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bit elusive. “Ghost guns” is the moniker used to describe firearms typically made by kits or parts that do not include serial numbers — making them virtually untraceable. Parts can be bought online, often from multiple vendors, or made from 3D printers. The effort can cost as little as a few hundred dollars and take less than 30 minutes to assemble just like a puzzle.

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In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Sacramento earlier this month, calls to further regulate or ban ghost guns rang out. It begged the question: Are ghost guns a problem in Santa Barbara County? But the answer to that, much like the nickname of the homemade firearms suggests, is a

“Ghost guns are an issue all across the nation. They’ve become a real problem for law enforcement and our communities,” Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown told the News-Press in an interview. “Ghost guns are absolutely prevalent in Santa Barbara,” Sgt. Ethan Ragsdale, a spokesperson for the Santa Barbara Police Department, echoed. Following the mass shooting in Sacramento, just steps from

the state Capitol, the Biden administration implemented a new rule banning “buy build shoot” kits people could purchase without a background check and easily assemble into a firearm. The rule said these weapons must be licensed and serialized. Additionally, the rule mandated federally licensed dealers and gunsmiths to serialize any weapons they have that do not have a serial number. Please see GHOST GUNS on A6

SB honors the planet Community Environmental Council’s Earth Day celebration returns to Santa Barbara

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Earth Day rally held at UCSB By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The California Public Interests Research Group (CALPIRG) hosted a rally at UCSB’s Storke Tower on Saturday. The rally

was billed as a day of action to celebrate the planet and a call for action on plastic pollution in online deliveries. “We had people meet and make Please see RALLY on A5

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UCSB students took part in an Earth Day rally on the UCSB campus on Saturday.

Former Sen. Orrin Hatch dies at 88 By MATT SMOLENSKY NEWS-PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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Attendees bounce between booths in the lobby of the Arlington Theatre during the Community Environmental Council’s Santa Barbara Earth Day Celebration on Saturday.

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On Saturday, the Community Environmental Council (CEC) Earth Day event returned inperson to Santa Barbara for the first time since 2019. The event has been virtual the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “It is special that we are back in-person, and different because we are at the Arlington Theatre,” Kathi King, director of climate education and leadership for the CEC, told the News-Press. “The intersection of climate and culture through art is something that we have been exploring … Helping people to connect to climate change through where their heart is,” said Ms. King, who has been with the organization since 2008. In previous years, the event has been held at Alameda Park since 2009. The celebration was held at the Arlington Theatre rather than Alameda Park this year due to the Please see EARTH DAY on A5

Electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids were featured during the event.

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nine Senate Majority Leaders, chairing the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, Judiciary Committee and Finance Committee. “This breaks my heart,” Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, said of Mr. Hatch’s death in a tweet. “Abby and I are so grateful for the opportunities we had to spend time with this incredible public servant. He was always so kind and generous with his time and wisdom. Utah mourns with the Hatch family.” email: msmolensky@newspress.com

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Former Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah died at 88 on Saturday, according to a press release from his foundation. Mr. Hatch was the longestserving U.S. senator ever to represent Utah, serving for 42 years from 1977 to 2019. He also served as Senate president pro tempore during his time in Washington, D.C. Mr. Hatch also served as the chairman emeritus of the Hatch Foundation, an organization aimed at promoting civic engagement and political discourse. “A man of wisdom, kindness, character, and compassion, Orrin G. Hatch was everything a United States Senator should be,” said A. Scott Anderson, chairman of the Hatch Foundation, in an interview with CNN. “He exemplified a generation of lawmakers brought up on the principles of comity and compromise, and he embodied those principles better than anyone. In a nation divided, Orrin Hatch helped show us a better way by forging meaningful friendships on both sides of the aisle.” Mr. Hatch served in the Senate through the administrations of seven U.S. Presidents and

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A personal history lesson on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

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Adrine (Kalfayan) Stanley, Robert Eringer’s maternal grandmother, was an Armenian who lived in Turkey. The Kalfayan family, including Adrine, were on the last boat to leave Trebizond before the Young Turks and the Kurds massacred all of Trebizond’s 14,000 Armenians.

Armenians did not seek independence from Turks. They sought equality. For instance, Armenians were not allowed to vote in the Ottoman Empire. And, as Christians, they were forced to pay more tax than Muslims. In 1895, instead of allowing Armenians to vote in elections and making tax equal for all people, the Ottoman Empire’s leader, Sultan Abdul-Hamid II, created a special army to murder 100,000 Armenians. For sure, this special army reduced the Armenian minority if Armenians would ever win the right to vote. (But perhaps Sultan Abdul-Hamid II forgot it would also result in fewer premium taxpayers.) For reasons that had nothing to do with Armenians, a group of Turks forced a constitutional government on the Sultan in 1908. This group was known as the Young Turks. A constitutional government meant that Young Turks would share power with the Sultan. Young Turks believed in modernizing their country. They claimed to believe in equality and justice. Although Armenians supported Young Turks and their progressive thinking, what Young Turks really meant was equality and justice for all Muslims, not Christian Armenians. In 1913, Young Turks overthrew Sultan Abdul-Hamid II as ruler. Three Young Turks — Mehmet Talaat, Ismail Enver and Ahmed Djema l— became the empire’s new rulers. Quickly, Mehmet, Ismail and Ahmed became

bossier than the Sultan they had overthrown for being too bossy. This trio wanted to create a new Turkish empire with one religion. Their religion. And they wanted to take over countries to the east. In between Turkey and countries to the east lay Armenia’s homeland — and two million Christian Armenians. This did not matter to Young Turks. And it did not bode well for Armenians. The Young Turk trio whipped up religious hatred against Christians. Perhaps they were jealous that Armenians had always been progressive and open to new ideas. And that Armenians were smart and enterprising, educated and skilled, and therefore wealthy compared to most Turks. This was because the Sultan had discouraged learning. Instead, the Sultan encouraged his subjects to be ignorant, unskilled peasants so that they would be stupid and loyal to him. In 1914, the start of World War I created a cover for Young Turks to answer their “Armenian Question.” This was not a real question. It was a figure of speech for wanting Armenians to vanish. Young Turks sided with Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I. While Germany and AustriaHungary fought France and Great Britain on European battlefields, Young Turks laid the groundwork for Armenians to vanish. At that time, 40,000 Armenians served in the Turkish army. These Please see INVESTIGATOR on A4

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A quarter century before the start of World War II, my maternal grandmother, Adrine Kalfayan, was a young teenager in Trebizond, a city in northeastern Turkey on the Black Sea. In 1915, Turkey was part of the Ottoman Empire. My grandmother was Armenian. Through the 1800s and early 1900s, Armenians were treated as second-class citizens in their own historical homeland. This was because Armenians were Christian, and Muslim Turks outnumbered Armenians, 10 to 1. The Armenian nation was first to recognize Christianity as a religion, in the year 301. Armenia’s homeland, Anatolia, had been absorbed into the Ottoman Empire, which was then a world power. The Ottoman Empire’s rulers did not like progress. But without progress, the Ottoman Empire’s army could not compete with armies in Europe, where progress was welcomed, especially to modernize armies. And so, the Ottoman Empire fell apart in the late 1800s as Greek, Serb and Romanian armies fought against Turks to win independence from their oppressive empire.

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oday is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. As the world grieves the loss of thousands of Ukrainians due to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal campaign of war crimes, atrocities and genocide, here is some historical perspective. My father’s parents were from Wysokie, a town in eastern Poland, a country in Central Europe in between two neighbors, Russia and Germany. Throughout history, Russia and Germany (Prussia) ravaged, divided and occupied Poland’s territory. In 1913, my grandparents decided to leave Wysokie for a new life in America. Perhaps they’d had enough of Poland’s aggressive neighbors. Henry and Sarah disembarked from the S.S. Kroonland, an ocean liner that cruised between New York and Antwerp, onto Ellis Island in July 1913. This is where immigrants entered the United States, near a great statue, which welcomed them with these words: “Give me your tired, your poor, “Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, “The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. “Send them, the homeless, to me.” Henry and Sarah settled in New York City and started a family. Henry founded a travel agency on Broome Street in lower Manhattan’s east side. As Henry read the news, he had a premonition that bad things would happen to friends and family left behind in Wysokie. Most of the people Henry left behind were Jewish. (Henry and Sarah were Jewish, by heritage, but did not practice any religious faith.) As Henry watched the rise of Nazism in Germany, he wrote letters to friends and relatives in Wysokie begging them to leave Poland and start a new life in America, whose Constitution ensures freedom of religion. Nazism is an ideology based largely on racism, anti-Semitism and hatred. Henry offered friends and relatives free transportation, through his travel agency, to leave Poland. But Wysokie’s Jews were enterprising and had built a decent existence for themselves, so they mostly remained. In 1937, Wysokie fell victim to a pogrom. A pogrom is an organized attack on persons of a particular ethnic group. The particular ethnic group targeted was Jews. Many houses belonging to Jews were looted and trashed and destroyed, and many Jews were injured. On Sept. 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and started World War II. Nine days later, German soldiers arrived in Wysokie and set much of the town on fire, just because they could. The Germans rounded up Wysokie’s Jewish men from age 17 upward and herded them to a Catholic Church and refused them food and drink for three days. On the fourth day, the Germans marched their herd of Jews to Zambrow, a city 20 miles east, to work as slaves. They shot dead all Jews who walked too slowly and could not keep up with them. Perhaps overcome by his prophetic premonition, my grandfather Henry suffered a heart attack and died, at age 58, three weeks after World War II started. Henry had three sons of military age — and he most surely believed they would be drafted and sent to war, perhaps his worst nightmare. They were sent to war — and all three returned, limbs intact. A few days after Henry died, Germany negotiated a deal with Russia to divide Poland (again). Under Russian rule, Wysokie’s Jews were allowed to return to their town. They rebuilt Wysokie, though their community had dwindled — through organized murder — from 2,500 to 1,100 Jews. When Germany and Russia went to war two years later, German soldiers seized Wysokie again, on June 23, 1941. This time the Germans did not march Wysokie’s Jews to Zambrow and shoot some of them dead for walking too slow. Instead, in late August, the Germans created a ghetto in Wysokie. A ghetto is a segregated

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neighborhood whose inhabitants are squeezed together in cramped conditions. Wysokie’s ghetto comprised three streets surrounded by a barrier of barbed wire. German soldiers marched Jews from other towns into Wysokie’s ghetto. Soon 20,000 Jews were squeezed so tight they could hardly breathe. When winter arrived, German soldiers marched Jews into the forest to chop down trees for firewood. In return, Jews were allowed to keep tree roots to boil as soup so that they had something to eat. A year passed. On Nov. 1, 1942, 300 empty wagons, borrowed by Polish police from local farmers, arrived in Wysokie. Next day, all Jews were summoned to the main square and ordered to climb aboard the wagons. A crowd of Polish people stood by, armed with garden tools. They did not stand by to defend Jews. They stood by to steal all the possessions Jews were forced to leave behind. Three hundred wagons of weeping Jews rolled to Zambrow. In Zambrow, Wysokie’s Jews joined 17,500 Jews from other nearby towns in conditions more cramped than Wysokie’s ghetto. The Germans provided each Jew one quart of water and one slice of bread, daily. About 100 persons —,mostly children and the elderly — died. Daily. The arrival of a new year did not bring celebration. Two weeks into 1943, the Germans murdered any Jew who suffered ill health. Jews who could still stand were marched to Chizev train station. Along the way, people who hated Jews beat them, gauntlet-style. It was winter, and it was very cold. Many Jews froze to death before reaching the trains. Those were the lucky ones. However bad my grandfather’s premonition, Henry could not have foreseen the horror of the Holocaust. On Jan. 17, Wysokie’s Jews were forced to board trains that rolled them to Auschwitz, a German concentration and extermination camp in southern Poland. Upon arrival at Auschwitz, women and children and the elderly were separated from their husbands, fathers and sons and led to a building where they were ordered to undress. Naked, they were guided into a special chamber, and the door screwed shut behind them. They were not told what would happen next. Inside the special chamber they were introduced to Zyklon B. Zyklon B is a poison made with cyanide. It was created to kill insects. Zyklon B pellets were dropped into the special chamber, creating a poison gas. The Jews inside shouted and screamed for 20 minutes as their mouths foamed and their ears oozed blood. Then all were dead. Young Jewish men were spared because the German army needed slave labor. Auschwitz had a motto: “Arbeit macht frei.” (“Work brings hope.”) This motto was a hoax. There was much work, but little hope. After working as hard as they could, many young Jewish men were also sent to the special chamber — to an agonizing death by Zyklon B poison gas. A dictator named Adolf Hitler had ordered this genocide against Jews. “Who, after all,” Adolf said in 1939, “speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

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Just how accessible and affordable is childcare in Goleta and Santa Barbara? The Santa Barbara City Council is slated to find out when it convenes Tuesday afternoon. Both cities commissioned the United Way of Santa Barbara County to conduct a childcare assessment to understand the needs of working parents. Santa Barbara contributed $17,500 for the study which surveyed parents, employers and childcare providers through online polls, interviews and focus groups. In all, 492 parents responded to a survey and 72 local childcare providers gave information, according to a council agenda report. The United Way’s work found the average monthly cost full-time for an infant is $1,481 and for a preschooler $1,194. The group’s research also found a significant gap between the need for care and

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capacity as well as staffing issues. Additionally Tuesday, the city council will consider the renewal of the South Coast Tourism Business Improvement District. The council is expected to hold a hearing on the matter and adopt a resolution regarding its intention to modify its management district plan, according to an agenda report. The Santa Barbara South Coast Tourism Business Improvement District was established in 2010. It was last renewed by the council in 2019. A new proposed term would sunset after 0 years. The renewed district would include Santa Barbara and Goleta as well as parts of the unincorporated county. Tuesday’s meeting will take place at 2 p.m. It can be attended in-person or streamed online through www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CAP.

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The California Department of Public Health and Meta have partnered to launch chatbot tools to combat COVID-19 misinformation. The department said California is the first in the nation to launch such a tool. The free WhatsApp chatbot tools are offered in both English and Spanish and geared toward the Latino community, CDPH said in a press release. Users can receive information about the safety of COVID vaccines, how to book vaccination appointments and where to access digital COVID vaccine records. “Our mission to keep California safe from the threat of COVID-19 is not over, and we must continue to keep our communities informed on how we can continue moving toward the new normal we all long for,” CDPH Director Dr. Tomás Aragón said. “That is why we are meeting even more Californians where they are, and spend time

every day, by presenting reliable, accurate information on a trusted platform and in the language they speak.” Those interested can text “hola” to 833-422-1090. Once the chatbot is activated, users can select from a menu of options including local vaccination sites, transportation options for getting to a vaccination site and more. CDPH said it is utilizing the WhatsApp messaging service because of its popularity among the Hispanic community in California and abroad. Meta is the parent organization of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and more. “Since the start of the pandemic, WhatsApp has been a powerful tool for more than 150 health organizations around the world to share lifesaving information and tackle misinformation,” said Mona Pasquil Rogers, head of Meta State Policy in California. “We’re thrilled to add the state of California, as the first state in the U.S., to this effort as well, and

in doing so will be offering even more tools to get Californians accurate and authoritative news. Partnerships like this one are one of the many ways Meta is helping to fight Spanish-language misinformation.” As of Friday morning, 72.8% of those eligible were fully vaccinated against COVID in Santa Barbara County. Nearly 81% of eligible people have received at least one dose. Of the doses administered in the county, 43% were given to white individuals and 38.9% to Hispanic people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has maintained the COVID vaccines are safe and effective. People can visit MyTurn.ca.gov to check eligibility, register and receive notifications about COVID vaccine appointments. Those without access to internet can call 1-833-422-4255 which has support in multiple languages.

