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With full Forbes: multitude of Montecito billionaires make their mark on wealthiest list, p. 6

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 11 • MOVIE GUIDE, P. 29 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42

101 D-DAY LOOMS Believe it or not, but the decision-making apparatus called SBCAG (Santa Barbara County Association of Governments) is inching towards an okay for proposed roundabout at North Jameson, Olive Mill and Coast Village Road; other earth-moving decisions such as a new railroad bridge (to replace Iron Mike), and southbound entry at Cabrillo to follow (story begins on page 5)

Wolf’s Head

State Street men’s clothier opens satellite store at Richie’s Barber Shop on Coast Village, p. 12

Open Gates

Ex-CIA chief Robert Gates talks politics before March 19 speech at Granada Theatre, p. 24

Four Scores

Music Academy of the West announces quartet of initiatives for summer classical music fest, p. 26

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Letters to the Editor

Bob Hazard hits the road – specifically Highway 101 – and points out that congestion will spike to 10 hours daily within the next 15 years; he lays out four phases of widening the 101 and analyzes other pending projects Montecito residents among Forbes elite; superyacht sales; Michael Keaton’s popularity; Oprah and Chicago; Don Johnson’s daughter; SB Yacht Club; Opera Santa Barbara; Swing! at New Vic; Katy Perry’s “Left Shark”; MAD gala; Simon T. Bailey; catamaran Green Flash; Julia Child tribute; Wine + Beer; and Kathryn Grayson biography

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Bill Reyner on Montecito Water District; Laura Wyatt’s personal bee’s wax; K. Laurain on CVS parking; Clint Orr on the trail; and Larry Bond on political power

11 This Week

MERRAG meeting and training; luncheon and lecture; MUS Food Drive; Shrek at La Colina; The New Yorker; Svetlana Meritt book signing; father-daughter dance; CALM luncheon; spring auction; “Impressions of Spain” at Granada; “Dancing Under the Stars”; MUS kindergarten; Montecito Planning Commission; Sudoku workshop; Italian conversation; SBMM lecture; SB Music Club concerts; and La Casa lecture

Tide Guide

Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach

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Montecito Association board discusses water and trees; Coast Village Plaza marks opening of Wolf ’s Head at Richie’s; Dani Boy’s first anniversary; continued lease negotiations with Here’s the Scoop; and YMCA hosts community campaign celebration

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner’s heart goes out to Go Red For Women; “Fighting Back Mentor Program” at the Biltmore; and “Kitchen Confidence” with Braille Institute Santa Barbara

20 Your Westmont

Doris Kearns Goodwin shares presidential leadership lessons; a Carlsbad violinist wins music guild competition; Sonos Montecito to perform March 13; and a renowned archaeologist exposes claims of Jesus’s tomb on March 12

24 Coming & Going

James Buckley converses with the accomplished Robert Gates, former CIA chief and ex-U.S. secretary of state, about his decision-making process during the late 20th century before his March 19 appearance at the Granada

26 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz chronicles MAW’s quartet of new initiatives while interviewing president Scott Reed; SB Symphony and Spanish days; SB Chamber Orchestra and the British Isles; a melodic mix of Classical Corner news; writer/producer Cindy Chupack and CALM luncheon; and SB Contemporary Floor to Air Festival at the Lobero

29 Ernie’s World

Ernie Witham is hungry for breakfast and doesn’t have time for Daylight Saving, and all he wants from a “wine flight” is a good seat in Business Class

Movie Guide 32 Far Flung

Ready “oar” not: Chuck Graham finds some paddling pleasure along Mendocino, traversing the river’s path and recommending a few of the coastal town’s hot spots

34 At The Wheel

Randy Lioz watches the wheels go round with David Neel, whose Studebaker Wagonaire is just one vehicle among his eclectic assortment

35 Real Estate

Mark Hunt goes house hunting, traversing Santa Barbara and vicinity while recommending a handful of available homes conveniently located and competitively priced

37 Our Town

Joanne Calitri casts her focus on the film Don Nicolas Den: Irish Pioneer to Santa Barbara slated for March 13 at Carriage House Museum

38 Legal Advertisements 42 Calendar of Events

Ringo Starr at Chumash; Irish author Colm Tóibín; Racing Extinction in focus; “20 Years of Freedom” concert; Old Time Radio Shows in Carpinteria; Bill Maher at Arlington; Speaking of Stories takes Center Stage; Jason Mraz and Raining Jane at Arlington; Nat King Cole Tribute at the Lobero; and Dave Chappelle

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47 Local Business Directory

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Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club

Update on the Widening...

The 101 in [Slow] Motion

Each day, some 90,000 cars, vans, and trucks creep up and down the 101 through Montecito and Santa Barbara, overwhelming the existing highway capacity for four hours per day. As 101 congestion increases (within the next 15 years, congestion is expected to stretch to 10 hours per day), so does traffic on local streets, especially Coast Village Road, North Jameson, Hot Springs, and East Valley Road.

Twenty-two years ago, in 1993, voters turned down a Caltrans-funded plan to widen the 101, fearing the loss of their “parkway look.” The Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) Board, made up of the five county supervisors and the eight mayors or council members of incorporated cities, instructed Caltrans to “stop work on widening the freeway.” Existing funding was transferred to other Caltrans projects.

The Way Forward

In 1996, the SBCAG Board appointed a citizen-led task force to address the issue. Progress was tenuous until 2002 when the “101 in Motion” study of options began. In 2008, a super majority of 79 percent of voters, representing every jurisdiction in Santa Barbara County, supported a plan to extend for 30 years a one-half-percent sales tax (Measure A) to be used for widening highway 101 from 4 to 6 lanes south of Santa Barbara, as the number-one priority. The cost of widening was pegged at $645 million.

Four Phases were Created:

Phase 1) Milpas to Hot Springs/Cabrillo (two miles): Construction began in July 2008 and was completed in April 2012 at a cost of $57 million, including the Milpas intersection bridges and the Montecito roundabout.

Phase 2) Widening the 101 from Ventura County to Carpinteria (six miles): Widening from Ventura County to Bailard Avenue Pass Road in Carpinteria started in Spring 2012, is expected to open in March 2015 at a cost of $102 million, including a new six-mile Class 1 oceanside bike path and a pedestrian tunnel providing La Conchita residents with access to the beach.

Phase 3) 101 Bridge widening at Linden Avenue and Casitas Pass in Carpinteria: Design work is 90 percent complete. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2016 with a completion date of 2020 at a cost of $65 million. The project is fully funded. Adding an $8-million Rincon bike trail from Carpinteria Avenue to Rincon Beach has mitigated coastal commission objections.

Phase 4) Widening from the Hot Springs/Cabrillo Boulevard interchange to Carpinteria (10.9 miles): The last phase is by far the most controversial and expensive portion of the widening. Jurisdictional catfights over design and sources of funding have resulted in acrimony, delays and lawsuits.

Caltrans released its Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) in March 2012. Montecito residents, calling themselves the MA 101 Community Coalition, sought to retain left-lane on-off ramps at Cabrillo Boulevard and Sheffield Drive. They hired Mayor Schneider’s long-time political advisor Jeremy Lindaman as a political consultant to petition the governor and solicit Mayor Schneider’s supp ort.

The 101 Coalition Plan included permanent closure of the southbound onramp at Cabrillo, substituting a so-called “Texas Hook” southbound onramp at Los Patos. This solution drew strong opposition from business owners along Los Patos.

After two years of contentious community debate, Caltrans certified the DEIR in August 2014. Subsequently, it was challenged, in court by two lawsuits, supported by Mayor Schneider. In December 2014, SBCAG voted 11-2 to deny Schneider her turn to chair SBCAG because of her public endorsement of the lawsuits, and her encouragement of others to challenge the legitimacy of the DEIR. First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal encouraged SBCAG to hire an independent consultant to help in the 101 design work. In August 2014, SBCAG retained Tony Harris of Point C Consulting as its 101 Corridor Advisor. A former Caltrans executive, Harris’s task is to advance the design of the 101 and its parallel projects to the required 35% design level to qualify for possible state and federal funding. In addition to design responsibility, Harris’s job is also to

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by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, and a commentator on the KTLA Morning News.

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ur Eden by the Beach is well-represented in the latest Forbes rankings of the world’s wealthiest people, with the usual tony triumvirate of Microsoft magnate Bill Gates, 59, Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim, 75, and Berkshire Hathaway guru Warren Buffet, 84, topping the 29th annual list with fortunes of $79.2 billion, $77.1 billion, and $72.7 billion respectively.

Oracle computer tsar Larry Ellison, 70, who owns three homes in our tony town, is ranked at number five with $54.3 billion, while Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, 30, is the youngest entrant, placed at 16 and valued at $33.4 billion.

Google honcho Eric Schmidt, 59, who bought TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres’s Montecito estate, is well down the annual list at 137 with $9.1 billion, with Star Wars creator George Lucas, 70, who owns a beach house in Carpinteria, just a tiara’s toss from Oscar winner Kevin Costner, is ranked at 309 with $5 billion.

Dallas Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones, 72, who is a regular visitor to our rarefied enclave when his top NFL team, the Dallas Cowboys, are in summer training in Oxnard, is valued at $4.2 billion, ahead of Donald Trump and mega producer Steven Spielberg, both 68, who have $4.1 billion and $3.6 billion respectively.

Our most famous resident TV talkshow titan Oprah Winfrey, 61, is placed at 603 with $3 billion and mall magnate Herb Simon, 80, at 628 with $2.9 billion.

Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner, 70, is ranked at 782 with $2.4 billion with Craig McCaw, 65, well down the list in 1,054th place with $1.8 billion, derived from telecommunications.

Berkshire Hathaway partner Charlie Munger, 91, whose giant catamaran, The Channel Cat, is a feature of Santa Barbara’s harbor, is in joint 1,415th place, valued at $1.3 billion, along with Peter Sperling, 55, whose father, John, founded the for-profit University of Phoenix.

Earlier this month, Sperling sold his Spanish Colonial-style, 3.3-acre 1920s estate and 4,904 square-foot four-bedroom mansion, compete with a guest house and caretaker’s cottage, for $10.5 million. It was formerly the

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Telecom magnate Craig McCaw makes Forbes rich list

Oracle tycoon Larry Ellison is in the top five with $54.3 billion

home of British actress Jane Seymour and her ex-husband, David Flynn.

The combined value of those ranked is $7.05 trillion, up from $6.4 trillion last year.

Yachts Up On the subject of wealth, figures have also just been released which show that sales of superyachts have more than doubled in five years – up from 194 in 2010 to 412 at the end of last year.

Just as those numbers have been rocketing, so the potential pool of buyers has been on the increase, with Forbes’ article showing the number of

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

If you have something you think Montecito should know about, or wish to respond to something you read in the Journal, we want to hear from you. Please send all such correspondence to: Montecito Journal, Letters to the Editor, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to jim@montecitojournal.net

Water Crisis or Management Crisis?

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he good news: Bob Hazard has done an excellent job keeping MJ readers advised and knowledgeable about our water shortage.

We should all be thankful for his tireless efforts on our behalf.

The bad news: MWD (Montecito Water District) has failed miserably in its Mission Statement “to provide an adequate and reliable supply of high-quality water to the residents of Montecito and Summerland, at the most reasonable cost.” MWD apparently awakened from a deep slumber in February last year to its recognition that Montecito would run out of water in July. Because of its unawareness and lack of foresight and planning, it imposed Draconian restrictions on water usage, accompanied by stiff penalties for overages. Its “plan” apparently was that the loss in revenues from conservation would be made up from the penalties collected from customers who exceeded their monthly allocations.

But they were wrong. An almost 50-percent reduction in water use was achieved, and the level of revenue from penalties has been far less than projected. But, make no mistake: these laudable efforts by residents have taken a toll on the community.

How many of you have lost significant investments in landscaping, seen mature trees die, counted the seconds in your showers, tirelessly checked your water meters, and even put up with the built-up urine in your toilets? And how much will the value of our homes be diminished, and how great will the impact be on the many realtors and related economy dependent on a robust real estate market?

So, now, MWD finds itself in an untenable position. It’s not selling enough water to cover its expenses. But it has steadfastly refused to remove its rationing restrictions so that it could sell more water. Finally, this past week, it has proposed to increase our allocations by about 26 percent, a small step in the right direction, and it is buying water at increased rates for our benefit.

Yet Montecito, to my knowledge, will remain the only community in California subject to mandatory water rationing.

Let’s be more direct than many may like. MWD is a water company that perpetuates itself through the quiet re-election of its directors (the terms of three of the directors were extended for another four years at

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the end of last year); an entity that places the blame for its shortcomings on its customers’ lavish use of water to irrigate their landscapes, telling us we need to change our ways, and the character of our beautiful community (yet, every land use permit issued in the area requires an approved landscape plan that has helped to preserve the beauty of Montecito while permitting reasonable development); and finally, an entity without adequate oversight. Who would have ever thought in this day and age that MWD could mandate a “temporary” surcharge without an explanation of how it intended to reduce its fixed costs, or even any announcement of a plan for a long-term solution to fulfill its Mission Statement?

And the answer is that MWD can because, strangely, it would take an affirmative write-in effort by more than 50 percent of its customers to block the increase. And even more strangely, unlike most other monopolistic utilities, there appears to be no regulatory oversight – no PUC to ask the hard questions and to examine how our dollars are being spent.

Here we are 13 months after The Awakening, and MWD has not come forward with any long-term plan to address its inadequate supply of water, just a short-term Band-Aid in the form of yet another rate increase coupled with continuing rationing and penalties, knowing full well it can keep putting the onus on its customers to consume less water while paying much more for the reduced amount of water. So, it looks like we will continue to limp forward, being told by MWD how we need to live, continuing to be subject to MWD’s controlling edicts, while other water districts in our water-starved state make do and find ways to meet their customers’ needs. How long will we passively allow this to happen?

Whether you agree or disagree with my thoughts, please make an effort to make your views known to the MWD. Bill Reyner Montecito (Editor’s note: The Montecito Water District has contracted for enough water to supply Montecito for at least the next two years. Sure, they’ve made mistakes, but Tom Mosby, general manager, has worked diligently to assure our local water supply. However, if the drought continues, our reliance upon current methods of water storage and delivery will have to be reconsidered.

More than 160 years ago – give or take a couple decades – Montecito and Santa Barbara got along fine with whatever wells had been dug and with the water that flowed year-round in Mission Creek and other local streams. Slowly, the population became larger and required more than the water that could be harnessed easily would bear. A serious and longterm drought took hold in the 1860s that was so bad, local ranchers were forced to slaughter their herds, as there was nothing for them to graze on. Many dumped the carcasses near Fernald Point in Montecito, which, historically speaking, attracted sharks (hence the name “Shark’s Cove”). In the early 1920s, some Montecito families (Doulton, Jameson, and others), promoted the construction of the Juncal Dam at the headwaters of the Santa Ynez River, creating a reservoir we call Jameson Lake. It was donated to the Montecito Water District in 1930.

A couple decades – and tens of thousands more residents – later, Bradbury Dam was constructed, also along the Santa Ynez River, creating another larger reservoir for the greater Santa Barbara area called Lake Cachuma. After another serious drought (1986-1991), the City of Santa Barbara built a desalination plant that was barely used because of what has been called the March Miracle rains of 1991. Voters, scared into submission, signed on to what is called the State Water Project instead, which provided

plenty of “paper” water, but is, in fact, incapable of supplying anywhere near the amount of water it has either promised or negotiated for.

There will never be enough water to sustain the kind of population growth California and, indeed, the entire southwest portion of the United States has seen over the past half-century and more. Currently, we are denuding the once-magnificent Colorado River and sucking up any available moisture from groundwater basins, wells, and formerly flowing mountain streams, while right beside us is the largest source of water on Earth. The Pacific Ocean (or even a pipeline from Washington or Oregon) could produce as much water as we can use, while at the same time allowing our rivers, streams, groundwater basins, and wells to fully replenish themselves. The judicious use of such resources could bring back not only steelhead trout but also tiger salamanders and other endangered creatures. Construction of a Montecito-centric desalination plant in response to our 21st-century needs would be a good beginning. – J.B.)

Help from The Hive

I know the MJ has run stories in the past about honeybees, yet I felt compelled to send in this letter. Like many people I know, I was terrified of bees and of being stung by them. But after

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hearing about their dwindling numbers and how important they are to our agricultural world, I wanted to help and decided to try to overcome my fears by setting up a hive in my backyard (with a lot of help from the Santa Barbara Bee Association (SBBA.org).

I started my amateur beekeeping to do my small part to help save the bees in the face of their global colony collapse – they are dying out in huge numbers throughout the world; but in the process, I fell in love with bees and am in awe of all the good they do for us. There have been ups and downs throughout this first year and with the help of my mentors at SBBA, I feel I am making progress and doing my part.

Swarm season is now upon us, which means the bees are on the move, so if you see a swarm of honeybees, don’t panic; they are at their gentlest when swarming. Swarms will usually cluster between two hours and two days before moving on. If you are interested in capturing a swarm or if a swarm of bees finds a location that is not appropriate (like the eaves of your roof, a tree near a pathway, in a shed, etc.), contact a local beekeeper – not an exterminator – who will make arrangements with you to safely capture and relocate the swarm on your property. See SBBA website for a link to local beekeepers.

There are other ways to help the bees: 1) Stop using pesticides of any kind in your garden; 2) plant pollinator-friendly plants in your yard; and 3) eat more honey and buy it from local beekeepers, not the mass-produced imported stuff of questionable origin.

The more you get to know honeybees, the more you want to know as they are our inseparable partners in growing fruits and vegetables. Without bees, many of our crops would not be pollinated, and our food selections would be severely constrained.

Laura Wyatt Santa Barbara

Heads Up

I’m sure there are plenty of locals who will want to know that CVS Pharmacy is towing cars of people suspected of parking in their lot and going to eat at adjacent restaurants.

[On a recent weekend], a store manager was out in the car park directing a tow truck. When I inquired about what was going on, she said, “We mean business!”

I pointed out that there were 20 (I counted) empty parking spaces and that her comment translated to me as “poor business.” She directed my attention to their posted “tow” sign.

She could have put a warning note on the windshield first and taken the license number down to check if they were repeat offenders.

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CVS apparently is not the friendly neighborhood store it could be.

Beware!

