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Volunteers Sarah Evans, left, and Sabrina Humphrey unload a bag of food donations during a drive-through food donation drive at the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County warehouse in Goleta on Saturday.

Filling the Foodbank Drive-through donors divvy out dinners and dishes By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

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Like a well-oiled machine, the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County held a drive-through food and cookware drive, Fill the Foodbank!, Saturday. More than 7,400 pounds of food and 1,100 pounds of cookware were brought to Santa Barbara, and well over 100 cars pulled through. A handful of volunteers took on the task of removing boxes of kitchen utensils, appliances and non-perishable food items, making the process approximately a five-minute

pit stop for donors. Cars were already packed in the drivethrough line by 10:15 a.m., but the vehicles moved quickly. “What we’re hoping to accomplish is fill the gap that we’re seeing with not being able to do our May Postal Drive (Stamp Out Hunger),” Jordan Jenkins, the leader of Fill the Foodbank!, told the News-Press Saturday morning. She said that in 2019 — the last year the Foodbank was able to hold the big drive — they brought in nearly 60,000 pounds of food, which she said was “huge” for Please see FOODBANK on A5

Adam Aceto plays the organ for the audience at the Arlington Theatre, which recently celebrated its 90th anniversary.

By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Santa Barbara’s treasured Arlington Theatre resounded with the deep, rich tune of the historic, 93-year-old pipe organ on Saturday afternoon. After a year of closure and uncertainty within the performing arts community, several dozen community members, many of whom were seniors, flocked to the red theater seats to enjoy the music. The free organ concert was open to the public, and attendees received complimentary popcorn and could come and go at their leisure. The event was dedicated to former Santa Barbara Mayor Hal Conklin, who died Friday at age 75 after a battle with brain cancer. “Gosh, to say it’s good to be back is an understatement,” Adam Aceto, the staff organist at the theater, told the News-Press before his performance. “You don’t realize as a performer how the audience is primarily doing nothing, but just their sheer being there, and how it influences you both in the performance aspect but also your mental aspect.” Although several rows are roped off in the iconic theater following COVID protocol, community members dressed in their best didn’t mind. They sat spaced out, talking amongst themselves, recording video, taking photos and simply enjoying their buttery popcorn and the exciting, majestic sounds of the large and complex instrument. Couples leaned on each other’s shoulders; fans hooted and hollered after each piece; and some attendees even rose to do

little dances to the bright, fanfarelike tunes. Ironically enough, the man behind the organ said that the pandemic was actually good for the historic instrument. Time off from performing allowed repair crews and members of the Santa Barbara Theatre Organ Society to perform much-needed tweaks and fixes on the nearly centuryold organ — 650 hours of repairs,

Unemployment rate improves in SB County By MITCHELL WHITE NEWS-PRESS ASSOCIATED EDITOR

“Gosh, to say it’s good to be back is an understatement,” Adam Aceto, the staff organist at the theater, told the News-Press before his performance.

The unemployment rate in Santa Barbara County was 6% in April 2021, down from a revised 6.6% in March 2021 and below the year-ago estimate of 14%. Statewide, California’s unemployment rate remained at 8.3% in April, as the state’s employers gained 101,800 nonfarm payroll jobs, according to data released Friday by the California Employment Development Department.

The statewide numbers come after March’s upwards-revised month-over gain of 132,400 jobs. Of the more than 2.7 million total nonfarm jobs lost in March and April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, California has now regained 1,302,100 jobs (48%), since May 2020. Santa Barbara County’s unemployment rate, which trended below 6% from December 2018 to February 2020, spiked to nearly 14% in April of 2020. The county’s Please see JOBS on A7

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everything works.” Saturday’s performance by Mr. Aceto — who is also a resident organist for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and a nationally renowned musicologist — was the organ’s first debut with all its repairs. He’s been a staff organist for around eight years now and is nearing two dozen silent movies for the Organ Please see arlington on a5

Community Engagement Coordinator Jordan Jenkins carries donated food items away from a car during the food donation drive Saturday.

to be precise. “Now, it’s pretty bulletproof, and we don’t have to come in before a concert to clean the keyboard contacts,” Bruce Murdock, the president of the Organ Society, told the News-Press. He shared that the society hires an organ company to come in every so often to make repairs, and one of the workers told him, “This is one of five organs in the world where

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Arrest made in DUI checkpoint SANTA MARIA — One driver was arrested on suspicion of DUI and four other drivers were cited during a DUI checkpoint conducted Friday night by the Santa Maria Police Department. The checkpoint was held in the 600 block of East Main Street from 6 p.m. Friday to 3 a.m. Saturday. Of the 196 vehicles screened, one was arrested and four were cited for operating a vehicle licensed to with a suspended or revoked license. No other arrests or citations were issued. Funding for the checkpoint was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. — Mitchell White

Closures scheduled for Highway 101 widening project 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. Starting at 9 p.m. tonight, the northbound onramp at Casitas Pass will be closed for up to 10 weeks, with an anticipated reopening of Aug. 1. Construction of the northbound onramp improvements will begin Sunday night, with the overall closure increasing up to 10 weeks rather than the previously scheduled five-week closure. The closure time frame is based on building new roadway areas on the 101 that

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will connect the updated ramps, officials said. 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. 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, 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

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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 Monday. SBCAG and Caltrans District 5 will celebrate the start of the construction with a kick-off event at 10 a.m. Monday. Crews will continue work on southbound 101 and various ramps as part of the Highway 101: Carpinteria project. 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. 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. — Mitchell White

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THE INVESTIGATOR ROBERT ERINGER

he innocuous-sounding Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum is the subject of this column. The “curriculum,” adopted in March by the California State Board of Education, is designed to turn the teaching of United States and California history on its head. It will soon be discussed and considered by the boards overseeing all the public schools within the state — including, of course, those in Santa Barbara County. Each board may either add it to the curriculum or ignore it. If you have kids or grandkids in public school, you’d better be praying for them. Ethnic Studies should be called “The Woke Curriculum” because, behind its “model” mask, that’s what it truly is: a Marxist doctrine dreamt up by the same people who gave us The Cult of the Enduring Mask and extended school lockdowns. You could call it Woke U, but this isn’t about college-age students. It is about allowing radicalized teachers to indoctrinate your kids at their most impressionable age and transform them, by the time they are teens, into far-left activists. The Investigator will now “woke” you to what’s really going down. “Ethnic Studies” is really just a cover for Critical Race Theory. CRT, which often comes disguised as “sensitivity” training, is actually hateful and divisive. When I was a kid, during the start of the civil rights movement, we were taught not to recognize racial differences; that we are all equal, under the law, in the workplace and in general. We made great progress from the 1960s onward and (until recently) continued to do so. But we are now told by proponents of CRT the exact opposite. They believe civil rights progress is a mirage, that we must recognize racial differences. As in identity politics. You are the color of your skin. And not only that, all whites are privileged racists (whether they know it or not); all blacks and Latinos are oppressed. And if you don’t agree, woke-ism will sic cancel-culture on you. Some of us still believe in freedom of expression so bring it on (yawn) — and let the (cow) chips fall where they may. CRT’s fundamental assumption is collective racial guilt. According to CRT, white people have a natural, subconscious sense of superiority. CRT calls upon white students to stand up in front of their classrooms, confess their complicity — and atone. In other words, teach white kids to feel bad about themselves. Again, this concept is about focusing on differences and not what unites us as Americans. These folks want to teach your children that all whites are exploiters and all “minoritized” (a “Brave New World” idiom part of the new Bolshevik commissar mindset) are oppressed. Hence, their curriculum calls for history classes to portray the United States as cruel, oppressive and systematically racist, from its origins right up to the present. Heard of the new A-B-Cs? A is for “Activist,” B is for “Black Lives Matter,” C is for “Creative Counter to Corporate Vultures” …

F is for “Feminist”… Beginning to get the picture? It doesn’t end there. Even math is racist, we’re told. So now these folks want to institute “Equitable Math.” Huh? Again, this isn’t a joke. According to the new Marxist math manifesto, the problem with numerical science as currently taught is this: “The focus is on getting the ‘right’ answer, students are required to show their work, and independent practice is valued over teamwork and collaboration.” Ah, the “wrong” answer should be acceptable, work product should not be judged, and grades should be given to a whole class (no doubt based on its communal acceptance of and atonement for racial division). Dr. William Moloney, Colorado commissioner of education (19972007), told The Investigator, “Critical Race Theory/Ethnic Studies will assuredly demolish what little is left of a once dominant American liberal arts curriculum.”

THE VOICE OF “ETHNIC STUDIES” Let’s go a step further and personify this concept by focusing on one of Santa Barbara’s leading activists for The Woke Curriculum, one Matef Harmachis. Fired in 2005 as an economics and government teacher in the Santa Barbara Unified School District for putting one student in a headlock and hugging and kissing another (a female student, a minor) and asking her to rub her body all over his (among many other transgressions), Mr. Harmachis describes himself as “a long-time activist working in Pan-African and Third World decolonization solidarity.” Astoundingly, Mr. Harmachis was reinstated as a teacher in 2006. The school district did not want him back. But the court insisted upon it. A bad judicial decision. A very bad ruling. It meant SBUSD got screwed. Because in late 2020 the school district was sued by a sexual assault victim for “negligent supervision and gender violence” by employing Mr. Harmachis who, through 2016-2017, stood accused of sexual battery and sexual assault of a female student at Santa Barbara High School during school hours. (Mr. Harmachis is also named as a defendant in this civil action.) Reads the lawsuit, filed in Superior Court: “Harmachis did sexually harass, molest, and abuse plaintiff, who was a minor at the time. Such contact was done for Harmachis’ sexual gratification and was performed on Plaintiff without her free consent.” And guess what? Your tax dollars will pay for SBUSD’s defense and any eventual settlement with the plaintiff. Mr. Harmachis was arrested and criminally charged for this assault. He pled no contest and was given a criminal sentence. In 2020, the state of California permanently banned Mr. Harmachis from teaching, and, finally, he was barred from all SBUSD campuses. Thank the Lord this despicable creep — clearly, a danger to your children and society in general — is no longer a teacher. But he’s out there still, a resident of Goleta, promoting … you guessed it… a Santa Barbara entity called … Ethnic Studies Now! Now. As in, now do you get it where all this nonsense is coming from? But it isn’t only Mr. Harmachis who haunts us. Even before schools consider and vote, they are already paying for training sessions (again, your

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tax dollars) from a Santa Barbara outfit called Ally to Accomplish (A-to-A). The name sounds positive enough, right? Don’t let it fool you. The objective of A-to-A is to indoctrinate teachers and staff in CRT with the objective of “building an equity mindset,” same as the “anti-racism” online training course that commenced recently at Santa Barbara City College. It’s taught by A-to-A founder Carrie Hutchinson. We’ll get to equity in a few moments, but first let’s take a look at Ms. Hutchinson, who, says an authoritative source, “is one of the most radicalized teachers at SBCC, which is quite an accomplishment given the competition.” She is also active in a Black Lives Matter group called Showing up for Racial Justice, which, claims my source, seeks funds from SBUSD and City Hall. Thus far, Goleta Union School District has signed up for the sixweek A-to-A course at a cost of $49,000 — and so has Montecito Union School for a lesser amount. The Investigator reached out to Ms. Hutchison for her perspective on Ethnic Studies and CRT. She did not respond. A professor at Santa Barbara City College told The Investigator that he was ordered, along with every other instructor, to complete a three-hour program called “Equity Training.” It was mandatory — as in, take the course or lose your job. “I was told in this program that I had to treat every student exactly the same regardless of their capability or aptitude,” said the instructor, who prefers to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. “This meant I could not advance a student with 25 years’ experience over a student with zero experience. It’s about holding everyone back. They’re all supposed to hold hands and cross the finish line at the same time. It’s total friggin’ Marxism.”

EDUCATORS, NOT ACTIVISTS Sheridan Rosenberg co-chairs Fair Education Santa Barbara. She told The Investigator, “We need educators, not activists … Anyone they hire to work with our children needs to leave politics and ideological brainwashing at the door.” If you don’t nip this reverse McCarthyism in the bud before it comes to a school near you, you’re going to have to spend a lot time un-indoctrinating your children — or wind up with them hating you for being white supremacists with so-called old-fashioned beliefs, for believing that the civil rights movement and equality is a good thing. Because for them, equality doesn’t work anymore. The new idiom is “equity,” as we’ve just seen. Equity is code for reparations. As in, all white folks owe a huge debt to the “minoritized.” The Investigator does not need a lecture from any minority, having arrived in the United States from the same kind of persecution those of a darker skin suffered; delivered by modern ancestors on both sides who suffered bigotry and worse; victimized by attempted genocide and the Holocaust.

Armenian lives matter. Jewish lives matter. Black lives, white lives, brown lives — and the lives of police officers — all matter. Needed at this critical juncture is a Joseph Welch to stand up to The Woke Curriculum, to cancelculture, to those who wish to divide instead of uniting us, and say, “Sir (or Madam or Mx.), have you no sense of decency?” That’s what nailed the coffin shut on Sen. Joe McCarthy. The Investigator is happy to oblige.

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Jeanne was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey on August 21, 1924 to Italian immigrant Joseph Mangin (Mangini) and his wife Marjorie. Jeanne lived to be 96 years old. She passed away on April 9, 2021 after suffering a fall. Jeanne was a wife, mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother, sister, aunt, friend, and a longtime resident of Santa Barbara. Her family came to Southern California when Jeanne was a very young child. Jeanne and her younger brother “Bud” grew up in Inglewood. Jeanne initially moved to Santa Barbara in the 1940s with her mother to go to college. During this time, she met a young soldier, Harry Gunderson, fell in love, and got married. While her husband was away at war, Jeanne lived with his family in the Midwest. When World War II ended, the couple settled in North Hollywood and Pasadena before making a permanent move to Santa Barbara in 1963. Jeanne re-enrolled at University of California Santa Barbara, and completed the teaching degree she had started years earlier. Jeanne taught at Monroe Elementary School until she retired in 1980. She enjoyed teaching and stayed in touch with several former students through the years. She was a world traveler. She took great pride in living on a modest budget to save for trips across the globe. In all, she visited 68 countries and loved to share her travel tips with others. In her later years, she enjoyed travel clubs and delighted in many local trips. One of her all-time favorite places was Catalina Island. Jeanne was a lifelong fan of Dodgers baseball and enjoyed watching the Dodgers and Angels. She knew the players by name and followed their standings. Jeanne also enjoyed genealogy and belonged to the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society. Jeanne was a devoted wife to her husband Harry Gunderson (1945-1966). Following his sudden death, Jeanne married Seth Warden (1967-2005). Six years after Seth’s passing, Jeanne fell in love again, and married widower George E. Goodall at the age of 87. They enjoyed 9 years of marriage until George’s passing in June 2020. Jeanne is survived by her brother, Joseph “Bud” Mangin, her stepchildren Cynthia (Glenn) Rosenthal, Michael (Mary) Warden, Lynda (Charles) Franco, and Stephen (Jane) Goodall, nephews Joseph “Joe” (Sandy) Mangin, Jr., James “Jim” (Deana) Mangin, niece Nancy Jeanne (Steve) Kimball, great-nephews Weston, Danny, Scott and great-nieces Claire and Sable. She was “Grand-Jeanne” to 13 grandchildren, 11 greatgrandchildren (plus one on the way). A private celebration of Jeanne’s life is being planned by the family. Contributions in memory of Jeanne can be made to the First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105.

