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Dunn School student from Ukraine hopes family can join her someday in America

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By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

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“I have a lot of pride in my nation right now. I am really proud to be Ukrainian right now,” said Zlata Mitchell, a Ukrainian student attending Dunn School in Los Olivos.

By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Zlata Mitchell has never seen a country as strong as her homeland: Ukraine.

The student, who stressed she’s proud to be a Ukrainian, attends Dunn School, a boarding school in Los Olivos, where she’s a half a world away from the Russian invasion.

“I really love Ukraine even though I am only half Ukrainian,” the high school sophomore told the News-Press last week. “I prefer Ukraine because it is my home.

“Growing up in Ukraine, I have never seen a nation stronger and more humane, and I have traveled a lot,” she said.

Ukraine has been an independent democracy since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Ukraine was the first of 10 republics to secede.

In 2014, Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula.

Today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has remained defiant as he leads the resistance against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion and seeks help from European countries and the U.S. “I am really proud of our president,” Zlata said.

She noted it’s a scary time for Ukraine, but added, “How the people have been fighting back is incredible. It’s crazy how the Ukrainian nation is helping themselves. Ukraine is fighting for their independence. We have been doing amazingly.

“I have a lot of pride in my nation right now. I am really proud to be Ukrainian right now,” she said, noting Ukrainians have a lot of hope in their leaders.

Zlata, whose mother is Ukrainian journalist and TV host Olia Freimut, talked about her

family in Ukraine. “Thankfully, everyone was able to evacuate.

“My aunt, little cousin and grandma had to go the refugee route, by driving to the west of Ukraine and crossing the border into Poland,” she said. “Traffic is horrible, and you have to go around Russian troops.

“Male family members cannot leave by law,” she said, referring to the Ukrainian requirement that all men ages 1860 participate in the fight against the Russian troops. “I am really worried about my male family members.”

Zlata expressed gratitude for the freedom and opportunities she enjoyed while growing up in Ukraine. She added that she liked how her country evolved, especially in terms of culture and the film industry.

Sent to America by her mother, Zlata arrived in Santa Barbara County in August 2021 to attend Dunn School.

After the Russian invasion started, the Los Olivos school established the Emergency Ukrainian Scholarship Fund for the school’s Ukrainian students.

The fund supports current students from Ukraine and aims to bring additional displaced Ukrainian students to the U.S. to attend Dunn School. The goal is to raise $240,000, which would cover three full international scholarships for a full academic year, including tuition, room and boarding, incidentals such as school supplies, living expenses and homestay support during school breaks.

“I am very excited to see more Ukrainian students coming in, and this is a great opportunity to escape to safety in a time of war,” Zlata said.“This program is a big step, and it shows that they (Dunn School) care.”

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Zlata said she likes the school’s academic program, especially in the humanities subjects such as English history. She said her current favorite subject is world history, but added that next year, she can attend another history class of her choice.

“The environment here is really professional,” she said.

“They really make sure you succeed and spend a lot of time and effort, especially with a student who is struggling.”

Los Olivos, a rural town in the Santa Ynez Valley, is different from the big cities where Zlata was raised.

“I grew up in Kyiv and also lived in London, but here it is a smaller community life, where everyone knows everyone,” Zlata said.

In Ukraine and in America, Zlata’s career goals have been influenced by her mom’s work as a Ukrainian journalist.

“I have always wanted to live in or close to L.A. because of my mom’s work,” Zlata said. “I have been raised on film sets, and now I

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would like to be a film director or film producer. I still feel connected to L.A. even though it is a little bit farther from Santa Barbara.

Zlata said she would like to stay in America and hopes to attend UCLA. She loves creative endeavors.

“I like the idea of seeing something in your head and seeing it come together,” Zlata said. “I want to be able to bring social justice issues and political topics into film. That is one of my main life goals.”

Zlata has hopes that one day her family can join her in America. “I would love for them to come here, but I want to give them more time. It would be wonderful if we could reunite in one country.”

If you would like to donate to the school’s fund and make the dreams of others Ukrainians like Zlata come true, go to www. dunnschool.org/ukraine or call the school’s office of philanthropy at 805-686-0627. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

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Zlata Mitchell said her career goals have been influenced by the work of her mother, Ukrainian journalist and TV host Olia Freimut. Zlata would like to create movies dealing with social justice and political topics.

By KAITLYN SCHALLHORN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

And then there were four.

The Santa Barbara Independent Redistricting Commission has narrowed proposed electoral maps to just four “tentative finalists” at the latest meeting.

Map 101RE appeared to be the frontrunner during Monday’s redistricting meeting with multiple Santa Barbara City Council members speaking in favor of it.

This plan has a total population deviation of 6.3%. District 1 would have a 50% Latino citizen votingage population while District 3 would only have a 42% Latino CVAP. Population deviation refers to the difference in population sizes among districts. The current district map for Santa Barbara has a population deviation of nearly 20%, much higher than the 10% threshold deemed to be constitutional, according to demographer Daniel Phillips.

Under the 101RE plan, the Santa Barbara Airport would remain in District 5, and the Eucalyptus Hill neighborhood would remain in-tact within District 4, a concern raised earlier in the redistricting process.

District 1 would maintain a presence on State Street and East Beach, and District 2 would be confined to the Mesa area while also including Santa Barbara City College, Stearns Wharf and the Harbor.

District 3 stretches up to La Cumbre Junior High School down to West Beach and includes part of the downtown area.

District 4 includes a small coastal presence and the whole Upper East neighborhood, and District 5 includes Arroyo Burro Beach (aka Hendry’s Beach).

District 6 covers most of the downtown area as well as the Oak Park and part of Laguna neighborhoods.

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Majestic Asset Management has purchased an 11.9-acre, sixbuilding industrial /research and development campus in Goleta for $50.7 million.

The purchase was made during an off-market transaction.

Majestic Asset Management is renaming the site Tech Park @ Engage.

The asset was part of a portfolio of commercial properties managed

by The Towbes Group. The closing price of $50.7 million represents the fourth highest price on record for a commercial (non-hotel) property on the South Coast.

Francois DeJohn and Steve Hayes of Hayes Commercial Group represented the buyer in the transaction.

“Majestic has become the most prominent value-add management firm on the South Coast,” Mr. DeJohn said in a statement. “It is always looking to invest in buildings and elevate them to top-quality projects.

Majestic has changed the office/ R&D landscape in Goleta, while facilitating the growth of the area’s tech, engineering, medical device and defense sector.”

Located at 315-346 Bollay Drive and 320-340 Storke Road, the 194,625 square-foot business park is prominently positioned near the corner of Storke Road and Hollister Avenue in Goleta’s bustling tech and engineering core. It has always been a multitenant project and is currently occupied by Lockheed Martin, Alcon Research, Electro Optical Industries, The Good Work Space, DeLabs and Santa Barbara Imaging Systems.

One of the buildings is currently available for lease. It was

recently vacated by Inogen when the company expanded to the adjacent Cabrillo Business Park.

Inquiries regarding leasing the vacant building, which is at 326 Bollay Drive, should be directed to Francois DeJohn and Steve Hayes at Hayes Commercial Group.

An entity created by Michael Towbes, a local businessman and philanthropist, owned the 11.9acre campus since 2000. Following Mr. Towbes’ death in April 2017, the Towbes estate sold three commercial assets in recent years, including the AppFolio campus at 50-90 Castilian Drive in 2019.

Consistent with Mr. Towbes’ long history of support for the community and philanthropic leadership, proceeds from the sale of these assets will benefit several prominent local nonprofits.

Based in Agoura Hills, Majestic Asset Management owns, develops and manages investment properties primarily in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties. The company said its portfolio in the greater Santa Barbara area has included about 30 successful commercial and apartment properties.

After relatively slow office and industrial sales activity in 2021, Goleta has seen two substantial sales so far in 2022. Before this sale, 6500 Hollister Ave. was purchased by an investor for $21 million in January.

The Storke and Bollay transaction is the fourth largest commercial sale ever recorded on the South Coast after the sales of 3805 State St. for $63 million in 2021, 50-90 Castilian Drive for $61 million in 2020 and 1 & 71 S. Los Carneros Road for $53 million in 2006.

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Risk of a possible nuclear holocaust

Not to get political, but since TV talk show host Bill Maher

raised the question: If Donald Trump was the Putin stooge so many believed him to be, why did the Russian dictator not invade Ukraine during the Trump presidency?

It could be, as others now pose, that Mr. Putin chose to make his boldest move yet under the watch of Joe Biden, a president he regards as cognitively-challenged and weak, especially after how he mishandled our country’s humiliating, poorly-planned withdrawal from Afghanistan that dishonored the American servicemen and women who gave their lives to further our mission subduing the Taliban.

This, after Mr. Putin covertly assisted Mr. Trump’s election in 2016 not because he believed The Donald would do his bidding, but because he knew it would dramatically divide the country, which it did. (The real Great Divider — Mr. Putin, not Mr. Trump — was hoping for a second U.S. civil war or at very least that some states would strive to secede from the union and cause a constitutional crisis.)

A divisive country, a weak president … Mr. Putin’s timing is no accident. He has been playing chess while those who govern us play tiddlywinks.

As for Vice President Kamala Harris? A lucky bonus for Mr. Putin as this airhead continues to embarrass Americans in every foreign country she travels to and laughs, uh, speaks (always in childish platitudes, suggesting that she lacks intellectual depth or true understanding of the issues involved).

TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS ON THE BATTLEFIELD Whatever brought us to this point, here we are. And rather than live in denial, Americans must face the reality that while a nuclear exchange with Russia is not probable, it is certainly possible.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres broached this only a few days ago: “The prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable,” he said, “is now back within the realm of possibility.”

Picture this: Mr. Putin, who has already declared that part of his military doctrine, in general, renders nuclear weapons acceptable on the battlefield, responds to major losses (already happening) by launching a low-yield nuclear warhead (a fraction the force of the Hiroshima bomb) into a sparsely populated part of Ukraine, perhaps upon an atomic electric power station or transportation hub (as specified

by Russian military doctrine).

This would most likely take place in southwestern Ukraine, away from the Russian-speaking eastern half of the country and its own border — and also away from Russia’s staunch ally to the north, Belarus. Mr. Putin would do this to demand Ukraine’s abject surrender on the basis that if the nation does not give up, the next nuclear warhead would be delivered to a densely-populated city.

“The Russians,” says Matthew Koenig of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, “often finish their military exercises with nuclear strikes.”

Or as the Russian military journal Voyenna Mysl put it: “We believe nuclear weapons must be regarded as the principal means of ensuring the military security of Russia,” and therefore instrumental for deescalating a conflict.

Dr. Petersen addresses this point in his upcoming book: “The formula of the Russian escalateto-de-escalate doctrine involves the deployment of small nuclear weapons to shape the outcome of the conflict — ‘battlefield weapons’ and larger weapons against ‘deep theater’ or even strikes against American seaports to isolate the theater — and finally the nuclear destruction of Warsaw to ‘persuade’ the Europeans to insist upon American acceptance of a negotiated termination of the war on terms favorable to Moscow.”

And only three days ago, Defense Intelligence Agency director Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier

VANDENBERG Where would you go? What would you do?

The prevailing wisdom among those we have polled is this: “Kiss your a— goodbye.”

There is little thought, or planning, we discovered, beyond such flippancy, whose genesis was a satirical 1960s anti-war poster.

And this thinking is credible to some extent on the basis that if enough nuclear warheads were detonated throughout the U.S., such blasts and radiation could indeed be the end for most, and those who survive would find themselves in a whole new (and very austere) kind of existence, which itself could be terminated by a nuclear winter/ice age as the globe becomes enveloped in thick smoke that warmth from the sun could never penetrate.

Yet in such circumstances our natural survival instincts will cut in.

We have consulted a number of targeting maps, based on the most likely Russian (and Chinese) targets inside the continental U.S. There are very many targets, from the most highly populated cities — New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco,

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Russian President Vladimir Putin “is a psychopath who has been spoiling for a showdown with the United States for many years,” writes Robert Eringer.

Chicago, Houston (and of course Washington D.C.) — to military bases, especially those housing our nuclear arsenals.

We’re sorry to point out to our local readers that Vandenberg Space Force Base, just 60 miles northwest of Santa Barbara and right next to Lompoc, is an extremely ripe target. This is due to the fact that it houses nuclear Minuteman-III missiles along with Atlas ICBMs. In other words, much too close for comfort.

According to “Nukemap” on a website called nuclearsecrecy. com, a Russian 100 megaton Tsar Bomba detonated above Vandenberg would result in 108,750 fatalities and 188,520 injuries. Its thermal radiation radius would extend to Santa Barbara, causing “third degree burns throughout the layers of skin, causing severe scarring or disablement that may require amputation.”

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BE PREPARED So again, we ask, where do you go?

Assessing the targeting maps, you have three options: One: Gold Rush Country, the Sierra Nevada mountains, near Yosemite National Park. (A lovely wine-tasting village called Murphys.)

Two: Eastern Oregon. (There’s pretty much nothing there except moonscape.)

Three: Central Idaho.

(Ironically, a city named …

Moscow.)

First challenge is getting there: Keep your gas tank full.

(You should do this anyway as earthquakes and tsunamis are a natural and ongoing threat in this region.)

Second challenge is survival: Take with you lots of bottled water, cash, gold and silver coins — and weapons, if you possess them. Ensure you have stocked up on whatever medicines you need, along with first aid gear. Add blankets and your warmest coat.

And a shortwave radio, plus extra batteries.

But if you’re not quick enough and (in Santa Barbara) happen to catch a flash coming from the northwest (Vandenberg) or south (Los Angeles), close your eyes and get down flat, the way we did in our classrooms at school in the early 1960s when that weekly alarm siren sounded (for us, 10 a.m. every Friday). Go to a basement or middle of a building (“layers of protection”) and remain for 24 hours. If you are that close, however, it is probably too late and, indeed, may be time to “kiss your a— goodbye.”

Meantime (or until then), count your blessings and say prayers for the innocent folk of Ukraine who should have seen it coming — and didn’t — and had to leave their homes (the lucky ones) with only the clothes they wore.

Dr. Seuss saw it coming. His so-called political incorrectness notwithstanding, the insightful and prophetic Theodor Geisel penned two children’s books that forecast what we are witnessing today: “Yertle the Turtle” and “The Butter Battle Book.”

The former is about a ruling turtle who stands on the backs of an ever-growing tower of turtles to lord over all he can see — and ultimately topples.

Let’s hope for that outcome.

The latter is about an arms race between the Yooks and the Zooks, which concludes with a grandfather telling his grandson: “Who’s going to drop it, will you or will he? Be patient. We’ll see. We will see…”

We are just about at that point.

We will see.

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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issued a 67-page report that states: “As this war and its consequences slowly weaken Russian strength … Russia will increasingly rely on its nuclear deterrent to signal the West and project strength to its internal and external audiences.”

This reflects “Moscow’s doctrinal views,” he continues, “on the use of tactical nuclear weapons to compel an adversary into pursuing an off-ramp.”

Hopefully, this is the moment a few brave Russian generals would finally intercede and tell their president, “Nyet.”

But if they do not, and they follow his orders, what does the U.S. and NATO do?

