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Fiesta poster, pin unveiled By MITCHELL WHITE NEWS-PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

The 2021 Old Spanish Days celebration continues to take form. Just a few days after the plans for the 2021 festivities were announced, officials unveiled the official poster and pin for the annual event on Saturday night during the Fiesta kick-off La Primavera celebration at The Carriage and Western Art Museum.

La Presidenta Stephanie Petlow had the honor of debuting the poster and pin, having designed them herself using family, youth and history. “My inspiration for the 2021 poster began with a watercolor my mother Sylvianna Johns, a New Mexico fine artist, painted many years ago of a Spanish dancer,” said Ms. Petlow, who has served more than two decades on the Old Please see FIESTA on A6

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The Santa Barbara and Santa Maria Humane Societies merged a little over a year ago, and the combined nonprofit will now officially call itself “Santa Barbara Humane,” an announcement shared at a press conference at the Santa Barbara campus Saturday afternoon.

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The Santa Barbara and Santa Maria Humane Societies merged a little over a year ago, and the combined nonprofit will now officially call itself “Santa Barbara Humane.” Board members, staff and volunteers gathered Saturday afternoon at the Goleta campus to celebrate the accomplishments of the merger thus far, while looking ahead to the future of the combined nonprofits. “Day-to-day operations from the beginning of the merger will not change, but we’re going to expand those services and we’re actually going to start adding more services,” Kerri Burns, CEO of Santa Barbara Humane, told the News-Press. “We’re figuring out what the needs of each end of the county are and we’ll be expanding the services based on what the community needs.” These expanded services will focus mostly on the organization’s safety net programs, which include behavior training, medical intervention, pet food banks, financial assistance for veterinary bills and more. The programs aim to meet pet owners where they are and help them keep their pets, rather than relinquishing them. The merger came a month before the pandemic hit in 2020, which resulted in an increase in adoptions and animal fostering. Animals’ length of stays decreased to around six or seven days, according to Ms. Burns. “All across our nation, people started fostering and adopting. Capacity for shelters went down to about 50%, but we’re so thankful, because it gave our industry as a whole a moment to breathe and think and say, ‘How are we going to do our business differently, or are we, as we move forward?’” Ms. Burns said. Since the Santa Barbara and Santa Maria shelters merged: 20,000 veterinary services were performed for community-owned animals; 1,000 families received assistance from the TLC Fund supporting veterinary services; 1,800 animals received affordable training and rehabilitation; 800 animals transferred in from overcrowded shelters; 400 animals were surrendered for a second chance; 100 stray animals were received; and, most importantly, 1,400 animals were placed in loving homes. On top of that, requests for support to spay

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La Presidenta Stephanie Petlow unveiled the poster for this year’s Fiesta Saturday night. Ms. Petlow designed the poster herself, using family, youth and history.

Protesting COVID-19 restrictions By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Tens of dozens of community members gathered Saturday afternoon next to Stearns Wharf for a “Worldwide Rally for Freedom,” taking a stand against COVID-19 restrictions in the region. The rally joined 180 other Dogs and humans alike gathered for the announcement.

or neuter a pet went up by 250% this year, highlighting the increase in pet adoption. However, pet relinquishments are also up, with 79 owner-surrenders through April in Santa Barbara and 155 in Santa Maria. Humane staff says this reaffirms the need for the expanded services. According to Ms. Burns, there are two main reasons pet owners turn in their pet: because of a medical issue or because they’re moving, and this still remains the case today. “If you want to keep your pet, or for some reason you think you can’t, we throw out this safety net to say, ‘How can we help you keep your pet in your home?’” she said, referencing medical care, food and training as things less expensive to get at Santa Barbara Humane than a shelter.

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“A lot of people come here because their dog is unruly and we can provide those services,” the CEO said. “We have some scholarship rooms set up for people if they can’t afford it — we can get them in a class, because they love their pet. They just don’t know what to do, so these safety net programs and resources that we’re expanding because of the merger are really, really helpful for these pets.” Santa Barbara City Councilman Eric Friedman attended the celebration Saturday, and shared that he and his wife renamed their new dog when they adopted it, changing it from “Eclipse” to “Morgan” — that is, “Morgan Friedman.” “Any time you can have North County and Please see HUMANE on A5

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A group of community members gather at an anti-mask, antivaccination rally at Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara on Saturday.

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Santa Barbara County Fire Department crews were able to quickly douse a brush fire that broke out Saturday near Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta.

CARPINTERIA — Several highway and ramp closures are planned next week as work continues on the 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. The northbound onramp at Linden Avenue is expected to reopen Monday night. 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, the onramps and offramps at Carpinteria, Reynolds, Linden avenues and Casitas Pass Road will be closed during overnight hours tonight to Thursday night. 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. Concrete will finish curing,

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Asia McLaughlin, daughter of Luisa and Dennis McLoughlin of Carpinteria, and Nicholas Batastini, son of Barbara and Victor Batastini of Santa Barbara, were married on Saturday, May 15, 2021 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Montecito. Monsignor Stephen Downes ofﬁciated the ceremony. Given in marriage by her father, the bride was attended by her sister, Michaela McLaughlin, as maid of honor; the bridesmaids were Christine Brown, Cecilia Cheng, Nana Gagatsovi, Jolie Noveski, and Claire Spera. The best man was Skyler Davin; usher-groomsmen were Eliseo Aceves and Chai Trepte. Peter McGoey and Timothy Tremblay served as readers. Asia graduated from the University of Southern California, attended the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York City, and works at International Justice Mission, a nonproﬁt protecting people in poverty from violence. Nicholas, a graduate of Western Washington University, works at Santa Barbara Sand and Topsoil, his family’s business supplying Santa Barbara County with aggregate building material since 1910. After a honeymoon in the Bahamas, the couple will reside in Santa Barbara County.

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, as shown here.

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GOLETA — Santa Barbara County Fire Department crews were able to quickly douse a brush fire that broke out Saturday near Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta. Around 12:45 p.m., fire crews were dispatched to the 7200 block of Alameda Avenue to a report of a fire near the baseball fields at the school. The initial report from the first engine company on scene was a quarter-acre burning in light fuels at a moderate rate of spread, said Capt. Daniel Bertucelli, fire spokesman. Crews were able to knock down the fire with hose lines. No injuries were reported and no structures were threatened. Crews remained on scene for about an hour to fully contain the blaze, the cause of which is under investigation.

Crews will continue excavating and driving piles for new overhead signs in the area. Daytime noise is expected. For the Highway 101: Linden and Casitas Pass portion of the project, the landscaping contractor is finishing up planting. Crews are expected to finish installing plants, clean up site areas and monitor plant establishment periodically. For more information on the project, visit www.sbroads.com.

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SANTA BARBARA — A Santa Barbara man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and possessing a stolen vehicle that collided with a MTD bus in downtown Santa Barbara Saturday afternoon, police said. Around 12:15 p.m., a Santa Barbara Police officer discovered a stolen vehicle, a silver Honda CRV, in the area of Foodland on the Westside. Officers waited for additional resources to respond before conducting a traffic stop at Bath and Isla streets, said Lt. Aaron Baker, police spokesman. The driver, Jose Munoz, 24, fled eastbound on Isla and ran several stop signs and was driving recklessly. The vehicle continued into the intersection at State and Islay streets “where it was broadsided by the bus,” Lt. Baker told the News-Press. The stolen vehicle had three occupants, Mr. Munoz and two juveniles. Mr. Munoz and one of the juveniles suffered serious injuries, and six bus passengers suffered minor injuries and two were transported for further treatment. The vehicle had reportedly been stolen several days ago in the city, Lt. Baker said. Mr. Munoz’s injuries were believed to be non-life threatening injuries. Police said he is suspected to have been driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Mr. Munoz was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment, DUI collision causing injury, possession of a stolen vehicle and possession of narcotics for sale — all felonies. He is also charged with evading. The injured juvenile is expected to be released to their guardian upon release from the hospital. The other was transported to the police department and released to their guardian, police said. Both the bus and the stolen vehicle sustained major front end damage and needed to be towed from the scene.

and then crews will stress test the new bridge deck. Work is also beginning on approach areas and safety barriers. 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. Crews will also work on approach areas. 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. 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 Monday night. 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 are installing underground supports near Francisan Court and north of Cravens Lane, as well as between Franklin Creek and Santa Ynez Avenue, between Santa Ynez Avenue and Santa Monica Creek, and north of Santa Monica Creek, for the new sound walls on the north side of the highway. Crews have also installed rebar and then will place concrete blocks. Crews will begin excavating and driving piles for the new underground supports, and noise is expected during daytime work. Utility relocations are ongoing in preparation of the planned sound wall near Via Real, by Rancho Granada Mobile Mobile Homes and San Roque Mobile Estates.

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‘People are rallying around health freedom, and also education’ RALLY

Continued from Page A1 least in saying, ‘No, let us talk to our doctors first. Give us some options before we’re just given mandates,’” the organizer told the News-Press prior to the event. Attendees flew American and “Don’t Tread On Me” flags, ditched their masks and held signs reading, “Lockdowns are killing small businesses,” “Lockdowns kill” and “Freedom from ALL mandates.” The protestors marched up State Street after rallying near the wharf. “Most people here are nonpartisan, responding with very different kinds of ideologies,” Mr. Shores said. “People are rallying around health freedom, and also education. Our children have really been left behind, so actually, most of the people getting behind this movement are worried about their children and their children’s futures with experimental vaccines being tested on them before they’ve had a chance to have kids. “It’s just a lot of mandates that have not gone through our own personal doctors. We want our own doctors back; we want to be able to have that conversation again so we can make an informed decision instead of a mandated decision.” Speakers included local doctors and physicians and business owners, who claimed that the COVID-19 restrictions are a result of government overreach. Dr. Alexandra Carswell Engle, “Dr. ACE,” is a licensed naturopathic doctor specializing in personalized natural medicine at Regenerate Health Medical Center in Santa Barbara. She referred to the COVID-19 vaccine as “experimental shots,” and pushed for patient freedom to decide whether or not to get the vaccine, as “it’s still in Phase 3 clinical trial.” “I think it’s my duty as a medical professional to help dispel some of the lies of how we got here today, so that we can move forward and reverse this and move into a better path,” she said to the crowd gathered. She told attendees that the COVID-19 test — a PCR test — was never meant to determine if someone has a viral infection, citing Kary Mallis, the inventor of the test. In addition, Dr. Engle posed concerns with the reporting of cases, mandating vaccines or tests and effective therapeutics for the virus not being used. “With these tests, it then allowed us to go ahead and talk about cases, when before, with any other illness in the history of at least my lifetime, and probably all of ours, were we ever concerned about cases of people that were not sick?” Dr. Engle said. “We know that people that are not sick do not expel infectious material to make other people sick, so why are we locking down, closing schools, closing businesses, closing centers of faith, all of that, for people that are not sick, people that are not going to harm other people? These cases are lies.” Dr. Hesu Whitten, who has been practicing healing systems in Santa Barbara since 1999, shared similar sentiments as Dr. Engle, comparing the COVID-19 vaccine to “birds with parachutes.” Dr. Paul Aijian, an internal medicine specialist at Cottage Health, also spoke at the event, and quoted former President Barack Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who famously said in 2008, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. I mean, it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” “This is the mentality of the people that are running our government right now,” Dr. Aijian told the crowd. “...The government, the mainstream media, a lot of medicine — they’re using insecurity and anxiety to achieve a goal. COVID is a disease and it is a serious disease, but it’s being used by people for a totally different motive than just keeping you all healthy.” Most attendees of the rally claimed that the existing COVID19 mandates are “a tool for the government to control the lives of its citizens,” and demanded freedom of choice regarding COVID-19 vaccines and testing. Julie Thimsen, a resident of Santa Barbara, attended the rally, and told the News-Press, “I think it’s time that our voices are heard. This is unreasonable. It’s unconstitutional. It goes against all things freedom and liberties, and there is no mandate for gagging our faces.” Ginger Burkholder, a resident of Goleta, spoke to the local business closures and closed schools, telling the News-Press, “I’m so sad for Santa Barbara coming out here. I can’t bear it sometimes.” Matthew Villardi is a resident of Santa Barbara County, and told

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Tens of dozens of activists gathered Saturday to protest COVID-19 restrictions, including masks, social distancing, lockdowns and the vaccine.

Freedom Rally attendees listen to speakers at Stearns Wharf before marching down State Street.

Justin Shores speaks at Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara for a Freedom Rally against COVID restrictions on Saturday.

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Dr. Hesu Whitten, who has been practicing healing systems in Santa Barbara since 1999, speaks during an anti-COVID restriction rally at Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara on Saturday.

the News-Press that the rally was a result of “people waking up.” “They’re waking up, which is good,” he said. “It’s not about what the mask is — it’s about what it represents, and all you’ve got to do is look at communist countries to figure that out. It’s (about) control.” In addition, Paige Sleep, a teacher at Marymount of Santa Barbara, addressed the crowd and said COVID-19 has highlighted the need for educators to teach children “how to think, not what to think,” and to avoid instilling fear in the kids. “I have seen COVID regulations take a physical and psychological toll on students, and I have seen our education system inundated with politics,” she said. She said that masks and constant reminders of social distancing and sanitizing have “instilled a fear in children that they can get ill from breathing air,” sharing a story of

a young student who accidentally dropped her face mask on the playground and began crying because she thought she had COVID-19. “This is what these restrictions are teaching our children,” she said. The teacher also mentioned the thermometers being used in schools for temperature checks, comparing their shape to that of a handgun’s. “When I was young, a masked face pointing a gun-shaped object on my forehead would elicit an instinct of fear,” Ms. Sleep said. Worldwide Rallies for Freedom were planned in the U.S. as well as Argentina, Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Israel, Lebanon, New Zealand, Scotland, Switzerland and Uruguay, according to Mr. Shores. email: gmccormick@newspress.com

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SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2021 Commander’s Coin. Capt. Kunkle was joined by his wife, Ruth, and told the NewsPress it was “truly thrilling” to be part of Friday’s celebration. The base will continue to provide range services, preserve the safety of the public and ensure launch providers have an area to safely test missiles or put their satellites into orbit.