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(The Center Square) – California is quietly ending its contract with the Valencia Branch Laboratory, a $25 million COVID-19 testing lab, breaking off a nobid contract worth up to $1.7 billion with lab operator PerkinElmer. Officials from the California Department of Public Health sent a letter on March 31 to PerkinElmer alerting the lab that they would terminate the contract in 45 days, as allowed by the terms of the agreement. The letter stated that the capacity of commercial labs has “dramatically increased” in the last 18 months, and “as such, it is time for California to leverage the now sufficient laboratory capacity of the commercial market and the flexibility it brings.” “Testing continues to be a priority, and the state will maintain commercial and local public health capacity statewide to perform at least 500,000 tests per day - a combination of PCR and antigen,” CDPH said in an email to The Center Square. “Moving forward, in addition to emphasizing the use of antigen testing, and ‘test to treat’ efforts, PCR testing capacity will be provided through a network of commercial partners rather than the state’s Valencia Branch Lab.” CDPH did not acknowledge in its statement or letter to PerkinElmer any reports of the problems alleged to have plagued the Valencia Branch Lab. In February 2021, whistleblowers told CBS13 Sacramento that the lab had a range of problems, including that contamination was causing inconclusive test results and that test swabs were found in the lab’s restrooms. The reports triggered a state investigation, which found that the lab was changing test results days after they were reported without alerting patients, had several incidences of “invalidated specimens” due to lab accidents and failed to assess the competency of more than half of its staff. Despite the investigation, the state quietly autorenewed a contract with the Valencia Branch Laboratory on Nov. 1, though documents released in late November revealed that – just 10 days before the contract was renewed – the state threatened to impose sanctions on the lab for its failure to meet public health and safety requirements. Little more than a week after the contract was renewed, CDPH alerted the lab that deficiencies were addressed and no sanctions would be imposed. CDPH did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding what will happen to the lab, though Fierce Biotech reported that PerkinElmer would lay off 75 employees on June 4 due to the lab closing. Senate Republican Leader Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, said in a statement that the lab “failed to serve Californians and the state delayed accountability for months.” Sen. Wilk said that Gov. Newsom’s administration “failed” when it came to the lab, adding that “this cancellation is cleaning up a mess that an accountable government should have prevented.” Earlier this week, a bill introduced by Sen. Wilk that would offer whistleblower protections to employees working at companies awarded no-bid government contracts was unanimously passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill was inspired by the whistleblowers who reported the deficiencies at the Valencia Branch Laboratory.

A series of internet access and affordability forums are scheduled to take place across Santa Barbara County in the coming weeks. The forums, organized by Econ Alliance in connection to the Broadband Alliance of Santa Barbara County, will discuss unique and local perspectives on broadband internet accessibility, cost, infrastructure and speed. The forums will be in-person, but those who cannot attend can visit www.sbcag.org./ broadband to complete a survey and internet speed test and provide feedback. The meetings are: • Santa Maria: April 26 at 2:30 p.m. at Shepard Hall at the Santa Maria Public Library at 421 S. McClelland St. • Santa Ynez: April 27 at 5:30 p.m. at the Community Services District at 1070 Faraday St. • Guadalupe (Program in English with simultaneous interpretations in Spanish and English): May 4 at 5:30 p.m. at the City Council Chambers at 918 Obispo St. • Guadalupe (Program in Spanish with simultaneous interpretations in English and Spanish): May 11 at 6 p.m. at the City Council Chambers at 918 Obispo St. • Orcutt: May 18 at 6 p.m. at Lakeview Elementary’s multi-use room at 3700 Orcutt Rd. • Buellton: May 19 at 5:30 p.m. at Valley Elementary at 595 2nd St. • Solvang: May 26 at 5:30 p.m. at Solvang City Hall at 1644 Oak St. Santa Maria’s meeting will also provide simultaneous interpretations in English and Spanish. The panels will feature conversations by various business, community, non-profit and school leaders. People without internet access can call the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments at 805-961-8902 to report why they do not have access. The Broadband Alliance of Santa Barbara County is developing a strategic plan to address broadband access and affordability. Lompoc already hosted a forum earlier this month where Bree Valla, the assistant superintendent of Lompoc Unified School District, discussed infrastructure needs to make “magic happen” for families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation last year meant to provide reliable and affordable internet access to all Californians and expand broadband fiber infrastructure. email: kschallhorn@newspress.com

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Armenian soldiers were relieved of their weapons, put to work as slave labor — and eventually shot dead. Meanwhile, Young Turks ordered all other Armenians to surrender their weapons. It is never a good sign when a government orders its citizens to surrender their weapons. This is why the founders of the United States of America granted Americans the right to bear arms. They did this so Americans would be able to defend themselves against a bossy government — and also rise up and overthrow the government if its leaders ever became too bossy. But back to Armenians, who never should have surrendered their weapons, but did. Armenians began to vanish 107 years ago today. On that date — April 24, 1915 — about 300 prominent Armenians were

rounded up by Turks and imprisoned, tortured, and shot or hanged. Young Turks needed help to ensure that all Armenians in Turkey would vanish. So they encouraged other ethnic tribes, such as the Kurds, to kill Armenians and steal their possessions. Young Turks also created a special organization to help Armenians vanish. This organization was named “Special Organization.” It was composed of criminals who were released from prison in exchange for their willingness to kill Armenians. These criminals were also encouraged to rape Armenian women, including young girls, and turn them into sex slaves. And they were allowed to keep everything they could steal from Armenians. A favorite Turkish vanishing trick was to march, march, march thousands of Armenians up mountains and over cliffs into a river, which turned red from Armenian blood. Another Turkish vanishing trick was to march, march, march thousands of Armenians into the hot desert, without water, so they would

WILLSON, Harlan Michael “Mike”

On April 16, 2022, Harlan Michael “Mike” Willson passed peacefully in his sleep at home in Washington, Utah. He was born in Marshall, Texas on January 14, 1938 to Allan Harte Burbage and Elizabeth Gertrude Matthews. He spent his early years in Marshall before eventually moving to Santa Barbara, California in 1947 with his mother and stepfather, Lawrence S. Willson. He attended McKinley elementary school, SB Jr. High School, and SB High School, graduating in 1956. After high school, he enlisted in the USAF. He was trained in electronics and worked on radar and fire/weapon control systems. Mike subsequently worked for General Electric for which he traveled and worked up and down the East coast as well Clear, Alaska where he was stationed at a research facility for one year. He eventually moved back to Santa Barbara in 1962 where he took a job with SB Research Center in Goleta, CA. He worked there from 1963-1993. He moved to Lompoc, CA in 1986 and retired from SB Research Center in 1993. On December 24, 1983, he married Shirley Jean Fazio, whom he considered his soulmate. They eventually settled in St. George, UT in 2001. He was residing in Washington, Utah with his wife and beloved dog, Bob, at the time of his death. Shirley has two children, Chris L. (San Leandro, CA) and Schelly L. Young (Grand Junction, CO). Mike was an intelligent and creative person. He enjoyed the technical aspects of his electronics job as well as being an accomplished artist on canvas, sculpture, and several other mediums. He was a perfectionist with whatever he put his mind to. After retirement, he learned fine knifemaking and was recognized as a handle artisan for his unusual and beautiful knife handles. He was also sought out for his chrome plating of engine parts among other items. His love of older cars was evident from a young age. He enjoyed restoring classic and hot rod cars much of his life. The Flathead Shop was a column he had in Car and Driver and Hot Rod magazines to help other classic car lovers find parts for 1932-1948 Fords. He had a 1937 Ford truck he worked on for years and enjoyed driving. His most recent projects were a series of open modified roadsters which he kept in tip top condition. Besides his wife Shirley, Mike is survived by his brother, Peter L. Willson (Santa Barbara); daughter, Ann Boone (Craig) and grandchildren: Bryana and Conor Boone (Lexington, KY); son, Larry Willson (Ventura) and granddaughters: Harmony and Brittany Willson (Santa Barbara); and step-grandchildren: Colton L. (Redwood, CA) and Amy M. Young (San Leandro, CA). He also had numerous friends and colleagues who touched his life over the years that he remembered fondly. In lieu of flowers, please donate to your local animal shelter. Arrangements entrusted to the care of Metcalf Mortuary, (435) 673-4221. Please visit our website at www.metcalfmortuary.com for condolences, complete obituary and funeral listings.

ECKERT, Charles V. III

Native Santa Barbaran and lifelong resident, Charles Vincent Eckert III was born on September 9, 1935 at Cottage Hospital to Adelaide (Walters) and Charles V. Eckert Jr. “Chuck” had an idyllic Santa Barbara childhood. He always excelled in school, was a Boy Scout, and loved baseball … it was not uncommon for Chuck and his younger brother Butch to seek out and play in pick up ballgames with other kids in the neighborhood, just like the movie, “Sandlot,” which was one of his favorites. Chuck attended Goleta Union School, and for a short time, Paradise School in Santa Ynez. He went on to La Cumbre Jr. High School, and Santa Barbara High School. In high school, Chuck was a fierce rival on the debate team, he was involved in student government, and active in the YMCA, where he met his first wife, Linda (Downing) whom he married in 1955. Chuck attended UCSB at the original campus on The Riviera where he earned his BA in Political Science, graduating with highest honors. He went on to study law at UC Berkeley. In 1961 Chuck returned to Goleta and opened his law practice, as the first full time attorney in Goleta. He was also “first” to try both criminal and civil jury cases in the Goleta Justice Court. The law practice grew, and over the years Chuck took on several law partners. (Brian O’Gorman, Jim Smith, Richard Tyler, David Grokenberger and Casey Hoppell). He was very well respected among his colleagues, and was often called on to consult with some of them right up to the end. In 1989, he served as President of the American Board of Trial Advocates (Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo), Consumer Attorneys of California, the American Bar Association, the California Bar Association, and the Santa Barbara County Bar Association, he also served as an arbitrator, and served as Superior Court Judge Pro Tem. In addition to the law, Chuck was involved in and served many local organizations, including the Elks Lodge, and the Goleta Breakfast Optimist Club. Beginning with his first purchase of a small property in what is known as Old Town Goleta, Chuck was a very successful real estate investor. In the late 1980s, he and his son, Charles V. Eckert IV “Chip” teamed up and created Eckert Investments, an investment and property management company, in which Chuck was active in daily operations right up until the final days of his life. He participated as Chairman, and on the Executive Committee of the Isla Vista Property Owners’ Association, and as Director of the Santa Barbara Rental Property Association. In 1981-1983, Chuck was President of the Santa Barbara Housing Council. He took special pride in Goleta, where he lived and worked for most of his life. He was Chairman for both the Committee for Greater Goleta, and Goletans for Better Government. Chuck’s political influence helped shape Goleta and Santa Barbara in ways that most would never know.

fry to death. In all, Young Turks made about 1.5 million Armenians vanish. My grandmother Adrine and her family were among 500,000 Armenians who did not vanish. The Kalfayan family left Trebizond by boat in June 1915. They were on the last boat to leave Trebizond before the Young Turks and the Kurds massacred all of Trebizond’s 14,000 Armenians. The Kalfayans sailed to Istanbul, Turkey’s capital, which was then called Constantinople, where they had lived before moving to Trebizond. Adrine’s father, Azarik Kalfayan, designed rugs for Sultan Abdul-Hamid II. In 1895, Abdul-Hamid II had rewarded Azarik with a Certificate of Personal Satisfaction, signed by the Sultan. Twenty years later, Azarik used his Certificate of Personal Satisfaction as a Get-out-ofgenocide-alive card for himself and his family. But the widescale brutal murder of Armenians scarred Azarik’s family

psychologically. Five decades later, when Adrine temporarily suffered mental illness, she believed Young Turks were tracking her movements and wanted to make her vanish. Back to World War I. It did not go well for the Ottoman Empire. Along with Germany, the Ottoman Empire lost, and the Allied powers occupied Constantinople. Before troops of the Allied powers arrived, the Young Turk trio did its own vanishing act. Aided by Germans (the irony), Mehmet escaped by submarine to Germany. Ismail also fled to Germany. Ahmed also bolted to Germany. Armenians hunted Mehmet and Ahmed — and assassinated them within four years. Ismail was last to die, killed in battle by an Armenian. Years later, Adolf Hitler of Germany should have paid attention to what happened to Mehmet, Djemal and Ismail. Instead, Adolf tried to solve the “Jewish Question.”

PUTNAM, Thomas M. III January 3, 1945-April 5, 2022

Thomas “Tom” M. Putnam III, a 15-year resident of Santa Barbara, passed away after a struggle with Parkinson’s Disease. Born in Oakland, California, he grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado and his Masters in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin.

He enjoyed skiing, tennis, sailing, ﬁshing and traveling around the world. He lived a full life and captured these moments with his love of photography and his extensive video collections. He was a gentle giant with a sincere heart and a witty remark at hand. Resilience became a motto for his life, including his ability to deal with various illnesses. Tom loved his wife and daughter dearly. In fact, his most treasured moment was walking his daughter down the aisle in a 2020 miracle wedding. Despite physical constraints, he danced with her to the song, “My Girl,” which he frequently sang to her as a child. He enthusiastically attended all her childhood dance competitions and theater performances and was her biggest fan. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Linda Putnam; his daughter Ashley Putnam and son-in-law, Dartagnan Delgado of Philadelphia, PA; and his brother Gregory Putnam and sister-in-law Caryl Putnam of Healdsburg, CA. A memorial service will be held at Palm Park Beach House on May 30 at 3:00 p.m. His spirit, his music, and his sense of humor will live on through all of us. As Irving Berlin says, “The song has ended but the melody lives on.”

PERKINS, James Perry

James Perry Perkins, 84, lovingly known as Perry to all, passed away peacefully on April 3, 2022, a beautiful spring afternoon, with family by his side.

