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ARE WE FLATTENING THE CURVE? Now on independent.com, you’ll find an easy-to-understand graph that depicts Santa Barbara County’s total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases over time, as well as the region’s current count of hospitalizations. The data is drawn directly from our Public Health Department and will be updated daily. Visit independent.com/coronavirus-news for all of our COVID-19 coverage.

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COVID-19, Climate Change, and a New Chance to Choose Wisely (Indy Staff) ABOVE: Community Environmental Council CEO/ Director Sigrid Wright

CORONAVIRUS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13

FOOD & DRINK .. . . . . . . . . . . 31 The Restaurant Guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Stay In/Take Out Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Dining Out Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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ODDS & ENDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology . . . . . . . 37 This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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Getting to Know Van Do-Reynoso County’s Public Health Director Leads the Charge Against COVID-19

County Public Health Director Van Do-Reynoso, who moved to Santa Barbara three years ago, has a 20-year career in public health. “I was working in this field when H1N1 and Ebola broke out,” said Do-Reynoso. “But this is unprecedented because of how widespread and sustained COVID-19 is.” by Delaney Smith ince the COVID-19 pandemic hit Santa Barbara County more than a month ago, Dr. Van DoReynoso has had three days off. For the first month, Do-Reynoso — director of the county’s Public Health Department — worked 14-16 hours a day, seven days a week. Although the long hours can put anyone at their wits’ end, her tight-knit family gives her a strong foundation to stand on. “I wouldn’t be able to do what I’m doing without my family. I moved to Santa Barbara County with my husband of a lot of years; I don’t even know how many years,” she said, laughing. “The past few days were the first I could actually sit down and have dinner with my husband and my daughter.” In her college days, Do-Reynoso craved a vessel that would allow her to have a broad influence over communities. Journalism seemed to fit the bill, but her alma mater, the University of California, Santa Cruz, didn’t offer the major. It wasn’t until her junior year that her aging public health professor revealed the approach she was missing. “My professor influenced me by showing how health can be impacted from the prevention aspect,” Do-Reynoso said, “through changing policies, the environment, and systems to achieve a healthy community. The opportunity to create change at a community level was really compelling and opened my eyes to the possibility of how much impact you can have. “That’s why I chose to pursue public health over medical school.” After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in biology from UC Santa Cruz, Do-Reynoso went on to earn a public health master’s in health policy and administration from UC Berkeley and a doctorate in public health services and systems research from UC Merced. Do-Reynoso, who’s been somewhat of an invisible public figure for the past three years, is now one of the most recognized faces in Santa Barbara County. Elected officials, journalists, and members of the public hang on her every word at press conferences and Board of Supervisors reports about the COVID-19 pandemic. Though the Orange County native only moved to Santa Barbara for the job three years ago, she is as close to a pandemic veteran as they come. Before making the move,

Do-Reynoso lived in Visalia in Tulare County for 17 years, working with public health departments through two mass disease outbreaks. Over those 17 years, she spent five years with the Tulare Health and Human Services Agency before she began work in Madera County, where she managed the Madera County behavioral health and human services programs beginning in 2004. She was then Madera County’s assistant public health director for two years before serving as its public health director for seven years. “I was working in this field when H1N1 and Ebola broke out, and the experience is similar to COVID in the way that we are trained to manage and mitigate the outbreaks,” DoReynoso said. “But this is unprecedented because of how widespread and sustained COVID-19 is....The magnitude is what’s unprecedented.” But she’s confident she can handle the job with the partnership of the county’s emergency departments backing her up. “We are supported by the Emergency Operations Center, the Office of Emergency Management, our colleagues from County Fire, and the Sheriff ’s Office to bring their expertise in managing a large-scale incident like COVID-19,” DoReynoso said. “We collaborate and support each other by making sure we all get turns taking days off.” On her rare days off, Do-Reynoso spends her time with her family: “I unwind by having dinner with [my daughter] Sarah and my husband, Gabriel,” she continued. “That’s when I can connect with them and share with them and get grounded — beyond the crisis, I’m dealing with the rest of life. What really challenged me was the inability to have dinner with them since the end of March.” Her husband, to whom she has been married 32 years, is a civil engineer at a private firm in Santa Barbara. They met at UC Santa Cruz — she still fondly refers to him as her “college sweetheart.” Her youngest daughter, Sarah, attends Dos Pueblos High School. Her daughter Rebecca is a licensed clinical psychologist for Veterans Affairs in Michigan, and her daughter Bethany is a junior at Sacramento State University. It was a family decision for Do-Reynoso to take the position at the Santa Barbara Public Health Department and leave their nearly two-decade life in Visalia. Do-Reynoso said her family visited Santa Barbara together and they

“immediately fell in love and came to a unanimous choice.” Do-Reynoso is paid an annual salary upward of $200,000 a year to direct Santa Barbara’s Public Health Department. The department’s responsibilities appear to be almost limitless and include inspecting food establishments, operating health clinics for the underserved, staffing medical shelters during emergency evacuations, managing the county’s animal control program, and conducting health education campaigns. With any leadership role comes criticism, which DoReynoso appeared to be spared from before the pandemic erupted. One of the critical responsibilities held by public health directors is to ensure and oversee there is clear communication with the public. But after the virus spread throughout the county, the department was routinely blasted by the public and occasionally the local media over the conflicting COVID-19 information coming from the health department. In one instance in March, Do-Reynoso reported that there were 32 ventilators spread across the county’s five hospitals, but less than a week later, chief health officer Dr. Henning Ansorg disputed the number, saying it was too low. But communication has greatly improved. The department found its bearings and now relays information consistently and accurately. The weeks of emails that once poured in from readers begging reporters to ask the questions they couldn’t find answers to have stopped almost entirely. As Santa Barbara approaches the peak of the curve, DoReynoso, her team, and the county emergency department teams are continuing to work toward decreasing the county’s recently stable number of cases (omitting cases inside the Lompoc federal prison) and hospitalizations so it can move on to the next step. “We know we’re on the other side of the peak when we’ve experienced a steady decline in hospitalizations or no new cases over a period of time, such as 14 days,” Do-Reynoso explained. “We believe that getting back to ‘normal’ will take some time and in many ways, some of the changes we have experienced as a result of COVID will likely persist as our new normal.” She said that the department will work with state guidelines, including Governor Gavin Newsom’s recently rolledout checklist of six targets to be met before businesses and n schools can reopen and the new normal can begin.

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feel so happy that I can do something to help,” Marian Shapiro said, a feeling she shares with dozens of women busy at their sewing machines all over Santa Barbara County who are making critically needed face masks. Shapiro’s creations, 170 so far, have three layers of 100 percent woven cotton and one layer of knit. “The knit is different and a bit of a filter,” said Shapiro, who’s also added a twist tie at the nose and a pocket for a coffee filter, paper towel, or tissue for additional filtration against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus ravaging the world. Shapiro is one of a loosely knit group of people around town who have been sewing and giving away masks to Cottage Hospital, Planned Parenthood, homeless people, and B’nai B’rith. These volunteers have formed an informal group, helping one another. When Shapiro’s sewing machine began to break down, when she began to run out of elastic, and when she needed groceries, friends new and old stepped in to help, loaning a sewing machine, sharing materials, Marian Shapiro models one of the 170 facemasks she has made and given away. even delivering groceries. The Bucket Brigade is hoping to energize these volNew studies show the virus lingers in the air from simply breathing unteer sewing circles by offering a challenge: Become the “Rockstar of and yawning, and masks help contain the aerosolized germs. Santa Sewing.” According to the Brigade’s Keith Hamm, a former Independent Barbara public health officials have asked residents to wear masks to reporter, the challenge offers small prizes to prime mask producers, work- suppress the virus. ing from the safety of home, and provides material, elastic, and thread for “They help us keep from infecting other people. If everybody wears about 20 masks at a time. them, it would be like using a condom and taking the pill,” said Lee Anneliese Place started sewing masks because she was ready to freak Heller, who is shepherding supplies between several sewing circles. “You have protection on both sides and that would out, she said, after learning that her daughincrease your prophylaxis!” ter, a surgeon at Walter Reed medical hospital in Washington, D.C., had to use the In the Czech Republic, for instance, nearly [Masks] help us keep from same mask over and over again. “They’re the entire country of 11 million was wearing rationed. She was taking it home in a paper them within three days of a mask-wearing infecting other people. If edict, thanks to home sewing. It’s credited bag,” Place said, in an incredulous whisper. “I decided to make one.” Another daughwith taming COVID-19 cases, though the everybody wears them, ter worked at a veterinarian office in Santa Czechs continue to suffer, as does the rest of it would be like using a Barbara, and they didn’t have masks either. the world. Through San Roque’s NextDoor app, The Centers for Disease Control offers condom and taking the pill. advice on mask making that the mask-makPlace asked for fabric, “and everyone in —LEE HELLER San Roque started donating.” She and ers have cited as a starting place. And once they’re made, Cottage welcomes donations her daughter began to pick up mateof medical supplies and homemade masks rial, make the masks, and put them in people’s mailboxes. Place created a website, annelieseplace9.wixsite at its Goleta hospital parking lot: Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 10 .com/sbmaskmakers, where people can request masks and offer to a.m.-5 p.m. In the Santa Ynez Valley, residents can contact June Martin help or provide materials. to arrange for pickup: j2martin@sbch.org or (805) 691-9509. Likewise, “It’s really cool,” Place said. “So many women have come together as a the county gratefully accepts medical supply donations at Foodbank group, but we don’t know each other. We haven’t seen each other except distribution sites (see independent.com/county-donations) and is in the process of hiring a coordinator to organize the many sewing groups that to wave through a window!” Place said she took a couple hundred masks to Valle Verde retirement have sprung up. “One mask could save a life,” said Anneliese Place. “That’s what it’s village, 40 to businesses, 100 to a man who was giving them to homeless really come down to.” n people. “Now you can’t get into a grocery store without a mask.”

Newsom’s Six Steps to Normal

overnor Gavin Newsom and Santa Barbara County Public Health Officer Dr. Henning Ansorg spelled out the next steps on the roadmap back to normal on Tuesday, emphasizing that the stay-at-home order will remain in place until six targets are met. “[Newsom’s framework] outlines the necessary indicators that need to be in place in order to responsibly modify our current stay-at-home order,” Ansorg said at the county press briefing. “For this to be a possibility, we need to have sufficient testing available to rapidly identify and isolate infected persons.” In addition to the testing improvements, Ansorg said Newsom’s remaining five goals are to ensure protection for those most vulnerable to the virus; require that all hospitals are prepared to handle a potential surge; make social-distancing practices a standard integrated into schools and workplaces; have an ability to meet therapeutic demand; and have assurance that any protection measures can be reinstated if necessary.

“[Newsom] explicitly stated that he doesn’t view the state’s stay-athome order as a light switch that if we switch off will make everything go back to normal,” said 2nd District Supervisor Gregg Hart about the governor’s order. “A better analogy is a dimmer switch that will be carefully adjusted as we account for new data and new conditions,” Hart said. “He was very straightforward that we aren’t out of the woods yet, but he clearly said our current situation cannot be a permanent state.” Ansorg said that although there is no definitive timeline for reopening, he believes the Public Health Department will have more of an idea of how to proceed in Santa Barbara County by the end of April. “Once our current infections and hospitalizations start to decline and these six parameters are in place, the gradual opening of certain businesses and modifications to the stay-at-home order will be implemented,” Ansorg said. “For Santa Barbara County, the timing of this transition will follow the state’s public health guidance but will also be —Delaney Smith tiered to our local needs.” INDEPENDENT.COM

Cottage Health is now offering its telemedicine services free to people who suspect they have COVID-19. Formerly $29 for online consultation, patients with symptoms of fever, cough, or shortness of breath or sore throat, runny nose, or nasal congestion can visit cottagehealth .org/carenow for a free initial diagnosis. Prospective patients can access Cottage CareNow using a smart phone, tablet, or computer. Within an hour, they will be communicating to a Cottage nurse practitioner or to a United Concierge Group doctor, all certified with Cottage Health. As part of the county’s mass-fatality plan in anticipation of a surge in COVID-19 cases, the Coroner’s Bureau has acquired two refrigerated coolers to store additional decedents. The two units, which each can hold 40 decedents, are located at the Santa Barbara facility and bring the county’s maximum capacity to 335. The Coroner’s Bureau is also conducting postmortem coronavirus testing on nearly every decedent, deep cleaning twice a week on top of regular cleanings, and performing autopsies in full PPE for cases suspected to be COVID-related. Eight MarBorg porta-potties, as well as 24-hour washing stations, have been installed throughout downtown Santa Barbara for homeless people. Three of the porta-potties will be located on State Street — by Marshalls on the 900 block, behind McDonald’s on the 1200 block, and on the 400 block near Vera Cruz Park — as well as under the Cacique Street freeway overpass and at Pershing, Chase Palm, Dwight Murphy, and Alameda parks. The porta-potties will be cleaned twice a day, but no security will be provided. The cost of the program is slated to be $15,000 a month and is funded by a state grant awarded to City Hall a year ago to address the growing homeless emergency. New signs have been posted at county parks and beaches reminding visitors of the state’s social distancing order, which strictly prohibits gatherings of 10 or more people. Even in small groups, the mandate says, keep six feet of distance between yourself and others. Sheriff Bill Brown said rangers and lifeguards will be keeping an eye on things, and violators could be fined up to $1,000. Governor Gavin Newsom announced 4/8 that the state would play “no more small ball” and would spend $1.4 billion on protection supplies. Working through nongovernmental organizations with ties to China and Chinese suppliers, said Newsom, the state was on track to receive 150 million N95 masks per month, 50 million surgical masks, and gowns, gloves, and face shields. Newsom denied his “nation-state” was stepping in where national leadership was leaving a void, saying the work against COVID-19 could not proceed without FEMA or the White House, with whom California was coordinating. n

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Demand is high for the drive-through locations, but Smith-Meyer shares that the lines move quickly and that plans for additional locations are in the works. The Foodbank is delivering free groceries to any senior who is 60 years old and up, or anyone who is 55 and up with a self-certified disability. Deliveries are conducted by volunteers as well as members of the National Guard, and bags are left on doorsteps to minimize contact. Each bag contains directions for safe handling in both English and Spanish that guide the recipient on how to properly sanitize groceries before use. Foodbank services were also added to the Santa Barbara County 211 countywide public Nonprofit Uniquely Prepared resources hotline. The hotline, which operates in for COVID-19 Outbreak both English and Spanish, received 932 calls in After learning that many in need were its first week of operation. The Foodbank has been able to triple its unable to access food resources during the Thomas Fire and Montecito debris flow food distribution due to partnerships with disasters, the Foodbank led the development statewide and national coalitions of food of a comprehensive Disaster Feeding Plan. banks and relationships with local growDeveloped in collaboration with more than ers, wholesalers, and grocery retailers. But 30 organizations, the plan helps ensure that they’ve also experienced an outpouring of all county residents can be fed in the event home garden donations from the commuof a large-scale disaster. Specifically, it was nity. “It really matters and makes a differdesigned to provide individuals with food ence,” said Smith-Meyer. What’s next? In the works is a text pronear or at their homes. In accordance with the plan, all Foodbank gram that operates in both English and distribution sites have been transitioned Spanish, which will connect community to “SAFE Food Net” locations that enforce members with information about food social distancing and strict sanitation stan- resources. In April, the Foodbank hopes to dards. Groceries are now distributed in pilot a prepared meals program to deliver bags to reduce contact and contamination. professionally cooked dishes to local seniors. Over 15 new food distribution sites have The program will help the food insecure been added to meet an increased demand while also supporting the economy and resfor food, many of which are drive-throughs taurant industry. “We really want to emphasize that the that minimize contact between volunteers Foodbank is totally ready to face this chaland participants. “For people who have never done it, no- lenge and that there’s enough food for contact drive-through is easy, very anony- everyone who needs it right now,” said mous — we do collect your name but it’s not Smith-Meyer. “This is no time to be squeakreported anywhere — and safe,” said Smith- ing by on instant ramen when you need to be Meyer. “You don’t even come close to the healthy [to have a strong] immune system.” n person who is handing you the bag of food.”

ow do you feed an entire county in a disaster situation, especially when it might not be safe to go outside? By November 2019, the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County was already equipped to answer that question. “Our mission is to ensure that everybody in the county of Santa Barbara has access to the healthy food they need,” said the organization’s marketing director Judith Smith-Meyer. “We’re ready, and we have the relationships in place to help us do that.”