KOSTER, Ken

Ken Koster passed away in his home surrounded by family on Tuesday, May 18th at 11:00 pm. Born in Munich, Germany on January 19th, 1964 and moved to Santa Barbara, California when is was 2 years old, he was a true Santa Barbarian. Ken attended and graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1982, and received his AA after. In 1984 he moved to Oahu, Hawaii and worked in event planning. Soon after he returned to Santa Barbara to start his grassroots tree company, Quality Tree Care. In 1992, Ken married his wife Sue and together they grew the company. Being the 3rd oldest licensed tree company in Santa Barbara, they ultimately bough a 4-acre tropical nursery together which has been home to their family and Quality Tree Care for the past 21 years. There he focused on cultivating rare tropicals and palm trees, always making sure that his nursery was ever growing. Ken’s creativity led him to diversify his business to include full service landscaping. He was very well respected by the community for his love and knowledge of trees. Now 38 years in the business Ken’s vision of being able to pass his legacy down to his family has come true. For the past 18 years Ken had been mentoring his daughter Amanda, teaching her all aspects of the tree business. Taking these experiences with her, she now manages the tree division, while Ken managed the landscape division. Ken received the “Santa Barbara Beautiful Award” in 2019 for his outstanding landscape achievements. In 2020, Quality Tree Care was truly made into a family owned and operated business when his daughter Zoey and son Ethan joined the team. Lead by Ken’s unstoppable ambition, they run the company together today. Ken was a bright man with a huge heart. Nick-named “Boo,” he loved his amazing wife Sue, three children Amanda (34), Zoey (28), Ethan (23), his son-in-law Mitch (32) and beautiful granddaughter Frances Penelope (2), who was named after his mother Penny. He is also survived by his father Paul Koster, stepmother, Janine, and brothers Keith and Jason. Ken loved rock climbing, motocross, skiing, outrigger canoeing, his many friends and tending to his nursery. Ken’s spirit lives on in the trees and ground beneath our feet, and he will be forever missed. Please join us in celebrating Ken’s life on the following days at Welch-Ryce-Haider Chapel on 450 Ward Memorial Dr., Goleta, CA 93111. Visitation: Sunday, May 23, 2021, 11am - 5pm. Memorial Service: Monday, May 24, 2021, 11am with celebration to follow at 2 El Camino Ratel, Goleta, CA 93117

PEABODY, Richard E. 1-19-1926 – 4-24-2021

Richard E. “Dick” Peabody, a third-generation native Californian and a Son of The American Revolution, was born in Whittier, CA on January 19, 1926, to Harold H. and Marjorie A. Peabody. He spent his entire childhood in La Habra, CA and had two siblings, Donald W. Peabody and Ruth A. Peabody. His father Harold was a superintendent with Standard Oil Company and his Mother Marjorie was a teacher and later an Administrator at Union Oil Company. Richard enlisted in the United States Navy on February 22, 1944 and served in the Submarine Service in the Pacific Fleet during World War II and was stationed in San Diego, CA, Pearl Harbor, HI and Guam. After his honorable discharge from the Navy, he enrolled at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo under the GI Bill, where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis on Air Conditioning and Refrigeration. He married Ruth L. Decker on May 30th, 1950 and moved to Hawthorne, CA. His first job was with Selpac Industries, where he worked on designing cryogenic valves and equipment for anhydrous ammonia and liquified petroleum gas. After working there for a couple of years, in 1952, he left and started a company called Peabody Supply with 2 partners, U. E. Goodrich and K. “Doc” Eldon who distributed equipment to handle anhydrous ammonia (NH3) in agricultural applications. At that time, NH3 was new to the agricultural industry and was used as a nitrogen rich fertilizer that yielded significant increases in crop yields. Richard traveled extensively throughout the Western United States working with agricultural chemical companies in developing processes and equipment for the storage, transport and application of NH3 in crop production. In 1962, he incorporated his distribution company as Peabody Engineering & Supply, Inc., and began manufacturing his own line of valves, pumps, storage tanks and related equipment to service the ag market in California, Arizona and the Pacific Northwest. In 1968, Richard bought out his partners and became sole owner of Peabody Engineering & Supply and grew the business to double its size over the course of the next 10 years. In 1952, Dick and Ruth moved to Avis Avenue in Lawndale, CA and lived there for 12 years, where they had three children: Larry, born in 1952, Pamela, born in 1954 and Mark, born in 1959. In 1964, the Peabodys moved to Benner Ave. in Torrance and to Buckskin Lane in Rolling Hills Estates in 1965, where they lived until 1977. In 1977, Dick and Ruth were empty nesters and sold their home in Rolling Hills Estates and moved to Mora Avenue in Santa Ynez, CA, where they both lived until their deaths (Ruth on 1-18-2014 and Dick on 4-24-2021). Dick retired in 1982 at 56 years of age, when he sold his company to his two sons, Larry (30 years old) and Mark (23 years old) and became a gentleman farmer on his 7-acre horse farm in the Santa Ynez Valley. During his career at Peabody, he also volunteered with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in the Mounted Posee and worked as a volunteer Deputy Sherriff in Radio Patrol Cars in the evenings after work. During one of these instances, his partner was accosted and shot by an armed felon and Dick subdued the perpetrator, saving his partner’s life. He rose through the ranks in the Sheriff’s Department, becoming personal friends with Sherriff Peter J. Pitchess and his entire staff of Chiefs, also earning the rank of Chief himself, the highest rank possible for a Reserve Deputy. Dick was also an avid horseman and belonged to a number of riding groups with his horse Buck, including Los Vaqueros, Rancheros Vistadores and another group who rode in the hills outside of Wickenburg, AZ. He had a Bolen Silver Parade Saddle and tack which he used to ride with The Al Malikah Shriners Silver Mounted Patrol, where he rode in the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Hollywood Christmas Parade for several years. He later joined the Santa Barbara County Sherriff’s Department’s Silver Mounted Patrol and continued riding in parades on his Palomino horse named Mickey. Dick also loved showing and breeding horses with his wife Ruth and daughter Pamela. Breezing Pat, or Breezy, a Western Pleasure show horse, was Dick’s pride and joy (aside from his wife and kids, of course). She became a Grand Champion show horse and was famous in the Horse Show world. Dick and Ruth also invested in two Arabian Stallions, Gai Apache and Azmiraff, whom they stood at Stud on their ranch in Santa Ynez and produced many fine Arabian horses over the years. Dick also had a passion for golf and he was an avid sportsman well into his eighties. He was a member of the La Habra Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, The Al Malikah Shriners and a Christian. After his wife Ruth’s death in 2014. Dick’s wish was to live out the rest of his years on his ranch and that he did! He left this world to join Ruth in Heaven on April 24th, 2021 At the age of 95 years and 3 months. He was preceded in death by his father and mother, his brother Don, and his wife Ruth. He is survived by his sister Ruth (93), His children Larry (& wife Theresa) (69), Pamela (& husband Sandy) (66), and Mark (& wife Cheryl) (62) five grandchildren and 4 greatgrandchildren. A private memorial service will be held at Loper Chapel in Ballard, CA on June 12th, 2021. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Shriner’s Hospital in blessed memory of Richard E. Peabody.

MELVILLE, Norma Y.

Norma was born Dec. 2, 1942 and attended local schools. She passed away suddenly after a short illness. on Jan. 8, 2021. She worked as a cosmetologist in Montecito and Santa Barbara for several years. Surviving her are many cousins and her brother Gil Rosas. Because of the pandemic, no services are planned at this time.

MURRAY, Dr. James J.

Dr. James J. Murray passed away peacefully on May 3rd, 2021. Jim was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of the late Genevieve and James Murray, and the youngest of the three siblings; Dr. Genevieve Matanoski of Maryland, and Anne Wiseman of Andover, MA., (now deceased). Jim attended Harvard University, New York University Medical School and did his residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. In the 1960s, he served as a Captain in the Army Medical Corps and was stationed in Hawaii. After his discharge, he moved to Los Angeles with his family for his internships in Cardiology and Nephrology. He settled in Santa Barbara, CA and was a beloved local physician practicing for over 50 years with patients across the globe.

ORTON, John Gragg “Chipper”

John Gragg “Chipper” Orton passed away surrounded by his family on May 14, 2021 at the age of 76. He was born on January 24, 1945 in Santa Barbara. He attended Santa Ynez Valley Union High School and later California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA where he majored in animal sciences. After college, he was drafted into the United States Army and served in the Vietnam War as a Green Beret in the 82nd Airborne Division. Following in his father’s footsteps, he was a dedicated member of The Rancheros Visitadores for over 50 years and it helped fuel his love of horses, roping, and westerns. He was a loving husband to wife, Carol Orton, née Nielsen, and together they raised their four children on a 3,500-acre cattle ranch called the Bar-Go. Later, they sold the Bar-Go and purchased a smaller property on Ballard Canyon Rd. Chipper was a hands-on parent and grandparent and could often be seen barbecuing at various school fundraisers and was even the president of the SYVUHS school board for many years. With his children and grandchildren, he shared his love of movies, photography, traveling, cooking, and reading. He was as extroverted as they come, and it became a running joke within his family that they couldn’t go anywhere with him without seeing at least one person he knew. He played a significant role in the lives of everyone who knew him, and he will be missed terribly. He is survived by his wife Carol, children Joelle Orton-Cartnal (Ryan), Matthew Orton (Lourdes), Elizabeth Casberg (Trent), and Sasha Darnell (Brian), his five grandchildren Chloë and Lane Orton Cartnal, Caroline Casberg, and Finn and Sebastian Darnell, brotherin-law Gordon Nielsen (Susan), and half siblings Bill Kennedy (Arlene), Alice Kennedy, and many nieces and nephews. The family would like to give special thanks to Dr. Gus Dascanio, Lidia Martinez, and Visiting Nurses for taking such good care of Chipper. In lieu of flowers, it is requested that donations be sent to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society or the Make-A-Wish Foundation in honor of his oldest granddaughter, Chloë.

He is survived by his wife, Patricia Murray; his sister Genevieve Matanoski; his children and step-children; Kristina Thomas (Brad), Dawn Murray, James Mark Murray (Makayla), Shannon Murray, Melissa Jasberg (Jeff), and AJ Comito (Skylar). His legacy also continues with his grandchildren Patrick and Charlotte Thomas, Xander and Elliot Murray Osborn, Archer and Marigold Murray, Aidan Murray, Elleanor and Walter Jasberg, and Ashton Comito. Jim was laid to rest on May 14th at the Santa Barbara Cemetery in a private service with his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Wounded Warriors or your favorite Dog Rescue.

SIBEN, Giannino 1931 - 2021

Giannino Siben was born in Santa Barbara on March 14, 1931 and returned to Eternal Life with his Lord on May 1, 2021. After attending local schools, he attended Woodbury College majoring in Business Administration and after his commencement, he served his country in the military stationed in Italy during the Korean War. On his return to Santa Barbara he was employed at Seaside Oil. In 1960 he married the love of his life, Carolina DeMatteo at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. His employment after his marriage included ten years at City of Santa Barbara in the Accounting Department followed by his employment at Westmont College until his retirement. Besides being devoted to his family, Giannino was devoted to San Roque Catholic Church serving on the Area Pastoral Council, Eucharist Minister, Usher, greeting parishioners with a big smile. He was a past President of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. In addition to his devoted wife Carolina, he is survived by his children Ben, Bruce and Janine; grandchildren Robert, Catriona, Brendan and Patrick; devoted sister Elvia Siben Claycomb (Curtis Claycomb); many nieces, nephews, cousins here and in Australia and Italy. Giannino was preceded in death by his parents, Beniamino and Bianca Siben. Private services were held at Calvary Cemetery. A public Memorial mass will be held at a later date. Memorials may be made to St. Vincent de Paul Society c/o San Roque Church, 325 Argonne Circle, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. or San Roque Church or Serenity House.

FEDALEO, Orlando Orlando Fedaleo of Santa Barbara, peacefully passed away May 9, 2021 just shy of his 100th birthday at Vista Del Monte. He was born in Cranston, Rhode Island August 29, 1921, the second child of John and Fannie Fedaleo. The family moved to southeast Los Angeles, where he grew up. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps in August 1942 and proudly served until May 1946 in the V-12 Program, as a 90-mm gun crew member. Following his service, he attended Santa Barbara Teachers College (UCSB) earning his teaching credential in industrial arts and a Counseling Credential. In 1949, he married the love of his life, Ruby Bishop, who he met on a blind date. They had 68 years of life together. His first teaching job took the young couple to Bakersfield, where their family grew with the birth of two daughters. In 1957 they returned to Santa Barbara, where he taught at Santa Barbara Junior High for 20 years. Dad was a kind, sweet man that believed in the simplicity of living a life with those you love, always finding the positive in everyone. He believed that “being true to yourself” was very important and said he couldn’t remember a time he wasn’t true himself. Things he enjoyed were: his mother’s homemade ravioli, fishing, ballroom dancing and traveling. He loved his vegetable garden and grew fabulous roses. Everyone raved about his dynamite chocolate chip cookies. If you couldn’t find him he was surf fishing at Hendry’s Beach. In 2016, they moved to Vista Del Monte Retirement Community. His family would especially like to thank Abraham, Ya-Ping, Ernesto, Tony, Charmian and the staff for their compassionate and professional care of our father. Special thanks to his Hospice nurse Andy. Orlando is survived by daughters Debra Fedaleo and Jan Gabe (Sean), grandchildren Lea Caldwell (Ryan), Jamie Gabe and Christopher Gabe, sister Marie Twibell (Bill). He will be interred next to his wife at Calvary Cemetery in Santa Barbara. Due to Covid restrictions services will be at a later date. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Santa Barbara Junior High in Orlando Fedaleo’s name.