Perry is survived by his loving wife Suzanne, children Jay (Paula) Perkins, Cindy (Brian) Hail and Dr. James (Felice) Perkins, grandchildren Stephanie, Nicole, London, Jett, Jennifer, Jared, and ﬁve great-grandchildren. He also leaves behind his brother Clyde Perkins, sister Rachel (Doug) Clanin and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins, along with many lifelong friends and colleagues. The family would like to thank the many wonderful people at Valle Verde that lovingly cared for Perry the last two years - you are all greatly appreciated. In lieu of ﬂowers, instead please consider a donation in his memory to the Earl Warren Showgrounds Foundation (www.ewsf.org) or the Montecito Trails Foundation (www. montecitotrailsfoundation.info).

IN MEMORY GEORGE & JEANNE GOODALL A celebration of the lives of George E. Goodall (Apr. 20, 1922 - Jun. 22, 2020) and Jeanne Warden Goodall (Aug. 21, 1924 - Apr. 9, 2021) will be held on Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 10:30 am. (Light lunch to follow in Fellowship Hall)

Chuck was also an avid bowler. He bowled with his dad, Chili, his brother, Butch and Butch’s son, Gary, and his son Chip for years. In the 1990s, for one season, the ﬁve got to bowl together. He took pride in being one of 5 Eckerts on the same bowling team. (Chili, Chuck, Butch, Chip, Gary.)

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Chuck loved watching his children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren playing ball of some sort, (baseball, football, soccer, etc.). But he especially loved baseball! In 1982, the Goleta Valley South Little League team won the Little League World Series. Chuck took time out of his busy schedule to travel around the country with his cousins, Carolyn Stewart and Bill Oakley, watching their two sons, Bruce and Billy win a Little League World Series. Chuck got such satisfaction…such a thrill watching the youngsters in the family succeed.

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In 1971 Chuck married his wife, Janet Brainerd. He and Janet celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in October, 2021. Chuck and Janet were fortunate to visit many parts of the world. They enjoyed many family vacations together along with their children and grandchildren, especially their annual trip to Bass Lake, which they were able to enjoy for a number of years, where such wonderful family memories were created. Family was important to Chuck. He took the time to cultivate very unique relationships with each one of his children, grandchildren, and even greatgrandchildren. He counseled, encouraged and supported each one as they grew up, and beyond into adulthood. As one grandchild so aptly stated, “He’s given me advice from life experiences that no one else could. He’s told me when I need to try harder, and celebrated me when I’ve done my best.” On March 24, 2022, after a long illness, which he fought bravely until the end, Chuck passed away at Serenity House, after saying goodbye to the many family members who loved him and who he loved so much, and after saying a ﬁnal goodbye to his wife Janet, with Chuck’s daughter Heidi, and son Chip by his side, holding his hands. Charles Vincent Eckert III is survived by: his wife, Janet; sons, Charles V. Eckert IV (Sue), Chuck Brainerd (Kate), Mike Brainerd (Tammy); Daughter, Heidi Peet (Bob); ten grandchildren: Amy, Jessica, Ben, Antonia, Charles V. Eckert V “Vinny”, Joey, Jared, Jakob, Kaitie, Glenn; fourteen great-grandchildren: Brooklynn, Elijah, Uriah, Lola, Sophia, Daniel, Dominic, James, Alexander, Noah, Tullah, Mikayla, Charles V. Eckert VI “Charlie”; brother: Butch Eckert (Mary Lou), and sisters: Scarlet Eckert, and Melody Bowles (Jim).

WARREN LEE CULBERSON October 6, 1931 - January 4, 2022

The Family of Warren L. Culberson is hosting a Celebration of Life in his memory on Monday, May 2, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. at The Mission Club (formerly Village Country Club). Warren passed away on January 4, 2022. The Family looks forward to sharing memories of Warren’s life with all friends who would like to attend.

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February 1, 1941 - December 29, 2021

Barbara Ann Bollay was born in Tennessee and moved with her family to Annapolis, MD, where her father was an instructor at the US Naval Academy. The family moved to Southern California, where she spent her summers with her family in Lake Arrowhead and developed her love of water skiing. Barbara graduated from Anoakia, an all-girls’ school in Arcadia, CA., and then attended UCSB. She became a ﬂight attendant with United Airlines in 1960. She met her husband James Metcalf on a blind date. They moved from the Santa Barbara area to Steamboat Springs for three years and then to Aspen. In 1975 they moved back to Santa Barbara where they started Metcalf Tennis Court Construction. They lived in Goleta from 1975 to 2019 until they decided to retire in Prescott Valley, AZ. They remained side by side for 58 years of marriage. Barbara is proceeded in death by her mother, father, younger brother Jonathan, and her sister Suzy. She is survived by her husband James Metcalf, three children and their spouses, Jon & Kim, Scott & Cindy, Jim & Suzy, and her seven grandchildren: Lauren, Kyle, Morgan, Kevin, Jaci, Kinsey, and Logan. Barbara also leaves behind her younger brother Rob Bollay and sister Kathy Bollay. Barbara volunteered at her children’s schools as PTA President, room-mom, teammom and a troop leader for over 15 years. Barbara was the neighborhood mom and driver, who spent countless summer days at Hope Ranch Beach.

We are blessed by the extraordinary legacy of unconditional love, honesty, integrity and hard work, which he left us.

Barbara loved hosting parties and was well-known for her dinner parties and social gatherings. People would ﬂy in from all over to make her Christmas party. After the boys left home, Barbara found golf and Ocean Meadows Golf Course. Barbara put on golf tournaments and ran the golf course. The golf course became her second family.

A Celebration of Chuck’s life will be held on May 18, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. at Glen Annie Golf Club. In lieu of ﬂowers, donations may be made to the Goleta Valley Boys and Girls Club, Boy Scouts Los Padres Council, and the Goleta Valley Historical Society.

There will be a celebration of Barbara’s life at Glen Annie Golf Club in Goleta on April 30th at 3:30 p.m., where we will share stories and toast to her love of life. All friends of Barbara are welcome.

MONDAY

Sunny and beautiful

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Guadalupe 74/48

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Vandenberg 67/49

Perry was born February 1, 1938 in Little Rock, AR, and spent many years growing up in the Denver, CO area before eventually landing in Santa Barbara, CA. Perry was incredibly involved and passionate about his Arabian horses; he took much pride in their breeding and showing them at the National level with great success. He was also a real estate broker and an antiques aﬁcionado, and was successful in both endeavors for many years up until he retired. Later, he loved long hikes with “his puppy” Murdock, reading history and tending to his garden of plumerias.

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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Tom loved technology and entered the computing ﬁeld before the Internet and personal computers were even invented. He culminated his 45-year career as Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Ofﬁcer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, after holding positions at Honeywell, Inc., Purdue University, and Texas A&M University. He was part of the generation of IT leaders that built giant networks, huge data centers, and local area-networks that form the foundation for the digital economy. He clearly witnessed the evolution of an industry in which his career was constantly being re-invented. Music was a big part of Tom’s life and he was a masterful twelve-string guitar player. He joined jam groups in Santa Barbara and performed locally for special events and retirement communities. As a member of the Sunrise Chapter of the Rotary Club, he organized activities for the annual Old-Time Fiddlers’ Festival in addition to serving as Club Treasurer and Membership Director.

Again, this was not a real question, but a figure of speech for wanting Jews to vanish. Adolf tried to solve his “question” the same as Mehmet, Ismail and Ahmed tried to solve their “question.” And, as a consequence, Adolf also met an early end. Later, Germany accepted responsibility for its genocidal Holocaust of Jews. But Turkey has never acknowledged its genocidal massacre of Armenians. Instead, Turks deny that they wanted Armenians to vanish. In addition, Turks try to silence anyone that publishes information about their genocide against Armenians, as if genocide can be swept under a magic carpet. Sometimes it takes a while, but truth always prevails. Never forget those who make war on innocent people. Always ensure their crimes are exposed and punished.

New Cuyama 79/46 Ventucopa 75/45

Los Alamos 83/47

Buellton 81/46

Solvang 83/45

Gaviota 73/53

SANTA BARBARA 75/52 Goleta 77/53

Carpinteria 73/54 Ventura 74/54

AIR QUALITY KEY Good Moderate

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

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72/50 68/49 92 in 2020 37 in 1961

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POINT ARENA TO POINT PINOS

Wind northwest 6-12 knots today. Waves 2-4 feet with a south-southwest swell 3-5 feet at 17 seconds. Visibility clear.

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO

Wind northwest 6-12 knots today. Waves 2-4 feet with a south-southwest swell 3-5 feet at 17 seconds. Visibility clear.

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12:21 p.m. none 12:36 a.m. 1:09 p.m. 1:34 a.m. 1:50 p.m.

2.2’ -0.4’ 1.5’ -0.2’

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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 6-12 knots today. Wind waves 2-4 feet with a southwest swell 2-4 feet at 11-second intervals. Visibility clear.

TIDES

LOCAL TEMPS Today Hi/Lo/W 79/46/s 77/53/s 72/46/s 76/51/s 75/47/s 84/46/s 67/49/s 74/54/s

MARINE FORECAST

SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL

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At Lake Cachuma’s maximum level at the point at which water starts spilling over the dam holds 188,030 acre-feet. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, equivalent to the amount of water consumed annually by 10 people in an urban environment. Storage 88,116 acre-ft. Elevation 709.40 ft. Evaporation (past 24 hours) 22.9 acre-ft. Inflow 12.0 acre-ft. State inflow 22.7 acre-ft. Storage change from yest. -72 acre-ft. Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

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Event moved to Arlington Theatre due to COVID-19 restrictions

UCSB students show off recycled clothes at a fashion show during the event.

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COVID-19 restrictions that would have been imposed on the event with larger groups of people. The protocols for events of over 5,000 people would have required the event to be quite different from what it had in previous years, “so we decided to go with a smaller venue,” said Ms. King. Ms. King talked about some of the most popular events of Earth Day over the years. “The Green Car Show is very popular and people are always interested in the newest transportation technology,” she said, adding that E-bikes have become very popular and Story Bike was one of the sponsors of the event. Earth Day has its roots in Santa Barbara, as a 1969 oil spill became the catalytic event which gave rise to what would become a nationally recognized day. The CEC was also born out of the oil spill when a group of UCSB students founded it in 1970, Ms. King told the NewsPress. “Remembering that everyday is Earth Day, but despite the bad news we hear about climate change, there is a day set aside for us to come together and celebrate the progress we have made,” said Ms. King when asked about the importance of Earth Day. One of the new aspects of this year’s Earth Day activities were indoor activities including a second hand fashion show and environmentally focused film shorts. Several elected officials turned up at the event to speak with constituents. U.S. Representative Salud Carbajal, Assemblymember Steve Bennett, Goleta Mayor Paula Perotte, Mayor Pro Tem Stuart Kasdin, County of Santa Barbara Supervisors Joan Hartman and Gregg Hart and State Senator Monique Limon all made appearances. Rep. Carbajal also emceed the CEC’s Annual Environmental Hero Awards. “Earth Day is one of Santa

Barbara’s greatest local exports – and every year I look forward to commemorating another Earth Day with the families and individuals who come out to reaffirm our commitment to preserving our natural spaces, protecting our planet and defending against threats to our species and all living things. In Congress, I carry the spirit of Earth Day with me all year round - especially as we see the devastating impacts that the climate crisis and extreme weather events have had on our region and around the world,” Rep. Carbajal told the NewsPress in an email. “Since our last Earth Day, we’ve made history in Congress by passing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Lawinvesting billions of dollars to help California transition to clean energy, meet the challenges of wildfire and drought, and lower greenhouse gas emissions. I’m continuing to work with federal, state, and local partners to bring more clean energy investments to the Central Coast, end offshore oil drilling, preserve both our public lands and coastlines and bring some of the first offshore wind projects to our state. I am so glad to join Santa Barbarans again this year to celebrate the 52nd Earth Day, and am humbled that the Community Environmental Council and other environmental advocacy groups have asked me to help lead the celebration of some of our Central Coast environmental champions.” The Climate Summit closed out the day. The summit brings climate-focused groups together to mobilize rapid public action on climate change. This year’s summit focused on connecting the youth with opportunities to engage. Almost 30 local groups took the stage to share what they are doing and how the community can get involved. “Obviously, every day is earth day because we don’t live somewhere else for the rest of the year,” said Ms. King. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

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Attendees explore the displays at the Arlington Theatre during the Community Environmental Council’s Santa Barbara Earth Day Celebration on Saturday.

Bikes are parked at the front entrance of the Arlington Theatre during the event.

Students advocate for reduced plastic use in deliveries

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A group of UCSB students participate in an Earth Day rally on Saturday, which culminated in a march toward Isla Vista, at right.

RALLY

Continued from Page A1 signs which we held and took pictures with. We then paraded around campus to the beach to advocate for the passage of AB2026, which will phase out plastic used by Amazon and in other online deliveries. Amazon plastic usage has increased 30% since the pandemic, in the last two years. We had about 25-30 people attend the rally,” Sean McArthur, senior and

outgoing chapter chair of CALPIRG, told the News-Press. The rally involved student speakers including Mr. McArthur, event coordinator Trevor Bogonko and incoming Chapter Chair Izabel Martinez. “One of the most significant moments was the speakers, it was really moving, they had some really great points. We had people come and take pictures,” said Mr. McArthur, who also spearheads the Beyond Plastics Campaign.

CALPIRG aims to protect the environment, provide hunger relief and promote civic engagement. CALPIRG UCSB is “student run and funded. We ask students to donate to the organization. We give students a voice in politics and train students to become new leaders,” said Mr. McArthur. The UCSB chapter works with professional on-campus staff to educate the public, run grassroots campaigns and lobby elected officials in Sacramento and Washington D.C. to achieve results.

“Throughout the week we built a 6 1/2 -7 foot tall plastic man symbolizing that you truly are what you eat. Scientists estimate we eat about a credit card worth of plastic each week, and we don’t even know it because it’s micro plastic,” said Mr. McArthur. “The effects of plastic pollution in our oceans are ever present and the time to act is now. California has been one of the leading proponents in the fight against plastic pollution and UC Santa Barbara has been making waves

of progress in reducing the amount of single use plastic used. CALPIRG students have been leading these efforts,” according to a press release issued in advance of the event. “It is really important to make the transition away from plastic. There is so much plastic in the oceans and on the beaches. It’s only getting worse, it’s not getting better,” said Mr. McArthur. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

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U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal’s “Central Coast Community Project Victory Tour” continued last week with a stop in Guadalupe. The Santa Barbara Democrat was able to secure more than $9.5 million in funding for area projects in a spending package earlier this year. And $4.2 million is going to the Guadalupe area. “Over the past year, I fought to bring these taxpayer dollars back to our communities in the form of direct funding for projects that can raise the quality of life of life for our families, and it was great to see up close how these funds will help make big differences in the city of Guadalupe,” Rep. Carbajal said. Of the funds, $2.5 million is earmarked for construction of the Escalante Meadows Community Center, and $1.7 million is reserved for LeRoy Park renovations. “With this help, all we can say is ‘Onward and Upward,’” Guadalupe Mayor Ariston Julian said in a statement. The Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara is redeveloping Guadalupe Ranch Acres into what will be called Escalante Meadows, featuring 80 affordable housing units, a community services hub and a child development center.