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Cannabis tax revenue has “become one of the legs of our three-legged stool,” said Supervisor Steve Lavagnino, the other two being sales taxes and bed taxes.

Will Cannabis Bail Out County in COVID Crisis?

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Although the COVID crisis is far from over, Lavagnino noted the numbers of patients hospitalized and placed into intensive care units has flattened out and actually dropped a little over the past two weeks. Should that trend continue, he said, the county will be spared certain big-ticket expenses, such as opening a pop-up alternate care site (ACS). San Luis Obispo County, he said, wound up spending millions on an ACS located on the Cal Poly campus that has yet to see one patient.

here were far more unknowns than knowns this week as the county supervisors contemplated just how big a hole the COVID crisis has blasted in their budget, but one number stood out and poked everyone in the eye. That’s the $10 million they’re banking on cannabis to generate in tax revenues over the coming year. The supervisors have tentatively set aside $3 million of that to cover the cost of COVIDrelated expenses. Another $7 million would backfill other revenues Supervisors Bank on — sales tax and bed taxes — that will be lost because of the economic $10 Million in violence inflicted by the virus and Additional Tax Revenues the state’s emergency shutdown in response to it. Lavagnino said the supervisors have been Every year this time, the supervisors take a preliminary crack at the budget they are under pressure from some in the business legally required to submit by June. This year’s community to cut costs by laying off workers, exercise was uncertain in the extreme. “No furloughing them, or cutting their pay. He’s one really has any idea how bad this thing is not there yet, he said. going to hurt,” said 5th District Supervisor “Who do we cut? Firefighters? Sheriff ’s Steve Lavagnino. By that, he meant that the deputies? Health workers? Mental-health supervisors don’t know yet how much the workers?” he asked. “I’m sure not every one state or federal governments will provide—if of the county’s 4,200 workers is strictly essenanything—to the county to offset various tial, but if we start laying people off, we have losses and expenses incurred as a result of to worry about creating new clients.” the virus. Although the county has experienced a In this context, Lavagnino — a strong backlash against the cannabis industry in advocate for the newly legalized cannabis some parts of the county, Lavagnino remains — noted the new industry has surpassed an enthusiastic supporter. “If we didn’t have expectations. Last year, he said, the county that $20 million, what would we do? There’s projected cannabis revenues of $5.6 million no oil money. There’s no short-term vacation but took in $9.2 million instead. For the com- rentals. Where would it come from?” ing year, county bean counters are projecting In a statement, Concerned Carpinte$10.6 million in revenues. “That’s $20 million rians, an organization that emerged out of we wouldn’t otherwise have had,” Lavagnino concern about the strong cannabis odors stated in an interview after this Monday’s wafting throughout the Carpinteria Valley, supervisors’ meeting. “It’s become one of dismissed the revenues as “a paltry fraction” the legs of our three-legged stool,” he said, of the county’s $1.2 billion budget, stating the other two being sales taxes and bed taxes the revenues were “at best unreliable,” with unknown public-health and environmental charged to motel and hotel guests. As welcome as the money is, Lavagnino ramifications. Cannabis growers, the orgatook a rosier view of the county’s financial nization noted, got to self-report how much predicament than some of his board col- they owed with no oversight until recently. leagues, most notably Supervisor Peter “We know how that goes for businesses who Adam, who spoke of the economic impacts in are allowed to guestimate what they owe in almost apocalyptic terms. Lavagnino praised taxes,” the statement read. County Executive Officer Mona Miyasato for Such concerns — now being addressed squirreling money away into special reserves —were not foremost in Lavagnino’s mind. over the past few years on the assumption that “I just ran into a grower,” he recounted, “who a recession was on the way. “It’s not quite the told me he was dropping off $400,000 to the debacle others expect,” Lavagnino cautioned. county in tax revenues. In cash.” n

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As of Wednesday, April 15, 69 inmates and 24 staff at USP Lompoc have tested positive for COVID-19, more than any other correctional institution operated by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). With Santa Barbara County reporting 313 COVID-19 cases, the penitentiary now accounts for a full 30 percent of the region’s total. Thirteen of the infected inmates are hospitalized. Eight are being cared for at Lompoc Valley Medical Center (LVMC) and five at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. Six are on ventilators. One staff member is hospitalized. “Lompoc Valley Medical Center, and the other hospitals within the county, are able to manage the present number of inpatients coming from the penitentiary,” said LVMC spokesperson Nora Wallace. “However, the hospitals and governmental entities are making significant contingency plans with the expectation that the number of patients will increase before it

decreases.” Hospitalized inmates are guarded 24 hours a day by two prison officers, who rotate on eight-hour shifts. To lessen the load on regional medical centers and to better accommodate the security measures necessary for inmates, Lompoc prison officials requested a 50-bed mobile hospital from the BOP, but they were told by their national office it could take four to six weeks to arrive. The BOP has been resoundingly criticized for its response to the numerous outbreaks at their facilities, with inmates and their families — as well as guards, who feel they’ve been unfairly put in harm’s way — calling the containment efforts too little too late. So far, 446 inmates and 248 staff are confirmed infected; 14 inmates have died. The agency initiated its most restrictive measures on March 31, which included keeping prisoners in their “assigned cells or quarters” for 14 days and stopping all transfers between facilities. Officials said they would reevaluate the order after 14 days, but 15 days later, no decision has been announced. Over the past week, family members of Lompoc inmates have contacted the Santa Barbara Independent with serious concerns for the safety of their relatives. Many are just desperate for information. “I have a son housed there and we are in constant contact 2-3 times a week,” said Mo Smith in an email. “I have not heard from him in over 3 weeks. He also has acute bronchitis and other medical issues. I have not been able to obtain any updates from anyone at USP Lompoc to find out if he is ok.” The wife of a longtime inmate, who wished to go by the name of Lavonne, said when she called the prison on Monday, an Officer Perridon answered and said he couldn’t provide her with any information. When Lavonne asked to speak to James Engleman, the acting warden, Perridon reportedly laughed, told her she might as well ask to talk to the president, and hung up. Families have also provided the Independent with emails and letters sent to them from inside the penitentiary. The messages paint the picture of an institution overwhelmed and underpre-

pared. “The BOP is not being transparent to the public about what is happening behind these walls,” one note reads. Most of the sources requested anonymity for fear of reprisal from prison officials. Social-distancing orders simply aren’t possible in a prison setting, the Lompoc inmates stressed. One said he bunks in a single large room with 230 other offenders who sleep within three feet of one another. Hand sanitizer ran out weeks ago, and soap is in short supply. Many have wondered why, despite an April 3 order from Attorney General William Barr for all 22 BOP facilities to thin out their low-risk populations with home confinements, the Lompoc prison hasn’t tried to do so. Guards, officers, nurses, and other staff rarely wear gloves or masks when working, the inmates allege. The staff themselves are frustrated, with some complaining that basic protective equipment came to them well after the virus started spreading, and even then in inadequate quantities. Guards have also protested being forced to work in the Lompoc prison’s quarantine area, which has taken over its Segregated Housing Unit, or SHU, a grouping of high-security, single-occupancy cells normally reserved for violent inmates. On March 30, the American Federation of Government Employees, the national union representing 33,000 BOP correctional workers, including those in Lompoc, filed a class-action lawsuit demanding hazard pay. “Federal prisons are already dangerously understaffed, and now they are a petri dish for COVID19,” said Heidi Burakiewicz, at attorney representing the union, in a statement.

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Santa Barbara County health officials say they are coordinating with BOP authorities to address the outbreak. “Our team has been in very close communication with the Lompoc prison,” said Dr. Van Do-Reynoso, director of the county’s Public Health Department, at a media briefing last Thursday. She said the county has made its Care Center in Lompoc available to penitentiary staff for testing, and her team is providing guidance on “how to stand up a medical center on their grounds.” Do-Reynoso also said that if the prison needed additional resources, “we will be the ones to facilitate those material requests.” Emery Nelson, a BOP spokesperson, said the agency understands “these are stressful times for both inmates and their loved ones.” He said prison officials are taking all the necessary precautions and following Centers for Disease Control guidance to maximize social distancing among inmates populations. In contrast to the claims of Lompoc inmate families who say they can’t reach their relatives inside, Nelson said mail is being distributed daily. “We encourage inmates and family to write to one another often,” he said. “To further assist inmates to communicate with their loved ones and friends, we have increased the monthly phone minutes per inmate from 300 to 500 per month.” Nelson confirmed that Efrem Stutson was released on April 1. But for “privacy, safety, and security reasons,” he said, he could not comment on Stutson’s medical condition at the time. “All inmates, prior to releasing from the BOP, will be screened by medical staff for COVID-19 symptoms,” he said. “If symptomatic for COVID19, the institution will notify the local health authorities in the location where the inmate is releasing, and transportation that will minimize exposure will be used, and inmates will be supplied a mask to wear.” LE N WO OD / SANTA M AR IA TIMES

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LINGO BINGO: Every crisis brings us brandnew lingo. Today, we toss around acronyms like “PPE,” short for personal protective equip-

ment, as if we’d been saying it all our lives. We now knowingly discuss the latest hiccup in the “supply chain”—for such mundane life-saving devices as N-95 face masks—as if we’d ever heard that term before. My favorite new words? Alveoli and cytokine storm. First, they’re fun to say. They sound cool. But, of course, they’re way more than that. Among the millions of ingenious design miracles hiding in plain sight throughout the human body, alveoli might be the most quietly astonishing. Imagine the walls of your lungs lined with plastic bubble wrap, with each set of lungs wrapped with about 600 million bubbles. If all these bubbles were stretched out, we are told, there’d be enough to cover the surface of a tennis court. They are frequently described as looking like clusters of grapes. Now imagine the skin of these grapes being porous and permeable, the same way, perhaps, a nylon stocking is. Lining the outer side of this grape skin are tiny little blood-carrying vessels known as capillaries. The oxygen we inhale through our lungs is sucked through the filter of these mesh-stockinged grapes and into capillaries on the other side. From there, the oxygen gets transported throughout the body, and we don’t die. Going the other way—from the blood to the lungs and out the mouth—is all the carbon dioxide your body created that needs to be off-

gassed. This exchange happens something like 25,000 times a day. It works so well because we don’t think about it. If it didn’t work, we’d all be fish flopping around, gasping for breath. Kind of where we are now. COVID-19 doesn’t pop these bubbles, per se. Rather it fills them up with blood, pus, and mucous as the body figures out how to fight something it’s never seen throughout the six million years human have been swarming the planet. The body is to be forgiven for not anticipating that a bat-born virus could somehow be transmitted to humans through the scales of a Chinese creature that’s one-part armadillo, two-parts anteater. As our air bubbles fill up, the nylon stocking hardens. What was once supple and diaphanous becomes stiff, hard, and impermeable. Imagine cardboard or tree bark. Either way, oxygen can’t get through. Carbon dioxide backs up. The body freaks. It goes nuclear and unleashes everything it has in its arsenal against the virus. This process, known as a cytokine storm, is like all the plagues of the Old Testament rolled into one. Caught in the crossfire, of course, is the body itself. Under this withering self-inflicted onslaught, the basic infrastructure of your body shuts down. Organ failure. Game over. To save itself, the body kills itself. Kind of where we are now. Except we had choices. After four weeks of mandatory shutdown, some people are now insisting the time has come to turn the lights back on and get the economy going again. The cure, they claim, was

far worse than the disease. Some argue the threat was exaggerated from the start as a pretext for deep-staters to conduct a coup d’état or otherwise discredit Donald Trump. Two Santa Maria councilmembers, for example, dismissed the virus as a hoax from the council dais. (One has since recanted.) Others privately argue nature should have been allowed to run its course; the frail and elderly would be culled from the herd —regrettable, perhaps—but as the infection spread, the survivors would develop herd immunity. Or as one high-ranking county official put it sardonically, “Not all wildebeests get to make it to the other side of the river.” The “good news” is that there are not as many wildebeest carcasses in Santa Barbara as initially projected. The county coroner, for example, was told to ramp up capacity to handle a peak of 335 corpses. To date, Santa Barbara has had only two deaths officially attributed to COVID. Some skeptics cite such numbers as proof that the war has been won, others that the war was always a fraud. To the extent California’s hospitals have not been awash in patients is the result of the cytokinetic action Governor Gavin Newsom was forced to take March 19, when he brought the world’s fifth-largest economy to a screeching halt. The withering, blithering incompetence of the emergency non-response of the federal government gave him little choice. Everyone recognizes our self-inflicted blackout is not economically sustainable. But the front-line medical professionals I talk to — people who spend

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ell, it looks like I will probably be receiving one of those stimulus checks. Me, my spouse, my child — we will be eligible for relief. But as difficult as it is being two working parents with a kid stuck at home, we are not the ones who are hurting the most — so we’re giving the money away. Will you join us? It’s hard. Like most of you, I’ve already started spending that money in my mind. I’ve got student loans to pay, a steep mortgage (did I mention termites?), a list of other needs and wants … but me and my spouse still have steady work. Our income is reliable. We aren’t flush, but we’re not broke. However, many others in our town are struggling just to put food on the table. So we’re going to do the right thing and put that money where it is most needed. It’s not free cash — it’s a relief check. Let’s use it for that. I’m going to give my check to the 805 Undocufund — our undocumented neighbors who have lost their jobs won’t be getting any money from the federal government. So the least we can do is pass along the relief. I know the 805 Undocufund, established after the Thomas Fire and 1/9 Debris Flow, has a track record of excellent emergency response. I know they will get the money to people who need it more than I do. If you are in a position to help a neighbor, now is the time. We are all doing our part to slow this pandemic by staying home. Let us also do our part by distributing the economic relief where it is most needed. It’s the right thing to do.

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ildlife hasn’t gotten the memo that a pandemic is forcing new protocols on us all. Around this time of year, Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network generally holds its collective breath for the annual deluge of orphaned wild babies. Dozens of ducklings, stinking (adorable) baby skunks, and awesome baby opossums arrive in desperate need of warmth, nutrition, medication, and around-the-clock care. They need us when

their parents encounter cars, fishing hooks, poison, cats, tree trimming, and many other urban dangers. We hire additional seasonal staff members to keep up the pace from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., every day of the week, but we need help. For that reason, we have started a “Fund for Baby Animals” to rally our community around our shared values of loving and caring for wildlife: sbwcn.org/donate. Our army of volunteers once cleaned enclosures, chopped vegetables, mixed baby formula, transported animals, and fed baby birds every 20 minutes from dawn to dusk. But amid COVID-19, our crew care for animals in their own homes, or chop up fruits and veggies and deliver them. The staff all work their maximum hours, equipped with masks and gloves but without our volunteers. As spring season gets going, up to 60 animals will arrive a day. We have already seen a 39-animal day—all babies. As we await healthier days, hour after hour, we get calls from people who need help for wildlife — by the way, that number is (805) 681-1080 — a concern that displays the best of humanity. From all of us at Wildlife Care Network, be well. We’ll get through this wild world, together.

