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Flooding

The beachfront and harbor were swamped by big waves

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Art

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art to open Corot exhibition 27

In This Issue

Birds

Opinion: Jeffrey Sachs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Photo courtesy of SB Parks & Recreation

Community News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9, 12 John Palminteri’s Community Voice. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Sigrid Toye: Harbor Voice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Community Market & Legals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-23 Galleries & Art Venues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 5 - 2 7

C a l e n d a r. . 1 7 - 1 8 Mov ies..........19

Photo by Susan Cook

Community Seed Swap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Harlan Green: Economic Voice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Playground

Bird of the Month courtesy of SB Audubon Society 10

Inflation

New playground equipment to be dedicated at Eastside Park 8

Flowers on a River: The Art of Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting, 1368-1911, Masterworks from Tianjin Museum and Changzhou

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The first child of 2024 was a boy named Eric Yang 9

Cover image - detail of Sun Di , Qing dynasty, dates unknown, Splendors, with Magnolia and Peony, Color on silk, hanging scroll, Tianjin Museum

Photo courtesy of Cottage Hospital

New Year's Baby

Museum Lecture Series Business columnist Harlan Green looks at inflation 20

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Lecture Series on Chinese Painting of Nature

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NSPIRED BY THE CONTEMPLATION OF NATURE AND CHINESE PAINTING, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art will hold a lecture series on January 6th, centered on their current exhibit Flowers on a River: The Art of Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting, 1368-1911, at the museum.

Expert art historians will offer detailed glimpses into some of the many facets of the flower-and-bird genre in Chinese painting and also reveal how these images of intimate nature can be thresholds to worlds rich with beauty and private emotions.

“Flower-and-bird painting is one of the three main genres of traditional Chinese painting, along with landscape and figure painting. Emerging in the third century, the practice expanded to include a variety of plants, fruits and vegetables, aquatic creatures, insects, and other animals, details of nature that are intimate in everyday surroundings. From colorful and descriptive portrayals of nature’s alluring offerings to monochromatic renderings of nature’s forms and rhythms, Flowers on a River reveals a diverse world of great beauty and private emotions,” stated Susan Tai, the Elizabeth Atkins Curator of Asian Art, in her program notes.

Flowers on a River: The Art of Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting, 1368-1911, Masterworks from Tianjin Museum and Changzhou Museum Lecture Series is made possible through the generosity of SBMA Friends of Asian Art and Capital Group, Inc. Oriental Lecture Fund.

Each lecture will be about 30 minutes with a Q&A following. The series will begin at 9:30am and continue until 5pm in the SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara.

Distinguished speakers that will be participating in this special one-day event include: (9:30 - Introduction) 9:45 am: Richard Barnhart – Yale Professor Emeritus in the History of Art Ducks and Herons in a Lotus Pond— before and after Bada Shanren 10:30 am: Hui-shu Lee – UCLA Professor in Art History Things that Gratify the Heart: Zhang Zi’s (11531235) Lakeshore Gardens in Time and Space (11:15 - Break) 11:30 am: Peter Sturman – UCSB Professor in the History of Art and Architecture and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Falling Flowers on a River: Contemplations On Nature and Mortality 12:15 pm: Shou-chih Yen – Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), Professor in the History of Art Reconfiguring the Order of the Seasons: Xu Wei’s Nanjing Zahua (Mixed Flowers) Scroll (1:15-2:15 Lunch Break) 2:15 pm: Stephen Little – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Florence and Harry Sloan Curator of Chinese Art and Head, Chinese, Korean, and South & Southeast Asian Art Departments Lives of Flowers at the Ming and Qing Courts

Hu Mei Qing dynasty, dates unknown, Plum, Bamboo and Mandarin Ducks. Color on silk, hanging scroll, Tianjin Museum

3 pm: Yun-chen Lu – DePaul University, Assistant Professor in the History of Art and Architecture Flowers in the Snow: Before and After Gao Fenghan’s Disability 3:45 pm: Ying-chen Peng – American University, Associate Professor in Art History Empress Dowager Cixi’s Flower-and-Bird Universe Li Baojia Qing dynasty, 1867–1906, Plum and Longevity Bird, Silk, hanging scroll, Changzhou Museum

For admission, (free to SBMA members and students/$20 Non-Members) visit tickets.sbma.net.

Check in time is 9am.

Xu Wei Ming dynasty, 1521–1593, Fish and Crab, Ink on paper, handscroll Image Tianjin Museum

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OPINION

Saving Israel by Ending Its War in Gaza

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been laid to waste and Gazans told to evacuate. Metula Mayor David Azoulai declared that “the whole Gaza Strip needs to be empty. Flattened.

Just like in Auschwitz. Let it be a museum for all the world to see what Israel can do. Let no one reside in the Gaza Strip for all the world to see, because October 7 was in a way a second Holocaust.” He later clarified that he would like to see the Gaza population “relocated,” not murdered.

Most recently, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a self-declared fascist, called for Gaza’s population to be cut to 100,000-200,000 from the current population of more than 2 million. Israel aimed from the start of its invasion of Gaza to push the Gazans into Egypt, but Egypt adamantly refused to be a party to ethnic cleansing.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs | Common Dreams

HEN CONGRESS RETURNS IN JANUARY, President Joe Biden will push the case to deepen American complicity in Israel’s war in Gaza through another US armaments package for Israel. Americans should raise their voice in a resounding no.

An arms package for Israel is not only against America’s interests but also against Israel’s interests. The only path to real security for Israel is peace with Palestine. The US can help bring this about by ending the supply of munitions for Israel’s brutal war and by promoting the twostate solution as called for by international law.

In the 1970s, the aim of dominating Palestine to create Greater Israel as a Jewish state was a fringe belief. Now it rules Israeli policy, in part reflecting the enormous political weight of hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

I spelled out the diplomatic path to the two-state solution in a previous column for Common Dreams. That path remains open. It is actively promoted by the Arab and Islamic countries and supported by nearly the entire world.

Israel’s brutality in Gaza is becoming a true threat to Israel’s survival. Because of Israel’s extraordinary violence, the world is uniting against Israel, while Israel is suffering massive military losses. Incredibly, some Israeli leaders are now openly advocating an even wider war in the Middle East, one that could well spell utter disaster for Israel.

The surging global opposition to Israel’s policies is not antisemitic. It is anti-genocide.

It is also pro-peace, pro-Israel, and pro-Palestine. If Israel ends the genocide, it will end the global opposition it now faces.

Defeating Hamas is not Israel’s real aim in Gaza The Israeli government argues that it is in a mortal fight for survival against Hamas, and therefore must take every measure, including the very destruction of Gaza, to survive.

This is false. There is no ethical, practical, legal or geopolitical case for destroying Gaza— killing tens of thousands of civilians, and uprooting 2 million people—to protect Israel against the kinds of preventable and controllable threats that Hamas actually poses.

During the years 2008-2022, Hamas and other militants killed around a dozen Israeli civilians per year, while Israel usually killed at least ten times more civilian Palestinians.

There was a spike in 2014, when Israel invaded Gaza, with 19 Israeli civilians killed versus 1,760 Palestinian civilians. Hamas launches many rockets, but almost all are intercepted or cause little damage. Israel responds with periodic massacres (as in 2014) and with more regular airstrikes. The Israelis even have a cynical name for their periodic killing, called “mowing the grass.” It is common knowledge inside Israel that Hamas long served as a “low-cost” political prop used by Netanyahu to “prove” to Israelis that a twostate solution is impossible.

In all the years of Hamas rule in Gaza after 2007, Hamas has never captured Israeli territory, much less remotely threatened Israel’s existence or survival. Simply, it couldn’t do so even if it wanted. Hamas has around 30,000 fighters, compared with more than 600,000 active and reserve personnel in the IDF. Hamas lacks an air force, armored units, a military-industrial base, and any geographic maneuverability outside of Gaza.

On October 7, Hamas fighters made a surprise incursion into Israel that lasted that horrific day. This did not reflect a new super-ability of Hamas to invade Israel but rather a shocking failure of Israeli security. Israeli leaders had ignored extensive warnings of an upcoming Hamas attack and had inexplicably left the Gaza-Israel border severely under-manned. Even more astoundingly, they did so just days after Israeli extremists had stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque complex, one of the Islam’s holiest sites. Hamas exploited Israel’s astounding security lapse by breaching the border in an attack that led to around 1,100 Israeli civilian deaths, and Hamas’ taking of 240 hostages, with an unknown number of the Israeli civilian deaths that day caused by Israeli aerial bombing and crossfire in the IDF’s counterattack.

By re-fortifying the border with Gaza, Israel has stopped further ground incursions

by Hamas. Netanyahu has ordered the destruction of Gaza not to protect Israel from Hamas, but to make Gaza uninhabitable and thereby to fulfill his longstanding intention to impose permanent Israeli rule over the territory. Netanyahu gets the added bonus of clinging to power despite his grievous other failures.

The Israeli government’s more basic objective is to solidify its total control over “Greater Israel,” meaning all of the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Its objective with the incursion in Gaza is to push the population out of the territory.

On October 10, Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated that “Gaza won’t return to what it was before. We will eliminate everything.” More recently, Netanyahu spoke of “voluntary migration” of the Gazan population—voluntary, that is, after Gaza has

“Greater Israel,” defined as Israel of pre-1967-War borders, plus Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, is home to roughly seven million Jews and seven million Palestinian Muslims and Palestinian Christians. Israel can rule Greater Israel only by dominating seven million Palestinians, or by driving them out of their homes by war, violence, and extreme discrimination. The quest for Greater Israel in practice leads Israel to commit grave crimes against the people of Palestine. The ongoing crime is Apartheid rule, with its severe injustices and indignities. The graver crime is ethnic cleaning as Israel is attempting in Gaza. The gravest of all is genocide, witnessed in the thousands of deaths of innocent civilians occurring each week now in Gaza.

Israel’s turn towards extremism The American people need to understand that Israeli politics has become dominated by extremists who mix religious fervor with murderous violence against the Palestinians.

This ultra-violent side of Israel is readily apparent in Israel but is still largely unknown to the American public. Israeli brutality in Gaza comes as a surprise to many Americans, yet it has become par for the course in Israel itself, although some Israelis are no doubt in denial of the facts on the ground in the Occupied Territories. The Grayzone has put together a shocking compilation of Israeli soldiers and leading personalities celebrating Palestinian deaths.

Israel’s genocidal violence towards the Palestinian people appeals to much of the Israeli public for several reasons. First, always lurking in the shadows in Israel is the memory of the Holocaust. Politicians like Netanyahu have long stoked the terror of the Holocaust to argue crudely and falsely that all Palestinians want to kill all the Jews, so that the violent suppression of the Palestinians is a matter of life and death for Israel.

Of course, as in any spiral of hatred, there is a self-fulfilling prophecy to Netanyahu’s rhetoric and actions, leading to counter-actions and hatreds from the other side.

Yet rather than trying to solve those through dialogue, interaction, diplomacy, and peacemaking, the cycle of hatred is stoked.

Second, orthodox rabbis have expanded upon the security narrative by insisting that Israel has a sacred right to Palestine because God gave all the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean to the Israelites.

Third, with 700,000 Israeli settlers living in the Palestinian lands conquered in 1967, Greater Israel has become a fait accompli for a large part of the Israeli people, with a large voice in Israeli politics. These settlers moved into conquered territory and now fervently insist on defending their settlements. The UN Security Council (UNSC Resolution 2334) has unequivocally declared Israel’s settlements in occupied Palestine to be in flagrant violation of international law, yet Smotrich himself, in the inner cabinet, is a leader of the settler movement.