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Construction is scheduled to begin later this year. The child development center is expected to serve up to 100 children between the ages of 2-5. LeRoy Park is the unofficial town square of Guadalupe, but the community center in the park has been shuttered since 2017 because of disrepair and mold. A restoration project is already underway, but the federal funds secured by Rep. Carbajal will be used for park enhancements such as an amphitheater, barbeque and picnic areas and an exercise area. “Over the decades, community events and celebrations ranging from quinceñeras, concerts and car shows to the annual Fiestas Patrias have occurred at the park. As the former supervisor representing Guadalupe, I’m thrilled that Congressman Carbajal secured federal funding to help complete these renovations,” Supervisor Joan Hartmann said. “I’m happy to join with my former colleague Rep. Salud Carbajal to celebrate the continued improvement of Guadalupe,” said Supervisor Steve Lavagnino. “This community is a priority for us, and we will work jointly to deliver for the people of Guadalupe.” email: kschallhorn@newspress.com

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The Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara (ETC) announced on Thursday that it has named Scott DeVine as its top business officer following a national search. Mr. DeVine brings nearly 20 years of theater management experience to the role of managing director to lead the business and operational function for the company. “The ETC board decided to hire Scott after a long and exhaustive national search where he was clearly one of the most experienced theater managers on the West Coast. Scott has skillfully managed complex artistic organizations and has been responsible for ensuring that the theaters he has served have maintained a sound financial base, especially in difficult economic times. Here at ETC we already have a solid base within the community, and we look forward, under Scott’s leadership, to years of strengthening that base and sustaining our position as the leading professional theater between Los Angeles and the Bay Area,” said Simon Williams, ETC’s Board president in a press release. In his role as managing director, Mr. DeVine will co-lead the organization with ETC’s longtime artistic director, Jonathan Fox. Together they will forge a path forward for the company as people begin to engage with live theater again. “The Ensemble Theatre Company is entering an important phase of its history with the opportunity to re-engage theater-goers

who have long loved the art produced, while simultaneously attracting a new generation of entertainment enthusiasts looking forward to live performances. I’m excited to embark on this next chapter with our esteemed artistic director, Jonathan, this board and our experienced staff. Together, I am confident that we will be able to achieve new heights for this established pillar of the Santa Barbara community,” said Mr. DeVine in a press release. Mr. DeVine was most recently with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, where he was in charge of finances and operations for more than a decade as the organization’s general manager and CFO. Before joining TheatreWorks, he worked for the San Francisco Girls Chorus as Director of Finance and Operations and spent two years as the General Manager of the Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto. Prior to moving to California, Mr. DeVine held positions of ascending seniority for The Performing Arts Center in Purchase, New York, culminating as the organization’s interim executive director. He has also held positions at the Brooklyn Arts Council and the Akron Symphony Orchestra. Mr. DeVine has an extensive background in theater, music and arts administration, and has played several musical instruments. He obtained a Master’s Degree from Akron University in arts management and holds a Bachelor’s degree in political science with minors in history and theater.

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they’re used in a crime and not be able to circumvent the existing laws that relate to firearms and the transfer of firearms between people,” Sheriff Brown. Sgt. Ragsdale said there has been an “exorbitant increase in firearms that have been taken off the streets while making arrests” since January 2021 — including ghost guns. “The people who are buying these ghost guns are people who cannot purchase a gun legally, and that’s what is scary,” Sgt. Ragsdale told the News-Press. “It neglects the reasons why we have these checks and balances and regulations in place.” Figures from both the city and county law enforcement agencies line up with data gathered from an assessment of district attorneys by Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce Dudley. She told the News-Press her team reported ghost guns had been used in 39 instances over the past 16 months — that they knew of. The White House said 20,000 suspected ghost guns were reported to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as having been recovered by law enforcement in criminal investigations last year — a 10-fold increase from 2016. Ghost guns have been used in several school shootings, including at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita in 2019. A gun manufactured by parts without a serial number was used in the 2013 mass shooting on and near Santa Monica College’s campus. But the Sacramento tragedy also underscored another issue: How ubiquitous is gang violence in Santa Barbara?

Like with ghost guns, some ambiguity exists — in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which stifled the number of cases filed in recent years. “We certainly do see gangrelated crime and gang-related problems across the county,” Sheriff Brown said, noting most are centered around the larger cities within the county. Last month, Santa Maria police said it received a report of a shooting and determined a pregnant woman had been struck by gunfire while traveling in a vehicle with her husband. Police arrested an 18-year-old man in connection to the shooting, which officials said was “an exchange of gunfire between rival gangs.” Both the woman and her unborn child, fortunately, were expected to survive; the family was not a part of the gang activity, police said. And more recently, a Santa Maria jury found five men connected to MS-13 guilty of gangrelated charges, including murder. MS-13 is a Salvadoran-American gang that originated in Los Angeles and was often referenced by former President Donald Trump. Violent crime in the city of Santa Barbara is down, Sgt. Ragsdale said. However, there have been some instances of late involving potential gang members. As of March 1, Ms. Dudley’s office had 106 open gang cases from 2020, 116 from 2021 and 95 for 2022. She said 2019 was the highest year for filing these cases. email: kschallhorn@newspress.com

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With the exception of the mandatory job walk, any requests for prebid job site visits/access should be directed to and coordinated with: Fernando Garcia at fgarcia@hopeschooldistrict.org Questions due from bidders are due by May 12, 2022, at 10:00 AM and should be directed to the Project Architect/Engineer, Joe Wilcox, Kruger Bensen Ziemer Architects, Inc. at joew@kbzarch. com. CLEARLY MARK BID RESPONSE ENVELOPE WITH TIME/DATE OF BID OPENING AND PROJECT NAME. Bids so received shall be opened and publicly read aloud at the Hope Elementary School District Office at 3970 La Colina Road Ste. 14, Santa Barbara, California 93110. All bids shall be made on the forms provided in the specifications and each bid must conform to the Contract Documents. Each bid shall be accompanied by the bid security specified in the Instructions to Bidders. The Project description is as follows: temporarily relocate (4) existing portable classrooms, install prefabricated metal ramps, landings and handrails at four portable classroom buildings. Provide temporary power and communication/data to relocated buildings and provide stand-alone fire alarm system at relocated buildings at the Monte Vista Elementary School site. Per Public Contract Code Section 20103.8, the Hope Elementary School District will use Method (A) in determining the lowest responsible bid. Contractor License required: C, Specialty Contractor Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1773 and 1773.2 of the Labor Code of the State of California, the DISTRICT has obtained from the Director of Industrial Relations, the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work in the locality in which the work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of workman needed to execute the contract which is available for review at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/statistics_research.html. During the Work, the Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) will monitor compliance with prevailing wage rate requirements and enforce the Contractor’s prevailing wage rate obligations, with a copy of the same being on file with the District Office. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractor under him, to pay not less than the said specified rates to all workmen employed by them in the execution of the contract, and to comply with all prevailing wage requirements set forth in the Labor Code. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1771.1 of the Labor Code of the State of California, a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid or engage in the performance of any contract for this project unless; (1) currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5; or (2) expressly authorized to submit a bid by Section 1771.1 and provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. The successful Bidder will be required to post all job-site notices required by DIR regulations and other applicable law. The successful bidder and its subcontractors will be required to follow the nondiscrimination requirements set forth in the General Conditions. 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.

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Jesus, a cross, an anchor, and a ship’s wheel. It was last seen at Pueblo Radiology on Bath St. on Tuesday, April 5th, at 4:00. I have been wearing this necklace for the last 40 years. There is a nice, noquestions-asked $500 reward for the safe return of this sentimental piece of jewelry. Please call 805969-1258 and ask for Noah or Gary.

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If you challenge the project(s) 21APL-00000-00076, 21APL-00000-00077, 19CDP-00000-00022, 21APL00000-00049, 21APL-00000-00050, 21APL-00000-00051, 19LUP-00000-00127 in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Planning Commission prior to the public hearing. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need a disability-related modification or accommodation or are exempt from applicable Health Officer Orders, including auxiliary aids or services such as sound enhancement equipment or an American Sign Language interpreter, to participate in this hearing, please contact Hearing Support Staff at 805-568-2000. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable the Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements. If you have any questions or if you are participating in the hearing telephonically or electronically and need a disability-related modification or accommodation or have any issues attempting to access the hearing telephonically or electronically, please contact Hearing Support Staff at 805-568-2000. 21APL-00000-00076 21APL-00000-00077 19CDP-00000-00022 17EIR-00000-00003

Cate School and Ekstrom Appeal of 4532 Foothill Mixed-Light Cannabis Cultivation Project Carpinteria Joe Dargel, Supervising Planner (805) 568-3573 Dara Elkurdi, Planner (805) 568-2082

Hearing on the request of Paul Ekstrom representing Concerned Carpinterians (Appellant 1), and Charlotte Brownlee on behalf of the Cate School (Appellant 2) to consider Case Nos. 21APL-0000000076 and 21APL-00000-00077, an appeal of the Director’s approval of a Coastal Development Permit (CDP) Case No. 19CDP-00000-00022 for the 4532 Foothill Mixed-light Cannabis Project. Both appeals were ﬁled on November 29, 2021, in compliance with Section 35-182 of Article II, the Coastal Zoning Ordinance. Approval of the CDP allows for the cultivation of 239,915 square feet (approximately 5.50-acres) of mixed-light cannabis cultivation and nursery within existing greenhouses on a 12.31acre parcel, zoned Zone Name (AG-I-10), shown as Assessor’s Parcel Number 004-004-033, located at 4532 Foothill Road in the unincorporated Carpinteria Area, First Supervisorial District. 21APL-00000-00049 21APL-00000-00050 21APL-00000-00051 19LUP-00000-00127 17EIR-00000-00003

Cavaletto, CWI SB Hotel, LP and City of Goleta Appeal of 222 Winchester Canyon Road Cannabis Cultivation Project Goleta Joe Dargel, Supervising Planner (805) 568-3573 Chris Schmuckal, Planner (805) 568-3510

Hearing to consider the following three appeals of the Director’s September 16, 2021, decision to approve Land Use Permit (LUP) Case No. 19LUP-00000-00127, Winchester Canyon Road Cannabis Cultivation Project, which permitted 17.23 acres of nursery and outdoor cannabis cultivation. The appeals were ﬁled in compliance with Chapter 35.102 (Appeals) of the County Land Use and Development Code and are listed below: • Case No. 21APL-00000-00049: an appeal submitted on September 24, 2021 by Danny Cavaletto, agent for the neighboring property owner • Case No. 21APL-00000-00050: an appeal submitted on September 24, 2021 by Mitch Menzer, attorney for CWI Santa Barbara Hotel, LP • Case No. 21APL-00000-00051: an appeal submitted on September 27, 2021 by Peter Imhof, Director of Planning and Environmental Review for the City of Goleta The LUP application involves Assessor Parcel No. 079-100-004, located at 222 Winchester Canyon Road, in the Goleta Community Plan area, 3rd Supervisorial District. SANTA BARBARA COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION RECORDING SECRETARY (568-2000) APR 24 / 2022 -- 58172

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Despite the president talking about his willingness to help fight global warming, advocates for various climate-conscious organizations and Republicans say President Biden needs to do more. Kendra Ulrich, the shipping campaigns director for Stand. Earth, said that her team’s mission is “to get the shipping industry to decarbonize.” According to Ms. Ulrich, Seattle has more than double the excess mortality rate from exposure to ship exhausts compared to the global average. “Yesterday, [President Biden] announced $500,000 in zeroemission shipping, that is a pittance when we talk about this massive global pollution problem,” Ms. Ulrich said. “We’re calling on Biden to invest in a green corridor from Busan, South Korea to Seattle-Tacoma … as well as port infrastructure for renewable energy power to reduce localized air pollution.” Washington Representative Mary Dye, a ranking Republican on the state House Environment and Energy Committee, released a statement that was critical of Mr. Biden’s appearance in Seattle for Earth Day. Rep. Dye stressed how federal and state policies to prohibit logging “will lead to dangerous forests, more unharvested fuels, more wildfires which emit tons of carbon into our atmosphere, and will further hurt our timber communities, reduce jobs and make lumber for housing even more expensive and unaffordable.” Amidst the backdrop of flowering trees and even a bald eagle, President Biden signed his latest executive order with the confidence it will back-up his ambitious climate goals as president.

Author touts small solutions to big environmental problems on Earth Day By BRETT DAVIS THE CENTER SQUARE

(The Center Square) – In a world constantly clamoring for big solutions to big problems – including challenges related to the environment – Todd Myers advocates thinking small in addressing things like climate change, endangered species, and pollution. In fact, it’s in the title of his forthcoming book, “Time to Think Small: How Nimble Environmental Technologies Can Solve the Planet’s Biggest Problems” that champions lowkey, pragmatic environmental solutions over larger political fixes. It’s a follow up of sorts to Mr. Myers’ first book, “EcoFads: How the Rise of Trendy Environmentalism is Harming the Environment,” published in 2011. “I started thinking about how to solve the problems I identified in my first book and I started noticing that small technologies were allowing people to do some amazing things,” said Mr. Myers, environmental policy head at the Washington Policy Center, a free market think tank. “It was exciting and the more I thought about it, the more I noticed these kinds of small, but effective, environmental approaches.” He continued, “Importantly, what we are seeing isn’t just the creation of cool gadgets. We have the opportunity for a fundamental shift in how we address environmental problems because small environmental approaches can solve problems that government simply isn’t good at addressing.” Mr. Myers, who has been working on his most recent book over the last five years, presented several examples from around the world of the small-based approach to environmentalism. “There are smart thermostats that help you save energy using artificial intelligence,” he said. “There are gadgets that connect to your water and tell you how you are using water and how to reduce waste. There is an internetconnected water pump in Africa that not only reduces water waste by charging users, but provides revenue to people so they fix the pumps when they are broken. It used to take months to fix a government-provided pump, now it takes a day.” Mr. Myers explained why bigger isn’t always better. “The beauty of small environmental technologies is that they can be used in the U.S. or Ghana, or Vietnam,” he said. “Some of the best uses of small technology are appearing in developing countries where

government solutions aren’t an option, so people get creative. It is really inspiring.” He pointed to the technology of carbon capture and storage as something that can be positively impacted by a more modest approach. Carbon capture is the process of capturing carbon dioxide – a greenhouse gas that traps some of the heat that Earth might have otherwise radiated out into space – before it enters the atmosphere, transporting it, and storing it long term. “There are some interesting technologies that have the opportunity to make a big difference in the future,” he said “Carbon capture is one of them. I tell a story in my book of a guy who wanted to use the carbon that was captured for a product. He used a crowdfunding site to sell products made from that carbon as a way to make carbon capture more economically attractive. So, even as people think of big technologies like carbon capture, little technologies are often there helping make them viable.” These technologies can have meaningful repercussions, according to Mr. Myers, beyond cutting costs for business and governments. “The most simple are technologies that help people reduce their electricity use, saving money and reducing environmental impact,” he said. “This isn’t just about saving money; it can help prevent blackouts.” He referenced Texas suffering a major power crisis in February 2021 as the result of three severe winter storms that swept across the country. “The Texas energy crisis occurred because demand hit an all-time winter high,” he said, “If demand had been reduced by just 10%, the blackout could have been avoided and lives saved. There is technology that can help people reduce demand when prices are high, but too few people have it now. In the future, simple technologies like this can help prevent that kind of disaster.” Mr. Myers penchant for small solutions doesn’t mean there is no role for government in dealing with environmental challenges. According to Mr. Myers, however, where government is concerned, “the Hippocratic Oath is in order – first do no harm.” “But there are many opportunities to improve our policies to make prices more transparent and create incentives to conserve when prices are high,” he added. “Time to Think Small” will be released on November 1.

