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Biden warns of threat of attack at Kabul airport By MADISON HIRNEISEN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

President Joe Biden warned Saturday that the threat of another terrorist attack near the Kabul airport is “highly likely” as the U.S. scrambles to complete its evacuation efforts. In a statement, Mr. Biden said the situation remains “extremely dangerous” on the ground, and said U.S. officials expected another attack to occur prior to Tuesday’s withdrawal deadline. The Islamic State Khorasan, or ISIS-K, took responsibility for Thursday’s suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed 13 U.S. troops and 170 Afghans. In response to the attack, the U.S. launched a retaliatory strike Friday, which Pentagon officials say killed two ISIS-K militants. On Saturday, Mr. Biden vowed that Friday’s strike would not be the last. “We will continue to hunt down any person involved in that heinous attack and make them pay,” the president said in a statement. “Whenever anyone seeks to harm the United States or attack our troops, we will respond. That will never be in doubt.” Leading up to Tuesday’s withdrawal deadline, the State Department said Saturday that about 350 Americans are still awaiting evacuation. Given the threat of an attack, U.S. officials have warned Americans to stay away from the airport. About 6,800 people were evacuated in a 24 hour period on Saturday, according to Pentagon officials. Since Aug. 14, the U.S. has evacuated 117,000 people total. Evacuations have been down since Thursday’s attack, according to national reports. Prior to the bombing, White House officials said early Thursday that 13,400 people had been airlifted over a 24-hour period. email: mhirneisen@newspress.com

Supervisors to vote on vaccine mandate for county employees By MADISON HIRNEISEN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER MADISON HIRNEISEN / NEWS-PRESS PHOTOS

Assemblymember Steve Bennett, left, presented a resolution celebrating the Solvang Chamber of Commerce’s 100th anniversary to Tracy Beard, the executive director of the chamber, and Solvang Mayor Charlie Uhrig during Saturday’s State of the City address.

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Assemblymember Steve Bennett, DVentura, was the keynote speaker at Saturday’s event.

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The Solvang Chamber of Commerce held its State of the City address on Saturday, taking time to reflect on the last fiscal year and outline goals for the future. Assemblymember Steve Bennett, D-Ventura, opened Saturday’s meeting as the keynote speaker, addressing a group of community members and business owners gathered in the city’s Veterans Memorial Hall. He reflected on some of his first visits to Solvang about four years ago, noting that the city has maintained its charm and sense of community. “From being back here from time to time, I’ve seen how well you’ve maintained the quality of life here and the things that make you special and unique,” Mr. Bennett said. “That’s really what community’s about — community is not about how many strip malls you have, it’s about the character and quality and sense of community, and you’ve done that far better than most people.” During his remarks, the assemblyman outlined Please see SOLVANG on A5

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The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will consider the adoption of a COVID-19 vaccine or testing requirement for all county employees during its regular meeting Tuesday. During last week’s meeting, the board voted 3-2 to direct staff from the County’s Executive Office to develop a policy that would require all county employees to be vaccinated or undergo mandatory weekly testing. Staff from the CEOs office will be presenting the policy to the board on Tuesday, and Supervisors will vote whether or not to adopt the requirement. According to a board letter from the County Executive Office, 49.3% of the county’s workforce has verified vaccination through documentation and 13.4% self-attested their vaccinated status. About 37.3% of county employees have not disclosed their status. With the spread of the highly transmissible delta variant causing an uptick in case rates throughout the region, the County’s Executive Office wrote that instituting a vaccine mandate or testing requirement is the best way to promote safety. “It is the County’s intention to maintain a safe working environment for employees as well as the public we serve,” officials wrote. “In order to Please see SUPERVISORS on A7

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Kasey Klang gives Panda, a briard, some tender loving care and hairstyling enhancements before the breeder showcase competition. The female dog clearly was enjoying being pampered. “It’s like a spa day,” Miss Klang said.

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One of the Santa Barbara Kennel Club’s Dog Show participants runs with a distinguished canine in the main arena Saturday at the Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. The show concludes today, and the afternoon will feature the Best in Show competition. The dog show, which also includes a variety of outdoor and indoor vendors, is free. But parking is $5 (cash only). To enter the parking lot, go through the gate on Las Positas Road.

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Goleta City Council to hold special meeting to discuss Community Center GOLETA — The Goleta City Council will hold a special meeting on Tuesday to discuss the future of the Goleta Valley Community Center. During the meeting, the council will discuss the results of a stakeholder and public outreach process that was conducted to gauge the community’s desire for programming and uses of the GVCC. Meeting attendees will also learn about what capital improvements are planned for the almost 95-year-old building. Two major construction projects to improve the center are set to begin next year. One project will complete a seismic retrofit in the Auditorium and Dining Room areas, and the other project will complete Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessibility improvements. To participate in Tuesday’s meeting virtually, visit attendee.gotowebinar.com/ register/811962266535247632 and use webinar ID: 376-513-587. To offer public comment, email cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org by noon Monday. Include the item you wish to speak on and provide your name, email and phone number. To watch the City Council meeting live, tune in to Channel 19 or on the website at CityofGoleta. org/GoletaMeetings. If you miss the meeting, it is rebroadcast on Channel 19 Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., and is available to watch at any time at cityofgoleta.org. — Madison Hirneisen

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PONCE, Andrew

Andrew Ponce passed away August 3, 2021 in his sleep. Andrew was born May 1, 1934 in Corona, CA to Andres and Monica Ponce. Andy was one of 9 children growing up in Lake Elsinore, CA. Andy proudly served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War for 4 years then moved to Santa Barbara, CA. Andy started work at a gas station and eventually managed it. Andy then spent a majority of KLV FDUHHU DW %XWW·V %XLFN DV D PHFKDQLF XQWLO KH ÀQDOO\ ran his own business, Andy’s Mobile Lube and retired. Andy enjoyed playing softball, bowling, going deer hunting and being with family and friends. During his retirement Andy worked at the Paige Youth Center and the Assistance League of Santa Barbara. Andy was also a member of the Goleta Lions Club helping with many BBQs volunteering his time. Andy is survived by his siblings Charles Drew Ponce and Lori Renee Ponce. Andy is predeceased of his ZLIH 6XVDQ /HH 3RQFH ,Q OLHX RI ÁRZHUV D GRQDWLRQ WR WKH 6DQWD %DUEDUD 7HGG\ &DQFHU Foundation may be made. Services are being discussed. A celebration of life, BBQ and VKDULQJ RI VWRULHV LV VFKHGXOHG IRU 2FWREHU DW 7XFNHU·V *URYH LQ 6DQWD %DUEDUD at 1PM. Please rsvp to Drew at poncecd@sce.com.

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TOPPING, Walter S. “Topper,” III

Topper was born in Fairfax, VA to Louise and Walter S. Topping, Jr. He spent most of his life in Santa Barbara, CA and graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1971. Over his lifetime he worked as a Snap-On tool dealer, owned and operated Walter’s Limousine Service, and worked for many years with Hughes Auto Body until his retirement. Walt loved good food, classic cars, creating culinary masterpieces on his grill, and most especially GHHS VHD ÀVKLQJ +H ZDV KDSSLHVW ZKHQ KH ZDV RQ WKH ocean pulling in beautiful tuna and yellowtail and he delighted in sharing his catch with his many friends. Walt had a gruff exterior, but you didn’t have to know him long to see through to the kind, generous soul that was the real Topper. Walter was preceded in death by his father Walter S. Topping, Jr., his mother Louise Topping, his beloved sons Mark and Danny Topping, his brother Allen Topping, and his nephew Richard McElroy. Walter is survived by his sister Val Topping, his nieces Stephanie Moncalieri and Kim Mason, his nephew Michael Topping, great-nieces Adelyn Topping and Cynthia Topping, great-nephews Hudson Topping, Gabriel Cordero, and Jacob Mason, and sister-in-law Karin Topping.

MARCY, Marie Pariseau

October 19,1956 – August 16, 2021 Marie was born to James and Helena Pariseau of Lynn, MA. Residing in California since 1959, Marie lived with her three brothers and older sister in Santa Barbara, eventually settling in Santa Maria. Marie attended San Roque elementary school, graduated from Bishop High School and earned a degree in photography at Santa Barbara City College working for several years at Anderson Camera. Her devotion to our Savior Jesus Christ and Mary His mother was well known among her friends and family. She served her community at her local Parish churches most of her adult life. She was an accomplished singer, songwriter, and musician and was also a member of Catholic Daughters of America. Marie is survived by her sons, Nolan and Devon, daughter-in-law Franchesca, grandsons, Ethan and Lucas, three brothers - Mike, Chris, and Steve Pariseau, and sister Kathy Pariseau Pierson. Additional details can be found at https://bit.ly/3ggffmz

OLIVAS, Alfred Jesus

Alfred Jesus Olivas, 92, of Carpinteria, California, passed away peacefully on Sunday, August 22, 2021, at home surrounded by his loving family. Mr. Olivas was born on May 5, 1929, in Summerland, California to Jesus and Elisa Olivas. He is preceded in GHDWK E\ KLV SDUHQWV KLV ÀUVW GDXJKWHU 3DWULFLD DQG KLV siblings Robert, Sophie, and Richard. Alfred worked as a rancher in Carpinteria and then as head groundskeeper for the University of California, Santa Barbara where he retired. As an outdoors man, he enjoyed gardening, hunting, ÀVKLQJ DQG FDPSLQJ DV ZHOO DV YROXQWHHULQJ DW 6W -RVHSK·V Church, which was one of his favorite activities. He also liked board games, watching sports, and metal detecting at Carpinteria beaches. His travel adventures took him to Europe, Australia, Mexico, Hawaii, and the western part of the USA. He often lent a helping hand to anyone in need. Family and friends were of utmost importance to him. His family paid this tribute to him, Alfred was a hardworking man who was dedicated to his family. He loved IDPLO\ JDWKHULQJV LQ RUGHU WR DV KH SXW LW ´ NQRZ ZKDW·V JRLQJ RQ µ $V RQH FDQ LPDJLQH LW ZDV GLIÀFXOW WR NHHS DEUHDVW RI KLV ÀYH FKLOGUHQ DW DQ\ given time. He will be missed. He is survived by his wife of 71 years, Rosemarie Olivas, and 5 children, Alfred (Elinor), &KULVWLQD 'DYLG 3DXO ,VROGH 'DOH DQG 7ULQD DV ZHOO DV JUDQGFKLOGUHQ DQG great-grandchildren. We appreciate the support of our family, extended family, and friends. We celebrated general joyful gatherings of life for Alfred with impromptu dinners, dancing, and mini concerts in our yard. He will forever be loved and remembered. As Alfred requested, there will be no formal services. However, we appreciate your love DQG VXSSRUW GXULQJ WKLV GLIÀFXOW WLPH

KNIGHT, Robert “Bob”

Robert “Bob” Knight passed away on August 24, 2021, from complications due to neuropathy. The only child, born December 30, 1937, to Ernest and Ruth Knight in 6HDWWOH :DVKLQJWRQ %RE JUDGXDWHG IURP *DUÀHOG +LJK School and the University of Washington. After college, Bob spent 19 years at IBM, rising to VicePresident of the Western Region, followed by executive positions at Computer Sciences Corporation, Xerox Corporation, and Digital Sound Corporation. In addition, he served on several boards, including Anthem/Blue Cross RI &DOLIRUQLD DQG &RWWDJH +RVSLWDO RI 6DQWD %DUEDUD +H DOVR HQMR\HG FKHHULQJ IRU WKH 8: +XVN\ IRRWEDOO WHDP playing golf, and traveling to see his grandchildren with the love of his life, Nancy. Bob is survived by his wife Nancy, his daughter Susan and her husband Tom, his son Tom and his wife Dana, and his grandchildren Kaitlin and Meghan Fuelling and Grace and Tyler Knight. ,Q OLHX RI ÁRZHUV WKH IDPLO\ DVNHG WKDW DQ\ JLIWV EH GLUHFWHG WR WKH 5REHUW 7 DQG Nancy J. Knight Endowed Scholarship Fund for Economically Disadvantaged Students at the University of Washington. More information is available by accessing www. uwfoundation.com or by phone at 877-UW-GIFTS, (877-894-4387).

KIMSEY, Ruth R. Ruth R. Kimsey, age 76, passed away peacefully on August 22, with her family by her side. She loved Jesus and believed joyfully in his promise: “God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away” (Revelations 21:4). Ruth was born on November 5, 1944, in East St. Louis, Illinois, to James and Josephine Matthews. Her family lived in California and Arizona for most of her childhood; one of her fondest memories was her time spent at the Children’s Country School in Los Gatos. She and her brother, Jim, older by two years, were close throughout their growing-up years and maintained a lifetime bond. While attending Scottsdale High School, she was selected by the Scottsdale Chamber RI &RPPHUFH WR MRLQ WKH +RZG\ 'XGHWWHV WKH FLW\·V RIÀFLDO ZHOFRPLQJ FRPPLWWHH DQG goodwill ambassadors. Ruth worked in the hotel industry and as an executive secretary. She met her husband, Gary, in Phoenix in 1967, when a friend of his introduced them, telling Gary that he had found the woman Gary had been looking for all his life. The friend was right, and Ruth and Gary married one year later. They moved to California, and their daughter, Stacey, was born in 1973. Ruth was a devoted homemaker and mom, as well as an active school volunteer and Mary Kay Cosmetics skincare consultant. Beautiful inside and out, Ruth always had a heart for taking care of others, including her stepdaughter, Kimberly, and her mother, Jo, whom she cared for in their home through a long illness. Many others were welcomed into their home over the years, including several international exchange students from Japan. She warmly hosted friends and family members for home-cooked meals, game nights, Bible studies, and a slice of her famous key lime pie. Throughout nearly 53 years of marriage, Ruth and Gary enjoyed travels in the U.S. and around the world, visiting 36 states and 16 countries together. They especially loved driving along the California and Oregon coasts; viewing lighthouses and fall foliage in New England; visiting national parks such as Yosemite, Sequoia, Yellowstone, Zion, and Bryce Canyon; riding the rails across Canada; and vacationing in special places like Monterey, Sedona, Hawaii, and Puerto Vallarta. Following Gary’s retirement, they moved to San Clemente in 1999, and then in 2016 moved to the Maravilla senior living community in Santa Barbara in order to be closer to Stacey and her husband, Ray. Ruth loved the ocean, and she and Gary could often be found having lunch at the harbor or pier, watching sailboats and listening to the waves roll in. Ruth was actively involved at Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, Ocean Hills Community Church and Calvary Chapel in San Juan Capistrano, and Calvary Chapel and Anthem Chapel in Santa Barbara. Known for her warm and ready smile, her generous spirit, and her deep and abiding faith, she was a mentor to many, and an encourager to all.

