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Summer Solstice to go virtual By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Santa Barbara’s Summer Solstice Celebration announced that this year’s event will be virtual. The 47th annual celebration, with the theme “Bloom,” will be a virtual State Street parade filled with light, color, music, dance and motion. The host will be Riccardo Morrison, master of ceremonies and artistic director. The celebration is opening a workshop to groups of 10 or less to be filmed in front of a green screen to be put on State Street post-production for the virtual parade. Filming is by appointment only, and times can be scheduled during the following hours: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 10; 3 to 7 p.m. May 11; 3 to 7 p.m. May 12; noon to 4 p.m. May 15; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 17; 3 to 7 p.m. May 20; and 3 to 7 p.m. May 21. The appointments will take place at the Community Arts Workshop, at 631 Garden St. Groups of 10 or more can schedule to be filmed at Alameda

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Wanda Venturelli has been named the winner of the Summer Solstice T-shirt and poster design contest.

Park between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. on May 22. Appointments will be made in 30-minute increments. To schedule an appointment, Please see solstice on a4 Ms. Venturelli, a local artist, will have her artwork “Rain of Flowers” featured for the annual event.

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MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, at 125 State St. in Santa Barbara, reopened to the public on Thursday.

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It was when she saw a 2year-old boy who could barely reach the top of the digital DJ tables with his hands “literally jumping up and down with excitement,” that the joy of reopening hit Robin Gose. As president and CEO of MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, at 125 State St. in Santa Barbara, Ms. Gose said that Thursday — the first day back open for the museum after the pandemic — was “terrific.” “It’s been a hard year to not have revenue from the ticket sales, so this is a shot in the arm, not only to see people using the space as it was intended to be used, but also to help us financially,” she told the News-Press. “We certainly face some financial challenges, but this is part of the rebuilding.” Please see MOXI on A6

Children build race cars for a drag race interactive setup at the MOXI Museum in Santa Barbara on Friday.

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May is for CycleMAYnia By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

CycleMAYnia is back in 2021 as Santa Barbara County’s South Coast celebrates national bike month for the month of May. More than 25 in-person bicycling activities and online events will be offered at the 12th annual event. In-person rides and activities have capacity limits, with some requiring pre-registration to ensure equipment availability as well as the health and safety of all riders. The public is encouraged to visit the event calendar at cycleMAYnia.org and register for activities before they fill up. “We are thrilled to bring back the joy of CycleMAYnia this year,” Marjie Kirn, executive director of Santa Barbara County Association of Governments, said in a statement. “Bicycling has increased significantly in the United States since the COVID19 pandemic and it is exciting to be able to formally offer online and smaller, in-person activities throughout the month of May to support the uptick in bicycling in our own community. “I am particularly looking forward to the two electric bike demo pop-ups in the cities of Goleta and Carpinteria as well as the Family Walk & Roll Bike to Nature Rides with the Coalition for Sustainable Transportation and Wilderness Youth Project.” Bicycling increased by 16% in the nation since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, according to a study published in the Transport Review Journal. “CycleMAYnia 2021 has something for everyone, whether you are new to cycling, a parent, a bike nerd, or curious about electric bikes,” said Kent Epperson, director of SBCSG’s Traffic Solutions. “I hope the public takes an opportunity to check out the weekly themes and the variety of fun activities we have planned to celebrate the joy of bicycling that helps bring about a cleaner and healthier community. Even more, it’s beyond time for us to be able to

come together like this in a safer environment to just have fun.” CycleMAYnia features weekly themes, six online presentations, 11 socially distanced community rides and eight outdoor activities. Week one’s theme is “Ready Set Go” with activities featuring a presentation on electric bike trends, technology and how to choose one. There will also be in-person e-bike demonstrations, and a celebration at a select number of elementary and junior high schools for National Bike to School Day. “Adventure and Around the World Travel” is the theme for week two, featuring a Mother’s Day Ride; online presentations sharing local BCycle adventure rides; Cycling Without Age adventures for seniors and those with physical disabilities; local mountain bike adventures exploring the Santa Barbara backcountry; and a Bike to Nature Ride for families with kids. The theme for week three is “Kids and Families” with Bike to Nature Rides for families with kids, a panel presentation on Biking with Little Ones and a Bike-in Movie screening of “The Ride” (2018). Week 4 will be “Bicycle Friendly Communities” with a presentation and discussions from bike planners about the changing trends and landscape of bike infrastructure in Santa Barbara County and beyond. In addition, there will be a panel presentation on Living CarFree or Car-Lite, and two community bike rides including the monthly Bike DeLights ride and a Community E-Bike Ride. The month is also filled with weekly activities and rides: Taco Tuesday E-Bike Demos, Wheelie Wednesdays and Bike to Nature Rides for families and children. The public can read more about the bike month activities and view the calendar of activities on the CycleMAYnia website at cycleMAYnia.org. email: gmccormick@newspress.com

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From left: Isa Alarcon, a Carpinteria High Senior, was chosen to receive a $20,000 scholarship through the Girls Inc. National Scholarship Program. She will be attending New York University in the fall. Laura Flores, another senior from Carpinteria High, was chosen to receive a $5,000 scholarship from Girls Inc. She plans to pursue an education degree at Cal Lutheran in the fall. Briana Rodriguez, a junior at Carpinteria High, was also chosen to receive a $5,000 scholarship this year. She hopes to pursue biomedical engineering in college. Dulce Perez, an eighth grader from Carpinteria, was awarded a $500 organization in this year’s Girls Inc. National 8th Grade Scholarship. She has been a member of the local Girls Inc. chapter since kindergarten.

pursue an education degree. Another Carpinteria High student, Briana Rodriguez, received a $5,000 scholarship from this year’s national program. Ms. Rodriguez is a high school junior involved in volleyball, water polo and swim team. She serves on the Associated Student Body and previously volunteered with the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation. She is a childhood cancer survivor who enjoys giving back to the community as a way to say thank you for all the support she received. Ms. Rodriguez hopes to one day become a biomedical

engineer. In addition, Girls Inc. of Carpinteria member Dulce Perez was awarded the Girls Inc. National 8th Grade Scholarship this year. She is one of 10 students chosen to receive a $500 scholarship nationally. Dulce joined Girls Inc. in kindergarten and has been involved with the organization for more than a decade now. She recently joined the organization’s Eureka Program and is a twotime speaker at the nonprofit’s largest fundraiser, An Evening in Bloom.

County reports 26 new COVID-19 cases

identified in Orcutt (five active), and two new cases were identified in Goleta (13 remain active). Other daily case numbers for Saturday included: South County unincorporated area, including Montecito, Summerland and the city of Carpinteria (one new case, 11 active); unincorporated area of the Goleta Valley and Gaviota (one new case, nine active); and the Santa Ynez Valley (one new case, seven active). The geographic region for two cases was pending on Saturday. A total of 11 people are being treated at local hospitals, including two in the Intensive Care Unit.

The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department reported 26 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday. The county has now reported a total of 34,205 cases, including 155 that remain active. No new deaths were reported Saturday. The cities of Santa Maria and Lompoc each reported six new cases on Saturday. Santa Maria has 31 active cases, and Lompoc has 23, according to the county’s data. The city of Santa Barbara reported four new cases, and 35 cases remain active. Three new cases were

Caltrans District 5 seeks scholarship applicants Caltrans District 5 employees and the California Transportation Foundation are offering two $750 scholarships to high school seniors within the five-county district including Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties. The scholarship program is designed for college-bound senior high school students who plan to attend college in California, pursue a career in transportation and live on the Central Coast. These programs are common in many of the 12 Caltrans districts, and have the encouragement and support of the CTF which donates

SM Library to honor Armed Forces Day SANTA MARIA — The city of Santa Maria Public Library is presenting an aviation-themed craft kit and a Zoom video conference presentation of a new online service, VetNow, in honor of Armed Forces Day. Each kit contains a wood model aircraft kit, journal, VetNow bookmark and a copy of the 8th edition of the Veterans Resource Guide from the California Department of Veterans Affairs. Registration will begin Monday and kits will be available for pickup starting the following May 10, through May 15 at the library, at 421 S. McClelland St. Patrons may register on the Events Calendar at www.

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a gift. Because of Girls Inc. and Eureka, I know that I will have a bright future.” email: mhirneisen@newspress.com

— Mitchell White 50% of the funding while the coffee and food sales provide the rest. When the program began in 2002, $500 was raised and one scholarship was awarded. In 2007, $3,500 was raised and seven $500 scholarships were awarded. The fundraising efforts have grown since then and since 2017, the program has awarded $6,750 in total student scholarships. Applications must be submitted by May 14. The 2021 scholarships will be awarded this summer. For a link to the scholarship application, visit: http://www.dot. ca.gov/d5/scholarship.htm. For additional information contact Laurie Baima at Laurie. Baima@dot.ca.gov or call at 805549-3353. — Grayce McCormick cityofsantamaria.org/Library or by calling the library at 805925-0994. The library will have a limited number of kits. VetNow is a free online service that supports job seekers, veterans and their families with all stages of job searching, employment transition assistance, navigating Veterans Administration, preparing for standardized tests and building marketable academic skills. The meeting will take place at 3 p.m. on Armed Forces Day, May 15, via Zoom video conferencing. The presentation and kits are supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. — Grayce McCormick

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Four members of Girls Inc. of Carpinteria were selected as 2021 recipients of scholarships through the organization’s National Scholarship Program, receiving a total of $30,500 in scholarships. Each year, Girls Inc. awards high school students across the U.S. with scholarships to continue their education at any accredited college or university. This year, three Carpinteria High students and one eighth grade student were chosen to receive scholarships from the foundation. Isa Alarcon, a high school senior, was awarded a $20,000 scholarship from the organization, which she will use to pursue a degree in criminology to attend New York University. During high school, Ms. Alarcon co-founded the local chapter of Diversify our Narrative and helped establish a new Multicultural Literature class. She also sits on the Youth Making Change Board, serves as vice president of Celebrating Adversity, Diversity

and Education, holds the position of president in the Associated Student Body and is a tri-athlete at Carpinteria High. “I am beyond honored to be recognized as a Girls Inc. National Scholar,” Ms. Alarcon said in a statement. “I have been involved with Girls Inc. since the seventh grade and at that time, Girls Inc. was my safe space — playing a vital role in improving my mental health and encouraging me to pursue my career and academic goals. My intent growing up was always to become a role model and inspire my younger cousins, so I appreciate this award greatly knowing that I am impacting girls and women all around me.” Laura Flores, another senior, received a $5,000 scholarship. Ms. Flores was recently appointed to the Girls Inc. National Teen Advocacy Council, and during high school, she helped co-found the local chapter of Diversify our Narrative alongside Ms. Alarcon, serves as Associated Student Body vice president and is active in other local clubs. She plans to attend Cal Lutheran in the fall to

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TRAFFIC, CRIME AND FIRE BLOTTER Child struck by vehicle ORCUTT — A 10-year-old was airlifted to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital on Friday after being struck by a vehicle. The incident was reported around 5:30 p.m. in the 1500 block of Jensen Ranch Road in Orcutt. The child was struck by a vehicle and suffered significant injuries, said Capt. Daniel Bertucelli, spokesman for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department. Fire crews and medics treated the patient at the scene before the child was airlifted for further treatment. An investigation is ongoing. — Mitchell White

Fires break out at homeless camps GOLETA — A brush fire broke out Saturday morning at a homeless camp along Highway 101 in Goleta, authorities said. The fire was reported around 1 a.m. Saturday near the onramp at Los Carneros Road near the railroad tracks. Santa Barbara County Fire Department crews discovered a working vegetation fire in the area and quickly doused the blaze, said Capt. Daniel Bertucelli, fire spokesman. Crews remained for a time to mop up. No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is under investigation. — Mitchell White

One injured in appliance fire GOLETA — One person suffered smoke inhalation after a refrigerator caught fire and caused damage to the kitchen area of a home Saturday in Goleta, authorities said. The fire was reported around 11:25 a.m. at a residence in the 100 block of Brandon Road in Goleta. The back of the refrigerator caught fire and spread to the kitchen, causing smoke damage to the home, fire officials said. The victim did not require transport to the hospital, and three others were able to escape without injury. The cause of the fire is under investigation. — Mitchell White

Arrests made in DUI checkpoint SANTA MARIA — Four people were arrested on suspicion of DUI during a checkpoint Friday in Santa Maria, police said. The checkpoint was held in the 200 block of South Broadway. In addition to the four arrests, nine people were cited for operating a vehicle unlicensed or with a suspended or revoked license. A total of 204 vehicles were screened. Funding for the checkpoint was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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Construction crews are continuing to work on the retaining walls and bridge spans at the Sheffield Drive interchange as part of the Highway 101: Summerland project. Shown here is the rebar placement in preparation for the concrete pour.