A historic day in Vandenberg Hundreds gathered Friday afternoon at the newly designated Vandenberg Space Force Base. As part of the celebration, Capt. Jim Kunkle received an honorary membership in the U.S. Space Force, as well as the first ever Space Launch Delta 30

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Among the attendees of Friday’s ceremony were Capt. Jim Kunkle, center, a P-38 fighter pilot who fought the Germans over Nazi-occupied Europe. Capt. Kunkle was joined by his wife, Ruth. The couple posed for a photo with Col. Anthony J. Mastalir, the new commander of Vandenberg Space Force Base.

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YORK, Ray Alfred

Ray Alfred York, 93, of 333 Old Mill Rd, Santa Barbara, California, passed away on April 2nd, 2021 of natural causes. Ray was born on October 11th, 1927 to Lloyd H. York and Carol J. Watkins in San Bernardino, California. Ray served in the US Navy from January 15, 1946 through November 17, 1947. Ray retired from General Telephone in January, 1985 after 34 years of service. Ray was a force of nature, determined to provide for his family and give them the life he felt they deserved. His family meant more to him than anything else in the world, something he often boasted of. He was unendingly proud of his four sons Richard, Jerry, William and John York. Ray was a true professional in whatever tasks he undertook. He assisted with Boy Scout functions with his sons. After they moved on he worked with the Boy Scouts Mission Counsel. Another strong passion for Ray was his love of the ocean. He served on several Search and Rescue missions as well as Boat and Ship inspection safety checks. He retired from the Coast Guard Auxiliary. Anyone who knew Ray knew that he was the most loving father and husband a family could ask for. Ray was predeceased by his previous wife Patricia Widling York, his oldest son Richard York. He is survived by his current wife Joan Elkin York, and his three sons Jerry, William, John York and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. There will be a memorial/celebration of life to be determined as soon as the Covid restrictions will allow for us all to remember Ray A. York in a group setting.

ARNOLD, Iris Maya Eleniak

Iris Maya Eleniak Arnold was a lover of life who smiled from the inside, out and lit up every corner of her world. We said goodbye to this shining light on February 15th, 2021 due to an unexpected illness, in Carpinteria, CA, her favorite place to be. She took her last breath, holding the hand of William Arnold, the love of her life. Iris had 3 children and one grandchild, her “red headed fox,” who will forever miss her physical presence but will continue to call upon her as the best friend that she was to us, and will always be. Iris was a real estate and executive property manager, but most of all a caregiver to her own mother, Irina, her brother, Michael, loving husband, Bill, her children, grandchild, and every friend she had. That is who Iris was during her time on this earth; a loving, generous, wickedly funny, lover of Life and (not unknown to a bit of mischief making now and then). Those she ORYHG VKH ORYHG ÀHUFHO\ 6KH ORYHG JDUGHQLQJ LQ WKH VHD EUHH]H DQG VXQVKLQH 6KH ORYHG reading, playing games, the clouds and most of all, laughing. And this is how we will forever see you, mom. Free as a bird, laughing. Your smile will light up the sky and our hearts, eternally. :H DVN WKDW LQ OLHX RI ÁRZHUV SOHDVH PDNH D PHPRULDO GRQDWLRQ LQ ,ULV· QDPH WR 6W -XGH·V &KLOGUHQ·V +RVSLWDO KWWS ZZZ VWMXGH RUJ Arrangements entrusted to McDermott-Crockett Mortuary

MARLETT, Robert Wayne

Passed away at his home in Solvang California at the age of 83 on February 28, 2021. He was born on January 17, 1938 to Gordon and Cathryn Marlett Henderson in Burbank California. After his Father passed away his Mother remarried Lawrence Henderson, they eventually moved to Santa Barbara. Robert graduated from Santa Barbara High School. He worked at Santa Barbara Research Center as a processing Engineer until he retired in 1993. He was in the Army National Guard at Camp Roberts near Paso 5REOHV +H KDV DOZD\V ORYHG À[LQJ WKLQJV GDEEOHG ZLWK UDGLRV ORYHG À[LQJ -HZHOU\ DQG ZRUNHG LQ D -HZHOU\ 6WRUH in Solvang. Bob loved to go to Buellton City park every July and watch the grandkid’s karate demos, baseball games, and would join the family every Thanksgiving in Goleta. He also loved to barbecue Tri-tip. He enjoyed their time with family. Bob and Shirley met through her Brother Curtis who introduced Bob to her, they started writing letters back and forth to each other for some time then Bob drove to Indiana proposed to her and three days later they were married. They were married for 57 years. Bob and Shirley were foundational members of the Assembly Of God Church, which is now Crossroads, as well as advocates of the Senior Community of the Church. Bob also believed in and was an advocate of prayer meetings. They were blessed with two children Tom Marlett( Barbara) and Anne Brandy Marlett. 7KH\ KDYH JUDQGFKLOGUHQ -XVWLQ DQG $VKOH\ 0DUOHWW -HVVH 0RWWR $OH[DQGUD 0DUOHWW Ruby and Memphis Scholzen. Bob has many nieces and nephews, three of whom are Gordon, Brian and Keith Marlett. He also has a cousin, Ingrid Forsberg. Bob is preceded in death by his parents, Bruce and Cathryn, His wife, Shirley, and his Brother Paul Marlett and his son Tom Marlett. The Memorial Service will be May 20th, 2021 at 10:00a.m. At the Crossroads Fellowship Church, 236 La Lata Dr, Buellton, CA 93427

BAISE, Craig Callen

June 24, 1945 - April 14, 2021 Craig Callen Baise, age 75, passed away after a long battle with multiple myeloma. He was surrounded by his wife and children at his home in Glenbrook, Nevada. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 24, 1945, Craig moved with his family in 1948 to Santa Barbara, California, where he spent his childhood. It was there he developed KLV ORYH IRU ÀVKLQJ ZLWK KLV IDWKHU %LOO %DLVH DQG WKH game of tennis. In 1959, he entered the Thacher School in Ojai, California where he earned varsity letters in tennis, soccer, and basketball and built friendships that lasted throughout his life. After graduating from Thacher, Craig went on to Stanford where he was a 3-year varsity letterman on the Stanford tennis team and earned the Sportsman of the Year Award. It was at Stanford that he met his future wife of 53 years, Cynthia (CeCe) Hart Baise. &UDLJ DQG &H&H OLYHG DQG UDLVHG WKHLU WKUHH FKLOGUHQ LQ 3DFLÀF 3DOLVDGHV &DOLIRUQLD Craig was happiest on the golf course at the Los Angeles Country Club, on the paddle tennis court at the Beach Club, hunting with his buddies, and most importantly, being with his family. Professionally, he began his career at Dean Witter but soon moved LQWR WKH ÀQDQFLDO SULQWLQJ EXVLQHVV +H ZRXOG JR RQ WR VHUYH DV 9LFH 3UHVLGHQW RI 6DOHV DW %RZQH DQG 3UHVLGHQW RI 3DQGLFN /RV $QJHOHV EHIRUH ÀQLVKLQJ KLV FDUHHU DV RZQHU of Sutter Printing in Sacramento, California. After retiring Craig and CeCe moved to Glenbrook, Nevada on the shores of Lake Tahoe, to a home they had owned for over 30 years, and had become the family gathering place for their three children and seven grandchildren. His friends, many of them going back over sixty years, remember him for his warmth, loyalty, integrity and quick wit. His family remembers him for KLV LQFUHGLEOH ORYH JHQHURVLW\ DQG WKRXJKWIXOQHVV IRU KLV VHOÁHVVQHVV DQG FRPSDVVLRQ and sense of humor, which he maintained to the very end. Craig is survived by his wife, Cynthia Baise; his children, Brian Baise (Laurie), Christopher Baise (DeEtte), and Susan Warburg (Sam); his grandchildren, William, Nathan, and Iris Baise; Callie and Charlie Baise; and Wynnie and Scottie Warburg. He is also survived by his sister, Cindy Hughes (Don), his brother, Dave Baise, and was preceded in death by his parents, Helen and William Baise, and his brother, Daily Baise. As a tribute to Craig’s life, the family would be grateful for donations to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (themmrf.org) or to Keep Tahoe Blue (keeptahoeblue.org). A private family service at St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church followed by a gathering at the Glenbrook Club to celebrate Craig’s life will be held in Glenbrook on June 21, 2021.

SIGNORELLI, Joe, Sr.

Joe Signorelli, Sr., 96, Lompoc - We lost one of Lompoc’s last pioneers this week. Joe Signorelli, Sr. passed away peacefully at the age of 96 at his home on Thursday, May 6th surrounded by his family. Born on October 26, 1924, in Lompoc, to his parents, Adam Peter and Giovanna, who immigrated from Northern Italy in the early 1900s, and settled their family in Honda Canyon (now part of Vandenberg Air Force Base). Joe spent his childhood growing up and farming alongside his brothers, Peter, Jr., and Frank. He often liked to recall stories of his childhood growing up in Honda Canyon and about the Lompoc he knew in his youth. Whether it was sharing the watermelon haul from his garden with his family and reminiscing about how they used to store them in the hay in the barn to prolong their shelf life when he was young, or standing at the kitchen sink and making a joke about how running water is a new invention because “they didn’t have this when I was a kid!” -RH ZDV WKH GHÀQLWLRQ RI VDOW RI WKH HDUWK +H ZDV DOZD\V NLQG DQG KDSS\ WR VKDUH his knowledge and observations of the land and his cows with anyone he met. He ORYHG QDWXUH DQG ZDV DQ DYLG KXQWHU DQG ÀVKHUPDQ -RH OHIW VFKRRO DIWHU KDYLQJ RQO\ completed the eighth grade to work on the family ranch raising beans, cattle, and other crops. He was an incredibly hard and dedicated worker. He worked in acres, not hours. Through his diligence and hard work, he was able to acquire multiple ranches with only an eighth-grade education behind him. He achieved the American Dream. Together with his wife, Sylvia, they raised three hard-working boys, Joseph, Jr. (Chris), Adam (Stacey), and Tom. He had four grandchildren, Josh (Melanie), Steven (Alyssa), Jeremey (Cynthia), and JJ (Danielle). He had six great-grandchildren, Joseph, Julia, Emmeline, Joseph III, Jule, Cooper, and Tanner (expected later this summer). He was preceded in death by his son, Adam, and his wife, Sylvia. Joe was the patriarch of the Signorelli family, and he loved to watch his grandkids and great-grandkids grow up and teach everything he knew about farming and ranching. Joe was a jovial man, who was always up for ice cream, candies, Toscani cigars, and Gallo red wine. He was the oldest living member of the local Sons of Italy chapter. In his later years, he enjoyed trips to Jalama Beach to meet up with lifelong friends for burgers, tell-all tales about the good ol’ days, and marvel at all the new technologies and modernizations he saw along the way. The immediate family will hold a private ceremony at a later date per Joe, Sr.’s wishes. ,Q OLHX RI ÁRZHUV SOHDVH PDNH D GRQDWLRQ WR \RXU IDYRULWH FKDULW\

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MONDAY

TUESDAY

Low clouds, then Low clouds, then some sun some sun INLAND

INLAND

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

Breezy in the afternoon

Partly sunny INLAND

Sunny and breezy

INLAND

68 49

75 46

84 44

77 41

72 37

64 52

67 51

71 53

69 51

69 45

COASTAL

Pismo Beach 58/52

COASTAL

Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Maricopa 79/59

Guadalupe 60/52

Santa Maria 62/52

Vandenberg 58/52

New Cuyama 74/44 Ventucopa 71/47

Los Alamos 66/51

Buellton 65/50

Solvang 66/49

Gaviota 62/54

SANTA BARBARA 64/52 Goleta 63/51

Carpinteria 62/53 Ventura 63/55

AIR QUALITY KEY Good Moderate

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

ALMANAC

Santa Barbara through 6 p.m. yesterday

TEMPERATURE High/low Normal high/low Record high Record low

69/57 69/51 97 in 2014 43 in 1968

PRECIPITATION 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest. Month to date (normal) Season to date (normal)

0.00” 0.03” (0.23”) 7.30” (17.17”)

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

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

80/59/pc 81/57/pc 54/27/pc 75/51/pc 58/51/pc 71/52/pc 63/58/sh 57/47/s 80/58/pc 64/59/sh 55/36/t 81/51/pc 64/53/c 71/48/pc 62/53/pc 64/50/sh 64/55/sh 83/63/s 64/59/sh 68/48/pc 78/51/pc 66/62/sh 64/53/pc 68/52/pc 63/53/pc 62/58/sh 59/39/t

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 82/45/s 67/52/pc 62/50/pc 62/50/pc 63/49/pc 75/46/pc 58/51/pc 64/56/pc

79/58/s 73/56/pc 73/56/pc 73/67/t 65/50/t 79/71/t 84/73/pc 76/54/pc 73/54/pc 73/53/pc 91/67/s 80/52/s 73/63/t 78/54/pc 75/53/s 71/56/pc

POINT ARENA TO POINT PINOS

Wind west 6-12 knots today. Wind waves 1-3 feet with a south-southwest swell 3-5 feet at 16-second intervals. Visibility clear.

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO

Wind west 6-12 knots today. Wind waves 1-3 feet with a south-southwest swell 3-5 feet at 16-second intervals. Visibility clear.

SANTA BARBARA HARBOR TIDES Date Time High Time May 16 May 17 May 18

none none 12:34 a.m. none 1:33 a.m. 5:57 p.m.

LAKE LEVELS

Low

7:54 a.m. none 8:53 a.m. none 9:56 a.m. 9:31 p.m.

4.8’ 4.5’ 3.5’

0.0’ 0.1’ 0.2’ 3.3’

AT BRADBURY DAM, LAKE CACHUMA 85/59/s 90/64/s 62/33/s 86/52/pc 60/51/pc 70/51/s 68/57/pc 55/46/c 86/55/s 69/59/pc 65/36/sh 81/48/s 62/52/pc 70/45/pc 62/51/pc 71/50/pc 64/54/pc 91/67/s 71/58/pc 77/45/s 78/50/s 67/62/pc 61/52/pc 67/50/pc 65/48/pc 63/58/pc 68/37/pc

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

Wind southwest 4-8 knots today. Waves 2-4 feet with a south-southwest swell 2-4 feet at 16 seconds. Visibility clear.

