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Economist and Former U.S. Secretary of Labor
Robert B. Reich
What Really Happened to the American Dream? (And How Can it be Restored?)
Wed, Apr 3 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
Tickets start at $20
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Apr 7
Malian Singer-songwriter
Fatoumata Diawara
Sun, Apr 7 (note new date and time)
7 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
Tickets start at $30 / $15 UCSB students
“The Malian artist’s music [is] luminous... she amplifies African rhythms and Wassoulou traditions of storytelling with her deep, commanding voice and unrelenting electric guitars, which rip through her songs like beautiful streaks of lightning.” The New Yorker
Apr 9
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U.S. Premiere of Thomas Adès Commission
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Tickets start at $25 / $15 UCSB students
Schubert: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956
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Thu, Apr 18 / 7:30 PM / Arlington Theatre
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International drag superstar RuPaul offers a personal philosophy that testifies to the value of chosen family, the importance of harnessing what makes you different and the transformational power of facing yourself fearlessly.
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The work of acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist Janna Ireland, currently on view at SBMA and MCASB, includes her photographic interpretation of the architecture of Paul R. Williams, the renowned 20th-century Black architect who designed many of Southern California’s iconic buildings. In a nod to the music of the jazz greats, Ben Allison, Steve Cardenas and Ted Nash perform against a backdrop of images of Williams’ mid-century Los Angeles world and photographs from Ireland’s Regarding Paul R. Williams
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Tiana Molony is an Indy intern who has been turning out stories for us. The Santa Barbaran has her sights on the Big Apple and is already setting roots in New York journalism while she’s here at home and working on her master’s degree.
What got you into journalism and what brought you here to the Independent? Do you have plans to continue in journalism? I’ve always felt an affinity for journalism. Uncovering truths and sharing compelling stories fueled my desire to pursue the career. Routinely reading articles also inspired me. I subscribe to various news outlets, including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Writing is a passion of mine, and over two years ago, I decided to turn my passion into my career when I started my master’s program in journalism online at New York University. About halfway through my degree, I pitched an essay to the Indy about my time growing up on Dos Pueblos Ranch. After I wrote the essay and saw it published in the paper, I realized how much I enjoyed the experience, and shortly after, I joined as an intern.
What do you do outside of your internship? I devote a lot of my time to my master’s degree. My professors are some of the most talented journalists in the world, and I am forever grateful for their guidance and formidable knowledge of journalism. The program is entirely online, yet it’s very intimate and collaborative.
What are you most looking forward to this year? Do you have any fun summer plans? I’m traveling to New York this May to attend graduation and meet some of my classmates and teachers. After graduation, I look forward to taking my career to the next level.
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With the County of Santa Barbara just weeks away from beginning the process of choosing which sites are to be rezoned in the name of housing, there was still little known about what these potentially community-changing developments many of which were proposed for the areas just outside Goleta city limits would actually look like.
Then, following a suggestion from housing advocates with the League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara, Supervisor Laura Capps called for a public hearing where developers asking to rezone land for housing would present their projects out in the open for everybody to see and, hopefully, to help the board answer the question of whether these projects would actually produce the affordable housing that the county so badly needs.
On Tuesday, these developers went before the County Board of Supervisors one by one, each showing renderings of their grand visions for brand-new housing communities and promising to bring hundreds, if not thousands, of potential housing units to the unincorporated areas of the county. But while many of the proposals were received well by the board, it soon became clear that it would be tough to get private developers to willingly offer anything more than a small portion of units designated toward lower-income renters. Most included up to 20 percent affordable while expecting to offer the rest at market-rate.
The developer “beauty contest,” as it was described by Supervisor Bob Nelson, was just an informative session, and though the board took no action, it served as the last official chance for discussion before the County Planning Commission begins deciding on rezones during its March 27 and April 1 meetings.
All of the sites fit the county’s “rezone criteria,” according to Planning Director Lisa Plowman, which required that the proposals offer price-restricted, low-income housing, workforce housing, and on-site recreation, and that all developers partner with local nonprofits to assist with affordable units.
Some of the projects had already been in the pipeline, such as the Bailard Avenue project just outside Carpinteria, a joint effort between Red Tail Multifamily Development and the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara that would convert a property formerly owned by Carpinteria Unified School District into a mix of market-rate and affordable housing.
The site was originally proposed at 173 units 41 low-income and 132 marketrate with Red Tail managing the marketrate portion of the property and the Housing Authority handling the affordable housing section. But with the county’s approval for a rezone, the developers are hoping to expand to 182 units, with 50 designated for very-lowand low-income renters and the remaining 132 units at market rate.
The majority of the rezone proposals came in the areas of the county right outside the City of Goleta.
The Tatum property, tucked between El Camino School and Turnpike Shopping Center, is strikingly similar to the Bailard project. Both are former school district properties, and both were proposed as new developments during the most recent eight-year housing element planning cycle. Both are not zoned as agricultural which was a major sticking point for county officials hoping to preserve ag lands and both are collaborations between Red Tail and the Housing Authority.
The team behind the Tatum property, like
Bailard, is also asking for a rezone to bring even more units than originally planned. Previously, the project was submitted as a 345-unit project with at least 69 affordable units and 275 market-rate; with the county’s approval of a rezone, that number would balloon to 545 units across the 23 acres, with 110 considered affordable and 435 available at market rate.
Just across the street from the Tatum property is the proposed San Marcos Growers site, owned by the Hodges family since 1979. Although it was originally zoned as residential, it has operated as a wholesale nursery and was zoned as agricultural in 1993. Now, the Hodges family is hoping to convert the 27 acres into 996 units of housing, with 200 deed-restricted to very-low- and lowincome renters and the remainder offered as “upper-moderate-income workforce housing,” according to project planner John Blair of Presidio Capital Partners.
Like the Tatum property, the site location near Hollister Avenue is in a prime position for large-scale development, already surrounded by residential and commercial properties and right along a major transit corridor. The developers described the project as “shovel ready,” hoping to be first to build in the Eastern Goleta housing rush.
Like many of the other proposals, San Marcos Growers had a vision of an “environmentally friendly apartment community,” complete with dog parks, community trails, and open spaces. And like the others, the Housing Authority would handle the affordable portion on a separate parcel a trend that has become necessary due to state guidelines requiring separate parcels for housing built with tax credits.
The San Marcos site is also among several sites included in
The county supervisors on 3/19 approved the issuance of $130 million in Certificates of Participation, a bondlike instrument of municipal debt, to cover the cost of six major construction projects. Those include $20.4 to rehabilitate a portion of the county’s Main Jail, $53 million for a brand-new county Probation Department headquarters; $17.6 million is earmarked for a Regional Fire Communications Center; $16 million for a Public Safety Radio Network; $7.5 million for renovations of the RV Park at Cachuma Lake; and $5.2 million for Fire Station 27.
On 3/19, the City Council voted to award $825,000 in funding for seven capital projects and $857,000 in human services grants for social programs in 2025. The capital project grants will go toward a service space expansion at the Family Service Agency; safety improvements at Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden; a program grant for The Unity Shoppe; Habitat for Humanity’s home repair program; WeeCare’s Upwards daycare and preschool program; and toward solar and housing rehabilitation at the Sanctuary Centers’ Arlington and Hollister apartment complexes. The human services grants will go to the Channel Islands YMCA’s My Home and Noah’s Anchorage programs; the Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse; Foodbank’s warehouse program; Good Samaritan’s Freedom Warming Centers; the Legal Aid Foundation; and the Organic Soup Kitchen, among dozens of other programs offering family services, daycare, and resources for homeless individuals.
On 3/26, the California Department of Conservation’s Geologic Energy Management Division is holding a public hearing on its formal plan to phase out fracking statewide. In attendance will be the Santa Barbara–based Environmental Defense Center (EDC) the driving force behind prohibiting offshore fracking in California waters. On shore, they want to see steam injection and flooding methods banned in addition to fracking. “We think it’s a great rule with great regulation, but we’re going to ask them to expand it,” said Linda Krop, chief counsel of the EDC. “Because otherwise, it’s not going to have as much of an effect here.” Read more at independent.com/CalGEM.
Thousands of leaking, idle oil wells are scattered across California, creating toxic graveyards symbolic of a dying industry. To tackle this “urgent climate and public health crisis,” Assemblymember Gregg Hart introduced Assembly Bill 1866 last week. The bill would mandate oil operators to develop plans to plug the 40,000 idle wells (and counting) in the state within a decade, prioritizing those within 3,200 feet of vulnerable communities. Santa Barbara ranks among the top five California counties with more than 1,600 idle and orphan wells, with many of these wells leaking harmful methane gas. Read more at independent .com/cleaning-up.
After running Heal the Ocean for 26 years, Hillary Hauser has announced that she will be stepping down to become the nonprofit’s board chair and that Heal the Ocean is looking for a new executive director.
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The Santa Barbara Unified school board approved the long list of precautionary notices for staff reductions on March 12, making it a “difficult night,” in the words of district leadership. Pink slips were issued for 76 classified positions, such as paraeducators, family engagement liaisons, and curriculum specialists, and hours for 24 positions may be reduced. Fifteen certificated positions including permanent and temporary positions, such as teachers on special assignment and counselors are also under threat of elimination.
It is not a final decision, stressed Superintendent Hilda Maldonado. Precautionary notices were given to employees on March 15, and final notices will go out in May.
“While this is being spurred by our financial situation every budgetary decision is guided by our students’ needs and a commitment to their success,” Maldonado told the packed room of disgruntled employees, parents, and students last week.
Many public commenters seemed skeptical or distrustful of the district’s intentions. They worried about the impact not only on staff but on students, citing the potential elimination of positions such as paraeducators, who provide in-classroom support to students.
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Hauser was nothing if not adamant and outspoken when Heal the Ocean first burst onto the scene, as Rincon surfers in alarming numbers reported sporting skin and ear rashes and infections. Hauser blamed the septic system relied upon by property owners living along the ocean frontages from Rincon to Carpinteria. Ultimately, Heal the Ocean twisted enough arms and bent enough ears to “talk” the affected property owners into making the switch from septic to sewage lines.
Taking the place of dilapidated portables at Dos Pueblos High School is the school’s new media center, which was surrounded by school leaders, reporters, and students in party hats for its ceremonial ribbon-cutting on 3/19. The Virgil Elings Media Arts and Communications Center houses hundreds of students each day to learn about asking questions, meeting deadlines, and cooperating with their peers to tell and craft stories. Behind the building’s glass facade is a space created and equipped for the young DP News team and their daily broadcast including a news desk donated
when they aren’t being watched, or there aren’t enough people to intervene,” said teacher Rita Zigletti. “We need all the competent and capable people we can get…. What’s going on?”
Many also suggested the cuts are unnecessary (due to untapped funds in the district’s reserves), or that the district should instead be cutting at the administrative level. Combined, Maldonado and her cabinet make more than $1.1 million in compensation. That includes a $221,813 salary for Steve Venz, chief operating officer, a position that was only recently created by Maldonado.
The district has consistently blamed the expiration of $60 million in one-time funds the majority of which was used on staff positions, according to assistant superintendent John Becchio the current development of a new three-year local control and accountability plan, and uncertainty around the governor’s proposed budget and the final costs of ongoing labor negotiation proposals.
“We must acknowledge the emotional toll that uncertainty can impose on our staff members and their families,” Maldonado said. “It’s a reality that weighs heavily on the hearts and minds of many, and of those who have dedicated themselves to this district and this community, it is not unrecognized.”
Callie Fauseyby KEYT as well as yearbook staff and other budding journalists and creatives. The center went live and started hosting classes this past fall.
An ambitious project to transform Old Town Goleta got underway 3/18 at the official kick-off to a nearly three-year project to get traffic flowing more smoothly on Hollister Avenue, decrease flooding from San Jose Creek, and improve pedestrian and bicycle safety. Mayor Paula Perotte called “Project Connect” an opportunity to link east and west Goleta safely, especially in an area that has an above-average transportation and pedestrian accident rate. The project will add a pair of roundabouts to either side of Hollister under State Route 217, extend Ekwill Stree and Fowler Road, and replace the bridge over San Jose Creek at Hollister Avenue, increasing the creek flow to a 100-year standard. Read more at independent.com/ big-changes-underway.
Santa Barbara police arrested S.B. resident Omar Velazquez Sanchez, 40, on 3/10 for allegedly committing one robbery and two grand thefts/burglaries at three jewelry stores in the city between February and March. According to police, the total value of the stolen jewelry was estimated at around $53,000. Police say that during his arrest, Sanchez was found with jewelry stolen from the stores and a loaded weapon with its serial number removed, which authorities believed was used during the robbery. Sanchez was booked in county jail on a litany of felony counts, including robbery, burglary, grand theft, assault with a deadly weapon (firearm), criminal threats, and felon in possession of firearm. His bail was set at $250,000. n
For more than a week, UC Santa Barbara student Maggie Modovsky has lived only on liquids, vitamins, and electrolytes. Forgoing solid food while preparing for her finals has been difficult. But Modovsky is on strike.
Five days into her hunger strike, a weary Modovsky sat down with the Independent. Speaking softly, she explained that she and four other students are continuing their hunger-striking in protest for Palestinians and against injustices on campus.
“It just felt like the right thing to do,” she said.
These strikes were, in part, inspired by Charlene Macharia, a doctoral student at UCSB’s Gevirtz School of Education, who announced the first campus hunger strike on March 9. She said she was prompted to take that action because of the administration’s handling of the Israel–Palestine conflict and its suspension of the MultiCultural Center (MCC) after anti-Zionist messages were posted around the building in February.
Macharia, who finished her 10-day hunger strike on March 18, was at the center of an earlier community gathering that called for “one love” on Friday, March 15. Love, she said, has been the driving force behind her actions, which have resonated with students and faculty all over campus.
On March 18, the five remaining striking students released a statement on the UCSB Hunger Strike Instagram page (@ucsbhungerstrike), clarifying that they are not affiliated with any campus organizations and that they stand for the “liberation of all peoples,” and emphasized that “preparation and safety” are their “top priorities.”
Striking students’ demands, originally made from members of the Department of Black Studies, included calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and recognizing the ongoing “genocide” of Palestinians more than 31,000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since Hamas’s October 7 surprise attack on Israeli communities bordering Gaza that killed more than a thousand people.
Protesters also wish to see the MultiCultural Center reopened with a task force for intersectional racial justice, as well as the end of “all intimidation of students for their activism” with the addition of protections against doxing and harassment as students experienced in the case of the anti-Zionist signage among other demands centered around freedom of expression, anti-violence, and support for marginalized groups.
In addition to the above, Macharia added three more demands in her letter to the administration: Divest from weapons manufacturing, divest from the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on native Hawaiian land, and rename North Hall to Malcolm X Hall.
She wrote that “putting her life on the line” may seem “meaningless” or like a “hilarious joke” to the administration, particularly because she is a Black woman. She charged that the UC is “complicit” in the high death toll in Gaza, and asked: “Why should it matter if you have the blood of just one more person on your hands?”
“This is not a suicide attempt,” she wrote. “I love life, which is why I am fighting for all our lives. If anything, this would be a homicide attempt, and you are the ‘homies’ that are being held responsible. You have left us in desperation, and desperate times call for desperate measures.”
So far, UCSB has not met any of these demands, though some striking students received what they considered hollow messages from administrators offering information about mental health resources. However, Chancellor Henry Yang promised Macharia a meeting. And among faculty members, a few have expressed their solidarity.
Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, a professor of Chicana/o Studies, wrote to Macharia and the UCSB community, calling her a “tireless and unwavering voice for a world based on love and justice” and that “Folks have been working on these issues on this campus for many years if not decades now…. I hope and pray that your hunger, the hunger and deep desire that many other people share and have been working to create, comes to fruition and soon.”
In a statement, the university acknowledged that it “has a passionate student body who care deeply about what is happening in our local community and around the globe.”
University spokesperson Kiki Reyes stressed campus officials were working toward “opening dialogues,” providing student support services, and addressing concerns raised by different campus organizations.” She said, “There has never been any question that the MCC is a critical resource that will reopen for its full complement of educational and supportive activities” in the spring.
Meanwhile, the five students are continuing their hunger strike, while other students have been called on to support them with donations of sodium packets, Pedialyte, protein drinks, tea, Liquid IV, coconut water, and broth. n
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1219 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Journalist Leila Philip first became interested in beavers when she saw them building a pond near her house. Her fascination with what they were doing led her to research and report her New York Times bestselling book, Beaverland. Come learn about the remarkable role beavers have played in American history, and the role they will play in our ecological future.
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The Santa Barbara County dump on the Gaviota Coast received approval on Tuesday to keep adding trash to a height of 650 feet above sea level the Pacific Ocean shines a bright blue to its south for an increase of 30 feet from the current permitted height, and across 14.25 mostly disturbed acres through to 2038. The Board of Supervisors gave unanimous approval, with Supervisor Bob Nelson absent, but not before hearing opposition from the Gaviota Coast Conservancy and nearby residents, who questioned the wisdom of allowing the dump to expand when it has acknowledged issues with creek water pollution and pervasive downwind odors, causing “massive human suffering,” said resident Mariah Smith, adding, “It would be shortsighted to expand it now.”
To requests made in this paper and elsewhere that the less-than-adequate organicwaste operations at Tajiguas Landfill be independently reviewed, Public Works director Chris Sneddon pointed out that two “world-leading experts” have already given their independent opinions to the county. As well, the landfill’s recycling operations report to nine regulatory agencies, while the
landfill itself reports to even more, said Jeanette Gonzales-Knight, Public Works’ technical deputy director, addressing doubts that water and air quality were being monitored sufficiently.
For the supervisors, however, the discussion was about the pile of trash Tajiguas faced every day. “In our county, we produce nine pounds of trash per person. For the average American, it’s 4.9 pounds. We’re almost double that amount. Where’s the plan to reduce?” Laura Capps asked. Das Williams called it “affluenza,” and Joan Hartmann requested that Public Works come back in six months with a waste-reduction program, one that would “engage the community.”
Supervisor Williams went on to note it would take at least two years to get state approval to change tactics, expressing grave concerns for the alternatives to expansion trucking it to Chiquita Canyon in Castaic or to Santa Maria, both of which were very costly in terms of tipping fee increases, additional traffic to the south, and increased vehicle pollution. And, Supervisor Steve Lavagnino pointed out, the Santa Maria landfill is on a river: “It’s not much better of a situation there.” Jean Yamamura
entirely new neighborhood, complete with pickleball courts, park trails, a grab-and-go market, and the obligatory on-site dog parks.
the newly created South Coast Chamber of Commerce housing consortium, which will bring housing providers together with local businesses to subsidize units for employees.
But the darling of the show, listed as number one on the county’s list of potential rezones, is the 64 acres of avocado and lemon orchards at the intersection of Hollister and Ward Memorial Drive owned by the Giorgi family. The property could potentially be the future home of nearly 1,200 units of housing, with nine different types of housing, both rentals and for sale, in what project planner Jeff Nelson of Oak Creek Company called a “diverse, fully planned, new community.”
The massive project boasts 600 units of rentals and 590 units for sale. Two hundred and fifty of the rentals would be set aside for affordable housing, and a portion of the for-sale units would be catered to moderate-price workforce housing. The early renderings show pocket parks, two-story townhomes, three- and four-story affordable apartment buildings, commercial spaces, and even a childcare and preschool on-site. The developers were also among those willing to work with the South Coast Chamber of Commerce to ensure workforce housing.
Some of the proposals raised concerns from community members worried that the statewide push for housing is causing the county to build too much too fast. During public comment, community members spoke out against the proposed development of the Glen Annie Golf Course, whose owners are considering a project with more than a thousand units with a mix of rentals and for-sale units. The proposal would require the closure of the golf course in favor of an
Dianne Black, a retired director of the county’s Planning and Development department who now sits on the housing committee for the League of Women Voters, said that she was encouraged to see a mix of affordable and for-sale housing, though she pointed out that the amount of affordable units being offered was still far below the county’s goals for developments to provide 50 percent of units for lower-income, 25 percent for moderate, and 25 percent for market-rate.
“None of these projects meet that,” Black said. “Not one.”
She also pointed out that even without rezones, the county is projected to be well over the target of market rate units for the next eight years, and accommodating even more rezone sites would “result in significant overdevelopment” of market-rate units. To offset this, she says the League of Women Voters “strongly recommends that the county immediately investigate additional sites owned by the county and other public agencies for affordable housing.”
Supervisor Capps said that having the developers present their projects in front of the public was “a huge step forward in terms of transparency,” though she said she hoped to see much more affordable housing, and suggested that the county require a letter of intent to ensure the projects provided the affordability as promised.
“I’ve said it before, but affordability is by far the top priority,” Capps said. “How do we know that these promises of affordability will stick?”
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In 2023, Inmates Filed 50 Percent
by Nick Welsh
The number of medical- and mentalhealth-related grievances filed by inmates in the Santa Barbara County Jail both the Northern Branch and South County’s Main Jail increased by more than 50 percent a month in 2023 over the monthly average established over the five preceding years.
The number of grievances filed overall for reasons medical and non-medical increased from 1,292 in 2020 to 1,646 in 2023. Medical-related grievances in that same time jumped from 263 to 543. In that same period, monthly jail population shifted from 673 to 759.
Contributing to the rise was the COVID crisis, which saw an increase in inmate medical need. But also contributing were staff shortages both among custody officers working for the County Sheriff’s Office and for medical personnel hired by Wellpath, the private contracting firm hired by the county to provide health care in the jail. During the same period, county jail officers also made grievance forms more available to inmates.
When the item came up for a cursory discussion this Tuesday, the county supervisors were told that 94 percent of grievances were resolved to the satisfaction of the inmates making them. What that meant, however, was not spelled out.
The written report noted that the average lapse of time between when the grievances were filed and when they were responded to was 5.2 days. Response time for six grievances exceeded 15 days.
Twenty-seven grievances were filed for inadequate dental care, a 42 percent jump over the five-year average. The jump in mental-health complaints usually involving lack of medication or wrong dosages was 35.7 percent.
Nearly 13 percent of the grievances involved lack of access to what’s known as Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT). That acronym refers to methadone treatment for individuals addicted to opiates, a program
launched only in the last year.
In many cases, the report noted, some grievances had been filed multiple times or by people who either refused treatment or had been released from county jail. The sheriff created a jail grievance oversight committee in 2016. The committee inadvertently stopped submitting annual reports in 2020; this year’s report was the first since then.
Longtime mental-health advocate Lynne Gibbs, who served on the county’s grievance oversight committee early on in its incarnation, said she’d heard recently that multiple inmates had taken to shouting out “Man down!” in cases where they believed medical treatment was not being provided in a timely basis.
The issue was placed on the county’s administrative agenda, meaning it wasn’t slated for a formal presentation, from which a robust back-and-forth might ensue. Only Supervisor Laura Capps asked any questions, and only one member of the public spoke.
Even so, jail mental health care has emerged in the past year as a particularly hot issue, with the Wellpath contract slated for renewal in the next month. On April 3, the supervisors are scheduled to take a deeper dive into the quality of mental health care dispensed in county jail and the limited options available to the supervisors.
Several months ago, the supervisors voted to give the County Public Health Department for the first time some limited oversight responsibilities for the medical and mental-health care provided in the county jail. In addition, acute crisis response teams from the county’s Department of Behavioral Wellness have been reassigned to work out of the county jail instead of their traditional offices. This reassignment, however, has triggered resistance by the union representing these workers, which has argued such changes in working conditions must be hammered out at the bargaining table rather than being imposed by administrative or executive fiat. n
Childcare Facilities and Minor Ordinance Amendments Local Coastal Program Amendment
April 2, 2024
Hearing begins at 9:00 A.M.
Location:
Board of Supervisors Hearing Room
105 E. Anapamu St. 4th Floor Santa Barbara, CA 93101
On Tuesday, April 2, 2024, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors (Board) will conduct a public hearing to consider the California Coastal Commission’s conditional certification of the Childcare Facilities and Minor Ordinance Amendments (Case No. 22ORD-00005) as an amendment to the County’s certified Local Coastal Program (LCP).
