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Unemployment remains above pre-pandemic levels By MADISON HIRNEISEN NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT

Despite the addition of more than half a million jobs in May, the U.S. unemployment rate still remains well above pre-pandemic levels, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In May, the U.S. added 559,000 jobs, bringing the nation’s unemployment rate down 0.3% to 5.8%, according to the bureau’s report. During a normal year, this would be a tremendous increase of jobs in a single month. However, this is not a normal year.

According to the report released on Friday, the U.S. unemployment rate still remains well above pre-pandemic levels. Currently, 9.3 million people are still unemployed, while before the pandemic, 5.7 million were unemployed in February 2020. Before the pandemic struck, the unemployment rate hovered around 3.5% as of February 2020. What’s more, California’s unemployment claims swelled to their worst levels in more than a month last week, according to a federal government report released Thursday. The U.S. Labor Department reported that

California workers filed 74,625 claims for unemployment benefits during the week that ended May 29, an increase of 3,750 over the prior week. This is the highest amount of unemployment claims the state has seen since April 24, when workers filed 78,600 unemployment claims. While the U.S. still has a long way to go to reach pre-pandemic unemployment levels, the number of persons on temporary layoff declined to 1.8 million in May, down 90% from the recent high of 18 million people in April 2020. Friday’s report also noted that people

are beginning to return to their offices as states begin to lift COVID-19 restrictions. In May, 16.3% of employed persons teleworked due to the pandemic, down from 18.3% in the prior month. Jobs in the leisure and hospitality industry also increased in May, with an employment uptick of about 292,000 jobs. The hospitality industry was one of the hardest hit by the pandemic and still remains down 2.5 million jobs compared to its level in February 2020. Employment also increased in public and private education during the month

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of May, with an increase of 53,000 jobs in local government education, 50,000 in state government education and 41,000 in private education. The report attributes these increases to the resumption of inperson schooling in some parts of the country. Despite these increases, local government education is down 556,000 jobs, state government education has decreased by 244,000 jobs and private education is down 293,000 jobs compared to February 2020. email: mhirneisen@newspress.com

Council to mull safe encampment site Members will consider declaring emergency because of camps in fire-prone areas By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

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Ken Owen, the executive director of the organization Channel Islands Restoration, shows the different types of plants found at the San Marcos Foothills Preserve in Santa Barbara during a nature walk Saturday.

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In just the last 90 days, activists from Foothills Forever have drummed up nearly enough support to secure the purchase of the San Marcos Foothills, sitting approximately $584,000 away from their goal of $18.6 million as of Saturday. What once was an uphill battle is nearing completion as activists aim to raise enough funds to purchase the open space by this Wednesday’s deadline. Thanks to the support of more than 6,000 generous donors, the effort is 97% funded and just needs over half a million

to secure the deal. Back in March, the developer of the San Marcos Foothills, Chadmar Group, agreed to pause development, giving activists a timeline of 90 days to raise enough funds to purchase the property before it is used to build eight multimillion-dollar homes. The original agreement required the campaign to raise the money by June 2, but the group received an extension through this Wednesday. Now that the campaign sits on the cusp of raising enough funds for the purchase, Campaign Director Mary Rose reflected on how far the effort has come in just a short period of time.

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purchase of the land. On Saturday, Ken Owen, the executive director of Channel Islands Restoration, led visitors on a nature walk of the area, pointing out both native and invasive plant species that grow in the area. Across the grassy preserve, native species like the western ragweed and the green everlasting are sprouting alongside the dirt trail, growing side by side with invasive species like the horehound herb. If the fundraising campaign is successful, Mr. Owen said Channel Islands Restoration is aiming to restore the preserve by utilizing sheep to graze Please see FOOTHILLS on A5

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“I think everybody thought we were nuts, including ourselves, to say (in) 90 days we were going to raise $18 million,” Ms. Rose told the News-Press. “I think everybody thought we were kind of nuts.” She added, “I’m astounded that we’ve come this far. The community has been so supportive and I’m very, very optimistic that we’re going to be able to close this deal and, you know, be able to preserve this open space for the public to enjoy.” During the final weekend before the Wednesday deadline, Foothills Forever invited members of the public to take a natural walk at the preserve in an effort to increase support for the group’s

The Santa Barbara City Council will review homeless encampments, Ortega Park murals and the city’s budget during a packed week of meetings. Members will have two special meetings on Tuesday and two more on Wednesday. On the latter day, the council will hear and consider the recommended operating and capital budget for Fiscal Year 2022. Those meetings are in addition to the council’s regular meeting on Tuesday. During that session, the council will consider proclaiming a local emergency due to encampments in fire-prone areas. Members will also discuss declaring a shelter crisis. Council members will be asked to select a location for a temporary safe encampment for 120 days and approve the process for site management and fireprone area abatement. Tuesday’s regular meeting will begin at 2 p.m. and can be viewed on City TV Channel 18 or streamed live at www. santabarbaraca.gov/cap. Roughly 300 individuals live on the streets or in encampments in the city, according to the 2020 Santa Barbara Homeless Population Point in Time Count. At least 50 of the unhoused people are in fire-prone areas. Fires in encampments are on the rise — with 18 in May alone. The city staff is considering several city-owned properties for a temporary safe encampment location, including: the Carrillo-Castillo commuter parking lot, City Hall parking lot, Spencer Adams parking lot and one of the Santa Barbara Airport’s long-term parking locations. Private property locations such as the Sears parking lot are under consideration as well. A short list of three will be presented to the council at the meeting. Under the proposed resolution, city staff would prioritize the sites for abatement, work with CityNet staff to move campers to the temporary encampment, schedule trash cleanup and vegetation removal, and continue weekly evaluation and cleanup work of abated areas. No federal or state funds are currently available for the services to support the establishment of the temporary safe encampment or abatement activities, the staff report says. The estimated costs for the 120 pilot and abatement services is approximately $1 Please see COUNCIL on A6

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Judge overrules California’s assault weapons ban By MADISON HIRNEISEN NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT

A federal judge overturned California’s 32-year old ban on assault weapons Friday, calling the state’s policy a “failed experiment.” The judge, Roger T. Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, said sections of the state’s penal code that defined and restricted assault weapons were “hereby declared unconstitutional and shall be enjoined.” The ruling comes as a result of a suit that was filed in 2019 against the state’s attorney general. In his statement, Mr. Benitez likened the Swiss Army Knife to the AR-15, calling it

“a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment.” “Firearms deemed as ‘assault weapons’ are fairly ordinary, popular, modern rifles,” he said in the statement. Despite the ruling, updates to the law will not go into effect immediately, if at all. The judge allowed a 30-day stay of the ruling at the request of Attorney General Rob Bonta, which will allow Mr. Bonta the opportunity to appeal the judge’s decision. The ruling prompted an angered response from Gov. Gavin Newsom, who called the ruling “a direct threat to public safety and the lives of innocent Californians.” “As the son of a judge, I grew up with deep respect for the judicial process and

the importance of a judge’s ability to make impartial fact-based rulings, but the fact that this judge compared the AR-15 – a weapon of war that’s used on the battlefield – to a Swiss Army Knife completely undermines the credibility of this decision and is a slap in the face to the families who’ve lost loved ones to this weapon,” Gov. Newsom said in a statement. “We’re not backing down from this fight, and we’ll continue pushing for common sense gun laws that will save lives,” he added. Mr. Bonta also issued a response, calling the decision “fundamentally flawed” and ensuring that he plans to send an appeal of the ruling to the state’s Court of Appeals.

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More than half of those eligible in county have been vaccinated By MADISON HIRNEISEN NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT

The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department reported five new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday and no new deaths. Santa Maria reported three new infections, and both Goleta and Santa Barbara reported one new case of COVID-19. All other areas reported no new cases, and the county’s active case rate currently stands at 36 infections. As of Saturday, 52.6% of eligible Santa Barbara County ages 12 and older are fully vaccinated, which equates to 44.5% of the county’s entire population. On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom selected the first winners of the state’s massive vaccine incentive package. The $116.5 million “Vax for the Win” program is the largest in the nation and offers 10 fully vaccinated Californians the chance to win $1.5 million and 30 Californians the chance to win $50,000. In addition, the next two million persons to finish their vaccine series will receive $50 prepaid and grocery cards.

The first 15 winners were selected through randomized drawing on Friday and will win $50,000. The winners reside in the counties of Mendocino, Los Angeles, Santa Clara, Alameda, San Diego, San Francisco, Orange and San Luis Obispo, according to a news release from the governor’s office. The governor will select the next 15 winners of $50,000 on June 11, and the winners of the $1.5 million prize will be drawn on June 15. As of Friday, more than 21 million Californians are at least partially vaccinated. “California has made incredible progress in the fight against COVID-19, with the lowest case rates in the entire country and millions more vaccines administered than any other state,” Gov. Newsom said in a statement. “But we aren’t stopping there, we’re doing everything it takes to get Californians vaccinated as we approach June 15 to help us safely reopen and bring the state roaring back.” email: mhirneisen@newspress.com

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A totem pole carved in honor of the appointment of Deb Haaland as the secretary of the interior will make its way down the Central Coast next week during its journey to the White House, with stops in Lompoc and Montecito. Ms. Haaland is a descendent of Chief Seattle, the renowned chief of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes who lived in the Pacific Coast bay area in the 1800s. She is the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary and is a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe. In honor of this historic selection, Jewell Praying Wolf James, a master carver, a greatgreat grandson of Chief Seattle and citizen of the Lummi Nation in Washington state, has carved a totem pole that will be presented to the Biden administration. The creation is currently on the back of a truck bed that is making its “Red Road to DC Journey,” which will begin in San Francisco for an event at Stanford University. The totem pole will then make its way to the Return to Freedom Wild Horse Sanctuary in Lompoc on Tuesday, before arriving at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Montecito for a private ceremony on Wednesday. Both of these events are private and only open to the media. The truck will then make stops

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at Cal State Channel Islands in Camarillo, as well as UCLA by the end of next week. Main carver Jewell Praying Wolf James will be present to speak at the event in Lompoc, and Nakia Zavala, a Santa Ynez Chumash tribal member, will do the opening blessing and songs. “The carvers have created totem poles, or ‘story’ poles for many generations calling for social justice, environmental protection and reconciliation of historic traumatic events that have troubled Native Americans,” Jewell Praying Wolf James said in a statement. He continued, “Their most recent totem pole journey honors the first Native American woman appointed to any Cabinet position, the secretary of the interior. The journey calls for protection of sacred sites, places and waters. The totem pole will stop at sacred sites along the way. “The symbolic connections between the figures tells the story of oppression of the female power. At one time, we all practiced Mother Earth spirituality. The story pole calls for all of us to reunite with our basic love for the earth and all life that is dependent upon it.” Once the totem pole arrives in Washington, D.C., it will be presented to President Joe Biden before being placed in its permanent home at the Smithsonian.

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From left, San Marcos’ Bella Cruz, Tianna Monaghan, Caitlyn Early and Allie Fryklund all celebrate after Early caught the final out to seal a 2-0 win over visiting Schurr in the second round of the CIF-SS Division 5 softball playoffs on Saturday. The game was deadlocked at 0-all until the bottom of the sixth inning, when Monaghan hit an RBI double to break the stalemate before eventually scoring on a Schurr error to give her team an insurance run. San Marcos will play the winner of Carter vs. University Prep — which will be played Monday — next week. For more sports, see page A7.