Maybe the same as now: Not much, aside from smuggling Javelin anti-tank busters and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles along with ammunition (and now drones) into a war-torn country devastated daily by bombardment, leading to countless casualties, mostly civilians.

And what if Ukraine still does not surrender and Mr. Putin makes good on his threat to drop, say, a nuclear bomb on the beautiful, very cultural city of Lviv and its population of 720,000?

Thereafter, does Western civilization allow itself to be held hostage to Mr. Putin’s nuclear blackmail — do what he says or risk getting nuked? (Mr. Putin believes that the true meaning of strength is possessing the resolve to follow through on threats.)

There has probably never been a likelier time in the short history of nuclear weapons for our national security establishment to actually consider a preemptive strike against Russia to prevent Mr. Putin from escalating the use of atomic warheads for the purpose of achieving his military objectives.

Or perhaps Mr. Putin, sensing (or paranoid about) the possibility of a preemptive strike, launches one himself?

And here’s the real scary part to consider while you complacently sip your morning latte or your late afternoon chardonnay: Mr. Putin is full of rancor over the fact that while his beloved Mother Russia/Soviet Union suffered huge losses during World War II — and the “War to End All Wars” that preceded it — neither world war touched continental U.S. soil. Aside from Pearl Harbor, Americans did not suffer where they reside.

Mr. Putin would actually like to bring the horror of war to us, on our own turf. This is what he meant when he threatened the United States with “consequences greater than you have ever faced in history” should our country intervene in his slaughter of innocents in Ukraine. This is why Mr. Biden has been leery about delivering Polish MiG-29 jet fighters to Ukraine or supplying air cover in the sky above and is circumspect in general about poking a malevolent bully.

Three days ago, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy secretary of the Kremlin’s security council, announced that “Russia has the might to put all brash enemies in their place.”

And earlier this week, Russian TV host Vladimir Solovyov announced with regard to seized oligarch assets, “Those who took our money should be told, you have 24 hours to unfreeze our funds, or else we’ll send you what you know we’ve got. Your choice.

Tactical or strategic, take a pick.”

It could happen. And it might.

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t the risk of sounding alarmist, we would be remiss not to remind readers that most of Ukraine was in denial about Vladimir Putin’s plan to invade their country even while the Russian dictator — during a three-month period — was assembling a massive military build-up of 130,000 troops, tanks, armored vehicles and missile launchers along Ukraine’s northern, eastern and southern borders.

Ukrainians, for the most part, believed that President Putin was merely posturing and looking to negotiate new assurances about their country’s buffer status between Russia and NATO member countries (which Mr. Putin perceives as mere proxies for the U.S., a nation he despises with a passion). Most Ukrainians, we understand, did not believe for one moment that their cultural cousins and fellow Slavs would actually invade with such murderous intent. And, as we’ve seen, even Russia’s own troops were both surprised and horrified by the military mission forced upon them.

Bear this in mind as we point out that Americans, for the most part, are in similar denial about the possibility of a nuclear weapon exchange between Russia and the United States.

Truth is, not since the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 has the specter of nuclear holocaust loomed so ominously. This current crisis is much more serious and far more dangerous than the standoff between JFK and Nikita Khrushchev over the Kremlin’s desire to place missiles in Cuba.

Problem: To paraphrase what Lloyd Bentsen famously told Dan Quayle about Mr. Quayle in their 1988 vice presidential candidate debate: Joe Biden is no Jack Kennedy. And JFK’s Executive Committee of the National Security Council, known as EXCOMM, was far more formidable than Mr. Biden’s green-tinted cabinet.

Mr. Khrushchev was renowned to be boorish and overbearing.

But not evil.

On the other hand, Mr. Putin is a psychopath who has been spoiling for a showdown with the United States for many years.

Moreover, he will never willingly accept defeat in Ukraine (or anywhere). He cannot afford to lose as it would surely signal the end of his long, 20-yearplus reign. His untrained, ill equipped military (lacking food and fuel) has already become a laughingstock while, sadly, Russian mothers learn that their sons are never coming home.

Mr. Putin doesn’t even have the decency to return his own dead to their homeland.

History has shown that countries are not kind to autocrats who lose wars. Such leaders quickly lose power and often their lives.

In his soon-to-be-published book, “The Eastern Front in World War 3,” former U.S. Defense Department official Dr. Philip Petersen writes: “Putin is a terrorist — a state thug … equipped only with the survival instincts of a common bully. Because Putin is not a soldier experienced with the harsh realities of war, he strives to hide the reality of his operational mess in Ukraine and seeks ways to impose his will both at home and abroad.

“He will absolutely not be reasoned with. The battlefield is everywhere. The war will not end with Russian operations in Ukraine. We are engaged in an existential struggle between feudalism represented by the criminal conspiracy emanating from Moscow and modernity as represented by the progressive forces to be found in the imperfect liberal democracies.”

The best outcome we can hope for is that a few bold Russian generals take control of the Kremlin and strip Mr. Putin of power. They don’t have to execute him (as much as he richly deserves it), but just relinquish Vlad of his command in a military coup and eventually hand him over to the International Criminal Court of the Hague for prosecution as the war criminal the world now knows him to be.

Thereafter, they could oversee temporary martial law, retreat from Ukraine — and hopefully transition toward a new election.

(If we choose to be truly optimistic, let’s hope for a new democratic government led by the currently imprisoned Alexey Navalny, whom Mr. Putin tried and failed to assassinate.)

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TRAFFIC, CRIME AND FIRE BLOTTER THOMAS, Tana Jean

Tana Jean Thomas, 75, died Tuesday, February 22, 2022 following heart surgery and an extended hospital stay.

Tana was beloved by a wide circle of family and friends, and her absence leaves a gap in all our lives.

Tana was born in 1946 to Dr. Morton and Helen Crew, in Leon, IA, and grew up in Decatur, IL. A 1964 MacArthur High graduate, she attended the University of Iowa and Southern Illinois University. She was married to Lloyd Leabhard from 1968 – 1980. They lived in Boulder, CO, and adopted a daughter, Stacey, in 1974.

Tana moved to Santa Barbara, CA, in 1982, and married Cal Thomas there in 1984. She worked as an escrow assistant and traveling notary.

After her retirement she volunteered with CASA and the Goleta Hospital auxiliary.

She and Cal were members of the Elks and took many RV trips with the Caravaneers.

She was also a member of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church where she served as a deacon.

Tana lived a life full of laughter and love. She is survived by her husband Cal, daughter Stacey (Willy) Voigt, stepsons Brian and Cal, sisters Vee Ann (Paul) Cartwright and Sally (Lou) Farone, grandchildren Sarah (Aaron) Culley, Kyler Thomas, and Emma Voigt, five great-grandchildren, and many extended family members and close friends.

She was predeceased by her parents, Morton and Helen.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to your local CASA chapter or to the Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Auxiliary. Memorial services will be June 18 at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Santa Barbara.

PATAWARAN, Vilma Sangalang

April 16th, 1949 - March 12, 2022 A loving mother, wife, grandmother, sister, and daughter, Vilma was born in Angeles City, Philippines to John and Dina Sangalang. Vilma was one of seven children. She met her husband, Bartolome “Tom” Patawaran at Angeles University Foundation whom she married August 12, 1972.

Vilma and Tom had two children, Joy and Henley. Due to Tom’s work, the family traveled to Iran, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore and eventually the U.S. in September 1986.

Vilma was a school teacher, assembler, caregiver and homemaker during her professional years. She loved to host parties for family and friends. She was known for her great cooking and baking. With Tom, Vilma sponsored many children and helped house and feed the family over the years.

After husband, Tom, passed away in 2017, Vilma was heartbroken, and yearned to be reunited with her soulmate. For the past two years, Vilma stayed with her children Joy Sciutto, Henley Patawaran along with their spouses and grandchildren. Vilma passed away at home surrounded by her family. Vilma is survived by Joy Sciutto, Charlie Sciutto, Henley Patawaran, Kayla Patawaran, Mahlia Patawaran, Billy Sciutto, Iva Sciutto, and Ronald Joseph Patawaran.

Family wants to give special thanks to the Friendship Center Adult Care who provided Respite care to the family and was a space for social gathering, community and love. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Friendship Center Montecito to support their amazing program. Assisted Hospice and Dr. Liana Gonzales provided wonderful care and guidance.

Memorial service is scheduled for Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 10:00am at St. Raphaels Church.

OATIS, Jason “Coach O” 4-23-59- 2-17-22

Jason “Coach O” Oatis had his own personal rapture on February 17, 2022 and fell immediately into the arms of his savior, Jesus. When he got there he heard, “Well done my good and faithful servant.” Raised in the church, he found his church home in Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara where he served for many years.

Jason was born in Monroe, Louisiana and moved to Santa Barbara at the age of two. He attended McKinley, Franklin, Santa Barbara Junior and Senior High School and then Mesa College San Diego where he was a music major and completed his teaching credential at UCLA. In true Jason style, he met his future wife Judy on the playground when he was subbing while both worked at Montecito Union School. It was a whirlwind romance and they were married ten months after they met. Their two children, Matthew and Rachel soon followed, their pride and joy.

Jason was quoted as saying, “I believe we all have an opportunity in life to make life better or to help someone. My hope for all of us is when we have the chance, we will take it.” Jason took many opportunities to invest in people. He was a Physical Education teacher at Santa Barbara City College, Montecito Union, Santa Barbara Christian School, Carpinteria High School, Cold Spring Elementary and Canalino Elementary. In his early years, “Coach O” worked in both track and football with the San Diego Stars Track Club, UCSB, and Santa Barbara City College. He was Sports Summer Camp Director at the Montecito YMCA and the Westmont College Track and Field Summer Camp Director. He passionately enjoyed seventeen years at Cold Spring Elementary and the twenty-seven years on the track and field of Westmont College.

Jason volunteered at a variety of events and in many ways at Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara, from the “Bible Buck Store” to the security team and with his Bible Study group. He represented Cold Spring School as the safety coordinator with M.E.R.R.A.G. and was always known for helping a neighbor in need. Carpinterians all knew his smile from his daily walks.

Another quote from Jason was, “It’s not about me.” He lived out his faith on a daily basis. He found others to be the focus of his life’s passion, from God, to his amazingly lovely wife, Judy, to spending time with his compassionate, honest, and hardworking children. They enjoyed trips to Kauai and dreamt of living there. Jason brought back Kauai Sugarloaf pineapple tops and proceeded to propagate them into a hundred pineapple plants. He loved working in his garden and built his own koi pond. The family spent time fishing, did extended family camps at Lake Casitas where he was proud of the one big fish he caught. He loved his Hoka shoes which allowed him to walk everywhere. He would pray at the drop of the hat for anyone. His friend, Coach Smelley said about him, “Coach O had an effervescent smile, a contagious laugh, and a heart that brimmed with encouragement and acceptance. The testimonies to his influence on attitudes and life enhancing conversations are legendary and beyond count.”

Jason is survived by his wife Judy, his son Matthew, daughter Rachel, mother, Mrs. Clevonease Johnson, sisters, Mrs. George Etta Milam, and Mrs. Berna Oatis-Larson and many other extended family.

To his former students, athletes, family and friends he would want you watch the movie, Galaxy Quest and recall: Never give up, never surrender!

And to remember Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”

A celebration of life will be held at 3:30 on March 27th At Murchison Gym, Westmont College 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara Hawaiian attire and carpooling is encouraged In lieu of flowers Donations can be made to Samaritans Purse or Destined For Grace

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FASOLD, Walter Albert, Jr.

Walter Albert Fasold, Jr. “Walt,” passed away at home surrounded by family, on February 10, 2022, after a valiant battle with pancreatic cancer.

Walt was born on April 19, 1951, in Cincinnati, Ohio to Walter A Fasold, Sr. and Adaline (Burger) Fasold.

Walt attended North College Hill elementary and high school. He was a member of several bands during his years there along with best friends Keith, Merritt and Bob. They remained close to this day. Walt played and taught the trumpet. He was also a member of the science club which fueled his interest in Chemicals. In his college years he forged a close and lifelong friendship with George which included many family vacations together.

Walt attended the University of Cincinnati in the Chemical Engineering Program. He graduated Cum Laude in June of 1974. Six days later he married his one and only, Jane Margaret (nee Luckhardt).

Walt’s extensive career as a Chemical Engineer began with P & G in Cincinnati. He then worked for Sherwin-Williams near Chicago, Illinois. He moved back to Cincinnati to work for the Hilton Davis Co., as Vice President of manufacturing. Later he took a job with the P Q Corp. in Kansas City with a move to the Philadelphia area to run all 14 plants across the United States. Walt moved to California to run the Celite mine, which led him to ULA (United Launch Alliance) on the Vandenburg Air (Space) Force Base. He was particularly proud of the work he did there on the Mission to Mars and many other launches.

Walt’s community mindedness had him serving on the board of directors of the Mission Hills Community Service District for eight years. He worked tirelessly to help bring the MHCSD into regulatory compliance and fiscal stability. Three of those years as President of the board.

Along with his wife, Jane, they belonged to the Mural Society and held many events at their home for this group and many other functions including neighbor Bar-B-Ques and Christmas parties. Golf was his passion, but he also enjoyed wine making with a neighborhood group. Walt was a kind, patient, quick witted man who was never selfish.

He always made time to talk to anyone who looked to him for advice or help. A real fix-it man who loved to teach his skills to others, especially children.

Walt is survived by his wife Jane of 47 years, his children Jonathan (Theresa) and Pamela (Wade) Vasquez. Jon and Pam spent time with their father during his last several weeks helping their mom to care for him at home. Also surviving Walt are his grandchildren: Shawn, Landon and Adeline Fasold, and Owen and Abigail Vasquez, his only sister Peggy (Marvin) Sheets and numerous nephews and nieces.

There is a memorial set for Wednesday, March 23, starting at 11:00 am at St. Mary’s Church on Harris Grade. In lieu of flowers please consider making a donation to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network at pancan.org/donate or 1500 Rosecrans Ave. Suite 200, Manhattan Beach, Ca 90266.

Other memorials will be arranged for Kansas City and Cincinnati on dates to be determined.

MONTGOMERY, Sheryl Ann

Sheryl Ann Montgomery, was born July 4, 1945, a truly fitting and prophetic day for the independent “firecracker” and inspiration she would become as a student, teacher, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, cousin, spouse and friend, in a way which can only be described as “Sher,” as she is called by all her 5 grandsons.

She was born in Chico, CA, to Margaret and Ralph Watkins, where she was raised and attended school, graduating at the top of her high school class of some 400 students. She attended Chico State University for her Freshman and Sophomore years, and as a brilliant student, transferred to and in 1967, graduated from UC Berkeley, Magna Cum Laude (with majors in History and English), which she attended without family financial help, while working full time as a waitress at a popular local fish restaurant.

While at UC Berkeley, she reconnected with an old 7th grade flame (they went “steady”), Frederick (“Rick”) Montgomery, when she needed a ride from their nearby hometowns back to Berkeley, which he provided on his way back to Stanford. They almost immediately commenced dating, their first date to the Sound of Music-and the Music continued 54 years. They married in 1968 on a week’s notice so that Rick’s mother, who had terminal cancer, would be able to attend the wedding. At the time of their marriage, Rick was a first-year law student at UC Hastings and Sherri as a natural born teacher, obtained her Elementary School teaching credential in order to support them. This was at great personal sacrifice to her desire to become a history professor at Berkeley. Sherri taught kindergarten in the Bay Area and then Santa Barbara for some 30+ years.

