was boring them, and they were boring me! For centuries, school has been “subject-based”. Students learn what other people have learned in the past. It isn’t based on how and why those who discovered that information came to discover it. They asked questions that were important to them! Why don’t we do the same? Often, it isn’t until you come to the master or doctorate level that you get to research something you are interested in. An individual teacher can make a start. Distribute this article to your class and ask: “What do you think?” Maybe one day a month have the students write down a question about life that they sincerely want to know about. After collecting the questions, read some out loud and ask students to vote on which they would like to discuss. In my Please see SANITATE on C4

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ExxonMobil’s three offshore platforms in Santa Barbara County, including Hondo, above, have been inactive since the Plains All American Pipeline disaster in 2015. The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors last week denied Exxon’s application to truck oil.

Supervisors rely on ‘facts’ to deny ExxonMobil project

The war America can’t afford to win

he war on fossil administration would like to fuels is now fully use this manmade crisis to engaged and force us to purchase electric casualties are vehicles, solar panels and the abounding. like. The phrase “let them The first casualty is the eat cake” comes to mind. affordability of fuel. Gas prices Most folks in America are will soon be double what they one paycheck away from were when Joe Biden became abject poverty. They can’t president because he has done afford a new electric vehicle more than any other president and a charging station, just in history to eliminate like they can’t afford $6-$7 production, including shutting per gallon of gas. They can’t down the Keystone pipeline afford to see their food bill and preventing drilling go up exponentially on federal lands. either. President Biden has How many people shot America in the in America are soon back by triggering going to experience the law of supply and third world living demand — decreasing conditions due to supplies, while these stark raving accomplishing nothing mad ideologues? Andy Caldwell to abate demand. It is no secret Unfortunately, that we don’t the reality is, you ain’t seen have enough electricity nothing yet. generation or infrastructure The price of absolutely to successfully convert our everything in America is entire economy to electricity about to skyrocket due to the in the next few decades, rise in gas and diesel prices, including the fact that most on top of the inflation arising electricity in America is still from trillions in government generated from fossil fuels, spending. Case in point, our meaning nothing would be farmers and truckers use fuel gained by way of the transition to bring food to your table. anyway. Moreover, the largest Furthermore, virtually all world populations — China, consumer goods are trucked India and Pakistan — refuse to markets. to abandon reliance on fossil The more ominous truth fuels, which expresses the about the war on fossil fuels futility of going alone to an is that nearly half of every economic grave. barrel of oil is used to make Meanwhile, the United something else other than States has become completely fuel. dependent upon China for the For instance, food prices raw materials for batteries could very well quadruple and the production of solar because fertilizers are panels. This means we went made from fossil fuels. You from energy independence can’t make fertilizers from to dependence on China — electricity. Neither can setting us up for geopolitical you make plastic, asphalt, blackmail, not to mention polyester and 6,000 other numerous other security risks. products from windmills and The greening of America solar panels. only works well for Red China. Did you know that while Locally, the local California pretended to ExxonMobil temporary be going green, we were trucking permit denied by importing some 42,000 County Supervisors Joan barrels of oil from Russia Hartmann, Das Williams every day and even more and Gregg Hart perfectly from the Middle East? exemplified the tone-deaf California imports 70% of the ideologues of this movement, fuel we use every day, most via the determination that of it from halfway around the oil from Russia, Iran and world. Why are we cutting off Venezuela beats California our domestic supplies only to production, despite all the import the same? negative consequences to the And now, Joe Biden environment, the economy is looking to Iran and and world peace. Venezuela for oil because May our pain at the pump we ceased to be energy and the grocery store independent by his own fiat. become their pain at the Buying oil and gas from the ballot box. despots in Russia, Iran and Venezuela demonstrates Andy Caldwell is the COLAB a complete void of executive director and host of consciousness on the part of “The Andy Caldwell Show,” this administration. airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays on “Letting no crisis go KZSB AM 1290, the News-Press to waste,” the Biden radio station.

see the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors has denied ExxonMobil’s application to truck oil, even though it is allowed per their permit if there is no viable alternative. As the pipeline will take 14 years to repair, when it should have been done in 14 weeks and the Board of Supervisors said no to trucking, I guess we will soon see the OS&T and tankers back offshore as the “viable” alternative or the board majority will find themselves in court explaining why they changed the permit terms, or both. Or, to mitigate the traffic hazard on State Route 166, how about using some of the billions being extorted in gas tax and registration fees to widen the highway to four lanes? Planning and Development staff recommended approval based on the facts. The Santa Barbara County Planning Commission then voted to deny the project based on politics and ordered staff to change the facts to fit the political narrative. The board majority then voted to use the new “facts” and made up a few of its own to justify its political narrative in denying the project. How Putin-esque of them: Ignore the facts, ignore staff and forge ahead to further your own political ambitions. What’s next? Maybe invalidate the building permits for our houses and require they be retrofitted to modern green codes? Absolutely disgraceful! Curt Warner Santa Maria

Let’s repeal Prop. 19’s death tax

eople need to be informed about the Proposition 19 repeal. The proposition has impacted so many people in California by dramatically increasing property taxes and will force sales of family homes and businesses. Many don’t even know it, or don’t understand it.

