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About a third of Americans plan to travel for Labor Day weekend as levels bounce back close to pre-pandemic levels

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By TOM GANTERT THE CENTER SQUARE (The Center Square) - Four employees in the city of San Diego fire department made $200,000 plus in overtime in 2021 and were the highest paid employees in the city. A police officer was the highest paid in the city in 2021 with gross pay of $359,138 including $219,805 in overtime. Another police officer made $345,337 with $212,995 in overtime.

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Saturday’s planned 11:17 a.m. launch of Artemis I was scrubbed due to a liquid hydrogen leak, which was discovered by teams while loading propellant into the core stage of the Space Launch System rocket. “Multiple troubleshooting efforts to address the area of the leak by reseating a seal in the quick disconnect where liquid hydrogen is fed into the rocket did not fix the issue. Engineers are continuing to gather additional data,” according to NASA’s blog. This launch was an unmanned test flight which would have sent the Orion capsule on a 37-day journey to the moon, where the capsule would have been placed in orbit. The Artemis program has been designed to put the first woman and the first person of color on the moon. It would mark the first return of humans to the moon since the last Apollo mission was there in 1972. If Artemis I proves successful, astronauts will fly Artemis II no earlier than 2024. According to NASA’s plans Artemis III would put two astronauts on the moon sometime after 2025.

Sunday, SEPTEMBER 4, 2022Our 167th Year $2.00 Shelterbox sends help to Ethiopia and Somalia - B1 Sending aid to Africa Columnist Robert Eringer looks at Padre Pio as new movie makes an impression on noted actor - A2 revelationCinematic LOTTERY Saturday’s SUPER LOTTO: 20-24-25-30-35 Mega: 8 Friday’s MEGA MILLIONS: 39-40-52-60-67 Mega: 20 Saturday’s DAILY DERBY: 12-05-11 Time: 1:47.44 Saturday’s DAILY 3: 3-2-5 / Midday 9-8-9 Saturday’s DAILY 4: 2-3-0-8 Saturday’s FANTASY 5: 4-6-9-18-30 Saturday’s POWERBALL: 18-27-49-65-69 Meganumber: 9 FOLLOW US ON Classified A9 Life B1-4 Obituaries A10 Sudoku B3 Sports A8, 10 Weather A10 in S id E 66683300150 0

The biggest overtime recipient in 2021 was firefighter Eric Dunnick, who was one of the three named plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the city that claimed the city was underpaying firefighters with how it determined the pay rate for overtime. The lawsuit was filed in 2019 and represented 705 fire department employees. The city settled the lawsuit for $3.4 million in 2021. Mr. Dunnick’s regular pay was listed as $35,698 in 2020 and he received $204,462 in overtime for gross pay of $309,281 that year. In 2021, Mr. Dunnick’s base salary was listed as $42,642 yet he earned $236,937 in overtime and had gross pay of $329,948. Media spokespeople from the city departments of Personnel, Fire Rescue and Emergency Services did not respond to emails seeking an explanation. The city paid out $113.4 million in overtime in 2021, an increase over the $110.8 million in overtime it paid out the previous year, according to data received in an open records request. San Diego has increased the number of people working in public safety over the past nine years. The number of budgeted fulltime and part-time employees in the police department has increased from 2,402 in 2012 to 2,584 in 2021, according to the city’s 2021 financial report. The city had 1,208 employees in fire, life safety and homeland security in 2021 and that increased to 1,526 in 2021. The city spent $866 million on public safety in 2021, which accounted for 49% of its general fund spending. By comparison, the city’s transportation spending in 2021 was $122 million. Four SD fire employees got $200k plus in overtime

According to a survey from AAA, 32% of Americans plan to travel during the holiday weekend, with 82% of them saying they will do so by automobile.

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The News-Press asked Doug Shupe, CommunicationsCorporateManager for AAA, if more people are traveling this Labor Day weekend as opposed to last year. “I can’t speak specifically about Labor Day, as AAA did not conduct this survey last year,” Mr. Shupe said. “However, throughout the summer what we have continued to see is an increase in travel from last year, getting very close to pre-pandemic levels.” Asked if a drop in gas prices would have caused an increase in travel, Mr. Shupe noted that “Usually people will not be deterred by higher gas prices, historically they will continue to travel.”“Just in time for millions of Americans to hit the road for Labor Day, the average price of gasoline is now $3.799 per gallon, the most common price is $3.499, the average of the lowest 10% is

A view of Highway 101 as it passes through Summerland, where northbound traffic moved at a glacial pace by midafternoon, while southbound traffic was relatively moderate on Friday.

Another artist tried to trick my father out of his collection of Pio portraits, offering to take them away to have them professionally photographed. A cursory background check showed this person to be of poor character. When told he could not have access to the Pio portraits after all, the man’s demeanor turned snarly and menacing — another devil exposed. My father passed away in 2008 — on St. Pio Feast Day.

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John Paul II, the Polish pope, who revered the mystic and once (while a cardinal) took confession with him, canonized Pio to sainthood in 2002. My father painted a portrait of Padre Pio and gifted it to Luigi a few days before his heartOverjoyed,surgery.Luigi prayed to Pio’s likeness, entered the hospital with confidence and bounced back from surgery with new vim and vigor. Thereafter, he no longer suffered the nervous disorders that had plagued him for manyLuigiyears.feltcured, and he credited Padre Pio —my dad’s portrait of Pio—for his recovery.

THE PADRE PIO FOUNDATION About to embark on a road trip through New England in 2017, I discovered that The Padre Pio Foundation of the U.S.A. is situated in Cromwell, Conn., not two miles off I-91, the route from Washington, D.C. to Portland, Maine.Awhite clapboard structure houses the foundation. I entered and donated one of my father’s Pio portraits with a typescript explaining his spiritual connection to the mystic. She pointed me to the chapel at the end of a hallway. It was simple, like a small-town church, featuring a crucifixion centerpiece, statuettes of the Virgin Mary, fresh flowers. I lit a candle for my father and took a pew to contemplate my dutiful presence here. Earlier in the day I had visited Mark Twain’s house in Hartford, Conn., and Jack Kerouac’s final resting place at Edson Cemetery in Lowell, Mass., where the author of “On the Road” was born. The collective experience left me overwhelmed with emotion. A couple months after that, when my family barely survived the mudslide of Montecito, I sent to an old friend a photograph of an angel that had appeared on the ceiling of my bedroom hours before the debris flow struck our house. My father had once gifted this person with a portrait of Pio. After seeing the angel pic, my old friend emailed me his take on our miraculous escape: “This gift comes from your father, no greater gift could he give you and your family, protection. No further explanation.”Ninemonths later, three days before St. Pio Feast Day and the 10th anniversary of my father’s passing, I visited St. Peter the Apostle Church in Parsippany, N.J., to view Pio’s relics, including his mittens, encased in a glass reliquary, mottled with dried blood that had seeped incessantly from the mystic’s hands. I could almost hear Padre Pio’s famed mantra: “Pray, hope, don’t worry.” And traversing the concourse at Newark Liberty Airport the next morning, I felt a certain lightness, as if I was walking on air — a tranquil ecstasy or satori — having surrendered all control to the universe.

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News item: After preparing for the lead role as a Capuchin friar in a movie about Padre Pio, actor Shia LaBeouf claims to have become a devotee of the Christian mystic who, in 2002, was canonized into sainthood. “Padre Pio” will premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week, just two weeks before Pio Feast Day on Sept. 23, the date on which St. Pio passed into eternity at age 81 in 1968. “Pio saved my life,” Mr. LaBeouf, 36, told Bishop Robert Barron of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in an interview posted on YouTube. “The task is to play one of the most spiritual men that ever lived. If you like immersive experiences and you get tasked with playing Pio, your life is going to change.”

Odd coincidence: Soon after Russian dictator Vladimir Putin brutally invaded Ukraine, Lukoil’s board of directors issued a press release critical of the invasion. Dated March 3, 2022, their press release states: “Lukoil expresses herewith its deepest concerns about the tragic events in Ukraine. Calling for the soonest termination of the armed conflict, we express our sincere sympathy for all victims, who are affected by this tragedy. We strongly support a lasting ceasefire and a settlement of problems through serious negotiations and diplomacy.” Why was Mr. Maginov in the hospital?

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Shame like I had never experienced before. I had nowhere to go; this was the last stop on the train.”This type of spiritual pathway, hitting rock bottom, is known as adamic ecstasy. Mr. LaBeouf’s conversion will come as no surprise to those familiar with St. Pio, around whose legend a 6,000-seat, 65,000square foot shrine (which houses his tomb) was constructed in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, where, for most of his life Pio, born Francesco Forgione, lived a spartan existence as a monk. Abel Ferrara, the movie’s 71-year-old Bronx-born director, best known for “Bad Lieutenant” (a 1992 flick starring Harvey Keitel), cast Mr. LaBeouf at the suggestion of Willem Dafoe, who also appears in the film. Says Mr. Ferrara, “He (Shia) is the kind of actor that the next minute jumps in his pick-up truck and he’s driving to a monastery in California.” In fact, Mr. LaBeouf spent several months in a Capuchin monastery in Northern California prepping for this role. “When I got there,” says the actor, “a switch happened,” meaning a switch in his mind that changed his perspective on life. While filming in Rome, Shia — as is his acting style— totally immersed himself into everything Padre Pio, including the use of a bed in which Pio had slept.Mr. Ferrara’s father was born near Pio’s hometown of Pietrelcina, 20 miles from Naples. He has been living and working the past couple decades In Italy. The plot of his film focuses on Pio’s arrival at the monastery in 1916, followed four years later by the massacre of San Giovanni Rotondo in which 14 people were killed when police opened fire on a crowd of socialists who had just won the mayoral election, had the result denied to them by the ruling class (church leaders and landowners) and in defiance attempted to install the true victor at the municipal building. The ensuing conflict — along with rampant poverty — led to the spread of fascism throughout Italy. A practicing Buddhist now celebrating 10 years of sobriety, Mr. Ferrara has dedicated his movie to the victims of that massacre along with the people of Ukraine. “I thought about the confluence between the massacre and Pio’s stigmata both happening at the same place at the same time…,” he explained to The Associated Press. “I mean, how can you not make a movie about that? What I’m looking at is a rerun of World War II. Seventy-five million people died 70 years ago. It’s happening right here in front of our eyes. You’re looking at the end of the world.” Rave reviews have already appeared for the trailer alone. States one, “We can already see the actor’s convincing depiction of the much-admired friar … the viewer gets a spine-tingling glimpse of Padre Pio’s life and the challenges he had to contend with as a stigmatist while a world war raged.”

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WORD GETS AROUND During this process, my father was, oddly, taken by Padre Pio’s image. He couldn’t get it out of his mind and was soon (to his bewilderment) compelled to paint additional portraits of the Christian mystic. In the early hours one night, while in Monaco, my father awoke feeling unwell. He wandered into the dark living room and noticed an unframed portrait of Pio, not yet dry, propped against the wall, barely illuminated by harbor lights in the distance. Feeling deathly ill at this point, my father sat down by the painting and prayed — perhaps for the first time in his life. Much later that morning, after conducting tests, a doctor told my father that an ulcer in his stomach was bleeding so profusely that he was amazed my dad had survived the night. Soon after that experience, my brother-inlaw Steven, then in his early 30s, discovered a lump on his neck that got diagnosed as a particularly aggressive tongue cancer at an elevated stage. The prognosis was bad. Doctors did not expect Steven to live longer than six months. On hearing this terrible news, my father painted a portrait of Padre Pio and mailed it to Steven. A surgeon removed the base of Steven’s tongue and radiation therapy commenced. Steven prayed to his Padre Pio portrait. Steven made a recovery so miraculous that his physicians were left astounded and bewildered. Over 25 years later, Steven remains in complete remission. Other such recoveries took place when my father gifted those in need with a Padre Pio portrait.Wordgot around. A French-Canadian priest devoted to Padre Pio learned of my father’s portraits and one day arrived unannounced at his Monaco art studio to personally see what was going on. The priest claimed to feel Pio’s presence in my father’s studio. And he suggested that Pio was using my father to continue intercession healing through prayer. Moreover, this priest expressed a desire to organize an exhibition of my father’s Pio portraits at a church in Monaco. However, after some planning, my father demurred, preferring not to market or promote the special blessings these paintings seemed to possess. (One of his life-size portraits of Pio hangs on permanent display inside St. Nicholas Cathedral in Monaco.)

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Fearing the worst, Luigi asked my father to paint a small portrait for him of someone called Padre Pio so he could have it near him during the operation. My father replied, “Of course, Luigi. But I’ve never heard of Padre Pio, and I’ve no idea what he looks like. I’m happy to do it if you bring me a photograph.”Thiswaseasy for Luigi as he, like many Italians, are devoted to Pio, whose prayer card, and other such amulets, they carry with them. Or, as movie director Abel Ferrara puts it, “He is an iconic figure, on the back of every truck. He’s the saint of every drug dealer in Naples.” My father was born in the Bronx to a Jewish family who emigrated to America from Poland/ Russia in 1913, probably to escape religious oppression. He did not grow up in a religious environment; certainly, none of the traditions of his heritage were handed down to him, or to me.Luigi presented my father with a photograph of Pio and explained that pilgrims traveled from all parts of the world to visit the Italian town of San Giovanni Rotondo, where Pio had lived a humble existence in a monastery. (As a monk, he existed in a small, sparse cell in which, Pio claimed, he engaged in active combat with the devil most nights, emerging, come morning, bruised and bloodied — in addition to the blood that continually streamed from the palms of his hands and feet.) Even in death, explained Luigi, Padre Pio possessed magical healing powers. For decades, the Vatican suspected Pio of causing and perpetuating his bleeding wounds. Wishing to expose him as a fraud, the Holy See dispatched a series of investigators to expose the fakery they alleged. However, they could never prove Pio’s stigmata, which began in 1918, was a fraud and eventually declared it authentic.

