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Dr. Robert Wright

by Nick Welsh ew realities beget new rituals, and, as is the case now, they’re often a matter of life and death. For example, when Dr. Robert Wright gets home from work these days, he immediately strips off his clothes and jumps in the shower for a final sanitizing scrub.

Wright — athletic, trim, and endowed with craggy manmountain good looks — serves as medical director of Cottage Hospital’s Medical Intensive Care Unit (ICU). That’s where doctors stick ventilator tubes down the throats of COVID-19 patients whose lungs can no longer suck in enough oxygen to stay alive.

All this makes Wright — and his ICU team — the ultimate caregivers for the sickest of Santa Barbara’s sick.

To date, Santa Barbara has recorded more than 400 COVID positive cases, though the real number of infected residents — given the chronic shortage of test kits — is bound to be much higher.

For the time being, Wright said, social distancing is paying off. At any given time, Wright estimates he’s got 18 patients in one of Cottage’s three ICUs. Maybe half these patients require ventilator machines. Cottage now has 65 adult ICU beds, though Cottage has the capacity to ramp up to 150 if needed, Wright said. For the time being, Cottage has 55 ventilators that can serve adult and pediatric patients, plus 13 more for infants in the neonatal ward, which has 22 ICU beds of its own in addition to Cottage’s eight pediatric ICU beds. Thus far, that’s been more than enough.

Right now, Santa Barbara County residents — through enormous collective sacrifice — appear to be on track to flatten the curve, which means the number of residents sick enough to require hospitalization should remain well within the capacity of the county’s medical infrastructure.

Only four patients have died; three reportedly suffered from underlying medical conditions. One was already receiving hospice care when the virus struck. This apparent success — coupled with the withering economic damage inflicted by the state’s strict shelter-in-place restrictions — is now, ironically, sparking public impatience.

Some argue Santa Barbara should declare victory and begin relaxing restrictions. The board of supervisors of Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties have made such declarations and have asked Governor Newsom for permission to begin. Newsom notified S.L.O. County that such actions would be premature. “We’ve been blessed. We’re not New York City,” Wright acknowledged. But he cautioned, “We haven’t seen the surge yet. If we ease up now, I worry about a spike in caseloads six weeks from now.”

The second wave of cases could prove more devastating than the first. During the 1918 flu pandemic that killed 50 million people worldwide, Wright noted, it was the second wave that killed far more people than the first. “I really think we need to shelter in place longer,” he said. “But that’s just my personal opinion, not necessarily that of Cottage Hospital.”

Wright cited the spike of cases now erupting in Los Angeles County, just 90 miles away. “It’s getting a little hot down there,” he said. He also cited the explosion of cases coming out of the federal penitentiary in Lompoc — which now accounts for one-third of the county’s total caseload. County emergency planners worry the prison has the potential to become what’s known as a “Black Swan” event.

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Dr. Robert Wright, medical director of Cottage Hospital’s Medical Intensive Care Unit, estimates that at any given time, he’s got 18 patients in one of Cottage’s three ICUs. “We’ve been blessed. We’re not New York City,” he acknowledged. But he cautioned, “We haven’t seen the surge yet. If we ease up now, I worry about a spike in caseloads six weeks from now.”

which COVID spreads — throughout society and within a patient’s body — a whole lot can happen in “around two weeks.”

In the field of ICU medicine, Wright is regarded as a rock star, board certified in not just one medical specialty but four — a pulmonologist who for the past 40 years has treated people with heart and lung illnesses. Aside from his position at Cottage, Wright runs what had been a thriving private practice. One of the perverse ironies of the COVID scare is that office calls for a host of medical specialties has plummeted dramatically. Many nurses, frontline workers, and administrative staff are being laid off or furloughed. Sansum has furloughed hundreds.

Wright, who grew up in Ventura County, worked with AIDS patients at UCLA hospital in the early 1980s.

COVID-19 is not as uniformly fatal as AIDS was; 81 percent of those infected with COVID-19 escape with only mild symptoms. But for the rest — disproportionately made up of people who are 65 and older, are overweight, or have diabetes, underlying heart or lung problems, or compromised immune systems — the stakes are life-and-death.

COVID-19 cripples the lungs with a searing efficiency, implanting itself into the hundreds of millions of tiny balloons that coat the lining of healthy lungs. Known as alveoli, they transfer oxygen from the lungs to the bloodstream and carbon dioxide from the bloodstream to the lungs. Without this transfer — which happens about 25,000 times a day — humans die of asphyxiation.

As the body fights the virus, the alveoli fill up like a wet sponge,” said Dr. Bryan Garber, a pulmonologist with Sansum. As the body grows more desperate for oxygen, its immune system launches a desperate counterattack, known as a “cytokine storm.” This storm can often prove fatal.

The most pressing challenge is keeping patients alive long enough so that their own immune systems can calm

down and kick in. Roughly half of everyone who gets hospitalized gets placed into ICU, Wright said.

Once there, the patient is treated by a team composed of a pharmacist, a patient-care technician, a nurse, a respiratory therapist, and a doctor. “But the nurse does the bulk of the work,” Wright said. In New York City, one ICU nurse will have to care for five or six ICU patients. At Cottage, it’s usually one-to-one, or at most one nurse to two patients.

Because COVID-19 is so contagious — spreading via droplets that can remain infectious for three days depending on what surface they land on or up to three hours in aerosolized vapors that hover in the air — exceptional steps are required to make sure patients don’t infect their healthcare workers. Although more than 50 health-care workers countywide have tested positive, Wright said no one working at Cottage ICUs has tested positive yet.

Typically, Wright said, it takes at least 10 minutes just to “gown up." This entails goggles, a face shield, an N-95 respirator face mask, and a gown. The number of trips in and out of the ICU must be limited to reduce exposure. It’s not uncommon, Wright said, for nurses to spend five hours straight inside with their patients.

Gowning down — or “doffing” one’s protective gear — follows an elaborate protocol to minimize the chances of any contaminated droplets on the gear touching the person. Hands are washed. After exiting the ICU chamber, hands are washed again. Doctors, Wright acknowledged, were not so fastidious about hand hygiene before the virus.

“We’ve learned to become very good soldiers in this effort,” he said.

At the beginning of each ICU shift, everyone has their temperature taken and answers questions relating to COVID-19 symptoms. One of those is diarrhea, which two weeks ago, Wright had experienced. “I called up [Cottage infectious disease specialist] Dr. [Lynn] Fitzgibbon and said, ‘I’ve got this little problem.’ She said I was going to

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Father Jon Hedges (pictured) of Isla Vista’s St. Athanasius Orthodox Church was taken to Cottage Hospital’s ER on 4/15 after reporting COVID-like symptoms, according to his daughter. She announced the next day that he’d tested negative for COVID-19 but had contracted pneumonia and would remain hospitalized pending further treatment.

One of the county’s highest-profile clergy members, Hedges also maintains offices at I.V.’s Pescadero Lofts, a 36-unit home for the formerly homeless, and serves as a chaplain at the County Jail. Had Hedges tested positive for COVID-19, county disease control investigators would have had their hands full tracking down anyone with whom he’d come into prolonged contact.

Lompoc prison inmates are now on a 14-day lockdown, meaning they are confined to their bunks and denied access to phone and email.

S.B. County’s Hot Zone Marina S. is convinced that if her 56-year- NO COMMENT, NO old brother who suffers from asthma and chronic pneumonia contracts COVID-19, “it COMMENT will most likely result in his death.” She called The frustrations of Lompoc inmates’ families the crowded quarantine conditions inside the grew even more pronounced this week with prison “cruel and inhumane” and predicted the initiation of a 14-day facility-wide lockthe virus will continue to “spread like wildfire.” down on Monday, April 20, during which These five accounts are among the two inmates won’t be allowed to use phones dozen provided to the Santa Barbara Inde- or email to communicate with the outside pendent by inmates’ families since the first world. Some likened it to a “gag order.” The case of COVID-19 was reported at United announcement comes as Lompoc federal States Penitentiary Lompoc (USP Lompoc) prison officials are facing increased public on March 30. Most of the scrutiny over their handling of the outbreak, families, who live across including their release of an inmate in the Inmates and Families Panic the country, spoke on late stages of a COVID-19 infection who died as Lompoc’s Federal Prison the condition of ano- four days after being sent home on a GreyGoes into COVID-19 Lockdown nymity, though some hound bus. allowed the use of their BOP spokesperson Emery Nelson, howfirst names and the first ever, said the lockdown is “not for punitive Alana’s husband is 76 years old, she said, initial of their last names for this article. Many reasons.” While inmate movement is being has a heart problem, and uses a walker to get expressed concern that talking to the media restricted to essential activities (such as around. He’s frightened, too. “All these guys would cause prison officials to retaliate against showers), Nelson explained, “mail will conare really desperate,” she said. “It’s a terrible their relatives.

Their main comsituation.”