Many don’t even know it, or don’t understand it. There are many misconceptions, and voters need to know the facts about Proposition 19. • Children may lose their family homes, farms and businesses due to HUGE property tax increases. • The $11 million estate tax exemption will not prevent the property tax hike. • Having your home in a trust will not prevent the property tax hike. • There will be no $1 million exemption if parents have moved out of the family home to a retirement home. • This will only repeal the part of Prop. 19 that will increase property taxes. The part of Prop. 19 that lets seniors and disabled move to any other county in California and keep their property tax basis will stay. • This is a bipartisan issue. • Adopted children may not be included, depending on their age when adopted. Prop. 19 was largely misunderstood, a sneaky proposition that promised to let seniors and disabled move and keep their low property tax rate. It passed by a narrow margin in the midst of a pandemic, strongly backed by Realtors who will benefit from forced sales. I simply want to move back to our family home. I’ve spent the last 20 years making my financial and retirement plans according to the existing laws. Suddenly Prop. 19 ruined all my plans for myself and my daughters. I went back to live with Mom after Dad died. I took care of Mom and the house for many years, both a lot of maintenance. It’s an important architectural home, with most of the value in the design, love and memories. Mom wants me to inherit our family home and preserve it. It’s inspired so many, and it would be a great loss to the architectural community if destroyed. Mom worked many years as mayor to preserve the rural feeling of our area and helped prevent it from being over-development. If I’m forced to sell, it will surely be torn down, and a single-family mansion would be built, causing more pollution, but no new affordable housing. Mom now has Alzheimer’s and lives in assisted living. I just

discovered this disqualifies me from the $1 million exemption. Taxes should be reasonable, fair and equal. Prop. 19 is not. What if a child simply wants to be in the family home that he or she helped create? Children will have to sell and leave for other states that they can afford to live. It will destroy our family heritages. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has filed an initiative to repeal the changes that Prop. 19 made to the intergenerational transfer and restore the law to the way it was before. This is a bipartisan issue. To get this initiative on the ballot, HJTA needs our help. Find out how at: HJTA.org/ RepealTheDeathTax. Let’s repeal 19, then tackle broader reform. Jane van Tamelen Santa Barbara

Green New Deal ideology is strangling America

he stranglehold of the Green New Deal ideology tightens, dividing us more. Workers and businesses face potential bankruptcy as avoidable higher fuel and living expenses skyrocket. Our leaders blame Russia, but secretly rejoice as the fuel supply shortage constricts our economy. The chanting “Save the Planet” sector demonizes any fuel, but cleverly shuffles “dirty” fossil energy sources to somewhere else, while naively still consuming electricity like it’s green magic power. The elite can afford the gas and electric cars, but American “workies” feel helpless, punished and poorer driving to the store or work, especially if you have kids. The Greenie Woke don’t care if you go broke.They are virtuous and believe. Strangling America with Greenie ideology is a fast path to bankruptcy. Creating and developing all energy sources help sever the stranglehold of dogmas and regulations securing America’s future. Michael C. Schaumburg Santa Barbara

Should students be allowed to ask questions?

ack when I taught detectors.” high school English Another thing it said was that in Buffalo a halfa teacher should never ask a century ago, my question he or she knows the friend Tom taught answer to. That would blow the Spanish. He told the kids act of 95% of teaching! I he would give them the suppose what it meant Spanish translation for was that school should be any English words. After a place where teachers school, a few kids came and students alike would and asked the translation ask and discuss questions for curse words. He told they truly wanted to know them! about. What if all schooling Inspired, I told my Frank was like that? In other English students: “From Sanitate words, it was based on now on, I am not going what the kids want to to tell you what to learn; The author know, the questions you tell me what you want lives in Santa to learn.” One student they have. It wouldn’t Barbara be oriented to what the summed up the problem teachers want to say, to succinctly: “For 11 years subjects, but to what kids you have been telling us want to know. what we should learn and now Around the time Tom was you ask us what we want to learn. teaching kids to say dirty words in We don’t know what we want to Spanish, I was fortunate enough learn!” to read a book called “Teaching Unfortunately, and fortunately, as a Subversive Activity.” It was that was my last year of teaching one of those great books that said in high school. The thing that I everything I wanted to say, but I was most proud of was to have just didn’t know I wanted to say students write “personal opinion” it yet. It suggested that a school’s compositions. I didn’t “correct” job was to give kids built-in “crapthem unless they wanted me