Which,“Depression.”ofcourse, sounds like the political abuse (and weaponizing) of psychiatry (add assassination).Thisistheeighth death this year of Russians associated with their country’s oil and gas industry. Alexander Subbotin, a former Lukoil executive/billionaire oligarch, died in May, supposedly after seeking a hangover cure from a shaman and ingesting toad poison. Yeah, right.

The leader of the National Republican Army, an underground Russian military movement seeking to overthrow Mr. Putin, told Newsweek that the Russian dictator’s end will come “quietly and fearfully. He will lose his head in exchange for sanctions relief” as the fall guy. However, the National Republican Army leader adds, “His cronies won’t be able to get away with it either. We have taken note of every move.” The National Republican Army claimed responsibility for the murder-by-car-bomb last month of Darya Dugina, a pro-Putin newscaster and daughter of Aleksandre Dugina, a nationalist ideologue reputed to be “Putin’s brain.”

Robert Eringer is a longtime Montecito author with vast experience in investigative journalism. He welcomes questions or comments at reringer@gmail.com.

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One person who might not have given it a thumb’s up is Padre Pio himself, who was known to have a low opinion of television and the movies, believing it destroyed family life. He refused to watch the friary’s only television set and once said, “The devil is in the cinema.”

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INTERCESSION As far as I know, the closest my father ever got to spirituality was his connection to Padre Pio, who suffered stigmata (bleeding wounds) continuously for 60 years and was known for his power of prayer to heal those in need. My dad’s unique attachment to Pio came late in life to him, around the age of 70 — and it may explain why he seemed at greater peace with himself the last 15 years of his life. As a painter and sculptor, one of my father’s creative passions was portraiture, for which he developed his own expressionist style, often unappreciated by unsuspecting subjects. Commuting between homes in London and Monaco, he produced art in both venues and was never happier than when at work inside his studio. (This was the lesson he conveyed: “Take the time to cultivate a talent that exists within you because it will provide serenity in old age.”) During their many years in Monaco, my parents made friends with Luigi, the sweetnatured custodian of their apartment building. Luigi suffered a variety of nervous ailments including claustrophobia and every so often needed convalescence in a sanatorium. His anxieties led to a heart condition, which eventually required surgical angioplasty.

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NorthbouNd highway 101 Sunday nights from 9 p.m. - 7 a.m., the highway will be one lane from S. Padaro Ln. to Sheffield Dr. Monday - Thursday nights from 8 p.m. – 7 a.m., the highway will be one lane from S. Padaro Ln. to Sheffield Dr. September 6-8, the highway will be one lane from Bailard Ave. to S. Padaro Ln. with on- and off-ramps at Bailard Ave., Casitas Pass Rd., Linden Ave. and Santa Monica Rd. The northbound on-ramp at Ortega Hill Rd. will be closed for up to eight months and is anticipated to reopen Feb. 14, until then drivers can use the on-ramp at Sheffield Dr. The off-ramp at Sheffield Dr. will be closed for up to six months and is anticipated to reopen on Oct. 3, drivers can use the off-ramp at San Ysidro Rd. SouthbouNd highway 101 Sunday nights from 10 p.m. - 7 a.m., the highway will be one lane from Sheffield Dr. to Carpinteria Ave. Monday - Thursday nights from 8 p.m. – 7:30 a.m., the highway will be one lane from Sheffield Dr. to Carpinteria Ave. Sept. 6-8, the highway will be one lane from Carpinteria Ave. to Bailard Ave. with on- and off-ramps at Bailard Ave., Casitas Pass Rd., Linden Ave. and Reynolds Ave. The off-ramp at Evans Ave., closed for up to nine months, is anticipated to reopen Oct. 24, drivers can use the southbound off-ramp at Sheffield Dr. The off-ramp at S. Padaro Ln./Santa Claus Ln. will be closed for up to seven months and is anticipated to reopen Oct. 19, drivers can use the off-ramp at Carpinteria Ave. to Santa Ynez Ave., Via Real, and S. Padaro Ln.The on-ramp at Santa Claus Ln. will close on Sept. 6 and will be closed for up to five months. It is anticipated to reopen on Jan. 29, and drivers can use the detour on Via Real, Santa Ynez Ave., Carpinteria Ave. and Reynolds Ave.On S. Padaro Ln. under Hwy 101, Sept. 6-8, from 9 p.m. - 6 a.m., flaggers will direct traffic as needed during temporary support (falsework) removal. Delays are to be expected when beams are being moved. Trucks over 40’ will not be able to turn right onto S. Padaro Ln. from Santa Claus Ln. until the temporary safety barriers are moved at the beginning of September. - Katherine Zehnder

Two small trees have grown tall to stand among the mighty Oak Group. Oak Group Co-Founder, Arturo Tello, has been joined by his friend and fellow painter, John Wullbrandt. Together they share selected paintings to illustrate their passion for our environment. Both artists have been painting for over 50 years and have deep roots in local land preservation and conservation efforts. Their unique and masterful painting skills along with their mutual support of protecting our precious open space, has been recognized by Santa Barbara Fine Art with a two man show.

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Biden’s plan. Several economists have raised the alarm about how the cancellation will hike inflation.Former Obama administration economist Jason Furman said the cost of forgiving the loans will be felt by the rest of the country.

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“Student loan relief would lead some people to spend more,” said Mr. Furman, who also works as a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “We can’t make more so others would consume less. The way that happens is inflation. Budget constraint. If you add hundreds of billions to the deficit, eventually taxes will rise or spending will be cut. Or some tax cut or spending increases that could have happened won’t. Either way, a cost. A full evaluation of student loan relief would take this into account. You might still like it – it benefits recent college grads and hurts most everyone else, both rich and poor. But don’t assume it is ‘free’ money – it is Mr.not.”Furman said the plan would be “gasoline on the inflationary fire.” “Pouring roughly half a trillion dollars of gasoline on the inflationary fire that is already burning is reckless,” Mr. Furman wrote on Twitter. “Doing it while going well beyond one campaign promise ($10K of student loan relief) and breaking another (all proposals paid for) is evenTheworse.”majority of Americans feel the same way. As The Center Square previously reported, an NBC/Momentive poll from last month showed that 59% of surveyed Americans report they are concerned that canceling student debt will raise inflation.“Republicans are especially concerned: 81% of Student debt will rise to pre-cancellation levels in less than a decade, budget group says Please see DEBT on A10

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By CASEY HARPER THE CENTER SQUARE (The Center Square) – It will take less than a decade for student loan debt to return to the level it was at before President Joe Biden canceled nearly half a trillion dollars of the debt at taxpayer’s expense, a new report from a leading budget group says. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released the analysis. They estimate that President Biden’s debt cancellation of $10,000 per borrower and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients will cost the federal government between $440 billion and $600 billion.However, they say it will only take a few years for student debt levels to rise again, erasing the cuts of President Biden’s cancellations.“Weestimate that if all eligible borrowers receive debt cancellation, the overall student debt portfolio would return to its current level of $1.6 trillion in five and a half years – in 2028,” CRFB said. “In inflation-adjusted dollars, student debt would return to its current level in 2031.”CRFB also pointed out that the delay in payments, which has gotten little attention compared to debt cancellation, has a big cost for taxpayers as well. “This four-month payment pause extension will add $20 billion to the deficit,” the group said. “The repayment pause has now been extended seven times, lasting 33 months, bringing the total cost of the pause since the beginning of the pandemic through the end of this year to $155 billion.”CRFB isn’t the only one critical of President

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Gov. Sisolak was first elected governor in 2018 after serving on the Clark County Commission and the Nevada Board of Regents. Discussing his performance as governor, Gov. Sisolak said that he is “committed to protecting the well-being of Nevadans who’ve called the Silver State home for generations,” which is why he “followed through on his promise to not raise taxes on everyday Nevadans, increased the minimum wage, and lowered health care, child care, and housing costs for families in every corner of our state.” Gov. Sisolak also highlighted his record on abortion, saying, “Governors like me are the last line of defense for protecting abortion access … I signed an executive order protecting anyone seeking reproductive care in Nevada from their states’ restrictive, anti-abortion laws.” Mr. Lombardo served in the U.S. Army, Army Reserves, and the National Guard. After two decades as an officer in the Las vegas Metropolitan Police Department, he was elected Clark County sheriff in 2014. Mr. Lombardo has been critical of Gov. Sisolak’s performance as governor, saying, “November is our chance to bring relief to our state. No more reckless spending. No more prioritizing criminals over citizens. No more fake promises. It’s time for Nevadans to stop paying the price for Sisolak’s failures … Say no to four more years of Steve Sisolak’s failed policies.”Mr.Lombardo has also been critical of Gov. Sisolak’s record on crime, saying, “Signing bills that create an environment of chaos. Preventing police from doing their jobs. Allowing criminals to walk the streets. Sisolak’s softon-crime policies are making our communities less safe!” In response, Gov. Sisolak released a campaign ad saying that homicide rates increased while Mr. Lombardo was sheriff. Nevada has had a Democratic trifecta since 2019. Nevada does not have a state government triplex.Astate government trifecta refers to a situation where one party controls a state’s governorship and majorities in both chambers of the state legislature. A state government triplex refers to a situation where the governor, attorney general, and secretary of state are all members of the same political party.Asof August 26, there are 23 Republican trifectas, 14 Democratic trifectas, and 13 divided governments where neither party holds trifecta control.Thisis one of 36 gubernatorial elections taking place in 2022. The governor serves as a state’s top executive official and is the only executive office that is elected in all 50 states. There are currently 28 Republican governors and 22 Democratic governors.

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TRAVEL Continued from Page A1 $3.16, while the median price in the U.S. is $3.65/gal,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for Gas Buddy, reported in a tweet onAccordingThursday.to data from AAA, as of Saturday the national average for a gallon of gasoline is $3.79. In California, the average for a gallon of gas is $5.25. The highest recorded average price in California was $6.43 recorded on June 14. In Santa Barbara County, the average for a gallon of gas is $5.37.“According to the survey, 66% said they traveled less this summer than they typically would, and 80% said they made cutbacks to save money, with those between the ages of 18 to 34-years-old cutting back the most,” according to a press release from AAA. According to the survey, consumers cut back in the following areas: 44% cut back in driving, 29% in flying, 36% in going to the movies and 49% in non-grocery related shopping (such as electronics, clothes etc). “Our survey also shows that 73% are planning at least one fall trip. Travel is predicted to remain strong throughout the fall months. After two years of lockdowns, people do want to get out there and see the world again. Travel providers are offering good deals, especially on cruises fueling people’s desire to get out there and do things again. Usually we see that the demand drops in the fall months as the kids go back to school, but there is an interest remaining in travel throughout the autumn months,” said Mr. Shupe.“For those considering traveling this fall, book your plans now due to the pent up demand. Work with a reputable travel advisor, who can also be your advocate and make changes should you need to while you’re away. Consider travel insurance as well. We are living in a very volatile world, protect your investment,” said Mr. Shupe. In the thirteen most southern counties of California, “the Auto Club anticipates coming to the roadside rescue of 58,788 stranded drivers from Thursday, Sept. 1 through Monday, Sept. 5,” according to the press release. Nationwide, AAA expects to receive over 545,000 calls from stranded drivers during the Labor Day weekend, according to Mr. Shupe. The top reasons for calls will be dead batteries, flat tires and getting locked out of vehicles. “Given the heat wave, it is very important to inspect your vehicle … Travelers should top off fluid levels, as well as check tire tread and inflation before traveling. In addition, if driving in areas that may experience monsoonal rain, wiper blades should be replaced. Travelers should also check their batteries. Most batteries have a lifespan of three to five years if maintained. Make sure your battery is secured tight and cables are tight and free of corrosion. A battery that rattles won’t last as long. Additionally, pack a cellphone charger and have plenty of water for everyone in your vehicle,” advised Mr. Shupe. “Think about safety. Before returning from a trip make sure you get at least seven hours of good sleep and make sure everyone is buckled up. Obey the speed limits. Don’t drive intexticated, don’t drive intoxicated. We want everyone to come away from this weekend with great memories and photos, not a tragedy that could have been avoided,” said Mr. Shupe.

By RONEKA MATHENY BALLOTPEDIA vIA THE CENTER SQUARE Incumbent Steve Sisolak (D), Joe Lombardo (R), Edward Bridges II (I), and Brandon Davis (L) are running in the general election for governor of Nevada on Nov. 8.

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“Scrapping out the draw gives our post-game messaging a lot more validity,” reflected Wolf. “It was really nice to have that positive conversation at the end of the game. Tonight we took a step forward, and everyone could see that we did.” “This team is no longer going to sneak up on anybody. We’re going to have to deal with some adjustments from folks who maybe weren’t expecting us to be as challenging as we might turn out to Westmontbe.”

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returns to the pitch on Wednesday at 12:30 p.m., when they host Whittier in the Warriors’ home-opener.

