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Fire stations won’t go before voters this fall
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Clearing hurdles
By Lea Boyd
“Until the five of us are in lockstep, I don’t think we stand a quality chance of making it a success.”
The November ballot will require one less decision of Carpinteria and Summerland residents. A $12 million bond measure to fund new fire stations for Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Protection District will not go before voters this fall due to a lack of unity among the district’s board of directors. “Until the five of us are in lockstep, I don’t think we stand a qual––Fire board ity chance of making it president Ben Miller a success,” concluded board President Ben Miller after hearing input from each board member except Craig Price, who was absent from the April 15 meeting. Clinching a board majority in favor of the bond election would have been a cinch. Price has iterated his staunch support for plans to build new fire stations in Carpinteria and Summerland. Miller is another incumbent board member dedicated to the plans, and Lisa Guravitz, who lost her seat in the 2012 election but was reappointed to the board after longtime member Bob Duncan passed away earlier this year, said that she believes that the plans for Summerland, which have been permitted by Santa Barbara County and embraced by Summerlanders, have been vetted sufficiently. Despite sufficient support to place the bond measure on a ballot, Miller applied the brakes due to concerns voiced by boardmembers Chris Johnson and Bill Taff, who were elected in 2012 with support of the local firefighters. “I’m not ready to jump into a November election at this point,” said Johnson. He and Taff have both questioned the need for a $5 to $6 million rebuild of the Carpinteria station. Both have acknowledged that the 80-year-old Summerland Station, which is too small to fit modern equipment and in desperate need of retrofitting, must be addressed, but neither has wholeheartedly embraced the plans for building a new, two-story station on the corner of Temple and Lillie avenues. Johnson advocated for allowing the 11-member ad hoc committee to continue its analysis of the projects and complete its recommendations to the board. Miller asked Chief Mike Mingee to reconvene the group so it can pick up where it left off when it presented its first round of recommendations to the board. Representing the local firefighters union, Kelly Baker told the board that the firefighters hope to be part of
A wedding under the historic Torrey Pine on Carpinteria Avenue would create a small stir no matter who the bride happened to be, but on the morning of Friday, April 18, the woman saying “I do” was none other than Al Gore’s youngest daughter, Sarah. The former Vice President and almost President of the United States walked his daughter down a pine needle covered aisle and watched as she married Patrick Maiani, a Santa Barbara real estate agent and professional piano player. A crowd of about 15 people attended the low key wedding and joined the newlyweds afterward just down the road at Crushcakes for a small reception. The wedding was so brief and seemingly spontaneous that, despite Gore’s celebrity, no media cameras or big crowds formed. Coastal View News’ Man on the Street Larry Nimmer, who was having coffee on the Lucky Llama patio when the Gores arrived, captured photos and video footage that have now made their way into thousands of households via international media such as the People Magazine website and CNN.com. “I was thrilled to just be right in it,” Nimmer said.
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Warrior hurdler Gaby Fantone used nimble footwork to capture three third place medals in the frosh/soph competition at the 95th Russell Cup on april 19. Her contributions in the 100m and 300m hurdles and 4x400m relay helped boost Carpinteria High School’s overall score in its fifth place finish from among the 38 schools that gathered at Carpinteria Valley Memorial Stadium. a village of volunteers ran stopwatches, set up hurdles and kept the massive track meet humming. For more coverage of the event, see pages 14 and 15.
Gore wedding shocks Carpinteria By Lea Boyd
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Sarah Gore and Patrick Maiani exchange wedding vows under Carpinteria’s historic Torrey Pine on april 18.