GASKIN, ROY

DYE, Linda Carol

Linda Carol Dye, 73, of Santa Barbara, California, passed away on April 17th, 2021 in Ventura, California. Linda was born in Marion, Virginia to Bryson and Billie Dye on 5/8/1948. Linda Carol Dye passed peacefully in her sleep doing what she loved most - camping with friends in California. After graduating from Marion Senior High School she continued her education at Mary Washington College. She received her B.S. degree in Biology and later earned a Master’s Degree from University of West Florida. Her career began in the late 1970s in The Florida Department of Environmental Regulation where she was one of four female engineers. She then worked at the Smithsonian, with the US Army Corp of Engineers at the coral reefs in Key Biscayne National Park in Florida and finally the Channel Islands National Park in California, where she later became an ornithologist. Her jobs were not just work, they were her passion - exploring natural habitats, protecting the environment and all manner of critters and communing with nature. Her love of nature defined her; she was strong and gently persistent. In her youth she and her family were members of the First United Methodist Church in Marion, Virginia. In her later years she served her church, Ventura Center for Spiritual Living as a Practitioner. Linda is survived by her niece, Cristen Salter; three nephews, John, Richard and Marc Salter and 2 grand nephews, Jacob and Ethan Salter. She is preceded in death by her sister, Anne Salter. In lieu of flowers, please send a small sapling tree to plant in Linda’s name to Center for Spiritual Living at the address below. Memorial services will be held at The Center for Spiritual Living, 101 S Laurel St., Ventura, CA 93001 on Saturday, May 29th, 2021 at 1 pm PST, 4 pm EST with Reverend Bonnie Rose of The Center for Spiritual Living, Ventura CA officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Cristen Salter, niece, at (269) 823-2238 or cristen.salter@gmail.com. You can attend in person or by zoom in California. Please contact Cristen to RSVP by May 27th, 2021. An additional service will be held at Bradley’s Funeral Home in Marion, VA. Attendance in person only. Please RSVP to Cristen Salter at contact information above.

SILVA, Carmen Carmen Silva peacefully passed away in Santa Barbara at Serenity House on April 21, 2021. Her soul, grace, passion, unwavering support and love will endure. She was born Carmelita in San Gabriel, California as the second of six children on March 22, 1928 to Albert and Soledad (Melendez) Escalera. Her parents moved before her first birthday and Carmelita grew up in Montecito and the east side of Santa Barbara; attending Montecito and Franklin Elementary Schools and Santa Barbara Junior and Senior High Schools. Siblings remember her “tomboy” childhood in Montecito as being close to idyllic, with fond memories of unfettered play in a caring community, long adventurous walks to East Beach, horseback rides at San Ysidro Ranch, outings in the nearby mountains and hills, and many family gatherings. She met Bob Silva, her soul mate and future husband, on her birthday in 1946 on the corner of State and Anapamu, and later married on August 23, 1947. Theirs was a love story anchored in commitment to family and friends, and they embraced a rich full life for 67 years before Bob’s passing in 2014. During their retirement years they particularly enjoyed traveling, especially on many lovely cruises, and enjoyed relating and sharing their adventures in Western Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Canada, Mexico, Hawaii and the Caribbean. Carmen maintained a strong, dedicated work ethic for 35 years with Sentry Insurance and Santa Barbara Research, quickly advancing into various supervisory positions by being efficient, organized and exceptionally attentive, sensitive and considerate to the needs of others. “Priority of Person” was always foremost and, as a supervisor mentoring groups of young women, she was beloved for creating a happy and fun work environment, having a manner that was gentle, kind, constructive and positive when criticism or correction was warranted, and for being very tenacious and loyal in their defense if problematic issues arose with management, especially during the “Mad Men” era of business, when being a protector or advocate in support of younger co-workers was critical to surviving difficult times at work. Carmen never forgot a name, was always thoughtful, and in later years the legacy of her character, loyalty and larger than life persona was never more evident than when she would organize fun reunion lunches for “her girls” to celebrate, laugh, reminisce and remind them of the many things in their lives that were meaningful, formative and good. Carmen was once asked early on in school what she intended to volunteer for. She replied, “Everything!” An excellent administrator, it was her social dynamism and enthusiasm that made her unique and invaluable to the organizations she served. These included Nurse’s Aide in high school, Women’s Auxiliary of the Jaycees, long time member (67 years) of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, member of American Business Woman, Docent at the Santa Barbara Courthouse and member of the Santa Barbara Docent Council, and member of local Elks Lodge #613. She is dearly remembered and cherished by her volunteer friends as an extroverted trusted “doer” who was dependable, hardworking, encouraging and supportive. When Carmen was helping others, there were no limits on her energy and joyfulness. All who entered Carmen’s life, who enriched her experiences and touched her spirit, whether family, friend, or neighbor, were loved equally without barriers or divisions. In her life’s many phases: childhood, attending school, raising a family, at work, at play, in clubs and organizations, at outdoor events and in serious somber times; the constant attention, effort, energy, sympathy and emotion that Carmen always extended was her expression of both love and devotion. Carmen was preceded in death by her younger brother Rudy Escalera. She is survived by son and daughter-in-law Craig and Christine Silva of Anchorage, Alaska, daughter and son-in-law Cheryl and Blair Tarves of British Columbia, sisters Vera Thompson of Martinez, California, Gloria Jones of Sacramento, California, brothers Albert and John Escalera of Santa Barbara and a large extended family of in-laws, cousins, nieces and nephews and many dear long time friends. What is remembered, lives. A future announcement will precede a memorial in Carmen’s honor.

A third generation Californian Roy was born to Roy and Marcelene Gaskin in San Jose on May 15, 1926. Roy’s father wrote life insurance policies for Lincoln Life. His mother was a schoolteacher born in Columbia Hill, California. His youth was spent at the family ranch in nearby Gilroy, and at Capitola beach with his cousin Karl. Roy served two years in the Navy in World War II in the South Pacific. He was later called into the Marine Corps at the beginning of the Korean conflict. As a first lieutenant he taught gunnery at Camp Pendleton, then served as a captain in the inactive reserve. After his military service Roy attended Stanford University where he participated on the wrestling team. He graduated in 1949 with a major in economics and a minor in History from Stanford University. He also completed several American Institute of Banking courses. He joined Bank of America in 1951 on a special training program at UCLA executive program on a Bank of American -Giannini Foundation award. Roy initially served as manager for three Los Angeles area branch operations. He then moved to the B of A headquarters staff in 1954, where he specialized in supervising commercial loan activities. He served a dozen years with B of A in Los Angeles, then in Santa Barbara where he was assigned to their main office as regional Vice President. In 1963 Santa Barbara became his home. Roy joined the Bank of California in 1964 as senior loan officer and Vice President, commuting to Los Angeles to help organize 15 new, independent banks. After commuting for a year, Roy was named a vice president Santa Barbara National Bank. In 1967 he won “thesis with distinction” honors for his studies at the Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. In 1968 Roy joined the main office of the Crocker-Citizens National Bank as vice president and assistant manager. His move with Crocker Bank to Stockton is where he met and married his wife, Myrna. Roy continued his education throughout his life with Post Graduate work at Wharton School of Business and Harvard. In 1975 Roy and Myrna moved back to Santa Barbara to help open a new bank: Bank of Montecito, now known as Montecito Bank &Trust. He later became Vice President, Private Banking Division, with Santa Barbara Bank and Trust in their wealth management division, before retiring in 2008. In the final years of his life, he continued as a trustee of the Henry W. Bull Foundation. Roy appreciated the opportunity of being asked to help and was always an active volunteer in his community beginning as a Community Chest worker and Red Cross worker. Among his many charitable activities were Santa Barbara County Heart Association and chairman of the Heart Fund; County Savings Bonds Advisory Committee for the Treasury Department; Board of Directors at Casa Dorinda; Past President and Director, Lifetime Honorary Trustee of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation; Past Director, Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary for Santa Barbara County Employees Retirement association: Past Director Santa Barbara Reginal Health Authority; Past Director Easy Lift Transportation; Past Director and first President Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Council; Past Director Casa Del Herrero; advisory board member of the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Barbara; Treasurer, Home Owners’ Defense Fund; member, Honorary Member Friendship Center. When he was not working or volunteering, Roy was always playing. He was an avid reader, golfer and traveler; Rancheros Visitadores guest and Maverick; piloted planes; played dominos. Roy was a generous man who loved his extended family and friends. He is survived by his wife, Myrna Gaskin; his son James Patrick Gaskin, wife Christine, and their family Austin Schneider, Taylor Schneider, Chelsea Schneider and Guiherme Barreiro of Dallas, Bjorn and Barbara Schneider, Benson, Bea, Brooke Schneider of New York. Roy is also survived by his daughter Marcelene Ide, her husband Thomas, and his grandson Michael Ide of Santa Cruz; his sister-in-law Sharon Dunn of Ventura; and Nita Vail of Sacramento. Many thanks to the wonderful and skilled caregivers who made Roy comfortable in his home. Family, friends, and colleagues will gather at Birnam Wood Country Club to celebrate Roy’s life when Covid conditions allow. Roy’s family ask that any remembrance be sent to Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation or VNA Health. Think of stepping on shore and finding it Heaven, Of taking hold of a hand and finding it God’s, Of breathing new air, and finding it celestial air, Of feeling invigorated and finding it immortality, Of passing from storm and tempest to an unbroken calm, Of waking up and find it Home. Anonymous

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Society. “It’s nice to be so embraced by the community — other theaters are not as lucky to have that,” the organist said. “I probably spent a dozen hours here playing since the pandemic, but it doesn’t feel anything like the sensation when there’s someone here listening.” The local landmark reopened its doors on Friday with three classics showing: “E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial,” “Ghostbusters” and “Blade Runner: The Final Cut.” Arlington’s general manager, Karen Killingsworth, was finally able to push open the grand theater doors after a year of closure. Right away at 2 p.m. Friday afternoon before the first afternoon showing of “E.T.,” the manager told her staff, “It’s time to open the doors.” “It’s great. It’s fabulous. It’s been a long time,” Ms. Killingsworth told the News-Press. The strong scent of buttery popcorn wafted around the theater’s entrance plaza as eager moviegoers trickled in, some young, some old. One man was waiting outside the theater entrance for his wife to see “E.T.” on the big screen. He told the News-Press that they’ve seen the film before, so their movie theater visit wasn’t just about the film. “I’m 93 going on 94,” he told the News-Press. “I’m very fortunate to be alive. I haven’t been to a movie in a year, and I like to go to movies.” Ms. Killingsworth said she feels confident the return to movies will be a slow build up. “Right now, people will have to just wait until they see something they want to see in the theater, I think, and just be with people and eat popcorn. People like to get out,” she said. “We’re looking forward to a lot of summer blockbusters. A lot of films were rescheduled, so there’s a lot of stuff coming out during the summer.” She mentioned “Fast & Furious 9” as one of the blockbusters expected to draw many fans to the Arlington Theatre. The release date for the film is currently June 25. “We’re excited to get it

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Above, guests re-enter the Arlington Theatre, which recently celebrated its 90th anniversary. At right, before Saturday’s performance, the historic organ underwent some much-needed tweaks and fixes — 650 hours of repairs, to be precise. Below, general manager Karen Killingsworth, left, helps out a moviegoer at the Arlington Theatre on Friday.

reopened and to have business again — to see happy faces come in again,” the manager said. As the theater reflected on the nine decades of providing unique entertainment, showcasing artistic brilliance and welcoming a thriving arts community, the organist celebrating its anniversary said that he knows with a city that cares, the legacy will live on. “I can’t state enough — there are

other theaters lucky enough to have a theater pipe organ, but there are very few that embrace it as lovingly as both the management and the ownership here,” Mr. Aceto said. “So for that, we are beyond lucky. That alone is a reason to celebrate, that they see that’s of value, and they appreciate it and want to foster it and continue it.” email: gmccormick@newspress.com

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Volunteer Marin Russo empties an enormous food item donation from local resident Julia Morse’s car during Saturday’s event.

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the program. “So this is our pivot and our way of trying to make up for that, because we’re missing those donations. And then on top of that, we have so much need in the community because of COVID, so that’s what we’re hoping to do,” Ms. Jenkins said. Volunteers at Fill the Foodbank! also collected cookware items, a new addition to the drive to help serve communities unable to afford utensils or appliances. The donations aim to assist community members who may have fallen into homelessness as a result of the pandemic, or currently reside in temporary or transitional housing. “Right now, it’s really hard for people to get access to everything that they need,” Sabrina Humphrey, a biology student at UCSB and one of the

volunteers at the food drive, told the News-Press. “Especially at the beginning of the pandemic, everything was selling out of the stores, no one could buy anything, everything was extremely highpriced, people were losing their jobs — all because of that, people couldn’t afford to get all the stuff they needed to cook for their families.” Ms. Humphrey said she heard about the Foodbank through an underserved medicine class she’s enrolled in at UCSB, and was eager to volunteer to help improve the health of the community by transferring food and resources from those willing to give directly to those who need it. “Not only is it important for us to have food for them to eat, but they need something to prepare it with, too,” she said. Patty Evans is a seasoned volunteer for the Foodbank, and even brought her two children to help out — her son, Nick, a student

Robert Ayala uses a forklift to haul away a bundle of food item donations during the food donation drive.

at Dos Pueblos High School, and her daughter, Sarah, a student at Goleta Valley Junior High School. “I want to instill in my kids the ability to focus on the community as a lifestyle choice,” Ms. Evans told the News-Press. “I think it’s important for all of us to partner with one another to make sure that everybody has access to food and the necessities in our community.”

The Foodbank’s COVID19 response has consisted of 2.25 million pounds of healthy groceries and fresh produce and volunteers packing 6,000 grocery bags per week, according to the organization’s website. As of March, the Foodbank had gained more than 1,500 volunteers after the pandemic, and logged more than 9,000 volunteer hours over the course of COVID-19.

The volunteers simply responded to the increased need with increased resources — two new warehouses, more than 50 safe food distribution points, drive-through pantries, meal deliveries to seniors, and, on this past Saturday morning, several dozens of cookware items to give to those in need. Ms. Evans said, “I think the need for cookware goes without

recognition often, and I’m proud to be partnering with the Foodbank to collect the items that really enable people to serve balanced meals and proper nutrition to their families in this community.” To learn more about the Foodbank or to donate, visit foodbanksbc.org. email: gmccormick@newspress.com

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DOS PUEBLOS 14, TROY 4 The Chargers doubles teams clinched eight of nine sets as Dos Pueblos (12-2) advanced to the CIF-SS Division 2 quarterfinals. Will Steinberg took two sets at No. 2 singles, while Ryan Belkin won three sets at No. 3 singles. In doubles, the pairing of Andy Yang and Nikhil Gupta won with scores of 6-3, 6-1. Hugh Sutherlan and Connor MacPherson won with scores of 6-0, 6-1, 6-2, and Keaton Cross and Daniel Truong won with scores of 6-1, 6-0, 6-2. SERVITE 16, CATE 2 The Rams fell to top-seeded Servite High Saturday in the second round of CIF-SS Division 3 competition. The doubles pairing of Will Vancia and Ethan Bloom were the only team that managed to secure wins for Cate.