K. Laurain Montecito (Editor’s note: No doubt that over time this issue will resolve itself, but CVS, along with other businesses on Coast Village Road, has had a tough time keeping its limited parking available for its customers. The opening of the Honor Bar across the way has made things infinitely worse along this stretch of roadway and has created friction among various property owners and retailers. Lucky’s, Mollie’s, and Cava have arranged for valet service for their customers for years, so perhaps the Honor Bar should do the same. Or, at least offer larger signage informing its customers that they have underground parking just off Coast Village Circle. You shouldn’t blame a retailer for trying to preserve what few parking spaces it has; management is only trying to protect their own customers and their businesses.

Besides, we know the CVS manager and she has not only been friendly, but has also been extremely helpful. In the meantime, it is inconsiderate of anyone who decides to take up a parking space at CVS in order to spend a couple hours eating and drinking elsewhere. – J.B.)

Trail Blazer

I met Keevan on a brisk winter morning, shortly after blowin’ into town. He was parked in his truck at Butterfly Bluff reading a paper and scratching a couple of Lotto tickets for kicks and giggles.

I wouldn’t exactly say we hit it off famously or nothing, but he put up with my cowboy BS better than most.

He always parked where the crooked sidewalk ended.

Being a bogus-looking smartass, I asked him who the heck put in the sidewalk. “I did,” he said. Turns out, Keevan was in charge of Public Works or something, and his crews poured and installed the walk way back in the ‘80s.

I guess he can’t drive so swell, because he’s getting old. Ain’t seen him for months, but his kid says he’s doing fine. I managed to clean the “Public Access Path to the Bluff” a couple of weeks ago, but to me it’ll always be Keevan’s Trail.

Clint Orr Montecito

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This Week in and around Montecito

SATURDAY, MARCH 14

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860)

FRIDAY, MARCH 13 Book Signing Tecolote book shop in Montecito is hosting Santa Barbara author Svetlana Meritt’s second book reading and signing for her new book, Meet Me in the Underworld: How 77 Sacred Sites, 770 Cappuccinos, and 26,000 Miles Led Me to My Soul. The evening will include refreshments and wine, a chat, and vicarious traveling.

When: 5:30 to 6:30 pm Where: 1470 E. Valley Road

THURSDAY, MARCH 12 MERRAG Meeting and Training Network of trained volunteers that work and/or live in the Montecito area prepare to respond to community disaster during critical first 72 hours following an event.

The mutual “self-help” organization serves Montecito’s 13,000 residents with the guidance and support of the Montecito Fire, Water, and Sanitary districts. Today is an overview of the Incident Command System.

When: 10 am Where: Montecito Fire Station, 595 San Ysidro Road Info: Geri, 969-2537 Luncheon & Lecture Channel City Club hosts John M. Owen IV, Ambassador Henry J., and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor professor of politics and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia. Former editor-in-chief of Security Studies, he currently serves on the editorial board of that journal and of International Security. His newest book is Confronting Political Islam: Six Lessons from the West’s Past, published in 2015.

When: check-in begins at 11 am Where: Fess Parker DoubleTree Resort, San Rafael Room Cost: $35 for members, $40 for non-members; reservations required Info: www.channelcityclub.org Food Drive at MUS To benefit Santa Barbara Foodbank,

donations can be left in the school’s parking lot in the morning during drop-off.

Items needed include baby food, cereal, pasta, peanut butter, rice, soup, and canned goods.

Where: 385 San Ysidro Road La Colina Junior High Presents Shrek In a fairyland forest, a lonely princess is locked in a tower – but wait, the princess has an attitude, her rescuer turns out to be an ugly ogre with a donkey sidekick, and they were sent by the vertically challenged and badly wigged authority figure with an insecurity problem. It’s Shrek. Playing at La Colina Junior High on March 12, 13, and 14.

When: 7 each evening, with an additional matinee on Saturday, March 14, at 2 pm Where: 4025 Foothill Road Cost: $8 general admission, $5 students Info: www.lcjhs.org Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

FRIDAY, MARCH 13 Father Daughter Dance Montecito Union School hosts an “Enchanted Evening” for fathers and daughters.

When: 6 to 8 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: www.montecitou.org

“Impressions of Spain” Get ready for an exciting musical journey through old Spain with the Santa Barbara Symphony, featuring the internationally acclaimed violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen. The Philadelphiabased Koljonen joins the symphony for a performance of Édouard Lalo’s popular “Symphonie espagnole,” a bubbling ode to Spanish musical culture that, as music director and conductor Nir Kabaretti points out, requires a violin soloist of extraordinary virtuosic prowess.

The orchestra’s tribute to Spain will also feature Jules Massenet’s enchanting music from the ballet “El Cid”; the interlude and dance from Manuel de Falla’s rare opera “La Vida Breve” (The Brief Life), and RimskyKorsakov’s “Capriccio Espagnol,” whose sparkling folk tunes have been a Hollywood favorite as themes for films as diverse as Brokeback Mountain and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

The symphony is especially delighted to welcome to the Granada Theatre, itself evocative of Santa Barbara’s vaquero days, the brilliant flamenco dancer Laura Dubroca, a local product who has become a national sensation.

When: tonight at 8; tomorrow, March 15, at 3 pm Where: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street Cost: tickets start at $28, with special rates for students and senior Info: www.thesymphony.org

SATURDAY, MARCH 14 MERRAG Meeting and Training MERRAG members will review CERT Module 1, Disaster Preparedness, on a special Saturday training session.

When: 10 am to noon Where: Montecito Fire Station, 595 San Ysidro Road Info: Geri, 969-2537 CALM Luncheon The CALM Auxiliary hosts the 29th Annual Celebrity Authors’ Luncheon to benefit CALM’s programs to help prevent child abuse, and treat children and families who have suffered from violence and abuse.

This year’s celebrity author lineup includes Cindy Chupack, Kelly Corrigan, Andrew W. Marlowe, and Hank Phillippi Ryan. Andrew Firestone will serve as master of ceremonies, and Debby Davison and Tom Weitzel will interview the authors.

When: Book sales and signing will begin at 10 am; lunch will be served at 11:45 am, and author interviews will begin at 12:45 pm.

Where: Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort, 633 East Cabrillo Blvd Cost: $150 Info: 969-5590 Spring Benefit & Auction Laguna Blanca’s spring auction, “Laguna’s

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Party of the Year: A Celebration in the City,” takes place tonight at Bacara Resort & Spa. Each year, the benefit raises critical funds for the school and brings the community together to celebrate.

When: 5:30 pm Where: 8301 Hollister Avenue Info: www.lagunablanca.org

SUNDAY, MARCH 15 Dancing Under the Stars Arthur Murray Dance Studios present the 6th annual “Dancing Under the Stars”, a local celebrity dance competition and fundraiser to benefit the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara. The event takes place at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort and includes a 13-piece orchestra for dancing, as well as a “celebrity danceoff” and professional dance showcase.

When: 5 pm Where: 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard Cost: general admission, $75, VIP, $150 Info: www.dancingunderthestars.org

MONDAY, MARCH 16 Kindergarten Welcome Night Prospective families are invited to join for an informative evening event to learn more about Montecito Union School’s kindergarten program. Administrators, teachers, and former parents will be on hand to provide valuable information and help answer questions about life as a student at Montecito Union School.

When: 6 to 7:30 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249

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When: 9 am Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu

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by Kelly Mahan

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Montecito Association Explores Water

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t this week’s Montecito Association (MA) board of directors meeting, Montecito Water District (MWD) general manager Tom Mosby gave a power point presentation regarding wells in Montecito. MWD has asked the Board of Supervisors (BOS) to impose a moratorium on new wells in the District; the BOS will discuss the item next Tuesday, March 17.

Mosby explained the groundwater basin beneath Montecito provides about five percent of the District’s water supply, via 11 production wells to which MWD has rights. There are roughly 550 other well sites in the District, most of which have been drilled following the previous moratorium from 1973-97. According to county staff, there are 300 pending permits for future wells. “There are more and more wells going in, with no recharge of the basin,” Mosby said, explaining the basin has not had a significant recharge (which occurs exclusively through rainfall) since 2004.

“We do not have the groundwater

capabilities that our neighbors have,” he said.

According to MWD, which serves 13,500 customers, there has been a significant increase in well failures in Montecito, which has put added pressure on the District’s water supply. There are roughly 60 properties in the District that exclusively use well water; once those supplies run out, those customers will not be able to get District water, Mosby said. “We have to protect our current customers,” he said.

The MWD board has asked the BOS for both an immediate suspension on the issuance of new groundwater well permits and a moratorium on new water well construction within the MWD service boundary, as well as requirements that all properties subject to new land use permits with existing and future wells shall be subject to conditions. These include equipping the wells with a District-approved water meter and providing annual groundwater usage and extraction data, participating in

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MA board members voted to not take a position on the well moratorium. They did agree to the requirement that all new well permits be required to install water meters for the purpose of monitoring the basin.

The MA board, which recently formed a committee to observe water issues in the community, also discussed the proposed water surcharge, which will be the subject of upcoming meetings this week and next. Because the District has had to purchase supplemental water supplies, which is expensive, they are proposing a surcharge estimated to be $1.87 per hundred cubic feet. In a letter to customers this week, the District says the reason for the surcharge is to fund the purchase of supplemental water, to cover extraordinary drought-related expenses, and to offset the District’s reduced sales revenues. The supplemental purchases have increased water supplies to a level where the District is considering increasing customers’ water allocation; if the surcharge vote fails, allocations could go down, according to Mosby.

The surcharge will likely be implemented by Wednesday, April 1, unless 50 percent (plus one) of district customers oppose the surcharge in writing by Tuesday, March 24.

The proposed surcharge will be discussed at a meeting this Thursday, March 12, at 6:30 pm at Montecito Union School (MUS). Then a public hearing will be held on March 24 at 6:30 pm, also at MUS, where a decision will be made.

The Montecito Association board of directors told Mosby they needed more data and information before they could support the District’s actions.

Coast Village Plaza Updates

While Richie’s Barber Shop swiftly approaches its fifth anniversary in Montecito, Wolf’s Head, a menswear store located on State Street, has opened a satellite store at the back of Richie’s, located in the newly sold Coast Village Plaza. Owned by brothers Cristian and Ruben Sagastume, the offerings at Wolf’s Head are influenced by the laid-back culture of old Santa Barbara, appealing to many different social groups, Cristian tells us. “It’s unlike the majority of stores in Santa Barbara, and we wanted to bring a taste of it to Montecito,” he said.

The small retail space at the back of Richie’s houses a sampling of offerings from the larger State Street store, including select clothing pieces (think 3Sixteen denim, Jiberish button downs, Richer Poorer socks, and more), men’s grooming products (Bixby combs, Manready Mercantile, and more), and various accessories (Surf Pendleton towels, Marshall speakers, Make Smith Leather wallets and belts, and more).

“We’ve really been blown away at the response from some of these companies,” Cristian said, explaining that many of the brands carried by Wolf’s Head have reserved their upper-tier collections exclusively for the Santa Barbara-based shop. “You can’t find this stuff anywhere else,” he said.

Cristian, a graphic/web designer, and Ruben, a graduate of Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM), combined forces to open

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Wolf’s Head in December 2014.

Describing themselves as purveyors of quality goods, the locally raised brothers worked to build a shop to carry the best of more than two-dozen brands, as well as to be aesthetically appealing to men of all ages and demographics. “Originally, we were seeking a young to middle-aged customer,” Cristian said. “But we quickly realized we have many customers in their sixties and seventies who appreciate our store and can just as easily find clothing that appeals to them.”

The duo also have their own Wolf’s Head clothing line in the works.

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with Richie’s Barber Shop owner Richie Ramirez; the satellite retail space, with its vintage theater seats and photo gallery wall designed by surfer and fashion designer Shawn Stussy, fits in naturally with Richie’s exposed brick wall, wood floor, and replica barber chairs. “It’s that classic Americana style, blended with oldschool Santa Barbara,” Ruben said. At the State Street location, barber Isaac Alvarado has taken over a corner of the store, offering haircuts and shaves.

Wolf’s Head also offers select items online (www.shopwolfshead.com).

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he American Heart Association’s (AHA) Go Red For Women Movement is the world’s largest network of women standing together to save women’s lives from heart disease. One in 30 die from breast cancer, but one in three die from heart disease. It is not just a man’s disease. The Go Red 11th annual luncheon is a way of educating men and women on how to lead a healthier life.

Fess Parker’s was a sea of red both for women and men’s attire. Many of the men attending were members of the Red Tie Society, which was founded by David Edelman. As he says, “This is a group of men, dedicated to ending heart disease and who have the passion and resources to significantly impact heart disease and stroke in our community.” Their gifts of $1,000 go to fund cutting-edge research. They are now 12 members strong, and it is the first chapter in the western states.

Event chair Jennifer Zacharias reminded us there is the equivalent of the Red Tie Society with the Circle of Red ladies. Their goals are the same, and there were 24 members before the luncheon. No doubt more will join.

The day began with an expo of heart-healthy vendors, all with infor-

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mation and giveaways to improve heart health. Besides a tiny bit of wine, there were mimosas. There were also several “hunks” of firemen who gave away feather boas for every donation made.

Emcee Shirin Rajaee from Channel 3 kept the program moving. She also shared about her dad’s heart surgery. “We thank the national sponsor, Macy’s (who gave each guest a $10 gift card), and locally the Union Bank.” George Leis told the group, “In seven years, the Union Bank has given $7 million to the AHA.” Dr. Joseph Aragon introduced Natasha Miller, who was his patient and was the passion speaker. She described how as a young, active woman she ignored the first signs of heart problems thinking they couldn’t be, but it was. Because of treatment she now leads a normal life.

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Gratitude Luncheon

“A hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in or the kind of car I drove… but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.”

The fourth annual benefit for the “Fighting Back Mentor Program” kicked off at the Four Seasons Biltmore

La Pacifica Ballroom. Founder and honorary chair Anne Smith Towbes and co-chairs Marybeth Carty and John Daly were there to meet and greet. Guests were encouraged to bring special people who had helped shape their lives.

The Fighting Back Mentor Program is under the umbrella of the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (CADA). President Ed Stonefelt told us, “We had 170 mentors last year, which equates to 7,000 volunteer hours.” They are matched with a 4th through 8th grade student that they meet at school for one hour a week to help with homework for a minimum of one year. After trust is built, the relationship usually branches out to fun games and activities.

Does it work? Research has shown that youth who have a positive adult role model are more likely to succeed academically as well as personally. They are less likely to become involved in drug and alcohol abuse or violence.

Emcee Shirin Rajaee introduced the keynote speaker Chris Gocong, who told his moving story of childhood and adult success. “My mom married at 13, had my brother at 14 and me at 16. She never went to high school.

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As national spokeswoman and TV fitness expert who has lost 100 pounds, keynote speaker Maria Guerra admonished, “I said, exercise, not extra fries” or “I’d like to weigh what I told the DMV, I weighed” or, “I thought they said rum, not run.” She called sitting the new smoking and told us to be choosers, not losers.

The event committee who had been working for nine months with Jennifer leading, included Rebecca Benard, Laura Capps, Elizabeth Crandall, David Edelman, Jill Fonte, Janet Garufis, Justin Haagen, Mary Lynn Harms Romo, Angela Berard, Kira McDonald, Diana McNeill, Eileen Mielko, Tiana Riskowski, Dawn Sproul and Beth Vos. To end on an upbeat note, since the Go Red movement began, more than 650,000 women’s lives have been saved and 330 fewer women are dying every day.

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Three of us was hard, but no dad was better than an abusive one. My mom got her GED, went on to college, and became a CPA.” Grandparents watched the boys. Chris became a letterman at Carpinteria High School. He went on to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on a full football scholarship where he majored in biomedical engineering. Then he was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles and made his NFL debut in 2007. He was traded to the Cleveland • The Voice of the Village •

Browns, but in 2012 he had an injury that ended his football career. He is now happily married with two children – the product of mentors in his life.

Mentor program director Ann Cowell presented the “Penny Jenkins Mentor Champion Award” to Adele Rosen. She brought her mentee Daniela Reynoso with her. They have been together for nearly eight years.

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Braille Institute Santa Barbara (BISB) just had a grand opening of their new state of the art kitchen. No wonder they titled the event “Kitchen Confidence,” because that is exactly the job it was built for. Some of Braille’s clients are totally blind, and 90 percent have partial blindness. The instructors are there to show people without sight how to navigate the kitchen. There is an eight-inch monitor where the instructors’ hands can be seen giant size, which was demonstrated to us during the program.

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were beautiful examples of work done in clay – rabbits, baskets – things I could never make with sight.

The executive director Michael Lazarovits was lamenting his 18-yearold daughter leaving home and how much she had changed. He related, “Then I got an e-mail that said, ‘Send money.’ Some things never change.”

The same is true of Braille. In 100 years, things have changed, but the one thing that won’t change is “Why they do it.” Braille has been serving Santa Barbara since 1923, primarily with talking books. In 1981, the first facility was opened here with many programs presented, not to mention the camaraderie experienced.

Michael explained that the lighting in the kitchen is important so that there are no shadows; therefore, the countertops are white, while most of the objects placed on top are dark.

Diet and nutrition are also stressed.

Tom Duer addressed the group, explaining, “In the beginning, I was hesitant to come to Braille, but my wife encouraged me to go. Now, I can’t wait to come home and tell her all I’ve learned that day.”

Peter Mindnick, president of Braille in Los Angeles, and George Thomas, the chairman of the Los Angeles board, had come up to see the new kitchen. Also attending were many members of the local women’s auxiliary who continue to support the facility with their fundraisers. Some of those were Bridget Colleary, Denise McLaughlin, Joann Rodrigue, Jean Von Wittenburg, and Sydney Tredick.

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Sheriff Bill Brown and Erin Graffy led “the ask” which was well received, beginning with a $10,000 matching bid and going down to bids of $100 all with someone in mind to give gratitude to. Some of the movers and shakers attending were Bob and Patti Bryant, Ron Werft, Bill Cirone, Penny Jenkins, Michael Towbes, Ginni Dreier and Debby Davison.

I sat with a table of gentlemen, all of whom serve on the Fighting Back steering committee. The program has helped 3,000 children so far. But more mentors are needed as portrayed by Luis, who is in the 5th grade. “I wouldn’t even mind having a female mentor. I just don’t want to be on the waitlist any longer!” Call 963-1433 for information.

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Entertainment tycoon David Geffen has two superyachts on the top 15 list

Steven Spielberg is ranked at not so “unlucky” 13 with his 258-foot yacht, Seven Seas

U.S. dollar billionaires in the world growing by more than 100 percent – from 793 in 2009, to 1,645 in 2014.

