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Lending a helping hand Local agencies link together for special event to benefit families in need
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UCSB will offer remote instruction for nearly all undergraduate classes this fall, while also limiting undergraduate student housing to those with “special circumstances.”
UCSB finalizes fall plan By MITCHELL WHITE NEWS-PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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Welcome Every Baby Family Connects, Health Linkages and other sponsors came together Saturday to help Hope Elementary School students and their families. Above, Kavneet Bhatti performs a free dental screening on a toddler.
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Helping those in need is anything but in short supply during this COVID-19 pandemic, and Saturday was another example of that. Welcome Every Baby Family Connects and Health Linkages, two programs under the nonprofit Children & Family Resource Services offered by the Santa Barbara County Education Office, held a special event Saturday morning at Hope Elementary School to help the district’s transitional kindergarten and kindergarten students. The event provided families and children with a ton of goodies, including baby supplies, oral health kits, fresh produce, books, and even free dental screenings. “This went great. The parents were really happy, everything moved along very smoothly and people really didn’t have to wait much at all. I was just talking with one of our nurses and she said the families just really are grateful they really appreciated it,” MaryEllen Rehse, coordinator for Health Linkages, told the News-Press. Ms. Rehse said it took about two months of planning for the event to come together, as it continued to expand and add new elements. For example, after getting donations of diapers, the district had the idea of adding the oral health aspect. From there, the event kept growing until Saturday when it all came together. “It really was a great collaborative effort about two months in the making. We really wanted to make sure we could do it in a safe way and it really just went great,” Ms. Rehse said. Agencies that helped the event run smoothly included the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County which provided the produce, The Berry Man which provided plants and fruits, and Direct Relief which provided family dental kits. WEB-FC provided the diapers and sippy cups, while the local oral agency provided floss, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and educational books. “It’s great that we brought the community together and that we were able to collaborate
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with different agencies,” said Jennyffer Rivera, one of the oral health program managers. Ms. Rivera was one of the key figures in helping all the agencies collaborate for the event. She was pleased with how well everything went and was thrilled to see the educational aspect of teaching the younger kids. “All the families were grateful and we saw a lot of babies, so a lot of the education is starting young. We’re very happy and pleased and it went well, so we’re hoping to expand this out into other communities and even with more collaboration,” Ms. Rivera said. According to Ms. Rehse, about 50 families scheduled to show up on Saturday to receive the extra support. “I know a lot of folks really appreciate the help with the food, and especially diapers
because they are expensive so that’s really a great help to people but it’s been great for us. My whole staff has been excited because with kids not being back in school, we weren’t able to get out there and do our usual dental screenings and other education. We were happy we could find a safe way to do it,” Ms. Rehse said. One of the more important things they did on Saturday was the dental screenings. “Being able to have our dental professionals here was really important because a lot of dental clinics, especially for folks who may have Medicare, a lot of those weren’t able to reopen or they reopened at a lower capacity, so a lot of kids aren’t able to get the dental checks they normally would. To make that happen was important,” Ms. Rehse said. While many kids and even adults might Please see HOPE on A4
UCSB officially announced its plans for the upcoming fall semester, deciding to offer remote instruction for nearly all undergraduate classes and limiting undergraduate student housing to those with “special circumstances.” The announcement was made Friday by Chancellor Henry T. Yang in a letter to UCSB’s campus community. “In order to comply with Santa Barbara County, California Department of Public Health, and University of California guidelines, we have decided to offer nearly all undergraduate fall courses via remote instruction, and to limit our undergraduate student housing for fall quarter to
only those students with special circumstances,” Chancellor Yang wrote. “We recommend that all other undergraduate students stay home to receive remote instruction. Full refunds will be offered to undergraduates for fall housing contracts. These contracts will be honored in winter quarter or whenever we are able to have our undergraduate students move in.” While acknowledging the decision may be a “great disappointment” for students who hoped to return to the Isla Vista campus next month — notably for first-year and transfer students — the chancellor said the college is looking forward to virtually welcoming students at UCSB’s New Student Convocation on Sept. 29. Please see ucsb on A4
The project to decommission Platform Holly has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, while the decommissioning efforts of Piers 421 are scheduled to undergo a soil removal test on Monday.
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Town hall provides update on Platform Holly and Piers 421 By JORGE MERCADO NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
Beth Vidmar, left, and Maise Schulman prepare diapers for distribution. The event helped about 50 families, with each of them receiving a slew of goodies including fresh produce, dental kits, educational books, checkups and more.
The city of Goleta, alongside the State Lands Commission, held a virtual town hall on Thursday to provide an update to the community on the status of the decommissioning of Platform Holly and Piers 421. Jeff Planck, the co-project manager, gave an update on behalf of the SLC, stating that since the last town hall, back in November 2019, 14 wells had their production zone cemented. However, due to the pandemic, they were forced to shut down operations before they could
finish the last three wells. “We were forced to shut down in mid-March due to the pandemic. Shortly thereafter, and believing that the shutdown wouldn’t extend as long as it has, the small fourman crew continued to maintain the equipment and to do some other work in preparation for the restart, using the drilling rig to complete the advancements of all 30 wells,” Mr. Planck explained. “However, in June, it was decided to cold stack the rig, meaning all the rental and most of the movable equipment would be removed from the platform and the equipment that stayed would Please see goleta on A8
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