ong before Facebook, Twitter, cell phones and modern cancel culture, there existed a cancel culture not much different than today. Well, maybe not quite. Santa Barbara has a colorful history filled with colorful characters, and none more so than the multitude of men (no women until the present copublisher of the News-Press, Wendy McCaw) who took on the roles of recording that history through innumerable renditions of newspapers the city went through. Cancel culture already started with the Santa Barbara Gazette in 1855. Publisher Rudolphus Hubbard questioned the planning of building a Catholic church, and prominent local families pushed the legislature to do away with the paper’s advertising. Sound familiar? The paper folded. It wouldn’t be until 1868 the Santa Barbara Post was born, the precursor to the present-day News-Press. With the financial backing of the wealthy Col. W.W. Hollister, preacher Joseph A. Johnson traded the pulpit for the pen and produced a daily paper in 1872. Today we have Soros-created district attorneys releasing killers on the streets, only to kill again, but back in the early days of the Santa Barbara Post, Rev. Johnson had written in the paper that District Attorney W.T. Wilson had played “footsie with seedy characters.” For his words, he was knocked down (literally) and horsewhipped by the aforementioned D.A. — and right on State Street! Today when you give your opinion, you are scourged in a different way, on social media. Though death threats or beatings can also be part of the “I don’t like what you’re saying,” cancel mob. Some editorials back in the day did in fact produce deadly results. A successor to the reverend, Editor Theodore M. Glancey wrote the truth, something dishonest people don’t like to hear. He wrote about a candidate for D.A. who would threaten and beat people who disagreed with him. (Again, sound familiar?) The candidate didn’t like facts being made public, so he met the editor in downtown Santa Barbara, pulled a gun and shot the publisher in the back as he was trying to run away. Despite that the murder was undisputed, the district attorney candidate was acquitted. I didn’t realize Soros D.A’s and the O.J. jury has been around that long. In a similar move, the mass media today manipulates election outcomes. NewsPress Publisher Thomas M. Storke, the more familiar name to most locals as it relates to Santa Barbara’s history of newspapers, took a risk in 1932. He told the Santa Barbara Daily News that FDR got the Democratic nomination for president before a formal decision had even been made. I guess lucky for him it turned out to be the case. Today when CNN blatantly attempts to call elections or makes false claims about polls, the network just ignores the fact it was wrong and moves on to another topic. CNN has no fear of retribution and has never called out for it. No apologies necessary. Mass media today are one collective opinionated body saying and doing as they please and make things up as they go. In this modern age, the news comes at us at a blinding pace and changes literally in seconds as you’re hearing it. There’s been a dynamic shift in how we get information. I, for one, still love to read a newspaper. I don’t consider

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Torpedo the traitorous America Competes Act

ur overlords in the Beltway Swamp depend on you not paying attention. COVID-19 was a weapon of mass distraction for the past two years. Ukraine is the new shiny toy. Put down their bread. Take your eyes off their circuses. Pay attention. In the bought-off halls of Congress right now, Senate and House collaborators are preparing to send legislation to President Joe Biden that will open the floodgates to more foreign tech workers, wealthy foreign investors and foreign students - while our own homegrown American tech workforce, American business owners and American STEM graduates are still reeling from pandemic disruptions and displacements. The Senate passed the $250 billion U.S. Innovation and Competition Act last June. The House passed a similar measure, the $350 billion America Competes Act, last month. President Biden wielded his State of the Union address to push for reconciliation of the two bills so he can commence another massive giveaway to foreign and domestic special interests.

The just-approved House bill visas for foreign nationals and their would create a new visa category entire immediate families if they on top of the dozens of alphabethave doctoral degrees in STEM soup visas already in existence. fields. Silicon Valley lobbyists will According to the open-borders, big claim (as they have disingenuously business-backed American Action argued for the past three decades) Forum, the “W” visa program will that there is a catastrophic benefit three groups of shortage of high-skilled, foreign nationals: “Whigh-tech labor. 1, entrepreneurs with Here are the facts, ownership interest straight from the U.S. in a start-up; W-2, government: “Among the 50 essential employees million employed college of a start-up; and W-3, graduates ages 25 to 64 W-1 and W-2 holders’ in 2019, 37% reported a spouses and children.” bachelor’s degree in science Michelle Malkin Based on dubious “job or engineering but only creation” criteria similar 14% worked in a STEM to the fraud-riddled occupation,” according EB-5 investor visa program, to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 if the foreigners’ startups are American Community Survey one“successful,” the W visa holders year estimates. “This translates could soon join the already into less than a third (28%) of overwhelming annual tide of 1 STEM-educated workers actually million green card winners who working in a STEM job.” take up jobs in the U.S. and are I repeat again and again and then eligible for citizenship. again in the face of the America Only in the Swamp can a bill Last lies: There is no American handing out citizenship for sale to tech worker shortage. the highest bidders be marketed as Other provisions of the House a way to help America “compete.” bill would grant amnesty and Then there’s the poison pill for work permits to illegal aliens Americans studying in science, and refugees from Hong Kong, technology, engineering or and “special immigrant visas” to mathematics (STEM). The House 5,000 “high-skilled” Hong Kong bill would lift the cap on immigrant residents for up to five fiscal years