Even more superyachts are in the pipeline, with the Triple Deuce, which will reportedly be the first with a $1.5-billion price tag, the most expensive private yacht ever built, costing more than the annual gross domestic product of Western Sahara, the British Virgin Islands, and Micronesia.

It will reportedly be 666 feet long, more than 120-foot longer than the world’s current biggest superyacht, Azzam, owned by the president of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is also Emir of Abu Dhabi.

It makes some of the floating pleasure palaces on the list of the world’s top 15 private yachts compiled by Boatshop24.com seem like veritable

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But then you have to consider the not-so-small matter of the running costs.

Rob Anderson, director of the website, explains: “As well as forking out hundreds of millions of dollars to buy a superyacht in the first place, don’t forget the annual running costs of a boat this size are phenomenal – well over $20 to $25 million a year – and hundreds of people are employed to maintain and run them.

“Only 0.01 percent of humans have that kind of wealth, so it’s fascinating to get a glimpse of who they are and what they do.”

A breakdown of the world’s top 15 superyachts shows that seven are from the Middle East, four from Eastern Europe and three from the United States – with Los Angelesbased entertainment magnate David Geffen owning two of the top 15.

Pelorus and The Rising Sun, which was formerly half-owned by Ellison.

Altogether last year, $3.71 billion was spent on superyachts, with most constructed in Germany, with boat building giants Lurssen and Biohm + Voss dominating the lucrative market.

Spielberg is ranked at number 13 with his $200 million 258-foot yacht Seven Seas, which includes a helipad, movie theater, and 23 crew...

Reversal of Fortune He may have lost out to British actor Eddie Redmayne for the Best Actor Oscar last month, but Montecito thespian, Michael Keaton’s career has been boosted considerably by his nomination for Birdman.

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original programming. A number of the Harpo staff will join OWN’s 140 employees in L.A. The move comes nearly a year after Oprah sold the four-story Harpo Studios to the real estate development company Sterling Bay, for an estimated $32 million. Under the agreement, the property was leased back to Harpo for two years. The lease expires in April 2016.

Oprah first went to Chicago in 1984 to be on the morning talk show AM Chicago. A month later, the show was number one in the market and renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show.

In 1990, she moved into the Harpo

Studios in the city’s West Loop, helping transform the surrounding neighborhood from a bleak industrial park into a trendy, family-friendly community.

She continued filming her popular daytime show at the 3.5 acre campus until 2011 when she left to start her own cable network.

That year, then-Chicago mayor Richard Daly renamed the street outside the studios Oprah Winfrey Way...

Johnson & Johnson Montecito actor Don Johnson winged his way to New York to see his daughter, Dakota Johnson, by actress Melanie Griffith appear on NBC’s

Saturday Night Live.

Dakota, 25, who plays Anastasia Steel in the raunchy hit movie 50 Shades of Grey, kept her clothes on while hosting the famed show, which broadcast from 30 Rock, even joking that she had actually been conceived after – or even during – the SNL show hosted by her mother back in December 1988.

“This is true, right after the show my father got down on one knee and proposed to her for the second time – and exactly nine months later I was born.”

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Michael Keaton’s career on a roll after Oscar nomination

he created the billion-dollar global empire.

John Lee Hancock will direct and The Weinstein Company has bought distribution rights.

Keaton, 63, is also discussing a leading role in Kong: Skull Island, which will star Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons.

Next he has Universal Studios/ Illumination’s animated movie Minions: and has completed Spotlight – the story of the Catholic Church sex scandal that will be distributed by Open Road this fall.

The film co-stars Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, and Rachel McAdams and is directed by Tom McCarthy...

Gone with the Wind Oprah Winfrey, who now spends much of her time in Los Angeles running her four-year-old eponymous cable TV network, OWN, is readying herself to leave her longtime home in Chicago.

By the end of this year, her Windy City’s Harpo Studios, where I taped a couple of shows with her on the Royal Family, will be moved to sparkling new three-story headquarters, The Lot, in West Hollywood.

“Chicago has been everything to me,” Oprah tells the Hollywood Reporter. “I’ve spent more hours in this building than I have any other building on Earth.

“We were here when there was nothing but hoes and rats on the street, and now it’s one of the hottest neighborhoods.”

The Oscar-nominated actress and film producer acknowledged it would be sad for her to bid farewell to her old home base, but she believed it was the right time to consolidate her network’s operations under one roof.

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oris Kearns Goodwin, world-renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, spoke about “Leadership Lessons from American Presidents” to more than 700 people at the 10th annual Westmont President’s Breakfast on March 6 in the Grand Ballroom of Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort.

Following the breakfast, Goodwin answered questions from four Westmont students in front of about 1,000 people during convocation in

Westmont’s Murchison Gym. Erin Levoir, a double-major in biology and chemistry from Glendale, asked Goodwin how much presidential leadership depends on the person themselves or the opportunity the moment gives them. “When Lincoln was a young man in his 30s, he worried that there would be nothing for his generation that would be exciting and challenging,” Goodwin said. “The Founding Fathers had done everything great. The rivers, mountains and streams were named

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after them, and what was left for his generation, but maybe a seat in congress or even a presidency without much purpose. Of course, the anti-slavery movement develops, the Civil War comes and he has the biggest challenge ever and becomes Abraham Lincoln.”

Theodore Roosevelt, however, said that he could never have the chance of being a president like Lincoln without a war. “It’s often said that President Clinton wished that there was a war so that he would have that challenge,” Goodwin said.

Goodwin mentioned that the next book she is working on will examine the leadership qualities of the presidents she’s studied over the years.

Jarret Catlin, a political science major from Upland, questioned Goodwin about the changing role journalism has played in each of the presidencies.

Goodwin mentioned the giants of journalism near the turn of the 20th century, such as Ida Tarbell, who wrote about Standard Oil; Ray Baker, who exposed the corruption of the railroads; William Allen White, a nationally syndicated columnist; and Lincoln Steffens, who wrote about corruption in municipal governments. “The publisher of McClures magazine wanted to make an impact on the life of the country so he gave (his reporters) two years to research their subjects before they had to write a single word,” she said. The reporters had huge expense accounts, were paid a salary, but often their stories led to the passing of significant laws.

“Today, in normal journalistic circles, there are very few places where you could spend a couple of years researching, writing and producing that kind of stellar work,” she said.

“Today, journalism, for some people, has become more entertainment.”

Sophia Meulenberg, a double-major in political science and French from Sandpoint, Idaho, asked why Goodwin had decided to write about Lincoln in A Team of Rivals through the lens of his cabinet officers.

By pure luck not long after Goodwin had begun researching Lincoln, she went to Auburn, New York, the home of William Seward, Lincoln’s secretary of state. “His house still exists in almost the form it was in then, and it’s a fabulous museum,” she said. “I got a feeling of him being alive in that place. I found out he had written thousands of letters to his wife. I started reading the letters. She didn’t want to be in Washington, so every night he would write to her.”

Later, she discovered the rest of Lincoln’s cabinet was comprised of characters, like Sweard, who were Lincoln’s rivals, including Salmon

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Chase and Edward Bates. Turns out, they both kept diaries and wrote letters. “They came alive to me before Lincoln,” she said. “All of them had written about what Lincoln had done that day. I knew about their conversations and how they felt about Lincoln. Two years into the project, I decided this is what I want to write about.”

Matt Browne, a history major from Santa Ana, asked Goodwin about Lincoln’s temperament. “After the deaths of so many people in his life, his melancholy began to take on a deeper sense and the way he got himself out of it was through humor,” she said. “People would say even when he was young, he could be the saddest person in the world, and then he would start telling a story. He was a fantastic story teller.

And the stories would be funny and silly, have an Aesop’s fable or moral, but once he started telling the story he would laugh larger than anybody else and his whole face would come alive. Later, he said that he laughed so he did not weep, that a good story was better for him than a drop of whiskey.”

Carlsbad Violinist Wins Scholarship

Violinist Jonathan Wong wins the Guild Scholarship

Violinist Jonathan Wong of Carlsbad earned top honors at the third annual Music Guild Competition on March 7, where six high school seniors competed for Westmont music scholarships. Wong won the Guild Scholarship, receiving up to $10,000 in annual music scholarships funds (up to $40,000 over four years) to study at Westmont.

Significant music scholarships were given to the other contestants: violinists Mirah Ray of San Anselmo and Sierra Farrar of Denver; pianists

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Merckx Dascomb of Santa Ynez and Kennedy Hahn of Beaverton, Oregon; and vocalist Kathryn Ogata of Santa Ana. Wong, a senior at Carlsbad Seaside Academy, has played the violin for 10 years. He has served as concertmaster of the Mainly Mozart Youth Orchestra, San Diego Young Artists Symphony, and Civic Youth Chamber Orchestra. Additionally, he is concertmaster of the San Diego Symphony’s Best and Brightest Side-by-Side Concert. Wong, who also plays the piano, plans to focus his studies on music and science.

The judges for the competition included Grey Brothers, professor of music; Steve Butler, professor of music and music department chair, Steve Hodson, professor of music; Han Soo Kim, assistant professor of music; and Michael Shasberger, Adams professor of music and worship.

“All six finalists are marvelous young musicians and each performed beautifully,” Shasberger said.

“Everyone in attendance was blessed by the grace and expressiveness of the performances. We hope these six musicians will continue performing together at Westmont, forming life-long friendships in their musical journey.”

Ogata, an alto who has performed with her high school choir, committed to Westmont immediately after receiving her award.

Sonos Montecito Quintet Offers Recital

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Joanne Kim, clarinet, Paul Mori ’77, bassoon and special guest French hornist Bethany Stevens.

Andrea Di Maggio, a graduate of San Jose State University, studied at Arizona State University before earning a master’s degree in instrumental performance at UC Santa Barbara.

Farrell, a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, earned a master of music from USC’s Thornton School of Music. He began teaching oboe at Westmont three years ago.

Kim earned a bachelor of music degree at Mannes College the New School for Music and master of music degree at Manhattan School of Music, where she is pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts. She joined the Westmont music faculty in 2013.

Mori, a Westmont alumnus, first garnered praise as a conductor with the Bach Ensemble of Baltimore in the 1990s. At Westmont, he conducts chamber ensembles and coaches the wind and brass sections for the orchestra throughout the year.

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Jodi Magness, a renowned archaeologist and Kenan distinguished professor in early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, examines the validity of claims that Jesus’ burial has been found in Jerusalem during a lecture on Thursday, March 12, at 3:30 pm in Westmont’s Porter Theatre. The lecture, “Ossuaries and the Burials of Jesus and James,” is part of an ongoing, joint lecture series with UC Santa Barbara and Westmont on the New Testament and early Christianity. It is free and open to the public.

In 2002, an ossuary inscribed “James, son of Joseph brother of Jesus” surfaced in the hands of a private collector. A few years later, a Discovery Channel documentary and related book claimed that the tomb of Jesus and his family had been found in Jerusalem. Magness offers a slide-illustrated examination of these claims in light of archaeological and historical evidence for

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Magness’s book The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls won the 2003 Biblical Archaeology Society’s Award for Best Popular Book in Archaeology in 2001-02 and was selected as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2003 by Choice Magazine. Magness’ book The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine received the 2006 Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize in the category of nonfiction on the archaeology of Israel.

Magness’s other books include Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus, Follow the Wise: Studies in Jewish History and Culture in Honor of Lee I. Levine and Debating Qumran: Collected Essays on Its Archaeology.

Her research interests, which focus on Palestine in the Roman, Byzantine and early Islamic periods, and Diaspora Judaism in the Roman world, include ancient pottery, ancient synagogues, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Roman army in the East.

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Dakota then asked her parents if they were embarrassed she had told the story.

“No, no, we were just worried you were going to be naked,” joked Don as Melanie giggled beside him.

Time flies...

Making Waves Santa Barbara Yacht Club, which launched its 143rd season last weekend, has also marked another historic landmark.

For only the second time in its history, the club has elected a female commodore, financial advisor Joanne Gordon, who has been a member since 1987.

Two years ago another female, Francie Lufkin, was voted into the top spot.

“It’s pretty cool!” laughed Joanne, who sails in a 52-foot cruiser Endeavour, her favorite destinations being Catalina and the Channel Islands, though a longer voyage to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in planned in the fall with her sales executive husband, Scott.

The dynamic duo have two sons, Trevor, 24, a pro surfer, and Spencer, 20, a student at City College in the emergency medical technician program.

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In the Swing! of Things Over at the New Vic, it was music of a decidedly different nature when the Tony-nominated production Swing! took center stage.

Produced by Dauri Kennedy and directed by Miriam Dance-Leavy, the 1999 90-minute, 32-piece production transported the audience back to the 1940s and the music of Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, and Count Basie, played by a six-piece swing band under City College director Chuck “Dr. Jazz” Wood.

Featuring one great swing number

after the next, the highly energized Arete Productions show, with students from City College and UCSB, had classics like “Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy”, “In The Mood”, and “GI Jive”.

Lead choreographer Derrick Curtis, who has more than 20 years of experience, excelled himself with the aid of Jessica Kurtzman and Robert Moore.

The fun show runs through Sunday, March 15...

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When: 4 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

THURSDAY, MARCH 19 Italian Conversation Group Practice your Italian conversation skills with other individuals.

When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: Sara Doehring, 969-5063 SBMM Lecture Santa Barbara Maritime Museum presents, “To and Fro for 67 Years: The Story of the Schooner Santa Cruz Lecture,” by Michael Marzolla and Bruce Hector. Marzolla and Hector’s presentation is based on “Toing and Froing for 67 Years: The Rise and Demise of the Schooner Santa Cruz,” a paper they presented at the California Islands Symposium in 2008. The lecture will cover the colorful history of this remarkable schooner, her loss, and their work mapping and documenting the wreck site.

When: 7 pm (members-only reception at 6:15 pm) Where: 113 Harbor Way Cost: free to members, $10 for non-members Info: www.sbmm.org

SATURDAY, MARCH 21 Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music. A valued cultural resource in town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public. Today’s concert features performers from Camerata Pacifica.

When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free

SUNDAY, MARCH 22 Lecture at La Casa How do we interact with water as it flows into not only through our landscapes, but also through our lives? Prepare for a lively discussion on the integration of water into our places and actions. Using La Casa as a laboratory, participants will explore where water comes from, where it goes, and what happens during its journey through the built environments we have created. We will then discover what we can do to increase it, clean it, and benefit from it – both in times of scarcity and of abundance.

Host Daniel Wilson, president /founder of Wilson Environmental Contracting, has more than 22 years of academic and professional experience working with natural landscapes and their associated plants and animals.

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that the Fed is already being audited so his legislation is unnecessary. Of course, this is the typical retort one gets from bureaucrats when they’re caught with their hands in the cookie jar. The old in-house investigation, the fox guarding the henhouse sort of thing. Like Lois Lerner and the IRS scandal, and Eric Holder’s investigation of Fast and Furious, we all know how they went.

There is absolutely nothing federal about the Fed except its name. Know this, dear reader: the Fed is privately owned by a small, shadowy, coterie of men most of whom do not even call the United States their home. Why would this nation want to borrow money at interest from foreign bankers, who simply conjure it out of thin air, when it can by Constitutional design, coin its own, interest-free money? Why would this nation want to protect the “independence” of private foreign interests to control our money supply and our rate of interest to the detriment of the people? Auditing the Fed is a good first step. The Federal Reserve should actually be shut down, banished, and expelled from the land like a plague of locusts. If shutting it down outright is deemed to have too harsh an impact on the populace and economy, the legal tender laws should be amended to allow competing currencies to circulate, such as treasury bills, Bitcoin,

gold, and silver etc. For, say, a period of two years – at which time the Fed should be demolished and the earth salted under it for all eternity.

In 1913, when the pathetic president Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law, the U.S. dollar was as good as gold. Today, that same dollar has morphed into a Federal Reserve Note worth 0.13 cents.

This has occurred through inflation, which is a hidden tax that most people are not aware of. The Fed doesn’t call it inflation, though they use the Fed-speak term “quantitative easing” (QE) to fool “Boobus Americanus,” which is what they derisively call the American people.

Mayer Amschel Rothschild stated “Give me control of a nation’s currency and I care not who makes the laws.”

Lord Acton declared that “The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.” A great book to get up to speed on this issue is The Creature From Jekyll Island by Ed Griffin.

We are informed that approximately 2,000 years ago, the Money Changers were driven out of the temple.

It is way beyond time for them to be evicted once more.

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provide clarity in laying out construction schedules that minimize construction impact on local neighborhoods.

Phase 4 widening was originally estimated to cost $425 million. Funding was to come from $140 million in Measure A sales tax funds, $135 million from SBCAG’s share of state gas tax funds, and $150 million of unspecified state and federal funds. Each year of delay, through lawsuits or withholding of development permits, adds an estimated $15 million to the cost of the project.

Re-opening of Southbound On-Ramp at Cabrillo

The good news reported during last week’s Santa Barbara Planning Commission 101 update is that a southbound 101 on-ramp at the Cabrillo interchange will be re-opened, whether a railroad bridge widening is funded or not.

The result is that once the Cabrillo interchange is completed, traffic congestion on Coast Village Road will be reduced by at least a million cars a year, lessening, but not eliminating, the need for a new roundabout at Coast Village Road, North Jameson, and Olive Mill.

Related Parallel Projects to be Designed and Funded

Additional local intersection improvements have been designated as “parallel projects” that still require design and construction funding. Four of these parallel projects have been identified:

Union Pacific Railroad Bridge Replacement at Cabrillo

The current single-track Union Pacific Railroad bridge over Cabrillo Boulevard, built in 1917 is nearing its 100th birthday. The City of Santa Barbara’s desire is to replace the current 29-foot-wide underpass with a new 90-foot-wide rolled steel railroad bridge, which would accommodate two 12-foot-wide car lanes, a 12-foot-wide right-turn lane onto the re-opened southbound 101 on-ramp at the Cabrillo interchange, two 5-foot-wide bicycle lanes, an 8-foot-wide sidewalk and a 12-foot-wide multipurpose pedestrian trail.

The city retained HDR Engineering to present a conceptual plan to Union Pacific in March 2014. Union Pacific responded eight months later, rejecting the proposed design because it included a 15-by-6 vertical clearance, rather than the standard 16-by-6’. Lowering the road to achieve the greater clearance creates serious water table problems.