highway and ramp closures are planned next week as work continues on the Linden and Casitas Pass Highway 101 widening project in Carpinteira. From 9 p.m. tonight to 5 a.m. Monday, one northbound lane will be closed from Casitas Pass Road to Santa Claus Lane and North Padaro Lane to Sheffield Drive. A similar closure will be enforced during overnight hours Monday to Friday, according to Caltrans officials. From 8 p.m. to midnight Wednesday, the onramp at Casitas Pass Road will be closed as landscapers mulch newly planted slope areas. Drivers can use the onramp at Bailard Avenue during the closure. The northbound onramp at Linden Avenue will be closed with an anticipated reopening date of May 17. Drivers can use the onramp at Casitas Pass Road as a detour. From 10 p.m. tonight to 7 a.m. Monday, one southbound lane will be closed from Sheffield Drive to North Padaro Lane and Carpinteria Avenue to Casitas Pass Road. A similar closure will be enforced during overnight hours Monday to Friday. This week, one southbound lane will be closed between Carpinteria Avenue and Casitas Pass Road, which will also include the ramps at Wallace Avenue, North Padaro Lane, Reynolds Avenue, Linden Avenue and Casitas Pass Road. Consecutive onramps in the same direction will not be closed at the same time. The southbound onramp at Sheffield Drive will be closed for the duration of the project, with an anticipated reopening date set for 2023. The offramp at Sheffield Drive will be closed for up to 16 months and could reopen by the end of 2021. Throughout the week, flaggers will direct traffic with alternating lane closures at the Evans Avenue undercrossing. Temporary stop signs will be installed at the intersection of Sheffield Drive and North Jameson Lane for the duration of construction of the

Summerland segment. For the Highway 101: Summerland project, which is located between Sheffield Drive and North Padaro Lane, crews are installing rebar and concrete as part of the Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement. Crews will also install underground storm drains and the new drainage features. The southbound lanes near North Padaro Lane will be shifted toward the outside shoulder to allow for median work and to prepare for the upcoming Padaro segment. Changes to the safety barriers and lane striping are expected. At the Sheffield Drive interchange, work will continue on retaining walls and the bridge span. Crews will pour concrete and allow it to cure, and will then stress test the new bridge deck. For the Highway 101: Carpinteria to Santa Barbara project, officials have employed measures to balance effective freeway construction with environmental protections, specifically related to cormorants, a protected bird species. “The plan relies heavily on visual deterrents and human presence to help significantly reduce or eliminate the use of air blasts,” read a Caltrans news release. “Please expect to see biologists monitoring the area daily and tree crews rotating visual deterrents. Trees will remain as part of the longterm habitat.” Crews also continue to build the bridge span at the Evans Avenue undercrossing. Crews have poured concrete before stress testing the new bridge deck. Concrete recycling is continuing at the North Padaro interchange. Crews will work transition areas in preparation for the upcoming Highway 101: Padaro segment that begins this summer. Crews will continue work on southbound 101 and various ramps as part of the Highway 101: Carpinteria project. Traffic has been shifted onto the new southbound and median paving. Construction will progress on the new northbound lanes on the

mountain side of the highway. At the northbound Linden Avenue onramp, crews will pave a new connection where the onramp will meet the new northbound lanes. The ramp is scheduled to reopen May 17. Work is ongoing on overhead signs, guardrails and other adjustments on the south side of the highway. Crews will begin preparations for the next stage of the bridge work at the Franklin and Santa Monica Creek bridges. After soil excavation, crews will begin installing underground supports for the new wing walls and sound wall over the bridge. Crews have installed underground supports near Francisan Court and north of Cravens Lane, and will construct the wall footing and install rebar this week. Crews will also begin preparations and then drive piles for the new sound walls between Franklin Creek and Santa Ynez Avenue, between Santa Ynez Avenue and Santa Monica Creek, and north of Santa Monica Creek. Utility relocations are ongoing near Via Real for the planned sound wall. Crews will begin excavating and driving piles for the new overhead signs, and noise is expected during daytime work. For the Highway 101: Linden and Casitas Pass portion of the project, the landscaping contractor is planting and mulching along Casitas Pass Road, the 101, Linden Avenue and Via Real. For more information on the project, visit www.sbroads.com.

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Central Coast Commission for Senior Citizens Area Agency on Aging announces the release of Request For Proposals for services authorized by the Older Americans Act. The services to be funded are: Title IIIB Homemaker services in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties $155,000 for the provision of 4610 hours of Homemaker services to 125 senior citizens. These services provide assistance such as preparing meals, managing money, using the telephone or doing light housework. Title IIIB Personal Care services in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties $45,000 for the provision of 1390 hours of personal care services to 50 senior citizens. These services provide Personal assistance, stand-by assistance, supervision or cues (such as with eating, bathing, toileting, transferring in/out of bed/chair, walking, dressing, grooming). Title IIIB Legal Assistance in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties $42,000 for the provision of 850 hours of services to 250 senior citizens. This includes legal advice, counseling and/or representation by an attorney or other person acting under the supervision of an attorney. Applications for these services will be available at an Applicants Conference, Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. via ZOOM. To secure the link, contact the Area Agency on Aging. Applications are due June 14, 2021 For additional information, contact the Area Agency on Aging at 805-925-9554 or seniors@KCBX.net.

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Bonnie Vanhoozer (91), former resident of Santa Barbara, California, emerged from her decade-long fog of dementia into the bright radiance of her Lord Jesus Christ on $SULO LQ /LEHUW\YLOOH ,/ %RQQLH VHUYHG IRU PDQ\ \HDUV DV RIÀFH PDQDJHU DW several medical practices in Santa Barbara, and combined work with repeated visits to Scotland to visit her granddaughters during the eight years they lived in Scotland. She was preceded in death by her husband John, to whom she was married for 64 years; her parents, Edward Darrell Towery and Hattie Nance Towery, her sisters Lois (Luna) and Ruby (Ramsay), and her brothers Lee, Kerney, and Jack. She is survived by her loving son Kevin, his wife Sylvie, and their two daughters Mary (son-in-law Joshua Rodriguez) and Emma. A memorial service will take place via live stream at 11:00 am Monday, May 3 at Church of the Redeemer in Highwood, IL. Interment will follow at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, IL. In lieu RI ÁRZHUV PHPRULDOV PDGH WR WKH &XUH $O]KHLPHU·V )XQG :DVKLQJWRQ 6WUHHW 6XLWH :HOOHVOH\ +LOOV 0$ ZRXOG EH JUHDWO\ DSSUHFLDWHG )XQHUDO LQIRUPDWLRQ 362-2626. Please sign the guestbook at libertyvillefuneralhome.com

BALDWIN, Gary Lewis

On April 5th, 2021, Gary Lewis Baldwin, loving father of two children, passed away at the age of 65. Gary Lewis Baldwin was born on September 24th, 1955 in Evanston, Illinois to Clifford and Dorris Baldwin. *DU\ KDG D SDVVLRQ IRU VXUÀQJ WKH RFHDQ PXVLF ERDWLQJ tropical places, and loved a great party. His was a common name in Beach Haven, New Jersey, and Santa Barbara, California where he owned and operated the Beach Shack, The Ketch and Banana Reef restaurants. He eventually settled in West Palm Beach, Florida. Gary made a big impact on people, establishing himself as a leader and providing opportunities for them to establish a footing in their early years. He loved old school rock music and had a great ear for upcoming new bands. He would usually strum his guitar at home at the end of his day. Gary was known for his quick wit, big smile, kind and compassionate spirit. Gary was preceded in death by his father, Clifford, and his mother, Dorris. He is survived by his two children, Brooke and Cody Baldwin. A Celebration of Life service will be held for Gary on Saturday, May 8th, 2021 at Miramar Beach in Montecito at 2PM PST. Please join us with memories of good times with Gary in Santa Barbara.

WILLIAMS, Penelope Ruth

Penelope Ruth Williams, daughter of Virginia Lee Mosher and Arthur Powell Williams, has passed away. A longtime resident of Montecito, Penelope owned and operated some of Santa Barbara’s most well-known and renowned restaurants, including Penelope’s which drew QDWLRQDO DFFODLP DQG ZDV YRWHG RQH RI &DOLIRUQLD·V WRS ÀIW\ restaurants, The Harbor restaurant, located on Stern’s Wharf, the bar-lounge, Pepper’s and the pub, Gallagher’s, both on State Street. After many years in the business, Penelope transitioned to a career in real estate during which she oversaw the sale of several of Montecito’s premiere estates. In her earlier years, Penelope was a model and an actress under contract with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Penelope is the granddaughter of oil pioneer, Samuel Barlow Mosher, founder of Signal Oil Company and owner of Dos Pueblos Ranch, and later, the Dos Pueblos Orchid Company, which by the 1960s, became known as the world’s largest orchid and carnation farm. Penelope had a charitable nature and extended her efforts to supporting the Santa Barbara Zoo where she served on their board and oversaw the planning of their annual Zoofari Ball. Penelope has spent the last two decades living in Costa Rica, where she again, embarked on a career in real estate while remaining closely tied to the restaurant community in the small enclave of her home base of Potrero/ Flamingo. Penelope is survived by her three siblings, Samuel, Megan, and Barlow, and her three children, Capucine Hoybach, Chelsey Santry, and Courtney Matthews.

SUNDAY, MAY 2, 2021

SHORE, Russ

December 3, 1932 – April 18, 2021

Nicky “Bebop” Bonura aka Russ Shore, Bushwick High School, Class of 1950, Brooklyn, New York passed away peacefully in Santa Barbara County, California. +H ORYHG VSHQGLQJ WLPH DW 6DQWD $QLWD 5DFH 7UDFN ZKHUH VRPH RI KLV DVKHV PD\ ÀQG WKHLU ZD\ ,I WKLV LV WR EH KH·V ´+RSLQJ WKH KRUVHV GRQ·W JHW VSRRNHG FURVVLQJ WKH ÀQLVK line.” Fly Me To The Moon…

PARATTE, Rosalia

Rosalia “Oma” Paratte, a great mother, grandmother and great-grandmother passed away peacefully in Santa Barbara on January 15th, 2021. Rosa is survived by her son Rob, her daughters-in-law Sharon and Kristy, and her grandchildren: Ryan, Tyler and Rebecca. Rosa was born in Augsburg, Germany where she and her twin sister were raised. She later came to the United States and worked hard to create a life for herself. She was a strong woman. Rosa later married her beloved husband Arnold in Hawaii and subsequently moved to Santa Barbara. They had two children Rob and Rick (d). Rob is in real estate development and based in San Francisco with his wife Kristy. Rosa loved her grandchildren and would spoil them with lunch, snacks and sweets with any opportunity she had. Of her grandchildren, Ryan works in technology and Tyler works in real estate and both are living in San Francisco, Rebecca lives in Portland, Oregon with her family. After her husband passed Rosa spent the later years of her life in Carpinteria where she enjoyed being outdoors, going on long beach walks, and getting ice cream. In addition to being a loving grandmother, she was a great neighbor and friend to her community in Carpinteria. Rosa will be remembered as a loving mother and grandmother who had a great sense of humor and a big heart. A small private funeral service will be held in Santa Barbara later this year.

SMANIOTTO, Beverly Nov. 03, 1928 - April 24, 2021

It is with great sadness that the family of Beverly Smaniotto (92) announces her passing on Saturday, April 24, 2021. Beverly suffered a sudden health crisis from which she could not recover. During her transition, she was surrounded by family at the hospital: her son, Marc Smaniotto and his wife Becky; daughter Moriyah Simone and grandson, Solomon Smaniotto. Also able to share their love and support via computer were her son, Shaun Gabriel and granddaughter, Mandy Gabriel.

Virtual parade to be released around June 27 solstice

Continued from Page A1 visit http://www.solsticeparade. com/2021-parade-participation. In addition to the State Street parade, the celebration will include a virtual home grown parade, where residents can dress up their house or business in support of community celebration. There will also be an inflatable art garden with works from longtime Solstice artist Pali XMano. The Summer Solstice Celebration Virtual Community Parade (or long form video parade) will be released on the Solstice YouTube Channel and TVSB around June 27. It will include the virtual State Street parade as well as all community video/photo submissions. “Get ready to bloom with energy and excitement in your bright, bold, sparkling creation and help us capture the Santa Barbara Summer Solstice spirit in our virtual State Street parade,” Robin Elander, executive director of the celebration, said in a press release. “We can’t do it without you!” She also announced the winner of the Summer Solstice T-shirt and poster design contest: Wanda Venturelli and her artwork “Rain of Flowers.” Ms. Venturelli is a local artist “energized by the natural beauty of our local environment,” according to the press release.