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he coronavirus is taking a toll on many hourly workers who rely on tips and tourism to pay the bills. Let’s stop paying lip service to these hardworking people and help them out by leaving bigger tips if the restaurants and bars are open. If not, when this is over, let’s do the right thing and help them and others out. I remember how the community came to help after the Montecito tragedy. That’s what we are about in Santa Barbara County.

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George Handler passed away on March first at Valle Verde Retirement Community where he had lived with his wife, Lila Trachtenberg, for the past several years. He was 85. George was born in the Bronx, N.Y. and moved to Los Angeles with his family when he was 13. He graduated from Fairfax High School and UCLA and earned a doctoral degree from the University of Nebraska. For 30 years he conducted research for the Navy at the China Lake Naval Weapons Center, including a year the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. and a year at the Pentagon, working with the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development. At China Lake, he enjoyed the proximity to the desert and the mountains for hiking and backpacking and family camping. Retiring from the Department of Defense, he returned to California with Lila, whom he had met when he was at the Pentagon, he settled in Santa Barbara and worked for Raytheon in Goleta. Retiring from Raytheon, he and Lila enjoyed extensive travel. He became a docent at the Museum of Natural History and the Arroyo Hondo Preserve and a volunteer for the Planned Parenthood Used Book Sale. He was an avid tennis player and a skilled bridge player. He is survived by his son Lloyd Handler and his wife Elaine Batchlor, his daughter Laurie Hansen, stepdaughters Beth and Aimee Trachtenberg, grandchildren Haley Hansen and Adin and Julian Handler, his sister Paula Tint and his wife, Lila. 16

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Hubert Jessup, a pioneer in Boston television, passed away on February 17, 2020, in Santa Barbara, California, with his wife of 52 years, Marie Steventon Jessup, by his side. Jessup, who was 73, grew up in Ivanhoe CA, lived most of his adult life in Massachusetts, and returned to live in Santa Barbara in 2013. He was a graduate of University of California Santa Barbara and Harvard Divinity School. Before moving to Harvard, he served as a junior fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, and helped research the origins of the New Testament with the late Bishop James Pike. Bishop Pike officiated at Hubert and Marie’s wedding in the gardens of Santa Barbara’s El Encanto Hotel. Jessup will be most remembered for creating three innovative and award-winning television series for ABC Boston affiliate WCVB-TV: New Heaven/New Earth; The Baxters’; and Park Street Under. On New Heaven, Jessup merged programs on religion and social conscience, presented award-winning programs on Thoreau and the poetry of Thomas Merton; and interviewed the Dalai Lama; Dorothy Day; Baba Ram Das; Sioux Medicine Man, Lame Deer; Harvard Theologian, Peter Gomes; and labor activist, Cesar Chavez. Jessup’s work with Chavez deepened his own experience with non-violent protest advancing social and economic justice in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley where he grew up. In 1978, Jessup was awarded an Emmy by the New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) for his creation of The Baxters’. For The Baxters’, the best-known original program produced by WCVB in the 70’s, Jessup created a unique format: an original performance in the first half, while the second half featured a dialogue between audience and panelists about the show and the issues it explored. The Baxters’ began as a local program in 1977 and was purchased after two years

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by Norman Lear, who took the show to Hollywood and sold it into first-run syndication for the 1979-1980 season. Jessup created New Heaven/ New Earth and the Baxters’ to provide people new ways to explore the meaning of their lives.. ”…Broadcasting should make audiences examine and challenge their beliefs, not merely reaffirm them,” he often said. Jessup created and produced ‘Park Street Under’, the first locally-produced situation comedy set in a downstairs bar. With wellknown actors playing quintessentially Boston characters, the show won a reputation for being winningly attuned to the tastes and sensibilities of the city, right from its debut in 1979. Industry insiders consider Park Street Under to be the inspiration behind hit NBC sit-com, Cheers. From 1982-1984 he hosted his own radio show on Boston’s WHDH Radio. A Boston Globe review in 1984 observed, “At a time when the airwaves are clogged with banality, Jessup is a voice of intellect, liberalism, sensitivity and fairness.” Jessup served as both President of the New England Chapter and as a National Trustee of NATAS, where he was instrumental in creating and implementing its media literacy project, Creating Critical Viewers, a high school curriculum using the top educational leaders in the country. From 1985-1996, Jessup worked as the General Manager of BNN, Boston Community Access and Programming Foundation, the first of its kind in the country. Jessup also taught at many area colleges including, Harvard Divinity School, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Boston University. He later served as an executive at Los Angeles media think tank, Media Scope, researching the effects of smoking, violence and alcohol in television programming. After joining the Greater Boston Track Club at age 42, he ran 11 Boston Marathons, often training by running to work in Boston from his home in Newton Highlands. A wonderful husband and father, he leaves sons Ethan (daughter-in-law Sara Schaef Schaeffner) and Micah (daughterin-law Laura Duncan); two grandsons, Luka and Kaleb; and his sister, Arvilla Boswell. And he leaves his beloved wife, Marie. A memorial service will

be held June 20th , 2020 at 2:00 pm at All Saints Parish, Brookline, MA 02445. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to: ATTN: Park Donation, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, 47050 Generals Highway, Three Rivers, CA 93271, where he loved to backpack and hike with his family.

Ronald W. Hoban

8/10/1941 – 4/3/2020

Our dear friend Ronald W. Hoban died peacefully April 3, 2020. Madonna Hoban, Rons devoted shih tzu, died two days later. Born in Boston, MA on August 10, 1941, Ron was the youngest of seven children. His brother, Michael Hoban, and sister-in-law, Isabel, of Santa Monica survive him. In 1985 Ron made Santa Barbara his home by way of San Francisco, Aspen and Glenwood Springs, CO, where he co-owned and operated the Glenwood Springs Vapor Caves. Ron, a former US Marine, was often seen walking with Madonna along Shoreline Park wearing his blue Martha’s Vineyard sweatshirt and NE Patriots hat. He was a true and loyal Boston sports fan. His New England accent and deadpan facial expressions contributed to his dry wit and delivery of numerous jokes. Ron always loved a joke! He was proud of the personal work he achieved, and the community he formed through EST and The Landmark Forum, an organization he was involved with for over 40 years. A celebration of his life will be held on his birthday, August 10, 2020, at 6:30PM, Shoreline Park.

Charles S Stauffer

6/24/1955 – 4/8/2020

Charles S. Stauffer, of Solvang, CA., died April 8 of complications from vascular surgery after having lived a full and accomplished life devoted to his family, friends, and community. He was 64 years old. Charlie’s kindness and generosity, his love of nature, learning, music and laughter, touched and inspired the many who knew and admired him. He was born June 24, 1955 in Topeka, Kansas, and spent his early years there before graduating from Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, CO. He went on to earn a degree in American Studies from UC Santa Cruz in 1977 and, enamored of California, decided to stay. He worked in a variety of broadcasting positions and in 1984, became general manager of KCOY-TV in Santa Maria. It was an especially fortuitous opportunity: it was at KCOY where he met Cheryl Klein, the woman who would become his wife of 36 years. Charlie was a gifted jazz pianist who played original compositions both solo and in ensembles in the Santa Ynez, Calif. area. He was an avid naturalist and horticulturist, and was particularly interested in plants native to coastal California. A voracious, lifelong reader, his intellectual interests and breadth of knowledge were expansive, ranging from the novels of Melville and Faulkner, to biographies of jazz luminaries, to contemporary progressive politics and beyond. He served on numerous non-profit boards, as well as the Grand Jury of Santa Barbara County. In addition to his wife, Charlie is survived by his daughter, Caiti Stauffer, son Chase Stauffer (Anja) and grandson Miles Stauffer, all of Los Angeles. He leaves three brothers, Peter Stauffer (Anne), Topeka, KS, Clay Stauffer (Barbara), Holland, MI, Grant Stauffer (Shanna), Columbia, Mo, a sister, Elizabeth Leonard (Brian), Vancouver, WA, 11 nieces and nephews, and his beloved dog, Ollie. A celebration of life will be held in the fall.

obituaries William "Bill" Gielow 2/2/1947 – 3/15/2020

Resident of Soquel and Santa Barbara, CA Bill Gielow “has left the garden,” but his passion provides survivors vivid visual memories of his talent as a landscape designer. His garden work reflected the way he committed fully to nurturing, supporting and appreciating individuality in mankind. He brightened every panorama or situation he approached with his respectful and curious personality and enlightened craft, and there were a lot of panoramas in his full life. Bill was an intelligent, humble, and compassionate human being who’s broad pursuits generated legions of friends and acquaintances. His foremost interest and love was given to his immediate family, including his son Ryan, daughter in law Anwar, and grandchildren Samona (14), Andrew (11) and Emmett (6). They were at his bedside in the end, as was his spouse of 31 years, Mark Sachau. During his life Bill embraced and genuinely enjoyed his extended family, too, in Wisconsin, California, Nevada and Italy, as well Mark’s family in Southern California. Bill’s life journey is a worthy share. He and his younger sister, Marisa, were “Army Brats.” His mother, Fiorella was an Italian war bride. His father, Leon, was a career infantryman who served in WWII, Korea and VietNam. Leon married Fiorella in Italy and Bill was born in Wisconsin “9 months to the day” after their wedding, as family lore has it. Bill’s family moved with their father from base to base across the country and then spent time in the summers with his mother’s Italian family, where he learned to lyrically speak the language, and yes, play the accordion. He loved his Italian roots and cousins in Rome and Civitavecchia and visited whenever possible. In the meantime his father’s roots were in Wisconsin where Bill and his devoted band of cousins played in barns and fields. During his formative years in Davis, CA, his cousins Wen-

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dell, Glenn and Terence Cottle were an important part of the family milieu. Their mother, Marisa Cottle, was an identical twin sister with Bill’s mother and all the kids agreed it was as if they had two mothers to contend with. Bill’s father, mother and sister all predeceased him. It’s no surprise to those who knew Bill during his school years that he was an exceptional student with a keen mind for science, math, and geography. Being Salutatorian of his Davis High class of 1965 was just a beginning. He attended UCSB where he earned a Masters Degree in Molecular Biology and was Phi Beta Kappa. He stayed on as a lab technician for another 14 years working on sophisticated projects with top experts in that field. His beloved college roommates still gather annually to celebrate their cohesion, diversity and support for each other. While their friendship is the catalyst for reunion, Bill’s pasta sauce may have been the original glue. After his stint working at the university his career interests migrated to plant cultivation and collection, professional gardening, and finally landscape design. During college Bill fell in love with Linda Coutts, the more organized counterpart of his broad interests and intellectual capacities. They married and settled in Santa Barbara and together produced their son Ryan. As Bill developed his interests in plants and landscaping, folk dancing, bird watching, world travel, bee keeping, sustainable farming, beach and park clean-up, and all types of music (Hawaiian music and culture were some of his favorite escapes), he wholeheartedly embraced the people and organizations that broadened his knowledge base. Here’s the part you won’t read in most obituaries. In their 30s both Bill and Mark realized they were attracted to men and began Phase II of their life’s journey. They found each other in their early 40s through an introduction by mutual friends and they fell permanently and thoroughly in love, supported and even celebrated in their union by their families, friends and neighbors. Together for 31 years Bill and Mark built a life that was nothing short of idyllic including extraordinary world travel, family celebrations, voluntary community support and

building homes and gardens for themselves and their precious pets. The world’s a much better place because Bill Gielow was here. Bill died after suffering a traumatic stroke on his way home from Stanford Hospital where he had been treated by an astute medical team for a complex neurological condition called a brain AVM. During his life his volunteer work supported causes he considered essential for an improved future for the communities he cherished and the grandkids, nieces and nephews he adored. There are no immediate plans for a gathering to celebrate Bill’s life because of the current Covid-19 required isolations. His charities of choice were the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County(landtrustsantacruz. org), an open space and agricultural land preservation non-profit where he served on the board, and the Santa Barbara Westside Neighborhood Clinic (sbclinics.org), a nonprofit community medical facility where he volunteered in the past. His family would be honored should you choose to donate to either of those organizations in his memory, or any charity of your choice.

John Bruce Gilchrist

10/15/1953 – 12/23/2019

For most of his adult life, Bruce lived in group homes, first in Santa Barbara, and then in the Bellflower-Long Beach area. For nineteen years, he lived on Zastrow Avenue in Bellflower at Cordial Manor. The owner Renato Madrigal understood Bruce, and Bruce was a fixture in the neighborhood. The last year of his life, he lived at Holy Hill Board and Care on Carfax Avenue in Bellflower. Bruce had a number of long-term girl friends whom he met at the day programs he attended. Bruce had many good memories of growing up in Santa Barbara, and he came back to visit when he could. He always enjoyed Fiesta and especially the Fiesta Parade. His parents were members of the Santa Barbara Unitarian Society, and Bruce went to Unitarian Sunday school. As an adult, he attended services when he was in Santa Barbara. He was an enormous fan of Mahlon Balderston, the organist. Bruce is survived by his sister, Elizabeth Gilchrist and his niece, Shelley Payne, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and his brother-in-law and friend, John Payne, of Santa Barbara, California. He is predeceased by his father, John W. Gilchrist, and his mother, Ann. B. Gilchrist. There will be memorial service at a later date.

Paul Gilbert Prince 4/17/1944 – 3/6/2020

“He had an indomitable spirit” Bruce died just before Christmas last year. He had been hospitalized after a fall, and he seemed to have made a good recovery — plans were in place for his discharge — when suddenly his heart stopped. He was frail and suf suffered from congestive heart failure. He was born in Santa Barbara at the Cottage Hospital and attended local schools. (Cold Spring School, Santa Barbara Educational Clinic, Santa Barbara Junior High, Santa Barbara High School) A loyal Don, he graduated from Santa Barbara High school in 1974 with Certificate of Completion. For several summers, he was a camper at Camp Lorr, and he was also a camper at Camp Jolly Roger.

On Friday, March 6, 2020, Paul Gilbert Prince, husband and father of two, passed away at the age of 75. Paul was born on April 17, 1944 in Alexandria, VA to Jack and Erna Prince. He lived there until Junior High School when the family moved to Hermosa Beach, CA. He quickly gravitated to the 1950s surf and hot rod culture that was beginning to spread across Southern California, and remained deeply influenced by these interests throughout his life. After graduating from Mira Costa High School in 1961, he moved to Santa Barbara, CA to attend UCSB. Two years later he met his future wife,

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Mary Anne Buerge. The two were married on June 20, 1966 and raised two sons, Ezekiel (1969) and Austin (1974). At UCSB Paul graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Zoology. The rapidly emerging 1960s counter culture inspired him to take a different path for his graduate studies, and he switched course and entered the Art Department, eventually receiving his MFA in sculpture in 1975. While earning his masters he also began working within the art department as an aide and studio assistant, eventually parlaying those opportunities into a full time position as Designer of Exhibitions for the University Art Museum. He retired from the University after 36 years, in January of 2005. Throughout his life a vigorous appreciation for music resided at the core of his most dearly held interests. His grandfather (Willhelm Reher), and uncles (Kurt & Sven Reher) were all classically trained, professional musicians. Paul was a devoted fan of a wide range of musical genres, but it was his passion for Bob Dylan which reigned over all. Over many decades he had amassed an impressive collection of vinyl records, 1960s psychedelic concert posters, and rock and roll memorabilia, the bulk of which focused on Dylan and his life’s work. His enthusiasm for collecting and his nearly encyclopedic knowledge of it all was immense and well known by those close to him. Paul was a visionary artist and curator, keenly adept at recognizing and encouraging other people’s talent. His enthusiasm, intensity and optimism often inspired those around him to see, hear and do things on a higher level. He is survived by his wife Mary Anne, son Ezekiel, son Austin and daughter in law Sara, and grandchildren Dylan and Ayler. He is also survived by a sister in law, Linda and her husband Bob, a niece Nora and her husband Colin and their new baby girl Emelia. Additionally, he is survived by many dear friends who knew him well and loved and appreciated his limitless enthusiasm and intensity for his many hobbies and interests. A celebration will be held in the Fall. Details to follow. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to VNA Health or Hospice of Santa Barbara.