Sherri, as most called her, moved to Santa Barbara in 1970, where Rick had been recruited as a fledgling litigator out of law school by the prestigious law firm of Schramm, Raddue & Seed. As a Berkeley student of the ‘60s, she initially hated it, saying that she had been dragged to “polyester hell.” That, however, soon changed, especially after they started their family.

While Rick worked to build his legal career, Sherri was the driving force of “family.” She had one biological son, Heath, but later was unable to conceive for medical reasons. Undaunted, she was determined to build more family. Over nearly insurmountable legal obstacles she single handedly accomplished (sitting, day-after-day in the US Ambassador’s office in Los Angeles until he finally succumbed and gave her a personal “audience”) the first California adoption from El Salvador of their daughter Pilar, and then proceeded with an adoption of their last child, Brent. Despite having an outward, fun loving, lifeliving persona, Sherri was the driven, focused, intelligent, thoughtful matriarch of the family. Sherri believed that curiosity and imagination were vital to her children’s (and their children’s) growth. Education was paramount and each night she relentlessly supervised the completion of each child’s homework. Coming from the Berkeley ‘60s she was also determined that there would be no time for their getting into trouble, and what time was left after education, was filled with sports. She earned the nickname “Sergeant Sherri” in the traveling junior tennis world in which Heath and Pilar participated, but this didn’t stop her from starting a rotating bridge group with other mothers on the tours while still making sure travel plans were confirmed, warm-ups were secured, and water jugs were filled. Yet, every match win or lose, she would make sure her kids felt unconditional love and support. To her, and at her core, the principle and mantra was family must come first and remain close. It was woven into the fabric of her children’s psyches, as well as the many of the needle points, weavings, knitted blankets, paintings and poems she wrote throughout her life. After her kids left home for college and on, while giving them their adult space, she always provided a safe place for their return when advice and wisdom were needed. When asked by people how she did it, her reply was, “accept their friends, accept their music, and pay for everything.”

She traveled the world, both independently and with Rick, with experiences, adventures, and stories to share which would rival novels--like the time she traveled to Nepal alone, the military took over the government and just as the country was being shut down for months for travel in or out, she bribed her way onto the last flight out composed of fleeing politicians, but peppered with civilians in the hope of preventing the military from shooting down the plane. She and Rick experienced life with and through other cultures and peoples, but these cultures and people also gained by experiencing her.

Sherri was also actively involved in the art culture in Santa Barbara. For decades she sold her art at local shows and during countless holiday events around town. When the 4th of July art show at the Mission shut down, she organized and hosted the event at her home, for more than 10 years, so that local artists, residents and visitors could continue to enjoy that traditional cultural experience. She believed in giving back to the community. Over her 50+ years in Santa Barbara, she volunteered at the Braille Institute to teach needlepoint and knitting, the Senior Center, Junior League, Transition House, and helped in local political campaigns.

She seamlessly transitioned from parent to grandparent, and, in this new chapter, she continued to blossom. Always wanting to spend time with her grandsons (5), almost never saying no to a request or chance to see them, tutoring them every week and inspiring their imaginations and enthusiasm for learning (and keeping them on their toes as she actually had “eyes” tattooed on the back of her head so she could always see them). All of the boys couldn’t wait to tell Sher about their next big accomplishment, and she made it seem as if it was the best thing they had done.

Sherri was a force of nature when it came to her ability to positively affect and influence those around her. She was the life of the party. She was the inspiration for being better.

No one ever forgot her after meeting. She was funny, quick witted, insightful, sensitive, voraciously well read, and inquisitive. Upon meeting, she instantly sized you up and often pushed you to the point where you would ask yourself, “why didn’t I think of that? -- try that before?” She focused on the best in people and helped them live to that potential. She was not afraid to speak her mind, but rarely offended. If you had a chance to hear her give a speech, it was always riffing off the top of her head, but incredibly funny, insightful, and personal--for days, it would become the topic of conversation as those present would repeat her quips and punch lines. She was a strong believer in learning history for its life’s lessons, often noting one of her favorite Churchill sayings-”Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” She repeated to her children and their children that they’d be the force for the change they wanted to see in life. Her combination of wit, curiosity, love, generosity, devotion, and kindness was unique. Those who met and knew Sherri got to see them all. While she would tell you not to mourn her passing, secretly she would want you to at least miss her presence for a bit, but celebrate her by continuing to live life as fully as possible. The world may have lost this unique wife, mom, grandmother, sister, aunt, cousin and friend, but we will continue to honor all her wisdom, teachings, and spirit which came to life on that fitting July 4th day celebrating independence. To this we say, we love you Sher, for all you are and thank you for all you have given us and which will continue to inspire us through your memory.

The family is holding a Celebration of Sherri’s Life on Saturday, May 21, 2022, from 4:00 P.M to 10:00 P.M. at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, 136 E. De La Guerra St., S.B., Cal. 93101, and all who would like to share in her memory are welcome.

Construction continues on Highway 101 One southbound lane on Highway 101 will be closed between North Padaro Lane to Santa Claus Lane from 7 p.m.10 a.m. beginning on April 2 for construction.

Additionally, the southbound on-ramp at N. Padaro Lane and the off-ramp at South Padaro Lane and Santa Claus Lane will have temporary and longterm closures for construction, according to a news release.

From March 20-April 2, drivers can expect one lane on the northbound Highway 101 from Bailard Avenue to Sheffield Drive on Sunday nights from 9 p.m.-7 a.m.

Additionally, drivers can anticipate one lane in that same area Monday through Thursday from 8 p.m.-7 a.m.

The on-ramp at Sheffield Drive will remain closed with an expected reopening date of July 13. Drivers should use the onramp at San Ysidro Road as an alternate route.

Going southbound, drivers should anticipate one lane on Highway 101 from Sheffield Drive to Bailard Avenue on Sunday nights from 10 p.m.-7 a.m. From

Monday through Thursday, the highway will go to one lane from 8 p.m.-7:30 a.m.

The on-ramp at Sheffield Drive is closed until about June. Drivers are asked to use the southbound on-ramp at North Padaro Lane instead.

Additionally, the off-ramp at Evans Avenue is closed until the end of October. Drivers can use the southbound off-ramp at Sheffield Drive as an alternative.

The on-ramp at North Padaro Lane will be closed for about three months beginning on April 2. The on-ramp at Santa Claus Lane should be used instead.

The off-ramp at S. Padaro Lane and Santa Claus Lane will also be closed on April 2 for an anticipated seven months.

North Jameson Lane by Sheffield Drive will have a temporary speed limit of 30 mph with bikes sharing the eastbound lane during the sound wall construction.

Crews will pothole for utilities as needed from March 21-22 at San Ysidro Road over Highway 101 and Jameson Lane and March 22-23 at Santa Claus Lane and Sandpoint Road.

Flaggers will direct traffic, and the work will occur between 7 a.m.-5 p.m. in those locations.

— Kaitlyn Schallhorn

LOCAL FIVE-DAY FORECAST TODAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

Sunshine and windy

Partly sunny

Pleasant with sunshine

Mostly sunny and nice

Sunny and pleasant

INLAND

INLAND

INLAND

INLAND

INLAND

71 38

78 44

84 44

85 45

84 39

70 46

72 47

76 51

73 51

73 49

COASTAL

COASTAL

Pismo Beach 67/45

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Maricopa 63/46

Guadalupe 64/42

Santa Maria 64/42

Vandenberg 61/49

New Cuyama 61/37 Ventucopa 55/36

Los Alamos 70/41

Lompoc 60/45 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022

Buellton 69/39

Solvang 71/38

Gaviota 67/49

SANTA BARBARA 70/46 Goleta 72/46

Carpinteria 68/50 Ventura 67/49

AIR QUALITY KEY Good Moderate

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

ALMANAC

Santa Barbara through 6 p.m. yesterday

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63/49 66/46 82 in 1995 35 in 2002

PRECIPITATION 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest.

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

Trace 0.01” (2.07”) 8.93” (14.68”)

City Cuyama Goleta Lompoc Pismo Beach Santa Maria Santa Ynez Vandenberg Ventura

STATE CITIES Bakersfield Barstow Big Bear Bishop Catalina Concord Escondido Eureka Fresno Los Angeles Mammoth Lakes Modesto Monterey Napa Oakland Ojai Oxnard Palm Springs Pasadena Paso Robles Sacramento San Diego San Francisco San Jose San Luis Obispo Santa Monica Tahoe Valley

64/46/pc 74/46/s 48/26/sf 67/37/s 61/53/s 69/43/s 66/40/s 51/39/c 67/45/s 76/52/s 46/27/c 68/44/s 59/46/s 71/37/s 62/44/s 71/48/s 66/48/s 82/58/s 74/51/s 70/35/s 69/43/s 65/53/s 62/48/s 66/44/s 67/44/s 70/52/s 49/27/c

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 67/42/s 75/49/pc 69/45/pc 71/50/s 70/47/pc 78/44/pc 64/47/pc 66/55/pc

68/44/s 60/41/pc 60/43/s 79/55/s 65/29/c 76/60/s 84/71/t 57/44/pc 57/41/pc 58/42/pc 74/53/pc 51/44/sh 73/52/pc 43/28/sh 47/42/sh 60/43/pc

POINT ARENA TO POINT PINOS

Wind from the northwest at 10-20 knots today. Wind waves 5-9 feet with a west swell 5-9 feet at 9-second intervals. Visibility clear.

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO

Wind from the northwest at 10-20 knots today. Wind waves 5-9 feet with a west swell 5-9 feet at 9-second intervals. Visibility clear.

SANTA BARBARA HARBOR TIDES Date Time High Time March 20 11:46 a.m.

11:54 p.m.

March 21 12:41 p.m. none March 22 12:30 a.m.

1:52 p.m.

4.3’ 5.2’ 3.7’ 5.3’ 3.1’

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Low

5:44 a.m.

5:34 p.m.

6:36 a.m.

6:02 p.m.

7:37 a.m.

6:32 p.m.

0.2’ 0.7’ 0.1’ 1.3’ 0.1’ 1.8’

AT BRADBURY DAM, LAKE CACHUMA 71/48/s 75/51/pc 53/30/pc 71/41/s 65/59/pc 77/50/s 76/46/pc 55/39/pc 72/50/s 78/57/pc 52/30/s 74/48/s 64/50/pc 81/52/s 68/48/s 78/55/pc 69/51/pc 85/63/pc 78/59/pc 77/40/s 78/51/s 69/52/pc 67/51/s 73/49/s 73/50/s 73/56/pc 54/35/s

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

Wind west-northwest at 15-25 knots today. Wind waves 6-10 feet with a west swell 6-10 feet at 9-second intervals. Visibility clear.

TIDES

LOCAL TEMPS Today Hi/Lo/W 61/37/s 72/46/s 63/43/s 67/45/s 64/42/s 71/38/s 61/49/s 67/49/s

MARINE FORECAST

SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL

72/53/s 54/38/pc 70/47/c 69/51/t 37/26/sn 75/65/t 80/71/pc 61/42/sh 62/44/s 66/46/s 74/52/s 51/46/r 73/52/pc 46/30/s 51/45/r 73/46/s

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 90,252 acre-ft.

Elevation 710.57 ft.

Evaporation (past 24 hours) 19.8 acre-ft.

Inflow 32.2 acre-ft.

State inflow 12.7 acre-ft.

Storage change from yest.

-73 acre-ft.

Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

SUN AND MOON Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset

Last

New

Mar 24

Mar 31

Today 7:03 a.m.

7:11 p.m.

10:06 p.m.

8:35 a.m.

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Apr 8

Mon. 7:02 a.m.

7:12 p.m.

11:15 p.m.

9:08 a.m.

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Apr 16

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Carbajal, Padilla receive Brady PAC endorsements

‘We still have a great deal to digest’ REDISTRICTING

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Sneddon spoke in favor of the 105RE map as did Councilmember Alejandra Gutierrez.

Councilmember Alejandra Gutierrez said East Beach is more in-line with the rest of District 1, noting residents in her district tend to utilize East Beach.

And she said she’s in concurrence with “the agreement when districts were divided that every district should have a say on the downtown area.”

Councilmember Oscar Gutierrez said the 101RE plan “best encompasses” the inclusion of the Westside neighborhood into District 3 but expressed concerns about the Latino CVAP for that district which he represents.

Councilmember Gutierrez also requested the Harding School be drawn back into his district with whatever map the commission picks, noting it’s always been in District 3 and he has been heavily involved with the school.

Dr. Phillips said it would be easier to draw it back into District 3 under the 101RE map because no houses were involved.

However, under DEC Plan EUB, that change could negatively impact that map’s Latino CVAP for District 3, Dr. Phillips warned.

The DEC Plan EUB map also garnered a lot of interest at the latest redistricting meeting.

This map has a total population deviation of 9.3% with a Latino CVAP of 50% for District 1 and 46% in District 3.

This plan expands District 2 to include part of lower State Street.

But it ends District 3 at West Mission Street while pushing it over across the freeway into the west downtown neighborhood. District 6 would include Oak Park and extend across the freeway into more of the Modoc Road area.

District 1 would include the waterfront and most of East Beach as well.

The other two proposals still under consideration by the commission are 104E and DEC Plan EU. Plan 104E has a total population deviation of 8.2%. District 1 has a Latino CVAP of 51% and 45% for District 3.

Under this plan, District 1 would lack a presence on State Street and not include East Beach. District 3

would curve around to include part of the downtown area and stretch up to La Cumbre Junior High School.

District 4 would maintain a small coastal presence, and District 5 would stretch down to Hendry’s Beach. District 6 would include most of the downtown area, but would also feature parts of the Laguna and Oak Park neighborhoods.

District 2 would include most of the waterfront areas, from West Mesa to East Beach.

DEC Plan EU would eliminate District 1’s East Beach and State Street areas and push District 3 down to end at West Mission Street. District 2 would stretch from West Mesa to the West Beach area.

East Beach would be covered

by District 4, and District 5 would include Hendry’s Beach. District 6 would include most of downtown Santa Barbara, all of Oak Park and much of the Westside, going past the Modoc Road area.

This plan has a population deviation of 9.3%. The District 1 Latino CVAP is 51%, and the District 3 Latino CVAP is 46%.

“We still have a great deal to digest,” Judge Melinda Johnson, the commission chair, said Monday evening.

The next meeting is scheduled for March 30 at 2 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Santa Barbara City Council chambers at 735 Anacapa St. Members of the public are encouraged to submit written comments ahead of the March 30 meeting to be considered by the commission. The deadline for those written comments will be March 23, Judge Johnson said.

The final maps under consideration in Santa Barbara can be found here: santabarbaraca. gov/gov/brdcomm/dm/irc/agendas. asp.

Meanwhile, in Santa Maria, the city council picked a new map that made very minor changes to its four districts last week. The council selected Minimal Change Plan B, with a total population deviation of 3.3%, in a 3-2 vote on March 15.