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The steadfast Charlie Uhrig How his perseverance translated to commitment to community By KAITLYN SCHALLHORN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Charlie Uhrig knows a thing or two about perseverance. Since he was a kid, Mr. Uhrig knew he wanted to be a cop. There were police officers in his life, through church and the community, who he looked up to. He admired how they carried themselves, their unbridled commitment to honesty and community. Mr. Uhrig had a heart for law enforcement — albeit, not physically. A heart murmur issue prevented Mr. Uhrig from joining the Santa Barbara Police Department right out of high school, a path taken by a number of his classmates. The Santa Barbara native had to go a different route. He spent about two decades working for Capitol Hardware in Santa Barbara as well as at Valley Oak Industries in Santa Ynez. But Mr. Uhrig didn’t give up on a law enforcement career. He tried a few times with the Santa Barbara Police Department as well as the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office. And his perseverance paid off. At 46 years old, Mr. Uhrig received an offer from the Sheriff’s Office after passing physical and psychological evaluations. He passed a preacademy program before winning the Leo Ortega Most Inspirational Award (a designation voted on by attendees and academy staff) at the academy. He graduated from the academy,

where he trained alongside a bevy of eager future officers who were half his age, in 2001. On March 31, after about 20 years of service, Mr. Uhrig retired from the Sheriff’s Office after a career mirroring the qualities he admired in those he knew as a child, a career in public safety underscored with a dedication to his community. “Charlie is without question what I would call the personification of what community policing is all about,” Sheriff Bill Brown said last week when the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors presented Mr. Uhrig with a resolution of commendation. “Charlie is really someone who truly cares. He is really someone who has a heart for service to others.” “I really appreciate your public service and your commitment to the community,” Supervisor Gregg Hart said. After joining the Sheriff’s Office, Mr. Uhrig worked patrol in Goleta. It wasn’t long before he was transferred to the court division. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Uhrig transferred again — this time to a position tailor-made for the gregarious Mr. Uhrig and where he would stay for most of his law enforcement career. As the Solvang community resource deputy, Mr. Uhrig did a little bit of everything. He worked with youth, participated in sports and other community activities and ingrained himself in the community. Please see UHRIG on B4

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Charlie Uhrig, who spent the final months of his career with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office at the county courthouse in Santa Barbara, has retired. Officials praised him for his dedication to the community.

Marian donates bike helmets to Santa Maria schoolchildren By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

arian Regional Medical Center recently donated 60 helmets to secondand third-graders who completed a four-week bike safety and training course at Alvin and Rice elementary schools in Santa Maria. The hands-on bicycle education course was taught by volunteers from SBBIKE+COAST in partnership with the local schools. After students completed the four-week bike safety and training course, SBBIKE+COAST hosted a bike sale event for students to put their education to good use.

The pre-owned bikes sold at the event are carefully inspected and renovated for safety and longevity. All bikes are sold for $20 and include a complimentary helmet to ensure students get on the road safely. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, when helmets are used, overall head injuries are reduced by about 60% and fatalities by about 73%. “We are so grateful for Marian Regional Medical Center’s partnership and support. We teach kids how to ride bikes safely, and it is so critical they have a reliable helmet to depend on once they begin riding their bike to school and around town,” said Heather Deutsch, executive director of

SBBIKE+COAST, in a news release. SBBIKE+COAST’s mission is to promote walking, bicycling, and public transit county-wide to create healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities. They encourage children to walk or ride bicycles to school and understand the importance of teaching them how to reach their destination safely. The countywide Safe Routes to School program reaches more than 10,000 students annually. For more information about the program, or to volunteer or donate, visit SBBIKE+COAST’s website, www.sbbike.org/get_ involved. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

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A student at Liberty School in Santa Maria wears a bicycle helmet.

Marian Regional Medical Center brings bicycle helmets to Rice Elementary School in Santa Maria.

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Horoscope.com Sunday, April 24, 2022 ARIES — Monday brings the possibility of career changes, though they may be unwelcome, when the sun in Aries forms a square with Pluto in Capricorn. As your career takes a new direction, you might feel someone powerful is controlling your destiny. TAURUS — If you’re looking for independence, you’re gonna need a boost from your friends when Venus in Pisces forms a sextile with Uranus in your sign on Monday. Get your crew together to give you a helping hand as you start walking on your own two feet again. GEMINI — Yikes, Gemini! One of your friends might be mooching off you when the sun in Aries forms a square with Pluto in Capricorn on Monday. Don’t keep giving someone loans that they’re never going to pay back. CANCER — Start the week by expanding your social group when Venus in Pisces forms a sextile with Uranus in Taurus on Monday. This aspect makes it an ideal time to make friends while traveling or at school. These new friends could change things for the better. LEO — Monday brings trouble at work when the sun in Aries forms a square with Pluto in Capricorn. One of your co-workers is being extra controlling and domineering, limiting your potential and the possibility for growth in your field. VIRGO — Use the partnerships you cultivated to expand your mind when Venus in Pisces forms a sextile with Uranus in Taurus on Monday. There’s a possibility of using your personal connections for travel or study opportunities. LIBRA — Start your week making important connections when Venus in Pisces forms a sextile with Uranus in Taurus on Monday. Performing acts of service can create a bonding experience with someone special. SCORPIO — You have a lot of things on your to-do list, but as the sun in Aries forms a square with Pluto in Capricorn on Monday, you may not even have the energy to get out of bed. If you’re feeling under the weather, Scorpio, listen to your body and slow down for your own good. SAGITTARIUS — New ideas could clash with tradition when the sun in Aries forms a square with Pluto in Capricorn on Monday. You want to invest in your future, but you might feel restricted by the traditional values that keep you from exploring. CAPRICORN — Power struggles with family could cause some serious drama when the sun in Aries forms a square with Pluto in your sign on Monday, especially if you’re dealing with strong egos. Stay calm but firm even if your family relations are on shaky ground. AQUARIUS — Spring is officially here, Aquarius, and after that cleaning, you’re ready to do some decorating when Venus in Pisces forms a sextile with Uranus in Taurus on Monday. Elevate your space by buying something nice to show off your style. PISCES — Start the week by connecting with your loved ones when Venus in your sign forms a sextile with Uranus in Taurus on Monday. Use this aspect to reach out to the people in your life and show them how much they mean to you.

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ast month I said “no” to an offer from a publisher, and I didn’t know if I’d ever get another one. That didn’t sit well, but I had other things to do, so I let it be and did my positive self-talk: “You’ll be fine, no matter what. The newspapers love you, you’ve got seven books already, and your blog is on fire.” That was all true, and I let these thoughts comfort me, but not for too long. About 10 days later, a different book project offer came in from the same publisher, and it was a much better deal. Yes, that makes me happy, and it was all because I valued myself enough to turn down the first offer. When you know what you are worth, other people will respect that. Saying “no” was a risk, and I felt it in my gut. The book business, like everything else, has changed over time. It’s good to take

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Continued from Page B1 Mr. Uhrig, 67, is particularly proud of his work to implement community activities that could be enjoyed by all ages, including music and movies in the park — “little legacy” activities that are still ongoing to this day. Mr. Uhrig was the “quintessential model of community policing,” Board of Supervisors Chair Joan Hartmann said. Mr. Uhrig, a proud father and grandfather, also enjoyed being able to work with youth, through summer music schools, by coaching various sports or just being available to answer questions. “I’ve seen a lot of kids come and go and then come back. It’s gratifying when you see some of

them become good people,” Mr. Uhrig told the News-Press. “That’s really all you hope for, to be a good person.” “This was my dream job. I persevered, and I just hope I tried to do new things with my community that would benefit everyone, from kids up to seniors,” he said. As officials honored Mr. Uhrig last week, there was a common message: his commitment to the community. It’s no wonder he was handily elected Solvang’s mayor in 2020, given his dedication to the Santa Ynez Valley city. Mr. Uhrig served as the community resource deputy for Solvang, where he lives with his wife, until the position was terminated in 2020. After recovering from an injury and surgery, Mr. Uhrig moved back to the court division where he

had been working as a bailiff in arraignment courts at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse on Anacapa Street. And even though he’s retired from law enforcement, Mr. Uhrig is continuing to volunteer wherever he can. He has a particular love for his work in the Santa Barbara courthouse, recalling the almost tangible, earthy smell of history from the hefty books lining the courtroom. “It was a beautiful little courtroom, and it’s exciting to be a part of that history,” Mr. Uhrig said. Mr. Uhrig isn’t written into the books lining the courtroom — at least not yet — but his indefatigable dedication as a Solvang resource deputy won’t soon be forgotten. email: kschallhorn@newspress.com

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Ventura Bark and Meow set for June 25 VENTURA — The Ventura Bark and Meow will take place noon to 5 p.m. June 25 at Mission Park on East Main Street. The Ventura event is free. Activities include a community dog walk, rescue pet adoption, Instagram-worthy photo opportunities, scavenger hunt, free microchipping, spay and neuter vouchers, low cost vaccines, according to a news release. There will also be a furball challenge with the filling and weighing of the Fur-O-Sphere (www.furballchallenge.org). The event will also feature food trucks, horseback riding,

horse pettingand feeding, rescue love challenge, group howling and sing-a-longs, rescue dog agility skills exhibition, barrel-train ride, Frisbee dog skills exhibition, fun stations, “Bark Twice for a Slice,” doggie pawdicures, “Pamper Your Pooch,” “Doggie Yoga,” “Hot Dog Doggies,: temporary doggie tattoos, face painting, kids art and painting stations and free family photos with your dog. There’ll even be a dog agility course. Shows include a doggie fashion show, live musical entertainments, live painting performance and a classic car

show, featuring the Eagle Rock Trompers. Contests include human barking, watermelon eating a fast cat and doggie sprint. The event benefits Homes Fur All, a nonprofit dedicated to saving the lives of rescue pets (homesfurall.org). All CDC guidelines will be followed. (Masks and hand sanitizing stations will be available.) For more information, go to www.eventbrite. com/e/ventura-bark-meowtickets-66485093705. — Katherine Zehnder

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

In order to effectively treat your neuropathy, three factors must be determined. 1. What is the underlying cause? 2. How much nerve damage has been sustained?* 3. How much treatment will your condition require? Don’t Hesitate to Act Now! We can objectively measure the severity of deficit in both small and large nerve fibers prior to start of care.

The main problem is that your doctor has told you to just live with the problem or try the drugs which you don’t like taking because they make you feel uncomfortable. There is now a facility right here in Santa Barbara that offers you new hope without taking those endless drugs with serious side effects. (see the special neuropathy severity consultation at the end of this article).

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

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

Figure 2: The blood vessels will grow back around the nerves much like a plant’s roots grow when watered.

Charles Sciutto Lac along with Dr. Teri Bilhartz, DO at Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic, will do a neuropathy severity consultation to review peripheral neuropathy history, symptoms and discuss plan of treatment. This consultation will be free of charge and will help determine if our therapy protocol may be a good fit for your needs. Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic will be offering this neuropathy severity consultation free of charge from now until April 30, 2022.

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GUEST OPINION ANDY CALDWELL: California is a criminal’s paradise/ C2

SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2022

Government spending is out of control PURELY POLITICAL

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id you know in Santa Barbara that the most expensive component in the cost of housing is

from false leaks supposedly from the Mueller investigation as told by the more than 100 appearances by attorney Michael Avenatti, who is now in prison for fraud, or disgraced New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo before he was kicked out of office or Hunter Biden’s laptop. Recent polls indicate that 40% of Biden voters would not have voted for the president if they knew about his son’s laptop. AT&T’s CEO John Stankey decided to put a “lid” on the losses of CNN after CNN+, the CNN streaming service, fell short of its self-projected 2 million subscribers by getting only 10,000. Mr. Stankey directed CEO Jason Kilar of Warner Media LLC, the parent company of CNN, to “put a lid” on CNN CEO Jeffrey Zucker’s career at CNN before AT&T “put a lid” on its losses by “merging” Warner Media LLC with Discovery.

the land? The only way there can be really affordable housing in Santa Barbara is to take an inventory of all governmentowned land in Santa Barbara County, whether it is owned by the federal, state, county or city government. Then select which of those parcels could be suitable for highdensity development to provide affordable housing. Then petition the appropriate landowning authority to grant a claim to use the property for municipal housing development to meet the housing mandates ordered by the state. Did you know there are 10 new hotels coming to Santa Barbara, some of which are already approved? The total number of rooms in these 10 hotels would be 500. Wouldn’t it be wise to do a moratorium on hotels so that we didn’t create more low-income jobs for people who can’t afford the housing available right now? With the need for low-income workers and the demand on the water supply for the tourists who stay in these hotels wouldn’t it benefit us to do so? These 500 rooms could be 500 studio/one-bedroom for residents instead of more tourists. If we really do have a housing crisis, why hasn’t the Santa Barbara City Council brought up an idea of a moratorium? Also, the size/bulk and scale could be smaller without the need for a lobby, bar, café, lounge, public restrooms, etc. Wouldn’t this also bring down the cost to build? By the way, we have seen no objective data to prove the dimensions of a housing crisis beyond the fact that a huge influx of students every year takes over rental occupancies and the current restrictive rental laws make them more attractive as tenants than working-class people. Let us start with a cap on their enrollments. Santa Barbara City College has become a member of the educational industrial complex. They seem more concerned with enlarging the number of students from outside of the state to increase their revenues, to guarantee their pay and benefits rather than educating our homegrown students, who are badly in need of re-education to rectify the failings of high schools in the Santa Barbara Unified School District. This focus on students from out of state, adds to the housing shortage. SBCC must focus on Santa Barbara students, or we should stop paying taxes to fund their bonds. During Tuesday’s city council meeting, “housing” was the big topic, and we the taxpayers were saved from another study at $200,000. But the council instead created an Ad Hoc committee to come up with an ordinance on rent control/stability and a rental registry. This was a victory of common sense over prejudice against landlords for the time being. The members are the ones who want the additional restrictions on landlords. Nobody is on the committee to represent the other side, and nobody has actual knowledge and data to contribute to recommendations and decisions.