April 2, 1925 – April 19, 2021

Dr. Jack Sheen, preeminent Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon, has died at the age of 96. Internationally recognized for his original contributions to plastic surgery, KH ZDV UHJDUGHG DV D VHPLQDO ÀJXUH LQ GHYHORSLQJ WKH DUW and technique of nasal surgery. He introduced aesthetic concepts and innovative techniques which transformed ZKDW KDG EHHQ SULPDULO\ DQ XQUHÀQHG UHGXFWLYH procedure into an artful and technically agile operation. He approached the surgery in a precise and nuanced way, focusing more on balance, harmony, and aesthetic details than on size alone. Besides his reputation as a respected teacher, Jack was renowned as an adept and PDVWHUIXO VXUJHRQ +LV VXUJLFDO WHFKQLTXH ZDV IDVW DQG ÁXLG ZLWK QHYHU D ZDVWHG RU tentative move. This was attested to by the many surgeons who came from all over the world to observe in his operating room. Jack began his practice in general Plastic and Reconstructive surgery in 1964, performing the full gamut of reconstructive procedures, but gradually limited his practice to his passion, nasal surgery, and eventually, to the most challenging cases. Most of his patients were doctor referred, frequently as a last resort. In addition to many peer reviewed articles, Jack, with his wife, Anitra, wrote a GHÀQLWLYH WH[W RQ QDVDO VXUJHU\ SXEOLVKHG LQ 7KLV ZDV H[SDQGHG WR D WZR YROXPH QG (GLWLRQ LQ 5HPDUNDEOH IRU D PHGLFDO ERRN LW LV VWLOO LQ SULQW In 1981, he was appointed as Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery at UCLA. He received an added appointment as Clinical Professor of Surgery, Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at USC in 1988. Among numerous awards and honors, he received the Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor SUHVHQWHG E\ WKH 3ODVWLF 6XUJHU\ (GXFDWLRQDO )RXQGDWLRQ LQ 2XWVWDQGLQJ 6HUYLFH and Contribution Award, given by The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in 2000, and The Distinguished Fellow Award by the prestigious American Association of Plastic Surgeons in 2002. Having practiced in Los Angeles for 29 years, Jack moved to Santa Barbara in 1993 and enjoyed a busy practice there until 2003. In retirement he took up portrait sculpture as a hobby and at the age of 89, “shot his age” in golf. The son of Armenian refugees from the Turkish genocide, Jack grew up in Altadena, MRLQHG WKH 86 1DY\ LQ DQG ZDV DVVLJQHG WR D WURRS FDUULHU LQ WKH 6RXWK 3DFLÀF $ OLWWOH NQRZQ IDFW DERXW -DFN 6KHHQ LV WKDW DW WKH DJH RI KH FRXOG W\SH DOPRVW words per minute on a manual typewriter. This skill enabled him to spend the war in D EXQN QH[W WR WKH &RPPDQGHU WUDQVPLWWLQJ DQG UHFHLYLQJ YLWDO FRPPXQLFDWLRQV LQ Morse code. In 1951 he graduated from Stanford University and continued on to Stanford University School of Medicine, graduating in 1955. Following an unclear path, he completed a \HDU RI 2% *<1 UHVLGHQF\ DQG WKUHH \HDUV RI JHQHUDO SUDFWLFH EHIRUH FRPSOHWLQJ 3ODVWLF Surgery training in 1964 at Cook County Hospital, Chicago. Jack will be missed for his warm personality, sense of humor and generous spirit. He is survived by his wife Anitra, sons Matthew and Michael Sheen, daughter Joan Sheen Welch, and granddaughters Caroline and Carlie Sheen and Sarah Welch.

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She’s worked with Kids Draw Architecture, Montessori Center, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, State Street Ballet Young Dancers, and in recent years, the Community Arts Workshop Outreach Committee, helping to produce many events celebrating fellow artists. Her oil painting was created as a celebration of verdant growth, renewal and the holistic cycle of all life forms. Visit https://www.solsticeparade. com/ to learn more about Ms. Venturelli or the 2021 Summer Solstice Celebration. email: gmccormick@newspress.com

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Beverly also leaves behind her granddaughter, Jazmine Simone and very favorite niece, Carol Smaniotto and Carol’s son, Eric Anderson, as well as stepson, Ed Johnson and his family in Missouri. Beverly enjoyed a full and active life. She was married to Pete Smaniotto for 49 years until his death in 1995. They lived in Hope Ranch and were members of the La Cumbre Country Club for many years. When her children were young, she was both a Boy Scout and Girl Scout leader. She was a great lover of nature and passed that love on to her children. She surrounded herself with beautiful plants and loved animals, especially her dog Gigi, whom she leaves in the competent care of her longtime friend, Todd Bowles. Her church was an important part of her life. She was a loyal member and supporter of the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Barbara. Beverly received and appreciated many prayers and words of comfort during her passing. Beverly Smaniotto, our mother and grandmother, was quite a character, a strong and sometimes stubborn personality, who was nevertheless generous and the hub of our family wheel. She is, and will be, forever missed. Due to Covid-19, the family hopes to celebrate her life sometime this summer.

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Garrett Michael Van Wyk, 85, passed away of natural causes on April 24th, 2021, at his home in Santa Barbara, California.

After his Norman Rockwell upbringing in Bismarck, North Dakota, Garry moved to California and attended UCLA on an NROTC scholarship. During Naval service he married his college sweetheart, JoAnn Rusconi, settled in Santa Barbara and took over his father’s Volkswagen/Porsche dealership with his sister Greta and brother Loren. He later expanded the franchises to include Santa Barbara Mazda, Peugeot, Renault, Van Wyk’s Body Shop, and a used car dealership. Meanwhile, with JoAnn he expanded the 9DQ :\N IDPLO\ ÀUVW ZLWK -XOLH IROORZHG E\ &KULV 3DXO /LVD 6WHYH *UHJ DQG 0DU\

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VAN WYK, Garrett Michael

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Wind west-northwest 6-12 knots today. Waves 3-6 feet with a south-southwest swell 4-8 feet at 13 seconds. Visibility clear.

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At Lake Cachuma’s maximum level at the point at which water starts spilling over the dam holds 188,030 acre-feet. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, equivalent to the amount of water consumed annually by 10 people in an urban environment. Storage 116,530 acre-ft. Elevation 723.67 ft. Evaporation (past 24 hours) 33.3 acre-ft. Inflow 8.8 acre-ft. State inflow 0.0 acre-ft. Storage change from yest. +0 acre-ft. Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

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Orcutt 8-year-old publishes book By MADISON HIRNEISEN NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT

Anaiyah Alexander is living proof that it’s never too early to start chasing dreams. In early April, Anaiyah, an 8year-old from Orcutt, became a published author with the release of her new book, “Little Brothers are Annoying,” a children’s book about her relationship with her younger brother, Tyquam “Ty”. In the book, the young author explains the difficulties of having to share toys and cookies with her little brother, while also acknowledging the special bond the two share. She ends the book with the phrase, “I guess I should say … little brothers are the best!” Anaiyah initially wrote the story for a school project about two years ago, but for Christmas this year, her mom, Toni Dyer, had the story professionally illustrated and printed as a gift for her daughter. When other family members saw the book at Christmas time, they voiced an interest in also obtaining a copy. This led Ms. Dyer to pursue self-publication and order more printed copies of the book. What started as 20 orders soon turned to 50, and pretty soon, Ms. Dyer was contacted by Indianabased publishing company Xlibris Publishing, who offered to publish the book and share it with a bigger audience. The book is now available in Barnes & Noble stores and online at Amazon. Last month, Anaiyah held her first book signing at Chef Rick’s Ultimately Fine Foods in Santa Maria. Since publishing the book, Anaiyah said she’s heard great feedback from people who have read it, and she hopes to continue writing more books in the future. “I have heard from lots of people who read the book, and they said it was amazing,” Anaiyah told the News-Press. As a young creative trailblazer with an eager spirit, Ms. Dyer said the sky is the limit for her daughter. “Anaiyah doesn’t let me rest. Every moment she’s awake, she’s plotting her next mission of how she’s going to take over the world,” Ms. Dyer said with a

Anaiyah initially wrote the story for a school project about two years ago, but for Christmas this year, her mom had the story professionally illustrated and printed as a gift for her daughter.

laugh. During the book signing event, Anaiyah and her family held a raffle for three gift baskets to raise funds for their organization, Young But Mighty, to send a local child to summer camp this year. Ms. Dyer started the organization with her two children during the pandemic, allowing Aniayah and Ty to oversee various service events and give back to the community. Since starting the organization, Anaiyah and her family have hosted canned food drives, handed out socks to the homeless, set up a take one leave one table in their neighborhood and created a public service announcement when the Black Lives Matter movement gained traction over the summer. To fund these community efforts, Anaiyah even started her own business during the pandemic making and selling lip gloss. What started as a science project eventually grew into her own brand of gloss called “Miss Thang,” which has appeared in multiple pop up shops and is sold on Etsy. As Anaiyah’s brand grew during

From left, Anaiyah Renee Alexander with her mother, Toni Dyer, and younger brother Tyquam Alexander.

the pandemic, Ms. Dyer said Ty voiced interest in starting his own business as well. Recently, the family launched “Fly Ty Shades,”

a collection of sunglasses that are also sold on Etsy. For Anaiyah and Ty, their entrepreneurial pursuits help

them fund their efforts to give back and fulfill the mission of Young But Mighty. “(The mission is) to do our part,

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to spread love and to give back,” Anaiyah said. email: mhirneisen@newspress.com

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December 2020. After the county entered the orange tier last month, museums were permitted to reopen at 50% capacity indoors. Visitors can expect the standard COVID-19 protocols at MOXI, such as required face masks, oneway arrows on the ground, turn taking and constant sanitation. However, nearly all the exhibits at MOXI are open. The exhibits that remain closed include those with too many small parts to clean, with forced air and requiring users to put their face up against something. “For the most part, the experience is pretty similar,” Ms. Gose said. “The approach that we’re taking to reopening is to reassess. We’re following the CDC and the state guidelines, and as those evolve and change, we are keeping abreast of those; we are getting visitor feedback; and we’ll make adjustments as necessary, which also matches our whole educational philosophy too. We test and we iterate and we make improvements, so we’ll be doing that along the way.” The museum is only open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday as of now, but staff hopes to resume normal, seven-day operations sometime this summer, COVID permitting. “MOXI is a familiar space, which after a year of such change in kids’ lives and change that was so wildly out of their control, to now come back to a familiar, safe, beloved space really does a lot, just on a social and emotional level,” Ms. Gose said. “Now, add in the fact that they can do handson exploration with science, technology, engineering, art and math that they may not have been able to do in those remote Zoom learning environments, then all of the sudden, it reignites that love for learning. “It reminds them that there is more to learn than just staring at a computer screen, and it gets them back to doing what kids do best, which is exploring where their own curiosity leads them, discovering something new and being creative.” On Friday, there were several kids back to doing what they do best at MOXI, whether it was their

“It reminds them that there is more to learn than just staring at a computer screen, and it gets them back to doing what kids do best, which is exploring where their own curiosity leads them, discovering something new and being creative,” said Robin Gose, president and CEO of MOXI, after reopening to the public last week.

first visit or 20th visit, including Hussan Hammou’s 3-year-old daughter. “We just wanted to take a little mini vacation to take a break,” Mr. Hammou, a Pasadena resident, told the News-Press. “This is my daughter’s first time, and so far, she’s so into it. I guess it’s the most interaction (she’s had). Most of the stuff (she does) is with adults, so this is much fun for her.” Bonnie Cox brought her three children to Moxi Friday morning, and told the News-Press that she used to be a member until the pandemic hit, so she actually paid for her tickets that day. “But I told them about last year and they refunded my money back and extended my membership until December this year,” Ms. Cox said. “That was really nice of them.” According to Ms. Cox, her three children — Charlotte, 10, Wesley, 6 and Aaron, 4 — have many different interests. She said Aaron is her engineer, Wesley is her friendly perfectionist and Charlotte is her artist. “Here, each of them have something to look forward to, and they can bond with each other and share what they’re passionate about and learn from each other,” she said. “They each want to do their different things at the same

time, so here, I can be stationary or go from one to the other without one being frustrated because somebody’s doing something different. That’s really hard to do.” The Cox family visited MOXI all the way from Camarillo, but the mother said it’s worth the drive because she’s a firm believer in allowing her children to learn in every way they can. “It’s really good for them to be here,” she said. “They learn by different situations and experiences, and if they do the same thing every day, they can’t grow mentally. “There’s only a short amount of time in their lives they can experience that (learning), then after that, it’s like, you’re responsible for making money. I believe when kids aren’t responsible for financial stuff, they can focus on learning, you know? That’s why I’m thankful for this place.” MOXI staff recommends visitors make reservations and buy their tickets online in advance, but reservations are not required. Tickets for adults cost $16 and tickets for children ages 3 to 12 are $12. Kids ages 2 or younger can visit the museum free of charge. Visit moxi.org to learn more. email: gmccormick@newspress.com

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Olympic hopeful Evan Heffernan practices kite foiling off the Central Coast shores in preparation for two major sailing World Championships in September and October. Athletes who finish in the top spots in the World Championships will qualify their countries for a spot in the Paris Olympic games in 2024.