Sandra B. doesn’t know what to say to her plaint over the last three 6-year-old son when he asks about his dad. weeks of the outbreak Before the virus infected the federal prison, — the only one at a conthey talked on the phone all the time. It’s gregate living facility in been almost two weeks now without a call. Santa Barbara County “I don’t know if he’s okay or not,” she said. — has been the acute “They won’t tell us anything. Someone, lack of communication please help.” from both local federal June K. has an “elderly family member prison leadership and (with a long list of medical conditions)” the federal Bureau of inside the facility. “We have been deathly Prisons (BOP) in Washanxious for his health and frustrated by the ington, D.C. Repeated In a memo to BOP staff leaked to the public, director Michael Carvajal told employees lack of action from the [Bureau of Prisons] to calls to the Lompoc to “have faith” and to not let fear of the virus “distract us from our daily tasks.” protect these inmates,” she said. office and the BOP’s Charles D. hasn’t seen his son in 17 years, administrative headquarters, they say, go tinue to be collected and delivered daily.” The and now he’s afraid he’ll never get the chance. either unanswered or are met with impatient extreme measures were decided upon out of “His mother and I are in our late sixties, and responses that prisoner information cannot “an abundance of caution,” he continued, “to we have health problems,” he said. “We are be released. The families point out that is sim- maximize social distancing as much as posscared we will never see him again.” Charles ply not true. It’s not even clear to them who’s sible” and to ensure that “even small group suggested his son, behind bars for a non- in charge at Lompoc. Until recently, it was an gathering is avoided.” violent drug offense, could be put on house acting warden named James Engleman, but The prison complex, which houses more arrest for the remaining three years of his an officer who declined to give his name dur- than 1,500 male inmates sentenced for term, or at least until the virus is brought ing a brief phone conversation with the Inde- crimes ranging from petty larceny to aggraunder control. Anything to get him out of pendent said the prison was now “between vated murder, comprises four distinct units: Lompoc, he said. wardens.” medium- and low-security areas within the

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lana M. is worried sick about her husband, an inmate at United States Penitentiary Lompoc, now the site of the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the federal prison system. As of Tuesday, April 21, 99 inmates have tested positive for the virus. One inmate has died.

A number are hospitalized, and some are on ventilators, though officials won’t say how many, citing security concerns. Twenty-nine staff are ill.

A 40-year-old county jail inmate has tested positive for COVID-19, the Sheriff’s Office announced on 4/17. The inmate was booked by Santa Maria police into county jail on 4/1 and held for 14 days away from the main population as part of the jail’s new precautionary procedures. After exhibiting a fever during a medical exam on 4/14, the inmate was placed in a negative-pressure room and tested for COVID-19, the results of which came back positive two days later.

The Sheriff’s Office conducted an investigation to track potential cases of exposure to the inmate, and the results were sent to the Public Health Department for “evaluation and follow-up.”

Laura Dubbels, the city’s homeless oversight planner, announced at last week’s City Council meeting that 68 motel rooms have been secured for homeless individuals .

The motel space will be set aside for homeless people in fragile physical health who would find themselves at an elevated risk should they become infected with COVID19. Dubbels said that County Public Health workers would screen any homeless guests, security will be provided 24/7, and a range of social-service case workers will be on hand to provide oversight and help at the undisclosed South Coast motel. Given first priority will be individuals 65 years or older with chronic health issues. After that it will be anyone with a serious health problem, and after that anyone over 65. n

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Dr. Robert Wright CONT'D FROM P. 6 have to be tested, so they pulled me out of the line,” he said.

It took Wright two weeks to get his results. He tested negative and was allowed back on the job. Since then, Cottage has developed a much speedier test in which results can be available within 15 minutes.

Oxygen doesn’t cure COVID-19; it merely buys patients time to rally their own immune systems. Getting that oxygen into the patient, however, ranges from mildly intrusive to invasive intervention that falls into the “heroic” category typically used only when the patient is on the precipice of death.

The most extreme example is known as ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), an astonishing medical procedure by which the heart and lungs are bypassed completely, allowing a machine to pump oxygenated blood heated to the precisely correct temperature into your body instead.

Not quite so extreme — but still violently intrusive — is the ventilator itself. The patent must be sedated before the breathing tube can be inserted down the throat. Ventilated patients are often given paralytic drugs that prevent them from breathing on their own. If they were to breathe at a rate different than the one dictated by the ventilator, it could be lethal.

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Patients need constant monitoring. If the pressure gets too high, the alveoli can pop. If undertaken too long, the muscles needed for independent breathing can become atrophied.

That makes recovery harder. If the body goes into cytokine storm mode, there are medications — traditionally given to people struggling with rheumatoid arthritis — that can help.

“You don’t want to intubate too soon,” said Wright. “But you don’t want to wait too long.”

Getting intubated hurts. “Most of these patients are anxious enough,” said Wright. “We don’t want them fighting us, so we medicate. If they’re fighting and spitting at you, that poses a serious risk.”

However fit — Wright gets up at 5 in the morning to go hiking with the likes of Dr. Fred Kass of the Cancer Center and Kurt Ransohoff, CEO of the Sansum Clinic — he is still in his sixties. That puts him squarely in one of the high-risk sub-groups. It’s a risk he weighs carefully. For example, Wright said he thought seriously of going to New York City to help.

Ultimately, he thought better of the idea. “I was never in the military, but with COVID, you want to get into this fight. I n really want to take care of these patients. I really do.”

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Other contingency plans have been floated in the event of an inmate surge. The prison itself contains only a small medical bay capable of caring for only a few patients. Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo offered a backup medical facility for civilians if Lompoc prisoners flood local hospitals. Lompoc Valley Medical Center, for instance, recently reported that only two of its critical care beds were still available.

Lt. Brian Olmstead with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff ’s Office also told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday that the BOP may convert an old factory on the prison property into a quarantine zone with 20 beds. But the details and a timeline were murky, he said. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reportedly involved.

THE FEDS HAVE FAILED US Despite these escalating complaints and criticisms of federal prison officials both locally and in Washington, Dr. Van DoReynoso, director of Santa Barbara’s Public Health Department, said recently that the county and the prison have an “astounding partnership.” “They have a really good staff and good leadership,” she said.

Nick Clay, an emergency medical technician with the Public Health Department, echoed Do-Reynoso at a press conference last week. “They continue to be a valuable and willing partner in managing the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic,” he said.

But those overtures of collaboration were cold comfort for Lompoc Mayor Jenelle Osborne, who’s held local and federal officials to task for the outbreak and its impact on her city. “The federal officials have failed not only the inmates and staff but my community by not aggressively responding to the first reported case on March 30, when it was only 2 inmates and 1 staff member,” she said in an email on Friday.

Moreover, Osborne said, “In an attempt to keep the communications going through appropriate public health channels, I repeatedly asked [the Public Health Department] about the status of the growing infection rate and for information about addressing the prison’s situation. The answer has always been, ‘We are in contact with the prison.’ ” Yet, here we are, still waiting for the extra beds, she said.

Osborne disputed the BOP’s claim that outbreaks such as Lompoc’s couldn’t be avoided, or as BOP Director Carvajal said on Tuesday: “No amount of preparation could have left our institutions unaffected.”

“This outbreak is not a black swan event,” she said. “It is an absolute known given [the prison] meets the tier one criteria as a congregate living facility. Following appropriate pandemic protocols early and aggressively could have prevented this.” n

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letter to Carvajal, after one on April 15, complaining about the bureau’s handling of the crisis.

The lawmakers are especially troubled that the prison still does not have a good plan for protecting staff, some of whom are reportedly sleeping in their cars to avoid bringing the disease home. “These public servants continuously put their lives on the lines and deserve better,” they stated.

Legislators around the country have criticized the BOP for not doing enough to insulate inmates and staff at its 22 penitentiaries. So far, Public health officials, like emergency medical technician Nick Clay, are hesitant to openly criticize prison leaders the virus has killed 23 inmates despite plenty of evidence against them. and sickened 323 staff and 540 inmates systemwide. A union large central building and two minimum-security satellite representing BOP staff has filed a lawsuit against the agency demanding hazard pay. camps on the north and south ends of the property.

Another major concern of Feinstein, Harris, and CarbaAll four areas, with tightly packed bunk beds and only a handful of showers for every few hundred men, are ill- jal’s is the lack of progress in setting up a 100-bed field hospisuited for social distancing. So to utilize as much space as tal on the prison’s grounds to handle its growing number of possible, prison authorities have reportedly reopened rooms patients. “It is our understanding the BOP is in negotiations that had been closed off because of black-mold contamina- to establish this mobile hospital,” they wrote. “We urge you tion, including a kitchen. Inmate workers at the prison’s to move as quickly as possible to ensure our local healthcare dairy operation, which supplies milk throughout the federal system is not overwhelmed by this COVID-19 outbreak.” penitentiary system and is deemed an essential function of The legislators ended their letter with a long series of questions for Carvajal: the facility, are sequestered in the south camp’s dining hall.

“What progress has the BOP made to secure the necLompoc prison leadership has declined to publicly comment on any specific precautions the prison is taking to essary staff and equipment, including ventilators, for the contain the outbreak. Officials refuse to address reports that mobile hospital? How has the BOP worked with other inmates and staff haven’t been provided adequate protective stakeholders to develop a contingency plan to ensure our equipment, or that employees still aren’t being properly local resources are not overwhelmed by this crisis? When screened and tested. They’ve only offered vague assurances can law enforcement personnel, workers, and all other indithat they are following protocol and instituting a “compre- viduals at the Lompoc USP expect to receive PPE (personal protective equipment)? What types of PPE have they prohensive management approach” to infection control. vided, as well as how often?”

They also wanted to know about the April 3 memo from CLEAR AND PRESENT Attorney General Barr, stating every inmate cleared for DANGER release should first be quarantined for 14 days. “Was this The information blackout has angered California sena- followed in the case of the reported inmate who died of tors Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris and Representa- COVID-19 four days after his release?” they wondered and tive Salud Carbajal, who fired off a letter to BOP Director asked Carvajal for his “timely response to these critical Michael Carvajal on Tuesday, April 21. It was their second issues.”