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t should be clear now that the so-called “national debt” — $31.4 trillion at yesterday’s count, but who’s counting? Certainly not anyone in government — will never be paid back or reduced in any real way. Overspending has been a way of life in the nation’s capital for decades. Some influential congressional leaders defend the wild spending spree, professing to believe that the spending can actually reduce the deficit. During a talk at a House Democratic Issues Conference in March, for example, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opined that “Seventeen Nobel laureates in economics said that the (Build Back Better) legislation does not increase inflation. It is noninflationary because of the way it is written… The government spending is doing the exact reverse, reducing the national debt. It is not inflationary.” Fortunately, Speaker Pelosi and her party didn’t have quite enough influence or votes to pass yet another mammoth spending bill. Otherwise, the inflation rate would probably swell to 15% or more. It is not debatable that rampant government spending, the free printing of dollars and spending as much of it as fast as it can, causes rampant inflation. Government also “borrows” money (by buying its own debt) at an accelerating clip, fixing interest rates well below that of the inflation it is causing. This year alone, the dollar will buy nearly 10% less in goods and services than it could have purchased last year. The cost of everything has risen by 10% for U.S. residents, hitting retirees particularly hard. The dollar amount of what the U.S. owes its citizens and the rest of the world remains the same, but its value has shrunk by 10%. The way our Congress thinks of money — and I’ll include a big contingent of Republicans in this — is why the Biden administration could simply pick up and leave nearly $100 billion in military hardware on the ground, in tents, on tarmacs and probably in private homes, and abandon Afghanistan without a thought as to the value of those items left behind and their probable worth to a group that will likely become an enemy at some time in the future. Money means very little to the Washington, D.C. crowd (it is there to spend whichever way they decree), which is why the Biden administration could also simply sign an executive order to halt construction of the southern COURTESY IMAGE

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irst the tide rushes in, plants a kiss on the shores, then rolls out to sea, and the sea is very still once more” — sung in the deep voices of the Righteous Brothers — resonated in my head during my daily walk April 7 on Hendry’s Beach in Santa Barbara. The song stimulated thoughts that politics had the same type of movements. For example, the “rushing in” of COVID planting a sour “kiss” on our “shores” created the opportunity for a few to take advantage of the thoughts best described as “Don Quixote attacks the ‘circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.’ ” (Apologies to Miguel de Cervantes and the original 1968 film “The Thomas Crown Affair.”) This set the stage for the 2020 election of a candidate who previously lost two presidential races: Joe Biden. The Trump vaccines causing

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COVID to “roll out to sea,” makes with more to come based on one wonder where we would be the producer price rising 11.1%. if Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s Why? Because a “lid” was put on description of President Biden’s exploration for oil and gas, and stopping work as “putting for U.S. pipelines, but not a lid on the day” was for Russian pipelines. extended to include all of Compounding the Mr. Biden’s work in 2021. problem in Europe was Dealing with the daily former Chancellor Angela issues he created would Merkel making Germany be like playing the game dependent on importing “Whack-a-Mole.” liquefied natural gas from So let’s just focus on his the U.S. three major decisions. Since the Biden team Brent E. Energy under former cut them off, Europe has Zepke President Donald Trump paid Russia $38 billion for was the “tide that raised energy. The author all boats,” including the Southern border lives in Santa Democratic Party, by policies — which would Barbara. improving the lives of have enabled the wall every U.S. citizen faster to be completed to than we could run to stay ahead prevent the intrusion of millions of the incoming tide at Cornwall, of unvetted, unvaccinated, border England. crossers roaming the country and Sadly, under President Biden some of the 41,587 fentanyl deaths this tide ran out, even resulting of 18–45-year-olds in 2021 — were in inflation increasing 8.5% terminated.

The withdrawal from Afghanistan, pursuant to President Trump’s plan, would have been orderly and may have prevented the Russian aggression in Ukraine. The reality is the tide of voters for Mr. Biden is ebbing below 30% among independents. However, we are faced with 8.5% inflation for U.S. consumers, communities receiving two million-plus immigrants and the horrors of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Is there any hope? Any hope may lie in the outcomes of two current events. One is the Biden economy causing AT&T’s profits to “flow out to sea” and its stock to drop 40% from $38.38 to $23.38, causing on Feb. 4 the cutting of its dividend in half. AT&T owns Warner Media LLC, which owns CNN. CNN flourished by putting a “lid” on stories about the FBI sitting on Hunter Biden’s laptop while publicizing stories

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witnessed a crime at to misdemeanors and a lot of the corner of Anapamu misdemeanors to infractions and Anacapa streets in via Propositions 47 (“The Santa Barbara, and you Release the Shoplifters were the victim. Act.”) and 57 (“The Violence, The crime was both What Violence Act?”). observed, and dare I say, Whereas retail theft is now countenanced during a a daily occurrence for most meeting of the Santa Barbara businesses as a result of County Board of Supervisors. Proposition 47, a slew of In case you haven’t noticed, crimes deemed “nonviolent” the number of shootings, felonies both before and after stabbings and murders, not the fact by Prop. 57, enabled a to mention rampant thefts, slew of truly violent criminals have become routine fare to be eligible for early release throughout the county, with a from our state prisons. special preponderance How many of you in the crime-ridden would agree the communities of following crimes Lompoc and Santa (penal code titles Maria. courtesy Marc Klass) County District should be considered Attorney Joyce Dudley, “nonviolent”? Lewd who has announced or Lascivious Act Andy Caldwell her retirement on Child Age 14 subsequent to our or 15 Where the county supervisors Perpetrator is toying with the “defund the at Least 10 Years Older; police movement,” informed Contacting a Minor With the board members that Santa Intent to Commit to a Barbara County has 3,000 Specified Offense Such outstanding warrants! Read as Kidnaping, Sexual that again. Assault Physical Abuse, or Except for violent felons Distribution of Obscene and a few other “nonviolent” Matter; Arranging a felons, too many criminals, Meeting With a Minor For upon arrest, receive either a Lewd Purposes, Where measly citation, are diverted the Defendant Has a Prior from the justice system, or are Conviction for an Offense booked and released on zero Requiring Registration as a bail. Subsequently, they are Sex Offender Or, Arranging not showing up for their court a Meeting With a Minor for hearings. They have lost all Lewd Purposes and Actually respect — read that fear — of Going to the Meeting Place at our legal system. the Arranged Time; Rape of The Probation Department a Person Incapable of Giving reported that the number of Legal Consent; Rape By an juveniles on probation is 185, Intoxicating, Anesthetic or down from 403 in 2019-20. Controlled Substance; Rape Accordingly, the department of an Unconscious Person; will close the Las Prietos Boys Assault by Means of Force camp, an institution that has Likely to Produce Great proven successful in helping Bodily Injury; Assault with hard-core gang members turn a Deadly Weapon; Taking their life around. Why this a Hostage; Any Felony decrease when crime rates in Which a Defendant are rising? Personally Uses a Dangerous Too many of these juvenile or Deadly Weapon, or delinquents are being Personally Uses a Firearm, diverted into failed counseling or Personally Inflicts Great regimens, as are many adult Bodily Injury; Hit and criminals. The Probation Run Resulting in Death or Department is expecting Permanent, Serious Injury; 2,000 adult probationers this Domestic Violence Resulting year, down from 3,598 in 2019- in a Traumatic Condition; 20. Moreover, California has Supplying, Selling, or Giving limited the amount of time a Firearm to a Person to a convicted criminal can be Commit a Gang Crime, and on probation, from five years the Person Commits the Gang to two years for so-called Crime and Is Convicted of It; nonviolent felonies. Human Trafficking. Meanwhile, the state As our county supervisors of California is emptying would say, “Nothing to see prisons and closing our state here, folks. Move along.” juvenile detention facilities that held hard-core criminals Andy Caldwell is the COLAB and is returning these people executive director and host of to local jails and juvenile “The Andy Caldwell Show,” halls. airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays on Do recall that voters were KZSB AM 1290, the News-Press duped to lower many felonies radio station.

s the recently retired superintendent of the Goleta Union School District, I support Dr. Susan Salcido for Santa Barbara County superintendent of schools. I worked together with Dr. Salcido from 2017-2021 during some of the most challenging years for public education and our community. We served together as board members for several entities, and I knew Dr. Salcido as a parent because her children attended our schools. During the Thomas Fire and ensuing debris flow, Dr. Salcido was instrumental in providing support and resources for all districts impacted by these disasters, some of which included communication pieces, vital meetings and transportation for essential workers, all which were needed to keep students in school. Dr. Salcido made herself available to leaders through this stressful time during nights and weekends, and instilled a deep level of trust in her leadership capabilities and desire to collaborate. When the pandemic hit, she was well-suited to handle this situation, now supporting all 20 school districts in our county and beyond. Dr. Salcido is an instructional leader who meets regularly with the leaders of our schools and community and is frequently seen on school campuses and classrooms. She is highly competent, supportive, inspirational, forward thinking, collaborative, a clear communicator and listener, smart, a natural leader and most of all, an advocate for ALL children. In my 30 years as an educator, I attest that Dr. Salcido is the best county superintendent I have ever known. Vote yes for Dr. Salcido for county superintendent of schools!

to reinstate virtual meetings for advisory boards. One of the great problems in this country is that ever more people are not participating in government, mainly because they are fed up with the fact that government keeps taking more and giving less. Virtual meetings make it easier for the public to participate and learn how government works. Public participation in governments all over the world are being stifled and the natives are restless and angry. If you don’t believe me, take a look at France, one of the oldest and greatest democracies in the world. They are turning to the right, and the next election there will show how far to the right they have gone. Some of you wanted to cut back on council meetings’ public comment time and that effort failed. You, the Santa Barbara City Council, have a moral and legal obligation to promote public participation in our local government. Shutting down virtual meetings makes you look like you want the opposite; to stifle public input into your proceedings and also to cut off the flow of ideas and information on what you are and are not doing. Take a look at what is going on in Russia. There is no public input or outflow, and the government and media lie about everything that the government does. It has happened before in countries like Germany, and it can happen here. The Republicans will take over Congress in the next election, not because they offer more, but because the Democratic left has squandered away its leadership and thrown the American working class under the bus. Work to have people engage in government and don’t work to shut them out! If you do, you will regret it. You need virtual meetings! Ernest Salomon Santa Barbara

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n response to Robert Baruch’s letter denouncing Trump (‘World Got Worse During Trump,” April 10, News-Press/Voices): During President Trump’s administration, we were energy

independent. When we could utilize our own oil and because that supplies most of the power for electricity as well, our meter charges also were lower. President Trump was working to finish the wall and put more restrictions on immigration through our southern border. That worked to stabilize the rush on our border. Because he was unpredictable, while he was sitting in Florida with President Xi Jinping of China, he announced a successful bombing on enemies in Syria. That is a show of strength, which acts as a deterrent against aggressors. In contrast, after witnessing President Joe Biden’s disastrous and humiliating retreat from Afghanistan, Russian President Vladimir Putin took advantage of this administration’s weakness. Remember that Mr. Biden opposed in 2011 the takedown of Osama bin Laden for being the mastermind behind the 9/11 attack. Now President Biden has left billions of dollars of material and equipment. Now the Taliban and Iran are the best armed terrorist countries. The Biden administration was the “perfect storm” for Mr. Putin to invade Ukraine, a nation he had long lusted after for its rich resources, fertile soil and access to the Red Sea and Sea of Agov. In 1994, at the request of the United States, Great Britain and Russia, Ukraine, who had won its independence from Russia, was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons in return for security assurance from Great Britain, Russia and the U.S. Ukraine was betrayed. President Trump had provided military weapons to Ukraine before the war had started, and at long last, was successful in getting more of the NATO countries to pay their fair share, when the U.S. had been paying most of the bills. China has become stronger because so many of our corporations, bedazzled by the potential market of China, have bowed to China’s demands upon them. They choose to ignore China’s forced imprisonment as laborers and genocide against Uighurs, Christians, Falun Gong practitioners and their blatant harvesting of human organs. Facts: Gasoline nears $7 a gallon in California. Electricity rates are at an all time high. Our country is overrun with illegal immigrants; almost one fifth of the population has come here illegally. Crime is running rampant across our nation, and criminals are set free, while anyone who came to D.C. on Jan. 6 is confined in prison. Our constitutional rights to free speech and freedom to carry arms are under assault. Parents are investigated for caring about what their children are being taught in school. Thankfully, the truth is starting to come out, but those on the side of anarchy have to resort to name calling, for the facts are not on their side.

hy do our elected officials ignore their repeated failures? Laura Capps is running for another public office despite her failures at the Santa Barbara Unified School District board. At no time has the school board ever touted success or progress in academics. Brian Per STAR Campbell testing 65% of The author Latino students lives in Santa and 78% of black Barbara students fail to meet the reading standard. How do they graduate from high school? After high school what do they do with an “education”? Do you think Santa Barbara children are given the tools they need to go on to be teachers, doctors, lawyers or astronauts? “California has the lowest literacy rate of any state.” “Decades of underinvestment in schools, culture battles over bilingual education, and stark income inequality have made California the least literate state in the nation.” “Nearly 1 in 4 people over the age of 15 lack the skills to decipher the words in this sentence.”