Acceptance of the Coastal Commission’s conditional certification of the Childcare Facilities and Minor Ordinance Amendment will require the Board to take the following actions:
Receive notice of the California Coastal Commission’s conditional certification of an amendment to the County’s LCP (Coastal Commission Case No. LCP-4-STB-23-0007-1 Childcare Facilities), with four suggested modifications;
Adopt a resolution acknowledging receipt of the California Coastal Commission’s conditional certification with modifications, accepting and agreeing to the suggested modifications, agreeing to issue Coastal Development Permits for the total area included in the conditionally certified LCP, and adopting the LCP Amendment with the suggested modifications;
Determine that the Board’s action is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Sections 15061(b)(3), 15265, and 15301(p); and
Direct the Planning and Development Department to transmit the adopted resolution to the Executive Director of the California Coastal Commission.
The Board hearing begins at 9:00 A.M. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Clerk of the Board. Please see the posted agenda and staff report available on the Thursday prior to the meeting at https://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx# under the hearing date. For additional information, please contact Corina Venegas-Martin at cvenegas@countyofsb.org.
For current methods of public participation for the meeting of April 2, 2024, please see page two (2) of the posted Agenda. The posted agenda will be available on Thursday prior to the above referenced meeting for a more specific time for this item. However, the order of the agenda may be rearranged or the item may be continued.
Please see the posted agenda and staff reports available on the Thursday prior to the meeting at http://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx under the hearing date or contact the Clerk of the Board at (805) 568-2240 for alternative options.
If you challenge the project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in correspondence to the Clerk of the Board prior to the public hearing. G.C. Section 65009, 6066, and 6062a.
Attendance and participation by the public is invited and encouraged. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors by 4:00 p.m. on Friday before the Board meeting at (805) 568-2240.
Storyteller Children’s Center, which provides early childhood education and much more to young children living below the poverty line, has been struggling for months to obtain the city’s approval to install toddler playground equipment it procured with grant funding. Its attempts to move forward have been stymied by difficulties meeting city requirements. There are also some unresolved easement issues. In the meantime, with the old equipment demolished, the children are left with an empty playground.
When Storyteller removed the old playground equipment and began installing new play equipment last August at its 2115 State Street location, neighbors complained that the shade screen poles were so tall that they would block views and could be seen from behind the fence. Storyteller paused the work.
On September 12, the city posted a Stop Work Notice, which stated that the playground was being altered without a permit.
Storyteller which has been at this site for 25 years is led by board members, including real estate investor Kenny Slaught. According to the organization, it had not sought a permit because, based on the board’s reading of the city’s code, one was not required. Its playground vendor, Play & Park Structures, which does removals and installs across the country, also advised the board that a permit is never required for a replacement toddler playground. The equipment is for children 6 to 23 months in age.
When presented with the Stop Work Notice, however, Storyteller inquired what type of permit is needed, but according to Storyteller representatives, the city would not specify.
In the meantime, Storyteller sought to remove the shade screen poles because of concerns voiced by neighbors. However, the city would not allow the removal without a demolition permit, which in turn Storyteller was not allowed to apply for until the city issued a Notice of Violation.
On October 20, the Notice of Violation was issued by the city, stating that a building permit is required to install the new equipment. Storyteller had hired a consultant to work through permit needs, and the city recommended that Storyteller hire a Certified Access Specialist to assist them with meeting the accessibility requirements needed.
Storyteller’s project team had informed them that there are no accessibility requirements for toddler playgrounds, but given the city’s insistence, it hired a Certified Access Specialist to prepare an assessment. The
report, obtained on February 28 and submitted to the city the same day, confirmed that because the playground is for toddlers under the age of 2, there are indeed no accessibility requirements. Together, the cost of hiring the permit planner and the Access Specialist added nearly $20,000 to the project.
What Storyteller seeks to do, according to Executive Director Dr. Gabriella Garcia, is replace an inaccessible sand surface with an accessible, resilient, and safe play surface. Each structure and the surfacing of the new playground are accessibility improvements from the old, sand-based playground.
When asked about the accessibility requirement for this story, Emil Dilanian, the Community Development Department Building & Safety Code Compliance Supervisor handling the matter, stated that he did not realize until he received the accessibility report on February 28 that occupancy of the playground would be by toddlers under the age of 2. Given this, he stated, the proposed install will not trigger accessibility requirements.
According to Dilanian, two more issues still need to be resolved: the removal of trees and bushes, and an examination of the easement status of the land on which the playground sits.
Though a Storyteller representative said that the organization has submitted information regarding these issues to the city, a neighbor who for many years has lived next door to Storyteller and their landlord, First Congregational Church, has expressed surprise and disappointment that no one has personally contacted her to discuss the easement issues. She said she has always had good, neighborly communication with Storyteller until this new project began.
What’s needed, according to board member Slaught, is for everyone to get together and work together so that the children can have a playground. Slaught related that he is used to encountering obstacles in the development process, but what’s different here is that the terrible harm is borne by disadvantaged preschool children, who are left with an empty playground. n
AN ORGY OF ARCHITECTS: I admit it: Architects make me twitchy. They’re a breed apart. To be an architect in Santa Barbara but probably anywhere you’d better bring the predatory cool of a street hustler, the visionary authority of a high priest, and the power to blow prettier purple smoke than the most accomplished beat poet. And, of course, to be able to draw the prettiest of pictures excuse me, “vignettes” each more bewitching and besotting than the next. All architects are starving Michelangelos hungry for their next blank canvas. In case you hadn’t figured it out, that canvas is you
My biases were confirmed Monday evening, March 18, as eight Santa Barbara architects having generously donated hundreds of hours of their professional time sought to stop 17 members of the State Street Master Plan committee from hurling themselves out the nearest first-story window.
The process of creating a master plan was hatched, I think, 17 months ago, though it’s taken so long that even committee members aren’t sure anymore. Their aim is to conjure forth a long-term vision for what Santa Barbara wants its downtown to become. The existing 10-year-old model is threadbare in the extreme unless your idea of urban vibrancy is chalk drawings on the street.
To date, the committee had been forced to rely on computer-generated renderings produced by their consultant (for which City
Hall is on the hook for $800,000) showing streetscapes that are antiseptic, indecipherable, and could have been anywhere or no place at all. Any hint of a “wow factor” or trace of Santa Barbara was conspicuously absent.
The eight architects known among wildlife experts as “an orgy” succeeded in bringing a big whiff of the “wow.” Like everyone else in the room, I’m a sucker for hand-drawn sketches of streetscapes. Say the word “paseo” enough times, and I tend to drool; throw in the word “canopy,” and I’m yours.
The future they hinted at for the eightblock stretch between Haley and Sola drew deeply from Santa Barbara’s El Pueblo Viejo past. Santa Barbara, one said, “was Romantic chaos with a city grid.” There was much talk of meandering and sauntering. The street was like a river, another said, that had ripples and cascades and rapids and waterfalls. One commissioner praised the architects for re-injecting “poetry” back into the conversation. Another described the architects’ work as a “home run.”
At one point, I found myself in need of galoshes or a cold shower.
They were that good.
Breaking the spell was Lee Heller, one of Santa Barbara’s most ubiquitous citizen activists with an uncomfortable penchant for brass tacks. The architects were operating from the 100,000-foot elevation, she opined; they would do well to descend to the pseudo-reality offered by a 30,000-foot perch. Who would pay for all these magically meandering paseos, she
asked, saying, “We have to get back to reality.”
Nowhere was it clear how much of this eight-block stretch would allow cars or bicycles, either, or neither. Issues of mobility were not addressed, let alone resolved. And based on comments from the public, the debate about bikes, e-bikes, and pedestrians remains rooted in quasi-religious dogmas adhered to by mutually intransigent camps. (Interesting factoid, especially for all you suffering from e-bike panic: E-bikes account for fully half of all bipedal traffic in the city of Santa Barbara. They’re not the future; they’re the present.)
Another interesting factoid: El Pueblo Viejo is the least populated stretch of real estate within city limits. Downtowns typically are the most populated. There was much talk of economic vibrance, vitality, and other words beginning with the letter “V.” To the extent our downtown ever gets “Viagrified,” it’s because people will actually live downtown. And that, of course, means housing. Right now, only 5 percent of the downtown structures have any housing. Another interesting factoid.
A few weeks ago, City Hall gave tentative approval to a “preconceptual” still-not-quitea-plan to build 500 units of rental housing seven stories high, maybe where Paseo Nuevo now stands. This would be the biggest thing to hit Santa Barbara since the earthquake of 1925.
At a recent meeting, councilmembers were told they had zero bargaining power in the deal, there was no time to dicker with the
developers, and if they screwed things up by trying, the mall would remain a festering black hole for at least the next 41 years. As far as affordability went, councilmembers and the public were cautioned to lower expectations
The only way to get genuinely affordable housing in any volume is to get the Housing Authority involved and then to build on any one of the many under-utilized parking lots owned by City Hall, the County of Santa Barbara, the State of California, and local churches.
That like the bikes versus cars versus pedestrians feud was not addressed in the pretty pictures. Or, to be fair, by the committee itself. Likewise for the zoning changes needed to allow all this housing downtown. Or the new utility infrastructure changes needed to accommodate such housing.
Last point: All this new housing if we’re really serious will beget tons of additional traffic on roads that will find themselves increasingly constrained. My self-interested two cents’ worth: The more bikes (and especially e-bikes) can supplant the demand for cars, they should be actively, aggressively, and ecstatically encouraged. Given that 42 percent of all Americans qualify as obese and health-care costs are driving America’s spiraling deficit a line I stole from sometime S.B. resident Trek President John Burke maybe we can kill two birds with one stone.
Don’t get me wrong. I like pretty pictures. And every picture tells a story. The pictures generously donated by the architects might prove a big help in figuring out what we want our story to become. They’re that good.
—Nick Welsh
Multiple meet-ups by the neighbors who surround the Miramar revealed that nine out of 10 are extremely opposed to the new expansion. Visually, the new extension will block the mountain view that makes the area special. The historic church even has a meditation room with a view specifically for the mountains.
The hotel is currently 168 parking spots short of its requirements, and adding 60 new parking spaces and up to 30 new retail stores is not going to work. The Miramar wants a separate entrance to these stores, which will make it a mini-mall. The area capacity cannot carry additional staff, delivery trucks, and short-term visitor traffic.
searched your article about burgers, and although everything looked tasty, I was hoping to see the restaurants include a delicious plant-based burger. I think they and you had an opportunity to inform your readers and promote healthy alternatives. I’d love to see that in the future.
—Sylvia Sullivan, GoletaEditor’s Note: We were disappointed, too, and have discussed ideas for fostering more veggie options next year, but it’s ultimately out of our control. Please share your concern with restaurants that may want to serve a veggie option next year.
Joanne Taylor Hezlep
7/6/1936 - 3/6/2024
Cowgirl, Miss Santa Barbara, Sweetheart of the Salinas Rodeo, docent at Casa del Herrero, member of the UCSB alumni board, wife of 64 years, mother of two, beloved grandmother, Joanne Taylor Hezlep passed away March 6th, 2024, after a short battle with Glioblastoma.
Born in Oakland and raised in King City, California, the eldest of three siblings to parents Frances and Russell Taylor, Joanne delighted in the great American West excelling in all manner of cowboy culture: 4-H club, equestrian riding, showing, and Sweetheart of the California Rodeo in 1954.
Joanne and Jim became active residents of Casa Dorinda after moving there in 2016. Joanne is preceded in death by her parents Russell M. Taylor and Frances Cleary Taylor and survived by her loving family, husband James M. Hezlep Jr, son James M Hezlep III of Rolling Hills Estates, CA, daughter-in-law Julie Hezlep, grandsons Matthew Hezlep and Alexander Hezlep, son John T Hezlep and partner Kevin Mischler of West Hollywood, CA, brother Russell Taylor (Jeanette) of Cayucos, CA and sister Mavourneen Nolte of King City, CA.
A celebration of Joanne’s life will be held Saturday April 20th at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Montecito, CA at 11am. In lieu of flowers, a donation can be made to the Casa Dorinda Employee Scholarship Fund.
Check payable to: Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara
Memo: Casa Fund/Joanne Hezlep
P.O. Box 3620 Santa Barbara, CA 93130
www.sbscholarship.org
11/23/1962 - 11/11/2023
Sphinx Virtuosi chamber concert at the Lobero was beautiful, wondrous, and enchanting. But I have a request to all future audiences.
—Branden Aroyan, S.B.Montecito has a semi-rural policy, and building to the edge of the property line doesn’t match that. For decades, Montecito has kept this aesthetic to keep things private and keep values high. Neighbors who have never protested anything before in their lives are going door-to-door to share the news of this potential project.
Iam writing to express concern and opposition to the proposed Tajiguas Landfill expansion.
As the county is clearly aware, the numerous problems with the landfill are demonstrated by the recent change in management. Expanding the landfill when it is not operating properly seems foolhardy and a waste of taxpayers’ dollars. Millions have been wasted on the TRRP (Tajiguas Resource Recovery Project), which does not work as promised. Numerous violations have been issued, and odors emit from the landfill that the operator cannot control. Plastic and other trash from the landfill litter the beaches nearby.
The TRRP project has been a disaster, and none of the promises made by the operator have been met. The county needs to address those issues before contemplating any expansion.
The landfill is causing great harm to the Gaviota Coast, the ecosystem, and the health and safety of nearby residents. The proposed expansion is a short-term Band-Aid. It will not address the landfill’s problems but only compound them.
—Bruce Hendricks, GaviotaIam not a vegetarian or vegan, but like many concerned about our health and environment, I am eating less meat and more plant-based foods. I
During a classical music performance, please respect that brief moment of silence during the “pauses” in a longer piece of music that has several movements. That silence is a very “magical” moment, and it is just as important as the notes. It allows the prior movement to resonate and be sustained in the listener, and it allows the musicians to gather their forces for the next movement.
It’s counterintuitive, but the absence of the applause is about being awestruck by what you’ve just heard, and silently revering what just happened. Tempting as it may be to clap, just grip your fingers together and squeeze. And smile.
The string musicians will often signal when a piece is “over” by brandishing their bows in the air with a distinct flourish.
But, if the players let their bows quietly fall to their sides (especially after a sustained, fading note), it’s only the end of the movement, and any applause at that time is … um … cringeworthy.
—LeeAnn Morgan, S.B.¶ We correct a few facts in last week’s story about Art Petersen, the 99-year-old D-Day veteran: He’s the grandson of a member of the German consulate in Mexico City, and his company, Pacific Maintenance Service, was a housecleaning and janitorial business. He and his wife, Gloria, were wed in 1947 and were married for 76 years.
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While attending UCSB as a Physical Education major and a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, Cal Club and student body officer, she met the love of her life, James M. Hezlep Jr. The happy couple made many lifelong friendships and created an indelible bond with the city of Santa Barbara with Joanne being crowned Miss Santa Barbara 1958 going on to become a runner-up for Miss California.
After graduating in 1959, Joanne and Jim married at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church and relocated to North Carolina, where Jim was stationed in the Marine Corps and was the birthplace of their eldest son, James M. Hezlep III. The family then settled in Sierra Madre, CA where they were blessed with the birth of their second son, John Taylor Hezlep. Their hearts always belonged to Santa Barbara, so the couple purchased a vacation house on Miramar Beach where they reconnected with their college friends hosting numerous parties over many memorable summers.
Retiring in Montecito, Joanne served on the UCSB alumni board, was a docent at Casa del Herrero, an active member of Mount Carmel, The Little Town Club, Birnamwood Country Club and was blessed with two beautiful grandchildren.
On November 11, 2023
Tami Ann Emry earned her wings in heaven at the young age of 60 years old after struggling 40 years with ongoing pain. She was born in Spokane WA on November 23, 1962. Now resting next to Marmie, her best friend and devoted mother. Tami was an angel, a loyal friend to those she embraced in her life. Opening her door and heart to those in need. A lover of animals, she was comforted by Abbey, her fuzzy feline companion. All her passion and pain flowed through her pen, a lover of the written word. “Only the sound of my pen pierces the night, that and the sound of silence.” Her beauty lives on in our hearts.
There will be a gathering this Sunday, March 24th honoring her life. Please email your contact information to nkandnan@gmail.com if you’re interested in attending.
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Our mother, Jane Ellen Maddalon, passed away peacefully at home on February 11, 2024, surrounded by the love of family, having attained over 99 yrs of a very good life. Her early years were spent on the wrong side of the tracks (she would wryly recount) in Minneapolis, MN. However, despite early hardships (depression years, loss of a sister and her mother at a young age), there was love there; and she and her two brothers, Tom Cormier and Bob Cormier, and one sister, Pat Super, all grew up to make enduring marriages, to have good careers, and to raise treasured families.
Mom was valedictorian of her high school class, and went on to graduate the prestigious nursing program at Swedish Hospital in Minnesota. She had decided at an early age to become a career gal – that is until our dashing Italian-raised and -accented, handsome father, a US Army veteran of WWII, returned from war and swept her off her feet, requesting her hand in marriage on their third date. Their marriage lasted 70 years until dad’s passing at age 104 in 2020.
Mom’s early career at SB Cottage Hospital was as head nurse caring for mothers and new babies. When her own children were born, she left work to be an asset as a mom, scout leader (cubs and brownies), much-loved Sunday School teacher, and all around solid neighborhood mom, running a casual household, always with a bowl of fruit on the table and an open refrigerator policy, and where neighborhood kids were welcomed. Both mom and dad grew up hungry in the depression years: mom in the midwest bible belt, where her own mother set the example, always ready with a sandwich for any tramp who came hungry to the back door, and dad in Europe, under Mussolini. If dad were home from work, it was impossible to get past him without hearing, are you hungry? Come in, come in! Eat! No one was ever made to feel unwelcome,
or left hungry, in the Maddalon home.
Mom was the salt-of-theearth, humble and matter-offact. She spent her life being of quiet service to others, no fanfare wanted. She was a passionate and involved member of the Trinity Lutheran Church congregation, along with our father (who was converted from Catholicism by mom’s positive faith). Later in life she became the front office volunteer and friendly face at Recording for the Blind, where she refused to accept a salary until, twenty years in, they threatened to lock the door when they saw her coming if she wouldn’t accept that salary!! Also in her latter years, she spent many hours each week lovingly constructing beautiful quilts for charities such as Blankets for Linus and Lutheran Missions, and taught a popular, enjoyable weekly Bible class at TLC.
In the twilight years of her life she was able to stay in her home with the love and support of her family. Jane was predeceased by her husband, James Maddalon, and sadly also by her son James William Maddalon (1950-2017). She is survived by her loving daughter-inlaw Joyce Maddalon of North Carolina (widow of James Wm), grandchildren Aubrey (Steve Rogers) and Brian Maddalon, and three great-grandchildren, Tessa, Avery and Keaton, all of North Carolina – the many photographs of those cute kids sent from NC over the years were always the highlights of mom’s week; son John Paul Maddalon and daughter-in law Denise Maddalon, who took amazing care of mom these last few years, and their sons, Anthony, Thomas and Joseph, who also stepped up to keep mom and dad safe at home; along with daughter Joan Maddalon, and grandchildren and frequent loving visitor Anna Guerrero (Matt Levash) and Benjamin Greenspon, also of Santa Barbara. Mom’s unconditional love and support is a deep part of all of us.
A simple service will be held in Jane’s honor at the church home she and dad helped to build, and so loved, Trinity Lutheran Church on upper La Cumbre Road, this Saturday, March 23, 2024, at 3:00 p.m., the wonderful Pastor Mark officiating. All are welcome to spend an hour celebrating the good life of Jane Maddalon at the church. Coffee and cookies in the sanctuary following services. Of course, donations to TLC are
always welcome, supporting the church’s generous and constant commitment to community service and outreach.
Born Henrietta Marie LaChance in San Pedro, CA on July 9th 1933. Kind, sincere, and having a sweet sense of humor is how she will be remembered, with admirable strength that her sons might have called delightful stubbornness at times. As a teen, Marie came to Saint Vincent’s in Santa Barbara, CA, where she lived and went to school. Her stories of the nuns, both kind and strict, as well as late night trips on the dumb waiter to get peanut butter delighted those lucky enough to hear her tell them. Her childhood memories include going to the movies with her mother at the Arlington Theater and experiencing the wonder of gazing up at the ceiling, where stars appear to twinkle in the night sky overhead.
As a young woman, she worked as a beautician in San Pedro, where it is rumored, she had a good number of suitors vying for her affection, as she was vivacious and quite the beauty. In 1956, she met William on Catalina Island while there for the weekend with her sister Joan and friends. Apparently, it was love at first dance. They married a few months later and raised their three sons in Torrance, CA. Marie was known by all her children’s friends as the mom that welcomed them into her home and heart, as well as the mom who would go blocks out of her way to avoid making a left-hand turn. She had an enviable ability to see the best in everyone, yet she was nobody’s fool. Marie was devoted to her family. She so enjoyed being a wife and mother, and was
always there for her older family members as they aged.
In later life, she treasured her time with her grandchildren and returned to live in Santa Barbara, CA where she passed gently and peacefully on February 26th, 2024 with family at her side. She had a moral compass that those around her could set a true and sound course to live by. Marie was preceded in death by her husband William and brother Jean. She is survived by her sister Joan, sons Stephen, James and Ronald, daughter in laws Cynthia and Susan, and her grandchildren Timothy, Stephen, Catherine, Allison and Melisssa, who are grateful to have known her love and will miss her deeply. A graveside service will be held at Green Hills Memorial park in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA on March 29th at 3:00PM.
John “Jack” Kerr Wilson 8/29/1937 - 2/25/2024
John “Jack” Kerr Wilson, born on August 29, 1937, in New Jersey to John and Elizabeth Wilson, passed away on February 25, 2024. He leaves a legacy filled with laughter, steadfastness, and a deep love for his Scottish heritage. Jack, known for his friendly demeanor, hospitality and exceptional humor, made a significant impact on many.
After high school, Jack honorably served in the U.S. Army in Iceland before pursuing higher education. He graduated from Rutgers University with a Law Degree, distinguishing himself as the top student under Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s mentorship.
Choosing a different path, Jack turned down an offer from Richard Nixon’s New York law firm and moved west to Santa Barbara. There, he met Anne Gay Ashforth on a blind date, leading to a deeply cherished marriage.
Jack’s career was as distinguished as his academic achievements. He became a prominent attorney, eventually serving as a senior partner at Price, Postel & Parma. His dedication to community and tradition was evident in his
leadership roles with Rancheros Visitadores and Pobres Rancheros.
Jack’s laughter and steadfast spirit were a source of light for his family, friends, and acquaintances. He is survived by his children, Erica Ashforth, Andrew Wilson, and Matthew Wilson, along with nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, who will continue his legacy of kindness, humor, and resilience.
Peter K. Miller
Dr. Peter Knudsen Miller died on Monday, February 20, 2024 in Santa Barbara, California. Born on May 11th, 1937 in Connecticut, Pete (also known as Pedro, Pops, Grandpa, Boppa and Grumpy to those who loved him) spent the majority of his childhood in Grants Pass, Oregon. He practiced as a dentist and orthodontist for many years in Santa Barbara. When he was not traveling with his beloved wife, golfing with his pals or straightening teeth, he poured his soul into cultivating his successful avocado orchard. Pete was strong, kind, funny and generous. It was not uncommon for him to make surprise deliveries of avocados, wine or freshly squeezed orange juice. He was known for his big personality and made friends everywhere he went. Pete will be missed and fondly remembered by all who were lucky enough to know him. His memory will live on forever.
Pete lost his loving wife and best buddy, Pat Miller, in May of 2022. They are together now, laughing and enjoying their adventures once again. Pete is survived by his three daughters, Jennifer Miller (Joel Fenlason), Diana White, and Deborah deLambert, as well as his honorary son and right hand man, Agustin Zavala. He is also survived by his six amazing grandchildren, Jack White, Corinne White, Jarrett Visher, Kyle Visher, Linnea Visher, and Lucy Miller Schatz. His best friend and beloved dog, Hank, now lives with Lucy. She wrote these words and she promises to take excellent care of Hank, just
like Grumpy would
A service to honor a life well lived will take place Saturday, March 23, 10 am – 12 noon at The Carriage and Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara 129 Castillo Street, Santa Barbara.