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In memory of Robert Francis Kennedy

THE INVESTIGATOR ROBERT ERINGER

obert F. Kennedy died 53 years ago today, murdered in the City of Angels with your tax dollars. On this sad anniversary, there are certain things you should know: Lee Harvey Oswald did not assassinate JFK, and Sirhan Bishara Sirhan did not murder Bobby Kennedy. This is not theory, “conspiracy” or otherwise. This is fact. The conspiracy (murder and cover-up) was, in all three cases, committed by our government (using, in JFK’s case, the Mafia as an accomplice and as subterfuge, same as they did in their attempts to assassinate Cuba’s Fidel Castro). Remember that your government has engaged in other criminal conspiracies that could not be covered up (as much as officials tried). Might Watergate ring a bell? The government has mocked UFO researchers for seven decades, ever since a “flying saucer” allegedly crashed near Roswell, N.M. — and now guess what? (You’ll see imminently.) Why, just a few months ago, if anyone suggested COVID-19 came from the Wuhan lab, they were labeled … but of course … conspiracy theorists! Peter Janney points out in his excellent book, “Mary’s Mosaic,” which is largely about the murder in October 1964 of Mary Pinchot Meyer, JFK’s closest female confidant and mistress (and with whom he is believed to have tried LSD in the White House): “It was the CIA who in 1967 first injected the term conspiracy theorist in the public lexicon” as a means of discrediting truth seekers. “A term,” Mr. Janney continues, “that has continued today to be used to smear, denounce, ridicule, and defame anyone who dares challenge a prevailing mainstream narrative about any controversial high-profile crime or event.” Most folks don’t realize — because, beyond tweets and texts, people don’t read much anymore — that numerous congressional, judicial and journalistic investigations have proven time and again through the past five decades that fundamental forensic “findings” in each case were seriously flawed and part of a shameful sham that, in too many cases, led those who witnessed these events to an untimely appointment with the grim reaper, including Mary Pinchot Meyer, who refused to accept the now discredited Warren Commission findings (which had been published one month before she was killed) and who had made disruptive waves among D.C.’s elite. (Her murder, along a quiet canal near her Georgetown home, has never been solved.) We the people have been played for decades, deceived by a magician’s sleight of hand, manipulated into buying a narrative perpetuated by a mainstream media that has long been corporatized and forever willing to buy the “official” line, unwilling to report new developments and leaving cold hard facts to what they like to call “the fringes.” (Social media is part of this dumbing-down process, filtering out everything that does not fit the approved narrative and ever shortening the attention span of all those who utilize it, especially the young.) And that’s how the conspirators get away with it every time. You can read whole books (very many exist, most scholarly) or view documentaries and piece the truth together from many perspectives. Or I can save you the trouble by revealing what truly went down. JFK was assassinated by a CIA/ Mafia team with complicity near the very top of that agency.

A FORMER CIA DIVISION CHIEF BLOWS THE WHISTLE Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former CIA operations officer who rose in the ranks to European Division chief, recently came to the realization that this crime was the culmination of a “rogue” covert operation organized by his former employer. “There had to be operations officers,” he states. “How can you get away with a really elaborate

but very simple plan of deception, to end up in a place where the president is dead and it is blamed on someone else, other than the people who perpetrated it?” Looking at Dealey Plaza in Dallas through the eyes of a seasoned professional intelligence officer, Mowatt-Larssen assesses it thus: “Everything was so easy to control, so easy to manipulate.” He adds, “One of the conspirators had to have access to Mafia bosses who could induce Jack Ruby to eliminate the accused assassin as a witness.” But how could it be “rogue” when two of CIA’s top officials designed the hit? The triggerman on the infamous grassy knoll that terrible day was a professional hitman from Corsica named Lucien Sarti, brought in by the Mafia, for whom he believed he was executing his assignment. That’s another story, maybe for Nov. 22, on the anniversary of the assassination of JFK. For now, let’s stick with RFK because today marks the anniversary of his tragic death.

A PERFECT MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE The bullets that struck Sen. Kennedy — the man who would have been elected president of the United States in 1968 and might have saved this country from the Henry Kissinger-inspired and highly illegal invasions of countries in Southeast Asia — did not come from Sirhan Sirhan’s cheap Iver Johnson pistol. Evidence (door frames), which showed that more than eight bullets were fired (13 were discharged, Sirhan’s .22 caliber revolver held only eight), was removed and then destroyed by the Los Angeles Police Department, which bungled many aspects of the investigation. Then, out of embarrassment, the LAPD covered up its ineptitude. The FBI had political reasons for discounting any and all witness testimony that suggested a conspiracy of persons beyond Sirhan. To say Bobby Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover had a low regard for one another would be a vast understatement. They loathed each other — and it is a certainty RFK would have replaced Hoover from his sacrosanct (to Hoover’s mind) position as FBI director. Bobby knew who was responsible for his brother’s death. And the conspirators were alarmed that should he become president, they would be exposed and their beloved institution dismantled (as JFK had vowed to do after the CIA misled him on its failed invasion at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba). A second gunman, standing behind Bobby, discharged the fatal shot (of three bullets that struck RFK), firing (eastward) directly into the back of Kennedy’s head an inch to left of his right ear from one-and-a-half inches away, from a gun pointed upward. This, while Sirhan, who may have been the perfect reallife Manchurian Candidate, was acting on a post-hypnotic suggestion strategized to distract everyone with a volley of wild, aimless firing (westward) from in front of Sen. Kennedy. The powder burns on RFK’s skin proved this, as determined by Los Angeles’ chief medical examiner, Thomas Noguchi — forensic facts swiftly swept under the proverbial rug. In a sworn affidavit, Robert Blair Kaiser, who investigated the assassination and was privy to hypnosis conducted on Sirhan in prison by the leading hypnotists of the day: “I became convinced that the hypothesis that Sirhan had been hypnotically programmed to assassinate Robert F. Kennedy was the most reasonable explanation for Sirhan’s action and statements as I heard about and witnessed them.” Robert Kennedy Jr., who was only 14 when his father was assassinated, visited Sirhan at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego in December 2017 and also came away believing this was not the man who killed his father. In September 1966, Sirhan fell from a horse on a racetrack. He was taken to a local emergency room and discharged the same day after being treated for an eye injury. That’s when things turn murky. Sirhan was taken to another hospital and disappeared from his family for two weeks. Whatever happened to him there altered his personality thereafter. The LAPD was aware of this gap. The police questioned Sirhan about it but came up empty. The man who likely hypnotized Sirhan was Dr. William Joseph Bryan, who was part of a CIA mind-control program, Project ARTICHOKE, which determined that, through hypno-conditioning, a person could be induced to

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commit a murder and remember nothing about it when awoken from a trance. Dr. Bryan died in 1977 at age 51 soon after being summoned to appear before the House Select Committee on Assassinations. (Remember, both Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli — Mafia chieftains who assisted CIA with the JFK assassination — were murdered on the eve of their subpoenaed testimony in front of the Church Commission, which was looking into assassinations sanctioned by the government.) In 1973, on orders from CIA Director Richard Helms, all records pertaining to Project ARTICHOKE were destroyed. The CIA’s other very secret program, MKULTRA, concerned itself with drug experimentation — LSD and other hallucinogens. Ever heard of Pont-SaintEsprit? In 1951, much of the population of this French village went temporarily mad, leaving 50 persons in psychiatric hospitals and seven dead. It was blamed on ergot, a mold from rye, the same substance that caused hallucinations in Salem, Mass., in 1692 and led to the witch trials. But it wasn’t ergotism that poisoned the population of PontSaint-Esprit. Again, from “Mary’s Mosaic” by Peter Janney: “The CIA’s top secret Special Operations Division at the Army’s Fort Detrick, Maryland, facility, used a cropduster plane to douse the entire town with an aerosol of highly potent LSD. This event caused mass hysteria for several days. With hundreds of people gripped by terror in acute psychosis, wildly hallucinating, the town became a veritable insane asylum.” Back to RFK. The “security guard” who stood behind Bobby — armed with a pistol — was not even called as a witness at Sirhan’s trial and for decades was considered by journalistic investigators as the prime suspect.

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POLKA DOT DRESS The mystery of “the lady in the polka dot dress” was finally solved by Tim Tate and Brad Johnson, authors of “The Assassination of Robert. F. Kennedy.” Now deceased, this woman was identified three years ago as Elayn Neal, whose photo was positively identified by all seven witnesses who claimed to have seen her that night. She was the lady who, rushing down an outdoor stairway, cried out, “We shot him!” A young Kennedy campaign worker named Sandy Serrano, who had stepped outside for fresh air, asked, “Who did you shoot?” Fleeing, the lady replied, “Sen. Kennedy!” Earlier, this lady had been seen — by multiple witnesses — with Sirhan in the hotel’s kitchen where RFK was shot. It is believed that a pinch from “the lady in the polka dot dress” induced Sirhan’s trance. According to her family, Elayn would often disappear for long periods of time. In 1966, Elayn married Jerry Capehart who, one of his sons told author Brad Johnson, worked “on mind-control experimentation” for the CIA.

AWAKEN We are still being played and gamed. The United States has become a nation of we the sheeple, hypnotized by social media. Please know that “history” is only an accepted mainstream narrative. Or, as French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte aptly put it, “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” Never trust the government to tell you the truth and to know what is best for you. Think for yourself and always question authority. Robert Eringer is a longtime Montecito author with vast experience in investigative journalism. You can reach him at reringer@gmail.com.

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Nominations accepted for spring yard contest LOMPOC – The City of Lompoc & Appearance Commission is now accepting nominations for its Spring Yard Beautification Contest. Yards nominated for the contest will be judged on visual appeal, maintenance, imagination, water conservation and artistic impact, according to a news release. This year, no back yards will be judged, and only yards that

Yards nominated for the contest will be judged on visual appeal, maintenance, imagination, water conservation and artistic impact. can be seen from a vehicle on the street will be considered. Judging for the contest will occur June 21-25. Commission members will judge nominated homes and businesses while driving through Lompoc. The judges will also consider residences

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Raymond Lester Wilhelm passed away peacefully on Saturday May 29, 2021 at home in Carlsbad, California. He was the husband of Wilma Elizabeth Wilhelm. They shared 60 years of marriage together. Born June 6, 1928 in Davenport, Iowa, he was the son of Lester and Mary Wilhelm. He graduated from Nathan Hale High School where he was a star member of the debate team. Ray is a veteran of the Korean War, where he was a Corporal in the Medical Cr. 196th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army. After attending Marquette University, he worked for the Delco Electronics division of General Motors for over 35 years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Goleta, California. Ray traveled the world, loved to cook, played the organ and accordion, as well as bridge with friends and was an avid walker. Ray is survived by his wife Wilma, his daughters Loretta Rieth (Jeff Rieth), Cari Wilhelm (Kotaro Motomura) and Michelle Turner (Carl Stuart Turner), and his grandsons Mark Rieth, Gunnar Rieth, Samuel Turner and Owen Turner. He is predeceased by his brothers Joseph and Howard Wilhelm. A memorial will be held at Miramar National Cemetery in San Diego, California. His family would like to thank the UCSD Moores Cancer Clinic team and LightBridge Hospice for their compassionate care. Ray’s humor, love of life and kindness will be missed by all.

CHAPMAN, Margaret “Margo”

Margaret “Margo” Ann (Youngstrom) Chapman, 92, a longtime resident of Santa Barbara, passed away on May 14, 2021, in Long Beach, California. Margo was born on October 20, 1928, in Alta, Iowa to Carl and Dorothy (Andre) Youngstrom and was raised on a farm near Nemaha, Iowa. She graduated with honors from Central Methodist College in Missouri in 1951. Shortly after graduation, she married Dr. Charles G. Chapman. They moved to Santa Barbara in 1959, a town they loved, established roots and raised their family. Margo found joy in spending time with family and friends, with bi-annual trips to Yosemite and Christmas gatherings among her favorite memories, and dedicating herself to serving the Santa Barbara community. She was a lifelong learner, an avid reader and traveler. Margo had a passion for music and the arts, supporting CAMA, Music Academy of the West, Quire of Voyces, the symphony, opera, museums, and theater. She was an active member in her church at both La Mesa Community Church-UCC and First Congregational Church. Margo’s commitment to service was evident in the number of organizations she was involved with over the years. She served as President of Child Abuse Listening and Mediation (CALM), the Community Arts Music Association (CAMA), and the Parent Teacher Association (PTA). Margo chaired the Santa Barbara Commission for Women. She was on the Board of Santa Barbara’s Toba Sister City and California’s Medical Auxiliary. Margo served as an advisor to the Junior League, the Visiting Nurse Association and it’s Area Agency on Aging. Margo was preceded in death by her husband Dr. Charles G. Chapman. She is survived by her six children, John (Roxanne), Andrea Sears (Sidney), Richard, Julia (Charles Andres), James (Tracie), and Carol (Brian Billard). She was blessed with seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. 7KH IDPLO\ ZLOO KROG D SULYDWH VHUYLFH DW WKH 6DQWD %DUEDUD &HPHWHU\ ,Q OLHX RI ÁRZHUV donations may be made to CALM or CAMA or raise a toast in her memory with a glass of champagne.