Continued online at: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/saving-israel-by-ending-gaza-war

Jeffrey D. Sachs, who recently received the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Distinguished Peace Leader award, is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development. Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he holds the rank of University Professor, the university’s highest academic rank. Sachs was Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University from 2002 to 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Co-Chair of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor at Sunway University, and SDG Advocate for UN Secretary General António Guterres.

From 2001-18, Sachs served as Special Advisor to UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and António Guterres (2017-18). www.JeffSachs.org

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PRESS RELEASES

People v. Bladimir Agustin-Chavez, Santa Barbara Superior Court Case No. 23CR08975

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N DECEMBER 29, 2023, District Attorney John T. Savrnoch announced that the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office has filed a criminal complaint as a result of the fatal vehicle collision that occurred on Hwy 166 near Santa Maria on December 25, 2023. The complaint filed with the Santa Barbara Superior Court charges 27-year-old Bladimir Agustin-Chavez with the following crimes: Count 1: Gross Vehicular Manslaughter While Intoxicated, in violation of Penal Code section 191.5(a), a felony. Count 2: Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol Causing Injury, in violation of Vehicle Code section 23153(a), a felony. Count 3: Driving with a Blood Alcohol Content of .08% or Higher Causing Injury, in violation of Vehicle Code section 23153(b), a felony. Count 4: Driving Without a License, in violation of Vehicle Code section 12500(a), a misdemeanor. Mr. Chavez is also charged in Counts 2 and 3 with personally inflicting great bodily injury upon the alleged victim, in violation of Penal Code section 12022.7(a). Additionally, Mr. Chavez is charged in Counts 2 and 3 with driving with a blood alcohol content of .15% or higher, in violation of Vehicle Code section 23578.

Mr. Chavez was arraigned on December 27 , 2023 in the Santa Maria division of the Santa Barbara Superior Court. He remains in custody and bail was set at $250,000.

A preliminary hearing is set for January 3, 2024 with a preliminary hearing conference set for January 2, 2024 in Department 6 of the Santa Maria courthouse.

People v. Teodulo Nava Clemente, Santa Barbara Superior Court Case No. 23CR80038

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N DECEMBER 29, 2023, District Attorney John T. Savrnoch announced that the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office has filed a criminal complaint as a result of the head on collision that occurred on Highway 101 in Santa Barbara near Bath Street on the night of December 25, 2023. The complaint filed with the Santa Barbara Superior Court charges 38-year-old Teodulo Nava Clemente with the following crimes: Count 1: Driving Under the Influence Causing Injury, in violation of Vehicle Code section 23153(a), a felony. Count 2: Driving Under the Influence Causing Injury, in violation of Vehicle Code section 23153(b), a felony. Count 3: Driving Into Oncoming Traffic, in violation of Vehicle Code section 21651(c), a felony. Count 4: Driving When Privilege Suspended for Prior DUI Conviction, in violation of Vehicle Code section 14601.2(a), a misdemeanor. Count 5: Failure to Provide Evidence of Financial Responsibility, in violation of Vehicle Code section 16028(a), an infraction. Mr. Nava Clemente is also charged in counts 1, 2, and 3 with inflicting great bodily injury on the alleged victim. Mr. Nava Clemente is also charged in counts 1 and 2 with inflicting injury on more than one victim and causing great bodily injury within 10 years of two prior DUI convictions. It is further alleged that he had a blood alcohol content of greater than .20%.

An arraignment date has not yet been set.

District Attorney John T. Savrnoch states “This press release involves two separate and tragic incidences that occurred over the holiday weekend emphasizing the extreme dangers and irrevocable ramnifications when driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.”

Friendship Center to host 25th Annual Festival of Hearts Luncheon

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RIENDSHIP CENTER WILL RETURN TO ROSEWOOD MIRAMAR BEACH HOTEL this February to host the 25th Annual Festival of Hearts. This year’s seaside-elegance themed, Silver Jubilee celebration will take place on Saturday, February 3rd.

Friendship Center’s Festival of Hearts honors all the caregivers, past and present, who have supported an aging loved one through their final voyage. This fundraiser enables Friendship Center to continue to stay true to its mission of providing care and companionship to seniors and adults living with dementia.

Attendees will enjoy music, a delicious meal, and the comradery of a caring community by the sea. Guests are encouraged to wear their favorite nautical attire– sailor stripes, seaside elegance, and touches of silver to honor Friendship Center’s 25 years of spreading love and joy.

A special part of this fundraiser is the ever creative and evolving Heart-Art silent auction.

Local artists are given simple hearts to transform into exquisite pieces of art using paint, glue, and other materials. The funds raised will support Friendship Center’s commitment to never turning someone in need away due to their inability to pay. This vital financial support ensures that seniors and adults living with dementia can benefit from the organization’s programs, while also offering their caregivers much-needed respite. For info or tickets, visit www.friendshipcentersb.org

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Community Service Organizations Received Over $530,000 in Funding From CenCal Health

COMMUNITY NEWS

Photo courtesy of PSHH Emily Francis & Michelle Shoresman of San Luis Obispo City Council; Andy Pease of San Luis Obispo City Council & In Balance Green Consulting; Ken Trigueiro & Shelly Higginbotham of PSHH; and Candice Wong of Central Coast Green Building Council & Ten Over Studio

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CHIEVED IN COLLABORATION WITH In Balance Green Consulting and the U.S. Green Building Council, People’s Self-Help Housing has received the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) Silver award.

This certification recognizes properties built with exceptional sustainable construction practices. The goal of LEED is to create ‘better buildings that promote sustainability, enhance individual human health, and protect and restore water resources’.

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ORE THAN 40 SERVICE AGENCIES AND ASSOCIATIONS, as well as community nonprofits and organizations, have already received over half a million dollasr in community benefits funding during 2023 from CenCal Health.

“During this holiday season of giving, all of us at CenCal Health want to highlight those local agencies and organizations that – in various ways – serve all our residents, including our members, and especially the most vulnerable of our children, youth and seniors,” said CenCal Health CEO Marina Owen.

“PSHH is committed to creating sustainable communities, both for the residents at our properties and the staff members who live and work throughout our footprint,” said Ken Trigueiro CEO & President, “We are honored to have received this recognition for these efforts and will continue to implement these same standards in our building practices throughout the Central Coast.”

In October, the nonprofit organization CommUnify was presented with a $124,380 check for its Adolescent Family Life Planning (AFLP) program. CenCal Health provided the funding to support this program which serves expectant and young parents – primarily mothers ages 12 to 21 – in Santa Barbara County.

The 24,000-square-foot, two-story office building, supports nearly 100 PSHH staff members and is additionally used to host over 100 community and nonprofit events a year exemplifies LEED practices and features bike racks and lockers, refillable water bottle stations, solar panels, efficient HVAC air filtration systems, and drought-resistant landscaping designed to return rainwater back into the ecosystem.

Camp Mariposas is an annual summer program that provides therapeutic interventions to underserved school-aged children in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. The camp is run by MP Health, a health services provider contracted by CenCal Health. Since 2017, CenCal Health has been Camp Mariposas’ sole funder.

To learn more about People’s Self-Help Housing, visit pshhc.org

The improved park includes two new playgrounds, adult fitness equipment, accessible pathways to connect park features, remodeled restrooms, renovated turf areas, refreshed murals, and more than 250 cubic yards of fresh mulch. Enhancements to Yanonali Garden, the community garden within the park, are still ongoing.

The Eastside Neighborhood Park Improvement Project was a collaborative effort guided by community input to create a safer and more enjoyable space for residents while bringing expanded recreation opportunities to the neighborhood.

Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation

Ribbon Cutting for Eastside Neighborhood Park Set for January 11th

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Photo courtesy of CenCal Health

People’s Self-Help Housing Praised for Leadership

EMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE INVITED TO JOIN Mayor Randy Rowse and City Councilmembers to celebrate the recently completed Eastside Neighborhood Park improvements on January 11th, at 1pm.

The ribbon cutting event, hosted by the City of Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation Department, will feature brief remarks from City leaders and staff to highlight the history of the project and the work completed. Spanish translation will be available.

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In addition to funding these specific programs administered by CommUnify, Meals That Connect and MP Health, close to $122,000 in Community Benefits was distributed to various nonprofit and community groups. Other organizations, programs and events that CenCal Health sponsored or contributed to in 2023 include (in Santa Barbara): VNA Health Foundation, Foodbank of Santa Barbara, Family Services Agency of Santa Barbara County, Santa Barbara Foundation (Magoo’s Shoes), Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation, and, (in SLO County) 5Cities Homeless Foundation, Dignified Hope Care Community Service, and SLO cencalhealth.org Foodbank.

10th Annual Winter Bird Count for Kids

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LL KIDS AGES EIGHT TO 16 are welcome to Lake Los Carneros Park on January 20th for bird watching and more.

Experienced naturalists will teach Birding Basics and a Binocular Boot Camp, then offer a guided walk around the lake. Participants will learn how to identify, record, and tally the bird species observed.

Registration will start at 9:00 am at the Stow House Parking Lot. Free souvenir bird list and t-shirts available for the first 75 kids.

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First Baby of 2024 Arrives At Cottage Hospital

New Trustees Join Santa Barbara Foundation

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NEW YEAR’S BABY WAS BORN to Alyssa and Seng Yang of Lompoc, at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, and the baby boy was named Eric Yang. He was born at 3:48 am on Monday January 1st.

OUR NEW TRUSTEES have been welcomed to The Santa Barbara Foundation’s (SBF) board as of January 1st. The incoming board members are Innovative Produce owner George Adam, attorney and house counsel at Main Street Produce and Freshway Farms Alexandra Allen, certified financial planner and founder of Impact Family Office Kiah Jordan, and philanthropic consultant and former President of the Orfalea Foundations Lois Mitchell.

The baby Yang, who was named Eric, weighed in at 5 pounds and 15 ounces and measured in at 19 inches.

As the first child of the New Year at Cottage Hospital and as the Yang’s first child, Eric has begun an auspicious new life.

“We are thrilled to welcome George, Alexandra, Kiah, and Lois to our board,” shared SBF president and CEO Jackie Carrera. “Their experience in the community and expertise in agriculture, investing and finance, law, and philanthropy will expand and deepen the Foundation’s ability to respond to our region’s most pressing challenges.”

Cottage Health New Year Baby Eric Yang

One805 Hosts Annual Luncheon

George J. Adam

Photo courtesy of One805

Foundation board.

Pictured left to right: City of Santa Barbara Police Chief Kelly Ann Gordon, Lompoc Police Chief Kevin Martin, Lompoc Fire Chief Brian Fallon, Santa Maria Police Chief Marc Schneider, CEO, Co-Founder & Chairman Kirsten Cavendish Weston Smith, COO, Co Founder & President Richard Weston Smith, CFO, Secretary & Co-Founder John Thyne III, Santa Barbara City Fire Chief Chris Mailes, Santa Maria Fire Chief Bradley Dandridge, Montecito Fire Chief David Neels, Guadalupe Police & Fire Chief Michael Cash.

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NE805 HOSTED ITS ANNUAL ADVISORY COUNCIL LUNCH in December, which is comprised of all eleven Chiefs of Santa Barbara County’s First Responders. The annual lunches are an opportunity to discuss grants and other financial needs for local First Responders.