Santa Barbara resident sets sights on Paris Olympic Games By MADISON HIRNEISEN NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT

ust off the shores of Santa Barbara, Olympic hopeful Evan Heffernan can be seen zipping through the water on his foil board, propelled by a kite flying high in the air that moves him across the surface of the ocean. This unique form of sailing is

known as formula kiteboarding, and athletes use a large foil kite to harness wind power and move their board across the top of the water. The sport, which has gained traction and popularity in the last decade, will make its debut appearance in the Paris Olympic Games in 2024. Two upcoming competitions, the Individual World Championships in September and the Team Relay World Championships in October, will determine what countries will qualify for the upcoming Olympic games. Then, in 2023 and 2024, the countries who earned their spot in Paris will hold an athlete qualifier to determine the top male and female competitor who will

compete on the which further world stage at propelled the Olympics. his desire to To learn more about Evan Entering the compete on the Heffernan’s Olympic campaign, visit Olympics as the world stage in evanheffernan.com. top U.S. formula the Olympic kiteboarding games. athlete is “(Making it to precisely where Mr. Heffernan the Olympics) has always always hopes to be by 2024. been something I’ve been looking Mr. Heffernan, a native of Santa to achieve, to be at the top of a Barbara, started sailing as a child, sporting career,” Mr. Heffernan working his way through the Santa told the News-Press. Barbara Seashells sailing program Before the COVID-19 crisis before joining the Santa Barbara barred athletes from competing Youth Sailing Foundation in junior in international events, Mr. high. Heffernan was the top-ranked As his skills developed, so American kiteboarder and ranked did his passion. During high 5th in the world as of 2019. He and school, he joined the U.S. Sailing his U.S. teammate, Daniela Moroz, Olympic Development program, were also the defending Team

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Relay World Champions before the pandemic hit. Due to pandemic restrictions, training with the entire U.S. Kite Team in 2020 was a difficult endeavor. Most of the athletes trained separately and communed over Zoom until they could all meet together for a training camp in Santa Barbara in November. Since then, the team has met for two additional training camps in Florida in January and in Mexico in March. When it comes time for the Olympic qualifier competitions in 2023 and 2024 leading up to the games, the stakes are high for the athletes on the U.S. team. Just one male and one female athlete who achieves the highest

combined score in both qualifiers will advance to the Olympic games in Paris. Though it would seem each athlete would be interested in keeping their training tactics and practices to themselves, Mr. Heffernan said the reality is actually quite the opposite. The members of the U.S. Kite Team actually enjoy practicing together to give the U.S. team the best chance of making it to the top of the podium in Paris. “Historically, what we’ve seen with sailing is that people who train in a group get better faster,” Mr. Heffernan said. “You’re always competing, you’re always learning Please see HOPEFULL on B4

At left, before the pandemic, Evan Heffernan was ranked as the top kiteboarding athlete in the U.S. and ranked fifth in the world. Going into Olympic qualification, he is hoping to defend his top spot and head to Paris in 2024. At right, Formula kiteboarding, a sport that has gained popularity in the last decade, will debut in the Paris Olympics in 2024. Athletes use a large foil kite to harness wind power and move their board across the top of the water.

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Johan Vass is a restaurant worker in Stockholm, Sweden. Though he has never been to the United States, he has been solving American crosswords for many years. He says his personal best times for New York Times puzzles range from 3:21 on a Monday to 10:36 on a Sunday. Somewhere along the way he started constructing crosswords in English — which is quite a challenge for someone coming from another language and culture. Johan says this one took him two months to make. I’m honestly in awe. — W.S.

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

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This retrograde allows you 15 16 10 19 1 17 25 6 23 18 to reflect on the intimate bonds you’ve created in recent months. 25 14 14 6 16 6 3 CANCER — While Monday brings fun, Tuesday brings you back to reality 5 15 9 1 5 3 5 4 14 18 3 when Pluto retrogrades in Capricorn and your partnership zone. Pluto encourages A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z you to focus on and analyze your past relationships to see what went right and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 what went wrong. LEO — Use Pluto turning retrograde B in Capricorn on Tuesday to focus on your 2021-05-02 health and well-being. Pluto is in your habit zone, encouraging you to look at 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 your current routine and see if it’s really O W working for you. What can you do to make it better? 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Devil’s gate

Going from hell to heaven in California

MYSTIC ROAD WARRIOR

Robert Eringer

Editor’s note: Montecito author Robert Eringer’s Mystic Road Warrior column begins today in the News-Press. These articles on his travels will appear every other Sunday in the Life section.

ith the May Day celebrations of Beltane and Walpurgis Night just passed, now is a good time to tell this tale. I had been meaning to take my mother on a road trip up Pacific Coast Highway to Carmel — “Travels with Mom” (an homage to John Steinbeck’s book) — but she wasn’t feeling it, so I looked instead to a dark novella taking shape in my mind around the oddity of a place called Devil’s Gate on the edge of Pasadena. Edgy, yes. Not what everyone does, no. Unnoticed beauty brought to life, be careful. Walk the fine line of madness, for sure. Highlight human imperfections. And isn’t that the devil’s job in a nutshell? Con them into selling their soul in a Faustian pact for vanity’s sake? The night before departure a demon stalks me in my dreams — maybe the same gargoylelike creature I encountered a dimension away in my bed at the Burford Inn at the Gateway to the Cotswolds in England 18 months P H O W E V E R earlier. In this nightmare, the R O X X demon is with me in the back seat of a shiny black sedan, taunting I R Z O N A L me to get out, spitting the words V A R K D L “Arroyo Seco, Arroyo Seco” — the very name of the haunted canyon A O Q U O T A that the artist Van Stein and I are T U R E S D about to visit. E A M J The artist and I leave the our vehicle, nicknamed COW V I R T U O S O (for Clubhouse on Wheels) on R N T N I La Canada Road and follow a A V I A T I O N gravel path by foot to Devil’s Gate Dam near NASA’s Jet S I I K I Propulsion Laboratory, founded T N E N on Halloween 1936 by a handful of rocket buccaneers including U R E S P R I G Jack Parsons, whose passion when not producing rocket fuel was 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 practicing sex and magic rituals X A Z T W S Q F J under the tutelage of British 2021-05-01 occultist Aleister Crowley (known 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 as The Beast), who, upon visiting Y D U L P M V G E from England, determined that the tunnel behind Devil’s Gate is “a portal to hell.” A century earlier, the elders of a Native American tribe called forbadeWORD everyone from SCRAMBLED GAME By Dave Green THATTvonga venturing into what they believed By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek to be a seriously haunted canyon. At the bottom of a steep path, we Unscramble these Jumbles, must negotiate thousands of jagged one letter to each square, to form six ordinary words. rocks on the dry creek bed to reach our destination, winding through a jungle of dangling branches from half-dead trees, wild weeds and poison oak. When I turn around to look back, I feel déjà vu re-visualizing a dream I had one month earlier in which I was hiking along “The Canada River.” Moments later, through a clearing, I catch my first glimpse of Satan’s profile chiseled into the rock by an unholy force of nature. Approaching the notorious gate at the base of this evil crag, I reach for my sunglasses, but they’re gone — claimed by the devil, it seems, never to be seen again. The double gates are bound by a thick chain, curled tight and clasped by a gigantic padlock, either to stop goodness going in or evil coming out, I’m not entirely sure. I poke my camera through the bars and snap a number of 5/02 photos not knowing until a day later that I’d caught a whole bunch Nowofarrange circled letters demonsthe — perhaps the devil to form surprise answer, INSTRUCTIONS ©2021 Tribune Content Agency, LLC itselfthe — in one large orb. as All Rights Reserved. suggested by theitabove cartoon. Or maybe (or they) caught me Fill the grid so every row, every column and because a negative entity most PRINT YOUR ANSWER IN THE CIRCLES BELOW every 3-by-3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9. certainly attached itself and That means that no number is repeated in any row, accompanied us home. Because that night, the devil has column or box. its own take on my intrusive visit Sudoku puzzles appear on the Diversions page to its lair, and it weighs in while Monday-Saturday and on the crossword solutions I’m asleep during my first night home, muttering a double-barreled page in Sunday’s Life section. word I’ve never used, so I consult Merriam–Webster for a precise definition of “argle-bargle”: 4 6 3 “Copious but meaningless talk or 5 1 8 writing.” All through the week, my dreams 2 9 7 are agitated: Intruders coming Answer: 6 2 9 into my home, fights breaking out UNSEEN ENCORE SPRAWL around me; general disturbance. 1 3 4 HIDDEN OBLONG APPEAR And when awake, before my 8 7 5 eyes my iPhone becomes subject She used fresh fruit to make her to seizures, flashing storms; own juice and was — 7 8 6 its keyboard, which I had not summoned, goes into a spasmodic 3 4 2

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SUNDAY, MAY 2, 2021

ROBERT ERINGER PHOTOS

At left, this is inside the “Portal to Hell.” At right, a much more heavenly place is Mission St. Charles in Carmel. Writer Robert Eringer found it to be the “antidote to Devil’s Gate” during his travels.

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Continued from Page B3 frenzy all by itself, bouncing between letters and numbers and symbols, causing many strange indecipherable messages to appear in Notes. Clearly, I need an antidote for Devil’s Gate — someplace spiritually uplifting where this strange new presence can be vanquished. Thus, I think about where I’m most at peace with myself, and what comes to mind is Carmel-by-the-Sea, a charming artist’s enclave up the coast. I’m not a church person, tending away from organized religion in favor of personal spirituality and a general feeling that “God” is all around us and also within. Yet I nonetheless feel a hankering to attend Mass in a holy place for the purpose of dusting off the devil. DOT-CALM Carmel’s old Mission is named after Charles Borromeo, the patron saint of learning and the arts. Plus I already have a little history with Carmel relating to my quest against evil. After deciding a few years ago that the devil is not in the detail

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but in the data and visiting Silicon Valley to door-step Google and Facebook and prove my point that the folks behind social media are anything but social and after touring the Computer History Museum and feeling physically and psychologically drained by data’s origins, I had a craving for someplace as completely different as possible and wound up 93 miles away in Carmel. I nicknamed the community “Dot-calm” after another dream in which the words “White 22” reverberated inside my skull. A search engine identified “White 22” as a light-gray paint color called … Calm. Thus, on May 1, a Sunday, the day after Walpurgis Night and the last day of the occultist Beltane, Van Stein and I set off for the Monterey Peninsula and check into the Cypress Inn, founded by Doris Day, where dogs bring their pet people. Carmel is calm and quiet, an aroma of pine in the fresh salt air. This is where artists and writers — the bohemians — settled after San Francisco’s devastating earthquake. One of my early heroes as a young journalist was America’s first investigative reporter,

Lincoln Steffens, who decamped to Carmel in the late 1920s to pen his bestselling autobiography after a career exposing the high and mighty, perceived by them as a traitor to his privileged class. But Steffens enjoyed (not suffered) ADHD and saw things his own way, not much caring for class (especially at school) and thus becoming an equalizer, siding with David over Goliath and utilizing the almighty pen as his sword. My mission is The Mission — 5:30 Mass at San Carlos Borromeo — where inside this hallowed house of prayer, I intend to open myself to whatever message awaits me in the form of the priest’s opening words, whatever they may be. After several hymns, a priest appears. I brace myself for The Message. These are the priest’s precise words: “Go to In-N-Out Burger and when you get there be decisive.” But it is afterward, during dinner with one of my oldest, dearest friends at Mission Ranch, that the answer to vanquishing the devil is delivered: the music of Hildegard von Bingen, a Christian mystic whose liturgical hymns have endured10 centuries.