ARONSON, MaryAnn and Robert “Bob” MaryAnn Aronson died very peacefully at the age of 79 in Napa Valley, CA on May 5, 2021. She is survived by her children David Joel Sciuto (Montecito, CA), Esther Joy McEntire (St. Helena, CA), Micah Joseph Sciuto (Oahu, HI). Mary Ann was born Sept. 19, 1941, in Tullahoma, TN. She worked for the Credit Union of Santa Barbara, Store Manager Yost Appliance and Front Desk Manager SB Hotel Group (Inn by the Harbor). She raised three children with laughter, hugs and kisses, and the knowledge of Jehovah God Almighty. She would pray every night with her young children. She was an avid reader of the Bible starting at age 7 to her death at 79. She knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that she had found the truth of the Bible, the past, the present and the future promises of Jehovah God. She never missed a meeting at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses and truly loved her international brotherhood of true friends around the earth. She helped numerous people to learn about Jehovah and have faith in, true justice and true peace, to be found through God’s government. She was very kind, patient, and had a contagious laugh. We lost an amazing woman in MaryAnn. We know that Jehovah will “heal the broken-hearted” as Psa. 147:3 states, DQG WKDW WKHUH LV QR GDUNQHVV WRR GDUN IRU -HKRYDK WR ÀQG XV DQG FRPIRUW XV /LNH MaryAnn, her family strongly believes in the resurrection promise found in the Bible very soon to come on earth. (Rev. 21:3,4; Psa. 37:29) In 1984 she met the love of her life, Robert “Bob” Aronson and together they raised their children with a deep love for each other. To learn more of this resurrection promise please go to JW.ORG. The website is in 1,032 languages. MaryAnn’s zoom funeral will be held on Sat. June 5th @ 2PM. Robert “Bob” Aronson died peacefully at the age of 78 in Napa Valley, CA on Sept 6, 2020. He is survived by his children David Joel Sciuto, Esther Joy McEntire, Micah -RVHSK 6FLXWR 'HEL 3L]]R *UHHQZRRG /DQFDVWHU &$ 5REHUW *UHHQZRRG 9DOHQFLD &$ 'RYH +DUULQJWRQ 1LSRPR &$ %RE ZDV ERUQ LQ &KLFDJR ,/ RQ )HE %RE VHUYHG in the Vietnam war as a Field Hospital Medic. He was stationed in Fort Hamilton NY and Stuttgart Germany. After honorable discharge he opened Bob’s Mirrors in Chicago ,/ 8SRQ KLV DUULYDO WR 6DQWD %DUEDUD KH ZRUNHG IRU WKH 6DQWD %DUEDUD 1HZV 3UHVV TMC phone sales and several insurance companies. Bob was raised in a Jewish and /XWKHUDQ KRPH :LWK %RE·V UHOLJLRXV EDFNJURXQG DQG WKHQ VHUYLQJ DV D PHGLF IRU WKH military and being decorated as a marksman, he became disillusioned as to the God he thought he believed in. In 1972 he lost a daughter in death and repeatedly asked “If there is a God, why does he allow wickedness and grief?” After a knock on his door by Jehovah’s Witnesses he spent countless hours trying to disprove their beliefs. After an intense study of the Bible itself in Hebrew and Greek, with all his Bible translations lined up, he could not disprove the beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses or the promise the %LEOH KROGV RXW RI D UHVXUUHFWLRQ RQ HDUWK ,W ÀOOHG WKH YRLG LQ KLV KHDUW ZKHQ KH NQHZ he would see his daughter again in the resurrection, promised by God. (Titus 1:2) He was baptized that same year at the Ventura Fairgrounds. He passionately wanted all to know of God’s government that would bring true justice for all of mankind. He never missed meetings at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses and studied the Bible with many people with a passion for truth. He married the love of his life in MaryAnn and was a true romantic with cards, roses, and gifts for over 36 years. He truly was the best father we could ever have. We were so grateful for a spiritual loving father. He HQMR\HG JRLQJ WR /$ 'RGJHU JDPHV DQG &XEV JDPHV DW :ULJOH\ )LHOG +H DOVR ORYHG WKH H[FLWHPHQW RI WDNLQJ WKH NLGV JUXQLRQ KXQWLQJ DQG ZDWFKLQJ WKHP VXUI DW /HGEHWWHU beach! We look forward to the time when he will be resurrected to a paradise earth, ZKHUH KH ZLOO VHH KLV UHÁHFWLRQ LQ D ODNH DQG VD\ ´, PDGH LW µ 7KLV ZDV KLV G\LQJ ZLVK Zoom funeral was held Oct. 3, 2020, with over 600 in attendance. He was a dearly loved man. Thank you to the hundreds of friends who have given such unending love and support to Bob, MaryAnn, and our entire family. Thank you for Hospice of Santa Barbara and Collabria Hospice Napa Valley, Alexander Gardens of Santa Barbara and St. Helena Home Care for their excellent caregiving skills and loving bedside manner. Thank you IRU WKH FDUGV WKH ÁRZHUV WKH HQFRXUDJLQJ VFULSWXUHV WKH PHDOV DQG \RXU JHQXLQH ORYH We will never forget it.

and businesses who were not nominated. Winners will be announced July 1. To submit a nomination, contact Kathleen Forbes at 805875-8034 or k_forbes@ci.lompoc. ca.us. — Madison Hirneisen

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TRAFFIC, CRIME AND FIRE BLOTTER SBPD warns of mail theft SANTA BARBARA — Mail theft may lead to identity theft and fraud, warns the Santa Barbara Police Department in a news release. The department included strategies to protect you from mail theft. Outgoing mail containing checks or personal information are safest when placed directly in locked USPS postal boxes, handed

WILCOX, Gary L.

On May 25, 2021, Gary L. Wilcox, loving husband and father, passed away at the age of 74 in Santa Barbara, California after a short, but intense, battle with cancer. Gary was born in Ventura, California to Floyd and Ruby Wilcox and married Susan (Scott) Wilcox on December 20, 1969. Gary attended UC Santa Barbara and earned his BA in Cellular and Organismal Biology, MA and PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He was a Professor of Microbiology at UCLA for 10 years, had over 70 VFLHQWLÀF SXEOLFDWLRQV DQG SDWHQWV +H WKHQ EHFDPH an accomplished executive in biotechnology with dreams of helping those with untreated diseases. He co-founded, was CEO and President of Ingene (International Genetic Engineering) in Santa Monica in 1982 and after 11 years, left to play a key role in the development of Cialis for Icos Corporation in Seattle, WA. Most recently, he was Chairman, CEO and Founder of Cocrystal Discovery in Bothell, WA, working to develop antiviral drugs, and co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of ADRx Corporation in Thousand Oaks working to develop drugs for amyloid GLVHDVHV *DU\ ZDV RQ WKH %RDUG RI 'LUHFWRUV RI QXPHURXV SULYDWH SXEOLF DQG QRQ SURÀW companies and served on the UC Santa Barbara Board of Trustees and the Pepperdine University Board. Along with his professional accomplishments, Gary loved to travel with his family and had visited over 60 countries combining his love of travel with his love of photography. Most recently, Gary and Sue celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on a ship in Antarctica. He is survived by his wife, Sue, son David Wilcox, son John Wilcox, daughter-in-law Melissa Wilcox and grandson, Max Wilcox. He was a brilliant and loving husband, father, grandfather and friend. ,Q OLHX RI ÁRZHUV SOHDVH FRQVLGHU D GRQDWLRQ WR WKH :LOFR[ )DPLO\ &KDLU LQ %LR0HGLFLQH at UC Santa Barbara (To: UC Regents - memo Wilcox Family Chair in BioMedicine. $GGUHVV 2IÀFH RI 'HYHORSPHQW &KHDGOH +DOO 8&6% 6DQWD %DUEDUD &$ RU D FKDULW\ RI \RXU FKRLFH Due to Covid and family wishes, there are no plans at this time for any services.

GORDON, Jack H.

Jack H. Gordon was 91 years old when he passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, May 29th at 2:02 pm. pst. Jack was born in Ware, MA to Sam and Sarah Gordon on October 20, 1929. He had three siblings, Irving, Milton and Madeline. Jack is survived by his sister Madeline Cooperman and his family…wife, Linda... Craig and Anne Gordon, Ellery, Lexus and Luca...Suzy and Tom Helmintoller, Alex and Lucas...Scott Gordon and Sherise MacGregor, Grayson, Raine and Rowan...DeeDee and Tyler Gundberg, Asher and Aria. Jack graduated from UMass with a BS in Chemistry, went into the military during the Korean war and was stationed in the Chemical Corps in Germany in 1952. He loved to read and his focus was on history of World War II. He had a long and successful career as a jewelry manufacturer in Los Angeles. Jack invented Precious Jewelry Cleaner in 1987 which is still being sold around the world today. While living in Los Angeles Jack loved to spend Sunday afternoons looking at open houses of homes in the area and so, Linda and Jack ended up living in at least 21 homes over their 54 years of marriage. /LQGD DQG -DFN PRYHG WR 6XQ 9DOOH\ ,GDKR LQ -DFN ORYHG Á\ ÀVKLQJ DW 6LOYHU Creek Preserve and many of the Idaho rivers. In the winters he could be found cross country skating and classical cross-country skiing. He loved the summer Sun Valley Symphony concerts, the art gallery walks, hiking to mountain lakes and mountain biking in the Sawtooths. Linda and Jack moved to the Santa Ynez Valley in 2005 where Jack enjoyed a wonderful lifestyle once again. Lots of new friends and fun times. Jack was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2016 and had a few rough years. He LV DW SHDFH QRZ DQG KLV VSLULW LV VRDULQJ ZLWK D Á\ ÀVKLQJ URG D EHDXWLIXO ULYHU DQG D bucket of chocolate chip cookies. ,Q OLHX RI ÁRZHUV D GRQDWLRQ LQ -DFN·V 0HPRU\ WR 91$ +HDOWK +RVSLFH 'LYLVLRQ LQ 6DQWD %DUEDUD ZRXOG EH JUHDWO\ DSSUHFLDWHG 91$ KHDOWK GRQDWH

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City to host open house on Loma Fire SANTA BARBARA — The city of Santa Barbara will host an informal open house Saturday to answer residents’ questions in the aftermath of the May 20 Loma Fire. The open house will begin at noon and take place at Parque

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It has been said, “Death and Taxes come to all men” and so it was with Walter whose life ended on 05/29/2021 in the Samarkand Retirement Home in Santa Barbara, CA. He was 101 years old when he died after a long and colorful career.

Walter joined the British Army on the third of October 1939. Churchill declared war on Germany on the same day Walter started training as a tank gunner/radio operator-there being no call for confectioners!

de los Ninos, 508 Coronel Place, Santa Barbara. Officials from the City Fire, Police and Public Works departments will be available to answer questions regarding emergency notifications, disaster preparedness and what is being done to stabilize the hillside, according to a news release.