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mation. “I want to be very clear that the same processes as usual are being observed, just at a higher rate. I’ve seen people claim they’re digging mass, unmarked graves in New York, and that is simply not true. That isn’t happening,” said Flynn. “Every single person who is buried has been identified, photographed, and given a case number. If someone comes to New York in 10 years and asks where their grandfather who died from COVID-19 is buried, they’ll be able to look it up and find the exact location. It’s important that we avoid hysteria and doublecheck our facts at a time like this.”

The footage that seems to show an alarming spectacle of huge, indiscriminate graves takes place at Hart Island, a one-mile stretch of land that New York City has used to bury what Flynn calls “the transient, the poor, the forgotten,” whose bodies are unclaimed or unidentified or whose families can’t afford burials. The facility has been in use for over 150 years and is the final resting place of more than a million bodies. That so many have died alone and destitute is a tragedy in itself, and surely a sign of many injustices. But what it is not, stresses Flynn, is a place where New York is dumping bodies into unmarked graves with no way of keeping track of their final resting place.

Another grisly spectacle that has become a source of fear and, occasionally, hysteria, is the image of bodies being stored in large refrigeration trucks. With local mortuaries overA few weeks ago, Simply Remembered Cremation Care’s Dan Flynn was “called up” by the federal government's mass-fatality team and sent to New York City, where he spent whelmed, the government has been using these two weeks at a facility in Brooklyn doing “decedent management,” photographing and identifying bodies and giving them case numbers. trucks to store bodies before they are laid to rest. “I understand that this is kind of an offputting spectacle for some people, but the fact is that bodies need to be kept in refrigeration, and these mom-and-pop mortuaries just don’t have the space to do that right now,” said Flynn. “We’re in the middle of a pandemic, and that’s the reality.”

by Brian Osgood weeks ago, he was “called up” and sent to New York City, where In Santa Barbara County, the Coroner’s Bureau has taken fter returning from two weeks in New York City he spent two weeks at a facility in Brooklyn doing “decedent similar steps, and two refrigeration units were acquired by helping with its mortuary services, Dan Flynn management,” photographing and identifying bodies and the county to expand their decedent capacity. Under normal decided to go for a walk with his wife near Santa giving them case numbers. circumstances, the county-wide capacity for decedents is 22.

Claus Lane in Carpinteria. Originally, Flynn was After a few days back home in Carpinteria, Flynn is now In times of mass-fatality events, they can expand their surge supposed to be home for a 10-day break, but he’d been called back in New York, helping pick up bodies from homes around capacity to accommodate 50. Now, after taking steps such as back to N.Y.C. — where daily deaths from COVID-19 have the city. the acquisition of the refrigeration units and deploying funeral been the highest of any city in the United States — for another Usually, according to Flynn, New York City has four homes, the county’s capacity is up to 335. three weeks. What he saw on his walk alarmed him: people morgues. But, with capacity stretched thin, going about business as usual, hanging out in groups at the the federal government has set up a fifth facility in Brooklyn to process bodies after beach, and neglecting social-distancing protocol.

“I wanted to stand up on a rock and yell, ‘What are you all they are brought in from hospitals. This thinking?’ It’s concerning that people still aren’t taking this is the facility where Flynn worked. New seriously enough,” said Flynn.

York has also added at least 45 “mobile morgues” to expand its strained capacity. Many of those bodies Dan Flynn Lends a Helping Hand brought to the Brooklyn facility in N.Y.C. as City’s Mortuary Services are those who are unclaimed, Are Stretched Thin by COVID-19 homeless, or otherwise “the forgotten,” according to Flynn.

Flynn is a mortician at Simply Remembered, a cremation “We make sure that every person, no matservice in Santa Barbara. But he is also a member of the federal ter where they come from in life, are given government’s mass-fatality team, which he describes as akin consideration and identified at the end of to “the national guard, but for mortuary services,” such as their life,” said Flynn.

Usually, according to Flynn, N.Y.C. has four morgues. But with capacity stretched thin, the federal body identification, tracking, and burial preparation, during To be clear, not all, or even most, of the government has set up a fifth facility in Brooklyn and also added at least 45 “mobile morgues” times of crisis. bodies Flynn was working with were the (above) to expand its strained capacity.

This certainly isn’t Flynn’s first time responding to a crisis. victims of COVID-19. But in New York, After high school, Flynn joined the Coast Guard, where he where daily deaths from the virus have Even with Flynn cautioning against hysteria and misinforspent eight years in search and rescue. During the response averaged 648 a day since the beginning of April, local mortuto 9/11, Flynn was a volunteer team leader and instructor ary services are nonetheless stretched impossibly thin. mation, he’s also quick to urge people to take the pandemic with the American Red Cross’s Disaster Action Team. After “Local mortuaries are getting the crap kicked out of them more seriously than they have been. “Going for a run is all that, a colleague told him about a search-and-rescue-focused right now,” said Flynn. “These small mom-and-pop mortuary right, but a crowded beach? That just shouldn’t be happenFEMA team of specialists from different professions, which services have enough refrigeration room for 5-10 bodies, and ing, and it’s a sign that people still aren’t taking this seriously Flynn joined as a hazardous materials specialist. Several years right now, demand is closer to 30 a day. They just don’t have enough,” he said.

“I get that people might be getting antsy, but this is the reallater, Flynn joined the federal mass-fatality team (which he that capacity, so the government has stepped in.” emphasized he doesn’t speak on behalf of). Over the years, he’s During his time in New York, Flynn also assisted the city ity we could be in for a while. People just need to be patient responded to 13 hurricanes, he said, most recently in Puerto with autopsies and rode around the city with members of the and ride this thing out. We haven’t seen anything like this since Rico after it was devastated by 2017’s Hurricane Maria.

U.S. Air Force, assisting with the process of picking up bod- 1918, and people saying we need to start opening back up now In mid-March of this year, Flynn spent several weeks at ies, including those who were cases of suicide and homicide. that the curve is starting to flatten is like saying, ‘Opening my a cruise-ship quarantine facility, helping out with “general While Flynn says that these are indeed extraordinary times, parachute has started to slow my descent, so I can take it off manpower needs, not mortuary response,” he said. A few he stresses the importance of avoiding hysteria and misinfor- now.’ It’s very dangerous thinking.” n

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Like other nursing homes in the county, Samarkand (above) checks its employees for COVID-19 symptom; so far, one has tested positive.

Keeping COVID from Nursing Homes’ Doors three days later, said Executive Director Cindy Jordan. No other employees or residents have tested positive.

While the genetic virus testing implemented by the Public Health Department is good for gaining a short-term understanding of whether a person has coronavirus, Batson pointed out, a negative result only indicates the individual doesn’t have it at that point in time. “You can test negative today and have no symptoms, but when you test again …,” she trailed off, indicating how the virus insinuates itself easily into the cells lining the nasal walls, where they multiply before heading south to the lungs.

COVID-19’s ability to spread quickly and lurk unseen has eluded the increased care taken at nursing homes, including the Marian Hospital–operated Marian Extended Care in Santa Maria and the Lompoc Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.

Neither was able to respond to Employees Test Positive reporter questions before press at Seven Facilities deadline, but each was listed in the state database of nursing facilitive test came back after he died, however, ties with at least one employee who tested and his doctor attributed his death to non- positive.

COVID reasons reasons, though the Public Lompoc Valley Medical Center operates Health Department has listed it as the third a skilled nursing and rehab, the CompreCOVID-related death in the county. hensive Care Center. Its CEO, Steve PopLike prisons, the group-care nature of kin, reported that one employee there had nursing homes makes their residents depen- tested positive and that the individual had dent on employees for meals, housekeeping, recovered.

A seventh case occurred at Santa Barbara’s activities, and, in the case of hospice, essential personal care. Each facility where a staff storied Samarkand, which was built in 1915 member responded to reporters᾿ calls had by Prynce Hopkins as the new site of Boyincreased worker scrutiny and education, land school for boys and became a retirement most had asked visitors to stay away, and all community in 1955. Now housing about 375 were clothing employees in masks and gowns people, Samarkand checks its employees as when they had close contact with residents, as do the other facilities, though one employee during hospice or skilled-nursing care. developed a fever while working and ended The hospice caregiver at Maravilla, who up testing positive for COVID-19. She had also worked privately tending to people near worked only at one resident’s apartment that death, was gloved and gowned while work- day, as luck would have it, and no residents or ing, said Paige Batson, County Public Health’s other employees became infected. deputy director for community health. Also, Atterdag Village had started screening every resident she came into contact with was visitors and implementing increased hygiene tested, a statement from Maravilla revealed, measures in early March, said Debbie Knight. as were the employees she came into contact She credited her director, Chris Parker, with with on the day before she came down with recognizing the threat quickly and closing the campus to visitors in mid-March. “Even COVID-19. No one else tested positive.