Roger Lee Horton
6/15/1940 - 1/24/2024
Roger Lee Horton passed away peacefully on January 24th, surrounded by his family, who will always remember him as a great man, husband, and an exceptional father.
Roger was born in Urbana, Illinois on June 15th, 1940, to Richard Horton and Dorothy Norton.
Had his parents not been struck by wanderlust, his life story would have been very different, but they felt the magical allure of sunny Santa Barbara, with its beautiful beaches and majestic mountains, and set off to make the idyllic town their new home.
Roger was still in grade school when they made the move, and lifelong friend Wardlee Smith Meyer recalls him being full of charisma even back in the 6th grade when they were both students at Cold Spring School.
Planes, trains, and automobiles were a lifelong passion in Roger’s life. During his younger years, Roger built model airplanes, and flew them in competitions of distance. Anyone who knew Roger also knew his love for cars, and he went on to own many unique vehicles, including his Vintage Volvo which he had kept since he first purchased it back in 1963.
Music also played a very important role in Roger’s life and his decision to take up the French Horn at Santa Barbara Junior High would be more important than even he knew at the time (more on that later). Roger went on to graduate from Santa Barbara High School before moving on to UCSB, where he graduated with a BA in Economics. By this time, the Vietnam war was in full swing, and Roger enlisted in the United States Airforce. His dream would have been to fly, but his poor eyesight meant he had to look for other ways to excel, and
that he did, receiving several awards for his service, including a commendation medal for outstanding accomplishments as a logistics officer.
While Roger was stationed in Ogden, Utah, he decided to look for a concert band where he could play his French Horn. He ended up finding one at Weber State College, where he also met his future wife Eileen Syme, who also just happened to be an accomplished French Horn player herself. The rest as they say is history, and they were married on August 7th, 1964, in Orem, Utah.
Shortly thereafter, Roger received orders to transfer to Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. It was at this time that he also began attending the University of North Dakota, where he would go on to graduate with a master’s degree in management.
Roger and Eileen would next move back to Santa Barbara, where they would settle down, have two sons (Eric and Brian), and Roger would begin working as an Assistant Chancellor for his Alma Mater at UCSB.
Roger and Eileen also had entrepreneurial aspirations and co-owned several restaurants including Omelettes Etc. in Downtown Santa Barbara and Isla Vista, and Fred C. Dobbs in Montecito.
But Roger’s biggest aspirations were rooted in his dedication to preserving and bettering the Santa Barbara he grew up in and ensuring that those in need always had a helping hand. And it was this dedication to the community that ultimately led him to run for Santa Barbara City Council, where he went on to serve two accomplished terms.
In addition to his efforts to preserve the beauty and charm of Santa Barbara, Roger was also a huge proponent of commuter rail, which he hoped would ease the pressure on traffic in and out of town. Roger was also a visionary leader in support of early childhood education, and worked tirelessly to ensure that all children had the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Roger will be greatly missed by all who had the pleasure to meet him, but his friends and family take comfort in the truly wonderful life he was able to live.
Friends are welcome to join the family for a Celebration of Life on Saturday, March 16th at 2:00PM at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, located at 1535 Santa Barbara St.
Suzie “Suzi” Ochi passed away on February 26, 2024. She was born in Ventura, Ca in 1926. Her given name was Suzuye Tamura. Her parents were Kuraichi and Akimi Tamura.
In the 1930’s, her family, including her older brother Nobu, moved to Montecito where her father worked as the caretaker of the All Saints by the Sea Church. Suzi attended Montecito Union Grammer School and Santa Barbara Junior High School. She was introduced to the piano at a young age, playing most music by ear.
Her schooling was interrupted by WW II and the family was evacuated to Turlock Assembly Center, then to Gila Rovers Relocation Center in Rivers, Arizona where they lived for several years. She attended high school and took piano lessons. She was invited to play the piano at assemblies and toured other camps.
After the war, her family returned to Santa Barbara, and she continued her music training with Henry Polk. She attended Music Academy of the West for three summers as a piano scholarship student studying with Soulima Stravinsky, Gyorgy Sander, and Sir Reginald Stewart.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in music at Santa Barbara State Teachers College and her Masters in Piano Music at USC under the instruction of Lillian Steuber. During her time at USC, Suzi played at many LA venues including the Hollywood Bowl to make money for tuition. She was member of Phi Beta and Delta Kappa Gamma
Soon after graduating college, Suzi was hired by the Santa Barbara City Schools to teach music and piano classes rotating to all the elementary schools. After a few years, she also began teaching music at Santa Barbara Junior High School and San Marcus High School. During this time, she trained the choirs, quartets, and directed several musicals including the “Flower Drum Song”. For three summers, she had the honor to serve as an Associate Conductor with the West Coast Symphony
Orchestra. Throughout her teaching career, she continued to provide private piano lessons to students in the area.
In 1966, Suzi was granted a sabbatical leave of absence for one year. She traveled internationally to make a comparison study of music education. On the last leg of her trip, her fiancé Jack Ochi (the love of her life) met her in Tokyo where they were married in a traditional Buddhist wedding ceremony on April 22, 1966, followed by a honeymoon in Japan and Hawaii.
Jack, who passed away in 2009, was a Civil Engineer and Project Manager for the City of Santa Barbara Public Works Department until he retired. Suzi retired in the mid 1980’s, after teaching thousands of students the joy of music.
Jack and Suzi loved their life in Santa Barbara with Jack working with the City and Suzi teaching music in the schools and Westmont College. 8Over the years they enjoyed skiing, bowling, golfing, and spending time with extended family members. They became golf members at the Montecito Country Club.
Suzie was one of the first Japanese members of the Santa Barbara Women’s Club and enjoyed many programs at the S.B. Recreation Center including Stretch and Tone and Bridge Games.
During their marriage, travelling became a passion. They visited over 40 countries around the world, to see exotic locales and historic places of interest. Some of these trips included skiing or golf.
Suzi was pre-deceased by her parents, her older brother Nobu, and her beloved husband Jack. She is survived by her sister-in law Grace Tamura, nephew Jeff (Laurie) Tamura, sons Jason and Matthew (Abby) Tamura and their son Ty, nephew Chris Tamura and niece Lynda Tamura. She is also survived by her other sister-in-law Chiyo Suzuki, nephew Tad (Francine) Suzuki, son Kai, nephew Lloyd (Karen) Suzuki and their children Aisli, Ronin, and Shea and her niece Lisa all of Santa Barbara. Other extended family members include the John and Fumi Suzuki family of Santa Barbara. Her early students Paul Cammer, Jane Oertel, Julie Slagle, along with Paul Mori, her last private student, stayed in contact with her all her life and were considered dear friends.
Suzi spent the last couple of years at Vista del Monte. Our gratitude goes out to the staff
who cared for Suzi. We also want to recognize the added assistance provided by Hospice staff and their team. Contributions in Suzi’s name could be made to these organizations or the Music Academy of the West.
Byron was born at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to Edwin Henry Fairbrother and Randi Tangvall Fairbrother. He had a heart attack while sailing in San Diego. Their team won last year’s race. He learned to sail as a youngster at the Santa Barbara Yacht Club. At least he passed doing something he loved.
He treasured his childhood memories growing up in Montecito when few properties had entrance gates, and it was a quiet, unpretentious community with fields to explore. His life was enriched by hiking and camping with his dad in state and national parks and remote areas. He was in tune with nature. In addition, his interests included cycling and skiing. He graduated from Cal Poly in Crop Sciences and worked for several agricultural companies in Mexico and the Central Valley spending most of his time focused on strawberries. He nurtured plants and liked to see things grow.
He will be remembered for his excellent Holiday Turkey, his quiet demeanor and playing a good game of Parcheesi. He took pleasure in helping others. He traveled to England, Japan, and France, and had hoped to do more when his time on this earth ran out. It is with great sadness that we mourn his all too soon passing.
He was preceded in death by his father and is survived by his wife Kelly Fairbrother, daughter Leah (Koby Glick), and granddaughter Annora, his mother, brother Russell and sister Kaia.
John Thomas Burgess Balkwill, Jr., passed away suddenly on February 7, 2024, in Santa Barbara, California. He was 72. John was born in London, Ontario, Canada, to John and Betty (Howe) Balkwill. He emigrated with his family to Detroit, Michigan in 1956, and then moved to Greensburg, Indiana in 1958, where he spent most of his childhood and whose rural, small-town environment would play an important role in shaping John’s attitudes throughout his life. In 1967, John returned to Michigan with his family and graduated from Northville High School in 1970. He attended the University of Notre Dame, where his sophomore year studying at St. Mary’s College in Rome had a profound influence on his life’s direction. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, John moved briefly to Santa Barbara, where among other jobs he worked as the maitre’d at the Santa Barbara Inn.
After his brief stint in Santa Barbara, John returned to Michigan and took up residence in Ann Arbor, where he would live for nearly a decade, forming many life-long relationships and meeting his future wife, Nina “Kim” Kramer. During this period, John returned frequently to Italy, with Verona as his base of operations, learning to love all things Italian and making a living principally by importing gold jewelry and selling it to Detroit-area jewelers.
John’s first experience in the book arts was as a bookbinder in Ann Arbor, where he started as an investor in the Bessenberg Bindery with two colleagues in 1982. John’s work in the bindery sparked a deeper interest in the book arts, and ultimately led to his leaving Ann Arbor and pursuing an MFA degree from the University of Alabama’s Institute for the Book Arts in Tuscaloosa. While there, he studied letterpress printing and the art of fine bookmaking with the interna-
tionally recognized private press printer Gabriel Rummonds.
After obtaining his MFA, John worked with Harold Berliner’s Type foundry in Grass Valley, California, then helped Greg Peterson start up the Huckleberry Press in Incline Village, Nevada. John also taught book design and printing at the University of NevadaReno during this time, where he was the Associate Director of the Black Rock Press.
In 1996, John and Kim moved from Reno to Santa Barbara, where he set up his own business, the Lumino Press, dedicated to producing handprinted and bound limited edition books, prints and other quality materials. John designed and printed limited editions in collaboration with numerous well-known artists and authors including Pulitzer prizewinning writers Gary Snyder, Daniel J. Boorstin and James McPherson, and the Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. He frequently collaborated on artists’ books and portfolios with Mary Heebner, Jacquelyn McBain, Mark Ryden, and Peter Goin among others, as well as with various galleries and collectors.
Mary Heebner was John’s close friend as well as collaborator. She reflected on their shared artistic pursuits: “Over 25 years, John printed 19 of my artists books, under the imprint Simplemente Maria Press”. He steered me away from the gutter of bad taste, advised me on type, design, and tradition. We laughed, kibitzed, shared tales of past adventures, belted out old 50s songs, snippets of Italian drinking songs, or arias, all the while working together to create discrete objects of beauty. John knew that letters deftly placed to become words, that could signify ideas, set on a page in a beautiful way mattered.”
Mary’s husband, Macduff Everton, added, “we both depended on him for his input, for the final say on any of our projects. We relied on him for his friendship and acumen. In book design, all the little suggestions that no one will ever see because they were so right, they don’t call attention to themselves, the whole reason for classic composition and design, to be so right that it simply, elegantly, works. When friends and family came to town, we always included John. He was more family than friend, a fine distinction indeed. He was curious, maybe one of the nicest traits one can hope for
in another human being, along with kindness, generosity, and humor. He had all of those.”
Mary also shared the origin of the name of John’s Santa Barbara business, The Lumino Press: “He told me of the epiphanic moment that influenced him to pursue the printer’s art. One afternoon, he sought shelter from a storm under the coffered ceiling of the Pantheon in Rome, still the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world. The tempest subsided, and a ray of beatific sunlight beamed through the dome’s oculus, open to the heavens. He would name his press The Lumino.”
John was an accomplished print maker, having learned the techniques of wood engraving from John DePol, the dean of American wood engravers, and Japanese woodblock printmaking from Akira Kurosaki, one of the most respected contemporary Japanese printmakers. He also produced and exhibited photomontages, collages and watercolor paintings.
John’s graphic art and limited-edition books have been exhibited widely and acquired by numerous private and public collections. His work has been exhibited at the Book Club of California in San Francisco, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Occidental College and the Nevada Museum of Art. His graphic art is in the permanent collections of Stanford University, the Library of Congress, the University of Michigan, Brown University and the Book Club of California among many others.
John loved everything about Santa Barbara, and appreciated the opportunity his chosen profession there afforded him to cross paths with a diverse and accomplished group of individuals, many of whom would become his friends as well as clients.
While known mostly for his artistic talents, John was also widely admired as a world-class raconteur, a talent predicated both on his genuine interest in everyone he met and his near encyclopedic knowledge on a seemingly endless array of diverse subjects. John loved nothing more than an extended conversation – and debate –over a shared meal, a long walk, or an aimless drive into the countryside, often relishing the role of devil’s advocate on a controversial topic simply for the pleasure of prodding his friends into exasperation. John also
was not bashful about exposing friends to his colorful vocabulary and had a limited tolerance for political correctness, often complaining that “nobody can take a joke anymore”.
John was a sports aficionado who enjoyed watching the occasional baseball, basketball or football game with his friend Macduff Everton, but whose real sporting love was playing tennis, a pastime he enjoyed with his oldest friend Gary Adkins on a near-weekly basis for decades on Santa Barbara’s public courts. He was also a competent, albeit reluctant, golfer.
Throughout his life, John remained true to his unpretentious roots, a trait readily observable in his favorite Santa Barbara dining and drinking venues, all of which were invariably “old school”: Arnoldi’s for Italian, the Tee Off or Jill’s Place for steak, Dargan’s for Irish fare, “mom and pop” diners for coffee and breakfast and the Sportsman Lounge or Joe’s Café for a cocktail. While John could be prodded into a meal or drink in the “Funk Zone”, it was seldom his venue of choice.
And John’s many sojourns with friends into the small towns of the Santa Ynez/Santa Maria wine country were not complete without a concerted (and usually futile) effort on his part to convince his traveling companions to stop either at Anderson’s for its “famous” pea soup, or some 1950s era Cantonese restaurant with half its neon lights missing and not a single car in the parking lot. He invariably would end those entreaties with one of his iconic catchphrases: “Come on, it’ll be fun”! And, of course, it always was.
John is survived by his sister Susan Rust and her husband Joe, as well as their daughters, Jennifer and Lindsay Rust, who loved “Zio Gio”, and whom he loved in return. He is also survived by his grandnephew, Julian Campbell.
John also has many cousins in Canada who will miss him. Perhaps mourning him as much as his family does is his cadre of “Best” friends, including Gary Adkins, Mary Heebner, Macduff Everton, Mark Moran, Beverly Pringle, Barb Wood and so many others he touched with his wit, spirit, gentle demeanor, vast knowledge and immeasurable talent.
John will be buried in Greensburg, Indiana, and a memorial event will be held at a later time not yet determined.
Our beloved Janice left ‘us on Feb. 5, 2024 at the age of 88. Janice was born to Nevada and Reese Davis in Seattle, Wash at the age of six, her parents moved her to Van Nuys, Calif., where she spent her childhood. She attended and graduated from Van Nuys High where, she became friends with Robert Redford, Natalie Wood and Don Drysdale.
She moved to Santa Barbara at the age of 18 to attend UC Santa Barbara. While living in Santa Barbara, she met and married David Mains.
From this they had two daughters, Cheryl Gill and Michele Glidden. Michele has preceded Janice in death. From this marriage she leaves behind Cheryl Gill (Rick) grandsons, Ross Gill and Cole Gill and Jamie Glidden, and granddaughters Ilisa and Willia Gill.
After her first marriage came to an end, she met and married Wally Schilling. Their union lasted 47 years when she passed. From this union she leaves David and Mark Schilling. She also leaves behind Brad Schilling, who was only 13 and needed a mother. She was a loving and caring mother to Brad and helped make him the man he is today.
Janice was an avid tennis player and won many trophies. She taught Wally how to play and they had many hours of fun at the Santa Barbara Polo and Racquet Club. Janice was a very loving and caring person. Many friends would call with problems and Janice would counsel them until they felt better.
A private memorial was held at the Carpinteria, Cemetery. We will not say goodbye because you will live in our hearts, and we will love you forever.
Charles Ambrose Dever was born on September 20, 1915 to John Dever and Mary Ambrose Dever in Englewood, New Jersey. A proud graduate of Dwight Morrow High School in 1934, Charles excelled both academically and athletically, showcasing his leadership as captain of the county championship track team, earning four letters and a silver “E”, and earning distinction on the football field playing quarterback. His aspirations and intellect earned him a scholarship to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a dream deferred by the harsh realities of the Depression. He would later attend Pace Institute.
During the next six years after graduating from high school he worked at odd jobs and at Lamont Corliss in New York City. On February 11, 1941, as the world plunged into the depths of war Charles was drafted into the Army initially serving in the 244th Coast Artillery where he was master plotter in the range section, qualified as marksman and first-class gunner. After volunteering for the Air Force, he was stationed at Hondo Air Force Base and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant Navigator. After being deployed overseas during World War II, he was assigned to the 8th Air force in England but was reassigned to the 9th in North Africa because of the heavy losses on the low-level Ploesti mission. In the 98th Group, 9th, 12th, and 15th Air Forces, he served as lead navigator on 16 missions, and he completed an astonishing 51 missions, navigating through peril and adversity with unparalleled bravery. His service as a navigator on a B-24 Bomber was nothing short of heroic. For his extraordinary service Charles was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, a testament to his valor, skill, and dedication. This honor, signifying exceptional heroism, ranks as the second highest medal in
the Air Force, a symbol of his contributions to our nation’s freedom. He was also awarded 7 Air Medals, 10 Battle Stars, and additional commendations, reflecting his exceptional service and sacrifice.
After the war, Charles completed his commitment to his country as a radar navigator instructor, guiding the next generation of heroes. He married Ruth McCurdy on November 6th, 1944, and together they laid down roots in Wilmington, California, raising their daughters Kathleen and Suzanne amidst the peace he had fought so valiantly to secure. The family later moved to Fullerton, Ca., where they lived for 60 years. Ruth preceded Charles in death on March 6th, 2008.
Charles worked for Cheseboro Ponds company for many years. He also had a long career working for the postal service. He was a skilled woodworker, hand crafting much of the furniture in the family home. He enjoyed working on his cars, playing golf, and watching sports. He was known for doing his own thing and had a bit of a tough exterior. He didn’t talk much, but when he did, it was with profound significance. His laugh wasn’t heard often, but when it was, it was a cherished gem that reflected the true extent of his happiness. After their children were grown, Charles and Ruth loved to play golf together, traveling the world to play on some of the most prestigious and beautiful courses.
In 2019, Charles moved from the family home in Fullerton to Santa Barbara, Ca, to be close to family. During this time, he got regular visits from his daughter Kathy, and his granddaughters. He enjoyed these visits, sipping Manhattans and telling stories of his life growing up in New Jersey, his time in the war and the incredible things he had seen in his 108 years. His stories, a blend of history and personal reflection, were gifts that enriched the lives of those fortunate enough to hear them.
Charles Ambrose Dever passed away peacefully on January 8, 2024, leaving behind a legacy that spans the spectrums of bravery and humility. He is survived by Kathleen Snell and Suzanne Alejandre, six grandchildren, seven great-
grandchildren, and three great great-grandchildren. As we bid farewell to Charles, we honor not just the true American hero who soared above the clouds but the man who walked among us with grace, sharing the lessons of a century’s journey. As we remember his life, we honor not only his remarkable achievements in service of his country but also the enduring impact of his legacy on those who knew him and on the freedoms we cherish today. Charles Ambrose Dever’s story is not just one of historical significance but a personal narrative of love, loss, and the quiet strength that defines true heroism. Memorial services will be held on Monday March 25, 2024, at 11:00am at Loma Vista Memorial Park in Fullerton, Ca., where Charles will be laid to rest next to the love of his life, his wife Ruth.
Kathleen Arian Chapman was born in Highland Park CA. on June 18th 1951.
Kathleen’s family moved to La Canada, CA shortly after her birth where she remained throughout her childhood and early adulthood. Her brother John remembers how as a child, Kathleen would change her name to various spellings and nick names. Her friends and family from her childhood know her as Kathy. After graduation she moved to Santa Barbara, CA and became known as “Kate”. It was here that Kate met the love of her life, Mark Chapman. They married on October 31, 1992 and she helped raise Mark’s two children, Colin and
Nathan.
Her great passion was horses. From an early age she rode and helped exercise friend’s horses, until she was able to buy her own. Her Appaloosa “Holly” was boarded in Hope Ranch where Kate rode with her mother-in-law, Cornelia Chapman, also a well-loved horse fanatic.
Kate inherited her knack for cooking from her Polish mother Mary who was a fabulous cook.
This was a satisfying creative outlet for Kate, and of course Mark and friends greatly appreciated her culinary skills. Kate also had a creative stint making decorative pillows and selling them at the weekly Santa Barbara Arts and Crafts Show on Cabrillo Blvd.
She and Mark were Elton John groupies, and they traveled to attend many of his live concerts. She had a green thumb, and their house was always surrounded by colorful plants. Kate had a great sense of humor and an infectious laugh. She adored her five grandchildren and had a deep connection with her beloved dog “Louie”. Kate could be found any given weekend with Louie at the Douglas Family Preserve, where her and Louie were easily recognized in the local community.
A celebration of life will be held for Kate on Friday April 19th at from 3pm-6pm at La Mesa Park in Santa Barbara.
Barbara Ann Espinoza 3/29/1938 - 2/24/2024
Barbara Ann Jacinto (Espinoza) age 85, of Santa Barbara passed away on February 24th, 2024, of natural causes comfortably in her home.
Barbara was born March 29th, 1938 to Buford A. Sarrett and (Thelma) Faye Cates in Grandfield, Oklahoma. Barbara came to California with her family in 1945. She attended Carpinteria High School where she graduated in 1955. She later started her career with General Telephone Electric (GTE) as a telephone operator where
she then worked her way up the ranks. In 1988, Barbara retired from GTE and made her home in Santa Barbara, Ca. Barbs spent much of her time through the years cooking, baking (Babs was known for her famous homemade hot fudge sundae topping), reading, doing crossword puzzles, crocheting/ sewing, she loved to travel and enjoyed all sorts of music. She was an active member in her church and enjoyed family functions. She was loving, compassionate, kind and giving. She had a contagious laugh and was as quick witted as she was funny. One of her hobbies in retirement was shopping QVC and HSN regularly.
In 1963, Barbara married her first husband Jesse H. Espinoza in Carpinteria, Ca. at St. Joseph’s parish. Barbara & Jess went on to have four children: Regina, Trini, Jesse Jr. and Norma. Barbara married her second husband Joe Jacinto in 2003. Barbara and Joe lived in Oxnard for a short time but would soon return to Santa Barbara. She was predeceased in death by her parents Buford Sarrett and Faye Pascua, sister Phyllis Lopez, first husband Jesse Espinoza and second husband Joe Jacinto. She is survived by her sister Norma Jimenez of Carpinteria, brother Phil Lopez of Santa Barbara and Cousin June Williams of Lawton, Oklahoma. She is also survived by her children Regina Rodriguez (Rudy), Trini Macias (Joe), Jesse Espinoza and Norma Espinoza. Also survived by her grandchildren Tyler Espinoza, Yvonne Rodriguez, Blake Espinoza and Diego Hernandez.
Barbara was a member of the Santa Barbara Neptune Society and wished that she be released at sea in the Santa Barbara channel. In lieu of flowers, Barbara would have loved for donations to be made to any organizations for Veterans or Cancer research as they hold special meaning to her, having survived cancer herself and having family in the armed forces.
The family wishes to extend a heartfelt thanks to and much appreciation for Rosanna Petronella PA, CDE at Sansum Clinic for the many years of impeccable care and empathy she always extended to our mother.
Celebration of life in honor of our beloved Babs will be held at a future date.
Ilove good art, and I have a deep affinity for Santa Barbara artists who work hard at it. I also love people who have a great sense of humor and face life with a sense of wonder, joy, and laughter. And I’m a sucker for a great love story, one that inspires you and makes you believe that harmony and goodness exist in the world.
Mary Heebner, one of our most extraordinary artists, combines all of these aspects, which is the reason why it was so important for me to tell you her story.