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See edsource.org/updates/ california-has-the-lowest-literacyrate-of-any-state-data-suggests. One of the world’s largest economies cannot, will not educate its children. California spends 13% less per student in education than the national average despite having a surplus larger than most states’ entire budget. Our children have been suffering, long before COVID-19. In a News-Press article (“Board of Supervisors candidate discusses poverty, economy,” Feb. 18), Laura Capps stated, “As I’ve tried to do on the school board, I want to follow the science and communicate decisions as clearly as possible.” (See newspress.com/election2022-board-of-supervisors-

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candidate-discusses-povertyeconomy.) In two years, Ms. Capps and the district have refused to produce any Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or FDA data supporting their COVID-19 policies despite the public continually asking for transparency. They have only produced CNN articles and opinion pieces. So what “science and data” is she referring to? Per the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, no Santa Barbara children have died from COVID. At the last school board meeting, an ER doctor stated he has not admitted any children for COVID. The CDC states children have 0 percent risk from COVID. The News-Press article further states, “Ms. Capps said the goal is to keep people safe.” Ms. Capps failed to mention that the district’s COVID policies have caused a 51% increase in teen suicides. Assistant Superintendent Frann Wageneck stated the district had “experienced 56 ‘suicide incidences’ ” in just one semester of this school year versus 70 in the entire school year before COVID. Ms. Capps said she supports mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinics. “I’m an advocate of vaccinations at schools.” She knows that the highest risk of myocarditis is among school-

ou hear it over and over again: You’re disenfranchised, oppressed, mistreated. You deserve better. It’s your time. You can help yourself to whatever you want. It’s justified. Everything should be handed to you because you’ve been robbed of your ability to take care of yourself. You’re a victim. You’re a second-class citizen. You’re not responsible for your problems, and every negative thing in your life is someone else’s fault. By this point, you might start thinking, “I need to do something about this injustice.” Could that psychologically start wearing some people down, make them angry and lash out? Of course, it could and will and has. The wheels of chaos and mayhem have already started churning. Over the course of history, it has happened many times. For example, it happened for some 70,000 white men, women and children from England and Ireland who had been shipped to the colonies and became slaves during the 170 years when the British ruled our land. They had been chained below the decks of small ships for up to 12 weeks and suffered unimaginable conditions and diseases. As many as 50% died just making the journey. In those early days during the colonial period, white slaves outnumbered black slaves 4 to 1. They were the main labor force on Virginia and Maryland plantations. It wasn’t until the Emancipation Proclamation that white slavery faded away. In the early 1800s, Haiti had a white population of French Creoles. Starting in February 1804, Haiti began a systematic cleansing of all white people. Though the white population up until then had been getting along fine with the Haitian population, it was decided these “true cannibals” needed to be murdered. And so, upward of 5,000 men, women and children were slaughtered. Women needed to be killed so they couldn’t breed a new Frenchman. This genocide was decreed by Jean-Jacques Dessanlines, who was the first ruler of Haiti. He declared his murderous rampage as, “Yes, I have saved my country, I have avenged America.” Last year the United States allowed thousands of Haitians free entry and loaded them up with gifts to make America their new home. Robert Davis, a history professor at Ohio State University, worked on a sort of reverse methodology to determine how many white European Christians had been enslaved by Muslims in North Africa. The period was between 1530 to 1780, and it was estimated at least one million. Dr. Davis also determined it had more to do with religion and ethnicity rather than skin color who became slaves. He calculated that some 8,500 people had to be captured each year to keep up with the slave demand. The above are but a couple snapshots of historical atrocities that are never referenced because it isn’t part of today’s agenda. I’m pointing it out to show no human beings of any skin tones or religion deserved to be treated in such horrific ways. Our own constitution states it very clearly. “All men are created equal.” However, throughout the course of our history and the world, skin color has played a role, white or black, and it didn’t stop there. Religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or just something as benign as where you came from justified the murdering or enslavement of human beings dating back since forever. These wrongs continue today, and it comes in a variety

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Airbnb’s open door for thugs and drugs

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he Angel of Death checks into an Airbnb.” “2 dead, 8 wounded in shooting at Pittsburgh Airbnb party.” “Arrest made in drug deal murder at Florida Airbnb, deputies looking for another suspect.” “Double homicide at Draper (Utah) Airbnb party began with fight over broken beer bottles.” Those bloody local news headlines in Pennsylvania, Florida and Utah once again expose the ongoing farce of Big Tech’s “trust and safety” theater. Across America and around the world, violent thugs and rapists, hidden-camera creeps, human and drug traffickers, and wily scammers have hijacked Airbnb rental homes for criminal and nefarious purposes. Yet it’s peaceful, law-abiding and rightthinking families like mine who’ve been publicly smeared, persecuted, kicked off the online home rental platform and branded “extremist” security threats by vengeful gatekeepers at Airbnb. This persecution of America First conservatives is openly aided and abetted by left-wing witch-hunters at the Southern

Poverty Law Center, Antiflag and investigate suspicious Defamation League and The activity before it happens”; Daily Beast who despise what we “watchlist and background believe, who we call family and checks” of hosts and guests; and friends, and to whom we speak. “safety workshops” and “scam In broke Woke America, patriots prevention” tools to provide are the criminal class, “a multi-layer defense and criminals are the strategy.” protected class. Since 2016, when Donald During a recent Trump became president, weekend, 200 partygoers Nightmarebnb has very in Pittsburgh descended publicly and zealously on an Airbnb property employed its vetting tools before a gunman to purge the accounts of murdered two teens and pro-America nationalists wounded 11 others. The Michelle Malkin (like brown-skinned me San Francisco-based and my private family $40 billion “worldwide members) who are tarred lodging juggernaut” announced as “white supremacists” by the plans to sue the renter for Southern Poverty Law Center. violating its terms of service. This That’s the same lie machine is Public Relations Deflection whose reckless designation of the and Distraction 101. What doesn’t conservative Family Research this Trump-hating, open-borders Council as a “hate group” inspired promoting, illegal alien-employing convicted gunman Floyd Corkins globalist vacation rental platform to break into its Washington, want you to know about its own D.C., office to try to kill “as many culpability in facilitating criminal people as possible.” safe havens? Despite settling a defamation Airbnb (which I will henceforth lawsuit by the Family Research refer to as Nightmarebnb) touts Council for $3.4 million, the its myriad “trust and safety” Southern Poverty Law Center measures, including “risk scoring” slimeballs continue to be primary of every reservation using research sources for media, tech “predictive analytics and machine companies, the government and learning to instantly evaluate Nightmarebnb’s secret thought hundreds of signals that help us police goon squad.

Just like the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations, Nightmarebnb CEO Brian Chesky and his minions devote enormous time and resources to perpetuating the perniciously false narrative that “racism” and “lack of diversity” are the biggest safety and security scourges plaguing our country and their business. Meanwhile, the company employs a secret “black box” team of ex-military officials, crisis management operatives, and former top Clinton and Obama White House staffers who reportedly pays out $50 million a year to cover up rapes, murders and other grisly crimes committed in Nightmarebnb rentals around the globe. Crime victims are wined, dined and paid off with massive settlements — then gagged from discussing their cases. Nightmarebnb’s ruthless whitewashing of violence, sexual assaults, and human and drug trafficking should be the subject of congressional and law enforcement investigations worldwide — especially as its woke leaders throw open their doors to hundreds of thousands of unvetted refugees from Afghanistan, Ukraine and elsewhere. Instead, the powers

that be cower, cackle or conspire in the cover-up. As for me, on behalf of my family, I am pressing forward with my own lonely battle to hold Nightmarebnb accountable for defying anti-discrimination laws and retaliating against my journalism and political activism. Deepest thanks to the kind supporters who’ve offered to host us on our travels and to the 825 donors who’ve supported my crowdfunding campaign to take legal action against the woke smear merchants. (Go to fundly. com/michellefightsairbnb to donate). Trust and safety might not be such bad jokes if more Americans cared about the plight of their fellow citizens who’ve become political refugees in their own homeland while a flood of scumbags take over their neighborhoods in the name of “inclusion” and “diversity.” Michelle Malkin’s email address is michellemalkinInvestigates@ protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com. Copyright 2022 by Creators.com.

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ig Brother is about, while curtailing freedom watching you.” of, individuals. That was the Colorful capitalist Elon Musk pervasive punch has been a magnet for controversy line in British throughout his remarkable, writer George Orwell’s novel successful business career. “1984.” Developments in Currently he is fighting business and government to buy social media Arthur I. give fresh currency to the giant Twitter, while Cyr classic. complaining about the Orwell, one of the behemoth’s heavy-handed greatest writers of the censorship practices. 20th century, was a committed Twitter representatives react socialist. Unlike many on the left to such criticism with shock, and today, however, he had personal not in the cynical “Casablanca” involvement with working people sense. In that classic movie, Capt. because he was one. He stressed Renault expresses artificial egalitarianism, while warning outrage about gambling going on about dangers of concentrated in Rick’s Café. power in government as well as Twitter’s arbitrary censors corporations. sanctimoniously believe in their Technologies today provide bullying. People they deem unprecedented opportunities “inappropriate” include former to gather personal information President Donald Trump, who,

though now out of office, remains Public Enemy No. 1 for much of our “news” and infotainment media. Simultaneously, Twitter ignores truly evil hate speech. As one prominent example, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei regularly calls for the destruction of Israel, which he terms “a cancerous growth.” In Twitter Land, that is acceptable “political” expression while President Trump’s statements “inspire harm.” Apple co-founder — and rescuer — Steve Jobs advocated both free speech and privacy. Not long before Mr. Jobs’ 2011 death, he strongly emphasized protecting customer privacy in announcing a new version of the iPhone. In 2016, Apple strenuously resisted U.S. government efforts to force cooperation to secure cell phone data. A married couple who carried out a horrific mass murder in San Bernardino had the phone. The murderers personally supported Islamic terrorist groups. President Barack Obama publicly endorsed FBI efforts to force Apple to cooperate in breaking encryption on that phone. He transformed a gruesome local crime into a major international incident by discussing the matter in a formal speech from the Oval Office. He then traveled to Southern California. President Obama opened the door for the Islamic State plausibly to take credit for the killings. The terror group immediately did so. There is no evidence the killers had ties to terrorist groups. Apple loyalty to Mr. Jobs’ important legacy involved taking tremendous, threatening heat from the Feds. The FBI eventually broke the encryption, with outside tech help. That agency should focus on improving internal skills, not harassment. A wit quipped that “1984” was really about 1948, a reference to the Stalinist Soviet Union. In the late 1940s and well into the 1950s, intense anti-communism seriously distorted U.S. domestic politics and our wider society.

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Leftwing and other intellectuals found their careers damaged and in some cases destroyed. Blacklisting of writers became a feature of this intimidation. That era passed, but ominous concentrated power remains. In our fascinating, fantastic global information revolution, institutions committed to following the law and protecting personal privacy deserve our support. Here, nonprofits are particularly important. Mr. Jobs, Mr. Musk and other entrepreneurs who resist concentrated arrogant power also deserve support. Government and corporate snoops pry, corporate and government bullies try to intimidate, today as through

history. Today, these powerful entities control unprecedented technologies, but our U.S. Constitution provides essential protections. Meanwhile, remember: You have a right to privacy. Big Brother has not abolished that, Not yet. But he’d like to. 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.

The civilizational suicide of ‘criminal justice reform’

he long and disturbing rap sheet of Frank James, the black nationalist New York City subway shooter arrested on April 13 and charged by federal prosecutors with one count of committing a terrorist act against a mass transportation system, ought to serve as a national wake-up call. The 24 hour-plus nerve-racking manhunt ended in anticlimactic fashion, with Mr. James apparently calling the NYPD to report his own location. But the Brooklyn shooting, which left 10 people with gunshot wounds and 19 others injured in the resulting fracas, stands as the bloodiest act of carnage in the history of the New York City subway system. It also should never have happened. Mr. James’ rap sheet includes

nine previous arrests in New James should have been out on York alone. Those Empire State the street, living a normal life. arrests include such wide-ranging That he appears to be heading offenses as a criminal sex act, for a jail cell for the rest of his possession of burglary tools and miserable life is just, but long theft of service. His overdue: It comes at rap sheet also includes least 10 gunshot victims three additional arrests and 29 total victims too in neighboring New late. That he was not Jersey for the equally already incarcerated is wide-ranging offenses yet another data point of trespass, larceny and evincing the woeful disorderly conduct. present state of the Most damning, one of American criminal justice Josh Hammer the Garden State arrests system. entailed a resultant But our criminal charge for a terroristic threat. justice system is not failing for the Mr. James, an avowed anti-white reasons “criminal justice reform” racist, had also frequently talked proponents from the Left and the about violence and committing libertarian faux-Right claim it is mass shootings on his personal failing. YouTube page — even doing so as America, in the year 2022, recently as April 11, the day before does not suffer from an the shooting. overincarceration problem. On There is no world in which Mr. the contrary, we suffer from an

under-incarceration problem. The sooner we awake from this collective slumber and seize the moral high ground back from the Soros/Koch-funded forces of “anti-prosecution” local district attorneys, “bail reform,” the jailbreak of slashed sentences and the broader civilizational suicide of the “criminal justice reform” movement, the safer and more secure we will be. Consider some data. According to a 2018 special Department of Justice report that tracked updates on prisoner recidivism from 2005-2014, a shockingly high 83% of state prisoners released in 2005 across a sample size of 30 states were rearrested at least once over the course of the next nine years. In fact, 44% were rearrested in their first year post-release. Overall, the 401,288 state prisoners who

were released from state prison and subsequently tracked by the DOJ study were rearrested an estimated 2 million times during their nine years post-release. Perhaps even worse, the risk of recidivism is not merely high as a broad statistical proposition; the nature of the crimes committed by released prisoners also tend to be deeply troubling. Consider the much-ballyhooed “problem” of so-called low-level drug offenders who allegedly predominate (in actuality, drug offenders only constituted 14% of the total state prison population in 2018) the state prison system: 77% of released drug offenders were arrested for a non-drug crime within nine years, and 34% were arrested for a violent crime. Our prisons may thus not Please see HAMMER on C4

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he media’s ignorance about basic economics is galling. I expect it from politicians. I expect it from The New York Times. But it’s sad to see in the New York Post, my town’s rare alternative to Democratic media. Recently the tabloid freaked out over higher prices imposed by ride-share companies. “New Yorkers are fed up with forking over excessive amounts for Uber and Lyft rides.” Excessive? Just what is “excessive?” Who decides? Prices were already up because gasoline costs more, New York City keeps imposing new taxes and regulations, and the federal government pays so many people to work that there’s now a shortage of drivers. That day, unusually high “surge” prices were in effect because there had been a horrible shooting on the subway. Commuters, fearful of another subway shooting, turned to rideshare services. How should a company like Uber deal with that? Suddenly, there is much more demand for rides than supply. Should customers just wait in line? Most wouldn’t get a ride for days. So ride-share companies do the sensible thing: They temporarily raise prices. They lower them again when there are free cars. This is the best solution for the most people. Those who desperately need rides can pay extra for them. Those with spare time can take a bus, walk, call a friend, etc., or just wait for prices to drop. Higher prices also mean higher pay for drivers, which encourages part-time drivers to drop what they are doing and start offering rides. Such congestion pricing could also reduce traffic jams if politicians gathered the courage to impose it. But this pretty good solution is not good enough for economically ignorant reporters. The Post said, “Critics say the sticker shock is unsustainable.” “Critics say” is a clue that you are reading the product of lazy Please see STOSSEL on C4

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How do these critics know the prices are ‘unsustainable?’ STOSSEL

Continued from Page C3 reporting. When reporters don’t take the time to search out reliable sources or gather actual data, they simply write, “critics say.” The critics could be their friends, family or a couple Uber users at the airport. How do these critics know the prices are “unsustainable?” They don’t. Ride share investors, with their own money on the line, know more about what is sustainable. If prices were really unsustainable, the company would go out of business. The reporter went further: “Critics say (the fares are) ... sometimes downright unethical.”