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By JACOB NORLING WESTMONT SPORTS WRITER

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Westmont Men’s Soccer (0-1) competed in their first countable match of 2022 on Friday night when they took on the Azusa Pacific Cougars (2-0-1) in southern California. The Cougars opened the scoring with a goal in the firstten minutes, but the Warriors were granted an equalizer partway through the second half. After 90 minutes of play, Westmont’s opening match ended in a 1-1 “Eventie.before the equalizer, we felt like there was an uptick,” said Westmont head coach Dave Wolf. “There was an uptick tonight in our forward-playing mentality. There were a bunch of guys who joined in as we went and that was great to see. “It would’ve been tough to convince the guys that they grew tonight if we dropped this result. We’ve been having the same conversation over and over about growing although it doesn’t look or feel like we are. Tonight, however, we most definitely took a step in the right Duringdirection.”thefirstten minutes of action, the Cougars caused consistent traffic in and around the Warriors’ 18. In the first five minutes, Azusa Pacific had two legitimate opportunities and even challenged Westmont keeper Brady immediately. The Cougar’s first on-goal attempt came in the fifth minute, off the foot of Jesse Echeverrria, but Highfill was able to get his hands on it to collect his first save of the Westmontseason.would not be so fortunate on APU’s second shot of theInmatch.the10th minute, Cougars’ striker Luis Solis received a pass from 25 yards out and was the final player to touch the ball before the game’s first goal was scored. Solis dribbled around Westmont’s first challenger, then three more stood in his way. Rather than try and beat all three, Solis took a touch to his left, and saw a lane in-between the three men.From there, about 15 yards out, Solis fired with his left foot and snuck his shot just under the reach of Highfill and inside the left post for the 1-0 lead. Play slowed down as the first half got going, with only two more shots on goal occurring before the halftime whistle. One of those shots belonged to Westmont’s Aldo Becerril, who recorded the club’s first on-goal attempt of the season. APU keeper Leo Moreno was able to smother the shot however, thwarting the Warriors’ lone attempt to score in the first45Inminutes.thesecond half, Westmont looked like a completely different club, in terms of both physicality and skill. The Warriors did not back down from their counterpart, and instead came out with a different level of energy that led to several scoring opportunities. Still, while the Warriors had opportunities in and around the box, they were unable to muster a quality attempt on goal for the first chunk of the second half. Then, in the 68th minute, Westmont came within inches of knotting the score. Connor Lynch made a run from outside the 18 and was sent an over-thetop through ball that guided him to the six-yard box. In a foot race, both Lynch and Moreno dashed towards the ball, vying for the initialLynchtouch.gotto the ball first, and tapped it over the reach of Moreno. However, the Cougars breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Lynch’s shot soared inches wide of the far post. Westmont squandered the best scoring chance they had created all night, but fortunately for the Warriors, it was the Cougars that provided an even better one. In the 70th minute, the Warriors were putting high pressure on the Cougars, who, up until that point, had comfortably possessed the ball in their own third of the field. All it took was one Cougar to be unaware of their surroundings to open the door for the Warriors, and that Cougar turned out to be Solis, APU’s previous goalscorer. Twenty-five yards from the goal line, Solis was one of several Cougars to pass the ball further into their own third of the pitch, and in his case, he elected to roll the ball all the way back to Moreno.WhatSolis did not notice was the fact that Michael Stull was directly between the two Cougars. Stull did not even have to intercept the pass as one typically would. Instead, he followed the ball directly to the 18, as he was the only man within five yards of the ball when Solis touched it. The errant pass turned into a 50-50 ball between Moreno and Stull, and on this occasion, it was Stull who was able to take advantage of the miscue and poke it over the APU keeper to the back of the net for the equalizer. “The harder you work, the luckier you get,” grinned Wolf. “When you’re struggling to create chances you get to the point where you’ll take just about anything, and that was just about anything. Those kinds of goals can be catalytic moments, where things change.”Inthefinal twenty minutes of play, both sides were able to put a pair of shots on frame, but neither could penetrate the back of the net. After 90 minutes, the Warriors and Cougars officially ended things in a 1-1- tie.

By JACOB NORLING WESTMONT SPORTS WRITER After a long day of travel on Thursday, Westmont Women’s Volleyball (4-2) competed in day one of the Labor Day Classic on Friday. In the first match of the day, Westmont overcame a first-set loss to defeat Doane (Neb.) (2-8) in four sets. Then, in the evening, Westmont stayed hot and swept William Woods (Mo.) (1-4) to cap off a stellar day“Weone.were one of the teams that traveled the furthest,” said Westmont head coach Ruth McGolpin. “We got in super late, lost a piece of luggage, went through multiple delays just to get here. We displayed some serious grit today to show up and win a couple matches.” In the first match of the day, the Warriors matched up against the Doane Tigers in what turned out to be a coming out party for Westmont. In the opening set, the two sides were neck-and-neck up until the game’s conclusion. On consecutive occasions a kill from Lexi Malone extended the set, with the first kill tying the game at 24 and the second tying it at 25 a moment later.However, after Doane’s Taylor Sluka put the Tigers up 26-25, an attacking error from Phoebe Minch gave Doane the 27-25 win to open the match. Attacking miscues were the difference in the day’s first set, with Westmont committing seven attacking errors compared to Doane, who did not commit a single one. In the second set, Westmont came dangerously close to falling down 2-0. The Warriors played from behind for the entire set, at one point trailing 21-24. Then, the script was flipped. After a clean first set, Doane committed 10 attacking errors in the second, including two up After24-21.themiss-hits, the Tigers called a timeout to regroup up 24-23, still needing just one more point to take control of the match. However, Jessie Terlizzi’s fourth kill tied the set at 24, Malone’s eighth kill put the Warriors up 25-24, and an ace from Keelyn Kistner capped off a setwinning 5-0 run to tie the match at one apiece. Westmont carried their momentum from the 5-0 run to end the second set and began the third set on a 4-0 run. Doane fired back to get within two at 6-4, but kills from Ashley Boswell and Sara Krueger sparked another 4-0 run, causing the Tigers to call a timeout with the Warriors leading 10-4. The Warriors kept their foot on the gas pedal and the lead only grew out of the timeout. Eventually, Krueger’s fourth kill of the set gave Westmont a 25-15 win, and 2-1 match advantage. After going the entire first set without a single block, the Warriors picked up three blocks in each of the second and third sets.In the fourth set, Doane came out swinging and jumped out to a 7-4 lead. From there, Westmont once again went on a run, this time an 8-2 swing to claim a 12-9 advantage. Doane trimmed the deficit to 13-12, but Westmont took complete control with a five-point run going into a timeout.Afteran error from the Tigers, kills by Taylor Distelberg and Boswell followed by consecutive aces from Kaili Hashimoto gave the Warriors an 18-12 advantage. Out of the timeout, Terlizzi picked up her 10th and 11th kills to put Westmont up 20-12, and cap off an all but match-ending 7-0Momentsrun. later, Minch made it official with her game-high 16th kill and the Warriors took the fourth set by a score of 25-17 to win the match 3-1.“We played a little bit hungry after dropping that first set,” said McGolpin. “We pressed the gas a bit and our blocking really picked up. When our blocking picked up, our defense played great behind them. Our rightsiders in game one made the difference.”Minchalso led the Warriors with 26 digs, while Kistner and Alexa Shiner recorded 24 and 21 assists each, respectively. Terlizzi finished the match with 11 digs, while Malone finished with 10. Malone also led the club with four blocks. In the second match of the day, Westmont went toe-to-toe with the William Woods Owls and picked up right where they left off against Doane. In the first set, once again a game-changing run swung momentum in favor of the Warriors.Initially, the Owls led by as many as three at 13-10. Then, one of Terlizzi’s set-high six kills sparked a 7-0 run that allowed the Warriors to take control of the set by a score of 17-13. Later, Terlizzi ended the set with kill number six to seal the first game 25-18 in favor of Westmont.Inthesecond set, Westmont did not wait to trail before going on a run, jumping out to a 9-2 lead before the Owls could call timeout. Out of the timeout the Owls came all the way back to tie the set at 17, but from there, the Warriors were able to prevent further damage.Akillfrom Taylor Distelberg began a set-ending 8-4 run that ended with Malone’s ninth kill of the match, and a 25-21 win to put the Warriors up 2-0.In the third and final set, the Warriors had one last game-changing run in them. The Owls hung with Westmont for much of the game and trimmed a once four-point deficit to one at 14-13. Then, Westmont went on a 9-0 run to go up 23-13, taking complete control of the day’s final game.Moments later, Distelberg’s ninth kill gave the Warriors a 2516 win, and their first sweep of 2022.“In our second match we had solid serving, great passing, and good defense,” reflected McGolpin. “The tide turned when we put up some blocks on them.”Malone led the club with 14 kills while Minch added in 12 of her own. Both Minch and Kaili Hashimoto had a teamhigh 14 digs. Kistner notched another 26 assists, while Shiner added 15 of her own. At the net, both Distelberg and Krueger led the club with three blocks each.Also of note, Malone’s 14 kills came on just 22 attempts, good for a .636 attack percentage. Distelberg, who picked up a career-high nine kills, posted an attack percentage of .615. “They couldn’t stop our middles,” stated McGolpin. “Both Lexi and Taylor were on fire, and that match really turned into their show. That was one of the best matches we’ve seen her play since she got to Westmont.”Tomorrow, Westmont will play Grand View (Iowa) at 1:00 p.m. CDT/11:00 a.m. PDT, before playing host Bellevue (Neb.) at 7:00 p.m. CDT/5:00 p.m. PDT. Then, Westmont fly home and prepare for their Golden State Athletic Conference opener, which will take place on September 10 at home against The Master’s. Jacob Norling is the sports information assistant at Westmont College. email: sports@newspress.com

“We were able to create three or four really dangerous chances in the end,” shared Wolf. “Aldo Becerril showed a ton of quality by creating an opportunity for Erik Guerrero in the final moments of that game. To me, as awkward as the goal was, we created a lot of really high-class opportunities as well.”While the Warriors were frustrated with their inability to pull out the win, Wolf made sure the men knew they made several strides in the contest.

The Carpinteria High football team won a hard-fought game against Channel Islands, defeating their opponents 16-13. “We were playing with lots of emotion and focus and wanted the win,” said Coach Mario Robinson in an email. “QB Talon Trumble deserves the game ball with hard running and good passing.”Trumble ran for 160 yards on 28 carries, scoring a touchdown and a two-point conversion. He also completed eight passes in 12 attempts, leading to another touchdown on a pass to Sebastian Hernandez. Hernandez had four receptions for 58 yards, as well as contributing on defense with a clutch interception with one minute left on the clock. “The defense played tough last night and kept making big plays and getting stops when needed,” said Robinson.” It was great to see the team come together and battle for four quarters.”

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LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS • Michelle Ohwobete continues to have a great start to the season as she tallied a double-double against the Waves. She finished the night with 15 kills along with 12 digs while adding on three blocks.

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He is survived by his wife, Patti (Chandler); sons Sean (Gabriella) and Todd (DeAnna); nine beautiful grandchildren; brothers Dwayne (Jackie), David (Daphne); sister Peggy (Steve) Johnson; brother-in-law Michael Chandler (Susie) and numerous nephews and nieces. He was predeceased by his parents Ralph and Marjorie Larkins and brother Curtis.Thefamily requests donations be made in his memory to the “Wounded Warrior Project” or “Military Order of the Purple Heart Association.”

• Deni Wilson was just shy of getting her own double-double. She ended the match with 10 kills while contributing eight total blocks, seven of which were assisted. Wilson was also the most efficient hitter for the Gauchos, hitting .286 (10 kills, 4 errors, 21 attempts) on the evening.•Inthe back row, Macall Peed was all over the floor. She ended the game with a team-high 22 digs.

KELLER, Max F. Family and friends are saddened by the passing of Max F. Keller (92) on August 26th, 2022. Max was a veteran of the Korean War and for his service, he earned a Purple Heart. He served honorably in the United States Marine Corps (1949-1951), achieving the rank of Corporal. After the Marines, Max graduated from Brooklyn Poly Tech with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Max worked for Raytheon Corporation in Goleta for 26 years as a Senior Design Engineer. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and served as the Grand Knight of Columbus Council 5300. He was preceded in death by his son, Thomas Keller, and his daughter, Anne Marie McBeth. He leaves behind his beloved wife Eleanor Keller, his daughter Patricia Foreman, his son John Keller, his ﬁve grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. A graveside service will be held at Calvary Cemetery at 11 AM on September 8th, 2022. Arrangements entrusted to Welch-Ryce-Haider Funeral Chapels.

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UC Santa Barbara went on a run of its own to grow the lead to five, giving them a cushion to finish out the third set with a 25-21 win against the Waves, staying alive for another set in Malibu. In the fourth set, the Gauchos came out hot and ready to play. UC Santa Barbara started off with a five-point lead over Pepperdine, but that was short lived. The Waves came crashing in, closing the lead and running away with the match. Despite the fight from the Gauchos, it wasn’t enough to steal this set, losing the fourth and final set 25-20.

NOTABLE • The match was littered with unbelievable saves. Zeller finished with a season-high six saves, while the Gaucho offense forced four saves, the most for an opposing goalkeeper so far this season.