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CHANNEL LEAGUE FINALS Santa Barbara got strong performances from its 4x400 relay teams for both the girls and boys teams in Saturday’s Channel League Championships. For the girls, the team of Mackenna Show, Clara Aviani, Zia Frausto and Anne Knecth finished with a time of 4:07.96, seven seconds better than the team’s time a week ago.

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Former San Marcos High track and field star Allie Jones is following in the cleat-steps of another Santa Barbara native. Jones just missed breaking the Stanford heptathlon record that former Cate School star Tracye Lawyer set more than two decades ago while finishing second at last weekend’s Pac-12 Track and Field Championships at USC’s Loker Stadium. Her 5,727 points came within 82 of the Stanford record that Lawyer set at the 1998 conference meet. Lawyer, who was a CIF State champion in the high jump for the Rams, won the NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championship in the heptathlon in 1999. She captured three Pac10 titles and was also the Pac-10 women’s soccer player of the year. Jones, the daughter of Alan and Adrienne Jones, was also a standout soccer player when she Please see HEPTATHLON on A7

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90 50

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Santa Maria 64/46

Vandenberg 59/50

New Cuyama 79/46 Ventucopa 74/49

Los Alamos 70/46

Buellton 70/45

Solvang 74/46

Gaviota 67/53

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attended San Marcos. She sat in third place in last week’s Pac-12 heptathlon while entering the final event. She needed to beat leader Ida Eikeng of Washington in the 800 by at least 12.65 seconds and secondplace Lyndsey Lopes, also of Washington, by at least 1.13 seconds, to win the title. Jones jumped out to a big lead over Eikeng, but Lopes remained on Jones’ heels. For the sixth time in seven events, the former San Marcos star set or tied a lifetime best with a time of 2:18.62 – a three-second personal best. But while she beat Eikeng by more than 17 seconds, Lopes crossed the finish line just 0.43 seconds later. Lopes’ time gave her a final heptathlon score of 5,735. Jones’ second-place total of 5,727 set a personal record by 455 points. Jones, a sophomore in eligibility,

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PUBLIC NOTICES LEGAL NOTICE MONTECITO UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET

LEGAL NOTICE BLOCHMAN UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET

LEGAL NOTICE VISTA DEL MAR UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET

The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Montecito Union School District will be available for public inspection at the Montecito Union School District Business Ofﬁce, 385 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, on June 4, 2021, during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 7, 2021, at 9 a.m. at the Montecito Union School District Auditorium, 385 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 8, 2021, at 9:15 a.m. at the Montecito Union School District Auditorium.

The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Blochman Union School District will be available for public inspection at the Blochman Union School District, 4949 Foxen Canyon Road, Santa Maria, on June 4, 2021 during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 8, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. at the Blochman Union School District, 4949 Foxen Canyon Road, Santa Maria. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 10, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. at the Benjamin Foxen Elementary School Library, 4949 Foxen Canyon Road, Santa Maria.

DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Vista Del Mar Union School District will be available for public inspection at the Vista Del Mar Union School District, 9467 San Julian Road, Gaviota, on June 7, 2021 during regular working hours and on-line at the district website. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 10, 2021 at 5:30 p.m. at the Vista Del Mar Union School District Library, 9467 San Julian Road, Gaviota, or via Zoom videoconference. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 17, 2021, at 5:30 PM at the Vista Del Mar Union School District Library, 9467 San Julian Road, Gaviota, or via Zoom videoconference.

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DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

ORDINANCE NO. 18 AN ORDINANCE OF THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE MONTECITO SANITARY DISTRIICT REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 16 WHEREAS, by District Resolution No. 2021-930 dated April 11, 2021, which repealed and superseded District Resolution No. 2020-929 dated November 12, 2020, the Governing Board (“Board”) of the Montecito Sanitary District (“District”) elected to withdraw from the uniform construction accounting procedures set forth in the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act, California Public Contract Code sections 22000 et seq. (the “Act”); and WHEREAS, because the Board has determined to withdraw the District from the Act, it is necessary for the Board to repeal District Ordinance No. 16, which adopted bidding and contracting requirements for public work projects in the District pursuant to the Act. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED THAT: 1.

District Ordinance No. 16 is hereby repealed.

MAY 23 / 2021 -- 57183 LEGAL NOTICE LOS OLIVOS SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET

LEGAL NOTICE BALLARD SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET

The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Los Olivos School District will be available for public inspection at the Los Olivos School District Room 602, 2540 Alamo Pintado Avenue, Los Olivos, on June 9, 2021, during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 14, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. at the Los Olivos School District Room 602, 2540 Alamo Pintado Avenue, Los Olivos. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 28, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. at the Los Olivos School District Room 602.

The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Ballard School District will be available for public inspection at the Ballard School District Office, 2425 School Street, Solvang, on June 17, 2021 during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 22, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. at the Ballard School District Office, 2425 School Street, Solvang. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 24, 2021, at 4:00 p.m. at the Ballard School District Office.

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2. Immediately following adoption, the Clerk shall cause this ordinance to be published one time in a newspaper of general circulation within the District. LEGAL NOTICE SOLVANG SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Solvang School District will be available for public inspection at the Solvang School District Business Ofﬁce, 565 Atterdag Road, Solvang, on June 4, 2021, during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 9, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. at the Solvang School Cafeteria - Lower Campus Multi-Purpose Room, 565 Atterdag Road, Solvang. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 16, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. at the Solvang School Cafeteria - Lower Campus Multi-Purpose Room.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Governing Board of the Montecito Sanitary District this 13th day of May, 2021, to become effective upon expiration of the week of publication. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 13th day of May, 2021, by the following vote: AYES: NAYES: ABSTAIN: ABSENT:

Director Barrett, Fuller, Newquist, and Johnson None None Director Eversoll MAY 23 / 2021 -- 57169

DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

MAY 23 / 2021 -- 57182 LEGAL NOTICE HOPE SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET

LEGAL NOTICE SPECIAL EDUCATION LOCAL PLAN AREA (SELPA) BUDGET

The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Hope School District will be available for public inspection at the Hope School District Ofﬁce, 3970 La Colina Road Ste. 14, Santa Barbara, on June 10, 2021, during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 14, 2021, at 6:30 p.m. at the Hope School District Board Room, 3970 La Colina Road, Santa Barbara. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 15, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hope School District Ofﬁce.

The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Santa Barbara County Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA) will be available for public inspection at the Santa Barbara County SELPA, 5385 Hollister Avenue, Building 5, Santa Barbara, on June 1, 2021, during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget and the budget adoption meeting will both be held on June 7, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. via Zoom meeting.

DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

MAY 23 / 2021 -- 57177

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LEGAL NOTICE SANTA MARIA-BONITA SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Santa Maria-Bonita School District will be available for public inspection at the Souza Student Support Center Business Ofﬁce, 708 S. Miller Street, Santa Maria, on June 2, 2021, during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 9, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. at the Souza Student Support Center Board Room, 708 S. Miller Street, Santa Maria. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 23, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. at the Souza Student Support Center Board Room. DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MAY 23 / 2021 -- 57181

LEGAL NOTICE GUADALUPE UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Guadalupe Union School District will be available for public inspection at the Guadalupe Union School District Ofﬁce, 4465 Ninth Street, Guadalupe, on June 4, 2021, during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 9, 2021 at 5:15 p.m. via Zoom videoconference (link will be available June 4, 2021 at the district website https://guadusd.org/). The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 16, 2021, at 5:15 PM via Zoom videoconference (link will be available June 11, 2021 at the district website https:// guadusd.org/). DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MAY 23 / 2021 -- 57176

LEGAL NOTICE GOLETA UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Goleta Union School District will be available for public inspection at the Goleta Union School District Office, 401 North Fairview Avenue, Goleta, on June 4, 2021, during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 9, 2021, at 6:30 p.m. at the Goleta Union School District Office, 401 North Fairview Avenue, Goleta. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 23, 2021, at 6:30 p.m. at the Goleta Union School District Office. DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

LEGAL NOTICE CUYAMA JOINT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Cuyama Joint Uniﬁed School District will be available for public inspection at the Cuyama Joint Uniﬁed School District, 2300 Highway 166, New Cuyama, on June 7, 2021, during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 10, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. at the Cuyama Elementary School Cafeteria, 2300 Highway 166, New Cuyama. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 24, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. at the Cuyama Elementary School Cafeteria. DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MAY 23 / 2021 -- 57189

The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the College School District will be available for public inspection at the College Elementary School District Ofﬁce, 3525 Pine Street, Santa Ynez, on June 4, 2021, during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 8, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. at the College School District Auditorium, 3325 Pine Street, Santa Ynez. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 15, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. at the College School District Auditorium. DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MAY 23 / 2021 -- 57174

LEGAL NOTICE COLD SPRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Cold Spring Elementary School District will be available for public inspection at the Cold Spring Elementary School District, 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, on June 2, 2021, during regular working hours, and will also be available on the district website. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 7, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. at the Cold Spring Elementary School District, 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road, Santa Barbara. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 14, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. at the Cold Spring Elementary School District. DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MAY 23 / 2021 -- 57173

LEGAL NOTICE LOMPOC UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Lompoc Uniﬁed School District will be available for public inspection at the Lompoc Uniﬁed School District, 1301 North A Street, Lompoc, on June 3, 2021 during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 8, 2021 at 5:30 P.M. at the Lompoc Union School District, 1301 North A Street, Lompoc. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 22, 2021, at 5:30 P.M. at the Lompoc Union School District. DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MAY 23 / 2021 -- 57188

The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Carpinteria Unified School District will be available for public inspection at the Carpinteria Unified School District Office, 1400 Linden Avenue, Carpinteria, on June 2, 2021 during regular business hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 8, 2021 at 5:30 p.m. via Zoom videoconference. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 22, 2021 at 5:30 p.m. via Zoom videoconference. DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MAY 23 / 2021 -- 57187

LEGAL NOTICE SANTA YNEZ VALLEY UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Santa Ynez Valley Union High School District will be available for public inspection at the Santa Ynez Valley Union High School District website, www. syvuhsd.org/business/ on June 10, 2021. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 15, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. online via Zoom (www.syvuhsd.org). The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 29, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. online via Zoom (www. syvuhsd.org). DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MAY 23 / 2021 -- 57185

LEGAL NOTICE SANTA MARIA JOINT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET

The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Buellton Union School District will be available for public inspection at the Buellton Union School District Ofﬁce, 301 Second Street, Buellton, on June 11, 2021 during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 16, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. at the Jonata Middle School Library, 301 Second Street, Buellton. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 23, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. at Jonata Middle School Library. DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

MAY 23 / 2021 -- 57172

DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

LEGAL NOTICE SANTA BARBARA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Santa Barbara Unified School District will be available for public inspection at the Santa Barbara Unified School District, Administration Building, 720 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, on June 3, 2021 during regular business hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 8, 2021 at 6:30 pm at the Santa Barbara Unified School District, Administration Building, 720 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 22, 2021, at 6:30 pm at the Santa Barbara Unified School District, Administration Building. DR. SUSAN SALCIDO SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MAY 23 / 2021 -- 57186

LEGAL NOTICE CARPINTERIA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET

The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Santa Maria Joint Union High School District will be available for public inspection at the Santa Maria Joint Union High School District website, http:// www.smjuhsd.k12.ca.us/, on June 4, 2021. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 8, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. and may be attended by phone or videoconference unless noted otherwise on the posted board meeting agenda found on the Santa Maria Joint Union High School District website, http://www.smjuhsd.k12. ca.us/. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 15, 2021, at 6:30 p.m. and may be attended by phone or videoconference unless noted otherwise on the posted board meeting agenda found on the Santa Maria Joint Union High School District website, http://www.smjuhsd.k12.ca.us./

LEGAL NOTICE BUELLTON UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET

The proposed 2021-2022 budget for the Orcutt Union School District will be available for public inspection at the Orcutt Union School District Office, 500 Dyer Street, Orcutt, on June 4, 2021, during regular working hours. The public hearing on said budget will be held on June 9, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. at the Orcutt Union School District Office, 500 Dyer Street, Orcutt. The budget adoption meeting will be held on June 16, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. at the Orcutt Union School District Office.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE SANTA BARBARA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT of Santa Barbara County, California, acting by and through its Governing Board, hereinafter referred to as the District, will receive up to, but not later than 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 10, 2021, sealed bids for the award of a contract for construction for the following project (“Project”): SBCC BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE ROOM RESTORATION (BC-214) – Bid 768 All bids shall be made on a bid form furnished by the District. Bids shall be received in the Purchasing Office (Bldg. ECC-42) located at Santa Barbara City College, 721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be opened and publicly read aloud at the above stated time and place. Each bid must conform and be responsive to the contract documents, copies of which are now on file and available online at: http://www.sbccplanroom.com. Documents may be obtained through at Tri-Co Reprographics, located at 720 E. Haley St, Santa Barbara, California. Questions regarding the availability and cost for download and/or printing of documents may be directed to Sarah Silva at Lundgren Management (661) 257-1805 or Tri-Co Reprographics (805) 966-1701. A non-mandatory pre-bid conference and job walk will be held at the project site, located at 721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109, at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, May 28, 2021. Job walk will initially commence at the Front Entrance of the Business Communication Center. Parking is available in Lot 4D, permit required. All questions must be submitted utilizing the pre-bid RFI process. The Deadline for questions is Wednesday, June 2, 2021 by 12:00 p.m. All questions are to be addressed to Lundgren Management (wilfredo.celedon@lundgren.net; sarah.silva@lundgren.net;), utilizing the Pre-Bid RFI form provided in the contract documents. Questions and responses will be issued back to all plan holders by way of Addendum. Each bid shall be accompanied by the security referred to in the contract documents and by the list of proposed subcontractors. No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the opening of bids. A California State Contractor’s License (B General Engineering) is required to bid on and perform the work required. In accordance with Public Contract Code §22300, Contractor may permit the substitution of securities for any moneys withheld by a public agency to ensure performance under the Contract Documents or may request and the District shall make payment of retentions earned directly to an escrow agent at the expense of the Contractor. The District reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any irregularities or informalities in any bids or in the bidding. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1773 and 1773.2 of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Santa Barbara Community College 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; prevailing wage rates are available for review at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/statistics_research.html with a copy of the same being on file at the office of the Vice President of Business Services, Santa Barbara Community College District. 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. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1771.1 of the Labor Code of the State of California, a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid or engage in the performance of any contract for this project unless; (1) currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5; or (2) expressly authorized to submit a bid by Section 1771.1 and provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. The successful bidder will be required to post all job-site notices required by DIR regulations and other applicable law. Publication Dates: The Santa Barbara News Press, 5/23/21 & 5/30/21