for a total of 25,000 new green card holders flooding the American tech workforce. Only in the Swamp can legislation that busts open the cheap foreign labor pipeline and undermines native American STEM graduates be sold as a vehicle for increasing American competitiveness. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Buried in the America Competes Act is a side bill snuck in as a last-minute amendment called the College Transparency Act, which will radically expand the federal government’s ability to conduct surveillance, tracking and profiling of every college student in this country. According to The Federalist, the bill opens the door to collection of “studentrelated surveys, race or ethnicity, age, sex, attendance, program of study, military or veteran benefit status, enrollment and credential status, distance education enrollment status, and federal Pell Grant status.” In addition, “economic status, participation in remedial coursework, status as a parent of dependent children, incarceration or confinement status, disability status, and ‘other’ undefined data” will be collected “as the government later deems

necessary.” There would be no means to opt out of this national student database, and the bill “specifically allows third parties to sell student data.” The potential for abuse and exploitation of highly personal student data that could be used for racial, psychological and ideological profiling is terrifying. Put on your shocked faces: Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation enthusiastically champion this American social credit system penetration into college student data — just as they have lobbied for years for the other America Competes Act provisions sabotaging American workers through relentless mass migration. Any American politician who calls himself “America First” and shills for this traitorous monstrosity should be kicked out of office. Pay attention. Raise hell. Do something. 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

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Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II visit Berlin in 2015. Last month Her Majesty celebrated 70 years on the throne. She is the longest-reigning monarch in British history.

Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee is an important event

ast month, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 70th year on the throne. She is the first British monarch to serve this long. For the rest of the year, there will be ceremonies marking this important anniversary in Britain, the Commonwealth and elsewhere around the world. Britain played a pivotal role in World War II, when the AngloAmerican “Special Relationship” was truly forged. The alliance between President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill was the centerpiece. At home in Britain, Churchill and King George VI developed a close partnership, vital to national unity in a desperate struggle. Then-Princess Elizabeth worked driving a truck during the war. Ceremonies are important, and here the British excel. Their monarch has residual ruling powers, including the formality

of actually appointing the forcefully in charge of the British government following a general Isles. Those were brutal times, election or other, sometimes when losing a power struggle could unanticipated political shakeup. cost your life. In the 1960s, Queen Elizabeth That Elizabeth modernized II’s husband Prince Philip spoke at Britain, managing Parliament UCLA, greeted by an Army ROTC with prudent skill. She stabilized student honor guard that politics following the included me. He arrived tumultuous reign of her Arthur I. in a closed Rolls Royce so father Henry VIII. She Cyr enormous that he stood confirmed influence before exiting. Philip shook in Europe, effectively hands and talked with us young balancing the nations of that men, a classy, kind gesture. continent. The public role of the queen or Today, the Crown and king may be primarily symbolic. Parliament have subtly Nonetheless, that can become complementary roles. Walter important in a time of national Bagehot, long-time editor of the crisis or tragedy, especially war. influential weekly magazine Britain’s government, after the “The Economist,” described the 2016 referendum vote to leave the situation brilliantly, with enduring European Union, embarked on a insight. complicated, painful effort to do so. The world has changed greatly In contrast to the heroic, historic since Bagehot’s analysis appeared stand against Nazi Germany, this in 1867. However, his fundamental bizarre ordeal became more like insight remains very valid today. “Alice in Wonderland.” Parliament handles the practical Over four centuries ago, “efficient functions” of governing namesake Queen Elizabeth I was while the monarchy handles the

largely ceremonial “dignified functions.” Americans can envy the lack of an “imperial” presidency there. Fundamentally important is that the British, unlike the Americans, have no written constitution. Parliament is effectively supreme, though the nation in October 2009 did formally establish an American-style Supreme Court. The important ceremonial functions address the collective emotions of the people at large regarding government. In the 1930s, King Edward VIII generated great controversy when he wanted to marry Wallis Simpson, an expatriate American. In that different, earlier time, the fact that she was not British generated extensive public attention and debate. She also had been divorced twice. In general, notoriety followed her. Vastly more important, Edward was sympathetic to Nazi Germany, as well as being personally extremely eccentric and unstable.