UCSB SPORTS WRITER In the first meeting between the UC Santa Barbara and Cornell men’s soccer teams Friday night at Harder Stadium, a pair of first half goals were enough for the Big Red to hand the Gauchos their first defeat of the young season, 2-1. The Big Red capitalized on some fortunate bounces for the game’s opening goal. After the ball was cleared high into the air from the Gauchos’ (1-1-1) attacking third, it took a couple fortunate bounces before being taken by forward Alioune Ka in full stride. A great touch on his final move set up a left-footed shot in the box that slipped past UCSB goalkeeper Leroy Zeller to the far post. The Gauchos threatened to equalize, forcing incredible saves by Cornell goalkeeper Ryan Friedberg on two occasions. A gorgeous move by sophomore forward Alexis Ledoux saw him beat his man by faking the cross from the right wing. He moved in towards the box and picked out sophomore forward Salvador Aguilar for a side volley that he made great contact with, but it was stopped just short of the goal line. 10 minutes later, Ledoux sent in a great ball from the corner that led to several shots from within six yards by the Gauchos. Aguilar forced another outstanding save, and both center backs Henry Davies and Timon Windisch weren’t able to place shots in past the converging defense. As the clock approached 39 minutes, Ledoux used his speed on the counter to force a foul just outside the box and draw a yellow card from Cornell’s last line of defense. Making his regular season debut, Lucas Gonzalez laid it off softly for Thaabit Baartman, who ripped through it with the right foot. The shot took a deflection off a player in the middle of the wall and went in towards the opposite post of the Cornell goalkeeper’s diving save attempt, giving UCSB its first set piece goal of the season. The two sides weren’t tied for long. In the 41st, Cornell took over possession in midfield and lined up several perfect passes in a row to get defender Kisa Kiingi down to the byline. The junior’s incisive ball cut back across the box and found forward Dakota Jonke, who had time and space to set up and place his shot right down the middle. The second half provided some sluggish, physical play, with subs and fouls slowing down the game. The final 20 minutes saw a noticeable uptick in energy and urgency, especially from the Gauchos who pushed numbers forward into the dying seconds. However, the home side was unable to equalize once more.

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UCSB Women’s Volleyball was back on the road for its second tournament of the year as they headed south down Rt. 101 to the home of the Pepperdine University Waves, who received votes in the most recent AVCA Division I Coaches Poll. After four sets of play, the Gauchos weren’t able to pull out the win, losing 3-1 against the Waves (25-19, 25-21, 25-21, 2520).The Gauchos were on fire from the start. They took an early lead over a tough Pepperdine team, at one point sitting at a score of 11-8. However, the Waves turned up the heat, going on a five-point run. From there, UC Santa Barbara wasn’t able to close the gap between them and the Waves, dropping the first set 25-18. The second set was an even better battle to watch. Throughout a good portion of this set, the Gauchos were right on the heels of the Waves. UCSB continued with its push late in the set, but Pepperdine shook off the pressure, taking the second set 25-21 from UCSB. Once the third set began, both teams were vying for the lead. The Gauchos and the Waves exchanged the lead multiple times, with neither team able to pull too far ahead of the other until late in the set.

NEXT UP The Gauchos will face another tough test this Sunday, Sept. 4 at 4:00 p.m. when they travel to face No. 24 Loyola Marymount.

Frank is survived by his wife Flora of 62 years, daughters Sharon Soto and Lisa Richter, sons-in-law Peter Soto and Kurt Richter, sisters-in law Barbara Bianchi (Dave & nephew Darren) and JoAnne Lucato (niece Rayanna), as well as grandchildren Jonathan (Liz), Weston, Misty (Cam), Samantha and Sabrina. Frankie, Dad, Nonno – while you may be gone in body you are certainly not in spirit. Your words of wisdom will forever play out in our minds. So now it’s our turn to say to you what we frequently heard you say to us: “Be good, get along with each other, and watch your step.” Mass services will be held on September 9, 2022 at 10 am at the Old Mission Santa Barbara. Burial immediately following at Calvary Cemetery.

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BAVARESCO, Frank Frank “Frankie” Bavaresco passed away peacefully on August 25, 2022. Born and raised in Santa Barbara, Frank was the only son of Luigi (Bocia) and Mary Bavaresco. He grew up on the Eastside, along with other Italian immigrant families, including his cousins Ernie, Dickie and Dennis Zampese, whom he considered brothers. For someone who didn’t speak a word of English until the start of grammar school, he loved to brag to family about how he became class president at Santa Barbara Junior High. Upon graduation of Santa Barbara High School’s class of ‘53, Frank was drafted into the Army and was stationed inAfterHawaii.being discharged from the Army, Frank returned to Santa Barbara in search of work and love interests. That’s where Flora Lucato came into the picture. Frank and Flora’s families had known each other for a long time, and they grew up together. But it took dating other people and elapsed time to realize that your true love lived right across the street. And that’s how Flora Lucato became Mrs. Frank Bavaresco on June 18, 1960. In the meantime, Frank got a job as a maintenance worker for the Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation Department. It turned out to be a job that he worked at for 50 years. And out of those 50 years at Parks & Rec, Frank only took 1 day of sick leave for poison oak. It was Flora who called in on his behalf. When Frank’s boss heard about his sick day, he actually drove over to their house because he didn’t believe it to be true. When Frank was not working, he had a love affair with gardening. And no one could compete with the way he grilled chicken and tri-tip with help from Flora’s basting brush made of rosemary and sage. Mostly, in his spare time, Frank looked forward to spending time at home with family and friends in the neighborhood. He particularly enjoyed his walks down the street, hanging out in Bob’s garage with Guba and Art (aka Tico’s Bar) and drinking the only beer variety allowed – Bud and Coors Light. Frank may have lived his life simply, but he was someone who was deﬁnitely well liked and respected.

Donna’s family wishes to extend their sincere thanks to the Sarah House of Santa Barbara for their loving care and compassion and Father Bob Fox from the Santa Barbara Greek Orthodox Church for always being present for Donna especially in her lastViewingmoments.and Trisagion will be at 7:00 p.m., September 8, 2022 at Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, 1205 San Antonio Creek Road, Santa Barbara followed by a Celebration of Life at Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church.

WAINMAN, Richard Richard N. Wainman, age 87, passed away Sunday, August 28, 2022. Born November 17, 1934 in Syracuse, New York, he was a resident of Santa Barbara, CA for 28 years and Los Angeles County for 23 years. Richard was a Maintenance Supervisor at DripCut in Goleta until 1987 and could repair anything at work or at home. He loved to work and loved to travel. More than anything else, he loved his family. He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Debra and Robert Newman of Ventura; grandchildren Kevin and Elizabeth Newman and 3 great-grandchildren, Ashley, Katelyn and William. He will be greatly missed by all.

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LARKINS, Victor E. “Vic” Lt. Col, U.S. Army, Ret. Victor Larkins, age 79, passed away in Santa Barbara, CA on August 15, 2022. Born in Watseka, IL, his family moved to Titusville, Florida at the start of his sophomore year in HS where Vic played baseball and basketball, graduating in 1961. He attended BJC on a basketball scholarship, where he also played baseball. In 1965, while working at Cape Kennedy he was drafted into the Army at the rank of Private. Upon graduating from Ofﬁcer Candidate School, Vic was commissioned an infantry 2LT. Volunteering for Vietnam, he was serving as the Reconnaissance Platoon Leader in an infantry battalion (Bobcats) when he was wounded. Vic always considered it an honor and privilege to lead and serve with some of America’s greatest and bravest soldiers responsible for his safe return home. In 1970, he volunteered for a second tour where he served as an advisor to the South Vietnamese Army. Later he was honored to serve as special assistant to the Army’s highest ranking military intelligence general in the Pentagon. (Very few people knew of the physical & emotional effects the Vietnam experiences had on Vic’s life thereafter). On leave after completing his second tour, Vic met his future wife, Patti Chandler. They married after a short courtship and in 2021 celebrated their 50th anniversary. Vic retired from the Army after 22 years, during which he received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Nebraska and his Master’s Degree from Pepperdine University.Vic’smedals include; the Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Stars, Purple Heart, Combat Infantry Badge, 2 Meritorious Service, 2 Army Commendation, Army Staff Badge, Joint Service, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry among others. While Vic had a very successful military career, he felt his greatest gift was his family.

AGUIRRE, Donna Marie “Polly” Donna Marie “Polly” Aguirre, 63, of Santa Barbara, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family and went to be with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Sunday August 28, 2022 in Santa Barbara. Donna is survived by her loving husband Raul Aguirre; two daughters Corinna Polly Cortez and Krystle Schlegel (Joshua); son Raul Aguirre; two brothers, George Polly & Nick Polly; sister Era Polly; sisters-in-law Aida Barnes (Greg), Irma Mera (Paco), Irene Glickman (Barry); brothers-in-law George Aguirre (Amy), Michael Aguirre, Richard Aguirre (Judy); her mother, Elene Tallman (Bob) and mother-in-law Stella Aguirre and several grandchildren and nieces and nephews.

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• Aguilar had more shot attempts (4) than in the first two games of the year combined, with his two wellplaced shots on goal requiring topnotch reactions to keep him off the scoresheet for the first time.

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GROSSGOLD, Richard, LCDR (ret); AIA “Crossing the Bar” on July 20, 2022, is our amazing father and grandfather. Richard Grossgold was born in the Bronx, NY, on Dec 5th 1933 - “Repeal Day.” A firstgeneration American, his parents immigrated to the United States with little more than a dream of a better future. His father’s army service in WW I instilled in Richard and his siblings a strong sense of service, which has been continued on by each following generation. At the age of 13, Richard’s family moved to South Fallsburg, NY, during the height of the Borscht Belt, where they built and operated a summer cottage business called Grossgold Bungalows. Richard took summer jobs at the renowned Pines Hotel and other Catskills resorts. His lifelong love of dancing began in these years, where he entered competitions and became known as the “Mambo King.” His Santa Barbara Elks Lodge friends know what an amazing dancer he was, and the Santa Barbara News-Press even printed an article on Richard and his wife, Ruth Levine, about their dancing years. In 1957 Richard graduated first in his class from Cornell University with a Bachelor’s Degree in architecture, and was commissioned an Ensign in the US Navy. His military assignments took him to Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, San Diego, Seal Beach, and San Pedro Shipyard. He completed his naval career in the reserves with the Seabees at Port Hueneme, CA. Following active service, he opened the successful Grossgold Associates Architects and Landplanners firm in Seal Beach, CA. In 1978 he and Ruth relocated to Santa Barbara, CA. There were two loves in Richard’s life, Dorothy Weber (17 years) and Ruth Levine (47 years). To him, family was everything. His three children, two stepdaughters, nine grandchildren, parents, siblings, cousins, nieces, and nephews were his life’s joy. He never missed a family function. Richard will be missed more than words can express. His legacy of love, commitment to success and service, continue to inspire his children and grandchildren to follow in hisDaddy,footsteps.welove you to the heavens and back, and we know you will always be watching over us. Someday we will all “revisit this at Thanksgiving,” which was your favorite saying.Richard is survived by his children Marianne “Marni” (Adam) Kelsey, Jonathan (Lori) Grossgold, and Peter (Christina) Grossgold; grandchildren Kahleb, Genevieve, and Seth Kelsey, Mackenzie and Kendal Grossgold, and Tyler, Cooper, Carter, and Kaitlyn Grossgold; brother Melvin “Mel” Grossgold, and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife Ruth (Rosenzweig) Levine, brother Murray Grossgold, sister Sylvia “Zece” Tieger, Dorothy Weber, and son Matthew Eric Grossgold. Fair winds and following sea Commander. We have the watch. A Celebration of Life will be held at the Santa Barbara Elks Lodge. Date TBA.

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• Both Mehana Ma’a and Megan Shimoda worked together as the team ran a 6-2 in this match. Ma’a recorded 22 assists while Shimoda put up 15.

UP NEXT The Gauchos will be back in action for the second day of the Pepperdine Asics Classic. At 10 a.m., UC Santa Barbara will face off against No. 9 Baylor University with another game against San Diego State at 7 p.m. Both games will be streamed on YouTube and live stats will also be available.

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UCSB men’s soccer handed first defeat by Cornell Republicans say student loan forgiveness will make inflation worse, nearly double the number of Democrats who say the same (41%),” Momentive said.Lawmakers also blasted President Biden for the plan, citing inflation, which has hit the highest level in over four decades.“Now,President Biden is doubling down on his abandonment of working Americans by issuing an illegal order to use hundreds of billions of your tax dollars to ‘forgive’ the loans of collegeeducated individuals who voluntarily took on debt to finance their education,” U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said. “The American people, who are already struggling to keep up with Biden’s raging inflation crisis, are disgusted with the Democrats’ dangerous, socialist agenda and demanding action. Republicans must stand united to repeal the IRS supersizing and pass my bill to force every member of Congress to go on the record for student loan forgiveness.”

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“This is all causing increased migration as the population is moving, and they’re really on the hunt for food and water,” she explained. “So this is causing widespread displacement, and that’s what we handle at ShelterBox: We provide emergency shelter and essential household items to create a private space that a family can call home when they’ve been displaced.”

“We’ve worked in Ethiopia since 2018, and we’ve brought shelter and essential household supplies to over 60,000 people,” said Ms. Murray.

The Ethiopian government has also received military-grade drones shipped from China, Iran, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, while the United States has revoked trade privileges with the country and threatened sanctions over the litany of human rights abuses that have been confirmed by United Nations investigators.Accordingto figures provided to the NewsPress by ShelterBox, at least 1.5 million people have been displaced from their homes in the Horn of Africa — at least 560,000 in Ethiopia and more than 1 million in Somalia — and that reports suggest that one person is dying from hunger every 48 seconds in the region.

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ShelterBox is making a major push to provide aid to Ethiopia and Somalia as the Horn of Africa is battered by compounding crises. “What you see is that you’ve got drought conditions affecting an estimated 36 million people (due to) four years of failed rainy seasons, and an anticipated fifth one in the future,” Kerri Murray, president of Santa Barbara-based ShelterBox USA, told the NewsPress. “You’ve got climate change, prolonged conflict, a locust infestation (in 2020 and 2021 that decimated crop yields), rising food prices and the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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ShelterBox will begin distributing aid to help confront the situation in Ethiopia later this month to 2,400 households, or 12,000 individuals, who have been displaced. Additionally, the organization also has plans in the works to begin providing shelter to 1,000 households in neighboring Somalia.