TIDES

LOCAL TEMPS Today Hi/Lo/W 74/44/pc 63/51/pc 62/52/pc 58/52/pc 62/52/pc 68/49/pc 58/52/pc 63/55/sh

MARINE FORECAST

SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL

81/62/pc 68/55/pc 72/58/c 81/70/t 58/48/t 84/76/t 84/74/pc 79/59/pc 73/57/pc 73/54/pc 89/68/s 73/49/pc 71/62/r 75/57/t 66/48/pc 72/55/pc

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 114,737 acre-ft. Elevation 722.84 ft. Evaporation (past 24 hours) 26.1 acre-ft. Inflow 1.9 acre-ft. State inflow 0.0 acre-ft. Storage change from yest. -129 acre-ft. Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

SUN AND MOON Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset

First

Full

May 19

May 26

WORLD CITIES

Today 5:56 a.m. 7:56 p.m. 9:33 a.m. none

Last

Jun 2

Mon. 5:56 a.m. 7:56 p.m. 10:31 a.m. 12:32 a.m.

New

Jun 10

Today Mon. City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Beijing 77/49/c 88/56/s Berlin 62/47/t 62/48/t Cairo 100/67/s 89/65/s Cancun 88/78/pc 88/78/pc London 56/47/t 60/46/sh Mexico City 74/57/t 76/56/t Montreal 72/51/c 75/56/s New Delhi 103/81/pc 104/84/pc Paris 63/49/sh 61/48/sh Rio de Janeiro 76/67/pc 79/69/s Rome 70/60/pc 71/51/pc Sydney 64/50/s 66/49/s Tokyo 72/67/r 77/69/c W-weather, s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

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‘We needed a new name to reflect ... community and commitment’

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Nancy Felix, 14, received the 100,000th dose Saturday at the dive-in clinic. She received a gift basket and was cheered by Cottage staff.

Cottage Health administers 100,000th dose of COVID vaccine By MITCHELL WHITE NEWS-PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Cottage Health reached a milestone Saturday afternoon, as it issued its 100,000th COVID-19 vaccine dose. The number includes both first and second doses. Cottage began its community drive-up vaccine clinic at the Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital campus on Jan. 15, administering 500 doses that day. The clinic now offers more than 2,000 doses per day at the weekly drive-up clinic for residents 12 and older, according to Maria Zate, Cottage Health spokeswoman. Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave its approval to expand the Pfizer vaccine to those 12 to 15. The following day, Cottage offered the vaccine and more than 300 teens received their first dose, Ms. Zate said. Nancy Felix, 14, received the 100,000th dose Saturday at the dive-in clinic. She received a gift basket and was cheered by Cottage staff. The news on the vaccine distribution comes a day after Lompoc Valley Medical Center reported that hospitalizations in the county, and in Lompoc, have spiked over the past seven days. Last week, the number of COVID positive hospitalized patients in the county was at an all-time low of about five. That number has grown to about 15. Lompoc Valley had been caring for one or no patients for the past several weeks and was caring for six as of Friday. “The average age of the Covid patients at LVMC is 53, consistent with the nationwide trend of hospitalized patients being younger than earlier in the pandemic,” Steve Popkin, LVMC CEO said in a statement. “I don’t want to say too much about the vaccination status of specific patients, due to patient confidentiality, but suffice it to say, if you don’t want to risk being hospitalized with Covid, get vaccinated. “It was told to me that two Covid patients in the ICU at another area hospital said, ‘not getting vaccinated may have been the biggest mistake of my life.’ Imagine the regret we would feel if we were in that same situation.” A total of 14 new cases were identified throughout the county on Saturday. The county has now reported a total of 34,378 cases, including 74 that remain active. Of the cases reported Saturday: six were in Santa Maria (11,557 total, 20 active); three were in Lompoc (3,818 total, 25 active); three were in the South County unincorporated areas of Montecito, Summerland and the city of Carpinteria (1,399 total, seven active); and one in the Santa Ynez Valley (1,040 total, one active). The geographic region of one case was pending on Saturday. No other areas reported cases on Saturday. A total of 18 people are receiving treatment at county hospitals, including two in the Intensive Care Unit.

Thunder, an approximately eight-week old kitten, looks out at the camera at Santa Barbara Humane in Goleta on Saturday.

HUMANE

Continued from Page A1 South County come together as one, it really moves our community and our county together as a whole,” he said. “Just the ability to have those services, such as medical or spay/neuter, or even food services for families right now that might be struggling financially, will really help keep those pets in their homes and properly cared for.” Sofia Rodriguez, the chief philanthropy officer at Santa Barbara Humane, said that being able to help community members with veterinary care has been especially important over the past year. “We’ve had people come in to us and think they’re coming in for a check up, and recognize there’s an ear infection or something going on with their (the pet’s) urination, and next thing you know it’s $1,500, and unexpected veterinary bills are not easy for anybody, let alone during a pandemic,” she told the News-Press. “Luckily, the community here, they realize we’re a local organization that relies on local funds, and they step up and donate year after year. We have thousands of donors that donate specifically to this program to help support their

neighbors.” Overall, Ms. Burns told the group gathered outside Santa Barbara Humane, next to the company vans already decked out with the new name and logo, that the new name “just felt right.” “You know the time when you adopt a pet, and the pet (owners) come up with a name and it’s “Jack” and you just look in the animal’s eyes and you’re like, ‘Jack just doesn’t fit you,’ so you either come up with a new name in the middle of the night or you send out a picture of your new pet to social media and have your friends decide, but when you finally decide on the right name, it just feels right and it seems right and it looks right?” she asked. “That’s one of the reasons why we actually chose this name, is because it felt right and it seemed right. “After spending a year as one team making a powerful impact countywide, it was clear we needed a new name to reflect that community and commitment. We wanted to emphasize the word ‘humane’ because we’re a humane organization, and we kept Santa Barbara because of the history and the county we serve.” Visit sbhumane.org to learn more about the organization and resources available. email: gmccormick@newspress.com

Sporty goes on a brief walk at Santa Barbara Humane.

email: mwhite@newspress.com

Taxes due Monday Federal and California taxes are due Monday. Earlier this year, the Internal Revenue Service extended the typical deadline of April 15. On March 19, the state’s Franchise Tax Board also postponed the state tax filing and payment deadline for individual taxpayers to Monday. This postponement applies to individual filers whose 2020 tax returns and payments were originally due on April 15, 2021. Taxpayers do not need to claim any special treatment or call FTB to qualify for this postponement. FTB will waive any interest and late payment penalties that would otherwise apply if the returns are filed and the payments are made by Monday. For more information, visit https://www. ftb.ca.gov/. — Mitchell White

Santa Barbara Humane CEO Kerri Burns speaks during an event on Saturday.

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Wildling Museum to honor Richard Salas The Wildling Museum of Art & Nature will be holding a virtual celebration next month to honor wildlife photographer Richard Salas with its Wilderness Spirit Award. The event, scheduled for 4 p.m. June 6, will highlight underwater footage from Mr. Salas’ photography adventures. Attendees will learn more about his impact as an advocate for the ocean and all its inhabitants, hear from those Mr. Salas has impacted in the community, and also enjoy a presentation from Mr. Salas himself, according to a news release.

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Tickets are sold per household, with all proceeds helping support the museum. Ticket packages include: $50 Household Ticket, offering online event access; $150 Household Ticket, offering online access and benefits, including one bottle of one, an 8x10 inch matted print of Mr. Salas’ photograph, “Sea Lions,” from the museum’s collection; and $250 Household Ticket, offering online access and benefits, including a coffee table book featuring Mr. Salas’ work, one bottle of wine, and a private museum tour on a date in 2021. To purchase tickets, visit https:// crm.bloomerang.co/HostedDonat ion?ApiKey=pub_151c3146-997311e7-afbe-024e165d44b3&WidgetI d=8251393&blm_aid=8763397. — Mitchell White

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The Wildling Museum of Art & Nature will be holding a virtual celebration next month to honor wildlife photographer Richard Salas with its Wilderness Spirit Award.

Shown here is Richard Salas’ photograph, “Sea Lions,” which is part of the Wildling Museum’s permanent collection.

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In designing this year’s pin, Ms. Petlow relied on two things that Fiesta encompases — history and dance. The design was inspired by El Presidente Mike Harling’s 1996 pin.

Pin’s design influenced by history, dance FIESTA

Continued from Page A1 Spanish Days board. “My granddaughter Nadia Mason then added colored pencil drawings of iconic Santa Barbara landmarks for the poster including the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, the Old Mission Santa Barbara and local artist Bud Bottoms’ Dolphin Family sculpture known as the ‘Bicentennial Friendship Fountain’ at State Street and Cabrillo Boulevard. “These landmarks are truly a culmination of the generations of Santa Barbarians who have inspired and continued to enhance our city’s rich history and traditions.” Additional artwork from “El Pueblos Viejo” was donated by local architect Steve Hausz, with permission from the Santa Barbara Conservancy. Graphic design was completed by Mateo Dovgin, a senior at Santa Barbara High and the son of the 1998 Spirit of Fiesta, Adriana Rey

Dovgin. In designing this year’s pin, Ms. Petlow relied on two things that Fiesta encompases — history and dance. “My choice for the 2021 Old Spanish Days pin was inspired by El Presidente Mike Harling’s 1996 pin, 25 years ago,” Ms. Petlow said. “The iconic silhouette of two dancers has always been one of the images of Fiesta that I have always loved. A special thank you to Steve Lipman of Pincrafters for his many years of producing our Fiesta pins.” This year’s Fiesta is scheduled for Aug. 4-8. While there will be no Fiesta Parade or mercados set up in Santa Barbara and Goleta, many of the traditions will remain the same. Officials will adhere to health guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state, county and the city. For a complete schedule of this year’s events, visit sbfiesta.org. email: mwhite@newspress.com

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

Gauchos fall to Bruins, 5-2 By MITCHELL WHITE NEWS-PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

UCSB got on the board in the bottom of the first, but its offense was unable to sustain any momentum, falling to UCLA on Saturday at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. UCSB scored early courtesy of Broc Mortensen’s team-leading 11th bomb of the season, a solo shot to make it 1-0. UCLA’s Kyle Karros tied the game in the top of the second with a solo home run of his own. Michael Curialle added an RBI single in the top of the seventh, and Jonjon Vaughns drove in a run with a double. Kyle Johnson’s pinch-hit solo homer in the bottom of the seventh rounded out the scoring for UCSB (31-17, 21-11 in Big West). UCLA’s Kevin Kendall and Pat Caufield each drove in runs in the top of the ninth. Sean Mullens improved to 9-1 with Saturday’s win. The Gauchos registered only four hits on the afternoon. Rodney Boone took the loss, tossing six innings and allowing two runs, both earned. He struck out six and issued two walks. Carter Benbrook allowed three earned on seven hits in three innings of relief. UCSB took Friday’s game with a score of 10-4. The two teams will be back in action at 2 p.m. today at UCLA.

COLLEGE SOFTBALL UCSB 2, CSUN 0 Emily Schuttish tossed a onehitter to earn her 11th win of the season, as the Gauchos closed their season with a shutout win Saturday over Cal State Northridge. Schuttish had a no-hitter with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, but allowed a single to CSUN’s Paloma Usquiano. She bounced back to strike out Aaliyah Swan to close out the game. Ally Nodohara got UCSB (1531, 12-12 in Big West) on the board with an RBI single in the top of the second. Ashley Donaldson added a sacrifice fly to round out the scoring.

PREP TRACK AND FIELD SANTA BARBARA COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS The Lompoc and San Marcos

boys teams shared the varsity title Saturday, while the Dos Pueblos girls took the girls title. The Braves boys team took the 4x100 meter relay, as Sheldon Canley, Deville Dickerson, Anthony Alonzo and Cailin Daniels combined for a time of 43.31. San Marcos’ Jacob Snodgress (4.29.97) and Ethan Dwelley (4:33.78) took the top two spots in the boys 1600 meter run. For the Charger girls, Samsara Chahine took first in the 1600 meter run, with a time of 5:37.75. Her teammate Elliot Gleason took second with a time of 5:40.23. For the boys, Lompoc and San Marcos each finished with a team score of 95. Carpinteria took third with 77 points. For the girls, Dos Pueblos won with a team score of 140.5. Righetti took second with a score of 138.5 and San Marcos took third (90 points). For complete results, visit athletic.net. SIMI VALLEY INVITATIONAL Four Santa Barbara High track competitors took home double wins at the Simi Valley Invitational Saturday. The team of Mackenna Show, Zia Frausto, Clara Aviani and Anne Knecht won the 4x400 relay with a season best time of 4:14.89. Show also won the 400 meters in 63.34, and Frausto took the 200 meters in 27.42, both personal bests. Gianna Stump had a season-best of 16-2 in the long jump and 32-1 in the triple jump. Blaise Winston picked up wins in the 400 meters (51.90) and 300 hurdles (42.22).

PREP BOYS SOCCER NORWALK 1(5), SAN MARCOS 1 (4) The Royals got a goal from Caden Vom Steeg in stoppage time, but ultimately fell in penalty kicks in the CIF playoff matchup Saturday. Official stats were not made available by press time.

PREP BASEBALL BISHOP DIEGO 9, SANTA CLARA 3 Luc Maho went 3-4 and Gabe Martinez went 2-2 and walked

twice in the Cardinals’ win Saturday. Official stats were not made available by press time.