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Continued from Page B1 from each other when training together, and when you’re training on your own it’s harder to train and learn without the reference of the people around you.” As he trains with his U.S. teammates and prepares for the upcoming competitions in the fall of this year, Mr. Heffernan has set a clear goal for himself. He aims to not just make it to the 2024 Paris Olympic games, but to take home the highly coveted gold medal. In his perspective, the best way to achieve this goal is to train alongside teammates and glean knowledge from his fellow athletes to continue improving his technique and skill. “My ultimate goal is to win a gold medal at the Olympics, and I believe that the best path forward for that is to be working as a group,” Mr. Heffernan said. “I come from a sailing background and some of the group comes from a kiting background. I think that all the different information you can take … adds different perspectives and different information. But definitely the end goal is to be the one that qualifies.” Depending on where he finishes in the upcoming World Championships in September and October, Mr. Heffernan could qualify for Direct Athlete Support from the Olympic committee, which would provide funds to cover some of his coaching and equipment expenses. In the meantime, Mr. Heffernan started his Olympic campaign in mid-March, a fundraising effort that he hopes will raise enough support for him to take time off from his job as a mobile application developer to solely focus on Olympic training. “My goal is to come away from each day with just a little more time in the water than everyone else in the world to get that little extra bit of practice I need to be the best,”

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At top, Evan Heffernan, a local of Santa Barbara, poses with his foil surfboard at Leadbetter Beach in Santa Barbara. Above, propelled by the wind, Evan Heffernan glides across the top of the water at Leadbetter Beach.

he said. With the debut of Olympic kiteboarding just a few years away now, Mr. Heffernan has the chance to become a trailblazer on the world stage by representing the U.S. for the first time in the inaugural kiteboarding races. But this is not what keeps Mr. Heffernan going —

the possibility of taking home the gold is his primary motivation. “If I’m a trailblazer, great, but I think the primary goal at the end of it is going for gold and really having the best chance to do that,” Mr. Heffernan said. email: mhirneisen@newspress.com

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At left, co-owner of Zitzilin Importants Citlali Guerrero said as more people return to State Street to dine out, her store has seen a significant increase in sales and customers. At right, Miss Behavin’, a clothing boutique located in Paseo Nuevo, has seen increased customer traffic since COVID-19 restrictions have eased countywide.

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GUEST OPINION ANDY CALDWELL: America’s woke tolerance for criminal activity/ C2

SUNDAY, MAY 2, 2021

DID YOU KNOW? Bonnie Donovan

Hypocrisy of state leaders has gone over the top “If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.” — Mark Twain

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At left, parking is a challenge for people accessing Hot Springs Trail, Montecito resident Bryan Rosen wrote in a News-Press commentary. At right, more people are now parking in the area around Hot Springs Trail.

Debate over Hot Springs Trail

Where is the public going to park to access the trail?

or many years, people have been parking on Riven Rock Road to access Hot Springs Trail. Since the pandemic, the trail has become much more popular, leading to way too many cars being parked on Riven Rock. Understandably, the residents of the road are upset and have been complaining about the serious traffic problem since it began around March 2020. Finally, with the help of the Montecito Association, a solution was found, and that was to put white lines or stripes on both sides of the road. The residents of Riven Rock Road had to vote on this and get a 75% vote for it to be enacted. Under the California Vehicle Code, it’s illegal to park over the white lines, and those who do so can be ticketed. Unfortunately, the public doesn’t view a country lane the same as a busy highway, like East Valley Road, and cars continue to park over the white lines. The

California Highway Patrol is Taylor informed me that the state putting warning slips on the cars, of California wants 20 feet of and plans on issuing tickets in the clearance for emergency vehicle near future. access between the stripes. What is wrong and meanI measured the lines and spirited about the process is that found areas with less than 20 feet public input wasn’t solicited. between them on Riven Rock near Plenty of time to do that in the Mountain Drive — they could have more than year long been placed closer to the period of there being edge. Bryan a problem. No notices Bear in mind that after Rosen were posted at the cars are parked on Riven trailhead, nor has the Rock near Mountain Drive The author matter been on the about 15 feet of space Live in Board of Supervisors’ remains on the 22 1/2 foot Montecito agenda. wide road, and that there Trail users need to be are narrower roads in heard and be part of the solution. Montecito, unstriped, in which In the future, before trail access is parked vehicles stick way out into limited somewhere else, a public the road. process is needed. Then everyone It’s also important to note that can come together, and figure out Riven Rock Road is a horse of a a win-win solution. different color where it narrows to The issues used to justify about 18 feet wide about a fourth eliminating parking are fire safety of a mile down. and allowing room for passage This allows only about 11 feet of of emergency vehicles, very clearance for an eight foot wide important. fire engine after cars are parked. Montecito Fire Chief Kevin The narrow one-lane temporary

bridge over Cold Springs Creek is even more of a problem. The question is, “Will ticketing ensure fire safety?” An almost endless number of hikers use this popular trail, to access the hot springs or destinations nearby. The trail is of great benefit for the public’s health. People are coming from all over. Tourists even come from other countries. Cars will continue to park, and ticketed cars are still an obstacle to emergency vehicles. A solution is to put up “no parking” signs or paint the curb red. Such signs are already on the other side of Riven Rock Road. Ticketing unsuspecting hikers’ cars is mean-spirited. So where are hikers to park? The trailhead parking lot on Mountain Drive only holds nine vehicles. The Santa Barbara County Parks Department, under the supervision of Jeff Lindgren, has recently put up signs limiting parking in the lot

to only two hours between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, the busiest times. This doesn’t make sense as most hikes take longer than two hours. What about backpackers who have traditionally left their cars in the lot? There was plenty of room to park on the shoulder of East Mountain Drive until recently, but now residents have put rocks right to the edge of the road with signs posted saying “Private Property.” According to parcel maps used for tax purposes, there’s 60-foot public right of way for the 26-foot wide Mountain Drive, and a 50foot right of way for Riven Rock Road. Are residents illegally appropriating public property? On Riven Rock, one large parking space has even been created next to the parked cars with a plaque set in stone saying “Private Property,” and a sign stating that Please see ROSEN on C4

Letter to Brearley School, part II

got a lot of mail about last GOT TO READ THIS week’s column, which I recommend that James Buckley reprinted an open letter read Yassie Liow’s rebuttal to from Andrew Andrew Gutmann’s letter. Gutmann to Liow is a senior at Brearley PURELY students, parents, and and her rebuttal was POLITICAL teachers at Brearley, an published by The Iris. The expensive private K-12 rebuttal is thoughtful and school on Manhattan’s articulate. If this represents Upper East Side. the quality of thinking and Mr. Gutmann’s letter writing among seniors at apparently launched — Brearley, I would suggest finally! — a conversation that the school is doing a about racism, policing, very fine job educating the quality of teaching, their students. James Buckley appropriate reading We should all attempt to material, and a host of balance our perspectives. other micro matters that deserve more attention. Too often these Terry Dressler subjects are deemed taboo Goleta and suppressed by left-leaning students, teachers, administrators (I did indeed read Ms Liow’s and activists who regularly shut out rebuttal, which appeared in The and shout down dissident opinions Iris, an online journal written expressed or implied. “By The Youth, For The Youth,” First, let’s run those letters, and found it both thoughtful and followed by a brief response, then articulate. I congratulate the young we’ll read a rebuttal and some of lady for being able to express her the response to it. sentiments so clearly. – J.B.)

POISONOUS CULTURE Thank you for your recent column. It is a magnificent summary of the poisonous culture affecting our educational system. I have cut it out and will be reading it daily. It is particularly frightening to me that while the current “educators” will eventually move on, they will have trained generations of teachers to replicate our current insanity. I’d be interested to hear if you can even imagine how things will eventually become sane again. Robert Gayou, M.D. (As far as things eventually becoming “sane again,” look no further than Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose most recent proposals to rein in college sexual harassment, “Star Chambers,” and to promote “intellectual diversity” on state-funded campuses are an encouraging start. Another great thing would be to bring

back Betsy DeVos to head up the Department of Education, immediately upon the end of the Biden administration. – J.B.) PUBLISH AND ENCOURAGE MORE I commend your publication of Mr. Andrew Gutmann’s letter to The Brearley School. This letter should be sent to the school boards of every school district in America and every principal of both private and public schools, and to every PTA. I too am appalled at the reluctance of people to speak out against this kind of Orwellian propaganda being used in our schools and universities and through our cultural organizations in general. As the response to anyone who objects to these divisive policies is “You are a racist,” we have allowed this charge to become the most feared of epithets in America. It is time to fight back through every means available, especially

ridicule. I urge you to find other newspapers and TV programs to publish this letter and encourage others to rebel against what can only be described as tyranny. Tucker Carlson of Fox News could be one candidate. Derek Hanley (Tucker Carlson and Fox News have both commented at length about Mr. Gutmann’s letter. I am not aware of what the rest of the media covers, so I’m not sure the other major outlets have. I do like your suggestion to use ridicule to combat false charges and fake news. Ridicule, as you probably know, was a favorite tactic of Saul Alinsky, author of “Rules For Radicals.” – J.B.) I can’t reprint Ms. Liow’s entire letter, but what follows is the essence of what she writes: “As Please see BUCKLEY on C4

alifornia is part of the United States of America’s musical chairs? Everyone saw it was happening, but no one did anything about it. It’s confirmed, however by the Census. People are leaving California and the state now has one less electoral vote and one less congressional seat in the House of Representatives. Last Monday, also confirmed: more than enough legitimate signatures needed to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom were accepted by the state of California. It’s early, but some have already thrown their hat in, or “tutu” as it were, into the three-ring circus. The hypocrisy of the leaders, and we use the term loosely, has gone over the top. There are two types of people — some get sick and tired and leave; some get serious and stand and fight. When it is time to do your part in November (that would be the serious, standing and fighting part), remember you must vote for the recall and vote for the replacement governor. None of it works without both. Tomorrow is the start date of 2021’s high fire season. This year, we received 47% of the county’s normal rainfall. The city officials declared we are “drought ready,” due to the resident’s conservation efforts. On June 22, the Santa Barbara City Council will, no doubt, unanimously vote for the proposed increased water rates for those residents that have conserved so diligently. The increases will start July 2021 and continue incrementally through 2023. What a reward. “How bout a Fresca?” — Judge Smails And on the flip side, the onerous neighborhoodchanging housing bills, that we warned of earlier, will be up for vote soon, any day in May. It is imperative you call and email your California senators, not just the ones that represent you. Also, your family and friends, this is so important. Which kind of person are you? This is your chance to be the person that seriously stands and fights for their city. Call Sen. Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, at her Santa Barbara office 1-805965-0862, or her Sacramento office at 916-651-4019. Or email her, Senator.Limon@senate. CA.gov. Search for California senators and voice your opinion. These housing bills are antienvironment — they remove the voter approved California Environmental Quality Act, on developments. CEQA became law in 1970 and serves to alert the public of possible negative environmental impacts from a project. These proposed bills, Senate Bills 9 and 10, allow no local input. Your neighborhood and livability will be decimated overnight, while the developments obliterate your sunlight and privacy, much less the overcrowding of your peaceful neighborhood. These market rate units are excused from providing adequate parking and not held responsible for city infrastructure as in sewer lines, public safety, streets, and schools. Yet our cities seem blind to the necessity of water and infrastructure as part of the formula of a successful enterprise. Do these bills absolve the investors of local ordinances such as “electric Please see DONOVAN on C4