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HAMILTON, Judith Gayle Smith 11/24/1940 - 7/19/2021

Judith was born in Evansville, Indiana to Lucille and Arthur Smith on November 24th, 1940 and was the oldest of three siblings. She graduated from Bosse High School in 1958 and was a varsity majorette with her lifelong friend Judi Arning Ellis. She married Thomas W. Hamilton, Jr. and they had two children, Michael, and Angela. They moved from Evansville to Indianapolis, and eventually to Santa Barbara in 1970 after Tom graduated from medical school. They remained married until 1982. Art was always a passion for Judith. She participated in a semester abroad program in Italy and studied architecture and the master artists while UHÀQLQJ KHU WHFKQLTXHV LQ GUDZLQJ DQG SDLQWLQJ 6KH ZDV DGHSW LQ PXOWLSOH DUWLVWLF mediums, but oil painting was where she shined. She later studied and became an interior designer and spent her entire career working with Christopher Teasley, Stephen Singleton, and Dick Meyn. They, and others in the RIÀFH EHFDPH YHU\ GHDU IULHQGV WR KHU Judith was an excellent baker and put her heart into making custom birthday cakes and pies for her family and friends. She designed and made original cards to accompany her impeccably wrapped gifts. Granddaughters Austin, Jordan, and Madison were the light of her life and she treasured spending time with them. She adored her dogs throughout the years. Mitzi, Popeye, Mimi and Lulu were always well fed and loved. She enjoyed their daily walks in the neighborhood where she IUHTXHQWO\ VRFLDOL]HG ZLWK QHLJKERUV DORQJ WKH ZD\ Judith was predeceased by her father Arthur and brother Gary. She is survived by her mother Lucille, sister Sandy Michaels, son Michael (Nancy), daughter Angela, and granddaughters Austin, Jordan, and Madison, as well as many nieces and nephews. -XGLWK EURNH WKH PROG ZLWK KHU TXLUNLQHVV ORYH DQG OR\DOWO\ 6KH ZLOO EH JUHDWO\ missed.

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WOOSLEY, Karen (King)

Born Karen King, Karen was especially proud of the fact that she was a seventh generation Santa Barbaran. Karen attended twelve years of Catholic school, graduating from Bishop High with – as she liked to brag – a perfect attendance record for all twelve years. Karen developed lifelong friendships with most of her classmates, and especially with best friends, Karen, Swaneagle and Mary. $IWHU JUDGXDWLQJ .DUHQ PDUULHG KHU ÀUVW KXVEDQG $QG\ Kawiecki, with whom she attended school (separating the boys from the girls did not seem as effective as the church may have desired) and promptly had a son, Drew. Karen began her professional career as a legal secretary for a local attorney named -RKQ +DDV 2Q .DUHQ·V ÀUVW GD\ RI ZRUN VKH KXQJ D SKRWRJUDSK RI -RKQ ) .HQQHG\ RQ WKH ZDOO EHKLQG KHU GHVN 0U +DDV TXLFNO\ KDG KHU UHPRYH LW ,W ZDV WKH ÀUVW WLPH Karen realized that not everyone was a Democrat! Karen met her husband, Eric Woosley, about 37 years ago while when they worked WRJHWKHU LQ WKH VDPH ÀUP 7KH\ ZHUH PDUULHG IRU \HDUV ,W ZDV .DUHQ·V LGHD IRU KHU husband to go to law school and become an attorney. Karen loved the law, and even worked as a police matron for the Santa Barbara Police Department for a period of time. Karen loved courtroom action and attended all of her husband’s trials. She would use each as an opportunity to purchase an entirely new wardrobe of what she called “court clothes,” thus ensuring her husband was properly motivated to win his cases. Karen became friends with many of the courthouse staff and was particularly fond of Judge Anderle and his secretary Marilyn. .DUHQ ORYHG )LHVWD DQG OHDYHV EHKLQG FRXQWOHVV ÀHVWD GUHVVHV WKDW VKH ORYHG WR wear when attending events. Strikingly beautiful, Karen would love to have been chosen as Saint Barbara, but often joked that she would never qualify for the “Saint” prerequisite Karen will be missed by her family, husband Eric, son Drew Kawiecki (Andrea), granddaughter (and future attorney) Alexia, her sister Elaine Bateman (Will) and her brother Patrick King (Jennifer). Having come from a good Catholic family, Karen had 32 cousins (whom I will not list) and remained very close with her last remaining Uncle and Aunt, Phil and Roseann King. Anyone wishing to pay their respects may do so at the Old Mission where Karen’s ashes will be placed. It seemed particularly apropos given her proud heritage.

STOTSER, Elisa 11/25/36 – 8/12/21

Elisa Stotser, 84 of Santa Barbara, passed away peacefully in her home with family by her side on August 12, 2021. Elisa was born on November 25, 1936 to Felix and Conception Guitron. She was raised, along with her 5 siblings, on their family farm in the Coachella Valley. Elisa came to Santa Barbara after graduating from high school to attend Knapp School of Nursing. Upon graduation, she began her 45-year career as a nurse at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. She enjoyed sharing with others her vast experiences from her many years spent at Cottage Hospital. Elisa met her husband John on a blind date in 1964. They fell in love and were married shortly thereafter. Prior to John’s passing in 2012, they had been married for 48 years - an accomplishment they were both very proud of. They raised two children and were WKH SURXG JUDQGSDUHQWV WR ÀYH JUDQGFKLOGUHQ (OLVD·V JUHDWHVW MR\ LQ OLIH FDPH IURP WKH immense love her grandchildren brought her. Elisa enjoyed entertaining. This was especially evident in her passion for cooking. 6KH ÀUPO\ EHOLHYHG WKHUH ZDV QR VXFK WKLQJ DV PDNLQJ WRR PXFK IRRG 7KLV UDQJ WUXH whether it was a party, a holiday gathering or simply her Sunday family dinners. It has been said by many that the aromas that emanated from her kitchen were intoxicating and that the meals themselves were some of the best they ever had. Elisa will be remembered for many things: Her “shop till you drop” mantra, perfectly H[HPSOLÀHG E\ KHU DQQXDO DIWHU 7KDQNVJLYLQJ VKRSSLQJ WULSV ZLWK KHU EHVW IULHQG Anita; Her planning and organizational skills, always executing everything to a tee; her philanthropic nature of giving back to those in need; her fanatical love of the Christmas season, which she began planning and shopping for every July, adorning her gifts with homemade bows and the many memories that will be treasured of times spent around WKH ÀUHSODFH OLQHG ZLWK &KULVWPDV VWRFNLQJV IRU HYHU\RQH ² LQFOXGLQJ WKH SHWV She taught the importance of being honest, fair, kind, disciplined, good mannered and that quality was always more important than quantity. Above all, Elisa will be remembered for her extreme compassion, devotion to family and the love she shared with others.

She will be forever remembered and greatly missed by her husband, Gary; their daughter and son-in-law Stacey and Ray Janik; their son-in-law Mark Culver; their two grandchildren, Alexis and Samuel Culver; her brother and his wife, Jim and Gail Matthews; as well as nieces, nephews, cousins, and many dear friends. She was preceded in death by her stepdaughter, Kimberly Culver.

Elisa is survived by her daughter Annamarie Sharpe (Peter), her son J.T. Stotser $LPHH KHU ÀYH JUDQGFKLOGUHQ &ROLQ 7D\ORU &DVVLG\ -DFNVRQ DQG 5\DQ KHU EURWKHU Al Guitron (Sue), many nieces and nephews along with her faithful companion of the SDVW ÀYH \HDUV ² KHU FDW *LQJHU

A memorial service will be held on Monday, August 30, at 10 a.m. at the Goleta chapel of Welch-Ryce-Haider, where all are welcome to join us in honoring and remembering Ruth. A private burial ceremony will follow at Goleta Cemetery.

Her family wishes to acknowledge the care she received from both Assisted and Assisted Hospice as her illness progressed. Donations in her honor can be made to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital or the American Cancer Society.

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TODAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

Sunshine and beautiful

Sunny and delightful

Mostly sunny and pleasant

INLAND

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

Sun and clouds; pleasant

INLAND

Partly sunny and delightful

INLAND

95 57

93 55

86 56

84 49

81 48

74 59

75 59

74 58

72 57

72 54

COASTAL

Pismo Beach 73/57

COASTAL

Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Maricopa 105/82

Guadalupe 72/58

Santa Maria 75/57

Vandenberg 70/58

New Cuyama 103/63 Ventucopa 101/64

Los Alamos 88/58

Buellton 88/56

Solvang 93/58

Gaviota 75/60

SANTA BARBARA 74/59 Goleta 79/59

Carpinteria 76/59 Ventura 74/59

AIR QUALITY KEY Good Moderate

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

ALMANAC

Santa Barbara through 6 p.m. yesterday

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

70/59 75/57 92 in 1971 49 in 1942

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

0.00” Trace (0.01”) 7.31” (17.19”)

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

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

106/78/s 109/79/s 81/50/t 102/57/s 83/65/pc 97/60/s 91/63/s 60/53/pc 106/74/s 90/65/s 83/47/s 100/66/s 75/59/pc 95/54/s 79/57/s 97/61/s 72/59/s 111/87/s 96/65/s 101/57/s 100/61/s 80/70/pc 79/57/pc 89/61/s 83/57/s 78/63/pc 85/45/s

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 101/61/s 75/59/s 73/57/pc 74/58/s 75/57/s 93/55/s 69/59/pc 73/60/s

89/73/pc 77/71/pc 92/69/t 91/75/t 84/61/t 93/76/t 90/78/sh 78/59/pc 78/73/t 83/74/t 108/85/pc 84/54/s 93/75/t 90/66/s 76/53/s 88/76/t

POINT ARENA TO POINT PINOS

Wind west-northwest 6-12 knots today. Waves 1-3 feet with a south-southwest swell 2-4 feet at 14 seconds. Visibility clear.

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO

Wind west-northwest 6-12 knots today. Waves 1-3 feet with a south-southwest swell 2-4 feet at 14 seconds. Visibility clear.

SANTA BARBARA HARBOR TIDES Date Time High Time Aug. 29 Aug. 30 Aug. 31

3:55 a.m. 3:10 p.m. 4:20 p.m. none 8:15 a.m. 5:30 p.m.

3.0’ 4.6’ 4.6’ 3.4’ 4.8’

LAKE LEVELS

Low

7:59 a.m. 11:23 p.m. none none 12:34 a.m. 10:58 a.m.

2.7’ 1.5’ 1.2’ 3.3’

AT BRADBURY DAM, LAKE CACHUMA 105/77/s 107/78/s 80/50/s 101/56/s 76/62/pc 90/57/s 88/60/s 62/49/pc 106/71/s 85/66/s 83/45/s 99/62/s 71/58/pc 87/51/s 72/56/s 89/60/s 73/60/s 110/83/s 91/65/s 100/56/s 95/56/s 79/69/pc 71/56/s 84/56/s 81/56/s 75/63/s 82/45/s

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

Wind west-southwest 6-12 knots today. Waves 1-3 feet with a west-southwest swell 2-4 feet at 10 seconds. Visibility clear.

TIDES

LOCAL TEMPS Today Hi/Lo/W 103/63/s 79/59/s 73/57/pc 73/57/s 75/57/s 95/57/s 70/58/pc 74/59/s

MARINE FORECAST

SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL

89/73/c 87/70/t 84/67/pc 92/75/pc 94/64/pc 96/78/pc 90/77/t 79/61/pc 84/73/t 89/74/t 105/83/c 70/53/pc 88/72/t 96/69/s 65/51/pc 92/75/t

At Lake Cachuma’s maximum level at the point at which water starts spilling over the dam holds 188,030 acre-feet. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, equivalent to the amount of water consumed annually by 10 people in an urban environment. Storage 99,720 acre-ft. Elevation 715.54 ft. Evaporation (past 24 hours) 50.4 acre-ft. Inflow 21.1 acre-ft. State inflow 25.4 acre-ft. Storage change from yest. -117 acre-ft. Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

SUN AND MOON Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset

Last

New

Aug 29

Sep 6

Today 6:31 a.m. 7:29 p.m. 11:42 p.m. 1:23 p.m.

WORLD CITIES

First

Sep 13

Mon. 6:31 a.m. 7:28 p.m. none 2:20 p.m.

Full

Sep 20

Today Mon. City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Beijing 85/66/s 83/69/pc Berlin 63/58/sh 66/57/r Cairo 100/78/s 97/75/s Cancun 89/78/t 89/79/t London 69/56/c 69/56/pc Mexico City 68/56/pc 73/57/pc Montreal 77/71/t 85/64/pc New Delhi 92/78/t 88/78/t Paris 68/57/pc 71/56/pc Rio de Janeiro 74/68/c 74/67/pc Rome 84/59/pc 82/63/s Sydney 63/48/sh 66/49/pc Tokyo 88/78/pc 89/78/pc W-weather, s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

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Attendees hear report from city officials

A crowd of residents and business owners gathered in the Solvang Veterans Memorial Hall to hear an update from city officials during the State of the City event on Saturday.