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June Marie Francis was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa March 5th, 1917 to Blanche and Earl Brown. She passed away in Santa Barbara at the age of 103 on April 5th. Her family moved to Burbank in 1921 and June graduated from Burbank High School in 1935. She worked as an administrative secretary at Lockheed in Burbank from 1948 to 1973 where she took an early retirement at age 50 and although she had no children of her own she then moved to Santa Barbara to be close to her brother, and his children. She had an adventurous spirit and love for travel and she and her longtime companion James did that extensively throughout the United States, Alaska, Canada and Mexico. They traveled first by camper then graduated to an RV. Together they had a passion for fishing and would do so at the various State and National Parks they visited. They also enjoyed cruises. June moved to Ventura with Al in in 1985 where she stayed until his passing and then returned to live at Rancho Santa Barbara in 2002. June enjoyed playing cards and was involved with a group of friends who played pinochle weekly. She was a great cook and also had a soft spot for animals, both dogs and cats. June will be remembered for her sense of humor, infectious smile and loving nature. She was preceded in death by Al James and her brother Chester Brown. June is survived by 3 nieces, 1 nephew and their children and will be remembered forever by family, extended family and friends. Michael Brown and his wife Paulette of Anacortes, Washington and their children Wendy Seaa Brown, Kami Jennings, her husband Geof Geoffrey Pratt and their daughter Marina, all of the Island of San Juan, Washington. Kelly Rangel of Lompoc 18

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and her daughter Tracey Cruz and her son and daughter Bella and Lucas. Also Kelly’s son Bill Rangel and Brandy Sanchez, all of Santa Barbara. Stacey Brown and Craig Brooker of Santa Barbara. Perry and her husband Dave Adamec and their son and daughter, Matthew and Shelby of Summerland. Also Perry and Dave’s daughter Aprile Hill and her husband Bill and their son and daughter, Jordan and Akeila of Santa Ynez. Our family would like to thank Trina and Gary Gleissner of Comforts of Home where June lived these past 2 &1/2 years They took loving and compassionate care of her. A grave side service will be held at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills. A celebrate of June’s life is pending. Arrangements entrusted to McDermott Crockett Mortuary.

Phyllis Alpert

7/17/1927 – 4/7/2020

Phyllis Florence Alpert (nee Brode), 92, died April 7, 2020. Married for almost 69 years to her beloved husband, Richard, Phyllis was the mother of four children (Barbara, Larry, Peter [Cali], and David [Patricia], grandmother to six (Lauren, Stephanie [Brian], Charlie, Joshua, Jackson [Daija], and Casey), and greatgrandmother to three (Kamya, Mazie Lee, and Ember). An award-winning collage and mixed media artist and a member of the Santa Barbara Art Association, Phyllis was born in Pennsylvania in 1927. The daughter of Charles and Minerva Brode, and sister to Sunnie and Buddy, Phyllis worked at Liberty Magazine

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and as a photographer’s stylist before marrying Richard in 1951. While raising her four children in Kendall Park and Maplewood, New Jersey, she found time to volunteer with Footlight Services of the National Council of Jewish Women, performing at children’s hospitals and nursing homes. She and Richard especially loved the theater and opera, and they subscribed to performances at many theaters and the New York City Opera. Phyllis went back to work in retail when her children were older, at Bonwit Teller in Short Hills, starting with a single counter of men’s shirts—at that time, the entire men’s department. Over the next decade, she became a retail sensation and rose to manager of the Men’s Shop, growing the department to half the first floor of the store! She also acted as personal stylist to several local television personalities and many of the best-dressed men in the region. Her customers told her that their wives used to shop for them…until she came along and transformed the experience for them. After their sons moved across the country to Colorado (Larry) and California (Peter and David), Richard and Phyllis decided to move west to be near them and their families. Living in Santa Barbara since 1985, they traveled the Western US for Firenze Designs hawking women fashions and when they got home to Santa Barbara, they went to the movies. Phyllis was actively involved with the Santa Barbara Film Festival, for which they regularly reviewed films. They loved the Music Academy of the West, attending many master classes and often acting as volunteer ushers. But Phyllis’s true passion, besides her grandchildren, was studying art and pursuing her artistic endeavors. Through the Santa Barbara Art Association, she showed her collage and mixed-media work at the Faulkner, at Gallery 113, and in several other venues. She was honored to receive a number of awards over the years. Phyllis is survived by her husband of 68 years, Richard, her daughter Barbara, and her sons Peter and David, as well as her grandchildren and great-grandchildren

mentioned above. She also dearly loved her nieces and nephews by her sister Sunnie and husband Leo—Jimmy [Marjorie] and Bobby Kuhn, and by her brother Buddy and wife Mena—Michael Brode and Diana Brode Artosky, and by Richard’s sister Joan and husband LeRoy—Beth Guttman Dunn, Alan and Howard Guttman. Her adored son Larry predeceased her. She will be remembered always as a gifted, creative, and multifaceted woman who loved her family above all else.

Mel Zaid

11/22/1922 – 3/19/2020

Long time Santa Barbara resident, visionary sculptor Mel Zaid, succumbed to the complications of a nonCOVID respiratory virus on March 19, 2020. Having recently overcome several bouts of illness and having only slowed his pace as an artist in the last few years, he actually died unexpectedly at the age of 97. He was born in Philadelphia to immigrant parents and was one of four brothers. They grew up during the Depression and his parents had hoped he would finish high school and be able to get a modest job in an office. Instead, he served in the Army in World War II. As part of the GI Bill he underwent testing and his natural talent in mathematics propelled him into science and engineering. He received advanced degrees from Stanford University and M.I.T. After university he returned to the east coast, married and raised a family, became the managing director of R&D for several major corporations, and ultimately established his own engineering consulting firm. In 1970, dissatisfaction with his work and the collapse of his marriage led him to make a complete break with his old life – he wanted to become a sculptor. He moved to New York City where he studied at the New School under Chaim Gross and Bruno Lucchesi.

It was during this period that he met and fell in love with film editor Eugenia “Kena” Hodge. She abandoned her career and for the next 40 years they lived together as active and creative members of artist communities in New York, Boston, and (finally) Santa Barbara. Kena became noted for her exquisitely delicate porcelain ceramics while Mel, with a few exceptions, used Kena’s face and profile as the model for a remarkable body of work. Their creative symbiosis and mutual devotion became a legend among friends and colleagues. During his remarkable “second act”, he was not satisfied with creating technically skilled but prosaic sculpture, instead he integrated his science and engineering training with his artistic sensibilities to challenge the viewer to consider his sculpture from different perspectives. He created his own visual language to articulate what the intuitive viewer was seeing and he called this language and work Multi-space Art. His artwork included a challenge to the viewer to consider not only the positive and negative space that the work obviously inhabited but also the multiple universes “mind-constructed” (imagined) within the piece. His concepts and terminology were esoteric while the work itself remains stunning and unique. Some of his work and an explanation of his concepts are visible at the website http://www.multispace. net/. A Jewish gravesite funeral service, at the Santa Barbara Cemetery, was performed in his honor on March 25th 2020, after which he was interred with his wife Kena Hodge-Zaid. He is survived by his three sons: Andrew (wife Holly); Jon (wife Ida) and Adam; and his daughter Cristina Hodge Thronson. He is also survived by six grandchildren: Sara, Maya, Melvin, Carolina, Thomas and Katherine Thronson Zimmerman.

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Leland ‘Hobo’ Goodsell 1954-2020

BY D E B O R A H B A R N E S eland Goodsell was born in Mis-

soula, Montana, partially raised with two sisters in an orphanage. He was scrappy and unruly from a youngster but full of laughs and jokes. He was fearless and funny and would attempt just about anything. In his jobs — from trucker to mechanic to shopping mall construction foreman — Lee had a long history of hard work and hard play. He began smoking at 11 and had a newspaper route, too. In Yreka, he ran a recycling business with his wife and stepson. His wife died of pancreatic cancer in his arms, and their son overdosed that week; he buried them a week apart. Devastated, he took his young pup, Dreamer, and hit the road, landing in Santa Cruz and then Santa Barbara, where he ensconced himself in Pershing Park’s homeless group with Gator and Shaky around 2009. Leland repaired bikes and wheelchairs for our Worth Street outreach, helping many homeless people. He was gracious with kids, creating or buying toys for them on holidays. His handy mechanic abilities helped Westmont students’ cars and teams serving in the streets. The street people either loved him or hated him. But FEARLESS: Talented with his hands and inclined to help others, Leland he always drew a crowd. “Hobo” Goodsell was well-known wherever he lived, always accompaOnce, he bought a boat from a local nied by his dog, Dreamer. crook. He pointed it out to me, and all I could see was trouble. Days later, I was to meet him, Hobo moved to Goleta about five years ago and but no one had seen him. I had a feeling he was on set up in a bike repair shop. He and Dreamer became that sinking boat. I went to the Harbor Patrol and regular figures in Old Town. He bought breakfast for begged them to motor out to East Beach and check Phebe in Copyright; visited with Gabriela, who often on that floating trap. The “salesman” had taken both watched Dreamer and fed them for years; and got to him and Dreamer out and put him on the boat with know most of the sheriffs and townsfolks. But after a no way to return. Hobo is a cowboy and cannot swim. bad accident, he was laid up and went into a wheelWhen the Harbor Patrol found them, dehydrated and chair, and life became hard. He was harassed, and passed out, they both entered hospitals for several Dreamer was getting old. As an often difficult chronic days. He was very sad when the boat sank and was alcoholic, Leland sober was a concept we have all wondered about, as well as where his life would have hauled away. Hobo taught us how to open a can of dog food taken him without his addiction. He had many talwithout an opener by rubbing it hard in circles on ents, abilities, and charm. His tall tales made us laugh, asphalt streets until it popped open. He taught us but the downward spiral of alcoholism destroyed him how he took a shower in the parks after dark. He on many levels. shared how to fix just about anything with string and Hobo wanted to go home to Missoula, and I made the arrangements. But homelessness, snow, and chewing gum. Worth Street Reach operated a sleeping-bag cam- wheelchairs do not make a good combination. He paign each October, and Hobo and Dreamer would bought an old beater 1992 truck and slept in the truck come help stack the 200 sleeping-bag donations into instead. Although his good friend Tino helped him, a huge wall. He thanked all the donors as part of our Hobo fell ill, and we could not get him into hospital team. Soon after that, a friend captured him on film or tested. Once we insisted, he was in ICU for seven for the very first homeless count, and that film has days. A doctor who called me said, “I remember you been used for years to train volunteers. from Alameda Park, where I served with Bread of Hobo would save a parking place for me at Alam- Life. Now I am a doctor here at Cottage.” What a gift eda Park and gather up some guys to help carry in all Hobo got! But Hobo died from contracting COVIDthe sleeping bags, clothing, art supplies, or whatever 19. He was the first South County victim. my teammates Magda, Kaitlin, Dave, Nolan, ElizaAfter years of searching for his sister, I am so happy beth, and I had. Bread of Life from Westmont College to say I located Shotzi. Ironically, she serves the homeserved the food; we served clean clothes, phone calls less of Missoula. Old Dreamer is now with Tino. Our home, and needed IDs. friend Hobo’s ashes will now go home. Hobo obtained more than 900 citations of illegal camping, open container, and more. 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end-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day—the environmentally minded holiday that was inspired in part by the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969 — is now just another event canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Curiously, though, as millions around the world hunker down and worry about the novel coronavirus, the planet— planet at least the part beyond

humankind—seems to be doing better. You can see the Himalayas from urban India for the first time in a generation, Los Angeles boasts some of the cleanest air on the planet, and wild critters are reclaiming Yosemite National Park. These changes are almost certainly fleeting, but they do suggest that humans can make meaningful change in a relatively short period of time. For this week’s issue, after four straight weeks of dedicated COVID-19 coverage, the Santa Barbara Independent is back to presenting a more

traditional cover story package. Yes, the following stories are mostly connected to the coronavirus, but we’re using Earth Day as a good time to reflect on what we can learn from this pandemic to empower the battle against climate change. We’ve also collected some ways for you to enjoy the great outdoors from the comfort of your home. And in celebration of the April 22 holiday, the Community Environmental Council is hosting a virtual concert with some of Santa Barbara’s most famous faces. DANIEL DREIFUSS

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igrid Wright (pictured right) normally

works at breakneck speed. That’s a big reason the organization she leads, the Community Environmental Council, is so successful. But like the rest of us, Wright has been forced to slow down. She’s used the time to reflect on the similarities between the coronavirus pandemic and the climate crisis, and how the current emergency could help us navigate the even bigger threat to our future. This week, we talked by phone while she stopped by her empty office. The plants desperately needed watering. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

When did you and others start recognizing the parallels between the coronavirus crisis and climate crisis? From week one, this has

been a conversation. And it started with, wow, look what we can do when we decide to mobilize. Partly, it was a WTF? This is what the climate movement’s been asking for for a long time: this World War II–level mobilization, calling it an emergency, everyone making sacrifices for the greater good— good all of it. In fact, that first week, there was a banner hanging in Isla Vista that read: “If only we treated climate change the way we’re dealing with COVID-19.” It’s poignant, that statement.

How has staying at home helped move the needle on some climate goals? Well, we see what happens when we stop driving. We’ve

been talking about vehicle miles traveled for years, and it’s a super hard nut to crack…. But here we are, living the experiment of what it looks and feels like to work from home. Now, the question is whether we can carry that over…. What if we started working from home one or two times a month? That’s a 10 percent reduction of cars off the road. That feels doable.

We are seeing examples of the planet already healing itself. Are those potentially lasting, or just fleeting glimpses of what could be?

This is all, remember, just a half of a minuscule blip in a greater cosmic timeframe. But it is showing humans what is possible. We can actually visualize a different reality— reality seeing the Himalayas and the Taj Mahal again, and cleaner air in L.A. It’s a very different story than just talking about it theoretically. To get really metaphysical, that allows us to dream it into being.

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It reminds me of using virtual reality to illustrate what sea-level rise would look like in different cities and communities. Exactly…. That

time in our lives. We have the food, we have the workers, we have the space, and we have the need. But everything has to get matched up, and it’s a bit of a Rubik’s cube. This is requiring a complete realignment.

same kind of imagery became the metaphor for the environmental movement 50 years ago when the first Earthrise photo was taken…. It was taken during the Apollo 8 [moon mission]… Instead, we turned around and looked back and learned about ourselves and our home. It feels like the same thing is emerging here, where we have been forced to go home and turn around and look back at ourselves, and it’s actually the isolation that is reminding us of our connectivity and our humanity.