The same was true at Buena Vista Care a seasonal flu can be detrimental to our Center. The skilled nursing facility had one residents,” Knight said. “And this was way COVID-positive employee who last worked beyond the normal flu, so we took much there on April 8 before showing symptoms more drastic measures.” n

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by Melinda Burns she turned on the voice recording function on hydrogeologist who was laid off last summer from her cell phone. a Santa Ynez water district has filed suit against “I said, ‘I’m not your typist … I wasn’t hired to her former employers, alleging that her boss misoperate a computer for you,’” Wolff recalled. “He used public resources, made her his personal secgrabbed my phone away from me and physically retary, physically threatened her when she objected, and intimidated me by standing over me with his then conspired to force her out after she reported him. fists clenched as if he was going to hit me. When Else Wolff, 45, a graduate of Santa Ynez Valley Union he knew he was being recorded, he stopped High School and UCSB with master’s degrees in hydrolscreaming. ogy and engineering, was hired by the Santa Ynez River “Hours after I stood up to Bruce, the retaliaWater Conservation District in late 2017 as a seniortion started. He began blocking information and level surface water program manager after two decades impeding my ability to do my job.” in the private sector.

It was her “dream job,” she said, to safeguard supplies from Lake Cachuma for farmers, ranchers, and On September 25, 2018, Wolff said, she sent a Lompoc residents downstream of the dam, ensuring memo to Allen, the investigator, and the county that their rights to well water from the Santa Ynez River District Attorney’s Office, alleging that Wales would be protected. was misusing public resources. Specifically, she But in a complaint filed March 24 in Santa Barbara stated, he was using her and other employees for County Superior Court, representing herself, Wolff at least one hour every day to help him manage alleges that the district board and its agents, primarsome out-of-state rentals and a private mutual ily former general manager Bruce Wales, violated the water company near Los Olivos — on district California Equal Pay Act and engaged in whistleblower time. It was effectively costing the district $600 retaliation, sex discrimination, defamation, and breach per month, including $100 for color copies of of contract. She is seeking a jury trial and unspecified Wales’s private emails and attachments, Wolff said. punitive damages, in addition to back pay and retireMeanwhile, Wolff said, Wales was hiding ment benefits.

Wolff ’s lawsuit comes at a time when standards documents, excluding her from meetings, and for workplace behavior of bosses toward the female refusing her access to the emails on his computer employees they supervise are shifting. Spurred by the that pertained to her work. #MeToo movement and legal actions against male execOn October 22, the board announced that utives across the country, these changes are unearthing Wales was stepping down as general manager decades of deeply embedded sexist norms under which as of November 1 but would stay on as “Strategic women were routinely humiliated and harassed on the Advisor.” He remained at the district for nearly job and forced to endure and forbear, or risk being fired. DREAM JOB TO NIGHTMARE: Else Wolff, a Goleta hydrogeologist, is suing her former employer, six more months. The district did not respond to “I had worked 17 years in engineering, in a male- the Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District, alleging whistleblower retaliation. a request this week for information about Wales’s dominated field,” Wolff said in a recent interview from salary and retirement benefits. tion of employee complaints against Wales, beginning on A press release from the Santa Ynez district her home in Winchester Canyon. “But at the district, I announcing Wales’s retirement stated that one of his last felt like I had time-traveled back to the ’60s. I wanted to keep September 17, 2018. assignments was to “coordinate the recruitment campaign my dream job, but there were certain things I was not going for his replacement.” to put up with.”

Wolff says she told Allen and the investigator that Wales Wolff and Buelow both applied for the job. By then, Wolff worked chiefly from home and did not own a computer or had learned that Buelow, who she said held a position equal Not to be confused with the Santa Ynez River Water Con- know how to use one, and that it was a longstanding custom to hers, was earning $130,000 per year, or $30,000 more than servation District Improvement District No. 1, which serves for district staff to access his email for him from their office she was. The board named Buelow interim general manager. water to 12,000 people in Solvang and environs, the Santa computers. Wales called her “a bunny” and ordered her to Ynez River Water Conservation District where Wolff worked take dictation and read his emails to him over the phone, is one of the smallest public agencies in the county. The dis- Wolff said, and he advised her “not to correct men because Wales tailor-wrote the job description for general manager so as to exclude her, Wolff said, and then failed to forward her trict had five employees when Wolff was there; today, there they don’t like being corrected by women.” are four.

Wolff says she told Allen and the investigator how, in May application for the job to the board.

Members of the public rarely attend the district’s five 2018, she saw Wales throw a chair in the direction of BueBuelow now turned on her, too, she said, accusing her of yearly board meetings. There was little pushback in mid- low, who was cowering in his seat as Wales stood over him, “hacking into” Wales’s emails. In February 2019, Woolf said, 2018 when the board raised groundwater rates by 47 percent. screaming, “F--- you! F--- you!” with his fists cocked. In July he followed up with an unwarranted and “spectacularly bad Contacted by phone this month, Wales, who retired last that year, Wales again threatened Buelow, but this time, Wolff review” of her job performance. On March 1, distraught and April, declined to comment on Wolff ’s allegations. Bill Bue- walked out: “I couldn’t handle it,” she said. unable to sleep, she took a medical leave.

The board appointed Kevin Walsh, board president of Buelow told her he reported the abuse to Allen and other low, the district groundwater program manager; board Vice President Brett Marymee of Santa Ynez; and Director Steve board members at the time, but they did nothing to stop it, Santa Ynez Improvement District No. 1, Wales’s friend and associate, as general manager. Wolff was laid off at the end of Jordan, a Lompoc Valley farmer, did not respond to requests Wolff said.

In July, Wales told her he was going to recommend her June. Walsh offered her $12,500 if she would agree not to sue, for comment.

Board President Cynthia Allen; Director Art Hibbits, a to the board as his successor, Wolff said. But on September Wolff said, but she turned him down.

Lompoc Valley farmer; and a representative of the Bakers- 11, 2018, she said, while Buelow was on vacation, Wales went “There were two flavors of making my life hell at the disfield law firm of Young Wooldridge LLP said the lawsuit was into another rage, this time directed at her. He rolled his trict,” she said. “One was interference with my ability to do a confidential personnel matter. According to Wolff, the firm chair over to hers so that she could read him his email from my job. The second flavor was the false accusations, and it’s was hired by the district to conduct an internal investiga- her computer, she said. Knowing that he could be violent, the false accusations that hurt the most.” n

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he were, it wouldn’t be enough. That much was clear from this week’s fraught Santa Barbara City Council meeting. Moses—we all know—famously parted the Red Sea. He had it considerably easier than Harris. Moses was merely leading his people out of bondage and into the Promised Land.

Harris’s challenge is to make State Street hum again.

He was hired amid much hewing and crying to be the city’s first economic development czar. Harris—who held a similar gig in Santa Monica for 10 years and one in Phoenix eight years before that — seemed a dream come true. But just days before his first day on the job, the COVID curtain fell and the lights went out all over the world.

Tuesday was to be Harris’s official comingout party. He introduced himself to the council and explained, in a few pithy words, how he would get the lights back on. He talked about a classic car cruise, something fun that would allow social distancing. He talked about getting accomplished musicians on street corners, public art, sidewalk sales, pop-up events; he used the word “activation” a lot, both as noun and a verb. He did not mention making State Street a pedestrian mall per se, though he alluded to a bicycle maniac event that would have partially done so.

Somehow, he forgot to mention canna-

bis, prompting one cannabis operator to twice call for the creation of a downtown cannabis museum complete with a cannabis café and

a processing facility. This, he said, would act as an international magnet.

There are those in the downtown business firmament who hope Harris falls on his face.

He is not local. He rents a place in Montecito during the week and returns to L.A. to be with his wife and children on the weekend.

Worse, he is not Nina Johnson, the only person at City Hall most State Street business owners and landlords have publically agreed to trust.

Strike three is that Harris was hired by City Administrator Paul Casey, who, for many, personifies everything about smothering, slow-moving government bureaucracies.

But Harris, and his debut performance, turned out to quickly be almost beside the point.

Councilmembers Meagan Harmon and Michael Jordan expressed their collective exasperation and keening “aghastness” at how city planners have been zombie slowwalking 20 rule changes they approved last December, intended to accelerate the building of high-density housing downtown. Downtown, the experts tell us, has about one-third more retail than it can reasonably sustain.

Replace that retail with housing, such as the 80 units now being proposed where Staples once was, and City Hall won’t have to “bring” people downtown; they’ll already live there.

When Community Development chief George Buell explained that these rule final-

izations would not get to the council until this September, Jordan got seriously pissed. So much steam came out of his ears, you could hear it whistle. Jordan—normally jovial on the dais — pointedly asked Buell about the status of an outside performance audit of Buell’s department that the council commissioned to the tune of $86,000. That audit is to determine just how bad the red tape in Buell’s department really is. That audit, the council was told, was running slower than expected.

Yet more steam exploded out of Jordan’s ears; for a while, all you could hear was the screaming whistle.

Mayor Cathy Murillo managed to step in it, too, though the “it” in this case will wind up smearing Harris’s shoes more than her own.

Murillo has assembled a 17-member special mayoral task force to propose quick fixes to jump-start the economy for when Governor Gavin Newsom lifts the COVID curtain.

Conspicuously underrepresented on this committee were downtown property owners, without whose active or tacit support any plan — no matter how grand — will stumble.

Murillo named only one owner — Barrett Reed —to her committee, but he’s a member of the planning commission and a relative newbie to city government.

Stewing in their own steam were mega landlords Jim Knell and Richard Berti, whose vast holdings date back to the Pleisto-

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ment and can be excused for thinking they’d surely be invited. Neither Knell nor Berti has ever been shy about criticizing City Hall, and on Tuesday they let Murillo have it, testifying electronically via the council’s squawk box.