The map extends District 1 south just a bit as well as adds a little nook in the northeast corner.

District 2 also extends a bit east, under this plan, and includes a cluster of a few blocks in the southeast area.

By KAITLYN SCHALLHORN NEWS-PRESS STAFF-WRITER

U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, has the backing of Brady PAC, an organization that advocates for greater gun control policies, in his re-election bid.

Rep. Carbajal was included in a slate of endorsements by Brady PAC — which included Sen. Alex Padilla and 14 Democratic House candidates in California — released last week.

“We’re proud to endorse these House

and Senate candidates who are proven partners in the fight to end gun violence,” the Brady PAC said on social media. “They stand with the safety of our children and our communities, and we need you to join us in standing with them.”

Rep. Carbajal responded to the endorsement on Twitter, saying: “The tragedy of gun violence is personal to me, which is why I work to keep our communities safe and end our country’s gun violence epidemic.”

The Brady PAC, created ahead of the 2018

midterm elections, backs candidates who support anti-gun violence measures such as universal background checks and extreme risk protection orders, among other things.

Sen. Padilla said he was honored to have the backing of Brady PAC in his campaign for his first full term in the U.S. Senate.

“Together we will continue pushing for common-sense reforms to curb the epidemic levels of gun violence in this country,” Sen. Padilla said. email: kschallhorn@newspress.com

Flights of fancy at Santa Barbara Zoo

KENNETH SONG / NEWS-PRESS PHOTOS

Pirates, top left, princesses, above, and, of course, photo ops, at left, abounded at the Santa Barbara Zoo on Saturday during Princess and Pirate Weekend. The event, which continues today, celebrates the world’s frogs and other amphibians with crafts and includes the opportunity to meet with fairy tail characters and animal encounters. The event is free with zoo admission or a zoo membership. Oline reservations are required to visit the zoo, and can be made at www.sbzoo.org. For more information, call the zoo at 805-962-5339.

Channel Islands park seeks input on fire plan The Channel Islands National Park is asking for public input as it updates its fire management plan.

The park last updated its fire management

email: kschallhorn@newspress.com

plan in 2013.

The National Parks Service is working on plans for all areas with burnable vegetation.

The NPS is seeking to better identify methods of prescribed fire within the park and describe defensive space principles around park structures and critical resources, according to a news release.

A public meeting is scheduled for April 5 at 4 p.m. that will include an overview of the project. The meeting will be virtual and can be found at parkplanning.nps.gov/chis_fmp.

Public comments can be made through NPS here: parkplanning.nps.gov/chis_fmp.

— Kaitlyn Schallhorn

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The Santa Barbara High baseball team shut out Rio Mesa on Friday, winning by a score of 8-0.

Zane Lee-Paulick started on the mound for the Dons, throwing five innings of one-hit ball while striking out three. He was relieved by Nick Dennett, who completed the combined shutout.

The game remained relatively close until the fifth inning, when Santa Barbara’s offense exploded with a five-run outburst to put the game out of reach. Jack Holland and LeePaulick had key RBIs in the inning.

The Dons collected 11 hits in the game, with Holland, Kai Zukor, Vince Gamberdella and Michael Firestone all contributing multiple hits. Zukor also swiped two bases.

DP shuts out Central Valley Christian baseball team Dos Pueblos High baseball cruised to victory over Central Valley Christian on Friday, beating the non-league opponent 4-0.

Ryan Speshyock pitched a complete game in the shutout win, striking out 15 on his way to a one-hit effort. Speshyock also contributed to his own cause with a home run.

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Dos Pueblos’ overall record now sits at 6-6.

SY baseball falls to Lompoc The Santa Ynez High baseball team couldn’t quite finish off Lompoc on Friday, allowing four runs in the fourth to take the 5-4 loss.

Jackson Cloud pitched a good game for the Pirates, going six-plus innings with 10 strikeouts and allowing two runs on four hits.

Owen Hunt and Mikey Gills led the Santa Ynez offense, each going 2-4.

The loss was the third straight for the Pirates, who now own a 9-5 overall record.

“We are scuffling,” said Coach Warren Dickey. “We need to learn how to close the game out. We are learning some hard lessons, and I believe we will be better in the game to come.”

Bishop Diego softball falls to Santa Clara The Bishop Diego Cardinals fell victim to a late scoring binge by Santa Clara on Friday, eventually losing 15-7 after the game had been tied at 5 as late as the fifth inning.

The Cardinals managed 11 hits in the game, while allowing 18 to their opponents.

Madeline Ferries was in the circle for

Bishop Diego, going five and two-thirds inning while allowing 13 runs on 16 hits, striking out four and walking one. Tara Gregson threw1.1 innings in relief.

Lily Simolon homered in the contest for Bishop Diego, in addition to her two other hits.

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by Yvette Rosales and Jenna Hayes.

Bishop Diego tennis loses to Cabrillo Bishop Garcia Diego High boys tennis was outdone Friday by Cabrillo, losing by a score of 1-14.

Despite the loss, Bishop Diego enjoyed great singles play from Sebastian DeJohn, who won 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.

“Sabastian had an awesome day,” said Coach Natlee Hapman. “His strategy is his strength.

His confidence has grown so much. His placement was well-directed and his serves were providing a strong base to his wins.”

In doubles, Brennan Kaufmann and Max Schwarz won for Bishop Diego, 6-3, 6-2, 3-6.

“Max and Brennan have really worked hard to close the middle,” said Hapman. “They are really developing as a solid force … they really covered the court today.”

Bishop Diego tennis will return to action against Santa Ynez on Tuesday. email: msmolensky@newspress.com

Thompson plays hero in emotional tennis win over OUAZ

By JACOB NORLING WESTMONT SPORTS WRITER

On a day where tears were shed before the match even ended, Westmont Men’s Tennis (44, 4-0 GSAC) continued their march through GSAC play with a dramatic 4-3 win over OUAZ (5-4, 2-1 GSAC). The match ended in storybook fashion, with a tie-breaker to decide the match winner on court one. In the end, Westmont’s Logan Thompson put the finishing touch on the club’s fourth consecutive conference victory.

“On paper, .500 says one thing,” began Westmont head coach Mark Basham, “but we are 4-0 in conference so far. We have beaten three teams in GSAC play so far that are every bit on our level and I’m so proud that we’ve been able to pull this off.

“OUAZ was one of our toughest and most challenging matches of the season, and our guys did everything they could.”

In doubles, the Warriors and the Spirit split two matches on courts one and three, both by a score of 6-1. On court one, Ethan Ha and Thompson defeated Michael Loyd and Austin Todd. Over on three, Benny Saito and Santiago Tintore Ramon fell to Goor Adiv and Gianmarco Pitotti.

Luckily for Westmont, Joseph Hemry and Owen Vander Ark finished off Bryce Bodak and Liam Spiers by a score of 6-2 on court

two, clinching the doubles point for the Warriors.

“It was great to see us win on both one and two during doubles,” noted Basham. “Ethan and Logan have certainly been a highlight for us on the year so far at number one. They’re 7-1 in doubles. They’ve been lights out.

“We finally won a good match on number two with Joseph and Owen, and that was important to get them going.”

In singles, the two sides traded blows for the rest of the day. On court two, Ha fell to Spiers 7-5, 6-1 and on five, Saito fell to Loyd by a score of 6-0, 6-1. Westmont also fell on court three, where Vander Ark fell to Bodak 7-6 (7), 6-4.

Westmont found success on court four, where Wright defeated Adiv 7-5, 6-4, and on six, where Hemry outlasted Pitotti by a score of 76 (7), 6-2.

The match came down to Thompson versus Todd on court one, in a showdown that tested the will and the heart of each opponent.

Thompson fell 4-6 in the first set, before winning the same score in set two. Then, the two men pushed each other to a tiebreaker in set three, where it took 20 points to crown a victor.

“Logan’s match was really the highlight of the day,” expressed Basham. “Basically, Logan had two match points and couldn’t get it done.

Then, we were up 5-1 in the tiebreaker and had even more match points, but their guy wouldn’t

give it away.

“I think Logan was feeling nervous, and then the other guy had a few match points, and he couldn’t finish it either!”

When it was all said and done, Thompson won the tiebreaker 11-9 as he choked back tears, and was mauled by his team as the Warriors found a way to win it.

“Logan was so emotional; there were tears in his eyes during that tiebreaker,” shared Basham. “I was worried that was going to work against him but he found a way. After the match Logan told me, ‘I love my teammates so much. I just wanted to win it for them’.

“I don’t remember ever seeing him that emotional during a match. It was a total emotional roller coaster and I was so happy to see our guys win it. This might have been the most emotional I’ve ever seen our team run out after a match-clinching point.”

Thompson and the Warriors are now alone in first place in the GSAC, with a one game lead over San Diego Christian (8-6, 2-9 GSAC).

Westmont looks to carry their momentum to a fifth consecutive GSAC-win tomorrow, when they host Arizona Christian in Santa Barbara.

First serve is scheduled for 10:00 a.m.

Jacob Norling is the sports information assistant at Westmont College. email: sports@newspress.com

Westmont women’s tennis defeats Spirit in Santa Barbara

By JACOB NORLING WESTMONT SPORTS WRITER

Westmont Women’s Tennis (5-6, 3-0 GSAC) remained undefeated in conference play on Friday after defeating OUAZ (5-6, 2-1 GSAC) 5-2 in Santa Barbara. Following the win, Westmont remains tied for first place in the conference, knotted with Saint Katherine who is also 3-0.

“We’re intentional in challenging ourselves against the best teams in order to prepare for conference games,” said Westmont associate head coach Cade Pierson. “Our match against LSUA earlier this week really prepared us for today.”

The Warriors swept doubles play behind a couple dominant outings on the first two courts.

On court one, Rachal Jackson and Christine Hemry defeated Johanna Sotelo-Mena and Paulette Careaga 6-1. Then on court two, Emily Peterson and Francesca Aguirre defeated Antonia Kostoff and Guilia Leali by the same score.

Sophia Ostovany and Logan Jackson completed the sweep on court three, when they defeated Lyndsee Fleury and Maya Salamon 6-3.

“Everybody played really well in doubles,” noted Pierson. “On one and two we played two really good doubles teams who were rated above our players going into today’s match. We knew we had to come out strong and we did exactly that today.

“Our teams did a great job taking what they learned on

Wednesday and taking it into today. Our team really dictated the place of play.”

In singles play, the Warriors took four of the remaining six matches to claim the day. On court three, Aguirre continued to shine as she defeated Kostoff 6-2, 6-2, and on court five, Ostovany found similar success with a 6-2, 6-2 win against Veronica Gallardo.

On court four, Hemry outlasted Careaga 6-3, 7-5. The highlight of the day came on court one, where Jackson went toe-to-toe with Leali, the reigning GSAC Player of the Month. On Friday, Jackson got the best of her opponent, winning a three-set match 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

“I am really proud of Christine for winning the clincher,” reflected Pierson. “She has seen a lot of growth this season and did a

great job clinching that match. She kept her composure, trusted her game plan, and stepped it up in the end. I am really proud of her.

“Rachal’s opponent was the conference player of the month last month, so it was awesome to see her be able to finish that match with a win. It was awesome to see her work through things, keep her composure, and commit to her game plan.”

The women return to action tomorrow, when they host Arizona Christian at Westmont College.

First serve of the match is set to take place at 1:30 p.m.

Jacob Norling is the sports information assistant at Westmont College. email: sports@newspress.com

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During the Work, the Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) will monitor compliance with prevailing wage rate requirements and enforce the Contractor’s prevailing wage rate obligations, with a copy of the same being on file with the clerk of the District’s governing board. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractor under him, to pay not less than the said specified rates to all workmen employed by them in the execution of the contract, and to comply with all prevailing wage requirements set forth in the Labor Code.

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

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

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

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

No Bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the bid opening.

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Warriors, Royals trade shutouts in Santa Barbara

By JACOB NORLING WESTMONT SPORTS WRITER

Two of the best NAIA baseball teams on the west coast went head to head on Friday in Santa Barbara and traded shutouts on a day where pitching stole the show. In game one, #16 Hope International (24-6, 12-2 GSAC) saw four of their pitchers shutout the Warriors in a 5-0 win.

In game two, a masterful pitching performance headlined a 4-0 win by #7 Westmont (273, 16-2 GSAC) to even the series.

With two more games to play tomorrow, Westmont retains their current two-game lead over Hope International for first place in the Golden State Athletic Conference.

“Hope is a very good team, and they showed that today,” reflected Westmont head coach Robert Ruiz. “They play the game well in all facets. We knew we were in for a tough matchup.

“Overall, splitting a matchup against a really good team, we’ll take it. Our goal is always to win the weekend, and that’s still on the table after today.”

Game one belonged to Hope starter Seth Hoetker and the Royal’s bullpen. Hoetker and company became the first group in 2022 to shutout the seventhranked Warriors, after scattering just three hits across nine scoreless innings.

Hoetker led the way, surrendering just two singles in five and one-third scoreless innings. The junior right-hander struck out four en route to picking up his second win of the season as he set the tone for game one.

Following Hoetker’s exit, Bailey Roberson, Matthew Sagmit, and Raul Herrada followed suit and gave up just one hit to Westmont over the final three and two-thirds innings. The Royal’s defense was flawless behind their pitchers, as the road club retired 10 Warriors via groundout with recording a single error.

Each time the Warriors threatened, Hope’s defense came up with a huge momentumshifting play, as they ultimately turned a trio of double plays in game one. Westmont could squander just two singles, a double, and four walks en route to being shutout.

Hope International handed freshman Bryan Peck (5-1) the first loss of his collegiate career after tagging the right-hander for five runs in six innings. Hope jumped on Peck early, with the third batter of the day sending a ball to the gap in right center, scoring Hope’s leadoff man from first.

Peck then put up three consecutive zeros from the second through the fourth, buying the Warriors time to get back in the game. However, Westmont’s big hit never came, and the Royal broke things open in the middle innings.

“I thought Peck was good today,” assured Ruiz. “He threw strikes and kept us in the game, but we needed to give him some run support.”

In the fifth, Hope got a pair on a sacrifice fly and an RBI single, and in the sixth, the Royals added another on a solo shot and backto-back doubles. Following Peck’s departure, Alex Blaszyk went nine up, nine down in three perfect innings of relief.

Unfortunately, Westmont was unable to take advantage of the zeros put up in the late innings, and dropped game one 5-0.

“I have to give credit to their starter,” noted Ruiz. “He took everything that the game was giving him. If the umpire was giving him any room off the plate, he made sure he got every bit there was to offer. He kept us offbalanced and made it tough for us to gain any momentum in that first game.”

In game two, both starters stifled each other’s offense for the first five frames. Westmont’s Eric Oseguera and Hope’s Ryan Lachemann matched each other punch for punch through most of the day, with the game remaining tied at zero through four.

The first threat of the day did not come until the top of the fifth, when the Royal’s cornered Oseguera with one out. With the runner on first in motion, Oseguera induced a sharp groundball that skidded towards Parker O’Neil at third.

O’Neil dropped to his knees to snare it, and looked the runner back to third before throwing a strike across the diamond for out number two.