Union Pacific also stipulated that a second railroad track be added to ensure continuous rail service during construction. The railroad controls the design process, but seems unwilling to come to the table and negotiate a realistic plan. The initial estimated cost of a widened railroad bridge is $28.5 million.

Double Roundabouts at Both Ends of San Ysidro Overpass

At the urging of Supervisor Carbajal, Matt Dobberteen, Public Works director of the County Transportation Planning Division, presented the Montecito Association with four alternatives, including a San Ysidro bridge widening, and/or roundabouts at both ends of the San Ysidro overpass. Audience reaction was mixed. Nearby residents feared a change in character to the neighborhood, with the added lighting, concrete, sidewalks, traffic, etc. One neighbor suggested staggering the release time for MUS parent pick-up to mitigate congestion at no cost. There are no estimates for cost or available funding for construction at this intersection.

Aesthetics and Changes in the Community Character

Montecito residents are rightly concerned that a widened highway, plus a new 90-foot railroad bridge and multiple roundabouts built to today’s urban standards, could downgrade the traditional semi-rural character of Montecito.

Unfortunately, Montecito possesses the narrowest right-of-way corridor in the 16-mile stretch. This means a center median barrier with no room for landscaping. Lanes in selected locations will be narrower than the desired 12 feet.

Shoulders will be tiny to non-existent. Making Montecito beautiful will be a significant challenge for landscape architects and highway engineers faced with a limited palette.

The good news: change is inevitable; only our reaction to it is optional. The bad news: this is Montecito, where lawsuits and delay too often trump common sense.

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Pianist Leon Fleisher will participate in our 2015 Summer Festival as a Mosher guest artist

couple of weeks ago, the Music Academy of the West’s (MAW) announced four new initiatives for the upcoming annual summer classical music festival, a package that includes a limited number of $10 community access tickets to all festival events, limited free admission to children ages 7-17 for all events, live streaming of four events per week including some master classes and performances, and a much larger open house, including performances, early in the season.

The Village Beat column in last week’s Journal delineated the details – including the fact that nearly all of the 4,400 seats for the New York Philharmonic’s landmark concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl on August 3 will be sold for $10 – but because the new programs are something of a sea change for the academy as it enters its 68th season, we probed a little further,

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asking president Scott Reed to go into the background and objectives of the new moves.

Q. These are some pretty big changes you’ve come up with.

A. Yes, it’s a real shift for us. Rather than just opening our doors in the name of accessibility, we’re really throwing them open.

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while serving our current one. Our mission statement starts with training the next generation of classical musicians, but we also hold the second element – cultivating discerning and adventurous audiences – in equal value and accountability. We want to take part in anything we can do to make our industry sustainable.

Classical music has the opportunity to change people’s lives, so having more people engaged is an absolute must for us.

You’ve had the $15 tickets at the Granada orchestral concerts for a couple of years. But now they’re being moved out of the cheap seats.

Yes, there were 300 seats in the balcony. But our new marketing VP said we needed a more accessible price point at $10 and had to move the community access patrons to where they would be all the sections in the theater. Particularly for new audiences, it’s not just about getting them to come only once. If we make it a great experience, they might become regular audience members. So it’s still 300 seats, but they’re in the orchestra, the front of the loge and the boxes – spread out everywhere.

I understand Tuesday@8 series of faculty recitals is also changing.

We’re moving it back to the Lobero, which will double our capacity, adding 300 seats to all of those concerts, which have sold out ever since we moved to Hahn Hall. We tried one last year and it did sell out, so we know the audience is there. Our job is to make the programs dynamic so people will want to come. We’re also changing the name, because Tuesday@8 was an insider’s term, and it might not invite new audiences. The Festival Artists Series states what it actually is – our festival artists in concert.

On the other hand, though, you’re giving up the intimacy of Hahn, and the chance for the faculty to perform on campus. Isn’t there some concern about alienating longtime supporters?

We’re trying to have something for everyone rather than everything for some. We want you to have choices.

We’re not moving MAW forward by trying to build consensus on every programming choice we offer. By making us more available to the community, it also gives us a little more freedom to move beyond constraints.

We’ll have more people in the seats supporting our programs and our fellows, and developing different tastes.

That’s what a vibrant cultural organization should always be doing.

Doesn’t holding back a percentage of tickets for community access mean fewer available for your current audiences?

• The Voice of the Village •

We want to always make room for new audiences... but the intent is not to make us unavailable. It’s a great problem to have – may we have that problem as often as possible. To have such demand for classical music in this town that we have to figure out how to make more available – we’re always up for that challenge. But it does mean that longtime supporters and audience members will need to act fast.

The free tickets for kids 7-17 is also new, and quite a change.

It’s about removing obstacles for parents to come to our concerts, but we’re also saying that our program are for kids, too. Bring them – we love it. We want to cultivate our next audience with us. The NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) just came out with a report that said that children who go to classical music concerts when they’re young are 3-4 times more likely to attend concerts later as adults. When you look at making our art form sustainable, that has to be the focus. And to be clear, we’re not creating children’s programs but inviting them to come to what we’re already doing. We’re giving our industry more of a chance to survive and grow.

I should note, though, that just because you make tickets less expensive or even free, it doesn’t mean people will come. You still have to go out and cultivate the audience. You’re changing patterns and lifestyles and how things are prioritized. Our commitment to relationship building has been instrumental in making MAW a vital community resource. We know that ingredient, that process has worked. It comes from a grassroots level and reaches out proactively. Our biggest new move has been with a new position, where the box office manager has become a comprehensive full-time community access position to help develop relationships throughout the year, so that by the time we get to summer they’re already established. We’ve augmented the administration not just in pricing, but personnel and programming.

(Subscriptions for the 2015 Summer Music Festival go on sale on March 16.

Single tickets will be available on April 24. Call 969-8787 or visit www.musica cademy.org.)

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Santa Barbara’s Fiesta celebration won’t roll around again for almost five more months, but you can celebrate Old Spanish Days with the Santa Barbara Symphony this weekend. In the orchestra’s next installment of its “Your Night Out” season of themed programming, music director Nir Kabaretti conducts Impressions of 12 – 19 March 2015

Spain, featuring a musical journey through the old country.

Philadelphia-based violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen serves as soloist for Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 21, a bubbly 1873 ode to Spanish musical culture that is actually more of a concerto in that the soloist is called upon to display significant feats of instrumental prowess. Koljonen, who the Philadelphia Inquirer called “a violinist of immense presence” – would seem up to the task, as she has performed in more than 100 cities around the world, including Boston Pops, Minnesota Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic and the symphonies of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Helsinki, and Seoul.

The concert will also feature Jules Massenet’s music from the 1884 ballet El Cid, the interlude and dance from Manuel de Falla’s 1904-05 opera La Vida Breve (The Brief Life), and Rimsky-Korsakov’s 1887 piece Capriccio Espagnol, which audiences might recognize through the folk tunes that have been used in several Hollywood films, from Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and Brokeback Mountain. Also part of the program is Santa Barbara-raised flamenco dancer Laura Dubroca, who will take to the stage at the Granada, which itself is part of the Spanish heritage of our town.

Tickets for the concerts, at 8 pm Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, cost $28$133 with special rates for seniors and students. Call 898-9386 or visit www. thesymphony.org.

British Isles and Irish Eyes Smiling There’s also a theme for the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra’s next concert, which since it takes place on Tuesday, March 17, celebrates the music of the British Isles. Led by music director Heiichiro Ohyama, the ensemble will perform Frank Bridge’s An Irish Melody (‘Londonderry Air’), H. 86; The intermezzo from Frederick Delius’ Fennimore & Gerda attacca and the prelude from Irmelin; Felix Mendelssohn The Hebrides, Op. 26 (Fingal’s Cave); and Johannes Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15. The latter piece features soloist Alessio Bax, the still-young Italian pianist who has played with the SBCO previously, though his most recent gig in town was a recital with superstar violinist Joshua Bell. Tickets to the 7:30 pm concert at the Lobero Theatre cost $50 or $60, with special discounts for seniors and students as well as families. Call 963-0761 or visit www. lobero.com.

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Mary Craig Auditorium hosts chamber music concerts with two exciting and ambitious string quartets this week that challenge the notion of classical music as being performed primarily by old white men.

The multicultural Catalyst Quartet, a local favorite, kicks things off on Thursday, March 12, with a highly-anticipate return to the museum. The Catalyst, comprised of top alumni of the internationally acclaimed Sphinx Competition for black and Latino string players in Detroit, gave a sneak preview of the current program the last time they came through town last March. Tonight, we get the full performance of their own ambitiously and painstakingly crafted arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations – which were made famous by pianist Glen Gould – paired with Gould’s own String Quartet, Op. 1.

South of the Border Mexico’s Cuarteto Latinoamericano, considered the leading proponent of Latin American music for string quartet, heads to the Craig on Tuesday, March 17 (sorry, no St. Patrick’s Day celebration here). The quartet – comprised of the three Bitrán brothers, violinists Saúl and Arón and cellist Alvaro, along with violist Javier Montiel – will play a cross-cultural program featuring Bach’s Two Counterpoints from the Art of the Fugue, Gonzalo Castellanos Yumar’s Fantasia for String Quartet, George Gershwin’s Lullaby, Echú by Alejandro Cardona, Miguel del Aguila’s Presto II, and Alberto Ginastera’s String Quartet No. 2.

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COMING & GOING (Continued from page 24) script of our short telephone conversation.

Q. In your book, From The Shadows, The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents And How They Won the Cold War, published nearly 20 years ago, you wrote that you believed Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “a danger to Israel’s future.” In light of the speech he recently gave to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, do you still feel that way?

A. I think that while there was merit to the substance of [Mr. Netanyahu’s concern in his speech to Congress], I think that the way the speech was arranged was harmful to Israel’s interests, in the respect that Israel has had very broad bi-partisan support in the United States for a long time. By arranging a deal with the Republican speaker of the House, and bypassing the president, you ended up with about 50 Democrats boycotting this speech and you run the risk of support for Israel becoming a partisan issue, as almost everything else is in Washington these days. So, I think it would have been better to try to arrange the speech going through the White House or secretary of state rather than in this manner, because I think it would have contributed to preserving long-term bi-partisan support for Israel.

You have more recently suggested that after everything you’d given Israel when you were secretary of defense, such as advanced weaponry and sharing high-level intelligence, you received nothing from Netanyahu in return, particularly involving the peace process.

I think even the Israeli defense minister in my last months – Ehud Barak – was saying we had the best defense relationship, the best security relationship we ever had. The Department of Defense was helping to fund the missile defense system, Iron Dome, and a variety of other defensive systems for Israel. We put an X-Ban Radar system for missile defense in Israel, and so there was a lot being done on the security side. My concern was that in exchange for all this American support, the prime minister wasn’t very supportive of the efforts of the president or the secretary of state, who

were trying to negotiate some kind of two-state solution with respect to the Palestinians. My concern was that as much as the administration was doing for Israel in the security arena, there wasn’t much reciprocal effort to show some flexibility in things like the settlements.

It was particularly insulting when Vice President Biden was actually in Israel for the Netanyahu government to announce they were going to build more settlements. It was really a slap in the face, so I think the political side of this relationship has been poor, particularly since President Obama came into office.

“The Challenges Facing the United States” is the theme of your upcoming talk at the Granada. Can you give us little glimpse of what you’ll be covering?

Sure. The world we face today is a great deal more complex than the world we faced during the Cold War and the world we thought we were going to get after the end of the Cold War. We have a lot of different problems, from the Middle East to Russia to Asia and there are sort of difficult issues in Africa and obviously the terrorism problem has metastasized in many ways with both Al Qaeda and Isis, so I’ll be talking about those complicated situations. I’ll be talking a little about U.S. policy and what we are doing and in some cases what we should be doing. I’ll talk about Iran. I’ll talk about Russia and Ukraine as well as China, terrorism, and the cyber threat. There’s a lot to talk about; it’s a complicated world out there.

During Operation Desert Shield, after the invasion and takeover of Kuwait by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein you were the Deputy National Security Advisor. Can you give us an idea of the intrigue you dealt with based upon the possibility of a negative Soviet response to U.S. plans.

What was, for example, your advice at the time to President Bush?

Thanks to the diplomacy of [then Secretary of State] Jim Baker and the president – the first President Bush – the Soviet Union either supported the resolutions that went through the U.N. Security Council or abstained, so they actually cooperated with us in virtually all the resolutions that were passed

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in dealing with Saddam Hussein.

Then, at the end, Gorbachev became very nervous about the launching of the ground war and tried at the very last minute to stop it. Frankly, it was the personal diplomacy of President Bush and his determination to go forward that, first of all, kept the Soviet Union on our side but also allowed us to go forward with the ground war.

When the ground war began, did you all look at each other and go, “Whew, that was close!”?

Well, at that point there wasn’t much they could do to stop it. The U.N. Security Council resolutions had authorized the use of force. We weren’t dependent upon Soviet military cooperation in the slightest, and so in all honesty there wasn’t much [Gorbachev] could have done, except for perhaps raise a stink about it, publicly. But, by that time the wheels were all in motion and frankly, the bigger obstacle was the French, who basically had a problem with launching the ground war.

There was an interesting episode: I walked into the president’s private study and he was on the telephone with President Mitterrand of France, trying to persuade Mitterrand to go along with us. The information I had brought to the president in the middle of that telephone call was that Saddam Hussein had set all the oil wells in Kuwait on fire. When [President Bush] reported that to Mitterrand, Mitterrand immediately agreed that we should start the ground war.

Where does Russia go from here? Where do you see Russia in 10 years?

First of all, I think Putin will probably be the president of Russia until he dies. His formal term of office... under the Russian Constitution ...he can remain president of Russia until 2024, so that covers most of your tenyear period. And he is basically trying to reassert Russia’s role as a great power and demands that Russia’s interests be taken into account on any given international issue. He is deeply resentful of the collapse of the Soviet Union; he’s still bitter about that and believes that the West took advantage of Russia in the 1990s, particularly with the expansion of NATO, and so he’s working to reverse some of that.

Both that, and his desire or claim to protect the Russians that were left behind in newly independent states after the collapse of the Soviet Union, come together in Eastern Ukraine. I think his major objective is to keep Ukraine from ever joining NATO or the EU and have Ukraine go back more toward Russia. So we have a long-term problem, and he has become more belligerent since the sanctions were imposed. I think it’s going to be a challenge for us as we go forward.

• The Voice of the Village •

You were also involved in the decision

by President Bush not to gloat after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Yes I was, but I have to tell you that was mainly President Bush’s own instincts. As I say in that earlier book, there is no precedent in history for the collapse of a major empire without a major war, and someday President Bush will get the credit he deserves for having managed that. It was the way he dealt with other leaders. As I put it in the book, he greased the skids on which communism was swept from power.

He basically took the vision that Ronald Reagan had had and the foundation that Ronald Reagan had laid with the military buildup and the negotiations with Gorbachev in the latter part of the 1980s and built on that. Then, he managed the day-today events during that amazing period when Eastern Europe was liberated, Germany was re-unified in NATO, we won the Cold War, and the Soviet Union collapsed.

••• Secretary Gates’s next book (his fifth) is scheduled for publication in January 2016. The title is Leadership, Reforming the Institutions That Rule Our Lives. Gates reveals that its premise is “that we have a lot of government and a lot of bureaucracy, both in the public and private sectors and a lot of it doesn’t work very well.”

He says his book is about “how we can make these bureaucracies work for us and be both more cost effective and more efficient and user friendly, whether for the taxpayers or for customers. It’s based on having led a lot of reform,” he concludes, “at all three of the big institutions I have led: the CIA, Texas A&M, and the Department of Defense.”

I had many more questions for Mr. Gates, among them: What keeps you up at night (with worry)? What do you believe will be the endgame of the all-out radical Islamist assault on the West, and how long will it take for that to play out? If you were president, what would you do differently? Do you believe the U.S. has enough military force to project its power around the world? Are you content with an all-volunteer military, or do you believe there should be some kind of draft? Do you believe the current number of U.S. Navy ships, something fewer than 300, is sufficient? If not, what kind of vessel would you be promoting, and what kind of vessels would you either get rid of or downplay?

But we ran out of time; perhaps I’ll get to ask him one or two of those questions after his talk at the Granada. The ticket office is open Monday through Friday, from 10 am •MJ to 5 pm at (805) 893-3535.

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Ernie’s World

by Ernie Witham

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Poor Timing

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arly to Bed, Early to Rise… makes a man… confused.

“We missed breakfast,” my wife said.

“What? How can that be? I haven’t missed breakfast in 64 years.”

“They stop serving breakfast at 11.”

“It is 11.”

“Not today. Today it’s 12.

Remember? Daylight Saving Time?

We had to change the clocks?”

“I thought that was in November.”

“No, that’s Standard Time.”

“Does anywhere still have standard time?”

“Arizona, I think.”

“Great, let’s go there for breakfast.”

My wife handed me a Greek-style yogurt. I’m not sure when the Greeks cornered the market on yogurt, but their cows must be exhausted.

“That should tide you over until lunch.”

“What time’s lunch?”

“One.” “Why not noon?”

“Noon is now one.”

“Then when is one?”

“Two.” “Who the hell thought this up?”

“I think Ben Franklin.”

“The kite guy? Too many lightning strikes, I guess, huh?”

We decided to drive to the Santa Ynez Valley, where we could have late, er later, lunch and do some wine tasting. The Santa Barbara wine country is far busier since the movie Sideways came out 10 years ago. Used to be if you saw a bus, it was a school botany class searching for lupines. Now there are dozens of buses containing senior citizens searching for restrooms.

“Would you like a wine flight?” the waitress at Los Olivos Café asked.

“No, thanks, we have a car.”

“A wine flight is a tasting of six wines from the same vineyard,” the waitress said.

“Oh, well, then put us in the business section.”

“Excuse me?”

“Well, if it’s a business flight, I can write it off.”

“So I just read somewhere that Benjamin Franklin was an ambassador in Paris when he made an offhanded remark to a friend that one way to save money on candles was to extend the daylight hours at night in spring.”

“That must have teed off the candle-making union. No wonder he never got elected to Congress.”

“Right, so anyway, it wasn’t until World War One that people decided to actually implement Daylight Saving 12 – 19 March 2015

Time.”

“That’s what they fought over?”

“Do you ever read history books?”

“Not since my candle burned out.”

“I’m guessing that was quite some time ago.”