To date, One805 has provided funding to support the mental health counseling for all County fire departments as well as fulfilling grant requests received from 13 County agencies including police, fire, and Sheriff. https://one805.org/

Leaders in Tech to Discuss AI

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They will be examining questions around the impact of AI on the way we work, approach problem solving, even the way we go to war. Thompson’s impact on journalism and publishing is extensive, including many awards and a Pultizer Prize. Nita Farahany speaks about the gray area in human privacy and technology, and protecting our very brains as emerging technolgies put boundaries into question.

Photos courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures

HE CONVERSATION AROUND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE will be coming to UCSB’s Arts & Lectures series at the end of January. This time it will be between Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic and former editor-in-chief of Wired, and Nita Farahany, a leading scholar on the ethical, legal and social implications of emerging technologies.

Nicholas Thompson

Jennifer Doudna, Nobel laureate for coinventing CRISPR technology, has called their dialogue “A timely global conversation about how to ensure the ethical progress of neurotech to benefit all of humanity.”

Nita Farahany

For more information, visit https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/

GEORGE J. ADAM, a fifth-generation Santa Maria Valley grower, earned a Bachelor of Science in agricultural business from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1983. Adam has served as a board member of the Grower-Shipper Association of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties and is currently on the boards of Preservation, Inc. and Western Growers Association. He was a founding board member of the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum and currently serves on the Marian Regional Medical Center

ALEXANDRA ALLEN holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and a master’s degree in education from the University of Mary, Bismarck, North Dakota. Allen earned a Juris Doctorate degree from UCLA School of Law, where she served as the Women’s Law Union Executive Director and was a UCLA Law Review editor. She has served on the board of directors of the Santa Maria Salvation Army, California Women for Agriculture, Orcutt Presbyterian Church Board of Deacons, Alexandra Allen Grower-Shipper Association of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties.

KIAH JORDAN launched Impact Family Office in order to focus on the alignment of capital resources with an impact strategy. He graduated from Westmont College with degrees in economics and business, and also Spanish. He completed his master’s degree in social entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. He is an alumnus of the Katherine Harvey Fellows program and on the board of Leading from Within.

He is a founding board member of the Sustainable Change Kiah Jordan Alliance, serves as the chairperson of the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission, and sits on the finance committees for the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation and the Community Environmental Council.

LOIS MITCHELL was a philanthropic consultant from 2016 to 2021, during which time she guided 18 foundation clients to manage their ongoing governance, build grant processes, cultivate partner opportunities, and balance board dynamics. As president of the Orfalea Foundations (Kinko’s family) from 2000 to 2015, Mitchell led a 22-member team through innovative collaborations, creative campaigns, and an intentional fiscal and organizational spend-down.

She oversaw strategic community-wide initiatives focused Lois Mitchell on systemic change in disaster readiness, school food, preschool quality, college access and youth development throughout Santa Barbara County.

To learn more, please visit SBFoundation.org.

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Bird of the Month January 2024 Presented by Santa Barbara Audubon Society

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By Rebecca Coulter, Santa Barbara Audubon Society / Special to VOICE

For more information visit SantaBarbaraAudubon.org or call 805-964-1468

Photo by Susan Cook

HE SANTA BARBARA WINTER SEASON is brightened by the rich red berries of Toyon, a native shrub also known as California holly.

Most birders know that fruiting Toyon is a great place to look for birds, especially the Cedar Waxwing.

Present here September through April, these elegant birds—with their sleek plumage, black mask, shaggy crest, and the red waxy tips on their feathers—gather in large flocks to feed on Toyon and other berries abundant in our region during the winter. Have you heard their high “seeee-seee” calls as they move through the canopy?

Next time you’re passing a Toyon, stop to listen—you might just find them nearby.

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Winter Bird Count 4 Kids Sat, Jan 20 / 9:00 am-Noon (register before 9:30 am)

Lake Los Carneros Park

304 N. Los Carneros Road, Goleta (Stow House Parking Lot)

Introducing Young People to the Fun of Birdwatching! > A free birding basics event for kids 8-16 with a responsible adult > Take a guided walk around the lake with an experienced naturalist > Binocular Boot Camp - borrow ours or bring your own > Free souvenir bird list and t-shirt (for the first 75 kids) > Record and tally the bird species you see

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A New Year’s Night at the Symphony

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By Mark Whitehurst / VOICE

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NEW YEAR’S KISS OF FAMOUS SHOW TUNES, classical music, and original arrangements, the Santa Barbara Symphony once again created common ground for musical excellence with a performance led by conductor extraordinaire Andrew Lipke, and featuring singer Christine Maxwell.

As a prelude to the evening’s performance, Champaign flowed freely as playful hats and noise makers were distributed in the foyer of The Granada Theatre, the Symphony’s home.

Kathryn and Peter Martin Soloist Christina Maxwell

Maxwell’s opening song stirred emotions and impressed the audience as the evening moved forward with sing alongs and revelry and sparkling classical performances. Maxwell, based in New York, is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s musical Theatre Department.

One of the highlights of the evening was a rendition of the song Darkside of the Moon, written by the band Pink Floyd, and performed to perfection by Lipke. Lipke is based in Philadelphia and is a multi instrumentalist who engages a multitude of musical styles.

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The Santa Barbara Symphony’s next performance pair will be an evening of Opera, in The Ride of The Valkyries, which will take place at the Granada Theatre on January 20th and 21st.

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Opening with the song I Feel Good, sung by host and conductor Lipke, it was quickly established he has performance chops and musical prowess as a singer.

This piece invited the audience into an evening of laugher and excellent music.

Guest Conductor Dr. Bob Weinman

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Ring in the New Year

On the Street with John Palminteri Photos and Stories by John Palminteri / Special to VOICE

Rocket Launch TUESDAY, JANUARY 2ND: First Falcon 9 rocket launch of 2024 set for 7:22 p.m. to 10:12 p.m. tonight.

The booster will return to the offshore landing pad. Central Coast windows will likely rattle and there may be a sonic boom.

MONDAY, JANUARY 1ST: 2023 ends with a full crowd and a festive balloon drop at the Red Piano in Santa Barbara. They didn’t last long. It was all followed by a fun time popping them all to start the new year.

Polar Dip MONDAY, JANUARY 1ST: A great way to energize your start to 2024. 11:30 a.m. across from the Chromatic Gate (Rainbow Arch) in Santa Barbara. Folks came prepared with some beach party food for after the festivities.

Lots Flooded

Big Waves

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29TH: Santa Barbara parking lots awash with ocean surge impacts will be getting a big cleanup. Many businesses are open. Crews are using heavy equipment and hand tools to clear the sand and debris.

Courtesy of Ventura Police

High Tides

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29TH: Caught off guard! Ocean waves swamped many Ventura County areas Thursday, including viewing spots for the public. Some of the largest waves caused injuries and damaged cars, hotels, and private property.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28TH: A powerful ocean swell, combined with astronomical high tides, sent crashing waves high over the ocean wall on Channel Drive in Montecito Thursday morning. Many people have come out to view the spectacular force of nature, some were too close, and got drenched.

John Palminteri is a veteran news reporter and anchor for Newschannel 3-12 TV and both KJEE and KCLU radio in Santa Barbara/Santa Maria/Ventura. Off the air, he’s often bringing his smile and positive energy to the microphone at fundraisers and civic events. John’s social media presence has one of the largest followings in Santa Barbara, and this page has the weekly highlights.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 1ST: A man fell from a power pole very early Monday morning on Puesta del Sol near Santa Barbara. He later died at the hospital.

The Santa Barbara Sheriff’s department is investigating reports the man had climbed a tree to get to the pole.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28TH: HWY 154 has reopened after a multi-car crash this afternoon and a full closure. CHP and Caltrans say all lanes are now clear.

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SPECIAL ONE-DAY LECTURE SERIES Contemplating Nature: Flowers, Gardens and Self-Reflection in Chinese Painting Saturday, January 6 | 9:30 am – 5 pm Expert art historians offer detailed glimpses into some of the many facets of the flower-and-bird genre in Chinese painting and reveal how these images of intimate nature can be thresholds to worlds rich with beauty and private emotions. Each talk will be approximately 30 minutes with a Q&A following.

Mary Craig Auditorium Free SBMA Members + Students/$20 Non-Members

Information and tickets: tickets.sbma.net

On view through January 14, 2024 1130 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 www.sbma.net Yun Bing, Qing dynasty, active first half of the 18th century, female artist, Hundred Flowers (detail), ink and color on silk. Handscroll. Tianjin Museum.

This Lecture Series is made possible through the generosity of SBMA Friends of Asian Art and Capital Group, Inc. Oriental Lecture Fund.

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2024 is Here!

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Starting with the New Year holiday weekend, Mother Nature decided to spice up the festivities. Waves between ten and 25 feet struck California coasts and flooded vulnerable low-lying areas including Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, and Goleta’s beaches.

Big waves pushed sand and debris up beyond barriers making access impossible. The harbor entrance was completely closed after the first storm that

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sent waves crashing over the breakwater and into parking lots, flooding access to businesses, and completely inundating the Yacht Club’s lot and boat storage area nearby. The sand berm constructed to protect the SBYC clubhouse and the surrounding harbor parking lots was no match for the giant waves and the resulting storm surge. West beach was overtaken by the anticipated waves although barriers had been set up by the Waterfront Department for public safety. Nonetheless, the nearby Shoreline Cafe continued to serve customers as did many of the businesses in the harbor complex. And the public kept coming …. talk about tenacity!

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Remember when we entered the year 2000 and the prediction was that all of our humanly designed devices such as computers, our infrastructure and activities on the entire planet would cease functioning at the stroke of midnight? It’s important to remember that infrastructure is a human only construct which, at the appointed hour, turned out to be hardly a whimper … actually, a non-event! The arrival and departure of 2023, thanks to the whims of Mother Nature, is quite another story acknowledging that we humans and all our inventions are subject to her moods. And speaking of her moods, our picturesque Santa Barbara harbor, waterfront, and beaches up and down the coast are at the leading edge!

Photos by Sigrid Toye

APPY NEW YEAR SANTA BARBARA! It’s heard to believe that the 21st century is almost one quarter of the way to the next millennium.

How quickly time flies, this year being no exception. Resolutions are now in place sprinkled with wishes for health, happiness, prosperity, and a whole lot of good luck. This is my wish for us all as 2024 opened its gates at midnight on December 31st (aka: 123123).

The week’s enormous swells are being pushed by winds racing across the Pacific, thanks to an area of strong low pressure off the West Coast. An active weather pattern is predicted to send a series storm systems into California which, during the holiday weekend, was further complicated by a full moon.

A recent study found that California’s winter waves have grown bigger because of climate change and increased storminess and low-pressure centers off the coast. High surf warning and advisories are anticipated to to continue with rain and cloudy skies.

But … who knows? Mother Nature insists on defying predictions with her quickly changing moods!

On the last day of 2023 weather disturbances didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the Yacht Club’s hosting it’s yearly New Year’s Eve party and traditional ‘Passing of the Helm’ ceremony. The 2023 commodore, David Sadecki, passed leadership of the SBYC to the 2024 commodore Dennis Bonneck. Before moving on I must say that, in my experience, there has never been a more challenging year than 2023! Within six short days newly minted Commodore Sadecki was faced with a series of atmospheric rivers and massive storm surges that shuttered the clubhouse for extensive repairs, a challenging project and a huge (and lengthy) responsibility.

Last week’s big waves greeted Commodore Sadecki who, in his waning days in office, again took the situation in hand supervising the clean up and preparing the club for 2024. Although I missed this year’s Passing of the Helm, I was there in spirit thanking David Sadecki for all he has done for his club!