Then, with runners at second and third and two outs, another

“Overall, splitting a matchup against a really good team, we’ll take it. Our goal is always to win the weekend, and that’s still on the table after today.”

Robert Ruiz, Westmont head coach groundball found O’Neil. Once again, the third baseman gathered and threw a dart to Josh Rego, this time ending the threat.

“The ability to get out of that jam was huge,” pointed out Ruiz.

“For Osey to bear down there, that’s championship level baseball against a high-quality team.”

Then, in the bottom of the fifth, Westmont was the beneficiary of baseball’s cruel sense of humor.

After Lachemann retired the first two men saw, Finn Snyder prolonged the inning by wearing a ball in the earhole of his helmet.

Following the hit batter, Hope dipped into their bullpen for the first time in game two. The first man out of the bullpen, Sagmit, hit Ryan Desaegher and walked Robbie Haw. Then, head coach Larry Mahoney went to the lefthander Roberson to face Renck with the bases loaded.

Roberson did his job, getting Renck to hit a routine ground ball to second baseman Demitri Calacchio. The ball harmlessly bounced towards Calacchio, who was positioned a foot onto the outfield grass. The second baseman bent down to scoop up the baseball, and then, the third base dugout erupted as the ball trickled through the legs of Calacchio and rolled into right field.

Two runs scored immediately, and then, as Haw darted for third, the relay from the right fielder skipped by the third baseman, allowing Haw to scurry home.

After being held scoreless for the first 13 and two-thirds innings on Friday, two errors allowed Westmont to get up off the mat and take a 3-0 lead.

“Overall, there was pretty clean baseball played today,” began Ruiz, “and one mistake opened the door for us in game two. Osey threw a shutout and we did score another run later on, but taking advantage of that opportunity might have been the difference.”

After being given a three-run cushion, Oseguera returned for the sixth and retired three Royals in order. Then, in the bottom of the inning, Thomas Rudinsky and Rego added to the club’s run total by doubling in consecutive at bats to open the inning.

Following the final out of the sixth, Oseguera waltzed out of the dugout and back to the mound, looking to finish what he started.

It took only eight pitches in the sixth, and 65 pitches in total for Oseguera to complete the finest game of his collegiate career, a complete game shutout against Hope International.

“Osey was absolutely fantastic today,” said Ruiz. “I have to give him credit. We talk leading from the front, and today he showed what it means to take charge as a leader. It wasn’t an easy 65 pitches. He was competing in a 00 ballgame for 90 percent of that game against a really good team.”

The clubs return to action at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow, when Bradley Heacock will throw the first pitch of a Saturday doubleheader. Links to live coverage are available on the Westmont Athletics website.

“I have to give credit to our guys; they found a way to stay in the fight. We didn’t play our best baseball offensively, but we were really good on the mound. We’re a better offense than we showed today, but I don’t want to take anything away from Hope. They executed a plan well.

“Hope’s a talented and wellcoached team, and we’ll have to come out ready for them tomorrow. I thought we came out a little flat today, but we’ll address that and come out tomorrow ready to play the game a little bit faster.”

Jacob Norling is the sports information assistant at Westmont College. email: sports@newspress.com

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A winning hand for drama JoBeth Williams, Joe Spano talk to the News-Press about acting in ‘The Gin Game’

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JoBeth Williams and Joe Spano star in “The Gin Game,” now on stage through April 3 at The Rubicon Theatre in Ventura. Mr. Spano is known for TV shows such as “NCIS” and “Hill Street Blues,” and Ms. Williams’ movies have varied from “The Big Chill” to the “Poltergeist” movies.

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NCIS Special Agent Alden Parker (Gary Cole) and FBI Special Agent Tobias Fornell (Joe Spano) discuss a case on “NCIS.” Mr. Spano has played the recurring character throughout the series’ 19 seasons.

oBeth Williams was a young actress when she saw an Oscar-winning couple, Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, star in “The Gin Game” on a New York stage.

“They were, of course, brilliant,” said Ms. Williams, an Oscar nominee who has acted in everything from the “Poltergeist” movies to “The Big Chill” and “Kramer vs. Kramer.” “I was very taken by the play.

“From the beginning of the play, I assumed it was a comedy.

There’s some funny stuff in it definitely,” she told the NewsPress by phone from her Los Angeles home. “Ultimately, it’s not a comedy. It’s about two people who are lonely, who need each other. But their personalities don’t fit (with each other). They push each other’s buttons.

“It’s a fascinating relationship,” Ms. Williams said. “Being an older person now myself, I identify with the fear of being alone in later life when you have health issues and when you’re facing your own mortality.”

Ms. Williams and fellow movie and TV star Joe Spano are starring in “The Gin Game,” a two-person play in which their characters are deciding when to show their cards, literally and metaphorically. The play opened Saturday night at the Rubicon Theatre, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura, where it will continue through April 3.

The Ventura shows mark the launch of a national tour.

Known for shows such as CBS’ “NCIS” and NBC’s “Hill Street

Blues,” Mr. Spano plays Weller Martin, an irascible retired businessman. The Emmy winner plays a lonely game of solitaire at the nursing home where he has been a longtime resident.

When he sees newcomer Fonsia Dorsey (played by Oscar nominee JoBeth Williams) in a private moment of grief on the porch, he talks her into a game of gin rummy. The two strike up a friendship as they share stories about the lives they led in the outside world.

But Fonsia becomes frustrated when Weller wins, and the question is whether these characters will form a connection or fight a battle (or both).

“It becomes a power struggle over the game,” Ms. Williams said.

“The Gin Game” is directed by Jenny Sullivan. In Santa Barbara, she directed Ensemble Theatre Company’s recent production of “Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical.”

Ms. Williams said “The Gin Game” posed a logistical challenge for her and Mr. Spano.

“We’re playing card games during every scene. You have to coordinate the dialogue with the playing of the game,” she said. “It’s complex and very challenging.

We’re having fun with it.”

She paused. “It’s a workout for us!”

Ms. Williams described her character, Fonsia, as a divorced, Christian mother who probably didn’t have a lot of education but is intelligent. She added Fonsia has a quick mind that makes her great at cards.

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Horoscope.com Sunday, March 20, 2022 ARIES — You’ve never been the type to follow the herd, especially when it comes to your beliefs. However, a fight about your values could lead to the ending of one of your friendships if you can’t come to an understanding.

TAURUS — This week could bring some tension, starting with Venus in Aquarius forming a square with Uranus in your sign. With constant work meetings, networking events, and overtime, you might be feeling trapped at your job. Something needs to change or you’ll burn out.

GEMINI —Start the week by giving yourself a break when Mercury in Pisces forms a sextile with Uranus in Taurus on Thursday. Set up your “out of office” message and let yourself take a break from everything.

CANCER — Sharing ideas and beliefs can lead you to make new friends when Mercury in Pisces forms a sextile with Uranus in Taurus on Thursday.

Whether you’re attending a lecture, learning a new skill, or discussing things that interest you.

LEO — If you shared one of your secret dreams with someone lately, Leo, they might help make it come true when Mercury in Pisces forms a sextile with Uranus in Taurus on Thursday.

VIRGO — Forming a partnership and going over contract details could lead to interesting discussions when Mercury in Pisces forms a sextile with Uranus in Taurus on Thursday. These discussions could expand your beliefs and philosophies.

LIBRA —This week could spell trouble in paradise as Venus in Aquarius forms a square with Uranus in Taurus, bringing the real world into your love affair. Sharing finances and resources could lead to some fights, especially if you feel someone isn’t pulling their weight.

SCORPIO — If you have a creative idea that just needs a little help to take off, Scorpio, you could find your perfect creative partner when Mercury in Pisces forms a sextile with Uranus in Taurus on Thursday.

SAGITTARIUS — This week brings some added tension when Venus in Aquarius forms a square with Uranus in Taurus. A new partner could be pestering you into changing some of the habits that you developed when you were flying solo, causing some major issues.

CAPRICORN — Your week begins on a romantic note when Mercury in Pisces forms a sextile with Uranus in Taurus on Thursday. Find ways to get intimate with someone using your words, from poetry to pillow talk to text messages that aren’t always safe for work.

AQUARIUS — If you’ve owed someone money over the last six months, it might be time to finally pay them back. The moon is in your shared finances zone, so try to settle your debts. If someone owes you money, you could finally get it.

PISCES — You have quite a way with words this week, Pisces. When Mercury in your sign forms a sextile with Uranus in Taurus on Thursday, you can talk to anyone you want with ease. Use your increased intuition to get what you want through your words.

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Every number in the codeword grid is ‘code’ for a letter of the alphabet. Thus the number 2 may correspond to the letter L, for instance.

All puzzles come with a few letters to start you off. Your first move should be to enter these letters in the puzzle grid. If the letter S is in the box at the bottom of the page underneath the number 2, your first move should be to find all cells numbered 2 in the grid and enter the letter S. Cross the letter S off the list at the bottom of the grid. Remember that at the end you should have a different letter of the alphabet in each of the numbered boxes 1 - 26, and a word in English in each of the horizontal and vertical runs on the codeword grid.

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osing a loved one is very hard. Suffering more than one loss at a time can turn into something clinicians call “complicated grief.” Along with depression comes a very low tolerance for any kind of loss. It could be as simple as your favorite TV show getting canceled or as upsetting as your best friend moving far away; losing something or someone important to you can send you into a tailspin of sadness that seems to overshadow everything.

What is actually happening is that you are in a state of slightly altered reality. It’s almost like walking through a room full of cobwebs: Each one you touch bothers you, and although you want to keep moving forward, you also feel the need to stop right where you are, sit down and cry.

It is all so strange when someone who occupied a space in your heart leaves, be it their choice, your choice or life’s choice.

A reality that is making this

pandemic emotionally difficult is that most of us are not socializing with many of the people we know and used to hang out with. This too will cause grief, and it can become overwhelming, especially if you find yourself becoming more and more isolated through no choice of your own. Even professionally, the in-person aspect of many jobs, including my own, has changed dramatically in that way.

Even if you don’t know someone who has gotten seriously ill or died over the past two years, the thoughts still cross your mind. Scientists are “cautiously optimistic,” as am I, but we are all still living with the anxiety of getting sick and maybe dying from this invisible enemy.

I used to think that something like this, or an invasion from outer space, would bring us all closer together, and now am forced to admit I was wrong about that. If there was a United

Federation of Planets, I think we’d be kicked out for how we are treating the planet we’re on and each other.

I am beginning to think that our world is in a constant state of trauma and that we may never be able to fully heal.

We desperately need a break from all this pain and suffering, but I don’t think that’s going to happen at the level we need it to, so we are forced to heal ourselves, even with the world on the brink of who knows what.

That’s another of trauma’s gifts: being the harbinger of sad tales to come because you have seen it happen before and you sense how this is going to turn out. Some would call that wisdom, others pessimism, while I see it as simple reality. It’s like knowing how a movie is going to turn out, which always takes away from the enjoyment a little.

In this case, the ending doesn’t

look too promising, but I hope I’m just being a trauma survivor here and overthinking things.

Living with trauma, PTSD, unregulated depression, and anxiety is almost the norm these days. Those who don’t deal with any of it are either very lucky, very drunk, or very much in denial. If we all would just admit that we are scared and uncomfortable with what the world is going through, it might make us a bit more understanding of one another.

And that would make this process so much easier.

Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D., is an award-winning therapist and humanitarian. He is also a columnist, the author of seven books and a blogger for PsychologyToday.com with nearly 27 million readers. He practices in Santa Barbara and is available for video sessions. Reach him at barton@bartongoldsmith.com.

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Over the past few years we have assembled the top talents in the fields of children’s mental health, education and clinical practices, philanthropy, financial performance, risk management and human resources. Paul’s expertise will be an invaluable addition as we continue developing some of the highestquality and most comprehensive programs for the children, youth, and families we serve every day,” said Shawna Morris, CEO. Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families is a crisis-care and residential treatment facility for foster or at-

risk children in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Its headquarters is in Camarillo.

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Dr. Baker holds a Ph.D. in neuropsychology, an MBA in human resources and is currently completing a master’s in applied behavior analysis.

He has had a far-reaching career beginning in education as a special education teacher, school principal and regional director of psychoeducational programs that served children with severe emotional and behavioral challenges and those on the autism spectrum.

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services in intensive residential treatment, therapeutic foster care, developmental disabilities and prevention and restoration support.

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Personally, Dr. Baker served as a foster carer to 29 youths and adoptive parent to four boys. He enjoys tennis, camping, travel and spending time with his family. email: mmcmahon@newspress.com

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Weller, in this piece,” Ms. Williams said. “She doesn’t want to be alone.”

Mr. Spano told the News-Press he was intrigued by Weller and seeing where the character and he converge. “I’m of a certain age, and so is this character. There are specific fears at this age.”

The Los Angeles actor said Weller ended up at the nursing home after having had a heart attack and is on a fixed income, like others at the nursing home.

“They’re wonderful people,” Mr. Spano said about Weller and Fonsia.

He said he likes his character’s energy and humor. “I like everything about him, even his shortcomings because they are true. There’s a truth about him in his situation, although physically and financially, I don’t have the same problems he has. But there’s still that consciousness of death when one gets closer to it that can be both enlightening and terrifying.

“His attempts to deal with those things are wonderfully brave and partially misguided” much of the time, Mr. Spano said.

When he isn’t on stage, Mr. Spano is a familiar face on television, especially on “NCIS.”

FYI The Rubicon Theatre is performing “The Gin Game” now through April 3 at its theater, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura.

(You’ll enter the theater from Laurel Street.) Curtain rises at 2 and 7 p.m.

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He’s in his 19th season in his recurring role as FBI Special Agent Tobias Fornell.

“I like him,” Mr. Spano said. “As actors, you get to do things you wouldn’t do in real life.

“What I like about the show is they’ve allowed me to change the character over the course of 19 years. That’s a joy,” Mr. Spano said.

He said the “NCIS” producers have allowed him to take Tobias to different, even painful places that give him something new to do with the character.

“He has a lot of problems, a lot of tragedy, but he’s managed to keep on truckin’,” Mr. Spano said.

“I like that about him.”

He said he has enjoyed working with Mark Harmon, who has starred as Special Agent Jethro Gibbs. (Mr. Harmon, one of the series’ executive producers,

decided to spend less time in the role this season after working on “NCIS” for 19 years.)

Mr. Spano and Mr. Harmon have known each other since Mr. Spano starred on “Hill Street Blues” and Mr. Harmon was in the cast of the NBC medical drama “St. Elsewhere.” Both were filmed at the former CBS Studio Center in Studio City.

On “NCIS,” “Mark always welcomes guest stars,” Mr. Spano said. “He always makes sure they feel good about what they’re doing on every level. We’ll be rehearsing a scene, and he’ll say, ‘Does that feel right to you? Do you need anything from me in that scene?’ I can’t tell you how helpful and loving that behavior is.”

Mr. Spano has also known Ms. Williams for a long time, and both actors told the News-Press they love working with each other. They also noted that after working hard during rehearsals for “The Gin Game,” they start clowning around a bit.

“Sometimes we get tired later in the evening. We’re not kids anymore,” Ms. Williams said. “We get silly and giddy in rehearsals.