“I am an artist, and I don’t know if there is really any choice in this, as I’ve always worked with my hands to make something out of nothing,” Heebner shares. “Now I realize it is making things by hand that is the thread that binds my sense of my inner with my outer worlds.”
Since the 1970s, Heebner has excelled as an abstract artist, a published writer, and book artist. Heebner exhibits her work on paper nationally and internationally and has created 17 fine art press books. Her works are held in numerous public and private collections, including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the United States Library of Congress, among many others.
“Mary is a poet of word and image,” says Patsy Hicks, director of education at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. “Whether her own written reflection or reaction to physical spaces, or her reimagining almost in a parallel visual dream the words of others. Her interplay with place and poetry has a liquid rhythm.”
“You don’t experience art until you’re standing in front of it,” Heebner tells me, as she ushers me into her studio in downtown Santa Barbara, where I’m enveloped by her work a series of large pieces that cover the walls from floor to ceiling.
“You have to experience art’s relationship to your own body,” she continues. “You experience the texture. Your vision is transformed by having seen that art.”
The display of her representations is inspired by the GrecoRoman floor mosaics that Heebner saw at the Museo de
Arte Romano in Mérida, Spain, where they’ve been mounted on the wall.
“The simple shifting from floor to facing them vertically was stunning,” she says. “My own practice always begins with painting and layering papers on the floor, so I can see what I’m doing from different angles. When I finally pin the piece onto the wall, there are always revelations and surprises.”
The series is titled Resurrections from the Ruins, and it finds Heebner improvising new narratives based on sculptures and art from antiquity adding a sense of intimacy and urgency to the work. Her pieces create a bridge between the old and the new and it brings to the forefront the importance of ancient art to the modern world.
I reached out to Nancy A. Winter, senior researcher at the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program at UCSB to share her perspective of Heebner’s endeavor. “Mary has put a totally contemporary spin on her interpretations of these ancient sculptures. While honoring the original beauty of the ancient statues, she has surrounded them with vibrant contemporary colors, and she has taken these standalone marble and bronze statues and put them into contexts subtly evoking their original storylines or giving them entirely new messaging.”
“Every day when I see something startling, or quietly beautiful, I take note,” Heebner says. “It could be something from nature, or a film, or an amazing poem, jazz riff, or painting. Perhaps inspiration is just that, a breathing in a palpable response to fleeting beauty.”
We walk around her studio as she explains and shows me her process and technique. “My preferred medium is collage,”
she says. “It’s forgiving. It gives you a lot of latitude. You bake a handful of fragments and make a whole, a unity.”
Heebner uses paper for her collages, and it’s handmade and hand-painted. She also uses scraps left over from other projects. “I use all parts of the buffalo,” she says. “I save them and figure out how I can use them in something else.”
In antiquity, there was a widespread practice known as spolia, where stones from old structures were repurposed for new construction or decorative purposes. Heebner follows this tradition in her art. It’s as if she’s sculpting. The work may be two-dimensional, but there’s a tactility and movement that recall statues.
Heebner also generates one-of-a-kind books that coalesce her paintings with poetry. To hold one of these books and unspool its contents is to come into contact with a true work of art. In 1995, she founded Simplemente Maria Press, which
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produces her limited editions. She brings out her latest accomplishment for me to see: The Arctic Trilogy, which is her response to climate change. This work came about after several trips she undertook to the northern polar circle with her husband renowned photographer Macduff Everton who was on assignment with National Geographic. Each book set is composed of three tomes, made completely by hand. There are only 15 sets total.
“I have to design prototype after prototype to get it right,” she says. Heebner first makes big paintings, then creates digital prints of them and subsequently paints on them. The pages are startling and stimulating. You feel and sense the artist’s impressions of her travels. We see watercolors of the vanishing tracks of a polar bear, as well as the depiction of sheets of ice breaking in geometric patterns. Interspersed throughout are Heebner’s verses. The overall impression is that of a lament for a world that is disappearing.
“It’s a challenge to go from having an experience while traveling, to jotting down words, sketches, and then making a stab at imagery in the studio and that might be enough,” she says. “But every once in a while, I see that there is a book in this mix. Sometimes it shows itself immediately; sometimes it takes years for a book to become. That is the beginning; from then, my task as an artist is to discover the essence, the core of the story, and then to find the form that best conveys it clearly in the most well-crafted and compelling way I can. My prototypes inform each next design choice. Limitations make me compress my ideas, and rethink what is most essential. Lots of editing it is exasperating, fulfilling, layered, and surprising.”
I should point out that during our discussion about her work, Mary keeps things light and jovial. Her sentences are peppered with her infectious laugh, and every once in a while, when she gets excited about a particular subject or an idea, she does a little jig. “It’s important to play,” she says. “I have fun.” She is also an intent listener and is keenly curious.
Heebner’s father, Walter, was a musician, composer, and songwriter who became an executive at RCA Records and Capitol Records. He was in the Army during WWII and produced for V-Discs, which was a record label that was formed in 1943 to provide records for U.S. military personnel. Heebner’s mom, Claire, begged her own dad to let her go to business school and eventually got a job at RCA records. She headed a department called Race Music and eventually discovered singer Keely Smith, a jazz musician who most famously performed with her husband Louis Prima. Heebner’s parents met while working at RCA, and their first date was seeing Kiss Me, Kate on Broadway, she shares.
Subsequently the couple moved to California, and Mary was born at the St. Joseph Hospital in Burbank on April 19, 1951. She was bitten by a mosquito carrying encephalitis when she was 2 years old and had to have three operations to repair a lazy eye. To this day, Mary doesn’t see depth well as a result.
She recalls growing up surrounded by music and has early memories of being in the high chair and drawing. While still a kid, she drew the magnolia tree that was in their front yard, and her mom proudly hung it in their living room. Mary attended Campbell Hall in Los Angeles and took art classes. “I was a
Beatles fan,” she reminisces, “so I was drawing pictures of Paul.” She also played the flute in the jazz band. Her dad forbade her to pick up string instruments because he couldn’t stand anyone playing them poorly. In school, she had to choose between music and art, and of course she chose art. She attended Providence High School in Burbank, where she commandeered the art room any chance she’d get. There she was surrounded by Hollywood kids, including Melissa Mathison, who went on to write classics like E.T. and the film version of The Black Stallion. They even formed their own magazine called CONCEPT featuring poetry and art. Mary also made one-of-a-kind books (a single copy) featuring her drawings and prose.
“I knew I would always do art,” says Heebner. “Art wasn’t a thing. It’s how I moved in the world.”
In 1969, she was accepted at UCSB with a Regents Scholarship. She recalls auditing Kenneth Rexroth’s beat poetry class where she met students from the College of Creative Studies. She transferred to CCS when she was a junior. Around this time, she also got married to archeologist Steven Craig, who discovered some of the valuable ethnographic notes collected by the late John P. Harrington that contained, among other things, a wealth of information on Chumash place names. Craig and Heebner were married for 13 years. Their daughter Sienna was born when Mary was 22. She named her after the desert varnish in the Southwest where Mary dreamed of going and being Georgia O’Keeffe. At the time, painter Hank Pitcher commented, “Is your next kid going to be named Cadmium Red?” Sienna is now a Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
Even as a young mother, Mary was determined to make a living as an artist and had a studio on State Street and Canon Perdido. She also worked at the Sun and Earth natural foods store in Isla Vista and waited tables at Jacques’s restaurant. She found a lot of freedom in Santa Barbara then. She’d go swimming and take a walk on the beach each morning and then would go and make art. In 1975, she decided to get a master’s at UCSB. She remembers Creative Studies being so different then. The lights were on all the time, and she’d work until late hours. “When I had my MFA show in 1977,” she says, “I sold half of my pieces then. I handpainted all of my invitations.”
To date, Mary supports herself through the sale of her work. “I don’t have a day job,” she clarifies. “I’ve ridden this rollercoaster for so many years now.”
We can seem trapped by circumstances—but living a spiritual sense of God-given liberty opens the way to overcome what binds us.
We can seem trapped by circumstances—but living a spiritual sense of God-given liberty opens the way to overcome what binds us.
We can seem trapped by circumstances—but living a spiritual sense of God-given liberty opens the way to overcome what binds us.
March 23 @ 11:00am – FREE
LOCATION
Franklin Neighborhood Center 1136 E. Montecito Street, Santa Barbara, CA
March 23 @ 11:00am – FREE
LOCATION
C O N TA C T
Franklin Neighborhood Center 1136 E. Montecito Street, Santa Barbara, CA
Nicole Virgil, CS Christian Science practitioner
Member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship
Talk given by Nicole Virgil, CS
Nicole Virgil, CS Christian Science practitioner
Member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship
March 23 @ 11:00am – FREE
Talk given by Nicole Virgil, CS
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Santa Barbara 805-845-1044
Light refreshments will be provided.
LOCATION
www.ChristianScienceSB.org
HOSTED BY First Church of Christ, Scientist, Santa Barbara CA
Nicole Virgil, CS Christian Science practitioner
C O N TA C T
LOCATION
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Santa Barbara 805-845-1044
www.ChristianScienceSB.org
Franklin Neighborhood Center 1136 E. Montecito Street, Santa Barbara, CA
HOSTED BY
Franklin Neighborhood Center 1136 E. Montecito Street, Santa Barbara, CA
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Santa Barbara
Member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship
Talk given by Nicole Virgil, CS
Light refreshments will be provided.
Light refreshments will be provided.
C O N TA C T
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Santa Barbara 805-845-1044
www.ChristianScienceSB.org
Nicole Virgil, CS Christian Science practitioner
Talk Given By Nicole Virgil, CS Christian Science Practitioner
Member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship
Member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship
Talk given by Nicole Virgil, CS
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Santa Barbara 805-845-1044
HOSTED BY
www.ChristianScienceSB.org
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Santa Barbara, CA
HOSTED BY
First Church of Christ, Scientist Santa Barbara
In 1988, years after her marriage had ended, Mary was feeling burnt out and needing a breather. A friend, Fred Canyon, had told her that photographer Macduff Everton would make trips to Mexico and take people with him. Everton, a fellow College of Creative Studies alum, had come to several of her openings, and he’d been wanting to ask her out. On an impulse, she called him. “Hey, I hear you’re going to Mexico and you take people along with you,” she told him. “I want to see the Caribbean blue.” Their trip was set, and Mary immediately started to get cold feet. A girlfriend told her not to panic and urged her to go to Mexico with Everton. “Do you have a credit card?” her friend asked. “If it gets weird, use it!”
“Going south to Mexico with Macduff changed my life completely,” Heebner says. “I was crazy in love. We were there for three weeks and could have been a lifetime. We covered 10,000 miles in a VW Bug in three weeks going to Veracruz, Yucatán, Oaxaca. I learned how to take in the natural world and make sense of it through art. I learned a lot about travel. We were of one mind. He allowed the occasion to happen for me to take on the big picture. We both had a sense of wonder about the world around us and we weren’t embarrassed to express it.”
They were married in 1989 and now live in downtown Santa Barbara.
For 20 years, Everton traveled 230 days of the year, and Mary would join him as much as possible, drawing and keeping journals of their experiences that fueled her creativity. “I think of the places we’ve traveled,” she says. “The feel of the changing climate and the light and how it changes. Before meeting Macduff, I always looked at the details. I started to develop a double vision, looking at the details while also looking at the big picture. We’re each other’s best editors. He’s very honest with me. He’s always been enormously supportive. Macduff celebrates what I’m doing. We complete each other.”
Patsy Hicks comments about Heebner and Everton’s special relationship: “They are both curious lovers of the world and they nurture that in each other. They are playful, not didactic. Observing them, it seems that each day leads to tandem discoveries. They give each other space and time. They are not afraid to reinvent themselves, to roll with uncertainty, to find opportunity in challenge. They laugh together.”
Together, they have collaborated on three books: The Western Horizon; Patagonia, La Última Esperanza; and The Book of Santa Barbara. “We’ve had a good life,” Heebner says.
“I’m a weird landscape painter,” Heebner says about the richness and depth in her work. “I’m not a landscape painter, but the layers of land come out in my work. What’s underneath my feet and the past.” She brings out a canvas and shows me the fossil-like detail in a painting inspired by her trip to Patagonia.
“Mary has a reverence for time and the physical world,” Hicks explains. “She sees stories in geology; she reads landscape as sacred text. She is aware of the poetry embedded in the caves of Lascaux, the sculptures and fragments of ancient artists’ hands. In all her work, not just those inspired by the art of antiquity, there is a palimpsest, a layering. She folds in the past while being intently focused in the moment of her own making. The myths and materiality become melded in the making.”
See maryheebner.com
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3/21: Thursday Night Line Dancing This country night will feature a line-dancing lesson, a live deejay, and delicious food and drinks. 7-10pm. Backstage Dueling Piano Bar, 409 State St. Ages 21+. Call (805) 957-4111. backstagesb.com
3/21: Old Town Community Walk Make your way along Hollister Avenue to check out local artists, DIY flower bouquets, discounts on food and extended happy hours, live music, and pop-up markets. Email to sign up! 5-8pm. Old Town Goleta, 5840 Hollister Ave., Goleta. Free. Email oldtowngoletaartwalk@gmail.com. tinyurl.com/OldTownGoletaWalk
3/21: Cinema at the Casa: Planetary Boundaries This video presentation shows a science-based health check on the nine systems that keep our planet stable and resilient features renowned Swedish scientist Johan Rockström and will be followed by retired UCSB professor Eliot Jacobson, who will speak about climate trends, followed by a Q&A. Reservations are required. 6-7:30pm. Casa del Herrero, 1387 E. Valley Rd., Montecito. $50. Call (805) 565-5653. tinyurl.com/Cinema-Casa
3/21: Webinar: History of Ojai Herb Walks Host Emily Watson, director of the Artemisia Academy of Herbal Arts & Healing, will talk with Lanny Kaufer, who has been leading edible and medicinal walks for more than 47 years and will share the story of starting his herbal business as well as becoming the host of Ojai Herbal Symposiums. 6-7pm. Online. Free tinyurl.com/HerbWalksTalk
3/21: Taking Control After Dementia Diagnosis Workshop
Learn about the legal and financial hurdles of a dementia diagnosis in your family. Attorney Julianna Malis will empower you with the knowledge to navigate this journey. RSVP online. 11am. Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Ln. Free. Call (805) 969-0859. tinyurl.com/DementiaDiagnosisWorkshop
3/22: Unity Singers Spring Concert: We Remember Songs of Prayer and Praise Enjoy a night of beautiful and inspirational music as Noreen Brokke and the Unity Singers present their spring concert with special guests Emily Sommermann on violin and Jackie Greenshields on cello. 7-9pm. Unity of S.B., 227 E. Arrellaga St. Free. Email unity@ unitysb.org unitysb.org/upcoming-events
THURSDAY
Carpinteria: 800 block of Linden Ave., 3-6:30pm
FRIDAY
Montecito: 1100 and 1200 blocks of Coast Village Rd., 8-11:15am
SATURDAY
Downtown S.B.: Corner of Santa Barbara and Cota sts., 8am-1pm
SUNDAY
Goleta: Camino Real Marketplace, 10am-2pm
TUESDAY
Old Town S.B.: 500-600 blocks of State St., 3-7pm
WEDNESDAY
Solvang: Copenhagen Dr. and 1st St., 2:30-6:30pm
(805) 962-5354 sbfarmersmarket.org
SATURDAY
Rain or shine, meet local fishermen on the Harbor’s commercial pier, and buy fresh fish (filleted or whole), live crab, abalone, sea urchins, and more. 117 Harbor Wy., 6-11am. Call (805) 259-7476. cfsb.info/sat
3/23: SoCal Museums Annual Freefor-All In celebration of the region’s vibrant cultural landscape, the S.B. Museum of Art and Museum of Natural History will offer free admission for this annual event. Reservations are recommended (if reservations are sold out, you can still stop by). 11am-5pm. S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St.; 10am-5pm. S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free tinyurl.com/Free-Museums
3/23: Carpinteria Writer’s Group
Presents Carpinteria Festival of Books Meet and speak with more than 25 self-published local authors of children’s books, fiction, poetry, mystery, and more. Books will be for sale. Noon-4pm. Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center, 865 Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call (805) 684-7789 or email info@carpinteria artscenter.org carpinteriaartscenter .org/festivalofbooks
3/23: S.B. Blues Society’s 47th Annual Birthday Show Blues guitar master Chris Cain and his band will perform in honor of this birthday celebration with the L.A.-based duo of guitarist Celso Salim and harmonica player Darryl Carriere to open the show. 7pm. Carrillo Recreation Center, 100 E. Carrillo St. GA: $10-$35, VIP: $40-$45. Call (805) 668-6884 or email info@sbblues.org sbblues.org/events
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SOhO Restaurant & Music Club
Thu.: Alexandra Riorden, Caitlin
Jemma, 8pm. $15-$18. Ages 21+. Fri.: Gasolina Reggaeton Party, 9pm. $15. Ages 21+. Sun.: Sandy Cummings & Jazz du Jour, 12:30pm. $10. Kenny Lee
Lewis presents: A Tribute to the Fillmore with The Frenz Band, 7:30pm. $25-$30. Mon.: M.O.B. Jazz Quintet, 7:30pm. $15.
Tue.: A Night of Broadway: From Classic to Contemporary, 7pm. $20-$23. Ages 21+. 1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com
3/21, 3/27: Eos Lounge Thu.: Aiden Roth, Kiesummit, Vandersloot, 9pm. Wed.: Ooga, 8pm. Free. 500 Anacapa St. Ages 21+. Call (805) 564-2410. eoslounge.com
3/21: Satellite S.B. Brett Hunter Band, 6pm. 1117 State St. Free. Call (805) 3643043. satellitesb.com
3/22-3/23: Maverick Saloon Fri.: Flannel 101, 9pm-midnight. Sat.: Tex Pistols, 8:30-11:30pm. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Free. Call (805) 686-4785. mavericksaloon.com/event-calendar
3/22: M.Special Brewing Co. (Goleta) Paradise Kings, 6-8pm. 6860 Cortona Dr., Ste. C, Goleta. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com
3/22-3/23: M.Special Brewing Co. (S.B.) Fri.: Do No Harm, 8-10pm. Sat.: Rent Party, 8-10pm. 634 State St. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com
3/23-3/24: Cold Spring Tavern Sat.: Mac Talley’s Trip, 1:30-4:30pm. Free Radicals, 5-8pm. Sun.: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan, 1:30-4:30pm. 5995 Stagecoach Rd. Free Call (805) 967-0066. coldspringtavern.com
3/23-3/24:
3/23: Hook’d Bar and Grill T-Bone Ramblers, 3-6pm. 116 Lakeview Dr., Cachuma Lake. Free. Call (805) 350-8351. hookdbarandgrill.com/music-onthe-water
3/23: Arrowsmith’s Wine Bar Brian Black, 7-10pm. 1539 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Call (805) 686-9126 or email anna@ arrowsmithwine.com. arrowsmithwine.com/events
3/24: Lost Chord Guitars Terry Lawless Residency, 8-10:30pm. 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com
3/25: The Red Piano Morganfield Burnett, 7:30pm. 519 State St. Free. Call (805) 358-1439. theredpiano.com
3/27: Carr Winery Kinsella Brothers, 5:30-7:30pm. 414 N. Salsipuedes St. Free Ages 21+. Call (805) 965-7985. carrwinery.com/events
3/27: Whiskey Richards Punk on Vinyl, 9pm. 435 State St. Ages 21+. Free. Call (805) 451-8206. facebook.com/whiskeyrichards
State Street Ballet Presents Cinderella This favorite fairytale will come to life with crowd-pleasing contemporary choreography that includes an eerily staged ballroom scene and music by Prokofiev. Before Sunday’s matinee, join one of the ballerinas on the front lawn at 2:30pm as she tells the tale of Cinderella. Sat: 7:30pm, Sun.: 3pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $26-$58. Call (805) 963-0761 or email boxoffice@lobero.
com Read more on pg. 36. lobero.org
Please contact the venue to confirm the event.
Saturday, April 6, 2024 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Elks Lodge - 150 N. Kellogg Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93111
Register Early: Space is limited $35 per person, $40 after March 24
Register at mypasb.org or scan the QR code Scholarships are available
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3/23-3/24: Shen Yun 2024 World Tour Experience the profound wisdom from dynasties past and ethnic traditions that will spring to life through classical Chinese dance, enchanting live orchestral music, authentic costumes, and patented interactive backdrops. Sat.: 2 and 7pm; Sun.: 1pm. The Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $86-$171. Call (805) 899-2222 or email boxoffice@ granadasb.org granadasb.org/events
3/23: Mindful Movement with Orangetheory Fitness Join for a high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workout led by an Orangetheory coach with tunes provided by a live deejay. Bring a mat, water, and a towel. 10-11am. Paseo Nuevo (Next to Center Stage Theater), 651 Paseo Nuevo. Free. Call (805) 963-7147. tinyurl.com/MindfulMovementMar-23
3/24: Fearless Women of Song This exciting and enchanting operatic performance featuring vocalists Sherry Shaoling and Shirley Xiao-Ling Wang with pianist Hui Wu will take you on a musical journey through the female voice, with pieces by Offenbach, Mozart, Puccini, and more. 3-5pm. Logan House, Beatrice Wood Ctr. for the Arts, 8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai. $35. Call (805) 646-3381 or email chamberonthemountain@gmail.com chamberonthemountain.com/performances.html
3/24: Kenny Lee Lewis Presents: A Tribute to the Fillmore Kenny Lee Lewis of the Steve Miller Band and his band, The FrenZ Band, will perform songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Grateful Dead, Etta James, Santana, and more with special guests Deb Ryder, Keith England, Jimmy Z, and Scott Page all paying tribute to San Francisco’s famous venue. 7:30-10pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $25-$30. Call (805) 9627776. sohosb.com
3/24: Women of Wine Social Enjoy charcuterie, cheese, live acoustic music from Catalina Esteves, and sips from two womenowned wineries with Lisa Christensen, partner in D’Alfonso-Curran Wines; Ashley Parker, owner of Fess Parker Winery; and Gretchen Lieff from La Lieff Wines. 3-5pm. Kimpton Canary Hotel, 31 W. Carrillo St. $25. Call (805) 689-6764 or email alice.weller@ canarysantabarbara.com tinyurl.com/WomenofWineSocial
MONDAY 3/25
TUESDAY 3/26
3/26: Chaucer’s Book Talk and Signing: David Starkey Local author, poet, and S.B. Independent contributor David Starkey will talk about and sign copies of his novel Poor Ghost, which tells the story of when different worlds (literally) collide after a storied rock band’s jet crashes in the backyard of a retired insurance salesman in S.B. 6pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call (805) 682-6787. Read more on pg. 39 chaucersbooks.com/event
3/26: Broadway Night Vocalists Deborah Bertling, Carole McNeil, Gary Smith, and pianist Renee Hamaty will perform Broadway classics and new songs as well as their personal favorites across several genres. 7-10pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $20-$23. Call (805) 962-7776 or email becca@sohosb.com sohosb.com
3/25: S.B. Permaculture Network Book
Talk and Signing: Leila Philip Award-winning journalist Leila Philip will sign copies of her 2022 New York Times best-seller, Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America, and discuss the historical and contemporary impact of beavers on the economy and ecosystem. 6:30-8pm. CEC’s Environmental Hub, 1219 State St. Free. Call (805) 962-2571 or email margie@sbpermaculture .org. sbpermaculture.org
3/26: Spy Day Children are invited to join an elite group of recruits lurking in the shadows of the library to take on top-secret missions by code-breaking, creating disguises, building spy gadgets, learning investigative techniques, and escaping from the gallery with important intel. 2-3:30pm. S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Grades K-2 and 3-6. Call (805) 962-7653 or email info@sbplibrary.libanswers.com tinyurl.com/SpyDay24
WEDNESDAY 3/27
3/27: Audubon March Program Featuring Hugh Ranson Join birder, author, and contributor to the S.B. Independent Hugh Ranson for short stories about birders and birds with a colorful presentation that will feature 50 of his spectacular photographs. 7:30-9pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call (805) 964-1468. santabarbaraaudubon.org
State
Free. Email info@shakermillsb.com tinyurl.com/Shaker-Mill
3/23: TENDREL One-Year Anniversary Party Celebrate the one-year anniversary of this source for quality denim men’s clothing. There will be free beverages, good friends, and live country music by Eric Long at 5:30pm and rock ’n’ roll from the Tom Relling Band at 6:30pm. 5-8pm. TENDREL,
There is a facility right here in Santa Barbara that offers you hope without taking those endless drugs with serious side effects. (see the special neuropathy severity examination at the end of this article)
In order to effectively treat your neuropathy three factors must be determined:
· What’s the underlying cause?