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SAN MARCOS 7, CABRILLO 0 Allie Fryklund, coming off a perfect game in her last performance, continued to marvel for the Royals. Fryklund tossed a one-hit shutout, striking out 14 batters and issuing just two walks. Mackenzie Mendoza had an RBI double in the fourth, while Fryklund helped her own cause with an RBI single later in the inning. Caitlyn Early hit an RBI single in the sixth. Tiana Monaghan added an RBI double, followed by a run-scoring single by Izabella Velasquez. Gigi Gritt went 3-3 on the day and scored twice. San Marcos improved to 134 overall and 10-1 in Channel League play. LOMPOC 18, SANTA YNEZ 8 Lauren Swing, Molli Kadlec and McKinnzie Grossini each had multiple hits in the Pirates’ loss on Friday. DOS PUEBLOS 10, SANTA BARBARA 0 Georgia Wilson tossed a one-hit shutout and Riley Monroe went 44 at the plate with three doubles and drove in three to lead the Chargers Friday. Lia Gamberdela and Jessica Reveles each drove in a pair in DP’s Senior Night victory. The Chargers improved to 144 overall and 10-1 in Channel League play.

SAINT BONAVENTURE 16, BISHOP DIEGO 3 Yvette Rosales had two RBIs and Jenna Hayes drove in a run in the Cardinals loss Saturday. Official stats were not made available by press time.

PREP BOYS BASKETBALL SAN JUAN HILLS 80, DOS PUEBLOS 49 Joaquin Riker scored a teamhigh 11 points, while freshman Matthew Zamora scored 10 in the Chargers’ loss Saturday.

SCORES FROM FRIDAY NIGHT PREP BOYS TENNIS WILLIAMS TAKES TVL TITLE Bishop Diego’s Luke Williams continued his dominant run, defeating Villanova Prep’s Timmy Quest 6-3, 6-1 to win the Tri-Valley League Championship. Williams has played 18 opponents this season, and in 138 games he has won 126.

PREP BASEBALL SAN MARCOS 14, CABRILLO 4 The Royals (15-3, 9-2 in Channel League) tallied 17 hits in their win Friday to sweep the series against Cabrillo. Lance Bermudes hit a home run, Forest Johnson had a triple and Aiden Johnson hit a double. Henry Manfredonia, Johnson, Aiden Mandel, Nicky Fell, Johnson, and Bermudes all had multiple hits. Chase Hoover struck out eight in three innings. San Marcos will be back in action this week as it hosts Lompoc Wednesday. DOS PUEBLOS 3, SANTA BARBARA 1 Ryan Speshyock tossed a complete game, allowing just one run and striking out eight in the Chargers’ win Friday. Ethan Rodriguez went 1-2 with two walks and a stolen base. Jackson Greaney went 2-3 with a double and an RBI. Kellen Montgomery went 1-3 and drove in a run, while Greg Marmo added

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PREP BOYS BASKETBALL SANTA BARBARA 41, SANTA YNEZ 37 Andrew Douglas had a teamhigh 13 points to lead the Dons to victory Friday. Miles Thompson finished with nine, all coming on three pointers. For the Pirates, Landon Lassahn had 18 points, four rebounds, a steal and an assist. NORDHOFF 66, CARPINTERIA 38 Jose Suaraz had a game-high 22 points and pulled down five rebounds in the Warriors’ loss Friday night. Kainoa Glasgow added 13 points and eight rebounds.

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Broc Mortensen, seen here in earlier action, hit a solo home run to open the scoring for UCSB Saturday against UCLA. It was his teamleading 11th home run of the season.

PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL BISHOP DIEGO 53, VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 37 Elliot Redkey and Lily Simolon each scored 13 points to lead the Cardinals Friday night. Citali Morales added nine points in the win. Bishop Diego (5-1 overall) will host Santa Paula Monday night.

PREP BOYS LACROSSE SAN MARCOS 15, SANTA BARBARA 6 The Royals fell behind 1-0 in the first 45 seconds of their Friday match, but rallied to take a 6-1 lead and never looked back. Even Lehman notched five assists and a goal. Jack Weibe had three goals, Eli Heinz scored a pair, and Gage Heinz and Tyler Hughes each scored a goal. San Marcos clinched its seventh-straight City Championship, and improved to 7-1 overall and 7-0 in Channel League play.

PREP GIRLS LACROSSE SAN MARCOS 16, SANTA BARBARA 4 The Royals scored eightconsecutive goals in the first 19 minutes of Friday’s match to cruise to victory. K.C. Spring led all scorers with four goals and one assist. Seven

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PREP GIRLS SOCCER SHADOW HILLS 1, SANTA YNEZ 0 The Pirates were eliminated from the playoffs with their loss Friday night. Santa Ynez had 17 shots on goal, but couldn’t find the back of the net. The Pirates finish their season 8-6-1 with seven shutout wins and one shutout tie. email: mwhite@newspress.com

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INVITATION TO BID People Assisting the Homeless (PATH-Santa Barbara) is soliciting sealed bids for Bathroom Remodel, Linoleum Floor Removal and Polish Concrete and Interior Painting at a shelter located at 816 Cacique Street in Santa Barbara, California. PATH-Santa Barbara will receive sealed bids until 3:00PM on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 for the proposed work at the shelter located at 816 Cacique Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 at which time and place all bids will be opened. For bids to be considered responsible contractors must attend a mandatory job walk on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 10:00am at the job site. NOTE: Contractors who participated on the job walk on March 19, 2021 are not required to participate on this job walk but are welcome. The bid package, contract documents, plans will be provided to all interested bidders. Bids shall be accompanied by a bid guarantee in the form of a money order, cashier’s check, certified check, or bank draft payable to the (Agency), U.S. Government bonds, or a satisfactory bid bond executed by the bidder and acceptable sureties in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the bid. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of thirty (30) days after bid opening. (Bid guarantee N/A for this project) All bidders will be required to certify that they are not on the federal Consolidated List of Debarred, Suspended and Negligible Contractors. All bidders are required to be Public Works Contractors registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations. The contract documents required to accompany all bids shall be in an envelope which shall be clearly labeled with the words “Contract Bid Documents” and show the name of the project, bidder name, date and time of bid opening. All labor is required to be paid per Davis-Bacon certified weekly reporting at a rate not less than the greater of the current Federal Davis Bacon Prevailing Wage or the State of California Prevailing Wage Determination- both published with the bid documents. This project is subject to Federal labor standards requirements and associated laws, including Section 3 that provides for any new hire opportunities that may arise during construction that required low income workers residing in the area of the project be considered for these employment opportunities. Minority Women and Veterans owned businesses are welcome and encouraged to submit bids for this work.

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Contracts awarded in excess of $150,000 shall be required to post a Performance bond or equivalent security and a Payment bond for contracts over $25,000. The successful bidder will be required to furnish evidence of Worker’s Compensation and Liability Insurance in the manner and amount as required by these contract documents.

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PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE A public meeting concerning the current plans, development, policies, and capital improvement programs of the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation will be held on May 20, 2021 at 4:00pm. Due to the current Covid19 situation, this meeting will be held remotely. To attend this meeting remotely, please email rick@sbbowl.com for meeting instructions by 6pm on Wednesday, May 19th.

NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS RESTAURANT CONCESSION AT GOLETA BEACH Restaurant Concession at Goleta Beach County Park 5095 Sandspit Road, Goleta CA REQUEST FOR CONCESSION PROPOSALS Notice is hereby given that proposals are being accepted to operate THE RESTAURANT AT GOLETA BEACH, 5095 SANDSPIT ROAD, GOLETA, CALIFORNIA. Proposals will be received by the Community Services Department/Real Property Division, until 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 30, 2021. At that date and time, all proposals will be publicly opened and the names of the Proposers will be read aloud. Please submit a proposal in accordance with the instructions provided in the Request for Proposal, which is available on the County website at the following link: www.countyofsb.org/parks/procurement.sbc Proposers may view and inspect the Property during one of the scheduled site visit dates on Thursday, May 20, 2021 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. or Tuesday, May 26, 2021 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Please RSVP by email as space may be limited due to COVID restrictions. Additional dates may be scheduled to accommodate demand for site visits. Sealed proposals should be mailed or hand delivered, to the following address: County of Santa Barbara Community Services Department, Parks Division Restaurant Concession at Goleta Beach 123 Anapamu Street, 2nd Floor Santa Barbara, CA 93101 If further information is needed regarding the contents of RFP, the building or Goleta Beach Park, or to RSVP please contact Jeff Lindgren, Parks Assistant Director, at: GoletaBeachRestaurantRFP@ sbparks.org or (805) 568-2475.

PATH-Santa Barbara reserves the right to postpone, accept, or reject any and all bids as it deems in its own best interest, subject to the terms and provisions of the contract documents. For additional information please contact: Hector Torres at 805-551-9218 MAY 9, 16 / 2021 -- 57104

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING* DATE OF HEARING: MAY 26, 2021 IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Based on guidance from the California Department of Public Health and the California Governor’s Stay at Home Executive Order N-33-20, issued on March 19, 2020, to protect the health and well-being of all Californian’s and to establish consistency across the state in order to slow the spread of COVID-19, the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission hearings will no longer provide in-person participation. We have established alternative methods of participation in the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission hearings, pursuant to the California Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20, issued on March 17, 2020, which states: u u

MAY 16 / 2021 -- 57056 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CALLING FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received for a bid opening by the Board of Education of the Santa Barbara Unified School District at the Administration Office, 724 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101 not later than: Bid opening will be held on June 14, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. for Washington Elementary School Roofing Replacement Project (“Project”). A mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference will be conducted on May 17, 2021 beginning at 11:00 a.m. Meet at Washington Elementary School, 290 Lighthouse Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93109 at the flagpole. Bids will not be accepted from contractors not attending the mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference. Prospective Bidders arriving after the above-designated starting time for a mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference shall be disqualified from submitting a bid for this project. Plans and specifications will be on file and available to view, download or purchase on, or as soon as possible, after the mandatory job walk and pre-bid conference through Cybercopy at http://www.cybercopyplanroom.com The deadline for pre-bid questions or clarification requests is June 7, 2021. All questions are to be in writing and directed to the Project Architect/Engineer, Robert Robles, Robert Robles Architecture, Inc. at rr@robertroblesarch.com CLEARLY MARK BID RESPONSE ENVELOPE WITH TIME/DATE OF BID OPENING AND PROJECT NAME. Bids so received shall be opened and publicly read aloud at the Santa Barbara Unified School District Administration Office, 720 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101. All bids shall be made on the forms provided in the specifications and each bid must conform to the Contract Documents. Each bid shall be accompanied by the bid security specified in the Instructions to Bidders. The Project description is as follows: The Work of this project consists of alterations to the existing school buildings B, C, D, E, that shall consist of, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Reroofing (full roofing replacement). 2. Replacement of skylights made necessary by the reroofing work. 3. Rough carpentry, patching& repairs associated with and made necessary by the reroofing work. 4. Incidental electrical work, associated with and made necessary by the reroofing work. Contractor’ License required: B Prequalification of Bidders and E/M/P subcontractors: As a condition of bidding on this Project, and in accordance with the provisions of Public Contract Code section 20111.5 and 20111.6 all Bidders and all electrical, mechanical and plumbing subcontractors listed in the Bidder’s proposal must either be pre-qualified for at least five business days before the date of the opening of the bids or must submit a completed prequalification package by the deadline stated below. Bids not conforming to this requirement will not be accepted.

Providing an opportunity to “observe and address the meeting telephonically or otherwise electronically,” alone, meets the participation requirement; and “Such a body need not make available any physical location from which members of the public may observe the meeting and offer public comment.”

The following alternative methods of participation are available to the public: 1.

You may observe the live stream of the County Planning Commission meetings on (1) Local Cable Channel 20, (2) online at: http://www.countyofsb.org/ceo/csbtv/livestream.sbc; or (3) YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/CSBTV20

If you wish to make a general public comment or to comment on a specific agenda item, the following methods are available: u

Distribution to the County Planning Commission - Submit your comment via email prior to 12:00 p.m. on the Monday prior to the Commission hearing. Please submit your comment to the Recording Secretary at dvillalo@countyofsb.org. Your comment will be placed into the record and distributed appropriately.

Video and Teleconference Public Participation – To participate via Zoom, please preregister for the meeting using the below link. When: May 26, 2021 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Topic: County Planning Commission 05/26/2021 Register in advance for this webinar: https://countyofsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z7ZWq-05QS-ldi_l_Xm5mg

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. OR PARTICIPATE VIA TELEPHONE: Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 213 338 8477 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 720 928 9299 or +1 971 247 1195 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 602 753 0140 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 470 250 9358 or +1 646 518 9805 or +1 651 372 8299 or +1 786 635 1003 or +1 929 205 6099 or +1 267 831 0333 or +1 301 715 8592 or 877 853 5257 (Toll Free) or 888 475 4499 (Toll Free) or 833 548 0276 (Toll Free) or 833 548 0282 (Toll Free) Webinar ID: 927 7617 9487 The Commission’s rules on hearings and public comment, unless otherwise directed by the Chair, remain applicable to each of the participation methods listed above. The Planning Commission hearing begins at 9:00 a.m. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Planning Commission. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to appear and speak in support or in opposition to the projects. Written comments are also welcome. All letters should be addressed to the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93101. Letters should be filed with the secretary of the Planning Commission no later than 12:00 P.M. on the Monday before the Planning Commission hearing. The decision to accept late materials will be at the discretion of the Planning Commission.

Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 20111.6(j) a list of prequalified general contractors and electrical, mechanical, and plumbing subcontractors will be made available by the District no later than June 7, 2021 at lgonzalez@sbunified.org

Maps and/or staff analysis of the proposals may be reviewed at https://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/hearings/cpc.sbc a week before the hearing or by appointment by calling (805) 568-2000.

Prequalification packages are available through the Cybercopy at http://www.cybercopyplanroom.com. Pre-qualification questions must be directed to L.M. Sweaney at lynns11s@aol.com or leave a voice message at (909) 337-8302.

If you challenge the project(s) 13GPA-00000-00005, 13RZN-00000-00001, 13TRM-00000-00001, 13DVP00000-00010, 17RDN-00000-00005, 20APL-00000-00035, 21APL-00000-00005, or 19CUP-00000-00037 in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Planning Commission prior to the public hearing.