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Our dad, Walter Reeves Harper, was so organized he even composed his own obituary before he passed.

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UCSB plans Grad Walk this week University to hold in-person processional; Oprah Winfrey to speak at Saturday’s online ceremony By GRAYCE MCCORMICK NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

At last, UCSB’s Class of 2021 will be able to celebrate its big milestone in person — somewhat. The university announced it will not host its traditional ceremonies this year due to the public health orders. Instead, it will hold a “Grad Walk,” starting Monday and going through Thursday. In this adjusted version of a graduation processional, students will have their names announced as they cross a stage and be photographed in front of the campus lagoon. There will be no speeches or remarks, and each Grad Walk will last approximately 10 minutes per graduate. Graduates are allowed two accompanying guests. In addition, graduates from the Class of 2020 were invited to join the Grad Walk, since they were unable to have an in-person experience last year due to the pandemic. The walks can be viewed via livestream, and the link will be posted on UCSB’s website on Monday. Reservations have already closed for the on-site event, but all supporters are welcome to watch the livestream. The main event — the online commencement ceremony — will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, with Montecito talk show host and author Oprah Winfrey as the keynote graduation speaker. Jeffrey Stopple, dean of undergraduate education, will preside over the event, and Chancellor Henry Yang will offer greetings and confer degrees. The 2021 commencement student speaker for the College of Letters & Science will be Ebelechukwu Eseka. The sociology graduate is of Nigerian and Ghanian descent and emigrated to the United States when she was 14. She landed at UCSB as a Promise Scholar, which allowed her access to resources and mentors who helped her come into her own. “I was a little — no, a lot — intimidated when I came into college,” Ms. Eseka said in a news release. “It felt similar to when I first came to the United States, and I started to retreat into myself. I felt all of the same feelings of insecurity I did in high school. I was lucky to be in the Promise Scholar program because it made my transition so much easier.”

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Montecito celebrity Oprah Winfrey will be the keynote speaker during Saturday’s online UCSB commencement.

In her remarks to the class, she’ll draw connections between her immigrant story to others’ stories of identity crises. The graduating senior will also advise her class to “roll with life’s punches.” Ms. Eseka received the Deans’ Award for Outstanding Senior and the Thomas More Storke Award, UCSB’s highest student honor. Mr. Storke (1876-1971) was publisher of the News-Press, and the campus’ Storke Tower is named after him. After graduation, Ms. Eseka plans to pursue a career to be a public interest attorney. “I’m proud of myself,” she said. “I’m excited. This is a big moment, and I hope people like my speech.” Events on Saturday will include multiple virtual celebrations arranged by the university’s schools, academic divisions and departments as well. For more information, visit ucsb.edu/commencement. email: gmccormick@newspress.com

The main event — the online commencement ceremony — will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, with Montecito talk show host and author Oprah Winfrey as the keynote graduation speaker.

The UCSB lagoon will serve as the backdrop for this week’s Graduation Walk.

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the area, which would cut back the overgrown grass and rid the area of invasive species. The CIR has played a leading role in saving the San Marcos Foothills and begun preliminary talks with the developer back in 2019. While $18.6 million is needed to purchase the land, the campaign is hoping to raise enough to pay off loans and raise enough for an endowment of about $1,000,000 to pay for CIR’s restoration. Therefore, even if the campaign raises enough to purchase the land, they will continue to fundraise for the next year or so to raise enough money to pay off loans and fund the restoration project. Despite the back payments the campaign owes on loans, Foothills Forever did not spend a large amount of money putting on events or accruing campaign costs, largely because the fundraising effort started when the county remained in the throes of the pandemic. Mr. Owen sees a silver lining in this, noting that interest in the preserve increased during the COVID-19 crisis. “As we went into lockdown, suddenly, there are a lot more people up here because it’s local,

safe, and easy, recreational convenient parking and all of the whole preserve is on this property, too,” Mr. Owen told the NewsPress. “So it’s kind of funny, but this campaign may have just been timed correctly.” If Foothills Forever succeeds in its fundraising efforts, campaign organizers say they will turn their decision to how to best steward the land. Originally, activists considered giving the land to the county for oversight, and while that remains a possibility, the campaign is considering a few other options. One such option could be the creation of a committee composed of community members who oversee the preservation of the land for years to come. “We’re looking at options and how to develop those stewardship plans (and) the different elements of a stewardship plan for here,” Mr. Owen told the News-Press. “That will be down the road, but clearly we want community involvement in that. Not only the people who worked on the grassroots to save the property and the donors for that matter, but also just other folks that use parks in our area who all have interests that are geared toward their kind of recreation.” To keep track of the campaign’s progress, visit foothillsforever.org/. email: mhirneisen@newspress.com

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Continued from Page A1 million. Another big agenda item for the council is a status report on the Ortega Park murals, a topic that recently gained lots of community engagement and efforts to save the historic murals. According to the city staff report, the outcomes of the recent community engagement efforts — including public comment, community discussions, surveys and the community meeting held in April — indicate that there’s a diversity of opinions about the murals that range from preserving in place to relocating or reproducing them. Some people are also interested in replacing the murals with new murals, dedicating financial resources to continue the tradition of mentoring young artists. It is anticipated that further guidance from community groups, including the muralists, will be presented by Tuesday’s council meeting. “To provide the comprehensive renewal of Ortega Park to establish a viable, safe, neighborhood destination for the next 30-plus years, structures will need to be removed and reconstructed to develop new recreation elements,” the staff report reads. “To achieve a renewed park, there are options for the murals including relocation, reproduction on new structures in the park and digital documentation. The feasibility and cost of each approach will depend on the condition of each mural.” The first three phases of the

The grant application includes $350,000 for mural reproduction and new mural creation in the park. These funds would support mural artists and youth apprentices in the reproduction and creation of park murals. Ortega Park Renewal Project are estimated to cost nearly $12 million, but the grant application includes $350,000 for mural reproduction and new mural creation in the park. These funds would support mural artists and youth apprentices in the reproduction and creation of park murals. Also coming to the council’s desk for approval are amendments to the city’s Average Unit-Size Density Incentive Program to exclude mobile home parks from development under the program and increase the inclusionary requirement outside the Central Business District to help meet the city’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation for housing. Council directed staff to clarify that low- and very-low-income units required to satisfy state density bonus law, or through the city’s Density Bonus Ordinance, did not count toward meeting the number of moderate-income inclusionary units required under the AUD Program. This ensures that moderate-income housing is produced to better meet the need for housing at that income level and satisfy the city’s RHNA. In addition, by adding back in language clarifying that the AUD Program development standards don’t apply to mobile home parks,

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lives by. If she didn’t, she’s not sure she would be here today. The Santa Barbara local talked about her life when she sat down with the News-Press at the picturesque A.C. Postel Memorial Rose Garden in front of the Santa Barbara Mission. On this sunny afternoon, the traumatic brain injury survivor talked about the importance of being positive. “If I believed everything that every doctor ever told me, I believe I would be dead three times over,” said Ms. Klawitter, who shares her story in her 2020 book “Direct Hit.” “In fact, I would be wearing a colostomy bag right now if I believed that, because that was a prognosis for me back when I was in my 20s.” The Indiana native moved to Northern California to become a golf professional in the late 1980s and only took a year to gain her Ladies Professional Golf Association card to play, compete and teach. Instead of just teaching lessons and holding clinics, she created a ladies’ golf league for beginners (which didn’t keep score) and coached a women’s college golf team that remains undefeated. Ms. Klawitter taught a holistic approach to golf, incorporating the body, mind and spirit into the sport, and she went on to write dozens of articles about the method. “I mean, I was a bubbly, independent, dynamic woman,” Ms. Klawitter said. However, her life was dramatically altered on the afternoon of July 28, 1998, when she was walking from the parking lot to the golf clubhouse in Northern California. Suddenly a speeding golf ball hit from the ninth tee struck her right in the temple. “It felt like a large stake had driven through the top of my skull and out my left eye socket,” Ms. Klawitter said. “The pain was so excruciating that it felt like a bowling ball had fallen on my head.” Ms. Klawitter collapsed and was rushed to the emergency room. After a few months of grueling neurological testing, she found out she suffered a traumatic brain injury from the direct hit. She was told she would have to relearn to speak, read and write. “The irony of that,” the former golf professional said. “That’s my profession, and this ball has the audacity to come down on the top of my head and end my life as I knew it.” There was a long road ahead for Ms. Klawitter. With her frontal, temporal, parietal, occipital lobes and cerebellum injured, she worked with a neuropsychologist and speech, cognitive, physical,

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“If you keep that positive outlook, being in that positive frame of reference brings you back out of the darkness quicker,” said Kathleen Klawitter, a traumatic brain injury survivor.

At left, Santa Barbara author Kathleen Klawitter walks by the A.C. Postel Memorial Rose Garden in front of the Santa Barbara Mission. “We love to love. We love to be happy,” she said about every person’s dream. At right, Kathleen was a golf professional before her traumatic brain injury. She found that music was a healing force for her.

occupational and vision therapists. “You name it, I had it,” she said. The traumatic brain injury gave her double vision and impaired her executive functioning, organizational skills, tracking and sequencing, personality, language, memory understanding, sense of touch, visual and spatial perception of sizes and shapes, balance and coordination. “I was in this dark hole,” Ms. Klawitter said. “I really viewed life through this dark tunnel with

a pressure-type headache … Because when you have a head injury, you feel so isolated. You really get lost in the darkness.” It took her almost a decade of recovery to be able to return to her first working job since the accident, which she remembers was a position as a flower arranger in Northern California. She even remembers that first paycheck she got since — $59.68. The Jodi House Brain Injury Support Center in Santa Barbara walked Ms. Ms. Klawitter through her recovery, which she said

began at a “turtle’s pace.” But the neurological treatment worked on the left side of her brain, and the right side wasn’t injured. Because of this, she said she began to hear music — specifically, her dad’s polka music, reminiscent of her Polish heritage: growing up listening to Polka music and dancing to the accordion. “I would turn my backpack around, and I would pretend that I was playing the accordion,” she said with a giggle. “It gave me

hope and it was familiar. And it was so comforting.” This was where the tide turned for Ms. Klawitter, and the hope she felt from hearing the polka music drove her to continue hearing more music. That helped her to heal. Her main neurologist recommended that she do activities of high interest to expel her energy, so Ms. Klawitter began sketching, first in black and white and then in color. She started observing the night sky and learned the

constellations. She earned a black belt and became a certified archery instructor. She took a pottery class, and she thought it went so well that she went back to Santa Barbara City College for her master’s degree in psychology. Ms. Klawitter enrolled in an eight-week course from a writing professor at City College — three times over. “As a head-injured person, you really have to overlearn something to actually learn it. Repetition of something will help,” she said. In the class, she said her professor challenged her to write about her accident and read it aloud to the students. When Ms. Klawitter tried, she said she “maybe got through the first paragraph” until she began to cry, so the professor read the remainder to the class. That excerpt became the prologue to Ms. Klawitter’s book — “Direct Hit” (2020, KK Speaks LLC, $21.95). It’s available at Chaucer’s Books on upper State Street and Amazon.com. Ms. Klawitter finished the book despite her father’s death a couple years ago because, she said, she heard his voice in the same way she heard his polka music, saying, “Take a leap of faith.” Now, more than two decades after the accident, Ms. Klawitter remains a force of creativity and intelligence. But she said she accesses information differently. Her pace is slower, her day is structured and she can only do one to two things each day. Auditory, visual and environmental stimulation can become distracting to her in public places and lead to the pseudobulbar affect, which is characterized by episodes of sudden, uncontrollable and inappropriate laughing or crying, according to the Mayo Clinic’s definition. Ms. Klawitter literally had to teach herself how to smile again. “That was another thing that I had to work on early on, to make sure that I could smile again, to get that brain to fire,” the author said. “I had to practice curling up my lips on the ends and look in the mirror and be like, ‘There it is.’” Although every day consists of practice for Ms. Klawitter, she used grounding and meditation practices to rebuild her life. She learned to forgive the gentleman who hit the golf ball, who she mentioned had been drinking alcohol. “When you forgive someone, it’s not that you’re saying, ‘It’s OK that you did this wrong thing,’ but it’s so that you can not have resentment or any other emotional barrier around it, and so that you can once again live life the way you want to,” Ms. Klawitter said. The former golfer added that she meditated and actually had a vision of the golf ball that hit her. She learned to forgive the physical object too. “Then when I went out and tried to go play golf again, I wasn’t triggered by the golf ball. I wasn’t afraid to be out in the original sacred space of grass and trees and the fresh air and the sun or the rain.” Now Ms. Klawitter is a published author, resilience coach and motivational speaker, because she knew she still wanted to make a difference in the lives of others. While it didn’t seem likely she’d wear all those hats at her prognosis following the direct hit, Ms. Klawitter said all it took was “one, tiny, impossible step at a time” to get there. Ms. Klawitter coined something she called a “high-five system” when she was a golf instructor, but decided that it held true for anything in life, including overcoming a traumatic brain injury. Her five tidbits in the system advise people to: establish a daily routine, stay in the present Please see KLAWITTER on B4