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DID YOU KNOW? Bonnie Donovan

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Prices recently exceeded $6 a gallon at the Chevron gas station at the corner of Hollister Avenue and Glen Annie Road in Goleta.

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Oil windfall tax isn’t the answer Proposal would only make the gasoline price crisis worse

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as prices are in the news again for all of the wrong reasons.

According to the American Automobile Association, the national average price for regular gas is now roughly $4.33 per gallon. In some states, the average is as high as $5.74 per gallon.

On Friday in California and specifically in Santa Barbara County, the average was $5.80 a gallon.

These figures represent a 51% increase from this time last year.

Part of this has been attributed to the impact of the war in Ukraine.

However, U.S. government policies toward spending and energy have no doubt been a major cause.

And the response of some filers. members of Congress is to make This proposal is a disaster the cost of gas even higher with a for a number of reasons and new tax. reflects the fundamental U.S. Sen. Sheldon misunderstanding many Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Washington policymakers Daniel U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, have about soaring gas Savickas D-Calif.(the Silicon prices.

Valley), have introduced The first is the The author legislation that would disregard for the role is with the impose a steep “windfall” government policy has Taxpayers tax on American oil had on price inflation.

Protection companies. The proposal The U.S. federal Alliance would create a tax on government has spent as profits that oil companies much money in the last make above $66 per barrel. Those five years as it did in the prior profits would be taxed at the eight years. staggeringly high rate of 50%.

The U.S. also imposed strict The proceeds from that tax sanctions after the Russian would then be used to create invasion of Ukraine, which another stimulus check — $240 for impacted global supply. individual filers and $360 for joint To attribute price hikes

to “corporate greed” as Sen. Whitehouse and Rep. Khanna did, is to ignore the impact of their own policymaking and to miss the point entirely.

This view of economics supposes that the relatively low prices for a barrel of oil until now have been because of corporate altruism on the part of the same companies now being maligned as greedy. The true explanation is a tad more complex than policymakers would care to admit.

Oil companies are responding to global economic forces, which at the moment are making it more costly to bring supply to the market. Prices are rising, producers are incurring greater costs, and markets are anticipating the need for new

sources of supply.

Another contradiction in the way Washington Democrats are approaching this issue is in their discussion of supply.

In a public comment, White House press secretary Jen Psaki accused the oil industry of purposely refusing to drill so prices would go up. Ms. Psaki cited the fact that there are 9,000 permits not in use.

This also misses the mark.

While there are unused permits, the federal government has paused leases on federal lands for oil companies. Permits and leases are only one part of a longer production process where the federal government has erected Please see SAVICKAS on C4

Grading the ‘big guy’: Biden gets an F

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Columnist James Buckley says President Joe Biden has failed the U.S. in many ways.

aybe you are one of right from the get-go. those people who On day one, the Big Guy blew actually voted for through a torrent of executive the Biden/Harris orders, canceling, for example, ticket. ongoing construction PURELY And maybe it was of the 1,179-mile-long POLITICAL because you just didn’t want Keystone pipeline, to read another middledesigned to bring about of-the-night ridiculous, 830,000 barrels (44 idiotic, paranoid, evil, nasty, gallons in every barrel or vituperative tweet from Mr. 36,520,000 gallons) of oil after-all-he’s-the-presidentdown from the oil sands of-the-United-States of Alberta, Canada, to Trump.

Steele City, Neb., where So you voted for the other it would connect with an James Buckley guy, the “Big Guy” (né Joe existing one and make Biden, as immortalized its way down to the in crack-pipe riddled son Gulf of Mexico and to Hunter Biden’s Laptop from Hell refineries in that area. emails concerning any number Then President Biden gave of corrupt deals with yet another the go-ahead to complete the political scoundrel).

745-mile-long Nord Stream 2 Happy now? pipeline that runs from the Baltic If you are, then you were pleased Sea to Germany and avoids going

through Ukraine entirely (unlike other pipelines that do). President Donald Trump, who thought it was dangerous that Europe be so dependent upon Russian energy, had put a halt to its construction even though it was nearly 90% completed by then.

On the very first day of his presidency (Jan. 20, 2021), the Big Guy also ordered: 1) The Office of Management & Budget to undo President Trump’s loosened regulatory approval process for federal contracts.

2) Halted construction of the border wall between Mexico and the U.S. that was nearly 500 miles long at that point. President Biden also terminated the national emergency declaration that President Trump used to fund its construction.

3) Canceled what had been

an expansion of immigration enforcement within the United States, basically neutering the ability of Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents to do their job.

4) Reversed President Trump’s restrictions on U.S. entry for travelers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and North Korea.

5) Required non-citizens to be included in the 2020 Census and therefore included in the apportionment of congressional representatives.

6) Folded the 1776 Commission that had been promoted by President Trump to foster what Mr. Trump termed a “patriotic education.”

7) Rejoined the Paris Climate Please see BUCKLEY on C4

ur local Black Lives Matter/Healing Justice group has accused the Santa Barbara Unified School District of covering up 12 racially motivated cases.

Just as school authorities in many states have been covering up the teaching of critical race theory.

Did You Know? must ask: Where else in America is student violence happening, then reported only to the involved parties?

DYK read a news report dated March 11, 2022, about the arrest of five black and Hispanic students ages 11 to 15 for their racist attack on four white students, ages 11 to 12, shouting “Brown Power” and racial slurs, while they punched and kicked their victims with sticks and cable cords, as well. The attack occurred at the Coconut Creek Recreation Center in Broward County, Fla., where the middle school students gather before going to school.

One victim claimed, “After they jumped me, they were saying this is like revenge for what happened … in the 1700s for slavery.” The five attackers were reportedly charged with battery and prejudice, which elevates the charges to felonies.

During last Tuesday’s Santa Barbara Unified board meeting, members discussed the idea of reassigning the current school resources deputy at Dos Pueblos High School and hiring a fulltime officer to patrol outside the campuses of Dos Pueblos and San Marcos high schools and Goleta Valley Junior High.

The district removed the school resource officers from San Marcos High School in response to the San Marcos campus group Cops Off Campus last year because some students felt they were targeted unfairly. To meet their demands, our suggestion is the officers assigned are people of color.

A group widespread in America called Cops Off Campus has led the charge to disband school resource officer programs.

SROs started in the 1950s with the goal to improve interactions between students and local police officers. Remember “West Side Story’s” Officer Krumpke?

SROs, in essence, serve as counselors and teachers and as a resource to parents. In recent years with school shootings and children with weapons on campus, many felt their presence enhanced safety.

However, the push to remove SROs came with the response to George Floyd’s death and part of the BLM demands to defund police.

When DYK contacted Santa Barbara Interim Police Chief Bernard Melekian, he said, “I am strongly supportive of school resource officers. A false narrative that has been allowed to gain traction that SROs arrest kids and feed them into the prison pipeline. That has never been the case in Santa Barbara or, for that matter, anywhere in California.”

Another law enforcement spokesman said sadly the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program was dismantled several years ago.

However, the Sheriff’s Office had a program until COVID-19 shutdowns.

BLM/Healing Justice also presented a list of its demands during the Santa Barbara Unified meeting.

It’s common knowledge that respect is earned and not acquired on demand. Can you imagine giving your kids chores and they refuse unless you pay them?

Mostly the BLM demands, made from all three female members, involve creating positions and hiring blacks only and that all non-blacks must Please see DONOVAN on C4

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resident John F. thereby relegating scores of Kennedy said, workers and their families to “The great enemy mediocre incomes. Second, of truth is very the resultant global economy often not the lie means we no longer have the — deliberate, contrived, and security of independence. dishonest — but the myth Instead, much of the world — persistent, persuasive must rely on places like the and unrealistic. Too often Middle East and Russia for we hold fast to the cliches of oil, and China for many of our our forebears. We subject all manufactured products and facts to a prefabricated set of raw materials. interpretations. We enjoy the Finally, we have thereby comfort of opinion without enriched communists, the discomfort of dictators, oligarchies thought.” and despots who Let’s discuss the use these monies myths having to do to oppress their with the “war on fossil own people while fuels.” destabilizing the Is it obvious that the world. war on fossil fuels is a Consider the war we can’t afford to fact that China Andy Caldwell win with gas prices on threatened to cut the Central Coast at off our supply of $6 and rising? Moreover, how antibiotics because we many Americans can afford offended them by calling to buy a $50,000 electric the coronavirus the “China vehicle when many of them Virus.” Furthermore, the are one paycheck away from precious minerals China poverty? uses for the raw materials The lie and the myth for “green” batteries comes associated with the mandate from strip mines in the Congo to go all electric is that most “manned” by children as all electricity in America is young as 4 years old. made from fossil fuels. Hence, It was Saudi oil monies that there is no environmental ultimately funded the attacks benefit between filling your on 9/11. gas tank or charging an And it is the purchase of electric vehicle. In both cases, oil and gas from Russia that the source of the energy is enables Vladimir Putin to fossil fuel. aspire to create an empire.

Moreover, nearly every America, long ago, lost consumer product you use, the ability to fight a war on including food, will go up in two fronts as we were able price because fossil fuels are to do during World War II, used to make, transport and and our enemies know this. deliver medicines, plastic, Unfortunately, the war on tires, fertilizer, and clothes, fossil fuels is now the one just to name a few of the more war we and Europe have than 6,000 products we use been fighting. Thereby, each and every day, meaning we have undermined the it is time to call a cease-fire in security of the free world. this war.

That is, the free world can I once heard a presentation no longer defend itself from from a UCSB economist various forms of blackmail who demonstrated that the via our dependence on these increase in environmental enemies of freedom. rules, regulations and For example, Europe activism resulted in a dithered in containing precipitous decline in our President Putin’s ambitions manufacturing and industrial because he controls the fossil sector jobs and output. Yet fuel supply their “green” these jobs did not cease, they economy relies on. And were simply moved offshore, now President Joe Biden as were the emissions proposes we become reliant and other environmental on such “noble regimes” as impacts associated with Iran and Venezuela, instead the same, thereby resulting of our own domestic supply in massive job losses of oil and gas, because with no commensurate somehow that is the “green” environmental benefits. thing to do?

Many troubling and dangerous implications arose Andy Caldwell is the COLAB from this transfer of jobs to executive director and host of other countries.

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e should do all that we can to assist the Ukrainian people.

I also hope that we can admire them for their courage in refusing to surrender their desire to have the freedoms they have developed in recent years.

And we have witnessed a true leader in their president, Volodymyr Zelensky, a former actor and comedian, who has remained in Ukraine to lead the battle against forces of evil.

We live in the greatest country ever created. I often think we take too many of our freedoms for granted.

We have the right to disagree with fellow citizens without being disagreeable.In recent years, we seem to have failed to fully appreciate this fact.

We have our problems. The U.S. never has been, and never will be, a perfect country. Our forefathers, imperfect as they were, provided us with a Constitution that has been the foundation of our democracy.

We have thousands of people trying to get into our country.

Those unhappy here are free to leave.

I frequently express my thoughts and views in the free press. Some disagree with me.

That’s great. That’s how it should be. I don’t think any of us fear being rounded up and thrown in jail by secret police.

Vladimir Putin greatly underestimated the spirit of the Ukrainian people, who are simply fighting for what we have. I hope we can learn a valuable lesson from these valiant people and not give up what we have here with internal conflicts.

Let’s calmly express concerns and work for what we think should be created or accomplished.

To repeat: Let’s disagree without being disagreeable.

Sanderson M. Smith, Ed.D. Retired math teacher (Cate School, Santa Barbara City College) Carpinteria

Minsk Agreement should be honored

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here can be no excuse for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the destruction and loss of life due to this brutal decision, including the loss of life among Russia’s military personnel who are largely draftees and who, when captured by Ukrainians, state they do not even know why they are in Ukraine.

But there are reasons for it, and to understand the way to end the killing and destruction, the reasons should be clearly stated and understood.

There are photographs of Mr. Putin alongside Mikhail Gorbachev in the era of the end of the U.S.S.R Mr. Putin was a high-ranking KGB officer at the time.

President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George Bush and Secretary of State James Baker all assured Mr. Gorbachev that NATO would not advance to the east toward Russia’s border. Since NATO’s sole reason for being was to oppose the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.S.R. no longer existed, it seemed logical that NATO need not expand or advance.

It turns out that the assurances of President Reagan and the U.S. were mistaken, and since then, NATO has expanded and advanced all the way to the border of Russia and its reason for being has become to oppose Russia. That is a reason for Mr. Putin’s invasion, not an excuse.

There have been two peace talks already with another in the planning stage. The Ukrainian demands are always that Russia cease fire and withdraw from Ukraine immediately. Russia has offered to cease fire and withdraw immediately if Ukraine honors the Minsk Agreement that it already has accepted and if it declares itself neutral vis-a-vis NATO and any aggression on Russia much as Finland has done.

Mr. Putin has referred to this as Finlandization, and he asked for it long before the invasion. So it seems that the invasion could have been avoided, and now could be halted by enforcing the Minsk Agreements and neutrality for Ukraine, but

defines managements’ rights to manage projects. Encouraging union organizing and collective bargaining? In the private sector such activity by an employer violates the National Labor Relations Act, where, ironically, charges of such violations are decided by federal employees.

EO 14004. Enabling all qualified Americans to serve their country in uniform. The order said, “The All-Volunteer Force thrives when it is composed of diverse Americans who can meet the rigorous standards for military service, and an inclusive military strengthens our national policy.”

Despite this proclamation, it continues, “enabling transgender individuals to serve openly in the United States military would only have a minimal impact on military readiness and healthcare costs” and have “no ‘significant’ impact on operational effectiveness or unit cohesion in foreign militaries.” What do “minimal impact” and “significant impact” mean? How “minimal” is the impact on schools and women’s sports? Remember Clinton’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell?”

It appears the president “put a lid,” the terms Press Secretary Psaki uses to describe the president’s retiring for the day, and sometimes starting a long weekend in his home

hile Congress is clapping like seals to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s sad and horrific video as he begs us to go to war on his behalf, lawmakers are ignoring the war taking place about 2,000 miles away from their comfortable Washington digs.

As our hearts break for the innocent people of Ukraine, millions of our dollars are pouring overseas to help them with their fight while zero dollars are going to our southern border to help us with our own fight. I need to repeat, I just don’t get it. Politicians, from any party, seem to have plenty of time on their hands to attend the viewing of a video, discuss its ramifications endlessly.

But every second of every day, America is under attack from around the world with an endless stream of humans, drugs and guns entering our nation going God knows where, doing God knows what.

Why are the Democrats so determined and adamant to have an open border? Why are they so adamant against protecting Americans? Why are they doing this to all of us?

And why are the Republicans allowing it to happen, which makes them equally complicit in endangering every single one of us.

I would really like to have answers and even more so, I would like to see solutions.

Everyone suddenly became focused and concerned about a country, despite that a few weeks ago no one even knew where Ukraine was. They have unified on putting all their efforts into a place multiple time zones away. They’re willing to put their lives on the line to protect Ukraine’s border and won’t even acknowledge we have our own border under siege. Our crisis is real and has not gone away just because the media ignores it.

Granted, who would have imagined in 2022, we’d be witness to tanks rolling through city streets and bombs destroying the lives of so many innocent people in Ukraine.