Do you worry that humanity is a scourge on the planet? No, I don’t buy into that. I don’t think that humans are an anomaly or that we were a mistake.… We have greatly stressed Earth’s resources, but I subscribe to the belief that we are a species that learns and is about learning about ourselves, and that for whatever reason, this is the path that we have chosen; this is the next lesson that we are learning.

What major societal disruptions are we seeing now that the climate crisis could also bring? I have a feeling this pandemic is going

to force a much broader household conversation about the food system, the way that previous crises have got us thinking about the energy system. Disruptions are all along the chain —not enough workers in the fields, so stuff is being left to rot; tankers of milk just being dumped since they can’t move it along. We’re seeing empty grocery store shelves for the first

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The $2 trillion stimulus package — will any of that be used to move us to a more sustainable energy system? And isn’t it super frustrating that the climate crisis can’t get that kind of funding? Unbeliev-

able, right? We have been asking for that kind of stimulus for over a decade. We know what kind of innovation it would drive, how it would be used to put people [in the fossil fuel industry] back to work, and so forth. You may see some of those themes emerge in the next stimulus package. This first batch just had to get out the door. It might be something for [Rep. Salud Carbajal’s] office to look at.

We’re trusting science to get us through this pandemic. Do you think that will convince climate-denying policymakers to rely more on science to confront the environmental crisis? When we talk about the curve projections of the pandemic, we’re all over the map. Some models have us peaking in April, some all the way in August, so it’s really difficult to prepare. But on climate, we have decades of data and there’s a lot more agreement on what is likely to be seen. Still, we’ve told ourselves the story that it is far off in the future while the pandemic is an immediate threat. Of course, that’s a fallacy. For the full interview see independent.com/sigrid-wright.

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do make this jump, they can wreak havoc in their new hosts. Around 75 percent of the emerging diseases that afflict humans also inhabit other animals. Many of the world’s nastiest viruses —including coronaviruses that cause SARS and MERS, filoviruses that cause Marburg and Ebola, the retrovirus that causes AIDS, and the lyssavirus that causes rabies — reached humans through wildlife. The best way to prevent these pathogens from reaching humans is to keep them in the ecosystems where they evolved. In healthy, diverse ecosystems that contain different kinds of animal hosts and vectors interacting in complex ways, pathogens tend to have a tougher time spreading. In ecology, this is called the “dilution effect.” But when we degrade ecosystems, persecute wildlife, or harvest and transport live animals for sale on the open market, we erode this natural defense, placing UCSB Professor Says people in greater danger. The illicit wildlife trade, in particular, poses enormous risks. The world’s fourth most lucrative traf trafficking industry— industry after the smuggling of drugs, weapAre Inseparable ons, and people — with annual revenue of as much a more dangerous place for humans. To protect as $23 billion, the illicit wildlife trade threatens hundreds of species, from tigers and rhinoceroses people, we must conserve nature. Recent studies have painted a grim picture of to birds and reptiles. The world’s most trafficked the state of the natural world. Wild animal and animal is the same pangolin from which humans insect populations are collapsing. Amazon rain- contracted COVID-19. Governments, universities, foundations, and forests are approaching a point of no return, one million species are in danger of extinction, ice conservation groups are working to curb the trade caps are melting at an accelerating rate, and plastic in exotic species, implement early-warning syspollution is rampant. tems for new pathogens, coordinate emergency Indeed, 2019 may have been the worst year for responses, and develop new vaccines and theralife on Earth since the last mass extinction, 66 pies. Their vital work has been underfunded and million years ago. undervalued. But even if it were better supported, Humanity’s penchant for destroying ecosys- it would only begin to address the human health tems and abusing animals also led to our cur- challenges of living through a mass extinction. rent pandemic. The novel coronavirus that causes Predictably, the Trump administration is COVID-19 got its start at a wet market in China, undermining efforts to keep us healthy by slashwhere animals bred in farms or harvested in ing environmental programs and regulations. But the wild are packed into cruel and unsanitary liberals have not done much better. The Green conditions for sale as exotic delicacies. Genomic New Deal, for example, introduced as a resolution research suggests that this virus emerged in a bat. in the House of Representatives last year, contains In the market, it appears to have jumped to a pan- just two vague sentences about “restoring and golin, a scaly anteater native to Africa and Asia, protecting threatened, endangered, and fragile ecosystems.” This contrasts with the New Deal of before infecting a human. Viruses rarely jump from one species to the 1930s, which leveraged conservation projects another, but placing animals in these cramped, to create tens of thousands of jobs, establish dozstressful conditions greatly increases the chances ens of parks and refuges, and build thousands of of interspecies transmission. And when viruses miles of roads, bridges, and trails. The Green New mountain goats, pumas, and of course, lots and lots of rats. In recent weeks, photographs of wild animals wandering through deserted cities have circulated widely in the press and on social media. At once haunting and reassuring, these images — rooted in film and literature — remind us that even in a moment of global crisis, nature is resilient. Life goes on. Yet they are profoundly misleading. Some, like the now-famous photograph of dolphins frolicking in a crystal-clear Venice canal, were fakes. But even the unaltered photographs distract from a larger truth. The coronavirus pandemic is not an example of nature’s resilience. It is a direct consequence of the mass extinction that is sweeping over our planet, decimating life on Earth and making it

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Deal’s authors also seem to have forgotten that it will be nearly impossible to control climate change without preserving and restoring nature. The time has come for a bold new approach: a Marshall Plan for Nature to rebuild our world’s shattered ecological infrastructure. This new effort must go beyond preserving token scraps of wild nature, treating the symptoms of a global catastrophe, or waiting until the next disaster to react. We must stop this tragedy in its tracks. To do this, we will need to spend trillions of dollars, recruit millions of workers, and hold every government of every nation — most of all, our own — accountable for healing ecosystems devastated by decades of reckless indifference. We must enact far more powerful rules that prevent corrupt regimes — including, again, our own — and corporations from plundering the natural world. And we must build lasting programs that enable local communities to thrive without destroying the ecosystems in their backyards. For the hundreds of millions of people who have seen their lives upended by this pandemic, there will be a deep desire to return to normal. But as we cope with our grief, survey the wreckage, and begin to rebuild our lives, we must remember that a healthy economy does not destroy the ecosystems that sustain it. There is nothing normal about a mass extinction. We now have a choice: Will we choose a symbiotic world where humankind dedicates itself to nurturing the ecosystems on which all species depend? Or will we choose a parasitic world, in which we demolish our host planet while it wreaks havoc on us? This is not a war, because there is no enemy. We created this crisis. Only we can spare future generations from more of the same.

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Duo Catering & Events 614 E. Haley Street

Brasil Arts Café 1230 State Street

Enterprise Fish Co. 225 State Street

The Brewhouse 229 W. Montecito St

Eureka! 601 Paseo Nuevo

Ca’Dario Pizzeria 37 E. Victoria Street

Finney’s Crafthouse & Kitchen 35 State St Suite A

Ca’Dario Restaurant 37 E. Victoria Street

El Paseo Restaurant 813 Anacapa Street

Fresco Café 3987 State Street

California Pizza Kitchen 719 Paseo Nuevo

Giovanni’s Pizza 3020 State Street

Casa Blanca 330 State Street

The Good Cup 918 State Street

Chooket 2018 Cliff Drive

The Good Lion 1212 State Street

Chuck’s of Hawaii 3888 State Street

The Green Table 113 W. De La Guerra St

Chuck’s Waterfront Grill 113 Harbor Way

Hana Kitchen 503 State Street

Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf 1209 Coast Village Rd 3052 De La Vina Street 811 State Street Creamistry 935 State Street

Handlebar Coffee Roasters 128 E. Canon Perdido St 2720 De La Vina St The Harbor Restaurant 210 Stearns Wharf

Ah Juice 432 E. Haley Street

The Cruisery 501 State Street

Helena Avenue Bakery 131 Anacapa St Suite C

Arigato Sushi 1225 State Street

Dawn Patrol 324 State Street

Here’s the Scoop 1187 Coast Village Rd

Arnoldi’s Café 600 Olive Street

Derf’s Café 2000 De La Vina Street

Institution Ale 516 State Street

Backyard Bowls 331 Motor Way 3849 State Street

Dune Coffee Roasters 1101 State Street 528 Anacapa Street

Jack’s Bistro & Famous Bagels 53 S. Milpas Street

Visit www.sbcreeks.com, or call (805) 897-2658

Clean Creeks Businesses! following Certified Clean Creeks Businesses, local creek and ocean water quality! _ Jeannine’s Bakery and Restaurant 15 E. Figueroa Street

McDonald’s 1906 Cliff Drive 29 N. Milpas Street 3940 State Street

Jill’s Place Shalhoob’s Restaurant 632 Santa Barbara St

Meun Fan Thai Café 1819 Cliff Drive

Joe’s Café 536 State Street Juice Ranch 33 Parker Way Kanaloa Seafood Kitchen & Market 715 Chapala Street Kyle’s Kitchen 791 Chapala Street The Lark 131 Anacapa Street Lilac Patisserie 1017 State Street Little Alex’s 1024 Coast Village Rd Los Agaves 2911 De La Vina St 600 N. Milpas Street Los Arroyos 1280 Coast Village Rd 14 W. Figueroa St Louie’s at the Upham Hotel 1404 De La Vina Street The Lovin’ Spoonful 2028 Cliff Drive

Milk & Honey 30 W. Anapamu St Mission Street Ice Cream & Yogurt 201 W. Mission Street Mony’s Mexican Food 217 Anacapa Street Mother Stearns Candy Co. 219 Stearns Wharf Mulligan’s Café and Bar 3500 McCaw Avenue Natural Café 361 Hitchcock Way 508 State Street Nook 116 Santa Barbara St Norton’s Deli 18 W. Figueroa Street Oat Bakery 5 W. Haley Street Pacific Pickle Works pacificpickleworks.com The Palace Grill 8 E. Cota Street

Lucky Penny 127 Anacapa Street

Panino 1014 Coast Village Rd 834 Santa Barbara St

Marty’s Pizza 2733 De La Vina Street

Paradise Café 702 Anacapa Street

McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams 728 State Street

The Patio Café 3007 De La Vina Street Peet’s Coffee & Tea 3905 State Street

Pickles & Swiss 811 State Street Pressed Juicery 1024 Coast Village Rd Pure Joy Catering purejoycatering.com Recipes Bakery 604 Santa Barbara St Rockin’ Yogurt 620 State Street Roy 7 W. Carillo Street Rusty’s Pizza 111 State Street 232 W. Carrillo Street 3731 State Street 414 N. Milpas Street Sambo’s Restaurant 216 W. Cabrillo Blvd. Santa Barbara Wine Collective 131 Anacapa St Suite C SBB Gourmet Catering sbbgourmetcatering.com The Shop Café 730 N. Milpas Street

Haik’s German Autohaus (805) 965-0975

Super Cucas 626 W. Micheltorena Taffy’s Pizza 2026 De La Vina St

Higgins Muffler & Brake (805) 564-1033

Test Pilot 211 Helena Avenue

International Autohaus (805) 965-8012

Three Pickles 126 E. Canon Perdido Toma Restaurant & Bar 324 W. Cabrillo Blvd. Tyger Tyger 121 E. Yanonali Street Via Maestra 42 3343 State Street Whole Foods Market 3761 State Street Yanni’s at Mackenzie Market 3102 State Street

Lang Motors (805) 965-5671 Lara Auto Repairs (805) 963-1096 Meineke Auto Care (805) 687-0281 Muller & Goss Automotive Repair (805) 962-1613 Munoz’s Auto Repair (805) 963-1121 Powell Garage (805) 962-6163

Yellow Belly 2611 De La Vina St

Precision Auto Service (805) 963-3993

Yogurtland 621 State Street

Shoreline Beach Café 801 Shoreline Drive

Automotive Businesses

Santa Barbara Autowerks (805) 966-3200

South Coast Deli 10 E. Carrillo Street

Ayers Automotive (805) 962-7316

Schneider Autohaus (805) 962-8015

Stanton’s Gourmet Catering stantonsgourmet.com

Bowman’s Auto Repair (805) 965-5051

Smog-It (805) 564-4948

Starbucks Coffee 1046 Coast Village Rd 1235 State Street 1990 Cliff Drive 208 W. Carrillo St 3815 State Street 3957 State Street 539 State Street 800 State Street

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Congratulations to our recently certified local Green Businesses:

Buellton Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau, EcoLawn SB, Gilliland Environmental, AC4 Fitness • Atrium Ventures City of Buellton Planning Manifest Building, Pacific CoastUnlimited Business •Times, Department • City of Santa Barbara Granada Starbucks (UCSB), The Club and Guest House Garage offices Community Council • Chumash Resort at UC SantaEnvironmental Barbara, and The Pad Climbing Casino • EvansHardy + Young • Excelta Corporation And our lnnovator Green Businesses: Fletcher-Cross & Associates • Goleta Sanitary Allen Construction, Community Environmental Council, District • Chapala Center by Impact Hub • iPhone Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara Repair Santa Barbara • Summit Cafe • Sweet Cheeks Museum of Natural History - Sea Center, Toad & Co. Want to incorportate sustainable practices in your business, conserve resources, and become more efficient?

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lthough we won’t be gathering en masse to celebrate Earth Day’s 50th birthday, it doesn’t mean we can’t spend the day honoring Mother Earth. In fact, just for the occasion, the Community Environmental Council (CEC) is hosting #TogetherWeEarthrise, a virtual festival on Wednesday, April 22, that will feature conservation-minded speakers and musicians. The artists slated to perform — from their homes, of course — include Kenny Loggins, Zach Gill, Michael McDonald, Tina Schlieske, and Glen Phillips. I recently caught up via email with Phillips, who had some thoughtful responses to my questions about music and nature.

Does nature spark your songwriting? There have always been threads of natural inspiration in my writing. It’s not the only one, but it’s up there. I notice that when I’m trying to write something that feels more enduring and less specifically situational, nature holds all the best imagery

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What is your favorite natural setting — e.g., mountains, meadows, forests, oceans — and why? I grew up here walking the trails, so those are my happy places. I love getting up to any of the falls in town and laying out on the rocks. I’ll take just CEC Hosts about anything, though. I love the desert, the #TogetherWeEarthrise Festival forest, the jungle, the on April 22 plains, the mountains, the ocean. I can be a by Michelle Drown little wimpy about cold places, but that’s just and metaphor. I also notice that the more because here it’s always pretty warm and I’m paying attention, the less I feel there is comfortable. anything but nature — we’re part of a vast, multifaceted organism. As much as we beWhat lessons should we take from sheltering at lieve in functional fictions like economies, home back into the world regarding nature? We nationalities, and hierarchies, the truth is we’re just a bunch of mortal squishy things have at a moment where we get to decide if going out and exploring, just as all life does. we change our behaviors so that the Earth will still be able to sustain human life. I’m How can we look to nature for inspiration and hoping that this is a wake-up call that we guidance during this pandemic? Getting out- can’t put off the decision any longer. This side of the frantic pace of doing and pro- doesn’t just mean that we sort our recycling ducing gives us a great opportunity to slow or use our own shopping bags. This means down and remember what it feels like to that we need to re-evaluate many of our just be. I’ve had some periods during these assumptions about how an economy and weeks where I’ve over invested in distracting society should function. I hope that we use myself—binge watching Netflix or sucking the opportunity to evolve instead of doudown all the news I can find. It leaves me bling down on a “normal” that has a short anxious and afraid. When I’ve gone outside, future with an unfortunate end. We need felt the sun, listened to the birds, and turned some better philosophies, ways of seeing down the noise, I can start to feel a little ourselves as part of the Earth instead of peace again. The more I try and tamp down separate from it. the nervousness, the bigger it becomes. The more I allow the feelings and sink back into The #TogetherWeEarthrise virtual Earth Day festival the pace of nature, the more I find I can takes place, Wednesday, April 22, at noon. See sbearthday.org. move through it and find peace again.