Knell complained he’d been “excluded and alienated.” Berti objected, “We’ve been down here 40 years and you leave us out,” adding, “Shame on you; I’m through.” When Murillo told him his allotted time was up, he shot back, “You don’t have to tell me. I’m through.”

Knell and Berti hardly speak for all the owners. And they’re far from easy. But failure to engage with State Street property owners

over the years is one big reason why all efforts thus far to revitalize downtown haven’t got past the circle-jerk phase.

Also unhappy about the task force were councilmembers Alejandra Gutierrez and Oscar Gutierrez —no relation—who respectively represent the city’s east and west sides.

Both were sizzled to learn about the task force by reading the paper. Both objected Murillo’s proposed roster was not sufficiently inclusive. Although Murillo worked her ass off to get both councilmembers elected, neither of the Gutierrezes exhibited any hesitation about calling the mayor out in public.

Harris will now need to work three times harder mending fences he didn’t knock down.

Moses knew how to part the water. But does Jason Harris know how to calm them?

Let’s hope no miracles prove necessary.

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Because in that case they’d be angry the prison kept him there to die. I understand their anger and grief, but he was sick with a very dangerous virus so what could have been done?

Gretchen Hackett Brinser The bus from Lompoc to San Bernardino takes one day, arrives at night. So he went to hospital the day after he was released. • Beth McDonald They put him on a bus? Knowing he would infect countless others?

Who was responsible for making that call, how many other sick people have been sent home like that, and what it’s going to take to halt that sort of thing?

Lisa Carlos This is not good on many levels. Not good to treat people who have served their time this way. Not good to have a federal prison with the highest and fastest growing rate of COVID in the nation and be told it will take six weeks to have a dedicated hospital for them.

Care for the inmates with COVID will overwhelm local health care and has already spilled into local hospitals. There are 1,600 prisoners, and S.B. only has 90 ICU beds. Residents are successfully flattening the curve so as not to tax our limited health-care resources, but this situation will erase such efforts.

Trish Mullahey Getting sentenced 27 years for selling something that was once in the most popular soda pop in America — and is prescribed to any child who happens to have energies that need an outlet — what a waste of a man’s life.

Ana Garcia Gavin Newsom, Salud Carbajal, S. Monique Limón: This needs to be resolved. I know many of us have been calling and writing to demand action. While a letter is a start, it is not enough! Folks are dying! They deserve to be treated as people. They deserve to live. This situation is a perfect example of the racism that informs the systems that perpetually harm and kill black folks, and other people of color. This is not a political issue; it is a humanity issue. It’s a moral issue.

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obituaries McMullin, James Taylor

11/26/1942 – 4/8/2020

James (Jim or “Jimmy”) Taylor McMullin passed away suddenly of an arrhythmia heart attack April 8, 2020 in his chair at home. Jim was a local boy, born in Utah but came to Santa Barbara when he was 4 years old. He was the son of Carma Taylor & Floyd H. McMullin, a Civil Engineer who helped design the Bradbury Dam at Lake Cachuma. Jim was a Wilson Wildcat& one of “Van’s boys”. He also attended Harding, La Cumbre JHS, and SBHS {Class of ’60) where he formed many friendships that are still close to this day. After retiring he enjoyed staying in touch with “Class of “60” and other friends, spending many Tuesday mornings at the Breakwater Cafe sharing their stories.

In 1972 Jim married the love of his life, Barbara.

They made a great team, even though he worked and played with an intensity that was sometimes hard to keep up with. Jim’s spirit really soared in the mountains, he was a true outdoorsman who loved hunting & stream fishing.

He was an avid mountain biker, loved the desert, offroading with cars, motorcycles, and ocean fishing on his boat exploring the Coast and the Channel Islands.

Jim became a licensed General Contractor in 1976 forming McMullin Construction, a successful independent general construction firm. Jim was a talented builder who gave extraordinary service to his clients many of whom became lifelong friends.

He was very organized, a leader in all he accomplished. He built custom homes, completed residential, commercial/industrial remodels & developed small condominium proj16

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ects. It didn’t matter to Jim if you were a laborer, supplier, subcontractor, architect or owner, he treated everyone equally. Jim gave & received the deep respect of those he worked with, especially Luis Valerio, his loyal foreman who became a close friend. Jim was always there to offer help or give valuable advice to someone if they needed it & he was greatly appreciated by those who received his generous assistance.

Jim lived life on his own terms: he did not deviate from his strong belief that being very honest, straightforward, telling it “like it is” and that his handshake was his bond.

In his later years Jim solidified his Faith by returning to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, his family religion.

He became very involved in Family Search, tracing the lineage for many families, including his own. Through his “Indexing” efforts, where the Church is digitalizing old census & birth records, he was able to reunite many people with their ancestors.

Jim was ordained to the Melchizedek Priest hood as an Elder & was set apart as a Family History/Temple Consultant.

Jim is survived by his loving wife and life-partner, Barbara, & his brother, Floyd “Taylor” McMullin. Those also grieving his untimely death are Barbara’s family, his many cousins throughout the country, and friends across the spectrum of life.

Jim’s will rest in peace at the Santa Barbara Cemetery. Due to the Corona Virus, a memorial service and celebration of life will take place this summer.

This tribute will be on the Welch-Ryce-Haider Website: www.wrhsb.com for anyone wishes to leave a “Jimmy Story”.

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Germaine Gabrielsen 1/17/1925 – 3/31/2020

Our dearest friend Germaine Gabrielsen, passed away March 31, 2020 at the age of 95. She was born in Berlin, Germany on January 17, 1925. Growing up in Berlin, Germaine was a talented young dancer, eventually becoming a member of the highly regarded Berlin Staats Opera Ballet.

She performed throughout Europe as a classical ballet dancer. After World War II, Germaine managed her family business, designing, modeling and marketing ready to wear ladies clothing.

At the request of her former ballet instructor, who had recently moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, Germaine was convinced to come to America. She began teaching ballet with her former teacher. Unaccustomed to the hot and humid summers however, Germaine decided to leave and visit family friends in Hope Ranch, California.

Germaine’s family friends lived in the new community of Hope Ranch in Santa Barbara. They invited her to stay, and she soon became a valued hostess at the Miramar Hotel in Montecito. However, dancing was still Germaine’s forte and Arthur Murray Dance Studio welcomed their new ballroom dancing instructor. Germaine delighted her students with a warm personality and competent instruction.

It was teaching at Arthur Murray that resulted in her meeting her husband, Raytheon Engineer Hilton (Gabe) Gabrielsen. They were married in 1960 and were constant companions travelling the world together for many years.

At our frequent gather-

ings of friends and family, Germaine and Gabe shared their tales of skiing and traveling. Our families have shared meals and stories for the past six decades. Germaine and Gabe were two of our parents’ best friends.

Germaine is survived by her husband of sixty years, Hilton (Gabe) Gabrielsen and her adopted family Jeanette, Phillip and Erielle Webber.

George B. Gritt, Sr. 12/2/1931 – 3/14/2020

Gritt, George Bernard, Sr. George B Gritt, Sr. at the age of 88, peacefully passed away at his home on March 14, 2020, surrounded by his family. George had been lovingly cared for by his wife, Carolyn, numerous faithful caregivers and finally the wonderful Hospice team. George was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather and an ultimate Green Bay Packer fan. He was our “gentle giant” who was so very much loved by all who knew him, especially his children and grandchildren of whom he was so very proud.

George was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Arthur Edward Gritt and Zelpha Marie Clements Gritt, one of nine children. He served in the USAF during the Korean conflict and when honorably discharged in 1956, he entered collage, graduating with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1960.

His career as an engineer took him to many locations from New York, Nebraska, Texas, Wisconsin and finally to California, where in 1973, he served as a tireless civil service employee of DCAS, at Delco Electronics, then as a NASA engineer at Santa Barbara

Research and Raytheon.

George was most proud of his work on the Apollo Space program, retiring from NASA in 1983.

During his 47 years in the Goleta/ Santa Barbara area, he watched his five children grow up, coached them in their many sports activities or cheered them on from the sidelines.

Always the athlete, George played softball with the Knights of Columbus team but football was his passion and win or lose, the Green Bay Packers were his “team”.

George was an active member of St Raphael’s parish and later St Mark’s University Parish as a Eucharistic minister and member of the Parish council.

George is survived by his loving wife of 56 years, Carolyn, daughter, Helen Marie Lindstrom (Scott), sons, Paul Gritt (Teresa), Matthew Gritt (Kacey), John Gritt (Elisabeth) and daughter in law, Liz Gritt.

He is also survived by grandchildren Samuel, Abigail, and Genevieve Gritt, Connor, Keri, and Kathryne Lindstrom, Jordan, Jenna, and Ian Gritt, Haven and Levi Gritt, Shelby and Jake Gritt-Comey and step granddaughter, Melisa Vivian and great grandchildren, Adalynn and Logan.

He is also survived by his brothers, David (Elizabeth) and Thomas (Suanne), sister, Regina O’Hara, and many nieces and nephews.

George was predeceased by his parents, Arthur and Zelpha, his eldest son, George (Skip) Jr., brothers, Joseph, William and Robert Gritt and sisters, Mary Lashbrook and Joan Gritt.

Inurnment will be privately held at the Old Mission Columbarium with a celebration of George’s life to be held at a later date but feel free to make a memorial contribution in his name to the Assisted Healthcare Hospice or any charity of your choice. We are so grateful for the many caregivers and the Hospice nurses who gave George such wonderful care.

obituaries Robert Gardner

3/4/1952 – 4/13/2020

After a trying battle with cancer, Robert Lee Gardner passed away on Monday, April 13, 2020.