I try to imagine what it must be like if we suddenly had to endure the same thing.

Today I’m going to complain a little how hot it’s going to be and need to fix some leaky irrigation lines and next week taking cover from missiles. Yes, it is horrible. And yes, it does deserve our attention.

But we cannot allow ourselves to be distracted, which the invasion of Ukraine has successfully accomplished.

Like the bonus the virus did for President Joe Biden during his election campaign, offering him the golden ticket, Ukraine has provided him the cover and distraction of the mess he’s created in his own country. His finger is pointing in more directions than he can keep up with blaming every one of his disastrous mistakes on everyone and everything except himself — the person directly responsible.

The sign of a good leader, whether it be in a household, a corporation, a church, a state or a country, is the ability to multi-task. It’s been written and observed too often now that President Biden is unable to lead anything. It’s no secret America is floundering worse than it ever has in its 250year history. We are falling apart. Even Saudi Arabia is considering being paid for its oil with Chinese Yuan.

That’s huge. America is being undermined so fast that at this rate we could become a third world nation by the end of year.

Shut down the Mexican border! Today! Ramp up oil production. Today! Focus. Work

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President Volodymyr Zelensky refuses and continues to press for a no-fly zone that will expand the war and may lead to a nuclear holocaust.

Rowland Lane Anderson Santa Barbara Rowland Anderson noted he’s a lifetime member of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Vietnam Veterans of America, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace.

Biden is wrong president at the wrong time

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ate the great destroyer has brought us to the verge of World War III. Hate — unrestrained, unlimited, unreasonable, all-powerful — has given America an insipid, unqualified, cowering, joke of an administration to lead our country during this crisis.

They have not read or do understand history.

This is 1939 repeated. The world appeasement was in vogue until they could appease no longer, and we were in World War II. Russian President Vladimir Putin is another Hitler. President Putin does not fear our president’s threats.

The United States has been fortunate throughout the history of America to have the right man in power in its time of need.

Washington to lead in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson to face the problem with the Barbary Coast Pirates.

Lincoln during the Civil War. Theodore Roosevelt, saying “Speak softly and carry a big stick”.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt to lead us in World War II. John Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis.

We are not so fortunate this time.

Hate the great destroyer may destroy us all.

God help us.

Ronald Mathews Santa Barbara

Biden’s orders from the swamp

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riday, Jan. 22, 2021, mine was in Bala Cynwyd and not saw President Joseph D.C. R. Biden Jr. (Joe Jan. 22, 2021, would be “deja Biden) waking from vous all over again,” to quote his dreams of his Yogi Berra, for the signing pen of actions from the previous day. He the “walk softly and carry a big was in the White House, home check book” signer of documents to every American president that would end-run Congress to since our second president, John alter our lives through executive Adams, supervised the mansion’s orders: construction on a swamp located EO 14002. This order, covering approximately in the economic relief related to middle of the former 13 the COVID-19 pandemic, colonies. stated, “The current This 68-acre territory economic crisis has was called “Washington,” affected Americans in honor of George throughout the nation, Washington, or the but is particularly dire “District of Columbia” in communities of color.”

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Barbara. like me, with Rudyard EO14003. Protecting Kipling’s words, “Only the federal workforce. mad dogs and Englishmen go out This order said, “It is the policy in the midday sun.” Was this the of the United States to protect, inspiration behind D.C. initially empower and rebuild the career having the label “swamp?” federal workforce. It is also the The White House remains as policy of the United States to special as my experience, which encourage union organizing and I am sure is typical. There were collective bargaining.” chills running down my spine the It continued, “Protecting the first time I entered it. Its address federal workforce, and bargaining of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, is over matters under section 7106 impressive, but not as impressive (b)(1) of the Federal Service as my first lawyer’s business card Labor-Management Relations of “1 Presidential Boulevard.” OK, Statute,” where this section

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Denver covers up Lee Keltner’s assassination

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elf-described “Progressive Prosecutor” Beth McCann, the district attorney of Denver, campaigned on a promise to “keep our city safe and provide equal justice for all,” “to rebuild trust” and “to keep open lines of communication.”

Bullcrap.

Ms. McCann’s syrupy sweet talk is a sick, twisted and deadly crock.

The Mile High City’s homicide rate is at a record high; aggravated assaults are skyrocketing. COVID lockdowns decimated local businesses, but roving “homeless” agitators took over downtown Denver and turned it into a riotfriendly, drug-addled, violencewracked empire. Ms. McCann vindictively prosecuted besieged motorist Jennifer Watson, who was attacked by George Floyd rioters blocking downtown streets, instead of prosecuting the thugs; a jury acquitted her on Ms. McCann’s most overblown charges.

As many law-abiding citizens and I learned the hard way in July 2020, you can’t hold a “Back the Blue” rally downtown in Civic Center Park without getting ambushed and beaten bloody while cops stand by and do nothing. And as more patriots learned just a few months later in October 2020, you can’t

peaceably assemble to support “trust” and those “open lines of law and order without the risk of communication.” getting harassed by professional “Lee’s life mattered,” his mom, agitators, stalked by leftist media Carol Keltner, told me this week. and killed. Last week, just as “The family is devastated” by the high-profile case involving Ms. McCann’s shocking decision. the assassination of Colorado “There will be no justice for my patriot and cowboy hatson,” she lamented. She maker Lee Keltner is urging Coloradans to was headed to trial join her daughter and Mr. after a 17-month delay, Keltner’s sister, Suzan, this progressive prosecutor coming Monday, March 21, Ms. McCann dropped at 10 a.m. at the Denver murder charges against Courthouse on 520 W. Matthew Dolloff, the Colfax Ave. for a peaceful Occupy Wall Street/ rally in Mr. Keltner’s name.

Michelle Malkin Suzan Keltner told “Denver Antifa/Black Lives Matter sympathizer in Decay” documentarian who fraudulently and and KNUS radio talkillegally posed as a “security show host Steffan Tubbs that the guard” for liberal local news DA’s office had initially informed station KUSA-TV (“9News”) before her family last fall that the shooting Mr. Keltner in the face at prosecution was “in essence, a point-blank range with a gun that slam dunk case.” the news station denies knowing What changed? Well, just he was carrying. like the “science” now tells the After initially charging Mr. COVID-19 tyrants that masks Dolloff with second-degree and lockdowns are no longer murder, progressive prosecutor necessary in the midst of a heated Ms. McCann has now magically political campaign season, the determined that “we are not able “law” now tells Ms. McCann to prove guilt beyond a reasonable that Mr. Keltner’s murder was doubt.” She will move to drop all not murder — despite her office charges at a pretrial conference failing to interview key witnesses next Monday and splattered about what they believe was a the news across the local media coordinated ambush involving Mr. before all members of Mr. Dolloff, BLM radical Jeremiah Keltner’s immediate family had Elliott and 9News producer Zack been notified.

Newman.

So much for rebuilding Mr. Keltner’s friend and witness

to his murder, Steven Wright, calls KUSA’s activist journalists “the 9News hit team” and told me he vows he “will not stand down” until the whole truth of Mr. Keltner’s death is exposed. The station has a history of fomenting hatred against conservatives, including mocking those of us attacked at the July 2020 Back the Blue rally, and sneering at and smearing those who attended John “Tig” Tiegen’s peaceful October 2020 “Patriot Muster,” where attendees were harassed by Antifa and BLM agitators as they departed - up to and including the moment Mr. Keltner was stalked

by Mr. Elliott, with Mr. Dolloff and Mr. Newman trailing nearby, while cameras rolled.

Mr. Elliott was captured on video running from the murder scene, gloating about “one less white supremacist.”

Mr. Wright left several unreturned messages with the DA, informing them that, “You don’t have all the facts. This entire ambush was around a violent episode that was premeditated.

Once the cameras came out, Elliott went full idiot. This was exactly 9News’ objective. Depose me.”

“We believe Lee was targeted,” Suzan Keltner told YouTube podcaster Madyson Marquette last week. But after “begging and pleading” with prosecutors to

move forward, she was told Ms. McCann’s office would not let a jury of Mr. Keltner’s peers hear the evidence.

What changed? Mr. Tubbs told me: “Several witnesses have told me that though they made themselves available, they were never interviewed by police or the DA’s office. Denver District Attorney Beth McCann is a disgrace to her profession.

She caved, likely due to media attorneys and fear of being canceled. ... This could have been delivered to a grand jury. Dolloff should have at minimum faced a jury of his peers. Let them decide. ... I hope Monday’s rally sends a loud (peaceful) shock wave to the idiots in downtown Denver.”

And a warning for the rest of law-abiding America: Beware the progressive prosecutor who delivers “justice” for some, retribution against patriots, cover for media propagandists, and a Third World hellhole to the taxpayers who fund her paychecks.

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Conservative wins South Korea presidential election

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outh Korea’s voters have elected Yoon Sukyeol of the conservative People Power Party their next leader. He will take office in May, succeeding President Moon Jae-in, after defeating Lee Jae-myung of the governing Democratic Party.

Under the constitution, the president serves a single fiveyear term and cannot run for reelection.

The run-up to voting on March 9 involved intense, dirty campaigning. Negative ads and personal invective relentlessly defined the contest, crowding out more serious policy discussion.

South Korea is a global leader in advanced telecommunications and computer technologies of all sorts. Average internet speeds Arthur I. are among the Cyr fastest on earth Bizarre computergenerated imagery, termed “deep fakes,” were prominent, used by supporters and opponents of the candidates. Trendy young political staffers spearheaded these new efforts, unusual compared to traditional political media.

Thanks to technology, the conservative, intimidating prosecutor Mr. Yoon appeared flexible, literally animated.

This may have deflected some opposition criticism, including that he is anti-feminist.

In the end, the election was the closest since South Korea achieved a truly representative government in the 1980s. Mr. Yoon won 48.56 percent of the vote, Mr. Lee 47.83 percent.

The Democratic Party alliance retains a large legislative majority, and Mr. Yoon will have to compromise in order to have any significant policy success.

In the campaign, he promised a harder line toward North Korea, and closer relations with the United States. These are changes in degree, not in kind.

Media emphasis on the nasty nature of the campaign overlooks the more important fact that voters collectively reconfirmed South Korea’s law-abiding

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democracy. Considerable credit for this continuity goes to the leadership of South Korea’s outgoing President Moon.

At the end of 2018, the influential Asia News Network named Mr. Moon “Person of

the Year.” South Korea’s chief executive rightly receives praise for initiating dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea during Donald Trump’s presidential term.

This accomplishment is

too easily oversimplified and minimized. At the end of 2017, Mr. Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un were trading crude and personal insults via the global media.

President Moon’s work behind

the scenes not only restrained but also reversed that sad, silly situation. He insisted on meeting with the North Korea delegation to the Winter Olympics held in February 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The group included Mr. Kim’s sister, an influential figure in the regime.

General Park Chung-hee’s dictatorship imprisoned Mr. Moon for anti-regime activism. Later, he pursued a career in human rights law. He also served in the Republic of Korea (ROK) army special forces, and saw action in the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) along the 38th Parallel Military ties between South Korea and the United States are of vital importance, and are often also overlooked. Collaboration is particularly close and long-term between the armies of our two nations. During the long Vietnam War, South Korea maintained approximately 50,000 troops in South Vietnam.

A large percentage of that total were combat troops. ROK Army soldiers developed a deserved reputation for combat effectiveness. South Korea at the time had no substantial economic investment in South Vietnam.

This commitment to the United States dates from the Korean War of 1950 to 1953. That war made the Cold War global, no longer focused only on divided Germany.

President Harry Truman acted decisively at once to commit the U.S. to defending South Korea when North Korea’s forces invaded in June 1950.

President Dwight Eisenhower acted skillfully, and ruthlessly, in escalating bombing to achieve the 1953 armistice.

The courage of these American presidents resonates today.

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.

Republicans, embrace the culture war, cruise to victory

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or conservatives and Republicans, the present flare-up in Ukraine has shone a spotlight on the extent to which there is profound foreign policy disagreement within the broader ranks. From the ultra-hawkish calls for a U.S.imposed no-fly zone or even the assassination of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin from the likes of Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), to the nightly appeals for sobriety and de-escalation from Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the Right remains deeply divided on questions pertaining to foreign policy, in general -- and how best to secure the American national interest in the Eastern European theater, in particular.

But whatever disagreements presently exist within the fold

when it comes to foreign policy, sober and measured Parental most Republican voters are on Rights in Education bill that has the same page when it comes to nonetheless been disparaged their view of how the party should by a supine corporate press as a confront the Left’s destructive nefarious “Don’t Say Gay” bill. cultural agenda. At a time The relevant provision when the militant Left inducing the ginned-up seeks to let biological men controversy, which as run roughshod over the of this writing has been very notion of femininity passed by the legislature and to indoctrinate the and awaits Gov. Ron younger generation in DeSantis’ signature, the civilizational arson reads: “Classroom that is critical race instruction by school Josh Hammer theory, Republican voters personnel or third parties want their party to dive on sexual orientation headfirst into the soor gender identity called culture war issues. It is past may not occur in kindergarten time for Republican leaders to through grade 3 or in a manner ditch their misplaced fixation on that is not age appropriate or their dog-eared, cocktail partydevelopmentally appropriate for friendly supply-side economics students in accordance with state playbook and to prudentially shift standards.” Translation: Don’t to a culture war-centric footing. teach 5- and 6-year-olds, who are Consider the current battle learning how to read and count to in my state, Florida, over the 10, about sex stuff.

We have a word for the kind of person who gets hot and bothered about the overarching imperative to teach kindergarteners and first graders about the birds and the bees: pervert. Furthermore, to outsource those sorts of sensitive conversations to public school bureaucrats, away from the comforting confines of one’s own home, amounts to a reckless abdication of one’s parental duties. But the all-too-predictable, ubiquitous reaction from what the late Andrew Breitbart called the “Democrat-Media Complex” was to lambast Gov. DeSantis and his fellow Florida Republicans for their homophobia, transphobia, fascism or whatever other “-phobia” or “-ism” the bluechecked wokerati now deem vogue.

The Walt Disney Company, which is headquartered in California but has a famed

Florida presence, also had a meltdown. CEO Bob Chapek noted his opposition to the bill and announced that in the aftermath of Disney’s failure to successfully lobby against its passage, it would suspend all political donations in the Sunshine State. Over the past few days, some Disney employees in Florida have vowed to walk out during their work breaks - at least, one presumes, when they are not too preoccupied with virtuesignaling by adorning their social media profiles with Ukrainian flags. The mind truly reels at how passionate some folks seem to be about teaching youngsters about sex.

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A principled politician

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dislike politicians. I don’t trust people who are so desperately eager to run others’ lives.

But Rep. Ron Paul is different. He wants government to leave us alone.

He promoted the benefits of limited government and free markets long before I’d even thought about them.

I first interviewed Rep. Paul in 2007. ABC News wouldn’t broadcast it. They only played it online. Now everything’s online. I like it better that way.

This week I released a new, longer video with Rep. Paul.

Rep. Paul ran for president three times, losing first as a Libertarian — and then twice as a Republican. The second time, he won 10% of the primary vote.

I then thought Americans were finally coming to appreciate libertarianism.