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“Get ready to dance again as we will be adjusting to the newest set of COVID guidelines that will allow us to get back closer to The Red Piano Experience that you are used to!” Red Piano said in a statement sent to the News-Press. “We’ll be ready to party with a wider range of performers and less restrictions by the health department!” For more about The Red Piano, go to theredpiano.com. email: dmason@newspress.com

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Thursday’s show will feature music by Santa Barbara’s DJ Hecktik. Tickets cost $90 to $360, and proceeds will benefit The Red Piano/Marcie Kjoller Music Scholarship. In addition to the comedy night, Red Piano has expressed excitement about June 15, the day businesses can open without constraints on capacity or requirements for physical distancing. People who are vaccinated won’t need to wear masks in most indoor settings.

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Opening the program will be local comedians Camilla Cleese, daughter of “Monty Python” actor John Cleese, and Spencer Fisher. The headliner, Mr. Schwartz, has created content for and with Grammy winner Jason Mraz, Jo Koy, Tiffany Haddish, Craig Robinson, Anjelah Johnson, Disney, Yahoo and more. He is the host of “Podcast: The Musical,” in which he conducts interviews and creates songs based on those conversations. In addition to the comedy,

There are many things Santa Barbara missed during the pandemic, but one popular attraction will be back in November: Broadway plays at The Granada. The Broadway is Back in Santa Barbara series brings Big Apple acting to the Santa Barbara theater, 1214 State St. Season tickets include four shows: “An Officer and

a Gentleman,” “Hairspray,” “Waitress” and “Jersey Boys.” Ticket holders can add or swap a show to include “The Simon and Garfunkel Story” to this lineup. To renew tickets or start a new membership, go to broadwaysantabarbara.com or call 805-899-2222. “AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN” “An Officer and a Gentleman” takes the stage Nov. 9-10. The romantic musical is based on the Oscar-winning 1982 classic

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At left, Robin Gowen’s solo exhibition, called “Sight Lines,” runs through July 26 at Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery.” Center, “Summer Salon” features works by various artists through July 26. At right, the Hank Pitcher exhibit continues through June 21.

SANTA BARBARA — Several exhibits are gracing Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery, 11 E. Anapamu St. The first room features Robin Gowen’s solo exhibition, called “Sight Lines.” The exhibit consists of 32 paintings in a

variety of styles that depict life on the Central Coast and in New England. The exhibit runs through July 26. The gallery’s third room features “Summer Salon.” Nathan Yonk has assembled

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Julika Lackner, John Nava, Angela Perko, Leslie Lewis Sigler and Nicole Strasburg. The exhibit runs through July 26. And this is the second month for the new Hank Pitcher exhibit. It coincides with the

second printing of the local artist’s coffee table book. It features 18 works created mainly over the last year, but there are a few extra works in the backroom, according to a news release. The exhibit runs through June

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Cost is $35 for Lompoc residents and $42 for nonresidents. In addition to this in-person class, Lompoc Recreational will offer a virtual Qigong Self-Care class series that will run from June 24 to July 29. Class participants will complete a creative activity during each session, followed by a time of guided meditation and reflection. In addition, Barbra Hannelore, a self-care mentor with training as a coach and expressive arts facilitator, will provide health tips during a few of the sessions.

The class will take place via Zoom on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Cost for six sessions is $90 for Lompoc residents and $108 for nonresidents. Adults are invited to participate. To register for either of these class sessions, visit apm.activecommunities.com/ lompocrecreation, call the Lompoc Recreation Division at 805-875-8100 or visit the recreation center at 125 W. Walnut Ave., Lompoc. email: mhirneisen@newspress.com

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In the musical, Zack Mayo has the body for the Navy and the smarts to lead a team, but his arrogance is the target of his drill sergeant. Zack seeks a relationship with a nearby factory girl, and he learns the importance of companionship when tragedy strikes. “HAIRSPRAY” The big, iconic hair of Tracy Turnblad will be curled and teased to perfection for the Nov. 30-Dec. 1 productions of Tony-winning “Hairspray.” The 2002 musical comedy is based on director John Waters’ 1988 movie “Hairspray,” which starred Ricki Lake as Tracy Turnblad. Another movie, this one based on the Broadway musical, was released in 2007 and starred Nikki Blonsky as Tracy. Now “Hairspray” is on the stage again. Audience members watch 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad dance her way to a popular show, challenging the body image. She also confronts racism in 1960s Baltimore. Audience members will bop to hit songs “Welcome to the 60s,” “Good Morning Baltimore” and

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“Ladies Choice” from the film adaptation. This new production reunites award-winning director Jack O’Brien and choreographer Jerry Mitchell, extending this popular musical to new generations. “WAITRESS” Waitress and pie-maker Jenna is the center of the inspiring musical “Waitress,” coming to The Granada Jan. 18-19. Jenna’s pies give insight into her restless life, where she dreams to leave her small town and troublesome marriage. A baking contest provides an opportunity to start afresh, but Jenna must channel her independence to seize change. The musical was crafted by an all-female team. The music and lyrics were written by Grammy winner Sara Bareilles (“Brave,” “Love Song”). Screenwriter Jessie Nelson (“I Am Sam”) and choreographer Lorin Latarro (“Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” “Waiting For Godot”) give this fun musical attitude. Abbey O’Brien recreated the choreography for the tour, and Tony winner Diane Paulus’s original direction is recreated by tour director Susanna Wolk. “JERSEY BOYS” Legendary hits “Sherry,” “Big

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the blessing in life, that you would move through life a little bit easier. And it’s not to say to be superficial and disregard your emotions. It’s incredibly important to lean into those emotions, whether you’re sad or angry or confused or still in disbelief about what’s happened. You really want to express those in a safe way,” Ms. Klawitter

Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” and “December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)” will ring out Feb. 22-23. The true story of four guys from New Jersey is transformed into this Tony- and Grammy-winning musical “Jersey Boys.” The musical reveals the story of Frank Valli and The Four Seasons, taking audiences from the streets of New Jersey to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and all the conflicts between. “THE SIMON AND GARFUNKEL STORY” Ticket holders can swap a show or add on “The Simon and Garfunkel Story,” which travels to the Granada Theatre Jan. 5. The show combines state-ofthe-art video projection, photos and film to immerse audiences in the rise of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. A live band will perform the duo’s hits such as the iconic “Mrs. Robinson,” “Cecilia,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and more. Actors portray the singers’ humble beginning, 1960s fame and their eventual split. The musical builds to the duo’s 1981 reunion in which half a million fans gathered in Central Park. email: ahanshaw@newspress.com said. “But then, to shift after that and be like, ‘OK, this is what’s happening now. This is what I’m doing now.’ (That) became my mantra … And before long, if you keep that positive outlook, being in that positive frame of reference brings you back out of the darkness quicker … “You’re honoring all the feelings that you have and then honoring our natural state, (which) I believe, is that we really are all just joyous people. We love to love. We love to be happy. “We love to feel a sense of belonging and gather and sing and dance and feast. We really do.” email: gmccormick@newspress.com

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DID YOU KNOW? Bonnie Donovan

City Council too eager to give away money The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste. — M.W. Harrison

The Cave Fire burns in the mountains above Santa Barbara on Nov. 25, 2019. Wildfires continue to be a persistent problem in California.

hardscape, for example? Or Los Angeles’s garbage-filled freeways and haphazard tent-encumbered streets and avenues? The list of crumbling dysfunctional cities is long and getting longer. The Communist Chinese onslaught — and, to be fair, our own political ineptitude — enabled by companies such as Amazon, Walmart, Costco and others, has hollowed out many if not most of our smaller cities, such as Cleveland, Detroit, Columbus, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Wichita, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore and many, many others. Until Donald Trump became president, there was not much public thought or worry given to the amount of money U.S. companies and consumers were pumping into the Chinese economy every year. But the introduction of COVID-19 (now more or less agreed upon that its release is connected to the virology labs in Wuhan, China),

id You Know? wants to know: Since when did the taxpayers of the city of Santa Barbara authorize the City Council to donate any tax money to political organizations, especially when the city must take $15 million out of reserves to cover current operating costs due to COVID-19? It seems that the City Council casually made an open-ended, informal, promise to fund the Healing Justice project. This came home to roost, when the Healing Justice representatives claimed $500,000 for two years’ rent. One arrogantly declared, “We are here to cash the check” during the last City Council meeting. We have a homeless crisis that the city cannot handle. There is not enough money in the coffers to solve that problem alone. City reserves are seriously depleted. Yet the council members consider giving away as much as $500,000 for only two years of rent. That amounts to a commitment to $250,000 a year thereafter. A council member claimed that $500,000 is only a tiny fraction of the budget for the new police station. That is akin to throwing a red herring at anti-police sentiment. Yet another example of “feel good” virtue signaling that has nothing to do with running a municipality. Your job, city council, is to fill the potholes, clean the streets, manage zoning and prevent crime in the city for the benefit of the resident taxpayers. The problem is that the city employees take care of all of this, leaving most of the council with little to do, except nod in agreement. We suspect that the Healing Justice leaders are neither taxpayers, nor residents of Santa Barbara. Yet they have the temerity of hucksters in pitching a demand for $500,000 from the hard-working taxpayers of Santa Barbara to City Council members who have the naivety of the uninformed. Surely, their mentors, who reportedly have amassed $100 million in donations, is the first place for Healing Justice to go to for money. It is in their mutual interests. Santa Barbara County is awash with nonprofits who give to worthy causes. The 1,147,251 millionaires who live in California might consider contributing. Resident taxpayers of the city may, if they wish, contribute from their own pockets. The representatives of Healing Justice should do the hard work of appealing to these private organizations and individuals, and not attempt to raid city funds, which are paid for by city taxpayers solely to run city services. If the council thinks it is its prerogative to give away any taxpayers’ money to either political or exclusive groups, there should be equity and diversity in such giving. Many ethnic groups exist who have contributed to the city of Santa Barbara and who would also like to see a city-funded cultural/community center representing their ethnic and racial contributions. The City Council should invite proposals from the following representative groups: Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Korean Americans, Native Americans,

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In the spirit of Ronald Reagan Members of Congress examine wildfire prevention and energy independence Editor’s note: U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader in the House and the congressman representing Bakersfield, and U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Washington, wrote this commentary, which they submitted to the News-Press. The congressmen visited Santa By U.S. Reps. Kevin McCarthy and Dan Newhouse Barbara and Santa Maria last week. resident Ronald Reagan once said of his beloved ranch, “Riding on one of the tree-lined trails, or gazing up at the Western skies — well, there’s no better way I know of to sort out a problem.” As members of Congress who represent districts in the West, we