Unethical? Uber drivers don’t force people into their cars. They don’t even trick us with advertising. In fact, they do the opposite. Before I can book a ride, I get a message warning me that the cost will be “higher due to increased demand.” Economist Don Boudreaux wrote the Post (good for the Post for publishing his letter): “Prices reflect underlying realities of demand and supply. In New York City, rising crime (thanks, Bill de Blasio!) simultaneously raises the demand for Uber rides as it lowers the supply of such rides. These realities cannot help but push fares upward.” Right. Uber and Lyft are great innovations. They forced taxi

monopolies to treat customers better and let ordinary people use their cars to drive for money. But businesses get clobbered in the media whenever there’s an aberration. On that day, social media exploded with comments like, “Fare surge after a mass shooting ... Shame on you @Uber.” The companies quickly went into damage control mode. “Our hearts go out to the victims,” tweeted Uber Support. “We disabled surge pricing in the area.” Disabling surge pricing may be good PR, but it’s a terrible practice. At the beginning of the pandemic, when toilet paper and hand sanitizer were scarce, politicians told people, “Report merchants who raise prices.” They called that “illegal price gouging.”

But “gouging” was a good thing even then. It disincentivized hoarding and got suppliers to make more of the products we need most. Yes, today “gouging” is often illegal. But that’s only because when it comes to what makes markets work, well, most politicians and reporters are just clueless. John Stossel is creator of Stossel TV and author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators. com. Copyright 2022 BY JFS Productions Inc.

We must take a tough stand against a costly plan DONOVAN

Continued from Page C1 Thank goodness for the economist, Dr. Peter Rupert, who said he has 80 years of actual data proving rent control does not work and is actually counterproductive in reducing the number of available rental units. This is actually Economics 101. Councilmember Kristen Sneddon questioned Dr. Rupert’s knowledge. She most likely would have done the same if the $200,000 study came back with the same answer. Dr. Rupert suggested vouchers to the renters to pay their rent (section 8). Now the council is talking vouchers. Soon they will run out of your money to spend. Getting back to the possibilities of using government land. The city could lay claim to other vacant or underused government-owned properties within Santa Barbara County. The city could enter into joint ventures with developers to build affordable rental housing, where the city provides the land on a lease and the developers construct and own the housing for rent, under rental and lease conditions negotiated between the city and the developers. Oh, but wait. This idea might be screwed with the demand that anyone doing work on a city job must be with a union. So we the taxpayers are off the hook for that $200,000. But now we move to Friday’s special meeting where again the Santa Barbara City Council discussed spending over $600,000 annually on a Police Oversight Commission. The Citizens Formation Commission proposal included a survey, which was offered in

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English and Spanish. Out of 90,000 residents in Santa Barbara, 1,040 people took the survey. Out of the 1,040 participants, 30.4% were from outside our city limits, proving outside influences are part of the CFC’s recommendations. Only 0.87% were Spanish speakers who participated. Clearly, any reported results from this survey are seriously flawed and should not have been entered into evidence. There is no doubt that we must take a tough stand and recommend outright rejection of the costs and inbuilt bureaucracy of the proposal by the CFC on the grounds that no convincing case has been made to justify its approval. As outlined in our previous column, there are four actual and potential oversight mechanisms already in place. Their proposal does not even recognize their existence.

The basis for approval of developing oversight proposal at its inception was completely flawed and was the result of the previous mayor surrendering to pressure from Black Lives Matter/Healing Justice activists conflating the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, to Santa Barbara. They were specifically asked to produce a proposal that fit the circumstances of the city of Santa Barbara. But they could not make the case based on the lack of any supportable data that indicated a need for an additional Santa Barbara Police Department oversight board. So they were forced to use the parameters of the general case made for cities like Minneapolis, Chicago and other major city conurbations. As constructed under Healing Justice influences, the proposal

will create an adversarial relationship between the Santa Barbara Police Department and the Santa Barbara City Council. What the city needs is a partnership between the police and the municipality leadership. SBPD has very strong community support. The police use very little force, and the low number of last year’s complaints — only eight — shows we don’t have an issue. In the staff’s report on the agenda, they note that they are having to transfer $1.3 million from the general fund to balance the budget. Remember all the city employees in chambers last Tuesday begging for a raise. These are good reasons not to adopt the CFC’s recommendations. If the city does have an extra $600,000-plus each year, this could fund raises for the nonmanagement employees. This whole project was started under a different administration and was stimulated by the national emotions of the time after George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis. Santa Barbara is not Minneapolis. The Santa Barbara Police Department is not the Minneapolis Police Department. Our policemen and policewomen are models of behavior and professionalism to be followed by other cities like Santa Barbara. “Nobody makes a greater mistake than he, or she, who does nothing because they could do only little.” — Edmund Burke Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

Did CNN under Jeff Zucker influence the election? ZEPKE

Continued from Page C1 “Merging” is in quotations because the company will be run by Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who promised a shift from CNN being “leader of news to the left” to broadcasting the actual news. Nevertheless, the question remains: Did CNN under Mr. Zucker influence the election? A second current event involves Twitter who, like CNN, contributed to the incoming Biden tide by “putting a lid” on Hunter’s — and the Biden family’s — business dealings with Ukraine, Russia and China. Subsequently, Twitter stock dived with the Biden economy from $73.34 to $40 while the company silenced Republicans, including President Trump, by putting “lids” on their Twitter accounts even as the “insurrection” charges from Jan. 6 faded into mere

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“trespassing” ones. Elon Musk’s taking time from his opening new Tesla pants in Germany and Austin, Texas, to say Twitter’s “failing to adhere to free speech principle” and “fundamentally undermined democracy,” followed by his becoming Twitter’s largest shareholder, spiked its stock to $50 before settling at $46.23. The day after Mr. Musk had a wide-ranging discussion with Twitter employees, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal gave the employees a day off to handle their stress. Stress? How stressful can it be to only decide who to eliminate because you disagree with their views? I would have counseled Mr. Musk to reject the Twitter board’s offer to join the directors because of how difficult it is for me to streamline meetings even for my small board. But Mr. Musk accepted before he later realized his mistake and declined.

His intent to change Twitter caused the Democrats to shift from Mr. Musk being a hero for founding the electric vehicle maker Tesla to encouraging the FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate him. Of course, the White House had already excluded Mr. Musk from meetings on EVs because he does not favor unions. The Twitter board enacted a “poison pill” that penalizes any takeover candidates it doesn’t support, like Mr. Musk, but not those it supports. The future of free speech in the media will be impacted by whether Mr. Musk has the ways, means and desire to fight through the Twitter board’s resistance. Don Quixote’s handlers saw his tide of adventure ebbing, an opportunity to profit from “Don Quixote attacking the windmills of his mind” with a tournament at Saragossa before putting a

“lid” on him and his assistant Sancho by sending them to deal with their destructive past. A “lid” on presidential activities for 2021 would have eliminated the destructions in energy, inflation, immigration and Afghanistan, as well as prevented the impact of his policies on companies, such as AT&T and Twitter. What will happen to this president and vice president when the rising tide that swept them in continues to ebb and, to quote Warren Buffet, “we will see who does not have a bathing suit on?” Brent E. Zepke is an attorney, arbitrator and author who lives in Santa Barbara. Formerly he taught at six universities and numerous professional conferences. He is the author of six books: “One HeartTwo Lives,” “Legal Guide to Human Resources,” “Business Statistics,” “Labor Law,” “Products and the Consumer” and “Law for NonLawyers.”

Budget deficits became common

Continued from Page C1 border wall and allow newly fabricated steel segments valued in the billions of dollars to rust and deteriorate in the CaliforniaArizona-New Mexico-Texas desert. There was no public discussion as to what to do with this valuable material or where it may be used more productively. No discussion whatsoever. Unlimited funds, unharnessed by any meaningful restraint, is also the reason that more than a hundred thousand “immigrants” pour across our southern border every month and are assigned iPhones, given spending money, housing and transportation — all on the government dime. Money is no object. Let’s not forget that when the first Iran nuclear deal was approved and signed by all parties, the U.S. government not only

released $150 billion or so of frozen Iranian funds but also loaded private planes in the middle of the night with pallets of cash totaling some $1.7 billion in currency — dollars, Swiss francs, British pounds and euros — as part of the deal. Where that money came from has never been explained, but there is apparently a large stash of unaccounted-for government (taxpayer) cash sitting around and available for who knows what other situations. Within a decade, the likelihood is that “money” as we’ve known it for centuries will no longer exist. Actual U.S. dollars will disappear. Hard currency will be replaced by a software point system that every citizen (and non-citizen) will have access to, much like one’s credit card points and similar to the way welfare recipients are currently paid. Debit cards will be used by everyone to buy, spend and maybe even “save,” though “saving” will

be discouraged (as it is now), and anyone who doesn’t spend the allotment given to them will be pressured to do their patriotic duty to buy stuff. All of which leads me to wonder how it ever got this crazy. The spending guardrails were pushed toward the outer precipice by President Lyndon Johnson in the late 1960s, when the demands of his and his Democratic Party’s “Great Society” ran into the real needs of the war in Vietnam. Budget deficits became common as the war heated up. In 1971, President Richard Nixon and a compliant U.S. Congress separated the dollar from gold and rescinded the post-World War II Bretton Woods agreement (activated in 1958) that promised the U.S. government would purchase gold from any nation at a guaranteed $35 an ounce. After President Nixon’s move to rescind the offer, the U.S. monetary system devolved into printing what is

called “fiat” currency, with no backing other than the good faith and credit of the United States. The dollar overtook the British pound early in the 1960s as the world’s reserve currency. And it’s that status that allows the reckless spending taking place today, with no end or even restraint in sight, until that is, the U.S. dollar ceases to be the world’s reserve currency. Next week, we’ll delve into the insidious nature of collective bargaining by federal employees as one of the causes of the uncontrolled and dangerous overspending taking place at every level of government and in every governmental agency. James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes questions or comments at jimb@ substack.com. Readers are invited to visit jimb.substack.com, where Jim’s Journals are on file. He also invites people to subscribe to Jim’s Journal.

Discrimination comes in many forms SCHULTE

Continued from Page C2 of forms. Our porous border pried our eyes wide open how prevalent human trafficking is, not only for adults but even more so for children. These poor souls are modern-day slaves living within our borders. It is shocking, and nothing is being done about it in the year 2022. However, in our new genderfocused society, while our kindergarten kids are being brainwashed about, he/him/it/ her/them, the nightmarish life of child slaves are being abused every second of every day is disregarded. Or the hundreds of thousands of young adults being slaughtered with fentanyl, they too are slaves to an extremely additive drug. As we can see, discrimination comes in many forms and is not limited to skin color or any particular belief. If people are really honest and willing to put their ideological wokeness aside, it’s imperative we focus on the big picture. As noted above, history teaches us everything we need to know, and that’s probably why the left wants to erase it. Earth has been at odds with itself from day one. For reasons none of us will fully understand, the planet has never stopped

waging wars and murdering fellow human beings. Russian President Vladimir Putin has brought this reality to the forefront again. The photos of bodies in plastic bags and mass graves bring back images of horror to those who survived Hitler. I was only 10 when I lived with my grandparents in Germany, and there was a documentary on TV of naked humans — male, female and children being slaughtered with machine guns, then bulldozed into a pit. The reason was because of where they came from and their religious beliefs. Skin color played no role. The Jews and non-Jewish Germans suffered beyond human comprehension despite what Whoopi Goldberg says. Skin of all shades endure injustices, and no one can claim more weight over another. I’m not naive to not think skin color does play a role, but we need to put the past where it belongs and start uniting again as a country. One nation under God. We must end using skin shades as a social weapon or we’ll never resolve our country’s differences. Sadly, the people whom this division is all about are the ones getting hurt the most. Henry Schulte welcomes questions or comments at hschulteopinions@gmail.com.

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aged boys. The FDA states myocarditis and pericarditis risk is higher among males under 40 years of age. The highest risk is in males 12-17 years of age after receiving the COVID vaccine. See fda.gov/media/153713/ download. Healthy children are not at risk from COVID, per the CDC, FDA and local doctors, but there are severe risks from the vaccines. So why is she allowing vaccines that the FDA states has severe health risks to children to be administered on school grounds? Vaccination is a personal choice and should not be endorsed by a public school. Speaking of safety, I’m sure you read about the group of Hispanic boys who pinned a black boy down, kneeling on his back while saying “George Floyd the ‘N’ ”! The district tried to ignore this recent incident along with the one where a boy made a video of several black kids dancing overlaid with the sounds of

monkeys. Ms. Capps and the school board cite the need for ethnic studies, but for two decades they’ve been funding ethnic studies. Last year the district paid Just Communities in excess of $300,000, meaning taxpayers have paid them millions over two decades. Doesn’t sound like progress is being made there either. The parents threatened a lawsuit and informed the press the district decided to hire an entrepreneur with a journalism degree at $1,800 per hour to sit with families who have been affected by racial injustice. They didn’t hire a trained psychologist. They hired a journalism graduate without any competing bids. In the end our school board is not educating the children, they are not reviewing official data and science when making important health decisions and the level of racial incidents have increased. There were 12 racial incidents in a three week period this month. When will things change? When people realize their vote matters.

The majority of serious crimes go unprosecuted HAMMER

Continued from Page C3 be very effective at rehabilitating offenders, but they are extremely effective at preventing criminals from reoffending. It shouldn’t take a Ph.D in criminology to figure that out. It is true that the total population of incarcerated Americans is higher than any other similar incarcerated population across the world, but this oft-heard statement is facile. America also has much higher percentages of serious or violent crime than most other Western-style democracies, and that discrepancy has only widened since 2020’s “1619 riot” urban conflagrations and the subsequent spike in national violent crime rates. Yet despite Americans’ overall more violent nature, the majority of serious crimes go unprosecuted. As Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, the preeminent pro-law-and-order elected official, put it in 2016: “Law enforcement is able to arrest or identify a likely perpetrator for only 19% of property crimes and 47% of violent crimes. If anything, we have an under-incarceration problem.” Sadly, men like Mr. James are hardly an exception; they more often represent the overarching rule. Consider another high-profile recent data point: The two men, likely

planted Iranian regime assets, who were recently arrested in Washington, D.C. for pretending to be federal agents and buying off Secret Service officers, were unconscionably granted bail. It is a sordid episode that should nonetheless be a familiar one for New Yorkers who recently lived through the horrific experiment in New York’s “bail reform” law, which saw countless robbers and gangbangers capriciously let go — only to promptly reoffend. For at least a decade, opportunistic “criminal justice reform” ideologues on both the progressive Left and the libertarian “Right” have pushed an inordinate amount of projailbreak policies, affecting everything from “bail reform” to back-end sentencing reductions to hamstringing police tactics to reining in qualified immunity doctrine. The all-too-predictable result of this Soros/Koch-funded anarchic push has been more bloodshed and more violent crime. God-willing, the Frank James episode will serve as an impetus to reclaim our safety and security from the forces of civilizational suicide before those forces can do even more damage to tear our nation asunder. To find out more about Josh Hammer and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www. creators.com. Copyright 2022 by Creators.com.