PETITION OF: ASHLEY PARKER FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 21CV01587 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: ASHLEY PARKER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ASHLEY PARKER to Proposed name: GEORGE PAUL HOLGUIN JR THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: June 25, 2021 Time: 10:00 am Dept: 4 Address: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Santa Barbara NewsPress Date: 5/04/2021 Name: Donna D. Geck, Judge of the Superior Court. MAY 9, 16, 23, 30 / 2021 -- 57110

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT, FBN No: 20210001151. First Filing. The following person (s) are doing business as: LOBSTER JO’S BEACH CAMP, 6669 SUENO RD, APT. B, GOLETA, CA 93117, County of Santa Barbara. Full Name(s) of registrants: JOSEPH J EVERS, 6669 SUENO RD APT. B, GOLETA, CA 93117. This business is conducted by: An Individual. This statement was filed in the office of JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, County Clerk-Recorder of SANTA BARBARA COUNTY on 04/22/2021 by: E953, Deputy. The registrant commenced to transact business on: MAR 01, 2021. Statement Expires on: Not Applicable. NOTICE: This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (See Section 14400, ET SEQ., Business and Profession Code). (SEAL)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT, FBN No: 20210000960. First Filing. The following person (s) are doing business as: PATHWAY DENTAL GROUP SANTA BARBARA, 1919 STATE STREET, 102, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101, County of Santa Barbara. Full Name(s) of registrants: STEN ERICSON DDS INC, 1919 STATE STREET, 102, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101. STATE OF INC.: CA. This business is conducted by: A CORPORATION. This statement was filed in the office of JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, County Clerk-Recorder of SANTA BARBARA COUNTY on 04/06/2021 by: E953, Deputy. The registrant commenced to transact business on: Not Applicable. Statement Expires on: Not Applicable. NOTICE: This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (See Section 14400, ET SEQ., Business and Profession Code). (SEAL)

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Life in Brigadoon Native landscape enchants Canadian artist By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

ibby Holland is so enchanted with her new life in Santa Barbara that she compares it to Brigadoon, the mythical Scottish village that is idyllic, unaffected by time and remote from reality. “I am blown away by Santa Barbara. It is still so small. It has preserved its identity. I see so much beauty in the native landscape, the flora and fauna,” said Ms. Holland, a contemporary artist with a vibrant, bold style whose larger-than-life paintings of flowers and native plants have been compared to famed artist Georgia O’Keeffe. “I am struck by the color,

resiliency and architecture of plants, and I see their varied contours as sculptures created by nature.” Until she moved to Santa Barbara from Palo Alto last September, the self-taught artist, who was born in Toronto, painted large-scale abstracts. “Living in Santa Barbara and absorbing all its beauty has inspired my evolution in painting and enlarged my definition of native flowers and plants,” said Ms. Holland, who was particularly impressed by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, which displays California native plants in natural settings. While painting closeups of local succulents in acrylic on canvas in her Please see HOLLAND on B4

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“I am struck by the color, resiliency and architecture of plants, and I see their varied contours as sculptures created by nature,” said artist Libby Holland, who moved to Santa Barbara last fall from Palo Alto.

Libby Holland emphasizes dramatic colors and shapes in her paintings of plants.

Libby Holland is painting Thursdays through Sundays at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.

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Brad Wiegmann is a national security lawyer for the Department of Justice in Washington. He dedicates this puzzle to his mother, ‘‘a voracious reader, talented knitter, mahjong maven and all-around supermom.’’ He says he’s never personally seen any of the musical artists named in the puzzle’s theme clues, but he did once attend a 23-Across concert. Brad’s last Times puzzle, ‘‘Crossword Buff,’’ appeared in February. — W.S.

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This aspect might help you discover new passions or learn more 23 13 8 16 18 9 2 17 22 22 about the people you love. CANCER — Teamwork makes the A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z dream work when the sun in Taurus trines Pluto in Capricorn on Monday, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 making it a great day to work with friends on a project or business or toward a common cause. You can achieve great 2021-05-23 things if everyone works together. LEO — If you want to achieve more 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 in your career, you’re going to have D R S to improve your reputation and public image when the sun in Taurus trines Pluto in Capricorn on Monday. That means you’ll have to settle down and Codeword is a fun game with simple rules, and a great test of your knowledge of the English language. actually get to work. Every number in the codeword grid is ‘code’ for a letter of the alphabet. 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Capt. Owen Strand (Rob Lowe) and his crew work quickly to save Austin, Texas, from a dust storm in Monday’s season finale of “9-1-1: Lone Star.”

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ou could call Rob Lowe invincible. There’s no doubt his character, Owen Strand, is invincible on “9-1-1: Lone Star.” The fire department captain, who moved to Austin, Texas, from New York City, has survived lung cancer, a volcanic eruption under a swimming pool and a helicopter crash in the middle of a fierce wildfire. Owen even described himself as “invincible,” but the character approaches his job with humility and a deep respect for the talents of the women and men in his

department. “9-1-1,” a series that is equally driven by characters and plots, has proven to be a great dramatic vehicle for Mr. Lowe, a longtime Montecito resident who’s also one of the show’s executive producers. (The series was created by executive producers Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Tim Minear.) Mr. Lowe’s character will continue to face challenges when the “9-1-1: Lone Star” season finale airs at 9 p.m. Monday on Fox, Channel 11. The episode’s name is “Dust to Dust,” and you can take that literally. Owen and others in the 126 hurry to save Austin from a dust storm. On Tuesday, Mr. Lowe will be

in a less fiery but still dramatic setting for another show. He’s the host of “Mental Samurai,” the game show in which contestants answer questions and figure out puzzles while being spun around in a transparent sphere. During the second season premiere at 9 p.m. on Fox, Channel 11, contestants will include a former NFL player, a teacher and philanthropist, an entrepreneur, a game show veteran, and a trained knife and sword champion fighter. It sounds like there’s plenty of excitement around Mr. Lowe on both shows. In “9-1-1: Lone Star,” a spinoff of “9-1-1,” he effortlessly shows his character’s courage and honesty, as well as how Owen rises above

his own doubts and troubles, which began early in the show with Owen helping his son T.K. (Ronen Rubinstein), a recovering addict. The rest of the talented cast, who vary from Gina Torres to Jim Parrack to Sierra Aylina McClain to Lisa Edelstein, also stands out. Each character is unique, and like Owen, they’re rising above their own set of challenges. But when a crisis strikes, they work together to save the day, and Fox recently announced there will be a third season. That’s great news for fans. After all, you can never have too many heroes on TV. email: dmason@newspress.com

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At left, “I look forward to supporting efforts toward improving what is already one of Santa Barbara’s most beautiful parks,” said Jennifer Oakley, one of three new board members of the Elings Park Foundation. Center, “I’ve always seen Elings Park as a gem of Santa Barbara and so honored to be on the board,” said Catherine Remak, one of the foundation’s new board members. At right, “Joining the board was a no-brainer — what better way to contribute to the community than through a place that fills me with happiness?” said new board member Dallas Verhagen.

Elings Park Foundation adds three members to its board By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The Elings Park Foundation recently added three members to its board. The new members are Jennifer Oakley, branch manager of Montecito Bank & Trust’s Mesa Branch; Catherin Remak, radio personality with K-LITE; and Dallas Verhagen, an attorney with Fauver, Large, Archbald & Spray. Patty Bryant is president of the board, which supports Santa Barbara’s 230-acre Elings Park. Other members include Joe Andrulaitis, John Britton, Marcia Constance, Virgil Elings, Bruce Giffin, Lauren Katz and Lew Venegas. The board works with Jill Zachary, the Santa Barbara parks and recreation director. Ms. Oakley was born and raised in Santa Barbara, attended Santa Barbara High School and received a bachelor’s at USC. She began her banking career in 1990 and is currently the branch manager of Montecito Bank & Trust’s new Mesa Branch, which opened in October. She has worked on the Mesa for more than 14 years and serves on the board of the Mesa Business Association. Previously, Ms. Oakley was a board member of the Peabody Charter School Foundation and Santa Barbara Baseball Parents Association. Her husband, Bill Oakley, is also a local native and

a Santa Barbara High School “Don.” The couple have two sons in college. “My family and I have benefited greatly from Elings’ amazing facilities, and we’ve attended many kids’ soccer games and baseball tournaments, as well as weddings and other celebrations,” Ms. Oakley said in a news release. “We consider Elings one of the most beautiful venues in town for outside events. I look forward to supporting efforts toward improving what is already one of Santa Barbara’s most beautiful parks.” For nearly three decades, Ms. Remak has been a co-host of Santa Barbara radio station K-LITE’s “Gary and Catherine in the Morning.” Known as a champion for nonprofits, she has volunteered and gained exposure for numerous fundraisers. In 2020, she was honored by the Santa Barbara Foundation as Woman of the Year. As a longtime member of Rotary International, she served as president of the Rotary Club of Goleta from 2017 to 2018. Ms. Remak is also the development director for the Council for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. And she’s a Santa Barbara Symphony board member. She previously served on boards of the Make-a-Wish Foundation, CASA and the Trust for Historic Preservation, among others. “I’ve always seen Elings Park

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as a gem of Santa Barbara and so honored to be on the board,” Ms. Remak said in the news release. Finally, Mr. Verhagen is an attorney at Fauver, Large, Archbald & Spray with a practice focused on business matters. He represents entrepreneurs, startups and established businesses in all areas of business law while serving as outside general counsel for many of his clients. Prior to joining the practice, Mr. Verhagen started and ran his own law firm, Verhagen Bennett LLP, in Silicon Beach. He also started and ran a number of other businesses. In both 2020 and 2021, he was named a Rising Star Attorney by Super Lawyers magazine. He received his law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law. He also holds a bachelor’s in business administration from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. “I fell in love with Elings Park during my first visit, when I brought my French bulldog for a sunset trot,” Mr. Verhagen said in the news release. “There’s no better spot to capture much of what is great about Santa Barbara. “Joining the board was a nobrainer — what better way to contribute to the community than through a place that fills me with happiness?”

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The Santa Barbara Tennis Club is hosting its annual jury competition next month, presenting work from local artists based on an “Aquatic” theme. This year’s participants were asked to interpret all things aquatic for the competition, and their art will be displayed in a new

exhibition at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club, 2375 Foothill Road. The exhibit will remain open to the public from June 7 through July 1 with daily hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Susan Bush, a UCSB graduate and curator of contemporary art with the Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery in Santa Barbara, will be this year’s juror for the competition. The lifelong

Santa Barbara resident has juried numerous art shows across the city and currently sits on the Westmont Arts Council at Westmont College. Award winners for the juried competition will be announced July 9. For more information, contact the gallery at 805-682-4722 or visit 2ndfridaysart.com. email: mhirneisen@newspress.com

The exhibit features Lindsey Skutch’s photography of the Santa Monica Pier

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“Let’s Get Over This Together,” Pioneer Valley High School senior Javier Hernandez’s painting, emerged as the second runner up in Rep. Carbajal’s 2021 Congressional Art Competition.

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At left, Richard Six’s “Float” is among the art in the “Aquatic” exhibit now at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club. At right, Kerri Smith contributed her talent to “Aquatic.”

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Javier Hernandez, a senior at Pioneer Valley High School in Santa Maria, painted an image of a girl emerging from water to draw a metaphor between her and the nation coming out of the pandemic. Titled “Let’s Get Over This Together,” Javier’s painting was the second runner up in the recent Congressional Art Competition, offered through the office of U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara. “I began my painting with the purpose of representing agriculture and the essence of the country and region I live in,” Javier said in a news release. “While working on painting, something unexpected struck everyone in what we now know as COVID-19. “I modified my painting to show

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home studio, she sent a proposal to Heidi Whitman, director of development and communications at the Botanic Garden, offering to do some of her work in the garden while interacting with visitors. “I thought it would be interesting for them to see a painting unfold and give them a different perspective about the way I see nature and how I experience the Botanic Garden,” Ms. Holland said during a phone interview from her home in the San Roque area, where she lives with her son, Theo, 3, and partner, Marshall Pagaling. “I also thought it would be a welcome diversion after the isolation of the pandemic and

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Pioneer Valley High School student Hunter McComrick painted “A Far Away Place,” which is featured in U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal’s 2021 Congressional Art Competition gallery.

what our country and the whole world was going through. It comes from the message I want to share with everyone about overcoming ourselves and overcoming all the obstacles that come our way.” The water symbolizes COVID-19, and the girl has a mask next to her hand. The red and white lines, along with the stars, are part of the American flag. Hunter McCormick, a fellow PV Panther, submitted a piece entitled “A Far Away Place.” It is also featured in Rep.

Carbajal’s 2021 Congressional Art Competition gallery. The gallery includes outstanding submissions from talented high school students across the Central Coast. To view the art, go to ca24artcompetition. com. Shanda Herrera, principal at Pioneer Valley High School, described the effort, talent and creativity of both young artists as “awesome.”

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26 that will include prints and posters of the originals. It will be a celebration of the garden and what nature has meant to us all the past year,” said Ms. Holland, who earned her bachelor’s degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. So far, she has painted the Coastal California Poppy, Dudleya, Matilija Poppy and Claremont Flowering Currant. “I’m working on the Island Snapdragon,” said Ms. Holland, who paints from photographs of the plants. “It’s a joy for me to interact with people as I paint. I have found that people are hungry for art events like this. Some have said that I have inspired them to paint themselves.”