· How Much Nerve Damage Has Been Sustained
· How much treatment will your condition require
The treatment that is provided at SB Regenerative Health has three main goals:
1. Increase blood flow
2. Stimulate small fiber nerves
3. Decrease brain-based pain
The blood vessels will grow back around the nerves much like a plant’s roots grow when watered.
The amount of treatment needed to allow the nerves to fully recover varies from person to person and can only be determined after a detailed neurological and vascular evaluation.
We can objectively measure the severity of deficit in both small and large nerve fibers prior to start of care.
Charles Sciutto Lac along with NP Kristen Nelson at Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic, will do a neuropathy severity consultation to review peripheral neuropathy history, symptoms and discuss plan of treatment. This consultation will be free of charge and will help determine if our therapy protocol may be a good fit for your needs.
Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic will be offering this neuropathy severity consultation free of charge from now until November 30th 2024.
805-450-2891 to make an appointment with our team.
Medicare with PPO supplemental insurance and commercial insurances including Anthem Blue Cross/ Blue Shields, Aetna, Cigna , United Healthcare, and Health Net.
Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic
1919 State Street, Suite 302 Santa Barbara CA. Our office treatment program is covered by Medicare or other insurance coverage. It will be determined as free of charge, have co-payment, or not be covered prior to start of care.
3/21-3/27: Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program The VITA program is a free tax preparation service for local Santa Barbara County residents who make $67,000 or less a year. Tax returns are prepared and electronically filed by IRS-certified volunteers for qualified individuals or families. Visit the website for available sites and times from Carpinteria to Solvang. Assistance available through April 30.
El programa VITA es un servicio gratuito de preparación de impuestos para los residentes locales del condado de Santa Bárbara que ganan $67,000 o menos al año. Las declaraciones de impuestos las preparan y presentan electrónicamente voluntarios certificados por el IRS para personas o familias calificadas. Para programar una cita, envíe un correo electrónico a Yoseline González a ygonzalez@unitedwaysb.org o llame al (805) 965-8594. Visite el sitio web para consultar los lugares y horarios disponibles desde Carpintería hasta Solvang. Asistencia disponible hasta el 30 de abril. unitedwaysb.org/vita
3/22, 3/26-3/27: AARP Foundation Tax-Aide: Free Tax Assistance Tax returns can be prepared for taxpayers with wages, interest, dividends, capital gains, unemployment, pensions, social security, IRA and 401-K distributions as well as filing for various tax credits. Visit the website for a list of required documents you will need to provide. The last check-in time at each location is 3pm. Fri.: 9am-noon and 1-4pm. Goleta Valley Community Center, 5679 Hollister Ave., Goleta. (Through April 12); Tue.-Wed.: United Way of S.B. County, 320 E. Gutierrez St. (Through April 10). Free. Call (805) 965-8591. tinyurl.com/TaxAide-AARP
FROM CLASSIC TO CONTEMPORARY SHOWTUNES
Thurs 3/28 8:00 pm
NEIL ERICKSON BAND & BRAYELL POP/ HIP-HOP
Across the country the usually placid waters of birding listservs began to roil on November 21, 2023. What could have happened to stir the usually staid birding world into such a tizzy? The American Ornithological Society (AOS) published its decision to rename all the North American birds that are named after people (eponyms). This means that up to 80 bird names will change. The impetus behind the move is to address past wrongs by changing names that could be controversial or exclusionary. Many birders were aghast,
ers” or other scientists.
But bird names are not static, and over the last century, many names have changed just not 80 in one fell swoop! Scientists decided that what was once the rufous-sided towhee is in fact two separate species, renamed the spotted towhee and the eastern towhee. There are many similar examples of “splits” requiring new names, but some have also been changed for political reasons.
In 2000, the arctic duck that American birders knew as the oldsquaw, had its name changed to fol low the European name of the species: long-tailed duck. “Oldsquaw” is considered a slur to Indigenous people, and there was little or no controversy over this change. Then in 2021, a small songbird of the Great Plains, the McCown’s long spur, had its name changed to a more descriptive one, the thick-billed long spur. Who was McCown? John P. McCown was an amateur naturalist who went on to become a general in the Confederate army; the name was changed because of his links to the Confederacy with its implied defense of slavery and racism. This change was more controversial. Where would the name changing end?
The AOS is beginning its efforts with the 70-80 bird species that are named epony mously and occur regularly within Canada and the United States. “There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today. We need a much more inclusive and engaging scientific process that focuses attention on the unique features and beauty of the birds themselves,” said AOS president Colleen Handel. The AOS will be soliciting ideas from the public for new, more descriptive names.
There was immediate pushback to this proposal, with many birders signing a petition imploring the AOS to rethink its stance. Many feel that bird names should be looked at on a case-by-case basis and not purged indiscriminately.
while others thought the time was well overdue for such a move. The divisiveness still continues, with some of the backand-forths becoming quite heated.
Some background: Around the world, most birds are named after their physical attributes or their songs, not after people, and the names have often been in place for centuries. The name “nightingale” comes from the Old English “nihtegale,” which means “night songstress.” The pied wagtail of the U.K. is black-and-white with a tail that, well, wags. In the United States and Canada, many of the relatively recently named species were named after their European “discover-
Part of the petition reads, “The attempt by AOS leadership to appear more diverse and inclusive has created an unprecedented and unnecessary division within the birding community unseen in our lifetimes. This decree has brought culture wars to ornithology and birding.”
I have read through many of the essays accompanying the petition, the majority of which were thoughtful and impassioned (and most were also, I must add, written by older white males). One point made several times is that rewriting history is generally a poor idea, and that trying to whitewash our human past erases the memory of mistakes from which we might learn.
My thirty-something daughter is a member of a young birders group in the Bay Area, and I asked her if she and her friends thought all eponymous names should be changed.
“Of course,” was her immediate response.
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To many of her generation, it’s a no-brainer.
I loved the perspective of an octogenarian who wrote on a Washington state listserv. She said that the young and politically marginalized members of society are all for the change. She further pointed out that in North America alone we have lost 3 billion birds since 1970, and that we should put our efforts into conservation and education, not fighting over names; the birds don’t care about their names they care about survival. I have to agree with her wisdom: Let’s not focus on this storm in a teacup while there’s a hurricane whipping about our ears.
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The next Audubon Society program will feature the short fiction of yours truly. I’ll read stories about birders and the birds that fuel their passion on Wednesday, March 27, 7:30-9 p.m., in the Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street (note change of venue).
Hugh Ranson is a member of Santa Barbara Audubon Society, a nonprofit organization that protects area birdlife and habitat and connects people with birds through education, conservation, and science. For more information, see santabarbaraaudubon.org.
In 1971, I moved into a basement apartment in Chicago with my then-husband, who was a medical student. The floors were covered with ugly carpeting installed by the previous tenants, and they told us that if we wanted the rug to stay, we had to pay them. I was appalled. “You mean you’re going to remove the carpeting if we don’t pay you?”
That’s exactly what they meant. It would be completely worthless, but they would pull it up, nail by nail, and take it to the dumpster rather than allow the new tenants to enjoy for free what they had paid for. This is when the stubborn, hot-headed New Yorker in me kicked in. “Well, I guess you better get going,” I said, “because we don’t want it.”
The truth is, we did sort of want it, but it was a matter of principle. (Don’t ask me which principle; I don’t know.) It just seemed cheap and mean-spirited of them, and it pissed me off. They were moving up in the world, leaving this dreary place behind, and rather than doing so with goodwill toward the victims next in line, they intended to extract some petty cash. And I do mean petty. I stood my ground. Or rather, my bare floor.
“We just need some color and cheer,” I said unconvincingly, and I decided then and there to paint the floor. It will be like the floor of a country porch, I thought, conveniently ignoring the fact that we were about as far from country porch territory as one could be.
by Cynthia Carbone Ward
Maybe I was just calling their bluff. I think, on some level, I honestly didn’t believe these folks would go through all the trouble of removing the rug. But they did, and now everything the ugly carpet had covered was exposed. It was a realm of rough and uneven wood splattered with stains and residues of glue and paint, with the occasional shred of rug and bent nails poking through, and sundry traces of history’s long and messy procession through these very rooms. The predominant color was something in the dark brown family. The medical student looked at it sadly, shook his head, and said, “Maybe we should have given them the money.”
I should point out here that no amount of decor was going to turn this into a charming apartment anyway. The ceilings were low and adorned with pipes, and the front windows faced the street at the level of passing pedestrians’ feet. The walls were white yet somehow still seemed dingy, and most of our furnishings were the motley discards of an old fraternity house. There was a faux leather sofa that was cracked and worn, a chunky bed with an ill-fitting mattress, and a typical student bookcase constructed of bricks and cement blocks.
I bought a bucket of peacock blue paint, a brush, and a roller, and began the transformation. Readying the surface? Scraping and priming? These things never occurred to me. I poured and spread, slopping the paint around with a brush and telling myself it couldn’t possibly look worse than it already did. At one point, I literally painted myself into a corner but managed to step gingerly with minimal damage and leapt over into an adjacent room.
I looked at the blue floor with a critical eye from the space as yet unpainted. As with many endeavors past and yet to come, I had to admit that the result of my effort bore little resemblance to what I had envisioned. The rooms that had escaped my paintbrush suddenly by contrast didn’t look so bad. If the peacock-blue floor was an old crone in thick makeup, the rest of the floor space was a tough broad who’d lived hard and wasn’t in denial. I knew which one I preferred. Some dormant remnant of good sense told me to confine blue-ness to the one room and quit while I was, if not exactly ahead, at least less behind than I might get.
I glimpsed a useful insight, too: I wasn’t married to all my misjudgments. Rather than replicate and exacerbate, one could rethink and change strategy.
The story has many endings. One of them is happy. A few days later, I took a shortcut behind the building through an alleyway with a dumpster, likely the very same dumpster where the previous tenants had left their ugly carpet. On the cement pad by the dumpster, there was a record player, a sturdy and handsome one with wood veneer and all parts seemingly intact. I carried it home, set it down, rode my bike to the library, and checked out a couple of records to test-drive the thing. I went for classical, randomly choosing something by Beethoven because I’d heard of him. Maybe it was the Seventh Symphony.
The record player worked. The sounds of the music filled the basement apartment, and everything was changed, enchanted, elevated, lifted off the ground. I sat on the peacock-blue floor and cried.
Afew years ago, a vibrant purple lupin by the name of chocho captivated the attention of Ricky Echanique, a fifth-generation Ecuadorian farmer, shifting his life and the lives of the farmers who have cultivated this cover crop for centuries.
Today, Echanique and his partner, Lauren Henno, have established the plant protein company Mikuna, becoming a bridge between Ecuadorian farmers and U.S. markets. The earthy Mikuna packaging seen at Whole Foods, Erewhon, and Backyard Bowls represents a deep-rooted history in regenerative agriculture and Indigenous knowledge.
Echanique was raised in Ecuador, where he competed in tennis at a professional level at age 16, training hard to develop his skills. “My body always struggled with the protein supplements pushed on me by my coaches when I was training; it felt bloated and irritated,” he said. He moved to the U.S. to study environmental science, graduating from UC Santa Barbara in 2009.
“I found a second home in Santa Barbara, playing tennis occasionally, embracing a love for surfing, and keeping my body healthy,” Echanique said with a big smile. He met Henno, a Santa Ynez local, falling for her almost at first sight, and stayed in Santa Barbara, going home to Ecuador frequently.
A detour during a visit in 2016 changed the trajectory of his life.
A series of family events took a huge toll on Echanique’s health, and he found himself bedridden and unable to find relief in Western medicine. He decided to study and experiment with the plethora of medicinal plants in the Amazon with the Shuar tribe. On one visit, he traveled across the
Amazon and through the Andean mountains, stopping at the familiar purple lupin fields of chocho. A combination of what he had learned from Indigenous people and pure curiosity led him to consume the chocho bean as a powder.
“My body felt notably nourished and healthy after consuming chocho in this way,” Echanique said. “The ‘aha!’ moment to invest in this project was learning a combination of all chocho could offer grown regeneratively by Indigenous communities, with no herbicides, no pesticides, a nutritional powerhouse, great for the soil and people. What could be better?” he said.
Grown in the high Andean mountains of Ecuador and Northern Peru, chocho has been a staple protein source for the inhabitants of the region for thousands of years. Lupinus mutabilis, or chocho, flourished where meat and fish protein were scarce before the Spanish invasion in the 1500s. Chocho was prominent in the diet of the Inca, and even before that, the first evidence of its cultivation was discovered as seeds in the tombs of the Nazca culture and as represented on Tiahuanaco ceramics in pre-Incan Peru. The conquistadors, however, categorized this legume as “poor man’s food,” replacing it with broad, or fava, beans in the crop rotation.
The unique combination of high altitude, a latitude closest to the sun on the equator, and generations of Indigenous farmers in the Andean mountains forge the perfect micro-climate for the purple chocho lupin. “The more drought, the better for chocho,” Echanique explained. “Up in the high altitude of 9,000-14,000 feet, the mountains are bare and high yields of this lupin flourish.”
No supply chain or demand existed for chocho as a protein powder when Echanique first tried it, but it has since gained some high-profile recognition for its multitude of benefits. Today Mikuna is used by professional athletes such as Mick Fanning, a three-time world champion surfer; Letícia Bufoni, a six-time X Games gold medalist skateboarder; and professional surfer Taylor Knox.
As a food, chocho is extremely nutrient-dense and packed with amino acids, protein, fiber, iron, and calcium. It is easier to digest than other members of the legume fam-
ily, such as peas and beans, as it is lectin-free and glutenfree, while having the highest source of plant protein per serving. Some research shows that linoleic acids in chocho are beneficial to pregnancy and postpartum recovery, lowering blood pressure and reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Chocho’s nutritional value is not lost on the Ecuadorian government. In 2017, the Sustainable Funds program allocated money toward rejuvenating the cultivation of chocho in lower-income villages to combat protein scarcity in villages like Imbabura in northern Ecuador.
Chocho is traditionally used in Ecuadorian street foods and salads, and also in a Ceviche de Chocho, a vegetarian ceviche. Soaking, sprouting, and lightly toasting make the legume bioavailable, which is how the Mikuna processes the protein powder.
After Echanique stopped by the Independent offices to drop off some Mikuna protein powder, I tried it out, finding it easy to add to smoothies or baked goods. The Mikuna Cacao, sweetened with monkfruit, made delicious gluten-free protein brownies and rich chocolate banana bread.
In Quechua, mikuna means “to nourish the body with food,” an important value for Echanique as he developed his company. “Health is not just in the food, but in the way it is grown, the process of its cultivation, and growth in insecticide-free soil is imperative to food’s nutritional value,” he explained. For the farmers, this low-impact crop not only provides food but regenerates the soil between crops, acting as a highly effective nitrogen fixer.
Echanique said he had focused on developing relationships with the farmers in Ecuador. Through those bonds, he now exports 80 percent of the chocho grown in Ecuador, Echanique said, as well as making 40 percent more profit for the farmers per hectare than the average crop.
“I want to give back to the community I grew up in, and Mikuna allows me to be a middleman for the farmers that care for the health of the earth.”
For more information, see mikunafoods.com.
The original Nugget in Summerland opened in 1970 and continues going strong, as does the Nugget at 5687 Calle Real in Goleta, which opened in 2009. Some “experimental” Nuggets came and went at 21 West Victoria Street (20152018) and 5096 Carpinteria Avenue in Carpinteria (2016-2017).
Reader Foodie Dan, who has been sending me tips since the early 1990s (before this column was born, during the days when I operated the very first online Santa Barbara restaurant guide), tells me that The Nugget is returning to Carpinteria at 892 Linden Avenue, the former home of Señor Frog’s and the almost-home of Linden Hall. I called the Summerland location, which confirmed the news and also said that the Carpinteria restaurant is still in the planning stages. It might have a limited menu (or maybe a full menu) and might be called “Nuggies” (or maybe The Nugget). They hope to open sometime this summer and are actively working on getting a liquor license.
INDIAN TANDOORI KINGDOM OPENS: Reader Brendan says he walked by 1026 State Street today (former Oppi’z and Palazzio) and said that it looks like Indian Tandoori Kingdom has opened there. Hours are 11 a.m.-10 p.m. daily. Call (805) 869-6440 or visit indian tandoorikingdom.com.
AUGIE’S REOPENS: Reader Steve M. tells me that Augie’s has reopened at 700 State Street, an address once occupied by Panera Bread, Left at Albuquerque, and Ma Dolce Vita. Hours are Friday-Saturday, 4-10 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Call (805) 664-0516 or visit augiessb.com.
SHALHOOB’S TO CLOSE IN THE S.B. PUBLIC MARKET: Reader Steve C. says that Shalhoob’s, which opened in the Santa Barbara Public Market in March 2022, is planning to close at the end of March 2024, just after their two-year anniversary. The company is still on track to open a location at 5112 Hollister Avenue in Noleta, the former home of Woody’s BBQ.
MCCONNELL’S LAUNCHES NEW FLAVOR WITH HOOK & PRESS: On March 22, two beloved Santa Barbara institutions McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams and Hook & Press Donuts are joining forces to launch a collaborative offering that merges McConnell’s artisanal ice cream with
Hook & Press’s gourmet donuts. The result is a new Blueberries and Lemon Glazed Donuts ice cream flavor. This brand-new custom confection blends old-fashioned, lemon-glazed donuts baked from scratch at Hook & Press, paired with blueberry-infused Central Coast milk and cream and swirls of tartly sweet lemon glaze for the perfect McConnell’s pint. This limited-run offering will be available online and in McConnell’s scoop shops until it runs out.
WYLDE WORKS LAUNCHES COFFEE HOUSE: Wylde Works at 609 State Street recently celebrated their two-year anniversary and have announced they are expanding operations as a coffeehouse. Their coffee hours are now from 8 a.m.-11 p.m. (Monday until 3 p.m.). They are serving Unity Coffee, fine teas, Deux Bakery pastries and sandwiches, and Buena Onda empanadas. Wylde Works regularly hosts an array of local music, arts, and cultural events.
LITTLE ALEX’S UPDATE: In December 2022, I wrote that Montecito’s Little Alex’s restaurant is moving to 3987-B State Street (in Five Points Shopping Center), the former home of Fresco Café. I am now told they hope to open by the end of this month.
SEATTLE BAKERY POP-UP: Piroshky, a popular Eastern European–inspired bakery based in historic Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington, is going on a Southern California pop-up tour that includes Santa Barbara on April 19. Orders must be submitted by April 17 and picked up at Brass Bear Uptown on April 19. The website will give details as the date approaches. How it works: (1) Select your favorite pies online at piroshkybakery .com before your visit. (2) They’ll handmake and customize your Piroshky to order. (3) Your Piroshky will be flash-frozen and ready for pickup on the event day.
Art meets environmentalism at THE RECYCLED SHOW 2024: NOWASTE EARTH art exhibit on view at the Community Arts Workshop (CAW) from March 27 to April 2.
“One only has to look around to see the extent of this community’s ingenuity, creativity, and passion for the arts and environment,” said exhibit organizer and curator Jami Joelle Nielsen. “I decided to kick off Earth Day and curate a unique recycled art event that reflects the region’s extraordinary talents and diverse stories and perspectives in confronting environmental issues.”
She asked a dozen of her fellow local artists to create recycled works of art centered on an environmental issue of their choice and to compose a narrative regarding the significance of their chosen environmental concern to accompany their artwork. Participating artists Mary Balda, Adrienne De
Guevara, Kimberly Hahn, Sue Van Horsen, Dan Levin, Michael Long, Jami Joelle Nielsen, Heidi Parker, Mary Price, Vanae Mary Rivera, Dug Uyesaka, and Frank Whipple will use their pieces to confront important environmental issues like climate change, species extinction, fast fashion, the pollinator crisis, wildfires, tech waste, landfill waste, ocean plastics/pollution, and deforestation.
“We have a staggering variety and number of interdisciplinary, innovative, educational, philanthropic, environmental, and creative organizations, endeavors, and qualities serving the framework of our community, so much so that when I considered organizing an annual recycled art exhibit, I was surprised we didn’t already have one,” said Nielsen, whose own work as a recycledobject artist prompted her to recognize an opportunity in our community that seemed all too fitting: an annual recycled-art exhibit.
“After all, this is Santa Barbara, a k a ‘Paradise,’ and home to the 1969 Oil Spill, which galvanized the Earth Day movement and spurred the creation of the nation’s first collegiate Environmental Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara,” she continued. “The Channel Islands off our coast are often referred to as ‘The Galapagos of North America’ for the biodiversity found in our local waters and adjacent ecosystems.
“With Santa Barbara County boasting 2,000 NGOs, including many that
focus on environmental concerns, the Community Arts Workshop is a fitting location for such an exhibit, as it was once a defunct recycling center, now repurposed in the best way to serve as a valuable community asset. This story is important and relevant to the place,” said Nielsen.
“When we encounter artwork, we may often miss the individual meaning, experience, or history it holds for an artist, hence the narratives artists have been asked to write regarding an environmental issue that resonates with them personally.” She added, “And now the intention is to grow THE RECYCLED SHOW by size, reputation, and representation into an exciting annual event!”
An artists’ reception featuring live interactive plastic “mandala” art assemblage, poetry, music, a “Make a Fish Wish” for the planet activity, a showing of the environmental art film Wasteland, and tables from environmental organizations like Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and Heal the Ocean, with light snacks and beverages provided, will be held Friday, March 29, from 5-8 p.m. at the CAW. In addition, all artwork is for sale with a portion of sales supporting the CAW.
—Leslie DinabergThe gallery, located at 631 Garden St., is open by appointment on Wednesday, March 27; noon-5 p.m. Thursday, March 28; 5-8 p.m. Friday, March 29; noon-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, March 30-31; and by appointment Monday-Tuesday, April 1-2. Please call CAW at (805) 324-7443 to make an appointment to view the exhibition. See sbcaw.org/upcoming.
When Cinderella’s story is described as a favorite fairytale, that’s a bit of an understatement. While scholars disagree as to exactly how many versions of the popular tale exist with estimated numbers ranging from 340 to 3,000 almost everyone can agree that it’s one of the most well-known stories ever written. Variations on Cinderella’s myth appear in folktales in almost every world culture.
State Street Ballet takes on the famous tale at the Lobero Theatre March 23-24, with a light-hearted retelling of the classic tale, the storybook characters are brought to the stage in vivid detail and full-balletic form. Featuring choreography by Rodney Gustafson (the show was premiered by State Street Ballet in 2005 and toured nationally) and music by Sergei Prokofiev, who began his work in 1940 but put it on hold during World War II to write the opera War and Peace. He picked it back up In 1944, finished the score a year later, and it was first performed on November 21, 1945, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow with choreography by Rostislav Zakharov, with Galina Ulanova dancing the title role.
Interestingly, years before Prokofiev’s work, in 1870 the Bolshoi Theatre requested Tchaikovsky (who composed three of the world’s most beloved ballets: Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and The Sleeping Beauty) to write the music for the ballet, but it never materialized.
Now the story comes to life once again, featuring Amara Galloway, a company dancer since 2017, in the title role, and Ethan Ahuero, who joined the ensemble in 2023, as the Prince. Amid opulent sets and picture-perfect-period costumes, Marina Fliagina plays the Wicked Stepmother, and in keeping with a common tradition of having the roles of the stepsisters comically played by men, they are played by Sergei Domrachev with Nathaniel Tyson (Saturday), and Noam Tsivkin (Sunday). Arianna Hartanov is the Fairy Godmother, and the Fairy soloists are Emma Matthews (Spring), Anna Nader (Summer), Rachel Hutsell (Autumn), and Saori Yamashita (Winter).