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relate to the majesty described by President Reagan. However, we also understand our states face unique challenges that we must work to overcome. Throughout the West, communities are bracing for what is expected to be a recordbreaking wildfire season. When paired with decades of land mismanagement and severe drought currently facing many of our communities, these threats pose a great risk to the lives and livelihoods of our constituents. At the same time, new federal regulations and unilateral actions by the Biden administration are threatening both our energy security and the very fabric of rural communities, putting thousands of Americans out of work and damaging the economic well-being of families and businesses. President Biden and Democrats

in Congress have consistently refused to address these pressing issues. Their “solutions” — throttling our energy industry by mandating a switch to solely “green energy” resources, enabling serial litigators to pump the breaks on critical land and species management projects, and burdening our nation’s producers with federal regulations that put generations of family farmers out of business – will not fix these problems. Last week, in the spirit of President Reagan, we were in California — specifically Wednesday in Santa Maria and Thursday in Santa Barbara — to sort out some problems. The Congressional Western Caucus is a group of members of Congress who work to lift the voices of local communities on Please see SPIRIT on C4

Time to ditch Communist China

e should all remember every day, every hour and with each purchase of an item that reveals it was “Made In China,” that we — almost all by our lonesome — built that country. We should remember that over the past 40 years and counting, we have turned over our fortune that it took more than 200 years to accumulate, to the Communist regime in China. In a short period of time, the U.S. has gone from a net positive monetary position to a net negative $31,000,000,000,000. That’s $31 trillion and going up quickly. But, and this is the good news (?), if a political party rose to power and decided it was time to tackle the national debt, each U.S. citizen would have to cough up roughly $43,500 to pay off its share. We are better off than other countries too, strangely enough. Each citizen of the Republic of Ireland would need to pay more than $67,000; in Singapore,

$56,000; and in Japan, $86,000 The year before China became is the world-beating rate. The a member of the World Trade U.S., on the other hand, comes Organization, which was 1999, it just under Belgium’s $44,000 per was running a $69 billion surplus person debt with the U.S. By 2010, that surplus Once, and if, the latest blowout equaled $273,041.6 billion. In just spending Democrat budget plan the 20 years of trade deficits since passes (and it may), you 1999, the transfer of funds can add another 15% on equals $5,373,661,200,000, PURELY top of the $43,500 already or in layman’s terms, POLITICAL owed by you, your wife nearly $5.4 trillion went or husband, and each of from U.S. pockets to your children. By the end Chinese communist of this year, the average briefcases. family (two adults, two China’s import/export kids) would owe over balance with the rest of $200,000. Enough to the world probably added send at least one of them another $5.4 trillion and to Harvard for… three maybe more. Which, of James Buckley years! course, allowed China In 1985, trade between to re-imagine (to use the U.S. and China was more a favorite blue state word) its or less equal ($3,855.7 billion in cities and infrastructure to the exports versus $3,861.7 imports), point where China now has 102 but the following year (1986), the gleaming cities with populations trade imbalance began, at nearly of more than one million residents $1.7 billion. connected by state-of-the-art By 1990 that trade deficit high-speed trains and replete with China ballooned to a still with stunning skyscrapers, urban manageable $10,431 billion. parks, and modern facilities

(though really foul air). The U.S. has 10 cities with populations over one million (and that’s fine by me), with no highspeed rail system connecting anything, and our nation’s roads and bridges are in various states of disrepair. In, say, 1957, who wouldn’t have wanted a U.S.-made car like a Chevy Impala or Corvette? Our manufacturing base was strong; we made top-of-the-line products, all proudly displaying “Made in the USA” labels, and we shipped them around the world. U.S. schools from elementary to university level were the best in the world, and we produced the most innovative products anywhere. Our city skylines were the envy of the world. We had the best doctors, the best dentists, the best teachers, and above all, the most orderly cities. Things have changed. Have you visited one of America’s once-gleaming cities lately? San Francisco’s humanpoop-and-needle-strewn

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would have restricted girl’s sports to biological females. Why, oh why, did she do that? James A. Webster Santa Barbara

Feckless Santa Barbara: woke, broke and on fire

wise guy came considered sacrosanct? up with a map Well, it all has to do with the of renamed feckless politicians you keep California electing time and time again. counties. They have mistaken The new names depicted tolerance for mercy and the sobriquet of each county. compassion. The difference? For instance, Kern County Tolerance withholds any was dubbed “Basically form of judgement. This Texas.” Santa Barbara was mind set considers all these dubbed “Usually on Fire.” homeless people to be victims Not funny, right? Well, the that society failed. None of truth still hurts. them are held accountable My lifelong genius professor for their criminality and the mentor friend has a favorite degradation they bring on this word. Feckless. community or their I will save you the unwillingness to time of grabbing a accept the help they dictionary. “Feckless” really need. means lacking Instead, we are initiative or strength of told we need to help character. How could them by throwing the Riviera of the a house their way Andy Caldwell West Coast; the home while virtually of the Montecito rich, ignoring all their famous and beautiful; the underlying conditions and home of world-class UCSB, be complicity. Honestly, that will considered feckless? have the same result as when Well, wake up and smell the Dorothy dropped a house embers. on the Wicked Witch of the Whereas, some people are West. This may not be Oz, but homeless through no fault of it is the home of Oprah, and their own, instead of helping that is a distinction without a these people, your woke difference. Santa Barbara City Council is These people are homeless trying to avoid spending $100 because they burned every million to relocate several friend and relative they hundred homeless people had. Now they are fixing because they rightfully to burn the town down. In fear these mentally and places like Kansas, at least in emotionally addled bums, days of old, they had mercy derelicts, drunkards, and and compassion on the drug addicts will otherwise downtrodden, but they also burn your town down. had reasonable expectations After a dozen fires in of sentient human beings. the recent past, and the That is, they would help the subsequent deadly Montecito poor but not the shiftless. debris flow, they finally And if the shiftless posed figured that out? Well, not a danger to society or exactly. themselves, they went to jail The awful truth is neither or an institution. Pure and the City Council nor the Santa simple. But we don’t do that Barbara County Board of here anymore because “being Supervisors have figured homeless is not a crime.” out anything. They are still However, building campfires intent on protecting the fuel in dry brush is a crime! load in the name of habitat The only house that will preservation and they keep help is some form of house doling out services — read arrest, replete with services, that all carrot and no stick — rather than countenancing to attract and coddle more a squatter settlement, the and more homeless into our true hallmark of a third communities. world ghetto, in the heart So now we find ourselves of Santa Barbara, at De La trying to plead, cajole and Guerra Plaza, no less. Of lure hundreds of “housecourse, we won’t arrest or challenged” individuals institutionalize these people. from camping, replete with We are too woke. We are campfires, in our creeks, too tolerant. We are too highways, byways, parks progressive. and beaches. How does the And we are constantly on so-called birthplace of the fire. environmental movement tolerate tons of trash, feces, Andy Caldwell is the executive hypodermic needles, stolen director of COLAB and host bicycles, couches, abandoned of “The Andy Caldwell Radio cars and the like being Show,” weekdays from 3-5 dumped into creeks and p.m., on News-Press Radio river beds that are otherwise AM 1290.

s a retired USFS hotshot, it seems to me that it’s relatively simple to mitigate any mudslide risk from the Loma Fire burn scar. A commonly used practice in that small of a burn is to put in place “water bars.” Starting from the top with an approximately 20-degree angle, a crew would dig a small ditch sidehill starting just in the green and ending in the green on the other side. Four or five of these in an alternating pattern would suffice. Any rainfall would be mostly shuttled into the non-burned area, inhibiting a mudslide. This also serves to catch seeds and mulch in the first rain, contributing to new growth to enhance soil retention. At the very minimum that hand line on the western edge MUST have water bars in place, or that will become a deep permanent gully during the next rainfall. Mike Wentink Santa Barbara

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enjoy reading the “Voices” section of the News-Press every Sunday. To me, it is almost worth the price of my subscription. This Sunday (May 30), I especially enjoyed reading James Buckley’s column on the Republican’s best qualified candidates for their party’s presidential nomination. I agreed almost completely with his assessment, except I would have stopped my list after his top two picks, Donald J. Trump and Ron DeSantis. To show that I am not sexist (as conservatives are often accused of being by liberal Democrats), my third choice would have been South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem had she not blundered by vetoing a bill that

late 1991, data on EIA’s Website showed. “ Wake up, America! Do we have a president who hates our country and is putting America last? Don Thorn Carpinteria

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hose side is President Biden on and why does he put America last? Case in point Iran. Why would Biden import oil from the terrorist nation of Iran instead of allowing American workers to produce the same product? Did President Biden take several questionable actions? On his first day he shut down construction of the Keystone Pipeline, thus eliminating an estimated 52,000 American jobs. Then in May he and his fellow socialists waved American economic sanctions on Russia in order to streamline construction on the Nordstream 2 pipeline to Germany. And recently, President Biden imported oil from Iran, a country that wants to destroy Israel and whose leaders have shouted “Death to America.” According to The Financial Post, “the United States imported a rare cargo of 1.033 million barrels of Iranian crude in March despite sanction on Iran’s energy sector, data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed.” Furthermore, “the cargo is only the second oil import by the United States from Iran since

e: “Anatomy of an investigation into a noninvestigation,” Robert Eringer’s The Investigator column in the May 30 News-Press: Tell us more. Your coverage of Francisco Torres/Santa Catalina Residence Hall confirms our elections are crooked from top to bottom, and Joseph Holland’s Elections Office knowingly and intentionally turns a blind eye. I’ve been an Isla Vista poll observer. Significant oversight of elections is long overdue. End mailed ballots, end voter registration of under-aged and non-citizen students in public schools without parental knowledge or consent, end same day voter registration. Require voter photo ID, paper traceable ballots and even cameras for total transparency. Start issuing FREE tax-paid photo IDs with proper residency verification at post office substations staffed with trained paid citizen employees. Concurrently, it’s time to hold accountable every government department and employee from the District Attorney’s Office and elections office to the Santa Barbara Unified School District. What’s not politicized by progressives that’s tax funded in Santa Barbara? Nothing comes to mind. Accountability is dependent on direct citizen oversight: That’s you and me. Are we each willing to budget limited time to do our civic duty? Denice Spangler Adams Montecito

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o one alive will likely ever know when the universe was created. Or where it starts or ends, which of course it likely doesn’t have either. However, scientists have estimated the Earth itself began forming about 4.5 billion years ago. Life formed about another billion years later and the first humans about 1.4 to 2.4 million years ago. What’s a million years, give or take? Dinosaurs first appeared about 240 million years ago — way, way before man was even a thought. Movies have men and dinosaurs hanging out together, but that never happened. The dinosaurs were in charge for about 175 million years before going bye bye some 66 million years ago to graciously begin their decomposition process to allow modern society to advance. You really can’t get much more natural and organic than that. The numbers are staggering and almost beyond human comprehension when most of our focus and history usually involves just a few thousand years or so — or for most of us, a couple hundred years, not even measurable in the overall scheme of things as to when life first began. So what’s the point? In those early days billions of years ago, the Earth was smoking hot. It’s guesstimated there was 10 to 200 times the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than today. So we obviously did a lot of cooling and cleaning up the air since then. And we didn’t have too many cars to cause any kind of climate change. Though maybe all those huge dinosaurs were doing their share to add “greenhouse” gas to the atmosphere. But my point isn’t about climate change. Though I may use the above facts to further that dialogue in the future. This column is about mankind in general. It took millions of years for humans to evolve into creatures who have learned how to use the Earth’s natural wonders to advance our civilization to the level it is today. Millions! Not just a few hundred. As history shows, there was and is a huge learning curve in how humans got along. Way before bombs and guns and planes, humans were killing each other by the hundreds of thousands with knives, spears and arrows. And rocks before that. We’ve been a violent planet from the very beginning. Mostly caused by power hungry humans who wanted to control other humans, take over their lives and tell them what to do and how to do it. Which brings me to today. The same insanity continues. Millions of millions of years later, dictators control their populations. The same ancient thinking continues in a world where you can use a small hand device to speak with someone 3,000 miles away, and yet, you are still being told what religion you can practice, if any; where you’re going to live. You are being told: Follow these rules or you’ll die. It sounds so archaic, and it is. Humans still live in caves, and women in many places are still treated like property. And so, on perhaps a lesser violent scale, America is reverting back toward a dictatorship of sorts in a 21stcentury version. A certain class of American dictators have appointed themselves as the more intelligent species and have decided to establish a new set of rules to follow. These rules are not enforced with guns, knives or arrows, but rather with words. The old saying we used as children, “Stick and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me,” has now Please see SCHULTE on C4