Adolf Hitler and others at the top of the Nazi regime in Germany considered him a strategic asset, eventually to help control Britain in a conquered Europe. Finally, Edward abdicated to marry his American. History underscores the importance of Britain’s royal family. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reinforces the special relationship. Nothing fake about these realities. To learn more, see Walter Bagehot’s “The English Constitution” and the film “The Darkest Hour.” 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.

A flurry of executive orders from Joe Biden

hursday, Jan. 21, 2021, began in Washington, D.C., with the temperature slowly rising from 27 degrees Joseph R. Biden Jr., slowly rising for his first full day as president with his views of yesterday differing from millions rising elsewhere humming the lyrics of the Beatles’ song, “Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away,” after yesterday’s executive orders 13990 and 13993. Why the difference? Would today’s activities change their tune by year’s end? Yesterday, his inauguration had been followed with a series of actions that English writer Edward Bulever Lytton might describe as “The power of writing is eternal, while the power of the sword is short-lived,” which has been shortened to “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Indeed, the president’s signature had transformed the U.,S. in

ways that multiple wars had been 13990, the reduction in U.S. oil fought to preserve. By signing the production, meant all the other executive orders, the president EO’ did was to increase the size of ordered his government to conduct their piece of the decreasing pie racial equity (not equality) of the U.S. economy as — assessments of its the administration would agencies and reallocate negotiate for more oil resources to “advance from Russia, OPEC, Iran equity for all, including and Venezuela but not people of color and Chevron, et al. others who have been The president also historically underserved” signed his “John and “affected by Hancock” — a reference Brent E. persistent poverty and to John Hancock’s Zepke inequality.” The order being the first person gave non-citizens the to place his signature The author power to govern citizens on the Declaration of lives in Santa Independence so large by permitting illegal Barbara. immigrants to be counted that the king could see for deciding where it without his glasses — congressional representatives will on EO 13993. The order reversed be elected and where funds will President Donald Trump’s be allocated, destroyed women’s restrictions on U.S. passport sports by extending to sexual holders from seven Muslimorientation and gender identity majority countries, extended (i.e., transgenders) the same deferrals of deportation with a protections it extends to women, safe haven in the U.S., reduced and much more. However, EO President Trump’s enforcement

of immigration within the United States and fortified DACA. Jan. 21, 2021, would be another active day for the president’s pen on EOs. EO 13994. Ensuring a DataDriven response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats by each agency designate a person for a committee to assess their agencies response capabilities. Notice any increased data? EO 13995. Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery by creating a “Health Equity Task Force within the HHS to address the disproportionate impact on people of color and under-served populations.” Months later the task force head, Dr. Nunez-Smith. said “We must strive toward the post-pandemic reality in housing, nutrition, education, healthcare, employment and beyond.” Really? The federal government deciding those parts of our lives?

She continued, “Disproportionate impact on people of color and underserved populations?” Does this sound like a task force that will end with the end of COVID? She added, “Racist/ ethnic and social equity must be at the forefront of our pandemic response” in addition to science, community, and health:” really? Forefront of “racist/ethic and social equity?” EO 13996. Establishing the COVID-10 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats by establishing a national testing strategy and expanding supplies of tests and laboratory testing capacities. As February 2022, the Pandemic Testing Boardhas held no press conferences, no hearings and made no announcements, and Please see ZEPKE on C4

John Stossel

The end of the unipolar moment

he defeat of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan in World War II ushered in the Cold War era. For the four and a half decades between the defeat of fascism and the collapse of communism, global affairs unfolded within a bipolar backdrop of “mutually assured” destruction between the two nuclear superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 ushered in a unipolar moment of unquestioned American economic, diplomatic, military and geopolitical supremacy on the world stage. Multiple generations of Americans, millennials and Gen Z alike, have come of political age in the unipolar moment. As a millennial born in 1989, the unipolar moment is all my generation has ever known. The various manifestations of the unipolar moment, such as unparalleled American naval might to secure free trade on the high seas, unrivaled American dominance in multilateral institutions such as the United Nations and the incessant urge to militarily intervene in faraway lands on moralistic or humanitarian grounds, became de rigueur. Talk of “American exceptionalism,” though typically rooted in the constitutionalism and political theory of the American Founding, also began to take on a decidedly jingoistic hue. Though satire, the 2004 film “Team America: World Police” still captured the essence of the unipolar era’s zenith. With the rise of China and the return of great-power competition, that unipolar era is, for all intents and purposes, now over. And the creeping realization that this is, in fact, the case will shock many inebriated from the fleeting high of Ronald Reagan’s triumph over communism, who would prefer to live in a state of nostalgia or denial. But it is imperative that American Please see STOSSEL on C4

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America is incapable of crafting the world in its own image STOSSEL