Robert, or “Bob,” was born to Robert and Patricia in Orcutt, California on March 4, 1952, where he graduated from Righetti High School in 1970. Bob served in the United States Navy from 1970-1974, stationed primarily on Mare Island Naval Base, as a sonar technician on nuclear submarines. After leaving the Navy, Bob moved to Yosemite National Park where he worked in Security and the Village Store while attending Columbia Community College. He later transferred to Allan Hancock Community College where he graduated with an Associates Degree in Fire Science.

After a brief stint with the Orcutt Fire Department, he attended one of the first Paramedic Schools in Los Angeles, receiving his certification and then working for American Medical Response as a Paramedic in Santa Barbara. But his life’s dream was fulfilled when he was hired by Santa Barbara City Fire Department in 1980, where he served for thirty years retiring in 2010 as an Engineer. Bob and his wife, Teresa, settled in the Santa Ynez Valley after he retired, where they enjoyed riding horses and wine tasting.

Bob loved living life in the great outdoors, riding motorcycles, listening to classic rock music, and of course a proper shot of tequila! His two greatest loves were his family and Yosemite, where he shared many fond memories.

He is survived by his ever-growing family, and will be dearly missed by his wife Teresa Gardner of Solvang, CA; son Allan Stroming (Mindi) of

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Springfield, OR; daughter Jessica Self (Hunter) and son Justin Gardner (Tessa) both of Santa Barbara, CA; son Nicholas Mascagno (Maegan) of Anchorage, AK and daughter Tiana Mascagno of Santa Barbara, CA; his three brothers David Medieros (Joy) and Roger Gardner (Marie) of Orcutt, CA; and Guy Gardner (Maggie) of Rathdrum, ID; as well as his many other relatives. Lovingly referred to as “Papa,” his six grandchildren and one great-grandchild will miss his bear hugs dearly; Corey Stroming (Shelby and daughter Cathryn) and Courtney Stroming of Springfield OR; Sawyer Self, Ava and Bo Gardner of Santa Barbara, and Poppy Mascagno of Anchorage, AK. While Bob was certainly a hero to our community, he was a humble man with a big heart. Life will not be the same without his smile and his playful banter. A celebration of life will be held this summer. In lieu of flowers, our family kindly appreciates donations to the Firefighters Cancer Foundation or our State and National parks.

Arrangements entrusted to McDermott-Crockett Mortuary Hospice of Santa Barbara.

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 Wendell, 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.

The world’s a much better place because Bill Gielow was here. Bill died after suf 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

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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 non-profit 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.

Shoji (Sho) Yamada 3/4/1927 – 3/12/2020

Shoji (Sho) Yamada was born March 4, 1927 in Santa Barbara, CA and passed away on March 12, 2020. He was predeceased by his parents Sutezo and Hisao Yamada, half-brother Masato, brothers Fukuo and Akira, and sisters Harumi, Tomoko and Kunie Yanagi.

Sho attended Santa Barbara Junior High School and graduated from Santa Barbara High School and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

During WWII, he and his family were interned at Gila River Camp, Arizona.

After the war, Sho enlisted in the Army and served as a gun crewman.

He worked for Rockwell International for over 33 years as a Development Liaison Engineer, Shuttle Orbiter Division.

Sho was a member of the Buddhist Church of Santa Barbara.

Sho is survived by his sister-in-law Winifred Yamada and many nieces and nephews.

A memorial service will be held at a later date.

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Game Collect supplies around the house, such as paper, pencils, markers, crayon, and chalkboard/chalk or whiteboard/ erasable markers, to create with others online. A bonus follow-up project will use cardboard, scissors, tape or duct tape, and decorations like buttons, stickers, shells, etc., applied with glue (hot glue gun with supervision). Register online to receive a Zoom link to join. 3:30-4:15pm. Free.

Ages 7-10. Email Gwen Wagy at gwagy@ santabarbaraca.gov. tinyurl.com/RobotDrawingGame

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4/23: Webinar: How to Email Market in Times of Business Downturn If you

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SUNDAY 4/26 4/26: The DJ Darla Bea Radio Show: Rock It Properly! Take a virtual vacation with DJ Darla Bea. Every Sunday since 2008, Darla has been taking listeners on a virtual vacation with genres from Afrobeat to Zydeco and Abba to Zappa with a twohour music lesson, field trip, and/or tribute full of “Darlapedia” information. Call in a request at (805) 893-2424. Go to 91.9-FM KCSB or stream online. 8-10pm. kcsb.org

4/24: Virtual Music and Movement! Join this all-singing, all-dancing morning of stories and fun! Children and

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Virtual STEAM & Maker Time: Robot Drawing

are unsure about how to adjust your email approach to the current business climate, this webinar will teach the basic and advanced techniques to propel your efforts.

Learn the 5 Cs of Email Marketing Basics, how to set up tracking links, how to create email graphics, the best times and days to send an email, and more. 4-6pm. Free.

them grow into pre-readers, all while having fun. Register online to receive a Zoom link. 10:30-11am. Free. Ages 14 months-3 yrs.

TUESDAY 4/28

The Jewish Women’s Network invites you to grab your coffee and Zoom in every Wednesday. This connection will feature S.B. International Film Festival Executive Director Roger Durling, who will give his top movie picks and recommendations for your Netflix viewing right now. Visit the website for the Zoom link and meeting ID. 11am. Free.

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4/29: Help for Women Solopreneurs Live Virtual Workshop Author and coach Sandra Smith will give you the tools to stay motivated and focused, as well as easy steps to push past fear and tackle feeling anxious, worried, and stressed. You will receive an email with the Zoom link prior to airing.11am-12:30pm.

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4/26:

6th Annual Spirits in the (Isolating) Air: Potent Potable Poetry

Author, columnist, and S.B. Independent food contributor George Yatchisin will host an invited group of poets on Zoom to read their work and the work of others about libations of all sorts.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Susan Chiavelli, Diana Raab, Linda Saccoccio, David Starkey (Santa Barbara Poet Laureate III), Emma Trelles, Jace Turner, and Chryss Yost (Santa Barbara Poet Laureate V). Don’t forget to order your to-go cocktail from shakermillsb.com by 4 p.m. on the day of to enjoy while listening.

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instruction has moved to videoconferencing through summer 2020.

Explore tuition-free Extended Learning Programs, such as Adult High School GED, English as a Second Language, Health and Safety, Home Economics, Older Adults, and Parenting. sbcc.edu/extendedlearning

4/28: Virtual Wiggly Storytime!

This storytime will engage children and their caregivers with short stories, action rhymes, and songs. Your toddler will learn sounds, letter recognition, new words, and listening and motor skills that will help

4/24:

Virtual Learn at Lunch: Pravrajika Vrajaprana, Senior Sannyasini Hospice of S.B. will host this

virtual lunch featuring Pravrajika Vrajaprana, senior sannyasini (nun) at Vedanta Temple, who will address death and dying, beliefs and rituals around end-of-life issues, and practices within her Vedanta practices. A Q&A will follow. Visit the Facebook page for the Zoom link, meeting ID, and password. Noon-1pm. Free.

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Bici Centro Online Showroom Browse through the refurbished bikes on the

online showroom, which is updated nightly. Hover on the photo for information on size, color, components, and price. Photos of each available bike is listed on the Bici Centro Craigslist page. When you see something you want, call or email to make an appointment Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Also, ask about how to donate your bike. Para atención en español, llame y pregunte por Sergio. Call (805) 617-3255 or email michaelv@sbbike.org.

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If you prefer to venture farther he mountains, meadows, and from Santa Barbara, explore sea that wrap around our .org/livecams has heaps of live semi-rural community are streams to choose from, appreciated now more than including a donkey barn in ever, as nature is the only Ipswich, Massachusetts; escape from the COVIDthe roaring waves of 19 mandated shelter-inEhukai Beach in Oahu, place order. But for those Hawai‘i; baby eagles in who cannot get outside, Decorah, Iowa; and grazyou can still partake in ing gazelles at the Tembe nature’s elixirs — virtuElephant Park in Emanally. There are myriad gusi, South Africa. nature cams both locally Nature’s soundscape has and globally that provide live Aquarium of the Pacific long been a remedy for an agiviewing from the top of a mountated mind. To that end, the National tain peak to the depth of the ocean.

Park Foundation and the National Park The Channel Island National Park Service teamed up to create ParkService has some of the best viewTracks (tinyurl.com/parktracks), ing (tinyurl.com/island-cams). wildlife recordings from their Tune into their ocean cam various parks. Captured by and watch a kelp forest sway its Natural Sounds and back and forth in a mesNight Skies Division merizing sea dance as fish (tinyurl.com/npsnatural make occasional guest sounds), the audio runs appearances. Turn the just over 12 minutes sound on and listen to and serves as either an the music of water bubabsorbing mediation bling and churning as the or serene background waves crash above. sounds. Wind rustles, There was no one in the birds sing, and elk bugle.

Sauces Canyon bald eagle National Park Service There is also the option nest when I peeked in, but it to hear specific sounds from was amazing to see their cozy abode particular parks, thanks to Colofrom high in the tree, the wind whistling rado State University’s Listening Lab through my speakers. The Anacapa (tinyurl.com/csuparksounds).