Prequalification packages must be submitted to L.M. Sweaney & Associates, 180 Grass Valley Rd., Lot 3, Lake Arrowhead, CA 92352 (UPS or FED-EX ONLY) (Voice Message: 909-337-8302) no later than May 28, 2021 [Note: Per PCC 2011.6 – must have submitted package at least 10 business days before bid opening, can specify earlier date]. FAXED PRE-QUALIFICATION APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1773 and 1773.2 of the Labor Code of the State of California, the District has obtained from the Director of Industrial Relations, the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work in the locality in which the work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of workman needed to execute the contract which is available for review at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/statistics_research.html. During the Work, the Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) will monitor compliance with prevailing wage rate requirements and enforce the Contractor’s prevailing wage rate obligations, with a copy of the same being on file with the clerk of the District’s governing board. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractor under him, to pay not less than the said specified rates to all workmen employed by them in the execution of the contract, and to comply with all prevailing wage requirements set forth in the Labor Code. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1771.1 of the Labor Code of the State of California, a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid or engage in the performance of any contract for this project unless; (1) currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5; or (2) expressly authorized to submit a bid by Section 1771.1 and provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the Hearing Support Staff (805) 568-2000. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable the Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements. * This is a partial listing of the items to be heard at the Planning Commission Hearing of May 26, 2021. 21APL-00000-00005 17EIR-00000-00003

Appeal of Roadside Blooms Mixed-Light Cannabis Cultivation Carpinteria Kathryn Lehr, Supervising Planner (805) 568-3560 Dara Elkurdi, Planner (805) 568-2082

Hearing on the request of Marc Chytilo on behalf of the Santa Barbara Coalition for Responsible Cannabis (SBCRC), Appellant, to consider Case No. 21APL-00000-00005, an appeal of the approval of a Coastal Development Permit (Case No. 19CDP-00000-00062) by the Director of The Planning and Development Department (herein after Director), which approved 161,838 square feet of three existing, permitted greenhouses and processing within an existing 4,061 square foot warehouse. The appeal was filed in compliance with Section 35-182 of Article II, the Coastal Zoning Ordinance. The application involves Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN) 005-430-038, zoned AG-I-10 located at 3684 Via Real in the Carpinteria Area, First Supervisorial District.

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

19CUP-00000-00037 17EIR-00000-00003

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

Hearing on the request of Tu Tran, Applicant, to consider Case No. 19CUP-00000-00037, a request for approval of a Conditional Use Permit pursuant to Sections 35.21.030 (Agricultural Zones Allowable Land Uses) and 35.42.075 (Cannabis Regulations) of the Land Use and Development Code (LUDC), to allow outdoor and nursery cannabis cultivation activities on a property, zoned AG-II-100, that requires use of a roadway through an Existing Developed Rural Neighborhood (EDRN) as the sole means of access. The request includes approximately 11.47 acres of cannabis cultivation under hoop structures, eight new 80-square-foot (sq. ft.) storage containers, twelve new 3,000-gallon water storage tanks, and validation of one existing 10,000-gallon water storage tank. The application involves Assessor Parcel No. 099-090-011, located at 2720 Cebada Canyon Road, in the Lompoc area, Forth Supervisorial District.

The District will be participating in the Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) Participation Goal Program pursuant to Education Code section 17076.11 and Public Contract Code section 10115. No Bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the bid opening. The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids or to waive irregularities in any bid. BY THE ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE SANTA BARBARA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT By: Steve Vizzolini, Director of Facilities and Modernization Planning Department MAY 9 & 16 / 2021 -- 57053

NewEra, LLC Cannabis Cultivation Lompoc Kathryn Lehr, Supervising Planner (805) 568-3560 Alia Vosburg, Planner (805) 934-6259

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MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation recently reopened to the public with a new exhibit called “The History of the Internet,” featuring a 3D holographic robot named Photon.

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Meet Photon the robot

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At left, Photon, a 3D hologram featured in the server room at MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, explains in Spanish where the internet began and how fiber and Wi-Fi works in the new “The History of the Internet” exhibit. At right, MOXI museum staff and employees with Cox Business saw an opportunity to open a window (at approximately child-height) for kids to peek through and see the server room, which powers the museum behind the scenes.

Newest MOXI exhibit uses 3D holographic technology By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

new, not-quite human but three-dimensional guest was welcomed to MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation upon its reopening — Photon the robot. Photon is a 3D hologram now featured in an unexpected corner of MOXI: the server room. The friendly, animated hologram resembles a red, cartoon photon, jumping and

spinning around as he tells interested viewers the story of “The History of the Internet.” According to Simon Mused, the exhibits manager at MOXI, Photon is generated using a “pretty old technique, but very new technology.” He told the News-Press that a holographic monitor simply plugs into a regular computer monitor in the server room, and Photon is then reflected off a mirror. “The other day, I saw a young girl press her face up against the glass over there saying ‘Hi’ to Photon,” he said, laughing. “She was just having a good old time making a new friend.” Photon and “The History of the Internet” didn’t begin as an exhibit. Rather, the room was implemented as the necessary server room that powers all

operations and exhibits at MOXI, located on the second floor. MOXI staff and employees with Cox Business, the commercial division of Cox Communications, saw an opportunity to open a window (at approximately childheight) for kids to peek through and see what powers the museum behind the scenes. “We always talked about how we could sort of bring that to life and talk a little bit about not only how fiber works or how the internet works, but also this cool history of the internet and how Santa Barbara plays in that,” Kirsten McLaughlin, market vice president for Cox Communications and a MOXI board member since the museum’s inception, told the News-Press. “Our little corner of the world here in Santa Barbara has this really cool connection to the initial development of what

we all know and love today as the internet.” In 1969, UCSB was one of the first four nodes of ARPANET, a network of computers between UCSB, UCLA, Stanford and University of Utah. ARPANET was a project of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, and relied on the transmission of “packets of information,” according to UCSB’s website. The number of nodes grew over the next decade, connecting computers across the country with the technology that soon became the internet. Photon has been sharing this historic connection with children in a 90-second story they can watch and listen to behind the glass, both in English and in Spanish. Under non-COVID circumstances, visitors will be able to listen to the story on

headphones. In addition, the robot ensures everything in the room runs quickly and smoothly, and Photon explains how a fiber optic cable transmits information. “This past year, more than ever, we all know we’re more reliant on the internet and our connection through the internet than we ever have been before, but I do think how that works in the back end and what that looks like, and this technology and equipment, is a mystery for a lot of us,” Ms. McLaughlin said. “Bringing that to life in people, especially for our students, some of the equipment that makes things work when they turn on their computer or when they connect to Wi-Fi or whatever device they’re using to get connected to the world … is very, very cool.” Ms. McLaughlin added that the importance of educating local

youth about technology fits right into MOXI’s mission of connecting children and students with technology and science in a way that opens the door to future jobs and careers for them. “Maybe some of those students who come through see that server room, learn about fiber and learn about the internet and then want to get involved in a career that ultimately leads them to something in that field, whether it’s engineering or being a technician for a company like Cox or programming,” she said. “It’s both of those — bringing to life something we all rely on every day and then also bringing to life potential future career options for our students.” Robin Gose, MOXI’s president and CEO, told the News-Press that Please see PHOTON on B4

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Dan Schoenholz, of Walnut Creek, Calif., is the community development director for the city of Fremont. Like many crossword constructors, he got his start after watching the 2006 documentary “Wordplay.” The idea for this puzzle occurred to him one day when he was running on a trail that crossed a creek, and he thought of the clue and answer at 23-Across. Back home, he searched an online crossword database and found that his theme idea was new. This is Dan’s 26th puzzle for The Times. — W.S.

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

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Jalama Canyon Ranch, a 1,000-acre property that is the epicenter of some of the region’s largest contiguous ranches, is now protected under a conservation easement held by the Land Trust of Santa Barbara County. Funding from state, local and private entities, as well as a $1.7 million grant from the Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation Program, a statewide climate investment program, will help protect the Lompoc ranch in perpetuity. “When we conserve land in perpetuity we mean forever and then some. Deals like Jalama

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YPF is taught by theater artists and mentored by professional playwrights and theater directors. Through weekly teaching and coaching sessions over five months, each YPF participant develops an original 10-minute play that is produced and staged with professional actors for virtual or in-person public audiences. This year’s festival of new 10-minute plays will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday at The New Vic, 33 W. Victoria St., for a limited invited audience and viewable online via YouTube LIVE. Access to the event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit etcsb.org/

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storytellers for the future of the American theater may be one of the most valuable educational programs that the ETC can offer the Santa Barbara community,” said Brian McDonald, education director. “Thanks to the generous support from the NEA, we are able to offer this unique dramatic writing program free to all participating students and provide a supportive team of nearly 30 theater professionals.” The YPF is a 16-week program that nurtures up to 20 young writers, ages 13 through 19, in the craft of playwriting. The only such youth-focused, sustained playwriting program in the region,

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wildlife corridor, allowing various species to move freely between the ranch and the neighboring 25,000-acre Dangermond Preserve and Vandenberg Air Force Base,” according to the news release. “We believe regenerative agriculture has the power and potential to align conservation, agriculture, and commerce for the long term health of our communities,” Steve Finkel, founder and president of White Buffalo Land Trust, said in a statement. “This partnership approach at Jalama Canyon Ranch is a significant step toward that vision.”

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Canyon Ranch bring new financial resources to our region, help secure our local food systems, create new partnerships, and support the climate resilience our shared future depends on,” Land Trust Executive Director Meredith Hendricks said in a statement. According to a news release, the partnership with the SALC program is the first time the program has funded land conservation efforts in the region. The Land Trust is looking forward to using this funding source to advance its lineup of conservation projects and expand opportunities for farmers, ranchers and agricultural landowners in the county.

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“What is the West End Master Plan?” asks a Santa Barbara City employee. “Where do I find the Questa Study?” says another. “What is the Questa Study?” asks another. “Does anyone know where I can find the Goleta Potable Reuse Study?” “The Braemar conceptual sewer plan?” “Santa Ynez Community Plan?” In recent years, Heal the Ocean has been approached numerous times for help in finding these pieces of information, according to Hillary Hauser, executive director. “As many city, county and state officials have retired, taking their institutional knowledge with them, we have recognized how critical it is to preserve their work and knowledge for future use. As a result, Heal the Ocean has created a new website with a

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At left, Alison Thompson, Heal the Ocean’s operations/policy associate, worked on the organization’s new website. At right, Wendy Pelayo, Heal the Ocean’s outreach associate, helped to develop the site, www.healtheocean.org.

digital research library of these and other documents — important works that need to be preserved and accessed by all. The new website is www.healththeocean.

org,” Ms. Hauser said. “Over a year ago, we began working on an update to our website. Our goal was to create a website that not only showcased

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DVS to kick off fundraiser Community members are invited to participate in the Zoom event where presenters will share domestic violence statistics and warning signs and discuss DVS’s

Heal the Ocean’s work but also to archive important research materials and studies by the city, county and state. We envisioned gathering these documents into one place, a digital research library where these documents can be accessed forever. Using the Key Word/Search function in the research library, people can find the numerous studies HTP funded or participated in ourselves. “We will be adding to the research library as we go along into the future,” said Ms. Hauser. “Included with the research library are HTO’s activities over the past 20-plus years, a history of the organization, volunteer opportunities, community programs, newsletters, event pictures, fundraisers, daily surf forecasts and water quality test results.” The new Heal the Ocean website is www.healtheocean.org.

accomplishments and highlights from this past year. Participants will also learn how to participate in the Giving Grid fundraiser, which will run from Monday through June 11.

The event is free to the public and community members can preregister at dvsolutions.org. — Madison Hirneisen

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Nicole Lvoff works at the Goleta Valley Library, which, along with branch libraries in Solvang and Buellton, will reopen June 2 with limited capacity. Express Service library hours will be 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays. The hours are the same as Sidewalk Service, which will remain open. Patrons will be allowed to enter the library on a first-come, first-serve basis and will have 15 minutes to spend inside picking out material and checking it out by various means. For more information, go to www.cityofgoleta. org/city-hall/goletavalley-library.

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Continued from Page B1 Photon the robot and its exhibit is a “nice surprise to see something animated” and “it definitely catches people’s eye.” “It’s fun because otherwise, that’s our server room. Something like that would usually not be on display to the public, but this was an interesting way to bring that space to life, and it’s a new experience for many people to learn about a really interesting story of innovation that happened in our own backyard,” she said. “We like to tell stories of local innovation … We get to share that story and make people aware, if they haven’t been before, that this is happening in the Santa Barbara region.”

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DID YOU KNOW? Bonnie Donovan

Wasting taxpayers’ money

udget hearings have been in session for the past two weeks. We all know that the city of Santa Barbara and everyone have been hit financially by the closures caused by the pandemic. Each city department presents its budget, which amounts to cuts and wish-list requests. “Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship” — Benjamin Franklin

middle class). Sound familiar? Huxley’s “Brave New World” was, apparently, the inspiration for George Orwell’s “1984” novel, and in it, things aren’t much different as far as State control goes, though life in “1984” was definitively harsher and crueler than Huxley’s “peaceable” druginduced Brave New World. I’ve been under the sway of Mr. Orwell’s vision of the future since first reading “Animal Farm” and then “1984” as a teenager. Knowing that, and having been forewarned, here are some of Mr. Orwell’s more acute observations from, first, “1984”, then “Animal Farm.” “1984” “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” In case you have been wondering why Antifa and Black Lives Matter black-clad and other masked-up groups spent

Perhaps taking a cue from last week’s column about spending other people’s money, the Santa Barbara City Council’s recent work session includes spending $168,139 of City Hall’s proposed $4.1 million operating budget, to fund a new bilingual community outreach officer. Said Councilwoman Kristen Sneddon, “I think the city is doing so much that isn’t fully appreciated because we don’t have that community engagement officer.” Wow. Spend $168,139 of Santa Barbara tax dollars because our City Council cannot find ways to effectively communicate among their constituents. Interesting. This is the City Council who will decide the fates of our iconic State Street, and the future use or “reuse and redevelopment” of the Macy’s and Nordstrom’s buildings. The City Council decides how to “repurpose” those privately owned businesses located within a corporate leased downtown mall. This is the story of Paseo Nuevo. Can you imagine a private property owner renting a property to a tenant and in trade, the tenant builds a parking structure that the landlord (city) needed, in exchange for lower rent for 75 years? Then the private landlord changes its mind and wants to raise the rent even though they still own the parking lot. If the city had been prudent with our money, they may have not been in that predicament of giving away the farm, of brokering a deal that the city now wants to renege on, under the guise they think they can do better. Two years ago, the city decreed by Ordinance 5885 that private landlords must renew a tenant’s lease “exactly the same” every year the tenant wants to renew. Why does the city not have to abide by their own rules? Why does the city government get to give itself special treatment? It is crooked, period. City Council states that a lack of communication exists with the public. For example: “Saving the Ortega Park Murals from the 1970s.” To better inform the public, this City Council suggests hiring another translator, a “bilingual community outreach officer position for $168,139.” A Spanish translator was hired in 2018 for $96,000, to translate for emergency events in the city. Is this new position just another PR person for the city? Whose job is it to keep the citizens apprised of what the city is doing for its citizens with their money? Do the Spanish speaking residents need more explanation than the City Council can adequately provide although three of the council members speak Spanish? We have district elections for their representation. When you sign up for “esubscriptions@ santabarbaraca.gov” to be notified electronically (by email) from the city’s web site of “good things” the city is doing, including meetings and agenda, in the upper right corner is an arrow to “Select Language.” There are 108 choices. Surely, we could save the taxpayers $168,159 annually. So if the present City Council

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are leaders in Democratic Party that columnist David Limbaugh writes “their agenda zealously, without compromise, and with or without your (Republicans) support.”