Continued from Page C3 statesmen soberly grapple with the ramifications. The first signs of the crumbling of the unipolar order came in the rubble of the feckless wars of moralistic regime change usually referred to as the “War on Terror.” The hubristic, militaristic excesses of the neoconservative elements of the Right (namely, Afghanistan and Iraq) and the humanitarian internationalist Left (namely, Libya), the failures of which were clearly evident at least a decade ago but which nonetheless were encapsulated by last year’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, have taken a huge toll on the American citizenry. The manifest failures of the regime-change wars cost America huge sums in blood and treasure, but arguably even more important was the long-term symbolism conveyed: America is not all-powerful and America is incapable of crafting the world in its own image. That sober conclusion is only bolstered when one considers all the domestic woes our depleted citizenry faces: decades-high inflation, skyrocketing out-of-wedlock birth rates, a porous southern border, escalating homicide and violent crime rates, and the metastasis of overtly racist “critical race theory” drivel and the deeply divisive tenets of modern gender ideology. Put simply, with elementary school teachers telling white students that they are “spirit-murdering” their black classmates and with “drag queen story hours” popping up in local public libraries, now is not the best time for Americans to be in the “values exportation” business. China’s rise over the past decade under the leadership of Xi Jinping, meanwhile, has been remarkable (and harrowing).

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Continued from Page C3 the head, Jeffrey Zients, refuses to reply to inquiries. The $48 billion appropriated by Congress for testing was supplemented by another $48 billion in 2021. Yet in October 2021, the administration rejected a proposal by testing experts to rapidly send tests to Americans prior to the anticipated increase at the holidays, which failure Press Secretary Jen Psaki summarily dismissed. In January, a Republican request for an accounting by the White House provided an unaudited onepage summary with no details on the total to $37.2 billion, which even “government accounting” cannot equate with the $96 billion allocated. No accounting for $60 billion? See EO 13994. EO 13997. Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19 by supporting the most promising

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Chairman Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative, a massive Chineseled global infrastructure project reaching deep into Asia, the Middle East and Europe, threatens to reshape large swaths of the inhabited earth in the Chinese Communist Party’s dystopian image. China’s People’s Liberation Army is building up its military arsenal at an alarming rate; China has also built its first African military base, in Djibouti, and has signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran to help bolster that terrorist state’s economy. China has tested hypersonic missiles by flying them around the world, if for no other reason than just to showcase that it can do so. Just last year, the Chinese Communist Party effectively retook Hong Kong, 25 years before it was formally set to be fully reincorporated, without firing a shot. Mr. Xi and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, currently the world’s most wanted man for his reckless military adventurism in Ukraine, now openly speak of a new world order together. And given the vestigial ultra-hawkishness toward Russia we see from much of a Cold Warera-longing U.S. citizenry that still views the petrostate of Russia

(n.b.: the 11th largest GDP in the world) as an existential threat, and which still persists on the continuing expansion of NATO (n.b.: an organization that fulfilled its founding purpose, the defeat of the Soviet Union, over three decades ago), President Putin’s falling into Chairman Xi’s lap is unsurprising. And if Mr. Putin continues to stand shoulder-toshoulder with Mr. Xi on the world stage, Chairman Xi’s takeover of Taiwan only seems more inevitable. The dire nature of our predicament, and the reality that China remains (despite the present flare-up in Eastern Europe) by far the greatest geopolitical and geostrategic threat to the American national interest and the American way of life, should militate in favor of creative, outside-the-box American statesmanship. America is ill-suited right now, given budgetary realities, a war-weary citizenry and other manifold domestic woes, to overexert itself on the world stage and delude itself into thinking that it can single-handedly manage all the world’s problems. That era is over. We must reconcile ourselves, to a reasonable extent, to the inevitability of China’s continual

treatments for COVID -19 and future health threats. In application the administration not only did not support any new treatments but grabbed control of those existing ones and redistributed them along racial lines. EO 13998. Promoting COVID-19 Safety in Domestic and International Travel by requiring masks in airports, commercial aircraft and various surface transportation, including rail. It also required that international travelers provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test prior to coming to the U.S. unless, of course, they chose to enter across our southern border: EOs being for executive branch employees? EO 13999. Protecting Worker Health and Safety by having OSHA enforce COVID-19 restrictions. My article “OSHA: Scientific or Political” discussed the courts enjoining OSHA’s attempts to issue regulations for COVID in the News Press, Jan. 23. EO 1400. Supporting the

reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and early Childhood Education Providers to ensure “the health and safety of children, students, educators, families and communities” by helping to create “the conditions for safe, in-person learning as quickly as possible.” It calls for the Department of Education and HHS to provide guidance for safely reopening and operating schools, childcare providers and institutions of higher education. How did it support the reopening? EO 14001. On a Sustainable Public Health Supply Chain by designing, building and sustaining a long-term capacity for future pandemic and biological threats. Sounds good. Any action? The evening of Thursday, Jan, 21, 2021, brought a close a day in which the president’s signing pen had raced over the signature lines on six EOs that proposed to deal with COVID’s impact on data, pandemic responses, testing,

