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Local man extinguishes late night Spot fire
The Spot is still serving burgers and fries today thanks to the heroics of a Carpinteria man who climbed over the back of the restaurant to extinguish a fire as it flared up late Saturday night. Ty Patton told Coastal View News that while walking home around 11:30 p.m. on March 8 he was stopped by a man who said he’d smelled smoke emanating from the Linden Avenue eatery. While the other man dialed 9-1-1, Patton followed the smoke to its source by scaling the wall behind the restaurant and jumping into an uncovered area where he found a smoldering bin of what appeared to be burning embers. Patton doused the contents of the bin with water from a nearby sink. “It was smoking so badly, I had to hold my breath,” he said. When Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Protection District personnel arrived on the scene a few minutes later, the fire was out. Firefighters later determined that grease rags used to clean the restaurant’s grill had begun combusting in the receptacle. Preliminary reports indicate that the fire was accidental.
Carpinteria jeweler to be featured in SB Business Expo
The power of online networking has boosted business for Carpinteria resident and custom jeweler Calla Gold, and in April, Gold will share her hardearned tips for leveraging online tools to promote business at the Santa Barbara Business Expo. The April 5 event at Fess Parker’s Doubletree resort in Santa Barbara will include a talk by Gold entitled “Using Online Networking to Increase Your Off-line Networking Results.” In 2010, Gold, who owns Calla Gold Jewelry, founded SMART (Social Media Action Relationship Team), a social media networking and accountability group that meets monthly. She helps local businesses craft online marketing strategies and implement them with the help of other SMART group members. Gold’s social media expertise not only has increased sales of Calla Gold Jewelry, but it captured her coverage in the national magazine Real Simple. Gold’s Expo presentation will focus on successful actions for getting traction with new leads. She will also share new tech tools and places online that she and her SMART group members use to great effect. The cost to attend the SB Business Expo is $10, and more information can be found at businessEXPOsb.com.
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Jeweler Calla Gold will share her social media secrets to success as a featured speaker of the Santa Barbara Business Expo.
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CARPINTERIA’s 26TH ANNUAL ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION
Carpinteria organizations interested in elevating their visibility can do so through the city’s street light banner program. The Downtown-T Business Advisory Board, which was formerly the Parking and Business Improvement Area Advisory Board, is encouraging service organizations to participate in the program to celebrate community service month in March of each year. The street light banners of participating community service organizations will be displayed on Linden and Carpinteria Avenue light poles in the Downtown-T area. Any service club or organization located in and serving the Carpinteria community may apply to participate by contacting Brian Barrett, City of Carpinteria Management Analyst, at 684-5405 x446. The next Downtown-T Business Advisory Board meeting will be on April 17, at 8 a.m. at City Hall, 5775 Carpinteria Ave.
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MTD’s most senior bus driver retires
Clarence Suhr, the driver with the longest seniority in the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District, retired this month after over 40 years on the job. According to a press release from MTD, Suhr was well respected and appreciated by his passengers, many of whom fondly remember him as a driver from their childhood and who recently drove their grandchildren on the bus. “He will be remembered for his cheerful disposition and exemplary driving safety record,” stated the release.
New Franklin Trail film available for viewing
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Working for the City of Carpinteria, filmmaker Larry Nimmer recently completed and released “The Reopening of The Franklin Trail,” a 14-minute film that can be seen online at YouTube.com/nimmerpictures and on Carpinteria’s Channel 21. Featuring aerial and ground footage of the trail, historical images and interviews with some of the key players, the film documents the trail’s historic use and the process by which the trail was reopened last fall. Nimmer has made several films related to Carpinteria and is currently working on an oral histories project titled “Talking in the Library.”
New CHP commander takes SB area reins
Captain Mark D’Arelli was named the California Highway Patrol’s new commander for the Santa Barbara area as of March 1. D’Arelli, a 15-year veteran CHP officer and Santa Barbara County native, holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Sacramento State University and a Master of Science in Emergency Management from California State University Long Beach. In May, he will graduate from the Peace Officer Standards and Training Command College, an 18-month leadership program that focuses on emerging issues and problem solving in law enforcement. He stated in a press release, “I am honored and thrilled to be working back in this beautiful community that I call home. It is my high- California Highway Patrol est priority to promote the continued safety of all Captain Mark D’Arelli persons on our roadways and I will work diligently with all of our community stakeholders and law enforcement partners to do so.”