We finished our wine flight and asked for a connecting flight. I wondered if we were earning miles?

“You’re not supposed to gulp the whole thing down. You are supposed to sip slowly in order to savor the subtle nuances of the grape.”

“Can’t.”

“Why?” “We are already an hour late, and this time it’s not even my fault.”

After lunch, we went to Rusack Winery in Ballard Canyon. We are members and rather than have them mail us our shipments, we pick them up. I know they appreciate us going to all that trouble.

“Sorry, we’re closed.”

“It says you are open until five.”

“It is five.”

I looked at my watch. It said two.

The date was December 10, 2012.

Might be time for a new battery.

We drove to Solvang. All the wine-tasting rooms there were closed also. I was really starting to dislike Ben Franklin.

“Let’s stop at Costco on the way home,” my wife suggested. “We can buy wine and pick up something for dinner.”

The sun was in my eyes the entire way down the coast. Would we ever see another dusk?

Costco was mobbed. Everyone looked confused. “What time you got?” “I think it’s six.” “No, I think it’s seven.” “Is it still Sunday?” “No, I think it’s Tuesday.”

We grabbed a five-dollar rotisserie chicken, which was either an hour fresher or unfresher than usual, and picked up some wine that, calculating by its price, probably didn’t have any nuances at all. Then we headed home.

Night was still nowhere to be found.

“Want to watch 60 Minutes?” I asked my wife, turning on the television.

Before she could answer, Scott Pelley said: “Be sure to join us next week for another edition of 60 Minutes.”

Oh well, at least nothing else could go wrong on this, the shortest day known to mankind.

“Say, don’t you have a column due today?” my wife asked.

“Shoot! I forgot all about it.”

“Well, you should get started… while it’s still light out.”

•MJ Right.

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Gathered at the reception are John Kelly, Shauna Wolty, with SB mayor Helene Schneider, Sandra Urquhart, chair, board of directors; and Pat Andersons, OSB board (photo by Priscilla)

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Santa Barbara Seafood Pasta

Fresh Fish and Succulent Shrimp simmered with tomato, vegies, fresh basil & garlic tossed with Fusilli pasta & topped with shredded Parmesan.

Caught on their arrival to the MAD gala are friends and celebs Kelley and Don Johnson, Michael and Victoria Imperioli, with Todd Drevo (photo by Priscilla)

Granada, written when he was just 21, is a comedic night of music and singing at its very best.

Mezzo-soprano Eve Gigliotti was perfectly cast for the principal role of Isabella – her fourth time in the part – the apple of the African despot Mustafa’s eye, amusingly played by bass baritone Stefano de Peppo, with Molly Wilson as his spurned wife, Puerto Rican tenor Javier Abreu as Lindoro and baritone Luis Orozco as Taddeo.

Francois-Pierre Couture’s brightly lit Turkish-inspired set was perfect while conductor Craig Kier, director of the Maryland Opera Studio, used his baton with great effect in the pit. In her American directing debut, Israeli Omer Ben Seadia, did a most commendable job.

One of the most enjoyable nights at the opera in a long time...

Shark Lark Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry has launched an official “Left Shark” costume inspired by one of the backing dancers from the Super Bowl halftime show, who became an Internet sensation when he appeared to forget his dance moves live on air in front of millions of global TV viewers last month.

The former Dos Pueblos High student, who was joined by backing dancers dressed as surfboards, palm trees, and beach balls, as well as the now-infamous shark duo, for a rendition of “California Gurls” and “Teenage Dream” at the NFL final, tweeted the news to her delighted followers, advising them to head to her online store and pick up one of the $129.99 onesies.

As part of her new line of Left Shark clothing, Katy, 30, has released a T-shirt emblazoned with an image of the left shark, with the words “Current Mood” across the front and “Katy Perry” and “#leftshark” on the back.

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MAD for Amore Stars of today were out in force to meet the stars of tomorrow at QAD in Summerland when Santa Barbara High School’s Multimedia Arts & Design Academy – MAD – threw its third annual gala That’s Amore, with 240 guests raising around $100,000 for new equipment, including computers.

Don Johnson, whose daughter Grace, 14, is a member of the program, was front and center with Billy Baldwin, whose son James, 14, is also active in the group, along with former Sopranos actor, Michael Imperioli, whose son, Vadim, 16, is a relative veteran, turned out for the oceanside bash, which included the premiere of Dream Big, a film written

by Jerrad Burford and directed by his daughter, Grace, chronicling a visit by MAD students to Mexico in the New Year to help financially challenged residents build homes.

The group, which started 15 years ago, now has 250 students who work in a 9,000 square-foot, three-classroom building on the school campus learning digital photography, graphic design,

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Far Flung Travel

For Your Paddling Pleasure

by Chuck Graham

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dense ceiling of dewy overcast hovered above a redwood forest canopy, the steady flow of Big River ambling beneath me toward the icy Pacific of Northern California.

My carbon fiber paddle gently sliced through the glassy river, the only breach in silence as I followed the flight of an osprey. I could feel the tug of a low tide pulling me out of the coastal range and eventually along the breathtaking Mendocino Headlands.

About two hours north of San Francisco, the quiet coastal town of Mendocino is the great escape from city life, where time slows down to a crawl along serpentine flat water rivers that flow to gaping rivermouths like veins running down a forearm to the Mendocino coastline.

Besides the epic scenery of Mendocino, 87,841 people enjoy the dense redwood forests, America’s greenest wine region, microbreweries, and liberal views on cannabis. It is estimated that roughly two-thirds of the economy is based on the cultivation of marijuana.

Mendocino County was one of the original counties of California, at the time of statehood in 1850. Following the wreck of the Frolic during that same year, Harry Meiggs, a San Francisco lumber dealer, sent Jerome Ford on

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a salvage mission. Instead of finding Chinese ginger jars, bolts of silk, camphor, lacquered trunks, and housewares, Ford discovered thick groves of redwood and Douglas fir trees in the region. A year later, Meiggs had a sawmill erected at Big River. This led to the founding of Mendocino and the beginning of the lumber industry in Northern California. Due to an initially low population, it did not have a separate government until 1859.

State Route 1 – the Pacific Coast Highway – winds along the Mendocino coastline, hugging the edge of the wave-battered bluffs, crossing rivers shaded in redwood forests. It’s almost as if Mendocino was made for standup paddling. Paddle beneath quaint Pacific coastal villages atop rugged cliffs where knobby sea stacks endure crashing waves. Much of the coast is honeycombed with toothy sea grottos in various features, but there are many deep coves protected from the elements, making for easy entry points before venturing through rock gardens and surging channels.

Nearly 10 percent of the county consists of water, and 10 rivers flow one way or another through Mendocino.

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Eight of those reach the ocean and all are on flat water. Standup paddlers can experience the best of both worlds in Mendocino, leaving the craggy coastline and paddle for the serenity of redwood-choked runnels. Black bear, osprey, river otter, and mule deer are readily seen along the banks of the Albion, Navarro, and Big River.

One of the more interesting paddles begins on the Albion, heading upriver toward several floating cabins. River otters post up on the decks, and rows of 160-year-old posts still stand in the water once used to collect lumber floating down river.

Another paddle involves leaving the town of Mendocino on an eightmile round-trip paddle up to the Point

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Cabrillo Light Station, built in 1909.

Weave between giant sea stacks over crystal clear water while ducking in and out of tranquil coves and dank sea caves. The light station stands by itself overlooking the headlands, and on a clear day its flashing light can be seen 15 miles away.

If You Go:

Moody’s Organic Coffee Bar 10450 Lansing Street (707) 937-4843 moodyscoffeebar.con When the ocean and rivers are a cool 49 degrees, it’s nice to know there’s a cup of hot chocolate, coffee, or latte just up the trail waiting for you. An adjoining art gallery and Internet café are also inside, it’s a great place to hang out and thaw out in the cozy confines of Mendocino.

Stand Up Paddle Mendocino (707) 937-0700 standuppaddlemendocino.com Lessons and tours are held at Van Damme State Beach, just off Highway 1, in a deep, tranquil cove paddling along one of California’s most scenic coastlines.

In close proximity are many sea caves, narrow channels, and rock gardens occupied by curious harbor seals, pigeon guillemots, ospreys, and common murres.

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Frankie’s Pizza and Ice Cream Parlor 44591 Ukiah Street (707) 937-2436 frankiesmendocino.com Frankie’s in the village of Mendocino is the ideal place to pick up a quick nosh or to spend time savoring a tasty meal following a paddle. They are family-owned and run, serving pizza, falafel, and locally made ice cream, as well as other items from their own kitchen. Also on the menu are espresso drinks, tea, beer, and wine. Frankie’s uses organic, sustainable, locally grown products, and after you’re finished stuffing yourself, enjoy live music weekly.

Point Cabrillo Light Station State Historic Park 13800 Point Cabrillo Drive (707) 937-5804 parks.ca.gov If you don’t paddle up to the light station, you can enjoy a leisurely stroll from Highway 1 in a tranquil nature reserve where browsing mule deer and northern harriers frequent the sweeping grasslands of the Mendocino Headlands. The Point Cabrillo Light Station is the beacon of the headlands and is a cool alternative to learn about the history of Mendocino. Guided tours take place each Sunday.

•MJ The longest road out is the shortest road home. – Irish proverb

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At The Wheel

David Neel spent years assembling this matched set of vintage Samsonite luggage to complement the car

by Randy Lioz

Randy is an automotive enthusiast with more than a decade of experience in the industry. Originally hailing from New York, he came to Santa Barbara by way of Detroit to work for an automotive forecasting company. You can regularly find him at Cars and Coffee with his Porsche 911 or Speedster replica.

Studebaker’s Last Gasp of (Wagon)aire

The passenger-side vanity features a makeup surface and mirror

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hile the 1963 Studebaker Wagonaire was innovative in many ways, it was sadly not enough to save the company from ruin. Studebaker lumbered along for another three years, but ultimately succumbed to poor sales.

The Wagonaire, a version of the Lark wagon, had been the brainchild of noted industrial designer Brooks Stevens, acting on the directive of the company’s president, who thought it needed an expanded lineup but lacked the capital to make heavy investments.

The Wagonaire introduced a sliding rear roof panel to the Lark, which would glide forward, opening the cargo area for taller items, like household appliances. A wagon-loving family could use it for occasional pickup-truck duty, without the sacrifices that, especially at that time, a truck would entail.

The innovations on the car were so advanced that they would inspire even vehicles in the modern era. The 2004 GMC Envoy XUV featured the same type of sliding panel, and Ford introduced a tailgate step very similar to the Wagonaire’s on the 2009 F-150.

Despite their relative rarity, David Neel was able to find his on Craigslist a few years ago. He brought it to Cars and Coffee, in the Upper Village in Montecito, on March 8. Neel gave me a little tour of some of the car’s other interesting features. The headliner appears to be vinyl, but it’s actually cardboard, which offers an easy way for prospective buyers to assess the conditions in which it was stored. And where you might expect to find the glove box is a compartment labeled “Vanity”, which houses a make-up

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prep surface, complete with a mirror.

This delightfully quirky car was Neel’s first Studebaker, but not his last, and it’s certainly not his only car with an abundance of character.

When we talked that day, he rattled off a list of interesting American relics he owns, from a 1961 suicide-door Lincoln Continental convertible to a ’64 Jeep Wagoneer – incidentally, like the similarly named Wagonaire, also designed by Stevens. And Neel’s collection extends beyond just cars, to items like classic Airstream trailers and a 1947 Cushman scooter.

The other Studebaker in his collection is a 1964 Avanti, a fiberglass sports coupe that has been the obsession of many enthusiasts over the years.

Neel might sometimes have difficulty picking one from his collection to bring to Montecito, but his decision to bring one of his Studebakers Sunday morning was certainly strategic. He was also there to promote the L.A. Studebaker Drivers Club’s 30th Annual Winter Meet Car Show, which he is hosting at the Murphy Auto Museum in Oxnard.

The show runs one day only, Sunday, March 15, from 9 am to 4 pm.

Admission is $10, and that gets you a look at not only the Studs, of which there will be around three dozen, but also the regular collection of the museum (more than 65 privately owned classics), the current exhibit featuring Jeeps all the way back to WWII, and the museum’s 1,800-square-foot model railroad.

Neel doesn’t just run the Murphy Museum, he owns it. He took control early last year from Dr. Daniel Murphy, who created it originally to

Neel’s 1963 Studebaker Wagonaire features a sliding rear roof panel to handle tall cargo items

house his Packard collection. Since then, it has grown thanks to the several private collectors who store their cars there.

The museum has a rotating exhibit that changes four times per year, and when the Jeeps leave at the end of this month they’ll be replaced by a display of vintage campers. Later in the year, the exhibits will include classic Corvettes and Mopar products.

The museum isn’t a full-time gig for Neel, as it’s only open on the weekends, but it does get roughly 5,000 visitors per year. The museum relies on the generosity of donations from visitors and volunteer hours from its staff.

He and I also talked about the theme that ties together his personal vehicle collection. Many of his wheeled

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toys happen to be excellent examples of industrial design. Aside from those vehicles designed by Stevens, his Avanti was penned by Raymond Loewy, and his Airstreams need no introduction. Even the diminutive Cushman scooter is a study in design elegance.

Regarding his Studebakers, Neel says, “I just like innovative, outsidethe-box thinking, and both those cars were.”

Still, their “forward-thinking” design did little to guarantee success, as their production runs were short.

The Wagonaire died with the brand in 1966, and the Avanti’s run was even shorter, with only two model years totaling fewer than 6,000 cars.

“I like collecting cars that are unusual,” adds Neel. “That doesn’t always mean they’re valuable.”

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Real Estate

by Mark Hunt the unit offers 1,540 square feet of living space (+/- as advertised). There is

Mark and his wife, Sheela Hunt, are real estate agents. They live in Montecito with their daughter, Sareena, a student at SBHS. His family goes back nearly 100 years in the Santa Barbara area. Mark’s grandparents – Bill and Elsie Hunt – were Santa Barbara real estate brokers for 25 years.

Worth A Second Look

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he following homes have either been on the market a few months or more, or just came back on the market after a brief rest from open houses and showings. All are well-located and offer what I consider are competitive prices per square foot. Each also offers something unique for a buyer.

Most importantly, all are priced well under $3 million. If you are in the market and this is your price range, I believe each is worth your time and a second look.

Hermosillo Drive: $1,499,000

This 2,200 square-foot (+/- as advertised) mid-century, contemporary wood-and-glass house is on a small yet private lot, just a block from Montecito’s lower village. It features a clean, split-level design with an upper living room, kitchen with center island, master suite, atrium, and deck overlooking a lush backyard. The lower level has a bedroom and possible second bedroom, bathroom, family room with wet bar, and sliders to the backyard.

This home is in the Cold Spring School attendance area.

Plaza de Sonadores: $1,675,000

This two-bedroom, 2.5-bath, two-story townhouse enjoys vistas across the Bonnymede grounds to the Pacific Ocean and beyond. It is also centrally located in the complex, and is close to the pool, tennis courts, and just a short stroll to the beach. This is an end unit with a window that brings in the afternoon sun. Recently remodeled with a new kitchen, heating/AC, paint, carpet,

parking underground for two cars and an elevator. The Bonnymede complex is a gated community with 24/7 security located near the Biltmore and Coral Casino. This unit has been reduced from the more recent price of $1,750,000, and is in the Montecito Union School attendance area.

Dawlish Place: $2,150,000

This single-level, four-bedroom, three-bath home in the Cold Spring School attendance area offers more than 2,600 square feet of living space (as advertised). There is an open floor plan with spacious rooms, high ceilings, private yard with tropical pool, and a separate cottage. The property is .57 acres and is street to street, offering privacy, and a tropical feel, just a few blocks to Cold Spring School. Additionally, this home is accessed via a low traffic street (Dawlish Place) and includes an attached garage, and guest parking in the open driveway.

Eucalyptus Hill Drive: $2,695,000

Set on just over an acre, this home includes a grove of century-old redwoods that were once the meditation garden to the Solana estate, making this three-bedroom, three-bath home both unique and private from the street. An open floor plan filled with natural light and north-facing mountain views add to its allure. All spaces open to decks and pathways. The master suite includes a walk-in closet and spacious sunlit bathroom with dual vanities, soaking tub, and walk-in shower. Kitchen includes appliances by Wolf, Sub-Zero, and Miele. This home was more recently listed at $2,995,000 and is more than 3,600 square feet as advertised; it is in the Cleveland School attendance area.

If you would like more information on any of these listings or to arrange a showing, please call or text me directly, and I will be happy to make arrangements with the listing agent. I can be reached directly at 805-698-2174 or email Mark@Villagesite.com. Please see my website www.MontecitoBestBuys.com for more best buy picks in Montecito. •MJ

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of Balinese Court music in Europe, as well as a suite of dances by Tielman Susato; Building Modern China, a set of film music shorts from rising star Huang Ruo, a familiar composer to Camerata Pacifica audiences; Piazzolla’s Argentine Tango-driven Escualo and Oblivion, and a flamenco-inspired improvisatory work by Choi. The concert begins at 7:30 pm at the Center For Spiritual Living, 101 S. Laurel. Tickets are $20 general, $17 for seniors in advance, $25 & $22 at the door. Call 646-8907 or visit www. ptgo.org.

the way. The trickiest thing for me is considering that my daughter would feel one day reading it. How do I tell this in a way that’s respectful about her process of how we ended up with her? You do have to be prepared that people might not like what you say. But it’s your story, your point of view, so you’re allowed. But be careful you’re not writing a revenge piece unless that’s all you want. If you’re trying to be healing and helpful and funny – just lay it bare and be honest about what you’re feeling. That’s the best defense.

Opera in the House Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez star in Rossini’s bel canto opera La Donna del Lago in its first-ever Metropolitan Opera Live in HD performance, which screens at Hahn Hall and the Arlington Theatre at 9:55 am Saturday morning. DiDonato sings the title role of Elena, the lady of the lake pursued by two men, with Flórez (in his fifth Live in HD bel canto role) as Giacomo, the benevolent king of Scotland, in the opera Rossini based on the work by Sir Walter Scott. The cast also includes Daniela Barcellona in the trouser role of Malcolm, John Osborn as Rodrigo, and Oren Gradus as Duglas. Michele Mariotti conducts, Scottish director Paul Curran makes his Met debut in this co-production with Santa Fe Opera, and Patricia Racette hosts the live simulcast.