rise and the likely return of a new Cold War-resemblant global chessboard. Prudent statesmanship would seek to foster an Abraham Accordsstyle regional Chinese deterrent alliance in the Far East, with India, South Korea and Japan as anchors. Perhaps most provocative, after the current war in Ukraine finally ends, an attempt to smooth out longterm relations with Russia is salutary. The precedent here is clear: President Richard Nixon’s infamous visit to Chairman Mao in Beijing in 1972. The opening up of China into the global economy proved catastrophic, as greatly exacerbated by President Bill Clinton and both President Bushes, but at the time, President Nixon’s move was a logical attempt to try to gain leverage over the Soviet Union. A hardheaded, non-idealistic American foreign policy will similarly require eventual (postUkraine War) attempts to reengage with Russia - or at least to cease gratuitously alienating Russia - in an attempt to gain strategic leverage over the real threat: China. Effective statesmanship calls for recognizing the world as it is, not in wishcasting what it could, or should, be. That means recognizing the end of the unipolar era. Never before has clear-eyed, American national interest-centric realist diplomacy mattered more. But first, let’s avoid getting sucked into World War III in Ukraine. 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. access to treatments, travel, safety, schools and future threats, while creating committees (EO 13994), task forces (EO 13995) and a testing board (EO 13996). After 2021 brought less reliable data, no improvements in testing, schools remaining closed, travel restrictions continuing except at the southern border, and despite vaccines the number of COVID deaths increasing from 385,000 to 467,000, the rising tune throughout the year was “Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away, now it looks as though they are here to stay. I believe in yesterday.” 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 Non-Lawyers.”

‘I actually would follow the rules’ BUCKLEY

Continued from Page C1 has something to do with the teacher’s ability to meet the needs of the kids. You better have a really good teacher if you’re going to give them that many kids. Q. What would you or what do you do that’s different or gets better results? A. I actually would follow the rules, and I implement the rules. They’re letting kids be on their phone, and they’re letting them not exercise. I don’t and wouldn’t allow that. Q. What’s the worst thing about what goes on at Santa Barbara Unified? A. The worst is how the school board treats human beings. I call it bad policy, and I think that bad policy is set forth by the school board. It’s why I went to the president of the school board and had coffee with her. I told her what a bad experience I have had with the human resources department and how they treat people. I also told her about the things they have done to me; how they’ve retaliated against me for speaking up and have refused to talk to somebody who is trying to be constructive, and be productive, and trying to fix things. I want to fix problems. Q. I take it that your meeting

proved to be unproductive? A. You’re right about that. Christy Lozano has officially declared her candidacy for the position of County superintendent of schools and has qualified to be on the ballot in the upcoming primary election scheduled for June 7. If a single candidate receives 50%-plus-one of the vote, that candidate will automatically be declared winner of the election. If no candidate receives 50%-plus-one, there will be a runoff between the two highest vote-getters during the regular statewide election on Nov. 8. Ms. Lozano received a bachelor’s in kinesiology from Cal Poly Technic University in San Luis Obispo; a single subject teaching credential in physical education and in health from Chapman University, and a master’s with an emphasis in educational leadership from California Lutheran University. She also has a preliminary administrative service credential, all of which make her eminently qualified to take over the position of Superintendent of Schools. And what a wonderful change that would be! James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes questions or comments at jimb@ substack.com.

Social media has become the sovereign ruler SCHULTE

Continued from Page C2 myself so much old-school. I simply enjoy the time sitting in my recliner or over breakfast reading the stories and holding something tangible. I find it therapeutic. Unlike the early days of the News-Press, where differences were settled on the streets with a whipping or murder, the punishment today comes in the form of slow torture and personal defamation. Social media has become the sovereign ruler of what you hear and read. They are the leaders of “misinformation.” We the people who only want to learn and know factually what’s going on in the country and around the world are spoon-fed what the new form of information delivery wants to put out there. (Again, think of Russia and China). Whereas

in the “old” days if the people didn’t like a publication and failed to support it, the advertisers would pull the plug and the paper would either need to adjust accordingly or fold. Today, big tech has become too big. Even if they get caught with their pants down, they just pull ‘em back up and continue on their merry way of doing business as they please. And a bit of irony, Donald Trump was kicked off Twitter, but Vladimir Putin is still on there. Whose side is the media really on? Give me a good old newspaper anytime. And when I’m done reading it, if I have a bird, I can recycle. Save the planet and all that. Unlike big tech. I wish there was a digital form I could use for a bird’s toilet. Henry Schulte welcomes questions or comments at hschulteopinions@gmail.com.