As part of State Street Ballet’s Family Series, Cinderella is designed to be appealing to all ages. As an introduction for new audiences, there is a special free pre-matinée event on Sunday, March 24, at 2:30 pm., where young patrons are invited to hear the tale of Cinderella, told by a ballerina, on the lawn in front of the Lobero, before taking their seats for the performance.
Blurring the lines between genres with a clever amalgamation of country, folk, jazz, gospel, and blues, musician Lyle Lovett is a storyteller at heart. I had the pleasure of speaking with him prior to his visit to the Lobero, where his acoustic group featuring Leland Sklar (whose Immediate Family band has graced that stage several times of late), Jim Cox, Stuart Duncan, and Jeff White will play on Monday, March 25.
A four-time Grammy Award winner and prolific singer-songwriter, Lovett shared a bit about his creative process. Rather than words first or music first, he said, “Writing a song for me is having the idea first … of something that you think might be interesting enough to talk about or worthy of commanding someone’s sitting still for three minutes. If you have a solid idea, the writing part for me, it depends on the idea. I’ve never written just lyrics and then applied music or vice versa. It’s always a lyrical idea or an idea as to a form of music.”
He has a degree in journalism from Texas A&M and was on staff at the student newspaper for a bit, covering the city council in Bryan, Texas, where he said it was interesting to learn how “heated a debate could be about how many curb cuts the new Exxon station was going to get, that sort of thing.”
Though he knew he wanted to be a musician, “Going to school was important to me, and it was really important to my folks. My parents both worked and put themselves through high school; it took them a long time to finish school. I got to go to both of their graduations.”
While in college, Lovett was a part of a coffeehouse where they would bring in professional musicians a few times a year. “I was involved in booking, and that was a great part of my education on how the business worked.” He also did a bit of entertainment journalism then. “I got to interview people that I really admired who came to the original music clubs around Houston. That was great.”
He was not only performing but also writing songs by then. “It took me a couple years to have enough songs where I could do a full set,” said Lovett. He met Nanci Griffith and Eric Taylor through the coffeehouse, and they invited him to come to “the premier original music club in Houston, a place called Anderson Fair Retail Restaurant started by hippies in the ’60s. And it still goes on today.” Lovett described it as “really the next-generation music scene. … It was really about how good your song is is your song good?” He continues, “Commercial success was not the point. The idea was to do it because you have to do it. Because you have something to say. … It was a place that fostered that kind of creativity and supported people trying to provide it.”
By 1984, he had met many of the people who became the core of his Large Band (the acoustic group he’s bringing to Santa Barbara is a subset of that) and established a solid fan following with his first album in 1986. He’s been on the road as a touring musician ever since.
After that first, self-named album, those that followed Pontiac (1987); Grammywinning Lyle Lovett and His Large Band (1989); Joshua Judges Ruth (1992); I Love Everybody (1994); and Grammy-winning The Road to Ensenada (1996) were uniquely hard to categorize. Later albums included Step Inside This House (1998), covering artists who inspired him, such as
Robert Altman, who also gave Lovett several acting roles, a side gig that continues to this day); Anthology Volume One: Cowboy Man (2001); My Baby Don’t Tolerate (2003); Smile: Songs from the Movies (2003); It’s Not Big It’s Large (2007); Natural Forces (2009); and Release Me (2012). In 2022, Lovett now the father of 6-year-old twins, a boy and a girl released 12th of July, his first studio album in 10 years.
“Most people don’t make records for money; most people, the real lucky ones, get away with doing this and make their living from playing live. Not publishing, not unless you have some sort of mega hit, you know, you make a living going live. And that’s what I do. And I always have,” said Lovett. “And so I’m just grateful to the people that keep showing up.”
While the country music scene has broadened and changed over the years, Lovett said his audiences have not. “I’ve just been lucky to be able to play, you know, whatever kind of music I think of. I really feel lucky that I haven’t been limited to a certain point.”
As for his return to the Lobero next week, “It’s really fun to play a room that size. You just feel like you’re talking individually to everyone in the audience. … You’re not trying to reach the back row in the Santa Barbara Bowl. You’re just talking to folks. And I enjoy that.”
—Leslie DinabergLyle
Generous and reliably annual call-for-artists invitations are few and far between in the region. For various reasons, well-meaning projects and gallery outreaches tend to have fickle shelf lives. And none, certainly, have had the steady-pulsed longevity of the Small Images show, celebrating its 39th (count ’em) anniversary at SBCC’s Atkinson Gallery this month.
One inherent balancing act for these exhibitions’ various curators through the years has been to land on a happy medium in terms of artwork population in a given show. This year’s model is judiciously parsed out by Santa Barbara Museum of Art Contemporary Art Curator James Glisson and UCSB’s AD&A Museum Curator Silvia Perea. The works are plentiful and diversified in medium and meaning, but they are also strategically arranged to allow for visual breathing room in the gallery.
In the obligatory rapid glance-through in the gallery, locals of a certain age (or cuisine inclination) may quickly zero in on a painting that deserves the unofficial Best Local Color image recognition — David Dixon’s painting “Lunch on Milpas.” More specifically, the image pays a due homage to a legendary eatery at Milpas and Alphonse Streets: La Super-Rica, itself now up to 44 years of service and international allure.
While Dixon’s painting serves as more of a tidily rendered
documentary artwork, other award winners in the room veer in more poetic directions. The “Best of Show” nod goes to Stephanie Hubbard’s “Daydream,” a suitably titled collage work, admirably subtle and with blurred palimpsests of recognizable forms and references beneath the haze of dream vision. Placing second in the ribbon-worthy category is another ambiguous yet alluring piece with a telling title, RT Livingston’s “Identity Crisis: Blindspot.” This enigmatic drawing evokes fragmented memories of a face and a thumbprint serving as identity signifier.
Woven into the mix of small images this year are local artists whose work has appeared on various walls and shows for years. The list includes Nell Campbell’s evocative horizontal photograph “On the Malecón, Havana,” from her Cuban series; Bay Hallowell’s liquidus formal dance of her monoprint “Jumble Tumble”; and Pamela Bengham’s affecting and rough-hewn seascape painting “At the Edge of the Horizon.”
Also in the repeat visitor corner are the ever-inviting connector of objects and images found and otherwise, Dug Uyesaka; Hugh Margerum; Seyburn Zorthian; Colleen M. Kelly’s slyly subversive feminist commentary “Diminishing Women”; and Cynthia Martin’s eco-driven “VITAL SIGNS: Time of Reckoning,” juxtaposing stacked color bands and waveforms — natural and otherwise — traipsing across a black background. Across the room, local fave Nina Warner demonstrates her minimalist moxie with “Yellow Rose,” the simple, tranquil floral study, with a lone protagonist, on black.
Other small wonders grab at the wandering eye here, including the art-about-art-about-cosmetic-culture painting “Get a Facial Today,” by Jeanne Dentzel, and Megan Koth’s “Pearl Extraction,” suggesting sensuality and skin/membranous cross-references. In other words: sex, or sex-adjacent impressions.
Another award winner, among the several small but impressive sculptural works on the Atkinson Gallery floor, is Carolina Danu’s “Bloom,” a gathering of plant-like pieces created in the hardened and glistening medium of stoneware, yet evoking the life of cacti. The neighbor of “Bloom” on the floor lets loose with a certain elegantly outfitted F-bomb: Pamela Regan’s winkingly named “What’s Your Favorite Swear Word?” We now know hers.
Elsewhere in the sculpture zone, Paulo Lima’s mixedmedia piece “Sankofu in Gear” cleverly combines the integrated hybrid imagery of gearworks and an African woman festooning curls for a coif. Something chilling settles in with Lisa Howard’s deceptively innocent found-object piece
consisting of a charming ceramic dog and a plastic soldier with an arm and head missing. Its title: “Yeah, But Part of Me Didn’t Come Home (from Vietnam).”
Howard’s piece is an example of art well-suited to the “small images” qualifier in question here, but also the unexpected power and pained emotionality of artistic concepts, even sometimes with the simplest (and smallest) of materials.
—Josef WoodardWhat would happen if a small private plane carrying one of the biggest rock bands in the world crashed down into your backyard right here in Santa Barbara? That’s the scenario that begins the action in David Starkey’s new novel Poor Ghost, which takes its title from the name of the fictional rock band that plunges us into a story that alternates between two timelines: One is about the impact of the crash on a recently widowed man’s life, and one is an oral history of the band itself.
The chunky text format which also includes texts, news articles, police reports, social media, and those gossipy Nextdoor posts makes this fast read even more compelling. The fictional documentary structure and rock ’n’ roll setting make easy comparisons to Daisy Jones & The Six, but some of the darker themes of loneliness and loss and the effects of celebrity on our culture give it a depth not often seen in a “rock ’n’ roll novel.”
As literary legend TC Boyle (whom Starkey interviewed for the Santa Barbara Independent in July 2023) said, “From its riveting opening through the wonderfully imaginative unfolding of its narrative, Poor Ghost is a lively hopscotch of a novel, compelling, deep, and powerful.”
Best known as Santa Barbara’s 2009-2011 Poet Laureate and the founding director of Santa Barbara City College’s Creative Writing Program, Starkey has published 11 fulllength collections of poetry, but this is his first published novel. Asked about where the idea came from, he said, “I have a kayak, and I was out of what I think of as Goleta Bay, out there by the pier and by Campus Point, and there’s airplanes that take off on practice runs. And you’re sitting out there and you’re thinking, ‘What if one of those planes crashed? I would row over there and save everybody, right?’ And then, because I can see where our house begins in the foothills from there when I get far enough out, I thought, ‘What if a plane crashed in our backyard?’ And that was kind of the genesis.”
mystery edge. Like, what happened with the plane? Why did it crash?”
While he didn’t use a specific band as the model for Poor Ghost, “in the rock pantheon, I think of them as kind of a lesser U2, how they got together when they were really young and they were just these working-class kids who went far beyond where they ever could have expected to be. … I think a lot of the band dynamics are just from my own experience of being in different bands over the years. Knowing how people get jealous. Who’s going to do what? What role does everyone play? I think that’s a sort of built-in dynamic for conflict. … You become friends with these people when you’re young. And then you went from being talented kids to ‘they’re gonna be your best friends for the rest of your life.’ ”
A prolific writer even prior to retiring, he had written and produced plays and co-founded a small literary press Starkey had attempted a few earlier works of fiction that he felt “just strayed too far from home.” This time, he decided to set it, literally, in his own backyard. While his main character, Caleb Crane, is an insurance salesman, he has more in common with Starkey than just his house. For example, both men grew up in Sacramento. In addition, “I took advantage of the fact that I have played in bands since I was in high school to sort of create this band that was really big…. And as I wrote, it just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And then it had to have a little
As Caleb’s story entwines and entangles itself with the swarm of Poor Ghost groupies and press and lookie-loos that glom onto the crash site, the oral history of the band is unveiled through interviews as well as references to their songs and albums over the years, which take their titles and lines from Starkey’s own work. Caleb’s story sort of “accordions back between what was happening with the other story with the band and their careers and lives, but I stole a lot of titles and lines from my own poems and some songs I’ve written. Because I thought, ‘Well, I don’t want to be in trouble with copyright, but I think I can steal from myself from my own work,’ ” says Starkey. The result is an amusing set of song/album names like “Ugly Word,” “Between Religion and Hygiene,” and “September Pears,” which adds yet another layer of depth and humor to this highly original novel.
—Leslie DinabergChaucer’s Books (3321 State Street) is hosting a book launch event for David Starkey on Tuesday, March 26, at 6 p.m., featuring an in-store book talk and signing of his novel Poor Ghost (Keylight Books/Turner Publishing). For more information, see chaucers books.com or turnerpublishing.com.
Breszny
(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): I suspect you will soon have far more beginners’ luck than you ever thought possible. For best results to generate even more wildly abundant torrents of good luck you could adopt what Zen Buddhists called “beginner’s mind.” That means gazing upon everyone and everything as if encountering it for the first time. Here are other qualities I expect to be flowing freely through you in the coming weeks: spontaneity, curiosity, innocence, candor, and unpredictability. To the degree that you cultivate these states, you will invite even more beginner’s luck into your life.
(Apr. 20-May 20): Taurus artist Salvador Dalí was prone to exaggerate for dramatic effect. We should remember that as we read his quote: “Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: Rationalize them; understand them thoroughly.” While that eccentric advice may not always be 100 percent accurate or useful, I think it will be true and helpful for you in the coming weeks. Have maximum fun making sacred mistakes, Taurus! Learn all you can from them. Use them to improve your life.
(May 21-June 20): The professional fun advisors here at Free Will Astrology International Headquarters have concluded that your Party Hardy Potential Rating for the coming weeks is 9.8 (out of 10). In fact, this may be the Party Hardy Phase of the Year for you. You could gather the benefits of maximum revelry and conviviality with minimal side effects. Here’s a meditation to get you in the right mood: Imagine mixing business and pleasure with such panache that they blend into a gleeful, fruitful synergy.
even more openings and invitations will be available. You will be offered the chance to earn what could in effect be a master’s degree in relationships. It’ll be challenging work, but rewarding and interesting. Do as best as you can. Don’t demand perfection from yourself or anyone else.
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Now is not a favorable phase to gamble on unknown entities. Nor should you allow seemingly well-meaning people to transgress your boundaries. Another Big No: Don’t heed the advice of fear-mongers or nagging scolds, whether they’re inside or outside your head. On the other hand, dear Scorpio, the coming weeks will be an excellent time for the following actions. (1) Phase out attachments to alliances and love interests that have exhausted their possibilities. (2) Seek the necessary resources to transform or outgrow a frustrating fact about your life. (3) Name truths that other people seem intent on ignoring and avoiding. (4) Conjure simple, small, slow, practical magic to make simple, small, slow, practical progress.
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Falling in love is fun! It’s also exciting, enriching, inspiring, transformative, world-shaking, and educational. Wouldn’t it be fabulous if we could keep falling in love anew three or four times a year for as long as we live? We might always be our best selves, showing our most creative and generous sides, continually expanding our power to express our soulful intelligence. Alas, it’s not practical or realistic to always be falling in love with another new person. Here’s a possible alternative: What if we enlarged our understanding of what we could fall in love with? Maybe we would become perpetually infatuated with brilliant teachings, magical places, high adventures, and great art and music. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to cultivate this skill.
(June 21-July 22): Cancerian author and psychotherapist Virginia Satir (1916–1988) was renowned as the “Mother of Family Therapy.” Her research led her to conclude, “We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.” That 12-hug recommendation seems daunting to achieve, but I hope you will strive for it in the coming weeks. You are in a phase when maximum growth is possible and pushing to the frontiers of hugging will help you activate the full potential. (PS: Don’t force anyone to hug you. Make sure it’s consensual.)
LEO
(July 23-Aug. 22): Have you been genuinely amazed anytime recently? Have you done something truly amazing? If not, it’s time to play catch-up. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you need and deserve exciting adventures that boggle your soul in all the best ways. You should be wandering out on the frontiers and tracking down provocative mysteries. You could grow even smarter than you already are if you expose yourself to challenges that will amaze you and inspire you to be amazing.
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I invite you to perform a magic spell that will help prepare you for the rich, slippery soul work you have ahead of you. I’ll offer a suggestion, but feel free to compose your own ritual. First, go outside where it’s raining or misting, or find a waterfall. Stand with your legs apart and arms spread out as you turn your face up toward the falling moisture. As you drink it in, tell yourself you will be extra fluid and flowing in the coming weeks. Promise yourself you will stimulate and treasure succulent feelings. You will cultivate the sensation that everything you need is streaming in your direction.
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You are gliding into the climax of your reeducation about togetherness, intimacy, and collaboration. The lessons you’ve been learning have deepened your reservoir of wisdom about the nature of love. And in the coming weeks, even further teachings will arrive;
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’m perplexed by spiritual teachers who fanatically preach the doctrine that we should BE HERE, NOW as much as possible. Living with full enjoyment in the present moment is a valuable practice, but dismissing or demeaning the past is shortsighted. Our lives are forged from our histories. We should revere the stories we are made of, visit them regularly, and keep learning from them. Keep this in mind, Capricorn. It’s an excellent time to heal your memories and to be healed by them. Cultivate deep gratitude for your past as you give the old days all your love. Enjoy this quote from novelist Gregory Maguire: “Memory is part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our heart pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work, too: it keeps us who we are.”
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Controversial author William S. Burroughs was a rough, tough troublemaker. But he had some wisdom that will soon be extra useful for you. He said that love is the best natural painkiller available. I bring this to your attention not because I believe you will experience more pain than the rest of us in the coming months. Rather, I am predicting you will have extra power to alleviate your pain especially when you raise your capacity to give and receive love.
(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): The planet Saturn entered Pisces in March 2023 and won’t depart for good until February 2026. Is that a bad thing or good thing for you Pisceans? Some astrologers might say you are in a challenging time when you must make cutbacks and take on increased responsibility. I have a different perspective. I believe this is a phase when you can get closer than ever before to knowing exactly what you want and how to accomplish what you want. In my view, you are being called to shed secondary wishes that distract you from your life’s central goals. I see this period as a homecoming your invitation to glide into robust alignment with your soul’s code.
CAMPUS DINING
and issues refunds when appropriate; completes BARC postings as needed; completes all deposits; provides a variety of administrative tasks for the smooth operation of services. Reqs: High school diploma or equivalent experience. Experience in relevant administrative work. Experience with Microsoft and Google Suite applications. Notes: Must successfully complete and pass the background check before employment and date of hire. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Hiring/ Budgeted Hourly Range: $23.60/hr. ‑ $25.70/hr. Full Salary Range: $23.60/ hr. ‑ $33.45/hr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 65150
Responsible for the organization and placing of general food, meat, poultry and fish orders, menu organization and distribution. Shares responsibility to maintain quality food production, product freshness, sanitation, safety, equipment maintenance, customer service, and supervising production staff. Maintains vendor relations as well as receiving, distribution and storage of supplies. Assists in the planning and organization for production of numerous catering and special events and also conducts independent research for a variety of projects.Has responsibility for the morning custodial staff. Directs work and assigns job duties as required. Coordinates custodial duties with pm custodial staff. Supervises 2 staff members and, and supervises the facility in the absence of other managers.Serves as a key member of the Residential Dining Services Management team. Reqs: High School Diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience. 1‑3 years of culinary experience in a high‑volume cooking environment/kitchen or equivalent combination of education and experience. Notes: Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and work standing for up to 8 hours per day. Work hours/ days may vary. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/ Budgeted Hourly Range: $22.89/hr ‑ $30.46/hr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/
PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination.
Application review begins 3/28/2024
Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 66249
DEVELOPMENT
The Associate Director of Development, University Library (ADD) will personally work with volunteers and donor prospects to optimize philanthropy to benefit UC Santa Barbara. The Associate Director primarily focuses on annual giving from individuals (alumni and friends) as well as foundations and corporations. The ADD conducts the annual giving program for the UC Santa Barbara Library, and provides support for other Library outreach and volunteer efforts. The ADD focuses on the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of mostly individual prospects. The ADD must foster collaboration and strategy with colleagues across the Development Office, campus administrators and key volunteers, in order to maximize philanthropic support to UC Santa Barbara. The ADD works to ensure that all aspects of his/ her development work is internally consistent, thematically related, and thoroughly coordinated within the Regional Development Program and compatible with the policies and priorities of the Development Office and University. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training; 1‑3 yrs experience with social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest; 1‑3 yrs experience with
donor relations; demonstrated skill at building relationships and working with donors toward significant philanthropic outcomes; high level of creativity, energy, and ambition to lead programs and manage projects; excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal; ambition and motivation that values a collaborative working environment and who will be able to establish strong, interpersonal relationships with academic leaders, trustees, community leaders, donors and volunteers and other staff; strong organizational and time management skills and meticulous attention to detail, the ability to set, negotiate, and meet priorities and produce high‑quality work under multiple deadlines and priorities. Notes: This is an annually renewable contract position with no limit on total duration; flexibility and willingness to travel frequently and the ability to work comfortably with a flexible work schedule including some evenings and weekends; satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Range: $82,300 ‑ $85,000/yr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination Application review begins 3/27/2024. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 66182
TITLE IX AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT
POLICY COMPLIANCE
Using independent judgment and maintaining an experienced level of professionalism knowledge and confidentiality, the Case Resolution Officer implements and maintains the University’s policies and procedures that pertain to the Title IX office by independently evaluating and simultaneously responding appropriately to multifaceted claims, which entail considerable risk in the event of audit and/or litigation, and the immediate needs of complainant(s), witness(es), reporting party or parties and respondent(s) for supplemental assistance with regard to interim protections and accommodations, if appropriate, and personal and/or emotional support resources. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience and/or training. Experience interacting with constituents that are diverse in characteristics such as age, education level, race, gender identity & expression, ability, & socioeconomic backgrounds, in a culturally‑competent manner. Two years of related experience, or equivalent experience and training. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse. Mandated reporting requirements of Dependent Adult Abuse. UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. Satisfactory conviction history background check The full salary range is $82,300 to $151,700/ yr. The budgeted salary is $82,300 to $92,000/yr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion,
The Independent is seeking a general assignment reporter to join the editorial team. In addition to reporting and writing, the job involves collaboration with editors on assignments, cultivating sources, and a general interest in government and civic issues. Knowledge of Santa Barbara County is preferred. This is a full-time position that requires attention to detail, ability to perform under pressure of deadlines, and strong time management skills. Though specific experience in reporting on Santa Barbara is preferred, this is an entry-level position and dedicated workers with strong writing skills may apply. Starting Hourly Rate: $18-$21
Full-time positions include health, dental, and vision insurance; Section 125 cafeteria plan; 401(k); and vacation program.
Please introduce yourself, outline your reasons for interest, and include a brief summary of your qualifications, along with your résumé and clips, to hr@independent.com. No phone calls, please.
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sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination Application review begins 3/28/24. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 66168
UCSB, STUDENT HEALTH
Assist in the overall operation of the clinical laboratory of the Student Health Service by performing the duties of testing personnel (as specified by CLIA 88) in the specialties of hematology, urinalysis, clinical microscopy, diagnostic immunology, chemistry, microbiology, and virology/molecular diagnostics. Other duties include specimen processing, phlebotomy, data entry and instrument preventative maintenance and troubleshooting. Must possess a high degree of accuracy and precision. Must be capable of working independently while maintaining compliance with existing laws, regulations and policies. Must have the ability to communicate effectively with clinicians, patients, health service staff and visitors. Is capable of fast, accurate laboratory work while doing multiple procedures. Training and experience must comply with Federal CLIA 88 requirements for personnel of high complexity testing. Is familiar with common laboratory analyzers, equipment and Laboratory Information Systems. Maintains the
equipment and the entire work area in a clean, presentable fashion to preclude injury to self and others. Adheres to safety and infection control policies and procedures. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree. Graduation from college with Bachelor of Science degree in major of appropriate scientific field. Current California Clinical Laboratory Scientists license at all times during employment. 3 – 5 years of training and experience sufficient to comply with Federal CLI 88 requirements for personnel of high complexity testing. Familiar with all laboratory equipment, including Hematology, Microbiology, Urinalysis, Molecular and Chemistry analyzers and other standard laboratory equipment. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse. Must successfully complete and pass the background check and credentialing process before employment and date of hire. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Budgeted
Hourly Range: $39.32 ‑ $49.88/hr.