The New York Times raved about the production, saying “The wondrous Ms. DiDonato and Mr. Mariotti, the fast-rising young Italian conductor, seemed almost in competition to see who could make music with more delicacy. Ms. DiDonato sang Rossini’s beguiling phrases with soft yet penetrating richness, subtly folding ornaments, and runs into the long melodic arcs. And Mr. Mariotti drew hushed gentle and transparent playing from the inspired Met orchestra.”

What about exaggerating? I mean, you have to do that in TV, right, but then you don’t for the essays?

I try to stick to the truth. I take offense when writers are elaborating and still calling it a memoir. You can take some small liberties in condensing, or at least trying to make sense out of the stories. Once in a while I’ve put something in that I only thought or wished I’d said. But mostly, I’m pretty true to what actually happened.

Chupack Keeps CALM

Cindy Chupack won three Golden Globes and two Emmys as a writer/ producer of HBO’s Sex and the City and the current ABC sitcom Modern Family before she wrote her two best-selling books, which began life as dating and relationships columns in such magazines as Glamour and O. Although she’s hard at work putting together a movie adaptation she’s also planning to direct, Chupack is taking time out of her schedule to take part in the 29th annual CALM Celebrity Authors’ Luncheon this weekend. Fellow TV veteran Andrew W. Marlowe, who created the current hit Castle, is also on the bill, along with authors Kelly Corrigan and Hank Phillippi Ryan, with Andrew Firestone serving as MC.

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TV writer and producer Cindy Chupak will attend the CALM Celebrity Authors’ Luncheon

Chupack talked about her writing career over the phone from her Marina Del Rey home earlier this week.

Q. How did you first break into writing for TV? A. I grew up in Oklahoma with no real writing contacts or Hollywood connections. But I liked writing from a really young age. It was a journey to figure out what kind. I tried journalism and hard news, then essay writing, which was the beginning of my career, and it’s stayed with me through my comic personal essays and my memoir. They can really showcase your voice, which opened some doors for me in TV. My first published piece was spotted by a TV producer who encouraged me to go in that direction.

I took some classes at UCLA, then worked on a bunch of bad shows before moving up to Everybody Loves Raymond and eventually Sex in the City and Modern Family.

Has your personal life showed up in episodes you wrote?

Certainly on almost every show there was some corollary from things that were happening in my life or to friends or family. Raymond was a great place to exorcise family craziness. Frank not driving came from my sister thinking that my dad shouldn’t drive with her kids in the car. On Sex, a bad date or a conflict would turn into a story. Bad breakups definitely made their way in there.

Was it difficult to shift to writing a memoir?

No, it’s the antidote to writing for TV, where there are so many chefs because it’s a very collaborative process. It can be great, and scripts get better as they’re punched up through re-writes. But essays are just you and the page. They really are my voice and my stories as they happen to me. There’s no adapting, no filtering through a character or a given setup.

An essay is the basic skill of figuring out how to tell my story myself, which I really do love. Filtering through a great actor or heightening by using a character is fun, but to me the true story is always more fascinating.

You have a distinctive voice. How did you find it, and does it come easy now?

I always knew that you needed to have a voice, but I didn’t understand for many years what that voice was for me. Now I feel like I know what it is, and it’s pretty close to my real voice. I just make it conversational, and maybe clean it up a little bit. It’s just your sense of humor, your per-

(Tickets for Saturday’s 10 am event at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort are $150. Call 969-5590 or visit calm4kids. org/events/celebrity-authors-luncheon.)

Dance from the Floor Upward

The 2015 Santa Barbara Contemporary Floor to Air Festival’s public performances doesn’t take place until Friday, March 20, at the Lobero. But interested parties have a chance to join the decorated aerialist/instructors from six international aerial dance companies – five of who are brand new to Santa Barbara – in trainings and workshops covering a multitude of aerial disciplines and contemporary dance that begin on Sunday.

The whole concept of dancing above the ground might seem daunting, but festival director Ninette Paloma, who also runs the Santa Barbara Centre for Aerial Arts, said there’s no reason utter newbies can’t join in the fun.

“Two of our classes are curated for the absolute novice, including a morning fabrics class that would be perfect for a beginner who is enthralled with the genre and wants to get her feet wet,” she explained, adding that the afternoon lyra (metal aerial hoop) would also work. “I’d love it if a 45-year-old Montecito woman who always dreamed of being in Cirque du Soleil reads this and decides, ‘Let me just go for it.’”

Paloma promised she’d not only keep newcomers safe but also make sure they got what they came for.

“I guarantee I’ll groom her wings in one week’s time.”

Interested? Call Paloma at 284-8785 or visit www.sbaerial.com, which is also where you can find details on the festival itself. See next week’s column •MJ for a preview of the show.

SB Contemporary Floor to Air Festival flows into the Lobero on Friday, March 20

Do people ever object to having their personal lives made public?

My technique in the past was to accept much of the blame when things went wrong. So, writing fairly about your own part in it, being as critical about yourself, makes it much more palatable for the people you are writing about. With this new book, it’s different because it’s a lasting relationship. But (my husband) was really supportive. I read it to him along • The Voice of the Village •

spective. There are definitely much more literary writers than me – David Mamet and Woody Allen – where you recognize the rhythm of their dialogue. It’s something you find after years of writing. If you’re true to yourself, you eventually hear the rhythm in your head.

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Our Town

Movie still: Nicholas Den looks out from Dos Pueblos Ranch (Photo credit: M&T Love 2014)

by Joanne A. Calitri

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The American Irish

Den walks with his young bride, Rosa (Photo credit: M&T Love 2014)

Screening the new film about Nicholas Den at the American Irish Historical Society office in Santa Barbara with (from left) board director Judith McDermott, filmmakers Michael and Tina Love, and AIHS president Frank McGinity

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n time for St. Patrick’s Day, the American Irish Historical Society (AIHS), headed by Montecito’s Frank McGinity for the past decade, is premiering a new film on the life of Santa Barbara resident Nicholas Den on Friday, March 13, at the Carriage House Museum titled Don Nícolas Den: Irish Pioneer to Santa Barbara, followed by a celebration with all the Irish trimmings we know and love, and featuring live Irish music by Dannsair and a Q&A with the filmmakers.

The Shulte Foundation is sponsoring the film with the AIHS. Den’s mark in the history of our town is vast, though not widely known, save for those deep into SB history circa 1830-60. Frank commissioned filmmakers Michael and Tina Love (Quastra Productions) to do the film, and invited me to his office for a personal viewing with them and a few board members.

The film begins with Frank by the grave of Den located at the Santa Barbara Mission. It has historic photographs and reenactments of key times in Den’s life, such as the famous duel with a posse fought in 1850 between outlaw Jack Powers and Den on the Carrillo Street, between Santa Barbara and Garden streets. My favorite and the highlight of the film is Doug House playing guitar and singing an original song written by Doug and Michael Love about the story of the duel. Of course, you will have to see the film to find out who won!

Following the screening, we talked about the making of the movie: Q. Frank, what inspired you to commission a documentary on Nicholas Den? 12 – 19 March 2015

Frank: Den played a remarkable role on the history of Santa Barbara and preserving the Santa Barbara Mission and what is now known as Our Lady of Sorrows Church. Briefly, Den owned the Dos Pueblos Ranch where Native American Indians had lived for 8,000 years. By the time Den arrived here from Ireland by way of Boston in 1836, it was an adobe town of 900 people and the Mexican flag dominated. Den had a contact in SB named Daniel Hill, who was married to Rafaela Louisa, the granddaughter of Don Jose Francisco de Ortega. The Ortega family founded SB and built The Presido. Hill took Den in on his cattle ranch. Den learned Spanish and acquired the Dos Pueblos Ranch in 1843. The president of Mission Santa Barbara, Father Narciso Durán, loaned him money to buy a herd of cattle. Den returned that kindness historically in 1845 by saving the mission from takeover by Pío Pico, the last Mexican governor of California.

Den married Rosa Ortega Hill and built another adobe on the corner of State and Figueroa streets, where the AIHS offices are now. They had a family of 10 children. In 1846, he took the position of “Comandante” preventing unnecessary bloodshed in the transition from Mexican to American rule. He brought honor to his Irish homeland and SB.

The film is a short...

Love: As far as a documentary about Den, I think this is the right length.

The film focuses on Den’s time in Santa Barbara from his arrival in 1836 to 1862, when he died. A dramatic feature film could certainly be made about this period in Santa Barbara history.

Did you use SB locals in the film, aside from Doug House...

Love: Yes, Michael Redmon, director of Research SB Historical Museum; Tina Foss Mission SB; Frank McGinity, American Irish Historical Society; Tom Petersen, curator SB Carriage Museum; Erin Graffy, author and SB historian; and Lynn Gamble, anthropology pro-

fessor UCSB. It was filmed on location at the Dos Pueblos Ranch, the SB Presidio, the SB Mission, the SB Carriage Museum, and the SB Courthouse.

What do you want people to walk away with after the viewing?

Love: We hope people who see the film will have new insight into this fascinating period in Santa Barbara’s history and want to learn more.

411: Film and Cocktail Party: Friday March 13, at 7:30 pm The SB Carriage House Museum Tickets: www.carriagemuseum.org American Irish Historical Society, contact Frank McGinity at •MJ AIHSfrank@aol.com

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3763 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3763 for the AIRPORT LIGHTING AND SAFETY UPGRADE IMPROVEMENTS will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 7, 2015, to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office.

Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “AIRPORT LIGHTING AND SAFETY UPGRADE IMPROVEMENTS,” Bid No. 3763.

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: AIRPORT LIGHTING AND SAFETY UPGRADE IMPROVEMENTS. The Project consists primarily of the following: Base Bid 1. Replacement of Airfield Conductors (Approximate Total of 202,000 LF) and Facility Transformers (Airfield Lights, Signs, and Wind cones-Approximate Total of 1,060 EA).

2. Re-routing of Airfield Conductors and Underground Duct Banks.

3. Installation of Elevated and In-Pavement Runway Guard Lights (RGLs) (Approximate Total of 129 EA).

4. Installation of Elevated and In-Pavement Edge Lighting (Total of 97 EA) and Airfield Signs (Approximate Total of 2 EA).

5. Airfield Pavement Marking Removal (Approximate Total of 47,500 SY).

6. Airfield Pavement Marking (Approximate Total of 36,500 SF) and Surface Painted Signs (Approximate Total of 64 EA).

7. Emulsified Asphalt Slurry Seal Treatment (Approximate Total of 26,000 SY).

8. Installation of Airport Perimeter Fence (Approximate Total of 3,425 LF) and Gates (Approximate Total of 7 EA).

Bid Alternate No. 1 1. Installation of Airport Perimeter Fence (Approximate Total of 1,840 LF) and Gates (Approximate Total of 3 EA).

The Engineer’s estimate for the Base Bid is $2,309,000 and $129,000 for Bid Alternate No. 1. Each bidder must have a Class A license at time of bid opening to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

There will be an optional Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, March 24, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. at the Airport Administration Office, 601 Firestone Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. All bidders are strongly encouraged to attend.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St., cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this Project is Jeff Leonard, PE, Mead & Hunt, Project Engineer, (707) 526-5010, jeff.leonard@meadhunt.com.

In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor must register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com.

Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED UNDER THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION (FAA) AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (AIP). Contractors must comply with specific federal required provisions as listed herein and contained in the Bid Documents. The following are required to be included in this solicitation for bids.

(Further information regarding required Federal Provisions are included in Part B, Special Provisions – General, Section B2 the Project Specifications).

By reference: 1) Buy American Preference (Reference: 49 USC § 50101) 2) Foreign Trade Restriction (Reference: 49 CFR part 30) 3) Davis Bacon Act (Reference: DOL Regulation 29 CFR Part 5) 4) Disadvantage Business Enterprise (Reference: 49 CFR part 26) 5) Veteran’s Preference (Reference: 49 USC § 47112(c)) 6) Requirements for Drug-free Workplace (DOT regulation 49 CFR Part 29) 7) Banning Texting while Driving (Executive Order 13513, Federal Leadership on Reducing Text Message While Driving, and DOT Order 3902.10) Race Neutral DBE Goal - There is no DBE project goal established for this project. At this time the City of Santa Barbara (City) will meet the DBE goal on federally assisted projects through race neutral measures. The City supports the use of race neutral measures to facilitate participation by DBEs and other small businesses, and encourages prime contractors to subcontract portions of their work that they might otherwise perform with their own forces.

According to the Department of Labor, the minority utilization goal for Santa Barbara County is 19.7 percent.

1) Affirmative Action Requirement. (Reference: 41 CFR part 604, Executive Order 11246).

1. The Offeror's or Bidder’s attention is called to the "Equal Opportunity Clause" and the "Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications" set forth herein.

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2. The goals and timetables for minority and female participation, expressed in percentage terms for the contractor's aggregate workforce in each trade on all construction work in the covered area, are as follows: A. Timetables Until further notice B. Goals for minority participation for each trade (19.7%) C. Goals for female participation in each trade (6.9%) These goals are applicable to all of the contractor's construction work (whether or not it is Federal or federallyassisted) performed in the covered area. If the contractor performs construction work in a geographical area located outside of the covered area, it shall apply the goals established for such geographical area where the work is actually performed. With regard to this second area, the contractor is also subject to the goals for both federally funded and non-federally funded construction regardless of the percentage of federal participation in funding.

The contractor's compliance with the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR Part 60-4 shall be based on its implementation of the Equal Opportunity Clause, specific affirmative action obligations required by the specifications set forth in 41 CFR 60-4.3(a), and its efforts to meet the goals. The hours of minority and female employment and training shall be substantially uniform throughout the length of the contract, and in each trade, and the contractor shall make a good faith effort to employ minorities and women evenly on each of its projects. The transfer of minority or female employees or trainees from contractor to contractor or from project to project, for the sole purpose of meeting the contractor's goals, shall be a violation of the contract, the Executive Order, and the regulations in 41 CFR Part 60-4.

Compliance with the goals will be measured against the total work hours performed.

3. The contractor shall provide written notification to the Director, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), within 10 working days of award of any construction subcontract in excess of $10,000 at any tier for construction work under the contract resulting from this solicitation. The notification shall list the name, address, and telephone number of the subcontractor; employer identification number of the subcontractor; estimated dollar amount of the subcontract; estimated starting and completion dates of subcontract; and the geographical area in which the subcontract is to be performed.

4. As used in this notice and in the contract resulting from this solicitation, the "covered area" is Santa Barbara Airport, City of Santa Barbara, County of Santa Barbara, California.

Affirmative Action Plan.

The Department of Labor is responsible for administering the Executive Order 11246, which contains requirements for an Affirmative Action Plan. This Plan is similar in content and requirements to the affirmative action plan required in 49 CFR Part 152 subpart e. 49 CFR Part 152 applied to grants issued under the Airport Development Aid Program, which was replaced by the Airport Improvement Program.

2) Civil Rights - General.

(Reference: 49 USC § 47123) The contractor agrees that it will comply with pertinent statutes, Executive Orders and such rules as are promulgated to ensure that no person shall, on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, or handicap be excluded from participating in any activity conducted with or benefiting from Federal assistance.

This provision binds the contractors from the bid solicitation period through the completion of the contract. This provision is in addition to that required of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

3) Civil Rights - Title VI Assurances The CITY OF SANTA BARBARA in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000d to 2000d-4) and the Regulations, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full and fair opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award.

4) Debarment and Suspension (Non-Procurement).

(Reference: 2 CFR part 180 (Subpart C), 2 CFR part 1200, DOT Order 4200.5 DOT Suspension & Debarment Procedures & Ineligibility) By submitting a bid/proposal under this solicitation, the bidder or offeror certifies that at the time the bidder or offeror submits its proposal that neither it nor its principals are presently debarred or suspended by any Federal department or agency from participation in this transaction.

5) Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (Federal Minimum Wage) (Reference: 29 USC § 201, et seq.)

All contracts and subcontracts that result from this solicitation incorporate this provision by reference, with the same force and effect as if given in full text. The contractor has full responsibility to monitor compliance to the referenced statute or regulation.

The contractor must address any claims or disputes that pertain to referenced requirement directly with the Federal Agency with enforcement responsibilities.

Requirement

Federal Agency with Enforcement Responsibilities

Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (29 USC 201)

U.S. Department of Labor – Wage and Hour Division

• The Voice of the Village •

6) Notice of Nonsegregated Facilities Requirement (Reference: 41 CFR § 60-1.8) Notice to Prospective Federally Assisted Construction Contractors 1. A Certification of Non-segregated Facilities shall be submitted prior to the award of a federally-assisted construction contract exceeding $10,000 which is not exempt from the provisions of the Equal Opportunity Clause.

2. Contractors receiving federally-assisted construction contract awards exceeding $10,000 which are not exempt from the provisions of the Equal Opportunity Clause will be required to provide for the forwarding of the following notice to prospective subcontractors for supplies and construction contracts where the subcontracts exceed $10,000 and are not exempt from the provisions of the Equal Opportunity Clause.

3. The penalty for making false statements in offers is prescribed in 18 U.S.C. § 1001.

Notice to Prospective Subcontractors of Requirements for Certification of Non-Segregated Facilities 1. A Certification of Non-segregated Facilities shall be submitted prior to the award of a subcontract exceeding $10,000, which is not exempt from the provisions of the Equal Opportunity Clause.

2. Contractors receiving subcontract awards exceeding $10,000 which are not exempt from the provisions of the Equal Opportunity Clause will be required to provide for the forwarding of this notice to prospective subcontractors for supplies and construction contracts where the subcontracts exceed $10,000 and are not exempt from the provisions of the Equal Opportunity Clause.

3. The penalty for making false statements in offers is prescribed in 18 U.S.C. § 1001.

7) Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (Reference 20 CFR part 1910) All contracts and subcontracts that result from this solicitation incorporate the following provisions by reference, with the same force and effect as if given in full text. The contractor has full responsibility to monitor compliance to the referenced statute or regulation. The contractor must address any claims or disputes that pertain to a referenced requirement directly with the Federal Agency with enforcement responsibilities.

Requirement

Federal Agency with Enforcement Responsibilities

Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (20 CFR Part 1910)

U.S. Department of Labor – Occupational Safety and Health Administration

The Bid of any Contractor who has previously violated the terms of the Federal Labor Laws, and who has not been cleared of such violations, will not be honored. Also, any subcontractor under him under the same circumstance will not be accepted for this project.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California and the Davis Bacon Act (2 CFR Section 2DD), the Contractor shall pay its employees not less than the greater of the minimum wage rates determined by the State of California’s Director of the Department of Industrial Relations (state wages) or the U.S. Secretary of Labor (federal wages). The most current prevailing wage rates available shall be used at bid opening and throughout the Project. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code, and the Davis Bacon Act requirements, relating to apprentice public works contracts.