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America’s woke tolerance for criminal activity

n the 1960s, a key that passivity and reticence mantra of the day can get them seriously hurt or was “Don’t judge me.” killed. Mostly, that had to do Another thing lost in this with long hair, sex, debate? The victims of crime. drugs, and rock and roll. Instead of blaming cops Fast forward to 2021. for doing their job, we should We are urged to not judge rather hold public defenders, criminals. Instead, criminals district attorneys, judges and are themselves considered parole boards, not to mention victims of racism, social the soft-on-crime politicians, inequity, mental illness, drug accountable every time they and alcohol abuse, etc. let somebody off Accordingly, the hook only to see California has passed them re-offend time laws to effectively and time again, up empty jails and to and including prisons. It is called subsequently killing the decarceration cops and innocent movement. civilians. Andy Caldwell We reduced many Santa Barbara serious crimes from County Public the status of a felony Defender Tracy to a misdemeanor, and Macuga wants more misdemeanors to infractions, transparency in our criminal to lower the penalty for these justice system, presumably crimes. The goal? Divert to help divert even more criminals from incarceration people from jail. She should to counseling, rehab and stay in her lane and make her vocational training. Hence, case(s) in court. That is, her few people go to jail or prison, woke tolerance for criminal and fewer still serve out their activity should not eclipse full sentence. civil society’s need for justice, One rationale behind this law and order. movement is that there is a Meanwhile, we would disproportionate number like transparency about the of people of color who are people getting away with arrested and incarcerated as crime. compared to white people. We would like every Supposedly, this proves the crime report to include the justice system is a function of immigration status, gang systemic racism. affiliation, and status of One thing I will grant homelessness of every person the social justice warriors? arrested and convicted. We Some innocent poor people also want to know their rap do get arrested and are sheet histories. Add to that, forced to plea because the names of the people our public defenders are who continuously fail to overloaded, and in some appear in court because they cases, inexperienced, if not have lost any and all fear incompetent. of repercussions. Reports Regardless, we can’t should also include the disregard the fact that an recidivism rates of people inordinate number of crimes who have been “caught and are committed by gang released” only to reoffend. bangers, career criminals, Finally, how many unsolved members of MS-13 and the crimes have been committed Mexican drug cartels, drug in our communities? addicts and the chronically To be clear, I am not saying homeless. They’re people that we should lock people who are living a life of crime up and throw away the key, and who deserve to lose their as I spent seven years as a freedom accordingly. volunteer at the Lompoc Nevertheless, the Federal Prison trying to help decarceration activists have reform prisoners. now turned the tables on law What I am saying is that enforcement and our criminal coddling criminals as if they justice system making them are victims, while ignoring out to be the bad guys. Cops the real victims and making are routinely suspected of criminals out of cops, is a racism, excessive force, and recipe for mayhem, including in the original words of Colin a future shortage of cops Kaepernick, “getting away and no shortage of authentic with murder.” victims. Accordingly, it is the cops who are considered guilty unless they can prove their Andy Caldwell is the executive innocence. Ultimately, we are director of COLAB and host conditioning cops to become of “The Andy Caldwell Radio reticent while encouraging Show,” weekdays from 3-5 criminals to resist and flee. p.m., on News-Press Radio AM Inauspiciously, cops know 1290.

ook where the Black Lives Matter mentality has gotten

us. The White House and the media are now alleging that the police officer involved in the Columbus, Ohio, shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant is a racist murderer. Yes, the life of a 16-year-old girl was tragically taken, but the officer clearly saved the life of another black girl. The videos of the incident show Ma’Khia Bryant about to stab the victim. Only prompt and decisive action on the part of the officer saved the victim’s life. He had no choice. If we really cared about black lives, all of us would be praising the officer for saving a life. In a sane world, he would be praised, but the incident doesn’t fit the typical narrative that the left can exploit. So what does the leftist media do? They leave out key information and distort what actually happened. For example, former White House advisor Valerie Jarrett claimed that “... Bryant was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times to break up a knife fight.” In other words, don’t believe the video — this was a knife fight. One television network intentionally distorted their video to hide the presence of the knife. Basketball player LeBron James intentionally incited violence against the police officer by sharing a photo of the cop with the caption “You’re next.” A direct threat to his life. None of this is really about racism, nor the pernicious principle of “white supremacy.” It’s about the left’s search for ultimate power. I pray that they are unsuccessful in their quest. John Hammerel Santa Barbara

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Let’s recall Newsom

n response to Ley Wertz’s article in letter to the NewsPress on April 25 regarding the recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom, I wish to correct some misinformation put forward. I have worked on the recall, and the petition signings were held by hard working volunteers of all political stripes. There was no one from the Proud Boys, The Three Percenters Militia Movement or the American Guard (a Neo-Nazi group) as was stated. It was also stated by Ley Wertz that they were anti-vaxxers. I am a conservative and am fully vaccinated, and several Democrats that I talked with were not going to get the vaccine. It’s quite a jump to break the vaccinated people versus the antivaxxers into a lump sum. Remember that we live in a free country, and each person can make up his or her own mind about what they want or don’t want. California Latinos tended to support the recall. Many Democrats signed the recall petition, and some even changed their party registration due to their disgust with Gov. Newsom. The recall was by the people of California and for all the people of California. There was no political corporation or party behind the recall. Those behind the recall were everyday people who disliked what Gov. Newsom was doing to this wonderful state. Even some of Gov. Newsom’s relatives signed the petition as they were ashamed of his hypocritical ways. Gov. Newsom has shown himself to be a one-man ruler. He has changed over 400 laws, which we the people voted for, without

any input. Even the courts ruled against his abuse of emergency powers. People in California suffer the highest taxes in the nation and the highest homeless rates and lowest quality of life. He has made California a sanctuary state and fails to follow immigration laws. He completely disregards the people’s votes and wishes. A few examples are: Release of thousands of prisoners — many of whom immediately broke the law again; high taxes; rising gas prices; failed vaccine roll-out and distribution plan; power outages due to fires caused by failed forest management; closure of small businesses and calling them unessential, while allowing large businesses, pot shops, liquor stores to remain open. Also, by not allowing children to attend school, great damage has been done. It has been proven that they should be in school. The private schools are open and have had no problems. These rules that he has put forward were only meant for you and me. His children went to a private school, and Gavin was able to attend a big bash in Napa Valley with no masks while we were locked down. Hypocrisy at its finest! Everyone needs to research Mr. Newsom and his policies thoroughly, as I have only mentioned a few things. California deserves better!

with one year to go that will cost California taxpayers well over $50 million. Republicans, wait one year and put up a good candidate. Mr. Eringer throws in Getty sibling deaths from drug overdoses insinuating that Newsom is responsible. Getty funded the rise to power of Kamala Harris? Duh, she was highly competent in all her elected jobs. Lastly, he claims all kinds of Newsom dalliances that have not been proven. Obviously, he made a very wise choice in divorcing Donald Trump Jr.’s crazy girlfriend. That should be a huge plus to vote no on Gov. Newsom’s recall. Jim Coombs Santa Barbara

Linda Hurst Goleta

A country without borders isn’t one

country without borders isn’t a country. In the Democrat’s zeal to dismember President Donald Trump’s smart policies, President Joe Biden, without thinking ahead, boneheadedly revised the southern border policy and opened the floodgates of open, “no permission needed” immigration. Immediately cartels started to move migrants from Mexico and South America in their trek and started to cross the invisible border. Make no mistake, other countries such as Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, China and Middle Eastern countries as well as other enemy’s have noticed. At least 3,000 to 3,500 unknowns cross each month, adding to the more than 11 million already here. President Biden will expand our welfare entitlement programs to support the flood of indigent illegal immigrants he’s invited to cross what used to be our southern border. The Biden administration is partnering with the cartels by doing what he’s doing. The narcotics the cartels are pushing are synthetic and far deadlier than they were. The drugs are laced with fentanyl. Chinese are working with the cartels to produce these deadly drugs. College students think they are taking something to help them study, and they are suddenly addicted or dead. Eventually, we will be in the same state as Mexico if this isn’t stopped. Yep. A country without borders. You pick the name Ted Solomon Santa Barbara

Questions loom following Eringer’s column

ot knowing all the facts in the column by Robert Eringer (“All in the (Extended) Family: the Gov. Newsom Story,” News-Press, April 25), I am totally unable to question all of his assertions. However, I am aware that Gov. Gavin Newsom has ties to both the Getty and Pelosi families as many politicians are helped into power by rich benefactors. In reading the article, I did, however, come across at least 15 assertions by Mr. Eringer that I considered false or exaggerated. Fifteen, I questioned, how many more? I don’t want to bore you as Mr. Eringer did but just a few of his exaggerations. He claims four families (Browns, Pelosis, Newsoms, and Getty’s) have dominated California politics. Yes about the Browns, but the other three have had minimal influence. The fact that 12% of voters can challenge an incumbent is a joke. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is correct when she questions the recall

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Mike Bender, a Santa Barbara resident, is intending to sue Santa Barbara County over the installment of a 5G small cell wireless facility in close proximity to his house. After the News-Press published its exclusive stories on the subject, Santa Barbara resident Julie Basham wrote a letter for the Voices section in which she applauds the efforts of those fighting the placement of 5G boxes near their homes.

5G concerns are justified

applaud those fighting the placement of 5G boxes in proximity to their homes. I cringed when I read the April 24 article (“Concerns Raised Over 5G Facilities,” News-Press), which stated “telecommunication officials say the radiation emissions are under control and safe to the general public based on regulations set by the Federal Communications Commission.” The story also cited the FDA and the World Health Organization saying there are no adverse effects tied to wireless exposure. But there is a wealth of information on Non-Thermal Biological Effects found on the National Institute of Health Pubmed Database. Search “Oxidative effects of wireless radiation.” The FCC and FDA information is not current. Prior research does not factor in the long-term or cumulative effects of exposure to EMF radiation. Prior studies do not focus on Specific Absorption Rate effects on the tissues. Children and pregnant women and those with neurological diseases have not been factored into their research. Children’s brains absorb at least twice the EMF radiation as an adult brain. In fact, many nations have banned Wi-Fi in schools and pre-schools (France). In 2011 the World Health Organization reclassified EMF radiation as “probably carcinogenic.” In China, research on EMF effects is given top priority, and as a result they have strict standards. For example, the SAR for the public in China is .02 watt per kilogram. In America, the SAR for the public is 4.0 watts per kilogram (1994)! The allowable absorption rate in the U.S. is four times greater than in China. The 5G wavelength is much stronger than 4G but is shorter so there has to be many more “wireless facilities.” But they should not be placed near inhabited areas. Julie Basham Santa Barbara

Henry Schulte

The author lives in Solvang

Scary time for America

fter the Derek Chauvin verdict, President Joe Biden went on the air and said, “Enough, enough of this senseless killing.” I couldn’t agree with him more. While the death of George Floyd turned America upside down, it created even more racism in this country, against whites. And while everyone was focused on the death of this man and while the media kept stirring the racist dialogue into a mass of feeding piranhas and while the primary motivation of our cities being burned down started with the actions of a white police officer, the rest of the country was being ignored. Has President Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris or U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters or Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer or any Democrats who love to pontificate about “equity” and the welfare of Americans and whining how we need to do something about gun control ever visited the hearts of where nearly all of the gun violence occurs? Have you seen any of them walking the streets of Chicago or Baltimore or Detroit and asking the people who live there how they feel about defunding the police? Have you seen them asking how the residents like hunkering down at night lest a stray bullet come flying through their wall? Have you seen them asking how residents’ children get pulled into gangs because the schools have lost all control and the majority of the households are single moms? As President Biden was genuflecting to the pressures of a false storyline about police targeting blacks, he failed to address the thousands of other senseless killings. The numbers waffle around a bit, but 2020 was considered the deadliest year in American history. More than 19,000 people were killed by firearm incidents. Of those, 68% were black. This is a key component of all the murders in America and yet is completely ignored. The black community is being fed propaganda how police are hunting them down, but they’re hunting each other down. You can produce all the factual stats you want, but the left sticks their fingers in their ears and shakes their heads. The politicians, the media and black leaders should be held accountable for this irresponsible behavior. Rather than address the real problem and offer solutions, they encourage this new age of anarchy. President Biden has called gun violence in America an “epidemic” and it certainly is, but he, like so many, is focusing on the wrong target. You can pass all the laws on gun control and assault rifles, but that’s not where the problem is. That’s merely a political feel-good, see how-tough-I-am move. Bullets are bullets, no matter what weapon they come out of, but if you can’t stop the crazy person pulling the trigger or the gang banger, what difference will it make? Do you honestly think the ones who pulled the trigger give a whit about what gun laws are passed? It bears repeating. Using Chicago again as the example, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, the city still ranks up there with the highest murder rate. If you really want to try and cut down on guns, go after the known gangs who seem to have a plethora of weapons. And instead of targeting lawabiding American citizens, stop the cartels who have been given a green light to flood our streets with instruments of murder since the border is now open. That truth is being Please see SCHULTE on C4