Don’t seek phony bipartisanship Instead, Republicans, work to save the nation

iddle me this: Why would Republicans fall for the Democrats’ age-old ploy of pressuring them into working on “bipartisan” legislation that will only advance the Democratic agenda and damage the nation? Indeed, what’s the point in the GOP puffing up its chest about ousting Liz Cheney from her House leadership position if they’re just going to turn around and behave like never-Trumpers by caving on President Biden’s agenda? Why would they play footsie with the most militantly leftist party in American history? That can’t possibly be good for America, nor can it be good for their political fortunes, as voters don’t want them to be spineless wimps. Republicans need to do more than just talk. They must summon all of their power to block Biden’s disastrous agenda — not for the

sake of partisan obstructionism My alarms went off when I read but for the sake of the nation. that Mr. Biden was “encouraged” People likely to vote for about the deal after meeting Republicans don’t elect their with Senate Majority Leader representatives to engage in Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority self-congratulatory bipartisan Leader Mitch McConnell, House soirees; they elect them Speaker Nancy Pelosi and to advance beneficial House Minority Leader policies and thwart Kevin McCarthy. Given the destructive ones. They president’s radical agenda, mustn’t appease the his encouragement means cancel culture mobs. my discouragement -— The left will demonize unless he is misreading Republicans no matter or being deceptive about what they do and no Sen. McConnell and Rep. David Limbaugh McCarthy’s position. matter whether they rally around former President Biden said: President Donald “But I want to make it Trump, so how about they just clear to you: I’m encouraged not do what is right and aggressively just because of one solid meeting pursue their supporters’ policy with the Republican leader in the preferences? House and with Sen. McConnell. ... Why am I bringing all this I’ve been meeting with bipartisan up? Well, because several recent leaders for a long time now. So, news stories describe President generically, I’m encouraged that Joe Biden’s meeting with there’s room to have a compromise congressional leaders over the on a bipartisan bill that’s solid and so-called “infrastructure” bill. significant and a means by which

to pay for it without dropping all of the burden on middle class and working-class people.” By that, President Biden surely means he senses Republicans might be open to his intention to pay for the bill through a hike in the corporate tax rate. Mr. Biden wants to repeal Trump’s corporate tax rate cut, which put America more in line with the rest of the advanced world and helped spur economic growth. But corporate tax increases pass through to individual taxpayers. It’s false that the wealthy pay less taxes than the middle class. Mr. Biden’s schemes will further retard economic growth, which will disproportionately harm the middle class and the poor. So I’m not particularly thrilled with Republicans kowtowing to this demagoguery just to appear bipartisan. Let’s review some other Biden statements that illustrate

his professed commitment to bipartisanship is disingenuous. In an MSNBC interview, he said: “I want to get a bipartisan deal on as much as we can get a bipartisan deal on. ... I’m not going to give up on a whole range of things that go to the question of productivity, of increasing jobs, increasing employment, increasing revenues. I’m not willing to give up on that. So we’re going to fight those out. ... Let’s see if we can get an agreement to kick-start this and then fight over what’s left and see if I can get it done without Republicans if need be.” Do you hear him? Don’t start demanding bipartisanship from Republicans when the Democratic president is openly admitting he only intends to be bipartisan on those matters on which Republicans will agree. He expects Republicans to cave on many items, and on all others, Please see LIMBAUGH on C4

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t the turn of the 21st century, Time magazine had difficulty deciding who to choose as “Person of the Century.” In the end, it turned away from honoring British Prime Minister Winston Churchill for his critical role in saving Western Civilization. Instead, the magazine gave the nod to Albert Einstein, whose mathematical observation that E = mc2 led to the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and not coincidentally, Japan’s total surrender and the end of World War II. The controversy, as it turned out, was essentially whether “saving Western Civilization” was a worthy endeavor at all. And, curiously, even though Time passed on Mr. Churchill, the magazine’s top choice was probably even more responsible for saving the now-despised (by the left) civilization that brought us modern medicine and airconditioning, along with myriad

ways of making life better and devoted “Democratic Socialist” for easier. most of his short but productive Twenty years on, the argument life. (He died in 1950 at the age about whether Western of 46). He was born in 1903 in Civilization was worth saving is India (where his father worked over and the consensus as a minor official in the PURELY is … It really wasn’t Opium Department) as that POLITICAL and isn’t. Among wellcountry was firmly in thrall known and loud critics to the British Empire. The of everything Anglo and/ Blair family returned to or “Western” are a slew England in 1907, allowing of U.S. congressional Eric to attend both the elite representatives and schools of Wellington and academic “thinkers” Eton. (Alexandria OcasioCuriously enough, Cortez, Ilhan Omar, at Eton, the soon-to-be James Buckley Ayanna Pressley George Orwell found and Rashida Tlaib, himself under the tutelage better known as “The of Aldous Huxley, author Squad”), who seem ready to of “Brave New World,” a book chuck the entire Renaissance/ that stands as one of a brilliant Enlightenment journey and to dystopian trio of 20th-century venture where … others (such as British works; the other two being the Soviet Union, China, North “1984,” and “Animal Farm,” both Korea, Cuba?) … have gone before. written by George Orwell. And, it seems, the entire I don’t believe “Brave New Democratic Party is going along World” reaches the literary for the ride. heights of either of Orwell’s Which brings us to Mr. George classics, but one has to give it Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, a to Huxley, his prescient fiction

foresees a world where a popular drug “Soma” lulls the population into a submissive stupor (legalized marijuana anyone?) and whose technological prowess allows the State to control its citizenry via “entertainment machines” (what we’d now see as video games) leading to hours of leisure time, and not coincidentally, subservience. Huxley also foresaw “artificial intelligence” and that the State would corral science and technological techniques for its own purposes, via such things as “feelies.” It would, of course, also censor any negative or by implication, damning information that may have turned up or been overlooked (such as Facebook, Google, Twitter and other social media sites do now). One other prognostication by Mr. Huxley was that much of North America (fly-over country) would become an international park, where city dwellers (let’s call them the ruling elite) could vacation among the unenlightened (the religious

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his letter is to recognize a nurse who saved my wife’s life by knowing the heimlich maneuver as well as to emphasize the importance of knowing this process. We were having lunch at Salty at the Beach May 1 when my wife had considerable difficulty getting her breath. Before I could act, a lady at the next table arrived. She was a nurse and performed the heimlich maneuver. which opened her airway and expelled the blockage and saved her. We didn’t get her name, but I am very appreciative of the actions and knowledge. This points out the importance of knowing how to do this lifesaving procedure, as no one knows when they might be forced to do such. Once again, thanks to that lifesaving nurse. C.T. Beavers West Linn, Ore.

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an you imagine employees make more when what local they retire than they did when governments could they were working! do if they had more That is because their than a quarter of retirement pay is based on a billion dollars of disposable their highest earnings, not income each and every year? their average earnings over They could fix roads, widen the course of their career, the freeway, help us through and some of them get social both droughts and floods security benefits too, on top of by building more dams and their government pension. reservoirs, hire more cops, The insult to injury? build better schools, This past Tuesday, create effective fire Santa Barbara breaks, build a desal County supervisors plant — and the list obliquely received goes on and on. an annual report on The truth is, our the pension system. taxes and fees are so That is, the report high, local government was not scheduled Andy Caldwell has this much money for a discussion. This to spend, but they is due to the fact are spending it that the supervisor’s on government employee agenda is divided into two pensions. And, even then, they parts: the administrative and are falling farther and farther the departmental. in debt. The administrative agenda For instance, there are consists of items that are not more than 4,000 county considered controversial or employees, and the average worthy of a discussion by the wage and benefit package board. You could call it “the of a county employee is now nothing to see here” part $157,000. There are nearly of the agenda. Accordingly, 5,000 retirees, and the average this $1 billion liability is pension is more than $75,000 considered business as usual. per year. The annual payment Several hundred county to the pension fund is $175 employees receive a million while the system pays retirement in excess of out nearly $200 million per $100,000 per year. Some year, and the pension fund is receive more than $200,000 short $1 billion. per year. They will receive This pension system is over a million dollars in structurally flawed, based retirement benefits, which on the false premise that is more than some of them taxpayers can guarantee made in the course of their government employees will get employment. paid a significant percentage If they were in the private of their salary for the rest of sector, they would have had to their life. This system is called invest more than 100% of their a defined benefit retirement. annual income to earn that The benefit is guaranteed return — an impossible dream no matter what. That is, the for government employees and public sector retirement a subsequent nightmare for system relies on stock market taxpayers! returns, but the investments That $1 billion in unfunded scarcely ever hit the needed liabilities is just for the County rate of return. of Santa Barbara alone. The Conversely, people in the estimated shortfall for all private sector who have a government entities combined 401k or an IRA have a defined in California? One trillion contribution plan. They put dollars! in a set amount of money, and So the next time a politician they get what they get when or bureaucrat tells you there they retire depending on the is not enough money to fix investment returns. things, and that is why they Hence, while the private have to raise taxes and fees, sector is left to either a don’t believe them. meager social security The truth is they are payout and/or what they spending the money on a themselves managed to retirement plan a millionaire save, invest and risk on their would envy. own initiative, government employees contribute a mere pittance toward their own Andy Caldwell is the executive pension while being given a director of COLAB and host guaranteed income for the of “The Andy Caldwell Radio rest of their lives. Show,” weekdays from 3-5 p.m., In some cases, government on News-Press Radio AM 1290.

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Editor’s note: Reader Sara Beeby wrote this letter in response to Robert Eringer’s column, “The Investigator,” which appears every other Sunday in the News-Press. She mentioned his April 18 NewsPress column, which remains available for reading at newspress. com. Mr. Eringer’s next column will be published May 23. (In addition to Sara Beeby, others have told the News-Press about their support of Mr. Eringer’s column.)

Facts omitted about vaccine

here are too many facts that G. Westerman, M.D., left out of his letter to the News-Press (“Get Vaccinated,” May 9). To get the vaccine or not, people need to know the facts: The COVID vaccines are not FDA-approved. Despite the COVID vaccine, the truth is you can still transmit the virus to others. You can still get COVID; you can die of COVID. The Los Angeles Times reports, “Vaccines can fail ... in a nursing home 18 of 26 residents who were fully vaccinated were infected with COVID, 3 died, one of which was fully vaccinated.” There have been multiple pandemics throughout history. All disappeared without vaccines. How long is the COVID vaccine effective for? Was that time frame never tested in the trials? How many days? How many weeks? A few months? How many ongoing boosters will the CDC encourage? Will the variants become more intense due to vaccines blocking the immune system? As one mouse said to the other (about taking the vaccine), “I’m waiting until after the human experiment.” Children’s Health Defense states, “The number of reports of injuries and deaths following COVID vaccines continues to rise.” To COVID-vaccinated college students, teens, children and babies without knowing the short- and long-term risks is most frightening. No one knows. Worst of all, the CDC is funded (paid off) by pharmaceuticals including those that market the COVID vaccine! How great to heavily promote what you bank. The CDC cannot be trusted to publicly disclose vaccine injuries and deaths. Local and nationwide doctors are also allowed to be pharma-paid as well, and without any law to disclose. As President Washington once said, “Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” Is getting a COVID vaccine the right thing to do? No one knows, and therefore, no one has the right to dictate one way or another. To each, it is their own personal vaccine guess. Gael Bek Santa Barbara Editor’s note: The Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are being administered under emergency-use authorization by the FDA. Pfizer and its partner, BioNTeach, recently applied to the FDA for full approval of their vaccine for people 16 and older.