Huge Kudos and a big thank you to the Santa Barbara Waterfront Department’s leadership and the team’s hard work keeping the harbor and waterfront areas safe for us to enjoy. Happy New Year to all!

Sigrid Toye volunteers for the Breakwater Flag Project. She is on the board of directors of the Maritime Museum and participates in Yacht Club activities. An educational/behavior therapist, Sigrid holds a Ph.D in clinical psychology. She loves all things creative, including her two grown children who are working artists. Send Harbor tips to: Itssigrid@gmail.com

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Sunday, January 28th 11am-4pm | Free Rain or Shine

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Local Food Hero Award for 2024

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A celebration to bring seeds and people together!

A fun day to share and exchange seeds, plants, cuttings, and knowledge.

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INTERCAMBIO DE SEMILLAS

11am-4pm | Gratis Con lluvia o con sol Community Arts Workshop 631 Garden, Santa Barbara

¡Una celebración para unir semillas y personas!

Un día divertido para compartir e intercambiar semillas, plantas, esquejes y conocimientos.

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MESA HARMONY GARDEN – BARE-ROOT FRUIT TREES Learn how to care for bare-root fruit trees with Janet Rogers • Mesa Harmony Garden, 500 Dolores Dr. • Free • 10am-12pm Sa, 1/6.

In Person & Online Activities for Everyone

ALICE KECK PARK VOLUNTEER DAY Help care for Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden • Bring supplies, no gardening experience necessary • 9am-12pm Sa, 1/6.

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Sunday, January 7th

Dungeons & Dragons for Teens Discover the magic, adventure, and fun of Dungeons & Dragons with friends when the Santa Barbara Central Library hosts a free introductory session of this popular roleplaying tabletop game at Faulkner Gallery from 4 to 7pm on Monday, January 18th.

Participation is limited to eight participants in seventh to twelfth grade, to register visit http://tinyurl.com/yc88vv9n

OUTDOORS

ELINGS PARK TRANSFORMATION Volunteer to plant native plants • Elings Park • Register: http://tinyurl.com/2c692etb • 8am1pm Su, 1/7.

BE IN NATURE: PRACTICE MINDFUL WHOLE-HEARTEDNESS Guided garden meditation session • SB Botanic Garden • $25-35 • www.sbbotanicgarden.org • 3:305:30pm Su, 1/7.

Photos by Cory Cullington

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Sound and Smoke Embark on a creative journey through time when Selah Dance Collective presents Sound and Smoke, an interdisciplinary exploration of early modern dance, including connections to Weimar-era cabaret and "dances of death,” at Center Stage Theater at 7:30pm on Friday and Saturday, January 12th and 13th. A 2pm matinee performance will be held on Sunday, January 14th.

For tickets ($20-30) visit www.centerstagetheater.org

SPECIAL EVENTS

Friday, January 5th LECTURES/MEETINGS

FREE ASTRONOMY TALK: STELLAFANE TELESCOPE MAKERS CLUB Learn about this organization’s history and telescopes • SB Museum of Natural History, Farrand Auditorium • 7:30-9pm Fr, 1/5.

SPECIAL EVENTS

HAPPY HOUR GAME NIGHT Carpinteria Arts Center volunteers are invited to bring friends/interested volunteers • Carpinteria Arts Ctr • Free • www.carpinteriaartscenter.org • 3-5pm Fr, 1/5.

Saturday, January 6th COMEDY

BRAD WILLIAMS: TOUR '24 Stand-up comedian as featured on Netflix • Lobero Theatre • $32-52 • www.lobero.org • 7 & 10:15pm Sa, 1/6.

DANCE

COMMUNITY CONTRA DANCE Lively open community contra dance session to Andy Shore & Fiddle Tunas • Carrillo Ballroom, 100 E Carrillo St • $5-15 • www.sbcds.org/contradance • Tutorial 6:10pm, dance 6:30-9:30pm Sa, 1/6.

LECTURES/MEETINGS

SYMPOSIUM: CONTEMPLATING NATURE Flowers, Gardens, and Self-Reflection in Chinese Painting - Short lectures by national art historians • SB Museum of Art, Mary Craig Auditorium • Free$20 • www.sbma.net • 9:30am-5pm Sa, 1/6.

OUTDOORS

FOREST BATHING Guided walk and reconnection with nature • SB Botanic Garden • $25-40 • www.sbbotanicgarden.org • 8:3010:30am Sa, 1/6.

PUBLIC CPR TRAINING Expert-guided training session • Sol Seek Yoga Studio, 25 E De La Guerra St. • $80 • http://tinyurl.com/ypepv24k • 1-4pm Su, 1/7.

Monday, January 8th LECTURES/MEETINGS

SCIENCE PUB: EYES IN THE SKY RAPTORS Learn about the SB Audubon Society’s efforts to save local species over drinks • Dargan’s, 18 E. Ortega St. • Free • 6:30-8pm Mo, 1/8.

UC MASTER GARDENERS TALK Webinar - bare root fruit trees • UC Master Gardeners of SB County Free, RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/yc5z8czp • 7-8pm Mo, 1/8.

PARLIAMO! ITALIAN CONVERSATION All levels • The Natural Cafe, 361 Hitchcock Way • http://parliamo. yolasite.com • Free • 5-6:30pm Mon.

TEENS

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS FOR TEENS Introduction to D&D for students in grades 7-12 • Central Library, Faulkner Gallery • Free, RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/yc88vv9n • 4-7pm Mo, 1/8.

Tuesday, January 9th MEETINGS/LECTURES

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS OFFICE HOURS Learn about Project Heal of Santa Barbara County • Eastside Library • Free • 2-4pm Tu, 1/9.

OUTDOORS

MORNING BIRD WALK Learn about local bird species • SB Botanic Garden • $20-35 • http:// tinyurl.com/52924ytu • 8:30-10am Tu, 1/9.

TEENS

TEEN ADVISORY BOARD: Q&A SESSION Teens are invited to learn how they can shape library programming • Central Library, Faulkner Gallery • 5:30-6:30pm Tu, 1/9.

Wednesday, January 10th LECTURES/MEETINGS

ENGLISH CONVERSATION GROUP Practice English naturally • Central Library, Faulkner Gallery • Free • 5-6pm We, 1/10.

LE CERCLE FRANÇAIS French conversation, all levels • The Natural Cafe, 361 Hitchcock Way • http://sbfrenchgroup.yolasite.com • Free • 5-6:30pm We.

SPECIAL EVENTS

DROP-IN MEDITATION @ SBMA Shape, Ground, Shadow: The Photographs of Ellsworth Kelly Guided, art-focused meditation • SB

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Parallel Stories – Seeing From the Rupture Explore the power of words to celebrate tradition and personal duality when poet Jenny Xie discusses her National Book Award in Poetry nominated collection, The Rupture Tense, at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Mary Craig Auditorium at 2:30pm on Sunday, January 14th.

For tickets (free-$10) visit www.sbma.net

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Volunteer Rose Pruning Day at the Mission Ring in the New Year by giving back to one of Santa Barbara’s most beautiful landmarks when the City of Santa Barbara hosts its annual Volunteer Rose Pruning Day at the Old Mission’s historic rose garden from 9am to 1pm on Saturday, January 13th. No experience is needed and volunteers are encouraged to bring gloves and tools.

For more information visit http://tinyurl.com/yswx53fm

Sunday, January 14th Museum of Art, McCormick Gallery • Free, first 20 people • 4pm We, 1/10.

Thursday, January 11th LECTURES/MEETINGS

ENGLISH CONVERSATION GROUP Practice English naturally • Eastside Library • Free • 1-2pm Th, 1/11.

WRITING IN THE GALLERIES Write inspired by art, led by UCR Professor Andrew Winer • SB Museum of Art galleries • Free, RSVP: www.sbma.net • 5:30-7pm Th, 1/11.

BEYOND BOOKSELLING: HOW QUEER BOOKSTORES SHAPED THE GAY LIBERATION MOVEMENT Talk by UCSB doctoral candidate Sarah Dunne • Central Library, Faulkner Gallery • Free, RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/vkmzhukx • 5:30-7pm Th, 1/11.

OUTDOORS

BIRDS OF WINTER Eight-week course with expert birder Guy Tingos • SB Museum of Natural History • $95-105 • www. sbnature.org • 8am-10am Th, 1/11, through 2/29.

SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER’S JANUARY BOARD WALK Guided tide-pooling excursion • Rincon Beach Park, meet at picnic tables • Free • www.sbck.org • 3:30-5pm Th, 1/11.

SPECIAL EVENTS

MLK JR. WEEKEND CEREMONY Ceremony honoring MLK Jr. and African American student activists • UCSB’s Eternal Flame, Buchanan Hall lawn • Free • 12-1pm Th, 1/11.

Friday, January 12th DANCE

SOUND AND SMOKE Interdisciplinary exploration of early modern dance by Selah Dance Collective • Center Stage Theater • $20-30 • www.centerstagetheater.org • 7:30pm Fr, 1/12 & 1/13; 2pm Su, 1/14.

LECTURES/MEETINGS

INTRO TO MENDING Learn how to patch and fix garments to minimize waste • Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. • $30 • http://tinyurl.com/24shzcxx • 6-8pm Fr, 1/12.

OUTDOORS

CONTAINER GARDENING Specialty workshop on gardening from small spaces • SB Botanic Garden • $40-55 • www. sbbotanicgarden.org • 10-11:30am Fr, 1/12.

LECTURES/MEETINGS

PARALLEL STORIES – SEEING FROM THE RUPTURE Reading and conversation with author Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense • SB Museum of Art, Mary Craig Auditorium • Free-$10 • www.sbma.net • 2:30pm Su, 1/14.

OUTDOORS

BEACH CLEANUP Care for our shoreline • Explore Ecology • Arroyo Burro Beach • Details: http://tinyurl. com/439ast4e • 10am-12pm Su, 1/14.

To have your events included in the calendar, please email info to calendar@voicesb.com

SPECIAL EVENTS

B’NAI B’RITH FRIDAY NIGHT SERVICE Honoring MLK Jr. weekend, student readings • Trinity Lutheran Church, 909 N La Cumbre Av • 6-7pm Fr, 1/12.

TEENS

THE HANGOUT: A SPACE FOR TEENS Crafts, board games, video games, and more for grades 7-12 • Eastside Library • Free • 3:305:30pm Fr, 1/12.

Saturday, January 13th OUTDOORS

INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF NATIVE PLANT GARDENING Hands-on beginners workshop • SB Botanic Garden • $25-40 • www.sbbotanicgarden.org • 8:30-10:30am Sa, 1/13.

VOLUNTEER ROSE PRUNING DAY Community members invited to help prune the historic rose garden • Old Mission SB • Info: http://tinyurl.com/yswx53fm • 9am-1pm Sa, 1/13.

NATURE WALKS AT ELINGS PARK Learn about local soil • Elings Park, park office • Free, details: http://tinyurl.com/4mtats3z • 9-10am Sa, 1/13.

STAR PARTY Explore the night sky • SB Museum of Natural History, Palmer Observatory • Free • 7-10pm Sa, 1/13.

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Theatre Sun 1/28: 3:00pm: Fri 1/19: 7:00pm: Theresa Caputo Live!

Kids Helping Kids Experience JohnnySwim Switchfoot

Mon 2/19: 8pm: Colter Wall

Wed 2/21: 7:30pm: Abraham Verghese

1/27 & 28: Sun 3/10: 4:00pm: Fri 4/19: 8pm: Thu 2/22: 7:30pm: Tue/Wed Antionio Sanchez

7:30pm: The Rat Pack Brian Regan Birdman Live!