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Anti-censorship legislation: get it right

arry the Cable Guy made the phrase “GitR-Done” his signature. A new breed of young Republicans and populists has its own message for their establishment elders: Get it right. This new strategic alliance refuses to clap like trained GOP seals at any shiny vehicle masquerading as a free speech rescue because their very lives and livelihoods are on the line. This is not a drill. In Florida, conservative GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis has earned lavish praise and attention for backing anti-censorship legislation that he claims will reign in Big Tech’s power to exercise “clear viewpoint discrimination.” Among the DeSantis-backed statehouse bill’s key features: fines of between $25,000 and $250,000 per day for social media platforms that “censor, shadow ban, deplatform or apply post-prioritization algorithms” to Florida candidates, users or residents; a ban on public contracts with social media entities found guilty or civilly liable for antitrust violation; and requirements to disclose standards and definitions used by the tech overlords to censor and stifle dissidents. Gov. DeSantis asserts that the

bill, sponsored by Republican candidate and free-speech state house Rep. Blaise Ingoglia warrior Laura Loomer. (HB 7013/SB 7072), which passed As Ms. Loomer (who is running the state Senate on Monday, would again for Congress in Florida’s protect “negatively impacted 21st district) has warned for Americans who dissent from weeks, the bill only covers future orthodoxies favored by state-level candidates, the big tech cartel.” not federal candidates As the bill notes, like her or the former states have substantial president. A mechanism for interests in protecting review and restoration of their citizens from already-canceled accounts “inconsistent and is key. “The future of all unfair” internet of our future elections companies that “have Michelle Malkin in Florida is dependent become as important on this tech bill passing for conveying public with the strengthening opinion as public utilities are for amendments,” Ms. Loomer supporting modern society.” told me. “In order to restore That’s exactly the right message, integrity to our elections in and every red-state governor America, we must first hold should be sounding it. Big Tech accountable for But if you are going to take on their discriminatory and antithe Silicon Valley overlords and competitive behavior, as well as protect free speech, you’ve got to their illegal election interference make them pay. You’ve got to close in the form of de-platforming gaping loopholes. And you’ve got candidates.” to leave no de-platformed victims The bill would also only protect behind. journalists working for large Citing Facebook and corporate entities and leave Twitter’s bans of former independent citizen media in the president Donald Trump, Gov. cold. DeSantis has rightly blasted the Moreover, the Florida antiimmense control of “monopoly social media censorship law communications platforms’’ who fails to cover a wider universe of now act as “enforcers of preferred internet-based companies and narratives.” But the bill would financial institutions beyond not retroactively protect former Facebook, Twitter, Google and President Donald Trump or Instagram that are punishing former Florida GOP congressional conservative users for their

political views. These include multinational banks, rideshare companies, payment processors and telecom companies. Ms. Loomer knows of which she speaks, having been banned by Paypal, GoFundMe, Patreon, Lyft, TeeSpring, Uber and even Uber Eats, among dozens of other companies, for her no-holdsbarred journalism and anti-jihad activism. Similarly, “America First” host Nick Fuentes has been banned by all the usual Big Tech suspects, along with livestream service DLive, Coinbase, “and every payment processor” for his forceful advocacy of populism, an end to mass migration and protection of the nuclear family. He was scheduled to join Loomer, former Delaware GOP Senate candidate Lauren Witzke (banned from Twitter for calling a pedophilia-flirting transgender activist “demonic”), and me in Palm Beach Tuesday at a rally to push for loophole-free legislation holding Silicon Valley accountable for discriminatory deplatforming. But Mr. Fuentes never got off the ground, because two airlines and Joe Biden’s TSA informed him that he didn’t have “clearance” to fly. He has been charged with no crimes and was blocked from exercising his First Amendment rights to free speech and

peaceable assembly. “The United States is now a country that persecutes its own citizens for political dissent. My placement on the no-fly list constitutes a grave escalation by the federal government against American conservatives,” Mr. Fuentes told me. It’s “all the more reason why our Republican representatives in state and federal government must get serious and pass strong legislation that protects the civil liberties of the 75 million people that voted for Donald Trump.” I’ve fought the deplatforming tyrants for 15 years as an internet entrepreneur and will do all I can to protect and support this new generation of free speech warriors from the globalist speechsquelchers and thought crime police. If you care about the future of this crumbling sovereign nation, you should, too. First, send this message to Gov. DeSantis and every Republican governor and state legislator purporting to oppose Big Tech: Get it done, GOP. Get it right. 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 2021 by Creators.com.

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Agatha Christie novels and flip-flops have been a great help to Montecito writer Calla Jones Corner.

How flip flops and Agatha Christie saved my sanity We have five surfboards, none of which are ours. Richard and I are storing them for our daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren who fled Los Angeles for France last summer, so the boys could go to school. They are a bi-cultural family — French/American — and they had that fortunate option. I’ve surfed once, when I was 18 on Oahu. Richard, a champion cricketer and Eton Fives player, has never even thought of surfing. Every time I open the garage door, I see the surfboards stacked in the rafters waiting for their owners’ return. Our family returning to L.A., however, is not a given; all depends on when and if schools open. We keep in touch through Facetime and Marco Polo. We

miss them terribly and are to the local surf shop and buy me thankful they are well, coping and some flip flops. the grandchildren are in school. Richard is an old school Brit. The surfboards remind me why For him to suggest flip flops to we moved to Santa Barbara, a his shoe-obsessed wife of almost dozen years ago — to be near our 50 years, who would rather go newly married daughter, barefoot than look CALLA JONES our son in the Bay area “woke,” who insisted CORNER and not-yet-married older he photograph all the daughter in Sonoma, for ballerina flats in a closed The author whom we were able to shoe boutique window Live in host a wedding under in Paris, so she could Montecito a rose-covered gazebo order them when we in our garden. The mild got home to Manhattan, climate, extraordinary medical was nothing less than brilliant! It care and a handful of delightful, reminded me that many are also caring friends we’ve made have having to think out of their “shoe been an unexpected and welcome box” just to survive. bonus. I’ve been streaming Agatha A few days ago, when Richard Christie’s “whodunits” from my opened the garage door so I could couch as I must keep off my foot take out the car to the grocery as much as possible. When I have shop, he saw the surfboards and to take the car, I drive barefooted immediately suggested that we go since the foot surgery, hoping

not to have to suddenly hit the brake pedal. Richard, who has a heart condition and has been self quarantining since getting out of the hospital after a month’s stay last February, suddenly had to shop. He had heard depression creeping into my voice as my three mile-a-day walk stopped. He’d witnessed my tears as I painfully put on my right sneaker to go to Trader Joe’s at 8 a.m. to stock up on essentials during the safer time for “oldies.” Richard should no longer drive, but gallantly offered, if I accompanied him. Buying a pair of chic flip flops in a local surf shop, along with Agatha Christie, has saved my sanity. Why hadn’t I thought of flip flops? Maybe, because for a year, it’s been a challenge to think out of our, but not unique, survival box.

I had thought of entitling this “How Outstanding Medical Care, Flip Flops and Agatha Christie Saved Our Lives.” Then I thought that was too dramatic. No one needs more drama in their lives now, including us. This particular morning, I counted my blessings. Those blessings include Richard, who carried a gas mask as a child in the U.K., rarely complains and never ceases to amaze me with his logic: Surfers wear flip flops. One also needs friends in times of stress — like the dear friend who dropped off a copy of Country Life with a story about the famous crimmy author. Apparently, Agatha Christie was one of the first women to surf, back in the 1920s. Who would have guessed?

A fair American flat tax Editor’s note: Justin Rughe represents Concerned Taxpayers Inc.

he United States and the states must reform their tax structures to make it more equitable for everyone. Presently, the Congress is just “fooling around with the numbers” but not giving us tax reform, that means no Internal Revenue Service in the future. Today 40% of the people pay 90% of the taxes. In addition, everyone wants to be excluded from paying any taxes by gaining special exemptions at the expense of other taxpayers. This is social redistribution of wealth, and un-

American and unfair. same rate. The easiest way to redo the This tax would be taken out tax system is by making the of your paycheck directly like 16th Amendment to the FICA is and Income tax Constitution in 1913, the presently is. There would Justin income tax, a flat tax of be no other deductions, Rughe not more than 1.5% of tax credits, or write-offs a person’s gross yearly and no tax reporting. The author income. This would end the Live in Lompoc So if you made $10,000 a present outlandish tax year, you would pay $150 a code. Your savings, Social year, and that is all. No tax returns Security and stock profits would and no taxing of your savings or be yours, and your stock losses any other taxes. And if you earned would be yours, etc. a gross income of $100,000 a year, Companies would report their you would pay an income tax of gross incomes through a CPA and $1,500 per year; those earning $1 submit a check for 1.5% of gross, million would pay $15,000. no write-offs, no depreciations, no The same Flat Tax for all exceptions, etc. incomes. The rich would pay more All nonprofits would dollars than the poor but at the pay, meaning all religious

organizations, the Sierra Club, the Farm Bureau, ACORN, AARP, Democrat Party, Republican Party, unions, foundations, trusts, Planned Parenthood, League of Women Voters etc. Yes, 1.5% of their gross incomes! No exceptions, no excuses, no exemptions. Why should these hundreds of billions of dollars go untaxed at the expense of all of we middle class taxpayers? There would be NO exceptions at all. Yes, even God would pay! Taxes could not be raised except by a supermajority in Congress, but only every four years if that, and for only .1% at a time if approved. Five percent the max ever.

If this is not enough to run the government then cut the government to fit the taxes. But, when everyone pays their fair share, there will be plenty of revenue. Americans are not here to pay for the government but to support themselves and their children. Flat taxes being considered by other groups of 15%, 17% and 30% are just too high, and do not solve the American tax problem with their deductions, tax credits, and yearly reporting. A small fair tax for everyone is the solution! This is real tax reform. Out with the progressive tax system. But don’t worry, Congress is not interested in real reform.

John Stossel

Liberty winning? Really?

o I live in an alternate universe? The media tell me my side is

winning, Salon claims, “We all live in Kochland, the Koch brothers’ libertarian utopia.” Tucker Carlson says, “Our leadership class remains resolutely libertarian.” What? Who? Not President Biden. Mr. Biden already spent $1.9 trillion on COVID-19 “recovery,” mostly unrelated to COVID. Now, he wants trillions more for an “infrastructure” bill, even though most of the spending would not go to infrastructure. He’s eager to regulate more, too. Maybe the pundits were talking about former President Donald Trump. He tried to deregulate — a little. But Mr. Trump vilified trade and raised military spending, increasing our debt by trillions. We libertarians want to reduce debt and believe trade and immigration are good for America. Above all, we believe the best government governs least. That’s not what I hear from most Democrats and Republicans. So, how can pundits from both left and right say libertarian ideas are winning? “In a way, we are winning,” answered the Cato Institute’s David Boaz, author of “The Libertarian Mind,” in my latest video. “Over the past couple of hundred years, we’ve moved from a world where very few people had rights and markets were not free — to a world mostly marked by religious freedom, personal freedom, freedom of speech, property rights markets, the rule of law.” For most of history, no country had those things. As a result, said Mr. Boaz, “There was practically no economic growth, no increase in human rights and justice.” Kings and tyrants ruled, enslaving people, stealing property and waging wars that lasted decades. Please see STOSSEL on C4

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The city is paying for a situation that affects all of us DONOVAN

Continued from Page C1 only” as an energy source in new developments? Where is our city’s letter to Sacramento to protect Santa Barbara? Where is our city’s public discussion on this overreaching legislature and numerous attempts by San Francisco Sen. Scott Wiener? His latest bill is Senate Bill 478 which is tiny lots for high density. This also overrides city zoning. What does ultra-dense market rate housing create? Ghettos. Email and or call your own city council at Clerk@ santabarbarCA.gov, to stand fast for your neighborhoods — the ones they swore they would protect. “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” — Edward R. Murrow The city is paying for a situation that affects all of us — them and us; that is, the homeless and the rest of us. Again, for the transient issues and the surrounding fall-out of trash, shopping carts, abandoned furniture, campfire sites, and aimless people, the affiliated agencies continue to spend large amounts of money unwisely. Remember when you used to get a ticket for littering? Accountability. Locations of encampments can be entered on a newly established website, which will be addressed within 72 hours. Please pass this intel on to your friends. If you agree the city looks shoddy, as some recent visitors did, go to: https://formstack.io/8317F. On the other hand, how can we ever help the Santa Barbara

homeless when Ventura transports by Uber their homeless to the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission, after they are cleared medically at Ventura’s County hospital. Our encampments are increasing as the homeless are transported here without any beds for them. Why are we footing the bill and our lifestyle degraded? Kudos to Goleta for a solid plan to give the homeless a leg up with concrete goals to measure their achievements. Critical services offered in the next two years should impact the homeless with a positive measured outcome. The most impressive is to operate public restrooms with showers 24/7. Because the city of Goleta only has a budget of $115,000 for their plan, we suggest the County of Santa Barbara give Goleta more money for their helping the homeless endeavor. Rumor has it the county and city are in search of multiple properties to create “bridge housing” for the previously homeless. One of the potential sites is valued at $3.7 million before renovations of an additional million for a total of $4.7 million, situated at the waterfront. It does not take a mathematician to figure, that amount of money could go further outside of the higher priced (beachfront) areas. Instead of the city of Santa Barbara “… planning for a regional tax/bond local housing revenue creation program…” to saddle the taxpaying residents, why not invest in lower-priced areas, more affordable for social programs? Speaking of the taxpayers, if they want to spend several nights at a beach front hotel, it costs them $300 plus a night. What would