Libby Holland paints from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays through June 27 near the Gift Shop at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Road. For more about the artist, visit www.libbyhollandart.com. For more about the garden, go to sbbg.org.

for me as a painter, which is an isolating experience.” Her proposal resulted in Ms. Holland being named the first Artist-in-Residence at the Botanic Garden. Since April 21 and through June 27, she can be found from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays near the Gift Shop painting native plants from the garden. “I plan to do 12 of them, which will be presented in a show and sale from Sept. 24 through

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Missing the Trump era

DID YOU KNOW? Bonnie Donovan

Too many transient camp fires

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News-Press columnist James Buckley writes that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have reversed the progress achieved during President Donald Trump’s time in office.

o you miss him yet? I know I do miss our former president: Donald J. Trump. But hey, you may be one of the 300 million who voted for Mr. Biden. Oops, did I write 300 million? No, I meant 200 million. Wait, it was 100 million… Oh, 84 million and change you say? Yeah, right. Okay, I’m one of the 75 million real honest-togoodness-verified-qualified-andregistered voters who actually cast a ballot for the oversized-inevery-way Mr. Trump, not one of the who-knows-how-many fake and double-triple-quadruple voters whose multiple ballots were stuffed into various untended ballot boxes for the masked-up basement dwelling Joseph Biden and his giggling running mate, Kamala Harris. And yes, I really do miss Donald Trump, the inexperienced politician who brought us almost unparalleled prosperity during his presidency. The guy who reduced the corporate income tax to one of the lowest in the Western world, giving the U.S. a gigantic edge in the competition for economic supremacy.

he late Paul Harvey began his radio programs from 19762009 with “What the news is” and after a commercial break added the unique twists with the “TROTS” (“The Rest Of The Story”). As illustrative of the past couple of months, here are seven TROTS for the week starting May 9. — The news reported that on May 12 that the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, testified under oath to the U.S. Senate that wearing masks both indoors and outdoors was still required. On May 13, President Joe Biden directly contradicted the sworn statement of the director by announcing that the CDC’s new policy was that masks were not required inside or outside for vaccinated people. Dr. Walensky said the same thing at the White House that day. Dr. Walensky justified contradicting her Senate testimony, saying that morning

Oh, did I mention the lowest for immigrants who’d arrived unemployment numbers in 50 via official channels, and on our years? Or the largest year-overdomestic housing situation. year pay increases, particularly 3) By luring terrorist-backing among the lowest skilled laborers Iranian mullahs back into another in, oh, 50 years or so. And… I deal they’ll pay no attention to, for could go on, but let’s take a quick more big bucks from Uncle Sam, look at what Mr. Bidenmaybe another $1.6 Harris has done to us in billion in ready cash on PURELY their four months in office pallets (Swiss francs, POLITICAL so far. euros, dollars, Danish 1) By cancelling kroner, British pounds construction of the and hey maybe even Keystone pipeline, some Russian rubles.) they’ve taken the U.S. off Oh, and no coins please, its pedestal as the fully just bills. independent largest energy 4) And that peace producer in the world. We deal between Israel, can now go merrily back Bahrain and the United James Buckley to declaring war on any Arab Emirates? It is country foolish enough called the Abraham to threaten our Middle Accords not because Eastern energy suppliers once someone named Abraham put again. it together, but because, as the 2) By stopping construction treaty records: “Recognizing of the southern border wall and that the Arab and Jewish peoples inviting the rest of humanity to are descendants of a common come one, come all (There are ancestor, Abraham.” That could no “illegal” people! Who needs have been the beginning of a a process?!), they have created beautiful friendship, but no-o-o. utter chaos at that border, not to Biden-Harris have brought us mention mayhem in hundreds of back to the same old failed policy public schools and communities of “brokering peace” between small and large and put pressure Palestinians and Israelis with the on down-market competition same-old crowd of failed policy

makers. (Can you say John Kerry?) REVERSING POLICY The Biden-Harris Modus Operandi is “If Trump was for it, we’re against it,” and they have proven that with every executive order signed by Mr. Biden and written by who-knows-who. The deconstruction of all things Mr. Trump continues unabated. The latest reversal is a new federal policy that rewards grants to schools that mandate teaching Critical Race Theory from Kindergarten through 12th grade, and, of course, punishes those that don’t teach CRT. President Trump opposed this teaching and banned it at the federal level and in the military, but it’s back thanks to Biden-Harris executive orders. Critical Race Theory is described by Encyclopedia Britannica as “an intellectual movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings, but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of color. Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions

in the United States are inherently racist. insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans.” If you believe this stuff, and sadly, many do, then you’re ready to discount the looting, burning and incidental mayhem of the summer of 2020, during which I don’t believe anyone was ever charged or convicted of anything. You’ll also approve of doling out federal, state and local cash to people based upon the color of their skin. You’ll also believe that indeed the United States of America was founded in 1619, the day English expatriates landed on the shores of Virginia with the first slaves and that, apparently, we Anglos and other pale-skinned humans must pay for that original sin until, well, they’ll let us know when payments are finalized. It may be a while. REPARATIONS MAY BE IN ORDER Never mind that we lost a good chunk of our own citizenry Please see BUCKLEY on C4

Now for the rest of the story the Harvard Journal of Medicine should be more education and arrived with new studies showing said that private industry should that the science does not require improve their security, the rules masks. restricting truck transportations The TROTS included questions: would be temporarily relaxed, the Did Dr. Walensky perjure herself public should not hoard gas, and before the Senate? Is she saying everyone, drive less. neither the CDC nor the faculty The president also said the FBI of the Harvard Medical identified the terrorists Brent E. School (which includes as being Russian, but Zepke both Dr. Rochelle and he would not take any her husband Dr. Loren retaliatory action and The author Walensky) had seen the private industry should Lives in Santa take defensive measures. article before Thursday Barbara morning? The CNN political Why did the CDC commentator whom Mr. prefer these studies to Biden named the energy their own? Did the CDC even have secretary, Jennifer Granholm (she studies? has no energy experience), said If Dr. Walensky was truthful, the solution for Colonial Pipeline’s were the president’s comments an problems was EV cars. attempt to use the successes of the The TROTS included that this Donald Trump program to shift illustrated the importance of the news away from the failures pipelines and the error in shutting of his own policies (see the list the Keystone Pipeline as the price below)? of gas greatly increased as did its • The news reported the scarcity. The suspension of some Colonial Pipeline was being of the rules governing trucks shut down and held for ransom indicates there are too many rules by terrorists. The president governing trucks. The president announced that the response omitted that private industry

cannot combat a foreign enemy since it has no armies. When asked if the U.S. government had paid the ransom the president responded “No comment.” • The news report included that the president was sending a representative to discuss the hostilities between Israel and Hamas, and Israel should not harm civilians. The TROTS included that Israel was attacked by 1,500 missiles, and the U.S. sent a representative who had a job five levels down from Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken, who was an advisor to Mr. Biden’s policies favoring invading Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and supporting the Iranian nuclear deal. Also omitted was that Mr. Biden had ended President Donald Trump’s prohibition of sending money to Palestine based on it being used to fund hostilities. • The news reported Iranian gunboats threatening a U.S. Coast Guard vessel required 31 warning shots before retreating to the internationally agreed distances.

The TROTS included that the Iranians did not dare do this under President Trump since they knew there would be 29 fewer warning shots before they stopped being afloat. • The news reported that Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas supported the Biden administration’s border policies during his Senate testimony, even saying there was no need for the person Mr. Biden put in charge, Vice President Kamala Harris, to go to the border because she delegated the responsibility to him. His response to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, asking why he was not following U.S. law was that he was following humanitarian law. He also told the Senate that the flood of immigrants was caused by Mr. Trump. The TROTS included that Mr. Mayorkas, a lawyer who served as President Barack Obama’s head of the immigration, and is now Mr. Biden’s head of Homeland Please see ZEPKE on C4

oes anyone else smell Rome burning? Numerous transient fires were reported in Santa Barbara during the last two and a half weeks. On May 17, west of the Carrillo Street underpass — there was another homeless encampment fire. (Making drugs, cooking food?) It is not to burn their garbage — that is cleared by Big Green, Caltrans and the City Fire Department. We doubt that neither the City Council nor the County Board of Supervisors could tell you where the fires are, but there have been different calls for transient fires on the Garden Street off ramps at Highway 101, on the train corridor at Walnut Avenue, on TV Hill — a Loma Alta encampment, the tree canopy at MacKenzie Park, the southbound 101 onramp at Carrillo Street, a brush fire next to Dos Pueblos High School, Summerland vegetation fire along the 101, and a “warming” fire at Fairview Avenue and the 101 near the Twin Lakes Golf Course in Goleta — all this since May 1. Most likely, more are to come. If our local officials had called the homeless encampment situation a “Public Health Crisis” during the pandemic, perhaps our officials could have requested that the governor send in the National Guard to build Tent Cities. We could have been ahead of the curve. Homeless cannot be removed from their camps unless there is a “bed” available. Now that Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for the end of COVID restrictions June 15, those beds provided by the National Guard would have been ready for each homeless person to be removed from encampments and installed in a safe “living space.” Last week, Cal Poly gave away all its cots that were requisitioned for COVID overflow. The new beds would have worked for the homeless to have sleeping quarters in a clean environment. By the way, the National Guard was here during COVID unloading trucks at the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County. “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” — George S. Patton We don’t get it — a reader of the Did You Know? column, who’s housing paperwork is being slow-walked (billable hours by city-contracted homeless organizations) — was told “hurry and get into the system, because families with children, even if they apply after you, will get priority for housing. A maximum of 20,000 children are to be housed at Camp Roberts for up to four years.” Four years? If children crossing our border can be housed in Camp Roberts, why weren’t our homeless in California offered shelter there? A homeless man outside of a restaurant tried to sell us a bluetooth speaker. We declined but offered to buy him a meal. Upon further conversation, he said he was from Arizona, just released from prison and was given a one-way ticket to Santa Barbara. When we said we could buy him a ticket back home to Arizona, he declined our offer. “If I go home, they will throw me in jail.” So how do we win this war? This is like a modern-day underground railroad. It makes no sense, for it goes nowhere for no one. Unless you are in Please see DONOVAN on C4

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leadership in both wars: Were we very successful, somewhat successful, unsuccessful, or very unsuccessful? As you may be able to guess, I believe our leaders have been singularly unsuccessful. Oh, I forgot Korea. There, the best we could do was split the country in half because of the stalemate. Vietnam is now a socialist oneparty republic. It is too early to judge what will happen in Afghanistan. My frustration moves me to think that the solution to global and national issues is for leaders to measure up to the goals of the common people. Our strategy of “We’ve got to do something!” is not a good plan, or even a plan. I’m not condemning those leaders. They did the best they

ust when you think racial agitators can’t get more outrageous and ridiculous, they do. We see the fruits of this evil obsession every single day. Throughout the pandemic, the media preached that historical racism in the United States disproportionately impacted African Americans. Hollywood bombards us with race-shaming on show after show, using fictional characters to lecture us on the pervasiveness of white supremacy, stirring racial resentment and division in the name of healing. Emory University tax law professor Dorothy A. Brown has just released her book, “The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans — and How We Can Fix It,” in which she alleges that the nation’s tax system, along with other American institutions, is rigged against African Americans. She advocates massive wealth redistribution as one solution. She is also encouraging President Biden’s administration to exploit racial arguments to change the tax code. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that she will grant individual interviews only to journalists of color. She slammed the media for not sufficiently addressing “institutionalized racism” in their organizations, noting that her decision was part of her lifelong battle to fight for diversity and inclusion. She’s evidently oblivious to the selfcontradiction of her position. “I have been struck since my first day on the campaign trail back in 2018 by the overwhelming whiteness and maleness of Chicago media outlets, editorial boards, the political press corps, and yes, the City Hall press corps specifically,” said Ms. Lightfoot. One wonders how Ms. Lightfoot and other modern race baiters could stray further from Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a colorblind society. Perhaps the most disturbing movement underway in the left’s crusade to divide us along racial lines is the notorious 1619 Project hatched by activist Nikole Hannah-Jones and writers from The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine. With the stated goals of promoting justice and harmony, this initiative distorts history by demonizing America’s founding and founding documents. It claims that America’s real founding occurred in 1619 with the first documented arrival of enslaved Americans to the colony of Virginia, not in 1776, and that the American Revolution was fought to protect slavery. American Revolution historian Gordon Wood says he is unaware “of any colonist who said that they wanted independence in order to preserve their slaves.” America’s most prestigious colleges and universities are indoctrinating their students with this poison, insisting that America is systemically racist and fundamentally white supremacist and requires sweeping structural reform. This toxic propaganda is also being pushed into parts of America’s middle school and high school curricula. “The overriding lesson” of the project, says The Heritage Foundation’s Arthur Milikh, is that “young people must learn to despise their nation — its Constitution, ideals, economic system and its Founders. They must resent and reject their past; possess an aggressive, contemptuous and disobedient attitude toward the present; and strive forcefully to create a triumphant future where the enemies of old are punished, and the innocent finally rule.” The 1619 Project is closely related to the academic movement known as critical

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f the cornerstone of a Instead, the so-called historical building is wealthy people, who pay the removed, the building highest taxes, aren’t going will collapse because to get anything back, and the entire weight of the conversely, some people building rests on it. who didn’t pay any taxes in The cornerstone of the first place will receive a America? The ideas refund. That is equity for you. enshrined in the Declaration Another example is the of Independence and the Santa Barbara County Board Constitution, including the of Supervisors’ approval of idea that all men are created a micro-kitchen ordinance equal and have been allowing home endowed with certain kitchens to operate unalienable rights by as a sit-down their Creator. restaurant or for Chief among takeout, serving 60 these rights is equal meals a week, in a protection and liberty, residential-zoned including the liberty neighborhood but Andy Caldwell to keep what you without all the regs, create, develop, build fees, taxes, standards and own, from any and hassles that form of confiscation without accrue to regular business compensation. enterprises. These principles allow The word the proponents of people to keep their this ordinance used to justify ideas, inventions, wealth these double standards was, and property by way of you guessed it, “equity.” patent laws and property Equity explains why laws enshrined in the these home kitchens will Constitution. They are one not be required to have the reason that America became same safety and sanitary successful, innovative and training and other practical more prosperous than standards, including parking any society heretofore, requirements for customers, including the birthing of the in place as required of entrepreneurial spirit that is commercial kitchens and synonymous with the spirit of restaurants. America. That is, the micro-kitchens The left in America rejects will mostly get a free pass these ideas and ideals. from the fire department, They accuse America public health, sanitation, of being and living a lie, sewer and water authorities, including bogus accusations to name just a few regulatory that America is systemically agencies that otherwise make racist to this day. Hence, they life hell for mainstream seek to replace the concept of businesses. equality with equity. Moreover, due to zoning Their declaration is one of prohibitions otherwise dependence on government, enforced, wineries that have rather than God-given commercial-grade kitchens independence, insisting still can’t sell or serve food, that, “not all men are born ranchers can’t host weddings, or treated equal; therefore and homeowners can’t rent it is the moral and ethical directly to vacationers, obligation of government to ostensibly due to impacts to force equity among men.” neighbors. The epiphany of our Yet, the de facto restaurant founding fathers posited that hosting parties for profit in a there was no such thing as regular neighborhood gets a the divine rights of kings. pass? Instead, all men were equally That is equity. endowed with divine rights Why are the cities of Santa for the purpose of selfMaria and Solvang so upset? governance. Perhaps it had something Heretofore, America sought to do with the guy who was to perfect equal opportunity. caught making cheese for sale Equity, on the other hand, is in his bathtub. Or the fact that the pursuit of equal outcomes the county has been ignoring by way of government control the illegal activities and and largesse, which comes neighborhood consequences at the expense of liberty, of these scofflaws for years on fairness, and common sense. end. Examples abound. Now the cities will be Currently, Gov. Gavin forced to deal with even Newsom is proposing worse legal, but unfettered, to refund “excess” tax consequences. revenue despite the fact that California has more than $1 Andy Caldwell is the executive trillion in debt and deficits. director of COLAB and host Nonetheless, he is not going of “The Andy Caldwell Radio to issue the refunds equally Show,” weekdays from 3-5 among all taxpayers as p.m., on News-Press Radio AM required by law. 1290.