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Continued from Page A1 a few actions he plans to take on behalf of the City of Solvang. He said he would start by working with Caltrans to make sure they are “more cooperative” with the city when it comes to improvements on State Route 246. Mr. Bennett said he’s had success coordinating with Caltrans in Ojai, and hopes to form a similar connection in Solvang. The assemblymember also ensured residents that he would see what he could do in regards to improvements for the Solvang Senior Center, which is currently running a campaign to raise funds for a new building. During his speech, Mr. Bennett presented a resolution in honor of the

Solvang Chamber of Commerce’s 100th anniversary this year. Tracy Beard, the executive director of the chamber, and Mayor Charlie Uhrig accepted the honor from the assemblymember. Following Mr. Bennett’s remarks, George Leis, the chief operating officer of Montecito Bank & Trust, told residents about the bank’s allocation of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans throughout the pandemic. The bank conducted two rounds of PPP allocations during the pandemic. In the first round, the bank provided about $207 million in loans to more than 1,800 loans to businesses, and in the second round, it provided $130 million in loans to more than 1,700 businesses, Mr. Leis said. In the Santa Ynez Valley in particular, Mr. Leis said the bank provided loans for about 165 small businesses, which account

for about $20 million of the bank’s total allocation. After a tough pandemic year for businesses, Mr. Leis said business owners have continuously said that without the PPP loans, their business would not have survived. “Small business owners would call me, stop me in the street and say ‘if it weren’t for that PPP loan, we wouldn’t have been able to keep our employees on site and our businesses afloat,” Mr. Leis said. Attendees to Saturday’s meeting also viewed a pre-recorded presentation from Mayor Uhrig and City Manager Xenia Bradford, which overviewed the city’s fiscal year and spending. In the 2021-2022 fiscal year, the city is allocating $23 million in expenditures. Of the $23 million, 26% is going to water expenses, 23% to general government

expenses and 17% to the city’s Capital Investment Program. According to city officials, over 50% of the city’s funding for public safety, roads, parks and recreation come from tourism taxes. With the pandemic largely barring tourism throughout 2020, the city saw a significant decrease in the amount of transient occupancy tax collected in the 2019-2020 fiscal year. Fortunately, the city started to see an increase in transient occupancy tax revenues in the 2020-2021 fiscal year, though totals are still lagging behind pre-pandemic revenues, according to Saturday’s presentation. Looking ahead to the next fiscal year, the mayor and city administrator told residents that they are focusing efforts on upgrading the city’s wastewater treatment plant, which will expand the life of the plant for another 30 years.

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The city is also looking to complete upgrades to Hans Christian Andersen Park and Solvang Park, with additional plans to unveil a new Bike Pump Track in the city over the next fiscal year. At the conclusion of the State of the City event, Ms. Beard from the Chamber of Commerce thanked small business owners and local residents for creating a “wonderful community” in the city. “This community is built on all of you, all of our residents,” Ms. Beard said. “We are a community of churches and businesses. We have a great hospital here. We have a thriving business community of tourism. We have a great business community of accountants, CPAs, lawyers, attorneys. That is what community is about.” email: mhirneisen@newpsress.com

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A lesson about ‘conspiracy theory’ T here is a vast difference between legitimate issues and the kind of conspiracy theory derangement that caused a Santa Barbara man to murder his two young children earlier this month. Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, who owns a local surfer school with his wife, drove his young son and daughter across the border into Mexico and, a couple days later, admitted to having murdered sweet innocent Kaleo, 2, and Roxy, 10 months old — ritualistically, it appears — with a spear gun and stakes through the heart. FBI agents who intercepted Mr. Coleman at the border upon his return to the United States, sadly absent of his children, soon extracted an admission from him and reported in court documents that Mr. Coleman “was receiving visions and signs revealing that his wife possessed serpent DNA and pass it on to her children,” adding, “he believed his children were going to grow into monsters so he had to kill them.” A senseless tragedy led to unspeakable anguish and heartbreak for the family — and sent shockwaves through the community. Although Mr. Coleman’s motivation appears to have been his belief in a farfetched “reptilian” conspiracy theory, his evil actions are, clearly, the result of mental illness. I’m not a psychiatrist, but it is fairly obvious Mr. Coleman was suffering psychosis, perhaps induced or enhanced by hallucinatory drugs. His derangement ought not be used by mainstream media as an all-too-common attack by association on everything they so enjoy labelling “conspiracy theory” as a means of justifying their ongoing narrative.

BILDERBERG I first became a journalist (in 1976) by investigating a topic most folks considered to be little more than a right-wing conspiracy theory. I’m talking about the Bilderberg Group — an assembly of movers and shakers, captains and kings from North America and Europe who meet annually in secret for lofty discussions on how best to mesh their beliefs about how foreign and economic policy should be shaped going forward. My research began while I was a student at American University in Washington, D.C., where, from my dorm room, I wrote to numerous government agencies and foreign embassies seeking more information. No one was forthcoming; in fact, even those who acknowledged Bilderberg’s existence knew (or would say) nothing more. This reply from the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office: “Unfortunately, we can find no trace of the Bilderberg Group in any of our reference works on international organisations.” Never mind that Denis Healy, Britain’s treasury secretary at the time, was one of Bilderberg’s founding members. A State Department flunky named Francis J. Seidner, a public affairs adviser, even advised me to mind my own business. Some people thought I was nuts. They said I was a “conspiracy theorist.” And they tried to discredit any talk of Bilderberg by associating it with folks who write about the Illuminati, an actual secret society created in in Germany in 1775 by Adam Weishaupt, who believed that the Freemasons (another secret society, to which he had formerly belonged) were not doing enough to bring about revolution. Yet Bilderberg had been meeting secretly since the mid1950s with the specific objective, to the best of the abilities of participants within their various spheres of considerable influence, of manipulating the foreign policies and economic platforms of Western European countries and the United States. After three months of walking a labyrinth, I tracked down a charity in New York City called American Friends of Bilderberg. I visited the low-profile if elegantlyappointed office of the mundanesounding Murden & Company (a cover) in midtown Manhattan and received a cordial reception. This was where Bilderberg’s Steering Committee, in coordination with a European Steering Committee, based in The Hague, decided agendas and participant invitation

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lists for upcoming Bilderberg meetings. I earned an A on the term paper I wrote about this for my International Politics course. More important than a good grade, the thrill of the search incentivized me to pursue a career in journalism. And, indeed, an obscure British magazine soon reshaped my term paper into a lengthy feature story. But even those who read it questioned whether the existence of such a group was for real or fantasy, such was the power of those who would cast “conspiracy theory” aspersions on any mention of Bilderberg. Until April 1977. That is when the Bilderberg Group next met, in Torquay, on the Devonshire coast in southern England. (Bilderberg traditionally stages its three-day conferences at alternate 5-star resort hotels in Europe and the U.S. The meeting they were supposed to have convened in Williamsburg, Va., in spring 1976 was canceled after Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands was caught taking bribes from the Lockheed Corp. and forced to resign in disgrace as Bilderberg’s chairman.) I had forecast the Torquay conference in my magazine piece, identifying the luxury Imperial Hotel as its venue. This marked the end of Bilderberg’s anonymity. Because, sitting in the Imperial’s lobby, a smattering of Fleet Street reporters, all in possession of the actual magazine in which my story had appeared six months earlier, appeared to be taking bets amongst themselves on whether any such so-called “Bilderbergers” would actually manifest themselves. And suddenly, like gnomes, there they were, as the lobby began to fill with the likes of Henry Kissinger, NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns, Fiat’s Giovanni Agnelli — and even German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt — leaving seasoned reporters with mouths agape. I was there myself watching when a white Range Rover deposited a rumpled David Rockefeller at the Imperial’s front entrance. Mr. Rockefeller, then chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and unofficial chairman of The Establishment, was shocked to see reporters and photographers milling around, flashbulbs popping. And they were just as shocked to see him. (I should probably have introduced myself to him as the reporter responsible for this debacle.) Bilderberg was for real. And no longer secret or anonymous. I, a rookie of 22, was the only reporter among several veteran newspaper luminaries who knew anything about the secretive group. I got wined, dined, grilled and willfully exploited. And for the first time in its 23-year history, the existence of Bilderberg got reported by the mainstream media, to include the (U.K.) Sunday Mirror, (London) Evening Standard and Bill Blakemore of ABC News, with whom I’d consulted a week before the confab. (I wrote my own story for a New York-based weekly magazine called Seven Days, which commissioned me to report from Torquay.) This is what I was able to tell them: Bilderberg was rooted in a 1946 address by Joseph Retinger (a Polish political philosopher) to the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. His topic: the threat posed to Europe by the Soviet Union. This speech spawned the idea of a European Movement. Utilizing his high-level contacts as an eminence gris, Mr. Retinger harnessed Prince Bernhard to figurehead his project. Realizing the need for American support, he and the prince together traveled to the U.S. to recruit superbanker David Rockefeller and CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith into the mix. (The CIA, through a

cover entity called the American Committee for a Unified Europe, had, earlier, secretly channeled more than $3 million to Mr. Retinger for moving his movement forward.) In May 1954, in Oosterbeek, The Netherlands, at Hotel de Bilderberg (from which the group took its name), 80 of the most influential men from Western Europe and the United States spent three days bonding and super-networking. They arrived at this conclusion, stated in the confidential minutes of that event: “When the time is ripe, our present concepts of world affairs should be extended to the whole world.” Their main concept in that era: a unified Europe. And, acting from behind the scenes, in secret, they succeeded. The late George McGhee, a former U.S. ambassador to Germany, once declared, “The Treaty of Rome, which brought the Common Market into being, was nurtured at Bilderberg meetings.” Ambassador McGhee would know. He attended a Bilderberg meeting — in Garmisch, Germany, September 1955 — when, according to the confidential record of that meeting, “It was generally recognized that it is our common responsibility to arrive in the shortest possible time at the highest degree of integration, beginning with a common European market.” The European Movement turned into the Common Market. The EEC turned into the European Union. And simultaneously, an Atlantic Alliance flourished. But while they managed to stave off another world war in Europe — their main objective — they made a cockup of the rest of the world, from the Vietnam War to Middle East policies, from selling out Western manufacturing to China to not keeping its promises to republics once part of the U.S.S.R. — all the way to Afghanistan.

SLEIGHT OF HAND If there is a moral to this story, it is this: When any powers-that-be use the term “conspiracy theory” to cast aspersions on a subject for the purpose of discrediting whomever is trying to learn more about it, it signals time to triple-up efforts to investigate and intensify the spotlight on those who prefer to keep us in the dark. For instance, the notion that COVID-19 was developed in the Wuhan Lab, partly funded by the National Institutes of Health with Dr. Anthony Fauci’s blessing, is not conspiracy theory. It is actually a no-brainer (though too bad we’re surrounded by people with no brains). In time, when all the dust has finally settled and polemics are removed from the process, post-mortems will most likely concur this as fact. Until recently, anyone and everyone who expressed a belief in UFOs over the last 70s years was, according to the U.S. Government, a certified conspiracy theorist. But now we’re told by the director of National Intelligence that UFOs “clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to U.S. national security.” What a turnaround! Concerns that the experimental COVID-19 vaccine may be unsafe for some folks in the long-term, are legitimate issues (conceded by the Federal Drug Administration) and not merely the domain of “anti-vax conspiracy theorists,” as anti-social media might have you believe, censoring the likes of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, RKentucky, for not buying into their preferred narrative, along with their quashing of any news about therapeutics that are being used, with great success, to beat back the novel virus. The term “conspiracy theory” has become vastly overused and abused, casting a pall over a constitutional right we hold sacred: freedom of speech and expression. “It was the CIA who in 1967 first injected the term conspiracy theory in the public lexicon,” wrote Peter Janney in his remarkable book, “Mary’s Mosaic.” “A term 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 Please see INVESTIGATOR on A7

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Quite a pickle Peripheral neuropathy is a result of damage to the nerves often causing weakness, pain, numbness, tingling, and the most debilitating balance problems. This damage is commonly caused by a lack of blood flow to the nerves in the hands and feet which will cause the nerves to begin to slowly degenerate due to lack of nutrient flow.

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A sea pickle washed ashore on the beach below Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve on Thursday. While they may look like individual creatures, they are actually colonies made up of many tiny animals.