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little while ago, before everycrest of feathers perched atop their heads. I know I’m just anthropomorphizing, but they thing went to hell, I bought a seem sophisticated, if a little jumpy. They birdfeeder. One of those simple cylindrical numbers with four little perches don’t get along with the finches. The scrubjays don’t get along with anyone. The group for eight little feet. I also picked up a bag is occasionally joined by a lone black-headed of Kaytee-brand “Wild Bird Food—Basic grosbeak who prefers the sunflower seeds, Blend.” Both totaled less than $40 at Home or, even less frequently, a slim hooded oriole Improvement on Gutierrez Street. I hung the color of marigolds. Those latter two are the feeder on a hook outside the livingroom window, and just became an acciden- only in town to breed. Figuring out the birds at the feeder has tal backyard birder. It turns out the daily show of life and movement is the perfect antidote to the doldrums of the COVIDAll It Takes Is a 19 lockdown. Anyone can enjoy it, whether they live in an apartment or are lucky enough to have a yard. And with the arrival of spring, when migrating and nesting are on most birds’ minds, by Tyler Hayden there’s more activity in the air than ever. I now work on House finch my laptop within sight of the feeder, a little jealous of the freedom out there but more grateful that the made me appreciate the other species that dip in and out of my neighborhood—Amerbirds like stopping by. At first, I had no idea what I was looking ican robins, northern mockingbirds, and at. These red-faced guys are cool, I thought. white-breasted nuthatches, just to name a Wow, that yellow one is really beautiful. Does few. I even saw a great horned owl peering that fella have a Mohawk? But slowly, armed down at me from a redwood tree. I’m still with a little online research and my father- terrible at recognizing calls, but I’m getting in-law’s old pair of binoculars to pick out better. One sound that’s easy to remember, small details of color and body structure, I I’ve found, is the heavy thwump-thwumpstarted to recognize thwump of a big band-tailed pigeon taking individual species, off. and then to appreciEven more satisfying than picking up this ate their distinct per- new hobby is knowing my amateur knowlsonalities and habits. edge can contribute to science. An online Cheery-voiced database of bird observations managed house finches are by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, called the feeder’s most fre- eBird, is the world’s largest citizen science quent guests. They project. More than 100 million sightings often come in pairs, are contributed to it every year, which helps the scarlet males and shape policy and plan conservation. I just Oak titmouse the dappled brown signed up. Closer to home, the Santa Barbara females, and quickly Audubon Society encourages residents to get to work. They’re not the most courteous submit their observations of birds getting eaters, however. For every seed they pull out, busy to its Breeding Bird Study. A ton more they flick another five onto the deck. But local resources are available on the chapter’s those don’t go to waste. Round-bodied Cali- website. fornia towhees, which are mostly ground So give it a shot. Try birding on your butt. foragers, swoop in and clean up without It’s cheap, it’s easy, and it beats more screen complaint. So do mourning doves. And then time. To get started, in addition to the seed just the other day, I was excited to see a cou- and feeder, I recommend downloading the ple of Eurasian collared-doves, gorgeously Cornell Lab’s free Merlin app, which makes pale and proudly bobbing along. identifying birds incredibly easy for beginAnother fairly common sight is the oak ners. Field-guide-wise, you can’t go wrong titmouse, maybe my favorite of all. While with the Sibley Field Guide to Birds of West Westthese small specimens are a very drab grey, ern North America. It’s available at Chaucer’s they have big, deep black eyes and a distinct Books, and they offer home delivery. n COURTESY PHOTOS

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Heal the Ocean wishes everyone

a Good Earth Day We encourage you to celebrate Earth at home this year: • build a birdhouse • plant wildflowers • compost your table scraps please don’t forget to: • pick up after your dog when you go on nature walks • keep recycling

and above all:

Stay Home Please stay healthy and safe, help others when and where you can. All of this shows your respect for Mother Earth!

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EARL MINNIS PRESENTS

Intermission Our doors may be closed, but our hearts and minds are very much open, and we want to stay connected and hopeful with you. While we wait patiently in the wings for things to return to normal, please enjoy a glimpse into the Loberoâ€™s rich 147 year history on Lobero.org and social channels.

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As always, find the complete listings online at independent.com/events. And if you have virtual events coming up, submit it at independent.com/eventsubmit

4/16-4/22:

Center Stage Theater Blog: Digital

Arts Festival This festival will offer nightly

streaming of dance, theater, music, film, visual arts, poetry, storytelling, and more! There will be interviews with artmakers, now and in happier times, with inhome videos and previously recorded performances. For a schedule and updates visit the blog on the website, Facebook, and Instagram at @centerstagetheatersb. Email admin@center stagetheater.org on how to submit work or get involved. 7pm. Free.

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THURSDAY 4/16

TUESDAY 4/21

4/16: Zoom Livestream Session: What the Buddha Taught The Bodhi

4/21: Virtual Weekly Reading Group

Path Buddhist Center invites you to listen to dharma teachings and practice with others while exercising social distancing. With perspectives of Western scholarscholar ship and neuro-scientific research and the traditional training of an authentic Buddhist Lama, Dawa Tarchin Phillips will provide an evening of teachings exploring your own life’s journey. Sessions are held every Thursday. 7-9pm. accepted. bpsb.online

4/16-4/17, 4/20, 4/22: Online: S.B. County COVID-19 Response Press Conference Get up-to-the-

tinyurl.com/SBCountyLivestream youtube.com/user/CSBTV20

FRIDAY 4/17 4/17, 4/21, 4/22: NAWBO WebiWebi nars: Boosting Your Business Continuity During COVID-19 The National Association of Women Business Owners knows that we need each other more than ever to stay connected, support one another, and rise from this challengchalleng ing time. Visit the website for a regular schedule of virtual programming that will be offered to the public each week, with programming specifics announced every Friday for the next week. Fri.: 10:30am. Virtual Connect & Learn. Tue.: Noon. Com Virtual Lunch & Learn. Wed.: 5pm. Community Connect. nawbo.org/

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Fundraiser

4/17:

YouTube Live: Harmonic Earth Gong Meditation Join Alarra

Webinar Series for Businesses, Nonprofits, and Employees The

from Healing in America in Ojai as she streams a transformational gong journey. Connect through YouTube Live on the Harmonic Earth Temple channel and let the sound of this healing instrument take you into an enhanced awareness. 4pm. Free; donations accepted. Email alarraharmonicearth.org.

Economic Development Collaborative has launched a webinar series to help busibusi nesses, nonprofits, self-employed individuindividu als, and employees understand the financial assistance available to them. Watch the webinar or visit the website to learn about the CARES Act, new SBA loan programs, and expanded unemployment benefits.

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Santa Barbara Theatre of the Air

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4/22:

you are invited to watch a Netflix documentary as a collective and then share in a post-film discussion. Watch 2010’s Spanish film about a Mexican director (Gael García Bernal) and a Spanish producer who travel to Bolivia to shoot a film about Christopher Columbus’s conquest only to find themselves caught up when local natives (including the actor playing Columbus) rise up against the privatization of their water supply. Visit Facebook for Zoom link. 5:30pm. Free.

WEDNESDAY 4/22 4/22: Online Community Talk with the UCSB Reads Author Join UCSB Reads 2020 author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore for an online community talk on Earth Day about Rising and the impact of sea-level rise on the United States. After you register, you will receive an email with login information for the Zoom discusdiscus

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Virtual Earth Day

This literary and performing arts

multidisciplinary lens through which to view the museum’s collection and special exhibi tions. See guest lecturers give presentations in the Art Matters series, panel discussions with museum curators and artists, and more.

tinyurl.com/ParallelStoriesSeries

grating Pilates, and Ballet with chats before and after each class. To participate, you will need to designate a place in your home to move, create a MINDBODY password if you haven’t already done so, and access the Zoom Cloud Meeting application. Visit the website for the schedule and prices.

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Santa Bárbara Mission ArchiveLibrary Coloring Page Download and

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rate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the Community Environmental Council is hosting #TogetherWeEarthrise, a day of inspiration and engagement. Featured performers will include Kenny Loggins, Glen Phillips, Tina Schlieske, Zach Gill, and Michael McDonald, and poetry from S.B. Poet Laureate Sojourner Kincaid. Featured speakers will include former Vice President Al Gore, Jeff Bridges, and past Earth Day Environmental Heroes Bill McKibMcKib ben, Florencia Ramirez, and Congressmember

Civil Discourse

Online Parallel Stories Lecture

print a beautiful image of a stained glass window scene of Saint Barbara looking over Old Mission Santa Barbara.

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Volunteer Opportunity

Virtual

Culture: Rain Every Wednesday

The UCSB MultiCultural Center will host this weekly reading group via Zoom with the goal of creating a space to read and unpack articles, PDFs, e-books, etc., written by and for communities at the margins with a focus on race/racism, colonialism and capitalism, (eco) feminisms from below, environmental justice, and coalition building/solidarity networks. Participants will be asked to read the texts beforehand, and be given a couple of guiding questions; however, you can still join even if you have not read the material or answered the questions. For access to the readings, email Abire Sabbah at asabbagh@ucsb.edu.

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minute information with four online press conferences per week on CSBTV’s Livestream, Channel 20, or YouTube chanchan nel. 4:30pm.

Salud Carbajal. Visit the website to view the virtual event and find out how you can participate in the week leading up to the festival. Noon. Free

"Covid-19" is a sticker and not part of the painting. This special online exhibition will support the artists of Silo118 while raising funds for those in need during this time. Artists are offering their works at significantly reduced prices and donating almost half of the proceeds to a charitable organization working to provide aid to health workers and

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The Board and staff of The Granada Theatre look forward to welcoming the Santa Barbara community back into the theater as soon as we are able to open our doors.

In the meantime, we wish safety and health to all our audience members and performing artists.

We are grateful to the dedication and support of our world-class resident companies:

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in. That’s why this area is so amazing agriculturally.” Born into deep family ranching and culinary traditions, Righetti’s inspiration for Susie Q’s Brand derived from her parents’ popular restaurant, the Far Western Tavern, and their one-of-a-kind cooking. “Looking back at my life growing up on a cattle ranch and witnessing the creation of the Far Western Tavern by my parents, the odds of one day being in the specialty food business should have been apparent!” said Righetti. Featuring contemporary California ranch cuisine, the Far Western

Tavern, which was founded in Guadalupe but moved to Orcutt a decade ago, is an ode to Righetti’s heritage and highlights Santa Maria’s culinary treasures. “Susie Q’s Brand presented a unique opportunity to combine my passion for creativity while producing something practical and meaningful,” said Righetti. After getting married to her husband, Paul, the pair began to raise their family on Paul’s ancestral ranch in the Graciosa Valley, where Righetti “became increasingly aware of the importance of celebrating and preserving our culinary heritage.” With a crop of pinquito beans, a makeshift worktable in the garage, and a love for sharing her take on Santa Maria barbeque, Righetti’s humble beginnings began to slowly blossom into a full-scale specialty food business. On the verge of celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2021, Susie Q’s remains family owned and operated, with their grandchildren slowly becoming more involved as well. “We have three grandchildren, who all live on the ranch and have literally grown up with this business,” said Righetti. “Each one has very different interests, but they are all very proud to be a part of Susie Q’s. We have tried to demonstrate to them the art of working together as a family; not always the easiest, but always worth it.” One grandkid is interested in the artistic and entrepreneurial spirit of the brand, another is eager to take on the challenges of the ranch and its livestock, and the third is excited to excel in business management. Taken together, those three roles should make for a very sustainable company in the years to come. “We have grown from a minute mail-order company to a supermarket and big-box staple item in this region, while maintaining a community of specialty food retailers throughout the nation,” said Righetti. “One of our proudest accomplishments has been the ability to build and maintain these relationships through all of these years.” Susie Q’s Brand recently expanded its services to a worldwide online market through Amazon Marketplace. Indeed, the company’s digital growth is one of Righetti’s proud accomplishments and continues to

Susie Q’s Brand Favorites Pinquito Bean Kit: “The pinquito bean kit has been a big hit,” said Righetti of the package, which combines the beans with the seasoning. “Anyone can just add water to a pot, mix in the ingredients, and let it simmer for several hours.” California Red Oak Chips: “Red oak is an essential component of Santa Maria–style barbecue,” said Righetti. ”Our red oak wood chips are made from downed trees on the ranch. We simply cut smaller logs, allow them to dry, and then chip them to a specific size. This allows our customers who may be too far to get red oak logs for fuel to still impart the distinct, low-tannin flavor in their meats.”

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rom growing up on a quiet Santa Maria cattle ranch to becoming a successful entrepreneur in charge of a 40-year-old company, Susan Righetti stays true to her roots by bringing Santa Maria Valley barbeque to the forefront. Offering an array of flavorful seasonings, pinquito beans, fresh salsas and sauces, and red oak wood chips, her Susie Q’s Brand products are essential for any Santa Maria–style barbeque setup. Founded in 1981, Susie Q’s has brought the distinctive Santa Maria culinary heritage to dinner tables across the country for four decades. (And they’re still delivering during the COVID-19 outbreak, though bean orders are up 200-plus percent, so order now!) “I have seen the community awakened to the rareness of this place that we call home,” said Righetti. “The valley runs east to west instead of north to south like most valleys, [allowing] the cool ocean air and breezes to funnel

Seasonings: “Our Santa Maria–style seasonings are intended to all generally have the same flavor profile,” said Righetti, “just with slightly different ingredients for various diets, such as our pink label, which is sugar-free.”

increase the company’s popularity, allowing consumers to buy any of the products from their smartphones. When looking to the future, Righetti is constantly listening to her customers. “While our products are already vegan friendly and gluten-free, various dietary restrictions have led us to develop alternate blends of our Santa Maria Style Seasoning that maintain a similar flavor profile, balancing salty, sweet, and savory,” she explained. Susie Q’s will also continue to engage with customers through social media and produce YouTube cooking tutorials on its channel. “We are planning on helping people hone their grilling skills with videos on how to cook an authentic Santa Maria Style tri-tip over an open flame,” said Righetti. The company’s current YouTube channel has led to an additional creation of a new recipe website that features the Pinquito Bean as the primary ingredient.

See susieqbrand.com.