The New York Times Magazine even asked, “Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?”

That was the kiss of death.

Libertarian candidates now get fewer votes than Rep. Paul got in 2012.

“Did you make progress?” I ask him.

Rep. Paul says his goal was to get people to think about freedom. He’s succeeded there, at least somewhat.

Rep. Paul first got politically active in 1971, when President Richard Nixon took the U.S. dollar off the gold standard.

“The money issue touches every aspect of liberty,” says Rep. Paul. “If you’re inclined to think that we’re in too many wars, well, there wouldn’t be - if they couldn’t just print money for it.”

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Continued from Page C3 Now the Federal Reserve does just print more money. When Rep. Paul first went to Congress, he said, “nobody cared about the Federal Reserve.”

His presidential campaigns brought attention to the Fed, and the liberty movement, especially from young people. In fact, Rep. Paul came in first place among young people in almost every Republican primary.

But now Sen. Bernie Sanders is most popular among the young. I remind Rep. Paul, “young people today say they prefer socialism to capitalism.”

Rep. Paul responds, “There’s more socialist professors.”

Although Rep. Paul was always anti-war, after 9/11, he joined the congressional majority and voted to send soldiers to Afghanistan.

He wanted to find and punish the

people responsible for the attack and get right out.

“That did not mean (America) had the authority to occupy and try to transform Afghanistan,” says Rep. Paul. Yet that’s what American politicians tried to do.

In a 2007 Republican presidential debate, the audience booed Rep. Paul when he suggested that the U.S. was attacked because “we’ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years ... what would happen if somebody did it to us?”

Candidate Rudy Giuliani won applause responding, “That’s really an extraordinary statement ... I don’t think I’ve ever heard that before. And I’ve heard some pretty absurd explanations for Sept. 11.”

Really? Mr. Giuliani hadn’t heard that explanation before?

Then he wasn’t paying attention.

Osama bin Laden long complained about Westerners occupying the Middle East. “Expel them in defeat and humiliation from the

holy places of Islam,” he wrote.

Posting American soldiers in other people’s countries is certainly a serious provocation.

I’d be mad if Chinese soldiers patrolled my street.

Mr. Giuliani won the debate applause, but 15 months later, no delegates. Rep. Paul won 21 delegates.

But today American politicians still want to police the world. The United States has 750 bases in 80 countries. Rep. Paul calls the military industrial complex “the most deadly PAC.” Last month, President Joe Biden sent 3,000 soldiers to Eastern Europe saying, “As long as (Putin’s) acting aggressively, we are going to make sure we can reassure our NATO allies and Eastern Europe that we’re there.”

“That’s garbage,” Rep. Paul responds. “By what right do we go over there? There’s no national security. We had troops in Saudi Arabia for national security and

look at what that brought ... it has nothing to do with helping Americans, except those who might get a better paycheck.”

I push back. “President Biden would say, ‘We have to go there just to deter Russia. If we don’t, we’re inviting them to invade other countries.’”

We shouldn’t let government scare us into going to war, says Rep. Paul. “Fear is the tool of totalitarians.” Rep. Paul’s anti-war arguments have shifted public opinion.

Today we might be fighting in Ukraine if it were not for Ron Paul and his warnings about the risk of America policing the world.

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.”

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January was a busy time for the signing pen ZEPKE

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Wilmington, from when I arrived in 1989 until 2020, had its violent crime rate grow to 481% higher than the national average while its population only grew by one percent to 70,898 as Delaware’s grew by 46%. In 2021 our president would spend an estimated 25% of his time in Wilmington.

Tuesday, the signing pen returned from Wilmington to sign: EO 14005. Ensuring the Future is made in all of America that “established a substantial role for the MEP network” where “MEP” is the Hollings manufacturing Extension Partnership.” Space prohibits a discussion here.

EO 14006. Reforming Our Incarceration System to Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities.

The order empowered the Department of Justice to “not renew any existing contracts with privately operated facilities.”

Private prisons, which are forprofit facilities, were created to house the overflow in federal

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Per their accusations, 12 race related incidents over seven schools went unreported involving black children and that a” rampant anti blackness across the district exists.”

How many white kids, Hispanic and “others” were involved in any incident? Out of 15,000 students, 66-80% are minorities. They also demand that anti-blackness within the Latinx communities be addressed.

The focus is victim me, it’s all about me. The attack is so all encompassing, yet it screams selfsegregation. All this for 143 black students. What about the 66 Native Americans or the 563 Asians in our local schools?

Much of the focus on education in Santa Barbara County is on critical race theory.

Instead of focusing on educating students, teachers are more concerned about not hurting their feelings — and programming them.

and state facilities, that, at times, judges ordered be reduced due to crowding. In 2019 private prisons held 115,428 private persons, which represented 8% of the total state and federal prison populations. Since the federal and state prisons being full was the reason for their creation, their destruction required prisoners be released before completing their sentences: How has that worked for the crime rates in Wilmington?

In U.S. cities, such as N.Y., Philadelphia or your town?

EO 14007, signed on Jan. 27, 2021, provided that the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology was created and “shall be composed of not more than 26 members.” The order said the council would advise the president on the economy, worker empowerment, education, energy, the environment, public health, national and homeland security, racial equity, and other topics.”

Another committee? How are they doing on energy? Environment?

Public health? Security? Another committee on “racial equity?”

EO 14008. Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad “places climate change at the forefront of

foreign policy and national security planning.” “The United States will work with other countries and partners, both bilaterally and multi laterally, to put the world on a sustainable climate pathway.”

The White House’s Executive Summary included “Scaling-Up International Climate Financing and Enhancing its Impact, ending International Official Financing for Carbo-Intensive Fossil Fuel based Energy, and Making Capital Flows consistent with Low-Emissions, Climate-resilient Pathways.”

Does “scaling up” on international financing mean anything besides giving other countries the power to spend U.S. taxpayers’ dollars? Are they aware that the goal of climate change is to reduce the temperature increases by half a degree in 80 years? Any ideas of how to live until then?

On Friday Jan. 29, President Biden signed EO 14009.

Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. It was designed to shortn the waiting time.

January was a busy time for the signing pen: 24 EOs (plus

eight revocations), which set the structure for an oil shortage that would cause the highest inflation in 40 years, as well as 7,000 a day unvetted, unvaccinated border crossers. The structure was also set for race becoming the primary factor for presidential appointments, transgenders canceling the protections of Title IX for women’s sports, the closure of some schools.

The president and congress spent borrowed money while searching for ways, including impeachment, to blame a former president for the destruction caused by the executive orders.

Such was life 2021 in the “ low lying area where things get bogged down.”

The swamp.

Except of course for white children, who are the focus of the CRT manifesto that all things “white” are wicked. That’s along with Implicit Bias Training, which is mandatory in many government entities and is the assertion of people being guilty of racism without knowing it — simply by the experiences due to the color of one’s skin or physical attributes.

Short people are judged differently than tall people, so are blondes and gingers. Remember the Polish jokes? Look now, Poland is humanely standing up and taking in Ukrainian refugees, while many are cowering.

However, the leaders of the American teachers’ unions are not cowering. In fact, they are wielding a much greater influence over the education of our children than most parents realize. Just follow the money. The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers have been increasing their political contributions yearly.

Their contributions grew to $32 million in 2016. Every year, 94% of it goes, in various forms, to the Democratic Party.

In 2021-2022, a non-election year, the combined contributions of the two unions were $18,837,527. No organization donates these amounts of money without quid pro quo.

The leaders of teachers’ unions are spreading their power and

influence beyond the mere protection of their members. Often, this divisive, CRT indoctrination is hidden under other, benign descriptions.

In any case, it has come to DYK’s attention that CRT is being exposed, in detail, in a new documentary video entitled “Whose Children, Are They?” During a 30-day window, from March 15 to April 14, viewers can see the expose via ticketed events at their churches, homes, schools and other venues. After that, the movie will be available via premium videos on demand.

“CRT is dividing our children in ways that are unacceptable,” Dr. Carol Swain, a former tenured professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt universities, says in the documentary. Dr. Swain is also a coauthor of “Black Eye for America: How CRT is Burning Down the House.”

She is an educational adviser for the American Cornerstone Institute, founded by Dr. Ben Carson.

She added, “They use the tactics of CRT to divide Americans and to create a culture of envy and blame.

They desire to upend our free republic, American traditions, and capitalism and to replace them with socialism, communism and atheism.”

Here’s a reminder to answer the survey monkey questionnaire regarding the police department,

which is available until 11:59 p.m.

Tuesday.

Santa Barbara Community Formation Commission developed a draft framework to create a civilian oversight system for the Santa Barbara Police Department. The CFC would like to share this draft with the Santa Barbara community to review and gather feedback via an online/paper survey.

The 17 questions ask for demographics and whether the reader agrees filing complaints regarding police conduct and policies would be more transparent if filed directly with this new commission, which includes a new city department and at a cost of more than $600,000 annually. We think it is redundant. After all, the city administrator, the Grand Jury and the Santa Barbara City Council are paid to oversee the city as well as the police department. Plus, a whole year for this draft framework and a survey?

How long will their investigations take, plus where is their expertise?

To respond to the survey, go to www.surveymonkey.com/r/ santabarbaracfc.

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and maintained barriers to increased production.

At a time where U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has pushed oil companies to produce more oil, the administration has a pause on leases, and Congress is trying to further dissuade more production. Rapidly ramping up production would create millions of dollars of risk for these companies. Costs will rise, and prices usually follow. Bills like the Whitehouse-Khanna proposal would obliterate the incentive to assume such risks.

The messaging is not in sync with actual policy coming from Capitol Hill.

Further, the guidelines set in the Whitehouse-Khanna bill are arbitrary at best. The $66 per barrel threshold is based on “the average price of oil between 2015 and 2019.” No justification was given for why that metric was used or why such a short window of time was used to generate it.

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8) Launched his “100 Days Masking Challenge” that “asked” Americans to wear masks for 100 days (“two weeks to stop the spread”?) and mandated masks and physical distancing in federal buildings, federal lands and by government contractors.

The Big Guy stayed busy. On Jan. 25, 2021 he reversed President Trump’s ban on transgenders joining the military, which ultimately required the military to pay for sex reassignment surgery.

On Feb. 27, 2021, he rescinded one of President Trump’s pet projects that created an industryled apprenticeship program, especially for those not college bound.

WAIT! THERE’S MORE! After promoting the fiction during his run for the presidency in 2020 that President Trump had ties to Russia, President Biden (April 15, 2021) imposed sanctions on and ordered diplomatic expulsions of various Russian

individuals and blocked U.S. financial institutions from trading in Russian bonds. I could be wrong, but it seems like something that could have inspired President Vladimir Putin’s rage. Just saying …

As for inflation, along with debilitating requirements on energy production that helped destroy U.S. energy independence, Biden raised (on April 27) the federal minimum wage from $10.95 to $15 and eliminated the tipped minimum wage (pegged at half the minimum) and mandated that it expire completely by 2024.

So President Biden destroyed America’s newly won energy independence and reduced the country’s ability to produce more oil. He discontinued construction of the border wall and forbade ICE and other border control mechanisms to operate. He also stopped policing the border, allowing untold millions of people to pour across into the U.S., along with drugs that have made the criminal cartels that profit from those drugs immensely wealthier and more dangerous. And not coincidentally, caused the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans, mostly careless youngsters.

Fourteen months into the Biden presidency. We have inflation running in the 9% range, Ukraine under relentless attack from neighboring Russia; Secretary of State John Kerry publicly opining that he hopes the war won’t deter Russia from sticking to its Climate Change commitments, the price of gas double what it was 14 months ago, and an administration unwilling to encourage additional domestic drilling and fuel production.

We’re about to sign some kind of nuclear deal with an unrepentant Iran (“Death to America!”

“Death to Israel!”), with lots more U.S. dollars heading their way, brokered by Russia.

Cackling Kamala is on the loose somewhere in Europe, proving to the Old World that New World politicians are … well, less than stable and a lot less intelligent than once imagined.

President Biden’s nominee for vice chair of supervision of the Federal Reserve Sarah Bloom Raskin, whose public statements insisted that banks should be prevented from lending to fossil fuel extractors (oil and gas companies), has withdrawn her nomination.

Daniel Savickas is government affairs manager at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance. This commentary was provided to the News-Press by The Center Square, a nonprofit dedicated to journalism.

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.”

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

It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

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And please, make Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of toilet paper inventory in the White House. When she was asked what she’s doing about high oil prices in her own country, she tried to deflect the question to Poland’s Prime

Masks remain a required wardrobe accessory to enter federal buildings and federally controlled areas.

Marxist-inspired Black Lives Matter is still an honored institution at the White House, despite the missing $60 million or so in unaccounted donations swooped up by the organization’s handlers.

Critical race theory continues to be advocated by the Biden administration, which supports the national teachers’ union’s insistence that it be taught as part of every school’s curriculum.

Nearly 70% of those responding in virtually all recent polls believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction. Those of us who agree with that sentiment really do wonder — and worry — how we’re going to survive until January 2025.

There is probably something the Big Guy has done that one could consider positive, but think though I may, I have yet to find it. Maybe you will. If you do, please email me at: jimb@substack.com.

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

Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

That should have been enough right there to tell her to look for another job.

We need leadership.

We’re stuck with President Biden right now so we have to rely on him to man up. If you’re not the praying type, now may be a good time to get started.

Henry Schulte welcomes questions or comments at hschulteopinions@gmail.com.

Republicans should stop dithering HAMMER

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In the midst of rampant inflation, a waning pandemic, and conflict in Eastern Europe, the current global market price sits at just under $100 per barrel.

A $66 benchmark is out of touch with clear and present realities in the market.

The solution to lagging global oil supply is to incentivize production wherever possible.

Higher prices are part of incentivizing said production.

The solution to rising inflation is to cut government spending, not to create a new entitlement.

The Khanna-Whitehouse proposal on oil “windfalls” manages to consolidate much of what has gone sideways in Washington in recent years. Not only will it fail to address the current issues, it will exacerbate those problems.

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Gov. DeSantis concluded: “And so in Florida, our policy’s got to be based on the best interest of Florida citizens, not on the musing of woke corporations.”

Fever pitch-level media and corporate hysterics aside, Florida Republicans’ stance is popular. A recent Politico/ Morning Consult poll showed that Americans support Gov. DeSantis’ stand by a whopping 16-point margin. Interestingly, that was despite the Politico/ Morning Consult pollsters’ inclusion of the misleading “Don’t Say Gay” smear in their phrasing of the question. A recent Daily Wire poll on the same question, which did not include the tendentious smear

label, showed Americans in support of the Florida law by a massive 44-point margin.

By now, this sort of result ought to be unsurprising: Virginia Republicans swept statewide races in November by embracing the critical race theory issue. CRT, just like gender ideology, offers Republicans the opportunity to support parental rights and cultural sanity against woke overreach and cultural insanity.

Republicans should stop dithering and bring the fight to the core civilizational issues now confronting a confused citizenry.

America was not conceived in irredeemable racism, and it is not systemically racist today; biological sex still matters; parents must control their own children’s upbringing. Not only are these common sense propositions but they are very popular ones - and embracing them points the way toward a Republican national majority.

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