Schools in America

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Montecito author Robert Eringer’s column, “The Investigator,” received praise from letter writer Sara Beeby. Mr. Eringer’s April 18 article focused on Gov. Gavin Newsom.

ear Mr. Eringer, What would we do without your investigation of the Gov. Newsom story? We’d continue to know very little of the corrupt families in our poor, beleaguered state. So thank you from the bottom of my heart. Sara Beeby Ojai

s a former teacher, I am saddened, alarmed and upset over what is being taught in our universities and schools: Socialism and Critical Race Theory. To begin with, America is a republic, not a socialist nation. Second, some of America’s most important documents reveal what kind of country it is. Included are the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Constitution of the United States (1787), Bill of Rights (1791), Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and the 13th Amendment (1865), which abolished slavery. No two documents have had a greater influence on American citizens than the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The Declaration of

Independence marked the birth of our republic and set forth “unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Later, the Constitution outlined our style of government and defined the rights that are protected from intrusion by government.” Today there are those who claim America is a racist country. But is that true? How can America be a racist country, when it fought a Civil War over slavery, passed an Emancipation Proclamation, passed the 13th anti-slavery amendment, and has elected a black president and vice president? What is the Critical Race Theory that they are pushing in schools? Simply put, it is a Marxist system that views everything through race. It is divisive, antiwhite and teaches students that America is a bad country. How will that unify us as a nation? Going forward, parents of school age students need to get informed about what is being taught in our schools.

side proudly displays the 1796 Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington, a signature of the current U.S. treasurer and all sorts of coding to reduce counterfeiters. can relate to the comedian It could be said that Winston Rodney Dangerfield’s saying Churchill caught the essence of “I get no respect.” However, perspective when responding to Rodney’s adding “When I an inquiry about what he noticed was a kid my parents moved first about a woman, with “It a lot, but I always found them” depends on whether she does not apply to me or is coming or going.” Well, my lineage that I can trace Brent E. I must say my back side is back 229 years. Zepke slouch with Ben Franklin, It was in 1792 that the Thomas Jefferson and U.S. Constitution (Article The author I, Section 8) gave Congress Lives in Santa John Adams wanting an eye for divine providence the power to establish Barbara and a pyramid for divinity the decimal system of with the Roman numerals currency based on a dollar for 1776 at its base. being valued in terms of “grains’’ There is the Great Seal of the of silver. As a dollar bill, I am proud U.S. of an eagle signifying a desire to anchor a decimal system with simplicity of calculations compared for peace but a readiness for war with 13 olive branches in one claw to ones where a foot is 12 inches or and 13 arrows in the other one. a quart is 32 ounces. The shield on the front of the eagle Rodney’s quip “When I was signifies that Americans should born, I was so ugly that the rely on their own virtue. doctor slapped my mother” also All the stripes and stars number does not apply to me as my front

The author lives in Solvang

Is America still a melting pot?

13. I do not look exactly as I did years ago, but then again who does? The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 permitted the Federal Reserve to issue the tattoo on my front of “Federal Reserve Note” indicating currency denominated in dollars. In 1965 the Coinage Act (31 U.S.C. 5103) added “In God We Trust” to my back side. Rodney’s saying “I get no respect” was a great tagline but the reality was that he earned “respect,” which is “eliciting admiration by abilities, qualities or achievements” (Merriam-Webster). Similarly, my lineage is symbolic of the respect earned by the U.S. when after World War I. In 1920, my family of dollars became the international currency, meaning other currencies were measured in ratios against the U.S. dollar. This was a big deal as a currency is the “medium of exchange” meaning “a store of value” or “a system

so desperately want to be positive about the state of our country. I’m an immigrant myself and thanked my parents many times for choosing to make America their home. Some of my relatives in Germany who had wanted to move here legally, couldn’t get through the difficult immigration process and gave up years ago. We hear it all the time how we’re a melting pot, and that’s true. However, humans also gravitate to their respective corners to live. Nationalities tend to settle in places where they’re around people of their own “kind.” Nothing wrong with that. It’s comforting. Places in the Midwest have pockets of Germans and Amish. New York as well as San Francisco and other large cities have their Italian and Chinese sections. And there are pockets of middle Eastern communities, Indian, Asian and so on. All these diverse nationalities chose to make America their home for primarily one reason: It’s the land of opportunity. They understand better than many of those who were born and raised here, that if you can’t make it in America, you can’t make it. It doesn’t mean everyone will become millionaires, far from it. But you can make a decent living, practice your religion and know there are laws that protect you while wrapped in the comfort of the red, white and blue. People who are illegally flooding across the southern border realize this more than most. They’re fleeing from massively corrupt countries where the top of the food chain has all the wealth and the people are merely after thoughts forced to survive on the crumbs. They’re not coming here to create havoc, though some are, but most want the same thing everyone wants: a chance to make a decent living and enjoy the good life America provides. But (good) laws are created for a reason, to prevent chaos and have order. If suddenly all the traffic lights in the country stopped working, it would only be a matter of minutes before the roads became a chaotic nightmare. So we make laws. Tons and tons of laws. And they’re supposed to be made for everyone’s benefit Laws should not have an “R” or “D” attached to them. We can agree or disagree that the government on many fronts has overreached and infringed on our freedoms, but we deal with them and fix what we can. Sadly, these days so many of our laws are being broken or ignored, and this trend is expanding rapidly. Government is making dramatic changes in mid-stride without forethought of what the long-term repercussions are going to be. Newton’s Third Law was, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Laws aside, the other main attraction, besides opportunity, that draws so many to America, are our freedoms. It’s invaluable that you can speak your mind and share your thoughts and not worry you’ll be going to prison for doing so (of course there are limitations). It’s a wonderful freedom to know you can protect yourself, and your family if you so choose with a constitutional right to purchase a firearm. It’s comforting to know that we have law enforcement. You can call if your life is in danger, you need help with a neighbor, your car is stolen or you’re home alone and just plain frightened that someone might be lurking outside.

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Thank you, Dr. Ansorg

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Santa Barbara resident Carrie Pekarek praised Dr. Henning Ansorg, the Santa Barbara County Public Health officer, for correcting “misleading or misinforming remarks by media personalities.”

want to commend Annelise Hanshaw and the News-Press for her May 7, 2021 informative interview and straightforward reporting of her interview with Dr. Henning Ansorg, Santa Barbara County Public Health officer, wherein he explains that “correlation does not imply causation” when Tucker Carlson “took the completely unevaluated data and just claimed a causality.” This is important scientific and public health information that affects us locally and nationally, and I appreciate Dr. Ansorg’s efforts to correct misleading or misinforming remarks by media personalities. Carrie Pekarek Santa Barbara Editor’s note: Reporter Annelise Hanshaw’s story was headlined “Health officer explains reported vaccine fatalities.” You can read it at newspress.com.

Duplicity in currency? Ask a dollar bill Editor’s note: Brent E. Zepke shares the story of a dollar bill — in the currency’s own words.

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Check your Obama privilege

ormer President Barack Obama’s bitter other half is at it again. Just when you think the former first lady’s deep well of racial resentment has run dry, her headline-generating grievances gush forth anew. Gripe springs eternal. This week, Michelle Obama told Montecito resident Oprah Winfrey’s bestie Gayle King on CBS News that “many of us still live in fear” after the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd case. By “us,” she apparently means black Americans. But Mrs. Obama (estimated net worth with her husband: $70 million-$135 million) and Ms. King (yearly salary at CBS: $5.5 million) aren’t just any black Americans. Their twin self-delusions are a sight to behold. “(Going) to the grocery store” strikes fear in her heart, Mrs.

O bellyached. (Never mind the sees the back of their head and lifetime Secret Service protection makes an assumption. I, like so and tax-subsidized travel costs many parents of black kids ... the she receives to the tune of up to innocent act of getting a license $500,000 per year.) puts fear in our hearts.” Just “walking our dogs” chills Oh, horse-hockey. I’ll bet my the bone, Ms. King chimed in. grocery bill nobody ever “makes (Never mind the private security an assumption” about the Obama detail she travels with, daughters posing any like so many celebrities criminal threat ever in her strata do.) because of their hairstyles And the icing on or loud car stereo systems. unwell Michelle’s Nobody would even get complaint cake? This close enough to them, for “driving while black” starters, what with their lament: “Allowing Secret Service agents our children to get a Michelle Malkin tailing them from campus license” is terrifying, to the gym to the club. the multimillionaire But don’t take my elitist sighed and decried, word for how vigilant the armed because “every time they get security is for bubble-wrapped in a car by themselves, I worry Malia and Sasha. Just two years about what assumption is being ago, Mrs. Moany McMoaner made by somebody who doesn’t herself was kvetching to Ms. know everything about them. King (who else?) about how The fact that they are good omnipresent the girls’ bodyguards students and polite girls, but were. In a 2019 interview on CBS maybe they’re playing their music News, Michelle Obama described a little loud, maybe somebody how she would have to call up the

daughters’ friends’ parents and warn them: “This is the call. It’s like: ‘Hello. OK. We’re going to need your Social Security number. We’re going to need your date of birth. There are going to be men coming to sweep your house. If you have guns and drugs, just tell them yes because they are going to find it anyway. ... Oh, by the way, there is going to be a man with a gun sitting outside of your door all night. Let him come in and use the bathroom; it would just be nice.’” Woe is she. The trials and tribulations of presidential families are too much to bear. “Imagine trying to have your first kiss” around “a bunch of men” with guns and earpieces, Mrs. O carped to Ms. King. “I’m surprised my kids have any friends, you know?” she joked (sort of). As usual, Michelle Obama’s timing is impeccable. Her latest anti-white, anti-cop rant comes as emasculated police departments

yield to the antifa-Black Lives Matter mob, as law-abiding Americans (most of them white) are harassed and surveilled by the feds for simply attending the Jan. 6 Trump rally, and as urban black assailants continue to beat the crap out of elderly Asians from coast to coast. Unfortunately for these racially profiled targets of violence, there are no burly men with guns and earpieces to protect them from harm. A message for Her Royal Highness: Try less attitude. More gratitude. Before you snivel about “systemic racism,” check your own Obama privilege. It overfloweth. 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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Welfare for the rich

ongress passed the $2.2 trillion Heroes Act. House Democrats said it gives money to “governments who desperately need funds.” But it also gives lots of money to people who don’t need funds. Maryland, which even The Washington Post admits is “flush with cash,” got enough extra money to pass a budget that “hands bonuses to every state worker.” Even Atherton, Calif,, where the median home price is $6 million, got Heroes Act money. “There was no means test!” complained Lisa Conyers, author of “Welfare for the Rich,” in my latest video. Omni Hotels & Resorts received $68 million in loans. Major airlines got $25 billion in loans from the CARES Act. “Who wouldn’t like to play Santa Claus?” Ms. Conyers asked. “Who wouldn’t like to just be able to give everybody some money?” Welfare for the rich didn’t start with coronavirus relief bills. Politicians have done it for years, and a pandemic didn’t stop them. Nevada politicians gave Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis $750 million for a new stadium. A stadium designer says Davis insisted on the very best, including natural grass on a field that “moves in and out of the building in one piece.” Cool. But why didn’t Mr. Davis pay for it himself? “I’m not a billionaire,” he said. But he is. The team is valued at more than $3 billion, and Mr. Davis and his mom co-own 47% of it. Politicians screw taxpayers to build stadiums for lots of rich people. Minnesota gave the Minnesota Vikings $348 million for their new stadium. Santa Clara gave the San Francisco 49ers $114 million, plus $850 million in loans. Team co-owner Denise York Please see STOSSEL on C4

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Santa Barbara economics teacher Bruce Rottman questions the Santa Barbara City Council’s decision to award hazard pay to grocery workers because of COVID-19.

SB City Council ignorant about economics Editor’s note: Bruce Rottman is an economics and humanities teacher at Providence School in Santa Barbara.

ews reports that Santa Barbara’s City Council overwhelmingly voted for an extra $5 an hour “hazard pay” for grocery store workers and pharmacy employees show an astounding degree of ignorance of economics. Yes, it’s very late in the COVID-19 game, with cases declining precipitously and vaccines readily available. But that’s not why it’s ill-advised. Instead, it shows the lack of understanding of basic economic principles by our local officials and a concomitant disregard for rights. As a high school economics teacher for 42 years, I teach my students to not only think of the “seen,” but also to think of the “unseen.” I have seen firsthand how working through the pandemic

affected one local grocery worker. My son is a 15-year employee of Trader Joe’s. He worked willingly throughout the pandemic, including the early days when personal protective equipment was in short supply and the virus was not well understood, including the weeks when scientists thought the virus could live on cardboard boxes for up to 24 hours. Beginning his shifts at 4 a.m., my son unpacks a lot of cardboard boxes. He followed safety protocols as best he could with the information at the time and he counseled his fellow employees to not be “heroes,” but to stay home if they felt ill. The company provided extra compensation and increased benefits in acknowledgment of the risks endured by their workers. At no time did my son ever feel coerced to work in unsafe conditions. Individuals, such as my son, choose their jobs, each of which has varying degrees of risk. And while many individuals’

jobs in the past 18 months have heightened their potential for exposure to COVID-19, in a free society those individuals have no right to getting a paycheck beyond which they willingly accepted when they took the job. The notion that governing authorities should change wages that people have already accepted assumes, first of all, a pretense of knowledge: that politicians know what all wages should be, which workers deserve higher pay, how much pay should increase, what each individual’s circumstances are, and the like. Adam Smith’s observation applies to the Santa Barbara City Council: “The man of system … is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamored with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it … He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-

board.” Legislating across-the-board wage increases hurts lowerskilled workers, incentivizing employers to displace labor with capital. The only good aspect of the hazard pay ordinance is that it’s temporary. It might be short enough to prevent stores we value in our community from deciding they can’t afford to stay and pull out of our town, shaking the dust from their feet as they exit. Markets determine wages. And what determines markets? The individual choices of millions of individuals, who supply services or demand goods. To subvert those freely-made choices not only shows an elite’s conceit, but it will eventually harm individuals, further raise the cost of living — food and medications, in this case — in an already highcost-of-living area, and lead us further down the road to a world in which more and more of our choices are circumscribed by government dictates. When I asked my 14-yearold freshman students what

they thought of the hazard pay mandate, they replied with some interesting questions: • Who will pay for this? • If it’s so beneficial, why only do it for two months? • Won’t more people want to work in grocery stores if they can make more money? I’m pleased that my students have learned to look beyond the short-term gain to the long-term consequences of such decisions. We all need to be asking questions like theirs. Sound economics education teaches us fundamental truths about the world. Short-run, kneejerk reactions may appear to be compassionate but in the end they are anything but compassionate (a word which literally means, “suffering with;” ask yourself, what suffering did city council members endure to pass this legislation?) Coerced compassion is an oxymoron. And top-down dictates legislating what voluntary transactions individuals make subverts genuine justice.