BANFF Mt. Film Fest

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ADVANCE PREVIEW 1/11 THE BEEKEEPER

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SPECIAL EVENT PET SHOP BOYS: DREAMWORLD METRO: 1/31 & 2/4 TIX ON SALE

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MET OPERA: NABUCCO

DISNEY'S THE LION KING, JR Young local actors perform Simba’s story • Ojai Youth Entertainers Studio Theater • $14 • http://tinyurl.com/52ume8v5 • 6pm Fr, 1/12, through 2/11.

DOORWAYS TO DRAMATIC WORLDS Lively preview of OACT’s 2024 season • Ojai Art Center • Donation • No tickets • https://ojaiact.org • 7pm Su, 1/7.

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Film Premiere:

The Voices of Fielding Hear the inspiring testimony of local leaders who graduated from Fielding Graduate University and celebrate education’s power to make a difference when The Voices of Fielding premieres at the Riviera Theatre at 2:30pm on Sunday, January 14th. A talk with film director Jean-Pierre Isbouts, D. Litt., and Fielding Graduate University President Katrina S. Rogers, PhD, will follow.

Attendance is free, to learn more visit http://tinyurl.com/2v9rmwe7

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Wonka (PG): Fri, Sat-Thur: 4:45, 7:30. Sat/Sun: 2:00, 4:45, 7:30.

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The Iron Claw (R): Fri, Mon-Thur: 7:40. Sat/Sun: 1:30, 7:40.

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Night Swim* (PG13): Fri/Sat: 1:40, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30. Sun: 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15. Mon-Thur: 3:15, 5:45, 8:15.

Aquaman 2 (PG13): Fri-Thur: 2:00, 5:00, 8:00.

Anyone But You (R): Fri/Sat: 1:25, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20. Sun-Thur: 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, Poor Things (R): Fri-Wed: 2:10, 5:20, 8:30. Thur: 2:10.

The Boys in the Boat (PG13): Fri-Thur: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20.

Ferrari (R): Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30. Thur: 1:30.

The Beekeeper* (R): Thur: 4:30, 7:05, 9:40.

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It Wasn’t the Fed

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HAT MORE DOES CHAIRMAN POWELL AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE GOVERNORS NEED TO KNOW to announce the inflation battle has been won? Its preferred inflation indicator has shown zero monthly increases for two months.

The rate of U.S. inflation based on the Federal Reserve’s preferred PCE index actually fell in November for the first time since 2020 and indicated that price pressures continue to subside. The PCE index dipped - 0.1 percent last month, the government said Friday. Inflation was unchanged in October.

High inflation wasn’t the fault of rising wages, either, when job openings are still at record highs so that everyone who wants a job can find one.

Workers are getting terrific raises now that the strikes have been settled, yet inflation keeps declining. No, broken supply chains were the major culprit. It’s taken almost three years to ramp up enough production to bring down prices.

Economic VOICE

By Harlan Green

We are now seeing the results as shoppers have shown in the latest retail sales figures that they are finding more bargains during this record holiday shopping season.

Even industrial production is ramping up; so much so that Q4 projections of growth are rising again.

This is what is called a ‘soft landing’, I said last week when the unemployment rate dropped back to 3.7 percent. More jobs are being created in November’s unemployment report, though some 50,000 of the 199,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs are strikers returning to work in Hollywood productions and auto factories.

So the Fed’s actions in raising interest rates to multi-decade highs wasn’t the proximate cause of what looks like an overaction to the effects of the COVID pandemic.

Orders for durable goods for products that last more than three years (cars, appliances, etc.) rose 5.4 percent in November, the U.S. government said Friday. This is the largest gain since July 2020. It is the second gain in the past three months. Transportation orders had the largest increase, rising 15.3 percent in November. This was in part because orders for motor vehicles and parts jumped 2.8 percent after the end of the UAW strike. Orders for commercial aircraft also soared but tend to fluctuate wildly month-to-month.

The Atlanta Fed raised its estimate of fourth quarter GDP growth as high as 3.0 percent and it could go higher with today’s robust durable orders release by the Commerce Department.

That’s up 2% over last year. The busiest days on the road will be Saturday and next Thursday, Dec. 28, according to transportation data provider INRIX.

The U.S. Federal Reserve Board suggested that interest rates would be cut by 75 basis points in 2024 after it last FOMC meeting of 2023 in December. Can we now be in what is called a Goldilocks economy?

And MarketWatch reports the Transportation Security Administration screened more than 2.6 million passengers on Thursday, which had been projected to be one of the busiest travel days, along with Friday and New Year’s Day. That’s short of the record 2.9 million that agents screened on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, since travel tends to be more spread over Christmas and New Year’s.

That is when the Fed’s interest rate isn’t so low that it ushers in inflation, yet not so high that it tips the economy into a recession. Maybe we’ve reached that point.

Once again, consumers will decide on the direction of economic growth. And holiday travel shows they haven’t slowed down much.

Auto club AAA forecasts that 115 million people in the U.S. will go 50 miles or more from home between Saturday and New Year’s Day.

The chorus is growing on the need to begin dropping interest rates. That’s all we need to sustain this recovery.

Harlan Green © 2023 Follow Harlan Green on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HarlanGreen Harlan Green has been the 16-year Editor-Publisher of PopularEconomics.com, a weekly syndicated financial wire service. He writes a Popular Economics Weekly Blog. He is an economic forecaster and teacher of real estate finance with 30-years experience as a banker and mortgage broker. To reach Harlan call (805)4527696 or email editor@populareconomics.com.

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Petitioner: Wendy Rodriguez Cortes and Cristian Rios Angel filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Liam Santiago Rodriguez Cortes to proposed name Liam Santiago Rios Rodriguez. 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 above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 01/29/2024; Time: 10:00 am; Dept.: 3; ROOM: [ ] other (specify): at the: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the courts website. To find your courts website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm.) 3 a. [X] A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks before the date set for hearing on the petition in a newspaper of general circulation: [ ] (for resident of this county) printed in this county: VOICE MAGAZINE. Date: 12/6/2023 /s/: Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court.

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Petitioner: Katherine Lee Godfrey filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Katherine Lee Godfrey to proposed name Katherine Lee Godfrey Benaron. 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 above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 01/29/2024; Time: 10:00 am; Dept.: 5; ROOM: [ ] other (specify): at the: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the courts website. To find your courts website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm.) 3 a. [X] A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks before the date set for hearing on the petition in a newspaper of general circulation: [x] (for resident of this county) printed in this county: VOICE MAGAZINE. Date: 12/1/2023 /s/: Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court.

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Petitioner: Israel Alexis Nava-Gonzalez filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Israel Alexis Nava-Gonzalez to proposed name Israel Ezekiel Gonzalez. 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 above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 01/08/2023; Time: 10:00 am; Dept.: 5; ROOM: [ ] other (specify): at the: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the courts website. To find your courts website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm.) 3 a. [X] A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks before the date set for hearing on the petition in a newspaper of general circulation: [x] (for resident of this county) printed in this county: VOICE MAGAZINE. Date: 12/04/2023 /s/: Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court by Nichol Reigelman. Legal #23CV04247 Pub Dates: December 15, 22, 29, 2023, January 5, 2024 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER: 23CV05233.

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Petitioner: Juana Maria Aguilar Ramirez filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Juana Maria Aguilar Ramirez to proposed name Joana Maria Aguilar Ramirez. 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 above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 02/05/2024; Time: 10:00 am; Dept.: 5; ROOM: [ ] other (specify): at the: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the courts website. To find your courts website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm.) 3 a. [X] A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks before the date set for hearing on the petition in a newspaper of general circulation: [x] (for resident of this county) printed in this county: VOICE MAGAZINE. Date: 12/12/2023 /s/: Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court. Legal #23CV05272 Pub Dates: January 5, 12, 19, 26, 2024

Notice Inviting Bids FY2024B PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE PROJECT Bid No. 5032 1. Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its FY2024B Pavement Maintenance (Overlay) Project (“Project”), by or before Thursday, January 11, 2024, at 3:00 pm., through its PlanetBids portal.

Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly... The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

If any Addendum issued by City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from City’s PlanetBids portal.

Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

2. Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at various streets throughout the City, and is described as follows: Repair various streets by performing asphalt dig outs to repair failed areas; tree root pruning and concrete curb and gutter replacement; sidewalk removal and replacement; asphalt; reconstruction of existing non-compliant curb ramps; construct new curb ramps; traffic striping and markings; conduit and foundation installation; relocate and protect existing signs and roadway name stamps; perform traffic control, notifications, and postings, complete and in place.

5.

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of 5% of the maximum

2.2 Time for Final Completion.

The Project must be fullyor completed 300made workingpayable days from to theCity, start date amount, in the form of a cashier’s certifiedwithin check or asetbid bond exec forth in the Notice to Proceed.

City anticipates that the Work will begin on March 25, 2024, but the anticipated by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included w start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding. 2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that within ten days after City issue construction cost is $15,100,000.

the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment

3. License and Registration Requirements. performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other submittals requi 3.1 License. requires a valid California license following A General byThis theProject Contract Documents andcontractor’s as specified in for thetheNotice ofclassification(s): Award.

Engineering.

6.3.2 DIR Registration.

Prevailing CityWage may notRequirements. accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof

that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant 6.1 to Labor Code § 1725.5, subjectto toCalifornia limited legal Labor exceptions.

General.

Pursuant Code § 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the

wage requirements applicable to the locality in for which the Work is to be performed f 4. Contract prevailing Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents the Project, and any addenda each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer thereto (“Contract Documents”) be welfare, downloaded from City’s website at:apprenticeship and similar purposes. payments for healthmay and pension, vacation, http://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959

5. Bid Security.

Bid Proposal be accompanied by bid of 5% of the bid amount, in theatform 6.2The Rates.

Themust prevailing rates are on security file with City andmaximum are available online of a cashier’s or certified check made payableEach to City,Contractor or a bid bondand executed by a surety licensed to dono business Subcontractor must pay less than the http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents.

The bid security must specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wag guarantee that within ten days after City issues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at l and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other andbyone-half. submittalstime required the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award.

6. Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by

6.1 General.

Pursuant California Labor§Code § 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the prevailing wage DIR, undertoLabor Code 1771.4. requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, 7.apprenticeship Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide and similar purposes.

performance and payment bonds, each for 100% of the Contract Price, as further specified in

6.2 Rates.Contract The prevailing rates are on file with City and are available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Documents.

Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and 8.overtimeSubstitution of Securities.

Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts work must be at least time and one-half.

from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code § 22300.

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code § 1771.4.

9.

Subcontractor List. Each Subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on

7. Performance andprojects.

Payment Bonds. successful bidder will bearequired to provide performance and public EachThe bidder must submit completed Subcontractor Listpayment form with its Bid bonds, each for 100% of the Contract Price, as further specified in the Contract Documents.

Proposal, including the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license

8. Substitution of Securities. of appropriate in lieu of retention amounts progress payments number, DIRSubstitution registration number,securities and percentage of the Workfrom to be performed (based on the is permitted under Contract CodeSubcontractor § 22300. base bidPublic price) for each that will perform Work or service or fabricate or install

9. Subcontractor must be in registered DIR to perform on public projects.

Each the Subcontr WorkList. forEach theSubcontractor prime contractor excesswith of the one-half of 1%work of the bid price, using bidder must completedwith Subcontractor List formDocuments. with its Bid Proposal, including the name, location of the Listsubmit formaincluded the Contract place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the base bid price) for each Subcontractor that will perform Work or service or fabricate or 10.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for m install Work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form information before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in Article 1 of included detailed with the Contract Documents.