Board to hear update on Homeless Encampment Resolution Strategy SUPERVISORS

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achieve this goal and preserve the ability of employees to make personal medical decisions, staff created the attached policy whereby employees must be vaccinated or submit to weekly testing if they choose not to be vaccinated. The recommended actions will result in a greater level of protection for employees and the public by ensuring staff does not spread the virus in the workplace.” Prior to Tuesday’s vote, the board will hear an update from the county’s Public Health Department on the status of the

COVID-19 pandemic in the county. Dr. Van Do-Reynoso, the public health director, will brief the board on the latest case trends and vaccine efforts across the region. In addition to these items, the board will also hear an update on the proposed Homeless Encampment Resolution Strategy, which outlines key strategies to address the county’s unsheltered population. The Encampment Resolution Strategy is a three year effort (2021-2024) that is aiming to resolve 45 encampments of varying size, according to a board letter. The strategy outlines five components in a system of care to meet this goal: increasing

access to shelter, leveraging longterm rental subsidies, creating new permanent housing with support services, robust outreach and engagement and sustained adequate funding. Following the presentation, supervisors will vote whether or not to allocate $1,482,500 in restricted American Rescue Plan Act funding for strategy implementation in fiscal year 2021-2022. The Board of Supervisors will convene at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the County Administration Building in Santa Barbara. The meeting can be streamed live at youtube. com/user/CSBTV20. email: mhirneisen@newspress.com

‘Rule of thumb: Never believe whatever the government tells you’ INVESTIGATOR

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or event.” Rule of thumb: Never believe whatever the government tells you; officials lie about everything. And if you don’t believe that, turn on your TV and listen to all the bald-faced lies being told by the U.S. government’s top enchiladas in defense of this country’s ill-planned, humiliating surrender to and retreat from the Taliban in Afghanistan. President Biden chose to reverse policies that dealt with a real border and energy self-sufficiency but kept the Trump administration’s policy to remove troops from Afghanistan. Ultimately, this wasn’t about if or when we should leave Afghanistan but how. Leaving behind tens of billions of dollars in armaments, U.S. citizens and those Afghanis (and their families) who cooperated with us was not the correct “how.” And it was made all the worse by the failure of the executive branch to be honest with the American public by admitting its goof and taking the correct remedial action instead of pretending

everything is peachy dandy and compounding the bungle with additional ineptitude, from semantics to a Taliban-owned evacuation. An intelligence assessment seen by The Investigator forecasts what the Taliban will do after the US military departs: “Take down the internet, expel foreign journalists and begin the Afghan version of the killing fields.” As for Matthew Coleman and the senseless murder of his children — a horrible, nightmarish tragedy. By now, Mr. Coleman has probably come to his senses, mortified by what he did and full of remorse, perhaps suicidal. No doubt, his public defender will plead “not guilty for reason of insanity,” and Mr. Coleman will spend the rest of his life (or most of it) in the psych ward of a federal penitentiary. Chalk one up for the devil. (Sad to report, the devil is making out like a bandit this summer.) Robert Eringer is a longtime Montecito author with vast experience in investigative journalism. He welcomes questions or comments at reringer@gmail. com.

Correction Friday’s Traffic, Crime and Fire Blotter inadvertently misidentified Matthew Taylor Coleman, the Santa Barbara native who is accused of murdering his two children in Mexico. The web version has been updated with corrected information.

As you can see in Figure 1, as the blood vessels that surround the nerves become diseased they shrivel up which causes the nerves to not receive the nutrients to continue to survive. When these nerves begin to “die” they cause you to have balance problems, pain, numbness, tingling, burning, and many additional symptoms. Santa Barbara, CA - The most common method your doctor will recommend to treat your neuropathy is with prescription drugs that may temporarily reduce your symptoms. These drugs have names such as Gabapentin, Lyrica, Cymbalta, and Neurontin, and are primarily antidepressant or anti-seizure drugs. These drugs may cause you to feel uncomfortable and have a variety of harmful side effects. The main problem is that your doctor has told you to just live with the problem or try the drugs which you don’t like taking because they make you feel uncomfortable. There is now a facility right here in Santa Barbara that offers you new hope without taking those endless drugs with serious side effects. (see the special neuropathy severity consultation at the end of this article).

The treatment that is provided at Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic has three main goals: The treatment to increase blood flow utilizes electronic cell signaling delivering modulating energy wavelengths at both low and middle frequencies. The signaling improves cell-to-cell communication among small nerve fibers. The cell signaling therapy is like watering a tree. The treatment will allow the blood vessels to grow back around the peripheral nerves and provide them with the proper nutrients to heal and repair. It’s like adding water to a tree and seeing the roots grow deeper and deeper. The amount of treatment needed to allow the nerves to fully recover varies from person to person and can only be determined after a detailed neurological and vascular evaluation.

As long as you have not sustained at least 85% nerve damage there is hope!

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ACADEMIC PERSONNEL AND OPERATIONS COORDINATOR Computer Science Responsible for all academic personnel matters including departmental administration of all faculty recruitments and merit and promotion cases. Serves as department resource for and advises the Department Chair, Business Officer and all faculty on academic personnel policies including procedures covering academic recruitment, appointment, and advancement; compensation and salary administration; labor contracts; faculty welfare programs; visa procurement; benefits; payroll; training and development; faculty misconduct; and faculty equity. Coordinates the academic search process, including placement of ads, drafting of search plans, and conducting the initial screening of materials submitted. Tracks and analyzes senate and non-senate faculty teaching assignments, sabbatical leave, and other leave requests. Responsible for processing employment transactions for ladder faculty and temporary instructors using UCPath. Reqs: Experience and/or the ability to quickly become proficient in the following areas; academic personnel merit & promotion, recruitment, budgetary responsibility and management. Demonstrated proficiency with Word, Excel, UCPath, AP Folio and UCRecruit. Ability to work under tight and shifting deadlines with frequent interruptions. Good judgment, tact, and diplomacy. Able to effectively work with a diverse community of faculty and staff. Strong organizational and communication skills. Detail oriented. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $61,200 - $70,380/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 9/7/21, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 22979

CUSTODIAN SR University Center Responsible for all aspects of custodial work such as cleaning floors, walls, windows, furniture, restrooms, stairs, ceilings, garbage cans, entryways, and walkways; emptying garbage cans, changing lights, moving equipment, and supplies and arranging furniture. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. May work flexible hours/schedule as necessary, including nights and weekends. $20.14 - $21.38/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 9/2/21, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 22633

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KCSB RADIO ENGINEER Associated Students Bears the legal responsibility of the Chief Operator to ensure that KCSB broadcasts within the technical limits imposed by the FCC. Maintains, repairs, installs, documents and inventories the entire system of complex hardware/ software and electronic equipment necessary for the proper operation of a radio station including the tower at the Broadcast Peak transmitter site. Responsible for developing, maintaining, repairing, installing and documenting radio station office computer networks. Reqs: Advanced knowledge of Radio communications and network systems in operation, maintenance and repair of radio equipment. The ability to install, operate, and repair various standard test equipment and a wide range of audio control equipment is required. Must be familiar with FCC rules and broadcast standards and monitoring and measuring station audio signals for both FCC technical requirements and highest possible audio quality. Notes: UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery. Satisfactory criminal history background check. $67,500 - $84,275/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 22363

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COMMUNITY SERVICE OFFICER COORDINATOR UCSB Police Department Manages, supervises and implements the Police Department Community Service Organization. Is a senior member of the police department’s supervisory staff and participates on campus-wide and inter-agency public safety committees representing campus and community safety, security, and risk management issues and planning. Serves on campus-wide committees as Chief of Police designee. Develops and maintains specialized programs and works with specialized campus committees to increase awareness of and promote safety for student, faculty, staff and visitors in the campus and Isla Vista communities. Plans, proposes and co-manages campus event security, campus residential housing security, bike programs, campus fire watch, fiscal management, program development and community liaison. Consults on student, faculty and staff safety and security issues in building and construction, with a particular emphasis on women’s, student, and event safety issues. Responsible for accounts receivable, billing and recharges, payroll reconciliation and is the Kronos timekeeper for all CSO students. Handles daily personnel issues, including hiring, separation and oversight/ supervision. Provides a variety of professional and administrative duties to support the CSO operations. Reqs: Demonstrated ability to identify research, analyze, interpret, and conduct complete analyses of complex laws, statutes, policies, and data. Ability to plan, organize, and deliver workshops/training courses and training materials appropriate to the program. Demonstrated ability to develop, design, and implement operational and administrative policies and practices. Ability to work with sensitive information and preserve confidentiality, meet deadlines, maintain objectivity, and prioritize workload in an organized manner. Demonstrated critical, innovative, and strategic thinking skills and judgment to make sound decisions in uncertain or ambiguous situations; ability to approach challenges with a clear perception of organizational and political impacts. Experience managing or supervising UC students or Bachelor’s Degree in related fields and at least three to five years relevant experience OR Master’s Degree/J.D. and at least one to two years relevant experience is preferable. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse. Mandated reporting req of Dependent Adult Abuse. UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull-Notice Program. Satisfactory criminal history background check. $55,600.00 - $111,300.00/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 8/31/21, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 22543

PAYROLL/ ASSOCIATED STUDENTS GARDEN PERSONNEL/TRAVEL COORDINATOR COORDINATOR Bren School of Associated Students Provide agricultural expertise to Environmental Science students within Associated Stu& Management dents (AS) in the maintenance of the garden projects. Addresses areas of food safety procedures including providing support in creating outreach programs regarding social, economic, and environmental aspects of food systems. May work with staff colleagues in Business Enterprises (Services) areas including AS FoodBank, AS Bike Shop, AS Publications. Will develop and/or deepen partnerships with staff and faculty in related areas. Primarily supports the Edible Campus Program Student Farm and greenhouse, and to serve as an additional resource to campus-wide sustainability efforts/programs. Reqs: Experience managing or working on a farm, including crop planning and production, pest management, harvesting, garden beds and compost stalls. Experience in facilitating experiential learning in sustainable agriculture and food systems, teaching and mentoring students, and supporting student agency, initiative, and empowerment.Knowledge and experience developing and maintaining a safe farm working environment, including an understanding of food safety rules.Experience facilitating a team approach with student leadership, decision-making, and management, particularly with individuals from diverse backgrounds. Knowledge of the principles of soil biology, crop production, soil testing, seed saving, compost and vermicompost, and/or other ecological/organic growing methods. Strong computer skills. Ability to work outside in all weather conditions. Notes:UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act and Satisfactory criminal history background check. $23.66 - $26.28/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Afﬁrmative Action Employer, and all qualiﬁed applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 22361

Supports the department with administration, personnel/payroll support and financial and travel processing in compliance with UC policies and procedures. Provides expertise and guidance in the full range of staff and academic personnel policies and procedures. Provides authoritative advice on graduate division policies and bargaining unit agreements. Manages sensitive and confidential information and interacts with a broad range of personnel and visitors. Posts monthly payroll expenses, creates tracking reports and produces bi-weekly and monthly payroll reports. Serves as a Timekeeper for the Kronos timekeeping system. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience in a higher education setting. Proficient in personnel payroll and timekeeping systems. Excellent computer skills, including experience with databases, spreadsheets, word processing. Demonstrated ability to independently prioritize, edit and proofread materials, organize and multi-task with frequent interruptions and meet critical deadlines with a high degree of professionalism. Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, assertiveness and diplomacy, and critical attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy. Excellent verbal and outstanding written communications skills with the ability to write and edit memos and letters. Ability to maintain integrity and sensitivity in confidential matters. Note: Satisfactory criminal history background check. $24.61 - $26.32/hr. Salary commensurate with experience. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 9/8/21, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 22981

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DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR, DONOR RELATIONS & ANNUAL GIVING Office of Development Serves as a key analyst and administrative support for Donor Relations & Stewardship and Central Annual Giving (primarily tele-fund calling program), including project management; research, analysis and writing in support of a wide variety of donor relations and departmental fundraising initiatives. This position is a shared resource to these two areas at about 60/40 percent with some variants to the percentage time depending on shifting projects and deadlines. The Development Coordinator possesses a diversified set of responsibilities ranging from data management to externally interfacing with donors. The employee is charged with handling recurring DRS and tele-fund processes such as data pulls for monthly and weekly programs, coding and mailing assembly; responding to the needs and concerns of donors; investigating and solving inquiries from internal staff and stakeholders; coordinating event logistics; managing budget and expenses; and assisting development officers with their travel logistics (as applicable). Reqs: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Excellent skills in analysis, problem-solving, working with detail while applying and understanding broader contexts as they affect a diverse customer base: faculty, staff, students, and donors. Ability to interpret policies and procedures and accurately communicate them to others. Strong customer service skills and familiarity with UC payroll and budget processes. Demonstrated experience in the maintenance of databases, expertise in the use of Word, Excel, and other office software and/or web-based applications. $24.62 - $25.86/hr. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. Ability to work some weekends and evenings. Once the pandemic restrictions are lifted, the position will be required to work on campus. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 9/1/21, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 22510

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POLICE DEPARTMENT RECORDS SUPERVISOR University of California Santa Barbara Police Department Reports to the Chief of Police, through the general supervision of a Division Lieutenant, supervises the Police Records Bureau with oversight of the Campus Bicycle/ Skateboard Safety Program. Assists with compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act. Represents the Police Department at professional meetings and other duties as assigned by the Chief of Police or the Division Lieutenant. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, Business/ Public Administration or other appropriate specialized field of study plus 2-4 years directly related criminal justice experience, OR an Associate’s degree plus 4-6 years directly related experience; OR High School Diploma plus 6-8 years directly related experience. Equivalent combinations of education, experience and training will be considered. Some previous leadership, supervisory, or management experience is required as determined by the department. Demonstrated ability to identify research, analyze, interpret, and conduct complete analyses of complex laws, statutes, policies, and data. Ability to plan, organize, and deliver workshops/training courses and training materials appropriate to the program in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message. Demonstrated ability to write clear and concise reports, policies and correspondence and present information to stakeholders. Demonstrated critical, innovative, and strategic thinking skills and judgment to make sound decisions in uncertain or ambiguous situations; ability to approach challenges with a clear perception of organizational and political impacts. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse Mandated reporting req of Dependent Adult Abuse. UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull-Notice Program. Form 700 Statement of Economic Interests Filer. Satisfactory criminal history background check. $24.62 - $41.33/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 21765

OFFICE MANAGER UCSB Campus Store Provides direct staff assistance to the Director, Associate Director and Assistant Director as well as administrative support to a $10M retail Auxiliary department. The Campus Store has a staff of 18 FTE and 70-80 part time student employees. The position also acts as the gatekeeper of the Campus Store Administration office with direct responsibility for Employment and Personnel, Payroll, Office Management and Staffing and Training, and Administrative Support to the Campus Store Director. Reqs: Ability to use sound judgment in responding to issues and concerns. Solid communication and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with all levels of staff verbally and in writing. Solid organizational skills and ability to multitask in a high-volume environment with demanding timeframes. Ability to function effectively as a member of a team. Ability to adapt to changing priorities. Ability to use discretion and maintain confidentiality. Notes: must be able to work some evenings and weekends and be a keyholder for opening and closing shifts. Satisfactory criminal history background check. $24.61 - $28.90/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 9/2/21, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 22611

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BIKE SHOP LEAD MECHANIC Associated Students Under the general supervision of the Bike Shop Coordinator, the Lead Mechanic will be responsible for organizing the day to day technical and repair aspects with the student mechanics of the A.S. Bike Shop. The Lead Mechanic implements the training for student employees, outlined in the AS Bike Shop training manual, to student employees for the repair and maintenance of a wide range of bicycle types and other rolling stock. Responsible for ensuring staff’s adherence to safety standards in all repair procedures. Will endeavor to maintain the A.S. Bike Shop in accordance with its mission statement to provide high quality bicycle repair and safety education to the students, faculty, and staff of UCSB. Min Reqs: Broad knowledge and technical aptitude related to bicycle maintenance and mechanic functionality. Must be able to communicate about processes clearly and effectively to customers and staff in a fast paced work environment. Ability to complete mechanical tasks left uncompleted by Student Mechanics. Knowledge of inventory control, systems and storage related to merchandise stocked within the Bicycle Shop. Understanding or experience with community based bicycle spaces. Notes: UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act and Satisfactory criminal history background check. $20.66 - $22.50/hr.The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Afﬁrmative Action Employer, and all qualiﬁed applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 17781

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“I don’t see myself as a photographer or a filmmaker. I see myself as a person curious about life,” said Discovery Channel producer Ian Shive, who recently joined the board of the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network.