The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the OWNER in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work.

The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

PUBLISHED: March 11 and 18, 2015 Montecito Journal

William Hornung, C.P.M.

12 – 19 March 2015

VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 13)

Dani Leholm, owner of Dani BOY on Coast Village Road, celebrates one year in business

The satellite shop is located at the east end of 1187 Coast Village Road. For more info about Richie’s, visit www. richiesbarbershopsb.com. The shop is open from 8:30 am to 6 pm Tuesday through Saturday.

Next door to Richie’s, Dani BOY owner Dani Leholm celebrated her store’s first anniversary on March 9.

The kid-friendly clothing shop carries on-trend fashions from over twenty designers, as well as toys, accessories, and gift items. “It’s been a great year,” said Leholm, a third-generation Montecitan. “The community has embraced me, and I’m looking forward to seeing all the changes to come in this building,” she said.

In the last year, Leholm, whose children attend Montecito Union School, has become involved in the local business community, taking part in the resurrection of the Coast Village Road Business Association, and volunteering to help organize the Montecito Association’s annual Village Fourth Festivities. For more information about the shop, visit www.daniboy kids.com.

The shopping center was sold to Hank Hurst and Richard Rosin of H&R Investments in October 2014, and in the last four months the new owners have been busy making renovation plans to update the outdated building. Here’s the Scoop owners Ellie and Bob Patterson remain in negotiations with the owners, to move their 10-year-old gelato and sorbet shop from the ground floor to the vacant space left by Objects, located next to Giovanni’s Pizza. “We are still finalizing details,” Mrs. Patterson told us earlier this week. The Pattersons are approaching their busiest season, when the weather gets warmer and the shop is packed every day with after-school kids. A move would require extensive tenant improvements, in order to house the necessary equipment used for the house-made gelato and sorbet.

If and when the move upstairs does occur, the new owners have big plans 12 – 19 March 2015

for the current Here’s the Scoop, as they plan on remodeling the patio area for a restaurant tenant. While a lease has yet to be signed, we’re told the owners have been in talks with several local restaurateurs.

Elsewhere in the building, other plans are in the works and in progress, including a new roof, new paint and signage, new doors and flooring, new landscaping, and plans to overhaul the parking lot which fronts Coast Village Circle.

For more information about Here’s the Scoop, call 969-7020.

YMCA Annual Campaign Celebration

On March 6, the Montecito Family YMCA hosted their Annual Campaign victory celebration to acknowledge the efforts of their volunteers, donors, and board members to raise $160,000 for the general scholarship fund. Each year, the YMCA raises money locally to ensure that all community members can participate in YMCA programs, including summer day camps, preschool, youth sports, the LiveSTRONG cancer survivor program, and many other health and wellness programs.

Year to date, the Y has raised nearly $130,000 of the $160,000 goal. The YMCA recognized the generous donations from the Orokawa Foundation, Little One Foundation and the Ann Jackson Foundation, as well as the top individual campaigners, James Cleland and Bryan dePonce.

The celebration, which was open to the community, included a first annual Zumbathon with a live DJ and a guest instructor. To donate to the Annual Campaign, call 969-3288.

MPC & MBAR Joint Meeting

Next Wednesday, March 18, the Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) and Montecito Board of Architectural Review (MBAR) will hold a joint meeting in a effort for

Lake Cachuma, photographed by Bill Dewey

both entities to interact with each other and discuss what does and does not work in they way they have historically worked together. In addition, the group will receive a Brown Act training.

First District supervisor Salud Carbajal will be at the meeting, honoring past retired chairs of MBAR including Don Nulty, Sam Maphis, and Tony Spann, and MPC’s retired commissioner Dan Eidelson.

The meeting will be held Wednesday, March 18, at 9 am at the County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room located at 123 East Anapamu Street.

Corrections & Omissions

Right after we went to press last week, we were informed that the public comment period regarding the draft mitigated negative declaration for the Casa Dorinda Master

Plan update has been extended until March 31. Last week, the Montecito Association Land Use Committee voted to send a letter to the county regarding the negative declaration, suggesting a full Environmental Impact Report (EIR) be prepared for the project, given its scope and size, historic resources, and proximity to riparian habitats. That letter has been tabled given the extended public comment period and an upcoming site visit to Casa Dorinda on Monday, March 23.

The project is expected to be in front of the Montecito Planning Commission in the coming months.

More information is available online at www.sbcountyplanning.org.

Also, we omitted a credit for the beautiful photo of Lake Cachuma used on our cover in conjunction with the On the Water Front article. The photo was taken by Bill Dewey. His work can be viewed online at www. billdeweyphoto.com.

•MJ

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3740 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3740 for the El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant Influent Pump Station Variable Frequency Drive and Programmable Logic Controller Replacement Project will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, April 2, 2015, to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant Influent Pump Station variable Frequency Drive and Programmable Logic Controller Replacement Project, Bid No. 3740".

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: replace the two variable frequency drives (VFD) for the low flow influent pumps; provide a new programmable logic controller panel (PLC) and switchover control of all the equipment controlled from the existing PLC panel to the new PLC panel; convert the existing IPS PLC program to Unity software and modify as required to provide all existing functions in the new IPS panel; make programming modifications to the IPS PLC program; furnish and install two ultrasonic level transmitters for the IPS wetwell to replace the existing transmitters; furnish and install two wall mounted large format digital displays for wetwell level; perform all testing and commissioning of IPS pumps, VFDs, and PLC panel as specified; convert the existing PLC panel to a termination panel; and all other work per the plans and specifications. The Engineer’s estimate is $750,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Wednesday March 18, 2015 at 10:00 AM at 520 E. Yanonali Street, Santa Barbara, CA. The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Lisa Arroyo, Supervising Civil Engineer, 805-564-5486.

In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work.

Effective March 1, 2015, Senate Bill 854 requires the City to only use contractors and subcontractors on public projects that have been registered with the State of California Department of Industrial Relations.

The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.

Pursuant to California Public Contract Code Section 3400(c), the City finds that certain equipment designated within these specifications must be standardized to match existing equipment used within the City’s Water Resources facilities in order to facilitate maintenance and operation activities and to provide improved performance and reliability of these complex facilities. No "or-equal" substitutions will be accepted for equipment designated as “City Standard Equipment – No Substitution Permitted” on the plans and in the specifications.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: March 4th and 11th, 2015 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Accessible Yoga; Jivana Heyman, 32 E. Micheltorena Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Jason Heyman, 1723 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 2, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon.

FBN No. 2015-0000733. Published March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Stone Savers, 4614 Via Rubi Santa Barbara, CA 93111. David Mauk, 4614 Via Rubi Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 26, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter.

FBN No. 2015-0000681. Published March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ashley Chanel, 550 N. La Cumbre, Santa Barbara, CA 93011.

Ashley Chanel White, 550 N. La Cumbre, Santa Barbara, CA 93011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 5, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN No. 2015-0000787. Published March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SEAWINDSUN, 747 Reef Circle, Port Hueneme, CA 93041. Christiano J. Silva, 747 Reef Circle, Port Hueneme, CA 93041. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 3, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe.

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FBN No. 2015-0000745. Published March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Youth Drought Project, 1733 Calle Cerro, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Nurturing Across Cultures, 1733 Calle Cerro, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 27, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2015-0000712.

Published March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: E Madison Interior Lifestyles, 1159 Coast Village Road Ste A Montecito, CA 93108. Ellis Design Group, INC, 25652 Crown Valley Pkwy F3, Ladera Ranch, CA 92694. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 25, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original

statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0000664.

Published March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Zip Clean, 1998 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Soon Sik Tansen, 142 A Loureyo Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 19, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0000580.

Published March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Club West – Santa Ynez Youth Track Club, PO Box 5730, Santa Barbara, CA 93150. Club West, Inc, 937 Arcady Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 19, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby

• The Voice of the Village •

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5374 DUE DATE & TIME: April 1, 2015 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Marina 4 Restroom Remodel A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on March 25, 2015 at 9:30 a.m., at the Marina 4 Restroom located along the Seawall next to the Laundromat, located at 307 Shoreline Dr., Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or

by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California B General Building Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN No. 2015-0000594. Published February 25, March 4, 11, 18, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Santa Barbara Experience, 1429 Laguna Street #76, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Linda Baird, 1429 Laguna Street #76, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Janice Lyn Maynard, 1429 Laguna Street #76, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 10, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello.

Published: March 11, 2015 Montecito Journal

FBN No. 2015-0000483. Published February 18, 25, March 4, 11, 2015.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1486906. To all interested parties: Thomas Leonard Petitioner Johnson filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing from Thomas Leonard Johnson to Tommy James Johnson. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter 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 about must file a written objection that included 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,

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5378 DUE DATE & TIME: March 26, 2015 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Vegetative Fuels Management 2015 Scope of Work includes a 4 person crew + Certified Tree Worker/Supervisor for Vegetative Fuels Management in open space Parks.

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on March 18, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. in the Parks Conference Room located at 402 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, CA. Please allow 1 hour to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

Maps will be provided only at pre-bid meeting.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or

by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C61 Limited Specialty/D49 Tree Service or a C27 Landscaping Contractors License.

The company bidding on this must possess either of the abovementioned licenses and be otherwise deemed to be qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages.

If there is a difference between the prevailing wage and living wage rates, bidder shall pay not less than the higher wage rate.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed February 25, 2015 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: April 15, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 3/4, 3/11, 3/18, 3/25 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1486940. To all interested parties: Petitioner Adriana Elizabeth Hoyos filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Carlos Adrian Hoyos Ramos to Carlos Adrian Vineyard.

The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before

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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 about must file a written objection that included 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. Filed February 9, 2015 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: April 15, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 2/18, 2/25, 3/4, 3/11

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The hearing is to consider the appeal filed by Mark and Lauren Carey of the Planning Commission's approval of the application (No. MST2014-00116) for property owned by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and located at 2559 Puesta Del Sol, Assessor's Parcel Nos. 023-271-003 and -004, 023-250-039, 056, -066, and -068; County Zoning: 20-R-1 (Single Family Residential, 20,000 Square-Foot Minimum Lot Size); City Zoning: E1 (One-Family Residence); County General Plan Designation: RES 1.8 (Residential, 1.8 Dwelling Units/Acre); City General Plan Designation: Low Density Residential (Maximum Density Three Dwelling Units/Acre). The application proposes a Master Plan for the Museum which anticipates the following improvements over the next 10-15 years: improved pedestrian accessibility and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) improvements; renovations to the Marine/Paleontology/Geology Exhibit Hall and restrooms, resulting in a net decrease of 194 square feet; replacement of the butterfly exhibit; rehabilitation of Gould Hall; conversion of the 475 squarefoot MacVeagh Cottage from residential use to educational nonresidential use; relocation of trash and recycling; new fencing; a new screening wall along the northeasterly portion of the parking lot; as-built improvements and enhancements to existing outdoor activity areas; native habitat restoration; landscape improvements, including removal of approximately 2,800 square feet of existing asphalt; mechanical equipment upgrades; and interior repairs to existing buildings. The Master Plan results in a net increase in accessible Museum parking spaces (from 6 to 7), a net loss of Museum parking spaces overall (from 156 to 155), and an addition of four bicycle spaces (from 18 to 22). The project includes annexation of three Museum-owned parcels, two additional privately-owned parcels, and a portion of the Mission Canyon Road right-of-way to the City of Santa Barbara.

BID NO. 5334A DUE DATE & TIME: March 26, 2015 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. Annual Maintenance for Westside Summer Urban Runoff Facility Scope of Work includes Facility Maintenance, Facility Start-up and Shut-down, Water Quality Sampling and Scheduled Equipment Maintenance.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or

by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

Published: March 11, 2015 Montecito Journal

PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, during the evening session of the meeting which begins at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The public hearing will be held pursuant to California Elections Code Section 10010 to consider a Proposal to establish District Boundaries for City Elections.

You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990.

On Thursday, March 19, 2015, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Quick Links, click on Current Council Agenda & Packet.

Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.santabarbaraca.gov: Click on the Government tab, click City Council Meeting Videos (under Quick Links), and then click on the Video link for the meeting date.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at (805) 564-5305.

If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

The discretionary applications required for the project are: 1.

Reorganization of Assessor's Parcel Nos. 023-250-039, -066, and -068, 023-271-005 and -006, and a portion of the Mission Canyon Road right-of-way, including Annexation to the City of Santa Barbara and Detachment from the Santa Barbara County Fire Protection District, County Service Area 12, and the Mission Canyon Lighting District;

2.

A General Plan Amendment to designate the properties to be annexed as Low Density Residential (Maximum Density: Three Dwelling Units/Acre) upon annexation;

3.

A Zoning Map Amendment to zone the properties to be annexed as E-1 (One-Family Residence) upon annexation;

4.

A Conditional Use Permit Amendment to allow for the proposed changes to the Museum (Santa Barbara Municipal Code Section 28.94.030); and

5.

A Parking Modification to provide less than the required number of on-site parking spaces (Santa Barbara Municipal Code Section 28.92.110).

The Environmental Analyst has determined that the project is exempt from further environmental review pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines Sections 15301, 15302, 15303, 15305, 15307, and 15319.

If you challenge the Council's action on the appeal of the Planning Commission's decision 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 written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the public hearing.

You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990.

On Thursday, March 19, 2015, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Most Popular, click on Council Agenda Packet. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. Each televised Council meeting is closed captioned for the hearing impaired. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.santabarbaraca.gov: Point to Government, point to City Hall, and click on Mayor & City Council; click on City Council Meetings, City Council Meeting Videos, and then click on the Video link for the meeting date.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at 5645305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements.

Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange. /s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

(SEAL)

Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager March 11, 2015

A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures. – Irish proverb

Published March 11, 2015 Montecito Journal

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C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)

THURSDAY, MARCH 12 Rock Starr – Unless you’re very connected, we doubt you’ve ever had a chance to experience any of The Beatles so up close and personal as tonight’s concert with Ringo Starr up at the Chumash Resort. With 1,400 seats, the Samala Showroom was already a lot smaller than the Santa Barbara Bowl, where the former Fab Four drummer played just last summer.

But the venue has become a whole lot more intimate due to current expansion construction at the casino, resulting in just 624 seats for concerts during the period.

So, when Ringo wants to borrow one of your hearing devices, your ears will be a lot closer to the stage than ever before, meaning any “Photograph” you take might be a close-up. And when he sings “Back Off Boogaloo”, he might mean it literally, seeing as the stage will be filled up with his All-Starr Band featuring Toto’s Steve Lukather, Mr. Mister’s Richard Page, Santana’s Gregg Rolie, popmeister Todd Rundgren, singer-saxophonist Warren Ham and drummer Gregg Bissonette. Getting tickets might be an issue, but that’s to be expected, as you know “It Don’t Come Easy”. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Highway 246, Santa Ynez INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www. chumashcasino.com Focus on Film – Racing Extinction, the latest film from the Oceanic Preservation Society, the group behind the Academy Award-winning The Cove, goes much further than its predecessor, delivering the disturbing message that every day we refuse to listen to what the planet is telling us is one day closer to our own demise. Director Louis Psihoyos takes to the streets in a state-of-the-art

eco-cruiser custom-made by Elon Musk of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, early on crashing a California restaurant that serves sushi with whale meat, setting the tone for a film that is more interested in activism than art, and challenges the line between making movies and influencing policy. Psihoyos and co-producer Gina Papabeis will be on hand for a postscreening Q&A of the documentary that premiered at Sundance in January.

WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Pollock Theater COST: $10 general, $5 students INFO: 893-5903 or www.carseywolf. ucsb.edu/pollock. If you’d rather write a movie than watch one, the Screenwriters Association of Santa Barbara’s monthly meeting is hosting The StoryMaker Process with Cecilia Najar, which promises you can learn to write a complete story idea in under two hours using a simple and effective outlining process that will change the way you look at story forever.

Najar says the process works for any type of narrative including film, novels, webisodes, TV pilots and shorts. WHEN: 7-9 pm WHERE: Brooks Institute, 27 East Cota Street COST: free INFO: 617-4503 or www.screenwriterssb.org

FRIDAY, MARCH 13 Old Time Radio in Old-time Theater – Maggie Mixsell first brought exciting episodes of The Shadow, Sam Spade, and The Lone Ranger to Center Stage Theater when Speaking of Stories presented Old Time Radio Shows as an off-season special a few years back.

The Montecito resident reprised them at a much more venerable venue – the Plaza Playhouse Theater, an Art Decostyle former movie palace in downtown Carpinteria – two summers ago. Now, the theater is bringing the old stuff back

THURSDAY, MARCH 12 Tóibín Talks – Award-winning Irish writer Colm Tóibín’s 2012 book The Testament of Mary was influenced by his response to two Titian paintings, who is one of the subjects of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s major new exhibition “Botticelli, Titian, and Beyond: Masterpieces of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums”. Tóibín speaks about the art and the experiences that led him to write the controversial novella that was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013 and turned into a Tony Award-nominated Broadway play that April and recorded as an audio book

by Meryl Streep last year. Tóibín, who has published a number of nominated novels and highly praised essays since leaving journalism for the book world in 1990, is currently a humanities professor at Columbia University. WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State Street COST: $10 general, $6 seniors (free for museum members) INFO: 963-4364 or www.sbma.net

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FRIDAY, MARCH 13 20 Years of Freedom – The title has the same meter as the Academy Award-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, but the subject is quite different, though both deal with pop music and racism, at least to some degree. Tonight’s concert, honoring two decades of democracy in South Africa and the official end of apartheid, stars two of South Africa’s beloved musical icons who are also well-known as freedom fighters – Hugh Masekela, one of the world’s alltime greatest horn players, and Vusi Mahlasela, the terrific singer known in his native country as “The Voice”. Masekela has been an international star since 1968, when his instrumental single “Grazin’ in the Grass” became a worldwide smash (including reaching the top of the Billboard Hot 100. His 1986 antiapartheid anthem “Bring Home Nelson Mandela” served as a rallying cry for the freedom fighters, and Masekela himself came home to South Africa after Mandela was released in 1990. Mahlasela, who performed at Mandela’s inauguration in 1994, also helped ring in the World Cup in South Africa in 2010. The concert is part of the headliners’ first world tour together, and features a full five-piece backing band. A free Meet-the-Artist conversation with Masekela and Mahlasela hosted by Jeffrey C. Stewart, professor and chair of UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Black Studies, takes place at 1 pm today at the UCSB MultiCultural Center Theater. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $25-$40 general, $15 students INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu with a new production for a two-weekend run. The one-shots of six famous radio shows that fascinated and entertained radio listeners during the 1930s to early 1950s – including some of the above, plus Agatha Christie and Little Miss Brooks – span from Western to mysteries to comedy and star Independent Award winners and other well-known local actors who appeared at Circle Bar B, Ensemble, SBCC’s Garvin, as well as the Center Stage. Step back in time and enjoy the historic radio plays delivered with live sound effects in the style of the old-time radio studio. WHEN: 7:30 pm Fridays and Saturdays, 3 pm Sundays, March 1322 WHERE: 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: $15 general, $12 students & seniors INFO: 684-6380 or www.plazatheatercarpinteria.com

SATURDAY, MARCH 14 Maher in Real Time – Stand-up comedian, TV talk-show host, and satirist Bill Maher predated even the soon-todepart Jon Stewart in political commentary and conversation on the Comedy Central network with his show Politically Incorrect that began in 1993. It lasted until 2002, when ABC fired him as soon as it could following Maher’s comments in the wake of the September 11 attacks agreeing with one of his guests that the terrorists – who died in the crashes – were not cowards.