Schools should do a better job teaching math, English DONOVAN

Continued from Page C1 magnanimous and sanctimonious idea to halt oil and gas production in our own country. How is it not obvious, the idiocy that we buy energy from other countries while we the people own the natural resources in our own country? But we aren’t allowed in the name of climate change to access our resources? This is not just bad judgment, this is treason against the American people, as Americans are further hog-tied. The current move to cancel American oil leases and to add more restrictions to production has not limited our use. It has only increased purchases of foreign oil and gas from countries that do not have the capacity, technology, or incentives to produce more cleanly. Instead, we are enriching countries “run by terrorists, tyrants, human rights abusers, and other generally bad people.” Eighty percent of our energy comes from fossil fuel. One hundred and one million barrels

a day! Oil is part of our everyday world. Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, it’s time to jettison your plastic thrones used during your meetings! It’s time you stop driving, period! Even your electric car uses oil by-products. Start with changing your rubber tires to stone. And to help the employed make ends meet, Gov. Gavin Newsom vows gas price relief. Can’t officials see what is wrong with this equation? Let us open our energy production instead of paying top dollar to our enemies. Speaking of things that don’t make sense, just as the White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki talks down to the reporters in the same tone that is used with President Joe Biden or any other imbecile, the people running the Santa Barbara Unified School District are proud that student proficiency in math is only 45% and in English only 54%. Can anyone think of any endeavor where only 45% to 54% achievement of proficiency is considered successful? Instead of comparing themselves

with other failing schools in California, SBUSD should compare its performance with the best schools in Asia and Europe. After all, we are now competing in a world economy for goods, services, manufacturing and jobs. Note the poor performance not only in Santa Barbara but also across California and the USA. Clear evidence of the absolute failures of the state education system nationwide. Yet watch the Ukrainians speak English while being interviewed from their wartorn country. The math and English scores reported in the SBUSD for elementary, middle and high school, illustrate the point that a significant number of students graduate from high school every year without a command of the basic skills in English language and math to either qualify for entry into university or to get anything but a low-paid, unskilled job. Santa Barbara City College is largely a place of remedial education for subject matter that should have been learned in grade school. The taxpayers are charged twice over for the same educational

objectives. If it weren’t for the need for remedial instruction during the first year of college, a bachelor’s degree could be earned in three years. That would reduce some students’ loans by 25%. Subtract the time from basic learning for the intense focus on training students to be social justice warriors and street activists via curricula such as critical race theory and variations in sexual activities and gender diversities. To top it off, one of the school board members is so proud, she fancies herself better serving the public as a member of the Board of Supervisors. Just WOW. If what she was pushing at the school board was “White people are bad and they suppress you,” shouldn’t she step aside for a person of color to fill that seat? “May the saddest days of your future, be no worse than the happiest days of your past.” Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

Everybody has a cell phone. You can ask Google anything! SANITATE

Continued from Page C2 English classes, what we ended up doing was reading plays aloud, with students taking specific roles. What if students wanted to find out about politics or religion? Talk about it! You would never be stuck for answers. Everybody has a cell phone. You can ask Google

anything! Maybe have five students summarize and share a different source. Discuss which they agree or disagree with and why. Discuss how you know you can trust a source. Since religious or political discussions can be so divisive, ask students to develop a set of rules they would agree to use, to make those discussions civil and useful. How do we transition into having kids become “selflearners”? How could we reform

the entire school system? I don’t know. Ask the students. When my son was in the first grade, a friend of his was at our house. He asked my wife, “Mrs. Sanitate, which is more important, fact or opinion?” Imagine that – 6 years old! Teachers, in whatever class you teach, have one day a week or month or year to discuss and discover what kids want to know. Ask them how to reform education.

Not knowing the answers to these questions is exactly why we should ask them. Should students be allowed to ask questions in school? Perhaps it’s the only thing they should be doing! Frank Sanitate is Santa Barbara resident and a retired seminar leader who has taught seminars in every state and province in the U.S, Canada and Australia.

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Buellton resident Stan Bernstein said gas prices doubled during President Joe Biden’s first year in office because of his decision to decrease production.

These are not opinions, they’re facts BERNSTEIN

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thinking that they and others are being protected from getting and spreading COVID. The fact is that while N95 masks can work to help control the disease, cloth masks are useless when it comes to a virus. That’s a fact. That fact is also obvious from the fact that the disease has continually spread widely in spite of the widespread wearing of masks. The same is true of the vaccines, which did likely help to keep down some of the

severity of its symptoms among vaccinated people, but they did not stop the spreading of the disease, a fact which we’ve known since last year (when the large number of vaccinated people who got sick were labeled “breakthrough” cases). These are not opinions, they’re facts. But when we have a truly mad man like Vladimir Putin actually waging a Stalinist war (another basic fact), then I think it becomes necessary for people in our divided country to agree at least on the facts if we expect to ever get along, especially in times like these.