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‘My bathroom toys were a toaster and radio’ ZEPKE

Continued from Page C2 of money in general use” where “money” is “a store of value, a verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes.” The ability to control your currency is important to political entities as illustrated by the resistance of Great Britain to adopt the Euro. The Chinese recently announced a goal of replacing the dollar as the international standard. Rodney’s quip “I could tell my parents hated me. My bathroom toys were a toaster and radio.” The influence of my parents, the U.S. Congress, is reflected in many ways. For example, in 1965 to pay for LBJ’s Great Society, his Vietnam War and the race riots, Congress passed the Coinage Act that provided that U.S. dollars must be accepted in all public transactions. However, the Act did NOT require that all private transactions accept U.S. currency. Congress, in 1971, suspended the conversion of my family of dollars to the precious metals of gold, silver or copper. However, in 2021, the future of my family of dollars is being threatened by five events: 1. Obama-Biden’s authorization of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s use of U.S. taxpayer’s money to fund the Wuhan Lab’s efforts to “juiceup” the SARS virus to enable it to

contaminate the lungs of humans through COVID-19. This duo also passed the Dodd-Frank Act that, among other things, required all transactions of more than $10,000 be reported. 2. Dr. Fauci’s financing the Wuhan Lab. Dr. Fauci also issued numerous false opinions, such as that COVID could be spread by contact. This opinion drove people out of offices, eliminated

handshakes, and caused merchants to require customers to eliminate U.S. currencies and pay third parties, primarily credit/ debit card companies and banks, for every purchase. When Sen. Rand Paul, M.D., asked Dr. Fauci for the supporting data, Dr. Fauci said “There was none, it was just my feelings.” His decision making based on “feelings” includes the six (now three) foot rule, outdoor

dining and double masks. 3. Biden-Harris transferring the management of the U.S.Mexican border to Mexican drug cartels. These cartels are charging thousands of dollars a day (an estimated $4,000) for each of thousands of migrants per day. These migrants are being used to distract and make baby sitters out of the border patrol while the cartels’ trucks carry drugs, such as

fentanyl from China. The “doublehitter” this causes is the inevitable dilution to U.S. currency by the tax increases to house and support the migrants, and the increase in power of the cartels as they search for ways to launder their fortunes. 4. Technology created secure internet addresses labeled “blockchains.” One of the initial creations was NFT’s (nonfungible tokens) used to provide

the holder with exclusive access to a work of art or music. Then Nagatomo (probably a pseudonym) created the blockchains network “Bitcoin” where the internet addresses replaced the currency of the U.S., or any other country, as “cryptocurrency” used to transfer assets on a peer-to-peer basis. Other forms have, and will, follow as the format is perfect for laundering money. 5. Cryptocurrencies growth hinges on increasing the 0.5% of merchant purchases in 2020, which requires the public to be able to (1) trade their dollars for these cryptocurrencies, (2) use these currencies for purchases, (3) and trade back into dollars. This has started as PayPal and Square are accepting some forms of cryptocurrencies. The recognition of cryptocurrency by the financial houses of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs indicates a permanence that will lead to the creation of financial instruments. Coinbase (COIN) is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange. These five events, absent actions by Congress (moving in the wrong direction by printing more money to cover spending) or Federal Reserve (they are studying it), will threaten the respect given the U.S. dollar, now Federal Reserve Notes, creating the “Duplicity in Currency.” Will a future comedian quip “I get so little respect that a robber gave me a dollar,” or “a hacker gave me his Bitcoin password?”

‘Our town is circling the drain’ DONOVAN

Continued from Page C1 needs to hire someone to help them communicate with the different factions of Santa Barbara, then who could they hire to assist their dialogue with the thousands of citizens here who disagree with their four-story buildings downtown, with their plans to change the face of State Street, with their plans to phase out retail in favor of high-density dwelling units, for their own clean energy company, etc. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” — George Bernard Shaw Other examples where the city flagrantly spends our money come to mind. Hiring employees; the city espouses that to get the best employee, one must pay top wages. However, some of the city’s recent choices and pay rates did not get us the best for the city. To name a few, Police Chief Lori Luhnow did not work the five years required to be vested (hired July 18, 2016 — retired February 2021), yet walked away with a pension. In fact, the pension seemed to be the only part of the city in which she was vested. Was the city better during or after her tenure? She said she needed a friend, so she

was allowed to create a civilian position and hire her acquaintance from San Diego. How will we ever know if we got the best person for that position? ($206,938 wage and benefits) And then, there was the chief before Chief Luhnow Chief Sanchez. The city gave him a sweetheart deal, loaning him the money to buy a house, “it is so expensive to live here.” So expensive, he bought a second home and sent his children to private school. His experience level was as police chief from San Rafael. Top dollar for the top performer? What will the city offer for the next “best” chief money can buy? When Pam Antil, the assistant city administrator left for a city administrator position elsewhere, (a great loss) she was replaced by the public works director, Rebecca Bjork. Why wasn’t Ms. Bjork hired at 25% or less than Pam Antil’s salary, at her departure, which was $312,682.99 with benefits? Why not have some savings since Ms. Bjork is new to this job? Shouldn’t top dollar get us top drawer? Another idea to save some taxpayers dollars: A landscaper from Los Angeles just replanted the plastic pots at the crossings on State Street Promenade. If the Los Landscaper was chosen because of the price he bid, why wasn’t Public Works, the Parks Department or anyone of the 1,044

city employees assigned the tasks? Or better yet, why not invite the public to bring cuttings from their yards to participate? Succulents were planted and are often part of green waste as people manicure their yards. Where was Rob Dayton or the new hire Jason Harris for some community outreach? By the way, this is the second planting of “said” pots. After all, the City Council doesn’t seem to have to reckon with accounts payable the way the taxpayers do. The list goes on, but how can the city and the City Council justify a newly created position at $168,399, especially with the city’s Google tool of translation on the website? The city has such a shell game going on — it is hard to figure out. It has been recently observed that “our town is circling the drain outside the walls of city hall.” We repeatedly watch our city leaders throw our money down the drain; they are so out of touch with reality. DREAM JOBS The city of Santa Barbara has four part-time jobs openings with a starting date of January 2022. Interviews will be held July through November. Salaries and “bennies” (benefits) start at $91,000 and go up to $110,000. Fairly good for part time! All holidays are off, working weekends is rare, and the work

schedule is normally one or two days a week, depending on commitments. Job benefits for Santa Barbara City Council and mayor include insurance, retirement package and a car allowance. Job requirements are the ability to read a script, praise staff, tell staff how much you appreciate them for doing their job, look the other way and vote unanimously, even when you are “uncomfortable.” To be eligible for an interview, 100 signatures are required from Santa Barbara registered voters to “file the papers.” (No experience is needed). NO FIESTA PARADE By the way, we are disappointed with the decision not to hold the Fiesta parade in August. We all expected that by then we would be in a place to continue this annual historic celebration that would mean so much to us this year. Is it due to the fact that the State Street Promenade prevents our annual parades? For something upbeat, we extend our best wishes for a happy 89th birthday to Larry Donovan, a longstanding businessman who has contributed so much to the community of Santa Barbara.

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

‘Orthodoxy means not thinking’ BUCKLEY

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theoreticians proposing that math is a “racist” construct and that if students answer that two plus two is five, they shouldn’t be corrected? Well, Orwell covered that too. Read this portion of a conversation between O’Brien, one of “1984’s” top inner circle leaders, and Winston, the novel’s protagonist and a prisoner: O’Brien: “You are a slow learner, Winston.” Winston: “How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.” O’Brien: “Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once … “I enjoy talking to you, Winston. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.” Another observation worth pondering: “Orthodoxy means not thinking, not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.” If you change “orthodoxy” to the phrase “political correctness,” you’ll have a deeper understanding of its merit and its menace and why it’s so damned frustrating to try to speak with someone with an “orthodox” mindset. “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” And finally, Winston explains his job as a records “editor” at the Ministry of Truth, where he labors daily, rewriting history so

those records will accord with the party’s current version of what constitutes truth: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.” “Animal Farm” The animals at Manor Farms were overworked but thanks to pigs named Napoleon and Snowball, the animals’ revolt against the farmer was successful and they gained their freedom. The animals called their movement “Animalism” and renamed “Manor Farm” “Animal Farm.” Napoleon and Snowball wrote and approved of the Seven Commandments that all members of Animal Farm would henceforth adhere to: 1) Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. 2) Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 3) No animal shall wear clothes. 4) No animal shall sleep in a bed. 5) No animal shall drink alcohol. 6) No animal shall kill any other animal. (“without cause” was added later) 7) All animals are equal. However, that didn’t last, as Napoleon and Snowball began walking on two legs, sleeping in beds, drinking alcohol and

killing dissenters. They changed the Seven Commandments into a shorter maxim: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others; having four legs is good, but having two legs is better.” Snowball explains the changes to the befuddled farm animals who’d seen what had been happening to their short-lived freedoms and now feared their two-legged revolutionary heroes: “No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?” Sound familiar in the face of today’s $6 trillion budget-busting bonanzarama? Oh, and in the U.S., as more and more athletes began to kneel during the playing of “The StarSpangled Banner,” one could only note that in “Animal Farm”, the Animalist national anthem, the song of their rebellion, “Beasts of England,” was abolished. It was forbidden to sing it any longer. Well, things could change, but the U.S. is definitely heading in a direction no one could have foreseen, say, 10 years ago. No one, except maybe George Orwell. Cross your fingers and hang onto your beliefs. Change is coming. James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident.

All of Biden’s proposed solutions are backasswards LIMBAUGH

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he’ll railroad them right through via the reconciliation process. He has shown no willingness to compromise his positions. What a great deal for Biden: “Heads I win. Tails you lose.” Making matters worse, all of Biden’s proposed solutions are backasswards. You don’t increase productivity and jobs by injecting play money into the economy and continuing to pay unemployment benefits that disincentivize people from returning to work, a reality he cynically denies. A watchdog press would be lambasting President Biden for his partisanship, not cajoling Republicans to be bipartisan in the face of such an uncompromising president. But that’s a fantasy. We are already witnessing the poisonous fruits of Biden’s programs: inflation; an overrun border that threatens America’s sovereignty and security; a constant stirring of racial resentment; foreign policy weakness and a betrayal of our ally Israel; gas hikes partially caused by a war on domestic energy; a war on cops; a war on free, fair and honest elections;

a perversion of our national security by preposterously identifying white supremacy as the greatest security threat; a weakened military obsessed with identity politics; a neverending climate of fear over the pandemic that keeps schools and businesses shut down; rampant cancel culture; and our academic, cultural and digital institutions suppressing speech, demanding conformity and smothering academic inquiry. Note to Republicans: Don’t fall for this sham for the thousandth time. Democrats will promote their agenda zealously, without compromise, and with or without your support. Please surprise us and block them at every turn. You should not set your sights on crossing the aisle for a phony photo-op but on saving the country. David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is “Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win.” Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and at www.davidlimbaugh. com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators. com. Copyright 2021 by Creators.com.

We have so much to be proud of SCHULTE

Continued from Page C2 America is vast and bursting with a landscape that rivals anywhere in the world. From 14,000-foot Rockies, to the lowest point in Death Valley, to 3,000-year-old redwoods, to the Grand Canyon to the mighty Mississippi River and the Great Lakes. We can drive anywhere and everywhere and see these natural wonders at our leisure. We can camp in thousands of campgrounds and RV Parks, hotels and motels. And we can make new friends along the way. We have so much to be proud of and so much to protect. It’s up to all of us. We need to unify now more than ever to make certain we keep those freedoms, that we keep our constitutional rights firmly intact. The Constitution and its

amendments are absolute. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Our country has been functioning pretty darn good for 245 years. Now is not the time to fix what isn’t broken. Sure, we have problems, big ones, but everything can be mended and improved. It’s time to bring the “United” back into these here states. Americans are good people who also help the world more than any other country on the planet and we do it with money from our very own pockets. We care. We cannot allow politics to continue to drive a wedge between all of us. We cannot allow the very people who are supposed to work for us, work against us. Don’t allow this country to change. It is up to us, all of us. We’re the power, the engine and the beauty that makes America Great.

‘We didn’t give cash, just tax breaks’ STOSSEL

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and her family are worth $3.5 billion, says Forbes. She ought to fund her own stadium. “The taxpayers often vote for this stuff,” I told Ms. Conyers, “so they must like it.” “(T)hey’re promised there’s going to be all these jobs,” she replied, “not only at the stadium but at the hotels that are going to rise up around the stadium.” Politicians always promise that public investment will return more in benefits to taxpayers. But it’s not true. A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City found new stadiums bring in about $40 million in jobs and tax benefits, much less than the $188 million that taxpayers pay. Handouts to other corporations fare no better. Ohio politicians gave General Motors millions in tax credits to keep its Lordstown plant open. GM then closed the plant. Politicians let GM keep a third of the money. Wisconsin gave nearly $3 billion in tax breaks to Foxconn because it promised to create 13,000 jobs. Now the company promises to create only 1,454. “If you look at the cost of each job, it was a million dollars,” Ms. Conyers pointed out. Actually, it was more than a million. Politicians often justify this corporate welfare by saying, “We didn’t give cash, just tax breaks.” But “If some big company is in that town and they are not paying property tax, that means every other taxpayer is covering for them,” Ms.

Conyers pointed out. “(F)ire departments still have to be paid for. Police departments still have to be paid for. Schools still have to be paid for!” Then there’s the farm subsidy scam. Both Republicans and Democrats eagerly give your money to agribusiness, even though farmers are now richer than the average American. The politicians claim the handouts are not a payoff for political contributions but to “make sure there’s enough food to go around,” since “farmers have no control over price fluctuations and the weather.” But that’s absurd. Other businesses adjust to price fluctuations and weather. America doesn’t subsidize fruit and vegetable farmers — yet we have plenty of fruits and vegetables. The politicians claim they want to help “small family farms,” but they give 90% of the subsidies to the biggest farms. Such welfare for the rich persists because, years ago, politicians voted for a handout, and once they start giving your money away, they never stop. “I’m an American taxpayer,” said Ms. Conyers. “I don’t understand why money is leaving my pocket and going into the pocket of somebody who is wealthy.” Me either. John Stossel 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.