Filmmaker and photographer Ian Shive joins Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network board

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At left, a northern raccoon baby is brought to the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, its eyes barely open. “Photographing baby animals can be difficult, as they squirm around quite a bit, so finding a sharp image is challenging,” photographer Ian Shive said. Center, “Smaller than I expected, a western screech owl is fed in the morning as it begins its recovery at the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network,” Mr. Shive said. At right, during filming for “The Last Unknown” in Alaska, Ian and his crew encountered this northern fur seal, a species that was once hunted to the edge of extinction. Thanks to conservation efforts, it’s made a comeback.

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Crested auklets are a type of seabird found in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. During filming for “The Last Unknown,” Ian Shive and his crew saw the species. “These seabirds dive deep into the ocean, eating plankton, which thrive in the volcanically-fed, nutrient-rich waters,” according to Mr. Shive and his company, Tandem Stills & Motions.

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an Shive was on a ship in Alaska when the world’s oldest known bird flew by. “It was the laysan albatross — 70 years old and still giving birth,” the award-winning filmmaker and photographer told the News-Press last week. He loves his adventures with nature, which constantly surprises him. “We’re constantly making new discoveries. Nature is a world in which we’ve barely scratched the surface of understanding,” the Los Angeles resident said by phone. “I don’t see myself as a photographer or a filmmaker. I see myself as a person curious about life.” That curiosity took Mr. Shive up to Alaska, where he produced the documentary “The Last Unknown.” It started streaming March 18 on discovery+ and features a 2,500-plus network of islands, the Aleutians. Mr. Shive went there with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and a team of scientists. Mr. Shive and his team filmed wildlife such as a northern fur seal, a species that formerly was hunted to the brink of extinction. Thanks to conservation efforts, the seal has made a comeback. Closer to his home, one of Mr. Shive’s “Nature in Focus” episodes for discovery. com explored the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network. The website series follows Mr. Shive as he tells nature stories through his photography. He said the SBWCN and its mission impressed him. “And I was impressed by the sheer volume of animals going through there,” said Mr. Shive, the founder of Tandem Stills & Motions. “I’ve heard about the baby season

before I got to see it in person, a season where all these little babies are being born and needing human help. To see it firsthand, my mind was blown.” Mr. Shive saw a northern raccoon baby brought to the SBWCN and photographed the animal. He also photographed a western screech owl being fed as it began its recovery. Mr. Shive said the wildlife care network is a lesson that all life is important. “When we’re in a backyard and we find an injured bird or animal, no matter how small it is, it has life, it has value. It has a chance to be rehabilitated and put back into the wild.” When he was at the SBWCN, he didn’t realize he would become more involved with the wildlife care network. He recently joined its board. That brings Mr. Shive full circle. His interest in nature photography blossomed during his first visit during the 1990s to the Channel Islands. The Millstone, N.J., native moved to Los Angeles when he was 19, and that set the stage for his lifelong interest in photography, movies and nature. “I had never contemplated underwater photography or looking at marine environments until I came to Channel Islands National Park,” he said. “I was just learning how to take pictures.” He wasn’t 20 yet when he visited Santa Cruz Island in 1996 for the first time. A friend introduced him to snorkeling. He later learned to scuba dive. “I realized there was this entire half of the world — actually more than half — that I had never thought about photographing,” Mr. Please see SHIVE on B4

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“Coastal Influence’ at Santa Barbara gallery

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Continued from Page B1 Shive said, referring to oceans. “I spent the three to five years honing my craft, learning how to dive. I went to Anacapa and Santa Cruz, all over the islands, making mistakes along the way but falling in love with marine environments.” At the same time, he was on a path to learn about filmmaking. “I didn’t go to college. I started working in the movie industry,” Mr. Shive said. “I was very ambitious to go out and do things.” He went to Culver City-based Sony Pictures, where he worked in the 2000s as a publicist for films such as the “Spider-Man” movies starring Toby Maguire. “I worked a lot with the media and press and filmmakers. That’s where I became super impressed with the editing process, the process of orchestrating and recording original scores, cinematography, the whole process,” Mr. Shive said. “It was a big part of my education. “I got to sit in a movie theater with (director) Ridley Scott to watch ‘Black Hawk Down,’” he said. “I was with (composer) Danny Elfman on a soundstage while the original ‘Spider-Man’ score was played live by an incredible orchestra. “I was a young guy absorbing all of that,” Mr. Shive said. He went on to become a freelance photojournalist on assignment for environmental organizations, nature conservancies and national parks. As digital still cameras developed further, he experimented with videos. His early work included a documentary about the coral reefs off the island country of Palau in the western Pacific. “It was the first time I had done underwater filmmaking. It was a precursor to my IMAX movies and Discovery (Channel) specials,” Mr. Shive said. His movies also have included “Chasing the Distance,” a documentary about an ultra runner within the context of environment and preserving places. “It was the first time I looked at a real cinematic approach to storytelling,” Mr. Shive said. “It was pure filmmaking, no still photography.” His first program for the Discovery Channel came during the cable network’s Shark Week in 2015. He produced a one-hour special on sharks in Cuba. “I got to work with a talented Cuban scientist as well as

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The Santa Maria School Agriculture Education Program has been named No. 1 in the state by California Agriculture Teachers Association. From left are Luis Guerra, Kimura Yamamoto, Melissa Flory, Sara Araujo, Clemente Ayon, Amanda Rodriguez, Shannon Powell, Mark Powell, Michael Guerra, Marc Debernardi and Superintendent Antonio Garcia.

Santa Maria High School honored for state’s top agricultural program By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

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At top, Ian Shive observed one of the procedures at the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network. He said the network is a lesson that all life is important. Above, cameraman Paul Wildman films a B-24 bomber, which crashed during World War II on Atka Island in Alaska, for Mr. Shive’s documentary “The Last Unknown.”

American scientists,” Mr. Shive said. That set the stage for more work later with Discovery, such as Mr. Shive’s “Nature in Focus” series for discovery.com and his documentary “The Last Unknown” on discovery+. Current episodes of “Nature in Focus,” available at discovery. com, include one about a cave full of 20 million bats in southeastern Texas. “I want people first to be entertained,” Mr. Shive said. But he said he also hopes to inspire viewers, particularly young ones, to become engaged with their world and care about conservation. “It takes something extra special for kids to take their eyes for their iPads and watch one of our shows,” Mr. Shive said. Mr. Shive is accustomed to traveling far and wide. He explored protected and remote national wildlife refuge islands

and marine national monuments for his 2019 documentary “Hidden Pacific.” But the pandemic led him to find stories closer to his Los Angeles home such as the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network. Mr. Shive said he would love to return to the Channel Islands and do filming there. “I would love to go back, in the capacity that I am today as an established filmmaker and really tell that story through an intimate lens.”

The Santa Maria High School Agriculture Education Program is the best in the state. That’s according to the California Agriculture Teachers Association, which gave it the No. 1 ranking as the 2021 CATA Outstanding Agricultural Education Program. The recent virtual recognition was announced at the CATA’s summer conference. In addition to the program being honored, Shannon Powell who has taught for 12 years (nine at Santa Maria High School), was selected as a CATA Teacher of Excellence. This award is based on professional and student activities, community involvement and the teachers’ instructional program in the classroom setting. The Saint Ag Program received its No. 1 ranking due

to its achievements in classroom instruction, experiential learning, the FFA student organization and leadership development, community partnership and the teachers’ professional development. To earn this honor, the agriculture department submitted its application to the CATA, which was then scored by a committee of agriculture educators from across California, according to a news release. There are 340 agriculture education programs in California with Santa Maria FFA being the state’s largest. During the 20202021 school year, the program had 10 agriculture teachers who served 1,087 students, who were enrolled in 49 sections of agriculture courses. The current district agriculture teachers are department chair Mark Powell, Marc DeBernardi, Luis Guerra, Clemente Ayon,

Melissa Flory, Amanda Rodriguez, Shannon Powell, Sara Araujo, Kimura Yamamoto and Michael Guerra. The Agriculture Department offers five pathways to the students including agriscience, ornamental horticulture, agriculture mechanics, animal science and agribusiness. Each pathway has courses that are specifically designed to allow students to learn by doing and to make a connection to our local agriculture industry. Furthermore, there are five courses offered that allow students to earn concurrent enrollment credit at Allan Hancock College. Each student in the agriculture program is a member of the California and National FFA organizations. email: mmcmahon@newspress. com

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FYI For more about the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, go to www. sbwcn.org. For more about network board member Ian Shive’s “Nature in Focus” photography series, go to discovery. com.

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Santa Barbara Unified music teachers received $16,000 in funding to purchase classroom materials and maintain the instruments.

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The ringing of school bells isn’t the only sound that reminds people that Santa Barbara schools are back in session. The sound of violins echo through local campuses, letting people know that music programs are also back in session. To help students, residents went into their closets and garages to dust off and donate more than 150 quality instruments to the Santa Barbara Education Foundation, according to a press release. Last week, SBEF hosted local music teachers to distribute the instruments for this school year quickly. “These instruments go directly into the hands of local students after a quick check for needed maintenance and repairs,” said Katie Szopa, SBEF program manager. In addition, Santa Barbara Unified music teachers received $16,000 in funding to purchase classroom materials and maintain the instruments. The instruments and funds are from an ongoing fundraising effort by the SBEF with help from community partners such as the Johnson Ohana Foundation,

Residents donated instruments to the Santa Barbara Education Foundation

Irene F. Anderson Foundation, Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation, Pacific Premier Bank and proceeds from the annual Keep the Beat Radiothon on 99.9 KTYD. “Hands-on learning with music is just what our students need right now,” said Ms. Szopa. “We are just so thankful that our community came together to support music education during what’s been a very challenging time in our local schools.” From music teachers to

instruments, SBEF has been raising funds to support music education in local schools since 2003. Today, all 5,000-plus elementary students learn to play an instrument during their school day. An originating partner in the Pianos on State project, SBEF runs a year-round instrument drive for SB Unified schools. For more information, visit www.santabarbaraeducation.org. email: mmcmahon@newspress.com

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Corruption under the cover of COVID “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” — Albert Einstein

Biden. And I can’t help thinking that this is exactly how the Biden administration is probably handling the current Afghanistan situation: with planeloads (though a train or even a caravan of trucks might be more appropriate and less visible) of negotiable and untraceable currency. While the U.S. still has access to Kabul via air, any truck convoy or train would be guarded and would have to be approved by various Taliban checkpoints all along the way. Which would help keep the payments a secret. No one ever explained how $1.7 billion in cash was sitting around somewhere, completely unaccounted for by general banking regulations for the Iranians to receive back in 2016. But it seems very likely that Mr. Biden and some of his closest aides know the source of that cash

COVID-19. This has meant more destruction of our favorite haunts and our way of life. Corrupt politicians are responsible for the state we are in, but we are responsible for electing them. There is enough blame to go around. Let’s do something to change our direction. Corrupt politicians account for the need for all the time and money spent on a recall of the California governor when the refurbishing of this state should be the priority. We shouldn’t be put into the situation of having to remove a leader (we use the term “leader” loosely), who is so out of touch with the reality of the state’s needs and issues. What is in it for these politicians? Besides which, all that is needed today is for them to do nothing more but read the Democratic National Committee script and go with the flow. These politicians will still be getting your money and your votes, their car allowance and all. Who cares what the rest of us pay for gas and groceries — if their needs are met (and boy are they)? Just look at the changes brought to the face of Santa Barbara, by way of our elected officials under the cover of COVID. The changes to our streets, parking, the homeless, crime, the enormous amounts of approvals for overbuilding, which have allowed high rises for market rate units. The latest height allowance was an additional 2 feet, 11 inches — and it was touted as “not 3 feet.” More changes under COVID include one that serves neither workers nor residents favorably. The Public Labor Agreement is for union-only projects for the city of Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara County is now following suit. Is this payola for campaign contributions? Everybody’s out for a vote About the moratorium on evictions: No one wants people put in the street. However, with government stimulus checks and unemployment benefits times three, wasn’t the money for people to pay their bills? The landowner is still responsible for property taxes., upkeep, etc. Where is the equity? Oh, has the equity script been set aside? It’s not just in Santa Barbara. It’s prevalent everywhere. Let’s look at Los Angeles. The iconic French Restaurant, Taix, near Echo Park in Los Angeles since 1927 has been sold out under the cover of COVID. Even the well-established Los Angeles Conservancy was unable to stop the destruction of a historic building — and was given a preservation title in name only for the two exterior signs and an interior wooden bar. Laughable except it’s not a comedy. Despite the historicalcultural monument, the nomination was reduced from the whole building to several random parts of a building pushed through by the City Council under the cover of COVID. Sound familiar? Just look at all the projects that have happened in Santa Barbara under the same premise, pushing these projects through when no one