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ince 1866, when Bruce Orella bought a 6,000-acre slice of the

Gaviota Coast, Guner Tautrim’s family has farmed the seaside stretch from Refugio Beach to El Capitan, which was divvied up between Orella’s 11 children when he died in 1901. Originally, they ranched cattle for tallow and hides and steadily diversified into walnuts, lima beans, tomatoes, and beef cattle over the decades. Pigs are now a critical part of that mix. Tautrim started raising them four years ago and now sells thickcut bacon, five styles of sausage, smoked ham steaks, pork chops, Boston butts, baby back ribs, and much more direct to consumers under the name Gaviota Givings. BY MATT KETTMANN The sixth-generation descendant is seeing interest in his sustainably raised, homedelivered meat quickly rise in the coronavirus era. “We raise our hogs on pasture and move them often,” said Tautrim, who has both purebred Kunekune (originally from New Zealand) and a heritage breed called Berkshire–Red Wattle. “We also feed them organic Modesto milling grain along with some supplemental spent grain from local breweries and any excess veggies that are in season.” Tautrim’s favorite preparation is brining, then dry-rubbing, and then smoking the Boston butt for 10 hours to make pulled pork. That’s a bit of a commitment, so he suggested the ham steak as an alternative. “Since these are already cooked, they make a tasty and fast breakfast in the cast-iron skillet,” he said. “Just brown and add to an egg, and you’re in for a treat.” He also sells whole and half hogs, which is a good option for those seeking custom cuts. “We give them lots of love and nothing but the best food,” said Tautrim of what makes Gaviota Givings’ pork special. “They get to enjoy lush pastures on the Gaviota Coast, and they never have any hormones, antibiotics, or GMO ingredients. Plus, they have the best view in the world!”

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have added a new GoFundMe section to the SantaBarbara.com Restaurant Guide that lists pages that have been posted on the fundraising website for restaurants that are trying to raise money to help their staff. So far, the listing includes “Emergency Assistance for Acme Restaurant Workers,” “Arigato Employee Fundraiser,” “Bluewater Grill Santa BarBar bara Staff Support,” “Emergency Assistance For Enterprise Fish Co. Workers,” “Staff Fundraiser by Finch & Fork,” “Los Agaves Group Employee Relief Fund,” “OKU Employee Relief Fund,” “Opal Employee Relief Fund,” “Support Palapa Restaurant,” and “Support Trattoria Vittoria COVID-19 Relief.” For those who would like their pages listed, email me at info@santabarbara.com. In looking up these efforts, I also realized that GoFundMe is posting fundraising pages for restaurants that have not set them up themselves, promising to deliver the money once contacted. That’s raised a bit of concern with some restaurants, including Dune Coffee Roasters. “If we felt the need to directly ask our community for help, I would want that to be on my terms, not on the terms of a third party,” said Dune co-owner Julia Mayer. “Everything we are doing currently is for our employees; in a lot of ways, seeing an anonymous GoFundMe feels like it cheapens our efforts! It feels inauthentic to who we are as a company, and that it was set up without our permission feels scammy.” An email from the Santa Barbara Independent seeking comment from GoFundMe was not answered as of press time. RUSTY’S PARTNERING WITH WINERIES: Rusty’s Pizza is teaming up with wineries that had to close their doors during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We always like partnering with our local businesses, and we saw an opportunity to help

the local wineries that are really struggling right now,” said Rusty’s owner Tyler Duncan, who is now delivering bottles from Santa Barbara wineries Brander, Fess Parker, and Kunin as well as from Paso Robles–based brands J. Lohr and Rabble. Over the past few weeks, Rusty’s has also donated food to the Summerland Fire Department, Dr. Sylvia Kim’s ER staff at Goleta Valley Hospital, Santa Barbara CHP, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, and the S.B. Bucket Brigade, whose members are sewing protective masks for healthcare workers. “We want to make sure that essential workers are getting the recognition they deserve for keepkeep ing our community safe and healthy,” said Duncan. ACME STOPS SERVICE: After launching curbside pickup service at The Lark and Lucky Penny on March 27, Acme Hospitality is pausing the program in order to work with the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County on a prepared meal program. PizzaRev and Eureka! are two other restaurants that tried takeout and delivery and then decided to suspend service. WINE CASK CHANGES: Though currently closed due to COVID-19, there are new things happening at Wine Cask at 813 Anacapa Street. The classic restaurant’s new owner is John O’Neill, who formerly owned Elements Restaurant and Bar and wants to breathe new life into the fine-dining establishment. Menu changes are underway, and there may be a martini bar on the way for the former tasting room. Diane Garmendia, who designed Elements, is leading the Wine Cask project and will take primary cues from the Gold Room’s handpainted ceiling. See winecask.com.

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Individuals are also making PAGE 36 their work accessible online. “Artists are sharing virtual concerts, lessons, studio tours, cooking lessons, and more,” York Rubin said. “Some of our artisans have begun sewing and donating masks. It really is a group effort.” According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the arts and entertainment industry is one of the hardest hit by the shutdown. “The last economic impact study we conducted estimated the SHELTERING ARTS: “I am incredibly proud of the sector’s work to support our county’s nonprofit arts and culture community during this crisis,” said Sarah York Rubin, executive director of the economy to generate $200 million Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture. dollars in a year,” said York Rubin. t’s been nearly a month since sheltering in place was Recent data released by the State of California indicate decreed, prompting mass cancellations of onstage that arts organizations estimate an average revenue and in-person gatherings and performances. But loss of nearly $200,000 each, with individuals losing despite being knocked on its heels, Santa Barbara’s upward of $23,000 each, Rubin said. vibrant arts community has regrouped and continues For Santa Barbara, which ranks ninth in the —Pablo Picasso to persist in making music, theater, film, books, and country in individual artists per capita, the loss is far dance available to the people virtually. reaching and devastating. “Over 65 percent of arts “I am incredibly proud of the sector’s work to sup- organizations have had to cancel events that cannot port our community during this crisis,” said Sarah be rescheduled,” said York Rubin. York Rubin, executive director of the Santa Barbara Necessity is the mother of invention, however, County Office of Arts & Culture. “Many of our cul- and artists have taken up the call. “Our creative comtural organizations, including the Museum of Art, munity is demonstrating essential leadership and MOXI, the Museum of Natural History, SBIFF, and will play a significant role in rebuilding and reCamerata Pacifica, have created robust programs to envisioning our lifestyle,” said York Rubin. engage, entertain, educate, and uplift our isolated “I believe that in the upcoming months community members and families.” and years, people will be reminded In early April, for example, Center Stage Theater why Santa Barbara County’s launched a digital arts festival to connect artists with cultural community — its viewers. Each morning, the day’s guest is announced, breadth and depth — is and, at 7 p.m. that evening, interviewer Jim Sirianni such a significant asset.” talks with the artist about their creative process pre- —Michelle Drown and post-COVID-19. UCSB’s Arts & Lectures is releasPodcasts are comfort food for my ears. When the house is too quiet and my brain is moving too fast, I put on a podcast to learn ing gems from its vast programming archives, as is the a little something and calm the anxiety while I cook, clean, or craft. I’ve listened to podcasts for a long time, but it was after the Carsey-Wolf Center’s Pollock Theater. The university’s first season of Serial Serial, in 2014, that a torrent of amazing audio content was unleashed. The folks at Serial have made two more seasons (I suggest listening to those, as well — especially the underrated season three, which brilliantly follows an Ohioan criminal justice system), Art, Design & Architecture Museum has gone virtual, offering up carefully curated content. The same is true but nothing has quite tickled my can’t-wait-’til-Sunday-when-that-new-episode-comes-out fancy like the first season. However, here are a few for the Wildling Museum. true crime podcasts that came close. Metropolitan Theatres has followed the trend of presenting first-run feature films for rent. Music Your Own Backyard Backyard, by Chris Lambert. This seven-episode podcast tells the story of the 1996 disappearance of Cal Poly first-year Kristin Smart. Podcast concerts are also popping up, including a creator and Orcutt native Chris Lambert is on a mission to remind people that the investigation of Smart’s case was brutally botched by law enforcement. Lambert star-studded lineup for the Earth Day festells the story in an easy-to-listen-to, well-thought-out way and provides tons of evidence that will make your jaw drop. tival featuring Kenny Loggins, Glen Phillips, Tina Schlieske, Zach Gill, Death in Ice Valley Valley, by the BBC and NRK (Norwegian Public Radio). In November 1970, a woman’s body was found in a remote valley near Bergen, Norway. She and Michael McDonald. Book was partially burned; objects, including bottles and a watch, were laid around her; and there were no identifying labels on any of her clothing. She became known throughout Norway as “The Isdal Woman.” With haunting background music and great sound design, the podcast creators aim to solve this mystery through modern science as the clues become shops and the public library more and more bizarre. will even deliver you your favorite tomes. Criminal, by Phoebe Judge. Each episode follows a different story involving a crime or the justice system. 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us about the criminal justice system and evokes empathy for the people wrapped up in difficult situations. Sometimes the stories are small; sometimes they are sweeping and riddled with violence; sometimes they are about crimes that occurred 100 years ago; sometimes they are modern. Judge’s soothing voice and addictive storytelling quality will make you want to binge listen to all of them.

Monster: DC Sniper Sniper, by iHeartRadio & Tenderfoot TV. Monster is about serial killers. The third season focuses on the two men who terrorized the Washington, D.C., area in 2002 by randomly shooting and killing people who were going about their daily lives. Host Tony Harris does a fantastic job of orienting the listener into the time frame — just after 9/11, in an exceedingly normal suburb of Washington, D.C. He interviews law enforcement, family members, and eyewitnesses, putting together the strange and convoluted story of the two men who, for more than a month, committed murders, eluded law enforcement, and rooted the people of the greater D.C. area into a state of complete panic. —Caitlin Fitch

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ARIES

CANCER

LIBRA

CAPRICORN

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Aries artist Vincent van Gogh got

(June 21-July 22): Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) was

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran rapper and activist Talib Kweli

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): As I understand the current chapter of your life story, you have been doing the unspectacular but yeoman work of recharging your spiritual batteries. Although you may have outwardly appeared to be quiet and still, you have in fact been generating and storing up concentrated reserves of inner power. Because of the coronavirus crisis, it’s not yet time to tap into those impressive reserves and start channeling them into a series of dynamic practical actions. But it is time to formulate the practical actions you will take when the emergency has passed.

started on his life’s work relatively late. At ages 25 and 26, he made failed attempts to train as a pastor and serve as a missionary. He didn’t launch his art career in earnest until he was 27. During the next 10 years, he created 860 paintings — an average of 1.7 every week — as well as over 1,200 additional works of art. For comparison, the prolific painter Salvador Dali made 1,500 paintings in 61 years. During the coming 12 months, Aries, you could achieve a Van Gogh–like level of productiveness in your own chosen field — especially if you lay the foundations now, during our stay-at-home phase.

TAURUS

a renowned author who wrote The Good Soldier, a novel that has been called “one of the 100 greatest novels of all time.” Yet another very famous author, Henry James (1843-1916), was so eager to escape hanging out with Ford that he once concealed himself behind a tree so as to not be seen. You have astrological permission to engage in comparable strategies during the coming weeks. It won’t be a time when you should force yourself to endure boring, meaningless, and unproductive tasks.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I hope that during the coronavirus

says, “You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to know when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard, and you have to know when to be soft.” You Librans tend to be skilled in this artful approach to life: activating and applying the appropriate attitude as is necessary for each new situation. And I’m happy to report that your capacity for having just the right touch at the right time will be a crucial asset in the coming weeks. Trust your intuition to guide you through every subtle shift of emphasis.

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sitting on chairs in front of desks. But long before there were standing desks, poet Rainer Maria Rilke and children’s author Lewis Carroll wrote their books while standing up. Novelist Henry James had eight desks but typically paced between them as he dictated his thoughts to a secretary. And then there have been weirdoes like poet Robert Lowell and novelist Truman Capote. They attended to their craft as they lay in their bed. I suggest you draw inspiration from those two in the coming weeks. It’ll be a favorable time to accomplish masterpieces of work and play while in the prone position.

enjoyed a colorful fate. One of the few female Cubist paintcrisis you have been entertaining wild truths and ers, she was a prominent figure in the Parisian avant-garde. pondering the liberations you will initiate when the She was also the muse and romantic partner of renowned emergency has passed. I trust you poet Guillaume Apollinaire. But there have been pushing your imaginacame a turning point when she abanHOMEWORK: For three days, doned her relationship with Apoltion beyond its borders and wanuphold your highest ideal in every dering into the nooks and crannies linaire. “I was twenty-five and he was little way you can imagine. Report of your psyche that you were presleeping with all the women,” she said, results at Freewillastrology.com. viously hesitant to explore. Am I “and at twenty-five you don’t stand for correct in my assumptions, Leo? that, even from a poet.” Is there a comHave you been wandering outside parable situation in your life, Scorpio? your comfort zone and discovering clues about how, A role you relish but that also takes a toll? Now is a favorable when things return to normal, you can add spice and time to re-evaluate it. I’m not telling you what you should flair to your rhythm? decide, only that you should think hard about it.

GEMINI

VIRGO

SAGITTARIUS

(May 21-June 20): While sleeping, most of us have over a

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I like this quote by the author

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian sculptor and architect Gian

(Apr. 20-May 20): Most authors do their writing while

thousand dreams every year. Many are hard to remember and not worth remembering. But a beloved few can be life-changers. They have the potential to trigger epiphanies that transform our destinies for the better. In my astrological opinion, you are now in a phase when such dreams are more likely than usual. That’s why I invite you to keep a pen and notebook by your bed so as to capture them. For inspiration, read this testimony from Jasper Johns, whom some call America’s “foremost living artist”: “One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.” (Painting flags ultimately became one of Johns’s specialties.)

Jake Remington: “Fate whispers to the warrior, ‘You cannot withstand the storm.’ The warrior whispers back, ‘I am the storm.’ ” Although this passage is more melodramatic than necessary for your needs in the coming weeks, I think it might be good medicine that will help you prevail over the turbulence of the coronavirus crisis. Getting yourself into a storm-like mood could provide you with the personal power necessary to be unflappable and authoritative. You should also remember that a storm is not inherently bad. It may be akin to a catharsis or orgasm that relieves the tension and clears the air.

AQUARIUS

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio artist Marie Laurencin (1883-1956)

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian poet Jacques Prévert offered

a variation on the famous Christian supplication known as the Lord’s Prayer. The original version begins, “Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.” But Prévert’s variation says, “Our father who art in heaven: Stay there.” Being an atheist, he had no need for the help and support of a paternal deity. I understand his feeling. I tend to favor the Goddess myself. But for you Aquarians right now, even if you’re allergic to talk of a divine presence, I’ll recommend that you seek out generous and inspiring masculine influences. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will benefit from influences that resemble good fathering.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): How skillful are you in expressing what you want? Wait. Let me back up and reformulate that. How skillful are you in knowing what you want and expressing the truth about what you want to the people who might ultimately be able to give it to you or help you get it? This is the most important question for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. If you find that you’re fuzzy about what you want or hazy about asking for what you want, correct the problems.

Lorenzo Bernini (1596-1680) was a prodigious, inventive creator. One scholar wrote, “What Shakespeare is to drama, Bernini may be to sculpture.” He designed and built public squares, fountains, and buildings, many in Rome, which embodied his great skills as both sculptor and architect. Unlike many brilliant artists alive today, Bernini was deeply religious. Every night for 40 years, he walked from his home to pay a devotional visit to the Church of the Gesù. According to my reading of the astrological factors, now would be an excellent time for you to engage in reverential rituals like those — but without leaving your home, of course. Use this social-distancing time to draw reinvigoration from holy places within you or in your memory.