Island Peregrine Falcon cam was With a mouse click, hear also raptor-free the moment Wester n s cre e ch ow ls I virtually popped round, clacking their bills and but the view of the bay a California thrasher and sound of seagulls was sing his territorial song lulling and lovely. The in Sequoia and Kings Anacapa Cove cam faces Canyon parks; the gurnorth toward the maingling of a thermal mud land shore and offered pot and wolves howling serenity as I saw the sun at dawn in Yellowstone glow orange-red over the National Park; or an aftermountains and the lights of noon rainstorm in Rocky the city twinkle and heard a Institute for Wildlife Studies Mountain National Park. foghorn’s lowing mixed with the —Michelle Drown cacophony of seagull calls.

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n a regular day, Nomad Goods typically produces rugged and minimalist phone accessories. Founded in 2012 through a Kickstarter campaign for an ultra-portable phone charger, the Santa Barbara–based company is built on out-of-the-box thinking.

After learning about the shortage of medical supplies for COVID-19 frontline responders, cofounder Noah Dentzel had a characteristically unorthodox idea: “What if we made face masks?”

The website was live by the next morning. Within six days of the announcement, the company had shipped out 50,000 masks.

In support of the COVID-19 response effort, operations at the company have been reprioritized to produce disposable three-layer face masks and KN95 respirators. The face masks are currently pending FDA approval and are priced only to cover the costs of production — in fact, they’re being sold at a loss to the company.

“One of the things that drove us to do this was seeing the reports on the news — people overselling these masks by way too much,” said Dentzel.

In response, the company has prioritized the medical community, first responders, and essential businesses for first access to supplies.

Limited amounts are available for purchase from the general public.

Through a partnership with Lompoc-based dental supply company DenMat, hand sanitizer is now being sold as well.

The operation was made possible by the company’s close relationships with its Chinese suppliers, which shifted to producing face masks for the Chinese medical system during the initial COVID-19 outbreak.

Having a warehouse in Hong Kong, where the outbreak was contained early, enables Nomad Goods to ship supplies anywhere in the world within two to three days.

Demand has been high, said Dentzel, with the company receiving orders from medical organizations, hospitals, clinics, and fire departments “from all over the country and internationally, as well.”

That’s forced the Nomad team to take on new responsibilities. Office managers have started invoicing. Purchasing staff have shifted from filing consumer goods orders to medical supply orders. And instead of conceptualizing next-generation iPhone cases, product team members have started researching next-generation face masks.

In some ways, the chaos of this unprecedented initiative reminds Dentzel of the company’s early start-up days. At a time when people are separated and quarantined at home, the mission has united the team under a shared cause.

“If it ends up being two more weeks, if it ends up being two more months, if it ends up being another year— year as long as we can help, we’ll be helping out,” said Dentzel.

Nomad Goods is currently researching the possibility of producing additional medical supplies such as gloves and thermometers. To view more information about the medical supply initiative or donate, visit nomadgoods.com/pages/medical-supplies#covid-faq.

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FOOD &DRINK

Pandemic Survival Strategy:

STEADY DIET OF FOOD PORN SOCIAL MEDIA FOODIES ENTERTAIN HUNKERED-DOWN MASSES

Stuck at home, many of us are more glued than ever to our iPhones, swiping through endless reams of social media to take our minds off of this uncertain time while staying connected to family and friends, even those who live just around the corner.

Long a popular theme on Instagram, food porn — those pretty pics and descriptions of dishes that make you drool with both hunger and envy — is taking on more meaning than ever during the pandemic.

I confess to both posting and peering at food porn on a daily basis — check @mattkettmann as evidence — but it’s not just a show-off strategy anymore. These posts are advertising restaurants that are still open, highlighting food-delivery services, and providing inspiration for home cooks who finally now have time to emulate what’s on their screens.

I asked a few of Santa Barbara’s top food-porn posters to tell me about their most memorable quarantine meals so far.

—Matt Kettmann

SARAH CHHUM @SBGOODEATS

SARAH CHHUM @SBGOODEATS Memorable meal? Empty Bowl’s Northern Thailand Curry

GINGER LUCKEY @GINGEEATS_SB

DENISSE SALINAS @LEPETITCHEFSB

Sarah Chhum (@sbgooderats) loved Empty Bowl’s Northern Thailand Curry Noodle a k a “Khoa Soi.”

Noodle aka “Khoa Soi,” which is flat egg noodles and stewed Shelton Farm chicken in a curry base broth with a little coconut milk and fish sauce. Garnished with pickled mustard greens, green onions, cilantro, their house-made chili oil, and crispy egg noodles. Paired it with an order of Thai Vegetable Egg Rolls and Mango Sticky Rice for dessert.

Why? My family is Cambodian, and this time of year is actually Cambodian New Year. We usually all get together at someone’s house and have a giant potluck. Obviously, this year we weren’t able to do that. While Thai food and Cambodian food aren’t the same, our cultures share many similar dishes. So, being able to order and have Empty Bowl is really comforting in a way, especially since there aren’t really any Cambodian-inspired restaurants in Santa Barbara.

What’s next? I’ve been craving sushi lately and will most likely order takeout from Oku soon, especially since I haven’t had a chance to go since they’ve opened!

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Geneva Ives (@Hi_Geneva) is enjoying the takeout cocktails, especially from Harry’s Plaza Café.

GENEVA IVES @HI_GENEVA Memorable meal? The Egg Salad Survival Kit Denisse Salinas (@lepetitchefsb) recalled her days at Opal with this Easter dinner.

Ginger Luckey (@GingeEats_SB) enjoyed making sushi at home with seafood from the Santa Barbara Fish Market.

GINGER LUCKEY @GINGEEATS_SB Memorable meal? Homemade nigiri platter with fish

from Santa Barbara Fish Market, with sweet shrimp, salmon, and sea scallops over sushi rice.

Why? Fresh seafood is always a treat during COVID, especially when it’s sashimi grade and only needs a simple soy or ponzu sauce.

When this is over? I can’t wait to get back to the Acme family of restaurants: Loquita, Lark, and Pearl Social in particular. They will be my first night out back on the town. I’ll probably order the whole menu.

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DENISSE SALINAS @LEPETITCHEFSB Memorable meal? Easter takeout meal from Opal Restaurant

& Bar: phyllo-wrapped prawns, basil fettuccine with shrimp, chipotle chicken penne.

Why? I worked as a server at Opal during my post-college years and learned so much from owners Tina Takaya and Richard Yates about how to operate a food business with integrity and heart. After a successful but truly exhausting Easter Sunday at Hook & Press Donuts (which I co-founded with my husband, John), it felt amazing to unwind with a meal that instantly brought me back to those simpler days.

What’s next? Recipes I’m developing and shooting for clients: shiitake mushroom dumplings, roasted cauliflower steaks with walnut gremolata, sweet potato noodle pad thai, and caramelized endive with navel oranges. Stay tuned to my blog LePetitEats.com for the recipes!

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from Bell’s in Los Alamos.

Why? I was so excited to close my laptop, put away my “office,” and reclaim the dining table for its true purpose. We also ordered their saucisson, sheep’s milk cheese, and olive/almond starter. And we opened a Story of Soil gruner veltliner and Whitcraft pinot noir. I set the table, and it felt like a real night out for a hot minute!

Cocktails too? I am totally digging takeout cocktails for what it’s worth. In that case, Harry’s is killing it. We’ve also dusted our Negroni Kit from Bettina and Sunshine Spritz Kit from Satellite.

What do you miss? When we get out of this thing, I can’t wait to make casual dining decisions again.

Just being able to decide 10 minutes before a meal to grab a sammie at Metropulos or enchiladas at Lito’s or a “light meal” at the Dutch Gardens will feel like such a luxury.

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Eva E. von Thury (@Posh4PenniesBAE) finally felt comfortable grilling Shalhoob burgers and Farm Cart artichokes with Muni Wine’s Bright White.

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my favorite ingredients delivered to my doorstep from Shalhoob, Municipal Winemakers, Riviera Bread, and Farm Cart Organics. On the menu: Shalbhoob’s ground sirloin hamburger wrapped in lettuce from Farm Cart’s “The Essential” box, between sourdough from Riviera Bread; grilled artichoke from Farm Cart; all paired with a glass of Muni Wine’s Bright White.

Why? This was the first meal since the stay-at-home order that I really felt relaxed and was able to just enjoy the food on my table on a beautiful spring night! My dog, Beaux, was able to join in on this locavore feast with me by enjoying some Farm Cart lettuce for his dessert!

Next up? Parsley and carrot green pesto with the leftover greens from last week’s Farm Cart box. I’ll freeze it into cubes to add to pastas and more in the future.

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BOOZY POETRY: Order a cocktail from the Shaker Mill crew to go with the poetry reading.

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anta Barbara poets aren’t letting COVID-

this morning NPR says “teenage drinking peaked in the late 1970s.” I did my part to make that a fact, blearily, boozily reified, even if the Marxism came later, perhaps listening to the Gang of Four, and hoping to make sense of lines like The body is good business while living as antithesis, perhaps, developing a taste for decidedly bougie beer despite being the son of a machine shop owner who still drove a truck with others’ names on its door.