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Family sovereignty under siege

arents, beware. The dominion you have over your own children is under attack like never before. Teenage puppets for Big Pharma are being deployed on the ground and across social media airwaves to convince their peers to inject themselves with experimental drugs to allegedly prevent a disease for which the youth mortality rate is practically zero. “Do it for the herd” is the new rallying cry of designated “VaxTeen ambassadors” spearheading COVID-19 jab popup clinics at schools and churches nationwide targeting 25 million American children ages 12 to 17. VaxTeen is propped up by Google, the biotech lobby, and the Public Goods Project (a mysterious public health nonprofit backed by Silicon Valley, ad agencies and drug companies). As of last week, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than 2 million 12-15-year-olds and 2.5 million 16-17-year-olds had received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. That’s about 12% and 31% of adolescents in each respective age group. Increasing those rates has nothing to do with a cure and

everything to do with control full disclosure of all relevant and conformity. That is why information and competency of “skeptical” and “hesitant” moms the individual —have vanished. and dads — in other words, Since the Washington, D.C., City independent-thinking and Council’s adoption of legalizing responsible moms and dads — are immunization of children younger viewed as obstacles and than 12 without parental enemies to be overcome consent, several more for the “public good.” jurisdictions have put The Kaiser Family family sovereignty in their Foundation crew has crosshairs. raised an alarm over the In Pennsylvania, a nearly 25% of all parents proposed state law would in a recent survey who allow teens 14 and up to said they would not evade parental control Michelle Malkin and get the COVID-19 shot. allow their teens to be vaccinated. “Parental The Philadelphia Board of consent,” two NBC News Health declared in a recent reporters bemoaned, is a problem order that “individuals 11 years of that children must “contend age and older” can now “consent with across the country” — as if to (their) own immunization with parental authority over children a COVID-19 vaccine under an is a problem to combat, not a GodEmergency Use Authorization given right to protect. (EUA), without the approval or Last December, I warned in consent of a parent or guardian.” this column about the erosion In Arizona, a court order can be of informed consent at the obtained to allow for vaccination dawn of the most coercive era if a parent does not consent. In of medical tyranny in human San Francisco, minors 12 and up history. The once-sacred have been granted the right to principles enshrined in the “self-consent” to COVID-19 shots Nuremberg Code and the Helsinki without parental permission. Declaration —autonomy and In addition, North Carolina self-determination over medical teenagers can receive decisions, voluntary exercise vaccinations (not just COVID-19) of the free power of choice, without parental consent.

Teenagers 14 and up in Tennessee and Alabama don’t need consent; in Oregon, those 15 and older can evade parental consent laws; in Iowa, health care providers have discretion over children and teens’ demands for vaccines. The corporate-backed VaxTeen ambassadors are using TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter to lure students to their popup clinics, where free pretzels, ice cream and live music are in abundance. In Santa Clara County, the vax bribery is over-the-top: gift cards to Starbucks or Chipotle and backstage football stadium passes in partnership with the San Francisco 49ers. The COVID-19 tyrants are using kiddie human shields to crank up the propaganda to drive ever-greater wedges between children and their parents. Unvaxxed kids are being told by know-it-all adolescent shills that “hesitant” parents are responsible for a “dangerous tide of misinformation.” But they won’t be told about Big Pharma’s immunity from vaccine lawsuits or that the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out more than $4.3 billion to the vaccine-injured since 1988 or that the pioneer behind mRNA

technology was censored by Twitter last week for daring to discuss the troubling phenomenon of “vaccine shedding.” The idea that easily influenced teenagers, let alone 11-yearold kids, could provide medical consent voluntarily and in a competent manner in this insane and evil climate is a human rights abomination. They are being bombarded by pro-COVID-19 vaccination Hollywood agitprop, conditioned by ubiquitous proCOVID-19 vaccination content on social media, held hostage in public schools, deceived by Big Pharma’s omissions and suppression of data, and viciously turned against their parents by a coordinated peer pressure campaign to stigmatize all dissent, no matter how mild. Make no mistake: This isn’t war on a pandemic. This is war on the nuclear family. Michelle Malkin’s email address is michellemalkinInvestigates@ protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com. Copyright 2021 by Creators.com.

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Santa Barbara resident Alicia St. John is grateful to Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue for rescuing her. For more about Search and Rescue, go to sbcsar.net/wordpress.

Search and Rescue saved my life

rom an early age, I was a girl who out of circumstance found it necessary to be a responsible adult, completely independent, take care of my parent and never ask for help. Such girls may walk gracefully in their strength, but they are not the princess in the tower. They are usually kind warriors and protectors, and they cherish wisdom. How else can a girl navigate the world? So it overwhelms my soul when I am witness to the heroism of men and women — the extraordinary lengths of humanity given freely and without concern for self. I hear of these stories from across the globe, in remote places

or cities, where life and death practicing balancing. If this is coexist minute by minute, second beginning to sound like Edward by second. Gorey’s “Amalphgory,” yes that is a I need to add my voice personal favorite. to the many who have I have the idiotic Alicia expressed their gratitude distinction of breaking my St. John and speak again of the leg simply walking on a incredible heroism here very slight incline, which The author in Santa Barbara, this was covered in fine gravel. lives in blessed and incomparably The punchline is that it Montecito beautiful place. was a mountain trail, on So here I lie with a which I have actually run broken leg, having just recovered almost every day, over the past 18 from surgery and I wish to thank years.I know every rock and blade my heroes with all of my heart. I of grass on that trail. was not Ashley Judd, who tripped Of course, I was at first in denial over a log and broke her leg in and tried to stand, but the pain the Congo, at 4:30 a.m., searching would not let me stand. I dragged for rare primates. Nor was I myself to the waterfall and plunged Brooke Shields, who broke her my leg into the water and within leg on the last day of her personal a few minutes the cold water was training session, in the gym, while simply not enough to hide the pain.

Three hikers called 911 and sunset was approaching. I was at least 45 minutes up from the trailhead. So the timely arrival of the Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue team was a glorious sight. The first wave of rescuers were a team of four men, who strapped me up and proceeded to carry me down the narrow, rocky mountain path, as if I were an Egyptian mummy. My view was of the sky darkening, and I could not stop apologizing to these men nor thanking them. hey were met half way down by another team of men and one woman, and so I had eight brave souls navigating the steep and winding cliffside, protecting me from a fall, which would have

finished me. In my prone and helpless position, I could only compare the experience to author James Gray’s rendition of the “Lost City of Z” and actor Charlie Hunnam being carried thus by the South American shaman and natives to his destiny. So I prayed to God and thanked the God within each of these brave men, for rescuing me and taking me to my destiny. Please make no mistake, that the search and rescue team of Santa Barbara County saved my life. My gratitude is immense. It is a debt of gratitude that I will find some positive way in which to repay. But I will need a few weeks to walk again! Endless blessings!

Biden’s disgraceful exploitation of Tulsa race massacre

his may shock and evidenced by their ideology. amaze you if your Before you scoff at this as blinders are on, but wanton hyperbole, consider that President Joe Biden is I’m not alone in my thoughts. A not only not a uniter. Rasmussen Reports poll released He is actively trying to divide June 1 revealed that 39% of likely Americans on race — and other voters believe race relations issues — purely for raw political have deteriorated since Biden’s power. There is no other plausible election. explanation. Consider also the left’s almostDuring former farcical crusade to tie President Donald conservative policies to Trump’s entire racism. Examples abound: presidency and ever Conservatives favor border since, we’ve been enforcement because of bombarded daily with their racial animus against the narrative that Mr. Mexicans entering the Trump is divisive and United States; conservatives a racist. His political are insensitive to examples David Limbaugh opponents and the of police misconduct against media distorted his African Americans because words, such as those they’re racist; they favor tax he said in the aftermath of the cuts to further enrich the wealthy Charlottesville attacks, to paint and disadvantage minorities; they him as sympathetic to white promote school choice initiatives supremacists. That was always to keep minorities down; and — absurd, but it is now largely everyone’s favorite — they support accepted as conventional wisdom. voter ID measures and other laws Of course, the real ploy was in the name of ensuring election to demonize and marginalize integrity but really to suppress the all Trump supporters, not just black vote. Mr. Trump. The implication was If you think I’m exaggerating, that anyone who would support note that CNN’s Chris Cuomo such a bigot must be a bigot. suggested there is a “throughTruth be told, this nicely fits line” from the Tulsa race the left’s decades-long smear massacre to Republicans’ election of Republicans as racist as bills. He added that the GOP is

“intensifying its efforts to strip people of color of their rights to vote, the boldest attempt since the era of Jim Crow.” I wonder what American leftists would say about the fact that 46 of the 47 European democracies reportedly have election voter ID laws. Are they all racist, too? There is, after all, a method to the left’s maddening-ness. Since the Obama presidency, leftists have identified white supremacy as rampant and as a major threat to national security. They maintain that white supremacists are legion and are domestic terrorists. I In his speech in Tulsa, ostensibly to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the race riots and atrocities against

African Americans in that city, President Biden underscored this point with the preposterous declaration that white supremacy is the most dangerous threat to America today. Are you kidding me, President Biden? Have you no shame? That’s not all Mr. Biden said in Tulsa to stir the racial pot, making clear that his primary purpose was not to honor the lives and misfortunes of the black victims in Tulsa in 1921. He disgracefully politicized the entire event, using it not for racial reconciliation but racial agitation — and as a platform to vilify his political opponents. President Biden said: “(Y)oung black entrepreneurs are just as capable of succeeding, given the chance, as white entrepreneurs are, but they don’t have lawyers. ... They don’t have accountants. ... (Y)ou turn on the stations ... And I don’t know many commercials you’ll see ... two to three out of five have mixed-race couples in them. That’s not by accident. They’re selling soap, man.” Trump haters can say what they want about Trump, but did he call his accusers racist — ever? It would have been more justified than their ubiquitous claim that we’re all racist for the simple

reason that they turn everything into a race issue. They also reject colorblindness as a societal aspiration. They insist we look at and treat one another differently based on our race — not as unique individuals God created. This insanity has got to stop. I know I write about this issue often, but as long as the left keeps fraudulently smearing us as racists, we have got to fight back. These vile slanders must not go unanswered. People have to call President Biden out on his flagrant racebaiting. They must quit depicting Mr. Biden as a nice and innocent man when he is abusing his powerful position and his bully pulpit to pit us against each other and severely damage racial relations. Enough is enough. 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.