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LEGALS petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Felicia A. Torres, Griffith & Thornburgh, LLP 8 East Figueroa Street, Suite 300 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 805‑965‑5131. Published Apr 9, 16, 23 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PAPA’S HOMEAL at 3400 Calle Real Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Erik Arlo Miciano 4019 Via Lucero Santa Barbara, CA 93110 conducted by an Individual Signed: Erik Arlo Miciano Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 16, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000827. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: GOLETA HOMES, SANTA BARBARA HOMES, LOMPOC HOMES, SANTA MARIA HOMES, MONTECITO HOMES, SANTA YNEZ HOMES at 1435 Anacapa St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Luis D Martinez 5081 Alvarado Rd Carpinteria, CA 93101 conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 5, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Maria F Sanchez. FBN Number: 2020‑0000720. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: STATIC FLOW INDUSTRIES at 1540 Veronica Place Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Zachary Snodgrass (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Maria F. Sanchez. FBN Number: 2020‑0000767. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COSECHA FARMING at 8630 Santa Rosa Rd Buellton, CA 93427; Christopher King (same address) Deanna King (same address) conducted by an Married Couple Signed: Christopher King Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 2, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Maria F. Sanchez. FBN Number: 2020‑0000688. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: STEWART VISION at 2575 Long Canyon Rd Santa Ynez Rd Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Craig Stewart (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Armando Luna Jr. FBN Number: 2020‑0000772. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: “MR. 2020 HANDYMAN” at 518 Anapamu St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Julian Hermilo Pech Canche (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 10, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000761. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALL ABOUT SENIORS REAL ESTATE at 3868 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; All About Seniors Real Estate, Inc. 444 Por La Mar Dr #D Santa Barbara, CA 93103 conducted by an Corporation Signed: Teresa Dimond, President Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 13, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000810. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 2ND AMENDMENT GUN SHOP at 3568 Sagunto St. Ste E Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Meadow Farms Enterprises, Inc. 1510 Meadowvale Rd. Santa Ynez, CA 93460 conducted by an Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 12, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Yocelyn Lopez. FBN Number: 2020‑0000794. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: DOMAINE JEAN FRANCOIS at 5010 Santa Rosa Road Lompoc, CA 93436; SWC Management, LLC 900 Armour Drive Lake Bluff, IL 60044 conducted by an Individual Signed: Dawn McNeely Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 17, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000835. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CJ AFFILIATE at 530 East Montecito Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Commission Junction LLC (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 17, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000840. Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: REX MARIK CONSULTING at 5276 Hollister Ave. #307 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Raymond Rex Marik 340 Old Mill Rd. #59 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Sharon Arlene Marik (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 18, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000842. Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VISTAPIX at 920 Calle Malaga Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Sarah S Lundell (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Rachel Becerra. FBN Number: 2020‑0000786. Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SPIRITS OF SISQUOC at 5055 Depot Ave. Santa Maria, CA 93454; Michael Joseph Reasner (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 17, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000838. Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLAVOR OF INDIA at 3026 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Kainwal Enterprises, Inc. (same address) conducted by an Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 28, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000671. Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: FOLIO & FOREST PUBLISHERS at 632 Lillebakke Court Solvang, CA 93463; Robert Gerson (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Robert Gerson Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 17, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000831. Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TURTLE SNORKEL at 935 Orilla Del Mar Unit F Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Piyarat Jirungwong Yerabutar (same address) Tosaphon Yerabutar (same address) conducted by an Married Couple Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 25, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Maria F. Sanchez. FBN Number: 2020‑0000847. Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: JC CONSTRUCTION AND HOME REPAIRS at 1433 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jorge Romero Contreras 1523 Johnson Drive Ventura, CA 93003 conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 28, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000673. Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: DON ROJAS MAINTENANCE at 1605 San Pascual St. Apt. A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Marcos Rojas Morga (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 28, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000672. Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VIZFINDER.COM at 761 San Fernando Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Life Mounts, LLC (same address) conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Christoph Pierre, Officer Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 30, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000890. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUNSTONE WINERY at 125 N. Refugio Rd Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Channel Islands Management LLC 1212 Santa Teresita Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93105 conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 30, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000886. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: MONKEY KNIFE FIGHT at 1187 Coast Village Road #10‑M Montecito, CA 93108; Fantasy Sports Shark, LLC (same address) conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: William Asher, Managing Member Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 25, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Maria F Sanchez. FBN Number: 2020‑0000858. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: CENTRAL COAST MEDICAL ASSOCIATION at 100 N Hope Ave, Ste 14 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Santa Barbara County Medical Society (same address) conducted by an Corporation Signed: Dana Goba Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 26, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Maria F. Sanchez. FBN Number: 2020‑0000871. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: OCEAN NAILS AND SPAS at 5768 Calle Real Goleta, CA 93117; Hbhe Group Corp. (same address) conducted by an Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 1, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000894. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JALAMA NETWORKS at 740 N. H St. #182 Lompoc, CA 93436; The Adler Group, LLC (same address) conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Chaim Adler, Owner Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 30, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000891. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUMMERS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT at 1407 Park Place Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Fatima Nuray (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 26, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Maria F. Sanchez. FBN Number: 2020‑0000881. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: QUICKSILVER RANCH at 1555 Alamo Pintado Rd. Solvang, CA 93463; Achievable Solutions, Inc. 3579 E. Foothill Blvd., #546 Pasadena, CA 91107 conducted by an Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 1, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000904. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: RANDY MYERS PHOTOGRAPHY at 399 Wyola Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Randy Myers (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 27, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Maria F. Sanchez. FBN Number: 2020‑0000885. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: IV DELI MART at 6553 Pardall Road Isla Vista, CA 93117; IV Deli Inc. (same address) conducted by an Corporation Signed: Steven R. Cornalino Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 3, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000907. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: DOUGLAS DOORS at 509B Tiffany Drive Sanyta Maria, CA 93454; Douglas Michael Hamilton (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Michael D. Hamilton Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 6, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000914. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: APERITIVO at 7 W Haley St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; I Fatti Nostri, Inc (same address) conducted by an Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 6, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000911. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: PHOTO SANTA BARBARA, SANTA BARBARA PHOTO EXPEDITIONS, SPENCER DEAN PHOTOGRAPHY at 23 E Pueblo St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Spencer Dean (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Spencer Dean Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 1, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000902. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SKUNK BEAR TACKTICAL at 1140 Edgemound Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Skunk Bear Arms LLC (same address) conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Pasi Puentes‑Member Manager Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 1, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000895. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: CYBER POSSE CONSULTING at 1140 Edgemound Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Pasi Puentes (same address) conducted by an Individual Signed: Pasi Puentes Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 1, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000896. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MAPLE LEAF CONSTRUCTION at 4882 Payton St Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Maple Leaf Remodeling, LLC (same address) conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Joshua Dunlap Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 7, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by John Beck. FBN Number: 2020‑0000920. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020.

NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF JESSICA VALERIO CARRASCO TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV01494 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: JESSICA VALERIO CARRASCO TO: JESSICA CARRASCO VALERIO THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING June 5, 2020 9:30 am, Dept 4, Courthouse, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107 Anacapa Division A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated April 6, 2020. by Donna D. Geck of the Superior Court. Published. Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2020. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF LISA MARIE ARIAS ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV01503

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Design Review Board Goleta City Hall – Council Chambers (Electronically and Telephonically) 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, CA 93117 Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 3:00 P.M. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Design Review Board (DRB) of the City of Goleta will conduct a Electronic public hearing on the date set forth above to consider the following new project: Conceptual/Preliminary/Final Review Wendy’s Restaurant Exterior Alterations 5724 Hollister Avenue (APN 071-081-014) Case No. 20-0005-DRB Overall Sign Plan for Proposed Signage 125 and 175 Cremona Drive; (APNs 073-330-007, -009) Case Nos.20-0005-DRB and 20-0006-DRB ATTENTION: Pursuant to of the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 dated March 17, 2020 authorizing local jurisdictions subject to the Brown Act to hold public meetings telephonically and electronically in order to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the regular meeting of the Design Review Board for April 28, 2020 will be conducted telephonically and electronically. It will be broadcast live on the City’s website and on Cable Goleta Channel 19. The Council Chambers will not be open to the public during the meeting. Design Review Board Members will be participating telephonically and will not be physically present in the Council Chambers. IN LIGHT OF THE CITY’S NEED TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS ELECTRONICALLY AND TELEPHONICALLY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, written comments may also be submitted as instructed above or via email to the DRB Secretary, Mary Chang at mchang@cityofgoleta.org or by electronic means during the Public Hearing (date and time noted above), provided they are received prior to the conclusion of the public comment portion of the Public Hearing. Instructions on how to submit written comments during the hearing will be available on the City’s website: https://www.cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/news-and-updates/governmentmeeting-agendas-and-videos. PUBLIC COMMENT: This hearing is for design review only. All interested persons are encouraged to participate in the public hearing electronically (by phone) as described above. You may also request your written comments to be read into the record during the hearing. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: The items in this notice are new items. The DRB agenda may also include items continued from prior meetings. All persons wanting to review any project applications may do so by contacting City of Goleta, Planning and Environmental Review at (805) 961-7543. The Agenda, staff reports and project plans will be available approximately one week before the hearing on the City’s website at www. cityofgoleta.org. Publish:

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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 June 5, 2020 9:30am, Dept 4, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated April 6, 2020 by Donna D. Geck, Judge of the Superior Court.

Published: April 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF EVELYN LEE BUZBEE TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV01485 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: EVELYN LEE BUZBEE TO: EVELYN LEE GOLDMAN THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing

indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING June 1, 2020 9:30 am, Dept 5, Courthouse, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107 Anacapa Division A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated April 3, 2020. by Colleen K. Sterne of the Superior Court. Published. Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2020.

NOTICE INVITING SEALED BIDS FOR THE RECTANGULAR RAPID FLASHING BEACONS (RRFB) AT CHAPEL / PEDESTRIAN HYBRID BEACON (PHB) AT KINGSTON 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, City of Goleta, CA PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta (“CITY”), invites sealed bids for the above stated project and will receive such bids in the office of the City Clerk, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117, before 3:00 P.M., May 14, 2020, and will be publicly opened and read aloud promptly thereafter. Faxes or any electronic format is not acceptable. Copies of the Contract Documents and Specifications are available by contacting the City Project Manager, James Campero, at jcampero@cityofgoleta.org or from Construction Bidboard, Inc. at http://www.ebidboard.com/, or CITY website at http://www.cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/ view/city-bid-opportunities.

ORDINANCE NO. 20-__ AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 3 CHAPTER 3.05 OF THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE CITY OF GOLETA PURCHASING SYSTEM On April 21, 2020 at Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta will conduct the second reading and possible adoption of a proposed ordinance that involves increasing the City Manager’s authority for supplies/equipment, general services and professional services from $30,000 to $45,000, (2) allowing the City Manager to make nonfinancial amendments to contracts, (3) allowing the City Manager to enter into agreements with other entities to receive monies as tax revenue or grant funds; (4) allowing the City Manager to enter into agreements with other entities who the City Council has determined to be a recipient of a City grant, (5) conform the contract amounts of public work projects with the Commission’s recommendations, and (6) allowing City Manager to join in the professional services contracts on regional efforts led by other government entities and to directly contract with other government entities for services without following the Request for Proposals process. Any interested person may obtain a copy of the proposed ordinance at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117 or by calling City Hall at (805) 961-7505. Deborah Lopez City Clerk Publish:

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The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to construct and deliver a finished Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons (RRFB) at Chapel / Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon (PHB) at Kingston, Federal Aid Project No. HISPL 5481(019). Work includes sawcutting and removing asphalt pavement and base; removing concrete curb, gutter, sidewalk; constructing curb, gutter, sidewalk, curb extensions and ADA access ramps; clearing and grubbing; landscaping; installing signage, striping, and pavement markings, and installation of RRFB and PHB systems per the project plans and specifications within the City of Goleta, CA.The contract period is 45 Working Days.

ORDINANCE NO. 20-___ AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 15 (BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION) OF THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE ESTABLISHING A STREAMLINED PERMITTING PROCESS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS

A pre-bid meeting is not scheduled for this project. The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) per California Labor Code Section 1771.4, including prevailing wage rates and apprenticeship employment standards. Affirmative action to ensure against discrimination in employment practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion will also be required. The CITY hereby affirmatively ensures that all business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this notice and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion in any consideration leading to the award of contract. Note that federal Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Grant funds are being used and, therefore, this project is subject to the Davis Bacon Act. The DBE Contract goal is 5%. This project is subject to “Buy America” provisions. Bids must be prepared on the approved bid forms in conformance with the “Bidding Instructions” and the General Provisions and submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked on the outside, “SEALED BID FOR RECTANGULAR RAPID FLASHING BEACONS (RRFB) AT CHAPEL / PEDESTRIAN HYBRID BEACON (PHB) AT KINGSTON. DO NOT OPEN WITH REGULAR MAIL.” The bid must be accompanied by cash or cashier’s check, certified cashier’s check, or bidder’s bond executed by an admitted surety, made payable to CITY. The bid security shall be an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total maximum amount bid with their proposals as required by California law.

On April 21, 2020 at Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta will conduct the second reading and possible adoption of a proposed ordinance that will create an expedited, streamlined permitting process for electric vehicle charging stations while promoting public health and safety and preventing specific adverse impacts in the installation and use of such charging stations, pursuant to Government Code Section 65850.7. Any interested person may obtain a copy of the proposed ordinance at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117 or by calling City Hall at (805) 961-7505. Deborah Lopez City Clerk Publish:

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A contract may only be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder that holds a valid Class “A” Contractor’s license or specialty licensing in accordance with the provisions of the California Business and Professions Code. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Price. Each bond shall be in the forms set forth herein, shall be secured from a surety company that meets all State of California bonding requirements, as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and that is a California admitted surety insurer. Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the DIR. No Bid will be accepted nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the DIR to perform public work. If awarded a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the DIR for the duration of the Project. Failure to provide proof of the contractor’s current registration pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 may result in rejection of the bid as non-responsive. The Contractor Company, including the Responsible Managing Officer (RMO) for the Contractor Company, shall demonstrate a minimum of three (3) years’ experience successfully performing projects of substantially similar type, magnitude, and character of the work bid. The CITY reserves the right to reject all bids, reject any bid that is not responsive to the invitation, or to waive any minor irregularity and to take all bids under advisement for a period of up to ninety (90) days. Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by CITY to ensure performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the CITY to make payment of retention to an escrow agent. Any protest to an intended award of this contract shall be made in writing addressed to the City Clerk prior to the award. Any protest may be considered and acted on by the City Council at the time noticed for award of the contract. To request a copy of the notice of agenda for award, please contact the City Clerk at (805) 961-7505 or register on the CITY’s website (www.cityofgoleta.org). For information relating to the details of this Project and bidding requirements contact James Campero in writing at jcampero@cityofgoleta.org.

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, ADDING SECTION 2.10.100 (PUNISHMENT OF VIOLATION) TO TITLE 2 CHAPTER 2.10 (EMERGENCY ORGANIZATION) AND DECLARING THE URGENCY THEREOF On April 7, 2020 at Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta adopted an urgency ordinance to amend Chapter 2.10 of the Goleta Municipal Code (Emergency Organization) to add penalty provisions for violations of emergency orders after the City has declared a local emergency. Violations of emergency orders could result in an administrative citation or misdemeanor, with a penalty of up to $1,000 or up to six (6) months in jail or both. The City Council of the City of Goleta passed and adopted Urgency Ordinance No. 20-04 U at a regular meeting held on the 7th day of April 2020, by the following roll call vote: AYES: MAYOR PEROTTE, MAYOR PRO TEMPORE RICHARDS, COUNCILMEMBERS ACEVES, KASDIN AND KYRIACO NOES: NONE ABSENT: NONE ABSTENTIONS: NONE The Urgency Ordinance is effective immediately. Any interested person may obtain a copy of the proposed ordinance at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117 or by calling City Hall at (805) 961-7505.

CITY OF GOLETA _____________________________ Deborah S. Lopez, City Clerk

Deborah Lopez City Clerk

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