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“But we absolutely remain committed to help respond despite funding challenges, and despite logistical challenges within the region that are becoming increasingly challenging.”Onefactorthat the organization believes is styming donations to fund programs to address

“It’s an area we’ve had extensive experience working with, so we’re starting there, and we are working to provide emergency shelter so that includes what’s called our Shelter Kits — those are tarps, ropes and tools to help create a home structure for a family — but we’re also creating a very customized NFI package that includes basic things like a kitchen set, sleeping mats, thermal blankets, a jerry can to hold water, wash basins, mosquito nets and solar lights.”“Inaddition to Ethiopia, we are responding to Somalia as well. We are going to be responding there with our Shelter Kits, but it’s just not getting the attention and charitable support that we really need to scale up a lot of these projects,” she continued.

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One conflict that Ms. Murray referenced as an exacerbating factor in the region is the Tigray Conflict that began in November 2020 in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, which is situated on the country’s northern border with Eritrea and is known for its cultivation of sesame and cotton.Thefighting — which has over time devolved into guerilla-style tactics and sectarian reprisals against civilians — has pitted the Tigray People’s Liberation Front against the Ethiopian military, sectarian militias loyal to the central government, and troops from neighboring Eritrea.

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SAGITTARIUS: Start September with a hot date night when Mars in Gemini sextiles Jupiter in Aries on Thursday. Spice things up by adding some new, pleasurable things to your regular date that will please your partner in more ways than one.

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AQUARIUS: Start September with a first date or meet-up when Mars in Gemini sextiles Jupiter in Aries on Thursday. Your passions will make excellent conversation topics.

Speaking with passion could bring you opportunities for success when Mars in Gemini sextiles Jupiter in your sign on Thursday, helping you speak with confidence and conviction. This is the perfect day for job interviews, first dates or just putting your ideas out there and seeing where they take you. TAURUS: A great time to invest in yourself is when Mars in Gemini sextiles Jupiter in Aries on Thursday. How do you want to heal your emotional wounds, Taurus? Therapy? Reiki? Wellness retreat? Invest in yourself.

VIRGO: Chase your ambitions when Mars in Gemini sextiles Jupiter in Aries on Thursday, Virgo, because a new opportunity could change your life for the better. Don’t be afraid of change. From moving up in your career to taking a more public position, you’ll be stepping into your power today.

CAPRICORN: Now that you’re getting your life together, you’ll discover that everything is falling into place when Mars in Gemini sextiles Jupiter in Aries on Thursday. Your good habits will help make your home healthier and happier than before.

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GEMINI: A great time to go after your dreams is when Mars in your sign sextiles Jupiter in Aries on Thursday. Important people will see your genuine enthusiasm and want to help your cause.

CANCER: Do what you love when Mars in Gemini sextiles Jupiter in Aries on Thursday. This aspect will help you achieve your secret dreams and encourage you to take pride in your work.

SCORPIO: Find passion and excitement in your regular life when Mars in Gemini sextiles Jupiter in Aries on Thursday. Sharing your deepest hopes and feelings can help you feel safe in your relationship and is good for your health.

PISCES: Start September on a cheerful note when Mars in Gemini sextiles Jupiter in Aries on Thursday and you discover that staying home is saving you money. This is an ideal day to invest in your space and spend some quality time with your family.

— If you need help on rent or the mortgage, consider getting a roommate. Of course, you will need to make some compromises, especially if you’ve been living alone and suddenly have to share the only bathroom.

The Santa Barbara County Education Office has announced the selection of three distinguished mentors and three distinguished new educators who will be honored at the ninth annual “A Salute to Teachers” gala.Set for November, the event will be hosted by SBCEO and founding co-sponsor, Cox Communications. In addition to the distinguished mentors and new teachers, the event will honor the Santa Barbara County Teacher of the Year, Joanna Hendrix, and the Santa Barbara Bowl Performing Arts Teacher of the Year, Jennifer Peterson.Eachyear, administrators,schoolcolleagues and others are invited to nominate outstanding, experienced and new teachers.Finalwinners are chosen by a committee made up of educators, administrators, business and community partners, and a previous county teacher of the year.“At SBCEO, we are committed to developing, supporting and honoring educators throughout their careers,” Dr. Susan Salcido, county superintendent of schools said in a news release. “This year, we are celebrating six distinguished mentors and new educators who bring wisdom and energy to their school communities, and talents and expertise to our students. This recognition amplifies the importance of investing in the next generation of teachers. It takes incredible new educators and mentor teachers to make that happen. We congratulate and thank them for their achievement andThededication.”distinguished mentors are: — Cara Leach of Foothill Elementary School, Goleta Union School District. Ms. Leach is a fourth-grade teacher who is highly valued by her school community and throughout the entire district. Her colleagues in the Goleta Union School District said they are inspired by her willingness to share and collaborate for the betterment of students. She is seen as a resource to fellow teachers, known for graciously sharing materials with anyone who asks, even hand-delivering her own supplies to their homes. Ms. Leach takes the time to help all colleagues: from beginning teachers, to paraeducators, student teachers, and gradelevel teammates. She is a veteran teacher who embraces new curriculum, tools, and strategies to improve the learning environment for her students. One colleague noted, “Within my first few weeks of teaching I told Cara that I felt like I wasn’t doing enough. She laughed and said, ‘I still feel that way after 25plus years of teaching! You just need to do what you can in the moment.’ This feedback continues to be deep and meaningful to me.”

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Almost everything I own has gone up in value, and I have been selling some of my collectibles at a fairEvenprice.in a slow market like this one, you can still make a profit if you originally purchased your keepsakes at a good price. If your collectibles don’t move you like they used to, consider rehoming some of them. Isn’t that part of the fun—anyway?We’verecently started eating out again, and we love it. My wife is a great cook, and we’ve gotten really good at making fun meals, but going out is different. It’s also a little more expensive now. We’ve discovered that splitting dishes is more economical and fun than taking home leftovers. Usually, one appetizer and one entrée is the perfect amount of food for the two of us. It reminds me of being young and just starting out, and it’s kind of romantic. One hint: Always tip well, because there are still two of you to serve, even if your bill is on the low side. — Plant a garden if you have the space for it. We aren’t harvesting our own vegetables, but this year we planted a rose garden at the beginning of spring, and now we have roses. This means that instead of buying my wife flowers, I simply go outside and return with a fresh bouquet. The savings is noticeable, and it is just delightful to watch flowers grow and have them inside and out. It also makes my wife very happy.These are just a few ways to cut costs. They’re working for us. It’s important to be flexible and inventive in these times. If this appeals to you, do what you can and come up with your own ideas. It’s kind of fun. Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D., is an award-winning psychotherapist and humanitarian. He is also a columnist, the author of eight books and a blogger for PsychologyToday. com with more than 28 million readers. He is available for video consults worldwide. Reach him at barton@bartongoldsmith. com.

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— Christina “Tina” Roessler of Peabody Charter School, Santa Barbara Unified School District. Ms. Roessler is described as an “expert teacher.” She teaches first grade and is known for the precise set of skills she has developed during her career. The county education office said her strategies for working with students from different backgrounds and experiences have resulted in a robust record of successful student outcomes, in both academics and socialemotional well being. “Tina inspires me to continually improve myself as an educator and as a citizen of the world,” one colleague said. “She brings a lot of value to our team and to our school as a bilingual person who has experience living and studying outside of the U.S. She puts her experience into practice by creating an environment that is welcoming to students and their families.”Hercolleagues also said she inspires great confidence in those whom she mentors and demonstrates how vulnerabilities can be turned into strengths.

Her colleagues shared one instance when Ms. Mora chatted with a group of girls about their quinceañeras. Ms. Mora told them details about her own “quince,” including the food, dances, dress and her emotions around the event. The next day she brought photos.Hercolleague recalled, “The girls said they never had a teacher who had had a quinceañera, and I could see how validated they were — sharing in something so important with Ms. Mora.” — Kendall Stevens, La Cumbre Junior High School, Santa Barbara Unified School District. Ms. Stevens is a second-year teacher at La Cumbre Junior High, teaching eighth grade Social Studies.According to the county education office, she has quickly defined herself as an innovative, enthusiastic and motivated educator.Inaddition to her classes, Ms. Stevens stepped up to advise the leadership club and has organized more opportunities for student connection on campus, including costume contents, games and dances.Ms.Stevens asks for student feedback through Google forms, exit tickets and individual conversations.“Sheisalways refining her lessons and plans to meet the needs of her students. Kendall also helps students see the importance of personal reflection in their own growth and educational journey,” said her colleague. email; kzehnder@newspress.com

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—Alyssa Spanier of Solvang School, Solvang School District. Ms. Spanier has been described as a “dynamic teacher and natural leader” at Solvang School, where she teaches English Language Arts. Under her mentorship, new teachers benefit directly from Alyssa’s commitment to excellence and her drive to succeed, according to the county education office.Inthe face of the pandemic, Ms. Spanier became a Googlecertified teacher and trained the staff on how to use Google Classroom for remote instruction. Ms. Spanier also volunteers to help the student government and oversee the graduation rehearsal every year. Her leadership with the language arts team has resulted in increased rigor and success in the literacy curriculum, according to the county education office.“Alyssa is always checking in on me, reminding me of deadlines and providing very thorough feedback on my assignments,” a colleague said. The Distinguished New Educators are: — Crystal Guzman, El Camino Junior High School, Santa MariaBonita School District. Ms. Guzman demonstrates skill and positivity in her role teaching English Language Arts and leadership at El Camino Junior High. The county education office noted she has reignited school spirit on campus and was the winner of the Nicholson Hero Award for her tireless determination to improve El Camino.Ms.Guzman is said to be a “master” of teaching essay writing, and the education office said she implements skillful tools in the classroom with the grace of a veteran“(Crystal)teacher.never fails to ask how she can improve,” one colleague said. “She asks questions about the many skills teachers must master: content, pedagogy and school climate. She handles new concepts beautifully and with curiosity.” Elsy Mora, La Colina Junior High School, Santa Barbara Unified School District. Ms. Mora is a math teacher at La Colina Junior High who has fully immersed herself in the school within her first year of teaching. The county education office explained that she fosters meaningful connections with students and is a hard working, dedicated colleague. She was elected to represent the math department in monthly site meetings and makes decisions on behalf of the math team. Ms. Mora also tutors students afterMs.school.Mora’s colleague is a fully credentialed, bilingual Latinx math teacher who also has a degree in Chicano studies. She focuses on creating learning opportunities for all students, especially those who are struggling or underrepresented in higher level math classes. She is known for thinking about the students who really need extra support.

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“However, what you don’t see, while we know there’s a major crisis in the Horn of Africa, it’s not getting the charitable support,” she“Andcontinued.alotof these initiatives, particularly around shelter, are way underfunded. So it makes it even more important that ShelterBox is responding to these places.” email: jdaniels@newspress.com from Kerri Africa.theUkraineincludingthearoundtorespondedhasShelterBoxrefugees.UkrainiantotofromwhowomanwithintrainPrzemysltalksUSA,ShelterBoxbasedBarbara-ofpresidentMurray,Santaleft,atthestationPolandadroveFrancePolandhelpcrisesworld,andHornof

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millionaires in the country. Even if each of them gets assigned a full-time, year-round personal auditor, that leaves 52,200 agents free to harass small business owners and everydayUndergoingAmericans.anaudit is an incredibly serious and costly endeavor, regardless of the reason for the audit or the outcome, and this cost is a burden both on the business and the community in which it operates, a clear impediment to economic growth and prosperity. Even when auditors find no wrongdoing, the experience can be financially devastating for small business owners.“Obviously, this will be a huge burden on many small business owners, who will be forced to endure lengthy audits and do not have the resources to hire expert lawyers or accountants,” Mr. Kerrigan explained.

ofusing“Storytellersresponse.isit“It’sHour?”Queenaccomplished.has“WhatisDragStoryitasks.justwhatsoundslike!”thecheerytheartdragtoread books to kids in libraries, schools, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive and unabashedly queer role models.” Hmm. A Drag Queen Show can be fun… if you’re an adult. But… How did it come to pass that someone could convince … school boards … that Drag Queen Story Hour would be appropriate material for… 6-year-olds? How is it that drag queens could be allowed and even encouraged to enlist volunteers from their underaged audience to join in the fun?Well, welcome to the School Board Wars. And you’ll be pleased to hear that not only has the battle been joined but that parents are beginning to win. For example, of the 30 schoolboard-member candidates in Florida endorsed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in last month’s election, 25 won or advanced in their races. Not only that, but Republican-backed candidates won three seats on the Sarasota County School Board, turning what had been a far-leftleaning school board into a 4-1 conservative majority school board. More impressive was the race in Miami-Dade County, in which the GOP won a majority on that school board, making it the largest county in the U.S. with a conservative majority of school board members. The deciding factor was apparently that both county school boards had defied Gov. DeSantis’s order (later buttressed by a state law that passed the Florida legislature and was signed by the governor) that mask wearing be strictly voluntary. The two defiant school boards voted to mandate that all students and teachers in their respective districts wear masks when at school, despite the order and the law. Parents rightly were simply fed up with such nonsensical restrictions and voted accordingly.Closertohome, it was just before noon,s and six school-board candidates at Timbers Roadhouse at 10 Winchester Canyon Road, just south (east) of Sandpiper Golf Course on Aug. 27 were greeting supporters as if they were old friends. Many were exactly that.