S. Customs and Border Protection encountered more than 178,000 migrants in April, a jump of over 900% compared to April 2020. The majority of locals and Californians are pleased; ask around. Open borders means jobs with lifetime security for union workers in government, medical care, law and education paid by increasing taxes extorted from the rest of us to fund our sanctuary state. I have come to the infuriating conclusion that former Presidents G.W. Bush, Clinton, Obama; Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and all globalists, progressives, and oligarchs in both political parties are determined to destroy America for the rest of us. When will we organize? Immigration has morphed from being a law enforcement system designed to protect national security, public health, public safety and the jobs for Americans into a delivery system that delivers an unlimited supply of cheap and exploitable labor, an unlimited supply of foreign tourists who easily overstay, and an unlimited supply of foreign students to provide an unlimited supply of problems to be tax funded. This leads to a massive influx of those seeking housing, which jams up the price of real estate and, as a consequence, results in mortgages that increase the profits of banks, as well as more taxes collected to grow the government. Open borders, the intentional non-enforcement of immigration laws expedites doom. Are you ready to get involved to fix Santa Barbara County? Are you determined to replace local leaders who are destroying California? Are you willing to demand tax reductions? Denice Spangler Adams Montecito

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ur family recently moved and opted for a truck rental and some help from the labor force on Yanonali Street. When I got the truck and stopped at the little plaza provided by the city to pick up laborers, I could find none of those there who would work for $15 an hour. I was finally told by a man who seemed to be running things there that minimum wage for the workers was $20 an hour. I finally got a man who would work for $20 an hour and we got the move done. Like many of the workers at that pick up place on Yanonali Street, he is an illegal immigrant from

Mexico. Most of the rest of the workers there are from Honduras, Guatemala or El Salvador and also undocumented. The city of Santa Barbara has put the plaza there, between Garden and Salsipuedes, as a pick up for the undocumented workers and also put up signs to make sure that workers are only picked up at the plaza. I wonder if we really can expect the flow of illegal immigrants to stop as long as the city ensures they receive $20 an hour. Rowland Lane Anderson Santa Barbara

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e: “Schools in America”, Diana Thorn (Voices, May 16). Diana Thorn believes that Critical Race Theory being taught in schools is divisive, irrelevant and a slippery slope towards a “socialist” America. Ms. Thorn falsely presents our most cherished historical documents as camouflage for her “nothing to see here” fantasy. Although the Declaration of Independence promised “LIfe, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness,” it was never guaranteed. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution called for “equal protection of the laws,” but it has not been enforced. Abraham’s Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed the slaves, but the Civil War was fought because half the country wanted slavery to endure. Some on the radical far-right would like to pretend that slavery in the U.S. did not exist for more than 240 years prior to the Civil War. Like it or not, that’s part of our history and should, absolutely, be taught in our schools. In our more recent history there has been “redlining” to keep minorities out of white neighborhoods, “separate but equal” schools, “Whites or coloreds only” signs at public facilities and Jim Crow voter suppression laws. Finally, were Dylann Roof (who murdered nine African-Americans at a church service in Charleston, S.C.) and George Floyd (who might have passed a counterfeit $20 bill) given equal protection of the laws? That’s a rhetorical question. Simply put, systemic racism is a fact. That doesn’t make us a bad country, but we need to be honest about our past ... and our present. In spite of those who reflexively regurgitate Fox News talking points, Critical Race Theory is not Marxist. Karl Marx’s theory is about class inequality, not racial inequality. It was espoused in opposition to the reign of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, leading to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

Other than that, an entertaining letter by Ms. Thorn. Robert Baruch Yeosu, South Korea (formerly of Goleta)

SBCERS benefits county

his is in response to Andy Caldwell’s opinion piece published on May 16 (“How to retire like a millionaire,” Voices). Mr. Caldwell has engaged in generalizations as he seeks to undermine the true benefits to our community provided by the Santa Barbara County Employees’ Retirement System (aka, SBCERS). At the close of its fiscal year on June 30, 2020, SBCERS had a total of 4,240 retirees who were paid an average retirement benefit of $3,466 per month, with general retirees receiving only an average of $2,826 per month or $33,912 annually. That’s a far cry from Mr. Caldwell’s unsupported and erroneous claim that “the average pension is more than $75,000 per year.” Nevertheless, with retiree benefits approaching $200 million annually, SBCERS has one of the largest annual payrolls in the county, and the lion’s share of that amount likely is spent right here in Santa Barbara County. Does Mr. Caldwell wish to eliminate that local stimulus? SBCERS is funded by employee and employer contributions (56%) as well as income from investments (44%). Since 1987, SBCERS has had an average annual rate of return of 7.99% over good and bad investment years, beating the present assumed rate of 7.0%. One can fairly consider an employee’s pension as a form of deferred compensation for those who elected public service at a rate of salary generally lower than is available in the private sector. Private sector employees can negotiate collectively for similar defined benefit retirement plans if they choose to do so. Finally, a well-managed public pension system, such as SBCERS, provides predictable security for retired employees through professionally managed funds with lower risks and costs than an average individual could and would obtain on their own. Santa Barbara is fortunate to have SBCERS reliably assisting retired county employees. The statistics cited in this response are derived from the SBCERS Annual Report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, and available at www. sbcers.org/wpcontent/uploads/2020Annual-Report-Web-Version.pdf. Rory O. Moore Santa Barbara

Peace between Palestinians, Republicans, Israelis, Democrats

started to learn to read The truest religious leaders in1948. That was the year teach people to have reverence that the Israeli-Palestinian for all people, not to separate “peace process” began. I themselves from others. The have been hearing truest political leaders or reading about “peace lead people to band with initiatives” for threeall citizens, not just those quarters of a century. in their party. This is not Two weeks ago, the happening in the Middle killing part of the “peace East nor here in the U.S. process” began again. Albert Einstein gives Each side consistently us a clue as to why comes up with the same this situation exists: Frank brilliant and novel “We cannot solve our Sanitate strategy for peace: to yell problems with the same at each other, “You started thinking we used when The author it!” we created them.” Could lives in Santa it be that global and local I always wondered why Barbara so much of our foreign aid leaders are not up to the was given to Israel and so task? little to Palestinians. Why can’t On another front, the U.S. is the Palestinians be my friends leaving a war in Afghanistan as well as the Israelis? I consider that lasted 20 years. We left myself a friend to both. Friends Vietnam after a war of 14 don’t let friends kill each other. years. How would you rate our

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Beware of Elise Stefanik’s money man

id “America First” conservatives really “win” the recent battle over the GOP’s congressional

leadership? Old-guard Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney may be out of power as the House Republican Conference chair. But her replacement, New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik, is a swampy shape-shifter whose campaign coffers are filled with open borders, radical social liberal, Wall Street cash. The multibillion-dollar money man behind Rep. Stefanik’s rise to power is Big Business oligarch Paul Singer. He founded the hedge fund Elliott Management and propped up the political bids of several Republican women who rode the gender card to victory: Rep. Stefanik in New York’s 21st congressional district; antiTrump establishment Republican Barbara Comstock in Virginia’s 10th congressional district; and John McCain loyalist and Trump flip-flopper Martha McSally, who held Arizona’s second congressional district before losing her 2020 special election

to retain the Senate seat she was Core advocacy. He backed the open appointed to when former Sen. borders amnesty Republicans Jon Kyl stepped down as the late behind the “Gang of Eight” push McCain’s replacement. for cheap foreign workers. Mr. Singer funded the As I documented previously Washington Free Beacon, in this column and in my book, ostensibly a “Sold Out,” Mr. Singer “conservative” “news” helped fund the National website run by TrumpImmigration Forum along hater Bill Kristol’s with fellow hedge fund son-in-law, Matthew billionaire George Soros. Continetti, which in turn NIF propped up a faux hired the Fusion GPS “grassroots” initiative of opposition research religious conservatives, outfit to compile the dubbed the Evangelical Michelle Malkin Immigration Table, to lobby infamous Trump dossier — which was for the Gang of Eight. passed on to the Hillary NIF was founded by farClinton campaign and Democratic left attorney Rick Swartz, who National Committee after Mr. opposes tracking/deporting visa Trump won the GOP primary. overstayers and opposes employer Mr. Singer helped raise $1 sanctions against companies that million for Trump-bashing Mitt violated immigration laws. Mr. Romney’s failed 2012 presidential Swartz also served as an adviser to bid, $1 million for Karl Rove’s Microsoft. Super PAC in 2014, and $1 million On Capitol Hill, Mr. Swartz for the failed 2016 presidential bid worked closely with immigration of pro-illegal amnesty shill Sen. expansionist Sen. Spencer Marco Rubio, R-Fla. He pushed Abraham’s legislative director gay marriage and the alphabet Cesar Conda and Sen. Sam soup agenda on the GOP. He Brownback’s legislative director underwrote fellow failed GOP (and open borders, anti-Trump presidential candidate and former former GOP House speaker) Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s Common Paul Ryan. Mr. Conda previously

worked for the pro-amnesty U.S. Chamber of Commerce and mentored Ryan from the age of 19. Mr. Conda guided the newbie Sen. Rubio as his Senate chief of staff from 2011-2014 and remains his powerful one! While she may have earned Mr. Trump’s endorsement for the GOP No. 2 leadership position, Rep. Stefanik’s pedigree and financial allegiances lie with Mr. Ryan and his “America Last” sugar daddies. Citing OpenSecrets campaign finance data, Breitbart. com reported that Mr. Singer consistently gave Mr. Ryan the maximum personal donation during his swamp tenure. In addition, through his Elliott Management firm, Mr. Singer was one of the top donors to Mr. Ryan’s associated super PACs. One left-leaning website reported that over three election cycles (2014, 2016, 2018), Rep. Stefanik was “the second highest recipient of hedge fund contributions in the House, receiving $311,582, behind House Speaker Paul Ryan’s $311,582.” Rep. Stefanik served as Mr. Ryan’s top campaign adviser in 2012 after serving in the Singer-

supported George W. Bush administration. She praised her Beltway barnacle colleague as a “true friend and mentor” after he stepped down as House speaker in 2018 — a move that had nothing to do with wanting to “spend more time with his children,” as he claimed at the time, but everything to do with creating what he later called an “escape hatch” from his nemesis, Donald Trump (and, of course, cashing in on the massive Super PAC war chest he built up duping rank-andfile Republican MAGA donors). Swamp-marinated birds of a feather flock together. The headlines may label Rep. Stefanik a “Trump loyalist” for now, but in the Beltway, the almighty dollar trumps party, principle or personality. Follow the money; find the truth. 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 t www.creators.com. Copyright 2021 by Creators.com.

John Stossel

Government causes lack of incentive

merica has a record 8.1 million job openings. The media calls it a “labor

shortage.” But it’s not a labor shortage; it’s an incentive shortage. “No one wants to work,” says a sign on a restaurant drivethru speaker in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “Please be patient with the staff that did show up.” I never wanted to work. I got a job because I had to support myself. That was good for me. It forced me out of my comfort zone. It made me a better person. Had the government offered me almost equal money not to work, I never would have applied. Today, the government takes away that incentive. The American Rescue Plan, passed in March, increased unemployment payments by hundreds of dollars and extended them for up to 73 weeks. Given the cost of commuting, etc., many people find they are better off financially not working. Denmark once offered workers five years of unemployment. Then they noticed that workers found work after exactly five years. So Denmark cut the benefit to four years. Then most workers found jobs after four years. Now Denmark, wisely, has cut benefits in half. Incentives matter. America’s unemployment handouts began during the Great Depression when desperate people really needed help. Still, you could collect for only 16 weeks. Former President Barack Obama extended unemployment benefits to up to 99 weeks. “There are no jobs!” people I interviewed waiting in line for benefits in New York City once told me. But that wasn’t true. There were lots of entry-level jobs within walking distance. My staff visited 79 nearby stores. Forty said they wanted to hire. Twenty-four said they’d hire people with no experience. People in the unemployment line also said that the government should do more to train them for jobs. But

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Santa Barbara resident Mark Wofford stands ready to receive a turkey sandwich during the early months of the pandemic at the Louise Lowry Davis Center in Santa Barbara from Anna Carrisales, a worker with the Community Action Commission of Santa Barbara County. The commission was later renamed CommUnify, and the nonprofit recently announced it would suspend its Senior Nutrition Program because of a lack of money.

Nutrition program ends for financial reasons Editor’s note: Patricia Keelean is the CEO of CommUnify, a nonprofit that works with the community to provide education and supportive services to Santa Barbara County residents, resulting in improved economic security and self-sufficiency.

o one likes to be the bearer of bad news. But facing reality and making hard choices is something our community has been forced to do these past 12 months, and CommUnify is no exception. It is with great sadness we announce that effective July 1, 2021, CommUnify

plans to suspend our Senior Nutri- wide meal service. tion Program, which has served But we can no longer operate low-income seniors in our commu- in a financial hole, as it threatens nity for 47 years. the long-term financial stability of Why? Lack of funding. the organization. The only While we are grateful way to continue providfor the federal funding we ing nutritious meals to our receive to feed seniors, low-income seniors, many no nonprofit organization who are homebound, can operate a program is with an additional that only receives 40-45% $600,000-$700,000 in perof the funding needed to manent funding. provide services. It is sim- Patricia Keelean Even with this amount, ply not sustainable. our organization would For 10 years, CommUstill be committing to nify has absorbed nearly fundraise approximately $4 million in unfunded expenses, $400,000-$500,000 annually just to covering deficits with our reserves break even. in order to maintain this countyMaking matters worse, food in-

security among seniors during the pandemic has increased and the demand for meals has soared. In April alone, CommUnify served more than 17,000 meals countywide — and the requests from seniors continue. Over the past year, we incurred additional costs associated with COVID-19 In fact, with community dining sites closed, nearly all meals had to be delivered directly to the seniors’ homes. This required more staff, training, vehicles, gas and maintenance. With the assistance of a very generous philanthropic community, we have been able to address some of those costs. But as the

community needs ballooned and costs skyrocketed, funding has not kept pace and our deficit has swelled past $1 million annually. It is our hope that the local community will step in to provide the funding needed to prevent the closure of CommUnify’s Senior Nutrition Program. It has been a privilege serving those most vulnerable in our community for all these years, and we hope our program can continue to meet this critical basic need for those who helped to build this community. We can be reached online at www. communifysb.org/senior-services/ healthy-table, or by calling 800655-0617.