General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, including this

10. Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for more detailed information Notice Inviting Bids. before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in Article 1 of the General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, including this Notice Inviting Bids.

12/13/2023 By: ___________________________________ Date: ________________ Brian D’Amour, City Engineer Brian D’Amour, City Engineer Publication Dates: 1) Wednesday, December 27, 2023, and 2) Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Publication Dates: 1) Wednesday, December 27, 2023, and 2) Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Planet Bids Publication Date: Thursday, December 14, 2023 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS 12/13/2023

Planet Bids Publication Date: Thursday, December 14, 2023 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

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NOTICE OF PUBLICATIONS ON APPLICATIONS REGARDING PROVISIONS OF TITLE 28 AND/OR 30 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA (SBMC) The Secretary of the Staff Hearing Officer has set a public hearing for Wednesday, January 17, 2024 beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the David Gebhard Public Meeting Room, 630 Garden Street.

On Thursday, January 11, 2024, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Wednesday, January 17, 2024 will be available online at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/SHO. Agendas, Minutes, and Staff Reports are also accessible online at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/SHO. TELEVISION COVERAGE: This meeting will be broadcast live on City TV-Channel 18 and online at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CityTV. See SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CityTVProgramGuide for a rebroadcast schedule. An archived video of this meeting will be available at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/SHOVideos.

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APPEALS: Decisions of the SHO may be appealed to the Planning Commission.

Appeals may be filed in person at the Community Development Department at 630 Garden Street or in writing via email to SHOSecretary@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

For further information and guidelines on how to appeal a decision to the Planning Commission, please contact Planning staff at (805) 564-5578 as soon as possible. Appeals and associated fee must be submitted in writing, via email to PlanningCounter@SantaBarbaraCA.gov and by first class mail postage prepaid within 10 calendar days of the meeting that the SHO took action or rendered a decision. Appeals and associated fee post marked after the 10th calendar day will not be accepted.

NOTE TO INTERESTED PARTIES: Only those persons who participate through public comment either orally or in writing on an item on this Agenda have standing to appeal the decision. Grounds for appeal are limited to those issues raised either orally or in written correspondence delivered to the review body at, or prior to, the public hearing.

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• 725 Westmont Road Assessor’s Parcel Number: Zoning Designation: Application Number: Applicant / Owner: Project Description: • 711 Bath Street Assessor’s Parcel Number: Zoning Designation: Application Number: Applicant / Owner: Project Description:

013-102-007 RS-6 (Residential Single Unit) PLN2023-00284 Miguel Estrada, Eastlake Design Group LLC / James Thomas Kellis Jr New detached two-car garage.

037-073-010 R-MH (Residential Multi-Unit and Hotel) PLN2023-00269 Amy Von Protz / David Chase Convert the front residence (Unit #1) to a short-term rental.

PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 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 City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing regarding the appeals filed by Steve A. Johnson and Gareth Kelly of the Planning Commission’s approval of a Development Plan and determination of a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Exemption at 710-720 State Street and 15 E. Ortega Street for a project proposed by Kevin Moore Applicant for 710 State Street Partners.

The proposed project consists of the construction of a 32,799-square-foot, fourstory, 66-room hotel including a restaurant and bar on six lots totaling 30,004 square feet. The project also includes 14 parking spaces on the ground floor as well as a 1,364-square-foot restaurant open to the public, a 1,900-squarefoot lobby, and guest use conference rooms. A Lot Merger is required for the properties at 710-720 State Street and 15 E. Ortega Street as part of the project.

The subject parcels are in the C-G (Commercial General) Zone with a General Plan Designation of Commercial/High Density Residential (28-36 dwelling units per acre).

If you challenge the Council’s action on the appeal of the Planning Commission 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 public 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 by sending them electronically to Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov, or addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990.

Public comment may be given in person at the meeting or remotely via Zoom.

Members of the public who wish to give public comment remotely may do so by completing the Zoom registration at the URL provided on the front page of the agenda.

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Retrospective FLORALS & SUCCULENTS

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• GALLERIES • STUDIOS • • MUSEUMS • PUBLIC PLACES •

CHANNING PEAKE GALLERY: Decarbonizing the Built Environment Exhibition / Architectural Projects from AIA Santa Barbara ~ Feb 5 • 105 E Anacapa St, 1st fl • 805-568-3994 CLAY STUDIO GALLERY: 1351 Holiday Hill Rd • 805-565-CLAY • 10-4 Daily • www.claystudiosb.org COLETTE COSENTINO ATELIER + GALLERY: 11 W Anapamu St • By Appt • www.colettecosentino.com CORRIDAN GALLERY: 125 N Milpas • 11-6 We-Sa • 805-966-7939 • www.corridan-gallery.com

Evening Glow - Douglas Preserve Original Oil Painting by

Ralph Waterhouse Felice Willat

Illuminations Gallery La Cumbre Center for Creative Arts La Cumbre PLaza

Waterhouse Gallery La Arcada at State & Figueroa Santa Barbara, CA 93101 805-962-8885 www.waterhousegallery.com

10 WEST GALLERY: 2023 Holiday All-Member Exhibit & Mata Ortiz Pottery ~ Jan 14 • 10 W Anapamu • 11-5 We-Mo • 805-770-7711 • www.10westgallery.com

ATKINSON GALLERY, SBCC: Closed to Jan 31 • gallery.sbcc.edu

ARCHITECTURAL FDN GALLERY: 229 E Victoria • 805-965-6307 • 1–4 Sa & By Appt • www.afsb.org

THE CARRIAGE AND WESTERN ART MUSEUM: SB History Makers Exhibit featuring Silsby Spalding, WW Hollister, Dixie; Saddle & Carriage Collections • Free • 129 Castillo St • 805-962-2353 • 9-3 Mo-Fr • www.carriagemuseum.org

ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM, UCSB: Sandy Rodriguez — Unfolding Histories: 200 Years of Resistance ~ Mar 3 • 12-5 Sa-Su • www.museum.ucsb.edu ART FROM SCRAP GALLERY: closed to Jan 3 • www.exploreecology.org/art-from-scrap THE ARTS FUND: Celebrating 30 years of Arts Mentorships ~ Dec • La Cumbre Plaza, 120 S Hope Ave • 11-5 We-Su; www.artsfundsb.org • 805-233-3395

BELLA ROSA GALLERIES: 1103-A State St • 11-5 daily • 805-966-1707

CPC GALLERY: Denise Carey: ARCHISCAPES ~ Jan 2024 • By appt • 36 E Victoria St • Gallery@CPCSB.org CYPRESS GALLERY: 119 E Cypress Av, Lompoc • 1-4 Sa & Su • 805-737-1129 • www.lompocart.org ELIZABETH GORDON GALLERY: Emerging artists from around the country • 15 W Gutierrez • 805-963-1157 • 11–5 Tu-Sa • www.elizabethgordongallery.com EL PRESIDIO DE SANTA BÁRBARA: Nihonmachi Revisited; Memorias y Facturas • 123 E Canon Perdido St • 11-4 Th-Su • www.sbthp.org ELVERHØJ MUSEUM: 1624 Elverhoy Way, Solvang • 805-686-1211 • 11-5 Th-Mo • www.elverhoj.org

LA CUMBRE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: Three Multi-Artist Galleries at La Cumbre Plaza - Elevate, Fine Line, and Illuminations Galleries • noon-5 Tu-Su • www.lcccasb.com LEGACY ARTS SANTA BARBARA: Personal Collection of the Barrymore’s eclectic paintings & one of a kind sculptures • 1230 State St • 3-8 We-Su • www.CreateLegacyMusic.com LOMPOC LIBRARY GROSSMAN GALLERY: 501 E North Av, Lompoc • 805-588-3459 LYNDA FAIRLY CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER: Rincon Expressions ~ Jan 11-Mar 3 • 12-4 Th-Su • 865 Linden Av • 805-684-7789 • www.carpinteriaartscenter.org MARCIA BURTT GALLERY: Featuring contemporary landscape paintings, prints & books • 517 Laguna St • 1-5 Th-Su • 805-962-5588 • www. artlacuna.com MAUNE CONTEMPORARY: Recognized contemporary artists including Alex Katz, Donald Sultan, Mr. Brainwash, Taher Jaoui, Ted Collier • 1309 State St • 11-5 Tu-Su & By Appt • 805-869-2524 • www.maune.com

CASA DE LA GUERRA: Haas Adobe Watercolors • $5/Free • 15 East De la Guerra St • 12-4 Th-Su • www.sbthp.org/casadelaguerra

MOXI, THE WOLF MUSEUM: Exploration + Innovation • 10-5 Daily • 125 State St • 805-770-5000 • www.moxi.org

FAZZINO 3-D STUDIO GALLERY: 3-D original fine art • 529 State St • 805-730-9109 • www.Fazzino.com

CASA DOLORES: Christmas and Mexican Nativity Scenes ~ Jan 30, Bandera Ware / traditional outfits ~ ongoing; • 1023 Bath St • 12-4 Tu-Sa • 805-963-1032 • www.casadolores.org

GALLERY 113: SB Art Assn, featured artist: Gerald Zwers ~ Jan • 1114 State St, #8, La Arcada Ct • 805-9656611 • 11-5 Mo-Sa; 1-5 Su • www.gallery113sb.com

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SANTA BARBARA: Changing Nature: recent work by Stephanie Dotson and Madeleine Ignon ~ Jan17- May 1 • 653 Paseo Nuevo • www.mcasantabarbara.org

Rosemarie C. Gebhart Contemporary Art

GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: Closed until Feb • 805.969.9990 • www.lotusland.org GOLETA VALLEY LIBRARY: 500 N. Fairview Av • 10-7 Tu-Th; 10-5:30 Fr & Sa; 1-5 Su • www.TheGoletaValleyArtAssociation.org HELENA MASON ART GALLERY: 48 Helena Av • 2-6 Fr-Sa • www.helenamasonartgallery.com JAMES MAIN FINE ART: 19th & 20th Fine art & antiques • 27 E De La Guerra St • 12-5 Tu-Sa • Appt Suggested • 805-962-8347

RUTH ELLEN HOAG

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KATHRYNE DESIGNS: Local Artists • 1225 Coast Village Rd, A • 10-5 MoSa; 11-5 Su • 805-565-4700 • http://kathrynedesigns.com

FAULKNER GALLERY: 60 Photographs

by Veterans • 40 E Anapamu St • 10-7 Mo-Th; 10-5 Fri, Sa; 12-5 Sun • 805-962-7653

GALLERY LOS OLIVOS: Winter Salon ~ Jan 30 • 2920 Grand Av • 805-6887517 • www.gallerylosolivos.com

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KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY & MUSEUM: 21 W Anapamu • 10-4 Tu-Su • 805-962-5322 • https://karpeles.com/museums/sb.php

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MUSEUM OF SENSORY & MOVEMENT EXPERIENCES: La Cumbre Plaza, 120 S. Hope Av #F119 • www.seehearmove.com PALM LOFT GALLERY: 410 Palm Av, Loft A1, Carpinteria • By Appt • 805684-9700 • www.Palmloft.com PATRICIA CLARKE STUDIO: 410 Palm Av, Carpinteria • By Appt • www. patriciaclarkestudio.com • 805-452-7739

JO MERIT

Modernist Artist www.jomerit.com JoMeritModern@gmail.com 10 West Gallery PUBLIC MARKET: Quarterly exhibit by local artists: Brice Ciabatti, Melinda Mettler, Summer Howatt ~ Feb 29 • 11-9 Su-We; 11-10 Th-Sa • www.sbpublicmarket.com

Art Events OPENING RECEPTION: CAMILLE COROT TO ORTHODOX ICONS: LADY LESLIE RIDLEY-TREE’S GIFTS TO THE COLLECTION • Discover the late Lady RidleyTree’s gifts to Westmont • Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art • Free • 4-6pm Th, 1/11.