Then again, Maher had always been more

• The Voice of the Village •

controversial than the typical talker and nowadays – with his Real Time with Bill Maher show that recently resurfaces – he takes to Twitter to tweak. He bashes Bill Cosby and Republicans, of course, but also Barack Obama and Cal Berkeley students who protested his commencement speech, and provoked with remarks about the Charlie Hebdo attack and the movie The Interview. That means there’s been a whole new group of folks who have been lambasted since Maher last showed up for stand-up in Santa Barbara, almost exactly five years ago at the Arlington Theatre.

That’s where he’ll return tonight as part of his first tour since his latest HBO special, Bill Maher: Live From D.C., garnered one-and-half million viewers. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1317 State Street COST: $45-$99.50 INFO: 963-4408 or www. thearlingtontheatre.com

SUNDAY, MARCH 15 Speaking of Food – It’s mid-season for the long-running Speaking of Stories (SOS) series, and what better time for a snack break? Your hunger with SOS’s delicious performances, a veritable feast of tasty tales all on the topic of food, selected and directed by Montecito’s own Maggie Mixsell. Fellow Village resident Pamela Dillman Haskell kicks things off reading Angela Carter’s The Kitchen Child, a mysterious and farcical story of a precocious and

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 The King is Back – The winter season of our (jazz) content continues with yet another tribute to a giant. Following last month’s odes to Frank Sinatra (with Kurt Elling) and Billie Holiday (with Cassandra Wilson), pianist Ramsey Lewis and singerguitarist John Pizzarelli present Straighten Up And Fly Right – The Nat King Cole Tribute as part of the Jazz at the Lobero series. Cole was a rare jazz artist to break through on the pop charts, with a string of hits launched by the show’s title song back in 1943, which brought his smooth and smoky vocals to the masses. Lewis, who turns 80 himself in May, is surely among his sophisticated cool-jazz/pop descendants, with Lewis scoring a huge hit with “The In Crowd” in 1965, and Pizzarelli, whose father is the well-respected guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, channeling Cole, Sinatra, and other silky purveyors of the Great American Songbook to fashion a fine career. Bassist Joshua Ramos and drummer Charles Heath round out the quartet. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $35 & $45 ($105 patron tickets include priority seating and pre-concert private reception) INFO: 963-0761 or www. lobero.com talented boy conceived just as the lobster soufflé rises (“25 minutes in a medium oven”). Also on the bill are Robert Lesser reading Aleksandar Hemon’s Family Dining, a poignant, reflective, and wryly observed tale of mealtime, spanning boyhood in Yugoslavia to life as an adult in Chicago; Linda Burrows (in her SOS debut) taking on Elizabeth Berg’s charming, deeply funny and wise “How to Make an Apple Pie”; and SOS veteran Dan Gunther reading excerpts from celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. The performances are always followed by free cookies and milk out on the second-story plaza, but we’re told there will be, appropriate for the theme, some special tastings this month. WHEN: 8 pm today & tomorrow WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $28 general, $18 students & military and Sunday matinee tickets purchased

by March 12 INFO: 963-0408 or www.

CenterStageTheater.org

TUESDAY, MARCH 17 Chasin’ Jason – Jason Mraz has been compared to another famous JM

(John Mayer) due to his laid-back melodic style that encompasses folk music and soft hip-hop/jam-band rhythms. Mraz has been a popular performer ever since his 2002 debut spawned a hit single with “The Remedy (Don’t Worry)”. His massive 2010 hit, “I’m Yours” solidified his sex appeal with the slow groove of a sensitive singer/songwriter (who also collected a couple of Grammys that same year, though “I’m Yours” lost out in the Song of the Year department). After 2012’s Love Is a Four Letter Word embraced a smoother brand of soul, Mraz went even more romantic with last year’s Yes!, an acoustic disc that evinces a more mature approach to seduction. The record was recorded with all-female indie-rock-folk band Raining Jane, who collaborated on most of the compositions as well. They’re also out on the road with him for the latest leg of his tour, which arrives at the Arlington Theatre for a final gig before heading overseas for shows in Thailand, and China, before a South American swing in early April, proving that Yes! debut at number two on the Billboard Album Chart wasn’t just an American thing. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1317 State Street COST: $25-$75 INFO: 963-4408 or www.thearlingtontheatre.com •MJ

FRIDAY!

Hugh Masekela & Vusi Mahlasela 20 Years of Freedom

FRI, MAR 13 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL Tickets start at $25 / $15 all students

“Hugh Masekela is still one of the most thrilling live performers around.” Rolling Stone “[Vusi Mahlasela] has been celebrated globally for his powerful vocals and universal messages of freedom and human kindness.” CNN

Former CIA Director and U.S. Secretary of Defense

Robert M. Gates

The Challenges Facing the United States THU, MAR 19 / 8 PM / GRANADA THEATRE Tickets start at $20 / $18 all students Pre-signed books will be available for purchase

Event Sponsors: Susan & Craig McCaw

Sharks: The Magnificent and Misunderstood Ghosts in Our Seas David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes, Photographers SAT, MAR 21 / 4 PM (special time) / CAMPBELL HALL $25 / $15 UCSB students and youths (18 & under)

photo: Jennifer Hayes

Event Sponsors: Susan & Craig McCaw National Geographic Live series sponsored in part by Sheila & Michael Bonsignore

Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock SUN, MAR 22 / 7 PM / GRANADA THEATRE Tickets start at $45 / $19 UCSB students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

In a rare and historic duo performance, jazz royalty will reign on the Granada Theatre stage as they come together for a very special evening of music.

Event Sponsors: Cristina & Erck Rickmers and Anne & Michael Towbes

Gil Shaham, Bach Six Solos for Violin with original films by David Michalek

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18

TUE, MAR 31 / 7 PM / GRANADA THEATRE Tickets start at $35 / $15 all students

Shaping Chappelle – Dave Chappelle, who at 19 both made his film debut as Ahchoo in Mel Brooks’ Robin Hood: Men in Tights and opened for Aretha Franklin on tour, is headed our way. Chappelle starred in Comedy Central’s Chappelle’s Show from 2003-06 and then more or less disappeared from public radar for half a decade or so, even though his series once set the record for most DVD sales for a TV series. There hasn’t been a lot of advance word on what to expect, but Chappelle is one of the most edgy and innovative comedians working in America today, so suffice it to say you won’t be bored. WHEN: 7 & 9:30 pm WHERE: 1317 State Street COST: $58 INFO: 9634408 or www.thearlingtontheatre.com

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A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

“The outstanding violinist of his generation.” TIME Arts & Lectures is a co-commissioner of Gil Shaham Bach Six Solos for Violin with original films by David Michalek Corporate Season Sponsor:

Sponsors:

(805) 893-3535 www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu Granada event tickets can also be purchased at: (805) 899-2222

Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. – Irish proverb

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Checking the silent auction offerings are Jerrad Burford, gala co-chair; Melanie Cava, gala chair; Sheela Hunt, gala co-chair; Ben Mascari, MAD Academy president; and serving the wines is Racquel Nelson (photo by Priscilla)

Nautical couple Arthur and Sherri McNary back in home waters after Caribbean capers

by the Beach, have spent the past six years running charters aboard the 47-foot vessel in the Caribbean around the Virgin Islands.

“To have the boat back in Santa Barbara is the icing on the cake,” says Sherri. “Arthur and I have been sailing together for 29 years, from our first date in a Wet Wednesday race to cruising with our three children throughout the Caribbean. This

is our seventh season chartering on Green Flash.”

Sherri also has a food blog Flash in the Pan. If you want to try out Green Flash, named after the phenomenon created by the sun setting on the horizon in the Caribbean – I recently saw it again while on the Grenadine island of Mustique in October – call (805) 962-2826 for details...

Dan Willams, MAD Academy director; Carola Nicholson, MAD treasurer; thanking sponsors Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin of Lynda.com (photo by Priscilla)

visual imaging, and video editing and production, among other subjects.

“It had humble beginnings, but has grown into a flourishing center of student creativity,” says gala chair Melanie Cava, who was assisted by Pam Baumgartner, Jerrad Burford, Sheela Hunt, Nancy Kogevinas, and Maria Wilson, co-chairs.

Dan Williams, director of the academy, emceed the bustling beano, which had a surprise act, The Three Waiters, a New York based trio of tenors, who pose as real waiters and only at the finale, after singing everything from Verdi to Elvis, reveal their true professions. They also recently appeared at the White House.

Two talented students, Gabe Reali and Ava Burford, a participant in last month’s Teen Star competition, also added their vocal talents to the evening, while Italian culinary aces Alberto and Elaine Morello, owners of Olio e Limone, provided an eclectic array of comestibles and dinner.

Among those turning out for the cause were Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Victor and Rebecca Rios, Rick and Kristin Hogue, Alan and Monica Gross, film festival director Roger Durling, Victoria

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Imperioli, Derrik and Marcia Eichelberger, Randy Weiss, and Kelley Phleger...

Brilliant Bash Orthopaedic surgeon Don Fareed and his realtor wife, Linda, opened the doors of their Montecito manse for a literary bash for Florida-based motivational speaker and author Simon T. Bailey, who has just launched his latest book Shift Your Brilliance: Harness the Power of You Inc, a follow-up to his HarperCollins bestseller, Release Your Brilliance.

Simon, who has spoken to 1,000 organizations on six continents during his career, spoke at the reception, which included Merryl Brown, Tristan Layton, Susan Jackson, John Houchin, Baret Boisson, Zoe Felici and Marc Gelinas as guests...

In a Flash Santa Barbara has a new hospitality boat in its harbor with the arrival of the catamaran Green Flash, owned by tony twosome Arthur and Sherri McNary.

It is a homecoming of sorts since Arthur, who hails from Ventura, and Sherri, who comes from our Eden

Simon T. Bailey, author of Shift Your Brilliance and guest of Linda and Dr. Don Fareed joined by Mindy Denson and Tristan Layton (photo by Priscilla)

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were out in force when Wine + Beer in the Santa Barbara Public Market hosted tastings of Paring and Jonata vino, some of our area’s most expensive offerings and highly rated by Robert Parker, considered America’s most influential wine critic.

With some of the Jonata blends retailing around $80 a bottle, it was a delightful opportunity to check out the top maker’s products accompanied by cheese and canapés from the Culture Counter and winemaker Matt Dees’s insightful comments...

At the Public Market “Parings” are Robin Thormodsgard, Diana Fornas, Debbie Wilson, and Cindy Grubbs enjoying the Jonata wines with hors d’oeuvres (photo by Priscilla)

Child’s Play Culinary legend Julia Child, whose spent the last chapter of her colorful life in Montecito, will be remembered next month when the second annual Santa Barbara Food & Wine weekend, produced with the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts, takes place at the Bacara, including a grand wine dinner on April 18.

Actor Kurt Russell, who has teamed to make GoGi Wines with Peter and Rebecca Work at Ampelos Cellars in the Santa Rita Hills, will be making a rare trip to our tony town to promote the brand.

His actress daughter, Kate Hudson, also makes her HudsonBellamy Wines with musician Matt Bellamy in the same area.

Lorrene Balzani, Bacara’s creative director, will transform the hostelry’s cavernous ballroom into a rustic, Old West atmosphere, inspired

by The Wine Saloon at the historic 1880 Union Hotel in Los Alamos.

The Kurt Russell event is just one of 25 happening between April 16

and 19, with the proceeds going to Julia’s foundation...

Fruit of the Vine On the subject of wine, oenophiles

Cousin Chronicle Nancy Sumner Boger and her sister, Suzanne Sumner Ferry, are working on a new biography of their cousin, the late actress Kathryn Grayson, who starred in the MGM classics Showboat and Kiss Me Kate.

“We are looking for anecdotes, photos, and anyone who knew her,”

A new biography on the late actress Kathryn Grayson is in the works (courtesy imdb.com)

says Nancy. “She died in 2010, and we never met her. But my father, Robert Clarence Sumner, who is 85 years young, has some fond memories, but we would love someone else’s memories of her.

‘We are also in touch with her granddaughter, Kristin TowersRowles, a talented singer in her own right, who still performs in Los Angeles and Ventura County local theaters.”

If you can help with the project, call Nancy on (805) 683-8888...

Sightings: Former world boxing champ Mike Tyson adding punch to the dining room at Trattoria Mollie...

Former Good Morning America co-host turned NBC sportscaster Josh Elliott spotted on Butterfly Beach...Actress Amy Adams noshing at Los Arroyos on Figueroa Street Pip! Pip!

Actor and winemaker Kurt Russell making a rare visit to Santa Barbara for festivities honoring the late Julia Child

Readers with tips, sightings, and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmineards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

•MJ

93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY

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ESTATE MANAGEMENT SERVICES Would you like to enhance your security and at the same time become energy independent ? Contact 805-681-0600 or info@renewablecommunity.org All inquiries will be kept in strictest confidence

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Call Gil today : 855-205-6361

ACCESSORIES FOR SALE Several New Italian leather 7B shoes, retail -$520, will sell $250 obo. Excellent condition. Italian leather handbags and size 10 & 12 silk blouses. 805 563-2526.

AUTOMOBILE FOR SALE Classic Beauty 1966 Austin-Healey 3000MK lll BJ8, beautiful ice blue, original w/matching numbers, older restoration, great condition, excellent driver, expertly serviced, garaged CA car, 67K miles, 25% reduction to $49K, 969-9600.

HOUSE/PET SITTING SERVICES HOUSE & PET SITTING SERVICE -Client references. Responsible. Great with all pets. 805-451-6200 Birds/house sitting & estate management services. Travel without worry.

Local refs.

Avalon 689-0822 or email: avalonavian@gmail.com

POSITION WANTED I can help YOU organize your home, office or life. Run errands, grocery shop, pay bills, make appointments, Drive you, pet care & companionship. $25/hr. Excellent, local references. Sandra 636-3089.

Professional Live-In Coordinator looking to relocate to the Santa Barbara area. I have over 20 years experience in home care and the hospital setting. My goal is to ensure people safety and quality of life while living in the comfort of their own home.

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GHOST WRITER. Time to let your book see the light of day? Allow me to be the conveyance of your voice/vision.

(805) 267-6101 Jeremyfay@rocketmail.com Church Pianist available Sundays & choir practice. Reliable with 10 yrs experience.

Superior Refs eaarey@aol.com Elizabeth at 858-204-1238.

FABRICATION/MANUFACTURING 3D Printing & Prototyping Do you have a product idea?

Let us help you. info@AcceleratedRP.com 805-644-4720

HEALTH SERVICES Eating Disorder Therapy Get Help now for Bulimia, Anorexia, and Disordered Eating.

For information call 1 800 560 8518.

Adolescent & Adult Programs La Ventana Treatment Programs – Santa Barbara601 E. Arrellaga # 101, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 PHYSICAL TRAINING/COACHING Fit for Life Customized workouts & nutritional guidance for any lifestyle. Individual/ group sessions in ideal setting. House calls available.

Victoria Frost, CPT,FNS,MMA. 805 895-9227.

PR SERVICES Marketing and Publicity for your business, non-profit, or event. Integrating traditional and social media and specializing in PSAs, podcasts, videos, blogs, articles and press releases.

Contact Patti Teel seniorityrules@gmail.com

REAL ESTATE SERVICES Nancy Hussey Realtor ® “Nancy Stands head and Shoulders Above The Rest” ~Lisa R./Client 805-452-3052 Coldwell Banker / Montecito DRE#01383773 www.NancyHussey.com 2015 is your year to buy real estate in Montecito. Visit www.montecitohouses. info then call us. We have 60 years combined experience helping Buyers in SB County. Team service from 2 points of view. Kevin Young and Berni Bernstein, BRE #00834214, 00870443 COASTAL PROPERTIES, BRE #00834214, 00870443 1086 Coast Village Rd. 637-2048 kevin@sbre.com

BOOK BINDING REPAIRS Manuscripts, books & treasured literary works repair and reconstruct by hand sewing. Sheryl Robinson 805 324-4623

SPECIAL/PERSONAL SERVICES Everyone has a story. If you would like to preserve your past, pass along your hopes and dreams, and provide inspiration for younger generations, together we can create a written account that will become a cherished legacy for your family. Lisa O’Reilly, Member Association of Personal Historians 684-6514 or www.yourstorieswritten.com

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Private Physical Therapy in the comfort and convenience of your home, place of work or gym. Over 34 years experience.

UCLA trained. Josette Fast, PT 722-8035 www.fitnisphysicaltherapy Would you like to walk, exercise, get toned, breathe deeply, have someone to talk with, but don’t know how to get started? Call me: Avalon 689-0822 anytime or email.: avapache@gmail.com Let’s get together and discuss possibilities.

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SHORT/LONG TERM RENTAL Montecito Village home- furnished 2bd on 2 acres. Utilities & gardener. Available May/June/ July/Sept/October/Nov. $6500 to $8500/mo. www.vrbo/84421.com Mark 886-7097.

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