A beautiful sight: A community working together

he following column is a bit of an extension of last week’s looking for the good. Wetumpka, Ala., has a population of little over 6,000 and is nestled against the Coosa River. On Jan. 19, 2019, a tornado swept through town and destroyed numerous buildings and 35 homes. That’s significant considering how small the town is to begin with. HGTV and Ben and Erin Napier, of “Home Town Takeover,” chose Wetumpka out of 500,000 videos and 2,600 towns as the place that could really use some help in rebuilding. “You never know what to expect, but right when I got to town, it was so pretty,” said

Carissa Sison, line producer for only because of the rebuilding, the show. “Our offices had the but because of the beauty of Coosa River right behind them, witnessing real Americans, in a and it was such a tranquil real small town, caring setting. But the best thing about each other, and was the people. They so obviously working as were so happy to meet us. a team to make things I’ve never experienced better. that kind of friendliness With no politics, cries of in my life and definitely racism, mask debates and not in my career.” no media intervention, it In watching the show, was a display of what and Henry the smiles, the eagerness who we really are as a Schulte to work as a community, nation. the friendliness and In some respects, it The author the joy of the residents was like another world in lives in Solvang another time where what radiated through my TV screen. So much so, really matters is living I found moisture forming in my and enjoying life and doing so eyes that must have been allergies. with your family and neighbors. I loved what I was watching, not I’m not saying there likely isn’t

any strife. It’s human nature to have differences of opinion and arguments over something or another. However, the compost and hate that floods our papers, Internet, and television were absent and thus exhibiting the real goodness of people. There are thousands of these small towns across America as noted above. Towns where everyone works as a team. Towns that aren’t influenced with the constant bombarding of how racist everyone is and how political everything has become. The communities care about each other. They join forces to help families in need, they work as one to fix their churches, to repair a building, to help with the crops.

It almost seems surreal to be able to live in such a world considering how divided and how overall messed up our country has become. These communities are like bubbles unto themselves. They’re aware of the politics outside their bubble (it’s not a bubble of ignorance), but their daily lives are focused on interests closer to home. Black and white hands work side by side. They’re all friends. They don’t need the wedge of the media being driven into them or the tainting of a “woke” movement trying to change who they are. They are Americans, pure and simple. The foundation, the Please see SCHULTE on C4

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Handouts encourage dependence STOSSEL

Continued from Page C3 New York already offered “job training” centers, so I sent an intern out to see what they did. The first offered to help her get welfare. A second told her to apply for unemployment. Neither place suggested looking for a job. When she insisted that she wanted work, not handouts, they directed her to yet another building. There she was told she could not receive help because she didn’t have a college degree. Finally, a fourth office offered her an interview at the sandwich chain Pret a Manger. The boss there told her she’d wasted her time going to the government Jobs Center because she could have gotten that same interview using Craigslist. Some politicians understand that handouts encourage dependence. Sixteen states are now ending extra unemployment benefits early. Montana and Arizona replaced extra unemployment benefits with a bonus for people who find work. Even President Joe Biden has noticed the unintended consequences of his party’s benefits. “If you’re ... offered a suitable job, you can’t refuse that job and just keep getting unemployment,” he said. Seems more than reasonable. Yet a New York Times headline says, “Some say it presents an undue hardship.”

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The reporter interviewed a “Mx. San Martin, 27, who uses the pronouns they and them.” Mx. Martin wants to work with pets. They complained that “there simply weren’t enough jobs that I would actually want.” Restaurant work “is not in my field of

interest.” Too bad. Bad for all of us when people think they’re entitled to our tax money if bureaucrats don’t get them the exact job they want. 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.

We can’t let our guards down SCHULTE

Continued from Page C3 backbone, the heart of the United States. Ben Napier said, “Because small town America is where we live and work and raise our family. It’s the flavor of this country.” When you can get nearly an entire town to join together to paint all their front doors a different color and love doing it,

there’s a bonding that the new socialist crusade in America can’t penetrate. If we were all to turn off the news, ignore the animosity on the internet and wave and speak more with our neighbors about mundane things like the weather, or what restaurants have reopened, our views and perspectives would change dramatically. Our heads wouldn’t be filled with so much negativity and strife. Our stress levels would

drop dramatically, and smiles would become more permanent and genuine. But there’s always a but, in this new era of where the fabric of towns like Wetumpka are being threatened because there’s a movement to change these successful foundations and make America something different, we can’t let our guards down. We need to be vigilant, and we need to push back against those who want to change what made us

who we are in the first place. As shooting moved ahead, those feelings grew deeper and got more meaningful. “We ended up with real friendships,” said Kerrigan, the show’s executive producer. “On our last day of shooting, our director of photography looked over at me and had tears in his eyes. I had tears in mine. We don’t normally cry on the last day.” There is still hope.

Don’t be fooled by the left’s excuses LIMBAUGH

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race theory, which began among outlying academics in the 1970s but has now insinuated itself into the mainstream of academic and cultural thought. One of its central premises is that white supremacy is prevalent in America and maintains power through our systemically racist legal system. The ever-growing acceptance of this insanity is evidenced by its presence in America’s military institutions and the seeming powerlessness of those courageously opposing it. Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, commander of the 11th Space Warning Squadron at the Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado, was relieved from duty

Democrats reversed progress made by Lincoln

because of a “loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead.” Actually, it was because he criticized critical race theory in a public podcast, saying it is very dangerous to our military. Lt. Col. Lohmeier pulled no punches in his comments or in his book, “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military.” “Our diversity, inclusion and equity industry and the trainings we’re receiving in the military ... are rooted in critical race theory, which is rooted in Marxism,” Lt. Col. Lohmeier said. This bold whistleblower, instead of being praised and rewarded for his candor, was punished and silenced. Lt. Col. Lohmeier’s firing was ostensibly based on his injection of politics into his job, but he was

merely speaking the truth. Only in the left’s world could criticism of the looming presence of Marxism in the institution dedicated to protecting and defending our national security be considered controversial or political. Punishing Lt. Col. Lohmeier for his comments also gives aid and comfort to communist China and other American enemies, which consistently disparage the United States as a racist and civil rightsabusing nation. Don’t be fooled by the left’s excuses. Leftists will allow no opposition to their extremist positions. Their venomous narrative about our founding is distinctly anti-American and hostile to America’s interests and thus wholly inappropriate and dangerous for the military, which

should be focused on defending us, not serving as a laboratory for the left’s pernicious social experiments. Major kudos to Lt. Col. Lohmeier for speaking out even at the expense of his own interests. That is true patriotism and a model for the rest of us, who must stand up against this concerted effort to undermine America’s greatness, cohesiveness and racial relations. 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.

fighting a civil war to end a practice (slavery) that had been with humanity for at least 5,000 years, probably much longer. And, sadly, because of the death of our very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, some sort of charity towards the freed slaves never took place. The idea of rewarding freed slaves “Forty Acres and a Mule” was not a bad one, and it came from, of all people William Tecumseh Sherman, the Union general who ravaged Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah during a five-week, 250-mile orgy of destruction in late 1864. His Special Field Orders No. 15, signed on Jan. 16, 1865, ceded land (“no larger than 40 acres”) to freed slave families and then allocated Army mules for the effort. You should know that a couple of rascally Radical Republican abolitionists — U.S. Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania’s U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens — initiated the writing of that field order, and they assisted in creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, which sought to help freed slaves with food, housing, oversight,

education, health care and employment. The assassination of Mr. Lincoln, however, quashed most of those plans. The sitting vice president and newly proclaimed president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, pulled a Biden-Harris and reversed Lincoln’s proclamations and vetoed an extension of the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill. The Radical Republicans tried to impeach Johnson but lost by one vote in the Senate. The newly freed slaves were abandoned by the Democratic Party, which then went ahead to create the Ku Klux Klan and pass Jim Crow laws to perpetuate a second-class status for those freed slaves and their descendants. White Supremacy in action. It’s a sordid history, and perhaps Democrats and their descendants, who have every right to feel guilty about their unsavory past, should author bills requiring them and all their relatives going back to 1619 to pay reparations for the cumulative harm they’ve done, particularly to people of color, and more generally, to the rest of us too. Just saying… James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident.

The attorney-client privilege should have protected the president ZEPKE

Continued from Page C1 Security, swore to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” which includes the immigration laws but does not include any humanitarian law (which is not even a law). Mr. Mayorkas ignored that the number of immigrants under Mr. Biden is a vast multiple of those under Mr. Trump. • The news report included the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland saying the primary threat to the U.S. was white supremacy. The TROT is that he offered no data since the previously collected data was so disastrous for the feds racial agenda that they stopped keeping it. His rankings ignored COVID-19, China, Iran, Russia, North Korea, burning cities, the border and climate change. • The reported news included Mr. Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray sent nine FBI agents to pull a “Roger Stone” type of raid by busting the door down of an Alaskan household, without first knocking, and putting the owners and their guests in handcuffs for four hours despite their willingness to cooperate,

while unsuccessfully searching their home for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s computer. Later they learned they had the wrong people. Same thing with Rudy Giuliani where they declined to ask his lawyer for any documents but, instead, busted in and took all the computer materials except the Hunter Biden stuff. The TROTS included that breaking down a door is excessive force when the residents will open it as is putting occupants in handcuffs. The attorney-client privilege should have protected the president from the materials in attorney Giuliani’s possession. The proper way is to have Rudy’s lawyer provide any sought-after materials to a judge for an “in-camera” review, meaning by a judge. Was this really about still searching for materials to prosecute Mr. Trump? On the morning of May 16, the mainstream Sunday talk shows did not have Mr. Biden, Ms. Granholm, Mr. Blinken, Mr. Mayorkas, Ms. Harris, Mr. Garland or Mr. Wray. It did have Dr. Rochelle Walensky trying to explain her Thursday morning revelation. Is this the beginning of a new cycle of duplicity in TROTS?

High density creates ghettos; is that equity? DONOVAN

Continued from Page C1 the homeless business. How do you keep your customers coming? Can you believe a week ago, SB Act asked for an additional $250,000? Can you imagine if you had numerous change order requests on the original contract of a construction job? It would be like the Winchester House — never completed. This is a never-ending train at the hands of administrators whose gravy depends on more people going nowhere. They are welcomed here and then funneled slowly. Months ago, it was reported that the homeless lady removed by the city from the Fig Tree was throwing garbage on the 101. SBAct and City Net were advised and yet it still occurs. They said the reason is because she does not want help. Who will help the motorist when her garbage causes their traffic accident? “Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” — Unknown After nearly 10 years in the formulating, and much pleading, demanding, and cajoling of the public, the Historic Resource

Guidelines were finally presented to the City Council and soon to be adopted. The guidelines are a resource for homeowners and builders to use as they check the requirements expected to streamline their way to project approval. These are for properties within any historic district overlay zones. Last Wednesday, the first Town Hall meeting of the year was conducted via webinar, the subject — California Housing Legislation in the 2021 session. The focus of which was housing and land-use Senate Bills that will affect all of California. Assemblyman Steve Bennett and City Councilmember Kristen Sneddon voiced the most understanding and awareness of the ramifications for our special geographical situation. Ms. Sneddon remarked that a certain amount of Santa Barbara is at 14% grade. Inherent problems due to evacuation and fire danger are part of our landscape. The guest speakers, Dane Hutchings and Dan Carrig, both from a Sacramento advocacy group (RPPG) and Los Angeles Councilmember Laura McCorkindale, all in opposition of SB 9 and 10, said this is of grave concern for our way of life. Sen. Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, seemed disinterested as if her mind was already made up. She said both SB 9 and 10 “... likely have the votes.” Sacramento and Washington D.C. are her stomping

grounds now. It is common knowledge that high density creates ghettos. Is this Sacramento’s idea of equity? Ghettos for everyone everywhere. Most of the discussion was Senate Bills 9 and 10 which destroy single family zoning, deny local control, allow only 4-foot setbacks, no fees to support infrastructure and are a free-forall for developers. No affordable housing is part of this plan. Assemblyman Bennet said the housing needed is for our existing population, not Australians who want a third home. The housing units will be affordable eventually when the living style becomes less and less desirable and people move away. Speaking of form — when will we return to in-person meetings? When will the City Council get back into its chamber so citizens can be heard and seen? It is obvious when one is texting (eyes down) and pausing their screen (absent) during the virtual meetings. It shows a lack of respect and is disconcerting. At times it is questionable if the panel is even at the meeting, when the participant does not answer the roll call or the online chat. The citizens donate their own time, while we pay a handsome salary to these panels of City Council members and other funded organizations. Excellent taxpayer news — remember the $4.7 million

purchase (after improvements) with taxpayer dollars for a homeless transition house at 134 Chapala St.? A week ago during a Regional Action Plan meeting, it was announced that the property went to a private buyer, not the county. Hence, it stays on our collective tax rolls, and transients will not be in proximity with our tourists and others enjoying our beachfront on the public dime, with a 40-inch screen TV and every channel available. Wonder why there is no incentive to “pick yourself up and start all over again?” We are responsible for thwarting our neighbors. They need a helping hand — not a handout. Next weekend, let us remember our soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice and are the reason we celebrate Memorial Day. The holiday was first recognized in 1868 as Decoration Day in observance of communities who had decorated the soldier’s graves for the three years since the Civil War ended. “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many, to so few.” — Anonymous Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

SANITATE

Continued from Page C2 could, but you probably already know how to define the act of doing the same thing over and over again — and expecting a different result! You also may remember Einstein’s quote, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” So what’s the solution? Here is a new idea for peace, locally and globally. Peace begins with the common people. What are the things that common people — 95% of us — want? I want to do good work, to provide for my family, to give my children and their children the chance to do the same thing. I want to do it in relative safety and to enjoy the process. I want all parents and children in the world to have this. Don’t you? That’s the starting point for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The 95% of the common people should rise up and tell Abbas and Netanyahu: “We want you to commit to both peoples — Palestinians and Israelis. Be committed to

security, homes, and work for both peoples equally, so that their children and ours can have a future different from what you’ve created for the past threequarters of a century. We want to know your plan to guarantee it for all. If you can’t do this, we will choose somebody else who can.” By the way, what if the common, good people of the United States did the same thing? What if we had the courage to shed the “Democrat” or “Republican” turtle shells we carry around on our backs and ask anybody who runs for office to be committed to the common goals of the 95% of us listed above? Leaders talk about what is “in the American interest.” That is what this American is interested in. Maybe your party loyalty is stronger than your commitment to the future of our children. That’s a dumb thing for me to say, but isn’t that how we are acting? Let’s begin by straightening out our own thinking first, before we tell Israelis, Palestinians, Afghans, Vietnamese and Koreans what to do.