John Stossel

Roundabouts are better

hate waiting at traffic lights. There’s a solution: traffic circles, or roundabouts. Traffic circles terrified me when I first confronted them in Europe. A movie, “National Lampoon’s European Vacation,” captured my experience when it portrayed Chevy Chase driving in London, unable to exit a rotary all day. Besides being hard to navigate, I also assumed roundabouts cause problems, but a Freakanomics podcast woke me to their advantages. Roundabouts are a reason Britain’s rate of traffic deaths is less than half that of the U.S. “We’ve converted almost all of our traffic lights to roundabouts because we save lives,” said the mayor of Carmel, Indiana, Jim Brainard. His little town now has 133 roundabouts. A University of WisconsinMadison study confirmed that roundabouts save lives. Roundabouts increased crashes a bit, but deaths and injuries dropped by 38%. It’s because of the angle of the cars, said Mr. Brainard. “Instead of a T-bone, you got a sideswipe.” Roundabouts also slow cars down a little, giving drivers more time to react. “That makes it seem like it’ll take longer for cars to get through intersections,” I told Mr. Brainard. “It really doesn’t,” he responded. “A roundabout moves 50% more traffic than a traffic light.” More than a four-way stop sign intersection, too, according to a test ran by the TV show “Mythbuster.” Roundabouts are also better for the environment. “You never come to a complete stop,” Mr. Brainard pointed out. “Tremendous amounts of fuel are saved.” Indianapolis realtor Jason Compton said roundabouts even increase the value of homes “because they just flat out look better (by adding) more green space.” Sometimes communities put artwork in the middle. Bottom line: Roundabouts are safer, cost less, move more traffic and are better for the environment. “Yet, most Americans still say, ‘I don’t want these things,’” Please see STOSSEL on C4

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SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2021

A single word can be enough to destroy you SCHULTE

Continued from Page C2 become a falsehood. Words have become more powerful and more dangerous than an arrow through the chest. Today a single word can be enough to completely destroy you. You may not die or get killed over it, but you’ll feel like it because the world you knew yesterday is gone today. In a matter of seconds, your words will travel around the world and out to space and back, and your life will forever be changed. The new totalitarians of America will make certain to shut your voice down and almost make certain you’ll never be heard from again. Not in the literal sense. Your opinion, if contrary to theirs, will be padlocked. You are not entitled to express your thoughts and

most certainly never allowed to spread your differences via the many platforms that control who is permitted and who isn’t to express their point of view. We’ve come a long way in 2.4 million years where flipping a switch brightens a room or hopping in a large metal tube and flying at 500 mph at 35,000 feet in the air is normal. But when it comes to how we behave as a society, we’re going backward. The Napoleons, Atilla the Hun, the Holy Wars, the Persians, the Stalins and the Hitlers still exist. Only this modern version is trying to control the world through manipulating the masses via the use and/or the exclusion of words. I guess if you think about it, nothing has really changed in millions of years, except the air is much cleaner, and it’s not so darn hot.

Western drought certainly heightens the risk of catastrophic wildfires SPIRIT

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Just say no to Communist Chinese-made products BUCKLEY

Continued from Page C1 has helped to focus attention on exactly what it is the Communists in China are up to. And what they are up to is not good for the U.S. Their navy – the largest in the world at 350 ships, according to the US Department of Defense – is newer and more nimble than our 285 warships, some of which go back to the 1940s. The U.S. Congressional Research Services reports China boasts 2.3 million active members in its armed forces versus 1.4 million active U.S. service members. Chinese Communist leadership openly states that its goal is to become the No. 1 country in the world, that overtaking the U.S.

is its highest priority. And the Chinese are well on their way to accomplishing that goal. So whether the lab leak that spread the pandemic around the world was just a stupid accident or whether there was something more perfidious going on is immaterial to the current state of affairs. If U.S. and other Western societies continue to allow China to bully us all into submission (and probably take over Taiwan before President Joe Biden leaves office), then we’re solely to blame. There are things you as an individual can do. And the very first thing is to inspect every label of everything you buy and refuse to purchase it if it was made in China. Just say no to Communist Chinese-made products. And just say no to companies and industries that, knowing what they

now know, continue to prosper by prioritizing deals with China and forsaking the good old U.S.A. Such as the National Basketball Association, which has apparently put its future into the hands of Communist China. Reject them. Don’t pay attention to NBA teams or players. Don’t buy Nike products. Don’t order Chinesemade products via Amazon or at Costco. If you become aware of an American film company agreeing to work with Communist China to the detriment of the U.S., reject their movies and their movie actors. If social media kowtows to the communists and helps them censor information, reject them. This won’t be easy and won’t work for everything. For example, I went to Macy’s recently to buy a dozen pairs of socks and, guess what? There isn’t a men’s sock for

sale in Macy’s that isn’t made in China. Not one. I asked my wife to pick up a box of Kirkland golf balls (at a buck a ball, it’s a terrific deal), and wouldn’t you know? Those balls are made in China. I won’t order them again, and from now on I’ll be sure to check where golf balls are made before I lay out my cash. It’s long past time to stand up for America. If you have ideas of how we can combat this assault on our way of life by the Communist Chinese party, send them to the News-Press, and they’ll forward them on to me. Remember: Don’t buy from Communist China! See you next Sunday. James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes comments. Please email them to voices@newspress.com.

Why are these financial demands the responsibility of the taxpayers DONOVAN

Continued from Page C1 Mexican Americans, Salvadoran Americans, Irish Americans, German Americans, English Americans, Italian Americans, Scottish Americans — you get the drift. We could also legitimately include the many diverse religious groups, who do so much, with so little to help the community. The list is almost endless. It does show the folly of opening Pandora’s box. On Tuesday, the Santa Barbara City Council, armed with “our” open checkbook, will have further discussion of the Emergency Declaration for Homeless Encampments. Remember the Emergency Declaration cannot be approved unless beds are found for only the homeless established in these fire-prone encampments. It’s mind boggling, but this is just for 50 of Santa Barbara’s 900 homeless individuals. This $900,000 price tag is for 120 days of lodging for 50 people. Buddy, can you spare $150 a day to house each of these 50 people, who chose to camp on fire-prone hillsides? Only two months ago, SB Act/ City Net were given half a million dollars to house “up to 25” homeless in hotels for six months. Where does this end? All this for people who choose to live in Santa Barbara, on your dollar. This feels like a hold-up. “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” —Thomas Jefferson

Speaking of people with their hands out, Healing Justice not only demanded two years of rent ($500,000). But last year, Healing Justice, after insisting on which players were allowed in the private meetings at City Hall, gave its list of demands, which morphed into 30 grand (of taxpayer dollars) for Juneteenth, help finding a community center, along with a demand that historic structures of merit be located, which added to the City Historian Nicole Hernandez’s workload. Why are these financial demands the responsibility of the taxpayers and doled out by the City Council? Why would Healing Justice get a community center paid for by the citizens when other private community centers are organized and financed and operated by each community? Examples include La Casa de La Raza, the Filipino Community Center, the Greek Orthodox, the Jewish Community Center, B’nai B’rith. On top of that, imagine if each Santa Barbara cultural group that pays to use Oak Park for their annual festival, (French, Greek, etc.) bull horned their way into 30 grand for their yearly celebration. Where is the pride, the selfreliance, the volunteer hours to make these celebrations happen that we all enjoy? Isn’t this part of our communal nature to educate our fellow man and share the joy and customs of our individual cultures as we live in this nation as Americans? Talk about the volunteer hours: Healing Justice, which now has two to four representatives, says it should be paid for their volunteer hours, explaining “... it’s so hard

and takes so much time ...” What then does the city owe Anna Marie Gott, a city activist and weekly speaker at City Council and other local government meetings, for her countless hours of due diligence researching and reporting issues to the city as her civic duty? While the City Council ponders giving money to Healing Justice, the homeless situation remains at our doorsteps, along with our housing conundrum. Consider this regarding our housing crisis, in Santa Barbara, today, home prices for a three-bedroom, twobathroom 1,500 square-foot home on a 6,000 square-foot lot built in the 1970s is an average of $1.1 million. The cost to build a home is about $275 a square feet. So, 1,500 x $275 = $412,500, plus landscaping and concrete work adding another $30,000. The cost without the land is approximately $442,500. In this example the underlying cost of the 6,000 square-foot lot is $657,500. However, unused, federal, state, county and city land is already paid for and, theoretically, owned by the people, not government bureaucrats. Should we not demand that all government unused land be immediately assessed for use as sites for housing for the homeless? Homeless housing, built in bulk with a minimalist specification, as we have discussed before, could be built for less than $275 a square foot,especially if the specification included some communal facilities. How about $150 a square foot, for a prefabricated quad accommodation of a total of 2,400 square feet to house 12 people including, four children? The many mobile home

manufacturers in California would jump at the contract. Imagine $360,000 to house 12 people — or $30,000 per person The total cost would be $27 million to house the 900 homeless people in Santa Barbara. This housing would be mostly temporary accommodation for up to two years per resident, making it available to be used over and over as some homeless people get jobs and find their own housing situation. Some would, perhaps, remain permanent. Still it is a possible solution. Gov. Gavin Newsom just received $490 million in the federal American Rescue Funds. Of that, Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will receive $80 million to disperse to the cities within our county. The problem these days is people assume that there is a bottomless pit of money to be spent on their preferred solutions to problems and that a bottomless pit of debt exists that we can access and carry for the same purposes. The same people want the government to either tax more or borrow more, with no thought of the consequences. Inevitably, we will reach the bottom. “Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.” — Ayn Rand Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

issues facing rural America. From active land and forest management to locally-led conservation efforts to economic development within rural communities, we promote sound policies that advance the values we hold dear throughout the rural West and beyond. Last week, more than a dozen members of Congress, including California representatives Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), Tom McClintock (CA-04), Jay Obernolte (CA-08), David Valadao (CA21), Ken Calvert (CA-42) and Darrell Issa (CA-50), along with several dozen congressional staffers, heard directly from California community leaders on important issues impacting local communities, from drought and wildfire prevention to agriculture and energy independence. In addition to forest management, emerging firefighting technology is critical to suppression and prevention efforts, so our trip included a look last Wednesday at this technology and firefighting aircraft firsthand at the Santa Maria Airport. Many members received a briefing with federal, state, and local firefighting officials to learn how we can increase intergovernmental collaboration and promote innovation to battle fires like those that have wreaked havoc on communities across the West. Western drought certainly heightens the risk of catastrophic wildfires, but it also impacts the thousands of farmers and ranchers who depend upon a reliable water supply. We met with California producers and agriculture organizations to learn about their challenges and how policymakers in D.C. can assist.

STOSSEL

Continued from Page C3 I told Mr. Brainard. “ ‘They’re confusing. I’m more likely to have an accident!’” “Well, it takes public education,? he responded. “Chevy Chase didn’t do us any favors.” Mr. Brainard pointed out that Mr. Chase was stuck in a large rotary, not a roundabout. Some traffic circles and rotaries have many lanes. The one by Paris? Arc De Triomphe connects 12 roads! “Those are dangerous,” Mr. Brainard said. “ That’s not what we’re building. Modern roundabouts are small; the smaller they are, the safer they become. They’re very different.” Europe learned that lesson.

Finally, members of the Western Caucus participated in a roundtable featuring panelists that discussed the importance of domestic critical mineral development. In recent months, it appears the Biden administration is hellbent on destroying our nation’s energy independence. Increasing our dependence on foreign nations is not only devastating to our rural communities who rely on the revenues and economic development that comes from domestic mining, but it is dangerous for our national security. It is only fitting that this field tour ended at the Reagan Ranch. President Reagan’s legacy is one that Americans across the country admire because he understood that private citizens and industry are far more capable of overcoming our nation’s challenges than the federal government ever could be. Democrats continue to put forth empty promises of unrealistic and unsustainable solutions. The focus of our trip mirrored our focus in the nation’s capital: representing the values that matter to local communities and empowering Americans — not the federal government — to work together to sort out our problems. As California’s communities continue to lead on these important issues, we will continue to listen and lift their voices. U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse represents Washington’s 4th Congressional District and serves as chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus. U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy represents California’s 23rd Congressional District and serves as Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives.

European countries are building lots of small roundabouts. “America is way behind,” I told Mr. Brainard. “America is catching up,” he replied. “When I started, we probably had under a couple of hundred in the United States. Today, we’re pushing five or six thousand.” That’s progress. Still, his little town, with just 97,000 residents, has 2% of all the roundabouts in America. 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.