One of the many ways that small businesses can succeed and help grow the economy is by taking advantage of tax credits and deductions that leave more money in the hands of owners to reinvest in their businesses and offer more competitive pay for theirButemployees.withthelooming threat of a veritable army of auditors being mobilized by the Biden administration, it is highly likely that many small businesses will decline to seek the benefits of those credits and deductions, lest they face the costly headache of aggressive audits from the IRS. In fact, my firm, Engineered Tax Services, specializes in working with businesses to understand and utilize those credits and deductions, and some of my firm’s small business clients have told me this is the Businesscase.and financial experts are equally certain that President Biden’s auditor army will target small businesses. “There is no doubt that boosting IRS audit capabilities through a vast increase in the hiring of 87,000 new staff focused on this effort will hit small businesses the hardest,” said Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, in an interview with The Center Square. “The tax data shows that it is small businesses of moderate means, not ‘the wealthy,’ that are targeted most frequently.” Basic math proves this will undoubtedly be the case with President Biden’s new auditor army. Mr. Biden wants to unleash 87,000 additional IRS agents on the American people, but there are fewer than 800 billionaires and roughly 34,000

It began quietly enough not that long ago (Drag Queen Story Hour was launched in 2015), and if it hadn’t been for the pandemic-induced Zoom teaching of elementary school students, it may have gone on indefinitely. It could have become a staple of childhood education.Butfortunately, once parents witnessed the kind of disorientation being fed to their children on their computer screen, they were, unsurprisingly, appalled.Right-wing coverage of drag queens reading in drag to elementary school children seemed like a San Francisco-style abnormality that couldn’t and wouldn’t affect their schools.

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A long train of abuses/ C2 DID YOU KNOW? Bonnie Donovan Did you know that Gov. Gavin Newsom controls the amount of electricity produced in California? He has just signed an executive order to increase electricity supply as the state braces for the continuation of a major heatwave. Does this mean he has been restricting the production of electricity? If so, who gave him that power? Is this caused by the stresses placed on the grid by going green far too quickly? Gov. Newsom has told electric car owners to stop charging cars during the heatwave. Already, the grid can’t handle it! Here’s the latest news from Europe. Electricity supply problems and soaring energy costs pre-dated the Ukrainian war. Experts are warning that Europe has been going green far too fast. In Germany, the premature closing of nuclear power plants caused massive energy shortages and huge increases in costs. Wind turbines and solar panels are delivering far less megawatt power than their advertised capabilities. An energy expert stated this is a warning for America. Europeans went green too far, tooEuropeanfast. Union President Ursula von der Leyen said Europe’s electric grid is not suited for going fully green. Last Monday, energy prices in Europe hit a record of $993 per megawatt hour. Last June the average price for electricity in the U.S. was $129 per MWh. The bigwigs in California like to boast that California’s economy is the fifth largest in gross domestic product among the countries of the world. In 2021, California’s GDP equivalent was $3.4 trillion. That was greater than the United Kingdom and India but behind Germany. Therefore, we cannot think of California in the same terms as most other states in the U.S. We must hold our elected leaders more accountable, than ever before, for the fate of our state. In 18th-century England, men wore large, powdered wigs as a symbol of power and authority. They became known as “bigwigs.” America followed, and four of America’s presidents wore powdered wigs in office. President James Monroe was the last one. We still use the term “bigwig” to refer to some people in authority, especially among those in “Bigwig”government.Newsomis now facing, as are we all, his failures to act to prevent a collision of two cyclones rushing toward us that will create a perfect storm of concurrent, starvation in both water and energy. These events will be accompanied by both inflation and a recession created by the federal government in its reckless printing of trillions of dollars. The reason prices are rising is that the value of the dollar is falling.Lastweek we dealt with Gov. Newsom’s neglect of a threatening water starvation. The governor’s answer, a few weeks ago, was “We need more desalination plants.” Wow! Members of his political party have been opposing them for years. Only a few months ago the Coastal Commission refused a permit to build one in Orange County. But what about all the other measures that are necessary to prevent a water catastrophe?ThenGov.Newsom suddenly realized that his approval of a massive move over to allelectric vehicles, and allelectric appliances by a date certain, could not be supported on

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The half-dozen candidates are all vying for seats on various school boards in Santa Barbara County, and all were invited to speak by the Santa Barbara County Republican Party. They are: Christy Lozano (Goleta Union School District, Trustee Area 3), Efigenia “Efi” Banales (Santa Barbara Unified School District, Trustee Area 1), Rosanne Crawford (Santa Barbara County Board of Education, Trustee Area 1), Dani Blunk (Hope School District Trustee Area 5), Rachel Nigro (who has already taken her place on the board at Montecito Union School District Governing Board Member), and Phebe Mansur (Santa Barbara Unified School District, Trustee AreaYou4).know about Christy, as she’s been introduced and interviewed in this column perhaps half a dozen times. She ran for Santa Barbara county superintendent of Schools against incumbent Susan Salcido in the June primary election. Dr. Salcido won, but Ms. Lozano has proven herself a formidable opponent and an effective advocate for sanity in the public school system. She is

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Labor Day, which is Monday, is the national holiday xwhen we celebrate xthe contributions of labor.And labor is defined as the expenditure of physical or mental effort, especially when difficult or compulsory. While my experience is learning golf or oil painting can be “difficult,” I am not certain I would classify them as “labor.” However, my experience as a supporting spouse definitely agrees with the secondary definition, having to do with childbirth, as “labor” — sometimes hard labor — that only a mother would voluntarily undergo more than once. The Labor Day celebrations began with the first parade in the U.S. Sept. 5, 1882, when an estimated 10,000 union employees paraded in New YorkWhileCity.New York state was debating whether to declare it a holiday, Oregon, on Feb. 21, 1887, declared Labor Day a state holiday. By 1894, 23 states had adopted the holiday. 1894 began with a patent awarded for motion picture films, the Stanley Cup playoffs starting and the first motion picture house opening in New York City with a device identified as being used for “peep shows” (not that I know what that means) before the April bituminous coal miners’ strike that closed mines in the Midwest and caused riots across the U.S. On May 11, 1894, about 4,000 Pullman Palace Car Co. employees started the “wildcat strike of Illinois.” Wildcat strikes, aka “quickie” strikes or “outlaw” strikes, are strikes that are not supported by the union leadership and tend to be violent, as this one was. While all strikes are different, my experience is that wildcat strikes occur when the workers lose confidence in their union leaders. For example, the potential for such a strike occurred in one of my negotiations when our offer to the union bargaining committee attempted to correct our paying the junior employees too little and senior ones too much. Had the junior employees learned that the bargaining committee, composed exclusively of senior employees, refused to even discuss more pay for the junior workers, it could have created the potential for a wildcat strike. Fortunately, we were able to avoid a strike while achieving a partial adjustment of the Theimbalances.year1913began with a flourish when on Feb. 3, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which empowered the government to collect an income tax, passed. A month later, on March 3, there was a Woman’s Suffrage Parade in D.C., and the next day, just blocks away, the U,S, Department of Labor was formed. A coincidence? World War I was followed by the flu pandemic that began in 1918 and lasted into 1920 when the 18th Amendment, which banned the sale of intoxicating liquors, was passed and ushered in massive disobedience that all too frequently led to crime. The Roaring Twenties ended with the 1929 stock market crash that so crippled the stock market that investors did not recover their investments until 1953.During the ensuing Great Depression, in 1933, the 21st Amendment was passed, which reversed the prohibition established by the 18th Amendment.Alsoin1933, as discussed in my piece “A Government Within a Government” in the ofHistoryLaborDayWendy McCaw Arthur von Wiesenberger Co-PublisherCo-Publisher Andy Caldwell

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And when black parents seek to rescue their children by placing them in a majority black private school or char ter school, predominately white liberal teachers’ union members picket. It is a mindbending reversal of the infa mous George Wallace show down on the steps of the schoolhouse — albeit this time the racists are trying to force the black kids to stay Speakinginside!of child abuse, hasChildren’sBostonHospitaldeclaredthat“a child knows from the minute they are born, practically, if they are transgender.” More over, the Yale Pediatric Gen der Clinic is now taking cli ents as young as 3 years old. We are calling this the Child Abuse Movement. Up next? The pedophile protection movement, aka ex pressed sympathy for “minor attracted persons.” Finally, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ban on the sale of gasoline-powered cars and diesel-powered trucks is go ing to upend California’s new and used car market. Cur rently 25% of consumers lease new vehicles they can’t afford to buy. Subsequently, many consumers buy these lease re turns as a used vehicle. New car buyers, on aver age, subsequently sell their vehicle when it becomes eight years old. The people who buy these old vehicles do so because they can’t afford any thingHowever,newer.new electric vehi cles are on average 40% more expensive than other vehicles, meaning they are out of reach for most of the afore mentionedMoreover,consumers!whoisgoing to buy a used electric vehicle when the replacementbatterycost will soon exceed the value of the ve hicle?

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We have a problem. The government is costing us far too much. The causes: redundancy andWecomplexity.shouldnever send money to the government so the government can give it back to us. The twoway implementation costs are enormous. And we should never duplicate the same activities at all four levels of government — city, county, state and federal. Each should have its own unique domain.Forstarters, let’s radically simplify the personal income tax, and then let`s eliminate all taxes on business. Businesses don’t pay taxes. Taxes on business, plus the implementation costs, are passed straight through to the consumer as a cost of doing business. Simply put, a means of heavily taxing all consumers without our knowing it — buried in the cost of every penny we Eliminatingspend.all taxes on business has the potential of reducing the Consumer Price Index by as much as 30% to 40%. Ironically, taxes on business make our federal, state and local governments the largest taxpayers in the country – having the largest spending budgets in the country.

If President Joe Biden partially cancels outstanding student loans, does this portend some cancellation of home loans and credit card balances as well? Perhaps there is a Santa Claus after all. K. Alan Fox Santa Maria Search of Trump’s home was justified I felt compelled to respond to Diana Thorn’s letter in the Aug. 21 Voices section, “Politics of Persecution.”Areweliving in an alternate universe? I am 77 years old. I say this to show I have lived through a lot of history and to acknowledge that I have NEVER been a government target or a persecuted American citizen! My only defense to this statement is I have NEVER done anything to warrant a different outcome!Former President Donald Trump, however, has been duly investigated for collusion with Russia, which did show several of his inner circle associates having been in contact with Russian officials and their interference with OUR Impeachmentelection!No. 1: We all read

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Editor’s note: The following letter concerns the proposed Surfliner Inn in Carpinteria. Caution: An Aug. 25 Coastal View News article quotes shenanigans:“Thewhole idea is to have a connection with the community,” states developer Hollis, not a Carp resident. The whole idea is money. “The plans ‘would ideally’ include a local event space for art and music features.” We already have an ideal local event space, our Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center.“The Inn ‘will’ generate $500,000 for the city.” A total guesstimate. Whereas citizenapproved Measure X took in $3.5 million in sales tax for Carpinteria in 2020-2021. You absolutely cannot guarantee tourists will take the train (Californians love their cars) and be willing to pay to sleep practically on the railroad tracks, with guaranteed window-rattling whistle blasts multiple times each day and night. And where will this Monopoly money be spent? Not on teacher salaries, not on schools. Why don’t the enthusiastic city employees explain where each and every penny of this assumed income will go before November’s vote? “Not an ‘outdated’ train station look, but a clean and coastal look.” Who isn’t charmed by the original ticket station building in the Community Garden? Built in a designated Tsunami Hazard Zone, will its height incorporate guaranteed sea level rise?“… ‘could’ affect future parking and construction.” Yes on Measure T2022 exists purely to prevent construction on our Parking Lot No. 3 and the adjacent open space. We are a small, enchanted beach town that needs to vote to keep Carp Classic. The kind of people who love Classic Carp prefer a little sand in their hot dog, waking up with the scent of campfire smoke in their hair and waving to the dolphins while sipping coffee in the cool, coastal morning fog.

America and the world are slowly emerging from one of Earth’s dumbest moves ever xpulled on its 8 billion people.Andwe must never forget whom to blame: China and ourselves. In the early stages of this global disaster, the world panicked as did all those who supposedly knew what they were talking about. Eventually we learned that all the brain trusts at the WHO, the CDC, FDA and eventually the biggest liar of all, Dr. Anthony Fauci, were all winging it. Rochelle Lewinsky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, finally admitted her agency botched it with COVID-19. “For 75 years, CDC and public health have been preparing for COVID-19, and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations.” Duh. She also failed to tell us how the CDC and the unions colluded to keep our kids out of school. Money overruled the health of the children, and there will be no consequences for the CDC and the unions for their abhorrent actions. I’ve said it before that I will cut some slack because when the coronavirus first started flying around the globe, no one really understood it completely. Or if someone did, they didn’t let on. As people started dying, those in charge were telling us the end is near. We had to rely on the words of the “wise” and the “science.” Up until that point, I, like many of you, figured these large health organizations knew what they were talking about. I figured they were all smart and had our backs.