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of North America. Professor of Ojibwe studies Anton Treuer writes that in their traditional culture, there have been men who act and dress like women and women who act and dress like men. The former are called LIBRA ikwekaazo and the latter ikwekaazowag. Both have been (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What’s the current state of the rela“always honored” and “considered to be strong spiritutionship between your ego and your soul? Is there an ally.” Many other Native American groups have had uneasy truce between the ambitious part of you that similar arrangements. Transcending traditional gender craves success and recognition and the lyrical part of behavior is not unique to modern Western civilization. you that yearns for rich experiences and deep meanWith that as inspiration, and in accordance with astroing? Or do those two aspects of you get along pretty logical omens, I invite you to explore any inclinations well — maybe even love and respect each other? Now you might have to be your own unique gender. The time is a favorable time to honor your is ripe for experimenting with and ego and soul equally, Libra — to deepening your relationship with delight in the activities of both, to HOMEWORK: Go to Real the constructs of “masculine” and give them plenty of room to play and Astrology.com to check out Rob “feminine.”

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LEO ther your well-rounded happiness (July 23-Aug. 22): “The history of my and health. stupidity would fill many volumes,” wrote Nobel Prize–winning poet Czesław Miłosz. SCORPIO Wow! If a highly respected genius like him has spawned (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio author Voltaire (1694-1778) so much nonsense and ignorance, what about the rest was a crusader for freedom of thought and civil liberof us? Here’s what I have to say about the subject: Each ties, as well as a key player in the Enlightenment. He of us should strive to be at peace with the fact that we was very prolific. In addition to producing 2,000 books are a blend of wisdom and folly. We should be tenderly and pamphlets, he carried on such voluminous written compassionate toward our failures and weaknesses, and correspondences with so many interesting people that not allow them to overshadow our brilliance and beauty. his collected letters fill 98 volumes. Would you consider Now would be a good time for you Leos to cultivate getting inspired by Voltaire’s approach to cross-pollinathis acceptance and perform this blessing for yourself. tion? According to my calculations, the next phase of the coronavirus crisis will be a favorable time for you VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Helen Traubel (1899-1972) was best- to intensify your communication via the written word. known for her opera career, although she also sang in SAGITTARIUS concerts, nightclubs, and musical theater. But in her (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I like musician David Byrne’s views on autobiography, she confessed, “Opera bored me.” She what constitutes meaningful work. It’s not just the tasks reminds me of Georgia O’Keeffe, famous painter of you do to earn money. “Sex is a job,” he says. “Growing flowers. “I hate flowers,” O’Keeffe said. “I paint them up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t KEEPING Religion is a job.

Being creative is a job.” In other words, move.” Now of course most of us have to do some things all the activities names, toBeautiful be done well, require a SantaheBarbara that we don’t enjoy; that seems to be a routine part of FOR 55 YEARS commitment to excellence and an attention to detail. being human. And since the coronavirus arrived in our They are worthy of your diligent efforts, strenuous exer-

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Renowned Taurus composer Johannes

Brahms (1833-1897) completed his first symphony when he was 43 years old — even though he’d started work on it at age 22. Why did it take him so long? One factor was his reverence for Ludwig van Beethoven, the composer who had such a huge impact on the development of classical music. In light of Beethoven’s mastery, Brahms felt unworthy. How could any composer add new musical ideas that Beethoven hadn’t already created? But after more than two decades, Brahms finally managed to overcome his inhibition.

He eventually produced four symphonies and scores of other pieces, and left a major mark on musical history.

For you, Taurus, I see the coming months as a phase comparable to the time when Brahms finally built the strength necessary to emerge from the shadow that had inhibited him.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A Gemini friend sent me and three of her other allies a poignant email. “This note is a tender apology to those of you whom I’ve hurt in the process of hurting myself,” she began. “I want you to know that I have been working hard and with great success to eliminate my unconscious tendency to hurt myself.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): At its best and brightest, Capricornian love isn’t frivolous or flighty. It’s not shallow or sloppy or slapdash. When Capricornian love is at its highest potency, it’s rigorous, thoughtful, and full-bodied. It benefits anyone who’s involved with it. I bring this up because I expect the coming weeks to be a Golden Age of Capricornian Love—a time when you will have the inspiration and intelligence necessary to lift your own experience of love to a higher octave.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hope you’re not one of those Aquar-

ians who regards stability and security as boring. I hope you don’t have an unconscious predilection for keeping yourself in a permanent state of nervous uncertainty.

If you do suffer from those bad habits, you’ll be hardpressed to stick to them in the coming weeks. That’s because the cosmic energies will be working to settle you down into a steady groove. If you cooperate, you will naturally enhance your ability to be well-anchored, calmly steadfast, and at home in your life. Please don’t resist this opportunity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): I foresee the likelihood that you’ll be

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ADMINISTER OF ESTATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ADOLFO C. CORRAL NO: 20PR00122 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of ADOLFO C. CORRAL A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: NOHEL C. CORRAL in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): NOHEL C. CORRAL be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 04/30/2020 AT 9:00 a.m.

Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may

affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court.

If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.

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.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MARY JANE BECERRA CORRAL NO: 20PR00123 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of MARY JANE BECERRA CORRAL A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: NOHEL C. CORRAL in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): NOHEL C. CORRAL be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 04/30/2020 AT 9:00 a.m.

Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

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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.

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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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CITY OF GOLETA _____________________________ Deborah S. Lopez, City Clerk Published: Santa Barbara Independent: April 16 and 23, 2020

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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: 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 RANCHat 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: 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: 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.

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: 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: 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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 7 ELEVEN 17499D at 121 W Stowell Rd Santa Maria, CA 93458; M&J Virk Corporation 545 Birdie Ln Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 conducted by an Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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: 2020‑0000946. Published: Apr 23, 30. May 7, 14 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DESTINED FOR GRACE‑CHILDREN’S RELIEFat 5960 Hollister Ave Goleta, CA 93117; Destined For Grace‑ Children’s Relief (same address) conducted by an Corporation Signed: Lindsey Connelly‑CFO 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: 2020‑0000923. Published: Apr 23, 30. May 7, 14 2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TRANSFORMATIVE BODYWORKS at 113 West Mission St. Suite C. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Thomas R Sorg 691 San Richardo Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93111 conducted by an Individual Signed: Tom Sorg 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: 2020‑0000913. Published: Apr 23, 30. May 7, 14 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SB ICE at 733 Carpinteria St. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Crocker Group Corp (same address) conducted by an Coproraton Signed: Joshua Dunlap Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 8, 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: 2020‑0000933.

Published: Apr 23, 30. May 7, 14 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 7 ELEVEN 18828E at 1017 N Broadway Santa Maria, CA 93454; M&J Virk Corporation 545 Birdie Ln Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 conducted by an Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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: 2020‑0000947. Published: Apr 23, 30. May 7, 14 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF SANTA BARBARA at 7421 Mirano Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Santa Barbara Waldorf Association(same address) conducted by an Coproraton Signed: Heidi Goodwin,Business Manager 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: 2020‑0000869. Published: Apr 23, 30. May 7, 14 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 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.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF LISA MARIE ARIAS ORDER TO SHOW

CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 20CV01503 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: LISA MARIE ARIAS TO: LISA ARIAS WITHERSPOON THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING 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.

PUBLIC NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF VENTURA. NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION WELFARE &amp; INSTITUTIONS CODE §366.26 J 072414 HEARING DATE: 07/01/2020 TIME: 08:30 am COURTROOM: J1 In the matter of the Petition of the County of Ventura Human Services Agency regarding freedom from parental custody and control on behalf of Jonathan Fleischer, a child. To: Lindsay Fleischer, Unknown father, and to all persons claiming to be the parents of the above‑named person who is described as follows: name Jonathan Fleischer, Date of Birth: 02/11/2020, Place of Birth: Santa Barbara, CA, Father’s name: Unknown, Mother’s name: Lindsay Fleischer.

Pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.26, a hearing has been scheduled for your child. You are hereby notified that you may appear on 07/01/2020, at 8:30 a.m., or as soon as counsel can be heard in Courtroom J1 of this Court at Juvenile Justice Center 4353 Vineyard Ave. Oxnard, CA 93036.

YOU ARE FURTHER ADVISED as follows: At the hearing the Court must choose and implement one of the following permanent plans for the child: adoption, guardianship, or long term foster care. Parental rights may be terminated at this hearing. On 07/01/2020, the Human Services Agency will recommend termination of parental rights. The child may be ordered placed in long term foster care, subject to the regular review of the Juvenile Court; or, a legal guardian may be appointed for the child and letters of guardianship be issued; or, adoption may be identified as the permanent placement goal and the Court may order that efforts be made to locate an appropriate adoptive family for the child for a period not to exceed 180 days and set the matter for further review; or, parental rights may be terminated. You are entitled to be present at the hearing with your attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, you are entitled to have the Court appoint counsel for you. A thirty‑ day continuance may be granted if necessary for counsel to prepare the case. At all termination proceedings, the Court shall consider the wishes of the child and shall act in the best interest of the child. Any order of the Court permanently terminating parental rights under this section shall be conclusive and binding upon the minor person, upon the parent or parents, and upon all other persons who have been served with citation by publication or otherwise. After making such an order, the Court shall have no power to set aside, change, or modify it, but this shall not be construed to limit the rights to appeal the order. If the Court, by order or judgment, declares the child free from the custody and control of both parents, or one parent if the other no longer has custody and control, the Court shall, at the same time, order the child referred to the licensed County adoption agency for adoptive placement by that agency. The rights and procedures described above are set forth in detail in the California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.26. You are referred to that section for further particulars. Michael J. Planet, Executive Officer and Clerk, County of Ventura, State of California. Dated: 04/08/2020 by: Crystal Jimenez Deputy Clerk, Children and Family Services Social Worker. 4/23, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14/20 CNS‑3359085# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

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