OPENING RECEPTION: ABSTRACT NINE • Meet nine local abstract artists • SB Tennis Club, 2375 Foothill Rd • Free • 4:30-6pm Fr, 1/12.

ADULT ART STUDIO CLASS • Paint inspired by Lotusland and the Chinese tradition of bird & flower painting • SBMA, hosted at Ganna Walska Lotusland • $125-150 • www.sbma.net • 1-4pm Fr, 1/12.

OPENING RECEPTION: UNCOMMON GROUND • View paintings & collages by Scott Johnson • Architectural Fdn Gallery, 229 E Victoria St • Free • 5-7pm Fr, 1/12.

PEREGRINE GALLERIES: Early California and American paintings; fine vintage jewelry • 1133 Coast Village Rd • 805-252-9659 • www.peregrine.shop

STUDIO SUNDAY • Create a black-and-white landscape inspired by photographer Ellsworth Kelly • SB Museum of Art, Family Resource Center • Free • 1:30-4:30pm Su, 1/14.

PETER HORJUS DESIGN: Studio & Gallery • 11 W Figueroa St • www.peterhorjus.com

SB ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW • Local artists & artisans • Free • 236 E Cabrillo Blvd • 10-5 Su

PORTICO GALLERY: 1235 Coast Village Rd • Open Daily • 1235 Coast Village Rd • 805-729-8454 • www. porticofinearts.com

CARPINTERIA CREATIVE ARTS • Shop locally made pottery, beach art, cards, jewelry, and sewn articles • 8th St & Linden Av • Free • 2:30-6 Th

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Corot Exhibit to Honor Ridley-Tree ADY LESLIE RIDLEY-TREE’S ENTIRE COLLECTION OF JEANBAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT, which includes eleven paintings, twelve lithographs, and a drawing, will go on display January 11th to March 23rd in the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. A free, public opening reception for the exhibition, Camille Corot to Orthodox Icons: Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree’s Gifts to the Collection is set for Thursday, January 11th, from 4 to 6pm.

Seven Barbizon artworks, also donated

by Ridley-Tree, will accompany the exhibition.

Artists include Charles Francois Daubigny, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña, Theodore Rousseau, Jules Dupre, and Hippolyte Camille Delpy. Bo Bartlett’s large portrait of Leslie and her husband, Lord Paul Ridley-Tree, will also be on display.

Judy L. Larson, Askew professor of art

Art Venues • CONTINUED •

RED BARN GALLERY (AT UCSB): By appt • king@theaterdance.ucsb • near bus circle middle of campus SANTA BARBARA ART WORKS: Artists with disabilities programs, virtual exhibits • 805-260-6705 • www.sbartworks.org

history and museum director, noted the exhibition pays tribute to the memory of Leslie, who died in October 2022 at 98.

“Leslie told a story of her and Paul’s honeymoon in Russia and a visit to St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum,” Larson shared. “After a couple of hours, she was fatigued and suggested they sit in a gallery hung salon-style with Corot’s paintings.

She had always loved Corot. While resting there, Paul suggested that perhaps they, as a couple, should collect landscapes by this French painter. As Leslie put it: ‘My strategy worked!’”

Together, the two formed a prestigious collection, which Leslie expanded after Paul’s death.

RidleyTree was also interested in collecting orthodox icons, which she hung in a small, royal blue room, where she began every day meditating.

“Leslie was a deeply spiritual woman; her collection of icons was well-loved,” Larson says. “The icons will be displayed

SANTA BARBARA FINE ART: New Paintings by Richard Schloss; SB landscapes & sculptor Bud Bottoms • 1321 State St • 12-6 Tu-Sa & By Appt • 805-845-4270 • www.santabarbarafineart.com SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: Depth of Field: Botanical Photography Through the Low-key Lens • 1212 Mission Canyon Rd • 10-5 daily • 805-682-4726 • www.sbbg.org SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM: California Missions by Edwin Deakin ~ Feb 18; Seasonal Soirées: Santa Barbara’s Evening Couture 1880-1980 ~ Apr • 136 E De la Guerra • 12-5 We-Su; 12-7 Th • 805-966-1601 • www.sbhistorical.org SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM: 150 Years of Harbor History ~ Jan 21; The Chumash, Whaling, Commercial Diving, Surfing, Shipwrecks, First Order Fresnel Lens, and Santa Barbara Lighthouse Women Keepers ~ Ongoing • 113 Harbor Way, Ste 190 • 10-5 Th-Su • 805-962-8404 • www.SBMM.org

A. Michael Marzolla, Fine Artist Excogitation Services/Marzozart Paintings, drawings, prints Commissions accepted

www.marzozart.com

SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART: Inside/Outside ~ Feb 18; Shape, Ground, Shadow: The Photographs of Ellsworth Kelly ~ Jan 14; Flowers on a River: The Art of Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting ~ Jan 14; From Copper Plate to Collotype ~ Jan 28; Stillness ~ Jan 7; The Human Presence ~ Jan 21; Portrait of Mexico Today; Highlights ~ Ongoing

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President Gayle D. Beebe and Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree at Westmont’s Corot Exhibition in 2013

in a small room in the museum painted bright blue to evoke what her personal prayer room looked like. The icons are not art, since they are meant to be touched and kissed in prayer, rather than pristinely preserved or presented simply as objects.”

Leslie worshiped at the Santa Barbara Episcopalian Church All Saints by the Sea and enjoyed serving as a lector during Sunday services.

She supported many institutions and causes, including Cottage Hospital, Alzheimer’s research, Sarah House, the Santa Barbara Zoo, Casa Esperanza,

Music Academy of the West, United Way, Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinic, Girls Inc., the Sheriff ’s Council, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, the Council of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara City College, and the Ridley-Tree Art Museum at Westmont as well as Westmont’s music and nursing programs.

• 1130 State St • 11-5 Tu-Su ; 11-8 Th • 805-963-4364 • www.sbma.net

11 E Anapamu St • 10-5:30 daily • 805-730-1460 • www.sullivangoss.com

SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: Voyages of Discovery: Natural History Exploration ~ March 10; Mineral exhibition & Prehistoric Forest: Discover Dinosaurs in the Wild ~ ongoing • 2559 Puesta del Sol • 10-5 We-Su • www.sbnature.org

SUSAN QUINLAN DOLL & TEDDY BEAR MUSEUM: 122 W. Canon Perdido • 11-4 Fr-Sa; Su-Th by appt • 805-687-4623 • www.quinlanmuseum.com

SANTA BARBARA SEA CENTER: Dive In: Our Changing Channel ~ Ongoing • 211 Stearns Wharf • 10-5 Daily • 805-682-4711 • www.sbnature.org SANTA BARBARA TENNIS CLUB: 2375 Foothill Rd • 10-6 Daily • 805682-4722 • www.2ndfridaysart.com SLICE OF LIGHT GALLERY: Earth & Space Fine Art Photography by JK Lovelace • 9 W Figueroa St • Mo-Fr 10-5 • 805-354-5552 • www.sliceoflight.com SILO 118: Silos at the Silo, Photography by David Rubenstein & Sculpture by Jim McAninch ~ Jan 13 • 118 Gray St • 12-5 Th-Sa/By Appt • www.silo118.com STEWART FINE ART: Early California Plein Air Paintings + European Fine Art + Antiques • 539 San Ysidro Rd • 11-5:30 Mo-Sa • 805-845-0255 SULLIVAN GOSS: Points of Origin ~ Jan 22; Winter Salon II ~ Jan 26; The Sublime: Where Words Fail ~ Feb 26 •

SYV HISTORICAL MUSEUM & CARRIAGE HOUSE: Art Of The Western Saddle • 3596 Sagunto St, Santa Ynez • 12-4 Sa, Su • 805-6887889 • www.santaynezmuseum.org TAMSEN GALLERY: Work by Robert W. Firestone • 911.5 State St • 12-5 We-Su • 805-705-2208 • www.tamsengallery.com

WESTMONT RIDLEY-TREE MUSEUM OF ART: Closed to Jan 11 • www.westmont.edu/museum WILDLING MUSEUM: Message in a Bottle | Elizabeth Criss ~ Feb 24; CA National Parks: Stories of Water ~ Feb 19 • 1511 B Mission Dr, Solvang • 11-4 Mo, Th, Fr; 11-5 Sa & Su • www.wildlingmuseum.org ARTISTS: SEE YOUR WORK HERE!

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UCSB LIBRARY: Cultura Cura: 50 Years of Self Help Graphics in East LA ~ June 21 • www.library.ucsb.edu VOICE GALLERY: Dorothy Churchill Johnson Retrospective ~ Jan 30 • La Cumbre Plaza H-124 • 10-5:30 M-F; Sa & 1-5 Su • 805-965-6448 • www.voicesb.art WATERHOUSE GALLERY MONTECITO: Notable CA & National Artists • 1187 Coast Village Rd • 11-5 Mo-Su • 805-962-8885 • www.waterhousegallery.com WATERHOUSE GALLERY SB: Notable CA & National Artists • La Arcada Ct, 1114 State St, #9 • 11-5 Mo-Sa • 805-962-8885 • www.waterhousegallery.com

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Santa Barbara’s

Cultural Night Downtown

January 4th 5 to 8pm

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ST THURSDAY is an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara that takes place on the first Thursday of each month. Participating art venues offer free access to art in a fun and social environment from 5-8pm.

1st Thursday venues also provide additional attractions, such as live music, artist receptions, lectures, wine tastings, and hands-on activities. State Street also comes alive on 1st Thursday with performances and interactive activities.

Galleries, Museums, & Art Venues

1. Voice Gallery: La Cumbre Plaza, 110 South Hope Avenue #H124 • Discover a retrospective of work by American oil painter Dorothy Churchill-Johnson. A selection of Neo-pop, Kaleidoscopes, Abstracts, Surreal Landscapes, Floral, Succulents, and Still Life, plus early Pen & Ink. The art has hung in museums from LACA to the Butler Museum, and from Europe to Russia. All work is for sale.

2. SBIFF’s Santa Barbara Filmmaker Series: SBIFF Education Center, 1330 State Street • We are featuring John Klein’s SOUL OF THE CITY. Three stories converge: East Beach, Francisco Aguilera, and Francisco’s bid to renew his lease for the East Beach Grill. Showtimes 5:30 pm, 6:00 pm, 6:30 pm & 7:00 pm. Runtime: 22 mins.

3. Santa Barbara Fine Art: 1321 State Street • New Paintings by Santa Barbara’s iconic landscape artist, Richard Schloss, the only known living artist in Santa Barbara today, whose paintings are in 5 museums’ permanent collections.

4. Maune Contemporary: 1309 State Street • Maune Contemporary–Exhibiting works by recognized contemporary artists including Alex Katz, Donald Sultan, Mr. Brainwash, Taher Jaoui, Ted Collier, and more.

5. Ensemble Theatre Company: 33 W Victoria St • Ensemble Theatre Company invites you to tour The New Vic. They are hosting tours at 5:30pm, and 6pm. Learn about the history of the 7. Granada Theatre celebrates the building, the project that Centennial Year! turned it into a state-ofthe-art 296 seat theater in downtown Santa Barbara, and some interesting facts about theaters and how they work.