Full Salary Range: $39.32‑ $57.33/ hr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy,
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please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 58194
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
SERVICES Join an exciting team in this high impact role helping us provide business intelligence at UCSB, a world class university. If you are a technical leader with a high degree of knowledge in the data services and data warehousing, we encourage you to join our team. In this role, you will manage data services programs that include formulating strategies and administering policies, processes, security and resources to ensure safe data use and to transform legacy UCSB data systems to effective data analytics systems. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. Experience designing, developing, documenting, and testing database solutions using SQL Server technologies. Experience designing and developing data pipeline solutions with Python and SSIS using continuous development and continuous integration best practices. Expert knowledge and experience implementing data warehousing principles and design concepts. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check The full salary range for this position is $101,100 to $192,300/ yr. The budgeted salary range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $114,780 to $146,700/yr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 65243
PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 65858
DIRECTOR SOUTH HALL ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT CENTER
Under the general direction of the lead chair of the South Hall Administrative Support Center (SASC), with additional guidance provided by the other department chairs/directors of the units in SASC, is responsible for full range of management functions of the separate departments (English, English for Multilingual Students Program, Linguistics, Philosophy, Writing Program). Management responsibilities encompass academic administration, academic support services, departmental computer technical support services, contract, grant, and gift/donation administration, purchasing and financial management, payroll, staff and academic personnel, space management, and safety programs. Develops and implements operating policies and procedures as they relate to overall departmental goals and objectives, interprets policy for department chairs/directors and departmental committee members, serves as liaison to other campus academic and administrative units. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/ training. Demonstrated supervisory and leadership experience. Experience with financial management, analysis, budgeting and reporting for various funds related to instruction, programming, operations, gifts, endowments, and grants. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check.The full salary range n is $101,100 to $192,300/yr. The budgeted salary range is $101,100 to $115,000/yr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 65319
UCSB LIBRARY
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demonstrated ability to organize and manage a restaurant service and variety of events while maintaining a high standard of excellence. 1‑3 years proven ability to train, schedule and supervise student staff. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check Valid driver’s license and clean driving record. ServSafe certification, or equivalent certification within 90 days of hire. Work days and hours will vary, evenings and weekends included. Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs and stand for up to 8 hours a day. Hiring/ Budgeted Hourly Range: $47,800 ‑ $54,866/yr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/
Researches, analyzes, develops, and implements HR policies and procedures. Provides assistance with employee training and development.
Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training.
1‑3 years administrative experience.
Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check The full hourly range is $28.83 ‑ $47.23/hr. The budgeted hourly range s $28.33 ‑ $32.62/hr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination.
Application review begins 3/29/24. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 66304
UCSB, STUDENT HEALTH
Come join UCSB Student Health’s dynamic team! Our MAs prepare patients for their visit by checking vital signs, assisting with procedures, completing insurance referrals, scheduling patients, answering patient questions, and ensuring the clinic is properly stocked. We provide a comprehensive orientation to clinic routines and the electronic medical record. You will work hand‑in‑hand with Physicians, PAs, NPs, RNs, & LVNs in caring for the student population at UCSB. Reqs: High School diploma or equivalent. Licenses/Certifications: Certification with one of the following agencies: American Association of Medical Assistants, American Medical Technologists, California Certifying Board of Medical Assistants, Local Emergency Medical Services Agency, Emergency Medical Services Authority, Certified Nursing Assistant.
Note: Applicants without a proper certification will not be considered.
Notes: Student Health requires all clinical staff to successfully pass the background check and complete the credentialing process before the employment date. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Scheduling will be reviewed annually and set for the upcoming fiscal year. Weekly schedule may include Thursday evening hours if need arises. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Budgeted Pay
Rate/Range: $24.69/hr. ‑ $29.50/hr.
Provides HR administration and payroll and timekeeping management for the Library. Provides administrative and analytical services to library departments, requiring initiative, diplomacy, independent judgment, attention to detail, and timely response to clientele. Responsible for staff employment activities. Coordinates recruitment, screening, and placement processes for a large volume of employees including writing and updating job descriptions, classifying/reclassifying positions, and determining appropriate compensation. Responsible for new employee orientation, onboarding, employee engagement initiatives, and UC policy interpretation. Works with several campus entities to stay abreast on policies, procedures, and practices, and disseminates pertinent information to appropriate parties. Serves as the Library’s Kronos timekeeping expert. In accordance with campus policies and procedures, manages payroll processing for Library employees. Monitors/reconciles general assistance allocations and expenditures, and prepares budget reports. Develops strategies for minimum wage implementation.
a holistic and specialized response for students experiencing a mental health crisis. The co‑response crisis team is designed to implement a vision for campus safety response that is led by trained mental health professionals to transform safety response in a way that advances a culture of trust, respect, and dignity for our diverse campus community.
As a member of this team, you will provide multiculturally informed screening/evaluation, wellness checks, de‑escalation, follow up, care coordination and outreach based on the severity and complexity of need.
The Mobile Crisis Clinician reports to the Director of Social Work in UCSB Student Health. Mobile Crisis Clinicians who are associates (ASW or AMFT) will perform their duties under the formal clinical supervision of the Social Work Director following the guidelines established by the California BBS. Mobile Crisis Clinicians who are licensed (LCSW or LMFT)will perform their duties independently under their full licensure. Reqs: Master’s Degree in Social Work or in Marriage and Family Therapy from an accredited program. CSW
2: California Associate Clinical Social Worker or Associate Marriage and Family Therapist registration. CSW
Full Title Code Pay Range: $24.69/ hr. ‑ $30.68/hr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 57062
STUDENT HEALTH
The UCSB Community Safety Response Team (CSRT) is a collaborative effort between Student Health Services (SHS), CAPS, and UCPD to provide
3: California Licensed Clinical Social Worker license or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Certified in CPR for healthcare professionals or able to obtain certification within 90 days of hire. CSW 3: 3 years of post‑Masters experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse Mandated reporting requirement of Dependent Adult Abuse. Student Health requires all clinical staff successfully pass the fingerprint background check and credentialing process before the start date. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Shift: Days/Evenings/Swing Shift/ Weekends. Days: Wed.‑Sun. or Sun.‑Wed. Hours: 10‑hour shifts, generally 2:00pm‑12:00am. Must be able to work a variable schedule and to work on‑call. Must be willing to become certified for 5150/involuntary hospitalization. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Hiring/Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: CSW 2: $82,885.28/yr. ‑ $87,919.84/yr./ CSW 3: $85,049.44/yr.‑ $88,523.21/ yr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination
Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 66073
HUMANITIES ADMINISTRATIVE
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Job # 66151
PROFESSIONAL & CONTINUING EDUCATION
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policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 66020
DOST (DEAN OF STUDENTS)
Under the direction of the Financial & Operations Manager, assists in processing financial activities and accounting systems for departments and units in the division of Student Affairs and Student Life cluster. Prepares paperwork for financial transactions, reviews expenditures, processes departmental travel, entertainment, and procurement expenses, initiates payments to vendors and outside agencies, ensures that correct financial information and documentation accompanies transactions. Independently troubleshoots payment inquiries from vendors and departments and researches and resolves discrepancies in the general ledger. Provides accountant support to the Registered Campus Organizations (RCOs) trustee accounts under the general direction of Student Engagement & Leadership (SEAL). Maintains accounts, records and assists with transactions, and communicates with university departments on RCO officer’s behalf.
Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/ training; 1‑3 yrs knowledge of and experience with accounting principles; 1‑3 yrs experience using applications such as Word and Excel; ability to think analytically; ability to interface professionally with a broad range of staff, students, and others; effectively able to independently gather required information to organize, and perform financial analysis; excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work independently, and with critical attention to detail; ability to effectively present information verbally and in writing in a clear and concise manner; creative problem‑solving abilities; ability to exercise good judgment, common sense, and discretion; ability to work effectively and cooperatively as a team; working knowledge of financial processes, policies and procedures; strong knowledge of financial data management and reporting systems. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse; UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act; satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $27.16 to $30.00/hr. Full Hourly Range: $27.16 to $46.70/hr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination Application review begins 3/27/2024. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 66175
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
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FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
Incumbent may work independently, or as part of a team or as an assistant to a skilled trades person, performing a variety of semi‑skilled and unskilled tasks in the maintenance, alteration and repair of buildings and related facilities and equipment. Maintain and repair campus light fixtures, replaces lamps, ballasts, sockets and other components in fluorescent, incandescent, quartz, high pressure sodium and other types of fixtures. Works off of ladders, scaffolding and hydraulic lifts. Assists electricians in trouble shooting of basic lighting circuits and with pulling of wire, and other basic electrical installation duties. Delivers, loads and unloads materials and cleans storage areas, shop areas, electrical and mechanical rooms and trucks. Responsible for other related duties as assigned. Reqs: High School Diploma or equivalent. Four years of experience in the performance of semi‑skilled building maintenance duties, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employer Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted
Hourly Range: $26.37/hr.‑ $27.44/hr.
Full Hourly Range: $23.41‑$30.89/ hr.UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy. ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 65848
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ADMINISTER OF ESTATE
NOTICE OF PETITION
TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF:
CONSTANTINO
ZACHARIAS FRANGOS
AKA CONSTANTINO
ZACK FRANGOS AKA
CONSTANTINO Z.
FRANGOS
CASE NO. 24PR00123
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of
CONSTANTINO ZACHARIAS
FRANGOS AKA
CONSTANTINO ZACK
FRANGOS AKA
CONSTANTINO Z. FRANGOS.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ZACHARIAS N. TRIPODES in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA BARBARA.
THE PETITION FOR
PROBATE requests that ZACHARIAS N. TRIPODES be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent's WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act.
(This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 05/02/24 at 9:00AM in Dept. SB 5 located at 1100
ANACAPA STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93121
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner
DANIEL J. SULLIVAN ‑ SBN
308218, LAGERLOF, LLP
155 N. LAKE AVENUE, FLOOR 11
PASADENA CA 91101
Telephone (626) 683‑7234
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SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
MARIANNE PRESCOTT THOMAS
AKA MARIANNE P. THOMAS CASE NO.: 24PR00093
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of
MARIANNE PRESCOTT THOMAS
AKA MARIANNE P. THOMAS
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: PATRICIA POPP in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara
THE PETITION for probate requests that: PATRICIA POPP be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent Administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:
04/18/2024 AT 9:00 A.M. IN DEPT: 5 of the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF , ANACAPA
DIVISION, 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrell E. Parker, Executive Officer Date: 2/22/2024
By: Monica Buenrostro, Deputy Clerk Attorney for Petitioner: Patricia Popp 4642 Puente Plaza, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, United States 93110; (805) 729‑3045
Published. Mar 7, 14, 21 2024.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO
ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ALMA R.
GRAY CASE NO.: 24PR00070
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of ALMA R. GRAY, ALMA REESE GRAY, ALMA
GRAY A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: MARTHA GRAY and
MARK GRAY in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara
THE PETITION for probate requests that: MARTHA GRAY and MARK GRAY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without
obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent Administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:
03/28/2024 AT 9:00 A.M. IN DEPT: 5 of the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF , ANACAPA DIVISION, 1100 Anacapa Street Santa
General Plan and Title 17 (Zoning)
Barbara, CA 93121‑1107. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the
date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the
ESTATE OF:
DEE BARKER CASE NO.: 24PR00122 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of
DELORES DEE BARKER
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: MARK WATSON in the Superior Court of California, County
NOTICE OF CITY COUNCIL
PUBLIC HEARING
Hybrid Public Meeting – Held in Person and via Zoom April 2, 2024 at 5:30 P.M.
to Implement Housing Element 2023-2031 Programs and Other Amendments to Title 17 (Case Nos. 21-0002-GPA and 23-0007-ORD)
ATTENTION: The meeting will be held in person and via the Zoom platform. The public may also view the meeting on Goleta Channel 19 and/or online at www.cityofgoleta.org/meetings-agendas.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Goleta City Council will conduct a public hearing to consider adopting amendments to the General Plan / Coastal Land Use Plan (General Plan) and Title 17 (Zoning) of the Goleta Municipal Code related to various topic areas. The date, time, and location of the City Council public hearing are set forth below. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City website (www. cityofgoleta.org).
HEARING DATE/TIME: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 5:30 P.M.
PLACE: Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, CA, 93117 and Teleconference Meeting; this meeting will be held in person and via Zoom (with detailed instructions for participation included on the posted agenda).
PROJECT LOCATION: The amended regulations would apply citywide, including all areas of the City within the Coastal Zone.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The proposed amendments to the Land Use Element of the General Plan and Title 17 address State law consistency, implement the Housing Element 2023-2031, remedy issues identified during Title 17 implementation, and provide clarity to existing regulations. The topics for these amendments include:
• Housing Element 2023-2031 Implementation related to the Approval Needed for Mixed-Use Housing, Height Standards, Lot Coverage Standards, Shared Parking Approvals, Inclusionary Housing Procedures, and Emergency Shelters.
• State law consistency related to Density Bonus, Electrical Vehicle (EV) Charging Stations, and Accessory Dwelling Units.
• Minor Revisions related to Planned Residential (RP) Zone District Street Side Setbacks, Allowances for Boarding Kennels, Sign Materials, Sign Area Allowances, Development Thresholds for Minor Changes to Zoning Permits, Permit Exemptions for Certain Interior Floor Area Expansions, and Expiration and Time Extensions for Substantial Conformity Determinations and Amendments.
• Other Clarifying Revisions.
PREVIOUS HEARING: The City’s Planning Commission considered the proposed amendments at a recommendation hearing on February 26, 2024.
Environmental Review: The amendments are not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (California Public Resources Code Sections 21000 et seq.) pursuant to Section 15060(c)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines (Title 14, Chapter 3 of the California Code of Regulations) because the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378(a) but is an organizational or administrative activity by government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5). The amendments are also exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines because the activity is covered by the general rule which exempts activities that can be seen with certainty to have no possibility for causing a significant effect on the environment.
Furthermore, pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21083.3 and CEQA Guidelines Section 15183, projects that are consistent with the development density of existing zoning, community plan, or General Plan policies for which an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was certified shall be exempt from additional CEQA analysis, except as may be necessary to determine whether there are project-specific significant effects that are peculiar to the project or site that would otherwise require additional CEQA review. There is no new substantial information indicating that the impacts of adopting the amendments will be more severe than described in the General Plan EIR and there are no cumulative or off-site impacts from the proposed amendments that were not addressed in the General Plan EIR.
Finally, on December 5, 2023, the City Council adopted Resolution 23-63, adopting an Addendum to the Goleta General Plan EIR (State Clearinghouse No. 2005031151), which was certified in October 2006 by the City Council. The Addendum analyzed the environmental impacts of the actions taken related to Housing Element 2023-2031 implementation. The resolution to adopt the Addendum satisfied the City Council’s obligations under CEQA with respect to adopting the amended Housing Element 2023-2031 and amending the General Plan and Title 17 of the Goleta Municipal Code as detailed in the Housing Element 2023-2031 and none of the conditions in Public Resources Code section 21166 or State CEQA Guidelines section 15162 apply. Thus, no further environmental review is required for the amendments to implement the Housing Element 2023-2031 as adoption of those amendments falls within the scope of the adopted Addendum and previously certified EIR.
PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested persons are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hearing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the City Council meeting agenda. All letters/comments should be sent to cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Letters must be received on or before the date of the hearing or can be submitted at the hearing prior to the conclusion of the public comment portion of the Public Hearing.
FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Andy Newkirk, Supervising Senior Planner, at (805) 961-7544 or anewkirk@cityofgoleta.org. For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmartinez@cityofgoleta.org Staff reports and documents will be posted approximately 72 hours before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org
SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION. If you require interpretation services for the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s office at (805) 961-7505 or via email to cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org at least 48 hours prior to the hearing. Please specify the language for which you require interpretation. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting helps to ensure that reasonable arrangements can be made to provide accessibility to the hearing.
Note: If you challenge the nature of the above action in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City at or before the public hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b)(2)).
Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.
Publish Date: Santa Barbara Independent, March 21, 2024
of Santa Barbara
THE PETITION for probate requests that: MARK WATSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent Administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:
4/25/2024 AT 9:00 A.M. IN DEPT:
5 of the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, ANACAPA DIVISION, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.Darrel E. Parker, Executive
Officer Date: 03/06/2024 By:
Nicolette Barnard, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Jeffrey B. Soderborg, 1900 State Street, Suite M, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 687‑6660.
Published: Mar 14, 21, 28 2024.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JAMES
ALLEN CARR CASE NO.: 24PR0018
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of JAMES
ALLEN CARR (aka JAMES A. CARR and JAMES CARR)
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: BARBARA JO THURMAN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara
THE PETITION for probate requests that: BARBARA JO THURMAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before
The Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara (HASBARCO) will receive sealed proposals for Fabrication and Delivery of Steel Security Screen Doors for Evans Park located at 200 West Williams, Santa Maria, CA, until 2:00 p.m. on April 2, 2024, at 815 West Ocean Avenue, Lompoc, CA, or emailed to shereeaulman@ hasbarco.org. Proposals will be held in confidence and not released in any manner until after contract award.
Proposed forms of contract documents, including specifications, are available on the HASBARCO website www.hasbarco.org.
Please contact Sheree Aulman, Construction Contract Coordinator, at shereeaulman@hasbarco.org if you have any questions.
County of Santa Barbara Public Hearing on Proposed 2019, 2020, and 2021 Substantial Action Plan Amendments
The County of Santa Barbara Division of Housing and Community Development (HCD) invites public comments on Substantial Action Plan Amendments to the FY 2019, 2020, and 2021 Action Plans. The Amendments relate to funds allocated from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to the Santa Barbara HOME Consortium which includes the County and the cities of Buellton, Carpinteria, Lompoc, Solvang, and Santa Maria. In accordance with the Santa Barbara County 2020 Citizen Participation Plan, notice is hereby given for the recommended Action Plan Amendments.
The purpose of these Substantial Amendments is to revise the 2019, 2020, and 2021 Action Plans to include a total of $2,000,000 in FY 2019, 2020, and 2021 County HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) funding for the construction of a 50-unit senior affordable housing complex including two residential buildings, a lobby, a rental office and conference space, a community room, and two community gardens. The project location is an undeveloped parcel located on the east side of Valley Vineyard Circle between Bainbridge Court and Village Park in the city of Buellton. The Amendments being considered meet the County’s 2020-2024 Consolidated Plan priorities.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires jurisdictions to publish Amendments to a previously-submitted Annual Action Plan and provide a 30-day public comment period. The comment period for these Action Plan Amendments will run from March 22, 2024 through the end of the Board of Supervisors’ public hearing for this project, scheduled for April 23, 2024. The public may provide comments relating to the project as follows: Written comments may be mailed or delivered to the Division of Housing and Community Development, 123 E. Anapamu St., Suite 202, Santa Barbara, CA, attention Carlos Jimenez, or sent via facsimile at (805) 560-1091, or e-mailed to HCD@countyofsb.org by 5:00 p.m. on April 22, 2024.
An Administrative Public Hearing will be held via Zoom on April 19, 2024 from 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87393187339?pwd=bDRm
TEFWSGJhUlNIYWhZanVnOHRsQT09. Participants may also join by phone at 1 (669) 900-6833, Meeting ID: 873 9318 7339, Passcode: 303351.
The Board of Supervisors will consider the Action Plan Amendments for approval at its April 23, 2024 hearing at 9:00 a.m. at 511 East Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria, CA, at which the public may address the Board directly. To present comments at the hearing, follow the directions posted at https://www.countyofsb.org/ceo/ cob.sbc
The Substantial Amendments are posted on the HCD website at https://www. countyofsb.org/494/Housing-Community-Development. If you need additional information, have questions, or require special accommodations, such as a language interpreter or hearing devices, call (805) 568-3520.
taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent Administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:
3/14/2024 AT 9:00 A.M. IN DEPT:
5 of the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, ANACAPA DIVISION, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either
(1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer Date: 03/04/2024
By: Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer. Attorney for Petitioner: Brett W. Piersma of, Mullen & Henzell, L.L.P. 112 E. Victoria Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 966‑1501.
Published: Mar 14, 21, 28 2024.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO
ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JEANNE
PATE Case No.: 24PR00129
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: JENIFER PANKEY in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara
THE PETITION for probate requests that: JENIFER PANKEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 04/24/2024 AT 8:30 a.m. Dept: SM1
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 312 East Cook Street, Building E, Santa maria, CA 93454; PROBATE
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by
the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.
Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer
Date: 3/8/2024 By: Michael Rosales Deputy Attorney for Petitioner:Jenifer Pankey 5030 West 14th Street Greeley, CO 80634; (970) 301‑6697. Published Mar 14, 21, 28 2024.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LYNN
ELIZABETH ANDREWS Case No.: 24PR00101
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of LYNN
ELIZABETH ANDREWS
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: CHRISTINE NEIL SAUNDERS in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara
THE PETITION for probate requests that: CHRISTINE NEIL SAUNDERS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 04/18/2024 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept:FIVE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Anacapa Division.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer Date: 2/29/2024 By: Monica Buenrostro, Deputy Attorney for Petitioner: Marilyn D. Anticouni State Bar No. 096697;1234 Santa Barbara Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101;
(805) 882‑9255.
Published Mar 7, 14, 21, 28 2024.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO
ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SALLY LEWIS CASE NO.: 23PR00356
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of SALLY
LEWIS
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: SUSANNAH LEWIS‑O’DEA in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara
THE PETITION for probate requests that: SUSANNAH LEWIS‑O’DEA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent Administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 4/25/2024 AT 9:00 A.M. IN DEPT:
5 of the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, ANACAPA DIVISION, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer Date: 03/04/2024
By: Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer. Attorney for Petitioner: Jana S. Johnston and Lisa F. Petak, Mullen & Henzell, L.L.P. 112 E. Victoria Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 966‑1501.
Published: Mar 14, 21, 28 2024.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO
ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BOBBIE D. PALSGAARD NO: 24PR00116
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of BOBBIE
D. PALSGAARD, BOBBIE DEAN
PALSGAARD A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: MARNA D. PALSAARD in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara
THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): MARNA D. PALSGAARD be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the
decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 04/24/2024 AT 8:30 a.m. Dept: SM1
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 312 East Cook Street, Bldg. E Santa Maria, CA 93454. Cook Division.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Jill Monthei, 228 West Carrillo Street, Suite D Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 284‑0711.
Published Mar 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO
ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DARLENE
M. THOMPSON Case No.: 24PR00102
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of DARLENE M. THOMPSON
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: JANA KRILING in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara
THE PETITION for probate requests that: JANA KRILING be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:
04/18/2024 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB5
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY
the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer Date: 2/28/2024 By: Nicolette Barnard Deputy Attorney for Petitioner:Jana Kriling 4975 Yaple Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; (805) 451‑8739. Published Mar 14, 21, 28 2024.
FBN ABANDONMENT
STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KAHUMAS
SOUND AND ENERGY HEALING at 1727 State St, Suite #8 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Hector Vejar (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: HECTOR
VEJAR/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 20, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E57. FBN Number: 2024‑0000430
Published: Feb 29. Mar 7, 14, 21 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TUBULAR GEORGE at 3588 La Entrada Santa Barbara, CA 93105; GKM Home Services Inc.(same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: KATRINA
MURDOCH/SECRETARY with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 18, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E49. FBN Number: 2024‑0000131. Published: Feb 29. Mar 7, 14, 21 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: THRIVE COACHING AND EXECUTIVE TRAINING, THRIVE WITH LIZZIE at 210 W. Los Olivos Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Thrive Coaching And Executive Training (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Filed by:
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ/OFFICER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 8, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E61. FBN Number: 2024‑0000339. Published: Feb 29. Mar 7, 14, 21 2024.
follows: Gail L Lobdell 1201 Diana Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103 The business was conducted by an Trust. SIGNED BY: GAIL L LOBDELL/ TRUSTEE Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 03/06/24, FBN 2024‑0000565, E47. I
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as:
LIFESTYLEDESIGN, LIFESTYLE
DESIGN at 216 E. Cota St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Global Lifestyle Design, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: LINDA
TAPPEINER/CFO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 20, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E57. FBN Number: 2024‑0000429
FICTITIOUS
Published: Feb 29. Mar 7, 14, 21 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: THE BARBER CHAIR at 3835 State St, Building C‑154, Suite 123 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Francisco J Garcia Jr. 124 Salisbury Ave Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: FRANCISCO
JAVIER GARCIA JR/PROFESSIONAL
BARBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 8, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E63. FBN
File No. FBN2024‑0000349
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:
Marino, 1450 Front Street, San Diego, CA 92101 County of SAN DIEGO
Hughes Project Management, LLC, 1450 Front Street, San Diego, CA 92101
This business is conducted by a limited liability company
The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A.