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f someone spent over had an English colonel on his 40 years of their life as radio show who spent a great a carpenter, tile setter, deal of time in Afghanistan. I was a plumber or banker, mesmerized by his knowledge, a nurse, a intellect and candor. doctor, any profession, The picture he painted you’d consider them a couldn’t have been more professional in their field frightening. and assume they know This is so much more what they’re doing and than President Biden’s they’re good at it. “team” bungling the Then riddle me this, withdrawal. This has if Joe Biden spent over massive long-term global Henry 40 years of his life in ramifications, and Mr. Schulte government, how come he Biden has placed the doesn’t have a clue what entire country — in fact, The author he’s doing? Somewhere the entire world — in lives in Solvang jeopardy. And to witness in all those years you would think he learned his complete lack of something. That he would have having any kind of handle on the some serious leadership skills. situation and a vice president who Apparently, he wasn’t paying doesn’t exist, this is some serious attention in class. …. you fill in the blank. The other night Mark Levin Col. Kemp went so far as to say

President Biden needs to court martialed. I couldn’t agree more but what makes this even scarier is there’s absolutely no one down the chain of command competent enough to deal with any of this. There is no way Vice President Kamala Harris remotely has any idea of what to do. She just stays in hiding. While heads are being lopped, she’s talking about buying Christmas presents early because of a possible slowdown in the supply chain. Are you kidding me? As people are being killed, raped, tortured, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is enjoying a maskless $30,000 a plate dinner with her very white guests. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is off dancing somewhere. Those are our down-the-line choices of “leadership” in the

Democratic Party. And not one of And although Afghanistan is them is remotely up to the job. dominating the headlines for And now the world has seen the moment, the situation at the how the upper rank of the military southern border has reached is just as screwed up. What the nuclear levels. heck are we going to do? President Biden has laid out This colonel the red carpet pointed for the terrorists out that the to march Afghanistan into America Columnist Brent Zepke writes about crisis opened and begin a Americans being stranded the door for homespun in Afghanistan. C2. Russia, China, terrorist ISIS and likely campaign. Korea to do And what what they feel with impunity. do the Democrats care about? What do they care about America Printing more money, “climate anymore? We’re nothing. We’ve change,” Christmas presents and lost all power and influence in a a personal vendetta against those matter of days. involved on Jan. 6. When the Taliban is dictating These people don’t give a damn how things are supposed to go about the American people. They down, our option is to crawl in the corner and whimper? Please see SCHULTE on C4

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Bundles of cash for the Taliban?

or those wondering if we’ll get out of Afghanistan alive after the events of the past few days, my guess is, yes, we’ll get out despite the already heavy toll the recent suicide bombs have taken. The Taliban will see to it. Why, you may wonder. Well, for me, it’s difficult to forget the photographs of the piles of cash — $1.7 billion of it — stacked ever so neatly on wooden pallets at the airport in Tehran at the conclusion of the nuclear deal struck between the U.S. and Iran back in the Obama administration. The agreement was hammered out by then Secretary of State John Kerry with his counterpart in Iran. Piles of Swiss francs, euros, British pounds and other currencies stacked some six feet high being unloaded into the hands of jellaba-garbed recipients in the dead of night.

When I tell what few liberal spokeswoman Elizabeth friends I have left about this, they Trudeau says the U.S. couldn’t shake their heads in denial, never say more about the Jan. 19 having heard or seen anything payments because of diplomatic about the transactions before. But sensitivities. They involved 13 initial reports from various separate payments of news outlets (in addition $99,999,999.99 and a PURELY to Fox) did in fact cover final payment of about POLITICAL it, however briefly. Here’s $10 million. There was how two liberal media no explanation for the outlets did: Treasury Department keeping the individual CBS NEWS REPORTS transactions under $100 CBS News, on Aug. 24, million.” 2016, carried the following Associated Press account CNN COVERAGE James Buckley headlined “Iran Payment CNN reported the allUsed As Leverage For cash transfer to Tehran Hostages.” on Aug. 4, 2016 thusly: “The Obama administration “The Obama administration said Wednesday it paid $1.3 billion secretly arranged a plane delivery in interest to Iran in January to of $400 million in cash on the resolve a decades-old dispute over same day Iran released four an undelivered military sale, two American prisoners and formally days after allowing $400 million in implemented the nuclear deal, US cash to fly to Tehran. officials confirmed Wednesday. “State Department “... The money was flown into

Iran on wooden pallets stacked with Swiss francs, euros and other currencies as the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement resolving claims at an international tribunal at The Hague over a failed arms deal under the time of the Shah.” The Obama administration claimed it had to pay in cash because Iran had no relationship with the international banking community. Had not some enterprising journalist filmed the delivery, the U.S. public and the rest of the world would probably never have learned about the middle-of-thenight flights. (I believe more than one small plane was required to bring the cash, but I could be wrong about that). In any case, the cash transactions in Teheran surely came to the attention of the then vice president and now president of the United States, Mr. Joseph

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The Charles E. Meyer Desalination Plant serves the city of Santa Barbara and the Montecito Water District. Goleta resident Michael Christopher suggests turning decommissioned nuclear plants, which take in sea water, into desalination facilities.

Turn them into desal water plants

Government is here to serve?

id you see the Next came AB5, which latest photo op affected owner-operator when Santa truck drivers, as AB5 sought Barbara County to eliminate contractors in supervisors the state of California. stood next to an oil spill of Thankfully, the imposition some 600 gallons in a creek of AB5 on our truckers has bed that killed dozens of been stalled in the courts animals? Actually, for the or we would be subject to first time ever, there was no shortages of every kind, photo op featuring the typical including food and fuel. This sanctimonious hand-wringing has to do with the nature of because the source of the trucking. spill is a site maintained Many owner-operators haul by the government in Toro a variety of loads for different Canyon. companies on an as-needed If an oil company basis. Regardless, had been responsible, our state legislature it would have been tried to force them excoriated and into an employment prosecuted. situation that does Apparently, not all not fit the work they oil spills are created do. equally. Now, we have the Andy Caldwell Speaking of oil Biden administration spills or the potential attempting to create thereof, ExxonMobil fuel-efficiency wants to truck crude oil from standards that will constitute Gaviota to Santa Maria and/ another hit on our nation’s or Kern County. This project, truckers. The only asset these slated to operate for seven truckers have is their rig and years, has become the subject most truckers can’t afford a of an environmental impact new engine. report. As a result of all of the The dopey analysts who above, plus COVID-19 payouts prepared the report somehow to anyone who would rather determined that the tanker stay home, we are currently trucks posed a risk of a spill experiencing a shortage of of five gallons or more once truck drivers. every 52 years for trucks Soon, we will have another heading to Santa Maria. government-created shortage, For trucks heading to Kern this time having to do with County, the risk of a spill construction workers for was calculated once every 17 county projects. That is, years. Santa Barbara County Hmm, do the math, 7 years supervisors, along with the vs. 52 and 17? Of course, Santa Barbara City Council, tanker trucks, hauling all are fixing to exclude 85% of sorts of stuff (including rocket local construction workers fuel to Vandenberg.), go up who constitute a non-union and down our freeways every workforce. single day, including trucks Specifically, these union carrying gasoline through our lackeys seek to exclude noncity streets on a daily basis. union contractors from being Speaking of trucks, just able to bid on government about everything we use construction projects. This travels by truck — 90% of will surely drive up the cost all consumer goods and of these projects, but the industrial materials to increase has nothing to do be exact. Our stores and with how much the workers factories would be empty are paid. were it not for the trucking That is, all workers get paid industry. the same prevailing wages Yet, for some very nebulous when they do government and nefarious reasons, construction projects. The environmentalists continue to increased cost to taxpayers attack this vital industry. will arise from the fact First there was a corrupt that only 15% of our local study, which resulted in the construction companies will very expensive California be eligible to bid on the work. diesel engine rule that hurt Fewer bidders always mean truckers in addition to the higher costs for taxpayers. farming and construction So, what else is new? industry, all of whom rely on heavy-duty diesel engines. Andy Caldwell is the COLAB Subsequently, they were executive director and host of forced to sell perfectly good “The Andy Caldwell Show,” equipment in order to buy airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays new engines in an attempt to on KZSB AM 1290, the Newsnegligibly reduce emissions. Press radio station.

ur misguided government has spent more than $13.5 billion on the bullet train to nowhere, but there is nothing to show for it. We have several decommissioned nuclear power plants that take in sea water to cool their reactors. Why not recondition them into desal water plants since they’re already there to supply much needed water to our communities and recharge our groundwater sources? Michael Christopher Goleta

How to keep military equipment out of the enemy’s hands

would like to start out by saying what a great addition to the opinion pages James Buckley is. I especially found his Aug. 22 column very informative regarding the fiasco in Afghanistan. It was also tinged with a humorous bent. I never served in Afghanistan. I did, however, spend two years in Germany in the D Battery, 5th Missile Battalion, 1st Artillery, 7th Army on the Rhine. You are probably wondering what this has to do with Afghanistan? Well seeing as you ask, I will tell you. One of the things we were instructed to perform in the eventuality that we had to make a hasty retreat was to destroy all the equipment before we left. All of it had to be destroyed in the same manner so that the enemy could not scavenge parts from one to get another one operational. We had canisters that we were instructed to place on the engine block that when activated would burn a white hot hole completely through the engine. If this very simple task is not performed on the billions of dollars worth of equipment the pundits contend is going to be left for the Taliban and ISIS, I will not be suspecting malfeasance but treason. I feel a tremendous empathy for the Americans who are, from all appearances, hostages of the Taliban, but more so for the families over here who have loved ones stuck over there. I know first hand what a gut churning ordeal they are going through as I had a similar situation in 2008 when my wife and daughter got thrown in prison in India. The News-Press’ comprehensive coverage happened to catch the attention of then Gov. Arnold Swartzegger. He wrote a letter that impressed the Indian court to such a degree they were given their passports back and allowed to leave. It seems as though Arnie has a very unique personna that transcends national borders. I do not agree with his recent “Screw your freedoms” gaff, but as they say, “you can’t unring the bell.” Anyone interested in learning more about my wife and daughter’s experience in India can go online and obtain my daughter’s book “Athena Rising: A Memoir” by Heather Bond.

that President Joe Biden has been on the wrong side of almost every major policy decision for the past 48 years of government service. And Mr. Biden is going to transform America — a term former President Obama coined often himself? Into what? And for whose benefit? In just seven months of his presidency Mr. Biden’s decisions have outraged many within his own party including a majority of independents according to recent polls. Just what constituents is he appealing to — Republicans? That’s not possible because they are his enemy, far worse than even the Taliban. Who is Mr. Biden trying to inspire? The president and his administration have shut down oil pipelines and surrendered its world-leading supplier status, thereby making us dependent on OPEC once again. He has opened our southern border into a free-for-all. He plans to spend trillions of newly minted dollars on dubious social programs. He has cozied up to the Chinese Communist Party, Russia and Iran, who were previously believed to be the real enemies of the western world. What is he doing? The U.S. has just suffered the greatest humiliation in its history. The president’s response to his disastrous retreat from Afghanistan has left thousands of Americans and Afghan supporters behind enemy lines to the fate of the notorious Taliban, a known brutal, terrorist group. Mr. Biden’s leadership team failed to follow long-standing military doctrine taught at all military staff and war colleges. “The people with the guns are the last to evacuate from a hostile fire zone because the assumption is they may have to shoot their way out.” That is the opposite of what President Biden ordered. Nevertheless, he now must be held accountable along with his secretaries of state and defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and any intelligence official who wrongly advised the president on the proper evacuation of U.S. citizens, their loyal supporters and the dedicated combat troops. Military commanders responsible for the evacuation of Bagram Air Field left $85 billion of military equipment behind, including advanced attack helicopters, military air transports, tons of small arms and night vision devices, and hundreds of motor vehicles including heavily armored troop transporters and Humvees. What were they thinking? They also left behind biometrics on every Afghan who was employed by the U.S., its affiliates and contractors. Because of the U.S. betrayal, our friends will ultimately be identified and probably executed along with their families by a ruthless Taliban. Impeachment and resignations are insufficient. It’s time for firings and courtmartials for those responsible for this debacle of sacrificed American blood and lost treasure over the past 20 years. Brace yourself, America! The aftermath of Afghanistan could be another killing fields of Cambodia. Donald M. Gallagher LTC, U.S. Army (retired) Santa Ynez

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Good Samaritan at Albertsons

What is Biden trying to do?

ormer Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who served under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, has stated

had something nice happen to me while I was shopping at Albertsons in Goleta. I was just getting ready to use

my debit card when the cashier told me the lady in front of me had just left the cashier $20 to pay for my bill. Needless to say, I was very much surprised and told my family and friends. One friend told me it was because God loved me. Another said she must have been a Democrat. Well, I will never know who was right, but I do know she is a very nice lady. Thank you. Dottie Huthman Goleta

Biden fails miserably

o U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal is complimenting President Joe Biden on his retreat from Afghanistan. (“More than 1,000 Americans Still in Afghanistan,” News Press, Aug. 26.) As of this date, 13 service members killed, 6 wounded, $81 billion in equipment left behind. The army was pulled out before civilians. Thousands will be left behind. Mr. Biden had six months to plan for this pull-out. He has failed miserably. Why weren’t Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III and General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, not planning a safe exit? Because they were busy pushing critical race theory down the throats of our soldiers. Rep. Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, has always been a follower. He keeps getting elected because he has a D in front of his name. When will we ever get these incompetent and control freaks out? Please, let’s start by recalling Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 14. Tony Krejdovsky Goleta