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nothing else other than to kill human beings. And we paid for it, in more ways than one! Like everything else these days, even a microscopic bug eventually became a political killing machine. As Sweden continued to party late into the night with no shutdowns or mask shaming or school closures, the rest of the world came to a halt. I’m not sure how politics played out in Europe regarding shutdowns and business closures, but it certainly played a big role in Australia and a massive role in America. It’s still hard to fathom the arbitrary decisions that caused millions of people to suffer in so many ways; damaged our children, killed our elderly, and shut down thousands upon thousands of businesses all in the name of power and control. So many needless lives were lost as byproducts of stupid “health” organizations and Democrats’ decision. There was not a single “I’mGranted,sorry.” thousands lost their lives to the virus, but in order to keep the serfs on the edge of their seats and obey, numbers were intentionally inflated. We all know the stories of someone dying in a car accident but listed as death by COVID. These truths have been emerging and finally being admitted out loud. Dr. Fauci isn’t resigning in December because he should. He doesn’t want to suffer the Please see SCHULTE on C4

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the transcript of the phone call asking the president of Ukraine, a foreign government, for political help in exchange for the release of military aid, which had already been authorized by Congress! Then on to Jan 6 ,which Ms. Thorn describes as “sham one sided trial.” Let’s stop here to recap. This committee is bipartisan. The ONLY witnesses to give evidence so far have ALL been faithful Trump Republicans! Ms. Thorn’s last statement “the unprecedented illegal raid on Mr. Trump’s home, that was basically a fishing expedition.” Perhaps she needs to be reminded of just what the procedure is in obtaining a search warrant! First, for well over 18 months, the National Archives had been quietly negotiating with Mr. Trump to return boxes on information, which were presidential papers, which are required by each outgoing president to turn over! Finally, 15 boxes were returned, and an affidavit was signed saying everything had now been turned over. However, the FBI received information that there were even more boxes, and the archives acknowledged material was still missing.Asubpoena was then issued in June, which was ignored. A search warrant has to have solid facts about what is trying to be recovered, who is giving this information, where exactly will the information be found and what is the direct information they are seeking. That’s hardly a “fishing expedition” when you really don’t know what you will catch! Oh, we’re not through yet. This request has to then be signed off, and in this case, it was signed off by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Then it is taken to a judge for final sign off — hardly a slap dash unprofessional procedure.Mr.Trump has also been quoted as saying about the remaining boxes, “they’re mine, not yours,” which seems to acknowledge that he was fully aware that he still possessed material that had been requested to be returned to the government by the subpoena. The search warrant was then signed, sealed and delivered! And guess what? More boxes were retrieved from Mr. Trump’s home! If we want to keep America a free republic, as you stated Ms. Thorn, then we need laws to be enforced and applied to every American citizen. When you step out your front door and into society, the laws to protect your safety and those around are in place. Again, are we living in an alternate universe? It would appear we are.

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The Democratic Party is intent on abusing power at the expense of common sense, de cency, fairness and practical reality.Here are a few examples. Regarding President Joe Biden’s proposal to “forgive” billions of dollars in school debt, I haven’t seen this level of anger in a very long time because most Americans real ize they are getting shafted by thisThataction.would include the schmucks who had the integri ty to pay off their school loans, the poor people who never could afford to go to college but who will now nevertheless be taxed to pay for those who did, and the working class who had to pay their own way through life but who are now being crushed by yet another inflationary giveaway. For there is no doubt that a significant majority of the people getting this loan “for giveness” are making more money than the people who will end up paying forThisit. has to do with the fact that the loans are not being forgiven. Instead, the payments will be shifted to tax payers. That begs the question: How does President Biden have this au thority? Congress did not vote to spend this money, and ac cording to the Constitution, the legislative branch must approve all schools!schooltoproficientproficiently,offortinginofholdinginnertheofwithcalagreementstemeritynon-union.workforce85%projects,ment-fundedersnon-unionagreementsthecoredollarsarements.calledgionlocalcausethispalled,Americansexpenditures.shouldbeapbutnotsurprised,bytaxpayergiveaway,beithappensallthetime.Forinstance,considerthegovernmentsinourrewhohaveapprovedso-ProjectLaborAgreeTheseagreementsagiveawayoftaxpayertounions,anotherconstituencygroupofDemocraticParty.TheseeffectivelybarconstructionworkfromworkingongovernconstructiontherebyeliminatingofthelocalconstructionthathappenstobeAllthewhile,theyhavethetoreferencetheseaspromotinglohires!AngelaMorabito,formerlythefederalDepartmentEducation,andIdiscussedracisthostagesituationincities.Theteacher’sunionsareinordinatenumberspoorblackchildrenhostageaschoolsystemthatissetthesekidsupforfailuretherestoftheirlives.InplaceslikeDetroit,94%eighthgraderscan’treadand95%arenotinmath.Theinsultinjury?In42states,privateischeaperthanpublic

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your muscle does not stimulate theirTheseproduction.IgAantibodies only develop if you are infected with the actual virus, or if a vaccine is delivered directly to the mucosa, as is done with the polio vaccine. So even with multiple boosters, your mucosa is still vulnerable to infection, which is why most people will still get sick with COVID-19. The good news is that these infections typically result in only a cold or cough, since your internal immunity protects your major organs. Essentially, vaccines do what they were supposed to do all along: Protect you from serious illness. The bad news is that your circulating blood antibody levels slowly decline after every vaccine or infection. Otherwise, we would have so many antibodies, our blood would be as thick as mud. The good news is that COVID-19 vaccines also induce the formation of memory cells, called B-cells, that retain the ability to manufacture these antibodies whenever we are ever exposed to theAntibodiesvirus. work by sticking to precise proteins on the surfaces of viruses and bacteria in a way specific to each type of virus. So, if a virus mutates (e.g., delta and omicron), the antibodies may be less effective because those antibodies won’t be modified toward the newer variants. This is one problem with the current boosters, they only produce the antibodies to the original virus.

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No, no, no. Hell, no! That’s my response to the latest trial balloon floated by the White House to join with Silicon Valley on a creepy program monitoring Americans’ “neurobehavioral signs” to (purportedly) prevent gunPresidentviolence.Donald Trump’s old friend, former NBC head Bob Wright, has been pushing an Orwellian surveillance scheme called “Safe Home” — “Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes” — that would cost taxpayers between $40 million and $60 million. The Washington Post, owned by Amazon billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, reports that the plan could incorporate “Apple Watches, Fitbits, Amazon Echo and Google Home,” as well as “ fMRIs, tractography and image analysis.” Here’s the big lie: Mr. Wright’s group promises that privacy will be “safeguarded,” profiling “avoided” and data protection capabilities a “cornerstone of this effort.”There’s so much bullcrap packed in that statement, it should be banned as a global warming pollutant. Anything involving Google should trigger automatic danger warnings of invasive data mining. We do not need the federal government partnering with Google to red-flag citizens. We need the federal government to red-flag Google. Let me remind you that Google has already admitted to data mining children’s emails without consent and in violation of the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act. This school year, untold thousands, if not millions, of children were required to sign on to Google email and Chrome in order to access homework, schedules and classroom discussions — without obtaining parental consent. Thanks to “1-to-1” programs forcing students across the country to use laptops and tablets when paper and pencil would suffice, iPads loaded with Google for Education are metastasizing in tech-crazed, fad-addled school districts oblivious to privacy concerns.Atmyhigh school sophomore son’s school, every student was told to download an app called “E-Hallpass,” which is seamlessly connected to their Google login, to track how much time students spend in the bathroom. It’s all in the name of “safety,” of course. And there’s no opportunity for parents to provide their preemptive feedback or consent. Minnesota educator Jennifer Dahlgren told me: “Too many schools use Google docs and sheets to store and share (private) student information, as well as using Google as their secure email! I have brought this up in staff meetings as a concern, and no one else seems bothered. Not good!” In 2019, the Federal Trade dismissalhowWalldatapasswordssecretlycarsViewmillionofbeans.revenue.amillion,betweenmassivereportedlyunderunsuspectingbeenProtectionfederaloverwithapprovedCommissionasettlementGoogle/YouTubeitsviolationoftheChildren’sOnlinePrivacyAct.YouTubehadstealthilyminingdataofYouTubeuserstheageof13.Itwillpayapittanceforthischildabusesomewhere$150millionto$200whichamountstojustfewmonths’ofYouTubeadInotherwords:ahillofEarlierduringthesummer2019,Googleagreedtoa$13settlementoveritsStreetprogram,whoseroaminginmorethan30countriescollectedemails,andotherpersonalfromWi-Finetworks.TheStreetJournalreportedonthecompany’sdishonestofthebreachasa

“mistake” was exposed by investigators who found that “Google engineers built software and embedded it into Street View vehicles to intentionally intercept the data from 2007 to 2010.” It’s not just Google. Under the cloak of “science,” big tech and big government are on the cusp of instituting a mental health social credit score system incorporating dubious predictive analytics. Who defines “mental health” risk factors? There is no consensus on how much mental health predicts violence. And don’t forget: The mental health profession is filled with partisan zealots who think all Trump voters are termbehavioral(whichpreviouslyschools.learningtomoregovernmentsthatTheschoolspoliticalthrough“diagnose”andwingandCamera-hoggingdangerous.psychiatristspsychologistsclogleft-newsshowsrecklesslyfecklesslypretendingtothepresidenthimselftheirownunhingedlenses.Mentalhealthdatamininginisalreadyhappening.PioneerInstitutereportedfederal,stateandlocalsplurgedonthan$30billionin2018implementsocial-emotionalmonitoringinK-12publicI’vereportedonGoogleappssuchasClassDojocollectsintimatedataandlong-psychologicalprofiles encompassing family information, personal messages, photographs and voice notes) and on federally funded TS Gold testing (which monitors “developmental domains including social emotional, physical, language and cognitive development”). Students are rated and recorded on their ability to do things like “respond to emotional cues,” “interact cooperatively” and “cooperate and share ideas and materials in socially acceptable ways.” Who defines “socially acceptable?” Liberal educators who are mindlessly addicting our kids to Silicon Valley technology and brainwashing them to conform or be excluded? The last thing Washington should be doing is handing over yet another set of keys to Silicon Valley spies with a voracious appetite for our private information — and our children’s precious minds. You want to make childrenDe-platformsafer?Google and the other data-mining predators from public schools now. It’s insanity to let them roam free. Michelle Malkin’s email address is visitSyndicatereadmoreprotonmail.com.michellemalkinInvestigates@TofindoutaboutMichelleMalkinandfeaturesbyotherCreatorswritersandcartoonists,www.creators.com.Copyright2019byCreators.com.

Editor’s note: Dr. Bradley Allen is a pediatric heart surgeon and a Republican candidate for Congress in the 24th District, which includes Santa Barbara County. Why are we still having problems with onThat’sCOVID-19?thequestionthemindsof many Americans who wonder why infections remain high despite more than two-thirds of Americans having already been fullyCOVID-19vaccinated.vaccines have had a tremendous impact on preventing serious illness allowing a semblance of normality to return. But it is obvious that they are not the panacea we were led to believe. So understandably, questions arise as surely as viruses themselves mutate.

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Yet there’s more good news: Our memory B-cells can actually produce antibodies adapted against the covid variants they might see in the future, making these new antibodies more effective as the virus mutates. This is because memory B-cells serve as a blueprint for antibodies. This means they can, like architects, make simple adjustments to the original plan, modifying the antibodies. This means that memory antibodies may have greater potency against variants than antibodies elicited by vaccination or booster. And even if the virus begins to evade our antibodies, vaccines (or natural infection) also generate cellular immunity through our T-cells that attack the pathogen directly. Think of the virus’ spike protein as being composed of many individual units (antigens). While antibodies attack the entire spike protein, T-cells attack each unitAndseparately.evenifthe variants have mutations on the spike proteins where those T cells may not work, there are still many sites remaining for T-cells to protect

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your body against severe disease. Now the exact number of T-cell antigens (epitopes) on the spike protein is currently unknown. One study showed 1,400 across the whole virus, and another showed that there were 87 epitopes on the spike protein to which T cells respond.

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The good news and bad news about COVID-19 vaccines and boosters

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“Unions are cool again,” reports CBS News, which suggests unionization is booming.“Reporters” practically cheered when a Starbucks in Buffalo, N.Y., became the first Starbucks to unionize. “A big symbolic win for labor,” The New York Times calledSinceit.then, more than 180 Starbucks voted to unionize, and 300 filed for union elections.Starbucks already offers better benefits than many companies: health benefits, even for part-time workers; free college tuition; maternity leave and more. Its minimum wage is $17 an hour. But activists want more. Apple Store employees and Google workers are also starting unionization efforts. In the first half of 2022, union election petitions increased by 57%.They have political support. President Joe Biden promised he’d be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen,” and he probably has been. He supports the PRO Act, which would override state right-towork laws and fine employers who fire workers for trying to unionize.TheWashington Post claims there is a “wave of labor activism sweeping the country.” But despite all political support and media hype, unionization is down. Unionization did increase during the pandemic but fell as the pandemic waned. In 2021, 15.8 million workers were represented by a union, a decline of half a million since 2019.There are many reasons. The Janus Supreme Court decision in 2018 declared it unconstitutional to force government workers to pay union dues. Now 28 states no

The answers can be found in a better lay education of our immune systems, which, thanks to the one-size-fits-all vaccine approach that’s generally been imposed by the CDC and federal government, has been ignored. A working understanding of immunity would allow Americans to make better healthcare choices and empower them to deal rationally with a disease that is likely to be with us, in one form or the other, the rest of our lives. The good news is that all current COVID-19 vaccines give you internal immunity, which protects your major organs. By injecting the vaccine into your muscle, your body generates blood-circulating (Immunoglobulin-G,antibodiesIgG),as well as memory and cellular immunity that protects your internal organs from severe infection. The bad news, however, is that vaccines do not offer mucosal immunity, which is how the COVID-19 virus enters your body. Mucosal cells line the surface of many tissues including your mouth, nose, throat and breathing tubes.These cells are protected by a particular form of a different antibody (Immunoglobulin-A, IgA), and a vaccine delivered into Dr. Bradley Allen The Summerlandlivesauthorin

Importantly, the virus cannot mutate its spike proteins indefinitely and still retain its ability to function, as it’s the spike proteins that allow the virus to enter our cells. This is why it is doubtful a variant will be created that can evade our T cells. Indeed, despite omicron’s extensive mutations and reduced susceptibility to antibodies, the majority of T cells still recognize the variant. So T cells are likely responsible for the vaccine’s amazing ability to protect us against severe disease. So the good news is that with circulating antibodies, memory B-cells, and T-cells already present after a vaccination or natural infection, our immune system has the ability to stop an infection from taking hold the next time a person is exposed to the same virus. The bad news is that if circulating antibodies are low, it can take several days for the memory B-cells to make new antibodies and for T-cells to be mobilized, leaving the person susceptible to a “so-called” breakthrough infection that, according to reports, is typically mild in people who aren’t otherwise high-risk. Now, a booster may help by increasing circulating IgG antibodies.Datafrom the United Kingdom’s Health Agency suggests that vaccine effectiveness in preventing symptomatic disease with omicron more than 25 weeks after vaccination with Pfizer was only 35% but rose to 75% with a booster. The bad news is that this booster protection may wane in 10 weeks, and as the virus mutates, a vaccine that produces the original antibodies will be less effective. Even so, high-risk individuals (the immunocompromised, the elderly or those experiencing obesity, lung or heart disease, etc.) susceptible to severe reactions from even a mild infection should consider being boosted if they know they will be putting themselves in a highrisk environment, like being on a cruise ship. But what about everyone else? Here there is much good news. The greatest protection from hospitalization or severe disease remains heavily concentrated in the first two vaccine doses. A study from The BMJ found that COURTESY CDC Please see ALLEN

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People were arrested for not succumbing to the propaganda and shamed, their livelihoods destroyed, so many never to recover because the lack of leadership and any understanding by politicians to shut down entire cities and force mask wearing didn’t matter. The virus isn’t gone, and some for their own personal reasons and comfort continue to wear masks, outside of the medical community.