6. Legacy Arts Listening Room: 1230 State Street • Starting off 2024 with a special art collection feature for the first and limited time only! Showcasing the rare and unique personal collection and Legacy of our in-house

22. Elizabeth Gordon Gallery celebrates the New Year with exciting new work.

artists the Barrymore’s consisting of eclectic paintings and one-of-a-kind sculptures.

7. Granada Theatre: 1214 State Street • Stop by The Granada on The First Thursday of The Granada’s Centennial Year! Stop in the lobby for fine wine and refreshments AND a musical offering from the Santa Barbara Jazz Ensemble, a brand new group of Santa Barbara-based musicians.

8. Sullivan Goss: 11 E Anapamu 3. Santa Barbara Fine Art: St • Join Sullivan New Paintings by Richard Schloss Goss Gallery for the opening of The Sublime: Where Words Fail, a major exhibition on the history of the sublime in American art.

Also on view: Points of Origin featuring early works by artists who went on to become some of the best-known artists of the region.

9. Santa Barbara Museum of Art: 1130 State Street • Join SBMA for performances of traditional Chinese instruments in the Museum galleries at 5:30 pm. Then, enjoy Family 1st Thursday with an abstract paper collage activity inspired by Ellsworth Kelly’s paintings from 5:30 to 7:30pm.

Afterward, explore the current exhibitions until 8pm. All free!

10. Faulkner Gallery: Public Library, 40 E Anapamu St. • In January roughly 60 photographs are on view in the Faulkner Gallery which were taken by students participating in SBCC’s School

8. Sullivan Goss features The Sublime: Where Words Fail.

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of Extended Learning’s unique course Digital Photography: Techniques and Creative Applications in Community-Oriented Setting which is taught by Veterans, for Veterans.

The Veteran Students build community and produce high-quality digital photographs.

11. Gallery 113: 1114 State Street • Members of the Santa Barbara Art Association exhibit here. The Artist of the Month is Gerald Zwers and featured artists are Nicola Gordon, Mary-Gail King, Liz Poulin Alvarez, and Manny Lopez. Gallery 113 has been exhibiting original art by members of SBAA for 50 years!

12. Waterhouse Gallery: 1114 State Street #9 • The Gallery features figurative works, interiors, and cityscapes, by some of today’s finest nationally known local and Oak Group artists. Enjoy works by Ray Hunter, Derek Harrison, Wyllis Heaton, Camille Dellar, Ann Sanders, Thomas Van Stein, Nancy Davidson, Rick Garcia, Ellie Freudenstein, and Ralph Waterhouse.

13. The Yes Store: 1100 State Street • Join us as we celebrate 2024. Enjoy snacks and beverages. Featuring artist Jess Conti’s leather bags and accessories: a focus on stylish yet functional designs that emphasize the natural beauty of the leather. Looking for locally handmade gifts or something for yourself? Look no further than The Yes Store.

6. Legacy Arts Listening Room: from the collection of the Barrymores

11. Gallery 113 is showing the Santa Barbara Art Association members.

15. Mary Kay West Fine Art: 3 W. Carrillo St. STE 209 • Award-winning artist and Artist Member of the California Art Club Mary Kay West will have an open studio and exhibit of current work featuring her renowned classical realist trompe l’oeil and bird compositions. She will also do a live painting demonstration from 6-7pm!

16. The Blue Owl: 5 W Canon Perdido St. • The Blue Owl will present a jam on the first Thursday of each month.

Hosted by guitarist Tony Ybarra, this Jam session will feature local jazz instrumentalists and vocalists. Backed by Santino Tafarella and Matt Perko, it will be a fantastic night of Jazz!

20. Santa Barbara Historical Museum: Seasonal Soirées: Santa Barbara’s Evening Couture

10. Faulkner Gallery: “Digital Photography: Techniques and Creative Applications in Community-Oriented Setting”

17. SevTap Winery: 814 State Street, by the band!

• To celebrate the vibrant atmosphere of this beautiful city, we are thrilled to offer our customers an exclusive deal: $8 white, red, or mulled wine by the glass. Immerse yourself in the enchanting atmosphere, mingle with fellow wine enthusiasts, and savor the finest wines that Santa Barbara has to offer.

1. Voice Gallery presents a retrospective of work by Dorothy Churchill-Johnson.

19. The Eddy Corner Store: 137 E. De La Guerra St. • The Eddy is hosting a cozy evening of treats, toddies, and tunes featuring acoustic artist Andie Bronstad, warm n/a beverages by Tilden, and an assortment of local sweet treats. All ages welcome!

20. Santa Barbara Historical Museum: 136 E De La Guerra St. • Enjoy access after-hours with wine and music while you explore our galleries, including our latest exhibition, Seasonal Soirées: Santa Barbara’s Evening Couture 1880-1980.

Take a walk down the runway as we present evening wear created by designers of national and international renown from the Museum’s extensive collection.

21. La Paloma Cafe: handcrafted treasures from Mexican artisans.

14. Slice of Light Gallery: 9 W Figueroa St. • Happy New Year! We welcome you to join us for a magnificent evening at our photography gallery, featuring the natural beauty of earth and space. Every piece is captured by Santa Barbara local, J K Lovelace. Enjoy fine wine as you explore our holiday exhibit, “All’s Well”.

18. Paint at Paseo: Peppermint Parlor, Paseo Nuevo across from Sephora • Celebrate the spirit of the New Year with Alisha, a Santa Maria-based artist. Alisha will lead you through a 90-minute acrylic painting session, for all ages and skill levels. All materials, including canvases, paints, aprons, and brushes, are provided.

Take home a beautiful painting! This monthly event is free!

21. La Paloma Cafe: 702 Anacapa St • Discover exquisite handcrafted treasures from Mexican artisans in Guerrero, Oaxaca, Jalisco, Guanajuato, and Baja California Norte.

Zitzilin Imports’ collection extends globally, featuring beautiful chandeliers, handmade vases, and plates from Turkey, Italy, India, South Africa, Thailand, South America, and beyond. Explore unique vintage pieces that tell stories from around the world.

22. Elizabeth Gordon Gallery: 15 W Gutierrez St. • Celebrate the New Year with another art event featuring works by Sherri Belassen, David Matthew King, Rafael Gaete, Stanley Boydston, and many more. Join us for a night of contemporary brilliance, complemented by delightful tunes, wine, and artisanal cheeses. Treat yourself to an unforgettable fusion of creativity and cultural richness.

23. Riviera Beach House: 121 State Street • Be the first to enjoy our new Fall/Winter exhibition in partnership with Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara. This first 12. Waterhouse Gallery: art by some of today’s finest artists. installation of the MCASB Satellite at Riviera Beach House features local artists Stephanie Dotson and Madeleine Eve Ignon.

Sponsor 9. Santa Barbara Museum of Art: is hostijng an an abstract paper collage activity.

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NECESITAMOS SU AYUDA 1. Regístrese en countyofsb.pointintime.info antes del 19 de enero 2. Asista a una sesión de entrenamiento virtual o en persona (ofrecidas entre el 15 al 19 de enero de 2024) 3. Preséntese el 24 de enero en su centro logístico designado countyofsb.pointintime.info

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Hospice of Santa Barbara Carries its 50 Years of “Compassionate Care” Legacy into the Future

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illuminate Speaker Series

ITH 50 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY, Hospice of Santa Barbara continues to carry their experience, deep local connections and partnerships, and compassionate services forward to provide the most effective and relevant multi-service bereavement and patient care services possible.

An outgrowth of the COVID pandemic and seen in 46 states and 58 countries, the illuminate Community Education and Engagement Series provided a free virtual series of renowned speakers who addressed the feelings and questions that accompany a challenging time – speakers that inspired, educated, encouraged deeper inquiry and action, created community discussion, and helped bring people closer together. These presentations can be found on YouTube.

Search "Hospice of Santa Barbara" and "illuminate".

Founded in 1974 with a staff of four, Hospice of Santa Barbara is the second oldest hospice organization in the country. They currently have more than 40 employees and 115 trained volunteers.

Last year, Hospice of Santa Barbara served thousands of families in our community. Because they do not bill insurance and all their services are free, Hospice of Santa Barbara relies on community donations to make their services possible.

v IMPACT v What Hospice of Santa Barbara Does for You and Your Community

Grief Support for Children Hospice of Santa Barbara provides individual and group counseling for young people from ages four to 18 who are facing a loss within their family or social circle. They offer weekly 50-minute bereavement counseling sessions at their offices. Grief counseling also takes place at 17 schools, from elementary through high school, from Carpinteria to Santa Ynez.

Each year, they serve approximately 400 children.

Bereavement Services for Adults Hospice of Santa Barbara’s professional therapists offer a compassionate hand through the journey of grief to help those who are suffering find meaning in their lives again. In addition to individual counseling, their professionally-facilitated support groups offer healing to those who have lost an adult child, parent, friend, spouse—or even a pet.

Patient Care Services Patient Care Services staff and volunteers support those with a life-threatening illness with emotional and spiritual counseling, medical care management, and guidance from first diagnosis through death (or recovery). They also provide a variety of practical

Mi Vida, Mi Voz (My Life, My Voice)

assistance including transportation, light housework, respite care, grocery shopping, and more. Last year, Patient Care Services assisted nearly 400 people with a life-threatening illness and 500 family members.

Volunteer Services Volunteers are at the heart of Hospice of Santa Barbara.

Volunteers come from all walks of life and from all segments of the community. Some come with a desire to give back to the community or a personal calling to do hospice work. Others have directly benefited from the services of Hospice of Santa Barbara. In addition to Patient Care, their volunteer services also include No One Dies Alone, Beloved Bears, Life Reminiscence, and Bereavement Support.

Crisis Support for those Impacted by Tragedy Our community has experienced many tragedies, including natural disasters, accidents, pandemics, and violent events. In the wake of these sudden and tragic deaths, Hospice of Santa Barbara is a key resource for impacted and grieving community members who want to heal. They also have PTSD/trauma specialists who support the mental health and wellbeing of our first responder community.

MVMV has been compiling and distributing up-to-date information about critical community resources that impact the lives of Spanish-speakers in our communities including Advance Care Planning work. MVMV is continuing its mission to address disparities in access to a host of critical services for the Latinx community locally. MVMV’s critical resource information reaches over 5,000 members of our Spanish-speaking community.

Spiritual Care Spiritual care counseling helps patients and family members explore the spiritual issues surrounding end of life, providing counsel about meaning, hope, isolation, and loss. The program supplies an open and honest venue for life review and reconciliation, and addresses life’s last questions, such as, “How will I die?” and “Why is this happening to me?”

Advance Care Planning Hospice of Santa Barbara is working to expand community awareness and education about the importance of health care planning now as well as increasing the number of people who complete the MyCare Advance Directive document in English and in Spanish. One of the most important things any of us can do for ourselves and those we love is to ensure that our health care decisions are clear, that they have been communicated to our loved ones, and rendered in a way that is legally binding.

Community Education It can be difficult to talk about issues of death and end-of-life preparations (like advance care planning).

To make these conversations easier, Hospice offers free educational trainings, workshops, and presentations to community members, organizations, businesses, and government agencies throughout the year.

Hospice of Santa Barbara needs your support: To donate or to volunteer, please visit Hospiceofsb.org or call 805-563-8820.

100 percent of donations go directly to Hospice of Santa Barbara programs and services and are tax deductible.

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