You can’t have it both ways!

t’s very interesting that the Democratic Party is using basically the same approach politically to try to protect Gov. Gavin Newsom as they did to oust President Donald Trump. OK, folks, you can’t have it both ways! Is your loyalty so blind that you can’t admit to evidence of guilt? Floyd Keinath Solvang

Biden puts Americans, Afghans in danger

hat we’re seeing unfold in Afghanistan is a national disgrace. What we’re also seeing is a career politician rising to the level of his incompetence, unable to make intelligent and unbiased decisions. President Joe Biden’s surrender is one thing, but his withdrawal decisions have put Americans and Afghans in danger. Why should our military risk their lives if the president surrenders? President Biden has been in politics for more than 47 years and should have listened to his advisers. Don’t pull out the military before the civilians, don’t close the Air Force base, etc. Tuesday is the deadline that Biden gave to have all of our military out. We will be leaving Americans behind. This is unbelievable! The elections of 2022 and 2024 can’t come soon enough! Dennis Smith Ventura

uesday is the day President Biden proclaimed that all U.S. troops will be gone from Afghani-

stan. Why? And how is the evacuation going? On Aug. 23, William Burns, who on March 18 became the first career diplomat to head the CIA, unsuccessfully tried to negotiate an extension with Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Barader in what Bloomberg ironically described as a secret meeting. Barader’s teammates included the man who orchestrated the takeover of Afghanistan, Khairullah Khaukhua, who President Obama released from Guantanamo in 2014 to include him with other terrorists in the “exchange” for the traitor Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Hopefully Barader’s team does not yet include any of the 4,900 prisoners formerly held by the U.S. in Kabul. They were just freed by the Taliban. How flexible will this group be toward the U.S.? CIA Director Burns is under the direction of the president, who said the U.S. allies all supported his decision despite Britain, France and Germany all saying the opposite. His colleagues — Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, issued statements on Aug. 18. Their remarks resembled the lyric: “It is not you, it is not me, it is that guy under the tree.” In an Aug. 18 press conference, Secretary Austin and Gen. Milley explained that the current plan was developed in Washington but designed in Afghanistan. Naming a city, such as Washington, is a way of trying to deflect the blame away from the speakers and onto some unknown person(s) (under the tree?) who cannot be verified. Gen. Milley admitted that the plan was briefed through the chain of command. There was no notice, no mention of names or a mention that Gen. Milley is at the top of the chain of command and reports directly to Secretary Austin, who reports to the president. Mr. Milley apparently grabbed onto the “designed in Afghanistan” to shift the responsibility to Gen. Austin “Scottie” Miller for following the order from “Washington” to do a “midnight move” from Bagram Airfield on July 5 without even informing the Afghan commander. A midnight move prevented the U.S. forces from removing the planes, Black Hawk helicopters, armed vehicles and an estimated 600,000 infantry weapons including M-16s, thousands of nighttime goggles and a million rounds of ammunition that the U.S. used to control a country with only 2,500 troops. Now the Taliban can use them for the same reason. On July 8, President Biden said the Taliban were not strong enough to take over the country. On July 12, Gen. Miller resigned his commission. During July and August as the Taliban increased the areas it controlled, the Biden team then started a reverse withdrawal by increasing the troops to 7,000 while retreating to Kabul airport, while the Taliban now controls who enters it. The orders are for the U.S. troops to not leave the airport while our allies, including the British and French, are roaming Kabul to assist their citizens evaluate their stranded citizens. Meanwhile, White House press secretary Jen Psaki played the “word game” by denying that U.S. citizens were “stranded” but did not offer her alternative word for those “left without the means to move somewhere.” That’s the very definition of “stranded.” On Aug. 24, President Biden stumbled through a seven-minute reading of a teleprompter to announce that he would not extend the Aug. 31 deadline. Or was it the Taliban’s decision? The president then accused Please see ZEPKE on C4

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Coward Cuomo’s last act of treachery

isgraced Andrew Cuomo recently abandoned the New York governor’s mansion, leaving nearly 15,000 dead nursing home residents in his wake as a result of a catastrophic executive order that forced their facilities to take in COVID-19-infected patients. He also left behind a bevy of female underlings with a mountain of sordid sexual harassment allegations. And, reportedly, Cuomo also ditched his poor dog, whom two state troopers claim he tried to pawn off to any willing taker. But that’s not all. In the dark of night, safe from

public scrutiny or accountability, convicted felons in jailbreaks. Coward Cuomo granted clemency The married militants acted as to one of the radical left’s most chauffeurs for the Black Liberation notorious anti-cop convicts: a man Army robbers who held up a whose family’s elite Brink’s truck at a Rockland privilege I’ve chronicled County mall and stole more for the past 19 years. than $1.6 million. Two of David Gilbert is the the holdup victims gunned Weather Underground down in the botched domestic terrorist Brink’s robbery were police sentenced to 75 yearsofficers. One was a private to-life in prison for his security guard. All three role in the infamous Michelle Malkin were military veterans from 1981 Brink’s robbery in working-class backgrounds. Nyack, N.Y. Mr. Gilbert As I’ve noted previously and his wife, Kathy in my columns dating Boudin, were leaders in the 1960s back to 2002, Mr. Gilbert and Ms. group of rich-kid agitators who Boudin’s abandoned son, Chesa, is bombed government buildings and the pampered Rhodes Scholar and corporate headquarters and aided now pro-criminal district attorney

in San Francisco who has faithfully whitewashed his biological parents’ crimes (and those of his unrepentant adoptive parents, Weather Underground poster couple Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn). Celebrating the clemency order this week, Chesa Boudin claimed that his father “never intended harm.” What a steaming crock of San Francisco street manure. Mr. Gilbert was defiant at trial and has called himself a “political prisoner” for the entirety of his 40year imprisonment, which he has spent advising Black Lives Matter leaders and other fledgling Marxist militant groups. Mr. Gilbert called

the deadly shootings and robbery “revolutionary expropriation.” As one of his sycophants explained, the domestic terrorist crimes were “aimed at supplying financial support for the Black Revolutionary Army, a militant spin-off from the Black Panther Party.” Reminder: In 1973, Black Liberation Army/Black Panther member Joanne Chesimard (“Assata Shakur”) shot and killed New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster execution-style during a traffic stop. The gunfight also left her brother-in-law, Black Liberation Army leader Zayd Please see MALKIN on C4

The high price of politics over policy Editor’s note: David Limbaugh is off this week. Substituting for him is columnist Jackie GingrichCushman.

ess than two months ago, President Joe Biden told the American people that the Taliban would not be able to rapidly take over Afghanistan once we pulled out our troops. Our exit was to be uneventful, but a lot has happened since then. The Taliban did take over Afghanistan, so fast that President Biden was challenged to keep up with the rapid change of status in the country. So far, he has shown up late to his news conferences appearing confused,

making untrue statements and their lives. It’s horrific what is refusing to take questions from happening, and our president reporters. bears the responsibility. After complaining Having moved that then-President quickly to take over the Donald Trump spent too country, the Taliban much time watching TV, are now calling the Biden should follow his shots. They are giving predecessor’s lead by President Biden watching a bit more TV. directives that he plans That way, he might find to follow — no matter out what is happening who gets left behind. Jackie around the world. He I’ve seen an email Gingrich-Cushman from an Afghan would see throngs of desperate people rushing interpreter who to get aboard a plane— worked with a family any plane, even moving ones — at friend and now cannot get himself the airport. or his family out of Afghanistan. He would hear from U.S. He is pleading and praying for citizens trapped in Afghanistan help, afraid they will be hunted who were unable to reach the down and killed. In response, our airport and were frightened for government is processing their

paperwork, while I am praying for their safety. On Tuesday, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said, “We are not in favor of allowing Afghans to leave ... They (the Americans) have the opportunity, they have all the resources, they can take all the people that belong to them, but we are not going to allow Afghans to leave, and we will not extend the deadline.” Mr. Mujahid also made clear who is in charge on the ground. “The way to the airport has been closed now. Afghans are not allowed to go there now. Foreigners are allowed to go, but we have stopped Afghan nationals to go because the crowd is more, there is danger that

people will lose their lives, there might be a stampede.” Sounds like a threat to me. Clearly the Taliban are in charge in Afghanistan. On Monday, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen made it clear that the Taliban were reinforcing the Aug. 31 deadline for Americans to get out. “It’s a red line,” he said. “President Biden announced that on 31 August they would withdraw all their military forces ... If the U.S. or U.K. were to seek additional time to continue evacuations, the answer is no. Or there would be consequences.” Meanwhile, back at home, President Biden’s approval ratings have dropped. Please see POLICY on C4

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Lessons from Georgia

eorgia (the exSoviet republic, not the U.S. state) is now a remarkable success story. Its economy is growing at 5% per year, and the country ranks ahead of the U.S. in economic freedom. Yet 20 years ago, Georgia was even more miserably poor than the rest of the former Soviet Union. So what can America and the rest of the world learn from Georgia’s progress? A lot, according to my executive producer, Maxim Lott. He’s spent the past several months in Georgia and made a StosselTV video about it. All former Soviet states are poor because the communists had grabbed everyone’s private property and put it under government control. They thought they were smart enough to run the economy. They did things like order Georgians to produce tea. Soon, 95% of tea in the Soviet Union came from Georgia. But Georgia is not the best place to grow tea. After the Soviet Union collapsed, “People started to taste Indian tea and realized that tea is actually better,” said Georgian politician Zurab Japaridze. “Nobody wanted Georgian tea.” That industry — and most others — vanished when Soviet support ended. “Three-fourths of the Georgian economy disappeared,” he said. Central planners are never smart enough to run something as complex as an economy. Fortunately, in Georgia, an eccentric libertarian, Kakha Bendukidze, became economy minister in 2004. He made “everything private, as much as possible.” Georgia scrapped 90% of licensing and permit requirements. That reduced corruption. “Every license means interaction with officials. Every interaction with the official can be an open door for a corrupt request,” explained Fady Asly, chairman of Georgia’s International Chamber of Commerce. Before those reforms, “Corruption was so rampant!” Please see STOSSEL on C4

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T 2.

First, we fire South Dakota and Delaware his article consists of three parts. The good news is in Part 1.I will get to South Dakota and Delaware in Part

Part 1: It seems that being rich does not necessarily mean you are greedy. An article appeared in The New Republic magazine by Robin Kaiser-Schatzle (June 22, 2021). It reviews three books about money. The first one, “The Millionaires Who Want to Abolish Extreme Wealth,” says: “The Patriotic Millionaires are a group of wealthy people who have made a splash in recent years in their calls for higher taxes. They formed in 2010, defining a millionaire as someone with over $1 million in income per year or $5 million in assets.” Another group, Responsible Wealth, has a similar purpose. Its members say: “We are a network of business leaders, investors, and inheritors in the richest 5%

of wealth and/or income in the corporations in Delaware (a state U.S. that believes that growing that allows corporate owners to inequality is not in our best remain anonymous). interest, nor in the best interest “After this process, there’s of society.” This is good almost no way to know news! how much wealth a Part 2: Getting to South person has. … While it is Dakota and Delaware, not legal to avoid taxes their state laws make you owe (that’s called it possible for the rich tax evasion), it is legal to conceal their wealth in South Dakota and and avoid taxes. Another Delaware to conceal book reviewed in the ownership, thus making it Frank article is: “Tax the Rich! impossible to accurately Sanitate How Lies, Loopholes tax wealth.” and Lobbyists Make the That’s why I say these The author Rich Even Richer.” Some states should be fired lives in Santa Patriotic Millionaires are from the union! Barbara co-authors of the book! Part 3: However, The book says: “Trusts there may be a more also make wealth so opaque practical way to have these two that it can’t be taxed. South states reform their ways. In fact, Dakota allows trust accounts to I have come up with a plan to be anonymous, and the ‘Wealth get their legislators to abolish Defense Industry’ can cover their harmful laws. We give each clients’ tracks by running assets resident in those two states not through a couple of trusts that only a tax break but an outright are owned by a variety of shell grant, in exchange for getting corporations owned by other shell their legislators to change the

laws. Here’s how it will work. The citizens of those two states would vote only for a governor and representatives who agree to abolish those laws within 30 days after taking office. If they don’t do it within 30 days, there would be an immediate impeachment vote. What would motivate the citizens of those states to do that? The same thing that motivates the people who have these anonymous corporations: money! Let’s say we gave each resident in those states an annual grant of, say, $25,000 each, until death, if they abolish those laws. That means a family of four would receive $100,000. How much would that cost us? These states have a total population of only 1,858,243 people. The grants to every citizen would total only a little over $46 billion out of the US budget each year. They would be paid to each

current resident until they died. Compare that to the hundreds of billions the U.S. would then be able to collect from the wealthhiding tax-evaders every year! If South Dakota and Delaware are smart, they will get ready to protect themselves from the massive influx of new citizens who will stealthily start moving into their states as soon as they read this article. Perhaps the states could build a wall to protect themselves. Citizens of South Dakota and Delaware: Give this a try. It would be better than getting fired out of our union. There is the question, though, of how we get members of Congress to agree to these changes, especially those who own these kinds of trusts themselves. Maybe the Patriotic Millionaires can give us some help with this part of the puzzle.