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COURTESY CDC “Rochelle Lewinsky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, finally admitted her agency botched it with COVID-19,” columnist Henry Schulte writes. longer force any workers to pay unionThat’sdues.agood thing. No one should be forced to join groups they don’t want to join. In 1973, when I first went to work for CBS, I was forced to join AFTRA, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to pay dues to a union that didn’t appear to do much, but I had no choice.Atwork, I saw how union rules routinely slowed work down — sometimes in ridiculous ways. I couldn’t just press a button and watch a video. I had to find a union editor and ask him to press theOnebutton.reason Fox News grew faster than CBS, NBC and ABC’s news operations is that nonunion Fox is more flexible. They are able to try new things. They didn’t have to obey all the stupid rules. This is another reason why the number of union workers has declined. Union rules limit their employers’ ability to change, adapt andNon-uniongrow.

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Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section. despite waning ability to prevent mild infection from the delta variant, vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization in those who haven’t been boosted remains robust at 97.5%. In fact, in vaccinated people, the mortality can be higher for the flu than for COVID-19. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of Oct. 2, more than 146 million Americans have already had a COVID infection, a number which is certainly much higher now. When combined with the 78% who have been vaccinated, our collective immunity is now quite high, especially against severe disease.Indeed, evidence suggests that developing a COVID infection after being vaccinated may give superimmunity against future variants.Furthermore, we now have several therapeutic options to help minimize the weaknesses of vaccines, including an oral medication (Paxlovid) that reduces the risk of hospitalization by almost 90% in high-risk individuals. By understanding how vaccines and our immune system work, Americans will be able to make educated healthcare decisions, and better determine how they want to move forward as a nation. And that is good news!

John Stossel is creator of Stossel TV and author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www. creators.com.Copyright2022

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continued.Theinsult to the injury Biden’s Auditor Army will inflict on the American economy is that it comes at a time when many small businesses are already facing severe economic hardship, if not outright ruin. A July survey by the small business network Alignable found that “45% of small businesses (SMBs) are halting their hiring, largely because they say they can’t afford to add staff.” A different survey conducted by the same network, also in July, revealed that “47% of small business owners … say their businesses are at risk of closing by fall 2022, unless economic conditions improve significantly.” That number is “up 12 percentage points from last summer, when only 35% were concerned about economic issues forcing them to shut down,” according to Alignable, and “SMBs in key industries face even bigger problems: 59% of retailers are at risk, along with 52% in construction, 51% in the automotive sector, and 50% of restaurant owners.” Our small businesses are in crisis, and the last thing they need is an army of militarized bureaucrats going door to door carrying out audits, further crippling those businesses and the economic growth they generate.

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“Parents need a place for kids to go, and there’s not enough private schools to go around,” she said. Her hope is that in addition to adding seats on the various local school boards, Republican candidates can flip at least two of the three seats available on the Santa Barbara County School Board, thereby opening the door to at least one more charter school and possible approval of the kind of learning center she has in mind.

Life in America for the most part is near normal even with that little Rona bug still swirling around. People are just done and have caught on.

Continued from Page C1 wrath of the Republicans should they take control again and hold him accountable for his failures. And you don’t hear all those Democratic mayors and governors running for re-election even speak of the dreaded COVID-19 or chin diapers. They’re running for their political lives, knowing it’s payback time for the insidious and cruel punishment they bestowed upon the people they were elected to serve and protect.

You don’t hear a peep from the Democrats about things like tennis star Novak Djokovic being unable to play tennis in America because he’s an unvaccinated foreigner.Meanwhile, the invasion on the southern border is marked by unvaxxed foreigners who just waltz in and are paid to do so. For that matter, they’re bearing other gifts such as smallpox, measles, emphysema, monkeypox and polio, which is starting show up again.Thank you, Joe Biden, for the gifts that keep on giving. We can thank all those Democrats who made America kowtow to their COVID-19 rules while they broke every one of them and never had to lose a paycheck or worry about their own children’s health or education. Keep that in mind when you vote thisDon’tfall.live on short-term memory.Harken the days when you couldn’t say good-bye to a loved one, you couldn’t get your much needed surgery, you lost all you had, you sucked in your own carbon all day. There was one glimmer of sanity that proved the liberal Democrats had been using millions of humans as nothing more than lab rats, and that was Florida. Florida didn’t get sucked into the hoax, and the Democrats hated Florida for it because it exposed their flaws.Florida is booming. Florida has no income tax. It is educating children and not with the brainwashing woke equity crap or allowing 13-yearold girls to get hysterectomies. Businesses are flooding to Florida, and they’re being embraced.Crimehas dropped dramatically in Miami because they support the police.Florida is America’s shining example that using common sense works.California and New York are the opposite examples illustrating how stupidity fails. People paid attention as they flooded out of the irresponsible states and moved to where woke socialist ideology is left at the border.Wehad been duped. For those who haven’t been vaxxed or boosted, now’s the time because there are no lines. If you’re lucky, you’ll only get the Rona twice. Henry Schulte welcomes questions or comments hschulteopinions@gmail.com.at

California does not produce much of the electric power it uses. Our power-producing plants have been steadily closing down for years. We are dependent on buying electric power from other states.Butthose out-of-state power sources will run into the same energy shortages and grid problems, as they transfer from fossil fuels and nuclear to wind and solar and away from oil, gasoline, diesel and natural gas, to electric-only power on just about everything.Maintaining the operation of the Diablo Canyon plant does nothing to replace our antiquated electric grid.Did you know the drug overdose death rate in America continues to expand?

After lunch, Christy spoke first as each candidate gave a short talk explaining their positions and why they are running.Theoverriding theme of the day was preventing what they all described as leftist indoctrination of Santa Barbara County students, particularly in the elementary grades.They expressed frustration with the barrage of “genderaffirming” race-baiting whitebashing desultory material that seems to rain upon them daily. They weren’t too happy about Drag Queen Story Hour either.

Fentanyl-laced, brightly-colored pills, designed to attract and addict young people are the latest innovation to increase sales of this powerful deadly drug. Make no mistake.Fentanyl produced and distributed by these traffickers and dealers is a deadly poison. If it does not kill you the first time around, it will make you addicted and kill you later. If Chinese and Mexican gunmen, together with American associates, came to America and killed more than 100,000 Americans every year, would you demand government action to kill or capture these murderers, and would you demand that those captured face charges of, at least, manslaughter, more likely murder?Thenwhy are we not demanding indictments of attempted murder and murder for the traffickers and street dealers who, knowingly, peddle poisonous pills to our neighbors, friends, and relatives, including our children in school? What are all our state and federal representatives doing locally, nationally, and internationally to stop this annual slaughter?Thinkabout this. Over all the years of war in Vietnam, 58,220 soldiers were killed. In Iraq from March 2003 and October 2018, 4,550 service members were killed and 3,793 civilian military contractors were killed. In Afghanistan, we lost 2,488 military personnel. Many more wereTheinjured.totalof American deaths in these three wars number 70,000 to 85,000. All premature death is a tragedy.Justconsider the scale of death in war, compared to the scale of death occurring on our streets every day, every year. We ask U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, this question. What are you doing in the halls of Congress to eradicate the perpetrators of this scourge of endless death among Californians and the country? Or are saving butterflies in Pismo Beach the limit of your ambitions?

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Aug. 14 edition of the News Press, President Franklin Roosevelt sponsored the Securities Exchange Act to protect investors. However, it took until 1938 to pass the Fair Labor Standards Act, sometimes referred to as the “Wage and Hour” law. This act required a maximum work week of 44 hours, or 8.8 hours a day, overtime at time and a half for all hours above those hours, and safety for minors. Incidentally, this act defined “working hours” as when an employer “suffers or permits” a person to work. Including “permits” led to my client having to pay for an employee who, while not scheduled, chose to go to the facility. Imagine trying to control this for employees working remotely? At home? In 1940, the hours per week before overtime were reduced to 40 hours a week and 8 hours a day, which makes designing a program for 12 hour shifts tricky. In 1968, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act to make them all three-day weekends.From1974 — when my legal career began with the responsibility for employment issues for Gulf Oil Co. in the 20 northeastern states — to 2019, the percentage of employees in the manufacturing sector decreased from 30.2% to 12.6%. However, since President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10988, permitting government employees to join unions, their numbers have greatly expanded. A major difference in collective bargaining is the unions in the public sector are not restricted to enabling their employer to remain economically competitive. For example, when I was offered the position of managing the collective bargaining for the Administration of the Courts for California, one of my potential staff members asked: How would you convince a courtroom guard to accept your wage offer when he knows that you have no leverage since there is no restriction on being economically competitive, he cannot be replaced, and his job cannot be moved, or eliminated? Fortunately for my blood pressure, California Gov. Gray Davis would not agree to my terms.ForLabor Day 2022, it is estimated that 53% of the 158 million employed in the U.S., will travel. I will not join this group, but I may participate in the end of the “hot dog” season.TheNational Hot Dog and Sausage Council — yes, there really is one — projects that from Memorial Day to Labor Day, Americans will have consumed 7 billion hot dogs. With that, I wish each of you: Happy Labor Day 2022! Brent E. Zepke is an attorney, arbitrator and author who lives in Santa Barbara. His website is wordpress.com.OneheartTwoLivescom.Formerly, he taught law and business at six universities and numerous professional conferences. He is the author of six books: “One Heart-Two Lives,” “Legal Guide to Human Resources,” “Business Statistics,” “Labor Law,” “Products and the Consumer” and “Law for Non-Lawyers.” Continued from C3

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Toyota and Honda outgrew unionized companies like General Motors. They hired more people, created more jobs. That was good for labor, just not unionizedUnionizationlabor.helps some. But it hurtsSomemore.GM workers got higher pay and more time off. But lots of potential workers never got a chance. Toyota and Honda helped more people simply by growing faster. Today activists claim unions built the middle class. Without unions, they say, there would be no weekend and no eight-hour day. But that’s not true. Workers’ lives improved in America mostly because of competition, not union rules. Competition is what does the most forInworkers.1914,Henry Ford doubled his employees’ wages to $5 a day and cut their workday to eight hours. People claim he was forced to do it by union pressure. That’s a myth. He did it because his company had high turnover. Raising wages helped him keep good workers. Free market competition forces everyone to do better. What workers need is not a union’s rigid rules, but competition.Todaythere’s lots of competition forIt’sworkers.driven companies like Costco to offer a $17-an-hour startingUnionswage.help some, but a free market helps more.

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James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes questions or comments at jimb@ substack.com. Readers are invited to visit jimb.substack. com, where Jim’s Journals are on file. He also invites people to subscribe to Jim’s Journal. by an electric grid powered only by wind and solar. More importantly, the grid itself is incapable of supporting the great increases in demand for all-electric power, as fossil fuels and nuclear power are shut down. He has not acted on the massive, electric grid redesign and reconstruction necessary to store and distribute these huge increases in electric power demands, which are out of sync with his ambitions.

The hope, they agree, is that most, if not all ,will win their respective races and begin to raise standards overall and help to begin to turn Santa Barbara County school boards into proliteracy, pro-math, pro-safety and maybe even pro-American bulwarks.“We’vegot to get this education stuff right,” Gov. DeSantis told Tucker Carlson during a recent Fox News interview. “Because the school board races under our constitution are nonpartisan, the union would back the leftist, fund the leftist, and you’d have a left-wing school board representing a conservative county. So we have fixed that in many of these places, to where these school boards are now going to be representative of the values of the people that live there.”Thesuccessful candidates in Florida campaigned on four major issues: parental rights, transparency, school choice and safety.Santa Barbara

likely to be a continuing force in local politics over the coming years.And, though her plans for a new Learning Center have been thwarted for the moment, she vows to continue the effort.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there was a 15% increase in overdose deaths from 93,655 in 2020 to 107,000 in 2021. The estimates up to this month in 2022 are not yet in, but the huge increases in DEA drug interceptions indicate another large increase in deaths for this year.The greatest cause of overdose deaths is fentanyl — a laboratorydesigned synthetic drug made largely in Mexico from ingredients supplied by China.

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What did the governor do? He performed another kneejerk reaction. Instead of going into a re-examination of his policies that will bring down the electric grid, he performed a strategic retreat. He canceled the order to shut down the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County. But that is only a partial palliative to a much greater problem.

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