Hughes Project Management, LLC S/ Jennifer Shay Hughes, Manager This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 02/09/2024.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 2/29, 3/7, 3/14, 3/21/24
CNS‑3784147#
County on 02/12/2024.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
2/29, 3/7, 3/14, 3/21/24
CNS‑3786099#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2024‑0000406
The following person(s) is doing business as:
SHORELINE MARKETING 101
OCEANO AVE, APT. 19 SANTA BARBARA, CA 93109, County of SANTA BARBARA. STEVEN NUNES, 101 OCEANO AVE., APT. 19 SANTA BARBARA, CA 93109
This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on NOT APPLICABLE
/s/ STEVEN NUNES, OWNER
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara
County on 02/14/2024.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
2/29, 3/7, 3/14, 3/21/24
CNS‑3783748#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as:
MOVEGREEN‑SANTA BARBARA
MOVERS at 1811 State St, Suite 2 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Movegreen (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: ERIK HANEY/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 26, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000474
Published: Feb 29. Mar 7, 14, 21 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as:
MOVEGREEN‑SANTA CLARITA
MOVERS at 25531 Springbook Ave. Santa Clarita, CA 91350; Movegreen 1811 State St Suite 2 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: ERIK HANEY/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 26, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000476
Published: Feb 29. Mar 7, 14, 21 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as:
MOVEGREEN‑LOS ANGELES
MOVERS at 13110 S. Figueroa Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90061; Movegreen INC. 1811 State St. Suite 2 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: ERIK HANEY/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 26, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000475
Published: Feb 29. Mar 7, 14, 21 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CALLAHAN
Number: 2024‑0000329. Published: Feb 29. Mar 7, 14, 21 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2024‑0000366
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Bookkeeping Angels, 350 S Hope Ave., Ste. 101A Santa Barbara, CA 93105, County of SANTA BARBARA. Catherine G. Abarca, 350 S Hope Ave., Ste. 101A Santa Barbara, CA 93105
This business is conducted by An Individual.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/01/2024
/s/ Catherine G. Abarca, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara
Barbara County on Feb 20, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000435. Published: Feb 29. Mar 7, 14, 21 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: WAX
THERAPY at 3835 State St (C154), Suite 121 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Adrinna R Replogle 5290 Overpass Rd Unit 21 Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: ADRIANNA
REPLOGLE with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 9, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E61. FBN
Number: 2024‑0000352. Published: Mar 7, 14, 21, 28 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RIVIERA
MUSHROOMS at 815 Portesuello Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kyle A Eckert (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by:
KYLE A ECKERT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 27, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000502
Published: Mar 7, 14, 21, 28 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: SB
LANDSCAPE & SOLUTIONS at 1017 East Cota St. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Ambrose P. Harris (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: AMBROSE P HARRIS/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 28, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN Number: 2024‑0000507
Published: Mar 7, 14, 21, 28 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DARIN JON
STUDIO GOLETA at 5776 Calle Real Goleta, CA 93117; Darin Jon Studio Goleta (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: CYNTHIA YEE/SECRETARY with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 20, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000439 Published: Mar 7, 14, 21, 28 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NEVERFLAME at 4554 Via Clarice Santa Barbara, CA
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY (SOCALGAS) NOTICE OF REQUEST TO INCREASE RATES FOR THE HYDROGEN BLENDING DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
APPLICATION NO. A.22-09-006
WHY AM I RECEIVING THIS NOTICE?
On March 1, 2024, Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E), Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), and Southwest Gas Corporation (Southwest Gas) filed a Joint Amended Application (A.22-09-006) to Establish Hydrogen Blending Demonstration Projects (Amended Application) with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). As part of the Amended Application, SoCalGas is requesting a total of $80.4 million in forecasted revenue requirement: $55.3 million in 2025, $19.4 million in 2026, $2.5 million in 2027, and $3.3 million in 2028.
If the CPUC approves this application, SoCalGas will recover forecasted costs in gas rates over a 5-year period beginning after approval of the application. This will impact your monthly bill.
At the direction of the CPUC, SoCalGas is requesting authorization to establish hydrogen blending demonstration projects. These projects will provide information on a safe hydrogen standard to support the potential and phased integration of hydrogen into the existing natural gas system. The Amended Application covers costs associated with planning and implementing the blending projects.
If SoCalGas’s rate request is approved by the CPUC, the average Non-CARE residential monthly bill using 36 therms per month would increase by approximately $0.20 or 0.3% per month in 2025. The proposed average rates shown below are for 2024, the highest revenue requirement year.
BRANDS at 712 San Pascual Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; William Blazewicz (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: WILLIAM BLAZEWICZ/
FOUNDER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 23, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000467
Published: Feb 29. Mar 7, 14, 21 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: BARE at 340 S Kellogg Ave. D Goleta, CA 93117; Alexandra A Carranza (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by:
ALEXANDRA CARRANZA/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa
HOW DOES THE REST OF THIS PROCESS WORK?
This Amended Application is already assigned to a CPUC Administrative Law Judge who will consider proposals and evidence presented during the formal hearing process. The Administrative Law Judge will issue a proposed decision that may adopt SoCalGas and the other gas utilities’ Amended Application, modify it, or deny it. Any CPUC Commissioner may sponsor an alternate decision with a different outcome. The proposed decision, and any alternate decisions, will be discussed and voted upon by the CPUC Commissioners at a public CPUC Voting Meeting.
Parties to the proceeding may review the Amended Application, including the Public Advocates Office. Public Advocates Office is an independent consumer advocate within the CPUC that represents customers to obtain the lowest possible rate for service consistent with reliable and safe service levels. For more information, please call 1-415-703-1584, email PublicAdvocatesOffice@cpuc.ca.gov, or visit PublicAdvocates.cpuc.ca.gov.
Contact SoCalGas
WHERE CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION?
Email: Jcalzadi@socalgas.com
Mail: Jordan Calzadillas Regulatory Case Manager for SoCalGas 555 W. 5th Street GT14D6, Los Angeles, CA 90013
A copy of the Application and any related documents may also be reviewed at https://www.socalgas.com/regulatory/cpuc
Contact CPUC
Please visit apps.cpuc.ca.gov/c/A2209006 to submit a comment about this proceeding on the CPUC Docket Card. Here you can also view documents and other public comments related to this proceeding.
Your participation by providing your thoughts on this request can help the CPUC make an informed decision.
If you have questions about CPUC processes, you may contact the CPUC’s Public Advisor’s Office at:
Phone: 1-866-849-8390 (toll-free) or 1-415-703-2074
Email: Public.Advisor@cpuc.ca.gov
Mail: CPUC Public Advisor’s Office 505 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102
Please reference SoCalGas’s Amended Hydrogen Blending Application A.22-09-006 in any communications you have with the CPUC regarding this matter.
THE GO at 3564 Skyway Dr, A Santa Maria, CA 93455; Natriums Hospitality LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Filed by: MICHAEL MCDONALD/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 15, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E57. FBN Number: 2024‑0000417. Published: Mar 7, 14, 21, 28 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MOTO MIDWIFE BIRTH SERVICES at 211 W Pedregosa St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sandra Iraheta (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: SANDRA IRAHETA with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 29, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E61. FBN Number: 2024‑0000528
Published: Mar 7, 14, 21, 28 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PATTERSON PLACE APARTMENTS, PATTERSON PLACE at 120 S. Patterson Ave. Goleta, CA 93111; Patterson Apartments L.P. 33 E. Carrillo St., Suite 200 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by an Limited Partnership Filed by: MICHELLE KONOSKE/CFO OF MICHAEL
TOWBES CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT, INC. (GENERAL PARTNER) with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 26, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN Number: 2024‑0000484.
Published: Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUMIDA GARDENS APARTMENTS, SUMIDA GARDENS at 122 Sumida Gardens Ln. Goleta, CA 93111; Sumida Gardens L.P. 33 E. Carrillo St., Suite 200 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by an Limited Partnership Filed by: MICHELLE KONOSKE/CFO OF MICHAEL TOWBES CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT, INC. (GENERAL PARTNER) with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 26, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN Number: 2024‑0000491.
Published: Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOS LLANOS RESTAURANT at 35 Parker Way 6 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Gabriel Roman (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Filed by: GABRIEL ROMAN/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 28, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E61. FBN Number: 2024‑0000518. Published: Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2024‑0000458
The following person(s) is doing business as: Wilburn Consulting, 1662 Premier Ct., Santa Maria, CA 93454, County of Santa Barbara. Justin Wilburn, 1662 Premier Ct., Santa Maria, CA 93454 This business is conducted by An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Not applicable /s/ Justin Wilburn, Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 02/22/2024.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 4/4/24
CNS‑3790285#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RANCHO FRANCISCAN
SENIOR APARTMENTS, RANCHO
FRANCISCAN APARTMENTS, RANCHO FRANCISCAN at 221 Hitchcock Way #107 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Rancho Franciscan, L.P. 33 E. Carrillo St., Suite 200 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by an Limited Partnership Filed by: MICHELLE KONOSKE/ CFO OF MICHAEL TOWBES
CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT, INC. (GENERAL PARTNER) with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 27, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN Number: 2024‑0000494. Published: Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WILLOW SPRINGS APARTMENTS, WILLOW SPRINGS at 60 Willow Springs Ln. Goleta, CA 93117; Willow Springs, L.P. 33 E. Carrillo St., Suite 200 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by an Limited Partnership Filed by: MICHELLE KONOSKE/ CFO OF MICHAEL TOWBES
CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT, INC. (GENERAL PARTNER) with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 26, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN Number: 2024‑0000488. Published: Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANXIETY
EXPERTS at 1482 East Valley Road, Suite 17 Montecito CA 93108; Andrea M. Kulberg PHD Clinical Psychology Inc. 1187 Coast Village Road Suite 1375 Santa Barbara, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: ANDREA
M KULBERG/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 06, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN Number: 2024‑0000297.
Published: Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PACIFIC OAKS APARTMENTS, PACIFIC OAKS at 7170 Davenport Rd. Goleta, CA 93117; Pacific Oaks L.P. 33 E. Carrillo St., Suite 200 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by an Limited Partnership Filed by: MICHELLE KONOSKE/ CFO OF MICHAEL TOWBES
CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT, INC. (GENERAL PARTNER) with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 26, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN Number: 2024‑0000483. Published: Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STATE STREET SMOKE SHOP at 432 State St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Santa Barbara Tobacco Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: ZIYAD
ABDULHAI/DIRECTOR with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 7, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN
Number: 2024‑0000592. Published: Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN2024‑0000519
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:
1. Gets Zen ‑ Wellness, 2.
Mihaela’s Nursing Services, 2424
Calle Andalucia, Santa Barbara, CA 93109 County of SANTA
BARBARA Mailing Address: 2424
Calle Andalucia, Santa Barbara, CA 93109 Mihaela Schmitz, 2424 Calle Andalucia, Santa Barbara, CA 93109 This business is conducted by an Individual The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A.
S/ Mihaela Schmitz
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 02/28/2024.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 4/4/24
CNS‑3785155#
SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA HANDYMAN at 315 Meigs Rd, Ste A 518 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Cortina Enterprises (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Filed by: DANIEL CORTINA/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 06, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN Number: 2024‑0000566. Published:
Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ISLA
VISTA WORSHIP at 6737 Sueno Road Goleta, CA 93117;
DESIGNS at 1838 San Andres St #2 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Gaberial L Rodriguez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: GABERIAL RODRIGUEZ/ INDIVIDUAL with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E62. FBN Number: 2024‑0000614. Published: Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as:
MASTERCRAFT KITCHENS & BATHS, VINTAGE WOODWORKS at 1258 Dover Lne Santa Barbara, CA 931032065; William James Rourke (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: WILLIAM JAMES ROURKE with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 08, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000610. Published: Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2024‑0000459
The following person(s) is doing business as: Pristine Power Cleaning, 3935 Loch Lomond Dr Santa Maria, CA 93455, County of SANTA BARBARA.
THE RODRIGUEZ GROUP LLC, 3935 Loch Lomond Dr Orcutt, CA 93455; CA This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ Gilbert Rodriguez, Managing Member
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
person(s) is/are doing business as: ENCINA MEADOWS APARTMENTS, ENCINA MEADOWS at 5839 Encina Rd #107 Goleta, CA 93117; Encina Meadows L.P. 33 E. Carrillo St., Suite 200 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by an Limited Partnership Filed by: MICHELLE KONOSKE/ CFO OF MICHAEL TOWBES CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT, INC. (GENERAL PARTNER) with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 26, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN Number: 2024‑0000485. Published: Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DENNIS JOHNSON CONSULTING
LLC at 1072 Casitas Pass Rd., 220 Carpinteria, CA 93013; Dennis Johnson Consulting LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Filed by: DENNIS JOHNSON/MANAGING
MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 28, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000514.
Published: Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AIM
PLUMBING AND REPAIR at 623
Castillo Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Adrian Morales (same address) This Individual Filed by: ADRIAN I MORALES with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 13, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E40. FBN Number: 2024‑0000382.
Published: Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s)
is/are doing business as: CREATIVE
years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E49. FBN Number: 2024‑0000450.
Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FAVORITES at 990 Patterson Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93111; TRG Global Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: TEAGAN GIFFIN/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 12, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000637. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARMSTRONG CELLARS at 281 Pamela Way, Ste 104107 Buellton, CA 93427; Jamd Inc. 369 San Miguel Drive Ste 235 Newport Beach, CA 92660 This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: JENNIFER ARMSTRONG/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 21, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000444. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUNSTONE ESTATE at 125 N. Refugio Rd. Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Canvinia Vineyard Estate LLC 1212 Santa Teresita Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Filed by: DJAMILA
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 02/22/2024. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 4/4/24
CNS‑3790294#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN FBN2024‑0000482
The following person(s) is doing business as: Paros Marketing, 5425 Carpinteria Ave 913 Carpinteria, CA 93013, County of SANTA BARBARA.
Arlene G Wilske, 5425 Carpinteria Ave 913 Carpinteria, CA 93013
This business is conducted by An Individual.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Not applicable /s/ Alrene Goodfield Wilske, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 02/26/2024. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 3/21, 3/28, 4/4, 4/11/24 CNS‑3790887#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WE SELL
REAL ESTATE at 1511 Chapala Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Tamara McLean (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: TAMARA MCLEAN/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 22, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E49. FBN Number: 2024‑0000452. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WSRE at 1511 Chapala Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Tamara McLean (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: TAMARA MCLEAN/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 22, 2024. This statement expires five
at 725 E Mason St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Gail L. Lobdell 1201 Diana Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Trust Filed by: GAIL L LOBDELL/ TRUSTEE with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 05, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E40. FBN Number: 2024‑0000551. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAFEGUARD ROOFING at 725 E Mason St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Gail L. Lobdell 1201 Diana Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Trust Filed by: GAIL L LOBDELL/ TRUSTEE OF THE LOBDELL FAMILY TRUST with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 05, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN Number: 2024‑0000562.
Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
V. CABUGOS/CEO OF MANAGING MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 13, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000653.
Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JXN PAINTING at 322 Ladera St 202 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Carlos A Ramirez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: CARLOS A RAMIREZ/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 13, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000655. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION, SANTA BARBARA FACIAL AESTHETICS, ARNETT GUNSON FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION, THE CENTER FOR CORRECTIVE JAW SURGERY at 334 Patterson Avenue, Suite 205 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Michael J Gunson DDS MD Professional Medical Corporation 260 Cinderella Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: MICHAEL J. GUNSON/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 14, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000663. Published: Mar 21, 28. April 4, 11 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SOLVANG FARMER PUMPKIN PATCH at 1035 Alamo Pintado Rd. Solvang, CA 93463; SJ Custom Farming Inc. PO Box 91 Solvang,
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SPARK JOY WITH AMY at 7054 Marymount Way Goleta, CA 93117; Amy L Herzog (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: AMY L HERZOG with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 15, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000676.
Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2024.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LEE & SONS
GENERAL CONTRACTING at 806 E. Haley St. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Lee & Sons Plumbing & Heating, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: CONAN HORTON/VICE‑PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 29, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2024‑0000523. Published: Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SIGAL
KOZOLCHYK PLOTKIN
CASE NUMBER: 24CV00442
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s)
FROM: SIGAL KOZOLCHYK
PLOTKIN
TO: SIGAL PLOTKIN KOZOLCHYK THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING APRIL 3, 2024, 10:00 AM, DEPT 3, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this
county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.
DATED FEBRUARY 12, 2024, JUDGE
THOMAS P. ANDERLE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published Feb 29. Mar 7, 14 2024.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME:
CHARLOTTE HASKELL
CASE NUMBER: 24CV00545
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s)
FROM: CHARLOTTE HASKELL
TO: CHARLOTTE AUGUSTINE
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING
APRIL 15, 2024, 10:00 AM, DEPT 5, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR
COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.
DATED FEBRUARY 16, 2024,
JUDGE COLLEEN K. STERNE OF
THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published Feb 29. Mar 7, 14, 21 2024.
IN THE MATTER OF THE
APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SHELBY
MARIE KITTLE
CASE NUMBER: 24CV00319
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s)
FROM: KASEY MARIE IRIBE
TO: KASEY MARIE KITTLE
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING
APRIL 5, 2024, 10:00 AM, DEPT 4, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.
DATED FEBRUARY 13, 2024, JUDGE
HONORABLE DONNA D GECK OF
THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published Feb 29. Mar 7, 14, 21 2024.
IN THE MATTER OF THE
APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: BERENICE
DUARTE TORRES NUMBER:
24CV00881
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s)
FROM: ADILENE CALIXTRO
DUARTE
TO: ADILENE MARTINEZ DUARTE
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name
LICENSE
should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING
APRIL 24, 2024, 10:00 AM, SB
3, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.
DATED FEBRUARY 26, 2024, JUDGE
THOMAS P. ANDERLE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published Mar 7, 14, 21, 28 2024.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: MICHAEL
G. FEKETE NUMBER: 24CV00551
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s)
FROM: MICHAEL G. FEKETE
TO: MICHAEL JAMES BLACK
HEMMERICH
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING
APRIL 12, 2024, 10:00 AM, DEPT 4, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR
COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.
DATED FEBRUARY 15, 2024, JUDGE
DONNA GECK OF THE SUPERIOR
COURT. Published Mar 14, 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ANTHONY SHIH [Probate Code 19040] NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above‑named decedent, that all persons having claims against the decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court, at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara., CA 93101, and deliver pursuant to Section 1215 of the California Probate Code a copy to BECKY GENE BARIEAU, as successor trustee of the trust dated February 13, 2006, wherein the decedent was the settlor, at BECKY GENE BARIEAU, c/o
HAROLD K. KONO, Esq.,831 State Street, Suite 289, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, within the later of four (4) months after the date of the first publication of notice to creditors, or if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, sixty (60) days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 3/13/2024; By: Nicolette Barnard, Deputy. Harold K. Kono 831 State Street, Suite 289 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 962‑8412 Attorney for Becky Gene Barieau Successor Trustee
Published Mar 21, 28. Apr 4 2024.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE/ASSET AND OF INTENTION TO TRANSFER ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE
(U.C.C. 6101 et seq. and B & P 24073 et seq.)
Escrow No. 4926
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale of assets and a transfer of alcoholic beverage license is about to be made.
The name(s) and business address of the Seller(s)/Licensee(s) are:
PRADEEPS INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, 1533 STATE STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101‑2513
Doing Business as: CANTWELL’S MARKET
All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the Seller(s)/Licensee(s) within the three years, as stated by the Seller(s)/Licensee(s), is/are:
NONE..
The name(s) and address of the Buyer(s)/Applicant(s) is/are: ISLA VISTA FOOD COOPERATIVE, INC., A CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE
CORPORATION
ADDRESS: 6575 SEVILLE ROAD, ISLA VISTA, CA 93117
The assets being sold are general described as:
FURNITURE, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT, GOODWILL AND OFF‑SALE BEER AND WINE LICENSE NO. 20‑565370 and is/are located at: 1533 STATE STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101‑2513
The type of License to be transferred is/are: OFF‑SALE BEER AND WINE LICENSE NO. 20‑565370 now issued for the premises located at: 1533 STATE STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101‑2513
The Bulk Sale and transfer of the Alcoholic Beverage License is/are intended to be consummated at the office of: Westside Escrow Corporation, located at 2104 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90403 and the anticipated sale date is 4/10/24.
The Bulk Sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2, YES.
The purchase price or consideration in connection with the sale of the business and transfer of the license, is the sum of $450,000.00, which consists of the following:
DESCRIPTION: AMOUNT:
CASH DEPOSITED BY BUYER
$000,000.00
NOTE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT IN FAVOR OF SELLER $450,000.00
It has been agreed between the Seller(s)/Licensee(s) and the intended Buyer(s)/transferee(s), as required by Sec. 24073 of the business and Professions code, that the consideration for transfer of the business and license is to be paid only after the transfer has been approved by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
Date: JANUARY 24, 2024
(Signature of Seller(s)/Licensee(s))
PRADEEPS INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
By:/s/ RADEEP SHASTRI, PRESIDENT (Signature of Buyer(s)/Applicant(s))
ISLA VISTA FOOD COOPERATIVE, INC., A CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE CORPORATION
By:/s/ LISA OGLESBY, PRESIDENT
By:/s/ HERNAN CORNEJO, GENERAL MANAGER 3/21/24
CNS‑3793407#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
PUBLIC NOTICES
LEGAL NOTICE – The business records of the following customers of ACCESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (or any affiliates of ACCESS) located at 5950 Condor Drive, Moorpark, CA 93021 have been abandoned: LAW
OFFICES OF DONNA C SANTO and AMERIFUND LENDING GROUP. All records will be shredded 9 days after publication of this notice. Anyone claiming to have an interest in the records should contact Access Information Protected in writing at
the following address: 4 First Avenue, Peabody, MA 01960, Attn: Legal Department, Tel. No. (888) 869‑2767 (Client Support); email: Collections@ accesscorp.com.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE
To satisfy the owner’s storage lien, PS Retail Sales, LLC will sell at public lien sale on March 29, 2024, the personal property in the below‑ listed units. The public sale of these items will begin at 08:00 AM and continue until all units are sold. The lien sale is to be held at the online auction website, www.storagetreasures.com, where indicated. For online lien sales, bids will be accepted until 2 hours after the time of the sale specified.
PUBLIC STORAGE # 75079, 5425 Overpass Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93111, (805) 284‑9002 Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 232 ‑ Badone Assili, Genevieve; 303 ‑ Carranza, Omar; 321 ‑ Arroyo, Magda; 324 ‑ Berg, Eloise; 380 ‑ SCHAFFNER, RUTH; 390 ‑
SCHAFFNER, RUTH
PUBLIC STORAGE # 75078, 7246 Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA 93117, (805) 961‑8198 Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 011 ‑ Romero, Sahiyi; 017 ‑ Romero, Sahiyi; 086 ‑ Nunez, Laura; 112 ‑ STAGGS‑PIPERSBURG, DEVAN;
307 ‑ Quevedo, Gloria
PUBLIC STORAGE # 25714, 7246 Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA 93117, (805) 324‑6770 Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 6204 ‑ Seay, Chante; A482 ‑ Denton, Michael
Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Payment must be in cash or credit card‑no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax‑ exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. By PS Retail Sales, LLC, 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244‑8080. 3/21/24 CNS‑3794798# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
SUMMONS
REQUEST FOR ORDER CHANGE OF CHILD CUSTODY. THE REQUEST is for the court to make an order of sole legal custody and sole physical of he minor child of the parties to be changed to Petitioner. ORDER FOR PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS
OR CITATION
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara‑Anacapa 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101
PLAINTIFF: ANNETTE MARIE RODRIGUEZ DEFENDANT: ADALBERTO RODRIGUEZ
ORDER FOR PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS OR CITATION FOR USE ONLY
FILED SUPERIOR COURT of CALIFORNIA COUNTY of SANTA
BARBARA 2/13/2024 Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer BY Vega, Jessica Deputy Clerk
CASE NUMBER: 18FL02044
Moving Party Petitioner(s) ANNETTE MARIE RODRIGUEZ , filed its/ their application for an order for publication on 1/26/24 (date). From the application and supporting evidence it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that an order for service by publication is permitted pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 415.50. A court hearing will be held as follows: Date:4/15/2024