dissuade the homeless population from coming here with all the benefits we provide. How do we measure the achievements and success rates of the providers? The Point-In-Time count shows the programs are a failure for the efforts and taxpayer dollars spent. What are the numbers for the reunification element of these programs? Contact your city council member and your county supervisor and tell them to stop wasting your money! Speaking of city government, wouldn’t it be refreshing to envision a mayor at the helm of this city who represents the interests of Santa Barbara, rather than be an appendage of the national and state Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee agenda — while Santa Barbara is still beautiful and it’s charms relatively intact? Certainly this city has seen enough of the left-leaning build, and break, and re-mold from the last three mayors — Marty Blum, with her hand-wringing “who knew the buildings would be so tall” behind Paseo Nuevo on Chapala, to Helene Schneider with her high-tide blue lines drawn onto the city map, then on to our present Mayor Cathy Murrillo making Marty Blum’s exhortations appear small potatoes compared with the four-story buildings she’s approved throughout our precious downtown corridors. The city has endured this brand of leadership since 1995 — how about a vision of city government where the candidate for mayor builds his platform with the idea that, “There is no Republican or Democratic view of the city

that makes a difference.” This same candidate goes on to state “My politics and my ideologies are mine. I still have them, but I don’t take them into work with me when I go into City Council or City Hall…” He says that he sees the State Street promenade as a short-term solution, and that he doesn’t like closing down streets. These are the ideas promoted by the former owner of the Paradise Cafe, who also served on the Santa Barbara City Council. With that depth of background and experience here, he is the one who realizes how outside ideologies will drive city policy. Those complexities have brought many policies that do not represent the best interest of the unique qualities that make Santa Barbara what it is. Those policies which run slipshod over downtown building density with height restrictions lifted to block our precious mountain views and congest the ease and comfort and beauty of this town. Wouldn’t it be nice to tackle the problems of Santa Barbara without tearing her down and rebuilding her “better” — to quote a national leader? “Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn’t have to work to earn.” — Harry Browne

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

Brearley’s anti-racist programming is a step in the direction BUCKLEY

Continued from Page C1 an Asian-American senior at Brearley, I have spent the past few days thinking about how the letter misrepresents my school. “As a sixth grader, Gutmann’s daughter has encountered roughly half of the Brearley curriculum. She has not encountered Latin at Brearley — as students start the Classics in seventh grade — has not analyzed Cicero, and has not translated Caecilius est in horto, the famous phrase and fan favorite from the Cambridge Latin Course. “Brearley has not censored ‘dated language.’ Sure, we don’t run up and down the hallways screaming slurs at each other. We do, however, read Huckleberry Finn and ‘A Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass,’ ‘Beloved’ and ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God,’ which include the n-word. We don’t take it lightly. We discuss the meaning of the n-word in its historical context, how it has been used to harm others and why we should not use it.” Yassie admits that, as a senior, she had “not read a single word written by a white author in English this year. “Quite frankly,” she says, “it was liberating to hear non-Eurocentric perspectives on colonialism. I left the class feeling better equipped to assess power dynamics, having analyzed narratives on both sides … “One of the books by white authors removed from the Brearley curriculum is ‘A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.’ Rowlandson offers readers a whiny account of being moved from one Native American camp to another in King Phillip’s war, peppered with racist retorts. It will not be missed. “That year, we also read ‘A Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass,’ one of the few books in

my (since amended) sophomore year curriculum written by a nonwhite author. This book gave me a much greater understanding of American history than Rowlandson ever could.” Ms. Liow opines that “there is nothing ‘intellectual’ about fearing for your life. It is a privilege, one of a wealthy, white person, to intellectualize the trauma of people of color. It is a privilege to see racism as a debatable issue. It is a privilege to deny its existence altogether.” Yassie writes that, “Personally, I am more afraid of an underground group of Brearley families who deny that I have a rightful place in the school or argue that I contribute to a ‘lowering of standards.’ I am not thrilled with these beliefs, in the form of a letter, intruding on physical space in my private life.” Mr. Gutmann objects to the charge of systemic racism in this country. “Systemic racism is unequivocally not a small number of isolated incidents over a period of decades,” Mr. Gutmann wrote. “This statement is ignorant at best, facetious at worst,’ Ms. Liow responds. “Surely Gutmann has read the news lately. People of color are being shot and killed ‘accidentally’ on the regular. Systemic racism did not end in 1960. In fact, it continues to benefit white people, whether or not they acknowledge their privilege. “I am so tired of hearing that my existence takes up too much space. I am tired of hearing debates about whether my voice belongs in the classroom. “Teaching students about antiracism might make them more close-minded to racist views, but it ultimately helps them appreciate cultures and perspectives other than their own. Brearley’s antiracist programming is a step in the direction of a more inclusive future, one which some might be afraid to encounter in their

households, but one which most of the community readily embraces,” she concludes. The following responses that Yassie Liow received online barely scratch the surface of the depth of the conversation. Readers should go online to The Iris and read them for themselves. Here is just a sprinkling: READING THE WRONG STATS The only pro is that the Yassie is well-intentioned, which is a positive thing! But it goes downhill from there. If the opinion of the student is the majority opinion of both the staff and students at Brearley, we are in big trouble as a society. It is clear that Yassie is not informed about the statistics about violence by the police and the number of black victims in the United States per year which pales in comparison to black-onblack violence or black-on-white violence. Andrew Guttman is not guilty of being racist by any stretch of the imagination. If anything, he is guilty of upsetting sensitive people by exposing the inconvenient truth that practicality, objectivity and free thought are being sacrificed at the expense of well-intentioned albeit erroneous thinking. Sam Isaac CLEAR AND BEAUTIFUL Thank you so much for writing this beautiful, clear letter — so impressive in content, tone and style. It makes “Mad Dad” Gutmann‘s letter that much more sad and crude. Becky OBVIOUS RACISM Good thing you are doing here. I wrote a letter to the Times about Gutmann’s letter. The thing that upset me most about his letter, because unlike his racism, which

is obvious, people might believe him, is the notion that there has been a decrease in quality at Brearley, among students, faculty and curriculum. Could not be more wrong! I should know, after teaching there for 28 years. My only critical comment: If I were a Spanish teacher, I would be annoyed that they were teaching Marquèz in an English class. lol. M. Houis P.S. I gave the letter a C- for opinion stated as fact, sloppy grammar and pompous rhetoric. STIMULATING FEAR There is a lot in this essay that stimulated me — in a negative as well as a positive sense. But the following sentence struck me as being utterly insincere: “Personally, I am more afraid of an underground group of Brearley families who deny that I have a rightful place in the school or argue that I contribute to a ‘lowering of standards.’ I am not thrilled with these beliefs, in the form of a letter, intruding on physical space in my private life.” The same goes for the bewildering claim that “I am so tired of hearing that my existence takes up too much space. I am tired of hearing debates about whether my voice belongs in the classroom.” These are serious charges. Do you have anything to back them up? Unless I am mistaken, the only people who may think you are “taking up too much space” are the anti-racists at elite colleges like Harvard who will tell you “sorry, but we have filled our Asian quota.” Maitland Anyway, Mr. Gutmann’s letter and Ms Liow’s response were all good, provocative reading, and that’s what school — and good schooling — should be.

vehicles parked there will be ticketed or towed. It appears someone may be misusing public property. Although I visit the area often, I’ve never seen a vehicle in this space. The space would be ideal for the public since it goes in 12 feet from the side of the road, and cars parked in it wouldn’t obstruct emergency vehicles. I wish this person would offer the space to hikers as an act of kindness. A solution is for the county to hire a surveyor to determine where the public right of way is, remove the rocks and then create a reasonable number of parking spaces. On Mountain Drive, spaces could be created on the shoulder. On Riven Rock Road, several spaces could be made by creating a shoulder and putting down decomposed granite. The amount of parking provided could be based on past usage before the pandemic. Bicycling and carpooling can also be promoted. For example, it’s

easy to get to the Hot Springs trailhead by electric bicycle. Unfortunately, local residents are even trying to keep hikers off Hot Springs Road, a public road. A sign has been attached to the stop sign at the northwest corner of East Mountain Drive and Hot Springs Road, which says “No Hot Springs Trail Access or Parking.” Although few hikers use the part of the road by this sign to access the trail, they still have the right to, as it’s not a private road. Some bicyclists like me use this road for access. Farther up Hot Springs Road where the trail follows the road, signs tell hikers to stay on the trail. I wish the signs would be replaced with ones saying “Welcome to our neighborhood. This is a public road, but hikers, please use the trail.” It took local artist Matthew O’Hanlon to bring some courtesy to the neighborhood. He created two signs, one saying “Welcome to Our Neighborhood, but be Quiet Please, Respect the Neighbors,” and another one politely encouraging hikers to carpool or bicycle to get to the trail.

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Continued from Page C2 entirely ignored because that storyline doesn’t fit the left’s agenda. Last year finished with more total background checks for guns than any year on record. The Democrats have themselves to thank for that one. And because of that, just try and buy a handgun, at least in California, and if you’re lucky enough, try and buy bullets for it. The Americans who are watching from the shadows, know what’s going on, are silently preparing for the worst. If the country continues to allow the current rebellion to blossom, it will embolden the likes of Black Lives Matter and Antifa even more than they are already. If they can get away with burning and looting businesses without any penalties, then this crusade could eventually move into your neighborhood. If and once that happens, things will get even uglier since over half the country is now armed and ready. And believe it, there are groups preparing for this war. We’re losing America. And we’re losing her at a speed most never imagined could ever happen. Last year was perhaps one

of the strangest years for the world and certainly for the United States. What began as a lockdown for a virus mushroomed into a license to transform a free nation in the direction of one of lawlessness and chaos. There are still some sheriffs and cities who are holding the line, and good for them, but there are Democratic strongholds who think this new direction is a good thing. We’re already seeing police officers throw up their hands and walk away by the hundreds. Let’s see how well butterflies and rainbows can stop bullets. So what do we do? There’s nobody home and no one running the country. This is the first time I feel like America is the most vulnerable it’s ever been in my lifetime, and it’s terrifying. Enemies around the world are watching and are fully aware of our weakness and lack of leadership. As we make our focus about everything being racist, Russia is readying for war and China has been working on how it can take us down (they had a good start with the virus). And now we learn John Kerry, when secretary of state, may have been colluding with Iran! We better start paying attention and watching our backs.

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Then, in 1700 “suddenly, limited government and property rights and markets came into the world,” Mr. Boaz pointed out. The result was a sudden increase in prosperity. Americans now are told that “the poor get poorer,” but it’s not true. Americans are 30 times richer than we were 200 years ago. When America began, rich people were poorer than poor people are today. “In Colonial America,” said Mr. Boaz, “(if) you were traveling and you wanted a place to sleep, you’d go to an inn where everyone shared a bed.” Benjamin Franklin and John Adams shared a bed on one of their diplomatic missions. They fought over whether the window should be open. John Jay, America’s first chief justice of the Supreme Court, complained about “sleeping with strangers and picking up bedbugs and lice,” said Mr. Boaz. “It’s not like that anymore because of the increase in wealth.” Today, at motels all over America, middle-class and poor people have their own beds. When markets are free and private property is protected, innovation happens in ways that allow ordinary people to live better. Over time, that innovation multiplies. It’s why, today, most of us live better than kings once did. Louis XIV had hundreds of servants who prepared him dinner. Today, my supermarket offers me a buffet Louis XIV couldn’t imagine. Thanks to

trade and property rights and markets, each of us lives as if we had more servants than kings. We also live longer. “President Calvin Coolidge’s teenage son was playing tennis on the White House tennis court,” said Mr. Boaz. “He got a blister on his foot and the blister got infected, and the health care available to the son of the president of the United States was not sufficient to keep him from dying.” Few of us notice such steady progress. The media gives us bad news. “They tell us about cancer clusters and coups in Myanmar,” said Mr. Boaz. As a result: “We forget the big picture. It’s important to remember the big picture so that we don’t lose it.” The big picture also includes progress in fairness and decency. “We’ve moved from ‘some people have privileges that others don’t’ to ‘human rights belong to women and Black people and gay people,’” Mr. Boaz reminds us. “The direction of history has been in the direction of markets, personal freedom, human rights, democratic governance, and that’s what libertarians advocate.” John Stossel,a former ABC News and Fox Business Channel anchor, is author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators. com. Copyright 2021 by JFS Productions Inc.