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Continued from Page C3 According to a recent USA Today/ Suffolk University Poll, President Biden’s job approval rating is 41%, with 55% disapproving. This is the first time his approval rating has dropped below 50%. A vast majority of Democrats (87%) say President Biden is doing a good job, while his approval among Independents has cratered to 32%. Biden gets

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Continued from Page C3 Malik Shakur, dead. At the time, the Black Liberation Army had been tied to the murders of more than 10 police officers across the country. Chesimard, Zayd Shakur and another member were wanted for questioning in the murder of two of those cops when they were stopped. Ms. Chesimard was convicted and sentenced to life in 1977 but escaped from prison two years later with help from violent left-

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the best score for pandemic performance (50%) followed by economy (39%), with only 26% approving of his handling of our withdrawal from Afghanistan. David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, laid the results out clearly. “President Biden’s overall approval has taken a turn for the worse due to his awful job performance rating on Afghanistan. His approval on immigration and the economy are also upside down. The only issue keeping him remotely in

the game is his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, where he is barely at 50%.” The debacle in Afghanistan will be long-lasting. We have abandoned our citizens, emboldened our enemies, turned our back on the thousands of Afghan interpreters who helped us and have left our allies in the lurch. President Biden may have achieved what he wanted, to say that our troops were out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021 — the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United

States — but this political gain is at the cost of sound policy. Our troops might be coming home, but we are leaving citizens, friends and allies behind. The high price of politics over policy. A sorry state indeed.

wing accomplices. One of those thugs, Black Liberation Army killer Tyrone Rison, admitted to participating in a series of armored-car robberies, including a $250,000 heist in the Bronx on June 2, 1981, that left a Brink’s guard dead. Rison also confessed to taking part in the planning of the Brink’s robbery in which Boudin said his father and mother meant “no harm.” I remind you, again, as I have for the past two decades, that police officers Waverly Brown and Edward O’Grady and Brink’s guard Peter Paige were murdered during

the homicidal siege. Officer Brown, who served in the Air Force after the Korean War, had two grown daughters and a teenage son. Sgt. O’Grady, who served in the Marines and did two tours of duty in Vietnam, left behind a wife and three children — 6, 2 and 6 months old. Mr. Paige, a Navy veteran, also left behind a wife and three kids —19, 16 and 9. If you care to take a stand against Mr. Cuomo’s last act of remorseless corruption and against the anarcho tyranny that grips our country still today, please consider contributing to

the O’Grady-Brown Memorial Scholarship Fund, which honors the memory of the fallen Nyack Police Department officers by supporting students pursuing careers in law enforcement. More information at www.ogradybrown. com.

the government,” Mr. Asly said. “And they started protecting them at the expense of their competitors.” Since the protected businesses got big tax breaks, businessmen like Mr. Asly couldn’t compete. “After losing a couple of million dollars,” he said, “I decided to stop the business.” Economic growth slowed. Now the economy grows at half the rate it once grew. Mr. Japaridze thinks Georgia re-embraced big government because “people did not actually

understand” why Georgia’s economy improved. Years of Soviet propaganda kept people from learning about markets. He said that mentality must change for Georgia to develop. Either “you want to take responsibility (for) your life, or you are fine with being a slave and having some kind of a master who will provide you with your needs.” He’s right, but I question whether “years of Soviet rule” are what made the difference. There’s plenty of hostility toward free markets among privileged

Americans who’ve never heard Soviet propaganda. The overall lesson from Georgia, said Mr. Asly: “Government should be very small. It should just regulate the minimum.”

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Continued from Page C3 said Mr. Asly. “A high-ranking official told me: ‘I have a friend who’s very honest. We would like him to chair the anti-corruption commission, but he has to pay someone $10,000 to get this job.’ The future chair of the anticorruption commission had to bribe someone to get the job!” Georgia has come a long way since then. With fewer rules to obey and licenses to get, there are fewer reasons to bribe. Transparency International now says Georgia is less corrupt than all its neighbors. The country also fired its entire police force, customs office and tax service, and diminished government agencies by half. This created a “huge boom,” Mr. Asly said. “Georgia turned from a failed state to a very successful state.” Its economy grew 10% a year. Buildings that had been burned were restored. McDonald’s and KFC arrived. Some prosperity came to Georgia. “This was kind of a libertarian utopia for four years,” said Iva Nachkebia, national coordinator for Georgia’s branch of Students for Liberty. But then the politicians decided that since things were going well, they would get in on the action. Instead of leaving markets free, they gave privileges to cronies. “They chose 10, 15, 20 businessmen who were close to

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Where is U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal in all this? DONOVAN

Continued from Page C1 is looking. Again, what is the rush? Again, what is in it for them? Why would a city council allow this demolition of history for another 170-unit, 6-story apartment building with 86% market rate? Holland Partner Group is responsible for this travesty, but not all the culpability. (Los Angeles isn’t congested enough that they would replace a historic restaurant with a 6-story apartment building?) It’s evident that all branches of our government entities, commissions, boards, our schools, city councils and city departments are infiltrated by traitors and dilettantes who take their orders from the DNC, which appears to have tethers beyond. Locally, it’s nice to see that the Democratic Women of Santa Barbara County went against the DCC when they endorsed Deborah Schwartz for mayor and Nina Johnson, who is running against Councilmember Meghan Harmon in District 6. Councilmember Kristin Sneddon is the only candidate up for re-election who was endorsed by both. Men apparently aren’t invited to the party. Why are men so out of favor? Why not promote who is best for the job? We all have different skill sets. Why should we be limited by a quota system? Speaking of skill sets or lack thereof: Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, responded last Tuesday when reporters asked what assurance do we have that the rescued Afghans aren’t Taliban or ISIS. Her response: “They are fully vetted.” What a joke! We have seen how our border patrol is thwarted by our elected officials at our southern border. The corruption knows no bounds.

Interestingly PBS showed the 1984 movie “The Killing Fields” on the night of the Biden-Harris fall of Afghanistan. Instead of Vice President Kamala Harris being available for the Afghanistan debacle, aka the world’s largest airlift, she has embarked on a tour of Asia. While in Singapore, she announced, “if you want to have Christmas toys for your children, buy them now. There won’t be any at Christmas due to climate change.” Oh, puhleez!. The pages of Vice President Harris’ scripted message must be out of order. Such corrupt politicians. And at the helm, so to speak. Where is U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal in all this? The Santa Barbara Democrat is in the Marine Reserves! “Semper Fi, til you die. He is always faithful.” Salud, we ask you, isn’t the motto: “No man left behind”? And in America, we want all our Americans safe. What is a promise? We promised the Afghans that if you help us, we will take care of you, nor will we leave you behind. To all our soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen who fought on the ground, we salute and revere you. Your sacrifices and heroism gave the Afghans a taste of freedom. Too bad it was just a taste. The bottom line is freedom or not — something we have all taken for granted until the last 18 months. Freedom, you have heard, is not free. It is also not a free ride, which many have been led to believe. We owe the generations before us and the generations after us. From “two weeks to flatten the curve” to “show me your papers” — if you have no QR code you aren’t allowed. Rumor has it local medical professionals will be going door to door to vaccinate you if you haven’t complied.

If our world has changed so much in the last 18 months, where will we be in the next 18 months? We do outnumber those in charge. The push back is coming from places like the Los Angeles Fire Department and the nurses in local hospitals. When they are forced to resign, as stated last week, many fewer first responders will be available for all of us. Is that the plan? Remember these were the heroes 18 months ago. This is a fight for freedom of choice and free will. We have freedom unless we lie down. Locally, our elected county board of supervisors are discussing the possibility of mandating that county employees be vaccinated by Sept 30. It’s been said that people are desensitized by violent video games, and now we are inundated in print, on TV and the social media with “a needle in the arm. “Meanwhile, California wells are going dry. Aquifers are at non-replenishment levels, and the land above the aquifers is sinking. Reservoir water levels are continuously falling; and hydroelectric plants on reservoirs, supplying tens of thousands with electricity are being shut down. Water supplies for consumption are being cut back to keep the electricity flowing. Shouldn’t a statewide strategy be implemented now, to anticipate and counteract what might be a catastrophe fast approaching? It seems that Sacramento, like Santa Barbara is more interested in ruining neighborhoods with massive construction of multi-family units in single family neighborhoods. The housing bill, Senate Bill 10, has been suspended, while Senate Bill 9 is being amended all over the place. It makes it so confusing it is sure to pass, just like a “B” paper. Sen. Monique Limón, D-Santa

Barbara, and Assemblyman Steve Bennett, D-Ventura, cautiously choose not to vote when the issue came on their floor. Yet not voting, again, does not represent their constituents’ wishes, but keeps them in good standing with their cronies. Not voting is cowardly. It is not leadership. You are either in or you’re out. By the way, most likely developers, not homeowners, will have the opportunity to profit from SB9. Lot splits require no balance owed on the property, and for most, the construction costs will require a construction loan. Additionally, spending billions on a bullet train using old technology for trains that don’t go very fast and will lose money, increasing the population with illegal immigrants’ dependent on the welfare system, while legal immigrants must be sponsored by a citizen to insure no debts. And all this while pushing very unpopular social engineering legislation are part in parcel with our ills today. Gov. Gavin Newsom makes declarations of drought and leaves it to the counties and cities to survive. The experts and the bureaucrats who run water services cannot, alone, dig us out of this. California needs a leader. Remember this when you vote yes for the recall. Only two weeks until Sept. 14, the last day to turn in your recall ballot. “When they call the roll in the Senate, the wenators do not know whether to answer ‘present’ or ‘not guilty’.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Riddle me this, if Joe Biden spent over 40 years of his life in government, how come he doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing?” columnist Henry Schulte writes.

Every one of the Democrats should be held accountable SCHULTE

Continued from Page C1 have endangered all of our lives. The terrorists couldn’t give a damn what political party you are, you are an infidel and you must be eliminated. What’s happening right now is treasonous. Every one of the Democrats should be held accountable for jeopardizing all Americans and destroying the potency of the U.S.A. And while Joe Biden keeps telling us to wear a mask and get the shot, thousands of Americans are likely to die over the next few weeks in Afghanistan. The murder of those people falls squarely into the lap of this entire administration. Stop with the stupid stuff and focus on the real problems. Tell the Taliban to go to hell, and we’re getting our people out and clamp that southern border down yesterday. Man up and show some spine. We have never seen such dire straits in the history of our nation. The left continues to try and put lipstick on this massive pig but Americans aren’t falling for it anymore

Recently there was a letter to the editor where the writer said the GOP was to blame for all the political games regarding the virus. Talk about a weak attempt at deflection. It’s been the Democrats’ baby since day one. He also pointed to all the problems being blamed on Gov. Gavin Newsom. They are all Gov. Newsom’s problems! He went on to challenge all conservatives to offer something to fix it. Well, we actually are doing something about fixing it. We’re trying to get Gov. Newsom out of office. He said we need concrete solutions, and that’s exactly what we’re doing. The finger for every single problem can be pointed directly back at the left. I’ll reverse the writer’s question and ask him to come up with solutions for the Democratcreated insane crisis on the border, the homeless nightmare, the absolutely appalling situation in Afghanistan, gas prices, inflation. You provide solutions! It’s your people who caused them. We’re just trying to undo the wrongs. America is no longer in charge. The terrorists are.

Afghans will not be permitted to leave ZEPKE

Continued from Page C2 the other members of the G-7 of disloyalty by opposing his actions and insisting on an extension. Reports from Kabul are that some U.S. troops are again flying out of Kabul, and the Taliban is determining which, if any, U.S. citizens reach the airport. The Taliban announced that Afghans will not be permitted to leave. The shuffle to leave, and the elimination of access to the records in the embassy, means there will be no effective vetting of the Afghans being flown to the U.S. to join the 5,500 unvetted COVID-carrying migrants crossing the southern border each day. The Supreme Court just held that the Biden administration acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner when it eliminated the Trump border policy. Just that one? Afghanistan outlasted the British and the Russians some 20 years ago. The U.S. sent troops

to Afghanistan to destroy terrorist groups and the mastermind of 9/11 Osama Bin Laden. The troops accomplished both, so about 18 months ago President Donald Trump followed the traditional approach of the military of sequentially removing civilians, equipment and finally troops, with a beginning of reducing the troops to 2,500 while threatening the Taliban if any American was killed. It worked as there was peace for 18 months. On his inauguration day, President Biden began by reversing President Trump’s policies and practices. Mr. Biden stopped the Keystone Pipeline, eliminated the controls on the border and revised Mr. Trump’s plans for an orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan. Now as the Saudis control our energy; the Mexican cartels, our southern border; and the Taliban, Afghanistan, Congress is considering creating a huge debt that will enable our creditors, such as China, to control our economy. Who’s stranded now?

It’s all about the money BUCKLEY

Continued from Page C1 and have access to it. Now, this is all purely speculation on my part, but I hope you’ll come along for the ride. If, let’s say everything has gone pretty smoothly and most of the Westerners have been brought to safety except for say, 2,000 of them, who are then allowed to leave after Tuesday’s deadline, at a cost to the U.S. of $100,000 per head, that would come to just $200 million. If, for every Afghan who wanted to leave or has left before the deadline, the cost could have been as much as $1 million each. If we put that number at 5,000, that would require an additional payment by the U.S. of for a grand total of $5 billion, 200 million. A pittance really. Even if there were 20,000 Afghans spirited out of town, that would still only come to $20 billion. These figures may all be skewed to the upside or downside, but you get the

point. It’s all about the money, especially the easy cash. If these payments have been or can be done in secret, and (I’m guessing here), the Taliban would also like to keep the payoffs — or at least the total amount — a secret, as a lot of that money will go into leadership pockets for a job well done. More importantly, Mr. Biden will be the hero of the moment, especially if the amount of cash the U.S. had to scrape together to make it happen can be kept under wraps. I do believe this: that large sums of money have been dispatched to Taliban leaders for their “cooperation.” That’s this week’s conspiracy theory, friends. Tune in next week when we’ll try to examine the outcome and the fallout of the upcoming Aug. 31 “deadline” more closely. James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes questions or comments at voices@newspres.com.