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Final day of voting
Waiting to begin for results in local, state, national races By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR
This is it. After a long campaign affected by the issues of a struggling economy and COVID-19, voters are casting their ballots on the final day of voting in an unprecedented election. Ballots were mailed to every California voter, and drop-off ballot boxes were added, such as the 32 in Santa Barbara County. Polls opened on Saturday for four days of voting. Here, there and everywhere, there’s been a lot of early voting. As of Sunday, a recordbreaking 93 million early ballots were cast across the U.S. At 8 tonight, the voting will end, and the waiting will begin. Voters hope to know tonight the results of the presidential, congressional and legislative races and local contests ranging from school boards to the mayors of Goleta and Santa Maria. In the race between Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger
Joe Biden, the nation will be watching the Electoral College’s battleground states. Pollsters consider those to be Florida, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Locally, voters are casting their votes in races for everything from water districts to city councils and on measures such as one for improving school facilities in Goleta (Measure M). There’s also the hotly debated L2020 measure for capital improvements in the single-school Cold Spring School District in Montecito, and that one has generated a lot of discussion in the News-Press’ Voices section. Voters in California are also deciding the fate of 12 statewide propositions, covering everything from property taxes to stem cell research, affirmative action and rent control. Tonight, the waiting begins for results. This is it. email: dmason@newspress.com
ELECTION 2020
Returned ballots in Santa Barbara County expected to break 2016 record By JOSH GREGA NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
INSIDE News-Press endorsements. A2. Letters to the editor. A4. Addresses of boxes for drop-off ballots. A6. News-Press stories on candidates and propositions. See newspress.com. Election results. See newspress. com tonight and Wednesday’s News-Press.
It’s Election Day, and ballots cast today in conjunction with those returned since voting started are expected to break records, according to Santa Barbara County Clerk, Recorder, Assessor and Registrar of Voters Joe Holland. As of 5 p.m. Monday, 146,579 vote by mail ballots had been returned and there had been 6,100 live ballots cast at the polls. According to Mr. Holland, this means that 65 percent of Santa Barbara County’s registered voters have turned out to vote, and he’s expecting far more than the 182,000 ballots cast in 2016 to be turned in by the end of this election. “I’m expecting over 200,000 ballots to be cast in total, which will far and away be a record,” he stated. Voting in the 2020 election has been far different than in past years, as all California voters received an absentee ballot whether they asked for one or not in order to lessen inperson voting amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hustle & Grind
“I’m expecting over 200,000 ballots to be cast in total, which will far and away be a record.” Joe Holland, Santa Barbara County Clerk, Recorder, Assessor and Registrar of Voters Also, options like dropping mail-in ballots into ballot drop boxes or at polling places has given voters new ways of delivering their ballots. Mr. Holland told the News-Press that he believes that this voting setup will likely be here to stay for post-pandemic elections, though it is more expensive to set up. He said setting up all of the electronic equipment at polling places that ensures voters don’t vote Please see VOTING on A2
Metropolitan Theatres remain open amid difficulty
ParadICE Shave Ice owners open new coffee company in same location Barista Kelly Adams prepares a late at the new Hustle & Grind Coffee Company, located in the same space as ParadICE Hawaiian Shave Ice & Ice Cream in Paseo Nuevo directly across from the Paseo Nuevo Theaters.
By ANNELISE HANSHAW NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
RAFAEL MALDONADO / news-press photos
By JOSH GREGA NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
Adding another brand to one’s business may not sound like the normal thing to do amid the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, but that’s exactly what ParadICE Hawaiian Shave Ice & Ice Cream co-owners Lee Jacobs and Marek Nold have done by introducing Hustle & Grind Coffee Company. Sharing the same space in Paseo Nuevo as ParadICE, Hustle & Grind
serves coffee and small eats such as avocado toast, the former roasted by Goleta-based Caje Coffee and bread for the latter sourced from Helena Avenue Bakery. According to a press release promoting Hustle & Grind, this partnering with local businesses is meant to embody the spirit of getting through this challenging year. “More so than ever, the year 2020 has shown that life is a grind and we are all doing our best to hustle through it
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together. Maintaining a positive outlook is vital and so is good fuel to keep us moving in the right direction,” it read. Business partners who are also childhood friends going back 25 years, Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Nold opened ParadICE in 2018. Mr. Nold said the business is a “dream job” for him and Mr. Jacobs, who both work full-time in IT sales. Busy men between their nine to five jobs and their dream business, the hard work demanded of them in
part inspired the name of their latest venture. “Hence the name ‘Hustle & Grind,’” Mr. Nold remarked. Mr. Nold and Mr. Jacobs decided to add coffee to their business since they are both avid coffee drinkers, and because shaved ice sales tend to slow down during the winter months. After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic the two owners took time to figure out how they wanted to increase their business under the circumstances, since just Please see coffee on A8
Metropolitan Theatre locations Fiesta Five in Santa Barbara and Camino Real in Goleta opened just over a month ago, but seats are still cold as the industry struggles. David Corwin, president of Metropolitan Theatres, said the last month has been “slow going” simply due to a lack of movie releases. “People feel comfortable about the precautions we’ve taken, but there’s just not any new product to get them here,” he said. The release of the latest James Bond movie “No Time to Die,” scheduled to release this month, was pushed until 2021. The change prompted the temporary closure of Regal, the second largest cinema chain in the United States. But Corwin says he doesn’t intend on closing Metropolitan’s doors, even if the business isn’t currently profitable. “We want to be able to keep as many people as we can working, and every week that we continue to be open, there’s more awareness,” he said. The theaters showed “Hocus Pocus” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas” to add Please see THEATERS on A8
“People feel comfortable about the precautions we’ve taken, but there’s just not any new product to get them here.” David Corwin, president of Metropolitan Theatres
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